Stolen

Stolen

By Ashly Denzith

Dan and Ally have been friends since they were kids, they grew up together, they know almost everything about each other and now they go to college together. Between the two of them they were able to get an apartment. Mostly because Ally’s mom is a real estate agent with good contacts and gave her daughter a cheap and comfortable living space. Dan didn’t mind since before he would have to room with a stranger. Dan and Ally are going down similar career paths within the gaming industry. Ally wants to be a Photographer and Dan wants to be a Creative Director. They dream of working together and making really awesome stuff together but for now in their early twenties they learn, plan, and relax when they can.

Within their spacious apartment of two bedrooms, living room, two bathrooms, kitchen, and dining room Ally a normal sized anthropomorphic fox and Dan a micro sized human, live quite peacefully. Ally never causes problems for Dan in fact she spends a lot of her time helping him. Getting him to class on time, taking him everywhere he needs or wants to go, helping him with his chores, and especially opening doors. The house “isn’t spatially diverse” as Dan often explains it. Most of the time she doesn’t even notice seeing how she’s been doing it since she was a kid, its second nature to her now. If you would ask her if she gets tired of taking care of Dan she would say “No, never he’s my best friend”; however in the back of her mind she would wonder what he would do without her.

“So what do you think we should play when she gets here?” asked Dan “I was thinking since it’s just the three of us this time we could play MK” said Ally. Dan looks at their options as he stands on the coffee table with Ally sitting down on the couch. “Don’t you think that’s too hardcore for a newbie?” he said making Ally give a puzzled face, then she remembered his new obsession “I’m talking about Mario Kart not Mortal Kombat” she even tapped the cover with her claw for effect. “Yeah I know” Dan said “I just really want to play that instead of Mario Kart.” While chuckling to himself Ally reached over and lightly, as well as with a whole lot of experience, flicked him on the shoulder. To him it felt no different than someone his size playfully smacking his arm and that’s what it was. “Well” she said in her soft voice with hint of sarcasm “we have others to think about, it’s not all about you.”

“Speaking of others” Dan said as he trotted of where the game of choice lay “who is this person you invited? I’ve never heard of her.” Ally, knowing that she’s mentioned Ezra to him more than once, narrowed her eyes and said “She talked to us yesterday when we were at lunch remember?” Reading the under tones of her voice Dan turned to face her and with a big innocent smile said “Oh right now I remember her” he said as he desperately tried to think all the way back to Friday “she was the…uh…the uhm…Hyena girl with the bracelets.” Ally’s hazel eyes widened in surprise as she didn’t expect him to even remember her race let alone what she wore around her wrists. “Yeah” Ally said “and her name was…” Dan then strained his super analytical brain and came up with a few options. “Uh Izzy?” “No.” “Ira?” “No.” “Emmy?” “No.” “Ezmond.” “What? No not even close.” “Ugh alright” Dan said “I give, what’s her name?” Dan began taking the CD out of the case as Ally for the fifth time told him about her friend. “Her name is Ezra, she’s Hyena, she likes bracelets, she studying to be a Bioengineer, and I invited her because she’s fun.” Dan walked up to the end of the coffee table and with the CD outstretched in his little arms he asked “If you wouldn’t mind?” Ally smirked and rolled her eyes wondering why he even bothered to take the game out at all if he couldn’t put it in by himself. She took the disk and put it in and sat back to where she was. “So” Dan said awkwardly “she’s cool then?” Ally thought to herself momentarily before speaking, as she knew especially with him that caution is important, then said “She’s…eccentric, but in a cool way.” “You know that doesn’t help her case in any way?” said Dan, he then made his way to a nearby controller and started up the game. “You’ll see” said Ally “everything will be fine.”

“Knock knock kniknock” said the door interrupting the two friends “Hey its Ezra let me in!” said the door again only this time with the voice of a high pitched female voice. Dan looked at the door and then at Ally and said “I think that’s for us”, but Ally was already giggling and getting up to go to the door. Dan didn’t see her at first as the couch blocked the view from his point, but he heard the cheery greetings the two gave each other. “Oh my God Ezzy do you have to be so loud” he heard Ally say “we live in an apartment.” Then Ezra said “Yeah yeah I’m so sorry about that sweetie, you know how I am, how are you, is this your apartment, it’s so big and beautiful.” Dan noticed as Ezra talked her voice got louder and more excited. “I’m doing good” said Ally “and yeah this is our apartment. Do you remember Dan from yesterday? Oh well never mind he’s inside come in.” “Okay!” said Ezra and they came in, and the first thing that happened was a tour of our apartment; which Ally gave with almost matching energy to Ezra’s. “This is weird” Dan thought “Ally never acts this way, it must be because of Ezra, and why Ally likes her so much.” He chuckled to himself in a self-satisfactory way and began setting up the game for them all to play.

“So where’s that little guy at?” Dan suddenly heard “Oh he’s right-“and then Ally was interrupted by a sudden gasp and then “Found him!” Dan turned around in time to see the giant hyena girl lunge for him over the couch. Dan dodged the grasping hands that reached for him, and yelling “What the hell!” Ezra fell on top of the cushions empty handed sinking onto the floor with clear disappointment. “I didn’t get him.” Ezra said sadly “Nice to meet you too” said Dan and Ezra quickly responded with “We met yesterday” “Oh right how could I forget” he said sarcastically. Dan looked to Ally with a clear WTF face and she gave him the IDK face. Ezra quickly situated herself correctly on the couch and with a super sweet smile said “Sorry about that sweetie I get so excited sometimes, what are we playing?”

“Well” Ally said while sitting down next to Ezra “we decided on Mario Kart. Is that cool?” Ally’s tone sounded like a teacher trying to calm a child throwing temper tantrum. “Yeah-huh that’s sounds great” said Ezra “is this my controller?” She looked to me for an answer to which Dan said “Uh yeah sure it’s all yours” but Dan sounded a little more awkward than what he wanted. “Thanks” she said and took the controller “let’s get this started.” Dan felt that the event that just took place was far too weird for Ally or himself to let slide; however Ally was already picking up her controller and selecting her racer as if nothing happened. Still uneasy Dan eventually chose a racer especially after Ally said “We’re waiting on you” Dan then turned his back to his best friend and Ezra.

After a couple of races Dan began to warm up to Ezra and relax, he had to admit playing with Ezra is fun. Still though between matches when they talked to each other Dan kept getting a weird vibe about Ezra, maybe it was the way she looked at him with such glee, or maybe it was how close she would get sometimes. It would seem natural too like when she bent over to laugh or picked up her drink from the coffee table. “It doesn’t mean anything” Dan thought to himself “stop being paranoid. Ally said that she was cool…right? So she’s cool nothing to worry about.”

As far as Ally was concerned “Yeah it was weird when she tried to grab Dan” she thought to herself “but that’s just who Ezra is crazy, weird, but harmless.”

Having just finished their third tournament they all decide to take a break. Dan pushed his controller away and stood up from his micro sized chair that Ally got him for his birthday. He once complained about not having a seat of his own like she did and she knew it was a joke but she took it to heart and got one for him, and he loves it. “Ally can you please get me a soda?” asked Dan and Ally said “Sure” as she stood up to get it she turned to her friend next to her “Ezra would you like anything?” “Hmm” she said while looking at Dan “nope I’m fine sweetie.” Ally then left the room leaving Ezra and Dan alone for the first time that night. “Cause I have the perfect snack right here” Ezra said as Dan turned to face her and when he processed what she had said he responded with “Excuse me?”

Ally walked back into the living room and sat next to Ezra who was moving her mouth in a weird fashion like she was eating a big piece of steak. “Chewing gum maybe, whatever” Ally thought “Here you go” she said as she placed the tiny soda on to the coffee table where Dan usually was. Strangely he wasn’t there; which is really weird because he usually doesn’t go any around the apartment without her help. Ally looked at his little chair, around the coffee table, around the couch, “Hey Ezra” Ally said as she lifted up the skirt to the couch, “Whah?” Ezra said with her mouth clearly full of something “Do you know where Dan is?” Ally slumped on the couch with that last word hoping her friend would have some answers to her rising concerns. Ezra nodded as she gummed whatever it is in her mouth “Oh! Then where is he?” she asked relieved. Ezra then wiggled her finger towards herself ushering Ally closer. Ally innocently obliged and scooted towards Ezra and then she once again waggled her finger towards herself wanting her to come even closer. Ally and Ezra were separated by just a few inches so the personal barrier was already broken, but “Whatever” Ally thought so she scooted closer and leaned towards Ezra. Satisfied Ezra put on the biggest smile on her hyena face and opened her maw.

Dan hadn’t expected this, not ever, not in a million years, this just didn’t happen. “Well this happens” he thought as Ezra’s violating tongue massaged his body “but to me?” He really didn’t remember what happened after she grabbed him, just his clothes being removed and then he was inside. The sounds were odd, but if he could describe them he would say “there were wet sounds, smacking sounds, rubbing sounds, air sounds, and sounds coming from her voice when she moaned or said something”. He heard the exchange between his beloved friend and the person he was occupying so he knew that she didn’t know what was going on, until those incisors separated giving him full view of Ally’s confused face. Her fox features scrunched up as Ezra pushed her tongue out putting Dan in plain sight. “Wha-“ was all she could say to help process what was going on.

She saw him on her tongue, in her mouth like he laying on a bed, but “It’s not a bed” Ally thought “it’s her mouth and she’s eating him.” Dan lifted up his little arm and began to crawl towards Ally, but Ezra closed her jaws slurping him back into her mouth; which sent Ally into berserk mode. “GET HIM OUT! GET HIM OUT! GET HIM OUT!” Ally screamed, she tore over Ezra’s maw, but she was a surprisingly good wrestler, and Ally couldn’t do anything but shout and fight.

Ezra was so delighted this was how things turned out, a delicious micro in her mouth, a calm and collected person suddenly turning into an animal. People like her were fooled so easily. A good smile, peppy attitude, and knowing how to manipulate was all it took to get what she wanted and what she wanted was chaos in her own way. It was blissful like watching a building crumble from a precise and powerful explosion. Of course Ezra saw herself as the bomb in that analogy. She wanted more however she didn’t know how she exactly wanted to get it. “I could swallow him and make her beg me to throw him up” Ezra thought as she both tasted Dan and fought off Ally “or I could put his head between my teeth and threaten to kill him. Actually wait I have an idea.” Instead of defending herself Ezra suddenly attacked shoving the fox girl off her like she weighted nothing. Ally landed on the floor close to the coffee table, but recovered surprisingly quickly as she sprang back up ready to kill Ezra with her bare claws.

Ezra only needed a few seconds to move him and by the time Ally was up she was ready to show her how close Dan was to becoming her food. With her maw agape Ally saw Dan with half of his body down Ezra’s throat, just one swallow and she’d lose him. Ally froze her body vibrating with adrenaline, her breath shuddered, and her fur stood on its end. “Give him back” Ally said with in such a way she had never heard “Give him back right now and I won’t kill you.” Ezra backed away from Ally and sat on the couch in a way that beckoned her and began waggling her finger towards herself again. Ally began going towards her but with the full intention of choking her to death, however just as she began to raise her hands Ezra said “Take him” and closed her jaws. Ally stopped bewildered yet again by this vile piece of trash. Ally walked forward so she stood over Ezra as she sat on the couch and said “What?” still pleased as ever Ezra smiled seductively and said “Take him”. Ezra even let a little bit of Dan out of her maw letting his little arm dangle unmoving between her lips. Ally started to reach towards her mouth, but Ezra jerked away pushing her hand aside. Ally grinned her teeth fighting just to stay under control. Ezra turned her head towards Ally again and with Dan’s arm still hanging outside of her mouth she slowly licked her mouth. She then said again “Take him.”

Ally finally understood what Ezra wanted her to do, and that’s what she did. Ally sat next to Ezra very close and leaned towards her. She wrapped her arms around Ezra’s neck and Ezra placed her hands on Ally’s lower back pulling her closer. “I hate this” Ally thought “I hate you” she thought again as she looked into Ezra’s eyes “but I have to get Dan back.” They were almost touching noses at this point all Ally had to do was lean in and kiss. She opened her own maw slightly so that she didn’t crush his arm with her mouth, but when she felt his fingers touch her tongue she wanted to bite down and pull him out, that way she wouldn’t have to kiss Ezra. Their lips touched and Ezra opened her mouth feeling so elated that she forgot about the micro for second and let Ally take some of him out. “Too fast” Ezra thought “let’s make this last.” Ally moved her tongue into Ezra’s mouth so that she could get Dan, but Ezra was greedy and wrestled with Ally’s tongue with her own. It was a fight in the form of a kiss and Ally’s was winning, but only because Ezra was letting this story play out the way she wanted it to. Too long Ally kissed Ezra much too long in her opinion. Ally suddenly moved in on Ezra pushing her maw over hers getting a good portion of Dan out of Ezra. Then she went back to Ezra’s lips as she carefully collected Dan into her mouth. Finally it was just his feet but Ezra bit down on his ankles stopping him from going any further to safety. Ally felt it and opened her eyes to glare at Ezra. Ezra’s face looked to challenge her and in return Ally bared her fangs, growling and pulled, this time Ezra let him go.

Ally slurped the rest of her friend in her maw feeling his body settle safely on her tongue“I got him” Ally thought in such dire relief “now to deal with the trash.” Ally pushed herself off of Ezra and stood away from her. Ezra remained there on the couch looking at Ally with such accomplishment “Thanks for the snack” said Ezra. Ally really wasn’t sure how she was going to say this with her mouth full but at this point the message should be clear. “Get out”. Her teeth were bared, her posture demanded, and her voice was overlaid in a growl. The message was clear and Ezra got up and left, but Ally didn’t let Dan out of her mouth until she heard the steps fade into nothingness.

Dan didn’t know where he was, there was light shining through different points of his environment, and air rushed across him hot and cold, and the place where he laid was wet and soft. He felt safe, but also confused “Where am I?” he said out loud. Suddenly everything began to move and light filled his vision. He felt something being wrapped around his body and then being lifted up. Things began to get clearer and as his body moved away from his previous destination, he then saw a very familiar face closing her mouth. She reached up and with her arm she wiped her maw and her eyes “Wait” Dan thought “is she crying?” Her shoulders shook and her breath steadily hissed “Ally” Dan said plainly but she didn’t look at him “hey why are you-“, but then he remembered everything that had just happened to him, and to her. Ally heard him stop, recognized the fact that he wasn’t confused anymore, it crushed her. She slowly crumbled to floor wrapping herself into ball of regret, sadness, frustration, hate, relief, and pain. Ally let her hand slowly to the ground releasing Dan and using her free hand to further wrap herself. She sobbed right there in front of Dan, he’d never seen her like this before, but he understood why in fact he wanted to sob as well. Not alone though.

Dan went to where her head was, her face was distorted with emotional pain and the furs around her eyes were wet. “Ally” was all Dan said but before he could continue Ally whispered in anguish “I’m sorry” then “I’m so sorry” then “I’m so stupid” then “I’m I’m I’m” she couldn’t say any more after that. Dan didn’t need to hear any more, he never needed to hear anything he went to her, kneeling next to her sobbing head. He then began to rub the top of her head talking into her ear as he spoke. “It’s okay” he said over and over again “It’s okay. I’m safe.”

Ally and Dan stayed like that a while longer, crying with each other, eventually life would begin again. Of course Ally and Dan reported the whole ordeal to the police, but they would find that the person they knew never existed and that they would never find the one that traumatized them. That night something was made, something special.