FSE

Furry search engine

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The purple ooze permeates the wall, filling every crack with a quivering, jiggling mass that culminates into a giant, violet blob, amorphous and slurping and gurgling like the stomach of a starving creature.

Tik Tik's eyes widen as she sees the creature before her, and she pokes her green slime friend. "See what Tik Tik see?"

The sex jelly narrows her eyes, focusing on the oozy mass before her, and she gasps. "A heart core!"

Jay peers over the kobold, looking to the monster, blinking a few times before she stands fully up behind the kobold. "Wait... so does that mean that the hungry slime..." she begins.

The slime responds with a mournful bellow, thick, glistening goo sliding along the floor and straight for the kobold's feet.

Jay puffs out her cheeks and slurps around Tik Tik. The blue girl covers the wizard in a protective coating as the wave of gelatinous mass crashes into the two, sending the kobold tumbling and floating through the layers of jiggling madness.

Tik Tik sees the smaller heart-core of Jay float up to the larger core of the hungry slime within the blob. Trails of blue slime dissolve into the ether, merging with the vicious violet haze.

Tik Tik reaches out towards that core, towards Jay. As she does, her scales sizzle, and her clothing disappears as threads unwind and dissolve into the mass that she floats inside. The kobold tears up as her eyes and mouth burn with the invading substance, and she screams out a spell, but her mouth is too choked with the morass for her to be able to save herself, let alone Jay.

A green tendril wraps around her stomach, pulling Tik Tik back. The kobold, stuck in rags, pops out of the ooey-gooey trap and into the breast of her scribe and her friend, violet specks slinking down off of her and dripping onto the floor.

Tik Tik whimpers, watching as more of the blue slime disappears, leaving only the heart core to float up against the other, more giant creature.

The kobold kicks and thrashes against the protective hold of her companion. Eshere slinks back, keeping Tik Tik away from the jiggling pile and back towards the location of their original teleportation.

"We must get out of here!" Eshere shouts. "Before it eats away at both of us."

"But, Jay!" Tik Tik whimpers.

"I know," Eshere sighs. "I'm sorry. But Jay gave you time; time we shouldn't waste!"

Tik Tik sniffles and claps her hands together, beginning the spell to open the portal back home--back to safety.

But Eshere screams and drops the kobold, the slime thrashing about as purple ooze hits her cytoplasm, expanding and consuming, taking Tik Tik's friend away from her.

The kobold watches in horror as Eshere recoils, drawing as much of herself way into a dense ball, fighting, and losing to get away. "R... run..." she gasps, her face half-eaten away into a purple nothingness.

"No!" Tik Tik shouts. "Tik Tik won't run. Tik Tik don't want lose friend!"

On both sides of her, the slime engulfs the chamber, oozing ever-so-closer toward the kobold, promising a digestive end.

Tik Tik closes her eyes and remembers the spells that she had prepared for just such an emergency. This is a contingency she had hoped would never come but would be all-too-necessary in the slime-choked ruins. She sighs and etches the sigils upon her mind, the magic buzzing about her, ready to unleash the full elemental force of her magical ability and put an end to this horror, one way or another, and-

"Tik Tik?"

The kobold opens one eye, only to see that the faceless, all-consuming form has disappeared, only to show giant happiness before her.

"J... Jay?"

The slime slurps free from the oozy mass, showing off the curvy, melty form of the slime girl. "Yep. I'm here!"

"But... but..." Tik Tik spins around. Slurping free from the prison is the small blob that is Eshere, quivering but forming a hand out of her stuff to give Tik Tik the sign that she's A-Okay."

"Tik Tik no understand."

From Jay's core, blue slime slowly grows, replacing the purple pigmentation that it currently has. "I learned a lot today: All different kinds of treats. The different types of friendships one can have and the idea that we should be open to trying new things. Well, when I saw the heart core inside the hungry slime for the first time, I knew that I could give it a good talking to, er... that is I knew I should give it a good try after it almost ate me." She laughed. "And the greatest part is that after I told the slime all about you, it said it wanted to see your home just like you showed it to me! The slime says it doesn't know a lot about this place. It kinda came here looking for other slimes because, well, it's hungry, and... it has all sorts of notes and memories from all sorts of slimes. And also, it's really just interested in trying out things that aren't slimes to eat!"

Tik Tik adjusts the rags of her clothing, looking over to the mass of goo. "Lots of memories inside slime, yes? Interesting, interesting."

Eshere's face pops up from inside her blob. "It may be a bit of a hassle to carry the whole thing with us, at least at first, but I'm sure we can figure it out somehow."

"And I'd love to join in learning about all the friends bubbling around inside the slime!" Jay says, bouncing with giddiness to her. "There's oh-so-many in the heart core. It'll take several lifetimes to learn about them all!"

"Well, Tik Tik, happy to be able to have so many new friends then, all thanks to Jay!"

The kobold opens her portal yet again, ushering the slime through and into a new chapter of research and knowledge.