“The deal is simple… Zexion… I need to hunt, since I am, well… This!” Axel spun around in a circle. He had large, bat-like wings, and a long scaled and spiked tail. His feet were dragon feet, consisting of three toes and a small claw where his inner ankle should be. He glared at Zexion. “And you’re gunna help me, kay?” Zexion huffed and crossed his arms. 

  “Fine… I guess I’ll help you hunt… On one condition!” He held up his finger and grinned lightly. Axel looked confused, his blood red eyes blinking. “I get a cut of the meal…,” Zexion changed into a rather large and sleek raptor. His skin was a scaly violet color with a slight blue tint. The small, razor sharp fangs he had were plainly visible, and he cracked the knuckles of his bony and clawed fingers. His large tail swished behind him, and he chuckled. Out of his hair popped many sharp, feather-like spikes. 

  “Deal!” Axel shook Zexion’s hand and grinned. In a flash, he changed into a large dragon, his wings extending out behind him. He lifted his head to the sky and let out a loud roar. Zexion climbed onto Axel’s back, and hung on as the massive dragon took flight.

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  Many yards away from the reptiles, was a small farm. On this farm were your typical animals; some dogs, a few cows, a few dozen chickens and roosters. The farmer was a blond named Roxas, and he had a wife, a boy named Sora. It was Roxas’s duty to take care of the cows and dogs, while Sora tended to the chickens. But today, something was different. Something was off, and Sora couldn’t put his finger on it at first. It was only after he started counting the chickens, did he discover that quite a few were missing! He began to panic, and ran into the farm house and told Roxas.

  “Roxas! Our chickens! They have gone missing!!” he began to flail his arms, which was a typical nature for Sora when he panicked. Roxas stood up and looked shocked.

  “All of them?!” Roxas had feared that the egg input had just dropped off the face of the farm. Sora shook his head no.

  “Quite a few… I think it was the foxes again..,” Sora looked sadly at his husband and whined lightly. Roxas growled a bit, and picked up a large shotgun from behind their couch, and went outside to look around. He scoped around the hen house, and found nothing out of the ordinary. No fox tracks. No astray feathers. No sign of a struggle. Not even a hole in the back of the barn. He scratched his head, did one more check around the hen house, and went back into his own home. He looked sadly at Sora. 

  “I don’t understand it. It’s like.. They just done vanished!” he mounted his gun on the wall and sighed heavily. He slipped back into his chair, and a dog ran to his side and licked his hand. “Atta girl Xion… It’s alright…,” he pet the black Labrador Retriever and smiled lightly. Xion was Roxas’s favorite dog, and he had her since she was a puppy. Sora still couldn’t shake the feeling that something was out of line. That was when it happened again. A loud noise from the cows’ barn startled Sora, Roxas, and Xion. The dog began to bark, and darted outside. Roxas grinned. “If there is anyone out there, Xion will get’em!” He sounded confident.

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  Zexion and Axel had landed, quite some time ago. They had come across the small farm. “That seems like a good place to get something to eat,” Zexion pointed. Axel gave a nod to Zexion, and both took off running along the fences and sat by the first home they saw; the hen house. Zexion licked his chops tenderly, as he imagined the plump chickens inside, just ripe for the eating. He slipped to the front, opened the door, and then grinned. “Hello chickies…,” he snarled. Being of a beast, he could understand the animals around him. The chickens were screaming in pure horror. 

  “Leave us alone!” one chicken shouted, clutching her nest with her feet.

  “What kind of fox are you?!” Another began to scream. The overlapping screams were just too much for Axel to stand, but he wasn’t going to waste his time on the small fry. 

  “Have fun Zexion… I want bigger game,” he grinned and slipped away. Zexion was eager, and took the opportunity to eat his fill before joining Axel for the bigger games. He snatched a few chickens in his tail, making them all scream in horror. He stuck his head into several nests, and licked up the eggs, eating them in an instant. The chickens screamed even more as they watched their precious young eaten by a creature they had never seen before. 

  “Now now ladies… I still have room for more…,” Zexion snarled and chuckled through his teeth which was covered in egg yolk. The chickens began to scramble, but the fearsome raptor blocked off the exit. “Ah ah ah… No escaping now.. I’m hungry,” he beckoned to them, and snatched a few up in his jaws. He swallowed a few whole in several swallows. All of the other chickens gathered at the back of the wooden house and feared for their lives, as they watched some of their own kicking and flailing inside of the beast’s belly. He snatched up a few more, but heard a noise that startled him. He slipped out the front, swallowing the three chickens he managed to snatch up, and crawled into a nearby bush. He peered out and wondered just what was going on, and then he saw him. Roxas was walking around the chicken home, scoping it out. Zexion stood quite, despite the fact that there were quite a few chickens pecking at his insides. He rubbed his round front and purred lightly. After the farmer had left the chickens, the raptor dashed from his cover, and ran to Axel.

  “Well now, brown cows…” Axel stood before the cowering cows, and chuckled viciously. “Let’s eat…,” he licked his chops and grinned. The cows began screaming in protest. The dragon snatched on off its feet, and snapped it in his jaws. With a powerful swallow, the cow slipped into Axel’s belly. He rubbed it and purred lightly. Zexion looked at the other cows and chuckled lightly. 

  “So.. What about the rest of them?” he looked at Axel, his stomach churning the chickens inside of him.

  “Lock them up… We can come back to them later…,” he smiled and grinned. Zexion took action, locking the cows up in their pens and chaining them down. They screamed in protest, calling for help. As the vicious raptor laughed, he got bitten down on  by a dog. Not just any dog, the farmer’s dog, Xion, had come to the cows’ rescues. She growled, and then let go of Zexion. It was a fatal mistake on her end. The raptor turned, and snatched up the dog. He threw his head back, and began to swallow the creature. She screamed out in terror as she slid down into the raptor’s gullet. The dog landed into her fleshy prison and began to whine. 

  “Let me out! Now!” she began barking and Zexion chuckled.

  “Mm… Delish…,” he said lightly, his tail flickering behind him. Axel couldn’t help but chuckle, as he watched the dog try her hardest to get out, but to no avail. She eventually gave up, and slipped down in the raptor’s belly. Her whimpers only lasted a bit longer, as she drifted to sleep, never to awake again. Zexion rubbed his belly and grinned. “You know.. I think I’m actually full…,” he said with a dark grin. The dragon looked outside the cow house, and saw Sora walking around. He was calling out for his dog, that had ended up inside of Zexion. 

  “Come on… I think I spy another meal for you to stuff… Little lady is looking for his dog… I say you show him where she is,” the dragon chuckled darkly. Zexion peered out the window, and devious grin spread across his face. 

  “Ooh… I like that idea.. I guess I have enough room left,” he slipped out the barn. The raptor slinked along the high crops, and waited for Sora to get closer.  As he notices the boy in the dress get closer, he whipped his tail out and snatched the boy into the bushes. Sora let out a slight yelp, and began to struggle in the raptor’s grip. He saw what was holding him, and then screamed as loud as he could. Roxas, still in the house, heard the scream, and jumped right up. He snatched his gun from the wall.

  “Sora!!!” He ran outside, and had his gun pointed in front of him. The bushes were shifting, and a slurping noise was heard. He pointed his gun at the bushes and aimed. “Sora? Say something, or I’m blowing a hole clean through these bushes,” he growled, but was truly worried. When no response came, he cocked his gun. That’s when his response came. The fattened raptor jumped clean out of the bushes and over Roxas. The blond farmer was in such disbelief that a supposedly extinct creature just leapt from the bushes. 

  “Roxas!” Sora pressed against the inner walls of Zexion’s stomach, and his screams came out muffled. That was all that Roxas needed, and he fired at the beast, aiming at his feet. When one shot made its mark, the raptor landed and rolled over in pain. He roared out in pain, and clutched his bleeding foot. Roxas stood over the raptor, and cocked his gun.

  “AXEL!!” Zexion cried out in terror. The barn where the dragon was split up, and the beast flew out. He snatched Zexion off the ground, and flew around to the back of the farmer’s house. Tenderly, he placed Zexion down on a bed of hay, and smiled lightly. 

  “Stay here.. I got a farmer to eat…,” he growled viciously, and flew out. Roxas began to fire at Axel’s wings, missing him since the beast was too fast for him to get a clear shot. In an instant, Roxas was snatched off the ground, and into the jaws of the dragon. He was thrown off guard, and took a moment to shift around the mouth. He went to find his gun, only to find it crushed in the dragon’s teeth. All hope drained from Roxas. He began to beat the inside of Axel’s mouth, only to have the beast tilt his head up and swallow the farmer. With a heavy gulp, he slipped through Axel’s throat, and into his awaiting stomach. 

  The day was coming to a close, and the sun was setting. Zexion laid on the hay bed and sighed heavily. His large stomach gurgled out, as it began to digest his meals. Axel laid down by Zexion and purred lightly. His meals were beginning to digest as well. “That was fun…,” the red dragon said with a sly grin. “We should do this more often…”

  “We should… But first… Sleep, and then we can clean the farm afterward,” Zexion grinned, and curled his tail around him. Axel smiled lightly at the heavily full raptor, and rubbed his own belly. As night time came, the two beasts had fallen into a deep sleep.