It was a cold, quiet night, the moon unseen, the only light being the glittering stars above and the quiet fires of adventurers among the frozen trees. Fresh snow, frozen over twice, was left glistening with the millions of diamonds in the sky. The only sounds were the rustles of nocturnal predators, and the quiet stories of travellers. From their lips came rumor of a mighty dragon who lived in the mountains lining the edge of the boreal forest… A great dragon of enormous size, with brilliant silver scales, teeth of steel, and breath so cold it could freeze brimstone and shatter steel. The beast owned the whole of the snowy mountain range, with tunnels snaking in and out, kobolds on every turn… But within the belly of these caves, there lay treasures untold, more gold than every kingdom of the north combined! These whispers were mere rumors, but the adventurers who listened couldn’t help but notice a mighty shadow flying amongst the stars above the frost-tipped trees…
  Palaetus glided through the cold night air, returning from a successful hunt, her belly full of fish. Her mighty silver wings were outstretched, each one longer than a human village, barely flapping as she silently soared over the trees beneath her… The wind rushed against her face, but her shimmery scales protected the dragon from the cold of night. After minutes of travel, Palaetus finally arrived at her mountain range. She flapped her wings to slow her descent, sending mighty winds across the mountain, before landing on her four clawed feet near the mouth of her cave.
  The mouth of the cave was 400 ft tall, and 1000ft wide, but to Palaetus, it was still a squeeze to get inside. She briefly wondered if her kobolds would be willing to make it wider… Speaking of the kobolds, three kobolds stood near the mouth of the cave, perched on stalagmites, and eagerly welcoming the mighty dragon! “O mighty Palaetus! You’ve returned! What do you need from us, your humble servants?” The three short lizards bowed deeply to her.
  Palaetus nodded to three of them, “Status reports, please?”
  The first kobold, one with bronze-colored scales says, “The hunting team was successful! We found many rabbits… What do you wish for us to do with them?”
  Palaetus speaks, “Please put them for storage, Kyruk. Feeding room 7, my hunting trip left me full today. I caught three whales.”
  Urhuk nods, and skitters into the cave on all fours. The next kobold, who has green scales, speaks next, “The gold team successfully organized treasury sector 73. Magical items are moving toward sector 1 now.”
  “Very good, Gorlin. Tell the gold team that they may have tomorrow off.”
The kobold nods eagerly, and quickly departs, leaving just the red kobold to speak. “The combat team found no intruders, and are prepared to do as you wish. Do you want us to massage your haunches again?”
Palaetus sighed, it had been a long while since the last defense against raiders. Her gold storages had not grown in the slightest, and she was slowly growing softer… figuratively and literally. Her rump was positively enormous, and it jiggled with every single step. Those whales had not been kind to her, and her buttocks clapped with every step of hers, as well as making entering her cave harder… At least the kobolds liked it. “No thank you, Merdok. I would like to be alone for tonight, but I assure you that I will leave my rear end open to massaging tomorrow.”
The kobold bows, “Very well, I will clear passage to your sleeping den, so you will have no difficulty with unwanted touches.” He then promptly sprints into the cave, shouting up a storm.
Palaetus shakes her head in an amused fashion. She was content with speaking to any of her kobolds, even if she wanted to be alone for now, but Merdok was far too loyal to allow a chance interaction. However, while he went and did that, Palaetus began the arduous task of squeezing her buttocks into the mouth of the cave. She tucked her long neck into the cave, as well as her wings and body, and began to pull her hindlegs in… It was lucky that no adventurers visited her at night, lest they catch her in this compromising position…
Palaetus pulled her way through the tunnels, her ass and wings scraping the ceiling and walls as she grunted with difficulty. As she scraped her way down into her caverns, she heard the typical noises of kobolds. Dancing in some caves as they drank their own form of alcohol, shouts in others as they fought for fun, grunts and moans as they… performed private activities. However, as she drew close to her sleeping quarters, Palaetus heard a peculiar noise in a side cave. It sounded like… soft weeping. The dragon bent her long, sleek neck into the room, and saw a single kobold, sitting and weeping on a stone floor, among the just-planted crops.
Palaetus crawled her way into the room, somehow without the kobold noticing, and examined it. After looking for a bit, she identified him as the low-level kobold Urhuk. His dim-gray scales seemed to be smeared with dust, and he remained curled up in the corner, unknowing of the silver dragon’s presence. After a few minutes of listening to his sobs, Palaetus spoke, “Are you okay, Urhuk?”
The kobold looked up from his position, and his eyes opened with shock. He quickly scrambled to his feet, and bowed reverently, “M-mighty Palaetus! I apologize for my sorry position in this room! I shall return to work immediately!”
Palaetus looked at him with confusion, “It’s evening, there’s no more work to be done…”
Urhuk remained in a bowing position, “Err… Well I-I guess I shall… go to my living quarters… In a bit” Palaetus watched as the kobold remained bowing, not moving in any way. After a few minutes, he asks, “Have you left yet?”
“No I have not. What’s wrong, Urhuk?”
The kobold sighs, and sits down on the floor again in a morose fashion, staring at the floor. “It’s nothing… just kobold stuff… Plus, I shouldn’t say anything when there are others outside this room…”
Palaetus responds in a motherly voice, “Well… kobold stuff is my stuff too. You may work for me, but I do care about your affairs as well as your happiness. If you wish, you may follow me back to my sleeping quarters if you wish to speak in a more private fashion.”
Urhuk looks at Palaetus, his face shifting from dark gray to bright red. “I-I’m fine… You don’t have to bring me into your sleeping quarters…” In kobold society, being inside the sleeping quarters of their worshipped dragon was the highest honor that could be bestowed! Urhuk was most certainly not worthy… he was just a normal kobold rescued from a crueler dragon…
Palaetus pauses, “Well, I guess I shall instead command you to come to my sleeping quarters.” The dragon lifts a front claw from the floor, and turns it upward, outstretched to the small kobold.
“A-alright… But, please don’t let anyone know I went into your room… They’ll get jealous…” Urhuk states as he hesitantly crawls among the four sharp claws, each one of the sharp talons taller than him!
“Very well, I shall keep you hidden among my claws.” Palaetus states as she begins to crawl out of the small cave, back to the task of scraping her way down the tight tunnels of the cave. Urhuk seemed extremely nervous, refusing to look out over her claws, even though Murdok had thoroughly cleared out the tunnels of any kobolds who may see the tiny lizard. However, after an agonizingly long crawl through the tunnel, Palaetus and Urhuk finally arrived inside of the dragon’s cavernous sleeping quarters.
Urhuk finally peeked his head out, and looked around the room with awe. Every corner was painted with brilliant murals depicting various scenes of anthros, dragons, and other beasts. Not only that, but in the center of the room was a pile of all kinds of things; beds, pillows, grass, blankets, cloths… a massive collection of soft materials which appeared to be Palaetus’s bed. Palaetus walked towards it, and laid down on top of it, resting her wings underneath her and with her soft underbelly in the air. With her body relaxed, she gently places Urhuk on her soft belly, and looks upon the kobold, “So, what’s wrong?”
Urhuk looked at his surroundings, seemingly not believing that he was sitting atop the dragon’s belly in her room! After getting over his shock, he eventually sighed and spoke, “Well… I-it’s kind of embarrassing…”
“Well, I am here to listen without judgement, and to help you. So, what is it?” Palaetus replied in a motherly voice. She really did care about the happiness of her kobolds…
Urhuk gulped nervously, “Well… The other kobolds are making fun of me for having a small ass…” Palaetus raised an eyebrow, but did not say anything else, prompting Urhuk to continue, “In kobold society, the ass is what shows our strength and attractiveness… It’s like a trophy that we use to show our status. Having a large ass is not only really sexy on both men and women, it also shows you’ve eaten a lot… However, I have an… unnaturally small booty.
“No matter how much I eat, I gain nothing. Plus I was born with it already flat! The average kobold has an ass larger than an anthro’s, despite being smaller than an anthro. A kobold’s ass is supposed to be jiggly, doughy, and large enough to provide a loud smack when you slap it… Mine, if you can’t tell, is bony and lame…
“All the other kobolds call me flatty, and even those who are nice to me think of me as sickly… Poor old sickly Urhuk the Unlovable… Slap his ass and it makes the sound of a coin hitting the floor. If they don’t try to console the sickly kobold, they just ignore me at the dances and parties. No one dances with me, talks to me, or even fucks…” The kobold pauses, wondering if he should have said that. “Point is, I feel so out of place…”
Palaetus nodded, listening to the story with sympathy, before finally speaking, “So… because you have an unendowed rear end, you have no real friends?”
“Either that or it’s my personality… Do I seem rude or overbearing?”
Palaetus smiled warmly, “Of course not! You seem very sweet. I have noticed in my observations of the kobolds that the… more endowed ones seem to be the ones in charge.”
“Yeah… Thank you for listening to me. I… should probably head back to my cave before they notice I’m missing.”
“Well… I was thinking I could help you.”
“Oh?” Urhuk suddenly perked up upon hearing this. “Do you have some sort of magical artifact that will increase my weight gain? Maybe dragon magic that can make an illusory ass for me?”
Palaetus shakes her head, “No… I will be using magic, but just to reform myself.”
“Reform? Why would you need to…” Urhuk paused, the cogs of his brain turning as he slowly pieced together the evidence. She couldn’t possibly be implying that he eats her, right?
“Well, giving you an illusory posterior would work, but I think you also need a confidence boost… and what better way is there to boost confidence than to eat a large dragon?” Palaetus said with a smile on her face.
“W-what? A-are you sure? Th-that could seriously compromise your dignity! Getting eaten by a kobold would make you a laughingstock! Plus, there’s no way I can fit all of you!” Urhak said in a panicked voice. She must have lost her mind!
“Oh, dignity matters not to me… The concept of pride being the most important thing to a dragon is a foolish idea perpetuated by warlord dragons who see kobolds as slaves…” Palaetus said bitterly, before swapping back to her motherly tone, “Besides, this will remain a secret between just us, right? And kobolds have very stretchy bellies from what I’ve seen...”
The kobold felt light headed from hearing this, “I… I guess…”
Palaetus smiles happily, “Very good! Well, shall we begin?”
Urhuk watched as the mighty dragon's silvery tail rose from the ground, and dropped it’s tip right next to his face. The kobold looked at Palaetus with continued surprise, but she continued to smile, and wiggle her tail tip in his face. Urhuk gulped nervously, she clearly was not going to take no for an answer… He gently grabbed the tip of her tail, and placed it in his mouth.
His mouth instantly water as an explosion of flavor entered his mouth! The dragon’s scales apparently taste of peppermint… Urhuk began to eagerly gulp down more of her tail, feeling it gently slide down his throat and into his hungry belly. He’d not eaten all day, and once he got past his hesitation at the prospect of eating Palaetus, he realized just how ravenous he was… The silvery dragon chuckled as he slurped down more and more of her tail, “Wow… I guess you are hungry!”
Urhuk can’t respond, but he continues to gulp down the dragon’s shimmery tail. It begins to get wider and wider as he goes, forcing his maw to expand beyond the width of his body. As more and more of her tail slid in, curling up inside of his belly, bloating it out. In less than a minute of swallowing, Urhuk’s belly was already larger than him! Palaetus moved her tail off her belly, lifting Urhuk into the air. Palaetus then proceeded to turn over and place the kobold on top of his belly while she rested on her own belly. Meanwhile, Urhuk continued to swallow and gulp, his mouth growing to an enormous proportion as he got to the thicker parts of her tail.
After several minutes of continued gulping, Urhuk found himself face-to-face with Palaetus’s enormous ass! He blushed deeply as he opened his maw to put more of the squishy flesh into his open maw. The kobold lets out a soft moan as he feels more and more of Palaetus’s large, delicious rump slide into his maw. He felt his cheeks bloat out as he managed to slowly work the large booty down his voracious throat. After a long while slowly forcing more of the doughy derriere, he managed to fit the whole thing inside of his cheeks! Palaetus spoke up softly, “Pause for a second, I am going to move a bit to make this easier for you.”
Urhuk did as she said, and felt the great dragon suddenly push back with her front claws! Her back claws lifted off of the ground, and began to fold against her underbelly as her haunches slid deep into the kobold’s throat! Urhuk let out a moan of pleasure at the soft, scaly texture of Palaetus, as well as her pleasant flavor. More and more of her back legs and underbelly slid into his maw, bloating out his belly significantly! As her enormous back claws slowly slid in, the image looked rather comical. Every feature of Palaetus was perfectly visible in Urhuk’s belly due to how stretched it is, making it look like the dragon’s bottom half was discolored. “You’re doing so good! Keep going~” Palaetus warmly encouraged Urhuk.
Urhuk continued, swallowing down the last of her back claws, and moving on to her chest. He delicately licked every surface, savoring the flavor of his enormous meal as he continued to gulp down the dragon. Soon, he felt himself arrive at her shoulders and continue to gulp down her long neck and forelegs. More than 75% of her was inside of him… Yet he still felt so hungry! Her legs were slowly slurped down his throat to join the rest of her, leaving only the final portion of her neck as well as her head.
“You feel so warm… I’m glad to have helped you~” Palaetus said as the last of her head neck was gulped down, leaving only her large head outside of his belly. With one gulp, her horns slid into his maw. With a second one, her eyes slid in next. With a third swallow, the dragon’s maw slid into his throat! Urhuk closed his mouth for the first time in a long time, and gulped the dragon down his throat, feeling her bulge trace down his neck and into his bloated belly! The kobold let out a quiet sigh, looking at his dragon-sized stomach. Palaetus suddenly speaks from within, “Do you feel full?”
Urhuk paused for a second, and shrugged. “I could go for some more…”
Palaetus laughed loudly, “Ah… I’d get you some more if I could. But, for now, it’d be best to go to sleep…”
The kobold yawned loudly, stretching his arms, already beginning to fall asleep.. “Alright… Well, good night, mighty Palaetus… Thank you for everything…”
Palaetus smiled, and quietly said to Urhuk, “It’s no problem for me…” But the kobold had already passed out. He had a large meal, and had expended a great amount of effort to get it… The silver dragon decided to fall asleep as well, and let the kobold’s belly do it’s thing.
 
 
Throughout the night, the digestive acids of the lizard got to work on Palaetus. Her scales were slowly eaten away, eroded of their silvery color, and turned into nutrients for Urhuk’s ravenous insides. Her flesh was slowly eaten away, turned into chyme which flowed throughout the small lizard’s body. The nutrient stew slid through his intestines, going to fill out parts of Urhuk’s belly… However, while the expected size increase of the ass did occur, something else changed as well…
Urhuk’s muscles began to grow, tendons becoming stronger and larger. His bones were broken down and reformed to larger and stronger… His scales hardened, turning from dim gray to a shiny, black color. The kobold’s joints came together into sharp edges! His neck grew longer, his arms became like forelegs, and wings sprouted from his back!
...Urhuk was most certainly not a normal kobold anymore.
 
 
In the morning, a commotion formed in the lower ends of the tunnel. Hoards of kobolds crowded around gathering chamber 3, as a strange sight was to be seen! Standing in the center of the room, past the swarms of kobolds, and by the side of Palaetus, there stood an obsidian dragon!
The dragon had a coat of black scales with a glossy sheen over the top of it. Razor-sharp edges formed on his back and at his joints, as well as along the tips of his expansive wings. The dragon stood at 40ft tall, with a terrifying aura about it due to its imposing nature. However, if one was to catch a glance of his orange eyes, they would see a shy gentleness.
However, the kobolds sitting behind the dragon couldn’t see his eyes. What they could see was the dragon’s ass… The thing was enormous! Plump, squishy, and coated with that glossy surface like the rest of him. As the dragon sat on the ground, it conformed with the flat surface, spreading across it like two huge lumps of dough. Some braver kobolds risked a touch, and found it softer than even the largest kobold ass… Not only that, but the rump was even larger than Palaetus’s! Despite being less than half the size of Palaetus, this new dragon had an ass twice the size of hers!
Palaetus suddenly cleared her throat, bringing the boisterous room to silence. “Good morning everyone. So, as of last night, I found something rather peculiar. Urhuk was not actually a kobold, but rather an undeveloped obsidian dragon.”
The audience suddenly whispers amongst themselves. How could that be? Urhuk? The flatty? How could he have an ass that big? Palaetus cleared her throat again, bringing the room to silence. “Of course, it would be improper to let an obsidian dragon serve under my ranks. So, I will instead propose a truce between him and I.” She turns her eyes to Urhuk, and speaks calmly, “In exchange for your allegiance in the event of an attack, and continued peace between us, I would like to give you a sector of gold, 10 kobolds, and a mountain of this range.”
 The kobolds directed their attention to Urhuk, who began to show his nervousness with his suddenly weakened stature, “Y-you don’t need to give all that to me… I’d be an ally to you even with a gift of a single turnip…”
Palaetus shook her head, “Nonsense. I insist you accept these gifts. For it is not proper for a dragon to begin without a modest hoard and group of kobolds. I will allow you to select the kobolds you take, but I ask that they are willing before you select them.”
Urhuk gulped nervously, and looked at the swarm of kobolds. Suddenly, swarms of them raised their hands! The dragon feels his eyes dart from kobold to kobold, each one more eager than the last to join his side! As Urhuk gets to selecting 10 kobolds (specifically those who had been nice to him when he was a kobold) Palaetus calls out, “Murdoc!”
The kobold appears at the side of the silver dragon and bows, “How may I be of service?”
“The gold team has their day off today, correct?”
“Yes, your mightiness”
“Well, if you would, can you please task the combat team with retrieving sector 33 of the hoard and carrying it to the mountain Urhuk selects?”
“I will do it right away!” The kobold bows, and runs off while shouting for his team to assemble.
Palaetus then turns her head, and begins to order dispersal of the hoard of kobolds. It was difficult enough for Urhuk to navigate the cave with his enormous ass, but it would be even more difficult if there were swarms of kobolds in the way…
 
 
Hours later, it was nighttime again. A crescent moon had formed in the sky, but it was shielded from the world by the dreary clouds of winter. Flurries of snow dusted the ground as snowflakes gently drizzled the stone surface of the mountain. However, the snow failed to touch the inside of a large cave that had recently been carved out. 100ft tall, but only 200ft deep, it was certainly a cozy place to live. Within this cave, a large pile of gold sat with 10 kobolds sleeping around it, a warm fire near it. At the mouth of the cave, Urhuk sat watching the snow peacefully.
He was pondering how he could thank Palaetus for all she’d done, when he suddenly felt something strange, like claws touching his ass. He craned his neck behind him, and saw one of his kobolds snuggling up against his ass. Urhuk briefly considered telling the kobold off, to go sleep with the others, but stopped himself. He turned his neck away from his ass and back to the snow, and smiled. All those years of being a flatty… it was simply because he had the metabolism of a dragon and wasn’t fed enough to grow!
But now, here he was. An ass so large that it would even make Palaetus jealous… He was no longer Urhuk the Unlovable. And if he had his choice, he would want to be known as Urhuk the Kind...Of course, his kobolds had already started calling Urhuk the Thicc, but kindness and large asses aren’t mutually exclusive.