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Vergil sat on his surfboard floating on the water, looking around at where he now was.

It all happened so fast. One moment he was just out on the sea, enjoying some waves. The next, he was thrust into the air by something under the water, his wings too soaked to fly away from the immediate danger.

Then came the jaw with it's pair of canines, the massive maw engulfing him and shutting out the light of day. Followed by the massive "GULP!" that sent him down to the stomach within this colossal beast of the sea.

Vasha, the macro mermaid vixen

"Why are mermaids so massive?" the little wolf thought as he continued to glance around at the vast cavern of a gut he was now within. There was even an old pirate ship inside there. "What a whale of a mermaid she is,"

Though his moment of sight seeing was cut short as the stomach began to bounce and thrash around

"WHOA!" Vergil cried "What's going on out there!?"

A sudden gush of sea water, followed by a large tentacle entering the tummy answered that question. Outside, Vasha was busy battling a tasty looking giant squid

"Of course I was nothing but a snack to her," Vergil thought as he flew up onto the pirate ship

After a few moments, the gut settled down, while being filled with more bloody sea water and squid

"Ewww," Vergil said "Good thing I was just an appetizer, and bite sized."

The wolf then began to look around the ship he was on.

"A ship like this surely must have something to help me get out of here," he said going to the captains quarters. Only to be met with a sight

"Huh!" the wolf gasped as he saw the treasure chest in the room. It's top busted and worn away, but within, the shiny gold coins shown out.

Plus, there was a sword and pistols in there too

"Yes!" Vergil thought "I can... Wait a second,"

Vergil then thought about the plan he was hatching

Sure, he could use the weapons to fight his way out of Vasha. But then what?

They were underwater, he'd just cause a huge flow of it to gush in from the wound. Plus all of Vasha's blood he'd fill the water with would likely attract sharks.

He'd be free of the huge mermaid vixen, only to end up drowning and being torn to bits by a smaller, ocean predator?

"Maybe that's why whoever owned this ship didn't try that either," Vergil thought "Or whoever else she's ate,"

Vergil sat in the old captains chair, gazing behind him through the busted window. Nothing but sea water and the walls of a stomach

Just then, the wolf's own stomach began to growl

"Oh," Vergil said "Wonder if the galley has anything left to eat? Assuming it's not flooded. Or am I having fresh sushi?"

With that the wolf went below deck. Yet as he did, another horrid thought rushed into his head. Sure food might not be an issue, but what about water? It wasn't like he could drink what Vasha was guzzling into herself

"Maybe I can find a pot and start a fire," Vergil began "Boiling salt water makes it drinkable, right? Wonder if that's what did in everyone else Vasha ate?"

The wolf then thought of himself dying of thirst, a bit ironic of a way to go within a creature under the sea.

"No! Don't think like that!" Vergil said shaking the horrid thoughts from his head. "You can do this, at least until you can find a way out of here,"

Upon reaching the galley, Vergil was surprised how in tact the below deck of the ship was

"Wow, expected to be up to my legs in water down here. Did she swallow this whole thing way back when? Do mermaids age slowly?"

Vergil's train of thought was cut short by more growling from within his own stomach.

Lucky, there was a wood burning stove, and he was able to find some spare wood and even a box of matches

There wasn't much in the way of food though. Except...

"How exactly do you cook squid?" Vergil wondered placing a bit of titanic beast Vasha had ate in a pan to fry. "Least the pantry had some rum in it too, can hold off on that boiling sea water idea for a while,"

In the end, it wasn't the most delicious meal he'd ever had. Yet the wolf had quelled his hunger and thirst for the time being.

He then returned to the captains quarters of the ship, where he continued to try and devise a plan to escape the colossal mermaid vixen he was trapped inside in.

"Okay, so killing her would just doom me. That's been established. Don't want to drown or fall victim to sharks. I could tell her about the treasure. Bride my way out of her? But then again, she did eat it. And what use is gold to a mermaid? Not like she's going to go shopping or anything. Maybe convince her to use it to bait other sailors? No, then I'm just dooming others to suffer in here like me. Burn the ship? Start a fire in her, like in Pinocchio? No, she'd just drink a bunch of water and put it out. Besides, she's a mermaid, not a whale. UGH! AM I DESTINED TO CALL THIS PIRATE SHIP IN A MERMAID VIXEN'S TUMMY MY NEW, PERMANENT HOME!?"

"Hey, that is always an option," Vasha's voice bellowed

"Huh? Vasha, you can hear me in here?" Vergil said "And you can talk underwater?"

"Mermaids don't spend all there time under the sea y'know," Vasha said "I'm enjoying the moonlight on my own private island rock right now, and you're ruining the peacefulness of it all,"

"YOU ATE ME!" Vergil barked

Just then, a loud booming sound rocked the belly. As Vasha smacked her gut. Vergil had to cover his ears from the noise.

"I must say, still impressed you've lasted this long," Vasha said "Most people just freak out and get digested. Yet you've just gone and taken up residence in me,"

"Well, never thought I'd call a pirate ship my home, much less one that's been eaten," Vergil said

"That old thing's still in there? Oh, I remember when a swallowed it whole. Too bad the crew had abandoned it, bet some foolish first mate got keelhauled for not setting down the anchor," Vasha explained

"I take it you don't care about the treasure?" Vergil said

"Treasure!?" Vasha said surprised "There's gold and shiny things in me!?"

"Yeah," Vergil said

"Fish are attracted to light, that'd make hunting so much more easy. Making the prey come over to me," Vasha explained

"So, if I get this treasure chest out of you, I'll be free to go?" Vergil asked

"Well, you'd be helping me in my hunting. Plus you're such a scrumptious bit of prey, I'd love to eat you up again later," Vasha said

Vergil gulped at that remark

So in the end, the winged wolf flew the chest up Vasha's throat and got hacked her out mouth

"Ewww," Vergil said getting covered in spit and already eaten squid

Vasha then plucked the wolf and treasure off her tongue and set them on the rock

"Wow, you weren't kidding," Vasha said "Good thing it wasn't digested after all this time,"

"So, I'm free to go?" Vergil asked. Hoping the mermaid vixen wouldn't just snatch him up and send him back inside her

"Sure, sure, dry your wings and fly off," Vasha said pointing the wolf toward home

Vergil was about to when...

"Hey wait! My surfboard!" the wolf said "You still have it in you!"

"Oh, I do?" Vasha said as she lowered her head near the wolf and opened her mouth. "Would you like it back? It's right down in here,"

The warm breath of the massive vixen blew onto the little wolf

"If I go get it, you're not letting me out again I take it?" Vergil said

"You can choose to fly away," Vasha said "Either way, I'll always have something to remember how yummy you are. Plus hey, you still have a nice home in here we learned,"

The wolf flew off for home

"I don't think I'm going back to the beach for a good long while," Vergil thought

The mermaid vixen watched her tasty snack fly off

"Oh, you'll be back," Vasha said "We mermaids have a way of attracting people to there doom after all,"

The mermaid vixen licked her lips, eagerly awaiting when her tasty wolf prey would return to the sea, to become her snack

"Maybe he'll bring friends next time? Hope so. Yummy," Vasha said rubbing her tummy

The end