Procrastinating my assignments? Yes. But also making lore? Also yes : D
Anyway, have Antfrost from Venture. I've been holding onto this drawing for a little while, and I just finished it and figured I may as well post it. He won't appear in the fic for a very long time, but that doesn't mean I can't do teasers : D
The Manhunters face their biggest (literally) challenge yet as a Titan ends up wanted in Blackwater Territory.
Tw: vore, digestion mention, swearing, gore
Four men rode into the quiet desert town of El Rapids, nestled in the walls of the infamous “Blackrock Canyon.” They heard word from another town back in the Savannah about a massive bounty in El Rapids, and they were going to be the ones to claim it. George thought this was strange as he adjusted himself on the back of his horse, urging it to catch up to the others.
“Sapnap are you sure we’re in the right place?” Badboyhalo asked.
“Maybe we should’ve taken a left at the river…” Antfrost chimes in. Sapnap rolled his eyes.
“We’re here, El Rapids just has a low population because of its location.” He said. It was true, El Rapids was subject to constant Titan attacks, from Branch-horns to the dreaded Derivus and Agnes, no human was safe here.
The group found a large hole carved by the riverbank and stopped, letting their horses rest by the riverbank and tying them to fence posts. George only could hope that a hungry Titan didn’t suddenly develop a craving for horse meat. They walked through a series of tunnels and finally arrived to an underground city, lit up by lamp lights and glow lichen. A man walked up to them and Sapnap stepped foreward.
“President Quackity.” He greeted.
“Captain Sapnap,” Quackity greeted back, shaking his hand. “Follow me boys, this one is probably going to be your biggest hunt yet!”
The group followed him inside where he had a projector set up.
“Now normally you boys hunt people right? That’s why you’re called the Manhunters, well, consider this gentlemen! Tubbo! Lights!” Quackity exclaimed dramatically. The teen at the back of the room rolled his eyes dramatically and flicked the switch as Quackity got the projector running. A picture of a large silhouette with glowing green eyes popped up.
“This, is your target. A lightweight build Titan that has been scouting the perimeter and eating merchants whenever it finds them. We’re surprised it didn’t get you guys actually.” Quackity said, flicking through the pictures. Images of carnage and bloody remains flashed across the screen emphasizing what they were really hunting, a monster that could kill everyone in this room with only one swipe of its mighty talons.
George swallowed nervously and Bad looked mortified. Sapnap frowned with concern as he stood up from his seat.
“With all do respect, Mr. President, I’m not risking my men’s lives to hunt a killer Titan, I think we should probably get the Safeguard involved.” Sapnap suggested.
“That’s the thing! Safeguard doesn’t care about little desert outposts like this! They only care about city humans! The ones scurrying between massive feet and talons surviving the concrete jungle, they don’t care about the humans that are really struggling to survive. That’s why I have employed you five, the best hunters on the continent.” Quackity clasped Sapnap’s shoulder. “Did I mention, the reward?” He passed Sapnap two wanted posters, both of the same creature, both with the same bounty. The reward?
“3 million credits,” Sam gasped, everyone’s eyes were wide with shock, George’s jaw dropped hearing this. 3 million human credits, that was like, 3 thousand Titan credits!
“And you have this kind of money?!” George blurted. Quackity nodded.
“Yep, one Titan owes me hush money to keep his little affair with a human a secret.” Quackity smirked. “So boys? Are you in?”
“We’ll be back with that fucker’s head dragging behind the horses in 3 days.” Sapnap smirked confidently. “Boys! We ride at sundown!”
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Nighttime was the worst time to be out in the desert. There were mobs absolutely everywhere in the canyon! A creeper nearly blasted them twice had Ant not hissed at it to make it go away (and by that extent would always make Sam jump.) and skeletons would constantly put them under fire. The group stopped to camp by the waterfall, Bad humming a quiet tune as their makeshift campfire crackled under the 5 moon sky. If they weren’t under the threat of being murked by mobs or becoming a Titan’s midnight snack, it would’ve been peaceful.
“So, what are you guys gonna do with your share of the money?” Bad suddenly asked. Sam scoffed at him
“What is this a slumber party?” He joked. Bad rolled his eyes, or at least George thought he did.
“Haha very funny Sam. I’m just trying to make conversation.” Bad quipped. Antfrost giggled as he took a drink of water from the river, pausing suddenly. His ears flicked and his whiskers twitched. Sapnap noticed this.
“Ant? Whatchya picking up?” The captain of the hunters asked. Ant turned to answer but froze dead in his tracks, stumbling over his words. Eventually a low growl made the group realize why Ant suddenly looked ready to piss himself.
“Fuck, run you idiots!” Sapnap yelled as a terrifying screech-like roar pierced the night sky.
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He never really liked this arrangement with El Rapids. He had been perfectly fine on his own, the rivers had plentiful fish and one of the two visas he had allowed him to become human, so he could at least buy food during tough times.
But ever since Quackity caught him in El Rapids trying to sneak around, he had used him for protection, in exchange that the Titan was fed. He was fed alright, fed up with this bullshit. He hated the sound of screaming humans, it was annoying and heartbreaking, interestingly enough. The first few times he was “sacrificed” humans, he didn’t mind, but after a while he started getting suspicious when he heard El Rapids’s population was shrinking. He was starting to think he was a body guard for Quackity, and needed someone to help him take them down.
So here he was, quietly watching the camp of 5 hunters. It was kinda cozy he wouldn’t lie. He wanted to try and get closer, maybe introduce himself. If he did this slowly and carefully everything should go right. Keyword; should. And it did, he got very close, until the cat saw him, he tried purring to show he was friendly. The human in a white bandana started shouting at them to run and they all took off. Great.
One thing he did do before he left his den for the night was he grabbed his visa that put his stomach on hold, almost making it like a storage pouch so he wouldn’t have to worry about cramming them in a sac barely below his collarbone meant to hold up to two people. His stomach could hold 3 safely at least. He grabbed one of them and immediately popped them into his mouth, purring at the taste as he kept an eye on where everyone was, out of the corner of his eye he saw the slightly smaller one with goggles running along the side of the cliff with a bow, probably to start sniping. The human cut at his tongue, right, they’re armed. He slammed them against the roof of his mouth and spat out their weapon, then swallowed with a hearty gulp, feeling them travel down, one down 4 to go.
One by one he was scouring the ravine, catching and disarming each hunter, and swallowing them down so they could be safe. He will admit it was an amazing sensation to feel 3 live prey inside his belly squirming and thrashing. Now for the tough part: the goggled human and the bandana human.
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George was hyperventilating and in tears. Everyone he’d met and grown to love as brothers were being eaten alive and he was next as he loaded a wayfaryte arrow into his bow and wanted to take aim. Sapnap was no where to be found but if George had to guess he was already being digested by the monster, or got torn to shreds because he tried to burn it-nope, he could hear Sapnap’s battle cry, he was still alive, not for long though. George rounded the corner and took the shot, landing a blow on the beast’s shoulder as it roared with surprise. The creature looked around, vibrant green eyes landed on him as he walked over. George tried to run but it was too late as he was pinched by the leg with (gentle?) fingers. George instinctively dropped his arrows and bow, along with his sword and knife. He was defenseless.
The giant beast seemed satisfied with himself as he opened his mouth and tossed Sapnap in, clamping his teeth shut to lock his old time friend in.
“SAPNAP!!” George cried, flailing wildly trying to escape. The Titan pressed George against his stomach, he could hear his friends inside, yelling and screaming. George was frantically trying to push away, and to his surprise he was lifted back up, but only in time to watch as the Titan swallowed and the lump that was his friend traveling down the beasts throat.
It pet him reassuringly as he opened his mouth, a forest green abyss with a neon green forked tongue awaited him. George panicked and kicked at the tongue but that only excited the beast more as he slipped George in and started licking him. The tongue assaulted George everywhere, the little man helplessly fighting against it as he felt gravity shift. No, this couldn’t be the end. This wasn’t how he was going to die!
George clawed his way to the front of the mouth hearing a confused mutt ring around him as he slipped his hands under the beast’s teeth and started to lift. He pushed up with all his might, and unsure whether the beast was playing into this or if his jaw was relaxed enough, but he managed to prop it open, exerting all of his energy into holding the beast’s mouth open as sunlight started to rise. The creature wrapped his tongue around George and pulled him back in, but it kept its mouth open. As the sun rose above the cliffs, George was sliding into the awaiting opened throat, through the teeth he saw the last light of day as he was gulped down, sent to his doom. He slid down, down into a small pouch on top of Sapnap, below was the stomach with the rest of his friends. The two could barely fit in here, and it was about to get tighter as the creature burped overhead. The two held each other close, believing it was their final moments.
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Dream had never felt this heavy before. Five humans was a nice fill in theory, but with them all squirming and struggling it was kind of impossible to focus. He’s have to keep burping on occasion to prevent gas build up in both of his stomachs, and occasionally he would stop to rest and caress his belly. He would admit it was very nice, he would have to see if he could eat them again sometime soon. But for now he crawled back into the cave that he claimed to be his den and flopped into bed, tired and satisfied with two full bellies with the humans that were safe. Tomorrow night he’d let them out and explain what he was doing and why he ate them, if they’d even listen to him after this.
Dream has a job of restoring old toys, fixing toys- and basically just helping toys to not be broken and stuff (kind of-)
Except he knows something- he knows that toys are alive. He found out when he was a kid and one little mushroom fairy doll he'd stolen had been too lazy to pretend to be an object
So now, Dream has his little workshop where he'll help fix people's toys- but with the help of George (the mushroom fairy doll) he'll find out how the toy got broken and if they want to go back to the person who had then before, if not he'll let them stay and tell the person he couldn't fix the toy, then it's up to the toy weather they want to be given to another kid or if they just wanna stay with Dream (these options are also given to toys who need to be restored- in case they don't wanna be on a shelf collecting dust, or they just are too lonely being on a shelf as a collectable)
So far Dream does have a few toys living with him such as:
George: a doll of a mushroom fairy prince based off a character in an old children's cartoon (Dream had stolen them when he was a kid because he needed money and knew George would sell alot to collectors- but then he found out toys were alive and didn't do that)
Sapnap: action figure of an anime character. He was given to Dream to restore after a collector bought him from another collector- but decided to stay because sitting on a shelf and doing nothing was boring and lonely, so now with Dream he can run around and do whatever he wants, which includes fighting things
Badboyhalo: action figure of a movie villain. The kid who had him before had ripped all of his arms off (even though he's plastic-) while playing with him and that's why Dream had to fix him. Bad decided to stay because he didn't like having to be the villain, plus it hurt to be thrown around and pulled apart so much....
Antfrost: a cat plushie that had a few tears. He'd been sold at a yard sale- but the people who had bought him had only bought Ant and not Velvet, so when he was given to Dream to sew up he asked to stay to have Dream's help to try and find Velvet again so they could stay together (they do find Velvet eventually, don't worry- it seems like the person writing this world decided that Velvet would be given to Dream to get fixed at some point 👀)
AwSamDude: creeper plushie. A kid had tried to sew armor onto him, but they had no idea what they were doing- so now Sam is with Dream being fixed... But he doesn't really want to go back to his kid because he's interested in building and stuff, so he stays and sometimes him and other toys build amazing things with legos-
Red Velvet: little plushie doll designed like a red velvet cake. He ends up with Dream after a kid ripped his arm- but ended up staying because of Antfrost
Captain Puffy: sheep plushie. She was actually given to Dream when he was a baby, like a present for the day he was born- so she's always been there for Dream, even before he knew toys were alive. Now she's in charge of all of the toys when Dream isn't there, she's an amazing leader, builder, and is great at making sure everyone is doing okay
Niki: she's a monster mermaid doll based off a kids movie series with monsters (definitely not monster high-). A kid cut off some of her hair and tried to put makeup on her. She decided to stay because she didn't really like kids deciding who she was and what she was like (she learned from Puffy she could choose what to be like herself) and decided to stay
Ponk: lemon with a face, arms, and legs. A kid ripped off his arm, and when he was brought to Dream the arm that had been torn off was missing. He decided to stay because he wanted to be able to go on his own adventures
Connor: sonic toy. Nobody knows how he got here or why he stayed.
Foolish: action figure! He's supposed to change colour in water, but was never able to do it, and was brought to Dream to be fixed.... But Dream couldn't figure out how to fix it. So Foolish just stayed, and started to become friends with Puffy
Hannah Rose: chia pet doll- the company just wanted to test and see if a doll would work, the kid who had Hannah broke her almost immediately because she's made of glass- she decided to stay because she knew that if she broke again the CIA per company would just destroy her
Punz and Purpled: superhero action figures. Dream got both of them together after a kid tried to swap their arms. Both decided to stay because kids are destructive and disgusting
Quackity: a rubber ducky! His squeaker broke, and he chose to stay because he wants to still annoy people and cause chaos without a squeaker
Karl: a large plushie doll, designed like his original Minecraft skin. His arm got ripped, and he wanted to stay with Dream because he needed help with some memory problems
Eret: doll king based off a show with fairytale characters. The factory paint on his eyes got whiped off, but when Dream was gonna paint it back Eret told him he'd done it herself, she wanted to have blank eyes and wanted to customize themselves to match what he wanted to look like. So Dream helped them out
Technoblade: pig plushie. The dude got a battle scar (he had a year in his arm) and still refuses to let Dream sew it to this day
Ranboo: same line of monster dolls as Niki (he looks like his vtuber). He hasn't been around long enough to have many memories of his own apart from being bought and loosing his hand... So he wants to stay with Dream so he can make his own memories with friends of his own choosing
Wilbur Soot: an amibo of a character from a game like Stardew Valley..... Except he decided to cause chaos, got off his little pedastool and started threatening to burn down the house of the kids that owned him (with Tommy as his "helper"). Dream heard about this and offered the to take Wilbur and Tommy from the family so they're house would be safe-
Tommy: he's like those really small Polly pocket dolls that come in little compacts- but his is a little petting zoo with tiny animals, and a spider he adopted.
Then there are two more humans for this au:
For the toys that still wanna be owned but don't want to go back to the person who had them originally- Dream sends them off to a friend of his that owns a pawn shop: Schlatt, and Schlatt doesn't work alone, he has his son Tubbo work around the pawn shop and help Dream out as well. Tubbo doesn't mind though since he's become friends with some of the toys.
I accidentally stepped on a baby frog the other day, (i know, I'm a horrible person) and all of it's guts were smushed out of it's side. Unfortunatly, it was stil alive, so I had to kill it :(
But! It gave me this Idea! (plus from one of Roman's (baka-monarch's) posts that I can't be bothered to find right now)
Found it!
Anyway, it's short, but do enjoy!
Word Count: 542
Warnings: Death, gore, blood, general angst, that sort of stuff
Dream glanced around. He knew the hunters were in this cave somewhere. He had seen them go into it.
He shifted his stance, scanning around the massive cave. His mind was focused solely on luring them out into his trap. Something crunched wetly and then screamed underneath his foot, and a nasty squelch sounded when he accidentally slipped on whatever it was before he managed to jerk away.
Oh no…
A heavy lead weight of dread dropped into his gut at that horrible sound. There were few things in this world that wouldn't be dusted instantly from damage like that, fewer still that had enough body composition to be gooey. And there were very, very few creatures that could scream like a person.
Dream had a horrible feeling he knew what that had been. He immediately fell to his knees and leaned down, trying to get a better look at who he had just stepped on.
"Ant? Oh fuck," he hissed, internally cringing away. Ant wheezed out a strangled gurgle, blood starting to dribble from his mouth.
Ant's guts were smushed out of his side, mashed and smeared from where Dream slipped over them, and his legs were mangled and crushed beyond repair because Dream had stepped on him.
Dream had to forcefully push down the wave of nausea that hit him before he threw up over the smashed body of his friend.
The poor cat hybrid's hazy blue eyes slid up to meet Dream's. The giant hurriedly shoved his mask to the side and met the cat's eyes.
"A-Ant, I-I," Dream forced down a choked whimper, hands twitching as they hovered uselessly over his mangled friend.
Dream swallowed. At this point, he thought it would be better to kill him. The pain of a respawn would be more merciful than this, this slow death of–of being crushed.
"I-I'm gonna have to kill you, Ant. You'll respawn just fine, okay?" Ant managed to stutter out a gurgle, which Dream chose to interpret as an 'okay.'
"Okay, so, I'm just going to break your neck. It'll be the quickest and most painless." Another choked sound from his friend made the giant wince.
Gently, he took Ant's head between his fingers. Blood-matted ears flicked against his skin, and Dream had to push down another wave of nausea.
With a quick twist of his fingers and a haunting snap, it was done, and Ant's smashed body puffed out of reality. The only evidence left was the thick smear of blood on the stone ground from where Dream had slid over his hapless friend’s body.
With the deed done, Dream sat back on his heels with a shaky breath and ran a hand over his face and through his hair.
"I-I'm calling off the hunt," Dream's voice shook as he spoke into the comm on his wrist. "I–we gotta go check on Ant."
His friends' concerned voices crackled over the comms, but he ignored them as he pushed himself to his feet.
Something about the way he had killed Ant disturbed him greatly. He just had to make sure his friend was okay.
He left the cave quickly, the remaining blood smeared on the stone floor weighing heavily on his mind as he started his trek to their current camp.
