I'm about to be done in by some amateur horseshit as being swallowed by something bigger than I am. So much so that I slid down its immense throat and into its cavernous stomach. Now, the problem is, despite my eyes being very good in low light conditions, there was so little light down here that even I was struggling to see.

The insides of the monster were like a gigantic cavern, and its flesh was vaguely bioluminescent. The acid pools in its stomach were much brighter, but still not enough to illuminate anything around them. So, the good thing was, I could see the pools of acid, I could see the fleshy walls, and by process of elimination, I could tell where the bony spikes and spines were.

The walls of the cavern were pulsing slowly, not like a beating heart, very smooth movements, slow to my vision, but I knew that was just a function of their sheer immensity and my accelerated perception.

Big black spots in my vision, the only parts of the stomach that weren't luminescent at all.

But I can't tell what the surface of those things looks like, so I have to be very careful as I slide along the acid coated flesh walls, as I dig my claws into the stomach lining and run up it to reach one of the big black spots. It's not entirely black, there's some remnants of stomach acid that still faintly glow in my vision.

But that presents another problem, as I glance down to what would be the floor of the stomach cavity, and the roiling, bubbling pools of acid there.

That means the acid's gonna rise and get to this spike at some point. And that means I'll be in danger again.

The creature's movement starts becoming erratic enough to reflect into its insides, the world starts to shake and I have to stab my claws into the bony structure under me in order to not be thrown off it, already, the stomach acids are shaking all over the place and rising.

If I had to hazard a guess, I'm only in a small pocket of air within the stomach... Looking at the fleshy structures more closely, they've got uneven, irregular shapes.

Stomach cancer maybe?

How could that information help me? It might not even be true. Well, it's not like I had anything else to do. I waited until the pools of acid receded a little and seemed to calm, and then ran down the stomach lining, making sure my claws always found purchase as I did, and then I landed on one of the islands.

It burned to just stand on it, the stomach acid was very caustic.

Then I went ahead and... slashed at the tumorous growth looking thing, splitting it open, and the moment I did, it burst, sending me flying in the foul smelling air, though I was able to catch myself on one of the walls rather than smashing into it, scrambling to find purchase with my claws on the slippery inner lining.

Then I ran to another one, and slashed at it while running away this time, ensuring I didn't get caught up in the resulting explosion as it burst. Then another, and another, until I had gone through all the tumorous growths I had found.

There were so many that were small and too close to the stomach acid to hit, especially as it became more unstable, roiling and shaking more. The creature's movements were like earthquakes, its monstrous proportions making even the smallest move feel like the world itself was shaking.

The air was filling with even more foul and disgusting odors, it was like a stink bomb had gone off, rotten eggs, sulfur and corpses all combined into a single disgusting bouquet, and I can't even plug my nose closed.

But it was working. The stomach cramping began with sudden interruptions of the pulsing of the walls that were more violent and jerky with each one that happened. Soon the walls were beating in parallel rhythms, and the pools of acid beneath me already started to look like a boiling cauldron...

Just then, an absolutely massive impact shook the entire world and caved in one of the stomach walls, and that was the final straw.

Suddenly, a vacuum in pressure formed and the sphincter that closed the entrance to the stomach opened, and I was being pulled along at mach speeds through the extremely dangerous spiny and spiked tunnel that was the creature's upper digestive tract, until finally, I got back into the rows of teeth that were its maws, only to see the light for the first time as it opened its mouth and I came out flying like a bullet.

I was snatched out of the air by a black winged angel in a black long sleeved gown that was made of smooth silk that triggered all of my instincts to run my claws all over it.

"Got you!!"

That voice was Reiko's, and I looked at her. She had exchanged most of her armor for what looked like jewelry. Silver bands around her biceps and wrists, another around her neck, a coronet around her head and another around her waist, all over the black gown. The almost liquid fabric slipped easily around us as her wings beat, leaving behind a cloud of quickly fading black feathers.

We moved out of the way just in time for a torrent of glowing yellow barf to cover the space where we'd been not moments ago, a skyscraper-sized waterfall of monstrous vomit that melted an entire building to nothing as it landed, and caused untold damage both via the flooding and the fact that it was acid.

The creature seemed to recover quickly, however, and while still dripping vomit from its open jaws, it swung one of its many arms at us.

With another wingbeat, Reiko evaded the attack, and before a follow up could be thrown, a gigantic pink laser came down from the sky and struck it in the face, knocking it back.

I looked up to see Marina, in a featureless white gown, with golden bands around her biceps, wrists and waist, and a golden coronet on her head. From our position I could also see that she was wearing armored boots and thigh bands, assuming Reiko wore the same.

She had glowing white wings that left behind a cloud of white feathers as she moved out of the way from what appeared to be an eye beam attack that swiped the sky, leaving behind bursts of explosions as if it was an anti air flak laser beam.

Right.

So we coordinated somehow to cause it to vomit me out.

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Somewhere along the way they must've found a way to transform into a greater form.

And...

Well.

Isn't that lovely.

There's stupid civilians in the middle of the battlefield, because of course there are.

"What are those people doing..!" Reiko hissed.

She couldn't see as well as I could, those were drunk people and-

Fucking shit.

That's Marina's parents right there.

The monster noticed them, and it swept with one of its three remaining arms, which I only just now noticed it only had three arms now, and threw its hand towards the drunken idiots, open as if to grab them to eat them.

Before either myself or Reiko could even think of what to do, Marina was there like a flash, catching the hand in mid air and blocking it with a long white rod that I figure was the staff she used to use, it had a heart shaped gem wrapped in gold at its tip so it had to be.

She was then pushed all the way to the ground and managed to dig her heels, breaking the asphalt under her until she was just meters away from the people behind her.

The impact was so strong it actually blew the pink out of her hair for a moment there.

I could see her turn around and bark something at the civilians behind her, but I couldn't tell what it was.

Almost all of them ran, but her idiot parents stayed behind, opening and closing their mouths like fish out of the water. No doubt they'd recognized their daughter. Shocking to me, I've been in that family enough to know they barely know her.

"We have to help!"

Reiko flew us both down and materialized her weapon, which had a black heart shaped gem set on the hilt of the blade of her spear, which had grown slightly and become a little more curved, with a silvery sheen.

I wasn't surprised by anything anymore, but her speed was still shocking as we made it to the wrist of the beast, and with a full power swipe of my claws and a swing of her spear, we cut the hand through, her weapon smashed the bone and my claws rent the flesh. The creature pulled its now handless arm back screaming, splashing burning blood everywhere as it did.

"Marina!! Are you okay!?" Reiko shouted.

"Y-Yes! I am! But- the civilians-"

"Don't worry about them now!" Reiko shouted. "They'll be fine if we take care of the monster!" she said.

"But... despite all the damage we did..." Marina panted, pointing her staff at the monster.

It was already regenerating, A burst of nasty fluids heralded the growth of its fourth arm, and the flesh was already forming into a new hand for the one that was cut off and was rapidly decomposing in front of us.

"I have an idea," Marina said.

"Is it a giant pink laser?" Reiko asked.

"Nnno?" Marina replied. "Maybe."

Reiko looked at her flatly.

"All I have is a hammer okay!" Marina shouted back. "Do you wanna hit the nail or not?"

"Can we at least make it another color? Purple. Purple's nice. You like purple right?" Reiko asked.

"Yes I like purple," Marina said, as she extended her staff. "Kuro, please buy us a little bit of time while we charge this one!"

Reiko put the gem of her spear against the gem of Marina's staff. "Alright Marina, I'll give you all I've got! Kuro, all my trust is on you!!"

Well. With that endorsement...

It was time that you really let loose.

Growling you allowed yourself to indulge in a little bit of a rampage. The monster recovered enough to take a swing, throwing a punch towards Marina and Reiko in the middle of the devastated entertainment sector, and me?

Well.

I wasn't playing anymore. It was time to reveal the true power of a house cat.

I burst into motion and met its punch with the strongest bat of my paw I could manage. It was many, many, many times stronger than I was.

But I wasn't punching it. I was doing what cats are best at... throwing shit off the table. I bated its punch away and instead of hitting Marina and Reiko, the creature turned a building into very fine concrete and steel mist.

It tried catching me, but I was wise to its tricks this time, when its hand came to me I was ready, easily slipping and clawing onto its flesh, allowing me to shred its open hand and leave it a mess of cuts.

Belly rubs are only for the people I trust, you shit!

It then tried to turn me into a pancake by bringing its other hand, as if to kill a mosquito by clapping... but it simply isn't fast enough to do that when I'm already expecting that! I ran off of the palm of its hand and the only thing it achieved was to make the wounds I inflicted on the palm bigger by smashing them open with its own hands. I leaped off the hand and onto the ground.

However, it was prepared, it had already raised two of its hands high in the air and would bring them down into a hammer blow that I couldn't bat away, and even if it did, the impact shockwave would vaporize me and everything in the city block most likely.

But...

That didn't particularly matter anymore.

Because with a twin shout of "Purify!", my humans finished charging and launched their attack.

It was, indeed, a purple beam as Marina had promised, and it was also roughly about the thickness of a house, it was two tones, one dark, one light, and it was spiraling like a drill at the tip, though it became more uniform the closer it got to Marina and Reiko.

It struck the creature's chest and ripped it wide open, exploding and throwing the creature back, enough so that it seemed to have broken its back on the huge infernal looking hole it couldn't move out of.

However...

I could tell immediately it wasn't dead. It was still moving. Its flesh was already knitting together.

However, what was exposed, was its core. A human being caught in a prison of flesh. The source of it all. The corruptor.

My paws almost didn't touch the ground, whether it be broken asphalt, concrete, debris, monster flesh or its destroyed internal organs. Everything burned, its blood burned, its acids burned, even the air burned.

But I made it. My claws found the throat of what appeared to be a well put together businessman who was still wearing a tailored suit.

If I had to guess, this man's infinite, endless greed was what caused it all.

This is what you get for putting my humans in danger.

My claws ripped his neck open, and he drowned in his own blood moments later.

And then...

He fucking exploded, and all I saw was red for a few brief precious seconds.

I felt... mighty.

Strong.

I felt it. The power. I can understand it clearly now.

To kill the corruptor is to become the corruptor. It can never die as long as it can find another host. And it has chosen... me. I can feel the corruption flowing into me. I can feel its whispers in my mind. To indulge. To fulfill that desire that burns within me.

With its power, I can have my revenge. With its power, I can slay them all. I can indulge in my wrath and eradicate them all...

Heaving, I spat out a hairball that had a pulsing glowing orb in it.

I have a human to look after, I can't just go murder crazy, don't you know cats have responsibilities for their humans?

Now, I had to deal with that before Marina and Reiko saw the corpse of the guy I just killed, because that part's still there.

I let my claws out and then slashed at the glowing orb. There was no great fanfare, no big explosion. It just... broke and then disintegrated into black smoke that faded into nothing. I think it made one last ditch attempt at possessing me but, ew, it was covered in wet hair and vomit, who wants something like that?

With that done, I began to head towards Reiko and Marina, finding my path starting to become obstructed as the power of the corruptor vanished and its effects on the world began to fade, the city's buildings returning to their previous shape.

This just reinforced that rejecting that thing was the right idea.

I can only imagine how frustrating it'd be knowing that the moment I died, all the people I killed using the corruptor's power would just come back to life. Such a shitty offer.

I found Marina and Reiko, and then I jumped into Marina's arms, and settled to rest after a tiring day.

"K-Kuro... you're..." Marina shuddered. "You stink!"

Reiko laughed. "So do you!" she called out.

There was a moment's pause.

Marina smiled, as she looked at the slowly repairing city.

"Let's go home," she said, "I think we could all use a bath."

Reiko took Marina's hand in hers, and I had to adjust to being held in only one of Marina's arms as she did. Not hard, I am a house cat after all.

Their wings stretched, and they flew towards the same direction.

I have a feeling there's a story there, but... I closed my eyes and simply drifted off to sleep. I was far past my activity quota already.

And as I fell asleep, I wondered... if they have a super form, do I have one too?