Boom*
Boom*
Boom*
Shrieks and shrills be damned, hot air, cold air, nothing mattered again, after the voice had warned the little lizard of its current predicament and he started hearing and feeling the loud tremors he took off running in the opposite direction.
"Oh shit-oh shit, not like this I don't want to be eaten!" His tiny little legs pattered against the ground as he ran what he thought was respectfully fast, only to look back and still see his egg relatively close by.
"For fu-"
Loud throaty clicks like that of crocodiles caused the little White-scaled lizard to snap in shock and tremble.
"N-n-n-no..." He raised his head, and there above him coming from the direction he was running toward he saw a massive eye many times larger than he was staring across the thousands of eggs. "What the fuck is this supposed to be!?" He squeaked turning and running off again, but after just a few steps his legs became unbearably hot, and his little heart started beating asbif it would explode from under him.
[You are exhausted your stamina is too low to continue.] The voice notified him, and the lizard shrieked in terror at the news.
"Wait, don't I get points or something, can't I upgrade my stamina!?"
[This is real life, not some kind of point-based game, do not ask stupid questions.]
"What the fuck are you even saying I'm a lizard for crying out loud!" He shrieked again, but all this squeaking when the whole cavern had gone silent made him gain the attention of the very creature he was trying to get away from.
[You have been noticed by the mother.]
"Whaaah!!?" He looked up again and found the giant red eye of the head in the dark turned sideways and staring directly at him.
"Iyaaaaa!!" He frothed at the mouth and fainted.
[...up pitiful little one.] The voice in his head beckoned his attention. [Wake up, you are in the midst of being eaten by your mother, your chances of escape have significantly dropped once more.]
"Eh?" .... "Eh!?" The little lizard spapped when he felt hot air blasting against his backside and the ground beneath him sticky and mushy. "I don't wanna die like this!" He shrieked upon realising that he was inside of the mouth of the great White-scaled lizard which was so huge that he was roughly the size of one of her teeth.
"How do I get out!?"
[Unclear, figure it out yourself]
"If you're suddenly so talkative then why are you even more useless!?" He looked around thinking of a way to get out of his predicament, but then realising with dread that he could t even move to gebin with, the saliva of her mouth was too adhesive to move around in.
[...]
[You are trapped by sticky saliva-]
"I can see that!!"
[You are going to die soon-]
"No, I don't wanna die like this, I haven't even lived at all yet, I'm still a baby!" He looked around at the other small lizards trapped in there with him, compared to some of them who had already been broken or crushed, and others that had ended up on their backs unable to move at all he was quite lucky to have ended up stuck on just his feet.
"Fuck!" He opened his mouth wide, revealing his gums which grew single rows of sharp teeth. "I don't want to be eaten!" He bit into the tongue beneath him, and unsurprisingly nothing happened the flesh was too hard to tear, he could barely even irritate the skin.
"Waaaahh!! Help! Help!!" The little lizard squeaked, already knowing that nobody would hear or help him beyond those disgusting clicks his mother made.
[Five minutes have passed, your vitality has been restored]
"What's the point of I die anyway?" He shrilled flashing his tail from side to side and biting the tongue again, however this time his teeth did go through as easily as butter being cut by a hot knife in fact, they sliced the flesh beneath him without resistance.
[Great White-Scaled Brood Mother flesh consumed, vitality has been restored]
"-Ah!" The little lizard snapped. "Restored after one chomp?"
The Voice did not respond, but he clearly knew what he needed to do now, there was no help coming, and as long as he was able to tear through the skin he'd be able to free himself.
"Then... thanks for the meal mom!" The little lizard clapped his lips and licked his teeth before he started ravenously tearing at the sticky tongue holding him captive.
His little grunts became more wild and rabid, and his grunts slowly deteriorated into snarls and cackles as he starvingly ripped freeing himself over and over again as he made small progress toward the rows of teeth and gum ahead, but before he could reach there the mouth opened wide, and he watched with dread as a massive clawed foot came toward him.
"Uwaaahhh!!" The lizard squealed, unable to escape the path of the clawes as the Brood mother casually sat down with her mouth open and scratched her tongue that had been itching her while she traversed the caverns.
For him it was the end of times the scaly foot of god as he panicked and then braced himself as the claw swept him away, breaking his back and hind legs in the process as he was flicked out of her mouth, hitting the cavern wall closest to her and sliding down while she laid down and closed her eyes.
[You have sustained critical injuries from a casual scratching of the Brood Mothers tongue, your life might be forfeited soon] The voice returned while he was fighting his way through the blob of saliva.
"I am aware-"
[You are unable to run your legs have been broken, your spine is crooked, manoeuvrability has been drastically decreased, you will die soon] The voice warned him again, and the little lizard paused and stared at the saliva; at the chunks of his siblings still inside of it.
"What kind of mother eats their own children?" He asked.
[Many species inside the dungeon devour their young for sustenance, you are simply unlucky.]
"I won't die though..." He dipped his head in the thick maisma and bit a leg, fishing it out with a disgusted grunt and swallowing it.
[Leg of White-Scaled lizard (infant) devoured, you have gained the title of Cannibal, your injuries are healing, vitality+1, stamina +1, you have leveled up, level +1, innate abilities have been increased by 1.]
"I thought you said this was not a point based experience, why am I getting points for eating my poor sibling?"
[...]
[Mental fortitude has fallen by 1 due to the effects of cannibalism, remaining fortitude is 3, if your mental fortitude falls below 1 you will lose your current intelligence and be downgraded to an unintelligent mob lizard, youh are currently blessed with intelligence]
"I got reincarnated as the worst possible monster." The little lizzard gagged and brought up a bit of what he ate. "Little brother, you taste disgusting." He stared at the toe and raised himself from the saliva. Looking down at it. "Did I get stronger?"
[...]
[Congrats on surviving your first encounter with your mother, you are now free to roam the dungeon until your tragic demise-]
"Oh, I'm not going anywhere." The little lizard flashed his healed hind legs and whipped the remaining saliva off his tail. "This crazy monster tried eating me, I won't forgive her for it!" He squeaked and burst into a sprint toward her.
"Death to you, Mother!"