The Pool

Story and characters by Talonsaurn

 

The city pool was well traveled, The complex was quite capable of housing the nearly thousand people that passed through it’s doors each day. As a free pool there might be such a rush in the hottest months but the community was less and less likely to visit as the year went on. One of the more unusual aspects of this pool is that the lifeguard wasn’t human, and was probally unique in the annals of lifegaurding. The otter lifeguard was vastly better and more natural for the job, at least that’s what the officials said.

 

Gallows moaned, stretching a bit in his chair. He was an otter, roughly 10 feet tall, easily 500lb of muscle, a softer than normal bronze fur pelt. His shorts chafed him, human clothiers might have had more experience with furs but still couldn’t get stuff that settled right on your larger than average beast. The chair was a bit to Rickety too, wooden and having been sanded three times to keep the splinters to a minimum, it also made it far less sturdy for the lifeguard. He closed his eyes and took a nap, resting his paws on his stomach, inhaling the sweet aromas in there air. Some people could think of him as a soft teddyotter, but once you got close the muscles were hard to envision in something soft.

 

Gallows woke up to a scream, he looked first in the pool, no trouble there, then he looked at the side of the pool a man had his trunks down around his ankles, and was giving a woman a unwanted show.

“Damn,  a Flasher” Said Gallows as he stepped down from his chair, his tail twisting a bit in frustration, He stepped quietly and quickly, slowly, his stomach growling angrily, making him wince, he knew he shouldn’t have skipped lunch, it was so hard to concentrate now, he kept looking at everyone as lunch. He looked from side to side, so many people used the pool, he struggled to control himself and do his job fornow, fringe benefits didn’t come during the middle of the afternoon.

“What are ya doing” Said Gallows in his roughest voice, getting them man to freeze in terror. “You can’t be doing that right now” Gallows chuckled and put both his hands on the mans shoulders, squeezing around the neck “Everything is under control, I am just going to have a little talk with this young man” Said Gallows as he looked down on the flasher, sniffing a moment then trying to turn his head a bit, never going to skip lunch again, it was to hard to hide what he really wanted with an empty belly.

The man was hardly more than 25 years old,  bronze skinned, chestnut colored hair. Probally about 5’10 his clothing was a bit shabby and he looked like he was rather out of shape. Gallows tight paw grip on his shoulder and neck muffled much of his struggle.

“Now why did you do that, you should know better” Said Gallows pleasantly, watching as the other swimmers turned around or covered there childrens eyes “You don’t think that the public wants to see whats under your trunks”

“Get’off o me” Said the man, struggling a bit, but pulling up his trunks with the shoulder and arm not in the grip

Gallows inhaled the aroma of the man as he talked, he tried to resist licking his lips but he added a bit more pressure to his hold. The man at least wasn’t stupid enough to try to fight him, yet.. He put his spare paw on the mans waist and lfited him from the ground “I’m going to have to report you to management” Said the otter slowly.

“No you won’t, I’m not sticking around” He responed, trying to elbow back.

Gallows grunted slightly as the blow hit him hard in the armpit, a weak area for sure, and a lucky shot, but he managed to keep his grin , whispering“Indecent Exposure, Assualt, Will have to see if the boss wants to press charges but I’m going to lock you up till then”  he squeezed tigher, getting a gasp from the man“And if you do anything stupid I’ll snap your head” This had the desired effect “Everyone behave while I’m gone, I won’t be long” Said Gallows loudly with a chuckle.

He moved his neck hold to cover the mans mouth and hefted him under his arm to carry him with ease, he looked over his shoulder and smiled back at the swimmers, it was getting late now, so the group wasn’t as thick as it was earlier, maybe that was why people thought they could get away with things. The normal swimmers were very cautious, few were rowdy, the stories that kids told had gotten so unsettling that even the parents wondered if the curse was true. People vanished at the anytown public pool, never to be heard of again. No one dared ask why, people also felt that the pool had mob connections, the good public face could even bring in a little money for those who wanted snacks or swim equipment. The locker room was known as a place where nothing was safe.

 

The man had kept quiet as he was carried unceremoniously into the pool building, past the manager’s office door door

“Hey, where are we going?” Said the man, managing to wiggle his head free.

“Just going to let you stew for a bit” Said Gallows, walking quickly to the janitors closet, a simple wooden room, the door slightly ajar, the combination lock opened already. Gallows turned around to open it with his tail

“But” The man said ‘Why there?” he started to kick, not trusting the otter

“Cause you broke the rules.” The large otter guffawed as the door opened and he tossed the man in with one fluid motion, sending brooms and plungers scattering. Gallows quickly closed the door behind him and locked it from the outside with the combination lock. He heard the man start to pound on the door. And made a whistle as he wandered off, knowing that there was no one else with keys to the main building around tonight.

He cut through the indoor pool area, closed off since the mysterious disappearances of some wealthy clients last month. It smelled wonderful though and had become Gallows’ private pool and where he spent after work evenings.  It was also where the tapes for the survaliance were. He was adapt enough to have been rotating a dozen evenings for  a  month, most people hadn’t looked in to much detail at the fact that there were occasionally varing numbers of people from one instant to the next.  The Otter chuckled and put in last nights tape, taking out todays, Last night was boring, and unsatisfing, no one pricked his fancy. His tail twitched as he adjusted his shorts with a paw, making sure they were secure and tried to get them to stop chaffing, when settled he walked back to the main outdoor pool, a bit of a chill was in the air. Gallows wasn’t a fan of Winter but at least his fur was.

Gallows only got a few looks when he returned from his duty, most of the people had left, maybe a dozen were still in the pool. He looked over the pool for signs of trouble “Anyone drown while I was gone’ he chuckled as he saw everyone to calm for that. The burly otter resumed his seat on the high chair, leaning back slightly to watch.. A lifeguard had to be alert, but he was more than just a lifeguard, he seemed a model employe. Still, he watched the clock on the wall on occasion, 6:50, Almost time to close down the pool, everyone who was a regular there knew without him shouting, those who were new either learned or never game back. He closed one eye and flicked his tail. Counting the minutes, watching the few people who were left pull out of the pool till there were only two left at 7 on the dot. He closed his eyes and smiled, they were roughhousing in the pool, and far to old for that, they could break there skulls and he was off duty.

 

The two men in the pool weren’t regulars, they were also not really intending to stay past 7, in fact, they each had watches on that said it was 6:34, and assumed the main clock was wrong. The ignored the Otter Guard as he got off his high seat. Jim and Bob made a mistake.

 

Gallows had tampered with clocks most of his life, he was justified to do a lot of things when people had stayed to late, Trespassers was the word now. He Loved tresspassers. He had a handful a week, and tonight looked like a toofer.

Gallows licked his chops and dove into the deep end of the pool with hardly a sound, he took a deep breath and  swam toward the two men without as much as a wave. The Otter moved quickly, starting off with a bit of a tease, pulling on bobs foot as the otter was sitting on the pool bottom. The foot kicked, Gallows smiled as he noticed them thrash a bit, thinking that they were messing around. Soon a foot from the other human hit him in the back of the head, making him grunt. The two humans were in shock a moment. Gallows put one hand on each of there legs and drug them under with a sudden plop. His reactions were far faster, and he was far stronger he had one paw around bobs hullet holding him tight as the otter wraped his legs around Jims chest, holding him under and squeezing arms pressed to the side as well. At this point both men pretty much snaped out of shock, and thrashed, punching kicking and treading water, doing a whole lot of nothing. Gallows pulled down Bob and dragged him under. The otter moved his hand grip to bob’s sides, pinning the arms and hands to his waist and rump, knowing that under the water a scream wouldn’t be possible. Bob tried and began to drown, the water in his mouth making him sputter and twist. Gallows twitched with expectation, he lifted the man’s head a bit and pressed the humans hair against his whiskery muzzle. Gallows opened his jaws a bit, swallowing some water but quickly closing his jaws atop the crown of the mans head, forming a fairly secure hold, his own nose had broke the surface of the water and he took a deep breath through it for his next actions would force him to hold his breath.

 

Jim was beyond fear, he felt the jaws on his head, slowly pressing over him, the water in his eyes was quickly replaced by otter saliva, the teeth creeped over his face, and his eyes were soon pressed against the dark red flesh of the inner mouth, his nose pressing against the otters pallet., he felt gallows hands hook under his arms a bit and hoist him, his face slide into the big gullet. His face pressing out. He struggled and kicked but the otter had him wrapped up tight.

 

Bob felt the lifeguards leg grip around his middle, squeezing tight, making his eyes bulge, he kicked and wrenched with all his might, but didn’t hit anything but the thighs, missing any sensitive bits he had hoped to make contact with. He saw what the otter was doing, it had his dreinds head in it’s horrible mouth and was shoving him in with a praticed ease, all the fearful stories began to come together in his mind, a little late now. The otters tail twisted around his face then slid down, around his throat.

 

Gallows Grunted, he tasted the sweet fresh meat in his lips, tongue cradling it’s head, licking at his breast a bit as he gorged, shoving the man in to his shoulders, Gulp after gulp a bit at a time, feeling the frantic pulse and breathing of his meal as he dinned, almost leisurely as it drained it’s breath in struggling, then forced to sniff his foul used breath from deep inside his stomach. He felt the head press against his ribs, the humans chest in his throat, his tastebuds loved the wiggle and the perspiration, and this guy was terrified. Gallows ate and soon he just had the mans backside from his lips, he surfaced his upper torso and backed up to the side of the pool he lifted  his legs a bit, letting bobs head break the water and look at the carnivous otter, jims kicking trunks going into his lips, the solid obvious bulge down his gullet.

 

Jim kicked, his hands felt around the monsters mouth, he squirmed but was feeling lightheaded. The heat and smell of the interior of the otter was overwhealming, the heavy breathing, the god awful smell and the oppressive heat all made him close his eyes as he felt his ass get hot and wetter, bathed in gallows drool. He felt his legs get licked, his thighs, then his feet, then he felt his head press into the murk and horrors of the otters belly, curling up slowly he closed his eyes, feeling himself being slowly swallowed, his squirmings no longer doing any good, not that they ever did.

Gallows slurped down the mans feet and licked his lips very well as  his bulged gut pressed and vibrating against his leg lock held human, feeling the tight squeezing contoling his breathing, the lack of air already having weakened him, his eyes met the otters hungry ones. Gallows made a soft Urp and gave a evil grin. “Yummy, ya know that I love the taste of man” He sniffed “And you smell delicious” Ohh, he must be all over my breath now, ain’t that a shame”

 

Bob screamed only to find the otters hand paws on his face muffling it suddenly “Nothings ever going to be found of you ya know.” Gallows gave him a wet kiss “Your just going to be a few dozen pounds of me soon enough.” Bob struggled in his grasp but he just licked his chops “Ohh, your friend was good, but I think you’ll be even better, you’ll find he has changed a lot by the time you see him again, in my pool, much smaller than this, but you’ll have it the rest of your life” Gallows squeezed his leg tight making the man gasp, then he opened his jaws wide, letting him struggle and squirm despertly, trying to avoid looking in his hot humid muzzle, teeth glimmering with drool.

 

Bob didn’t belief what was happening, how could he, it was not possible, nothing like this. He had thought the otter was mainly a suit even. Right now he was staring into the fishy jaw, crying a bit as he was held between swimmers thighs tight. He groaned a bit and started to cry. “Please”

 

Gallows dined, Licking the humans head, a few times, licking off the tears “That just makes me hungrier” He said and clamped his fishy jaws around the head, holding it tight. His tail tickling his meal  a bit before he suckled on the human’s head. No more words came from him, and gallows ate in a very smug way, inch by inch, feeling the meal slide in, holding him in a vice embrace of all limbs at this point. Gallows moved his lips down the humans chest, eating him while maintain his leg lock, bending over slightly to gulp and pull at the same time. He put his hands down on the kicking legs. Letting his lock go at last, now that Mr. Bob was bobbing halfway down his gullet, face slightly bulging around his throat, more and more of him going in. The otter placed his paws on the humans butt and shoved happily, the meal was the think, it fully refreshed him like nothing else. His tongue slavering over the human meat, more and more slid deep  in, his legs pistoning out. “MMm… “ Said gallows with a grin

 

“Bob kicked and struggled, his face burrowed in the hot melted muggyness of the otters deadly stomach. His face and shoulders sloshing around, his struggles doing no good, he felt his skin burn as his legs slipped into the monsters jaws. It wasn’t fair, what had he done to deserve ending his life as a freak otters dinner, it was little comfert that his friend had went down before him. The strench and hot air was thankfully making his torment brief. He felt the happy Otter moans though and began to sob more while his bulk slipped into the sac belly, bulging it greatly

 

Gallows licked the mans kicking feet, then swallowed them down too, feeling his meals kick and spasm inside him made him chuckle, he ran a hand paw down his chest and under his belly, feeling the oddly shapped bulges that would be so much less by the time the regulars came to the pool tomorrow. Gallows hefted himself onto the side of the pool and sighed, muffling another belch he licked his lips. Leaning back he closed his eyes. Greatly swollen belly still occasionall kicking with a final spasm or two from his last meal. “Ohh, that just completes the pact of you and my belly, otter fat, going to be far better used there than mere human desiers “he gave his belly a pat then stood, a bit bowlegged he grinned toothily, looking back at the clock. “Only half past, still got a big night ahead of me” Said the otter. “And I do believe I have someone to chat with about droping there shorts in public”He chuckled as Gallows walked back to the pool.

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