I felt the black beast soften towards the boy in sympathy at his obvious distress. It lifted our free hand and gently brushed his cheek with the back of our fingers before responding to him.

     "Don't worry, young  human," the beast replied, it voice sounding much different than earlier. It was lighter and more wispy sounding like sheets of soft fabric being gently rubbed together by the wind. "I have no intention of causing you any harm. All I want from you is to eat the vampire dwelling within you. But in order to get to it, I must first swallow you down whole so my body can extract it from you. I promise you will not be harmed by your short stay inside of me. Once the monster has been removed, you be regurgitated and you will be free to go on your way." 

     "Are yOu suRe I won't be hArmed?" he asked.

     "Yes. Although it would help if-!" the beast cut itself off as it felt the boy head try to snap back in its grip and saw his eyes roll up into head to show the whites. A gurgled groan came from his throat and his convulsions became worse making him look like he was having a full blown seizure.

     The beast was unperturbed the sudden change and in stead, continued where it had left off prior to the hybrids' interruption earlier. It began with pulling the boy's coat off with our free hand so it wouldn't be in the way and let it fall to the ground in a crumpled heap. Underneath it, the teen was wearing a generic looking white shirt and pair of cheap black jeans which were being held up with a plain but worn belt.

     After removing the coat, the beast then slipped our free hand under the boy's arm. The fingers wrapped half way around the boy's chest and I winced slightly as their claws found purchase on a bit more than just cloth. It then let go of the teen's neck to grasp at teen's waist and managed to safely hook our claws into the boy's belt. Without our hand to support it, his head was free to roll around his shoulders as the muscles in his neck flexed and twitched.

      It watch the boy's head flop around like that for a moment before the beast dislocated our jaw in preparation for what was coming next. At the same time, I also felt something churn and surge upwards from the depths of cavity where my guts used to be. I soon found out what it was as countless narrow and paper thin black strips came pouring out of our mouth to wrap around the kid's head and upper torso. Once they had a good grip on him, they began to retract; pulling him in with them while the beast lifted him up to push him in.

     Even with the strips help though, the teen was still a large and difficult item to swallow whole at our current size and the beast was force to tilt our head back and lift him over our head. As a testimony to its strength, it had no trouble holding and maneuvering the struggling boy above us. Once the beast got the boy in past his shoulders, rest of him slid down rather easily with some help from gravity. It paused the boy's slide only once to take off his shoes as they were to dense for it to ingest comfortably before it finished swallowing him.