Lick or Treat: Ash Ketchum and the ‘Dooby’ Dane

Welcome to the first episode of “Lick or Treat”, an anthology series taking place around Halloween (or at least the autumn season anyway).

This series doesn’t follow a linear continuity (meaning that if, say, there’s a story featuring Naruto and Einstein, it won’t necessarily follow the continuity of any of the previous stories featuring them unless stated otherwise), but it DOES feature a lot of licking, so there’s that at least.

Anyway, Taren is credited for co-writing this one!

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Scooby-Doo, mascot of Mystery Inc and lovable Great Dane, had his nose to the ground as he followed a delicious looking scent through the woods. He'd caught it a long while back, but his nose, so accustomed to the smell of delicious food and with the power given to it by his breed, had allowed him to track it over a great distance. However, now the smell was getting stronger, and he'd picked up other scents, too; the smell of people, who were undoubtedly the ones cooking the delicious food. Scooby picked up the pace, his mind already filling with the hopes that they'd share the food with him!

Soon enough, he’d gone from a leisurely pace to a sort of speed walk. And as soon as the scents got stronger, he went from that speed walk to actually running in haste. Naturally, he wanted to get to that food as soon as possible this autumn night.

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Meanwhile, at a campsite, a certain ten year old trainer and aspiring Pokémon master had gotten back from getting firewood, wiping a bit of sweat from his brow as he placed said firewood into the fire.

Ash would’ve found it easier, had it not been for the fact that his Pokémon were all currently resting in a tent, his Pikachu included. That meant that when the bushes rustled, Ash was all alone as he turned around. Was it a Pokemon? He didn't have any of his own team currently with him, so if it was one he'd never seen before he probably wouldn't be able to catch it. But at the same time, he was too tired at the moment to even really be up for a battle, even if his Pokemon were awake. It probably didn’t help matters that, with Misty off to see if she could find another water Pokémon

Of course, that still didn't prepare him for the creature that stepped out of the bushes to begin with. It *looked* sort of like a Pokemon, but at the same time it wasn't like anything he'd ever seen before. The creature was a uniform brown color except for the various black spots scattered around its body, and wore a collar around its neck, from which dangled a small, diamond-shaped piece of metal with "SD" written on it. Of course, that was the most he could make out, considering that it was fairly dark.

It wasn’t until the “creature itself perked its head up and trotted over to the boy did Ash realize get a better look. The campfire revealed that it wasn’t a Pokémon at tall, but a dog. To be more specific, a fairly well built Great Dane the size of a Ponyta, with a rather friendly disposition.

“Uh… H-hey there boy…” Ash said with an expression, one part relieved and one part confused; “What’cha doing out here?”

"Rungry!" the dog replied. He lowered his head and his big black nose began to sniff all over Ash, going from his shoes, up his body, all the way to his face as his nose smushed itself into Ash's cheek. The boy smelled delicious, and his smell matched the one coming from the bubbling pot that had been placed over the fire behind him.

Ash, naturally, was at least a little surprised that the Great Dane was talking like a human (albeit a with an ‘r’ in place of the first letter of hungry). Only reason he wasn’t outright startled by this revelation was thanks to the fact that a certain pair of thieves had a talking meowth with a New York type accent as the brains.

“Well uh… You can have some if you like…” Ash said in response.

“Rank you!” The Great Dane said, wagging his tail at the boy’s offer.

Before Ash could utter out a “you’re welcome”, the sound of something smacking flesh echoed around the campsite. The cause of it, you may ask? Well, as it just so happened, the Great Dane decided to show his gratitude the way a Great Dane would.

By swinging his tongue and landing it against the left side of Ash’s face. And with how big the dog was in relation with Ash, it was so easy that he didn’t even have to reach up or anything, letting all four legs keep the dog planted in place!

Ash's eyes widened at the sudden slobbery slurp from Scooby's towel-sized tongue. Or, at least, one of them did. The other was closed by his own cheek, which had been lifted up by Scooby's huge tongue as the Great Dane dragged it up his face before slurping it off in a shower of drool. Ash staggered backwards from the force of the lick, and dragged a fist across his cheek as he couldn't help but laugh. "Hehehehe...You're welcome, big guy!"

Scooby laughed too, and sniffed at the soup again. While it smelled delicious, the taste of Ash's face on his tongue was just too good to resist! Scooby turned to Ash again and crouched, wagging his tail before he leapt at the boy.Ash didn’t even have time to respond, unless of course a yelp and a grunt from the impact of being tackled by a Great Dane constituted as one.

The momentum from the tackle caused the dog and boy to briefly roll across the campsite before stopping about ten feet from the campfire, with Scooby sitting on his haunches and hugging the Pokémon trainer against him so he couldn’t get away from the further gratitude.

Scooby started the real show of gratitude in earnest by planting a big ole lick on the other half of Ash’s face.

"Heheheheheheeeeeey!" Ash laughed as his head was tilted to the side by Scooby's tongue, which lifted up his cheek just as much and smushed his eye shut once more.

“Cuhuhut it ohohohout!"

But Scooby was in no mood to stop now that he'd gotten two tastes of Ash's face. He began to alternate between the boy's cheeks, lifting each one up over and over with swipe after swipe of his tongue, each lick lifting Ash's z-marked cheeks up and pushing his eyes shut too.

Ash would’ve been able to squirm away, were it not for how strong Great Danes were (and Scooby himself was a rather well built one). Naturally, the boy was finding it surreal that of all the strangest encounters to occur to him tonight, it was not with a Pokémon, but with a regular animal (albeit a talking one) with an amiability as big as his appetite.

“N-no, no lick — ACk!” Ash said with a boyish laugh as he was interrupted, courtesy of Sccoby’s tongue covering the entirety of the left half of his face with his tongue. "S-stahahahap!" he said as Scooby dragged his tongue up his face again. Scooby's licks only grew in intensity, before he finally went whole-hog and plastered his tongue across the entirety of Ash's face to the were it nearly touched the ears. Ash's protests were muffled underneath the broad tongue, and Scooby slowly slurped it upward, lifting both of Ash's cheeks and stretching his face out as Scooby's tongue marched up his face, eventually reaching his forehead and stretching *that* out too before Scooby finally slurped his tongue off of Ash's face in a huge spray of slobber.

Thankfully for Ash, he had placed his hat by his backpack or otherwise the great dane sized would’ve sent it flying off his head. However, this also meant that the full face lick caused his black hair to slick up, thanks to Scooby’s saliva. Just as the boy coughed and spat some saliva off of his lips, he felt something slap against the underside of his lower jaw and chin, causing him to involuntarily clench his teeth. Ash couldn't do anything but groan as Scooby's tongue dragged up the underside of his chin, tilting his head back further and further before it once again slurped off in a spray of drool. This time Scooby let go of him and Ash toppled backwards, landing flat on his back on the ground.

Scooby, however, wasn't done yet, and pinned Ash's arms to the ground with his front paws as he looked down at Ash with his gigantic pink tongue hanging out. It was so slobbery Ash could see himself in it, and as it came down again he frantically shook his head.

"Nononononon--"

SPLAT went Scooby's tongue as once again it plastered itself against Ash's entire face.

“MMmmmmmph!” Ash’s yelp was muffled by the tongue as he felt Scooby firmly lift both cheeks and his tongue upward from the lick, unable to do a single thing to prevent the Great Dane from showing his affection. All the while, the boy was hoping that Misty wouldn’t come back soon, not wanting to be teased by his tomboyish, redheaded companion for days on end, even IF he was appreciating the affection that the Great Dane was showing him.

While he'd been licked by a large number of Pokemon before, this was the first time that a dog had been *this* affectionate with him! Even as Scooby repeated the chin-to-forehead lick again and again, leaving nothing for Ash to see but glimpses of his "attacker" interspersed with solid pink, dotted with taste buds and a long line running down its center, Ash couldn't help but giggle beneath it. His legs kicked and flailed as Scooby licked him, and the Great Dane's tail wagged happily as he got to continue slobbering on his newest friend!

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This went on for what seemed like an hour or so, from Ash’s perception anyway. With how much of a full face licking Ash was enduring, he was having a hard time keeping track, especially considering the sheer speed of the Great Dane’s slurping.

It wasn’t until a familiar girl’s voice said the following that Scooby had paused in his storm of slobber:

“Heh, looks like you made a new friend, Ash!”

Ash, with an exhausted look on his drenched face, looked up while he was still on his back to see Misty looking at the boy and dog while leaning against a tree with an amused look on the redhead’s face.

“He smelled the soup bubbling and wanted to thank me for offering some of it…” Ash said with a sheepish look on his face, right before being replaced with a boyish grin as when Scooby plastered his tongue against Ash’s left cheek and rolled the skin upward.

“From the look of it, he probably thinks you taste pretty good too! Forget about the soup. I’ll just make a bowl for the big goof…” Misty said.

Scooby's ears perked up as he slurped his tongue off of Ash's face. Someone else offering to give him food, too! He removed his paws from Ash's arms and turned towards MIsty, then charged at her, his tongue hanging out behind him like a gigantic pink flag as he ran right at her. "Uh oh!" Ash said as he sat up and swirled his hand around his face. "Brace yourself, Misty! Looks like he wants to thank *you,* too!"

Misty had gotten partway into the clearing as she saw Scooby coming at her, but began to back away as she held her hands out. "W-wait a minute! Hold on! Down, boy! No, no, no, no, *no, NO--"*

Misty darted out of the way and tried to make her way over to the campfire to get the bowl, hoping to get it filled so she could hand it over to the Great Dane.

Alas, even someone as athletic as she is couldn’t outrun Scooby. Great Danes usually have a top speed of 30 miles per hour after all, and even Scooby was faster than this (given the amount of times he and the Mystery Inc gang had to run away from monsters), so it was only natural that the following occurred:

\*Splat, SCHLURP\*

Misty felt her right cheek being forcibly pushed up by the great dane’s tongue while he was in mid leap, successfully colliding with the girl as the two went tumbling near where Ash was. Misty slammed into the ground on her back with Scooby on top of her, and didn't even have time to protest before Scooby slapped his tongue onto her cheek again. Misty's cheek was rolled up hugely by Scooby's tongue, and she groaned in disgust as it dragged slowly up her face, then slurped off in another spray of drool.

"D-Down, boy!" she said as Scooby hit her other cheek with an equally-large lick. "S-stop! No! No licking!"

"Hehehehe, sorry, Misty, but I don't think he'll listen to either of us!" laughed Ash as he watched her cheek get lifted up again.

”Rehehehe!” Scooby chuckled in agreement after his tongue slurped off of the girl’s cheek, and decided to prove Ash’s point by reaching his head over to give the boy a lick on his right cheek as large as the one he gave Misty.

Given he had two young trainers for the price of one licking, he then proceeded to scoot Misty closer to the boy before repositioning himself so that he was able to pin them both at the same time with one paw on each of the chest, made fairly easily given that not only was he a Great Dane, but he was also still fairly big even compared to Misty (even though she was more than a head taller than Ash).

Both young trainers oofed as Scooby pinned each one to the ground, looking back and forth between them both with his gigantic tongue hanging out. "Aw, c'mon, boy!" Ash moaned. "You've already been licking me for a long time! Give Misty some-MMPH!" His complaining was cut off as Scooby's giant tongue once again smothered his whole face, making Misty giggle.

"Too bad, Ash!" she said as she watched Scooby drag his tongue off of Ash's face. "I think we're both in for a sLLMPH!" Scooby cut her off too as he swung his tongue from Ash's face to hers, slapping it onto her cheek and dragging his tongue across her face, rolling her cheek up and pushing her head to the side. As his tongue slurped off of her face, Scooby laughed again and began alternating between their faces, each lick making another loud SMACK fill the air as another cheek was lifted up and another eye was shut.

Misty couldn’t help but find herself grinning at the whole thing, even if the redhead was getting slobbered just as much as her companion/crush at the moment. She even found herself snickering as Scooby’s tongue flicked off of her forehead from a full face lick and transitioned to trying to make a new record for how much of the skin of Ash’s right cheek Scooby could push upward.

All the while, the great Dane in question was making a mental note to introduce the trainers to the Mystery Inc gang.