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Post by BurgundyBoa on Jul 4, 2020 16:02:15 GMT -6
One girl, started to have a panic attack.
"This-... this is too much! I can't take it anymore!" The girl screamed as she ran off the trail, one boy followed behind her. One or several snakes seemed to follow and soon it became quiet again.
Lily shuddered while Sora just smirked.
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Post by shimoto on Jul 8, 2020 8:42:35 GMT -6
By running in panic like that the two practically sealed their own fate. And would satisfie one of the largest of the anacondas. It's body did blend in perfectly in the high grass and they did not notice those gigantic lengths until it was too late. Thick ropes, nearly as wide as a human body, leaped to life and thew themselves over and around the victims. Arms got pinned, legs were bound and lungs were crushed in a mere minute. The olive colored scales glistened in the sunlight as they wrapped the humans up and trapped them in a scaly coffin.
Two healthy humans were just what this snake named Vera, needed and she looked very pleased as her huge head merged from the grass and took a close look at her catches. She was one of the oldest and longest anacondas around here. She tore the humans down to the ground and let more of her coils bury them beneath. Not a single scream was heared from them. Nothing would be heared from them ever again.
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Post by BurgundyBoa on Jul 21, 2020 0:39:46 GMT -6
Sora's mind raced with ideas on how to get rid of the rest of the group. Doing so, she may raise her chances of becoming a servant to the goddess rather than another meal. While Sora would normally never consider being anyone's servant but between serving for a goddess or being eaten, she was willing to do it kill to survive. She was ready to get to work.
Lily, tried as she might, couldn't fight the fear but tried to stay put with the others. She wanted to stay alive as long as she could.
The group traveled on and the sounds of the snakes hissing filled the air. Guess they didn't feel the need to hide anymore. It was hard to tell where it was coming from.
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Post by shimoto on Jul 21, 2020 5:28:10 GMT -6
Indeed there were several anacondas around and they did not care a bit about hiding anymore. Snake heads rose from the bushes, lowered from the treetops and broke the surface of the nearby lagoon. There were more anacondas than humans.
A little deeper, not too far anymore from where the humans were trapped, an old female voice hummed while patiently waiting for her servant to arrive. Whoever it will may be. It's been so long since the last one had made it to her so she thought it was about time a new one appear. But it did not look good for them. The anaconda goddess had the ability to see through the eyes of every of her children and watched how the remaining humans got surrounded. And she wasn't pleased with that. Hunting in a group like that was against the rules. Every snake had to be on it's own to hunt for this special prey.
As if the anacindas had heared their goddesses thoughts, they slowly retreated all of the sudden. They disappeared in bushes and the canophy, allowing the humans to move on - for now. Still, every step they made could be their last from here.
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Post by BurgundyBoa on Jul 25, 2020 2:11:26 GMT -6
The group of five sacrifices came upon a large swamp and the only way through int was by walking through knee-high murky water. It was the only way to get to the temple. One by one they walked through the water, their feet sinking into the mud but they kept up the pace. Bronk, Juke, and Tok were at the font while the girls tread from behind.
Sora frustratingly tried to kick the mud away with each step. "Perfect! All this water is ruining my fine paint," she complained.
"There are worse things," Bronk said.
"Worse than a bad first impression to our goddess? Not possible," Sora said.
"Even if, by some miracle, you manage to reach the goddess she wouldn't accept you," Bronk countered. "You have nothing to offer her in ways of services,"
"I thought about that actually and I realized I do have something to offer her," Sora said eyeing Tok. "Food for her snakes!" She punches the man in the face and then pushes him towards the waters.
The man was barely conscious as something grabbed him.
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Post by shimoto on Jul 27, 2020 6:42:17 GMT -6
Giya the green anaconda has been watching the group from close distance for a while now, waiting for a perfect moment to strike and get her prey. And when the young men got punched and fell right towards her she attacked lightning fast. She grabbed him at his left shoulder with her jaw and pulled him further away from the other humans. Then a thick loop of her body swirled around his midriff and pinned his arms tightly to his sides. Her scales were olive green mostly but her sides were colored in a bright orange and her belly scales were a sandy brown. As soon as she got a save grip on her prey, her jaws released his shoulder but more and more of her coils curled and looped around the boy, immobilizing him further. His lower arms got trapped, his legs were bound and a very thick and strong loop coiled around his throat. As soon as he was completely wrapped up, Goya lowered her massive head and looked into his eyes. She hissed sharply as the constriction began and lunged at his face. Than was when she forced him underwater and a few moments later the was no ttace left of Giya or Tok. She would drag him into deeper water, where she could choke and swallow him.
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Post by BurgundyBoa on Jul 30, 2020 0:14:19 GMT -6
The adults watched in stunned silence as Tok was dragged away by the snake... But it wasn't the killing that surprized them it was Sora's action.
Bronk glared at Sora, "That was unethical and it goes against the tradition set down by our ancestors. We are supposed to be picked naturally by the goddess's children not slaughter each other,"
"You don't know if none of the past sacrifices did the same thing. No one knows!" Sora shouted. "I'm sure I'm not the first one who didn't want to move things forward. If I'm wrong, may our goddess strike me down!" Sora called out. A minute passed and nothing happened. "See? She doesn't mind and I'm confident that our goddess will reward me once we reach the temple. Speaking of, if any of you try to get the jump on me or stop me, I'll strike first,"
Sora moved ahead, ignoring the disapproving looks, then decided to take a gamble and push Lily into the water. She ran.
"Sora!" Bronk exclaimed as he chased after the woman and Juk followed behind.
Lily spat out the water and she got up. She looked ahead and saw a snake coming for her. The frightened young lady clasped her hands together. "Snake Goddess, hear my plea, make my death swift," she said quietly.
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Post by shimoto on Aug 3, 2020 3:57:13 GMT -6
This anaconda was one of grey but very shiny scales and a white underbelly. His name was Khor and he just had found his meal - or so he thought. The serpent looped around Lily head first, pushing her back into the water and made his long body follow to wrap around her. She did bot even fight. Not that it would matter to him. His coils swirled around and clasped around her entire upper body. He had her. She was dead meat already. But just when Khor was about to constrict her, a divine female voice was carried to him by the winds. "One is enough. Leave the ones struck down by their own fellows be. I won't allow another brave human's sacrifice go to waste." Khor looked up in the air for a moment and then immediately let go of the girl. He slithered away, his whole body brushing around and against her in the process. The anaconda disappeared beneath the surface and was not to be seen in a matter of seconds.
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Post by BurgundyBoa on Aug 5, 2020 1:45:45 GMT -6
Lily closed her eyes, unable to watch this, and did her best to try to relax as the snake wrapped around her ready to kill her with his coils when a voice in the wind seemed to stop everything, especially the snake. It took every ounce of courage she had left to open her eyes and when she did, the snake begins to slither away, his coils wet from the water brushing against her body and he disappears. The young woman was left there gasping for air and a little confused.
The voice to the snake to leave Lily alone... and all because she was struck down by Sora?
Lily stands up shakily, her eyes wide and she hugs herself. She looks down on her body and notices that her body paint was almost gone, no doubt because of the water and the snake's tail.
"What do I do now?" Lily wondered, her voice sounded very worried. "I can't go back to the village... but I can't go to the temple looking like this. My paint is ruined and she will no doubt think I am as well. But there is nowhere else to go." she stood there and thought and thought some more but she couldn't think of a solution. "There is no other option. Bronk said we must face our fate regardless of anything else." Lily smooths out her hair and walks forward through the murky swamp until she finds the temple on the other side. "However this ends, it ends here,"
Meanwhile, Sora runs straight into the temple without hesitation while the men chaced after her.
Juke heads for the entrance. "Sora! Sora!" he calls out but the woman was nowhere to be seen. "You're going against the traditions!" Juk looks around the dark halls when it suddenly grows dark as a wall closes behind him.
"Juke?" Bronk asked as he loses sight of the other man.
Juke wasn't sure what to do now. Keep searching for Sora? Or go with the motion and try to find the goddess? His answer came to him when he heard a sound. "Sora?" he asked. Just then he felt a punch to the face.
"I always knew you were a loser," Sora said to Juke. "Now I can finally see you leave this world." she hears a hiss coming from down the hall. "Try not to make it too difficult for the snake." She jumps over Juke so he was now between Sora and the snake.
Just as Juke came to from the punch a tail wraps around his ankle and he looks up to see Sora smirk. "You disgrace our traditions and yourself. Such a crime will not go unpunished." he grabs her leg and pulls her down with him.
Sora shrieks as she falls on the floor. As the snake takes Juke, she's pulled along. The woman looks around and sees a rock, grabs it and smashes it against Juke's face. "You filthy trash!" she exclaims as she keeps beating his face in until he lets go.
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Post by shimoto on Aug 5, 2020 5:01:12 GMT -6
The goddess may have ordered not to attack the humans who got betrayed and struck down by their own. But here inside the temple things were different. This was a sacred and holy place. The goddess was the only living creature who was allowed to harm some human or even other animals in here. Anyone else who dared to was to be punished.
The anaconda Vasha was of mostly dark scales with some blue spots and blended in quite good in a dark room like this. Vatching this deceptive girl was a piece of cake here. But then their goddess spoke again. "Leave he be. I'll personally take care of her." She made sure only her children would her those words. And although Vasha thought that the goddess should not disgrace herself by allowing this filthy girl to lay eyes on her, the anaconfa obeyed like any other would.
Which meant that Vasha would only take the human male. Once she had his ankles trapped his fate was sealed. He was pulled away from the female and lifted off the ground upside down. Vasha looked deeply into his eyes and gave him a brief moment and a chance to accept his doom and feel honored for becoming prey to such a snake. And even while inside the temple. Then his body was spun around while still being held in mid air. Each rotation added a dark rope of muscles and scales around his body, binding his legs further. His upper body followed swiftly but the rotation speed slowed down when the coils came close to his neck. The last few spins were almost like in slow motion, as if Vasha was savouring the moment when her prey got tangled up completely and she began to squeeze it to death.
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Post by BurgundyBoa on Aug 10, 2020 2:34:04 GMT -6
Juke had no problem with Vasha'a advances, unlike Sora, the young man was ready to accept his fate. His face grew redder as the coils tightened around his body and his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets but Juke kept his eyes open as he looked into the snake's eyes.
Sora grew impatient as the snake seemed to take its time with her prey. "I'm out of here," She said nonchalantly. And then she went out the way Juke came in only to run into Bronk.
"There you are," Bronk said as he grabbed Sora's arm. "Where is Juke? Did you kill him?"
"If you want to know so badly, just look over there," Sora replied as she tried to take her arm back but Bronk's hold was strong. She was dragged back to that hall by Bronk and they say Juke just before Vasha devoured him. "Well, at least Juke should keep the snake full for a while," Sora said smiling.
"This is not a joke Sora," Bronk said.
Meanwhile, Lily was faced with no adversity or anaconda as she made her way to the temple. It was much grander than she imagined, but then this was a temple built for a goddess. Lily spotted a snake in the dirt but it wasn't much bigger than her leg, surely this one couldn't eat her, and it slithered around her leg before showing her the way inside. The woman wordlessly followed the snake into the temple but instead of taking the main hall, the snake showed her the way to some stair steps and Lily followed it up. The woman walked along the dark hall until she found herself at the edge of a wall and she could see two familiar faces a floor below.
"Bronk," Lily cried out.
Bronk and Sora looked up and it was the woman who looked the most surprised.
"It can't be, that's not right," Sora said astounded before she grew enraged. "That's not right! How come you are not dead!?"
"I don't know," Lily answered. "The snake let me go,"
"Perhaps our goddess wanted to show mercy to a true follower," Bronk said happily before turning a grimace look at Sora, "Instead of someone so selfish she'd kill her own,"
Sora pulled her arm roughly away from Bronk. "I am not so selfish that I would deprive my goddess's children of having food. For that is what we are anyway. Just food to serve to a nest and I will serve, just so I can prove that I am above that,"
"All you have proven is that you are the worst among us," Bronk countered. "And I would sooner serve myself up than give you the chance to do it for me,"
Sora was about to argue until she heard a hiss coming from the hall and she makes a run for it. Bronk stayed however, ready to face what was coming his way.
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Post by shimoto on Aug 11, 2020 12:15:46 GMT -6
Saarl had watched the two humans arguing from the very beginning. He could have striked and coiled them both up anytime but he decided to take just one and leave the second one to one of the other snakes lurking around the temple.
The male human remained alone and practically volunteered to be eaten by doing so. He did not see the sparkle of two yellow eyes from the dark hole in the wall just a few feet above him. But her certainly heared the hiss at the snakes stroke as well as he felt it's teeth digging into his waist. It was just a moment so Saarl was sure to have a save grip on him before the anaconda slowly lifted him up and off his feet. He then turned and shifted him in mid air, winding him in two, three, four thick coils with dark brown scales and shiny yellow spots. His arms got trapped, his whole upper body was wrapped up by Saarl's thick, long body. Only his legs dangled freely. Once the anaconda had him in his clutches, the human male was quickly pulled back inside the black hole where Saarl had been hiding. He dragged him through the tunnels until he reached a small chamber where most of Saarl's body was piled up and got to work on him. Not a single faint scream echoed through the tunnel.
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Post by BurgundyBoa on Aug 16, 2020 2:47:54 GMT -6
Before he was dragged away, Bronk was able to look Lily in the eye and mouth 'goodbye' and then he was gone but he boldly accepted his fate.
Meanwhile, Sora had found the stairs and soon found Lily. "Look at you, you're pathetic. Your paint is gone, you're feet are caked with dirt and your hair is a mess. How and why would the snakes not kill you?"
Lily didn't give an answer, instead, she ran away. Though she could hear Sora after her, but the girl didn't dare look back. Lily kept running in many directions like a mouse in a maze until she was able to lose Sora but she was also lost until she hit a dead end. Lily wasn't sure what to do and slumped against the wall. Just when all seemed lost, a light appeared above Lily's head and a snake tail slithered down. The young lady was understandable frightened but she didn't fight it when the tail wrapped around her waist and hoist her up. Once she reached the light, the young lady was very surprised by what she was seeing.
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Post by shimoto on Aug 18, 2020 1:29:55 GMT -6
In her state the girl cub probably did not even notice the unique colour of the scales that pilled her up. They were a strong, deep purple with black spots running down the back which were surrounded by a golden edge. Also the body was even wider and stronger than the onea of any snake she encountered previously.
The tail pulled her up towards a hole in the ceiling. It was just wide enough for the snake to fit through. But the bright light made it almost impossible to see what was happening. When the snake finally got to lay eyes on the girl cub, ahe could probably only see the silhouette of her but even like this she must be aware that she was facing the biggest snake of all time right now. The girl was slowly lowered down to the ground again and granted a moment to catch her breath. She's been through a lot on her way here.
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Post by BurgundyBoa on Aug 25, 2020 2:53:03 GMT -6
Lily was nearly blinded by the light and had to shield them after only catching a glimpse of the snake pulling her up. It wasn't until she gently placed on the ground that she rubbed her eyes, they slowly adjusted to the light and she was able to get a good look at the snake. Lily's eyes widened, surely this was the largest snake she had ever seen even after today's events and she bows low before it.
"Forgive me," Lily said still bowing. "But are you the snake goddess or another one of her children?"
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