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Wyrm Problem 2

So now we have a viper disguised as a simple garden snake among our protagonists, how will they get along?

Tw: vore mention, injury, harsh language

If he was being honest, Wilbur hated being a Kaiju. But it was either be a Kaiju and stand a chance, or be “human” and get eaten. But that’s the thing: Wilbur technically wasn’t both. He was a hybrid, an unfortunate result of humans trying to understand creatures they couldn’t comprehend. Another thing Wilbur hated was that as a Kaiju he only had his arms to move himself foreward, his legs were his long slithering tail. He had no eyelids so he couldn’t blink (that was irritating at first but he got used to it), he had a massive appetite, and he was just all around out of place. His scales were the wrong color for a forest Viper, so hunting was impossible as a Kaiju.

The only thing he could do was drink and roam around, other Kaiju ignored him because he had a trick up his fangs: venom that would leave them on a 5 hour long drug trip. So it wasn’t all too bad he guessed. He approached the river and sniffed the air, his tongue flickering the catch the scents around him. He picked up a human and a sprinter, huh, odd? They’re never alone, alone is a death sentence. Even for someone like him, had not he found out about his hybrid qualities.

But then he heard it, a squawk. He froze, instantly going into defense mode and camouflaging himself. He watched around carefully, there! In the bushes! How did he not se that before? The human got on his mount and ran. Shit, he scared him. Wilbur normally tried to be human when he meets other humans or Kaizen. But looks like today wasn’t the case exactly as he took off after the human.

That was earlier today. Wilbur felt uneasy around the two rougher men, but Tommy seemed to be the least threatening out of them all. Keyword “seemed,” since he was out by himself without any hints of fear.

Skipping ahead to current time, Wilbur felt uneasy. He normally did when people stared at his unfortunate mutations, but he was getting extra irked out by the Piglin named “Techno.” Wilbur didn’t like how he was being burnt holes into his skin by the pig. The ride to their home was silent, aside from an occasional cough, sneeze, or chittering from the birds they rode.

Dream was mainly focused with Tommy but was constantly glaring with suspicion at Wilbur whenever he got the chance. Wilbur knew he wasn’t a fool, he looked like he was the brains of the trio, he looked like a cold and calculating huntsman, thinking about every move 4 steps ahead. There was no way he could lie to the human, but it was better than the piglin.

Techno was obviously the brute strength of the trio, a well fed and well trained adult piglin was a dangerous one, and Techno reeked of bloodthirsty behavior (mainly because he actually smelled like blood). The piglin had a blank face but Wilbur knew he was skeptical. Kaizen knew the smell of a Kaiju from a mile away, he would only fool him with a sob story of escaping nearly being eaten. Plus the dead stare of blood red eyes glaring with the sharpness of Hygoras teeth were enough to make him unnerved.

“Hello, ground to Wilbur?” Dream said loudly, snapping Wilbur out of his thoughts. Right, he was human, he can blink, and so he did.

“Hm? Yeah! Sorry, just thinking…” Wilbur said, and mentally face palmed. “Just thinking” was what you said in a city, not to a band of huntsmen. That’s what you said if you wanted to become a snakeskin backpack. Or a piece of Kaiju bait since he didn’t have scales at the moment…

He got off the sprinter and followed the three inside the tree, holy shit there were a lot of stairs. Humans are pretty primitive so it made sense somewhat. He took a deep breath and followed them up the stairs of the hollowed out grand oak, marveling at the woodwork. At least they had some downtime to make an unfortunate home nicer.

“You like the woodwork? Me and Techno spent weeks working on it.” Tommy said proudly, trying to break the silence. The piglin only grunted in agreement. “I’ll show you around when we get up to the branches. Hope you’re not allergic to cats or Moth-hounds.”

The teenager looked so giddy, compared to his brothers who were on edge. Even though Wilbur was mildly injured (a burn on his chest and stomach, a deep gash on his right forearm from an accident) they still didn’t trust him.

It’s your eyes and ears, they don’t trust unnatural things. Wilbur thought. Maybe if I lie and say it’s a mutation they’ll believe it. Well, maybe not, it’s kinda hard to lie about literal snake eyes.

They got to the top of the stairwell and Wilbur was amazed by the craftmanship of the tree base. He was sure this wasn’t here a few days ago when he passed by here. Clever humans.

“So, what were you doing all the way out by the river?” Techno asked, mainly glaring at Tommy but asking both the question.

“Well I was out getting supplies when I heard something massive, so I hung back to wait for it-“

“It was a giant fucking snake! The thing wanted to eat me I’m sure of it!” Tommy interrupted.

Ouch, Wilbur thought, slightly flinching. He then realized he flinched and looked to see if anyone noticed, thank the moons there’s not a mind reader in here.

“That might’ve been a viper. They live in the desert though how did one get all the way out here?” Techno said,

“Maybe it realized there was more food?” Wilbur asked because living in a canyon is not very filling. He thought bitterly, remembering all the times desert wildlife nearly claimed his life.

“Then we got a huge problem on our hands.” Dream said. “And you, you were supposed to wait here for us!” Dream scolded Tommy.

“But you might not have known about the viper,” Wilbur pointed out. Techno shot him a look and Wilbur gave a tiny “meep” before quieting down.

“Well how do you know about it when you never went down to the river?” Dream questioned.

“Again, I heard something massive slithering through the undergrowth, but that’s not all. You see this body wrap?” Wilbur pointed to the linen wrapping on his stomach that had faint blood. “There’s something going on out there, the Kaiju are acting weird.”

“What kinda weird?” Techno inquired.

“A few weeks ago I was tracking a group of Platebacks, you know, the ones that like to smoke weed? Well 3 days ago they started acting aggressive and attacked each other-“

“Why were you following Kaiju?” Dream asked, reaching for his sword.

“Relax, Platebacks are vegetarian and have no reason to attack humans or Kaizen.” Wilbur said hurriedly.

“He’s right, I’ve encountered a migration before and they just kinda politely ignored me.” Techno said with a shrug.

“Exactly my point! First they were chill and passive, then as if overnight they were like rabid giant animals.” Wilbur said. “And that’s not all, multiple Kaiju are beginning to act like this that normally have nothing against tiny sentients like me and you.”

“So, are we in danger?” Tommy asked nervously.

“I’m afraid so, the forest is no longer safe, something is making the Kaiju aggressive. Worst of all, there’s one out there that has been actively hunting and eating humans and Kaizen. A minotyr.”

Silence, everyone knew how dangerous a minotyr was. They had the ability to shatter the strongest of bones with one hit, and were impossible to put under. You had to be fast and flexible to survive a pissed off minotyr.

“Well where are we gonna go? I’m not leaving if I don’t know where to go.” Dream crossed his arms.

“We could go to the Diamond Summit range, Skullora are peaceful and willingly help mountain travelers.” Techno suggested. Dream was about to argue,

“Well it’s getting late, we should rest and come up with a plan later.” Tommy said, getting up and walking to his room. Dream sighed, he was exhausted even if his mask hid his face. Techno didn’t show any sign of anything other than that stern militia look.

“Where’s the stray gonna sleep?” Dream said, pointing to Wilbur

“Stray?!” Wilbur echoed, offended.

“He’ll sleep on the couch, I’ll lock the weaponry” Techno said. Wilbur didn’t fully understand their problem with him, why were they so unnecessarily mean? He was “human,” but did they know he was a Kaiju secretly?

“Alright then, I’ll go ahead and sleep on the couch I guess,” Wilbur said in defeat, he wasn’t tired but a nap wouldn’t hurt, right?

“Then it’s settled, tomorrow we make a plan to get out of the forest.” Dream said, walking off. Wilbur was about to go to the couch, but when Dream’s door could be heard opening and slamming shut, he felt a burly hand grab his shoulder.

“Look, I know something’s up with you, and I’ll give you a pass since you clearly are with injury, but just know, this is my family, this is my house. Try anything, and I’ll have your disembodied head mounted next to my sword.” Techno warned, his shoulder spines bristling. “Anyways, get some rest.” Techno said casually, as if he didn’t just threaten to rip Wilbur’s head off 10 seconds ago.

Wilbur clutched his heart, okay, so he was under suspicion by only Dream. Good to know. He didn’t sleep for the whole night, uncomfortable in the presence of danger.

(And that’s where we end Chapter 2! I have made the decision to take a month long break, partially because Owl House is ending and I know there will be lots of spoilers I won’t be able to avoid, but the main reason is because I have started my “Magnum Opus,” if you will, a sort of fictional autobiography. That will release on my birthday! Well, close to it… so that’s why aim taking April off. The hope is so I can focus all of my energy to write this piece I have been thinking about nonstop, so that’s also why it was difficult to complete this chapter. Thank you for reading, see you in late April! Enjoy these funny fillers below, lol)

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