#listen python makes bad decisions and is aware of it

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Chosen of the Sun | | forest // fifty-six

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ASTER: Ahem. Well, I made a good decision bringing the Necromancer along, after all. I’ll, uh, leave things to you from here on out, then? KYRIE: Don’t you dare! ASTER: Ack! KYRIE: You got us into this mess! ASTER: What am I supposed to do about? You’re the ones with the magic! KYRIE: And I’m just supposed to let you drop this in our laps because of it? Either get creative or go down with the ship. I’m not dying here for nothing. ASTER: You seemed perfectly happy to do it for those other guys! KYRIE: Aster! ASTER: What?! What do you want from me? An apology? KYRIE: coughing ASTER: Oh for the love of light… Alright fine! Listen here you overgrown—I mean, uh, very handsome… giant… snake. I know you’re probably quite hungry, what with there being a smorgasbord of veritable nothing for you to gorge upon when there aren’t tasty little fools stumbling into your lair. ASTER: Aha… ha… I see I’ve gotten your attention. Yes, ah, likely because I am one said tasty little fool… But listen, I’ve had some time to reflect on the mistakes of my past, seen the error of my ways, you could say! I’ve even returned your abominable— I mean, lovely cursed skull back to its rightful place. I really do think that should count for something! Like perhaps, disqualifying me— KYRIE: coughs ASTER: Me and my comrades, from your lunch menu? [basilisk growls] ASTER: Mm, yes well, see, I would offer some free entertainment— a live performance— as payment, but seems your boney friend over there has done a number on me. Instead, perhaps I could regale you with a wonderful tale about a farmer. SARAYN: The beast is distracted. KYRIE: whispers Wait! Let him talk. SARAYN: Being devoured isn’t high on my to do list. You forget not all of us here have a death wish. KYRIE: Yes, yes, Lord Tev’us, I’m well aware of your voraciouswill to live. SARAYN: You say that like it’s a bad thing. Certainly you could use some. KYRIE: We only make it out of this one way. Believe me. I’m doing you a favor. ASTER: There once was a man who owned a hundred duck-sized horses. Or was it one horse-sized duck…? [basilisk roars] ASTER: Okay! Okay! Look, I’m really sorry about the stealing business, but I’m desperate here! I’ve got nothing else but music! I would have done anything— even port halfway across the world and beg a gargantuan python to hear me out! If there’s any bloody gods at all, you’ll see I’m trying! What did you even choose me for?! Haven’t I suffered enough hell on this earth already? By all the gold and silver in this damned world, I don’t wanna die like this! At least let me sing about it! That’s the only love I’ve ever known. I just wanted it back! KYRIE: Aster… SARAYN: It’s going? ASTER: That’s that, I suppose. Let’s not waste any time, lest the old beast changes its mind. The portal is just through there. KYRIE: But your curse— ASTER: I said come on.

[dreamingofhypno]

Getting Back to Nature

[A young man finds himself lost in the jungle and encounters a strange serpent]

The jungle heat was immense with hot and thick air. The jungle was more lush than he could’ve imagined with dense leaves and colourful flowers. Chris followed his tour group step by step through the bends and curves of the path. He was a good-looking guy with a strong jaw and brow bone, slightly neanderthalic, but in a hot way. He had found his way onto this tour during a backpacking trip across Asia just after finishing university. He wasn’t a conformist and liked going his own way but, decided it would be best to explore the Indian jungle in a guided group lest he cross paths with the dangerous creatures which lurk inside. 

“Legend has it that strange and powerful creatures reign over this jungle” the tour guide announced while the group followed, “many from the local villages pay homage to these creatures by making offerings, they are like deities to them”.

Chris pondered this. What about a jungle animal would be so fearsome to consider it a deity? After all, mankind can dominate nearly any creature it sees fit?. Still, he didn’t want to have to fend for himself out there. This dense jungle was a world away from the quiet English forest he had grown up around. As the group trailed on he daydreamed about the woods and fields from his boyhood. When he was young he liked nothing more than to run free in the natural surroundings of his hometown. No conformity, no rules, it felt like there were limitless possibilities when he was around nature. As a young boy it took him a while to conform to the normative rules of society when he was so used to following his more simplistic, natural inhibitions. Because of this, he was often thought of as an imaginative guy with a vivid imagination, with a tendency to get lost in his thoughts. It came as a surprise to him then, when he reached a fork in the road and his tour group nowhere to be seen.

It took him a second to gather himself. He hadn’t realised that he had slipped so far behind the rest of the group. “It’s ok” he thought, “they must not be far.”

“Hello?...Hello??....HEY!...”

He shouted after them. He listened to hear a response. A few long seconds passed. All he heard in return was deafening insect chirps and bird calls. His eyes darted between the 2 paths in front of him. He had no clue where either of them went. “Fuck ok, 50/50 chance” he rationalised, and legged it down the left-hand path. He knew he was ‘supposed’ to stay put but he didn’t like the thought of himself being a sitting duck for some carnivorous predator. He continued to jog through the jungle, passing countless trees, boulders and shrubs all the while shouting out for his tour group. As the pathway became more and more overgrown he began to think that he had made the wrong decision. He was a fit guy but even for him the think humid air wore him down faster that he expected. His already warm body was now sweating through the loose tank top he was wearing. He hoisted the top over his head and felt some relief as his bare torso was exposed to the open air. The hair on his chest and stomach blew gently as he moved forward.

“Dead end” he thought. Frustratingly, he turned around and began his way back the route he came. He checked his mobile. No signal. He began to panic slightly. Before he reassured himself that he wasn’t that far from the group but now the thought that he might actually get lost out here was becoming dangerously real. This panic made him step up his pace as he passed through trees and bushes followed by trees and bushes followed by…the same trees and bushes? He could swear he had already passed these trees before. His heart sank. 

He was well and truly, lost. 

Chris breathed deeply in and out. “It’s ok” he reassured himself, “it’s ok, they’re gonna notice that I’m gone and they’ll send someone out to find me”. He looked up to the sky, it was still mostly light out but it was starting to ever so slightly turn. “It’s probably best if I stay put somewhere”. He had reached a small opening that seemed like a good place as any to stay put. He took a seat at a conveniently placed tree stump. He took a deep breath and calmed himself. It was strangely peaceful being out here in nature, feeling the air against his bare skin. His shorts were stifling after all that activity and he wasted no time in taking them off. The air cooled his hot thighs and he was now only left in his loose red boxer shorts. His thumb hesitated around the elastic waistband of his boxers. Chris looked around. He knew no one else was around but getting completely naked still felt so risqué even if it felt wonderful. What if there was someone was watching? Indeed, he almost felt as if the jungle had eyes everywhere. 

Chris pondered the futility of this whole situation. Even out here, with no one around for miles he still couldn’t quite bring himself to just let go, to be completely naked and free of inhibitions. Just as he had that thought he could hear rustling in the canopy above and a strangely familiar sound.

"Sssssay now, what have we here? Has a mancub wandered into my domain?"

A voice came out of the foliage above. Chris, shocked by hearing another person immediate jumped up, hoisted his shorts back up and reached for his vest.

"Ohhhhh, have I caught you at a bad time?" the voice said playfully.

Chris had just managed to get back into his vest before turning around to face this stranger but, much to his surprise, he saw only the familiar jungle scenery. He looked around trying to find the source of his intruder.

"erm, I'm so sorry It's just I thought I was alone and er..." he trailed off trying to defend himself. "God, the only other person around for miles and they probably think I'm some kind of pervert" he thought, as his face turned red from the embarrassment.

"Well that'sssss nothing to be ashamed of, mancub hss hss hss" the playful voice above responded from above as it grew clearer.

"Sorry um, where are you exactly?" Chris asked as he searched the leaves above.

"Of course, where are my mannersssss..."

A green python with bright yellow eyes slithered down slowly from a branch above Chris, "my name, is Kaa. Nisssssse to see you, mancub".

Chris was stunned. What is going on? Had the heatstroke set in?? He watched in disbelief as the talking serpent gently dropped down to his eye level. Not only was he talking to a serpent, but one with an attitude??

"In fact, it's nice to see sssssso much...of you hss hss hsss!" Kaa laughed. 

Chris blushed, suddenly aware of how much this snake had been eyeing him up. 

“oh er...right, sorry, I thought I was alone and….”, he trailed off, embarrassed that of all things, a talking snake, had intruded on what he thought was a solitary moment. Chris took a second to take a look at this new acquaintance. He was clearly a sizeable python, long enough to hang comfortably from the branches above. But what stood out the most about Kaa was his large yellow eyes. They were bright, almost luminescent which stood out against surrounding jungle. Chris wondered, with eyes that bright how he could’ve missed them peering down at him from above.

"I'm Chris by the way" he introduced, offering his hand, then quickly returning it when he realised that he was talking to, well, a snake. Kaa chuckled at the manners of the mancub and brought down the tip of his tail from the canopy above. It wrapped itself in a loop around Chris's hand and gave it a gentle shake. He watched the cool scales of the serpent brush against his palm and returned to meet his gaze. His eyes were truly captivating, so large and bright that they almost demanded to be looked at.

“Pleasure to meet you mancub”, Kaa responded. 

“Umm, I don’t mean to be rude but...

“Yesssss?”

“You can...talk?”

“Hss hss hss, i can do many thingsss mancub, the jungle is home to many experiencesss most humans...could only dream of”, Kaa looped a coil and draped himself over Chris’s broad shoulder, cozying up to him. “you know, it’s such a shame we don’t get more humanssss in these parts don’t you think Chrissss?”

He pondered what Kaa had said. What kind of experiences was he talking about? And why would Kaa want more humans in these parts? It was pretty obvious why there weren’t any other people around.

“I mean, jungles are pretty dangerous, you’ve got tigers, bears, snak-”

Kaa raised a brow. 

Chris gulped. “I mean er...panthers?”

Kaa didn’t look convinced. 

“Shit”, Chris thought. He is a predator. I should keep him on my good side or else I could end up his next meal. He was still perplexed over how a literal talking python could remain so unknown. Anyone who came in contact would surely notify the media or scientists…unless? In order to do that one would actually have to get back to civilisation which means...

 Chris gulped, brushed off Kaa’s coil, and took a few steps back.

“So er, would you happen to know how I could get back to my tour group? I’m sure they’re looking for me and I’d hate to keep them waiting and it’s getting a little late and-”, 

“Oh? Leaving so ssssoon?” Kaa interrupted, “and here I thought we were starting to find sssome common ground”

“No no no! It’s nothing like that I just I-I really need to be getting back and yknow I’m on a whole trip so-“

“And to think you were so clossssssse, tsk tsk tsk…”, he shook his head and turned away, as if disappointed.

Chris was confused. Close to what exactly? What was this snake talking about? Now was his opening, Kaa wasn’t facing him and he could easily outrun him. He told himself to turn around and get out but, a little morsel of curiosity was holding him back. What did Kaa know that he didn’t?

Against better judgement, he asked “close to what exactly?”,

“Well, let me assssk a question mancub, when was the last time you felt truly free?”,

There were a few moments of silence between them as Chris thought of what to reply but before he could respond, Kaa already had his answer.

“I’m willing to bet it was a few minutesssss ago, wasn’t it?”

“W-what do you mean?” he said, a little stunned.

Kaa laughed, he was constantly amazed by the inability of humans to recognise even their most basic urges.

“Hss hss hss, when I sssaw you from above, I saw a mancub getting in touch with what he really desires...being his most natural sssself....you were so closssse to having your whole manhood proudly on disssplay”.

Chris gulped and started to feel blood rushing to the growing bulge in his shorts. He didn’t know what to say, it was as if this strange serpent had looked right into his innermost desires that even he was too embarrassed to admit to himself. He turned away, looking at the ground shyly. He didn’t want to admit it. He didn’t want Kaa to be right, he didn’t want to be some kind of exhibitionist...but he couldn’t deny how good it felt. How free, excited, and aroused he started to feel when he had stripped off like that. He knew what he really wanted was to be completely bare, out here in the open, for all of nature to see his nakedness.

“That’sss a kind of experiencssss...I can offer you”

Chris’s mind was getting increasingly fuzzy. He didn’t know what to say or think. His inner, primitive desires had been spoken out in the open and he didn’t know how to process it. What did Kaa mean? What kind of experience? His mind started running with possibilities about what that might feel like. The kind of pleasures it would hold. His cock was getting stiffer and stiffer as his curiosity was piqued.

“...h-how could you do that?”, he asked, raising his head back up to face Kaa.

He smirked a knowing grin.

“Oh, I have my own ssssubtle ways. Now…look into my eyes, won’t you?”

Chris looked forward at Kaa’s bright eyes and watched in amazement as they began to pulsate rings upon rings of colourful rays. Green...purple...yellow. It was as if he was watching the most beautiful display he had ever seen. So captivating and enriching, the colours blended into one and other in ways he couldn’t believe. He just had to keep watching to see what beautiful rings would pulsate from Kaa’s eyes next.

“Thaaaaat’s it mancub, jussssst keep looking into my eyes”, Kaa told his new subject. 

Chris felt his eyes widen uncontrollably, as if his unconscious mind was forcing him to take in as much of the beautiful display as he could. His mouth fell agape at the sheer surprise of such an amazing illusion. He gazed onward and started to feel the pulsation of Kaa’s eyes to be matched in his own. In doing so, his field of vision became completely saturated with the dazzling colours. In every direction there was a stunning display.

“Kaa wha....what is....”, Chris trailed off. He could barely string a sentence together. His mind was getting increasingly fuzzy and difficult to think. He had no idea what was happening. What on earth this display was. But his body knew. And it knew that it felt incredibly good. The bulge in his shorts was getting bigger as his cock got more and more stiff with each colourful pulse. 

Kaa’s playful smile had now become sinister. He had the mancub right where he wanted him. He knew how mancubs functioned. How intelligent they thought they were. How much they denied their animalistic desires, how just teasing the smallest primitive pleasure, was enough to crumble all of their restraint. Kaa knew from when he first saw Chris what he had found. A lost boy, looking to find that youthful sense of freedom once again.

“Thaaaaat’s it mancub, it feels, sssso good, doesn’t it?”.

His slacked jaw slowly twisted into a smile. Chris’s mind was slipping away from him. It was like the messages sent in his brain were now traveling slower and slower through an increasingly dense fog. The problem for him was that this included those little precautions that had previously told him that he was face to face with a dangerous predator. They had been completely dwarfed by the only thing that was now on his mind: pleasure.

He nodded, keeping his eyes fixed on Kaa’s gaze. He didn’t even think of his response. He was asked if it felt good. And he nodded. Because he felt very, very good. 

“Good...it felt so nicssssse to be naked again didn’t it? so nicssssse to be free and natural” Kaa reassured Chris. He nodded his head again, this time a little more sluggish. Kaa knew he was reaching his cliff of restraint and that before long he would only need a little nudge to tip him over the edge.

“So why don’t we take care of these pesky restraintssss shall we? hss hss hss...” Kaa gestured to Chris’s clothes with the tip of his tail. He nodded sluggishly and without thinking, lifted his vest over his head and pulled down his shorts.

That instinctive freedom was coming back to him. He was once again that young boy at peace in nature, free from rules and restriction and curious about the wonders of the natural world.

“Aren’t you forgetting a little ssssomething?”, Kaa’s tail caressed up Chris’s bare thigh and gently snapped the waistband of his boxers. “Don’t you want to get naked?”.

Chris nodded. His last gram of resistance was the only thing stopping him. His deep subconscious knew that this pleasure was undeniable. This feeling was coming for him no matter what.

As he continued staring into Kaa’s eyes he could feel it approaching. A feeling of absolute freedom, submission and bliss. 

A peak. 

A cliff. 

It was coming. 

Closer. 

And closer. 

Whether he embraced it or not.

Either way. 

He was going to pull down his boxers.

Let his manhood spring out and…

*PING*....

Kaa’s eyes stopped pulsing colours as he swung back to admire his latest catch. He couldn’t believe his luck! A sizable and lean male specimen was standing in front of him, upright and stiff, as if standing to attention. While Kaa had ceased his hypnotic stare, Chris’s eyes were still wide open, pulsing the same colours he had been gazing into just moments ago.

“There now...that wassssn’t so hard now was it?” Kaa asked playfully.

Chris shook his head. His smile was beaming as if he was so utterly happy and joyful to be in this wonderful state. Kaa knew that at this point the mancub was completely defenceless. He had no weapon. He had no clothes. He didn’t even have any free will. He was just a mindless, naked mancub so overloaded with pleasure he couldn’t do anything but stand there, arms at his side, cock upright and stiff, and bask in this bliss.

Kaa smacked his lips and appreciated his latest capture. This mancub was certainly going to become a part of nature very, very soon.