The sun was shining high in the Great Valley. The day was beautiful and was not the sigh of a single cloud in the cobalt colored sky. It was a more than perfect day for playing around and, more important, exploring.
This was what two young dinosaurs were doing right then. One of them, the older one, was a big longneck, with brow coloration and red colored eyes. He was Littlefoot, a young longneck with a thirsty for adventuring, a born leader and a very intelligent dinosaur, that was always willing to go on and guide his fellow friends in all kinds of adventures.
The other dinosaur, was a little more of appearing, not only for his personality, but also because of his species. He was a sharptooth, a carnivorous dinosaur that often preyed onto the leaf eaters, like Littlefoot. But this sharptooth, was one of a kind. His name was Chomper, he had blue coloration and red eyes, and he was a friendly sharptooth. He was friends with Littlefoot and the rest of the gang since he was a hatchling. And he had recently moved into the Great Valley, along with Ruby, the fast runner. Chomper was well known for his happy and easygoing personality, as well as for being a little naïve. After all, he was still gthe youngest of the group.
Littlefoot and Chomper entered together into the secret caves, and today, in the beautiful day, they were anxious to explore a bit. It was always fun discovering new caves in that complex cave system, and they loved to do it together.
“Way ahead of you, Chomper!” called out Littlefoot, as he trotted way ahead of his sharptooth friend, and Chomper only called “Wait for me!” and both of them laughed as they walked into the cave they had just chosen to explore.
“I just wish the others were here to explore too.” Said Chomper as they walked across the plain opening that was the cave. The rest of the gang had their own affairs all over the Valley.
Cera was having some “family time” with her father, sister. Petrie was with his family, learning advanced flying techniques. Ruby had went with Ducky and Spike to the mud pools with Tria, they had went to that place a lot recently. And this, of course, left only Littlefoot and Chomper to explore.
“I wish they were here too.” Said the longneck to his much younger friend “But the cave will still be here later.” He said also, trying to cheer Chomper up “If we find anything cool, we can show to the guys later.”
This made the small sharptooth smile, and say “Yeah, you are right. So lets go find something that is worth showing our friends later!” he said as he dashed forward, laughing away, and soon, Littlefoot was laughing too, trotting right after the small, impetuous sharptooth.
They both ran and walked across the cave. They followed its paths all around, going straightforward, making curves, and finally going down, and straight ahead again. Until they finally saw one small opening in front of them, feeling the breeze with the sweet smell of the fresh air of the outside.
“There is an ending!” said Chomper, and he ran for it, and Littlefoot went after, saying “Wait for me!”
They approached quickly form the opening that was in there, and soon, Chomper was passing by it. Littlefoot stopped for a moment. The opening was big enough for Chomper to go through without problems, but it was small for him, and he was going to have to struggle a bit if he wanted to pass by it.
“Littlefoot!” Chomper’s voice called from the outside. “Littlefoot, come here! You have to see that!” his voice was very anxious and happy. He probably had found something that he thought Littlefoot was going to like.
Littlefoot looked at the small passage, and decided he could not leave Chomper alone on the other side of whatever it was. Taking a deep breath, he lowered his head, and passed his head to the other side of it.
His eyes widened.
In front of him, there was a big and lusty green forest. With several plants of all kinds in there, some with fruits, and it seemed to be part of a bigger forest. The place seemed big enough for a medium sized leaf eater to live, and the plants in there had a good look and delicious smell. Littlefoot could already feel his mouth watering.
“Wooooow!” said Littlefoot, and then, Chomper, by his side, said “It is great! Isn’t it?” his tone was happy, and soon, Littlefoot answered in the same tone “It surely is! Those plants look great!” he said, as he put both legs in the outside, and tried to get out, but soon he found a little of a difficulty to pass his middle by the small opening.
“Uh-oh.” Littlefoot said, and has started struggling a bit more, but his middle seemed to have became stuck into the small opening in there. He tried to force himself forward with his frontlegs, but he was stuck in there, and his attempts caused some pain as the thight walls bruised his belly.
“I’m stuck!” Littlefoot said as he realized his dilemma. Chomper looked at him, and evaluated the way his belly got stuck into the small passage. Maybe he should have considered better that the thing was too small for him.
“Can you move back?” the small sharptooth asked. Littlefoot tried to move backwards, going back into the cave, even used his hindlegs to pull himself back, but it was not working. Chomper even tried to help by pushing him against the hole, but it was proving to be fruitless.
“Guess I’m really stuck.” Said Littlefoot in defeat, and Chomper looked at him “What now?” the small sharptooth asked “Guess we are stuck in here until someone comes to help.” The longneck answered, and he looked around once more “I never saw this forest in the Great Valley before.”
Chomper also looked around, and then, he got worried “I think is because we are not in the Great Valley anymore.” The longneck looked at the blue sharptooth, who looked back at him “I think we have arrived in the Mysterious Beyond.”
Littlefoot instantly knew it was problem. He was stuck in a small opening with Chomper being the only one by his side. If a sharptooth appeared they would both be easy targets. Some fast biter could find them, or worse, Red Claw and his minions could find them. Littlefoot shuttered at this mere thought.
“We gotta go back now!” he said, and he started struggling more, but once again it proved to be fruitless. Chomper even tried to help, but it was useless. Littlefoot was completely stuck.
“What part of the Mysterious Beyond is it?” asked Littlefoot, looking around, and Choimper answered “I don’t know. I’ve never been here before.” True, this place was so mysterious to him as it was to his longneck friend.
This was bad. Being stuckl into an unknown location of the Mysterious Beyond, a place that neither of them knew, and that they knew nothing about who came there and with what frequency. The chances of finding a strange and aggressive sharptooth grew by the second.
“What do we do now?” asked Littlefoot, starting to get desperate as the danger in there was growing. Chomper didn’t knew how to answer. He could not protect Littlefoot against an adult sharptooth. The chances of him being able to talk a sharptooth into not eating him were very little. The only hope there was finding a way of taking Littlefoot out of that hole he was stuck in. And it should be done quickly. But he was not strong enough to remove him by himself, and nor did Littlefoot was strong enough to get out on his own. He needed help of someone. Or… something that could help him!
“I know!” Chomper said “I’m going find something to help out!” he said, and the longneck looked at him “Huh?”
“I’m going to search in the woods something to help you out!” the small sharptooth said “Maybe a vine to help me pull you! I’m sure it might help!” and he turned around, walking to the woods.
“Chomper, wait!” Littlefoot said “It’s dangerous to go alone!”
“It is also dangerous to be in here.” The small sharptooth said to him matter of factly “We are easy targets, and unless we get out, someone will probably find us. We need to get you out so we can go back to safety.”
Chomper’s argument made a lot of sense, and actually seemed to be the best option. But this did not diminished the longneck’s worries. Littlefoot was worried that Chomper might find some predator, and he was also worried of being left in there, all alone. But it seemed that it was the best option, and they didn’t had much of a choice.
“Just… just be careful.” Littlefoot said, consenting his friend to go and search for something that could help them out.
The sharptooth, in turn, said “I’ll will. I’ll be back soon.” And with that said, Chomper went strolling in the woods, leaving a worried longneck behind.
Chomper walked across the woods for a while. That place was a bit bigger than it looked. Chomper was really surprised he never had stumbled across that forest in his wanderings in the Mysterious Beyond.
But it was no time to think about it. He needed to help Littlefoot out before they were found by a sharptooth! He searched around, for something that could be useful to help them. The vines were far too high for him to reach, and the ones that were on the ground just didn’t seemed strong enough for what he had in mind.
Time was going by, and Chomper was in there already for a few minutes. He was getting increasingly worried about his longneck friend, left there alone. He needed to help him in some way. He needed to find something that could help the longneck get out so they could get back home and be safe!
Chomper looked around, and then, he saw one thing. It was a long, thick, brown colored vine. It seemed to be strong enough to help Littlefoot. It had to be a blessing!
Smiling, Chomper ran to it, and grabbed the vine with both hands, pulling it to rip it form the log and carry it to his friend. He just didn’t expected the vine to twitch, move, and say “Hey!”
“Ah!” Chomper said as he let go of the vine which, looking closer, could be noticed to have black dots on the back and a lighter color in the downside, and also looked smooth and scaly. The vine started moving, and raised higher.
Chomper only looked wide-eyed as the vine moved, and one long neck descended from the trees above, with a scaly head in the end of it. The head looked in his direction with its yellow eyes and smiled. It flicked a forked tongue in the air as it approached form the small sharptooth.
“My, my.” Said the head in perfect leaf eater “What have we here?” it said as it approached more, taking a better look into the still wide-eyed dinosaur “A sssharptooth cub!” it said happily, flicking his tongue as he hissed.
Chomper looked at him for a few moments, before recovering his voice, and he said “I…hum… I… Please, don’t hurt me!” he said, raising his hands in front of his face, scared of this strange creature.
The creature’s eyes widened as he heard these words “A sssharptooth who ssspeaksss leaf eater?” he said, looking closer “Now thatssss a thing you don’t sssee everyday.” He said, looking closer.
Chomper opened his eyes, looking at the strange creature in front of him, and said “P-please…” he said “Don’t hurt me. I mean no harm.”
The thing let out a chuckling hiss as he looked at the sharptooth cub in front of him “Don’t worry, poor thing. I’ll not hurt you.”
This made Chomper relax a little, and he looked at the creature in front of him, who said “I wasss just a bit ssssurprised when I felt you tucking on my body.” The creature said, showing off the rest of his body, what Chomper had mistaken by a vine.
“Oh!” Chomper said, and blushed, a little embarrassed “I’m sorry sir.” He said “I thought it was a vine.”
“Isss okay” the creature said to him “Everybody makesss Missstakesss.” It said, and inched closer to him “But, tell me, why you wanted a vine?”
“I need to help my friend.” Chomper said “He is stuck and I need to help him out.”
“You friend?” the creature said, now sounding a bit more happy. Chomper failed to notice the desire in the creature’s eyes. “Another sharptooth?”
“No.” Chomper said “A longneck.”
This caught the creature off guard “A leaf eater? Your friend?”
“Yeah! He got stuck into a cave, and I need to help him out!”
The creature looked at him, and said “Thissss longneck, isss an adult?”
“Actually not.” Chomper said “He is just a little older than me?”
“Ssso he isss a longneck cub?” the creature asked, opening a smile and flicking his forked tongue, and Chomper said “Yeah, and he is stuck. I was thinking aobut using a vine to help pull him out.”
“And where he isss?” asked the creature, and Chomper said “In a small cave form there.” He pointed the direction he had just came “I need to help him out and take him back home before any sharptooth appears. Besides me, I mean.”
The creature smiled “Oh, poor thingssss.” He hissed as he inched closer to Chomper. The small sharptooth felt something in his shoulder, and looked to see that it was what seemed to be the tip of a long tail.
“Your parentsss mussst be worried for you having came here on your own. They mussst be sssearching for you.”
“N-no.” said Chomper “Actually, our families are far, and no one knows we have come here.”
Chomper didn’t knew that what he had just said, was what the creature wanted to hear, and it had just sealed his and Littlefoot’s fate.
“Really?” the creature said, trying to sound innocent “Itsss very dangerousss for kidsss to be around there alone.” He inched closer “I can’t allow you two to be alone and helplessssss.” He said with a smirk.
Chomper looked at him “Are you saying you will help?” asked the young sharptooth, almost beaming at the news he was going to have help. The creature let out a hissing chukle and said “Of courssse! How could I turn my back to two lonely, helplesssss children?”
Chomper really beamed “That’s great! You will help pull Littlefoot out of the hole?”
The creature chuckled again “Sssuch a helping friend. But ssstill has a lot to learn.” The creature said “Pulling your friend out would hurt him, and we don’t want that, do we?”
Chomper stopped for a moment, and said “Yes, you are right. But what do we do, then?” he asked, and the creature said “Let thisss with me… Oh! Were are my mannersss? My name isss Kaa, young one.”
“I’m Chomper!” he said “The friendly sharptooth.”
Kaa chuckled at him, and then said “Nice to meet you, really nice.” He said, looking the young sharptooth dead in the eye, and Chomper said “So, we must go to Littlefoot now so we can… W-what are you doing?” he asked as he saw something strange going on in Kaa’s eyes.
They had started changing colors! They changed colors like spiral colors of blue, yellow and green. They looked pretty, and strangely attractive. Chomper looked at the color changing eyes as he said “H-h-how do you do that?”
“Jussst a little trick of mine.” Kaa said, the colors in his eyes speeding up a bit, as he slowly moved his tail to the sharptooth’s feet “Now, stop talking a bit, and relax.”
Chomper would have worried and suspected the creature’s acting, but he could only say “O-okay…” He was feeling a bit more like doing what Kaa said, and he barely even noticed that his eyes were starting to mimic Kaa’s, by changing their color into polls.
Chomper felt more and more like keep staring at the snake’s eyes. He felt like he could stare at them forever, since they gave him a feeling of giddy happiness and of slightly bliss. But, he could not keep staring at them all the time. Littlefoot was in trouble and needed his help… Didn’t he?
But he found himself unable to look away, the colors were so pretty, so mesmerizing, and they only increased in speed, and so did the colors of his own eyes.
Chomper soon found himself unable even to blink, just to stare into the pretty colors as a smile started forming in his face, and the coils of Kaa started forming around his legs.
Chomper just wanted to stare into the pretty colors. But… He had… something… that he had to do… It had to do with a… longneck? … maybe? … It was someone he knew? … Well, if he forgot, it should not be so important… right?
The more Chomper looked at the pretty colors in Kaa’s eyes, the less he cared about it, or about anything else. Like the colors were carrying away his worries and all his troubles, as well as his own mind. He barely had notion of the coils enveloping him and lightly constricting his body.
“That’sss it.” Said Kaa, now moving his head in front of Chomper, almost dancing “Jussst look into the pretty colorsss.” He said as the colors in his eyes speed up even more, and the colors in Chomper’s eyes mimicked.
“Trussst in me.” Kaa sang as he danced in front of the sharptooth, his coils going up, and Chomper barely minding, as he said “T-t-trust in you…”
“Jussst in me.”
“J-just in-AHCK” Chomper tried to repeat, but was cut short when the last coils tied around his neck and squeezed lightly. But Ka continued “Closssse your eyessss...” he looked Chomper deadly in the eyes as the colors were at top speed “Resssst in peasssce.”
<i>PING</i>
Chomper had went completely stiff in Kaa’s coils, his expression blank, save for a goffy smile in his lips. His mind now empty, save for the colors that made him feel so good. There was no more worries, no more problems, no more Littlefoot, no more nothing other than the colors.
Kaa chuckled at the Sharptooth he now had in his power, and said “Now, letsss sssee thisss longneck friend of yoursss ssshall we?” and he raised the young sharptooth from the ground and into the trees above.
<i>Back to Littlefoot</i>
The poor stuck longneck was once again trying to get himself free by pulling and pushing his body back and outwards. But he was once again failing miserably. He laid there, and looked all around.
Just where was Chomper? He was taking too long. And now, Littlefoot was getting more and more worried with his safety. What if he had fallen into a hole? What if he had been stuck into bubbling mud? What if he had found a sharptooth!? These and other worries filled his head. If Chomper was also got stuck, then they could not expect help, since no one else knew where they were, and would probably take too long to find them. And when they did, it would probably be too late.
“Chomper!” he calls outloud “Chomper, where are you?” he calls out. But there was no answer. He was getting increasingly worried to both the young sharptooth’s safety, and both his own.
“Chooompeeeeer!” he called out again, not worrying about being too loud to attract unwanted attention. He was just worried about his young sharptooth friend, and about how they would go back home. But once again, there was no answer, just a dead silence. Littlefoot lowered his head, when he heard a voice “You have quite sssstrong lungssss.”
His eyes shot open, and he looked at all sides, before realizing the voice had came form above him. He raised his head, and saw a head coming down into an amazingly long neck. He instantly realized that it was a snake, or these creatures he had heard about from his grandpa. He looked at it as it looked back at him with it’s yellow eyes.
“Hello there, longneck cub.” Kaa said to the young longneck, who stared at him for a few moments, before answering “H-hi…”
Kaa smiled at him “Being that loud, you might attract some predator. And being ssstuck asss you are, I don’t think it would be a good idea.”
Littlefoot looked at him, still unsure if he could trust the strange creature. But he said “I-I’m worried about my friend.”
“Oh, you don’t have to worry about your sharptooth friend.” Said Kaa, and this caught Littlefoot’s attention “Have you seem Chomper?”
“Young sssharptooth? Blue colored and red eyesss? Ssspeak fluent leaf eater?” Kaa asked, trying his best to look innocent.
“Yeah, that’s him!” Littlefoot said, and Kaa smiled “Yesss, matter of fact I have jussst met him. And you mussst be Littlefoot, hisss longneck friend. He told me about your little sssituation, and I, being the kind sssnake I am, offered my help with that.” He said, offering a kind smile to the longneck “I’m Kaa, by the way.”
“Is nice to meet you Kaa.” Said Littlefoot, losing his fear for knowing that the snake had met Chomper and offered to help them. “Is good you will help, but, where is Chomper?”
Kaa gave him a smile “Oh, I have him in a sssafe place while I help you out.” He said assuring “Don’t worry, he is sssafe, and sssoon you two will be together again.” Kaa said, and Littlefoot seemed to become satisfied with this answer. He would never guess that high above him, in the branch Kaa was supporting himself, was Chomper, coiled, his eyes shining in pools of colors, and a goofy smile splattered into his face.
“So, how you will help me?” asked the longneck “You will pull me out until I slip?”
“Thisss would hurt you, darling.” Kaa said “I have quite another plan.” And as Kaa said that, he lowered the part of his tail, still keeping Chomper up ther, tied with his midsection. In his tail, there were a few strange fruits in there, and Littlefoot found their smell rather strange.
Littlefoot just looked at the strange fruits and back at Kaa, did the snake planned to get him out by giving him food? Littlefoot didn’t understood of how it would work. He was about to try a bite, when Kaa said “No, no, kid. Thessse are not to be eaten.”
Littlefoot recoiled, and said “Then why did you brought them?” he asked, confused. Kaa gave him a smile, and said “You will ssssee ssssoon enough.” And with that said, Kaa started crushing the fruits, making them leak their juices all over his tail.
Littlefoot looked at him as he did that, still not understanding what was the point, but soon Kaa had the juice over his tail, and turned back to Littlefoot “Now, jussst ssstand ssstill.” He said, as he approached his tail into him. Kaa gently slipped his tail into the sides of his body, and gently rubbed across his sides, smearing the slicky juices over the longneck.
Littlefoot jerked a little as he felt the juices being spread on his sides “Oh! Hey! W-w-what are you?- Heh, heh, heh, it tickles!” he said as he giggled, and Kaa continued his work. Littlefoot didn’t noticed the smile that formed in Kaa’s face when he heard the longneck giggling like a silly hatchling.
Kaa took his time to spread the fluids in the longneck sides, and Littlefoot could not guess that the snake was making it tickle on purpose. Soon it was finished, and Kaa removed his tail, letting the slick substance smeared over his sides.
The longneck breathed as the tickle was over. He felt a strange feeling over his sides as the slick thing was on him, leaving a strange feeling. He looked at Kaa, and asked “What is this for?”
Kaa’s answer was “These juices are very slick, as you might have noticed.” Kaa said, slurping at his tail “Since they slip, you will be slippery, and it will be easier to pull you out without hurting you out.”
Littlefoot nodded, getting the plan, and Kaa approached his tail from him, and said “You allow me?”
Littlefoot looked at him for a few seconds, and then nodded, giving him permission. Kaa smiled at him, and then moved his tail, and slowly tied around the longneck’s body, forming a coil around him, and holding it just strong enough to have a strong grip and not to crush the longneck and hurt him. Kaa did not wanted that…
Not now, at least.
Then, Kaa got to work. He started by moving the longneck slightly turning him to the sides, slowly making him slip to the sides while he pulled hi slowly forward, and he was actually making some progress! Littlefoot was quiet as he let Kaa do his work, and it seemed to be working, as he was slowly being pulled out of the hole he was in.
Kaa was making a good progress in taking the longneck out, he was being sure to make it slow and carefully, not the leave any bruises in the poor leaf eater. Kaa pulled him, slowly spinning him to the sides to help him slip out slowly.
Soon it was almost ending, and Kaa decided it was time to put a little more strength in it.
“Get ready, I’m going to pull you out.” Kaa said to the longneck, how nodded, and then, Kaa started pulling at him. Littlefoot groaned a bit, and kaa put a little more strength in it, and then, with a “pop”, he pulled Littlefoot out from his prison, freeing the longneck.
“It worked!” Littlefoot cheered as he was finally free. He kicked his legs while Kaa held him up into the air. Kaa smiled at him, and gently placed the longneck in the ground, letting him rest in there, but he kept his coil next to him, resting at his feet.
Littlefoot looked at him, smiling “Thank you, Kaa!” he said happily “Thank you very much! I would be lost if it wasn’t for you!” Kaa chuckled, with a knowing smile, and said “I just did what anyone would do.”
“Thanks, anyway” said the longneck to his slender savior “Now, we are going to see Chomper? We need to go back home.”
Kaa smiled “You will be with him ssssoon enough.” Kaa said, approaching his head from the longneck, and looking him dead in the eye “But firssst, letsss make you more… relaxxxed.” And as he said that, his eyes started changing colors.
Littlefoot stare in the snake’s eyes as he saw pools of yellow, blue and green forming in the snake’s eyes. His attention was drawn to it just like a moth was drawn to a flame. “H-how do you do that?” he managed to mumble, but Kaa said “Sssssssh. No more talking. Jussst look in the colorssss and relaxsss.”
Littlefoot did this, the colors looked beautiful, and there was a strange attraction that they had upon him. Soon, his eyes were mimicking the colors in Kaa’s eyes, and Littlefoot was slowly falling into their spell, forgetting about the world around him.
But… Littlefoot had to find Chomper, they had to go back home. He could look in the pretty colors later…
The longneck blinked a little, for a moment his eyes returned to normal, he was fighting the effect, but Kaa was not going to let him slip away. Kaa approached his face until his snout and the longneck’s were almost touching.
“C-Chomper.” Littlefoot mumbled “I-I need to find him…”
“You will.” Said Kaa “If you look into my eyesss jussst for a little more bit.” And the colors in his eyes turned stronger and faster. Littlefoot looked in it, his eyes starting mimicking the colors again.
The colors… they were so pretty… They made him feel so happy… Maybe… He could look at them just for a little bit… Kaa said… He said that Chomper was in a safe place… Maybe it was no problem to just watch them… To just look at them for a little bit more… Just to stare at them for a while… Chomper was going to understand… Right… The colors were just so pretty…
Kaa smiled to himself as the lognneck’s eyes were mimicking his eyes, and the longneck was starting to open a smile as he looked. Kaa loved that smile, for it meant that his spell was starting to take effect and subdue his victims to his will.
Littlefoot was really under, he was forgetting about the world around him, and was focusing more and more into the colors in the snake’s eyes, mirroring in his as they speed up. Littlefoot was less and less aware of his surroundings by the second. But he was still aware enough to feel Kaa’s coils forming around his torso.
Littlefoot flinched slightly, his body slowly moving, and his face dropping the smile just slightly as he felt the coils constricting his shoulders.
“Sssssshh” said Kaa, inching more “Jussst ignore it.” The snake said to him in a musical way, almost as if it was a lullaby. “Ignore the coilssss. Focusss jussst in the colorsss. You like them, don’t you?”
Yes… He liked the colors… He wanted to keep looking at them… they were simply so pretty…
Soon the smile started returning into the longneck’s features, as the spell deepened even more. Kaa continued tying his coils around the longneck, slowly moving down into him, form his shoulders to his chest.
These coils… They… Were preventing him from moving… It… was bad… Right? … But… The colors… They were so pretty… If he fought… Kaa would probably take the colors away… He did not wanted that… He loved the colors… He didn’t wanted to lose them… Actually… The coils didn’t felt that bad…
Kaa was smiling from ear to ear as he was continuing to tying his coils around the longneck, now having tied his coils around his belly, pinning his legs against his body, and now, he was moving to his waist.
The longneck only had a smile on his face, and Kaa started moving in circles in front of his face, the colors in his eyes and at Littlefoot’s eyes were moving at top speed.
Colors… So… Pretty… Coils… There was coils? … They were there? … And Chomper… His… Friend? … He was… somewhere… He didn’t… He came there with someone? … And where did he came from? … He felt that he was… Forgetting… It was… Important… Right? … But… If he forgot… Colors… So pretty… Just stare… I need to stare… Nothing else matters…
Kaa started singing “Trussst in me…”
Yes… Trust… He could… Trust in Kaa…
“Jussst in me…” he kept singing, as he finished tying his coils in the longneck’s hind-legs, putting them pinned and immobile. The grip was just the right strength not to cause any harm, but to hold very well.
“Clossse your eyesss.” Kaa said, giving just a very soft squeeze “Ressst in peasssce…” and his song finished.
<i>PING</i>
Littlefoot went completely stiff in Kaa’s coils and his face went blank, save for the stupid smile plastered in his face. His eyes now constantly changing polls of colors just like Kaa’s once were. He had fallen completely into Kaa’s spell.
Kaa chuckled, his smile as wide as the one of a shark, save that he was a snake, of course. He had catch a longneck. A cub, but a longneck still. It was a thing that not happened every day. This would be a day to remember.
“Good thing we met, longneck.” He said to the mesmerized longnbeck, who was still having the goofy smile on his face “Now, asss I promisssed, I’ll take you to your friend.” And with that said, Kaa started moving Littlefoot upwards, in direction of the branches above them.
Soon, they were above the ground, resting in the thick branches, and in there, Kaa could admire his catches. A small sharptooth cub, and a tasty looking longneck cub. There was a few times that Kaa could get more than one prey, and getting two so vulnerable and so tasty-looking, ones. It had been indeed a lucky day for him!
The two dinosaurs just remained there, dumb smiles splattered in their faces, stuck in Kaa’s coils from ankle to neck. None of them moving or trying to escape, or trying to do anything besides remain there with these smiles, pools of changing color in their eyes and their minds completely blank.
They looked so cute with their unaware expressions and their smiles. Seeing this kind of thing warmed Kaa’s heart. Thye looked so helpless and so cute, Kaa could just eat them!
And he was going to…
…But not now.
First, there was one more thing he wanted to do.
Raising both dinosaurs from the rbanch with his coils, Kaa moved both of them, as he maneuvered his head. Soon, his head was right in front of Chomper’s feet. Looking over, Kaa saw the soles of Littlefoot’s hind-paws.
Kaa maneuvered his tail, and then, positioned it’s tip right into the soles and, with a smirk, he started moving it back and forth.
Kaa felt the longneck flinch very slightly in his grip, but did not tried to resist. Kaa continued this ministration, until he heard the longneck start chuckling. Kaa smiles grew.
Turning his head back, and looking to Chomper’s soles, Kaa stuck his forked tongue out and moved it across the sharptooth’s foot. Chomper flinched just like his longneck friend and, like him, soon started chuckling.
Then, Kaa continued with his ministrations into both dinosaurs that now were on his power, making them chuckle as they were tickled by Kaa’s tail and tongue.
It was a thing Kaa just loved, and he did with each of his preys. He loved the smiles and the happy and unaware expression they had when he got them under his power. And he loved even more when he was able to make them laugh before sending them to their final resting place inside his belly.
Kaa not only continued his tickling, as he increased it, making their chuckling grow into snickers. Kaa liked it, but he was not satisfied yet.
“Come on.” He said as he increased his tickling “Don’t hold back, let it all out.”
Kaa knew the dinosaurs could not hear him, but they seemed to have, because they snickers soon turned into a weak, shy laugh. This was what Kaa needed to hear.
“Yesssss, that’sssss it. Laugh for me.” He said as he moved his tail tip into the longneck’s soles and flicked his tongue over the sharptooth’s.
Their laughs were soon increasing strength. They were deep into the trancres, and unable to perceive what was going on around them. But they were still sensitive enough to respond to this kind of stimulation.
Their laughs were increasing more as Kaa increased his tickling. Both kids soon were giggling away, and this giggling turned into a louyder laughter. That became louder, and louder. Soon, they were laughing very hard as Kaa tickled them.
Kaa was having a huge smile, this was his second favorite part of catching his preys. It was totally and completely unnecessary, and he totally loved it.
Ka continued his tickling, even stronger than before, and the dinosaurs, thought din’t squirmed in his grasp or trying to avoid by any way, where laughing louder and harder. Soon their laugh was so hard that it echoed by the forest they were in. They laughed so hard that their bellies would be hurting if they were not so entranced.
Kaa was still with his tickling, just loving the sound of their laughter, it was a thing that simply warmed his cold-blooded heart. Their laughter was so loud that it could even be heard outside the forest, echoing in the nearby places for anyone nearby to hear it. Chomper and Littlefoot were laughing so much they there were tears coming out of their eyes.
Kaa felt like he could do that forever, but he had other priorities right now. And now, it was time for the thing that was most definitely his favorite part I catching a prey. The REASON why he had to catch his prey.
It was time to eat.
Reluctantly stopping his tickling, what made the two dinosaurs finally stop laughing, and take deep breaths, Kaa looked to the soles in front of him, and licked his chops “Time to eat.” The snake said to himself, as he opened his mouth. Two pops filled his ears as he unhinged his jaws, and took those two scaly paws into his maw.
Chomper just kept motionless as he felt Kaa’s warm and wet mouth envelop his feet. But he did not cared, he was too far away to care. He was too happy to worry, and he didn’t even looked at it. He just remained there, immobile and smiling like a good little prey for Kaa.
He moaned lightly in delight as he licked over that meaty soles, this time not tickling, but tasting it. The sharptooth had a good taste, and Kaa was going to make sure to enjoy this meal.
Kaa slowly moved up, sucking, slurping and gulping in the soles in his mouth, and slowly going up for the muscled and meaty legs. As Kaa went up, he removes coil after coil from his way so he could have an uninterrupted dinner, and he was already on the waist.
Kaa knew this meal was probably not going to be a very long one, since that sharptooth was small. But he was going to make it last for as long as possible, since he loved the taste. Besides, he was still having a longneck to swallow.
Kaa slowly worked his way up. From the waist to the belly, and from the belly to the chest, pinning the arms. And then, he passed form the chest to the shoulders. Kaa knew his meal was soon getting to an end.
Opening his mouth wide, Kaa slowly worked his way up form the shoulders to the neck, and soon he reached the head. His movement made Chomper raise his chin and look upwards as Kaa worked over his head and maw, the goofy grin not leaving his features for a single second. And he had a perfect view to Littlefoot, coiled and with the same smile on his face that he did. It was the last thing that was seem from him before Kaa closed his mouth over the poor sharptooth and, with a gulp, sent him down his gullets, in direction of his stomach.
Kaa sighed satisfied, and licked his chops, catching the last of the taste of that sharptooth from his mouth as the bulge that was Chomper travelled across his body.
“That wassss a Delissscious meal.” Kaa said to himself, and soon, he turned to the longneck that was still being in his coils “Now, for the main coursssse.”
Kaa was very anxious for that leaf eater. He was used to the taste of sharptooth, leaf eaters were a little more difficult of getting. Kaa himself had longneck only two times in his long life. Soon, it would be three to this count.
Moving his head, until he was face to face with the longneck as he raised it form the branch. Kaa smiled to him, and said “Nice to met you both.” Littlefoot only looked into his face with that smile and colorful eyes “Now, time to join your ssssharptooth friend. Good bye, longneck.” And Kaa opened his mouth wide, unhinging his maw again, as he took Littlefoot’s head in his mouth. And the longneck only smiled as Kaa started to devour him.
Kaa moaned loudly at the taste of the longneck, as he licked and slurped into the dinosaur’s face, who could only keep the smile on his face and not do anything to help, as he barely realized he was being eat out alive.
Kaa could enjoy that taste forever, but he was hungry, and needed to eat, so he took the firsdt gulp, sending the longneck’s head into his waiting gullet.
Kaa took his time to eat the longneck, taking small gulps to swallow the longneck very slowly and send him into his gullets. After a while, Kaa had traveled over the elongated neck of the dinosaur, and was now about to take his shoulder blades, which Kaa took by spreading his jaws wider, and swallowing the longneck’s shoulders.
Littlefoot was barely aware he was being swallowed alive by a snake. His mind was devoid of anything besides the beautiful and pleasantly colors that reflected constantly in his eyes. That goofy grin splattered into his maw as Kaa slowly worked his way down, starting to take his chest as he pinned his legs to the side of his body as he swallowed.
Kaa moaned all the while as he took the longneck, gulping around him and forking his tongue all over the dinosaur, taking his delightful taste into his mouth, and loving every second. Kaa soon would take more gulps, and now, he was taking the whole chest, and soon the belly.
When Kaa started licking at the belly, he ended up tickling it. As a result, the longneck in his gullet started giggling, responding to the stimulation in that area. Kaa was able to gave a smile, but this was not time to tickle anymore. Now it was about him, time to eat and sate his hunger.
Kaa took his gulps, removing his coils as he swallowed more and more of Littlefoot, seinding the longneck down his waiting gullets. Kaa finally took the longneck’s rump, swallowing around it and now letting only the hind-legs and tail to go.
Kaa released the rest of his coils, and used his tail to hold the longneck’s legs and hold them up as he tilted his head back, keeping them above as Kaa kept swallowing, using gravity to help him send his food down the hatch.
Kaa took small gulps to help send the longneck down, lowering the legs with his tail as he did so, slowly taking the longneck in the place he now belonged: into his gullets. Kaa took his gulps, taking the thighs, the ankles, the tail going down in the process, until only the bare paws of the poor longneck were left out.
Kaa gave out a mental whine as his meal was about to end. Well, it was good while it lasted. Then, streatching his head forward and taking another gulp, Kaa too the paws into his mouth, and closed his mouth, realigning his jaw and giving the final gulp that sent the longneck down, sealing his fate along with his friend’s as Kaa’s food.
Kaa let out a long, satisfied sigh, and licked his chops, taking the last of the longneck’s delicious taste of his mouth. Kaa looked very satiefied, and he looked back, seeing the bulge that was the longneck being moved by his peristalsis to his belly, along with his small sharptooth friend.
“What a great meal.” Kaa said to himself, as the bulges moved across his slender body “What luck I had to find two helpless children wandering into my forest.” He said, and then, he felt a pressure coming from his insides, and he did not had time to hold back a burp as it came out, but he had the good grace of looking embarrassed, thought there was no one around to hear.
The bulges, that were the two dinosarus, soon stopped in the mid-section of Kaa’s body, in the place that was the stomach. They both still blissfully unaware of where they were or just what was going on. They didn’t knew even that the other was there, nor were they aware of themselves. The only thing they were truly aware and that they truly cared, were the blissful colors filling their eyes and minds. Nothing else mattered.
“Now, nothing left to do unlesssssss Ressst and Digessst.” Kaa said, as he tied himself to the branch, resting his head in it and supporting his body, while his middle, with the two bulges of the dinosaurs he just ate, separated only inches form each other, hang limply beneath. Kaa yawned, and soon, he closed his eyes, to let his body start. Soon, the hanging of his body made both dinosaurs inside of him also feel sleepier, and soon, they both went to a dreamless slumber, never to wake up again in this life.
<i>Two weeks later</i>
Since Chomper and Littlefoot vanished, everyone was desperate after them.
Several searching parties were made, inside and out of the Great Valley, searching for a sign, any sign of them. Ruby was desperate to find Chomper, and Littlefoot’s grandparents were desperate to find their grandson.
Everyone was helping to search for them. None of them had ever went away for that long, and no one seemed to have seem them or know where they had went. Their friends were so worried! They were still searching.
As days had passed, the parties slowly died down. Dinosaurs gave up the search as they soon realized that the young ones were probably never going to come back. Topps even said “Maybe the sharptooth kid had eaten the longneck and ran away. Thinking well, it was probably just a matter of time.”
Soon most dinosaurs have gave up the search, save for the five dinosaur that were their friends, and for the longneck’s grandparents. They were still searching everyplace for them, waiting for them at night to return, and even venturing in the Mysterious Beyond and into the Valley’s confines to search for any sign of them.
Other dinosaurs tried to talk them into giving up and accepting thet they probably were gone for good. But they refused to listen, they refused to accept, they were still having hopes, and they could not let it die down. After a while, the other dinosaurs let them be, knowing that eventually the truth was going to sink in, and they were finally going to accept the tragic truth.
<i>In Kaa’s forest</i>
Kaa was sprawled across a branche, with an opening in the leaves just above him. Kaa was happy and smiling as he took bath into the strong rays of the bright circle shining just above him.
In his middle, basking in the sunlight with the rest of him, it was one single, shapeless, half-digested and anonymous bulge. It was all that was left of the two dinosaurs Kaa had met weeks before.
Kaa was still remembering their cute faces when he entranced them, and their pleasurable laughter when they were tickled, and their wonderful taste and the feeling sensation when he swallowed both.
Kaa sighed happily in the day light bath as he remembered the encounter with these two kids. It wsa rare that someone ventured in there. Actually, Kaa knew they probably had ran away from their parents or had come to play while the parents were distracted. Since no parents in their right minds would allow their children to wander into the “Forest of the Last Laugh”
<i>Two weeks earlier, outside the forest</i>
A young fast biter cub was looking into the forest in front of him, he was sure he had heard someone laughing in there. What was so funny? He was tempted to go exploring. But as soon as he gave the first step, a leg got on his way.
He looked up to his mother, who looked down at him with a serious expression, and said <i>“You better not be thinking about going THERE.”</i>
<i>“I just want to see who is laughing.”</i> Said the innocent hatchling, and his mother sighed, and said <i>“No one should go to the Forest of the Last Laugh.”</i>
The hatchling looked at his mother <i>“This is the name? It’s funny!”</i> he said, and his mother soon said <i>“I can assure you, there is nothing funny about that forest.”</i>
<i>“But they were laughing!”</i> He said <i>“You laugh when something is funny right?”</i>
<i>“Do you know why it is called Forest of the LAST Laugh?”</i> The mother asked to her hatchling, who stopped for a moment and thought, before saying <i>“Because is the place for who laughs last?”</i>
<i>“Not exactly.”</i> Said another sharptooth, the hatchling’s older brother <i>“Is called like that because after that there is no more laughing for you.”</i> He said, like who wants to scare the other. The mother sighed.
<i>“Yes. Your brother is quite right.”</i> She said <i>“No one knows exactly what happens in that forest. Some say that there is some kind of monster in there. Everyone who goes in there, laughs like there is no tomorrow, and it’s the last time anyone hears about them.”</i>
The hatchling absorbed this information, as he looked at the forest, now his desire to be in there vanished <i>“B-but what kind of m-monster?”</i> he asked <i>“A-and why do the laugh?”</i>
<i>“No one knows.”</i> Said his brother like who tells a horror story <i>“For everyone that goes in that forest, never comes out again!”</i>
The hatchling yelped, and ran to his mother, hugging her leg for safety while his brother laughed.
<i>“Darkclaw! Stop scaring your brother! We need to go now. The farther we are from the forest, the better.”</i> The mother said, and with that, the family walked away, the hatchling very close to her and her other son still finding the whole thing funny.
She gave one last look in the forest as they walked. She knew that Darkclaw was probably right. No one ever got out of that forest. And for whoever was laughing in there, it was probably the last sound they made in their lives…
