<i>One whole night circle cycle (one month) </i>
That was the time that had passed since Littlefoot and Chomper disappeared. The time since they went together to play and explore, and never came back again.
Since that time, they were never seem again. Everybody searched for them endlessly, searching the whole valley after them or even a clue of where they could have gone. And absolutely nothing was found.
Most dinosaurs gave up in two weeks, but some kept searching for clues. The rest gave up after the third week, almost all of them convinced that they were never going to return. But their friends and family were still making the search, their hope still refusing to die.
But slowly, at the end of the forth week, they too slowly stopped the search. They all seemed to slowly accept that both young dinosaurs were never going to return. Grandma and Grandpa longneck had distanced from the rest of the herds, lonely mourning the loss of their only grandchild. Ruby was not very better, Chomper was her responsibility, and now, he had been lost, she should have never let him alone, and now, the only thing left to do was cry for him. And the rest of their friends, were much sad for their friends disappearing, Petrie, Spike, FDucky and Cera were still having problems accepting that they could be gone for good.
Specially Cera.
The threehorn was one of the ones that seemed to be more affected by the disappearing of her two friends. She was still refusing to believe they were gone for good, and her father was not helping. He kept saying that Chomper had probably ate Littlefoot and ran away, and this was another thing Cera refused to believe, since she knew Chomper well, and knew he was too kind to do something like that.
So they were taking too long to come back, so what? There were also another times that they had stayed outside for a long time, and they always came back home safe and sound. There was no reason why they should not come back at any moment!
But, being Cera who she was, she was hardly willing to wait for them. So she took a decision, she was going to search them on her own.
“But you might get lost, Cera!” said Ducky to her friend, after hearing what she wanted to do. Cera only turned to her and said “If they are taking so long them I’ll search for them and bring them back! And when they are here, I’m going to teach them to not vanish like that again!”
Ducky knew by her tone that she was not going to change her mind, and that, if she really found Littlefoot and Chomper, they were going to have a hard time with her. Ducky could only grow worried by her threehorn friend. “Ow, Cera.”
“Don’t start this with me, Ducky.” Said Cera “I’m going and that’s final! You may stay out of my way or come with me if you want, but don’t try and stop!” and with that Cera started walking off. Ducky looked at her as she was leaving, and knew that Cera alone was probably going to get in problem if she went off all alone.
“Oww, I don’t like it, no, no, no.” Ducky said, as she started following the threehorn in her quest.
Cera and Ducky had then went in their own quest, though they had already searched in a lot of places, they were going to to search again, a place that no one had seemed to have searched deep enough yet: the secret caves.
Ruby wasn’t there when they had went in. She was probably somewhere else. She said that being in the caves made her remember too much of Chomper, so she didn’t stayed in there as much as she used to.
Cera and Ducky looked around the tunnels and caves that formed the system of the Secret Caves. They found not even a single clue, and it was starting to get even more frustrating to both of them.
“Cera, I don’t think we are going to save them.” Said Ducky, but the threehorn ignored her. Ducky looked down, sad. It was painful to her having lost two of her dearest friends, and she knew it was painful to Cera too, thought the hardcore and stubborn threehorn was probably never going to admit it.
“Cera, I miss them too, I do, I do.” Ducky said, in the most gentle way she could with her friend “I wish I could find them too… But… Maybe is time to accept that… maybe… them are not going to-”
“What is this cave?” asked Cera suddenly, making Ducky look at her, and them at the cave she was looking at. Yeah, it seemed that the cave in there was new, maybe opened recently by some breaking of the system.
“Bet how much that they went in there to explore?” said Cera to Ducky, who did not answered. Yeah, actually, it made a lot of sense, exploring a new cave to see what was in the other end of it, actually it seemed a lot like what Chomper and Littlefoot would do.
“Maybe… But, why didn’t they came back?” asked Ducky, and Cera said “I don’t know, but they are going to have to explain this to me.” She said as she stepped forward, entering the cave. Ducky looked as she went forward, and Cera soon looked behind, and said “Are you coming, yes or no?”
Ducky looked at her friend. The cave seemed scary, and they didn’t knew where this could lead, nor what could be waiting in the other side. Going in there without telling anyone seemed a bad idea, but letting Cera go all alone seemed worse. “Ohh, I hope we don’t regret it, no, no, no.” was all Ducky said, before walking forward, keeping up with Cera as the threehorn walked.
They passed by many ways and made many curves over the whole tunnel that was this new cave. They went left, right, up and down, and sometimes it seemed that they made complete circles in it. And the path seemed to be long and not to lead anywhere.
“Just how long is this?” cried out Cera in annoyance for taking so long to reach… wherever was the end of the cave. And Ducky said “Cera.” Her tone was the most gentle she could “Maybe we should go back.”
“Only when we found Littlefoot and Chomper and teach them a lesson.” She said stemrly, letting it clear that it was not open to discussion. Ducky looked down, and then, she started saying “Cera… I miss them too. But they had vanished for so long.” She looked at the threehorn, who was just staring straight forward as she walked “M-maybe this time they are not going to come back.” She said, sadness in her own face “Maybe now we will not find them. Maybe we should go ba-”
“I see a light!” said Cera, cutting Ducky off, and running forward, and leaving Ducky behind, until she also noticed the light coming forward, and in the direction which Cera was going to, and she raced forward “Cera! Wait for me!” and so, they both ran in direction of the end of the cave, both didn’t knew what they were going to meet in the end.
<i>In the Forest of the Last Laugh</i>
In the branches above the ground, Kaa had just woke up form his afternoon nap. The long brown colored snake raised his head and blinked his yellow eyes and yawned his big mouth wide.
Kaa flicked his tongue over his mouth, to get rid of the taste that stayed during his sleep. He looked over himself, and saw his long and perfectly slender body, now devoid of any kind of bulge. The two dinosaurs he ate four weeks ago now nothing more than just a memory into Kaa’s mind.
Kaa smirked when he remembered these two innocent dinosaurs, and of their delightful taste and cute smiles and laughs. Kaa was almost missing them, they had been quite a catch for him. Kaa was still thinking how a sharptooth had not only learned the leaf eater language, but also had become friends with a longneck. He could have been adopted and raised as one of them. Maybe? Kaa wish he had asked the young sharptooth before eating him.
Well, what was done was done, the two were good and were going to be keep in his memory, but it was all they were now, a memory. They had been swallowed and completely digested as food for his body. But Kaa was going to keep them as a dear memory for him, one to be kept dearly, like the memory of a son. This was like Kaa.
Well, Kaa didn’t had time to keep thinking about past meals, he needed to worry about finding a new prey, a new meal for his body and for him to have food and not starve. Of course, there always was an uncaring soul that ventured into his forest, but he could not depend on it each time he was hungry. Normally, he had to use some trick to attract a nearby creature into there. Sometimes he imitated the sound of a prey, Kaa was good in mimicking sounds and even voices, and other times, he actually ventured outside the forest and went to nearby creatures, who he hypnotized and brought to his forest, to have fun and eat in peace.
Kaa was just thinking on how to get his next meal, when he heard some short of commotion coming from the ground below. Kaa looked down, and saw a creature squeezing itself out form a hole. It was the same hole he had found that longneck stuck weeks ago.
“What issss thissss?” Kaa asked to himself, staying silently to take a good look at the creature who just came out of the hole, and Kaa could have a glimpse of a young threehorn girl, yellow colored, and for now with just one hole, since she was young and her two other horns hadn’t grew yet.
The threehorn grunted and looked around, seeing the place she was in, and as she did, Kaa could get glimpse of another, smaller creature coming out of that same hole. It was a tiny young swimmer, who looked at the threehorn, and said with a young voice “What is this place?”
“I don’t know.” Said the threehorn “But seems like the kind of place that Littlefoot and Chomper would come and lost track of time.”
Kaa got interested by that. So, these two knew the longneck and the sharptooth? They were friends?
“This place is beautiful, but you think Littlefoot and Chomper would spent so much time in here that they would forget to come back?”
“Maybe, I don’t know. We just will find them and take them back home!” was the threehorns blunt answer.
So they really were friends, how interesting. These two had came to there to try and find their missing friends. And now, they could themselves end up as food for Kaa. It was like even after they demise, the longneck and sharptooth were still providing food to Kaa. Thinking like that warmed his heart.
“Littlefoot!” called out the threehorn “Chomper! Were are you rockheads? We came to take you home!” she cried out, what echoed into the forest around her. Kaa looked down, making sure to remain out of sight, but he didn’t needed much of an effort, after all, everyone rarely looked up.
The threehorn grunted “These two.” She said, and turned to her swimmer companion “Ducky, we search in different directions. I’ll search that way and you search in this one.”
The swimmer looked at her, and around “S-separated? B-but Cera, I don’t think it would be a good idea, no, no, no.”
“Come on, the sooner we find them, the sooner we can go back home.” And with that said, the threehorn went to one direction, leaving the swimmer behind, who slowly said “O-okay…” and she also turned her own direction, looking around. Both started calling their friends names, none of them even noticing the pair of yellow eyes above, watching their every move.
Kaa had a wide smile on his scaly lips as he watched the two dinosaurs underneath go separated ways. It seemed that Kaa was having very much luck! Now his food was easier to catch since they were far from each other, and would soon be unable to ask help to each other.
The swimmer was indeed a bit small, and would surely not fill him like a bigger prey, but that threehorn surely made it up with her size. It was a series of rare opportunities Kaa was having, first longneck and now threehorn. Indeed, it was a lot of luck for Kaa.
Looking down at the dinosaurs got separate directions, crying out for their friend’s names. Kaa evaluated them quickly. He instantly knew that the threehorn was going to be a tough one, not only because she was bigger, but also because she seemed to be strong-minded and stubborn. The ones like that normally were the hardest to get under control.
So, Kaa decided he would start with the swimmer, since her mind seemed to be simpler and she seemed to be more carefree, like Chomper was. These ones normally feel for the spell more easily.
So, looking down, Kaa watched the dinosaurs go their way and, when they were far enough form each other, Kaa slithered in the branches above the swimmer, starting to stalk the little prey of his.
<i>***</i>
“Litllefoot!” Ducky cried out loud in the forest, her voice bouncing in the trees and spreading in the forest around her “Chomper? Are you in there?” she called again, and there wans’t a single answer.
Ducky looked around, and sighed. She knew it was probably useless, and she only didn’t told this to Cera because it would also be useless. But… maybe in there, they could at least knew what happened to their friends.
Maybe the worse part of their disappearance, for some of them, was not knowing what had happened. Not knowing why they had never came back, nor where they could have been last. So, even if they never saw their friends again, maybe in there they could knew what had happened to them.
And, deep inside, even if Ducky herself wasn’t aware of that, maybe they could find them alright.
Ducky was still having that hope, deep inside of her, and she was still refusing to let it go, as much as Cera. It was possible that they could have got hurt or lost, and were trying to find the way back since then. This hope was very weak, and maybe inexistent, but it was still being in there. And it moved Ducky without her really knowing it, as a voice inside of her chest that told her to keep calling her friends names, to keep searching in that dark and scary forest for any sigh of them. All of that, in the distant and dreaming hope that she would be able to see them again. To hear their voices, the see their smiles, to take them back home and to all of them paly together once again.
“Littlefoot! Chomper!” she cried out, with all the strength of her lungs “Are you in theeeere?”
Her voice bounced in the trees, and penetrated far in the forest around her in all directions. There was a moment of silence, and then a few, and then almost a minute of silence. Nothing, not an answer, not the sound of Cera’s voice calling them too, for they were now far from each other, not even the sound of a small crawler, just that silence that told her that this whole search was useless.
Ducky’s features saddened, and her head hung down, as she said “Littlefoot… Chomper… please… let’s go home…” it was barely louder than a whisper, and yet, there was an answer. “Hello, little one.”
Ducky’s held tilted upward “What?” she looked around frantically, searching for the source of the voice, and she meet it a few feet away form her, at what seemed to be a figure concealed with shadows. But, the only part that was possible to make out was the head in the end of an long neck.
“Littlefoot?” Ducky said, suddenly with hope in her heart, but this hope would soon vanish as the creature came closer, into the light. This figure was not Littlefoot, it’1s face was different, it was brown colored and had yellow colored eyes, and it’s neck was coming downwards from the branches above, much longer than Littlefoot’s neck.
Ducky gasped, and backed away in fear, and the creature sudden talked to her “No, no.” it said with a masculine voice “Don’t be ssscared, little one. I mean no harm.”
Kaa had, in his long years of life, got very good in making other’s believe in what he said. But Kaa didn’t thought of himself as a liar, he was telling the truth, in a certain way, he did not wanted to harm the little swimmer, and he would hate too. If he did everything right, no kind of pain or harm was going to befall her on her threehorn friend till the very end of it.
His tone, and the fake worriedness in his eyes made Ducky lose part of her fear, but she was still going to be careful around him, as if she was to any other stranger dinosaur. She slowly approached, and said “W-who are you… sir?”
Kaa could have chuckled, this one surely was polite, and Kaa was going to play that game. “My name isss Kaa.” He said “I was minding my own busssinesssss when suddenly I hear someone screaming down here. Was it you, little one?”
“Oh, sorry sir.” Ducky said, suddenly embarrassed “I didn’t mean to disturb you, no, no, no.” and she looked down “I was just… looking for a few friends of mine…”
It was clear her sadness, but Kaa pretended he had just noticed it “Friendsss?” he asked, trying to sound as innocent as possible for his prey “Wait! You were calling for Littlefoot and Chomper, right? Are they your friendssss?”
Ducky looked to the snake with wides eyes when she heard that, a new hope kindling in her heart “Have you seen them?”
Kaa tried his best to look innocent to the young dinoraus as he said “Littlefoot isss a young longneck, right? Light-brown, and a young and strong mind? And Chomper is a blue sharptooth with red eyes? Speak leaf eater fluently and is very cheerful?”
“Yes!” said Ducky “These are they, yep, yep, yep!” she had said to the snake, who smiled at the young one’s cheerfulness, and she continued “Have you really seen them?”
“Oh, in matter of fact, I have.” Said Kaa to the naïve young swimmer “They passed by my forest quite a while ago.”
“And, would you know where are them?” asked Ducky, and Kaa gave a knowing smile, and he said to her “Well, I have sssseen where they have went.” He said, as if casually to the young swimmer “Would you like me to take you to that plasssce?”
“Yes!” said Ducky, the hope of seeing her two friends again and taking them safe back home now stronger than it had ever been. She was more than ready to meet them and give the good news to Cera also, thought she knew that the threehorn was probably going to punish them for vanishing for so long, as well as their guardians. “I’d love to see where my friends are! Yep, yep, yep! Please, take me there, sir!”
That was all Kaa needed and wanted, a prey that was perfectly willing. Well… almost… But Kaa already had what he needed, and he said “Okay, I’ll take you there.” And he looked at Ducky straight in the eye “But firsssst, look into my eyessss.”
Ducky was a little confused by this request, but, since she was going to see her friends again, she thought it was not a problem. “O-okay sir… If you are saying them…” but she stopped talking, as soon as she focused in Kaa’s eyes, and saw that they seemed now to be changing colors, into pools of yellow, green and blue, and right in front of her eyes.
Ducky’s eyes grew wide when she saw that, since she had never seen a creature that could do something like that. Ducky found himself instantly attracted to the changing colors in Kaa’s eyes “Wow… h-how do you do it?”
“Ssssssssh.” Kaa said to her, inching closer to her as his eyes had colors growing stronger and more vivid into his eyes, as he looked into Ducky’s ones “Don’t ssspeak now, little one.” He said like a mother soothing a hatchling “Jusssst look in the colorssss, and ssssssoon I’ll sssshow you were your friendssss went.”
Yes, Ducky wanted to find her friends again, to meet them, to hug both of them again and laugh together and take them back home. If she had to stare into the colors for a few moments, it was okay to do so. Besides, the colors actually were very pretty, they were so beautiful… Ducky would never guess that the colors I Kaa’s eyes were starting to m imic in her own eyes.
Kaa smirked as he saw the colors soon coming into the swimmer’s eyes, indicating his spell was taking effect, and it was rather easy, as it had been with Chomper, the friendly sharpooth. Maybe it was because of their innocent minds and carefree natures, it made the whole thing a lot simpler for him, and that was Kaa loved these free minds that lost themselves so easily.
“That’ssss right.” He cooed that young swimmer as his tail went down, reaching for her “Look in the colorsss and ssssoon I’ll ssshow where your friendssss went.” He said as he smiles “Assss ssssoon assss we alsssso take care of that threehorn friend of yourssss.”
“C-Cera?” Ducky asked, absently-minded as she kept staring at the colors. They needed to find Cera too? But she would probably run against Chomper and Littlefoot in the moment she saw them, for disappearing like that. But… looking at the colors again… it made sense to search for Cera… After all, she would be happy to see them again… right? She would not hurt… them… wait… who were them?
Kaa danced in front of the swimmer, as her features were going completely blank as she fell deeper and deeper into his trance.
She had forgot… she came there with… someone… they were searching for… longneck?... Sharptooth?... they were… they knew them?... She knew the one that came there with her? What were their names again?… it was hard to think… the colors… they were so pretty… She had to look in them.
Ducky was staring into Kaa’s eyes as a smile started coating her features. Kaa smiled at that, and he tied the tip of his tail around the young swimmer. A single coil was more than enough to cover her body from shoulder to legs, and Ducky had barely noticed that something was covering her.
The colors… so pretty… just look a them… forget everything else… the colors are pretty… yep… yep… yep… just stare at them… felt so good… it did… it did… worries and troubles far away… nothing of worry… no… no… no…
Ka started singing as his new captive as he raised her form the ground easily “Trussssst in me.” He sang his hypnotic song to her “Jussst in me.” Her smile was growing wider and wider by the second “Clossssse your eyesssss.” He gave a very soft squeeze, making the swimmer gasps a little, but her smile was still growing “Ressssst in peasssce.”
<i>PING</i>
Ducky went stiff in the single coil that enveloped her, her body stiff and her expression blank, save for a goofy smile that now coated her muzzle. Her eyes completely widened as their swirled in pools of colors just like Kaa’s eyes. She had fallen completely into his spell.
Kaa chuckled to himself as he had the little thing in his coil. It w as a little small, and maybe he could swallow her in just one bite. But it was better than nothing, and then he heard “Littlefoot! Chomper! Where are you two, you big eggs!”
Kaa looked over, remembering the threehorn that had come with the swimmer. She was bigger, and bulkier, and she surely compensated. In compensation, she would surely be harder to entrance, but Kaa already had worse. He looked at the smiling swimmer in his coil, and said “Now, letssss take care of your friend now, sssshall we?” and he started raising himself and his prey to the branches above.
<i>Back to Cera</i>
“Just where are them?” asked Cera to herself, before se screamed again “Chomper! Littlefoot! You two better appear right now or I’ll make you two regret it!” and her voice bounced all over the trees and the forest, and came back to her. Once again, there was not an answer.
“Dammit!” she said to herself, looking at all sides, and turning around, and crying out “Ducky, any luck?”
She waited for a few moments, and a few more. There was no answer.
“Ducky?” Cera called out again, and there was no answer “Ducky!” she cried out, now wanting to her an answer from her young swimmer friend.
“Ducky! Are you listening?” Cera cried out as she ran, and looked to all sides, searching for the young swimmer “Ducky! Answer me now!”
But there was no answer, just that unnerving silence that coated the whole forest, and it left Cera even more worried.
“Ducky! You better not have disappeared too! Because if you did I’ll teach you alesson along with these two!” Cera cried out, feeling despair grow in her heart as she ciuld get no answer or find no clue of either the boys and of her young swimmer friend.
“DUCKY!” she cried out, her voice echoing through the forest all along, and coming back at her. But, once again, there was no answer form anyone. Her voice was the only sound to be heard in there.
Despair was growing in her heart. She could not lose Ducky. Not her too. She could not afford losing another of her friends. Though she was not showing, she was very attached to them, Littlefoot as much as Chomper. She could not believe her father’s words of Chomper have eaten Littlefoot and ran away. She knew him, and he would never do something like that. She knew him better than that.
She was very worried when they disappeared, and she was willing to do anything to find them. She was the last one to keep searching after everyone else, including Ruby and Littlefoot’s grandparents, have gave up and accepted they were gone for good.
But Cera would never give up of them. They were both her friends, and she was going to search for them in the Mysterious Beyond before giving up. They were just too important for her, and she needed to find them, to see them again, to take them back home.
And now, not only she had not found them, as Ducky was now vanishing too. She was losing another of her friends and she could do nothing about it. Despair and grief were making their home in her being as the worries only grew into her.
“No…” Cera whispered to herself as she looked down “Not her too… not Ducky too…” she hung her head down, her eyes closed and she was fighting back tears “I’m don’t want to lose my friends…” she said to herself, and she didn’t expected someone, an unknown boice to say “Oh my, what issss thissss?”
Cera bolted her head upo, and looked to the sides, but she found no the source of the voice, and she said “Who is there?” and the voice came again “Up here.”
Cera stopped in he tracks, and looked up, and saw a head I the end of a VERY long neck coming down at her, and stopping near her, just a few feet away. Cera instantly knew it was some kind of snake. And the snake looked at her with what seemed to be pity, and said “Now, why are you sssad, young one? What issss the problem?”
Cera stared at the creature in front of her. She knew better to not show fear to this stranger, as well as don’t trust him. She quickly recovered her strong pose, and said “I-is not of your business!”
Kaa frowned at this, his suspicious about that threehorn girl were right. She was most likely going to be a difficult one to him. Kaa knew that threehorns were like that. Kaa made his best to look insulted, and said “My, my, what a geniussss, I wasss jussst trying to help.” He hoped that this was going to make the threehorn feel guilty and be a bit more willing with him.
Cera looked at him, and after a minute of silence, she said “Just who are you?”
Kaa turned to her, and said “Name issss Kaa. Kaa the sssnake.” He looked to the threehorn as he spoke, “And who would you be? Jussst asssking.”
The threehorn girl humphed “Cera.” She said bluntly, and Kaa frowned again. She was really going to be a difficult one. But Kaa was not willing to give up his meal, since he never did before.
“Sssso, Cera.” He said, trying to sound polite and be sympathetic for the threehorn to drop her guard and trust him “Why are you so ssssad?”
“I’m not sad!” said Cera immediately, in defensive “I’m just… thinking! Yeah, I’m just deep thinking!” Kaa gave a knowing smile, yeah, he had also heard about the famous pride of the threehorns, always avoiding to look weak in any aspect, and Cera said “Why do you care, anyway?”
Kaa looked at her with his best fake smile “Oh, I’m jussst worried at you.” He said, approaching her a little “I jussst don’t like ssseeing children sad at all, even more when they are all alone in a place like that foressst. It may be dangerous.” He approached her even more, just waiting for an opening to start working “Why are you in here, by the way?”
Cera looked at the snake, still mistrusting him “I’m searching for someone.” She said, it was only what the snake needed to known. “And as not enough to search for that both, now I even have to search for someone who was with me just minutes ago! When I find them I’ll teach them all a lesson.” She said as she walked past Kaa, too focused on the task in mind.
Kaa knew he could not let the threehorn escape him. And so, he tried to play innocent as he said “Sssearching for sssomeone… Oh! You would not be sssearching for certain longneck and sssharptooth that passed in here weekssss ago, would you?”
Cera stopped in her tracks and turned around to look in at Kaa “What!? They passed here?” she said as she ran to him, and Kaa made his best not to grin as it was working, and said “Longneck with a sharptooth friend, blue with red eyes and speaking leaf eater?”
“Yes! These are them! I knew they had not simply vanished!” Cera said to herse,f and turned to Kaa “Do you know where they went?”
Kaa gave her a smile, and said “Oh, yesssss. Indeed, I know exactly where they have went.”
“So tell me!” Cera said “I need to find them and teach them alesson before taking them back home!” and suddenly Cera remembered “Had you also seem a green swimmer?”
“With the longneck and ssshaptooth?” Kaa asked, trying to play dumb for her, and it seemed to work as the threehorn was annoyed by him, and said “No, she came with me! She is the one I’ve just lost!”
“Oh! Of courssse! Ssssilly me.” Kaa said “You know, actually I have just seem a young swimmer walking in the woodssss.” He spoke in a gentle tone “Actually, I know exactly where she is now.” Kaa finished with a smile, in the trees above them, was Ducky, coiled in the tip of Kaa’s tail while the rest of him was hugged to a branch. Her eyes swirling pools of color and that familiar smile in her face.
“Great! I need to teach her a lesson too for leaving me alone!” Cera said, seeming to be ignoring that the idea of splitting up was her’s “Take me where she is!” the threehorn demanded.
Kaa gave her a smile, and said “I’ll will do that.” A smirk on his face “And them , I’ll sssshow you and your friend jussst where your friendssss gone.” He approached her face “But firssst…”
“What? What is first?” asked Cera annoyed, and Kaa looked her straight in her eyes, and his eyes started changing colors into pools of yellow, green and blue.
“What the?..” Cera said as she looked into the colors, raising an eyebrow “What are you doing?” she asked, looking to the eyes as they changed, and Kaa aprosached his face, and said “Jussst look into my eyesss.” His voice seemed to have become more soft as he spoke it “Look at them jussst for a bit.”
“I don’t have time.” Said Cera in annoyance “You must take me to my friends now!” she demanded to Kaa, who flinched slightly. His assumptions were right, this threehorn was going to be a hard one to have under.
“I will.” Kaa said firmly “But only if you look in my eyesss just for a few momentsss.” As he finished, the colors seemed to become faster and more vivid.
Cera groaned to herself, she really didn’t had time for this kind of games. She had to find Ducky and them find her two runaway friends. But, that snake seemed to be the only one to have a clue of where to go, and he said he would show. Normally Cera would not satisfy the whims of someone like him, or a of anyone, by the matter, but, seeing that it was their friends they were talking about, Cera seemed to have no choice.
The threehorn sighed, and said “This better don’t take long.” And she looked into Kaa’s eyes, straight into the changing pools that were the colors in them. This was all that Kaa wanted, as the smile returned to his features.
“Yesss, jussst look to the colorsss.” He said, looking Cera dead in the eyes as his colors went, and now, he knew it was only a matter of time.
Cera was not understanding why she had to look in his eyes, what was it, some kind of game he liked to do? And thinking well, how he could change the colors of his eyes like that? Cera didn’t remembered ever hearing about anything that could do such a thing. But she kept staring at them, into the colors… Actually… the colors were kind of pretty…
Cera blinked slightly as she looked in Kaa’s eyes, as if to scare away a sudden sleepiness. Kaa felt a sudden rush in his body, as he recognized it as a first sign that his hypnotic powers were starting to take effect. The colors in his eyes turned even more vibrant and faster as he looke to Cera and cooed “Yesss, threehorn cub… Look at the pretty colorssss.”
Cera blinked a little, and she heard what Kaa was saying. It was a waste of time! She should tell him to stop that already and take her to Ducky and show where their friends had gone! And she could do exactly that… But… on second thought… The colors were pretty…. No! She needed to find her friends! That was what she came there for! Not for some colors in a snake’s eyes!
Cera blinked again, this time a few more times, as if she was fighting the feeling, and Kaa noticed it “Look in my eyessss.” He said, approaching his face from hers even more “Do it, or I’ll not help you find your friendsss.” He said in a slightly tone of threat.
Cera didn’t wanted to give any satisfaction to this scaly crawler. She needed to find her friends. The snake… the snake knew where they were. She needed to find them soon before anything real bad happened to them. She needed to find Ducky. She was the one that dragged the poor swimmer into this, after all. That snake… he wanted her to do it, for her friends… She was willing to do it for them. To see them again and take they back home. It was worth it. And the colors… it kind of felt good to look at them…
Kaa smiled wider as he saw the young threehorn girl looking intently in his eyes, a sign she was clearly becoming more and more willing, as the colors in her eyes also were becoming more vivid.
The stubborn ones always were the more difficult, and Kaa knew it well. But Kaa also knew that they too ended up falling for his spell. Everybody always did, no one ever escaped him. Evetually even the strongest minds would fall for him and be doomed as his meal, no one had ever escaped alive from the Forest of Last Laugh, and this threehorn was not going to be the first.
Cera stared in Kaa eyes as it was becoming harder and harder to think clearly. The colors were pretty, but, she felt as oif she was forgetting something. Her friends! The longneck and Chomper, and Ducky! They were around there, and this snake… He knew wehre to find them, and was going to take her there! It had to hurry… But… the colors were pretty. The snake wanted her to stare at the colors so he would take her to her friends… How long he was still wanting her to stare? But… staring was not that bad… the colors were beautiful…
Kaa kept the colors on his eyes, speeding them up gradually as he entranced the threehorn girl deeper and deeper. He knew that she was slowly losing it, as the colors kept stronger in her body and her face was becoming more and more slacker as the hypnosis deepened.
Kaa decided that now was a good time to start coiling her. So, he lowered his tail in direction of the threehorn, and started enveloping her in her coils. And Ducky was right in the tip of his tail as he coiled the threehorn, and of course that Cera saw her small friend, coiled and whit a dumb smile on her face and the colors in her eyes.
Ducky!? Was Cera’s thought as she saw the young swimmer held in the tip of the snake’s tail, and with that seemingly uncaring expression in her face and the colors in her eyes. Her next thoughts were about how she got there, and why the snake had her in his clutches nad why she had that colors.
After a while, Cera’’s mind started working something. Could it be a trick of the snake? Could it be the reason why it insisted so much for Cera to look in it’s eyes? And if Cera started long enough? Would she became like Ducky? Wait… Had that thing did tha same with Littlefoot and Chomper!?
“N-n-no…” Cera said as she started squirming lightly in Kaa’s coils, and she blinked several times as her will to fight the control was coming back, but Kaa had already tied coils around her torso and was holding her in place. Yet, Cera was blinking as the hypnosis seemed to l,inger off, and she was struggling a bit more as the minute passed.
Kaa noticed it and mentally cursed himself for letting the threehorn see her swimmer friend. Kaa had to work on it, and fast, before he lost his food. “Calm down.” He said gently at her, his eyes now with the colors more vivid than ever “Jussst relaxxxx.”
“N-no.” said Cera, as she looked away, avoiding his gaze as she was starting to realize it’s true power and nature. She had to think a way out of that, and quickly! She needed to save herself and Ducky.
But Kaa was not going to let it happen. One thing that let him angry was when someone didn’t looked him in the eyes when he spoke, of course, they all were doomed when they did, but yet, Kaa found this attitude a lack of respect.
Kaa passed his forked tongue gently over the threehorn’s eyelid, and as result, she was forced to open her eye, and look straight in the color spirals in Kaa’s eyes, and he r eye immediately started mimicking again the colors. Kaa hgypnosis was strong when it had deepened enough before, and he had offered enough hypnosis to keep the threehorn in his grasp enough to make her easy.
“Look me in the eye when I ssspeak to you.” Kaa said seriously as he looked in her eye, and Cera now was unable even to blink as she stared into the orb of colors.
“N-no…” Cera mumbled “P-please…”
“Both eyessss, if you pleasssse.” Kaa said, ignoring the young threehorn’s pleas, and as result, Cera opened her other eye, and they both stared at the colors as the hypnosis took a even stronger hold on her.
Colors… so pretty… No! Have to fight! I have to save… Ducky… But… Ducky seemed… happy… she was smiling… she seemed happy… right? No! The snake… she had to fight it… this snake… it… it had probably got LIttlefoot and Chomper! She had to fight! Fight… but… the colors… so pretty…
Kaa’s smile returned as he saw the threehorn’s face as a mix of emotions, as if she was indecisive between frowning and smiling. Her lips were curling slightly, but still fighting to for a smile in it. Kaa knew that she was slowly losing the fight, and surely he knew she would soon be as her swimmer friend, he just needed to keep it a bit more. And so, he started moving in circles, dancing in front of Cera’s face.
The colors… pretty… her friends… what friends? One of them… longneck… maybe? The other… sharptooth? And… Ducky…. She knew any of them? Hard to remember… hard to think… colors… yes… the colors… so pretty… focus in the colors… the coils… felt… warm… felt… good… the colors… happy… colors… so good...
Slowly the smile formed in Cera’s face, and Kaa just finished tying the last coil and giving a soft squeeze, not enough for hurting, but enough for the threehorn to feel it. Kaa smirked as he sand softly “Trussst in me… Jussst in me…” he looked at her in the eyes as the smile enlarged even more “Clossse your eyessss. Ressst in peassssce…”
<i>PING</i>
Cera’s body went completely stiff as her face blanked and a dumb smile formed in her face. Her eyes widened and constantly changing into polls of colors like Kaa’s eyes had been. That face was completely different form normal as the stubbornness was gone, was well as her grumpy nature.
Her body completely stiff as she was enveloped from neck to legs in Kaa’s coils, not struggling, squirming or trying to fight in any way. Her mind had vanished, as well as any fight that she could possibly have on her, all washed away by the powerful and beautiful colors of Kaa’s hypnosis.
Kaa smirked deviously as he admired his two new captives. The girls only stared forward smiling, their eyes polls of colors, and they didn’t even twitched as Kaa held them completely helpless in his grasp.
Kaa chuckled “Good thing now both of you are relaxxxed” he sais to them “Now, letsss go sssomewhere more private, ssshall we?” he said as he started raising himself and the girls in his coils up, directly to the branches and away from the ground and of any help they could possibly have.
Kaa supported himself in the branche, his torso tied to it as he admired his two captives in his coils. They looked almost as cute as Littlefoot and Chomper had been, with their cute smiles and their unaware expressions.
Kaa liked his chops as he looked at them, and he chuckled at the thought of what he was going to do next.
So, moving them both, and making their feet face his own muzzle, Kaa stared at these two pairs of soles in front of him. His gaze shifted from the swimmers small and soft looking feet, to the threehorn’s yellow and rough looking hindpaws. Truth to be told, both soles seemed equally inviting to him.
Kaa decided to start off with the threehorn. Approaching his face from her soles, Kaa forked his tongue, and licked gently at that feet. He felt the threehorn in his coils jerk and twitch slightly, but she showed no signs she was going to start laughing. Maybe it was the last bit of fight in her resisting to it, as a last and ineffective act of rebellion.
Kaa’s was actually able to smile at it, so, she was going to be stubborn till the end, right? Well, Kaa knew how to play this game. Forking his tongue again, he slipped it across the sole and rubbed it with the forked tip. He could feel the threehorn twitching in his grasp, but still refusing to laugh.
Kaa knew it was just a matter of time, anyway, after all, she was already into the hypnosis grasp. This was another thing that was good at the tickling, it helped to break the last of the will of his victims.
Kaa kept forking his tongue over the sole, tickling it carefully and surely in the most sensitive places that he knew. For a time it was no answer from the threehorn, but them, after almost one minute, the threehorn finally started snickering, as if to hold back laughter, and Kaa smirked, and started ministering it further.
The snickering soon grew into some soft and shy chuckling, and it continued for a few more moments, until the chuckling grew into soft and spaced giggles. Kaa was taking this a s a good sigh, and he kept his work, until, finally, the threehorn was starting giving weak laughs, that soon were growing in strength.
Ka could have continued, but he had the other pair of feet. So, Kaa left these two yellow soles, for the smaller and green colored ones, that where right by the side, and flicked his tongue over the small feet.
The result was an immediate giggled, and just a few more caresses with his tongue was enough to have the smaller thing laughing.
Kaa smirked to himself as he put himself to tickle these two feet, moving his head form one to the other to tickle both of them.
As result, both girls were now laughing as Kaa tickled them with skill and speed acquired in years of practice with his previous victims, it was almost as if they were being tickled at the same time by two different tongues.
They both laughed togheter as they were teased by that long and sinuous appendage, their laughs soon growing, Ducky’s faster than Cera’s as she was easier to make laugh. Soon her voice was laughing the louder it could, a bit louder than even Kaa expected. The little swimmer had strong lungs.
Cera too followed, laughing harder and harder, until her laugh was echoing along with Ducky’s across the forest, and even outside it. Their laughs echoed nearby, letting everyone near to know that the Monster of Forest of Last Laughs was claiming his newest victims.
They laughed hard and hard as Kaa kept tickling them, delighting himself in the beautiful sound that it was to him, like a sweet music. They laughed hard as they were tickled even more, their bellies hurting for laughing so hard, and after a whule, even Cera had tears in her eyes of laughing so much.
After several minutes, Kaa finally stopped his tickling, and let the two dinosaur girls rest in his coils, takindg deep breaths to recover as the merciless tickling finally subsided. It was good for they had a moment to recover, and it was bad because it meant that their end was near.
Kaa licked his chops as he could get a taste of both dinosaurs as he tickled them, and he decided to go for the smaller on first, since he would end quicker. Kaa moved the young swimmer, and positioned her right in front of his own face, her head aimed to his maw.
“Now” Said kaa to the entranced girls “Asssss I promisssed, I’ll ssshow you where your friendsss went.” And he opened his maw, right over Ducky’s head, and pushed the swimmer gently in his mouth.
He took her almost completely in just one bite, only her feet and the tip of her tail sticking out of Kaa’s mouth. Kaa bathed the swimmer in his mouth with his tongue, licking all over her body, and savoring the taste of his small appetizer as it was soon to be sent down into his gullets.
And Ducky, was barely aware of what was going on around her, her mind focused only in the colors that reflected in her eyes as it brought her so much cheers and happiness, making her forget about all kinds of problems, and about everything else, by the matter.
Kaa savored her moaning for one minute, before slurping her feet and tail inside, and sending her down his throat with just one single gulp. Kaa sighed and licked his chops for the last of that tasty little thing. Ducky was now moving inside his gullets, barely big enough to make a bulge, making it just slightly as a small mass into his body.
The appetizer was good, but now, was time for the main course. Kaa turned to the threehorn, how was still smiling in his coils, and he moved her aiming her had straight against his maw. Kaa licked his chops, and then, he opened his mouth, and forced the head of the threehorn in his waiting and hungry maw.
Under normal circumstances, Cera would struggle with all her mighty to escape, not wanting to end as some dumb snake’s dinner. But now, deep in the trance she was, she was just happy enough to care. She barely noticed the warm feeling over her head, but she took it as a good thing.
For the first time in her life it seemed that all the problems had simply vanished. There was no more worries, no more dangers, no more missing friends, no more scolding from her father, no more worries or responsibilities, no more bad things, there was only the bliss and the beauty of the colors in her eyes and mind.
And Cera just loved it.
Kaa moaned delighted as he licked and suckled at the threehorn in his mouth, taking out her taste. It was strong, a bit bitter, maybe to fit her personality, but it was all new and a very rare experience. So, Kaa was going for it, and was slowly taking gulps around the threehorn as he took more and more of her.
Kaa had just took her head, what was a bit difficult due to the frill over her neck, but he managed to twist and stretch his jaws to take it in his gullets. Now he was taking her shoulders, and travelling down to her chest. Kaa noticed that her legs and chest where bulkier and more muscled than the ones of the females he was used too. Maybe it was something particular of her due to her nature, or maybe it was normal for threehorns. Kaa really didn’t had a way of being sure.
Kaa only kept sucking and gulping and licking in the threehorn, savoring that new and exotic taste. With each gulp, he removes his coils of the way, to swallow the morsel in his power without any disturbance.
Kaa had swallowed most of her, and was now on the belly, the front legs pinned against her side,s much like what Kaa had done with the longneck before her. The threehorn was, at her own way, as tasty as the longneck. Kaa was enjoying very much his new meal, as much as he enjoyed the last one.
Kaa moaned in delight as he took more gulps, taking the threehorn now up to the tights and tail base. Kaa licked her meaty and muscled legs, and slowly take small gulps to take them more and more.
He sighed when he saw that ther was only left her feet and the tip of her tail to go. Well, the meals had to end. And then, conformed, Kaa took one small gulp, and closes his maw over the feet, realigning his jaw and taking the threehorn into his gullets, where the swimmer was waiting and that was their final resting place, as it had been their friends.
Kaa sighed loudly, satisfied, and licked his chops for the last of the taste of his meal. Looking back, he saw the bulge that was the threehorn, very clearly, meeting with the smaller bulge of her swimmer friend, Ducky. Then, the bulges where forced together as the smaller dinosaur was forced against her bigger friends, and the single bulge that they formed kept travelling down the snake’s gullets to their final destination into the belly of the monster.
Kaa chuckled as he imagined how Ducky probably looked with Cera’s (it was the name of the threehorn, Kaa thought) was forced against her back, and she was forced to sprawl over it. Kaa hiked slightly, and blushed as the last of the taste felt on his mouth.
Sighing happily, Kaa decided that now it was time to rest and digest. So, he tied himself in the branch, his belly, where the bulge had now stopped, hanging limply under him as Kaa yawned, and rested his head in the branch, ready for a long nap to help his body with the digestion of his newest meal.
<i>Two weeks later</i>
As if Littlefoot’s and Chomper’s disappearance wasn’t enough, now Cera and Ducky had vanished too!
Everybody was completely desperate after them. Ducky’s mother was looking everywhere after her daughter, and so was Spike, as he searched for his adoptive sister everywhere. Cera’s father was calling his daughter’s name across the whole Valley, in hope she would answer to him. But she never did.
The partied lasted for a while before, just like last time, they started dying down, thinking that the two girls had went missing too. A few were worried, fearing that it could be a series of disappearances.
Daddy Tops was still looking everywhere for his daughter, and Tri was helping him. And Spike was still searching for Ducky, even trying to track her by the scent like Chomper had taught him.
They refused to give up the searches, even when everybody else did. The other residents could only feel sorry for them as they had also lost their loved ones. And they knew that sooner or later, they also were going to accept the tragically truth.
As the parties died down for the second time, there was just one thougt on the minds of most dinosaur.
Just what had happened to the kids?
<i>In the Forest of Last Laughs</i>
Kaa had just finished taking a few gulps of water in the clear, crystalline water that formed a small lake hidden in the depths of his forest. Raising his head, he sighed happily as the cool water refreshed his inwards.
Behind him, in his middle, there was a single bulge, shapeless and half digested, that was all that was left of Cera and Ducky. And of course that this bulge would also disappear to sustain hs body, leaving the threehorn and swimmer only as a memory.
Kaa sighed when he remembered of the preys he had in the last six weeks. That cute and very gentle sharptooth, Chomper. That smart looking and tasty longneck, Littlefoot. The small and bubbly swimmer, Ducky. And that strong and determined threehorn, Cera.
Kaa smiled as he thought about them, the way they laughed, their delicious taste, and the way they satisfied his hunger with an exotic taste for the monotony of the taste of sharptooth.
Kaa then thought about the series of events. Littlefoot and Chomper needed in there accidentally, probably when they were playing, and they ended up as Kaa’s meal. Then came Ducky and Cera, looking out for the boys, and they also had met the same fate as them.
If the boys had not come in there, the girls would not have come after them, and Kaa would still have to try his luck to get some food. Kaa chuckled at the thought, and felt a warm in his chest as he felt that it was like the kids were caring for him.
This thought made him smile as he dragged himself and his bulge back to his cave, where he could take a nap in the afternoon light.
