It came closer, and I became more scared, aunt Vera remained where she was, not helping as always, and my vision still blurry from the hit I recieved. I closed my eyes, I can't watch myself die.
Suddenly I heard hissing, it's got tobe the snake from before, two monsters at once, we are so dead, mom here I am come. The hissing and growling continued, so close to me I could feel their warmth from where I laid; I slowly opened my eyes to see what was going on.
In the blur I saw the big snake coiling up and standing erect, set to strike, and the monster stood in front of it, my vision slowly became clearer, and I crawled slightly back as I watched them brawl.
At first the monster's look was that of confusion, and from the back of the snake I saw, it was ready to attack. The monster struck first, a hit so strong it moved the snake to the ground, without a rebound nor a second of shutter, this huge snake swallowed the monster right before our eyes, and then stretched seemingly crushing the monster in it, after swallowing, it crawled to the side of the house and laid there eyes closed, "Derick!", aunt Vera called with fear in her voice, "where are coming from?", she questioned as we both stared at the snake in obvious fear; "umm um um", I stammered still looking at the snake, my mind was enveloped in fear so I didn't attach much meaning to her question. I then turned to the other monster whom I initially stabbed laying on the head, it laid floor and drooling, almost like a sleeping human, I stood up slowly, picked up the knife and walked close to it, it's eyes followed me as I did but it's body remained motionless.
To be honest, watching this monsters eyes move almost completely around it's axis was really scary, the more scared I got the firmer I held the knife.I went down and stabbed it's neck none stop, it's body only shaked slightly, but his eyes blinked in pain on each stab, It continued drooling and following me with it's eyes; I went on to it's back, I stabbed multiple times around the same response, his eyes were still open and following me around, "you twart! Go for it's head!", Aunt Vera yelled.
That was my initial intention, but I just wanted to see how it reacted to other action done on it. As aunt Vera had instructed, I held the knife up above it's head, hesitant to stab, "Ahhhhhhh!", I remembered mom's last scream and began stabbing it's head mercilessly, as blood was splattered everywhere, "Derick!!", Aunt Vera called but I ignored still stabbing and recalling mom's last moments, "Derick! That's enough!", Aunt Vera continued shouting.
After ignoring aunt Vera and stabbing to my heart's content, I turned to the snake behind me, who had successfully and completely swallowed the monster, it's eyes were still open just like the monster I was stabbing, and motionless as it stared at me.
I got to where it was and stood before it with my bloody knife, I held it firm and continued staring at it, unlike the monster it closed it's eyes, almost as though it was scared of death, I felt sympathy on the poor creature, "what are you waiting for Derick? Kill the bloody thing!", aunt Vera yelled at me, "what has it done to me?", I asked now feeling sympathy for the poor creature, "you have got to be kidding me!", aunt Vera yelled, obviously still scared to come close, "it actually saved me, something you couldn't do, and you want me to kill the innocent creature", I replied as I turned around, "it saved you! You actually think it saved you! The only reason it hasn't attacked you is because it hasn't digested what it ate, otherwise you would probably be half digested by now", she said still talking loudly, "we have stayed here for 2 days now and it hasn't done any harm to us, even when we saw it, it did nothing to us, it didn't seem to care even, so why now?", I replied as I walked closer, it seemed to have heard my foot steps so it opened it's eyes and remained motionless, as it's eyes folloed my every move carefully, "Derick!!", aunt Vera screamed as I dropped my knife and continued walking towards it, "don't be scared!", I said as I walked closer. Although I was scared, but I didn't want to show it, at the same time I was also curious as to how its skin felt. I got close enough, my legs were still shaking but I found a way to hide it as I bent down, slowly putting a hand foward.
It remained calm as my hand made contact with its smooth, scaly and shiny skin, almost as though it reacted to the touch of my hand, "Derick!", aunt Vera who had been speechlessly watching yelled, "It's harmless", I said as I became more comfortable around this beautiful creature, who hadn't moved an inch, my legs soon stopped shaking, I went down on my knees alot closer to it than before, I rested my head on its body and found comfort laying on this warm bodied creature, "that's enough Derick!", aunt Vera yelled as she summoned courage to get up and walk some distance close to us, "where were you?", she asked, "I was hungry, and went out to get something to eat", I replied still cuddling this creature, "and you told who?", she asked , "you were asleep at the time and I didn't want to wake you up", I replied, "so you went to get food for yourself alone?, isn't that selfish?", she said in a motherly tone.
Look who's talking about selfishness, wasn't she she the reason I went out to get food in the first place, now she's talking calmly about it, from the way she spoke calmly, I could tell that she was scared, the aunt Vera I knew would be screaming at the top of her voice, and would probably have given me a slap by now, this creature might actually be a good thing, I guess this was mom's gift to me, I knew she has been watching, watching this wicked woman maltreat me, and has sent me a guardian.
"can you please get me water?", aunt Vera requested polity for the first time, I turned to her really surprised, I looked at her and couldn't help but wonder if she was possessed or something, with that joy I stood up and grabbed the water bottle, "It's a bit broken at the bottom, so please be careful with it, I advice you turn it upside down", she added, I gladly took the water bottle, rushing towards the ladder, "Derick", she called, "please hurry up", she added obviously from fear of the snake, "don't worry aunt Vera, it won't hurt you!", I said strapped the knife to my leg, and climbed up to the surface.
As usual I looked around for monsters and old people, and then ran off to the stream, unlike yersterday, I wasn't looking, I knew where it was.
I arrived at the stream and began to fetch, after fetching, I stood the water bottle upside down on the sand, and then looked around for a while if I could get any fish, and then looked at myself, I need to take a bath even, stabbing that monster got blood and dirt all over me.
I walked into the water, this time I tried to ignore the fishes as I took off my clothes, I rubbed off the blood from my skin, as well as the knife I had strapped to my leg, "ishhh", I ultered as the water touched the injury I had on my shoulder, "I have to work on this", I said to my self as I touch the un healing sore.
From a distance I saw someone coming, if I run out this person's going to see me, and I can't swim, but it doesn't seem like I have much of a choice right now, I quickly went deeper into the water, fighting with the waters current which pulled me to itself, I got close to the deep and remained at a point where the water could only get to my neck, as soon as the person got closer I took a deep breath and went in.
It seemed to be the oldman I saw earlier, he had a stick in his hand, this stick was bent and tied with a thin rope binded it, fromone end to the other, and a some pointy sticks in a cup like vessel and strapped to him self, I wasn't sure why he had all of this; but what I was really bothered by was the water pulling me to itself and the fact I was running out of breath.
I remained there still fighting with the current and waiting for the oldman to leave. I suddenly needed air so I jumped out completely out of air, in that brief moment out in the air I saw the man with my clothes, as he looked at me in shock and I fell back to the water whom at this point won the fight, it quickly pulled me to itself, I obeyed choicelessly, it held so tight and all I could do was hit it pointlessly.
I needed not to be told that this was the drowning mom was always talking about, she always warned me against the unstable monster called water, a fighter no man has ever won, one who has no fighting style in particular.
I closed my eyes completely lost in the water, and in what felt like a flash I was out.
I opened my eyes coughing, I coughed out water till I sat up, "are you okay?", the oldman asked worried, without a reply I got up quickly, "it's okay, I won't hurt you", he said to me as I walked backwards in fear and memories of moms story about the old man that killed dad, "don't be scared", he added as he stood up and calmly approached me, I ran off immediately, I can't make the same mistake dad made.
I ran naked till I got back to the hole, I quickly climbed down the ladder.
On getting down, I saw aunt Vera with the axe mom usually used to break wood, in her hand, it was covered in blood, "what have you done?", I questioned as tears rolled down my cheeks, as I looked at the dead snake whose head was battered beyond recognition with the axe, "shut up!", She sparked like the aunt Vera I knew and hated, "where's my water and where are your clothes? Why are you wet?", She asked several questions at once and not one could I give a positive answer to, any answer I give would result to a slap, so I remained quiet, quiet in pain as I looked at the lifeless creature mom sent to save my life.
"Well?", Aunt Vera ultered harshly as she walked closer, with the bloody axe, and I walk backwards in fear.
To be continued....
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