Day of the Serpent

Day of the Serpent

Ch 1

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The wind whistled on through the halls of the prison. The mongoose guards patrolled through the tunnels of the volcanic jail. The warden stared at the ceiling, and looked down towards the volcanoes core, there was large basket and in the basket laid the terrible warlord of a cobra: AnGangseh.

Captain LaoShu sneered and heard the flapping of wings. He turned and saw WanSow the falcon soaring towards him. The falcon landed in front of LaoShu and nodded.

"Captain," she said with respect.

"Yes," the mongoose responded.

"I bring a message from General Gao, here," as WanSow handed LaoShu the scroll. The captain looked over the message, and his eyes narrowed.

"Gao is as foolish as ever," the captain said crumpling the letter.

"What?" WanSow asked.

"That idiotic wolf is ordering me to increase the security rate," the mongoose said throwing the letter to the ground.

"Well, AnGangseh is pretty dangerous, he did manage to take over India," the falcon responded.

LaoShu stood up and gestured. "Follow me," the warden instructed. Reluctantly the messenger followed.

WanSow looked around nervously at the tall mongoose warriors. How fitting, mongooses, to guard a cobra, she thought nervously.

The pair walked down several levels, getting closer to the heart of the volcano. As they did LaoShu explained the prison, he pointed out the various booby traps, the armed and ready crossbows that had powerful explosives on them. Finally they got to the final floor.

"Open the cage," ordered LaoShu.

"Yes sir," the guard responded.

"WHAT!?" squawked WanSow.

"Don't worry; there are more aspects to AnGangseh's cell then just the steel basket," said LaoShu.

The basket opened revealing an enormous 16 foot long snake wrapped in chains from the tip of his tail, there was even a chip in his mouth.

"WanSow, I give Lord AnGangseh, former ruler of the Empire of Scales," LaoShu said.

"Okay, I see there is nothing to worry about," stated WanSow," I think I'll return to General Gao and tell him not to worry."

The mongoose warden laughed," Well, you got to see it to believe."

"Hey scaly! Want to have some dinner; well to bad, naughty hatchlings don't get any," LaoShu taunted.

"DON'T!" WanSow hissed softly," you'll get him mad."

"Eh, what will this overgrown earthworm do, he can't move," and with that LaoShu slapped the King Cobra on the back with a large amount of force.

"Okay, I think I'll go and tell General Gao not to worry," WanSow said slowly moving towards the door.

"Of course he doesn't have to," LaoShu said with a laugh and gestured for the cage to be locked again, which it was.

Once it was locked, a scarlet light shown out of AnGangseh's eyes, and he spat out the mouth piece which was loosened by his enemy. His long tongue snaked out and he dabbed the chain with venom. Sure enough the chain loosened, and with a little more…. The cage broke off and shattered. The King Cobra let out a loud hiss and spat on the chains. The broke of to due to (Note: because the liquid made them looser). The titanic cobra was free. AnGangseh let out a triumphant hiss and slithered at full speed.

Guards at all corners rushed to subdue him, but AnGangseh took them out immediately with his snake style Kung Fu. He managed to dodge the booby traps and the crossbows. He slithered right up to LaoShu.

"You were saying," the cobra said smoothly.

After knocking out the warden with some brief jabs, he constricted WanSow.

"Before you go to the general, go to Shifu, and tell him, his old student is returning, for revenge," he said. WanSow nodded and he released her.

"For to long have a stood in Tai Lung's shadow, now I will show Shifu how powerful I really am," said AnGangseh before slithering away in a matter of mintues.