Andrew found me as a little infant in the woods, no parents around the area that were human. Andrew, being a Hypnobrai toddler, didn't know what to do with me.
"What ssshould we do with her?" he asked his father.
"Leave her," he said and took off.
Andrew didn't leave me alone though. Instead, he hid me inside of a tree stump and came back with his other friends from the other tribes of serpentine.
"Aw, it'sss adorable," his friend from the Venomari group, Jenna said, grabbing my little hands playfully, "How could your father jussst leave her here?"
"That'sss exactly what I thought," Andrew said, "But I have a plan. What if we teach her the way of the ssserpentine? Then they'll have to let her join the clan."
"That could possibly work," his friend from the Constrictai clan, George said.
"But what if we get caught?" his friend from the Fangpyre, Mark said worriedly.
"Don't worry, we'll just sssay that we're playing in the woodsss," Andrew replied.
"Everything sssoundsss good to me," Jenna said, still playing with me. I started to giggle and they all smiled down at me. "What ssshould we call her?"
"How about Amy?" Andrew said and I giggled some more.
"I think ssshe likesss it," Mark said.
"Then Amy it isss," Andrew said.
15 years later
"Woohoo!" I yelled as I swung from a vine to the next tree. I looked behind me to see the others afraid to try. "Come on, it'sss fun!" I yelled.
Jenna shrugged and went first. "Wee!" she yelled as she swung to where I was. "Come on, it'sss not as bad as it seemsss!" she yelled encouragingly.
The others looked down uncertainly and then tried it out themselves, each yelling, "Woohoo!"
We kept doing that until Andrew's father called us down to lunch. "Amy," his father scolded me, "for the lassst time, sssnakesss don't belong in treesss."
"But it'sss more interesting up there," I said.
"Fine, lets eat I guess." We began to eat our chicken that we took from a nearby villager.
The serpentine eventually found out that Andrew and his friends were taking care of me, but they said I could stay if I passed a few of their trials and listened to what they said. Over the years of living with the serpentine, I had grown fangs (though, not as big as an average serpentine), talked like the serpentine, despised the mortals (even though I am one), and learned in school to not like the ninja, and if one is spotted, runaway or attack him, though I haven't seen one yet…
But today, that all changed.
I was walking in the woods with my friends after lunch, our bellies full with the chicken. "I don't think we've had a meal like that for a month," George said heartedly.
"Hey Amy, do you want to play hide and ssseak?" Mark asked.
"Sssure, not it," I said quickly.
"Not it," Jenna said.
"Not it," Mark said.
"Not it," George said.
"Not… Aw man," Andrew said. We all laughed and went to go hide. I heard a falcon caw in the distance but I thought nothing of it and continued looking.
I found a hiding place in a stump of a tree and hid there, blending into my surroundings. I waited, not knowing that I was secretly being watched by someone of my kind.
"Ten," I heard Andrew say, "Ready or not, here I come," he said. I giggled. He'll never find me.
I heard him say, "There you are," three times, so that means I'm the only one left.
I looked around and saw they were headed my way. The jig is up I thought. I waited, but then a new sound came. I heard someone say, "Ninnnjaaaggo!" and heard wind. What is going on out there?
I got out of my hiding place and saw a white tornado taking out my friends. "What are you doing?" I asked and knelt down beside Andrew. They were ok, just knocked out. I looked at the tornado to find it turning back into a human.
The mortal had white ninja clothes on and only his blue eyes were visible. Wait, he's a ninja! He looked at me with confused eyes as if he was not expecting me to ask that. I took out my hand carved knife made from the rocks by the stream and I attacked.
I lunged at him and almost knocked him to the ground, but he was quicker and went into tornado form again. I spun around in that thing for what seemed to be six minutes, trying to get him to stop by stabbing randomly with the knife. "You must leave thisss area!" I yelled at him.
He stopped spinning and grabbed me by the arm painfully. He started pulling me away from my friends, my home. "Let go of me you fiend, you pesky little ninja!" I yelled. "Andrew! Andrew!" I kept stabbing at the ninja, but he took away my knife.
"Stop this lunacy right now," he said, "I just saved you, and I think a 'thank you' is needed."
"Why ssshould I thank you? You knocked out my friendsss and are now taking me away from my home!"
"Serpentine are not your friends." How could he say that? I thought.
"They are my bessst friendsss, they are kind and take care of me when I'm injured. They are my family, and right now, you're taking me away from them you monster!" I struggled even more to get away from him, hissing at him warningly.
He suddenly just knocked me out and I fell unconscious, him holding me.