Snabbers AU: Lost and found
The sun had fallen and so came the moon, bringing with it it's blanket of stars. At this time most of the people would be asleep, snuggling deeply into their warm beds, all dreaming away the night until the next sunrise. All except for the serpentine who at night roamed around the kingdom, scavenging for food and warm clothing for the young ones. Unfortunately they found nothing of the sort, but one of the scavenging groups were about to find something much better.
In a narrow alley both the snake king and anacondrai general searched through the piles of filth, along with a few Venomari scouts.
In the same alley as the giant snakes hid a dirty little girl with yellow golden hair, in a large wooden box, her little heart pounding viciously inside her chest, and eyes to the brim with frightened tears.
"Did you find any thing?" came a voice with a slight british accent to it
"No sssir, jussst more rotting fruit" came another, but high pitched and scratchy
"Well then keep looking, there hasss to be sssomething here that we can eat or at leassst wear" ordered a smooth inky voice to her right
Her heart skipped a beat, turning her head slowly towards the transparent sheet saw multiple figures. To her right saw the figure of a large cobra, and to her left was very large python, with a extremely long neck. About five slightly smaller snakes with hoods stood between the two.
"If I have to go another week without food, I just might consider eating humans" the tall figure said, chuckling quietly to himself
"If you do any of the ssssort then I'll be forced to leave you at the den" the cobra replied harshly
She released a slight squeak, now hating herself for that.
"Did you hear that?" asked the british one, turning his head towards the box she was hiding in
"Yesss I did, I think it came from here" the cobra answered
Now whimpering, saw the cobra's hand reached for the cloth, grabbed it, and yanked it off, revealing a large earth blue cobra with red hypnotic eyes, a golden snake staff, and sharp needle like talons. And right next to him a tall albino python, with two gems, one on his forehead and chest. Both looking right at her, the blue cobra with a shocked look, and the white python with a hungry stare.
"Well I see we found ourselves a little appetizer" he purred, moving closer to the little girl, who whimpered louder
The cobra gave him a sharp jab with his elbow, earning him a glare, before turning to the child with great interest "Ssstrange, hatchlingsss around her age don't usssually live on the ssstreet" he said to himself
Then one of the female scouts came up to the king "Ssso what ssshould we do with her milord?" she asked
In response he slowly tried to pick up the girl with his tail, but she moved everytime he did so "I think the bessst thing for usss to do isss to take her back to the den" seeing it useless stopped, and began to produce something from his turquoise colored leather satchel
Suddenly curious stood on her knees, trying to see over the edge where the snake stood, while not getting to close.
The white python chuckled at the girl's curiosity.
In his talons was a juicy red apple, that he used to coax the little girl into coming closer. As expected she did but with great hesitation.
"Here, take it" the cobra finally said, extending the apple towards the girl
Inch by Inch she came closer until she was close enough, that she grabbed the apple from his talons and took an enormous bite out of it, trying her best to savor it.
After slowly swallowing it, she turned her aqua blue eyes at them "Are you going to eat me?" she whispered
The cobra just laughed "No dear child, though I mussst asssk, where are your parentsss?"
She looked at the apple "I don't have parents...they left...me..." then began to cry quietly, tears now running down her dirty cheeks
The king was angered by this, it was typical for a human adult to leave their young on the streets, forcing them to fend for themselves, but to leave a child this young just made his cold blood boil.
The female Venomari scout quickly took the crying child into her arms, cradling her as if she were her own.
"Don't worry child, we'll take good care of you" she soothe
A scream was heard in the distance, and soon the clanking of metal.
"Quickly, head below ground" ordered the king, opening one of the manholes near by
One by one each snake climbed down through the manhole, all hoping that the guards hadn't spotted them.
"Where are we going?" the little girl finally asked, looking up at the female Venomari who held her
"To a sssafe place little one" she replied, giving the little girl a small smile
Serpentine of various sorts began to stop and stare at her, some with curiosity, and others with hate. The little girl followed closely by the king's side, not daring to venture too far from him.
He took notice of this and placed a taloned hand on her head "Don't worry, I won't let any of them harm you" he whispered
This made her slightly feel better. As they walked down through multiple tunnels, she had noticed that all of the scouts had left leaving her alone with the snake king and white python.
"Here we are" the king said, stopping right front of a wooden hovel like building
"Your joking...right?" the python asked, staring daggers at the king who smiled in response
"Of courssse not" he replied, lightly knocking on the door
"Coming" came a soft female voice
"She's not staying here" the python growled
"And why not?"
"Well one this is my home, and two I can barely stand that women, and I don't need another one to constantly nag at me" he finished, becoming stiff
Then the door timidity cracked open, showing a tall and beautiful dragon with long ears, a white fluffy mane, and black, red, yellow stripes running down her body. The little girl looked at the dragoness in awe.
The dragoness was surprised to see the king "My lord" then saw the python "And Pythor"
Pythor's snout twitched in announce.
"What an honor your majesty" she bowed, now noticing the dirty little girl
He chuckled "No need for the formalitiesss Oka, a sssimple hello iss fine"
She quickly stood up "My apologies Skales, just an old habit from the old days" clearly a bit embarrassed changed the subject "So what brings you here?"
Gesturing toward the girl spoke "I wasss wondering if you could take in thisss child, sssince they're ssso fond of you"
Kneeling to girl's eye level asked "Would you like to live with me and my husband, along with my son and that grump over there?" slightly tilting her snout to Pythor, his fangs now showing
The turned from Pythor to Oka, with eyes full of hope "You mean, be part of your family?"
The dragoness nodded.
Though this may not be the family she had been hoping for, but it was better than nothing and so said "Yes"
Instantly she took the girl into her cold but motherly arms "I will most happily take care of her" and bowed "Thank you"
The king bowed back "You very welcome" and left
"Also Pythor dinners ready, so you better come in alright" she informed him sternly
"Of course" and quickly slithered in
As soon as he left turned to the girl in her arms "So what would you like to be called?" she asked
"I like Dawn" she simply replied, smiling
Oka chuckled at this "Okay Dawn it is" and with that went inside, closing the door gently behind
From that day on all the serpentine in the den took care of her, each teaching her the ways of the snake.
I really hope you guys enjoy this, it took me almost forever to finish. Well enjoy! :)