Skin Deep.
Chapter 2.
Raku the Naga.
Dekun had not stopped shaking from the moment he saw the giant Naga staring down at him, the giant beast was just looking down at Dekun with curiosity, something Dekun hadn't seen in a long time. The Naga tilted his great head like a puppy before reaching out his giant hand towards Dekun, seeing this Dekun yelped as he dashed onto his feet and tried to make some space between and the beast by hiding behind the tree he had his back to. He gritted his teeth together in pain and looked down to see his bleeding arm that the bear had caused.
The Naga was surprised when he saw Dekun try to make a dash for it, was it really even a 'he'? From what Dekun could tell, yes it was a male Naga. Now that Dekun had got some distances from the Naga he could now clearly see what it looked like.
The Naga had super long white hair that reached its hips, his skin was pale and yet he had a slim build to his upper human body, his tail was a stunning snow white colour with bright shinning gold underbelly and all his scales were diamond shaped, the Naga flicked out his tongue, it was the same as any old snake tongue and yet when Dekun looked up onto its eyes he saw loneliness in them.
The Naga could clearly see that the small human was scared of him, so he slowly got down on his front so that he didn't look so big.
"It's okay, I'm not here to hurt you." Said the Naga in a gentle voice, but Dekun still didn't trust him, the beast could still strike at him and swallow him whole. The Naga was trying to see Dekun a little better by trying to inch his way closer, he gasped when he saw Dekun's arm.
"Oh! You're hurt!" the Naga said as he reached a hand towards the bleeding arm, Dekun gasped as he saw this and jumped away from the tree and tried to make some more space between him and the giant.
"No! Don't touch me!" Dekun cried, he never liked being touched because he would end up in pain, oh how he wished he could go back to the good times.
The Naga sighed as he sat up onto his tail and put his hands up to show that he wasn't going to try do anything.
"Okay, okay. I was just trying to help." Said the Naga.
"If you really want to help, then just get the whole eating thing over with, please." Dekun begged as he closed his eyes and waited for his death. The Naga looked down in shock.
"What? You think I was going to eat you?" asked the Naga. Dekun looked up at the Naga almost in shock.
"You-your not going to eat me?" asked Dekun. The Naga shook his head.
"No, I would never do something like that. I may be a Naga but I wouldn't even think about harming a human." Said the Naga slowly moving himself to show something Dekun didn't see before, just above the right hip was a gold mark shaped like a snake's head, Dekun gasped the Naga was an alpha!
An alpha Naga was really rare to see, the only way anyone could tell an alpha from another Naga was a gold mark somewhere around the waist, most marks were shaped like animals or parts of animals. Dekun didn't want to insult the Naga now he knew it was an alpha, he bowed his head and hoped for the best.
"I'm sorry, I thought, well… you know…" he started but the Naga stopped him.
"No need to be sorry. I just wanted to help and make sure you were alright." Said the Naga lowering himself down so that he was lying down in-front of Dekun.
"But you're an alpha; you should be putting some kind of punishment on me!" Dekun almost yelled, Dekun placed a hand over his mouth; he never acted this badly before he was such a good boy all the time. But the Naga just lathed.
"I'm not going to do anything like that, but how on earth did you figure out I was an alpha, I'm not even dressed up in any armour." Asked the Naga sounding impressed by the little guy. He was right, all alpha's wore armour and he had none on him, Dekun just pointed to the Naga's hip.
"Your mark." He said simply, the Naga smiled.
"You've got a good eye, anything else you can tell about me just by looking?" the Naga asked, Dekun thought about this for a moment before giving his answer.
"Well, just by looks, I say you must be… 17 years old, you're about 80 feet big and you're a White-gold Naga by the colour of you're tail…" said Dekun as he stopped to see if he was right, the Naga looked really impressed right now he was smiling right at Dekun.
"Very good, but you forgot one thing." The Naga said as he sat up a bit.
"Oh? I did? What did I forget?" asked Dekun worried that now he get hurt for missing out something importuned.
"My name, it's Raku."
