Prince of Serpents

They bought a room in a nearby hotel, got ready for bed, and slept. However, Amy did not expect to be woken up in the middle of the night...by an unwelcome hiss right beside her head.

Amy slowly woke up when she heard the hissing noise, then immediately jumped back. Why? Because she just now noticed that there was a King Cobra sitting next to her on the bed. She started to scream, when the cobra slithered up her quickly and covered her mouth with his tail. He whispered into her ear,

"Pleassssse relax. I am not here to harm you." Amy gulped as he continued, "I've recently heard that you've been dessssssperately looking for sssssssomething, am I correct?" She slowly removed his tail from her mouth, all the while praying not to be bitten, and whispered back,

"Wait, how can you talk?" the snake shook his head and urgently hissed,

"There isssss no time for that. Have you been looking for ssssssomething?" Amy slowly nodded 'yes'. The snake nodded as well as he slithered back down to the bed. Amy shivered at the feel of his slimy scales. He then went back down the bed to the floor. Amy sighed as she thought,

Maybe that was just my imagination. Snakes can't talk. I hope he doesn't come back. Unfortunately though, he does. And with him, was a familiar necklace. He held it up, only to confirm her suspicions that it was indeed her jade necklace. "Perhapssssss you have been looking for thissssss?" Amy, too happy to respond, nodded yes and reached for her possession, but the snake retracted it before she could touch it.

"Please, can you give it back? I've been so worried about it," Amy pleadingly whispered to the cobra. The cobra put his tail to his mouth as if thinking, then smiled pleasantly and hissed,

"Of courssssse I'll give it back to you," Amy sighed in relief before the snake finished, "but I have to get ssssssomething in return. After all, I worked very hard to get thisssss back for you." Amy was a little surprised at the snake's request. What could he possibly want? And did he really work hard to get the necklace back? Amy asked the snake,

"Well, what do you want?" The King Cobra again smiled maliciously as he hissed,

"To pledge yoursssself to me." Amy's eyes widened in disbelief. The snake wants to...to marry her? Amy slowly shook her head.

"You can't be serious," she whispered disbelievingly.

"I am," said the snake menacingly. She shook her head again.

"Isn't there anything else?" This time the snake shook his head and hissed,

"No pledge, no necklace." Amy sighed. She thought long and hard about this.

I can't just marry a snake! Her mind screamed, that's just so wrong! And besides, what would I do with a husband that's a snake?The Clue hunt is worth more, and that's saying something!

But he has the necklace! Her mind tried to reason, Grace would want us to take the risk to get something back in her memory!

But all this for a simple necklace?

It was Grace's necklace for hell's sake!

Don't we have other memories?

That's the only physical one we have!

Eventually, Amy whispered to the cobra,

"Deal." The King Cobra smiled maliciously once more as he gently handed the necklace back to Amy, and then retreated. Amy excitedly put the necklace back around her neck, where it belonged. As she gazed into the familiar stone that was hanging from the necklace itself, a sudden thought occurred to her.

Wait a second! Where have I heard that voice before?

A/N:

Second chapter up! Woohoo! This makes me happy! Review! Until then!

~storyteller221 :)