Hey! I welcome you to the second chapter of my fanfiction! I hope you all will enjoy it! Thank you for reviewing!
Chapter Two
"Adventure time starts now!" A strange voice exclaimed, in a strangely high pitched voice. The creature slithered across the forest floor seeking a leggers nest. Cautiously slithering around and over roots of trees, It hummed as it reached the fence to a legger's nest. They could be heard on the opposite sides, chatting like canaries and laughing. The creature slithered onward peeking through a crack in the fence, its' eyelid-less eyes watched its' surroundings to enter without disturbing the leggers. Looking left and right it found a suitable path that took itself all the way around their territory without running into too much trouble.
And so it began its' journey. The little creature slithered silently around the fence, its scaly skin reflecting sunlight, the leggers noticed the creature's aim in no time. "SNAKE!" One legger shrilled, and she jumped up on her two legs, backing away from the general direction of where the scaly reptile continued to slither through the grass. The other leggers quickly realized the snake and began throwing things at it. The snake, aware of the commotion, hissed in anger and traveled faster to its' destination. Suddenly a legger loomed over the little creature and almost stepped out it. The snake bared its' sharp fangs and threateningly snapped its' jaws. The legger immediately hopped away frightened and ran into his nest. Smirking the snake moved on and reached the entrance to the nest. Tentatively poking at the door with its' tail it hissed angrily finding out it was sealed shut. "Oh narts!" The little creature moaned. The snake looked around to find another way in, after all, what was a good adventure without some climbing? It found a little crack in the nest, at the very top where the pipe-to-clear-water-from-top was. Possibly one used for mice and ants to get in the snake thought.
The snake coiled itself up the pipe with ease. There was too much at stake to fall down now, hovering around hundreds of snake lengths above ground, the snake quickly reached the rooftop and snuck into the ventilation system.
Falling from about hundreds of snake lengths above the earth is not fun. Squealing as it fell, the snake landed with a thump. It laid there for a second, only to pop back up with enthusiasm.
"That was fun!" It gasped excitedly. "Let's do it again!" It grinned, it's fangs gleaming in the light. The cold-blooded reptile checked its surroundings, the ground was soft and scratchy, a color of a budding rose; and in its corner lied four cats, three of which were mere kittens.
"Why hello there!" The snake said friendily. It slithered up to the quivering cats, attempting to smile, instead terrifying them even more.
"Ge-get away from us!" The biggest cat said, blocking the little creature with her body from her kits. The snake recoiled, a little confused of what she was doing. "What do you want?" The queen said confidently. She raised her head and unsheathed her claws.
"Adventure!" The snake replied in the cat language happily.
"Find it elsewhere." The she-cat hissed.
The kits peeked over their mother's pelt, curious to see what was so frightening. Three pairs of eyes followed their mother's ferocious glare, and found what looked like a harmless creature. Unsure of what it was, one kit stepped out and leaped in front of her mother; she cautiously padded towards the snake and pawed at the reptile with sheathed paws.
"Get away from the snake Molly!" The queen yowled worriedly. Molly raised her head up and giggled, her face of innocence made the snake smile.
"But he's smooth and fun to touch momma!" Molly said rebelliously. She pawed at the snake again with a friendly swipe. He dodged it with a twist and hissed playfully. The queen rushed after Molly and scooped her up, grabbing her by scruff. "Hey!" Molly squealed and squirmed, kicking her legs and flicking her tiny tail trying to be released.
The mother grunted, but did not let go.
"I'm Weed by the way." The snake said at a random moment of silence. Weed pointed to himself with his tail. "Pardon me, I meant Weed, the All-Knowing!" The snake said proudly.
"Really?!" Molly beamed at the snake, still dangling from her mother's jaws. The mother snorted and pushed her other kits behind her hind legs.
"I doubt it." She said.
Weed smiled, "On the contrary, madam, I know how to speak your tongue." He flicked his tongue with a smirk, eyeing the little kit hanging from the jaws of the she-cat.
The mother's eyes widened after a few seconds, realizing that it was true. "Touché little beast."
Weed hissed happily, flicking his tongue in and out to scent the air. "I smell two more kits..." He eyed the queen mischievously, "Sally." Saying her name made the she-cat squirm and finally believe the claimed-to-be All-Knowing Snake, was truly All-Knowing.
Sally sputtered, dropping her daughter, "H-how did you do that?"
"Do what?" Weed said, cocking his head to the side.
"That my name was Sally."
"Ooohhhhhh." Weed laughed, "Your tag!" Sally looked down, her collar jingling as she twisted her neck. "I just read it!" Weed rolled over in a fit of laughter.
"Y-you can read the house folks language too?!" Another kit said, popping her head up from behind Sally. She scrambled over her mother and sat next to her sister.
"Why indeed, little Sugar." Weed wisely said. Suddenly, he spat out laughing again. "This is just too fun!"
Sugar frowned, pinning her disproportionately large ears to the back of her tiny head.
"Mother, he's weird." Said the final kit, he peeped his head out from above. A little frightened, the little tom clambered over Sally and sat behind the two she-kits.
Molly nudged Sugar with her forepaw and got up. She slowly padded towards the snake. Sugar followed suited and went to the other side of Weed.
"Can we go on the adventure with you?" Molly asked Weed.
"I dunno, can you?" Weed replied, his eyes flickered between the kits and the queen. "Narts, you kits can just come with me now!" Weed beamed happily, he bared his fangs and they shined in the synthetic light.
"They will NOT. Be going with YOU. Little BEAST." Sally spat at the snake. She huddled the kits back to the corner and protectively stood above the snake menacingly. She looked down threateningly at Weed, baring her teeth and snapped at the air to make her point.
"Don't boss the kits around. Sheesh." Weed said rolling his eyes, impervious to Sally's threat, he slithered under her nonchalantly towards the kits. The little tom scurried backwards, tripping over his own tail, and landed on it, he quivered in fear. Weed payed no attention to him, his focus was on the she-kits. They stood together side-by-side not quite sure whether to be interested or frightened. "Besides," Weed began, "they're not your kits to begin with." Refusing to turn around, he gazed at Molly, and then Sugar. "Sally." Weed whispered in a ghostly tone, turning around dramatically, he glared at the shock-stricken mother. Sally's mouth gaped open wide and her claws dug into the floor as if she was trying to hold on to all she had.
"Y-you don't know that!" Sally sputtered, trying to maintain her authority.
Weed snorted, "Oh, but I DO know that." He pointed with his tail. "Y'see, Molly and Sugar here are black base colored for their pelts." He turned to the tom, "But Orange here, is well, orange. Same with you." Weed explained to Sally.
"But you can't judge based on pelt colors!" Sally said smugly.
"Oh, but I CAN." Weed continued. "I'm not done yet anyways. Besides that, Molly and Sugar have speckles and patches. You guys don't. Y'all are plain and simple, like all pets do. Molly and Sugar are wild. They even have the wild in their eyes, smell like it too, despite all that legger stench on them." Weed covered his mouth with his tail.
"Mother, just let the snake have them." Orange said in a bored tone. "I never liked them anyways."
"WHAT?!" Molly said whipping around to face Orange. "Is THAT why you never played with us? Or anything!?"
"Well duh. Plus you guys were too brutal for my taste." Orange licked his paw and drew it over his head.
"There! You see?" Weed said. "Case closed, problem solved. Any questions?" He happily hissed and turned around to find the exit. "Now, let's go!" He slithered out, through the open passageway, not looking back.
Molly glared at her foster mother and her harsh used-to-be brother. "You lied to me. All this time, you told me father was dead." She turned tail facing the exit, "I'm leaving, and you can't stop me. I don't want to live with a lier and a piece of fox-dung for a brother." Stalking out to follow Weed, Molly didn't look back not bothered to say good bye.
Sugar sadly looked up at Sally. "You could have told us." She mewed, looking down. "But I have to find my real parents now, and you know I can't leave Molly behind… She'll get into trouble without me." Sugar said looking away, tears flooded down her tiny cheeks silently. "G-good bye." she said standing up, Sugar padded after Molly slowly refusing to look at Orange.
Weed popped his head back into the room, "You coming, or what?" He asked excitedly. Zooming back out through the labyrinth of the leggers' nest he waited for Sugar to come out.
"Why didn't she tell us?" Sugar questioned to no one in particular as she stepped out of the house. The two were already out and Molly glowered at Sugar.
"Who cares, they didn't love us anyways."
"I'm sure Sally did." Sugar mewed.
Molly snorted, "Let's just go already." She looked at the reptile, who was humming quietly to himself. "Where to?"
"I want to find our real parents!" Sugar blurted out. She looked terrified and pawed at the air as if she was trying to catch her words and eat it back up.
"Excellent idea miss Sugar!" Weed said snapping out of his own trance. "Let us gooooo!" Weed whisked passed the leggers' fence as fast as a lightning bolt, zigzagging in and out.
The two not as enthusiastic as The-All-Knowing, followed him.
Well, just in case you guys don't know some of the terms:
Legger: twoleg/human/housefolk
pipe-to-clear-water-from-top: Drainage system
I think that's it, it there are anymore let me know and I'll fix them! ;)
Stay Creative! ;3
~Krystal