Summary: The pets have a chance encounter with a snake in the Amazon rainforest. Short one-shot.
A/N: This is a rewrite of part of chapter three of my second ever fanfic, Homeward Bound III: Back to the Wilderness, written back in September 2017. I rewrote this snippet for an exercise on Reddit to compare my writing now to how I used to write. So much improvement!
Slithering Away From Danger
As the pets settled down to sleep, a low hissing sound caught their attention.
Chance raised his head, curious, for the noise didn't sound like it came from Sassy. He'd never heard a cat hiss like that before. He caught sight of a scaled, twig-like body slowly slithering across the floor of the rainforest in their direction.
"What is that?" He asked, though he wasn't too keen on getting up to sniff the creature. Instead, as he rose to his feet, be backed off a few paces.
He'd learned that the hard way, back with the porcupine on their first venture into the wilderness. If he tried to remember hard enough, he could still remember the pain inflicted by the creature's quills. Definitely not something he'd wish to repeat again.
"It's a snake." Shadow replied, as wise as ever. "We should get away from it, it may be poisonous."
"Well, what are we sitting around watching it for?" Sassy asked pointedly, springing off the log she had perched herself on.
Delilah bounded after her, Chance on her tail. Shadow followed the trio at a slower pace, for his age did not mix well with the exercise the wilderness required of him.