Chapter Two
"Why don't we stop here a while?" Shanti gasped, out of breath for following Mowgli through the jungle undergrowth at his speed. He was raised in this place, he navigated it expertly, but for her it was a struggle to keep pace. But that wasn't the only reason for her to slow him down. They had come to a secluded little clearing where the sun shone down through the canopy onto a smooth rock with tufts of grass surrounding it.
For days now since she reunited with Mowgli she had slipped back into her old groove of trying to make him see that his best friend was in fact a beautiful young woman, ever eager to please him and love him. She had even had to control certain... urges ever since her encounter with the devious python. She didn't remember much of the meeting itself, but her body certainly remembered how to feel aroused and in need of attention. So she had decided to try and step it up a little. After her encounter with Kaa she had found her dainty little dress strewn across the jungle undergrowth. It was a little ripped so she mended it as best as she could, which meant it was a little tighter and shorter in places than it had been before. Shanti had also never found her panties again and so had taken to going without.
Trying her best to be as graceful and sexy as possible, she hopped up onto the rock and leaned back, making a show of resting in the sun with her chest heaving gently and slender legs on show. "Please Mowgli? Just five minutes resting in the sun with me...?"
The young girl-cub was making an excellent display of herself for the man-cub. Unfortunately for her, Mowgli didn't come to the conclusion himself. He was a few paces ahead of Shanti, examining the area for safety. He was never particularly good at it himself, but he felt compelled to look after Shanti ever since her experience with Kaa.
He had been palling around with Baloo when Shanti made a surprising appearance in the jungle. She was disheveled, her dress torn and her hair out of place. When she said she had awoken in the coils of a snake, Mowgli was even more concerned that Kaa had just barely avoided consuming the girl. Indeed, even as Mowgli helped Shanti recover and look after her out in the jungle, he had only ever believed Kaa intended to eat his friend. Shanti had decided to keep her more erotic memories to herself.
Presently, as Mowgli looked back and heard Shanti's request, he could only respond with mild confusion. "Well, okay. If you're tired I guess we can stop." He shuffled back and plopped himself unceremoniously on the rock next to Shanti. His legs dangled idly over the side of the rock. "You like the sun, huh? It's nice, but I guess I'm used to it."
Sitting in silence for a moment, unsure of what to say to his villager friend, Mowgli spoke up. "So... did you want to play a game?" It had been a while since Mowgli could just relax himself. The past few weeks he had spent his time introducing Shanti to the jungle, and hadn't had as much time to play with his Papa Bear. He could at least try with Shanti, but lately she seemed much more interested in sitting or lying around. And Mowgli thought he was lazy!
Shanti resisted the urge to roll her eyes at the way Mowgli managed to completely miss her feminine charm and dump himself down next to her. She was sure that her body had got her some secret admirers back in the village, but she only had eyes for the wild jungle boy and even now wasn't giving up. "I like how it feels on my soft skin..." she whispered in response, delicately crossing her legs as the sun beat down upon them, the hem of her dress rising up her thighs a little in the hopes of enticing the young man to gazing at her curves. But it all seemed fruitless...
The girl-cub sat up as Mowgli suggested a game. He was always wanting to play games, most of all with his oh so special jungle friends... perhaps though Shanti could try to spice this game up a little... "What did you have in mind?" she said in a voice she tried to make as sultry as possible as she rose up to sit on her knees. Her legs splayed out beneath her as she leaned forwards on her hands, feigning excitement at playing a game with her best friend but instead trying to push her pert chest up and together - anything to get a rise out of Mowgli. If only this dumb man-cub had the vision to see the beauty before him, like Kaa had done all those nights ago.
Though he still found her behavior strange, Mowgli nonetheless concluded Shanti seemed to be interested. Even so, he was confused at how she seemed to puff her chest out at him, for some reason.
"Well..." He thought for a moment until Shanti's body language gave him an idea. "We could practice fighting like a bear! Baloo and I do that all the time!" Mowgli puffed up his own chest, scowling, and suddenly let out a loud roar right into Shanti's unsuspecting face. "Alright, now it's your turn!" Mowgli laughed, completely oblivious to the advances he has just spurned.
Not only did Mowgli not notice the enticing display right before his eyes, he took it for a sign to play some stupid game about bears. Shanti almost jumped up in shock as the man-cub yelled loudly into her face in a poor imitation of a proper bear. Despite her eyes being drawn across his toned chest as he puffed it out, she couldn't help but feel a twinge of frustration and anger at the way he so casually ignored her needs.
"I... I can't roar Mowgli..." she whined, her annoyance rising up into her meek voice before suddenly getting one last idea to try and entice her friend to making a move. "But if it's a fighting game you want..." she smirked, giving a mischievous smile before throwing herself at Mowgli's chest. Although she was a slim, dainty girl the sudden movement knocked the athletic man-cub onto his back, with Shanti astride his hips panting and grinning. She lay there, arms and legs either side of her crush, face red partly through the activity and partly through being so close to Mowgli as she looked down at his shocked face. *Please... please see me in a new way...* she urged in her head, her pussy moistening slightly beneath the thin dress at the thought of maybe finally getting through to the oblivious boy. All these cravings with just a blind man-cub and a jungle for company, it was enough to drive a horny young girl mad.
Mowgli felt a bit disappointed at Shanti's less than enthusiastic response. He liked his village friend a lot; she was the reason he went to the place, after all. Regardless, she typically didn't enjoy herself the same way Mowgli did, which made finding things to do with her fairly difficult. Her lackluster reaction to his bear growl seemed to indicate not much had changed...
... which made her subsequent tackle all the more surprising for the man-cub. Mowgli was shocked, simply staring up in confusion at the girl. He was flat against the rock, unable to move under Shanti's straddling of his body.
"Urgh... nice one, Shanti!" Mowgli laughed as he struggled to free himself. He paused for a moment as he took notice of Shanti staring at him. There was something about her expression that wasn't simply from the fun of the game. The boy tried to decipher what it was, the girl's eyes gazing into his like they did when they met, her pigtails dangling to meet the sides of Mowgli's face.
"A-are you okay Shanti? You look a little... different. Are you sick?" Mowgli offered, thinking perhaps that was why her face seemed so red. That was the best he could think as to why she was behaving so oddly. Shanti looked down into the dumb, oblivious face of her companion... and something inside her changed. There he was, her heart's owner for so many years, lying underneath the young slim village girl that was so taken with him... and he was still none the wiser and pulling blank expressions even as she straddled his body. Slowly her facial expression relaxed from restless lust into disappointment and anger as she listened to Mowgli mutter something about being sick.
"I'm fine," Shanti snapped, sitting up and pulling herself off of the man-cub's body. She sprung to her feet with short, sharp, grumpy movements and a little wriggle of her hips to get her skirt to settle. "Enough stupid games... let's just go..." she pouted, walking off from the clearing at quite the pace. That was it, she had had it with Mowgli, no more waiting around. The concept of staying in the jungle with somebody so slow and uncaring of her young womanly needs hadn't yet occurred to her all the while the red mist of frustration dominated her thoughts. All she cared about was getting this infernal jungle journey over with... and the greater distance she could keep between herself and Mowgli, the better.
Springing up as Shanti huffed away from the clearing, Mowgli watched in confusion and guilt at Shanti's apparent annoyance. She had behaving so oddly her entire time in the jungle, and his attempts to make her feel better only made things worse. It was probably a great change living in the jungle, but it was her decision to follow him after all. If she wanted to spend more time with him, what was he doing wrong? Sighing, Mowgli pushed himself off the rock and following Shanti further on. He never had these problems with Baloo...
***
"It's pretty late, Shanti. Maybe we want to find a place for the night?"
The rest of the day had been spent in a more tempered mood. As Mowgli continued his tour of the jungle, he hoped Shanti would become interested in some of the sights. But the ancient ruins, the beautiful rivers... nothing seemed to particularly grab her attention. Now it was dark, and as the man-cub rubbed his eyes and brushed his scraggly hair out of his eyes, he knew it time to find shelter. Since Shanti had arrived, they had found a new place each night. Sometimes it was with the protection of the wolves, others they had simply found a secluded underbrush (Shanti seemed to prefer the latter). In their current location, there wasn't much shelter to be found. Except...
"What do you say we spend the night in that tree? I'll give you a push?" Mowgli had improved his climbing in the time since Bagheera had been left to prod him up a tree. Now it seemed Mowgli had found himself in that position, though he was happy to offer his assistance. Perhaps Shanti would appreciate the help.
The sultry, sulky girl-cub had not lightened her mood for the rest of the day and could find nothing better to do than mope and meander along behind Mowgli as he jumped around excitedly. He showed her the many delights that he found in the jungle...HIS jungle... but Shanti couldn't see past the unconscious rejection she had just experienced. They passed epic ruins, dazzling scenery and met the many friendly creatures of the jungle, all the while Shanti simply made passive sounds when Mowgli prompted her to look, to notice his world.
As the evening wore on the sun dropped swiftly and turned the sky a deep dark blue, the man-cub suddenly hastening their search for shelter. Shanti stopped stumbling around and looked up at the tree that her friend had pointed at. It was big, no... it was huge! So wide around she wouldn't have a chance of wrapping herself around it. She wasn't even sure if their hands would meet if she and Mowgli were to climb up opposite sides.
"Uh...a-all the way up there...?" she whispered as her gaze went higher and higher until finally seeing the lowest sturdy branch. It seemed so high from the ground, how could it be possibly be safe? What if she fell in her sleep? There was a reason the village folk slept in huts on the ground, but her crush seemed determined to choose this new risky spot to make camp.
The girl-cub began scrambling around on the base of the tree, pressing her body against the bark and gripping with arms and legs in a way that thrust her tight behind out into the air. As she slowly slid herself up the trunk she grunted and gasped with the physical effort, shrieking slightly as her feet shifted and she slipped a short way down. The whole display must have seemed so pitiful to the jungle expert standing on the ground watching her, her dark face tinted red with embarrassment. "Mowgli..." she cried quietly in a way that beckoned his help, else they were never getting up the tree before the darkness truly fell upon them.
The sight of the domesticated girl-cub clinging desperately to the tree with her butt protruding outward was too funny for Mowgli not to laugh, despite his best efforts. The last thing he wanted was for Shanti to get more upset with him. And after all, he was in the same position not too long ago. At the very least, Shanti seemed to be asking for help; it was the most she had said all day. Perhaps things were improving between them!
"Don't worry Shanti, I've got you." Mowgli stopped his giggling and moved behind the helpless girl, adopting as friendly a tone as possible. Placing his feet in just the right impressions on the tree bark, Mowgli slung one arm around the trunk and began to push he and Shanti upward. He placed his free hand along Shanti's behind as Bagheera had done to him and gently prodded the girl up the tree.
It didn't take long, however, for the man-cub to realize that beneath the thin fabric of her skirt was nothing but her bare skin, Shanti having apparently abandoned her panties. Mowgli was taken aback... for some reason. Shaking his head, he pushed up again, allowing Shanti to gain some footing by standing on his shoulders.
"Keep going... grn, we're almost there..." The boy and girl slowly inched up the tree, Shanti giving an occasional squeal, but Mowgli had become distracted. With each push upward the man-cub gained another grasp of Shanti's shapely rear, her smooth skin sensed with each press of his palm. Mowgli's thoughts were filled with the mystery of Shanti's behind... what a strange thing to be obsessed about, Mowgli thought, before he recalled another time such enigmatic thoughts had filled his head.
The very first time they met, the young boy had experienced such a rush of feelings and desires, he didn't know quite what it was that had intrigued him. Shanti's bright, round eyes, her creeping smile, her swaying hips... how had he forgotten the effect they had on him? Giving another push, Mowgli unconsciously stroked the lower cheek softly, grasping just a bit tighter than he needed to...
Yet by now they had reached their destination. Shanti had grabbed hold of the branch, and Mowgli reluctantly gave one last press against the girl before he climbed onto the branch himself. His face bright red, Mowgli turned to look face to face with his dear friend, trying figure out just what he wanted to say.
Shanti gasped initially as she felt the firm grasp of Mowgli's hand upon her protruding rear. His strong grip pressed against her tender flesh and sent shivers up her spine that she tried to ignore in her efforts to not fall from the tree trunk to her death. Soon it was all she could do but ignore the fact that Mowgli could feel her young body twisting and turning beneath the thin fabric of her tattered dress, her ass reflexively pressing back into his waiting hand even as he gripped her soft cheek tighter, drawing a groan from the girl-cub that she managed to disguise as a grunt of effort as she finally managed to swing her legs around to the tree branch.
Panting and red faced, Shanti turned to press her back against the trunk. Though she was initially panting, catching her breath, she quickly realized her compromising position and closed her legs, pressing her soft thighs together and turning slightly away from her boy-cub crush as he mounted the branch and turned to look at her. She hoped and prayed that he had not noticed her shame and arousal at the feeling of his hand grasping and pawing at her ass on the way up, thankfully the effort of climbing such a distance was doing a good job of hiding her shame even as her bare pussy moistened beneath the delicate fabric of her dress. "T-thanks... it's dark, I suppose we should sleep..." Her chest heaved in the night air, her eyes turning to gaze up at Mowgli as the moonlight cast her face in a beautiful light.
Shanti's face looked heavenly in the moonlight, her breath heaving and her face flushed... yet she said that they should sleep. Was that all? Mowgli was sure they were close to having a breakthrough with their relationship.
"Y-yeah, I guess so... I'll just, erm, sleep over here then..." Mowgli mumbled somewhat embarrassedly, trying to hide the flushed look on his own face. Stretching his body down the end of the branch, he situated himself as comfortably as he could given the location. He rested his head on his arms, sighing quietly to himself, his own read end stretch out before Shanti. At this point he just wanted to fall asleep and forget his girl troubles for the time being. Maybe things would be better in the morning.
The horny girl-cub brushed a stray strand of hair from her face as she tried to compose herself from the difficult and arousing climb they had just shared. Shanti's hands fidgeted in front of her as Mowgli tore his eyes from the way her dress hugged tightly against her curves and moved up the branch to settle down, the irony completely lost on her that she had just missed the moment Mowgli finally became interested in her in a new way.
"I.." she started meekly, stopping as the dejected man-cub nestled down and tried to calm himself down. The tension between them was thick and stifling, adding to the atmosphere as the night grew darker and the humid air rolled across Shanti's smooth dark skin and brought a thin sheen of perspiration to the surface. The girl-cub just didn't know what to do any more... dragging her line of sight away from Mowgli's toned body and staring out across the midnight canopy, releasing a sigh of frustration as her tender thighs pressed together in response to the heat between them. Why did she come out into the jungle? Was this the way it would always be from now on? Just endless tension, awkward walks and uncomfortable resting spots... not to mention dangerous...
As Mowgli quickly fell asleep and Shanti sat against the tree, trying desperately to handle her wildly out of control desires, a third figure peered down on the man-cubs with great interest. Sticking his head down from the thick leaves of the tree, Kaa got a closer look at who had unknowingly entered his latest home. To his delight and surprise, Shanti was sitting directly below him, as sultry and gloriously attractive as ever. Mowgli had accidentally sent the girl-cub straight back into the grasp of the devious python and was already slipping into a sleep where he could no longer protect her from Kaa's advances. Shanti wasn't left alone to sulk for long as the long serpent descended from the leaves above her.
It had pained Kaa a great deal when he had woken to discover his coils empty, the girl-cub fled to some unknown refuge. He had dearly hoped to make her a permanent resident of his unique form of shelter. Oh, how he wished to squeeze her curvy figure once again, her skin frame slick with sweat and sex, her tight pussy filled with his own member... but with her disappeared leaving nothing but a damp pair of panties, he had resigned himself that he had lost yet another plaything.
It brought the widest smile to his face, then, that his precious Shanti was close at hand once more, despite all odds. True, she was accompanied by the man-cub this time, he noted as he eyed the slumbering Mowgli at the end of the branch. But he wasn't going to let this unexpected opportunity pass him by.
He moved his head just behind Shanti's, taking in her expressions. Oddly enough, she seemed just as horny as he left her, though much more frustrated. She was staring at Mowgli... could he be the cause of her strife? 'Interesting', he thought, as he stored that information away and made his presence known to the Indian beauty.
"Ssay now..." he hissed in Shanti's ear. "What have we here?" Shanti jerked back to reality as the soft hiss announced Kaa's presence so close to her body, sitting up and pressing her back against the tree trunk. The snake! She remembered it from only a few nights ago, though the details of their encounter remained blurry. Her mind threw out mixed signals at the sight of the python, making her nervous and on guard yet somehow a little excited at the same time, not helping her already aroused condition.
"It's a girl-cub," Kaa laughed, stroking Shanti's hair. "My favorite girl-cub..." Kaa was playing a dangerous game. Without the girl under hypnosis, he risked having her run off again, or waking up her current "guardian". He was confident he could manage, though. Mowgli seemed to be deep in sleep, and Shanti would be helpless on her own, as he knew. Besides, he was trying to play the long game...
"Ohh... it's you..." she responded, trying to recall his name while she wrinkled her nose at the sensation of his tail slipping across her head and playing with her smooth black hair. Shanti lifted her arms to remove the tail tip, waving him away in annoyance at the disruption. She was not in the mood to deal with this unwelcome acquaintance just now.
"Would you mind... please, just go away. Leave me be..." The words were spoken with dejection and tiredness as the girl-cub folded her arms underneath her perky bosom trapped tight under the top of her dress.
Admittedly, Kaa was a bit disappointed Shanti wasn't as receptive to his advances as he had anticipated. Then again, this was the first time she was conversing without the effects of his hypnosis. It may take a bit more persuasion, but Kaa was certain he had left some lasting impressions on her after their lustful night together. Indeed, even though she removed his tail from her hair, her folded arms now only accentuated her young breasts, her nipples just visible poking out from beneath the lavender fabric. Kaa licked his lips at the sight.
Mowgli, meanwhile, was still in the land of dreams, but nonetheless heard Shanti's pleas to be left alone. Subconsciously, he felt hurt by her words, believing they were directed at him. He was trying so hard to get closer to her...
"... mmm, come on Shanti... just... like me... hrm, l-lov..." Mowgli trailed off, his sentence unfinished as sleep took hold once again. Shanti frowned as she heard Mowgli's sleepy mumbling in response to her talking to the python dangling in front of her. What was he trying to say? Of course she liked him... more than that, she had been trying to show him for so long...
If nothing else, Mowgli had successfully given Kaa newfound inspiration. With Mowgli so far gone, he would have no trouble bringing the girl to his side once again. And with Shanti with little apparent memory of what transpired in their first encounter, Kaa felt no shame in reusing some old tricks. Leaning his head into Shanti's tired eyes, Kaa's own pupils lit up with a beautiful display of colors once again. Ring after ring of dazzling light emerge from the snake's eyes, staring intently into Shanti's dark brown ones.
Shanti's thoughts were interrupted by the rude snake once more. His head had ducked down close to hers, invading her vision and hissing soft, gentle words that seemed to encourage her to relax... and... huh? His glowing eyes released a beautiful flow of light into her own at close range, attracting her attention and coaxing her into staring deeper.
"Yesss, girl-cub. You know you like me. You can't resist me. You're obsessed with my touch." Matching his words, Kaa's tail moved downward to caress Shanti's exposed thigh, eventually coiling around it entirely. It shouldn't take long for the girl to remember exactly what he could offer her.
Shanti's eyes widened and her mouth hung open with a gasp as the colorful rings dances outwards, each one as dazzling and entrancing as the previous meeting and winding their way into the girl-cub's already weakened mind. Her body instantly remembered feelings and sensations from the last time she had seen those pretty colors, sending a shiver down her body that set her loins alight with arousal and filled the air with the delicate scent of her wet slit hiding under the short hem of her dress, so tantalizingly close to the tail tip that teased its way up and around her thigh.
"Uh..K-Kaa...?" she whispered, suddenly remembering the name of the python that so easily released her of her willpower before, already feeling herself crumble again as her pupils shrank down into nothing, replaced by a single ring of light pulsing outwards. His words began to manipulate her thoughts, weakening her resistance and enhancing the feeling of the smooth coils caressing the soft skin of her leg, the sensation of her erect nipples pressing against the fabric that contained them.
There was little else that pleased Kaa more than seeing a girl-cub submit to his control and plunge into erotic pleasure. Shanti's eyes filled with his hypnotic rings, the musky aroma of her pussy filling the thick jungle air. Things were certainly moving along at an agreeable pace.
"Yes, Shanti. It's Kaa... your one and only lover... your seducer. Your master. You remember how good it felt to be under my control? The utter arousal..." The tip of Kaa's tail slithered from the loop around Shanti's thigh towards her the heat-emanating center between her legs. It teased her by coming so desperately close to her moist lips before pulling away once again.
Shanti's arms swung down to her sides, limp and heavy, as Kaa danced and swayed before her. His eyes were locked with hers feeding them with ring after ring of enticing color until his hypnosis dominated her mind. Flurries of rings mirrored in her own eyes as her body leaned forwards off the trunk just in time for a coil to slip behind her and support her young body. She could feel Kaa's truthful words weaving a web of lust and obedience inside her, making his every touch electric against her skin as his tail tip teased up her thigh, closing on her tight wet pussy only to slide away at the last moment and drawing a soft moan of sexual desire from the helpless girl.
Tightening his grip on her leg, a further section of Kaa's tail moved gently behind Shanti's back, supporting the girl-cub. Then, with comfort and dexterity, Kaa lifted the girl upside down into the air. With her leg hanging prostrate, everything else dangled freely downward: Shanti's girlish pigtails, her free arms and leg, the hem of her dress...
The thin purple fabric flopped down over her chest, revealing her body up beyond her navel, still hanging over her supple tits and leaving her head and wide spiraling eyes gazing off into the distance, dazed and horny. It was no surprise to Kaa that she had lost her underwear with him, and he peered delightedly at the sight. "I made you feel so good, didn't I Shanti? So special..." He chuckled at his tongue ran along Shanti's feminine lips once again, tasting her juices as he did so.
Though Shanti wasn't completely under just yet, her body was like a limp doll that let her seducer toy with her as he wished. Her free leg swung down and to the side, like her arms, spreading her trembling slit and putting it on show for Kaa as the girl-cub's wetness dribbled down her dangling body... that is, until the serpent's tongue traced across her skin and lapped up the sweet nectar of her desires. With Kaa's colorful rings occupying her mind, slowing her thoughts, all Shanti could do was hang there and groan as his mouth tasted the pussy he had claimed not long ago. It felt so damn good to let the python take over. She realized she had been longing for this the entire time they had been separated, thoughts of Mowgli rapidly dwindling now that the sly master had her in his grasp.
While not yet completely under his control, Shanti was in such a state that Kaa could have easily made off with her. He chose not to, however; he needed to do something first. In their first altercation, Kaa had spent the night pleasing Shanti. And why wouldn't he? She was far too cute, too sexually charged to deny pleasure. But with Shanti abandoning him the next morning, Kaa never had a chance to receive his own dose of pleasure. Something he intended to rectify now.
Finishing his quick lapping of her pussy, he moved up Shanti's leg, giving licks along her lovely skin. The young girl-cub shivered as the serpent's tongue lightly danced up the leg that held her in place, dangling obediently while Kaa inspected her body and brought her arousal to as high a level as possible while he completed his seduction. Shanti's eyes rolled as she found herself overcome with the many feelings that bombarded her numb brain. So horny, so much pleasure, so much bliss to be had while the python controlled her mind and body.
"Now, my sweet thing... I have a small request to make of you..." He paused, licking Shanti's bare sole before moving his head down to hers, upside-down, and continued his hypnotic onslaught. "And it will make you feel better than ever before! All I ask... is a little reciprocation... You'd like that, wouldn't you?"
It was only when Kaa's smiling face reappeared, turned to face her normally as she hung upside down, that Shanti's eyes snapped back to reality and widened again at the sight of his barrage of colors. Now her body eagerly urged her mind to submit to the spirals, to soak up every single ring and let her master take complete control and a smile began to form at the corners of her gaping mouth. Her pussy lips were puffed and dark, swollen with desire as her spread position revealed a sliver of the hot pink delight that awaited him.
A coil descended above both of their heads, from the center emerging Kaa's member. Hard and erect, it moved between Shanti's spread legs, its top moving back and forth along her entrance. The heat was almost unbearable.
The girl-cub was hopelessly lost in Kaa's power, tumbling into the abyss, as his cock began a slow and teasing grind across her pussy. The tip tenderly prodded her clit as she was guided towards the right answer... the only answer... her head bobbing up and down in agreement.
"Y-yes Kaaaa... whatever you want... I want it..." she moaned at his smiling face as she made her own silly grin. His member felt thicker, stronger, than his tail tip, and Shanti was ready to give herself to him completely the moment he plunged into her virgin folds.
"As it should be," Kaa said with a grin, laughing at Shanti's silly, aroused face. As he kept grinding against her core, he felt that neither of them could wait much longer, particularly with Shanti happily obeying his logic once more.
The constant grinding of his thick rod against her hungry pussy was enough to send the dazed aroused girl-cub over the edge, Kaa's will dominating her as her mind emptied with a PING. Her hips attempted to buck and grind back against Kaa's member as he teased her, but they were barely able to do any more than wobble eagerly in the air in her compromising position. All she was aware of was the utter bliss she had fallen into again.
As it was, Kaa wasn't the only one who appreciated Shanti's reaction. In Mowgli's dreams, he heard Shanti speaking to him. Whatever he wants... she wants it... Mowgli wasn't sure what he wanted, but to know that Shanti wanted it too... but who was it she was speaking to? And what was that hissing response?
The man-cub stirred and rubbed his eyes, just barely awake. Something had awoken him from his dreams. "Shanti, did you say some-" the boy stopped as he turned behind him and saw a horrific sight. Shanti was hanging upside down, her dress askew, by Kaa the Python. Rather than trying to eat her, however, between her legs he had his... penis? Mowgli didn't know what was going on, but it enrages him to see Shanti in danger of the snake once again.
"Kaa?!" He shouted, snarling much more convincingly than before. He raced over to thwack Kaa with his elbow, the snake's head knocking against another branch. Moving with speed that surprised even him, Mowgli caught Shanti as Kaa lost his grip on the girl, cradling her head in his arms.
"Shanti! Are you okay?" Mowgli asked desperately.
"You have just made a very ssstupid mistake, man-cub," Kaa suddenly hisses, furious himself. Just as he was about to get his fuck he was waiting for. His eyes beamed their hypnotic colors, closing in on Mowgli.
"I-I... Uh..." Mowgli was just as susceptible to hypnosis as he ever was, his eyes becoming transfixed with the rings before taking them on himself. All thoughts gone, he dropped Shanti onto the branch.
Mowgli's words fell on deaf ears, even as he assaulted Kaa and caught the enslaved girl as she slipped from the python's hold. He shouted at her, asking if she was okay, only to be met by a wide, blank stare of eyes with colorful rings flowing through them, accompanied by her happy horny grin as her splayed legs flopped down to the branch, her dress sliding back down to barely cover her aching core.
Once Kaa turned his attention to the man-cub who immediately succumbed to the hypnotic eyes that had controlled him all those years ago, Shanti's body slumped down to the branch with a bump that shook Kaa's hold over her. She blinked a few times, dizzy and vulnerable as she came to her senses. Horror and confusion overcame Shanti as she realized what had just happened. That sneaky python had ensnared her again, and it had been so easy! He had done... things to her... made her feel good... a fact reinforced by a slight shiver down her spine to her pussy as the last of the spirals left her eyes. She slipped a hand down and gasped as she felt how wet she was, was this Kaa's doing?
The serpent's aggressive hisses broke her concentration as Shanti turned to see Mowgli helpless in Kaa's gaze. "Mowgli - no!" Mowgli stared wide-eyed at Kaa, lost in his own hypnotic hold as the python stared angrily back. This man-cub had caused far too much trouble for him, but ruining his carnal pleasure may have been the last straw. The scrawny man-cub's mind pinged, gaining a wide smile in the process, and Kaa loomed over him ominously.
"You're about to enter a sleep from which you won't awake, you meddlesome man-cub. And then your little friend will be mine to enjoy. Farewell, man-cub." Moving quickly to save her friend, Shanti looked around and found the coils that had recently held her leg tumbled up in a heap on the branch. Perhaps that would work! The girl-cub bent low to press her hands and shoulder against the coils, slowly inching them towards the edge until they finally tumbled down... but would it be enough to save Mowgli? Kaa opened his mouth wide, about to bring an end to Mowgli once and for all, when he suddenly felt a great shift in his weight.
The coils Shanti had toppled had plopped unceremoniously on the ground, pulling the rest of the snake with them. Shouting with surprise, Kaa was bumped and squashed against several branches before he landed entirely on the jungle floor. Shanti scrambled to the side of the branch to watch the coils as they tumbled to the ground. Peeking out from his messy pile of coils, he saw the man-cubs, free from his grasp yet again. The snake hissed with anger, slithering off as best he could, but swore things weren't over. They would have to leave the tree soon. And when they did, he would be ready to retrieve his prize.
In the darkness of the night the girl-cub could barely see the serpent slither away in disgust at being foiled again, vowing to return and finish the job. She couldn't help but smirk and giggle at having saved the day. "Hehehe... look Mowgli!" she shouted back to her friend, pointing with a finger as the python disappeared into the undergrowth. But there was no reply. While Kaa was now dealt with, the effects of his hypnosis were still apparent in the smiling man-cub, blissfully unaware of anything that had happened. His thoughts were simple and happy... Shanti smiling at him... laughing, her nose scrunching... her rear end, moving back and forth... that soaking wet area between her legs... For whatever reason, it was these thoughts that filled Mowgli's head. And they made him quite content.
Turning around, Shanti saw Mowgli standing straight up with a dumb grin across his face. His eyes were wide and full of Kaa's hypnotizing power - just looking at those colors again made Shanti shiver, even if they lacked their true strength when they came from a slave's eyes rather than Kaa's. All the same, she jumped up and moved close to him.
"Mowgli... Mowgli wake up..." she called to him as she firmly slapped his cheeks several times. The harsh slapping was enough to rouse him from the hypnosis, and the girl-cub waited patiently in front of him as he came to, her hands slipping down to rest on his shoulders and at the back of his neck. At first, besides suffering from slapping on his face, Mowgli didn't realize he had woken from a trance at all. The images of Shanti in his mind were replaced with the sight of Shanti's beautiful smiling face in front of him. Mowgli momentarily paused to get a bearing of his surroundings, but quickly resumed his smile and enjoyed Shanti's embrace. Shanti beamed up at his face as he woke from Kaa's control. It seemed a shame to interrupt whatever happy thoughts were spinning through his mind, and was it her imagination, or did his loincloth seem a little tighter than usual?
"T-thanks, Shanti," Mowgli said, his face blushing at how close they were once again. Thank goodness they saves each other... from Kaa. Mowgli's smoke disappeared remembering what Kaa had just attempted to do to Shanti. "Are you alright? Kaa had you and..." Mowgli trailed off. Right now, the two were happy, she might not even remember what Kaa had done, and Mowgli wasn't sure he wanted her to remember.
Shanti smiled as she saw normality return to Mowgli's face, grinning down at her with a genuine smile as opposed to the mindless smile caused by Kaa's induction. "I'm okay," was all she could say in a gentle. Both of them let their thoughts wander back to the way Kaa had treated the entranced Shanti, the rubbing, the arousal... until they both returned to reality, red cheeks and awkwardly standing together upon the branch. Stroking Shanti's arms comfortingly, Mowgli smiled reassuringly.
"Why don't we go back to sleep for right now. We'll figure things out in the morning."
She nodded to Mowgli's decision, feeling sleepiness wash over her as the adrenaline of the Kaa situation wore off. The two cubs tucked down onto the branch, each of them thinking on the evening's events and working through their feelings. Turning back around to lay on the branch, Mowgli thought about Shanti, and how close Kaa was to… doing something. Seeing that made him feel so frightened for her, and yet parts of him liked what he saw. And that scared him even more. He decided he would handle these difficult questions in the morning. At some point in the night Shanti crawled over to Mowgli's sleeping body and gently laid down beside him, as that's where she woke up, contented and once again enraptured with her childhood friend.
***
The following morning saw Shanti in a much happier mood as she playfully leaped onto fallen logs, daintily walking along them before jumping back down, engaging in conversation with Mowgli animatedly and with her trademark little giggles punctuating the jungle air. In some senses their relationship had changed, and the girl-cub was more eager than ever to explore these changes and see where they would lead, the monstrous serpent of the previous night all but forgotten.
Mowgli greatly appreciated the rediscovered levity between the two man-cubs himself. Having Shanti in such a cheerful, talkative mood brought a smile to his face, and her energetic movements were a sight to watch with great interest, especially given Mowgli's new found interest in Shanti's body. This simple, happy atmosphere... it made it all the more difficult for Mowgli to bring up what was on his mind.
The man-cub's heart was heavy at the prospect of ruining the mood, but he knew he needed to confront the elephant in the room. Well, snake as it were. As much as Shanti's condition last night dazzled his thoughts, he couldn't deny the danger Kaa presented to her. If Mowgli hadn't woken up when he did... well, he wasn't entirely sure, but he certainly didn't want either of them to find out. If Kaa could find Shanti a second time, he could do it a third. And if Mowgli liked Shanti as much as he did at that very moment, it was his responsibility to keep her safe.
Hopping alongside Shanti, but at a considerably slower pace, Mowgli eventually found a moment to break things to the girl-cub. "Hey, Shanti? I uh, I'm glad you're feeling better today. Are we... okay?"
Mowgli's question interrupted the girl-cub as she hummed a delicate song to herself, a similar little tune to the one she sang as she collected water like when they had first met. She turned her head to him as he awkwardly formed his words, looking back at him with an innocence that made it all the more difficult for the man-cub to speak to her.
"Mmm? Okay? Why wouldn't we be okay...?" she replied simply, evidently happy to forget all her previous frustration with following in Mowgli's footsteps if they had turned a corner in their relationship. Giving him a warm smile that would thrill any hot blooded man cub who saw it, she turned back around and began walking onwards, humming her tune and thinking nothing of Mowgli's silly questions.
Mowgli bit his lip and sighed. Shanti was clearly not in a mood to talk heavy subjects, but this wasn't something he could dismiss so easily. Rubbing his hand across his neck awkwardly he, he stumbled out some words.
"Well... I dunno... you were a little upset before and... well, I know that you're feeling better now... but it's just that... well..." The thought of Kaa was sitting in his mind, the helpless girl-cub just waiting to be used for whatever nefarious purposes the snake had for her.
"... It's just that it's kind of dangerous out in the jungle. I'm... worried about you."
Shanti grinned, her nose wrinkling, as she listened to Mowgli's awkward speech. What was he mumbling on about? Continuing to skip along beside her close friend she looked around, only half listening to the boring conversation that the man-cub had decided to start up. She saw the beauty of the jungle now, bathed in dappled sunlight on this beautiful morning... wandering with her handsome friend who had saved her from the devious serpent.
"Why worried? I thought you would protect me, y'know, like last night?" Shanti's blindness to the torment within Mowgli only added to the difficulty in getting to the point. She was obviously perfectly happy with what had transpired the previous night. Despite the peril she had been in, however pleasurable it had been, Mowgli had saved her, and they were now closer than ever. The girl-cub just couldn't see what was so serious that Mowgli was bringing it up now.
Mowgli shuddered as Shanti mentioned out loud the events of the previous night for the first time. Here he was trying to be delicate about the topic, and it turned out he was more affected by it than she was. Why did she have to be so happy with his company now?
"Last night was... too close. What would have happened if I didn't..." Mowgli couldn't finish the thought, much less because he wasn't sure of the answer, but it was gruesome all the same. "I tried protecting you, but I don't know if I'm good enough. I'm no Bagheera..." Turning his eyes in shame, Mowgli simply had to stop the village girl from skipping about so innocently. He would never be able to get out what he had to say next. Shanti's playful demeanor was abruptly brought to a halt as Mowgli grasped her bare, slender shoulders. She looked into his eyes and saw worry and distress that she had never seen in him before.
"I have to bring you back to the village, for your own safety. I'll drop you off tonight." Mowgli certainly couldn't return to the village himself. The wild boy was already an outcast when he first came. Running away with one of the daughters of the village would earn him no extra regard, especially if they knew what had happened to her. It was too much.
Shanti's smile faded swiftly as Mowgli uttered his decision. "W-what? The village?!" she shouted, startled, as her body Recoiled from Mowgli's touch. It was the last thing she would have suspected after all the trouble he went to to persuade her to enjoy the jungle. The tables had turned and Shanti was stunned for a second at the thought of her dear friend pushing her away once more, this time for good.
"I thought you wanted me to stay with you! You lied to me!" she yelled, backing away from Mowgli as she found her voice again. A chill rose up her spine - the situation had turned from wonderful to terrible in a matter of moments and her reflexes took over. With a sudden movement the girl-cub turned and ran from the path and into the thick undergrowth. She had no idea how she was suddenly able to traverse the jungle with such speed, indeed the thought hadn't even crossed her mind, she was simply running... impulsively running from the problem, from Mowgli, and deeper into the depths of the wilderness. Where was she going? What would she do? She had no clue. All she could do was scrub the tears from her cheeks, brush branches and shrubs aside, and run.
"I... but-Shanti, wait!"
Shanti's reaction was not unexpected, yet Mowgli couldn't prepare for the massive guilt at hurting her like this. He didn't lie to her... did he? He didn't have a chance to defend himself, as before he knew it Shanti had turned and began sprinting from him into the deep growth of the jungle. On any other day, he probably would have been able to catch up to her, wild boy that he was. Yet the suddenness of Shanti's run, the erratic nature of her path, and the knot of intense sorrow in Mowgli's gut prevented him from keeping up with the girl. Within a few moments she was completely out of sight, Mowgli looking frantically for some sort of clue to her where shouts.
"Shanti!" He shouted, pushing leaves and vines out of the way to try to hear any response. He clutched his head anxiously. He broke the news to her to keep her safe; now she was completely unprotected in the jungle. Mowgli could do his best to track her movements, but he hoped he could do so quickly enough. Who knew if anything else would find her first?