I do not own Anaconda. I only own Michelle Harker.

Story Start

Everyone calmed down a small bit after all of the snakes were no longer on the boat. Luna was still around my shoulders looking at the surroundings with more paranoia than I knew she was even capable of having. She stayed wrapped around my neck with the rest of her body tense and ready for a fight. "Luna, honey, squeeze any tighter and you won't have anyone to protect," I told her softly so nobody else would hear as I ran a hand down her scales. She looked at me for a few seconds before slowly loosening her hold on me, but she stayed around my neck and shoulders. She made sure to keep her head at the front of my neck.

"She's terrified something is going to happen to me," ran through my head as the day passed on with the entire crew tense and wary of Serone.

Afternoon came upon all of quickly and as we went further down the river, we saw an old boat sitting in a shallower part of the river. Serone immediately yelled over to the abandoned looking boat, and no one answered him. Gary and Danny started saying how maybe there was more fuel because unfortunately we were running low thanks to the baby snakes knocking the gas tanks into the river hours ago. The women on the boat were not happy about the idea, but I kept my mouth shut. I was not going to say a yes or a no to this idea so maybe they would forget about me. I was mistaken though when annoying Gary just had to smile over at me and say how I should join in case we run into any more snakes or other creatures.

"No, she doesn't need to go out there, it's dangerous," Terri yelled and grabbed my hand.

"She's an expert with snakes and the other creatures here. She works in a zoo for goodness sakes. She hangs out in the alligator pin for fun," Gary defended him volunteering me.

"Ok that's true," I muttered and Terri just shook her head and threw her hands up in exasperation.

"Hurry up and be careful," Terri exclaimed before walking over to stand and calm down Denise.

"Don't worry, it'll be ok," Danny whispered to me even though he was also nervous as we all jumped down into the water.

Luna had slithered onto the top of the boat's canopy so she could watch everything. I did not want her in the river with me if I could help it. She was not happy I could tell from her loud hissing, but she stayed where she was. I stayed close to Danny as we walked through the water, which came up to my chest. I was definitely nervous about getting on that boat. My nerves grew even more with how comfortable Serone and Mateo seemed when approaching the boat. They must have known who owned this boat, which might have been another snake poacher. "Great, just great," I grumbled as I hopped onto the boat and started looking around for fuel or anything else useful. The other guys went separate ways, but Mateo and Serone seemed to walk with a certain purpose. "Yup another snake poacher," I thought as I noticed the different tools that were lying around the area of the boat I was walking through. I kept an eye out for the naga that had been following us. Without having Luna to be my warning system, I was more nervous about it popping out of nowhere, but I prayed I actually understood it correctly that it was not going to kill me.

"Don't be ridiculous, Michelle," I chastised myself before Danny's yell made me stop paying attention, which was a big mistake. I could not even scream when my feet were swept out from under me and I fell off the boat into the water. I tried not to splash or panic too much since I knew that the anaconda was definitely in the water with me. I righted myself and wiped the water out of my face. My eyes widened when I was face to face with the snake. "Hi there," I whispered almost afraid to breathe.

Shouts from inside the boat notified me that the guys were leaving me where I was, alone with a giant anaconda, and nobody knew about it. My mind focused back on the fact that a snake was right in front of me, but a gasp left me as the snake turned into its naga form. The dark skin and muscular chest was what I first saw, before I looked up and looked into its face. He was male and his yellow serpent eyes shone amongst the dark green scales surrounding his brow bones and cheek bones. He had long dark black hair with black horns sticking out on his head. The fanged teeth greeted my sight when he opened his mouth and hissed at me, but I could not understand him. The naga spoke again but I just shook my head slowly and the naga frowned before his clawed hands grabbed me.

A yelp left me when another splash sounded in the water. Yells for Mateo and me were filling the air from the others, and I could hear sounds of splashing and struggling going on near me. From the corner of my eye, I saw another anaconda wrap around and kill Mateo. A shiver raced through me, which the naga holding me felt, and he gave me a small smirk. I stared back up into the naga's eyes wondering what he was going to do and I was soon answered when he pulled me closer to him before biting into my neck. "Please don't kill me," I prayed mentally as I felt the fangs glide into my neck and small trickles of blood ran down my skin.

"My name is Alaric," a masculine voice whispered into my mind as my ears heard hissing when the naga released my neck. The naga wiped away from the blood from my neck as he watched me for a reaction.

"You just spoke in my mind, how?" was all I could stutter out as I was pulled closer to the naga when movement in the water behind me surprised me.

"There is much for you to learn, Michelle," Alaric spoke again in hisses, but his words rang through my mind as if he were speaking English.

"Alaric, we must go," a new male voice said and I saw out of the corner of my eyes that the snake that had killed Mateo was in the water beside me and Alaric.

"Go back to the others, Michelle, and quickly," Alaric told me before he returned to his anaconda form right in front of my eyes.

"Danny, Terri, wait," I immediately screamed when I found my voice again. I waded through the water past Mateo's dead body as quickly as I could. I had to make it back to the boat before Serone decided it would be perfectly all right to just keep going.

"We are not leaving until we get Michelle and Mateo," Terri's voice screamed as I was fighting my way through the water and plants.

"I'm not dead, wait," I screamed again but not in a frantic way, just in a way that got the point across that they better wait.

"Michelle, get up here," Danny shouted spotting me first before everybody else. I was actually surprised to see that Luna was resting on Danny's shoulders as I finally made it to the boat. He grabbed my hands and helped me onto the boat before Terri pulled me into a surprisingly strong hug. Luna then took that opportunity to slither onto my shoulders. She tensed when she smelt the presence of the nagas on my neck and around my body. She butted her head against my cheek before resting on my neck.

"I'm ok, I'm ok, but we need to leave," I told the rest of the people on the boat.

"We can't leave Mateo," Denise said this time.

"He's dead, I saw an anaconda kill him. He's not coming back and we need to keep going," I told all of them thinking about what the anacondas had said.