The river was serene today, gurgling quietly as it ribboned through the jungle.

Mowgli floated on her back, limbs spread wide, eyes closed as she was lazily carried down the stream. The sun broke through a patchy cloud layer, illuminating her body whenever she floated into a sunbeam. She drifted with the current, not making any attempt to alter her course. For all she cared, she could be taken to wherever the river ended. If it would get her away from all this madness, away from all these creatures attempting to have her way with her, then it would be a destination that she would not mind getting to see.

The river banks were nothing but impenetrable screens of trees on either side of the estuary. The dense jungle as far as the eye could see, with the waterway the lone physical feature breaking up the monotony of the green canopy of leaves.

Whenever Mowgli got tired of just floating, she would playfully turn and swim along with the current for a time. The water was dense and full of nutrients, managing to obscure most of her naked body under the surface. Though the river was slow, the rainy season not having arrived yet, the speed at which it was traveling was at a brisk pace, about a jog. Mowgli was at least glad to realize that she was covering a lot of ground this way. Why hadn't she thought of taking this route before?

The waters of the river had removed all of the soreness that Mowgli had accumulated over the past several hours. Her body had stopped aching from the Bandar-log's assault, to her relief. She was still in the adrenaline comedown from the attack, her fight-or-flight response having completely left her exhausted. But mostly she was still angered from how easy it had been for every single being that she had come across being able to restrain and have their way with her and she was helpless to stop it all. She could still recall the spray of ejaculate over her from Kaa, the thighs of the lamia wrapped around her head, the terrible moment when the erection of the Bandar-log had slipped into anus, producing a vile and overwhelming pressure. She was at the moment where she was about to give up, to plead for mercy. Any more of this and she would break for good this time.

Soon, the morning broke into full-fledged day and Mowgli soon tired of swimming. She was going to have to get out of this water eventually—her toes were beginning to prune—but she was still so tired. She figured she could wait another half hour before heading back to shore.

It was easy for the child to float on her back and enter a twilight stage of sleep, arms spread-eagle once again. The river was flat and would be so for mile after mile. There was nothing to fear here.

Mowgli was soon approaching a bend in the river. Her position took her along the outer track of the tributary, close to a tree that extended over the water, where branches and vines dipped perilously close to the brimming surface. The girl floated underneath the tree, bathing her in shade. She was almost clear of it when, all of a sudden, one of the vines shifted and plunged into the water, wrapping around Mowgli's leg in a quick spray of liquid and held tight. Mowgli lurched her head up, thinking that she had caught on something, when the vine unexpectedly ripped back, lifting the nude girl clear out of the water.

With a yell, Mowgli was lifted into the branches, the river rushing below her, fluid dripping from her skin. Her wet hair hung downward, and the vine—no, coils—that gripped around her ankle left her bare foot pointing skyward. "No!" she cried out. "No, no, no, no, no!"

"Oh, yesssss," a familiar voice slithered through the air and soon Mowgli found herself face-to-face with Kaa, though the serpent's head was oriented right-side up. "My, my, girl-cub. You've been having quite the busy last few days, haven't you?"

"You-!" Mowgli growled as she threw a punch towards the snake's head. She missed by a mile, given that her coordination was shot from being hung upside-down, and the fact that Kaa, too quick for her, simply moved his head out of the way.

"Manners, girl-cub," Kaa clucked. With a flick of his coils, Mowgli was sent sailing into the air, but another loop of scales clenched just in time around her waist at the apex of her launch. The snake's massive body quickly coiled around the girl, pinning her arms to her waist and looped all the way up until it was nearly at her neck.

The girl's wet skin was slick against Kaa's scales and the serpent's body was throbbing against her, tightening the grip. Grunting and thrashing as hard as she could, Mowgli wrenched her body desperately, trying to get free. She was screaming out loud, in defiance as much as pained fear, hoping that someone would hear her and rescue her. But Kaa finally had enough of Mowgli's caterwauling and completed the loop of scales around the child's neck and squeezed. Hard.

"Hu-GACK!" Mowgli's eyes bugged out, her tongue lolling from her mouth, a string of drool perched from it. Her cheeks began to turn a shade of crimson, but she could still breathe, but just barely.

Kaa maneuvered his head close to Mowgli's. The girl's eyes widened as she found she could not look away from Kaa's beady ones, knowing the power that he could inflict on her. But strangely, the snake did not exert his hypnotic powers on her. Why wouldn't he? It would make her pliant. Accepting. Willing, even.

Then, she could only wheeze in silence as her panic began to build in her belly when she saw a part of Kaa's body lift up from behind his head. From where it had been sheathed, the snake's thick erection began to spring out, jutting nearly perpendicular to his body. The pink flesh glistened in the low light and Mowgli could vividly remember the taste of the snake's ejaculate when she had sucked him off and the feel of the ropes of come when they had splattered across her face and chest. She had felt so unclean then, like even the mightiest of thunderstorms would never wash away the shame.

But the snake did not move his penis towards her face this time. Rather, as a grin began to tug at the corner's of Kaa's mouth, the serpent moved that portion of his body lower. Lower… lower… Soon, it was out of sight, and when Mowgli's outstretched toes felt a supple portion of Kaa's bulk brush underneath her, she then realized what the snake was intending to do.

He was going to rape her. Right here in this tree.

"Shush, girl-cub," Kaa soothed as Mowgli let out a few involuntary whimpers. "This will be so much more enjoyable if you… just… relax. Who knows? You might even beg me for more."

Mowgli wanted to cry out in denial, but her paralytic fear rendered her completely unable to voice a single word of protest. Her soul yearned for freedom. For an end to this humiliation.

But there would be no one to heed her cry.

She felt his penis brush her inner thigh, smooth flesh caressing the slick instrument. The snake was positioning himself between her legs. The tip of the serpent's cock slid higher and higher until it was just prodding her moist lips, seeking a home at that junction. Would he even fit? The snake did not seem to care at all, given his efforts to slither past her opening and to touch that part of her body that had not yet been touched.

Attempting to clench her legs together to deny Kaa entrance, Mowgli mustered a final effort with a series of moans and grunts, but Kaa was already too far between her legs for her to have any effect. He felt the resistance against him though, and he chuckled, knowing there was nothing the girl-cub could do.

"Yes," Kaa hissed, and he opened his mouth, clasping the child's lips in a passionate kiss, his tongue claiming hers in a passionate twirl, producing a sharp noise, and she opened her body to him, albeit involuntarily.

She felt a thick pressure in her loins as the snake entered her. It was so intense that she completely forgot everything—how to breathe, how to think, how to live—as Kaa pushed inch after inch of his cock into her. The snake was so sexually excited that he was panting with anticipation into her mouth, the two of them still kissing. Mowgli emitted a high cry as her body engulfed the cock that pushed deep into her, muscles straining to accept this new presence. Her eyes rolled into her head, her tongue lolled out and Kaa began sucking on it, grinning in pleasure as he too began to murmur with his own sounds of delight.

"Does that feel good, girl-cub?" Kaa whispered into Mowgli's ear after he had finished sucking at her tongue. His own forked tongue flicked at the lobe of her ear and Mowgli shuddered.

"I… it… it feels…" Mowgli could not even finish her sentence. She was on the verge of blacking out, for Kaa's penis was brushing against a spot of intense pleasure, causing waves of ecstasy to radiate all down her body as if she was by a roaring fire.

A loop gently coiled around Mowgli's neck, but did not constrict. It allowed Kaa to bring his head up against Mowgli's, and he nuzzled his cheek against hers, as if they were lovers.

"Thisssss is only natural, girl-cub," Kaa whispered before he licked Mowgli's ear, causing a shudder to emit from the child. "We are only flesh and blood, you and I. We have needs. Desires. What you and I want… is to be complete."

As he was talking, Kaa slowly drew out his penis from within Mowgli. Fluid from the girl was dribbling down the snake's cock, for Mowgli was so aroused, though it was completely unintentional. She would have given anything in her power to not be in this position with Kaa, but as far as reality was concerned, her body could only accept the cock within her, not at all picky.

With another slow thrust, a moan burst from the girl's mouth as Kaa hilted himself within Mowgli. A cadre of birds burst from the canopy from Mowgli's emission, which had been a low and husky grunt. Kaa looked down and saw the labia of the child brushing up against his body, his cock nowhere to be seen. The child was unlike anything he had mated with before. There had been several instances where he had tormented other creatures of the jungle before, but this was different. Mowgli was different. She was tight, warm, and that fiery defiance of hers—thinking that she was better than everyone else in the forest—aroused Kaa to no end. She thought she was superior to him and only now was she realizing that was not the case. Kaa had every intention of breaking her, and based on the girl's cries at this moment, that would not take long at all.

Kaa continued to nuzzle his head against Mowgli's. He was starting to gasp, his eyes closed. "You and I… were made for each other. Do you agree?"

The snake continued to thrust in and out between Mowgli's naked legs. The poor child was so brain-addled that she could only go along with the snake's suggestions. "Yessssss…" she uttered inanely.

Mowgli teetered on the edge of consciousness as the snake's cock hilted inside her, again and again. It felt like he was deliberately trying to knock her out. There was no pain, but this enormous weight upon her mind, like a hand was closing around her brain and squeezing hard. Her mind strained as Kaa's penis invaded her body. She was drooling, dripping upon the snake's body that coiled all around her. In the most lucid part of her mind, she fully knew what was happening to her. She was mating with the snake. No, he was raping her. This… this should not be possible. It was the law of the jungle. She should not be having sex with a creature such as this.

She wanted to scream, but lacked the will to do so.

After a minute or two, Kaa began to grow impatient. His thrusts started to increase in frequency, resulting in slapping sounds emitting through the treetops as his scaley body met with Mowgli's skin.

The quicker pace resulted in the girl-cub becoming only more incoherent. Her head was bobbing back and forth, the tension in her neck having vanished. As the snake grew closer to his orgasm, parts of his body began to relax. The loops that had previously restrained Mowgli were starting to fall away. Bit by bit, more and more of Mowgli's naked body was exposed, starting with her shoulders, to her flat breasts, and finally her quivering belly.

The girl-cub was already driving Kaa crazy. He was near the edge already—no other creature in the forest had managed to do that to him! The snake abandoned all pretense and started to grunt, softly at first, and quickly escalated in volume to the tempo of his thrusts.

Now, only a single loop was grasping around Mowgli's waist. Her butt was scraping against the serpent's frame as he thrusted into her. While she could have escaped if she mustered the effort, fleeing was the last thing on her mind. All that she wanted—no, needed—was to reach the locus of this pressure within her. It felt like something was brimming in her stomach, growing fiercer, with intensity. It felt like something was about to give in her body. It was either going to be her mind, or herself.

She bounced upon Kaa's penis, her butt jiggling from every impact as she smacked down on him with every thrust. Her feet dangled in mid-air, her toes flexing and curling. The little girl was screaming with ecstasy, her cries so loud they caused every other creature in earshot to flee out of fright.

It was just her in this dark jungle. Her and the snake. His face filled her eyes, her soul. His cock slid into her, the rape complete. Skin against scales. The young child finally overcome by the ancient snake.

Kaa kept pushing inside her. He was big, so big that her mind was on the verge of breaking. He filled her completely—if he was any bigger, she would burst.

Together, they thrusted and writhed, as if they were a singular organism. The rush of the water below filled Mowgli's ears. Her eyes rolled up into her head. Her tongue drooped further out from her tongue. Her breasts and belly were slick with her own sweat.

It felt like something was going to give soon. Something really… really…

"Kaaaaaa," she wailed, drool flinging from her open mouth as her own orgasm finally overcame her.

Fluid spat out from between her legs, turning Kaa's coils slick. She was in the final throes of ecstasy, Kaa's penis having coaxed out her completion with his frantic thrusting. The child ground against the snake, emitting a gush from her slit that spat all over the serpent's underbelly. She was coming so hard and so powerfully that she nearly blacked out, her face contorted in a mask that could be interpreted as pain, but was in reality a powerful sense of pleasure. Her entire body seemed to vibrate and she violently jerked back and forth, heaving and gasping as she came, tears and spittle dripping from her face as she bathed in her afterglow.

But the rape had not yet finished. Kaa still had his own orgasm to complete. As the snake's own groans were rising in volume and pitch, it seemed that moment was just upon him, and Mowgli.

"Yes… yes… girl-cub… yesssss!" Kaa grunted, followed by a long cry of his own as the serpent's own body began to quake between Mowgli's legs.

There was a rumble and a sudden pressure that seemed to surge through the serpentine creature's very form, straight towards the girl who was impaled upon his cock.

Kaa roared.

A warm and hot sensation burst into Mowgli, so violent that it shocked Mowgli straight out of her own afterglow. A long pulse of liquid rushed into Mowgli—Kaa's seed—and quickly overflowed her virgin cunt. Ejaculate burst out from around the snake's penis, which was still hilted inside the girl, long strings running down Mowgli's legs and dripping off her toes into the rushing water several feet down.

Mowgli looked down in horror at the surprise gush of warmth inside her. Saw the snake's penis continuing to come inside her. No… oh no… What had he done to her? Kaa had committed the vilest sin imaginable. To her.

By law of the jungle… she was now his.

Kaa continued to orgasm, thrusting his penis as he kept coming, spraying what seemed like gallons of semen into his victim. More and more thick whitish fluid continued to spurt from Mowgli as Kaa overflowed her, his penis still hard after several seconds of climaxing. In the middle of one of his thrusts, Kaa accidentally slipped out from Mowgli, the last of his coils limply falling off of her waist as his own energy was drained with each spurt, and his cock unloaded one last messy burst that spat up the child's belly. Semen pooled in Mowgli's navel and dripped from her nipples and she raised her hands in surprise and horror, her face a mask of pitiful fear.

Mowgli had been so surprised by the volume the snake had ejaculated that she reared backwards a bit too much. As Kaa was no longer restraining her, the last of the energy in his muscles having been spent from his orgasm, there was nothing preventing Mowgli from toppling completely over into thin air. With a long pull, Mowgli slid free of Kaa's cock, a few strands of fluid briefly connecting their bodies, before Mowgli fell out of the tree. Kaa was too dazed to even notice her unintentional escape.

Twisting as she fell, Mowgli had only a scant second to observe the massive branch she was headed towards when she smashed into it, sending sweat and semen flinging away from her body. Groaning, she shook her head, trying to clear it, when she noticed that she was beginning to slide sideways off of her perch. Her slippery skin caused her to begin to slide off the tree branch and she desperately clung to it, now holding upon the branch as she dangled upside-down from it, all four limbs looped around the wood in an effort to prevent herself from falling.

The nude child whimpered as she tried to right herself. Her left foot slipped off the branch, was left to dangle in the air, and was followed by her right foot. Now all of her weight was being supported by her arms. Mowgli dangled from the branch, nails digging into the bark, when she finally lost her grip. She sailed through twigs, leaves, and bounced off thicker branches, before finally landing in the water with a splash.

She broke the surface after several seconds, dazed, the water having washed her skin clean from sweat and Kaa's come. But Mowgli was so tired, tired enough that she did not have the strength to swim or turn herself over to float. The groaning girl made a limp effort to get to the nearest shore, hearing Kaa's noises of surprise as he finally came to his senses and noticed that his prey was missing.

But it was all too much. The events of the day finally rushed up towards Mowgli. Her head disappeared under the water—she surfaced, spitting out fluid—and went under again. Under the surface, it was so quiet here. Peaceful. As though she could float here in silence, knowing nothing bad would ever happen to her again.

Mowgli woke up as she felt herself being dragged across silt and mud. Water lapped at her legs and the sun shimmered through a steam-choked haze. Something pulling her. A firm grip. Kaa?

With a start, Mowgli sat up, gasping, soaked to the bone. Whoever was pulling her gave a cry of surprise and Mowgli fell back down to the ground, no one supporting her. She lay there on the riverbank, hearing the water lap against the edge, breathing hard. She thought she had drowned back there. That she had died. Someone had gotten her out. Had saved her. But… who?

With an effort, Mowgli turned her head. Crouching behind a large fern was… something Mowgli had never seen before but was familiar, all the same. They wore the most unique of skins—colors of vibrant purple and red—a cloth that had been just like Mowgli's. They also looked like her, too, though this one's skin was a couple of shades darker and her hair was longer as well, tied into two black braids.

They were of men.

A girl. Just like Mowgli.

In that instant, Mowgli felt a sereness overcome her. This girl was the most beautiful creature that Mowgli had ever seen.

Timidly, the girl approached Mowgli, her dress stained with the waters of the river. She had been the one who had pulled her to safety. She knelt by Mowgli and took her hand in hers. Mowgli weaved her fingers, which had been chilled by the river, against the warm hand of the other child. She looked to be her age.

The clothed child smiled. "Are you… all right?" she asked Mowgli.

Their faces were inches away. Mowgli's eyes were trembling as she gazed upon the face of the other girl.

There was nothing else for it. Mowgli raised herself up, the movement itself an effort, and softly pressed her lips against the girl's. The kiss lasted for but a second, as the girl quickly pulled away in shock, but was unable to hide the shy smile that refused to leave her face.

"Why…" the girl breathed as she tugged at her hair nervously, "…why did you do that?"

Mowgli turned herself onto her side, now consciously positioning her legs and arms so that she could cover herself, recognizing that her nudity was an oddity to the other girl. "Because…" Mowgli said, "…because I think you're pretty."

Now the other girl blushed something fierce, but Mowgli had spoken the truth in her mind. After the last few terrible days, this girl was an absolute goddess to her. She had shown the girl-cub kindness and was beautiful as well. Mowgli was starting to doubt if she had actually been saved from drowning, because this was not bad, if it was the afterlife.

The girl held out her hand. "I'm Shanti."

Clasping it, the naked child said, "I'm Mowgli."

Shanti pulled Mowgli to her feet and said, "My village is not far. Come with me. I'll keep you safe. Me and my family."

Safe. Family. Mowgli brightened at hearing those words. Though she had balked at going to the man-village for so long, the promise of refuge, especially with this other girl—Shanti—was better than what the jungle had recently offered her. And there was no malice in Shanti's words, no bargains to be struck. Just a promise of shelter. And friendship, perhaps.

Mowgli then looked down at herself, at her nakedness. She noticed that Shanti was trying very hard to maintain eye contact. Her nudity was embarrassing Shanti, then? Mowgli clasped two hands over her private area, between her legs.

"How long were you in the jungle?" Shanti asked.

"All my life," Mowgli answered.

"Naked?"

"Not always. I had a covering down here." Mowgli gestured to her waist. "I lost it a few days ago."

Shanti smiled and placed her hands on Mowgli's shoulders. "At my village, there will be clothes that can keep you warm. Come with me, Mowgli. You won't have to be naked in this jungle again."

Letting herself be led through the forest down a well-trod path, Mowgli looked over her shoulder towards the lapping river. She thought this would be the last time she laid eyes on this place. If it was to be, then good riddance.

The two girls, one clothed, the other nude, disappeared through the undergrowth, as if the jungle had swallowed them whole.

TP: This is only the halfway point. We'll be taking a short break and will get to the 2nd half in due course.