2 Water like the night sky (1/2)
*crack* Crack* *slop*
This is bad!
While mesmerized by the mysterious light, I failed to notice that I am surrounded by hundreds of eggs. Eggs much like the one I crawled out of.
Fortunately, I was one of the first ones hatched... If I wasn't that lucky as to have such a fortunate timing, I would be swimming in the belly of one these monsters!
Well, ”siblings” sounds more correct, because I'm not sure yet that I am in another world so calling them monsters wouldn't be accurate and being born in the same nest must mean we share at least one of our parents, therefore, we are siblings.
*Grumble*
While we are at it, it would seem that I am getting a bit peckish. I need to hide before the same starts to apply to them.
I was surrounded from all sides, with many of the eggs still hatching and myself being one of those rare few who already hatched.
Lets just quickly analyze my surroundings.
To my left is a dirt-filled passage that is impassable for me at the moment. To my right is that mysterious old-looking fountain. Every other direction is just swarms of soon-to-be hungry predators.
But I am one of them, so why don't I just act like them?
Nope.
If my hobby ever taught me anything about these scenarios, it is that those who hide survive, not those who act strong. If I know anything that would be two things: Snakes and Novel scenarios.
I've been learning about snakes ever since I fell in love with them in preschool while on a zoo tour we went to as a class. It now feels like a lifetime ago... Nevermind.
I then even worked as a tamer once I grew older so I have quite a few accumulated years in experience with snakes.
That is why I know that once they get hungry they will start resorting to cannibalism. And I don't want to be the one that gets eaten, minutes after getting reborn.
That would have been such a heavenly comedy.
”A man, blessed by Gods to have another chance in life after death, dies mere seconds after getting born again...”
Yep, curtains down and roll the outro music because that will happen if I don't dip out of here to a safer place.
The second thing I'm very familiar with is novels.
I spent most of my free time watching anime, manga, and reading novels, but novels always rope me in the most.
From Chinese Cultivation novels to Japanese isekai. All kinds of the genre have been on my reading list.
In a situation like this, the best thing to do would be is to preserve while hiding for as long as I can, before making a move on those hatchlings who don't leave the nest by then. They should be feeding on each other, thus being easy prey for the nimble me, because snakes are at their weakest while they digest their food. They lose all of their speed and the only way to save themselves in that situation is to regurgitate what they ate.
Earlier, while checking my fangs, I noticed that I have two big needle-like fangs, which implies that I am a venomous snake.
I don't know what kind of venom is at my disposal, but ill make sure to use it when I get a chance.
A sneak attack should give me the best opening for executing a successful venom injection.
That plan should do it...
If this were a novel...
H~ah... I need to start moving from here.
The fountain seems to be damaged enough to have cracks in it where I could hide.
Now, how should I move without limbs...?
WoOw!
Moving in this body is super weird, but I seem to be born with knowledge about how to naturally move with it.
It's just that the residue of the egg liquids left on my body gives me a weird slippery feeling, making it even weirder to move.
I should be thankful for this new brain of mine. Even though it is quite small now, it is useful nonetheless. Movement feels awkward but I kinda like it.
After setting my plan into action, I began slithering towards a small crevice at the bottom part of the fountain.
This crevice was small enough so that only one snake my size could fit, which was perfect in case my siblings try to make a meal out of me.
It feels nice to be in an easily defendable place while knowing there are not many such places in this cave. It really puts me at ease knowing no one took it before me.
Day 2
*Grumble*
Hungry~y...
It seems that getting hatched doesn't leave you with much sustenance. Originally I intended to wait for at least three days, but my metabolism seems a lot faster than what I thought it would be based on my knowledge from my previous life. In my world, newly hatched snakes could go on for weeks before they learn to hunt for themselves and very often their first hunt would result in their first meal.
It could have something to do with the fact that these siblings of mine, and I would assume the species as a whole, has massive breeding grounds where many eggs are laid so that the newly hatched babies have something to eat and by something to eat, I mean other babies...
In a primal sense, it does sound logical.
Don't judge before you hear me out!
If we don't eat each other there is no guarantee we will find anything else to eat, so a Swiss table is set as soon as you break your shell.
weather u will be a serving or the person served depends mostly on luck and special circumstances.
I am beginning to feel desperate...
Little snakes do look like noodles. I miss food from my human life...
I need to stop drooling. If I want to eat some noodles I just need to catch one of these horror noodles of death.
Alright, I'll do it. I'll eat one of them just so I don't die before I get a chance to escape from this pit of horrors!
That's it!
I have a genius plan on how to get food and get back here into safety in time.
Muahahaha!
I'm so smart.
Day 3
IM AN IDIOT!
So...
About my ”Genius” plan from yesterday, or at least I think it was yesterday.
So, in short, I almost died... no scratch that, I almost got eaten alive!
As soon as I got out of my hidey-hole I saw a complete butcher fest.
My siblings did their best to eat each other, but there would constantly be another one coming while the previous one was digesting the one he himself ate moments before, making it a snake in a snake in a snake... For God knows how many layers.