Chapter 1: The Princess and The Python
Kiara mischievously smirked at the sight of two Meerkats squabbling about directions as she slowly moved closer. She could barely keep herself from giggling before getting within two inches behind them and letting out the very best roar she could. The way they literally jumped into the air and widened their eyes to the size of grapes brought laughter out of the Pride Land's plucky princess. She tried to give out another roar even at her "prey" scurried away past the trees.
"I suppose working on your roar is a net positive if nothing else," Kiara heard from the air, diminishing her good mood within the second. She frowned upon recognizing the nasally voice along with its classy accent and turned around to see Zazu flying past the trees down towards her. "Though I would imagine that the king wouldn't appreciate your lack of permission." His dry wit made the lion cub's eyes roll as he touched down. "You should hope he's not terribly moody..."
Kiara let out an exhausted groan as she swung herself around and walked away from the royal advisor in a huff. "No smarmy comebacks?" Zazu mused in a deadpan tone of snark, pushing her more of her buttons. "Well, now I've seen everything." It were times like these that the princess was tempted to see how dry his wit would be inside her stomach. It didn't help that she was growing quite hungry. "Oh, must we go through this old song and dance almost every day?"
"Gee, I dunno," Kiara decided to volley back for the sake of it. "Will you take a hint and a hike already?" She tried to sped up her trot into a brisk canter to try and get away. "I'm not even that close to the Outlands period." The lioness cub started to smile and feel her spirits rising back up with this run. "I mean, is a little excitement or adventure too much to ask for a princess?" Her spirits were soon tempered when Zazu flew ahead and landed before her with a stern glare.
"Your definition of 'adventure' tends to put your life at risk," Zazu declared as he thrust his right wing into Kiara's face. The lion cub stopped in her tracks much to her annoyance. "Well, that's kinda of the point of an adventure last I checked," she retorted with her usual sass. "And last I checked," Zazu scoffed fussily before becoming distracted by something up above, "the Pride Lands would... be in quite the pickle... if the heir... became mere lunch... to say... the very least."
Kiara couldn't help but be both amazed and perplexed when Zazu's pupils suddenly shrunk back into the whites of his eyes. As if by magic, multiple rings of color flooded the birdbrain's eyes in a rhythmic pattern. The princess was hardly complaining about the advisor shutting his motormouth off at long last but still tilted her head at how he seemed so... out of it. She could tell he had stared at something behind her just as a sharp hissing sent shivers right down her spine.
"When a young lady inssssisssstssss on being on her own, a true gentleman sssshould resssspect her dessssiressss," Kiara heard as she swung around and saw a sight that left her in awe. A large python had slithered up from behind her and held his head well above her, making her crane her neck up for a good view. "Now why don't you fly off and never bother her again?" the snake hissed harshly, glaring directly at the entranced Zazu. "Do not tell a sssingle sssoul..."
Kiara looked back in time to see Zazu obeying by flapping his wings and flying off towards Pride Rock, leaving the princess befuddled to say the least. "I know it wasssssn't any busssinessss of mine," the serpent hissed, regaining Kiara's attention, "but I couldn't help sssstepping in to send that annoying avian packing." Kiara found herself transfixed by the large creature speaking to formally to her. "Ssssome guyssss jussst can't take a hint with the ladiessss sssuffice to sssay."
"O-Oh no," Kiara stammered, still at a loss for words at the large snake before her, "not at all." She couldn't help but go around and take in the rest of his long body, her grin growing in excitement. "I mean, I would've batted him away myself but seeing him scared silly like that was priceless." The plucky princess can't help but marvel at the python's bulk and length, her mouth agape in curiosity. "Can't say that I blame him when you could swallow him whole in a single gulp?"
Kaa couldn't help but find Kiara's fascination with him rather adorable and chuckle at how oblivious she truly was. "You don't ssssseem too worried about that yoursssself," he hissed teasingly, moving his head down to the princess. "Mosssst cubssss would run away in fear of becoming my nexxxt meal." The memory of swallowing Kovu was still fresh in his mind as he sighed in satisfaction. The python flicked his tongue to pick up on Kiara's scent and craved for a second course.
"Well, as it happens, I'm not most cubs," Kiara retorted with such sass, giving Kaa a smarmy look in the eye. "I'm what you might an adventurer." She even put her right paw on her chest in her declaration much to Kaa's amusement. "A crocodile had the nerve to swallow me whole without even having the decency to chew me." The princess was all too keen to make a good first impression. "His big blunder cost him big time when I clawed out of his guts and swam to shore."
"My goodnessssss," Kaa said, pretending to be enthralled by Kiara's tall tales, "It'ssss an honor to meet ssssuch a brave youngsssster." He knew all too well that the lioness cub wanted to feel like a big deal to an imposing predator such as himself. Of course, her tomboyish demeanor was too endearing to diminish. "I don't ssssupposssse that you've come acrosssss any ssssnakessss asss big assss mysssself." He began to slither his tail towards the princess from behind.
"A few vipers have tried to sink their teeth into me," Kiara bragged with a cocky sneer, believe that Kaa was buying her stories. "Of course, I always get the drop on those chumps every time." She couldn't have noticed the tail making a loop around her hind legs. "They were never as big as you though." The lioness cub looked at the python with such fascination and admiration like she really had been hypnotized. "Could you actually swallow an entire lion if you wanted to?"
Kaa sniggered as began to grip his coiling tail around Kiara's hind legs. "Let'ssss find out together, sssshall we?" he hissed in a sinister tone of voice. He adored how the lioness cub's eager grin fell upon feeling the coils around her legs and immediately pulled her up slowly but surely up into the air. The sadistic serpent further enjoyed seeing his damsel in distress flail her fore-arms and wriggle like a worm in his grip. It'd been a long time coming but her panicking was worth it.
Kiara could barely process it all in her frantic state of mind and looked at her hind legs to find Kaa's tail pinning them together tightly. "Lemme go, you oversized worm!" she indignantly declared as she tried to reach up with her fore-arms and unsheathed her claws. She gritted her teeth as her swiping paws came up short by a mere inch. The princess found herself bending back down with her upper body strength being minuscule at best and began to panted heavily quickly.
"It would appear that our sssspunky heroine hassss gotten hersssself into quite the tight sssspot," Kiara heard a cheeky comment coming from just before her. "Sssurely, her ssssharp witssss will get her out of thissss one." She looked ahead to find Kaa's smug mug chuckling in her face upside down. "It would be a real ssshame to sseee sssuch a renowned adventurer ssswallowed up." The princess blushed bright red and snarled at the sassy snake for humiliating her like this.
"Oh, I'll give you sharp!" Kiara retorted as she swiped her claws at Kaa's condescending glower. However, the python stayed perfectly still while her paws once again came up short but an inch and chuckled at such a juvenile display. "Now, now," the sinister serpent cooed, his tail slithering down towards the princess's belly. "A feissssty feline like yoursssself sssssimply mussssst learn to laugh at themssssselvesssss." He snickered before making his tail stroke the cub's tummy.
Kiara's swiping stopped as the tickling sensation got a giggle out of her easily and had her scowl shift to a silly smile. "Sto-ah-ah-p," she managed to stammer through her laughing, blushing at how embarrassing she must look. "I'm beg-eh-eh-ging." The princess wanted to be mad at Kaa and his perpetual smug mug but was too caught up in her laughing fit to have another go at him. "Ple-he-he-he-ase," the lioness cub chuckled adorably with small tears forming in her eyes.
Kaa snickered at Kiara's adorable helplessness. "There'sssss that ssssweet kitty we all know and love," he hissed haughtily before beginning to stretch out his jaws. "Alassss it would appear that our intrepid exxxxplorer hassss more than met her matccch." The sadistic snake continued to tickle the princess while lifting her up and craning his own head up right. The lioness cub was too busy laughing her tail off to notice the python's mouth opening wide right beneath her head.
Kiara's head looked down during her uncontrollable giggling and couldn't stop smiling even as she saw Kaa's maw open wide, his gullet on display. "Wh-ha-ha-hat are-re-re you..." she managed to splutter out before the grip around her hind legs let her go. The tickling ceased as she found herself free falling down from high in the air and down towards the python's gaping maw, her pupils shrinking in pure fear. All she could do was scream in pure terror during her final seconds.
Kiara shut her eyes as she expected to be engulfed by Kaa's maw and gulped down his throat like an afternoon snack, more scared than she had even been before. A second passed before a big jolt made her snap her eyes back open and revealed to her that she had ceased to fall. Looking up, the princess found that her tail had been caught by the very tail that had tickled her. The lioness cub could only swing in mid-air like a pendulum when a familiar smirk slithered up.
"Then again," Kaa chuckled, amused with his little practical joke, "a cute kitten like yoursssself would be too ssssweet for my palette." He adored the sight of Kiara hanging by his own grip with her hind legs spread out and her fore-arm drooping down listlessly in her confusion. "Though I would ssssay my appetite for punking you big time hassssss been ssssssufficccciently ssssssatissssfied." The python further enjoyed the look on the princess's face and started to swing her.
"Hey, that's enough!" Kiara protested indignantly as she found herself swinging back and forth by her own tail. "I'm getting dizzy here." No matter how much she wriggled about, Kaa held her firmly by the tail and laughed at how she helplessly rocked about at his mercy. "Joke's over, you big bully!" The princess could feel her embarrassment grow as she found herself becoming a python's plaything and degraded as her tall tales was exposed to the Pride Lands. "Lemme go!"
Kiara could hardly even make her threat before Kaa let her go and sent her flying through the air, her limbs flailing about as she cried out in panic. Sure enough, she crashed into a nearby bush and found herself dizzy. Her bottom hung in the air as she kicked her legs to wiggle free, hearing Kaa's chuckling at the sight much to her frustration. The princess tumbled out of the foliage with a cute yelp and landed on her bottom in a slapstick manner, contributing to her humiliation.
"Well, you did assssk me let go," Kaa hissed haughtily, slithering on up to Kiara. "Did I ask you to tickle me?" the princess bit back angrily, getting back up on all fours despite her shaken state. "You were jusssst talking sssssuch a big game," the sadistic snake swore smarmily, moving his head in front of his feline friend. "I only wisssh to tessst your adventuring ssskillsss for myssself." The contentious cub glared back at his smug mug. "Perhapssss it wassss a tad much for you."
"Perhaps you were just being a jerk," Kiara spat back in her anger, taking Kaa aback before marching off in a huff. The python smiled in amusement at how cute her little stomping looked along with the grumbling under her breath and had his tail slither her way. He made a big loop of a coil above the fussy feline before plopping it down onto her head and around her eyes. "Hey, what is it this time?" the princess protested when Kaa ceased her little march and kept her in place.
Kiara tried to persistently pry the scaly blindfold with her fore-paws as she heard Kaa slithering up on her right. "I sssssupposssse that I got a tad too caught up in my own fun at your exxxxpenssssse," she heard the python hissed just in front of her, "but that'ssss no good reassson to turn your back on a friend." The princess could hear a bit of remorse in his voice as she pushed off the coil bit by bit. "I have jussst the trick to help you with your feelingssss of frusssstratiiion."
With a grunt, Kiara popped the coil off her head and found Kaa looking her right in the eye when she saw the most bizarre yet beautiful thing. The python's two eyes began to flood with colorful rings that poured out from his pupil at a steady yet speedy pace. "Whoa," the princess was able to utter as the most luminous sight captivated her like a real rainbow in the sky. "Your eyes are so pretty." These very rings of color soon poured out of her pupils, reflecting the snake's own.
"Why, thank you for ssssuch kind wordssss," Kaa replied, maintaining eye contact with Kiara. "I get that a lot." The princess's mesmerized expression was one that never got old for him no matter how many victims fell under his thrall. The way all the colors overtaking the eyes. The way mouths hung agape. "I ussssse thissss little trick of mine to help my dear friendssss find their lossst ssssmile." It was all too priceless for the python. "I do hope that it helpsss you feel better."
"Yeah, it... it is," Kiara said with her grin growing by the second. "I... feel so... happy." She could feel a wave of pleasure wash over her the more she looked at Kaa's wonderful eyes. The princess could feel any negative emotions within her soul whittling down to nothingness by a feeling of happiness. "I guess I should learn to take a joke better." She saw the python playfully swaying his head from side to side and found herself mimicking him. "I'm sorry making such a scene..."
"A youngsssster ssssuch assss yoursssself sssshould learn to laugh at yoursssself better," Kaa hissed, meticulous in controlling his hypnotic power. He'd usually overwhelm his victim's mind with his vibrant gaze and leave them in a mindless state of perpetual pleasure. However, the python held himself back so that Kiara was aware of the euphoria being instilled into her and all but allowing his manipulation. He wasn't sure of the details but his brain was cooking up a clever plan.
"You did throw me for a loop with that tricky tail of your's," Kiara giggled, following Kaa's eyes whenever they moved. She felt addicted to the colors pouring into her eyes and the fuzzy feelings they gave her. "Plus, I can't say I didn't sort of enjoy being tickled." Suddenly, the python mischievously lowered his head to the ground and made her do the same in her yearning for the rings. "And... I just can't get enough of those eyes of your's." Her tail started swishing in excitement.
"Ssssuch kind words from ssssuch a kind kitten," Kaa cooed, turning his head upside down slowly. He snickered at the way Kiara rolled onto her back in sync with him, exposing her furry belly with her paws up in the air. "Many cubs in the Pride Landssss turn away from me in fear yet you were fassssscinated by me right out the gate." The python allowed his tail to lightly tickle his feline friend's tummy, getting a giggle out of her. "It'sss good to have a friend in a new home."
A chuckling Kiara found herself enjoying the tickling this time around. "Like I said before, I'm not most cubs." Her paws lightly flailed about and her eyes kept looking into Kaa's. "I'm always looking for exciting adventures that let me laugh in the face of death itself." The perky princess rolled back onto her belly when her reptilian friend turned his head right-side up, her wide-eyed grin never changing. "Like almost getting swallowed alive by a snake and clawing my way out."
Kaa chuckled at the way Kiara clung to her brave explorer facade even when falling under his thrall. "I'd imagine your parentssss fussss over you conssstantly," he hissed, thinking about the grief Simba must get with a smile. He only wished the king himself was here. "You have no idea," the princess replied, still hooked on his hypnotic stare. "My dad would have a fit if he could see-" The python was surprised by the way his feline friend's grin dropped like a rock all of a sudden.
"Crap, my dad will be back any minute now!" Kiara exclaimed as she sprung back up onto all fours. She broke eye contact with Kaa and didn't even realize that the colors ceased to pour out from her pupils. "If Zazu's back there, he'll make sure my parents ground me for life." The princess looked back at her serpentine pal and found him seeming taken aback in a sense. "Not to bail on you like this but I just prefer to have a smaller lecture this time around, know what I mean?"
Kaa realized how he looked and put on his false demeanor of cordiality. "Oh, of coursssse I undersssstand," he promised rather hastily, still surprised by how she just abruptly broke out of her entrancement. "Besssst that your father issssn't too riled up." The python put on his friendliest smile and saw his feline friend off as she rushed past him. "I do hope that I'll ssssee you ssssoon on one of your little essscapadessss." A smirk couldn't help but spread across his smug mug.
"Oh, you can depend on it," Kaa heard Kiara reply jubilantly as she scampered off spiritedly. He made sure to wait a few seconds so she could be just out of sight and began to laugh like the malicious villain he truly was. The princess's naivety and reckless abandonment was too adorable for him. The python even got a kick out of how she wasn't modest in describing her fake intrepid expeditions. He hardly even needed his hypnosis in order to become worthy of her trust.
Kaa recalled how he was about to swallow Kiara alive and let her live out her final moments dissolving within his guts. It would've been such a delight to feel Simba's own whelp dying in such a horrify way and regurgitate what was left of her before the king of the Pride Lands. However, he can only sigh in relief now on his snap decision in sparing his plaything. His Majesty would suffer through his daughter but a far more satisfying scenario dawned upon the sinister snake.
He'd bid his time to enact it and have some fun with Kiara all the while.
Kiara mischievously smirked at the sight of two Meerkats squabbling about directions as she slowly moved closer. She could barely keep herself from giggling before getting within two inches behind them and letting out the very best roar she could. The way they literally jumped into the air and widened their eyes to the size of grapes brought laughter out of the Pride Land's plucky princess. She tried to give out another roar even at her "prey" scurried away past the trees.
"I suppose working on your roar is a net positive if nothing else," Kiara heard from the air, diminishing her good mood within the second. She frowned upon recognizing the nasally voice along with its classy accent and turned around to see Zazu flying past the trees down towards her. "Though I would imagine that the king wouldn't appreciate your lack of permission." His dry wit made the lion cub's eyes roll as he touched down. "You should hope he's not terribly moody..."
Kiara let out an exhausted groan as she swung herself around and walked away from the royal advisor in a huff. "No smarmy comebacks?" Zazu mused in a deadpan tone of snark, pushing her more of her buttons. "Well, now I've seen everything." It were times like these that the princess was tempted to see how dry his wit would be inside her stomach. It didn't help that she was growing quite hungry. "Oh, must we go through this old song and dance almost every day?"
"Gee, I dunno," Kiara decided to volley back for the sake of it. "Will you take a hint and a hike already?" She tried to sped up her trot into a brisk canter to try and get away. "I'm not even that close to the Outlands period." The lioness cub started to smile and feel her spirits rising back up with this run. "I mean, is a little excitement or adventure too much to ask for a princess?" Her spirits were soon tempered when Zazu flew ahead and landed before her with a stern glare.
"Your definition of 'adventure' tends to put your life at risk," Zazu declared as he thrust his right wing into Kiara's face. The lion cub stopped in her tracks much to her annoyance. "Well, that's kinda of the point of an adventure last I checked," she retorted with her usual sass. "And last I checked," Zazu scoffed fussily before becoming distracted by something up above, "the Pride Lands would... be in quite the pickle... if the heir... became mere lunch... to say... the very least."
Kiara couldn't help but be both amazed and perplexed when Zazu's pupils suddenly shrunk back into the whites of his eyes. As if by magic, multiple rings of color flooded the birdbrain's eyes in a rhythmic pattern. The princess was hardly complaining about the advisor shutting his motormouth off at long last but still tilted her head at how he seemed so... out of it. She could tell he had stared at something behind her just as a sharp hissing sent shivers right down her spine.
"When a young lady inssssisssstssss on being on her own, a true gentleman sssshould resssspect her dessssiressss," Kiara heard as she swung around and saw a sight that left her in awe. A large python had slithered up from behind her and held his head well above her, making her crane her neck up for a good view. "Now why don't you fly off and never bother her again?" the snake hissed harshly, glaring directly at the entranced Zazu. "Do not tell a sssingle sssoul..."
Kiara looked back in time to see Zazu obeying by flapping his wings and flying off towards Pride Rock, leaving the princess befuddled to say the least. "I know it wasssssn't any busssinessss of mine," the serpent hissed, regaining Kiara's attention, "but I couldn't help sssstepping in to send that annoying avian packing." Kiara found herself transfixed by the large creature speaking to formally to her. "Ssssome guyssss jussst can't take a hint with the ladiessss sssuffice to sssay."
"O-Oh no," Kiara stammered, still at a loss for words at the large snake before her, "not at all." She couldn't help but go around and take in the rest of his long body, her grin growing in excitement. "I mean, I would've batted him away myself but seeing him scared silly like that was priceless." The plucky princess can't help but marvel at the python's bulk and length, her mouth agape in curiosity. "Can't say that I blame him when you could swallow him whole in a single gulp?"
Kaa couldn't help but find Kiara's fascination with him rather adorable and chuckle at how oblivious she truly was. "You don't ssssseem too worried about that yoursssself," he hissed teasingly, moving his head down to the princess. "Mosssst cubssss would run away in fear of becoming my nexxxt meal." The memory of swallowing Kovu was still fresh in his mind as he sighed in satisfaction. The python flicked his tongue to pick up on Kiara's scent and craved for a second course.
"Well, as it happens, I'm not most cubs," Kiara retorted with such sass, giving Kaa a smarmy look in the eye. "I'm what you might an adventurer." She even put her right paw on her chest in her declaration much to Kaa's amusement. "A crocodile had the nerve to swallow me whole without even having the decency to chew me." The princess was all too keen to make a good first impression. "His big blunder cost him big time when I clawed out of his guts and swam to shore."
"My goodnessssss," Kaa said, pretending to be enthralled by Kiara's tall tales, "It'ssss an honor to meet ssssuch a brave youngsssster." He knew all too well that the lioness cub wanted to feel like a big deal to an imposing predator such as himself. Of course, her tomboyish demeanor was too endearing to diminish. "I don't ssssupposssse that you've come acrosssss any ssssnakessss asss big assss mysssself." He began to slither his tail towards the princess from behind.
"A few vipers have tried to sink their teeth into me," Kiara bragged with a cocky sneer, believe that Kaa was buying her stories. "Of course, I always get the drop on those chumps every time." She couldn't have noticed the tail making a loop around her hind legs. "They were never as big as you though." The lioness cub looked at the python with such fascination and admiration like she really had been hypnotized. "Could you actually swallow an entire lion if you wanted to?"
Kaa sniggered as began to grip his coiling tail around Kiara's hind legs. "Let'ssss find out together, sssshall we?" he hissed in a sinister tone of voice. He adored how the lioness cub's eager grin fell upon feeling the coils around her legs and immediately pulled her up slowly but surely up into the air. The sadistic serpent further enjoyed seeing his damsel in distress flail her fore-arms and wriggle like a worm in his grip. It'd been a long time coming but her panicking was worth it.
Kiara could barely process it all in her frantic state of mind and looked at her hind legs to find Kaa's tail pinning them together tightly. "Lemme go, you oversized worm!" she indignantly declared as she tried to reach up with her fore-arms and unsheathed her claws. She gritted her teeth as her swiping paws came up short by a mere inch. The princess found herself bending back down with her upper body strength being minuscule at best and began to panted heavily quickly.
"It would appear that our sssspunky heroine hassss gotten hersssself into quite the tight sssspot," Kiara heard a cheeky comment coming from just before her. "Sssurely, her ssssharp witssss will get her out of thissss one." She looked ahead to find Kaa's smug mug chuckling in her face upside down. "It would be a real ssshame to sseee sssuch a renowned adventurer ssswallowed up." The princess blushed bright red and snarled at the sassy snake for humiliating her like this.
"Oh, I'll give you sharp!" Kiara retorted as she swiped her claws at Kaa's condescending glower. However, the python stayed perfectly still while her paws once again came up short but an inch and chuckled at such a juvenile display. "Now, now," the sinister serpent cooed, his tail slithering down towards the princess's belly. "A feissssty feline like yoursssself sssssimply mussssst learn to laugh at themssssselvesssss." He snickered before making his tail stroke the cub's tummy.
Kiara's swiping stopped as the tickling sensation got a giggle out of her easily and had her scowl shift to a silly smile. "Sto-ah-ah-p," she managed to stammer through her laughing, blushing at how embarrassing she must look. "I'm beg-eh-eh-ging." The princess wanted to be mad at Kaa and his perpetual smug mug but was too caught up in her laughing fit to have another go at him. "Ple-he-he-he-ase," the lioness cub chuckled adorably with small tears forming in her eyes.
Kaa snickered at Kiara's adorable helplessness. "There'sssss that ssssweet kitty we all know and love," he hissed haughtily before beginning to stretch out his jaws. "Alassss it would appear that our intrepid exxxxplorer hassss more than met her matccch." The sadistic snake continued to tickle the princess while lifting her up and craning his own head up right. The lioness cub was too busy laughing her tail off to notice the python's mouth opening wide right beneath her head.
Kiara's head looked down during her uncontrollable giggling and couldn't stop smiling even as she saw Kaa's maw open wide, his gullet on display. "Wh-ha-ha-hat are-re-re you..." she managed to splutter out before the grip around her hind legs let her go. The tickling ceased as she found herself free falling down from high in the air and down towards the python's gaping maw, her pupils shrinking in pure fear. All she could do was scream in pure terror during her final seconds.
Kiara shut her eyes as she expected to be engulfed by Kaa's maw and gulped down his throat like an afternoon snack, more scared than she had even been before. A second passed before a big jolt made her snap her eyes back open and revealed to her that she had ceased to fall. Looking up, the princess found that her tail had been caught by the very tail that had tickled her. The lioness cub could only swing in mid-air like a pendulum when a familiar smirk slithered up.
"Then again," Kaa chuckled, amused with his little practical joke, "a cute kitten like yoursssself would be too ssssweet for my palette." He adored the sight of Kiara hanging by his own grip with her hind legs spread out and her fore-arm drooping down listlessly in her confusion. "Though I would ssssay my appetite for punking you big time hassssss been ssssssufficccciently ssssssatissssfied." The python further enjoyed the look on the princess's face and started to swing her.
"Hey, that's enough!" Kiara protested indignantly as she found herself swinging back and forth by her own tail. "I'm getting dizzy here." No matter how much she wriggled about, Kaa held her firmly by the tail and laughed at how she helplessly rocked about at his mercy. "Joke's over, you big bully!" The princess could feel her embarrassment grow as she found herself becoming a python's plaything and degraded as her tall tales was exposed to the Pride Lands. "Lemme go!"
Kiara could hardly even make her threat before Kaa let her go and sent her flying through the air, her limbs flailing about as she cried out in panic. Sure enough, she crashed into a nearby bush and found herself dizzy. Her bottom hung in the air as she kicked her legs to wiggle free, hearing Kaa's chuckling at the sight much to her frustration. The princess tumbled out of the foliage with a cute yelp and landed on her bottom in a slapstick manner, contributing to her humiliation.
"Well, you did assssk me let go," Kaa hissed haughtily, slithering on up to Kiara. "Did I ask you to tickle me?" the princess bit back angrily, getting back up on all fours despite her shaken state. "You were jusssst talking sssssuch a big game," the sadistic snake swore smarmily, moving his head in front of his feline friend. "I only wisssh to tessst your adventuring ssskillsss for myssself." The contentious cub glared back at his smug mug. "Perhapssss it wassss a tad much for you."
"Perhaps you were just being a jerk," Kiara spat back in her anger, taking Kaa aback before marching off in a huff. The python smiled in amusement at how cute her little stomping looked along with the grumbling under her breath and had his tail slither her way. He made a big loop of a coil above the fussy feline before plopping it down onto her head and around her eyes. "Hey, what is it this time?" the princess protested when Kaa ceased her little march and kept her in place.
Kiara tried to persistently pry the scaly blindfold with her fore-paws as she heard Kaa slithering up on her right. "I sssssupposssse that I got a tad too caught up in my own fun at your exxxxpenssssse," she heard the python hissed just in front of her, "but that'ssss no good reassson to turn your back on a friend." The princess could hear a bit of remorse in his voice as she pushed off the coil bit by bit. "I have jussst the trick to help you with your feelingssss of frusssstratiiion."
With a grunt, Kiara popped the coil off her head and found Kaa looking her right in the eye when she saw the most bizarre yet beautiful thing. The python's two eyes began to flood with colorful rings that poured out from his pupil at a steady yet speedy pace. "Whoa," the princess was able to utter as the most luminous sight captivated her like a real rainbow in the sky. "Your eyes are so pretty." These very rings of color soon poured out of her pupils, reflecting the snake's own.
"Why, thank you for ssssuch kind wordssss," Kaa replied, maintaining eye contact with Kiara. "I get that a lot." The princess's mesmerized expression was one that never got old for him no matter how many victims fell under his thrall. The way all the colors overtaking the eyes. The way mouths hung agape. "I ussssse thissss little trick of mine to help my dear friendssss find their lossst ssssmile." It was all too priceless for the python. "I do hope that it helpsss you feel better."
"Yeah, it... it is," Kiara said with her grin growing by the second. "I... feel so... happy." She could feel a wave of pleasure wash over her the more she looked at Kaa's wonderful eyes. The princess could feel any negative emotions within her soul whittling down to nothingness by a feeling of happiness. "I guess I should learn to take a joke better." She saw the python playfully swaying his head from side to side and found herself mimicking him. "I'm sorry making such a scene..."
"A youngsssster ssssuch assss yoursssself sssshould learn to laugh at yoursssself better," Kaa hissed, meticulous in controlling his hypnotic power. He'd usually overwhelm his victim's mind with his vibrant gaze and leave them in a mindless state of perpetual pleasure. However, the python held himself back so that Kiara was aware of the euphoria being instilled into her and all but allowing his manipulation. He wasn't sure of the details but his brain was cooking up a clever plan.
"You did throw me for a loop with that tricky tail of your's," Kiara giggled, following Kaa's eyes whenever they moved. She felt addicted to the colors pouring into her eyes and the fuzzy feelings they gave her. "Plus, I can't say I didn't sort of enjoy being tickled." Suddenly, the python mischievously lowered his head to the ground and made her do the same in her yearning for the rings. "And... I just can't get enough of those eyes of your's." Her tail started swishing in excitement.
"Ssssuch kind words from ssssuch a kind kitten," Kaa cooed, turning his head upside down slowly. He snickered at the way Kiara rolled onto her back in sync with him, exposing her furry belly with her paws up in the air. "Many cubs in the Pride Landssss turn away from me in fear yet you were fassssscinated by me right out the gate." The python allowed his tail to lightly tickle his feline friend's tummy, getting a giggle out of her. "It'sss good to have a friend in a new home."
A chuckling Kiara found herself enjoying the tickling this time around. "Like I said before, I'm not most cubs." Her paws lightly flailed about and her eyes kept looking into Kaa's. "I'm always looking for exciting adventures that let me laugh in the face of death itself." The perky princess rolled back onto her belly when her reptilian friend turned his head right-side up, her wide-eyed grin never changing. "Like almost getting swallowed alive by a snake and clawing my way out."
Kaa chuckled at the way Kiara clung to her brave explorer facade even when falling under his thrall. "I'd imagine your parentssss fussss over you conssstantly," he hissed, thinking about the grief Simba must get with a smile. He only wished the king himself was here. "You have no idea," the princess replied, still hooked on his hypnotic stare. "My dad would have a fit if he could see-" The python was surprised by the way his feline friend's grin dropped like a rock all of a sudden.
"Crap, my dad will be back any minute now!" Kiara exclaimed as she sprung back up onto all fours. She broke eye contact with Kaa and didn't even realize that the colors ceased to pour out from her pupils. "If Zazu's back there, he'll make sure my parents ground me for life." The princess looked back at her serpentine pal and found him seeming taken aback in a sense. "Not to bail on you like this but I just prefer to have a smaller lecture this time around, know what I mean?"
Kaa realized how he looked and put on his false demeanor of cordiality. "Oh, of coursssse I undersssstand," he promised rather hastily, still surprised by how she just abruptly broke out of her entrancement. "Besssst that your father issssn't too riled up." The python put on his friendliest smile and saw his feline friend off as she rushed past him. "I do hope that I'll ssssee you ssssoon on one of your little essscapadessss." A smirk couldn't help but spread across his smug mug.
"Oh, you can depend on it," Kaa heard Kiara reply jubilantly as she scampered off spiritedly. He made sure to wait a few seconds so she could be just out of sight and began to laugh like the malicious villain he truly was. The princess's naivety and reckless abandonment was too adorable for him. The python even got a kick out of how she wasn't modest in describing her fake intrepid expeditions. He hardly even needed his hypnosis in order to become worthy of her trust.
Kaa recalled how he was about to swallow Kiara alive and let her live out her final moments dissolving within his guts. It would've been such a delight to feel Simba's own whelp dying in such a horrify way and regurgitate what was left of her before the king of the Pride Lands. However, he can only sigh in relief now on his snap decision in sparing his plaything. His Majesty would suffer through his daughter but a far more satisfying scenario dawned upon the sinister snake.
He'd bid his time to enact it and have some fun with Kiara all the while.
Category Story / General Furry Art
Species Snake / Serpent
Gender Any
Size 240 x 320px
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