The Jungle Trio Part 4 {Commision}

Taylor, Erica, and Mariah were all in a loss. They managed to escape the collapsing ruins just before the entire building fell upon them but they each were so desperate to get away that each never stopped to realize they ran in different directions and without even taking in mind of the surroundings and being so deep within a part of the jungle they never ventured into before they now were alone within the great foliage of trees.

Each of the girls desperately tried to find their way to find each other but it proved greatly difficult. Each of them had run a long way. No possessing any of the natural instincts of animals or the strong sense of smell they could not find a trace of each other.

However things were starting to go from bad to worse for Taylor and Erica. Taylor unfourtunally had her scent caught by one of the jungles most feared predators. He was the known as a hater of man, a law breaker who defied the very law of the jungle. Casting aside its natural rule and had declared himself one who stood above all others.

Shere Khan the Tiger who had been wondering the jungle looking for his next meal soon heard a rumor that not only were there three human girls taking refuge in the jungle but it was told by an unfortunate animal who had the misfortune to being grabbed by the tiger who demanded to know where these girls were.

The Animal begged for his life as he heard that the ruins within the jungle came crashing down and three humans ran from it. Sensing truth from the animal the tiger grinned knowing that this would be simple for him to find them or at least one at a time. The Tiger pleased with the information allowed the animal to live only to be warned he better not allow him to be caught again he would be his next meal.

Shere Kahn stalked the jungle for some time until he smelled something. “Ah…” He grinned picking up the scent of a certain blond haired girl who still wondering the jungle trying to find her siblings. “Now to deal with this lost girl.” The Tiger laughed quietly slowly walking through the jungle following her scent for it won’t be too long until he finds her.
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Erica dashed through the jungle. She panted as it seemed she was running forever. She was slightly frightened for never once has she or any of her other sisters been so far apart from each other. Even if they were alone they were never at least too far away and could at least be within shouting distance but not once have they been so far apart that not even the loudest shout could she get a response from them.

“Oh no!” Erica whimpered as it seemed hopeless. It’s been hours since Taylor and herself saved, Mariah, from that wretched, King Louie but the plan took off in a separate direction when they didn’t anticipate one of the buildings in the ruins to collapse and caused them to scatter.

“Taylor! Mariah!” Erica shouted out. “WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?” Erica however did not receive any response. However her shouts attracted a familiar python that was not pleased that he lost a human for a meal thanks to a bear that he didn’t see coming.

A Head emerged out from the trees above and laid it yellow hungry eyes on here. “Doesssss my ssssnake eyessss deceive me? Itsss that ssssuculant girl-cub.” He chuckled softly as he eyed the lost human below him. He quickly looked around to make sure this time there were no bears or anything that could possibly stop him from making a meal out of this girl. Satisfied there was no one he followed her slowly to make sure she didn’t the snake stalking her in the trees above as, Erica, walked on hoping to reunite with her sisters.

Feeling exhausted from the hours of searching the humidity starting to get to her she thought perhaps this was an ideal time for a break. She came up to the base a great tree and sat down. She was tired and worried. All she could think about were her sisters that were just as lost and alone as she was.

While she pondered in thought of how her sisters were, Kaa peered through the thick branch and leaved above licking his lips at the sight of the girl once again so close and ready to fill his empty stomach.

Erica sighed for it seemed hopeless that to find her sisters. She also wondered about, Baloo. Being the true friend that is despite just meeting that bear the other day he had already proved he would be there for them having once saved her from being a snakes midnight snack and helping save, Mariah.

While she was deep in her thoughts she didn’t noticed a coil was coming down from the top of the tree towards her. Before, Erica got a sudden feeling something wasn’t right she felt something wrap around her knees. She looked to see coils quickly wrapped around her knees locking them in place and carried her upward.

“What the…” Erica yelped as she was carried into the trees above. Soon she was once again coming face to face with a snake she was all too familiar with.

“ITS YOU!” She yelled trying to undo the coils around her knees.

“Oh yessss. So nice to sssee you again.” Kaa chuckled with a hiss.

“Leave me alone!” Erica yelled undoing the coils around her knees and was about to make a run for it only to be grabbed by one of her feet by the tip of, Kaa’s, tail. She was pulled out from under and was being coiled up in the snake’s scaly coils yet again.

“Now now, no need to fret, I’m not wishing to harm you.” Kaa assured trying to sound sincere but he had devious plans in mind for her but right now it was to gain her trust for it to work.

“I don’t believe that!” Erica snapped remembering how she was almost victim to being a snake’s meal before and she was going to let that happen again.

“Calm yourself, please.” Kaa asked keep his tail wrapped up around the girl’s ankle as she desperately tried to undo it only for him to redo it again.

“No!” Erica snapped getting tired of the snake that refused to let go.

“Now, little one, please I just wish to talk with you.” Kaa said bringing his head around her shoulders as she dared not look him in the eye.

“I doubt it!” Erica said still trying to get him to let go of her.

“Well to show you I mean no harm to you ill just do this.” Kaa grinned taking his moving the tip of his tail out under the girl’s foot and gently started to stroke it.

Erica yelped as the soft strokes tickled her foot. “Hey!” She tried to suppress a giggle falling onto her back on the branch.

“Stop it!” Erica laughed as the snake tickled her foot stroking it a lot faster now.

Kaa laughed as he was finally getting the girl to struggle in a different way. “I don’t think sssso, I want to ssssshow im sssincere.” The Snake continued to tickle her foot as, Erica could not get him to stop trying to jerk her foot away but his grip was tight and his strokes were making her starting to come to tears.

“If you allow me to sssspeak with you and sssswear not to run off ill stop alright?” Kaa bargained and laughed some more.

Erica wanting the snake to stop desperately and if he really was being truthful she may be able to leave and get back into searching for her sisters. “Okay, okay okay, just stop…please!” Erica begged.

Kaa grinned as he stopped stroking her foot but kept his a gentle grip on her ankle. Erica sat up and let her legs hang from the branch. She wiped some tears from her eyes.

“Alright…” Erica didn’t like how this snake still had a hold on her but maybe she can get him to let go after he says what he had to say. “…what do you want to talk about.”

Kaa loomed over her shoulder. “What issss a girl-cub ssssuch as yourssself doing out here?” he asked.

Erica didn’t know if she wanted to answer him but she wanted to get him to let go of her so she would have to cooperate. “Im looking for my sisters that are lost.”

“Sssuch a ssssad thing for thossse that are lossst.” Kaa said sadly.

Erica nodded. “Yes, now can I go now?” She asked.

Kaa shook his head. “Jusssst one more thing and ill let you back on ground and continue your ssssearch.”

Erica sighed for what could the snake want now? “And that would be?”

Kaa moved his head in front of her. “Pleasssse let me look at you for a tiny bit.”

Erica didn’t make eye contact with him but she cocked her head. “Why?”

“I jussst wisssh to look deep within your eyessss I never have had sssuch a chance to see a girl-cub thisss clossse before.” Kaa answered

Erica didn’t know if she could trust him but if it was the last thing he wanted so she could leave then she would have to do it. “Okay.” She nodded and looked straight into his eyes.

Kaa smiled as he began to work his eyes into the many patterns of colors. He tried not to chuckle for this was the first time someone was actually allowing him to stare into their own eyes.

Before, Erica, could react seeing the same pattern of colors she started to recall her will slowly started to fade away and her mind was at blank. Within moments she lost her entire will and mind and was under the snakes control once again.

“There now. That wassssn’t sssso hard.” Kaa chuckled.

He wanted nothing more than to devour this girl for she seemed very sweet just by looking at her and he believed she would be just as sweet when he had her in his mouth. But seeing at how this time not only was he assured a meal this grand with no one to stop him perhaps it would be nice to have some more fun with her, a little entertainment before a meal.

Kaa then started to sing a soft song about trusting in him gesturing the hypnotized girl to come toward him. Erica with no control over her actions obeyed her new master. Kaa had her climb and walk upon his coils slithered out from under her whenever she was about to step off a part of him or just before she would fall to the ground below.

Kaa revealed in his victory having, Erica, stepped slowly all over him. It was almost like a massage to him feeling the soft soles of her feet against his cold scaly coils. Kaa seemed to become well relaxed with, Erica’s, walking all over the makeshift stairs he made out of his coils for her.

Kaa had, Erica, stand and balance herself over some of his coils that hanged around away from the branches. Seeing the hypotised girl try to keep herself balanced was very amusing. He then gestured her to walk towards the tip his tail where he flung her up and balanced her by her head upside down.

However she was rather heavy like that. Kaa managed to keep her steady long enough to get a good look at her face for a bit before dropping her back onto his coils and had her continue her pace upon him.

The Girl walked down and up on one set of coil stairs after another and twice she walked in two loops of coils falling onto her back on the second one where, Kaa, rocked her almost like a baby.

It was rather pleasant having the girl perform her soft walks and actually having her in his tender care like this. Kaa started to actually think perhaps he should keep her around just a bit longer. He never once felt this so relaxed before. Enjoying, Erica’s, gentle steps and becoming ever more so relaxed with every step he didn’t listen into the jungle below him as something was running through it trying to find her sisters.
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Taylor huffed as hot sweat poured down her face. She didn’t know how far she ran or how fast but she just had to find her sisters. While was searching for them she heard a soft growl coming from a nearby bush while she was searching for her siblings causing her to run off.

The Blond haired girl dashed as fast as she could for whatever it is that she heard she knew it had to be a predator that was no doubt trying to find something to eat and if she didn’t get as far away as she could she would be the one to be devoured.

Taylor took a moment to catch her breath next to a tree but she couldn’t stop for too long as whatever was hunting her was no doubt on her trail. Being so exhausted and not paying any mind she could not hear a soft hissing voice coming up from the tree’s above.

Finishing her quick break she once again took off as fast as she could for she had to find her sisters and get back to their cave before whatever that was after her could come for them next.

Within a few minutes a tiger emerged from the bushes. He squinted his eyes in irritation for had lost the human girl’s scent. He had been following her for some time now but just when he was getting close he accidently let out a growl of satisfaction when he was getting close to her which caused her to run off before he was close enough to strike.

However while he was trying to pick up the girls scent again he heard someone singing above him. He couldn’t see who it was due to the thickness of the branches with all the foliage around them above but smiled when he saw a coil hanging down from the side of the tree.

He yanked onto it just as, Kaa, decided he’d rather make the girl a meal now while he still had a chance putting her into a few rings of coils and brought her up to his mouth only to feel the tug on the end of his tail.

“Huh? Oh now what?!” He hissed angered that he was interrupted before his meal. “Ill be right down.”

Kaa placed, Erica, who now was softly asleep in his coils upon a branch while, Kaa lowered his head down to the jungle floor.

“Yes? Who is it?” Kaa asked.

“Its me...” A voice said from around the tree as a tiger that Kaa was all too familiar with but not quite happy to see. “…Shere Kahn, I’d like to have a word with you, if you don’t mind?” The Tiger walked up to, Kaa, and sat down.

“Sssshere Kahn, what a ssssurprise.” Kaa greeted trying to sound happy but in truth he wasn’t and trying not to show it afraid of the tiger.
Shere Kahn opened up his paw letting out the claws upon it and tapped them onto the ground. “I was hoping to see if you have seen a girl-cub wonder around here?”

Kaa was baffled that the tiger was looking for a girl-cub he should have known since he knew how much he hated man. If the tiger knew he had a human in his coils just above them right now he would lose another meal yet again so he had to prove it for the tiger was not known for his patience if he was denied.

“I’m afraid not.” Kaa shook his head. “I haven’t sssseen any kind of girl-cub around here.”

“Pity.” Shere Kahn frowned but figured the snake had to know something for this is the area he lost the scent of the human he was chasing. “I don’t suppose you managed to catch this particular girl-cub have you?” the Tiger inquired.

Kaa shook his head with haste. “No not at all. Ill prove it.” Kaa opened his mouth and pointed inside with his tail to show it was empty and wagged his tail tip showing he had nothing around it either.

The Tiger huffed for it seemed, Kaa, may be telling the truth but there was one more part that he didn’t show him yet. “How about the middle?”

“Oh! The middle?” Kaa gasped realizing the girl in his coils was still wrapped up and sleeping in the middle of his coils but then got a clever idea. “Oh…the middle.” He slowly unwound himself from, Erica, but he didn’t realize he was shaking her a bit which caused her to slowly awaken but in her sleeping state his hypnosis wore off of her.

Kaa lowered the middle of his coils in front of, Shere Kahn. He grabbed and felt onto the coils to feel if the snake had devoured anything but to his surprise it was empty and his grabbing tickled, Kaa, “Ha-ha…theresss nothing in middle.”

The Tiger was very surprised but it seemed the snake was being truthful here but the tiger had a condition for him. “Then you will do me a favor.” He put a single claw under, Kaa’s, chin making him shiver in slight fear. “If you happen to find this particular girl-cub you will inform me immediately.”

Kaa nodded. “I get the point.” The Snake then crossed his body in front of, Shere Kahn. “Cross my heart hope to die.”

“Good show.” Shere Kahn smiled standing up. “Then I shall resume my search for this girl-cub.” The Tiger then walked away disappearing back into the bushes as, Kaa waited a few minutes until it’s seemed the tiger was out of earshot.

“Who does he think he is?!” Kaa snapped angrily at, Shere Kahn. “Thinks he can have all the man to himself well he can’t this time.”

However unknowing to, Kaa, Erica, what not only awoken by the shaking of the coils that held her and with no pressure upon them she was able to slip out and listen to everything the snake and tiger were saying.

“This not good at all.” She said under breath for not only was she still in danger with, Kaa, but now it seems a tiger of all creatures was after one of her sisters and she had to do something but first she had to think of a way to get away from, Kaa, for he would be back up in the trees any minute to find his prey was alive and not under his spell.

Erica quickly but carefully climbed out of the coils grabbing onto a vine and slid down to the jungle floor but carefully so the snake wouldn’t hear her. She looked around the tree to see, Kaa, still snapping at the tiger who thankfully wasn’t around for the tiger did not liked being talked about in any negative way especially being the self proclaimed lord of the jungle and all answer to him.

The Girl found a small but thick branch on the ground next to her. She looked at and, Kaa for a moment and got a crazy idea. She picked up the branch rearing it back with both hands and slowly walked up to the snake.

Kaa keeping himself distracted didn’t feel that something was missing until a moment too late. Once he finished his insults he turned his head about to head back up to the trees only in a quick second to see a very angry girl holding a branch in her hand and without hesitation she struck the snake so hard that he was almost knocked out cold falling onto ground.

“Oh…mercy…” He groaned before seeing the girl raise the branch high and with one more painful strike she knocked the snake completely out. She tossed the branch away and noticed how his coils still were up in the trees she yanked down his hanging coils causing all of them to fall on top of, Kaa’s, head making a large pile of snake coils.

With the threat of the snake temporarily gone,
Erica, ran off into the jungle to continue her search for her sisters in hopes she could find them before the tiger does.