8 WHITE SNAKE

Crack~! Brack!

"Die tormented by the cursed woman!" A shrill warrior screeched as he threw me to the ground with a bang.

"Aaah!" I tried not to moan with the pain of the wound that filled my legs and arms.

They passed, and the galloping horses began to fade.

Stings. That's all I can feel. My arms and legs are still bent; they dare to throw me without releasing the strong bonds in these two parts of my body.

It was only when I started to get along with the pain of this wound that I looked around me.

"Rock, rock, earth. Haha! This place is completely devoid of life. Grandmother? What should I do?"

My tears began to break because of lamenting the fate that always deviated from my expectations. You're trying to shuffle around to find a way to untie this knot.

Only 5 meters, I can no longer continue.

"God, quickly take my life!" I asked softly.

Just as I wished death came to mean, a lot began to fly and form a line as if he wanted me to follow him.

Weakened and stumbled like a caterpillar, I tried to follow him. I tried enough for it until finally, a small hole spread its magic soot firmly from the inside.

"What's here?" With curiosity, I tried to peek at what was in the hole.

"It was so dark, I didn't see anything. Wait!" I remembered something that might help me see this magical soot's roots.

With thoughts crazed with curiosity, I ventured to plunge my head into the hole.

"Perhaps this will work."

Slowly but surely, I was finally able to fit my head perfectly. It turned out that my plan had paid off.

I saw a ring that was shining. I don't know what ring it is; I can confirm that it's a ring judging by the shape of the magic that envelops it.

Crack!

"Eh?! Haha! Damn, I can't get my head out!"

Bad luck always comes in the middle of the excitement of my life. I feel that everything will be smooth when my head can go in correctly, but why can't my head come back out?

The pressure of my desperation began to increase and beat until I cried in that hole. Finally, my tears dried, and drowsiness began to overtake me.

"Sleepy." I fell asleep peacefully.

When I woke up, my vision was lost entirely. The dark black that only I could see, the place where the ring was below me, began to emit a magical light that was stronger than before.

Shhh!

The hiss of a snake filled my drums. My body shuddered in fear.

"This bright light is not from the ring. but a snake!" I whispered, scared while trying to get my head out, which was still stuck.

The magic light of the snake was getting closer; there was nothing I could think of except to just come out of the hole. I've swerved, edged until I hit my head. But all that only adds to the wound on my face.

Knock!

Small pebbles started falling from the top of my head. When I turned my head, the ceiling of the hole was filled with a ripping magic light.

"It must be the magic light of the snake!" I thought.

I hastily poked my head out.

"Grandma, help me! Grandmother!"

"Ssssttaa!"

The serene snakes immediately lunged at my face.

"NO ...!!!" My roar was strong enough as the snake filled my head.

Bites after bites kept raining down on my head.

"No! Hurt! It's so painful! Grandmother! Ah! dammit—"

The serpent's teeth stabbed into my head, and the heat that entered my nerves weighed heavily on my body.

My body was struggling non-stop until I couldn't feel my face. My hair started falling, my head felt big, and my neck limped.

I don't hear anymore.

I can't see anymore.

I can't smell anymore.

Only a hot feeling like lava spreads in my head until it gnaws at my body.

"Is this my last grave? Grandma, I'm coming." Unknowingly I fainted.

***

Early morning sunlight began to enter the cavities of the stone hole. The gleam hurts my eyes, but I can't open them again.

"Is this heaven?" that's the only sentence that popped into my mind.

Surprisingly I no longer feel the lump in the hole in my neck, and ultimately I consider myself dead.

After a while, I started to feel the energy in my eyelids and started to lift my eyelids half open.

I was amazed.

The snake that had attacked my head and neck was lying dead under my face.

"What happened?" I thought.

With the remaining strength, I lifted my body with both hands.

"Wait? Hand?" I quickly glanced at my hands and feet, which had been released from the warrior's strong bond shackles.

Congested. My breath is tight. I tried to control my breath until my body began slowly feeling the oxygen I had inhaled.

I tried calming down and started trying to feel my face slowly.

"Hoek...! Hoek...!"

Not! This is entirely unacceptable. The touch of a hand on my face, full of snakebite holes, makes me imagine what my face looks like now. Not enough there. I started to feel my head and right, only the skin that I thought was decorated with holes in my head.

I tried to see my hand, but only light I could catch. I staggered, trying to find water or anything to quench the thirst and dust in my eyes.

"Hera, calm down!"

I gasped. A voice started to startle me.

"Who are you?!" I screamed in horror at a voice I didn't know where it was coming from.

"It's me, Black Pearl! Now you have to calm down and follow my directions," he said.

There is no other choice but to follow Black Pearl's words. Only he can help me at this time, and there is no other reason not to follow her words.

"Stand up! Turn around and advance 100 steps!"

He continues to guide me, who is blind; in my steps, I ask my condition to convince my heart that I am no longer worthy as a human.

"Well, Black Pearl. Have all my senses gone?" I asked him, preparing for the worst answer from him.

"No, your senses are stronger than before."

Surprised, I howled, "How come? I can't see! I'm blind! I'm deaf! I didn't smell anything! I'm disabled!" I shouted, venting my misfortune on him.

He only heard my moans and kept refusing his statement to me. I was distraught when he flattered me with my current disability.

"We're here," he said.

My mind started to get confused again.

"Is this on the brink?" I asked, laughing a little at my life.

"What do you think?" He just threw me another question.

Believing I was facing an abyss, I immediately leaped forward vigorously.

Byur!

"Water?"

The chill that refreshed my head and mind began to calm me down.

"Yes, at least it will wake you up," he replied.

"Puah!"

My vision started to clear up. Colors and shapes began to appear, and my nose began to smell the aroma of trees. When I see the reflection of my body in the water.

"Ah, that's for sure," I said.

"Don't you gasp to see this form of yours?" asked Black Pearl in an even tone.

"I thought this would happen."

I lay down on the water. The rest of the blood started flowing from every hole in my face. But I no longer feel hot and sore anymore.

"Well, Black Pearl, I want to ask you something."

"What?" he asked.

"What happened to the snakes?" I asked while looking up at the sky blankly.

"Hmm, don't you remember my power?" asked Black Pearl again.

I started to remember the power he had, but my brain couldn't find the answer to his question.

"Haa! How could you forget such an important thing? Remember what happened to the vampire who attacked you? Hera, my strength can't heal you; my power won't turn your body back to how it was before," he explained, expressing the facts that plagued my feelings as quickly as turning the palm of your hand.

"So what's your power?" I asked again, who kept looking at the sky.

"Destruction!"

Then time began to pass with the flow. The Black Pearl started to reopen our conversation.

"Hera, I'm sorry!"

"What for?" I asked.

"I… I can't heal you." He answered in a guilty tone.

I just sighed.

"But you protected me from death, didn't you?"

He was just silent.

"Don't worry if we find my brothers and sisters. I make sure you will return to the way you were. I can only absorb and destroy without repairing anything." His words made me a little relieved.

At least now I'm not alone anymore.