A long time ago, humans and wild life co-existed, or at least tolerated one-another. What few human settlements there were across the continent had to be built near natural resources, and this was the case for the one nestled against a vibrant, lively jungle. Its population was steady, though it wasn’t uncommon for some of their number to be picked off by the looming monsters in the wild, as the humans saw them. Despite the dangers, the people thrived, even if they had to make occasional trips into that deadly jungle.
One day, it was up to Aba to fetch some fresh fruits not far into the jungle. The child, bearing a darker complexion overall, sporting flowing black hair, had made the trip several times before. She’d been fortunate to not have any wild encounters thus far, but that didn’t make her unaware of the many dangerous creatures milling about just outside the village. Man’s red fire and primitive weapons kept them from encroaching on their clearly-marked territory, but their defenses could only do so much about the perimeter. Aba took an easy-going path through the jungle, formed by dozens of trips the villagers had taken, avoiding most plant and animal life. The goal was to reach something of an oasis of fruits within the jungle, a resource the village sorely depended on. With an empty basket in tow, the young girl, clad in nothing but a simple cloth around her chest and waist, set off to help feed her village.
For a little while it appeared to be a typical harmless journey, until Aba saw something unexpected: Something was lazed across the usual path, bearing bright yellow scales and stretching over a dozen feet long. A large, wide python bathed in the sun, seemingly asleep, and blocked Aba from taking her usual route safely. She knew better than to go anywhere near the dangerous creature, but had few options: Either she could brave the serpent, return to the village empty-handed, or trek through unknown portions of the jungle, which would be far more dangerous. Aba paused only a minute to decide, gulped, then gently approached. The snake did not react in any way to the girl, and Aba started to breathe steadily again. It was genuinely asleep, and slumbering serpents seldom accosted anyone.
Aba reached the python and had to gingerly step over the partially-coiled thing, halting a moment to consider how to conquer the feat. There was nothing for it: Aba would have to just step over the big log of a creature in her way. She tossed the basket over to the other side, then concentrated on maneuvering over without touching. Aba had to raise a leg up and over, her small form barely able to reach due to its size. She just barely managed, and drew her other leg over, free and clear of the snake!
Until her foot unintentionally brushed across the tip of its slowly-weaving tail.
The python’s eye peeked open, tongue flitting out. Aba gasped and froze in place, not sure what to do. She hoped that the snake would go back to sleep… but apparently the big snake was hungry, as its tail slithered to live around the child’s ankles and began working its way up her legs! The girl squealed loudly as she was trussed up, the snake weaving its body higher and higher until the cool thick scales were at her shoulders. Aba balled her hands into fists, though they were stuck to her side, and she tried fighting her way free by fidgeting. She flexed every finger and toe, to no avail, and screamed when the python pulled her down to earth. The large body thudded against the fertile soil, cushioning the fall for Aba, though she felt the body slithering all over her body from shoulder to toe, and saw the big head lean in closer. She screamed at it in pure fright when its tongue slipped out and lashed across her face, leaving a fleck of drool behind.
The python’s body continued moving around the young girl, shifting about and keeping her locked in place. It considered dragging her up a tree so that other wild creatures wouldn’t potentially poach its meal, but the child was small enough to devour quickly. There was little chance of an interruption. Aba cried out again, hoping that others in the village would hear, but few realized just how loud jungle ambiance usually was. Even at night when trying to sleep, Aba would be perturbed by the incessant cacophony that the wild environment was constantly plagued with, and today was no different. Her screams were lost among the myriad of animal noises constantly sounding off, leaving the village deaf to the child’s fate. Aba struggled and moaned, able only to thrash her head about and squirm her ankles and feet about.
There was nothing she could do to keep the python from eating her alive.
The large yellow serpent hissed, more spittle spewed across the girl’s face. She whimpered, lip quivering, as she saw the wide reptile maw split open. Sharp fangs dotted along its mouth, the tongue mostly retracted. What terrified her was the dark gullet beyond the pulsating pink flesh of the maw, the spot where the shifting snake coils were slowly feeding her head towards! Aba squealed right into the yawning snake maw, her voice lost among the sounds of the jungle. The serpent’s head glided forward and mushed the girl’s face down against the bottom of the mouth with its jaws closing around her neck. The child was quiet small in comparison to the python that had engulfed her, and her head had plenty of room inside the snake’s jaws to thrash and protest. But the python simply slithered forward, forcing her head down its throat with a slow, elongated GULLLLK. The ensuing bulge wasn’t anything impressive, the squealing Aba barely making a dent among the serpent’s scales as her shoulders were fed up into the jaws next.
A yawning maw revealed copious amounts of saliva pouring over Aba’s back, shoulders vanishing down the gullet in an open-mouthed swallow that stretched the scales just beyond out more. Aba’s heart pounded within her flat chest as the latter slid into the jaws, with her head scrunched further down the throat. Her body quivered at the feeling of so much hot, sticky slobber easing her passage into the gullet, the python further-assisting by shifting its coils to feed her inward. The coils were looser, though the heavy body of the serpent was more than enough alone to keep the girl from doing much more than crying loudly in the gullet. Its body slithered over and under Aba and dragged its tail across her feet that were upended and squirming. The girl felt the coils and ground dragging beneath her while the serpent’s jaws played over her chest and sank further-still. Aba felt the little pricks of the fangs gently poking at her skin, and she was grateful that they didn’t do any damage to her.
...URLP! GLK. GLK…
Not that that was helping her right now! The child squealed aloud as her body continued to be consumed by the large python, with her midriff passing past the scaly lips and into the squishy mouth proper. She squirmed and cried when her head breached beyond the gullet and into the long, growling belly, feeling the sting of acids in the air while the tongue applied more drool against her belly. The python hissed softly and worked its mouth over the skirt Aba wore, jaws clamping down over her rear end. The girl’s panic rose when she realized her arms were completely devoured with her balled fists gulped noisily down alongside her stomach. By this point the young girl was bulging out the scaly serpent form, though no more than any other animal would. Anyone else that would happen upon the snake would see nothing out of the ordinary: Just a large snake slowly working down a squishy meal. Aba let out a muffled scream as her head pushed further into the stomach, her silky black hair an utter mess, with the walls of the snake gut pounding against her from all sides. She whimpered when the last of the python’s giant coils slipped off her her, feeling humid jungle air only against her calves and feet, the rest in the hot, sweltering confines of the python’s innards.
All in all, it didn’t take long for the experienced snake to eat Aba whole and alive. It was used to much larger prey, and the child was a petite thing that could barely put up a fight. Another slow, sibilant swallow devoured more of the petite girl, whose ankles were now sealed over by slobber-coated lips. The python raised its body up off the ground a little, betraying a very girl-shaped bulge down its neck and body, the lump worked all the way down to where its belly began and Aba was being introduced to. The bubbling churns of very slow-working enzymes were already coming to life, even before the girl felt the jaws work over her now-limp feet. The python’s jaws slowly widened, far wider than they had to to bring in the last bit of its prey, letting out a soothing hiss of delight as it did so. The last of the child’s legs were exposed to the jungle, dripping in drool and twitching this way and that, firmly-embedded in the snake throat. The jaws suddenly stretched wider still, and the gullet visibly pulsated, dragging the crying girl down the throat. The feet slithered in and the jaws closed, a wet GLURP signifying the end of the python’s supple young meal. Smaller gulping sounds traveled down the round lumpy bulge that was Aba as it shifted and sank through the big serpent’s coils, yellow scales serving as a tangible warning for all to heed.
The python’s tongue flickered out as if it hadn’t just ingested a full human, whole and alive, the body coming to live in a very slow series of curving slithers across the jungle soil. Aba was beside herself with terror, stretched to the limit in the tight confines of the snake stomach, body guided deeper and deeper down until her toes tickled the slimy acids. The utter darkness combined with the squelching churns of the belly left the child disoriented and confused, shivering as she knew exactly what her fate was. She felt the python sift through the deepness of the jungle, curving around rocks and other foliage, and completely ignoring the delectable meal it had tucked away. Aba shrieked and screamed for dear life over and over, fueled by fear and the budding itchiness over her body from the oozing fluids. She wasn’t able to tell that she stopped sinking through the big serpent body, having settled right around its middle and adding some curves to its form. Any physical protests she managed only showed up as little bumps here and there among the scales, and her pleads to be rescued were overpowered by the soft, yet loud, glrrrrrns the stomach output. The whimpering girl tried to at least worm her arms up from her sides, but she couldn’t even manage that, the things creating their own little bulges in the predator’s hide.
The python, no longer focused on hunting or eating, was seeking a place to sleep off its meal. It found a sturdy tree before too long – one that it had slumbered on many times before – and slowly maneuvered its way up the bark. It wrangled its massive body about without effort, and Aba squealed when it felt like her body was being broken in two. The python couldn’t care less about the fate of what it had eaten, bending its sinuous body around the tree and forcing Aba’s body to stretch to its limit within the gurgling belly. She only got relief from the stressful climb when the belly was lazily slung off a branch the python had wrapped around. The hammock-like midsection swayed to a slow stop, the journey culminating with a chhrrrrrn as digestion was really beginning to kick off! The python, having had its nap interrupted, had no trouble falling right back to sleep. The sizable meal hanging off its belly certainly helped make the python sleepy too, the child crying inside the gut that was working to digest her.
Minutes passed, Aba having settled in a slight bend in tune to the form the dangling python’s belly took, a soft U-shape bulge bubbling away. A couple hours went by, the python motionless throughout, and Aba’s voice had gone out from all the squealing she’d done. Hours more passed and it was night, though the girl had no idea how much time had elapsed. Surely the village would have gone looking for her? But, she whimpered, motionless from sheer exhaustion, there would be no chance of discovering a sated serpent up high on a tree. If anything, a sighting such as that would keep people away. The whimpering girl fitfully twitched all along the dangling serpent belly as rising stomach fluids encompassed her completely, nothing but meat for the mighty python.
Several days went by, and the others in the village correctly assumed the poor girl’s fate. The strong, slow-acting stomach acids of the python had worked her down like any other animal, long after she’d passed out. Her clothes, few they were, were the first to go, falling apart and dissolving into nothing. The lump of human in the bulged snake belly was the next to go, and over the course of those days the stomach roiled and digested the little girl away completely. The bulges shrank down to a more meager size, and eventually began to travel further down the lengthy form once the belly had turned the child into a few mushy remains.
By the time the python awoke, his body was completely back to normal, save for a small lump near its tail. It stretched its jaws wide open in a serpentine yawn, tongue flickering out to taste at the air as it did so. Now awake, and full of energy thanks to its relatively-recent meal, it worked its way back down the tree back onto the jungle soil. Its body piled onto the ground firmly, with the tail thumping down last. Then, without giving it much thought, the python fertilized that soil, lifting its tail and working to dispose the waste that had built up over the course of the week. The python slowly squeezed out lumps of snake shit among the foul leavings were various strings of black hairs and a few broken bones, small bits and pieces of them littered throughout the muck. In between the mounds of dung a small fracture skull plopped out, nestled among the piles the serpent fertilized the jungle with, and not paid any heed by the defecating python.
It finished its business with a last push, tail deflating and returning to normal, before slowly departing from what he left on the floor. What little remained of Aba would never be found by the village at large, the serpent having gone deep into the jungle, away from the humans that sometimes threatened it when they deemed it too close to home. The awful smells kept most critters at bay as well, and it would be some time before the girl’s remnants would be disintegrated away completely by the passage of time and the heated weather of the jungle.
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