The brown serpent chuckles a bit under his breath, feeling Tamara tense up all along her body. He winks and smirks back a bit. "I wouldn't worry about it too much, once you've slithered around for about three hundred years or so and you'll find all sorts of new ways to be flexible."<br/><br/>Chuck lets out a soft sigh as Suri asks him about the queen. He takes a breath to answer her, but as the ground shifts from underneath he tenses up and carefully scans every direction in his view, while his whole body firmly presses every scale into the dirt below him.<br/><br/>The trembling ground comes and goes without much of a fuss. A few upset birds fly from the nearby trees, but not so much left of the moment besides a few ruffled scales.<br/><br/>Jaku lets out a grunt from his throat, all four arms crossed at his chest. Chuck snaps out of his tense stance, everyone easily being able to feel his body relax behind them. Chuck turns his gaze towards Tamara and Suri. He shifts and puts him between the trio and the mountain and stands very tall so from their point of view, he stands just as tall.<br/>"There was once a legend to this island. Long long ago, the volcano was more of a monster than a mountain, constantly churning and screaming into the air, sending fire down to all who lived on its beaches. Where one person would build a home, the mountain would set it ablaze. Day after day, week after week, year after year, the people would build, and the mountain would burn it all into the ocean. And they were completely helpless to its rage.<br/><br/>Chuck ducks down and hunches low, slithering out from the trio. "However one day, a great serpent rose up from the oceans, slithering through the town, and made its way high into the mountain top." He raises one hand and then ducks into a tight coil around his tail. "The great serpent wrapped its whole body around the top of the mountain and squeezed it so tightly that the rage had no where to go but back down to the earth from whence it came." He stands tall and proud. "And all who lived here were joyous. For a very long time."<br/><br/>Chuck smiles and gently takes a seat on the warm grass, exposing his long body and belly scales towards them. "But one day, that serpent descended from the lonely mountain, not as a great beast, but a beautiful woman with a long flowing body that would trail all the way back. She wanted nothing more than to walk among the people she helped to save, but she could not reach the village, and keep the mountain in the grasp of her mighty tail. So the villagers packed up their homes one more time, and scaled high up into the cliffs to be with her, and for a long time they built a home out of the once rageful mountainside together. The great serpent was so moved by this, she decided to take every single villager into her and show them how much she loved each and every one of them."<br/><br/>He takes a deep, slow breath, causing his long body to slightly inflate underneath his bellyscales. "And most of them were reborn as we are now. But she discovered that there were many who did not wish to return, and wanted to stay deep inside the loving embrace of their savior. However, that came with quite the cost."<br/><br/>Chuck gently pulls his long body together, coiling it neatly into a tight ball around him. "We don't know if she knew it at first or not, but every soul inside her would make her stronger, more vibrant, vigorous and strong, but at the eventual cost of the life that was once there." He points towards their bellies and smiles. "Keep in mind, this is over hundreds of years. I can feel everyone inside you will be bubbling with life for ages to come. But as for her. The years went on, and our love for her never faltered. We are still happy to this day to be covered in scales than skin and to slide upon this mountain. The gifts she has given us all have been tremendous, but we are all no where near as vibrant as we once were. Even our children, whom she takes as well do not seem to be enough to sustain her."<br/><br/>He takes a breath and slowly stands back up, this time standing tall and showing that a toll has been taken from his thin body. "I was her latest meal. And I really felt that this time, I would not return from within her. So thank you for saving me."<br/><br/>----<br/><br/>Meanwhile high into the mountain, the queen smiles and gives the green tail a big kiss right on the snout! Squeezing its cheeks and rubbing her fingers right behind its eyes. "You are so cute!! And so lucky! I must meet more of your family! You have such a magnificent tail. Much like all of mine." She nuzzles and coos at his tail with a high pitch and very cute voice.<br/>However, while the queen does not take even the slightest of focus off of Arakin's tail. The mountainside trembles, and to his scales would feel like a massive snake is slithering beneath them. However after the briefest of moments, six snakes as massive as the snake that drug Arakin to the queen slide up from the recesses in the walls, floors, and ceiling. Each of them staring at Arakin, the queen, and his tail in their own way. "You'd have a bit of growing to do first though. Among other things." She kisses it on the snout and gently tucks it into her chest, gently petting its head, chuckling a bit at Arakin.<br/><br/>((Whoo!! Sorry that one took a while!!))