The Great Serpent

It was another day in Equestria. Fluttershy was tending to an injured parrot as it had a broken wing. She wrapped it up in gauze and patted it. She smiled gently. "There." she said. "The wing will be better in a few weeks." she said. Suddenly she heard the door slam shut. She turned and saw Angel with his back against the door panting.

"Angel?" Fluttershy asked. She trotted up to the shell shocked rabbit. He was never this scared unless he saw something.

"What happened?" she asked. He calmed down and began to make signals. Fluttershy understood.

"You were near the Everfree Forest when you saw it?" she asked.

"What do you mean "it?" she asked. Angel could not describe it. He only pointed out one thing.

"Scales?" she asked. He nodded and started to emphasize huge by raising his hand above his body. "And huge?" she asked. She was beginning to get scared herself. "How big?" she asked.

Angel only shivered. Fluttershy decided to go and investigate.

"Angel stay here. I will look for this creature myself." she said. But she really didn't want to but it scared Angel. She trotted out of her little cottage and began to head towards the forest. She had to be careful, the forest was very dangerous. Especially at night.

After a few minutes Fluttershy was at the entrance to the Everfree Forest. It looked ominous as it always was. It was never a cool looking place. She sighed before walking into the forest watching and listening for anything that Angel was talking about. After an hour she couldn't find it. She sighed with a small laugh.

"Angel must have just been seeing things that made it look like it was something." she said to herself.

But as she entered a clearing, her eyes widened like saucers. In front of her was a giant piece of molted skin from a snake. No snake had skin that big. Her entire body looked like it would fit nice inside. More than 15 of her could fit inside. She looked at it further. It was only a few days old so that means whatever shed the skin, is still around. She shivered.

It was scary. Maybe Angel did see something. But she didn't notice that a bear was watching her until she heard it growl. Fluttershy turned and saw a huge brown bear roaring before looking right at her. She gasped.

"N-nice bear." she said. It stopped and stared at her. Fluttershy nervously walked up to it to see if there was a reason why it was angry. But just as she was about to reach it, she heard the bear roar. She had just enough time to see claws speed towards her. She barley dodged it in time before looking at the bear. She screamed and ran, the bear following close behind her.

But just then, she realized that she could fly but just as she realized that, she reached a cliff side. She skidded to a stop before turning to see the bear right behind her. Fluttershy raised her wings and was about to flap when she felt a paw graze her side, she yelped in pain and then felt the bear grab her and slam her into the ground. She grunted in pain as she saw the bear loom over her. It raised another paw, it's claws sharp enough to rip her to shreds. She whimpers and closed her eyes.

Suddenly she heard another roar but it sounded like a female screech mixed with a snake hiss. She heard the bear roar in pain and felt the pressure leave her chest. She opened her eyes. She noticed ahead was a giant snake body, with beautiful white scales with blue patterns which was outlined by black patterns. The belly scales were were pale silver. She looked up to see that the snake's body curved up to meet a pelvis, she noticed half a vertical slit where the snake half seemed to morph into the half of another creature in the middle. But the rest of the slit was beneath the reptilian cover that blocked it. She realized that it must be the creatures reproductive organ.

Now she got a good look at it's upper half. It looked like a giant hairless monkey but more evolved. It might be one of those human creatures that Twilight talked about. It didn't look like a normal color. It's skin was a very creamy, milky fair. it had a small hole on it's stomach, as she looked further up she saw two large lumps on the creature's chest with little pink nubs on the tip of each. They might be teats or udders of some kind, so it was obvious that this creature was a female. And the creature was slender so it was another sign that it was a female.

She looked further up to see the arms of the creature. At the end of each was a hand with five digits on each, then the neck. And finally the head. It was rounded shaped. She saw the creatures monolid shaped, red colored eyes, it's pupil's like that of a snake. It's mane was unruly white that reached the shoulders. She didn't really know what she was. But it was clear that it is some sort of giant Albino half-snake, half-human creature. Fluttershy finally noticed the lips, struggling from the teeth were the bear. It had been caught up to it's stomach and was clawing wildly. trying to escape. Suddenly, the teeth bit down harder. Fluttershy heard a snapping sound. The bear's scream stopped and it collapsed. It's eyes wide open as it hang helplessly in the creatures teeth. Suddenly the head shifted forward and the mouth open. Causing the bear to be shifted into the mouth. Fluttershy heard a deep gulp reverberate though her. Her eyes widened. It had swallowed the bear whole! She fully took in the creature's height. It was so very big. But since it was night. It wasn't easy to actually comprehend it's height. Fluttershy's best guess is that it had to be at least 48 meters (157 feet) tall. And it's long serpent body was 70 meters (229 feet) long. Which meant that it's entire length from it's head to it's tail was 118 meters (387 feet) long!

Not even a dragon can get that big. The creature then turned to her. Fluttershy gulped as she saw the red eyes stare down at her. Fluttershy shrunk back. Was it going to eat her to? A few seconds later it let out a soft hiss, before turning around and slithered off. Fluttershy gulped as the tail finally disappeared into the trees. A thought appeared in her head. Had the creature just saved her from the bear?

Fluttershy nervously stood up and limped away towards the entrance. If Twilight or the others saw her like this, they would ask too many questions to questions that she doesn't even know. It was best to just go to her cottage and cover her bruises. She could tell them that she fell and got a few bumps from that but it wouldn't explain the three slash marks on her side. They weren't to deep so they can be cleaned up when she gets home. Soon she was back at her cottage. She looked around before walking inside. She looked for Angel until she spotted the little rabbit. The moment he saw her he looked at her concerned. Did the creature attack Fluttershy?

Angel leapt towards the Pegasus and stood before her. Fluttershy sighed.

"I'm OK Angel." she said. Angel glared. He demanded answers. Fluttershy did not want to talk about it. As she was about to walk away Angel blocked her. He gave her an even deeper frown, crossing his arms and tapping a foot. She sighed.

She sighed before looking at Angel. "I think I saw what you saw." she said. He looked down at the wounds she had before looking back up.

"But it wasn't the creature who did this. It was a bear." she said. He sighed and allowed her to go clean herself up. Later she came back and laid down. She couldn't get the creature out of her head. It was just so different and big, and foreign.

She got up early the next morning and decided that she had to investigate the creature further. She turned to Angel who was barley awake.

"Angel, I need you to watch the animals for a while. I'll be back soon. And please don't tell anyone where I am going." she said and trotted out before Angel could question her.

Fluttershy then quickly spread her wings and flew into the sky towards the Everfree Forest. She soon reached the entrance and continued to fly over the trees. She had to find it. It couldn't be that hard to find. A few minutes later she flew down to a clearing and landed. It was the same spot from the other night.

It just laid there. Or she laid there. It really didn't look all scary now. It looked like it was, well... bored. The creature began to whistle a tune when suddenly a stick rubbed Fluttershy's flank. She squealed and jumped out of the bush. She calmed down before realizing what she just did. She had jumped into the clearing. She turned slowly towards the creature and squeaked in surprise and fear. The creature was looking strait at her!

To be Continued