John thought to himself(Maybe they are looking for me. After all, I stole their treasury. So it's going to be harder to enter the island.) Suddenly an idea sparkled in his mind, and he thought evilly(Why do I need to enter the island, when I can abduct them, without even entering the island.)
John moved slowly under the sea and approached the island. The people patrolling the island didn't know that danger was lurking around them and anyone might fall victim to it. If they don't keep an eye on their surroundings or they are careless.
Soon John finds a suitable person to abduct on the shores of the island. On the side of the island where the island's inner surface can be reached. Two men in their twenties with gills patrolled along the shore with a careless attitude. Both of them are a little distance away from each other and doing their job in a very sloppy manner.
Seeing them, John approached the land closer and stopped a few meters away from them. Two patrol men still didn't find anything wrong, as one of them was looking for something in the shrubs in the surroundings and another one was trying to catch a creature that runs very fast with flexible legs.
But both of them didn't seem to achieve what they were expecting. So, they concentrated on it more, forgetting about the warning given by the Elders. As they immersed themselves in their reality, colorless odorless poison surrounded them. The first victim is the one who's looking for something in the shrub, as he faints.
The other one who was chasing the animal didn't faint suddenly due to changing positions constantly. But the moment he tried to escape, his legs became weak. He fell along with the animal he was hunting, on the muddy ground. John came out of the water, after confirming both of them had fainted. He swallowed them into his mouth and kept them in the body, where they wouldn't get digested.
John lamented at the thought of using his body as a storage space frequently these days. But his actions didn't stop, due to his thoughts. As his body entered the water and began to swim toward the island where he left the stone room. After he left, the animal hunted down by one of the men stood up and left from there in a panic.
John used a very small amount of poisonous fog to make them faint, as he did not want to kill them. So, the creature woke up in a few minutes. But the two people in John's body can't enjoy this benefit, because both of them are injected with poisonous fog, from time to time to keep them asleep.
John swam at a fast speed, without wasting a moment. As he didn't know how long the humans in his mouth could last without food or water. He traveled a three-day distance in two days. After reaching the small island, John spat out both of them in a small stream on the island. Both of them woke up from sleep and drank the water in the stream.
After that, both of them looked at each other with dumbfounded expressions, as they still processing information, after waking up from a deep sleep and then they found that a long shadow was shrouding them. So they looked up and upon seeing John, both of them let out a blood-curdling scream "Aaaaah!"
Then one of the men fainted on the spot, the other one was little better than the one who fainted, as he began to run in the opposite direction of John. In vain hope of escaping from John, John began to follow the man who was running at the slowest speed possible. But still reached a man in two seconds.
The man let out another shriek as he looked at John with fear, but he still asked tremblingly "What do you want from us? And why do you bring us here?"
The man's brain began to work, after realizing that the snake bought them somewhere away from the island, and didn't eat them instantly as a normal animal does. So, with the hope that the animal bought them with a goal, he asked what he thought. John also looked in amazement at the man and slithered his tongue at him. Then began to move in the direction of the hidden valley.
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Seeing the snake's movement, the man let out a cry of joy as he followed him, even if he didn't like to follow the snake. The men fell, after taking a few steps with severe hunger. John looked at the man and stopped moving. John let the man take a rest for a few minutes. Then he slithered his tongue at him and motioned him in a direction, where a group of animals were grazing.
The man's face became paler, as he thought he was gonna die, he thought the snake was gonna swallow him. So, he tried to take a few steps, but he fell heavily on the ground weakly. Seeing this, John sighed and moved towards a herd of herbivores which were enough for him to swallow in one mouthful, and grabbed one of them and returned to the man who was currently enjoying shade under a tree, and put down an animal from his mouth distributing the atmosphere with dust.
The man coughed a bit due to the sudden sandstorm and looked at the large animal that he hadn't seen before, but didn't touch it, because the animal is hunted by the large snake that almost covers everything with its presence.
John looked expressionlessly at the man for a few minutes without moving. The man also finally realizes that the animal is for him. So, he took out a small sharp bone knife to slash the animal. After cutting it, he began to roast a small part of it. While looking at the large snake with a curious expression.
He hadn't heard of a smart animal like a large snake and he didn't even know that the snake could be this large. His fear of the snake diminished with the food and his curiosity rose. But, he still behaved cautiously. John looked at all of the man's expressions and thought(The humans in this world look like emojis.)
The man ate the meat in a few minutes and looked at the snake for any reaction, to understand what to do next. John didn't disappoint him, as he began to move towards the hidden valley with a man on his tail. John also swallowed the remaining animal meat, with the policy of not wasting meat.
A few minutes later, John and the man reached the hidden valley. The man looked at the stone room before his eyes with puzzlement and looked at the snake who also looking and motioning something to him. After a few moments of confusion, and multiple head shakes. The man finally understands what the snake is conveying.
The man took a large rock from nearby and began to strike it on the lock, on the steel door of the stone room.
~Boom~
After repeating this action multiple times, a large amount of sweat is expelled from the man's body, and the man finally breaks the lock and opens the door. He opened the door wide enough to let the snake see the contents of the stone room. John looked at the contents of the stone room with excitement. The man also found the contents in the stone room with his pupils widened.
He looked at the steel chair, bindings, injections, and potions in the room with incredible expression. Everything dawned on him, as he realized why the snake did all of this. John looked at the man's action and didn't think anything about it.
The man also came to his senses and decided to fulfill the snake's desire and see, if the snake would let him live or not. As he can see, the snake is very smart and will kill him, if he does something that is against its wishes. He also didn't want to provoke the snake's wrath, without knowing what may snake would do. The man comforted himself and resolved to fulfill the snake's orders to his best. Just end this process with him alone.
He moved forward and took a potion named 'Tail' and filled up an injection with it. Then he walked up to the snake and looked at it. John looked at the man who suddenly became smart and moved his tail end near the man. The man looked at the smallest part of the snake which was still bigger than him with amazement.
He was also present at the ceremony site in the settlement as a guard and due to his strong body, he was selected to participate in the newly formed patrol team to protect the settlement from where he got abducted. By analyzing what he had seen Elders doing to those participants, he knew what to do.
The man injected the potion into John's tail. A few moments later, John's tail began to twitch and become something different from normal. John also can see that the process failed, so without wasting time, he disconnected the small section of a tail that had undergone a mutation process.
Seeing John's action, the man also let out hidden hope, which he placed on the snake's demise under the threat of failed mutation. John hissed at the man, the man understood and refilled the injection with a new potion and injected it into John's body. The tail end began to turn into something animalistic, so John dropped off that section of the tail.