The origins

The snake in the corridor

The giant head of the monstrous serpent peeked through the tunnel hole on the left. It was so gigantic that it practically filled half the tunnel hole. If its body was proportional to that head, that had to be the terror of any living being. Creature in the basement included...

But then, the creature perceived it clearly: that serpent was not only a monstrous living being but there was something evil, malignant in it, which was what the creature had perceived from the beginning.

The snake evaluated the small room into which both tunnels emptied. To do this, it tirelessly (but calmly) pulled out and inserted his tongue, as if it knew that there would be few creatures who dared to confront and even less win against it.

Suddenly, it spoke in a melodious, velvety but threatening voice that would have terrified the bravest:

- I know that you are there, I assure you that hiding won't be of any use because I will find you in the end. And when I find you, you're going to feel all my rage- Every time I pronounced an "s," it'd stick out its tongue because it really wanted to be sure where that creature I felt was nearby.

Its melodious tone was astonishing: it was hypnotic, as if by just talking he would convince its interlocutor to listen carefully and submit to his will. But nothing was going to convince the creature in the basements to come out of its hiding place: it was going to stay glued to the wall until that thing left the surroundings.

Suddenly, a noise was heard:

-Miauuuu... .

A rather large, yellow-eyed orange cat had appeared on the scene, chasing an unfortunate sparrow that had been lost through the intricate corridors of the basements. Finally, the big cat had caught it and now it was carrying the little bird in its mouth to feast in its lair.

The snake lowered its head to put its eyes at the height of the cat but the felice was much quicker and ran towards a hole in the wall. The monstrous snake tried to chase him but it was too big and heavy and the cat simply disappeared on the wall with its prey.

The entity felt the snake strike against the wall where it was hidden, in pursuit of the cat and believed that it was going to be discovered but nothing happened. It heard the snaked pulling out his tongue several times in a row to feel the atmosphere and seeing that he could not distinguish that there was anyone other than the cat, it simply stood in the middle of the room as if waiting to detect something else or someone discovered himself out of fear but nothing happened. So, considering the snake had concrete orders to investigate what had happened to the temple's three assailants, it began to slip through the tunnel leading to the temple's main nave.

At that moment, the creature, if it had had lungs, would have breathed deeply, because now it was clear what that snake was: that intelligent, gigantic and powerful being had allied itself with that evil presence that it had been able to distinguish from the beginning with sharpness. Now, as it went away, the creature understood that it had to hurry to wake the bald man, although it doubted that he could do anything about what was sliding down the tunnel...