Washed Away

Garden Snake

You shifted uncomfortably, the snakes wrapping themselves around you and keeping you stationary. The robot before you looked down menacingly, his grin sending shivers down your spine.

It seemed a little odd that he had hair and such, all the other robots were wearing helmets and Bubble Man had an entire mask. You wondered if the other robots appeared more human under all of their armor.

You pushed that thought to the back of your head to wonder later, for now, you needed to deal with this.

"What brings you to my room, little garden snake?" He asked, circling around you. The nickname made you cringe a little. He was trying to sound scary, but honestly it just made him sound stupid.

"It was an accident." You quietly answered. A snake sank its fangs onto the skin on your arm, earning a shrill shriek from you. It ripped out its fangs, and you could feel warm, thick blood slowly roll down your arm.

"An accident? You're not telling me the entire truth." He stopped in his place. Now you noticed a snake wrapped around his arm slithered around his fingers, it's glowing red eyes staring directly at you.

"As far as I know, you're not supposed to leave your room, garden snake." He giggled a little. This was seriously getting weird. You were honestly hoping Quick Man would realize your absence and come find you. He'd probably be pissed, but that would be much better than this.

"So, in conclusion, you were attempting to escape our little island. That's not a job for a garden snake." He turned around, the snake on his arm slithering to the ground and towards you. Your eyes widened a little as the snake curled itself around your leg. That made two snakes on your left leg, one on the right. The robot snapped his fingers, and all three snakes sank their teeth into your legs at once. You screamed, the bites burning and stinging as though they were on fire. Blood leaked from the bites as each snake ripped out their fangs. Tears pooled in your eyes and in only a second rushed down your face. You began sobbing as the bites throbbed with pain.

You regretted leaving your room. You should have stayed. Maybe not that.. you decided you just wished you had turned the other way down the hallway.

But who knows what would have been waiting for you that way? You'd have no way of knowing.

Your regrets backed up even farther. You wished you hadn't fell off the boat, hadn't reached for your phone, hadn't left your friends. You wish you hadn't gotten out into the ocean at all. If you hadn't decided to go out and drink with your friends, you wouldn't be here. You wouldn't have drifted out into the ocean and washed up onto this place. You wouldn't be sunburned. You'd be at home.

Your legs started to lose a good bit of feeling in them, they were still hurting, but a strange tingling sensation had set over them. You couldn't move them. This is what scared you most. Your legs were immobilized, leaving you completely at the mercy of this terrifying robot.

You continued to cry. The robot giggled rather evilly, turning and kneeling in front of you.

"I love the way you cry, garden snake." He smiled widely and displayed his sharp fangs. The pain was finally ebbing away, reducing you to a sniffling mess with puffy red eyes. His smile faded. "You're done crying, garden snake?" He moved closer to you. He placed his hands on either side of you, now hovering over your immobile body. 

Even in this terrifying situation, your face warmed up. He snickered at this, tracing a hand down the side of your face.

And then in a split second, he had sank his teeth in the flesh of your neck, causing your cries and screams to resume. Hot, burning tears dripped down your face as his fangs seemed to send fire through your neck. You didn't understand why it hurt this bad. Of course you understood that having someone's teeth plunged into your skin would hurt, but it felt like his fangs were shooting venom into-

Venom.

You suddenly felt like an idiot for not realizing that was what was happening. He was injecting venom into your body.

This realization didn't really help much. There was still nothing you could do. You were still stuck.

You felt your eyes get heavy, your breaths slowed down. He pulled his fangs out of you, and licked his lips.

"Night Night, garden snake."