The Last Colony

Part 26

Sean turned over as he slowly opened his eyes. For a few seconds his eyes were still blurry. Once they cleared up though, he inhaled deeply. He was laying across a mound of comfortable pillows of all sizes. Something moved across his chest, causing his hand to smack the unwanted contact. For a split second, he was relieved that he still had his clothes on. However, the head of a snake snapped up to hiss inches from his face. Sean froze in a panic. His brain wasn't working. Was it poisonous? He couldn't tell. All he could tell was that it wasn't undead. It was very much alive! The snake bared its row of sharp teeth, hissing at him as it stared him down. The snakes body squeezed around one of his legs, coiling up a bit beneath his shirt. How long was this thing? A feminine hand curled around the snake's neck, her long black nails standing out against the snake's tan and black body. Sean's eyes drifted away from the snake to realize that he wasn't in here alone.

Lilith brought the snake's lips to hers, whispering out to him coolly. "You should respect the serpents of the earth. They get rid of the rats..." Sean slowly sat up, asking her shakily. "Where am I?" Lilith's free hand shot out to grab his throat. Shoving him back down across the bed of pillows, she brought the snake to his throat. The snake hissed in protest, while she sneered over his lips. "I've never been one for sharing. Although, I don't have a problem with him fucking your corpse... You can't take him from me then. So, tell me why Lucifer shouldn't squeeze the life out of you?" Sean grabbed her wrist that was holding Lucifer and shoved it toward her face. Lucifer hissed and struck her cheek, causing her to scream. Staggering away from him, she clutched her face protectively. Sean took the moment to spring from the pillows, trying to bolt for the open stable door. Lucifer still had ahold of his thigh though, causing him to fall across the dirt just short of the open door. Lucifer squeezed his leg hard, hissing wildly at being jostled around so much. Sean reached down to snatch his tail, trying to uncoil him enough to slip away.

He never knew just how much strength a snake had until now. It resisted being removed with its muscular body, squeezing itself tighter until Sean screamed in pain. It was crushing his leg! Punching the snake, he let out another scream as Lucifer struck him in response, latching onto his wrist. Lucifer's strike hit his wrist with the force of a baseball bat. His razor teeth piecing and tearing into his flesh as it thrashed about. Sean scooted up as best he could, trying to fight the snakes thrashing in order to try whacking its head against the nearest wall. He managed to grab the snake's neck with his free hand, but before he could whack its head to the wall, he was dragged away from it by his ankle. Lilith hefted her sheer skirt to remove a switch blade from her garter. Ejecting the blade, she quickly straddled him. Raising the blade to aim for his throat, she screamed out. "I'm going to skin you alive, boy!" Sean raised a hand to block her attack that never came, because Death's chilling voice stated out rather calmly. "Lilith... What are you doing?"

Lilith's face changed and she put her blade behind her back, answering with a childish guilt. "Foreplay? He wasn't removing his clothes... So, I was going to cut them off." Death moved closer, reaching out to touch her chin. He lifted her chin to look at the bite beneath her left eye. She looked up at him with pure innocence. Death didn't show any emotion, he just lowered his hand from her chin, ordering her seriously. "Hand it over." Lilith lowered her eyes, reluctantly putting her switch blade in his hand with a heavy sigh. Death pocketed the blade, then kneeled to take Sean's arm. Lucifer was still biting into his flesh aggressively. Death stroked the snake's head to calm it, then carefully pushed the snake's head forward to slide its slanted teeth out of his flesh. Once Lucifer was off his bleeding wrist, Sean snapped out. "Where is Chica? What did you do to Mark?!" Death continued to stroke the snake to calm it more, upon casually saying. "You ask a lot of questions." Sean sat up on his elbows, growling out. "Then start answering some and I'll stop asking them."