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The Serpent and The Gila Monster

You awake at the sound of an irritating moaning. You sit up and rub your throbbing head, remembering how you had whacked it on the cell wall. As you look around, you notice that the Countess is nowhere to be seen. You also notice that all five women have been turned into strange chimeras. Celia has been turned into a Fish woman, Delilah has been turned into a Dolphin woman and Brynnah and Rachel have both been turned into a two headed and very buxom Anaconda woman; however, that insufferable moaning isn't coming from any of them. No ,they all appear to be resting or sleeping, unaffected by the noise.

You look around, then suddenly catch sight of what's making it; in a sixth transparent cell, there is curled up on the floor, moaning and groaning like the end of the world is about to happen, a large bulky lizard-man of some sort. Well, more a boy than a man; probably about 18 or so at most, but large nonetheless. He is virtually covered (saving his forehead, face and ears) in thick shiny scales that gleam with an array of pinkish yellow patches outlined by dark (if not black) scales. He has no hair on him and has four fingers on his hands each bearing large and very strong black claws, as do his feet (which, oddly enough, have five toes) He has sturdy, stocky limbs and a large muscular jaw as well as a thick sturdy neck atop a long, bulky and powerful body which ends with a fairly long, bulky and rather blunt tail. Unlike his body, the scales on his tail show four or five stripes.

You rub your head and shout, "Oh shut up! You're giving me a migraine!" He lifts his head, revealing a scaleless (and hairless) face which, though not as dark as the scaled skin, is still dark-toned. He also has the squintiest, beadiest eyes you've ever seen, and a wide, flat nose. He replies in a sibilant voice, "What?! You're alive? You were lying around ssso long, I thought you had died of ssstarvation or sssomething..." Idly noticing he has a forked tongue, you reply, "No, I was jussst knocked out. I was woken up by your inccccessssant moaning." He lumbers up and leans against his transparent cell wall and says, "Well, sssorry, but it'sss not every day I get turned againsssst my will into a chubby tailed lizard man".

You let out a ssssigh and lean against your cell wall. Seeing as there's nothing else to do, and nobody else to talk to right now, you turn to him and say, "Ssso... when did you get here?" "I don't know", he replies. "After sssuppossedly ansswering the Countesss' stupid riddle wrong, I got thrown into another vortexsss. Nexssst thing I know, I wake up here. what in God'sss name is thisss placce, anyway?! Have we all been abducted by aliens turned into a pack of deformed sssideshow freaksss, or isss 'The Island of Doctor Moreau' more reality than fiction?!"

You take a deep breath and answer, "Oh boy, you are REALLY in over your head here, aren't you?" to which he replies, "Then enlighten me. Please, I jussst want to know if I can go back to living my normal life..."


Written by Red Robert (edited by wanderer)

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