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| Filename: | Dragonspice_002.jpg |
| Album name: | Admin / Drawings Section |
| Artist: | Dragonness Wyverna |
| Date Received: | Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:44:31 -0500 (CDT) |
| Filesize: | 141 KiB |
| Date added: | Sep 10, 2007 |
| Dimensions: | 1030 x 1183 pixels |
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| URL: | http://www.dragnix.net/Artistic_Section/Drawings/displayimage.php?pid=1182 |
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(…“If you move, I strike. If you don’t move, I strike“.)
“Oh you foolish people who killed my Nag” Nagaina hissed triumphantly. Rikki-tikki came rushing up with the egg.
“Turn around widow!” Rikki chattered, “Turn and look at what I have!” The mongoose put his paws on the cobra egg. Nagaina hissed at him, clearly worried.
“You better not have killed the rest of my children, Rikki-tikki!”
“Oh but I did, the ants are having a really nice time eating them. There is this one left though.”
“Give me my last egg Rikki-tikki, and I shall leave the garden and never return” Nagaina lowered her hood.
Rikki considered this, then snorted. “No.” His eyes went red from anticipation. The fight was near. “I killed Nag, and I will kill you as well Nagaina!”
“What do you mean you killed him?”
“Nag was dead before the big man came with his gun. I killed him, and your brood! Fight widow! Fight!” Nagaina flicked her tongue. Glancing behind her, she saw the humans get up and run into the house.
Suddenly, she struck out at her egg, trying to reach it. Rikki rolled it down the veranda with a push of his paw, and jumped at her back, but she avoided him. They fought, and it was almost like some sort of weird dance. The cobra struck out, and the mongoose jumped. Rikki jumped around her tauntingly.
As the two of them battled, the egg came to a rest next to the end of the veranda. It shook, and cracks appeared. A few seconds later, a little head popped out, followed by a slender body. “My name is Bragahm” it announced in its tiny voice to no one. The little cobra then spread its hood experimentally. The battle between the mongoose and his mother suddenly caught his attention. His instincts told him to slither away and not be seen, so he did just that.
Nagaina had heard the crack of the egg and knew that her baby had hatched. Deciding to deceive Rikki-tikki, she raced over to the spot where her egg had hatched, Rikki in hot pursuit. The cobra grabbed the egg remains in her mouth and rushed off towards a rat hole. The mongoose bit her tail, hanging on as she raced in. “Fool” she thought to herself.
The tunnel was dark, with roots hanging down, brushing against the two as they went further down the hole. It opened up suddenly into a wide cavern, with plenty of room for Nagaina to turn and strike. She spit out her egg’s remains, and turned to finish off Rikki, but he was already in the air. The mongoose landed with a thud on her back, and he scrambled up a bit above her hood. Nagaina thrashed about in her death throes, and Rikki clamped tighter and tighter on her flesh, until the widow collapsed on top of the egg shell. It cracked, and he let go.
He sighed to himself. “It’s all over” he thought. Then the tired mongoose made his way back up to the surface, where Darzee was singing a song about him. The bird fell silent as he stepped from the hole cover. “Its all over Darzee. She wont come out again”
He was wrong, however, and a baby cobra chuckled at him from the bushes. “I will make it all over for you someday, Rikki-tikki” the little snake chortled, then sank into the shadows.