So, as some of you may have noticed, my birthday was the 28th, but I didn't post anything. I was going to post Chapters Five through Eight, but on the 27th, I looked them over and decided that they weren't good enough. So I rewrote them, with a completely different story line than I had originally intended. The ending is still the same, this version is just better. To try to make up for my broken promise, I also wrote Chapters Nine and Ten. You'll be getting Six in 9-12 hours (so I can sleep and edit any mistakes), then Seven-Ten once every 18-24 hours until I'm out of written content.

PS: Sexual content in this chapter, and probably in the future, too. Plot stuff. If there's sexual content of other NSFW themes in a chapter from now on, I'll have some indication before the chapter, in red (sexual content) or pink (various NSFW themes).

PPS: After this week, expect two chapters a week until the middle of January, when classes start. I can't promise you'll get two, but it's what I'll be aiming for.

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Waking up, I found Smol and Mother curled up together, leaving me (for once) undisturbed in my sleep. Feeling peckish, I searched the den, eventually finding part of Typh, only recognizable by the scales. I devoured it, then decided to spend the time until the only remaining members of my family woke up by finding more meat, in case they wanted something.

After more than an hour of travelling between dens, carrying my brethren, I arrived to find Smol awake. Slowly uncurling, she looked at me, mute as she’d been since she evolved.

“Why don’t you ever talk anymore, anyway? There has to be a reason. I know you’re intelligent enough to at least answer in simple sentences.”

“She’s not going to tell you, numbfuck. It’s a secret of her species, just like there are secrets of your species that you probably won’t tell us. So stop fucking talking for a few minutes. I’m hungry.”

I turned to find Mother savaging the corpse of one of her own children with relish. It would have been a disturbing sight, if it had been the first time.

After completely devouring her young, Mother turned to me and yawned.

“Now, what did you want to know, again? Right, right. My powers, and what Typh meant. Okay, let’s start with that bitch of a sister. She’ll be back in about a week.”

Not giving me time to respond, Mother began speaking faster, as if trying to force the sentences out.

“Yeah, they all will. My brothers and I regenerate from anything, even death, in a week. We’re here to make little snakes like you. Ones that can fight and win against anything, even their own family. So every week we go on a crusade to kill each other, and the winner’s kids get the chance to leave this place and join the outside world. A chance, mind you. There’s never a guarantee. I’ll have to beg the Guardians to even get one of you out, never mind both. Anyway, yeah. We have the power to emit pheromones, scents, to force you into a frenzy, to make it easier for you to kill your uncles, aunts, and cousins. All Ruler and above Serpents do. By the way, be careful of that in the future if you can leave this shitty place. That answer all your fucking questions?”

It took me a long time to answer Mother, and almost as long to understand what she said. After a while though, I finally nodded, and made a grunt that she took as an affirmative.

“Good. Now, be ready. The stone fucks are about to get here. I’ll try to get you out of here, but the other one has to stay here with me.”

No sooner had Mother said that than a group of three… Creatures walked through the opening of the den. They looked like a cross between the hero whose soul I had eaten and the walls of the den. They were a uniform grey, with streaks of shining green on the offshoot that must be their version of a head, and two protrusions each for arms and legs, the arms asymmetrical. They walked up to Mother, bowed slightly, and began to emit sounds like rocks grinding against one another, that slowly became something resembling a language.

“Ahoj, chaotické jednu. Jak se tyto děti dělat v tréninku?”

“Není to špatné, kámen kurva. Jste tu, aby je pryč, nebo jen obtěžují moč ze mě?”

“Já bych se neodvážil. Který z nich je být trénoval?”

“Malý jedním, s podivné barvami. Samice je naprosto k ničemu našim potřebám. Buďte opatrní, i když. On není vázán stejné zákony jako bezduché drones obvykle vysílají. Ví. Dejte ho ve třídě, ať učí našeho světa. Když jste zjistili, jeho nadání, skládka ho v problémové skupiny. Víte, ten pod mojí sestrou, ještěrky.”

“Samozřejmě, bohyně. Máte potřebujete pro jakékoli další služby z htese bezcenné zaměstnanců?”

“Ano, skutečně. Potřebuji tě předstírat, abych prosit, abys ho pryč. Dej mi jednu minutu, pak začít křičet na mě.”

“Ale proč? Ty jsou tak mnohem silnější, než jsme mohli někdy doufat, že se, proč bychom vám popírat?”

“Prostě to udělej, necitlivé ořechy.”

Mother turned to me, and sighed. Fearing the worst, I began curling as tightly as possible, ready to lunge at the rock creatures at the first sign of any trouble. I had no aspirations of killing them, just the intention to hold them back long enough to allow Mother to get away. With any luck, my soul would be safe outside of my body if I die. If not…. I’d have to worry about that later.

“Calm down, shit for brains. It’s not a definite no, yet. Give me one more try, and then you can begin your suicide attack.”

“Dobře, je čas. jen říct, co přijde na mysl.”

“No, uvidíme. Úl královna byl nakonec schopný tvořit druhou líhně. Brzy bude náš druh se nezávislé od zatracených elementály.”

“Dobře dobře. Nikdo by neměl být v poutech do druhého jen vytvořit jejich další generaci. Je to důvod, proč starší neukázal tentokrát? Byli slaví jejich budoucí neočekávané?”

“J-Já bych předpokládat vědět, velký jeden.”

“Takže mám pravdu. Dobrý. To mi dává něco, co k jejich vydírání. To by mělo být dostatečně dlouhé. Nechte asi 15 minut, pak se ho dostat. Chci ho spí v stázovém klece před tím, než opustí tuto jeskyni.”

“Samozřejmě, že vaše přání je nám rozkazem.”

“Samozřejmě. A teď vypadni. Musím ti něco ... zúčastnit, aby se s ním.”

The rocky menaces began to leave, confusing me greatly. I looked at Mother, only to find her smirking at me. Taking that to mean that her negotiations were a success, I uncurled, and asked her why the living stones were leaving.

“Why, to give us some privacy, of course. You see, I haven’t been completely honest with you. You will be leaving the cave, but not all of you.”

Confused and more than a little scared, I began coiling on instinct, trying to hide from my smirking Mother.

“Why are you getting nervous, boy? It’s not like we’ll be doing anything bad. In fact, it’ll be downright fun.

I began feeling… Loose. Knowing that it was Mother using her control over pheromones to affect my mind, I glared at her, causing her to laugh.

“Oh, so you’re feeling it, huh? Too bad. You can’t do shit to stop this. Just relax. I just want some of your cum. You owe me a clutch of strong kids.”

Appalled, I yelled, “I’m your SON!”

“What? No, you’re not. I told you when you hatched, my clutch is my children, and orphans I picked up to buffer my numbers. You’re one of those orphans. Your parents were some random snakes that made their way into my den and lived long enough to have you.”

Mollified, I began to analyze her words, trying to find any hints of deceit. Finding none, I finally let go of my control, and began looking at MotheTeno as just a female serpent, rather than the leader of my den. Immediately, I felt my hemipenes engorge and push their way out of my body. Teno, seeing their emergence, looked surprised for a moment before grinning fully.

“I wasn’t expecting you to accept it so quick, or to be so enthusiastic about it.”

“If it’s going to happen no matter what, then I might as well be accommodating. I might also have a thing for power.”

Laughing sultrily, Teno lunged at me, and we began to coil and thrust against each other, lasting for what felt like centuries before Teno finally allowed my damaged organs to rest and retract.

“That wasn’t bad, for a first time fuck. A bit too fast for me to have fun, but I’ll let you go.”

Saying that incredibly hurtful line, Teno smacked the wall of the den, causing it to rumble. The rock creatures rumbled back in, and surrounded me.

“Dokončil jsi?”

“To jo. Vezměte ho a vypadni z mých komnat.”

“Přejete si je náš příkaz.”

“To si piš, že je.”

Finishing their conversation, the creatures picked up my limp body and placed me in what seemed to be a cage made completely of solid air. I was only able to stay awake long enough to see a white light shining from the wall of the den opposite the opening before succumbing to sleep.

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After the worker golems left with Hain, Teno reared up, and began rapidly morphing between herself, Anom, Acroc, Cylin, and Typh, before finally shooting in size, becoming a giant woman with a snake’s body below her hips and her original head, and began rubbing the skin above her now-human womb. The leader of the golems, almost as tall as his mistress, immediately bowed and began chanting.

“All hail the Chaotic One! All hail the Chaotic One! All hail the Chaotic One!”

“Shut the fuck up, Charlemaigne. Keep an eye out for that little fucker. He’s tiny, but he’s got big dicks, and some kind of special power. Well, I wouldn’t expect anything less from my adorable little sister’s kid, even if his dad is that self-righteous prick.”

Chuckling a little at herself, Teno grabbed her rejected child, caressing her head for a moment before placing the serpent in her mouth and swallowing. Smol, completely controlled by her mother, didn’t even struggle as she slid into Teno’s stomach and was digested.

Her work in the den complete, Teno slowly dissolved into a puddle of black liquid that burst into green flames before sprouting into purple grass, freezing into a crystal skull, and finally exploding into nothingness.

Did you really think I'd go into detail about snake sex? Also, here: Spoiler : This is the template for the golems. The only real difference is that in this world, they have veins of precious ores in their 'faces'. http://suirebit.deviantart.com/art/Awakening-the-Stone-Golem-442161984