A commission from aryion.com/g4/user/sinner1632

Fun fact Kaa was originally one of mowgli's closest friends in the book but walt thought kids couldn't understand a snake being good so made kaa a villain and cultural osmosis has carried that change since.

this is also my first male prey as well as first real snake pred

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Mowgli ran through the village, scanning the faces he had recently come to know, but he only had one person he was looking for right now.
"Excuse me have you seen Shanti?" he tugged the dress of an old woman who knew the girl he was looking for, the girl he had a crush on.
"Oh I believe she went to look for fruit in the jungle though she was acting slightly odd," the old woman stroked her wrinkled chin "It was good to see since she's always been so scared of the jungle," the old crone smiled. Mowgli was left baffled at what he had just heard, he knew Shanti to be terrified of the forest, it was even more alarming as a wolf had told him Kaa had been slinking around in a particularly foul mood for what the boy had done to him almost two years ago. If she was in the forest alone with Kaa, it was something to be concerned about. He bolted into the forest the ground crunching under each footfall, the grass tickling his skin as he ran deeper into the forest.
"If Kaa catches her there's only one way it'll end," he muttered to himself as he leapt over a fallen tree, his hand glancing off the deadwood. The idea unsettled him deeply he of all people knew how dangerous Kaa was especially for those who didn't expect the serpent's hypnosis. Mowgli's sprint came to a sudden crawl, his quest momentarily leaving his mind as he gazed around the lush forest, reminiscing the feel of rough natural dirt between his toes, the air against his toned skin. It was different than the village, there the dirt was smoother, softer easier to walk on but it lost the feel of dirt to Mowgli, the air didn't feel right in the village either. Part of the young man simply wanted to head back into the woods forever or at the very least just relax here for a while, the reason for his trip had ebbed away from him already, why had he come out here again?

"Ah, not the one I was hoping to find but I do remember you my dearest snack," a deep yet equally smooth voice snapped the boy back to his senses he remembered now, he was saving Shanti from Kaa. He rushed over to the voice finding an enormous brown and gold serpent that was over thirty feet long with eyes that changed colour constantly. In the serpent's massive coils was a young Indian girl, the very girl Mowgli had been so worried about.
"Kaa! Let her go now!" Mowgli bellowed to the python trying his best not to let his fear show on his face. He watched as Kaa turned slowly to face the human who was shouting at him.
"Man-cub! There you are my friend, Mowgli," Kaa's hatred for the boy was impossible to miss yet the snake put on a friendly smile even as he looked Mowgli in the eye. Mowgli tried to keep enough distance to not be affected by Kaa's eyes which could hypnotize people if they were weak-willed or unprepared, but he also had to stay close enough to keep an eye on the snake to make sure he didn't try to eat Shanti. The young girl helplessly asleep in Kaa's coils had a medium length braided ponytail, a cream coloured tee shirt and a long purple skirt.
"Kaa let her go!" Mowgli snarled doing his best to remember how the wolves had taught him how to fight when he was growing up in the forest but Kaa looked on unimpressed at the boy's attempt.
"Why should I do that? I caught her, she was all alone in the woods. She was weak and alone, the perfect prey I must say, much softer than you look, a bit more meat on her to enjoy. Oh, I get it, you want to eat her yourself don't you?" Kaa taunted the boy, his coils tightening around Shanti's limp body, the python's smile grew as he watched Mowgli panic.
"Sssay I have an idea, how about a trade then?" Kaa drew closer his eyes losing the ever-changing colour to put the man-cub at some degree of ease.
"What trade?" Mowgli tripped over his words unsure what the snake had in mind but knowing it was almost certainly a bad idea but he had nothing to fight the massive serpent.

"I caught this little snack fair and square so she's mine to eat, but we both know that I would much rather have you after all the trouble you put me through. So I will let her go but in exchange, you become my meal. No fighting back, no anger just dinner," Kaa's smile sent a shiver down the human's spine.
"Are you insane? Why would I ever agree to that?" he snapped back at Kaa, Kaa shrugged his tail.
"I guess I'll just have this one instead," Kaa brought Shanti up towards his mouth, Mowgli watched in horror as the jaw snapped open growing wide enough to easily swallow the young girl whole.
"Okay, you win just let her go! Please," Mowgli cried his body trembling as he shouted to the snake who turned his gaze on the human.
"Hmm, without Bagheera or Baloo around you can't hope to resist me, so just trust in me to keep my word." Kaa's tone was almost friendly. Mowgli grudgingly made his way over to the enormous snake, stopping a few feet away.
"Let Shanti go than I come over," the man-cub declared trying his best to be intimidating but the snake simply chuckled.
"Of course my friend," Kaa's tail wrapped around the boy's tail while uncoiling from the dazed girl.
"Now go little girl-cub go back to your village so you don't get eaten by a big bad animal like myself," Kaa snickered to the girl, Mowgli watched Shanti shake her head ridding herself of the hypnosis the serpent had put her in.
"Mowgli? What's going on?" Shanti whimpered tears streaming down her face as her eyes darted around the forest.
"Just go Shanti," the boy yelled scaring the quivering girl.
"B-but,"
"GO!" Mowgli bellowed watching the girl turn and run as fast as she could from the two.

"Sssuch a brave man-cub, now than it's my time for dinner," Kaa sniggered his coiling around the young man, Mowgli gasped as the serpent crushed the air from his lungs watching the boy struggle on instinct. Kaa drew the child into the air his maw widening in anticipation of the waiting meal, his mouth watering at the prospect of finally eating the boy who had escaped him several times. Mowgli slammed his eyes shut as the hot maw slammed tightly around his head. Kaa ran his long tongue across the boy's face savouring the salty but slightly spicy flavour from the angry child.
"Ah, how I've waited for this for ssso very long man-cub, now you are mine," Kaa's voice reverberated around Mowgli as the serpent passed his shoulders with ease.
"At least I saved Shanti, I managed that at the very least," Mowgli thought to himself refusing to give Kaa even the slightest satisfaction about what was happening.
"Oh come now man-cub, no need to let thiss moment be ruined, why don't you give in and enjoy it?" Kaa teased, his jaws passing Mowgli's muscley chest his tongue still savouring the boy's flavour. Mowgli just snarled in reply to the snake, his body was suddenly thrown deeper into Kaa's gullet. The boy was unaware that Kaa had thrown his head back to allow gravity to assist in the meal. Soon Mowgli's hips slid past the massive snake's lips, his legs began to flail in resistance much to the reptile's amusement. Kaa mouth passed over Mowgli's feet the boy's toes curling as they vanished from the world, Mowgli's body was forced down Kaa's thirty-foot body. The tight flesh crushing against Mowgli's skin, the gut pulsed endlessly pushing the boy into acid for brief moments before pulling him out again.

Kaa turned his gaze to the sound of footsteps with a wicked smile.
"And there is dessert, did you have any trouble my little snack?" Kaa cooed to the approaching sound.
"No, master I did as you said and waited," a dazed female voice replied to him the figure drawing closer to him. Inside the serpent's gut, the defeated meal recognized the voice in an instant.
"Shanti! What did you do Kaa," the boy bellowed from inside the snake who burst into a fit of mad laughter at his meal's rage.
"I followed our deal, but I never said I wouldn't eat her later or that I wouldn't keep her under my control, now you two can be united forever." Kaa's voice sent waves through the stomach with every word he said.
"You lying monster!" Mowgli shrieked in rage to the laughing snake.
"I lied about nothing," Kaa's tone was indignant about the insult to his honest word it was hardly his fault if the man-cub hadn't bothered to set more rules for the deal. He ignored Mowgli's continuing anger instead turning to the girl who stood idly before him, with one quick strike Shanti's shoulders were engulfed in his throat. Kaa's jaws preceded down her soft flesh, it was far softer than the tough meat of Mowgli. Her skin was more akin to that of a baby rabbit, soft, helpless, easy to eat and even easier to digest. Her taste was much sweeter than the man-cub had been, her skin had a fruity taste to it that brought out the flavour all the more, she was a perfect meal to was down the man-cub. In moments Shanti was sliding down his tight throat unable to escape even if she wanted to, though the hypnosis on her made sure she didn't struggle against the serpent. Her
body glided down Kaa's throat with astounding ease.
"Such a shame, I was hoping to savour her, oh well," with one final mighty swallow she too was sealed away from the world.

Mowgli could feel the tight confines of Kaa's stomach stretching to allow Shanti in, he knew she too had been locked within the inescapable confines, her fate would be no different than his.
"What? Where am I? HELP?" a wailing stirred Mowgli from his mind, it was Shanti now no longer under Kaa's mind control, with all the strength he could muster Mowgli pulled Shanti up to him. Shanti sobbed into her friend's chest not knowing what else to do, despite her cries she knew exactly where they were and what was going to happen.
"At least we'll run out of air before we digest," she whimpered.
"Don't bet on it, I like feeling my food squirm for as long as possible, you will both be slowly digested alive," Kaa's bubbly voice replied to her wishful thoughts.

"Ah, I wish I could just bask here and digest you but I don't trust this area," Kaa mumbled to himself slowly rising to find a safer area away from the village and anyone who might try to eat him as he slept. The two consumed children were thrown from side to side as the snake slithered far from their home. No one would ever find them.

True to his word Kaa's stomach didn't let the two die, the acids sloshed around splashing against their skin, Shanti screamed in agony as her skin burned off, Mowgli tried to hold in the pain. The stomach contracted aginst the two helpless humans their flesh softening slowly over the course of days, the lack of air or food left the two in a dazed state with only the feeling of themselves dissolving within the serpent. Mowgli clutched Shanti tightly, her body melting faster than his own. The man-cub was left to watch the girl he loved digest in his arms too weak to even cry after only a few days. Her arms were gone in five days, her legs following three days later until she was little more than a torso.
"Why?" Mowgli whimpered his heart broken.
"Because I can," Kaa's snickered, each reverberation from his voice crushing the meat that had one been Shanti into nothing. Once the girl was gone and Mowgli was left devastated Kaa's acids began to dissolve him as well, the searing heat, the excruciating stinging seeping into his softened skin digesting him from the inside out. The man-cub screamed in pain as his body was slowly reduced to nutrients for Kaa. Almost three months had passed before the boy was fully digested, his suffering over.
"What a ssshame I'd hoped to enjoy your digestion a while longer, oh well." The snake coiled around the large bulge that had been his long sought after man-cub meal.
"It was well worth the wait,"