"You know what? Right now I don't really feel like conquering the world..."
Amanda said to me with a malign smile. "There is no need to hurry, when
you are immortal. I think, I'd rather play with my new powers a bit more..."
I watched at her and wondered, which games she had in mind.
"To be honest", Amanda continued, "I really loved being that giant snake.
So, we will try this again! This time, however, I will be hunting my preys...
It will be so wonderful, to smell the fear and the hope for escape, though
the chances for escape won't be too good..."
While going on, I noticed, how Amanda's body was starting to transform.
"The game will start in five minutes and it will last for exactly one hour.
The allowed area for the preys to hide is our city..."
I witnessed, how Amanda's beautiful long legs fused together, turning
into a snake tail, which grew longer and longer.
"As soon as the game begins, the preys get five minutes as a head start,
to search for a place to hide - or to run as far as they get. Then the hunt
is opened."
Now Amanda's arms fused to her upper body, which then immediately
changed into scales. Suddenly, I noticed with excitement, that there
were little spikes evolving everywhere out of the snake's mighty body.
She would bring death not only by her sharp and poisonous fangs
or by her forceful embraces, even the mere touch might puncture her
pitiful victims.
"If the snake... - Well, I think, I should better say: As soon as the snake
has caught all preys, the game is over and the snake wins. - Should
the very doubtful case occur, that at least one prey survives the hour
of hunt, then the snake looses and the prey wins the right to live on
- well at least until the beginning of another game."
With a devilish laughter, now, Amanda's head transformed into the
head of an anaconda, with huge, sharp, poison-dripping fangs and
burning lidless eyes.
"30 ssssecondsssss until zzzzthe ssssstart of zzzzthe hunt!" the snake
hissed - and I realised with another shot of almost sexual excitement,
that there were really flames, burning into - or out of her eyes. Amanda
had really turned into a serpentine nightmare. "Pure preys!" I thought.
And then I heard her cruel hiss again:
"Jusssst sssso you know, my dear friend: Zzzzthe preyssss issss you!"
I felt struck with horror, when I realized what I had heard.
Then the already 30 feet long snake started to grow and to grow and
to GROW... While, all of a sudden, I felt myself divided into ten versions
of myself.
Then a loud, metallic voice could be heard from the sky, which announced
the game to be started and five minutes head start for the preys.