The serpent opened its mouth and lunged at Snowstar, trying to get its lunch. Snowstar dodged and barely got away in time. The serpent had managed to take a bit off her ear. The serpent growled in impatience and lunged for her again. Its sharp fang scratched Snowstar along her hind leg. A smooth trickle of blood came out. Snowstar lunged straight at the serpent's head, and the serpent opened its jaws. Snowstar landed just below the jaws, and clung to its neck. She saw now that the place where Rustyfoot had scratched it was not armored in brown scales like most of the beasts body. "Rustyfoot, you are brilliant." She said. Snowstar clawed at the serpents chin as hard as she could with one paw while clinging on to the flailing serpent with the other three. The serpent eventually got too weak to continue flailing and gave up. It fell limply to the ground, where it laid weakly, until it died. Snowstar had dealt a lot more damage to the serpent's chin, meaning it died faster. Snowstar stared at her paws, one of which was covered in dark green blood. "Not only did I just kill a serpent, but I did it alone." She said aloud. No group of cats has ever been able to take down a serpent. But she just did. Alone. Snowstar sat down on the mossy ground, trying to rub some of the dark, sticky serpent blood off her paws. No way was she going to lick it off. Who knows how sick she might get. The blood wasn't coming off. She stared at her green paw. The blood slowly began to fade to the normal white of her paw all on its own. The green droplets were absorbed into her skin. "No! Stop!" She said to the blood. It was blood of course, so it didn't listen. The blood was gone, every last bit of it absorbed into her body. She felt her vision change. Suddenly she could see heat. The world was blue, and as she stared at her paw, she could see her blood as a vivid red and it faded to yellow around it. She was part snake now. End of Part Nine
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