Chapter 6: The Quest of the Queen

"So you just swallowed her whole like it was no big deal," Kiara asked in amazement, a broad smile stretching across her cute face. She was sitting on the long bulge in Kaa's stomach as her reptilian friend slithered off towards one of the more secluded areas of the Pride Lands, letting the princess ride on him. "Well, I wouldn't sssay it wassss no big deal," the serpent replied with a chortle. "Ssshe put up a decccent fight and didn't pick her battlessss well in her arrogancccce."

Kiara grinned excitedly by how the bulge shifted about ever so slightly. "Seems like she doesn't know when to quit," she remarked in a rather cocky tone of voice. "Talk about your sore losers." The princess chuckled in glee as she laid down on the bumpy belly and felt the lioness's desperate struggle. "I don't suppose that you're going to teach me how to swallow my enemies alive." Her tail swished at the very idea. "It seems a whole lot cooler than mauling critters."

Kaa chuckled at Kiara's enjoyment of another's suffering, knowing how she'd change her tune if Adongo was close to her. "My, what an intriguing prosssspect," he admitted in delight. He couldn't help but be intrigued by the idea of Simba seeing his daughter become what he fears most. "Of coursssse, it'ssss bessst that we focussss on our little demonssstration for the king and queen for now." The snake turned his head around to take in the adorable sight of his princess.

"Whatever it is, you can do your very worst," Kiara declared to Kaa with an arrogant grin on her face. "I'm going to be a mighty queen like no lion was before." The serpent grinned back his little kitten with a subtle snigger at her childlike brashness, especially at how she spread her legs out ready for action. "Your attitude continuessss to earn my admiration, princesssss," he declared with a fake tone of reverence. "Let'sss sssee if your not all talk like at the quicksssand."

"Who do you think I am?" Kiara declared with a smug smirk. "Daddy's little girl?" She snickered sassily when Kaa's belly rotated to her left and caused her to slip off with a yelp, rolling onto the ground. "You'll be lucky to cry for mommy with what I have in sssstore." The princess managed to sit herself back up when Kaa had his tail make his way around her torso. Before she knew it, two loops had slithered all around her mid-section while pinning her fore-arms to her belly.

"It'ssss esssenttttial that our little performancccce hassss a compelling narrative," Kiara heard Kaa declare as his head soon came into view. "A precocccioussss princessss findssss hersssself in over head againsssst the mighty Kaa himsssself." She had been struggling against the coils as they traveled up closer to her throat and found her previous bravado being replaced by a growing anxiety. "He capturessss her in hisss sssstrongesssst coilsss for hissss midday sssssnack."

Kiara swallowed hard as she felt Kaa's tail pass over her shoulders and loop twice around her throat, restricting her head's movements. "T-this story does have a happy ending... right?" she managed to spit out nervously, uneased by her scaly friend's mischievous smirk. "The besssst kindsssss are the onessss that are earned after a fair sssshare of ssssstruggling." It didn't help that she felt her hind-paws leave the ground and a more thicker coil loop around her pelvic region.

Kaa couldn't help but hold Kiara aloft like a glass of wine and adore how his precious princess looked in his classic coil cocoon. He had her wrapped up from her neck to her thighs with both of her hind legs lightly flailing all about below and an awfully worried look on her face. "Come now, my kitten," Kaa hissed warmly. His lovely colorful rings poured out from his pupils while keeping eye contact with Kiara. "Ssssssurely, thisssss embracccccce of mine will pleassssse you deeply."

Kiara felt her anxiousness become molded into delight once she laid eyes upon the radiant rainbow pouring out from Kaa's eyes. "It'ssss sssso intimate," he hissed soothingly as she began to smile softly. "Within them, you might feel ssssafe from all that may harm you." The Pride Land's princess felt the coils shift about back and forth to firmly massage her body, enhancing the semi-trance that Kaa had her immersed in. "No more worriesss for the ressst of your daysss..."

Kiara purred affectionately during her full body massage as Kaa's grip with just tight enough to really dig into her. At the same time, it didn't put pressure upon her chest in its semi-constriction. The colorful rings that reflected in the cutie-pie cub's eyes allowed her enough self-awareness so she would always remember this slice of paradise. She couldn't budge even an inch yet found herself not minding as much, especially with Kaa's gaze right before her feeding her happiness.

"Yesssss," Kaa hissed, endeared by Kiara's content appearance before him. "Our heroine can't help but allow the coilssss to relaxxxx her assss the sssssnake toyssss with her, building ssssusssspencccce for the audiencccce." He was enjoying how soft and cuddly the princess's fur coat was, her purring being the big cherry on top. "One might be foolissssh enough to believe that thissss villain issssn't ssssso bad after all." He slowly tightened his grasp around the cub's body.

Kiara didn't notice how tight coils were getting until she found her purring turning into wheezing and felt the squeeze on her throat growing. Her smile began to slightly faltered as her mouth opened out in her strained attempt to take in air. She felt the constricting grip around her entire torso increase in pressure and forcing air right out of her very lung slowly but surely. A big wave of dread tried to overtake her happy mood while breathing was becoming more of a challenge.

"If we're to convincccce the king and queen that their daughter'ssss ready to rule," Kaa hissed somewhat sadistically, "then your body mussst endure all of the ssssstrength my coilssss have to offer." He loved the shade of blue appearing on Kiara's frightful expression as it complimented her bulging eyes and gaping mouth letting small gasps out. "Ssssure enough you will be a fearlesss queen-to-be, never oncccce caving to a sssscaly sssscoundral ssssuch assss mysssself."

Kiara could feel her fear morphing into a strong sense of determination the more she looked into Kaa's radiant rainbow eyes. "Our heroine musssst never allow hersssself to sssshow weaknesssss even in the facccce of sssssuch overwhelming odds." She remembered the way she bawled like a baby after surviving the quicksand and how she vowed to never be that scared little kitten ever again. "A great queen mussst bide her time and hold out for jusssst the right moment."

Kaa could see Kiara's worried face morph into something more firm as her brows knit. "Her adversssary will eventually decide to conssssume her alive if sssshe would rather be difficult about giving in," Kaa continued with his story outline before breaking eye contact. "Deccciding to savor hissss meal, he decidessss on sssswallowing her bottom firssst to ssssslowly work hisss way up." He was confident in his influence lingering as his head sank down to the bottom of the coils.

Kaa sniggered at the sight of Kiara's flailing hind-legs and flicked his tongue to taste her succulent scent. "Can the plucky princesssss find the right moment to sssstrike?" he narrated dramatically, moving closer to the adorable pair of paws. "Or issss her fate to be little more than a ssssnake'ssss nourisssshment?" He slowly began to open his maw while positioning himself just below the princess's posterior. "One good kick with her hind clawsssss jusssst might do the trick..."

Kiara could feel the lack of breathing taking its toll on her mental stamina but was sharp enough to take the hint. She gritted her teeth while feeling Kaa's bad breath hitting her paws, directly below so he could gulp down her legs and let gravity do the rest of the work. The lioness cub was determined to prove that she wasn't some damsel in distress to be rescued and get a good swipe at Kaa's cheek with her paws. She had just unsheathed them when all of a sudden...

"BRAAAAPPPPTTTT!"

The whole Pride Lands practically echoed when Kiara let out a brass toned fart much to her surprise. She had been so focused on getting out of Kaa's grip and enduring his tight squeeze that she overlooked how the constricting coils were irritating her bowels until it was too late. Sure enough, the pooting princess's shade of blue turned bright red in her embarrassment over how she passed gas right into Kaa's face before finding all her coils coming undone all of a sudden.

Kiara let out a big, "Oof," upon crash landing on the ground after slipping out of the cocoon's loosened grip, flat on her belly with all fours sprawled out. She gasped in air while springing back up to her paws and heard retching noises from just behind her. The princess turned herself around to find Kaa looking more green in the face and letting his head stumble about in the air, moaning sickly. "Whoops," the lioness cub apologized, red in the face with a really sheepish grin.

"Well," Kaa tried to speak while straining to keep his lunch down, "I'll... give you thisssss." He could still smell the rank stench as if it had embedded itself into his tongue and sinuses. "It wasssss ssssuper effective to ssssay the leasssst." It was a challenge to keep what was left of Adongo from spewing out of her mouth. "Though between you and me," the sickly serpent stated, suppressing the urge to barf better, "I much prefer a claw to the facccce if you wouldn't mind."

Needless to say, Kiara just up and burst out in laughter over the whole silly scenario. "No argument here," she managed to get out through her guffawing. "I don't think dear old daddy would approve weaponizing my glutes." Kaa found himself smirking at how the princess fell onto her back while clenching her gut, letting out the last of her laughs. "Ssssuch a tomboy," he hissed in amusement. It was embarrassing but he felt that she deserved childish moments like these.

They were soon to become her last...

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"I suppose I shouldn't be surprised," Zazu sighed wearily as he scanned the ground for Kiara. "Between Simba and Nala, those two were bound to create a kitten with their youthful delinquency combined." He had lost the princess some time back after monkey's flung what he only hoped was just mud at him out of mischief. "At this rate, she's probably in the belly of the beast quite literally." He could still remember Simba's song and dance. "Why, I'd have half a mind to ju-"

Zazu cut himself off upon spotting something down below that nearly made his eyes pop out in sheer horror. He gasped at the sight of Kiara all wrapped up in the coils of rather large python, the likes of which were almost unheard of in the Pride Lands. The blue shade on the princess's strangled expression made his heart sank as the coils were slowly becoming tighter around her body. The appalled avian spotted a budge in the snake's gut, meaning the cub was seconds...

Zazu zipped downwards into the trees nearby and tried to remain relatively composed enough to land by the roots. He managed to peak out from around the trunk just enough to see the snake's sadistic expression and hear his taunting as he tortured Kiara. The mortified bird had known that the princess needed a good dose of harsh reality but seeing it for himself made him regret making such a wish. Especially when her captor was none other than THE Kaa the Python.

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"Endure my presssssure," Kaa hissed in an evil tone of voice, feeling Kiara's furry body squeezed by within his grip. "Ssssstruggling will only hasssten your death." He held Kiara back up in the air within his coils with only her head sticking out on top and her legs dangling below. "Even the mosssst ssssadisssstic of enemiessss will get board after a minute or two at leassst." His eyes radiated colored rings at a slighter intensity, allowing the princess to keep her awareness.

Kiara did her utmost to hold her breath as her bulging eyes became bloodshot around her shrunken pupils. Her teeth were gritted as Kaa's hypnotic gaze fueled her determination to endure the arduous constriction crushing her body and squeezing her throat. Despite her torture, the plucky princess imagined Kaa as a true enemy arrogant enough to take on the future Queen. She vowed to never appear like a terrified little girl even when staring at the face of death itself.

"That'ssss the ticket," Kaa hissed excitedly. "Jusssst one lassst minute." There was little more he loved than putting Simba's own flesh and blood through the wringer before his very eyes. "Be defiant to whomever daressss sssseessss you assss a damssssel in disssstressss." The image of Kiara all coiled up never got old but seeing her turn every shade of color was picturesque by far. "Prove to the Pride Landssss here and now that you are not like other girlssss, my Queen."

Kiara could feel her reaching her limit as she felt the urge for air take its toll on her big time. She fought to keep eyelids open even as they drooped and keep herself from passing out. The persistent princess imagined how Simba would always talk down to her and reprimand her attempts at independence. She told herself that she'll prove him dead wrong once and for all as her mind began to get fuzzy from the oxygen deprivation. Just as her eyelids began to close fully...

They snapped back open once Kiara felt the coils loosening around her and letting her whole body drop to the ground within the fraction of a second. She took in oxygen by reflex with one deep breath after the other while still laying on the ground. "I... wasn't... done... yet..." she declared with gritted teeth, beginning to get back up on all fours despite her weariness. "Just... need... one... more... minute..." Every large breath she took sounded as if they could be her very last.

Kaa lowered his head to see Kiara stumbling about in her fatigue and did his best to put on a look of concern. "Our little sssshow will be a busssst if you were passssss on rather than passsss out," he hissed with concern, looking his little cub in the eyes. "A good Queen can pussssh her limits but assss of now, you're still a princcccesssss." Kiara's breath steadied as she looked back at him with a weariness both physical and mental. "Well, maybe I don't want to wait so long."

Kaa snickered at Kiara's impatience while his eyes let his hypnotic colorful rings pour out. "Even I wasssssn't born with the sssstrength I posssssessss now," he hissed, steadying the output of his radiant rainbow gaze, "sssso you can't exxxxpect our training to be done in a day'sssss time." The serpent secretly loved the way the princess's face always went blank when her eyes reflected his pulsating rings of color. "Jusssst imagine the reaction from your father and mother..."

Kiara could feel her exhaustion whittling away as Kaa's hypnotic gaze instilled an artificial happiness in her weary soul. Her friend's words of encouragement only fueled this elation further and caused her tail to swish about. However, this bit of delight would be disturbed when she picked up on an all too familiar scent with her sharp nose. "Uh oh," she muttered in annoyance as her nose took in more of the odor. Kaa raised his eyebrow in curiousity. "Smell like company."

Kaa tasted the air to pick up the distinct scent of Zazu from a nearby tree and frowned deeply. "If that old fuddy-duddy ssssnitcccched on usss to your folksss," he whispered into Kiara's ear, "the whole sssshow will be ruined forever." The near pout on Kiara's face was simply adorable. "Well, I'll be sure to take care of him," she declared quietly, following the scent towards the tree by marching with a huff. However, the sadistic serpent stopped her by grabbing her tail with his.

"Not alone, you won't," Kaa declared with a sadistic smirk, his colorful rings pulsating. "You just follow my lead if you want him gone..."

"Steel yourself, Zazu," the anxious advisor told himself, pacing about like crazy. "Just think this through." He gulped at his mind couldn't help but think of Kiara's suffering with his constant delays. "Go back to Pride Rock and you'll get the king himself to rush to the rescue within seconds." Zazu began to head back where he had came before slowing to a stop. "Meanwhile, the princess's swallowed alive like an afternoon supper and the scaly scoundrel slithers off without a trace."

Zazu shook his head furiously at what he spoke aloud. "Well, what else am I suppose to do?" he indignantly retorted to himself. "Fly out to face THE Kaa mano-e-mano on the slimmest of chances that he won't make me an appetizer?" The feathery fellow groaned over how his head literally felt like it was tearing in two. "I might as well be committing suicide." He rubbed the temples of his head with his wings in aggrivation. "That migraine is truly Simba and Nala's cub, isn't she?"

"An awfully adorable migraine," a voice suddenly hissed out, "to be exxxxxact." Zazu shrugged in a slight agreement with a slight eye-roll. "I suppose that one might be endeared by her rambunctiousness but-" He ceased speaking altogether and felt his heart sink into dread, his eyes widening in but a second. "You're right behind me, aren't you?" he guessed despondently before turning around slowly, finding Kaa smirking down upon him. No words could describe his despair.

"J-just the reptile I was hoping to speak to," Zazu declared, stepping back from Kaa's sadistic smirk bit by bit. "I was flying over head when I noticed that you had the princess in your tight grip." He was determined to not let himself appear but knew he could only do so much. "The princcccessss?" Kaa hissed in a fake curious tone of voice. "Assss in of the Pride Landsssss themselvessss, you mean?" Zazu swallowed hard as he couldn't tell if the serpent was buying his words.

"Neither the king nor queen will appreciate your consumption of their own flesh and blood," Zazu stammered, failing to present some semblance of dignity. "It would be wise to avoid their wrath and refrain from ingesting royalty." He gulped hard as Kaa slowly slithered forward to keep up with his pace. "Spare her and I can assure you that I-I-I won't tell a sole about your presence here." All he could think of was how easily the predator before him could just swallow him alive.

"I ssssupposssse I have no reasssson to doubt your word," Kaa declared with a sinister tone of voice, the kind Zazu knew had scheme ready to be sprung. "Sadly, I'm afraid somebody I know might not feel the exact same way." The avian advisor was confused by what the serpent meant until he heard a giggling from right behind him. "Why, hello, Kiara." Next thing he knew, a pair of paws had his wings pinned to his sides and lifted him off the ground with a strong grip.

"What is the meaning of this?" Zazu demanded before he recognized the paws in his horror. "What have you done to Kiara?" The sight of Kaa smirking smugly only added salt to his wounds. "I'd ssssay that you sssshould be far more worried about what he hassss in ssssstore for you." Zazu quickly craned his head up to find the princess sneering down upon him like a field mouse she had just caught. "Your highness?!" he meekly said when she licked her lips so carnivorously.

Everything seemed to happen all at once when Kiara opened her mouth wide and crammed Zazu into it head first. "Yesssss," Kaa encouraged sadistically as he observed the princess slowing down, "do away with that pessssky bird." The way both talons flailed about was a treat to the eyes before her highness began to pull his whole body down with her throat alone. "He'sssss helped your parentssss hold you back all thessssse yearssss from being the queen you truly are."

Kiara found herself enjoying Zazu's squawking for once as every gulp she told pulled him down her throat. It was a true rush to have the royal advisor at her mercy and begging her this time around. She finally made one last swallow to take in his talons and shut her mouth to allow the big bird to travel down to her gut, feeling him wriggle about to her delight. The princess looked down to find her belly bulging and smirked just like Kaa, having put Zazu where he belonged.

"Ssssuccch ruthlesssssnesssss," Kaa hissed in a very impressed tone of voice as he slithered forth. "Ssssuccch power." He truly was amazed by how his little protege performed all this with only a bit of his brand of pursuasion. "You truly do have the makingssss of a queen, your majessssty." He lowered his head to look at Kiara's bloated gut with more genuine intrigue. "Might I alsssso add that your technique wassss quite nicccce for a beginner ssssuch assss yoursssself."

Kiara smirked back while smacking her tubby tummy with triumph. "I had a great teacher for inspiration," she declared, feeling Zazu still put up a fight. "I only wish that I had the nerve to do this a long time ago." Kaa could only speculate that his subtle hypnosis was having an accumulative effect on Kiara's attitude. He wasn't just wiping her mind clean and making her a mindless puppet. The python was perverting her mind from the ground up to make her more like himself.

The cherry on top of the perfect revenge.