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by Cobra1000

It was 3 in the afternoon, and, in the middle of a clearing in a forest, a brown haired 23 year old man and a black Dodge Viper SRT-10 were sitting around a camp site.
"Jason, can you remind me why we are here?" the Viper asked.
"Because this is where my father and I went camping when I was a child, JAIC," answered the 23 year old man.
"I understand, it is for sentimental reasons," JAIC observed.
"Exactly."
Just then Jason heard a voice: "We're lossst, aren't we?"
"JAIC, did you hear a voice just now?" he asked.
"Negative, Jason. However, I did hear some hissing from those bushes. That means one of two conclusions; either your mental health is deteriorating, or there is at least one snake in those bushes."
"I hope it's the second one, JAIC," said Jason. He got up and went over to the bushes.
"Sssomeone'sss there," a voice said.
"Be quiet, or he'll hear you!" another voice snapped.
"Too late," said Jason.
"Damn it! Let'sss get out of here!" the second voice said.
"No! Don't go. I won't hurt you." Jason reassured them.
"You promissse?"
"I'm no snake in the grass." As soon as Jason said that, he realised that it was a bad use of the word. "Ah, sorry about that, I meant..."
"Don't worry, I know what you meant."
"Do you think you could show your face? I like to see who I'm talking to."
"Will you promissse that you won't ssscream and run away?"
"I own more pet snakes than you've ever seen. I don't think I'm gonna go anywhere."
"OK." A tan-coloured snake rose from the bushes. He was a very handsome looking snake, if you consider snakes to be handsome. There was one unusual thing about him though: He had arms. Jason raised an eyebrow.
"You have arms?" he pointed out.
"Yesss, for you sssee, I am not a sssnake. I ... am a naga."
"Ahhh. Is there anyone else with you? I'm positive I heard more than one voice."
"Yesss. All right, you can come out now." A second naga poked his head out of the bushes. Jason was stunned.
"Wow. You wait ages to see a naga and two come along at once."
"How come you can underssstand what we're sssaying?" asked the second naga.
"I performed an experiment on myself, and since then I've developed the ability to talk to snakes." Jason replied.
"Cool!"
"I think it's time we introduced ourselves: My name's Jason, and the car behind me is called JAIC. He can't understand snake language though, so you'll have to talk to him through me."
"I can ssspeak human language, but he can't. Wait, your car hasss a name?" queried Suki.
"Yes, he has artificial intelligence."
"Awesssome! My name'sss Sssuki, thisss isss my friend Nabujo," he pointed to the other naga.
"Nice to meet you two."
"You have a good tassste in carsss," said Nabujo.
"Yes, well, a Dodge Viper, what else? Would you like to meet him?" asked Jason.
"Yesss, pleassse!" said Suki. Jason walked over to where JAIC was parked.
"JAIC, these creatures were the hissing you heard. We have Suki and Nabujo," said Jason, indicating the two nagas and the python.
"Greetings. I am Jason's Artificially Intelligent Car, my friends call me JAIC."
"That. Is. AWESSSOME!" Suki said.
"Thank you, Suki."
"So, what are you guys doing here?" queried Jason.
"A few weeksss ago I helped Nabujo essscape from a zoo, ssso we're here to hide from the zoo keepersss," replied Suki.
"Why don't you come home with us? Then you won't have to hide any more." Jason offered.
"Oh, no. We wouldn't want you to get into trouble becaussse of usss." Suki replied.
"If I do get into trouble, then JAIC will be fast enough to get me out of it."
"How fassst can he go?"
"Potentially I can travel at over 400 miles per hour," replied JAIC.
"WOW!"
"So, wanna come?"
"How are we going to fit in there? A Viper isssn't exssactly an SssUV." Nabujo said.
"Not a problem. JAIC, 4x4 mode."
"Commencing transformation." JAIC transformed into a Dodge Ram pickup.
"Wow." Nabujo was stunned.
"Right, who wants to come to my home?"
"You can count me in!" exclaimed Suki.
"Me two!" agreed Nabujo.
"Excellent. Right, everyone in the pickup," said Jason. The two nagas got into the cab with Jason. On the way home Jason called Dan, his right-hand man.
"Dan, I'm coming home, and I'm bringing some friends as well," he told Dan.
"Are they of the scaley kind?" Dan asked. Jason smiled. Dan knew him very well.
"Yes, they are." Dan laughed.
"Trust you. How many are there?"
"Two. And they are very unusual."
"Oh, yeah? In what way?"
"You'll find out when you see them." Jason said knowingly.
"You are such a tease," said Dan.
A few hours later Jason arrived at his home. It was a three-story mansion with at least ten rooms on each floor.
"Wow," gasped Nabujo.
"You ain't seen nothing yet," replied Jason.
"I would appreciate it if you refrain from using double negatives or the word 'ain't' in the future, Jason," commented JAIC.
"Whatever you say, JAIC."
JAIC drove through a tunnel and stopped in a high-tech garage. A forty year old man grinned at him.
"Right, Jason, let's see your new friends," he said. Jason got out, opened the doors and said: "Right, you two can come out now."
The nagas got out of the. Dan saw the nagas and his jaw dropped.
"Those snakes...have arms," he gasped.
"Actually, they're called nagas, and yes, they do have arms," Jason replied.
"Okaaay. I'm not even going to ask."
Jason turned to the reptiles: "Oh, I almost forgot. This is Dan. He's my right-hand man, so to speak."
"Hi, Dan!" said Suki.
"He can talk?" this was too much for Dan to take in.
"Technically, they can all talk, it's just that Suki can speak to humans," Jason explained.
"I'm going to have a lie down. I can't take all this in at the moment." Dan walked out the room.
"What'sss wrong with him?" asked Nabujo.
"Don't worry about him. It takes some people longer than others to cope with new things. Nagas are something you don't see every day. I just thought," he turned to Suki, "how come you can talk to humans?"
"I usssed to be a human, but I got transssformed into a naga," Suki explained, "Ssso I kept my ability to talk to humansss. I'm alssso warm-blooded."
"Really? Wow. I'm cold-blooded. Another side effect of the experiment."
"What wasss the exssperiment you've been talking about?"
"Ah, yes. The Experiment. Basically, normally when you get bitten by a venomous snake, you have to have anti-venom, which could make you ill, and you have to have a specific anti-venom depending on which snake bit you. I decided to see if I could create a universal anti-venom, so no matter which snake bites you, you can have the anti-venom."
"If that exssperiment worksss, it could sssave hundredsss of livesss."
"That's why I did the experiment."
"Did it work?"
"No."
"At leassst you can talk to sssnakesss."
"Yeah, that's a consolation prize. Shall I give you a tour?"
"Oh, yesss, pleassse," the reptiles said. So Jason showed them his mansion.
After about half an hour, Jason only had two parts of the mansion left to show them.
"Now, this is my laboratory, where the Experiment happened. If you need, or want, to talk to me late at night or early in the morning, this is where I'll be. If you want to talk to me during the day, I will be in my HQ, or...my reptile paradise." He opened the door behind him. Inside the room it was almost a garden. There were dozens - no, hundreds - of reptiles. Snakes, crocs, gators, lizards, you name it. Suki and Nabujo were stunned.
"You weren't kidding when you sssaid reptile paradissse," Suki commented.
"I know."
"Nabujo, doesss that python look familiar to you?"
"You don't think that'sss..."
"Illydan!?" they both shouted. The python looked up.
"Sssuki? Nabujo?" she said, bewildered.
"I thought I'd never sssee you again!" said Suki.
"Me too!" said Illydan.
"Well, what a small world we live in," commented Jason.
Later that night, Jason heard Suki's voice in the reptile paradise. He went in and saw Suki talking to his snakes.
"Hey, Suki. How's it going so far?"
Suki sighed, "Not brilliant. I'm ssstruggling to fit in."
"Look, Suki. It's going to take time. No-one in this building has seen a naga before. Just give them time to adjust."
"You sssure?"
"I'm positive."
"Thanksss, Jassson," Suki looked out the window, "It'sss getting dark."
"Yeah. You know, this reminds me of the time thaAARRGGHH!" Jason fell to his knees.
"Jassson, what'sss wrong?"
"I...don't...know." Jason struggled to speak. His hands started changing colour. A large tail grew out from above his jeans. His arms and legs receded into his body. His blue eyes turned yellow and his pupils became slits. Two of his teeth grew into fangs, and his head distorted to resemble a snake's. Finally, Jason was no longer there. In his place was an 80 foot long king cobra.
"Oh, crap," said Suki, "Jassson, what happened?" The cobra said nothing, but hissed angrily at Suki. It lunged at him, who dived out of the way at the last second, but not before one of Cobra's fangs scratched his arm.
"Now, that'sss not very nicsse," Suki told Cobra. Cobra just hissed and launched him self at Suki again. He jump out of the way again and went to an intercom device.
"Thisss isss Sssuki ssspeaking. Can sssomeone help me? I'm in a ssspot of trouble here," he spoke with a hint of panic in his voice.
"Hello, Suki. This is JAIC. What seems to be the problem?" JAIC answered.
"JAIC? Am I glad to hear your voicsse! I'm being attacked by an 80 foot long cobra!"
"That sounds like the Cobra de Capello," said JAIC.
"The what?"
"The Cobra de Capello. It was a snake created when..." Suki interrupted him.
"Can you jussst get here and help me? Pleassse?"
"I apologise, Suki. I am on my way." Cobra headed towards Suki, who dived out of the way, again, causing Cobra to smash into the wall, damaging the intercom.
Meanwhile, as he was racing to Suki, JAIC passed Dan.
"JAIC? Where are you going at this time of night?" Dan questioned him.
"I am going to the reptiles' paradise. The Cobra de Capello has been spotted there and is attacking Suki."
"Oh, no." Dan got in and JAIC continued on. "Have you contacted Jason yet?"
"Unfortunately not. I have not seen or heard from him since he went to talk to Suki 30 minutes ago."
"Where does he go at night?"
"If I knew I would tell you, Dan."
"Yeah, I know."
JAIC arrived at the reptiles paradise and remotely opened the door. Inside they saw an 80 foot long king Cobra trying to attack Suki.
"There he is," said Dan, "Any ideas on how to stop him?"
"Yes. Jason has recently installed a powerful anaesthetic gas dispenser. We could use it to put Cobra to sleep."
"Right, let's do it." JAIC accelerated towards Cobra. Cobra's attention was drawn away from Suki and he looked at the black vehicle coming towards him. He hissed at JAIC.
"I hope you know what you're doing, JAIC."
"I always know what I am doing." Cobra dived towards him with his mouth open wide. JAIC did a 180, stopped and released the sleeping gas while accelerating in the opposite direction. Cobra chased after him, inhaling the gas in the process. After a few minutes, the gas began to take affect. Cobra started to slow down, and he eventually stopped altogether and fell fast asleep. JAIC stopped and Dan got out.
"Will sssomeone tell me what'sss going on?" Suki demanded.
"I suppose Jason told you about his anti-venom experiment?" asked Dan.
"Yesss."
"Well, what he forgot to tell you is that in that experiment he accidentally created an 80 foot long snake, which patrols the mansion at night, and is the snake you see here."
"But I sssaw Jassson transssform into that sssnake."
"What!?"
"Yesss. We were talking, and then he yelled, and then he ... changed ... into ... that," Suki pointed at Cobra.
"Well, that explains why no-one can find Jason when Cobra attacks, because he IS Cobra."
A few hours later, Cobra transformed back into Jason. He woke up and rubbed his head.
"What happened last night?"
"You transssformed into a cobra and bit me," replied Suki, hiding in a corner of the room with a bite mark on his shoulder.
"I what and I WHAT!?" Jason exclaimed.
"Lassst night, we were talking about me not fitting in, then you yelled, then you transssformed into the Cobra de Capello, and then we fought, and you bit me."
"Oh, crap. Right, we need some cobra anti-venom, and some bandages, and..."
"Don't worry, Jassson," Suki interrupted, "It's OK. Cobra'sss fang only ssscratched me out of defencsse. He didn't keep the fang in long enough to inject the venom."
"Are you sure?"
"I am part sssnake, ssso I know when I've been injected. Besssidesss, if he HAD injected me, I would probably be dead by now."
Jason was relieved, "Thank God for that. From what I heard, Cobra can be very boisterous sometimes."
"Boisssterousss!? That'sss the underssstatement of the cssentury!" Suki exclaimed
"You've got a point there."
"Will anything happen to me?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I HAVE been bitten by a genetically mutated cobra. Will I transssform too?"
"I honestly have no idea. But I'm pretty sure that since Cobra only scratched you, nothing will happen. As I said before, I don't know, as Cobra has never bitten a naga before."
"I don't want to be a cobra!" Suki moaned.
"I'm working on a cure, so hopefully if you do transform, you won't be a cobra for long."
"Good. Do you think you could clean my wound, pleassse?"
"Oh, sorry, I forgot about that." Jason cleaned the wound and wrapped a bandage around it.
"Thanksss. If I do transssform, I hope I get to keep my own mind."
"Me too. I wouldn't want TWO Cobras ransacking my mansion. One is bad enough, thank you very much."
Just then Illydan and Nabujo came slithering as fast as they could up to Suki and Jason.
"Sssuki! Are you alright? We sssaw the whole thing, but we were to ssscared to go anywhere near you two," said Nabujo.
"I'm fine," reassured Suki.
"I'm really sorry about what happened last night, you three," Jason apologised.
"It wasssn't your fault, Jassson," said Nabujo, "You can't control what Cobra doesss."
"I know, but I did the experiment that created him, so I consider myself responsible for his actions. Right, I'm gonna go to my lab, and try and figure out a cure to stop me transforming into Cobra."
"I'll come with you!" said Suki.
"Me too!" said Nabujo.
"Oh, no. I'm not having you injured again."
"I'm coming with you, whether you like it or not," Suki protested. Jason look defeated.
"OK. But JAIC won't always be able to help you, you know."
"Yeah, we know," Suki replied.
So Jason, Suki and Nabujo went to the lab. Jason got out a number of books, test tubes, etc. and started pouring various liquids into various test tubes.
"Do you know what you're doing?" Nabujo asked.
"Not a clue," answered Jason.
"Maybe that'sss why your exssperimentsss fail, becaussse you don't know what you're doing," Nabujo said bitterly.
"If I knew what I was doing, then it wouldn't be an experiment, would it?" Nabujo stayed silent. Jason filled a syringe with a luminous orange liquid and injected the liquid into his arm.
"Err...Jassson? Wasss that a good idea?" questioned Suki, looking worried.
"We're about to find out," replied Jason. Nothing happened. "OK, let's try something else."
"I really don't like your recklesssnesss, Jassson," Suki commented.
"You have to be a little bit reckless, Suki. Weren't you a bit reckless on the day you transformed into a naga?"
"He'sss got a point there, Sssuki," Nabujo pointed out.
"What time is it?" asked Jason.
"Nearly ten o'clock," replied Suki.
"Ten in the morning or evening?"
"Evening."
The smile on Jason's face was instantly wiped off, "Oh dear."
"What?"
"That's normally the time I transform." At this point Jason collapsed to his knees and held himself, shaking. His hands started changing colour, and he transformed into Cobra again.
"Jassson! Do you recognissse me? It'sss Sssuki, remember?" Suki said, hoping that maybe Jason could hear him.
"Releassse me," said Cobra. He hissed at Suki and attempted to attack him, again. At the last second Nabujo jumped and pushed Suki out of the way, and Cobra's fangs missed them by millimetres.
"That wasss too clossse," Nabujo said breathlessly, "What the hell did you think you were doing?" he asked Suki.
"I wasss hoping, maybe Jassson wasss ssstill there," Suki replied.
"Honessstly, you are too sssentimental. We need sssomewhere to hide. Can you sssee anything?"
Suki looked around and saw an armour-plated door, "What'sss behind that door?"
"Let'sss find out!" They opened the door and saw a small room behind it. They went inside and shut the door behind them. There was a bang at the door. Presumably it was Cobra banging the door. Bang. Bang. Bang. Then, nothing.
"I think he'sss ssstopped." Suki said.
"Yes, well, I think we should ssstay here until we know for sure." replied Nabujo.
A few hours later, a voice spoke: "Ow, my head. Suki? Nabujo? Where are you!?"
"We're behind an armoured door!" shouted Suki. The door opened and there was Jason.
"Thank God you two thought about going in here," he said, relieved.
"It wasss Sssuki'sss idea," explained Nabujo.
"Wow. OK, what happened after I transformed?" Jason said.
"Well, Sssuki wasss a bit of a moron and thought you might be there, ssso he asssked you if you recognisssed him, which of courssse you didn't. Then sssomething weird happened: Cobra sssaid, 'Releassse me,' before attempting to attack Sssuki," explained Nabujo.
"What!? 'Release me'? I think that means he wants his own body, rather than being stuck in a puny human body."
"Oh dear," Suki said.
"Not good," Nabujo agreed.
"I know."

To be continued...

Description
by Cobra1000

It was 3 in the afternoon, and, in the middle of a clearing in a forest, a brown haired 23 year old man and a black Dodge Viper SRT-10 were sitting around a camp site.
"Jason, can you remind me why we are here?" the Viper asked.
"Because this is where my father and I went camping when I was a child, JAIC," answered the 23 year old man.
"I understand, it is for sentimental reasons," JAIC observed.
"Exactly."
Just then Jason heard a voice: "We're lossst, aren't we?"
"JAIC, did you hear a voice just now?" he asked.
"Negative, Jason. However, I did hear some hissing from those bushes. That means one of two conclusions; either your mental health is deteriorating, or there is at least one snake in those bushes."
"I hope it's the second one, JAIC," said Jason. He got up and went over to the bushes.
"Sssomeone'sss there," a voice said.
"Be quiet, or he'll hear you!" another voice snapped.
"Too late," said Jason.
"Damn it! Let'sss get out of here!" the second voice said.
"No! Don't go. I won't hurt you." Jason reassured them.
"You promissse?"
"I'm no snake in the grass." As soon as Jason said that, he realised that it was a bad use of the word. "Ah, sorry about that, I meant..."
"Don't worry, I know what you meant."
"Do you think you could show your face? I like to see who I'm talking to."
"Will you promissse that you won't ssscream and run away?"
"I own more pet snakes than you've ever seen. I don't think I'm gonna go anywhere."
"OK." A tan-coloured snake rose from the bushes. He was a very handsome looking snake, if you consider snakes to be handsome. There was one unusual thing about him though: He had arms. Jason raised an eyebrow.
"You have arms?" he pointed out.
"Yesss, for you sssee, I am not a sssnake. I ... am a naga."
"Ahhh. Is there anyone else with you? I'm positive I heard more than one voice."
"Yesss. All right, you can come out now." A second naga poked his head out of the bushes. Jason was stunned.
"Wow. You wait ages to see a naga and two come along at once."
"How come you can underssstand what we're sssaying?" asked the second naga.
"I performed an experiment on myself, and since then I've developed the ability to talk to snakes." Jason replied.
"Cool!"
"I think it's time we introduced ourselves: My name's Jason, and the car behind me is called JAIC. He can't understand snake language though, so you'll have to talk to him through me."
"I can ssspeak human language, but he can't. Wait, your car hasss a name?" queried Suki.
"Yes, he has artificial intelligence."
"Awesssome! My name'sss Sssuki, thisss isss my friend Nabujo," he pointed to the other naga.
"Nice to meet you two."
"You have a good tassste in carsss," said Nabujo.
"Yes, well, a Dodge Viper, what else? Would you like to meet him?" asked Jason.
"Yesss, pleassse!" said Suki. Jason walked over to where JAIC was parked.
"JAIC, these creatures were the hissing you heard. We have Suki and Nabujo," said Jason, indicating the two nagas and the python.
"Greetings. I am Jason's Artificially Intelligent Car, my friends call me JAIC."
"That. Is. AWESSSOME!" Suki said.
"Thank you, Suki."
"So, what are you guys doing here?" queried Jason.
"A few weeksss ago I helped Nabujo essscape from a zoo, ssso we're here to hide from the zoo keepersss," replied Suki.
"Why don't you come home with us? Then you won't have to hide any more." Jason offered.
"Oh, no. We wouldn't want you to get into trouble becaussse of usss." Suki replied.
"If I do get into trouble, then JAIC will be fast enough to get me out of it."
"How fassst can he go?"
"Potentially I can travel at over 400 miles per hour," replied JAIC.
"WOW!"
"So, wanna come?"
"How are we going to fit in there? A Viper isssn't exssactly an SssUV." Nabujo said.
"Not a problem. JAIC, 4x4 mode."
"Commencing transformation." JAIC transformed into a Dodge Ram pickup.
"Wow." Nabujo was stunned.
"Right, who wants to come to my home?"
"You can count me in!" exclaimed Suki.
"Me two!" agreed Nabujo.
"Excellent. Right, everyone in the pickup," said Jason. The two nagas got into the cab with Jason. On the way home Jason called Dan, his right-hand man.
"Dan, I'm coming home, and I'm bringing some friends as well," he told Dan.
"Are they of the scaley kind?" Dan asked. Jason smiled. Dan knew him very well.
"Yes, they are." Dan laughed.
"Trust you. How many are there?"
"Two. And they are very unusual."
"Oh, yeah? In what way?"
"You'll find out when you see them." Jason said knowingly.
"You are such a tease," said Dan.
A few hours later Jason arrived at his home. It was a three-story mansion with at least ten rooms on each floor.
"Wow," gasped Nabujo.
"You ain't seen nothing yet," replied Jason.
"I would appreciate it if you refrain from using double negatives or the word 'ain't' in the future, Jason," commented JAIC.
"Whatever you say, JAIC."
JAIC drove through a tunnel and stopped in a high-tech garage. A forty year old man grinned at him.
"Right, Jason, let's see your new friends," he said. Jason got out, opened the doors and said: "Right, you two can come out now."
The nagas got out of the. Dan saw the nagas and his jaw dropped.
"Those snakes...have arms," he gasped.
"Actually, they're called nagas, and yes, they do have arms," Jason replied.
"Okaaay. I'm not even going to ask."
Jason turned to the reptiles: "Oh, I almost forgot. This is Dan. He's my right-hand man, so to speak."
"Hi, Dan!" said Suki.
"He can talk?" this was too much for Dan to take in.
"Technically, they can all talk, it's just that Suki can speak to humans," Jason explained.
"I'm going to have a lie down. I can't take all this in at the moment." Dan walked out the room.
"What'sss wrong with him?" asked Nabujo.
"Don't worry about him. It takes some people longer than others to cope with new things. Nagas are something you don't see every day. I just thought," he turned to Suki, "how come you can talk to humans?"
"I usssed to be a human, but I got transssformed into a naga," Suki explained, "Ssso I kept my ability to talk to humansss. I'm alssso warm-blooded."
"Really? Wow. I'm cold-blooded. Another side effect of the experiment."
"What wasss the exssperiment you've been talking about?"
"Ah, yes. The Experiment. Basically, normally when you get bitten by a venomous snake, you have to have anti-venom, which could make you ill, and you have to have a specific anti-venom depending on which snake bit you. I decided to see if I could create a universal anti-venom, so no matter which snake bites you, you can have the anti-venom."
"If that exssperiment worksss, it could sssave hundredsss of livesss."
"That's why I did the experiment."
"Did it work?"
"No."
"At leassst you can talk to sssnakesss."
"Yeah, that's a consolation prize. Shall I give you a tour?"
"Oh, yesss, pleassse," the reptiles said. So Jason showed them his mansion.
After about half an hour, Jason only had two parts of the mansion left to show them.
"Now, this is my laboratory, where the Experiment happened. If you need, or want, to talk to me late at night or early in the morning, this is where I'll be. If you want to talk to me during the day, I will be in my HQ, or...my reptile paradise." He opened the door behind him. Inside the room it was almost a garden. There were dozens - no, hundreds - of reptiles. Snakes, crocs, gators, lizards, you name it. Suki and Nabujo were stunned.
"You weren't kidding when you sssaid reptile paradissse," Suki commented.
"I know."
"Nabujo, doesss that python look familiar to you?"
"You don't think that'sss..."
"Illydan!?" they both shouted. The python looked up.
"Sssuki? Nabujo?" she said, bewildered.
"I thought I'd never sssee you again!" said Suki.
"Me too!" said Illydan.
"Well, what a small world we live in," commented Jason.
Later that night, Jason heard Suki's voice in the reptile paradise. He went in and saw Suki talking to his snakes.
"Hey, Suki. How's it going so far?"
Suki sighed, "Not brilliant. I'm ssstruggling to fit in."
"Look, Suki. It's going to take time. No-one in this building has seen a naga before. Just give them time to adjust."
"You sssure?"
"I'm positive."
"Thanksss, Jassson," Suki looked out the window, "It'sss getting dark."
"Yeah. You know, this reminds me of the time thaAARRGGHH!" Jason fell to his knees.
"Jassson, what'sss wrong?"
"I...don't...know." Jason struggled to speak. His hands started changing colour. A large tail grew out from above his jeans. His arms and legs receded into his body. His blue eyes turned yellow and his pupils became slits. Two of his teeth grew into fangs, and his head distorted to resemble a snake's. Finally, Jason was no longer there. In his place was an 80 foot long king cobra.
"Oh, crap," said Suki, "Jassson, what happened?" The cobra said nothing, but hissed angrily at Suki. It lunged at him, who dived out of the way at the last second, but not before one of Cobra's fangs scratched his arm.
"Now, that'sss not very nicsse," Suki told Cobra. Cobra just hissed and launched him self at Suki again. He jump out of the way again and went to an intercom device.
"Thisss isss Sssuki ssspeaking. Can sssomeone help me? I'm in a ssspot of trouble here," he spoke with a hint of panic in his voice.
"Hello, Suki. This is JAIC. What seems to be the problem?" JAIC answered.
"JAIC? Am I glad to hear your voicsse! I'm being attacked by an 80 foot long cobra!"
"That sounds like the Cobra de Capello," said JAIC.
"The what?"
"The Cobra de Capello. It was a snake created when..." Suki interrupted him.
"Can you jussst get here and help me? Pleassse?"
"I apologise, Suki. I am on my way." Cobra headed towards Suki, who dived out of the way, again, causing Cobra to smash into the wall, damaging the intercom.
Meanwhile, as he was racing to Suki, JAIC passed Dan.
"JAIC? Where are you going at this time of night?" Dan questioned him.
"I am going to the reptiles' paradise. The Cobra de Capello has been spotted there and is attacking Suki."
"Oh, no." Dan got in and JAIC continued on. "Have you contacted Jason yet?"
"Unfortunately not. I have not seen or heard from him since he went to talk to Suki 30 minutes ago."
"Where does he go at night?"
"If I knew I would tell you, Dan."
"Yeah, I know."
JAIC arrived at the reptiles paradise and remotely opened the door. Inside they saw an 80 foot long king Cobra trying to attack Suki.
"There he is," said Dan, "Any ideas on how to stop him?"
"Yes. Jason has recently installed a powerful anaesthetic gas dispenser. We could use it to put Cobra to sleep."
"Right, let's do it." JAIC accelerated towards Cobra. Cobra's attention was drawn away from Suki and he looked at the black vehicle coming towards him. He hissed at JAIC.
"I hope you know what you're doing, JAIC."
"I always know what I am doing." Cobra dived towards him with his mouth open wide. JAIC did a 180, stopped and released the sleeping gas while accelerating in the opposite direction. Cobra chased after him, inhaling the gas in the process. After a few minutes, the gas began to take affect. Cobra started to slow down, and he eventually stopped altogether and fell fast asleep. JAIC stopped and Dan got out.
"Will sssomeone tell me what'sss going on?" Suki demanded.
"I suppose Jason told you about his anti-venom experiment?" asked Dan.
"Yesss."
"Well, what he forgot to tell you is that in that experiment he accidentally created an 80 foot long snake, which patrols the mansion at night, and is the snake you see here."
"But I sssaw Jassson transssform into that sssnake."
"What!?"
"Yesss. We were talking, and then he yelled, and then he ... changed ... into ... that," Suki pointed at Cobra.
"Well, that explains why no-one can find Jason when Cobra attacks, because he IS Cobra."
A few hours later, Cobra transformed back into Jason. He woke up and rubbed his head.
"What happened last night?"
"You transssformed into a cobra and bit me," replied Suki, hiding in a corner of the room with a bite mark on his shoulder.
"I what and I WHAT!?" Jason exclaimed.
"Lassst night, we were talking about me not fitting in, then you yelled, then you transssformed into the Cobra de Capello, and then we fought, and you bit me."
"Oh, crap. Right, we need some cobra anti-venom, and some bandages, and..."
"Don't worry, Jassson," Suki interrupted, "It's OK. Cobra'sss fang only ssscratched me out of defencsse. He didn't keep the fang in long enough to inject the venom."
"Are you sure?"
"I am part sssnake, ssso I know when I've been injected. Besssidesss, if he HAD injected me, I would probably be dead by now."
Jason was relieved, "Thank God for that. From what I heard, Cobra can be very boisterous sometimes."
"Boisssterousss!? That'sss the underssstatement of the cssentury!" Suki exclaimed
"You've got a point there."
"Will anything happen to me?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I HAVE been bitten by a genetically mutated cobra. Will I transssform too?"
"I honestly have no idea. But I'm pretty sure that since Cobra only scratched you, nothing will happen. As I said before, I don't know, as Cobra has never bitten a naga before."
"I don't want to be a cobra!" Suki moaned.
"I'm working on a cure, so hopefully if you do transform, you won't be a cobra for long."
"Good. Do you think you could clean my wound, pleassse?"
"Oh, sorry, I forgot about that." Jason cleaned the wound and wrapped a bandage around it.
"Thanksss. If I do transssform, I hope I get to keep my own mind."
"Me too. I wouldn't want TWO Cobras ransacking my mansion. One is bad enough, thank you very much."
Just then Illydan and Nabujo came slithering as fast as they could up to Suki and Jason.
"Sssuki! Are you alright? We sssaw the whole thing, but we were to ssscared to go anywhere near you two," said Nabujo.
"I'm fine," reassured Suki.
"I'm really sorry about what happened last night, you three," Jason apologised.
"It wasssn't your fault, Jassson," said Nabujo, "You can't control what Cobra doesss."
"I know, but I did the experiment that created him, so I consider myself responsible for his actions. Right, I'm gonna go to my lab, and try and figure out a cure to stop me transforming into Cobra."
"I'll come with you!" said Suki.
"Me too!" said Nabujo.
"Oh, no. I'm not having you injured again."
"I'm coming with you, whether you like it or not," Suki protested. Jason look defeated.
"OK. But JAIC won't always be able to help you, you know."
"Yeah, we know," Suki replied.
So Jason, Suki and Nabujo went to the lab. Jason got out a number of books, test tubes, etc. and started pouring various liquids into various test tubes.
"Do you know what you're doing?" Nabujo asked.
"Not a clue," answered Jason.
"Maybe that'sss why your exssperimentsss fail, becaussse you don't know what you're doing," Nabujo said bitterly.
"If I knew what I was doing, then it wouldn't be an experiment, would it?" Nabujo stayed silent. Jason filled a syringe with a luminous orange liquid and injected the liquid into his arm.
"Err...Jassson? Wasss that a good idea?" questioned Suki, looking worried.
"We're about to find out," replied Jason. Nothing happened. "OK, let's try something else."
"I really don't like your recklesssnesss, Jassson," Suki commented.
"You have to be a little bit reckless, Suki. Weren't you a bit reckless on the day you transformed into a naga?"
"He'sss got a point there, Sssuki," Nabujo pointed out.
"What time is it?" asked Jason.
"Nearly ten o'clock," replied Suki.
"Ten in the morning or evening?"
"Evening."
The smile on Jason's face was instantly wiped off, "Oh dear."
"What?"
"That's normally the time I transform." At this point Jason collapsed to his knees and held himself, shaking. His hands started changing colour, and he transformed into Cobra again.
"Jassson! Do you recognissse me? It'sss Sssuki, remember?" Suki said, hoping that maybe Jason could hear him.
"Releassse me," said Cobra. He hissed at Suki and attempted to attack him, again. At the last second Nabujo jumped and pushed Suki out of the way, and Cobra's fangs missed them by millimetres.
"That wasss too clossse," Nabujo said breathlessly, "What the hell did you think you were doing?" he asked Suki.
"I wasss hoping, maybe Jassson wasss ssstill there," Suki replied.
"Honessstly, you are too sssentimental. We need sssomewhere to hide. Can you sssee anything?"
Suki looked around and saw an armour-plated door, "What'sss behind that door?"
"Let'sss find out!" They opened the door and saw a small room behind it. They went inside and shut the door behind them. There was a bang at the door. Presumably it was Cobra banging the door. Bang. Bang. Bang. Then, nothing.
"I think he'sss ssstopped." Suki said.
"Yes, well, I think we should ssstay here until we know for sure." replied Nabujo.
A few hours later, a voice spoke: "Ow, my head. Suki? Nabujo? Where are you!?"
"We're behind an armoured door!" shouted Suki. The door opened and there was Jason.
"Thank God you two thought about going in here," he said, relieved.
"It wasss Sssuki'sss idea," explained Nabujo.
"Wow. OK, what happened after I transformed?" Jason said.
"Well, Sssuki wasss a bit of a moron and thought you might be there, ssso he asssked you if you recognisssed him, which of courssse you didn't. Then sssomething weird happened: Cobra sssaid, 'Releassse me,' before attempting to attack Sssuki," explained Nabujo.
"What!? 'Release me'? I think that means he wants his own body, rather than being stuck in a puny human body."
"Oh dear," Suki said.
"Not good," Nabujo agreed.
"I know."

To be continued...