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The Golden Snake Tooth | Prologue

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Author's note: I’m so excited for this series and I hope you all like it.

Notice/warnings: hunted, experimented, extinct, hiding

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Once, long ago, there were sundrop snakes. 

They would look like normal yellow snakes, but if you looked at their teeth, you would see that they’re gold instead of white. 

A lot of people, human and animal, would go to them if they’re ill or hurt badly.

The sundrop snakes would bite the person, but it wouldn’t hurt them. Instead, it would heal them, like they were never ill or hurt.

Some were grateful for them, for their help and gifts. 

Some aren't grateful for them, they were still monsters.

That didn’t bother the sundrop snakes. 

But what did bother the sundrop snakes were those who were curious and greedy. 

The reason that the ones that got curious and greedy is because the venom is so strong that it can not only heal the sick and injured but can reverse aging temporarily.

Some were so curious and greedy that the sundrop snakes went extinct. 

All except for one.

A sundrop snake hatchling.

The sundrop hatchling was found by six that were part of the curious and greedy for power but they were careful. 

One of the six is a professor and the caretaker of the sundrop, making sure that they don’t lose their chance of eternal youth, careful experiments, and keeping the sundrop snake hidden.

The sundrop snake has been hidden in the deep part of the woods for 21 years, until now.

I find it interesting and clever how you used both the "Bucharest Bandits" and "Lucky Jim", who are both only mentioned as part of a gag and utilized them as actual characters.

Just like in canon, the Golden Dolphin breaks every criminal who tries to steal it.

The Golden Snake Tooth | Chapter 1

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Notice/warnings: lying/cheating, stealing

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It was early in the morning when Snake was playing hide and seek with Webs, his friend, before he did his chores.

“Where did you go?” Snake called out. 

Webs was out on the balcony, looking for a hiding spot. She spotted one of the outside medium size potted plants. She quickly went to it and got under the leaves of the plant as she got her hood up.

Then Snake looked out the balcony, looking for her. He smirked as he flickered his tongue at the potted plants and started to slither off inside, saying, “Well, Webs isn’t around here…”

Webs chuckled softly when she thought that Snake had slithered off, thinking that she’s a great hider. But then her victory was interrupted by tail grabbing her, pulling her out of her hiding spot and into the tower. 

“Got ya!” Snake exclaimed, smiling big that his teeth showed as he looked at Webs, his golden tooth shined. 

“Oh come on!” Webs yelled, pulling her hood down as Snake put her down on the floor. “That was a good hiding spot! Did you cheat by tasting air?”

Snake looked down at her as he adjusted his dark blue robe over his light blue nightgown. Then he tilts his head to the side to think if he did or didn’t.

Webs could just look at him, waiting for an answer. 

“I don’t know.” Snake said calmly after a moment, picking up a watering can. “I’m going to check and water the plants. Then I’m going to do the rest of my chores.”

Webs sighed in annoyance as Snake slithered away to get water in the watering can to water plants, knowing that he did cheat. But she couldn’t help but smile at him instead of staying mad at him. “You know, I like you when you’re not playing the good boy part, Mr. Grumpy Pants.” she said, following him. “It’s nice to see you not being forced to be good.”

Snake looks at Webs as he gets water into the watering can. “Well, it’s good to be loose for a bit. Not following some rules.” he said, turning the water off when the watering can was full. He looked at the plants.

There were so many different plants and so green that it would look like a part of the garden of eden.

“And yet you still don’t go outside.” Webs said, her arms crossed. 

Snake was quiet for a moment. “You know that I can’t leave the tower, Webs…” Snake said finally as he went to the plants and started to give them water. 

Webs nodded, a frown on her face. “I know… but I know how much the floating lights mean to you.” she said, walking over to Snake and putting a small hand on his tail. “And since your birthday is tomorrow, even though I know that you don’t like birthdays, I thought that you should see them in person. Since you haven’t seen them in person or anything else besides the things in the tower.”

Snake looks down at Webs again as he sets the watering can down. “That would be a nice gift, Webs, but there's a problem. My caretakers, Professor Marmalade and his friends. They always said no when I asked to go outside.”

Webs nodded and started to climb up the watering can to be about eye level. “Look… I know it’s not easy, but I know that you can do this.”

Snake looked at Webs, smiled softly at her and said, “Ok, I’ll ask him when he gets home. Now, let’s finish up watering the plants and get some chores done.”

Webs nodded and helped with what she could do.

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In a kingdom near the woods, the people were getting ready for the Lanterns Festival, which is tomorrow. 

Everyone was so busy and so focused on getting ready that they didn’t see the seven thieves going to the rooftop of the castle. They were sneaky and quick to not be caught by the guards as they got to the roof.

Mister Wolff, one of the thieves, looked out at the kingdom from the roof and was in awe at the sight while the Bucharest Bandits Brothers and Lucky Jim got the hatch off of the roof. 

“Wow.” he breathed, taking in the beautiful sight. “I could get used to a view like this.”

“Wolff!” the five Bucharest Bandits hissed whispered together. “Come on!”

Mister Wolff held up his pointer finger to say ‘in a minute’. “Guys, I want my own castle.” Mister Wolff announced, still looking at the view.

“Oh, you’ll get your castle, alright. After we finish this job.” Lucky Jim chuckled low. Then Mister Wolff was grabbed by the back of the neck of his vest and pulled back to the group by Lucky Jim. One of the Bucharest Bandits tied one end of a long rope around Mister Wolff’s waist and checked to see if it was tight enough before sending the wolf down into the treasure room. 

Mister Wolff was sent down carefully into the treasure room when ready and with his satchel in hand. Lucky Jim and all of the Bucharest Bandits held the rope as they sent him down.

Mister Wolff looked at all of the treasure as he was being sent down to grab one of the treasures. He wished that they could take all of the treasure but they were told to take one thing.

A golden dolphin trophy.

He smiled when he saw the trophy. Mr. Wolf grabbed it and put it in his satchel as a guard walked in. 

Mister Wolff and the guard looked at each other for a moment. 

“Bye.” Mister Wolff said, smiling a sly smile at the guard as he was raised back up. 

“Wait! No, hey! Wait!” the guard exclaimed before running out of the room to sound the alarm. 

Lucky Jim, the Bucharest Bandits and Mister Wolff, who was putting the rope in his satchel, were running fast out of the kingdom and into the woods.

“Do you guys see me in a castle? Because I can!” Mister Wolff exclaimed happily as the seven of them ran on the bridge. “Oh all of the things that  we've seen and it’s only eight in the morning. Oh, this is a great day!”

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The case of shipping in the Kid Icarus community is honestly quite a strange one.

I know it’s got a lot of popular ships like Pit/Dark Pit, Pit/Palutena, etc. But the ships themselves and the context between them are… peculiarly complex to say the least? If you really think hard about it, barely any ship between the characters is romantically compatible.

Like, for one, Pit/Dark Pit. Or as others like to call it, “Pitcest.”

I personally, am not a fan of Pitcest. Not because I don’t like the “cute and quirky boy dates edgy boy” dynamic, but literally any ship with “cest” in the name is just a turnoff for me. Plain and simple.

That being said, I’m not the biggest fan of Pit/Palutena either, for obvious reasons. That being Pit is portrayed as an adolescent (Sakurai even states he’s canonically 13 in human years) and she’s portrayed as a fully matured woman. Even if ages weren’t a problem, there’s still the unbalanced power dynamic these two have with each other.

 Yes, I know it’s heavily implied in the Japanese version that he has feelings for her, but I never really saw her as a “potential love interest.” I always saw her as his mother figure or parental guardian. 

The one ship I can kind of see as compatible is Pit/Viridi, and even then there’s the “age gap” that’s commonly disputed, since Viridi is said to be eight in human years. Not as big as the Pit and Palutena one, but it’s still there nonetheless. 

I know there’s a hella lot of debate about these characters’ ages, whether they count as adults or not because, “they’re a thousand years old, they’re basically immortal” which is a whole ‘nother can of worms that I honestly don’t wanna open.

Personally, I find it interesting when a popular work doesn’t have a lot of room for shipping as opposed to a bunch of other franchises. It goes to show that romantic relationships are opportunities people can have, but they’re not requirements.

Pie flavor.

what kind of pie…

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