Located in the middle of the Pacific, a couple hundred miles south of the Hawaiian Islands, Pomaika'i was home to a vast collection of flora and fauna. A lot of them were species and other animals humans had never seen before.

Like Oua, the Pacific Hypnotic Python.

Now, just the name of his species is extremely rare. And that’s because, aside from being a python living on an island in the Pacific Ocean, he can, as his name suggests, hypnotize. You are also correct in assuming that he can hypnotize humans. He just doesn’t like to eat them.

While he is rather big, he’s too fascinated with human imagination to want to eat them. Plus, he’s not sadistic. He’s a predator, but he’s polite.

Today was an average day on the jungle island. As a reptile, Oua didn’t need to do much besides lay around all bunched up in his tree, basking in the sun. But he was bored. And he wanted a hypnotic subject he could entertain himself with.

That someone was on their way, and it was a familiar person.

Emiemi Shevchenko-Anderson, daughter of famed Julie “the Jungle Girl” Shevchenko, swung on vines from tree to tree, enjoying the simple life of being a jungle girl. She’d been bored for the last couple of hours, and found a way to not only relieve that boredom, but kill off some stress and calories from a recent Teo Tribe luau.

The 20-year-old was slender, but a little toned and her fair skin was slightly tanned and dotted with freckles. Her brown hair had been cut short after it had gotten unruly, now it was a medium-length pixie cut. Her face was also slender, and framed a pair of brown eyes. She didn’t wear much, just the standard-issue jungle girl animal skin bikini and loincloth.

Oua quickly caught a scent in the wind. His head perked up and he sniffed around for it. She was coming! Emi was heading in his direction! Oh, he was going to have so much fun! Quickly, he lowered his tail down to try and grab her as she came by.

Unfortunately for Oua, Emiemi was ABOVE him. He sort of miscalculated where she was, although it’s not entirely his fault. Part of it was the wind. But she was still approaching the tree he was in.

When she got there, she swung on one of the vines to the nearest branch. But she too miscalculated. The branch was damp and also covered in moss. So when her bare right foot tried to step on, she slipped.

She screamed and plummeted for almost 20 feet.

Oua heard the screaming coming from above and a quick sniff of the air confirmed that it was Emiemi. Quickly he moved his tail and the tail reached up for her. It wrapped around her midsection a couple of times, slowing her down and preventing her from hitting a branch. Emi panicked a little bit at first until she saw the patterns on the scales.

“Well, hello there,” he said as he brought her down to his level, giving her a little smile on his reptilian features.

“Thanks, Oua,” Emi said with a relieved sigh. “I didn’t know you were there.”

The large snake set her down and she dusted herself off as if it was nothing. “I need to judge my swings better,” she said. “I think I slipped on some moss.”

“You need to be more careful,” he replied in his sinuous, serpentine voice. He set her down on the branch while uncoiling her and she squatted down in a primal stance.

“You don’t have to tell me twice,” she said.

Oua was one of the first animals she befriended after returning to the island two years ago. And it just so happened that he was also friends with her mom many years ago. He also had a special talent that he liked to use on her, and their relationship was at a stage where he could use it without asking permission and she’d be fine. There were several reasons for this, two of them being that she trusted him and the other was that she was aware of his nature. The third is because she liked it.

But he didn’t use it the last time they met, and he was obviously in no hurry to do it right now. “So what have you been up to?” she asked.

“Oh, jusssst the usssual,” he said as his tail reached around her shoulder to start rubbing it like a massage. “Eating, sssleeping, basssking… it’sss hard out here for a ssssnake.”

The rubbing felt good on her shoulders. It was nice stress relief, and since she wasn’t expecting him to use his talent on her (at least not yet), she let her guard down a bit. “Same for me,” she said. “Things have been kinda slow lately.” Some of his tail wound itself around her intermittently, making her stand up.

“Are you ssssure?” he asked.

“Well, there’s not much to do,” she said. “Except maybe hunt, keep the peace and work with the researchers. There were other things too, but she couldn’t think of much off the top of her head. He already knew she dealt with some poachers a while ago, since she told him the last time they met.

"You haven’t been messing with the researchers, have you?” She meant with his special talent. She couldn’t really stop him if he say, dropped a fruit near them.

Oua chuckled, unwinding some of his tail from her body. “Of coursssse not,” he replied. “You know our deal; no playing with the resssearcherssss.”

“Good,” she replied. But she also thought about the Native inhabitants. “You messed with a Teo girl recently, didn’t you? Was she around my age?” The Teo, on the other hand…

“Ah, yes, in fact I did,” said Oua.

Emi rolled her eyes. “You know, if you’re going to do that, you’ve GOT to get on their good side,” she said. “I know my dad, Chief Kainak, wants you to. In fact, he’s thinking about making you talk to them so there won’t be any trouble.” Suffice to say, aside from Kainak, the Teo didn’t trust Oua all that much. It’s understandable.

“I’m ssssorry,” said Oua. “I forgot thingssss with the tribe have not been entirely… pleasssant.” He hung his head in shame while wrapping part of his tail around her wrist.

“Yeah, I know, I’m sorry,” she said, stroking his head. “My dad’s doing his best to try and calm them, but you can’t really blame everyone. I know my friend Nani was scared of you because she’d heard some lie that you kidnap girls. Not even me telling her how you really are helped that much.”

“A ssslanderousss lie,” he said in a better mood. “You know me jusssst asss well asss your mother, Emi. I would never kidnap anyone againsssst their will. And I cccertainly wouldn’t think about eating a human. It’sss againsssst my nature.” He squeezed her wrist gently.

“Well duh,” she replied. “Although I’m pretty sure I overheard Kiko talking about it at the luau the other day. It must’ve been her, because she sounded like she enjoyed it.” Definitely a good sign.

He chuckled, clearly reliving some fond memories. “Sssshe cccertainly did,” he said.

“Well then, you’ve got another advocate,” she said. “Still, I think it would be a good idea to come to the village some time just to clear your name up. I can’t guarantee they’ll like you, but as long as you say you don’t kidnap girls and hypnotize anyone under 17 human years old, you should be good.”

“I will hold you to that,” he said, letting go and brushing some of her pixie cut.

“Good, because that’s part of the reason my mom didn’t want you to meet me until I was 18.” The other reason being that Julie had asked Oua not to hypnotize her (and Emi) when she found out she was pregnant with Emi was because she wanted to be a responsible mother (she succeeded).

“Ah, yessss, Julie,” he said, getting nostalgic and wrapping his tail around her waist to bring her closer to him. “She wasssss fun to play with. But ssssshe’sssss a ressspectable parent in my eyessss.”

“Can you blame her?” Emi asked just as feisty. “She’s human and a mammalian mother. Of course she’s a good mom!”

He chuckled. “I meant no disssssresssspect,” he said. “In fact, I wasssss fond of her feissstinessss. Made playing with her all the more fun for the both of usssss. I know for ccccertain she enjoyed my talent.”

“Good,” she said. “And everyone I know like our feistiness. Don’t think it’s going away.”

But with the way he had her right now, it wasn’t a matter of “if”, but “when” he was going to use his talent. And because of his nature, she was none the wiser. She could prepare, but sometimes that preparation wasn’t enough.

“Perfect,” he said. “I like your feissstinesssssss too. It’sss your greatessst ssstrength. Never lossse it.” He noticed her guard was down. Now was the perfect time. He chuckled and intermittent colors started spiraling in his eyes as he made eye contact with her.

Just as he expected, she was caught by surprise. The rings started to flow from her eyes as she found herself unable to look away. While there wasn’t a whole lot of the actual hypnosis going on, it was enough to captivate her and keep her in place so he could use his full hypnosis.

And once he saw this, he turned said full hypnosis on. The rings flowed unbroken from his eyes, filling hers with their beautiful colors. He watched as her arms dropped to the side and he kept her steady with his tail. “Of courssssssse, I know you love thisssssss, ,” he said soothingly.

“I do, Oua,” she said.

“Excccellent,” he said. “Why don’t you have a sssseat, pleasssssssse?”

She did as she was asked without hesitation, sitting down on the branch and keeping her eyes on Oua’s. She wasn’t scared, like Kiko was, but calm and serene, letting the hypnosis sink into her mind so she could enjoy the mind-numbing wonderfulness of his spirals. At the same time, he removed his tail from her waist and began the process of wrapping her up.

To Emi, Oua’s hypnosis was like a mental massage with a warm towel. She kept her arms to the side, letting his tail slowly make its way around her body so that he could put her in the scaly cocoon. He weaved and bobbed his head around, softly singing to her to get her to follow. She followed his head, with her eyelids drooping down on occasion, but she kept them open.

“That’ssssssss it, Emi,” he said. “You’re doing ssssssssssssplendid.” He’d long mastered the art of coiling up his subjects while keeping his eyes on them. It took considerable hand-tail coordination, but he was, as mentioned previously, a master. And with Emi, he didn’t have to rush his efforts. She was already his.

Her head moved with is, circling around and not once taking her eyes of his. She was still falling under his spell, but the way things were going, it was only a matter of time. Her mind was getting blank, being more open to the commands and suggestions of Oua.

“Are you enjoying yourssssssself, my dear?” he asked.

“Yes,” she replied as his tail began to work its way up her midriff.

He chuckled again and moved his head a little closer. “That’ssssssss right,” he said. “The only reasssssson you want to ressssssisssssssst isssssss to enjoy my blisssssssssful hypnosssssssssssissssssssssssss.”

She didn’t reply, but kept going. He was right in assuming she was only resisting to increase her enjoyment of his hypnosis. The induction felt a lot better when she did that than when she didn’t resist.

He loved her family’s feistiness, but seeing her willingly be hypnotized was also fun. He expected animals to resist, of course. But a human so willing to let him hypnotize her meant that she genuinely trusted him. “You’re doing wonderful,” he said soothingly.

His words seeped deeper into her mind. His tail, which was climbing up to her chest, lulled her in deeper. His soft scales on her equally soft mammalian skin felt heavenly.

As mentioned earlier, his hypnosis felt like a mental massage with a warm towel. Because she trusted him so much, she could let him do what he wanted with that hypnosis. To her, it was mostly indescribably wonderful and intoxicating, but not addicting. And that’s because Oua always thought about her enjoyment first. While he was indeed using her as a toy, it’s not like she wasn’t having fun.

“Jussssssssssst a little more,” he said as his tail gently climbed up her bikini top, only giving a light squeeze to keep her upright. She’d started to falter a little bit, which he understood. His hypnosis was a little overwhelming, at times and he understood. So he moved in closer, so that his eyes were all that she could see.

He also hated calling her a “victim”. “Victim” implied that he was, as the humans put it, “villainous” and forcing her to do this. She was a subject. She wanted to be hypnotized, and he knew it. And now that he saw his tail creeping up to her shoulders, she would be his soon.

“You’re almosssssssssssst there,” he said.

She nodded drowsily, fighting the urge to fall asleep. She wanted to keep her eyes on him. She felt his tail reaching up to her shoulder, softly and gently wrapping around her neck and giving her a squeeze, followed by the rest of her body. Her eyes bulged and she got one last burst of hypnosis before her resistance ceased and she fell completely under his spell.

Oua stopped the rings and moved back to admire his handiwork. She was completely coiled up, although he lifted her up and wrapped around her thighs, down to her knees. A silly little grin was plastered in her human face. He chuckled. He could tell this was going to be fun. “How are you, Emi?” he asked.

“I feel wonderful, Master Oua,” she said in a dreamy monotone. He chuckled and gave her an affectionate squeeze before letting up.

“You don’t have to call me ‘Massssster’,” he said. “Jusssssst Oua issssss fine.”

“Okay, Oua,” she said, her mind a blank, blissful cloud, ready for Oua’s instructions. “What do you want me to do for you?”

“I have ssssssome plansssssss,” he said.

Oua lifted Emi up off the branch and set her on her bare feet before unwrapping her from his coils. He was like a kid on Christmas Day, wondering just what to do with his new toy. She stood still and tiff, his spirals pulsing through her eyes and a goofy smile plastered on her human lips. She was definitely under his spell.

“What to do with you…” he said, stroking his chin with his tail. He felt like a human kid who just get a new toy and couldn’t wait to play with it, and couldn’t decide how to play with it. He had an idea he wanted to test out. “Emi, why don’t you jump and try to grab a vine?” he asked.

“Okay, Oua,” she said, turning towards a vine and grabbing it. “Is this good?”

“Ssssplendid,” he said. “Now then, anssssswer me thisssssss: Would you be willing to jump off the tree branch and allow me to catch you?”

“Of course, Oua,” she replied. “I trust you.”

Oua’s hypnosis was not mind control. He could not force her to do something she didn’t want to do. But hearing her telling him that she was willing to jump off a branch for him to catch her made him smile. “Very well, then,” he said. “Jump, pleasssse.”

She turned off the branch, and did as he asked, plummeting down the tree. He reached down, grabbed her with his tail and wrapped it around her body so she was nice and secure. Once he righted her, he pulled her back up and smiled at her. “That wassssss sssssplendid,” he said.

“Thank you, Oua,” she said. “I knew you would catch me.”

Oua chuckled, his coils rippling. “That’ssssss jussssssst what I wanted to hear,” he said. “You’re alwayssssss a fine ssssssubject.”

“I’m proud to be your favorite subject,” she replied happily.

“That’sssssss perfect,” he replied as he sat her down. “Now then, step forward, Emi.”

Emi did so and Oua wrapped part of his tail around her midsection a couple times and lifted her off the branch, content to admire his handiwork, knowing that she was going to enjoy their playtime just as much as he would. “Be honessssst, Emi,” he said. “Do you like being hypnotized by me?”

“Yes, Oua,” she replied.

He smiled and set her down, beckoning her with his tail. She walked forward along the branch until she reached the end. But the tip of his tail laid at the edge of the branch. And when she reached it, he bucked the end of his tail and she slid down his tail like a slide, with him watching proudly.

As she slid along his tail, he shifted it so as not to let her finish the slide. With his tail guiding her, she looped, circled and dove, her just-washed smooth skin sliding on his equally-smooth scales. At last, she approached the end of the tail.

He flipped her in the air until he grabbed her with his tail and proceeded to wrap her up from her knees up to her neck like a fork wrapping pasta up, before bringing her closer to him. He chuckled again. “Did you have fun?”

“Absolutely,” she replied.

“Excccccccccccellent!” he said with a skip in his voice. She was just so much fun to play with. It helps that she was willing and having fun, too. It wasn’t him taking advantage of her, it was the both of them having a grand old time.