Reincarnated As A Snake?

Following the smell, while flickering my tongue every now and then. I turn my head from side to side, hoping to smell something different, but everywhere around me is nothing but the earthly smell. I still ask myself where I am. Am I still on earth or did I got reincarnated into a fantasy world? Well, let's take it slow and find out one thing after the other.

I just realized it now, but the floor is surprisingly warm, keeping my body temperature right on the sweet spot.

But there is something that is still bothering me. Well, to be correct many things are bothering me like I have no arms or legs, but the most annoying thing is, I can't see anything!

As a former human that relied heavily on eyesight to perceive their environment, and then suddenly being bling is surely annoying.

I know they have bad eyesight, and some are even blind, but I really miss my eyes, and where is my super cool thermovision that snakes have?

But at least I can smell with my tongue.

After two minutes of following the scent and sorting out my still confused and somewhat scared mind, I find myself slithering downwards, towards a small hole that leads me in a small tunnel that someone dug..

I stop for a second to think about what may be inside. That could be another animal inside or maybe even monsters. But feeling the hunger again I hardened my resolve and slithered straight in.

I am moving on pure animal instinct that I just now realized. I guess that is one of the reasons why I am so calm now.

*flick*

Hmm, the sweet scent is very near it almost smells like honey or nectar.

I grinned and began to slither faster as my stomach is killing me.

*flick*

Ahh, it is just in front of me now.

As I near the source of the scent I sensed vibrations coming in front of me. Slowing down a little I flicked my tongue a little more. Now I "smell" another thing that wasn´t there before. It was the smell of what I can only define as purple.

I know it´s crazy to say I can smell with my tongue the color purple, but I am a former human who got reincarnated as a snake...

I am getting sidetracked way too often...

The snake slithered towards the movement and got towards an open chamber, with 3 different paths. The room is big enough for the snake to freely move around. The floor is still just a layer of dirt, but there is some vegetation. Small blue dim glowing grass is growing around a pond. Right above the water source is a glowing stone that occasionally dripped water down, making calming dripping sounds in the silent place.

The little snake was stunned at the fresh smell of grass, instead of constantly having the earthy smell around him.

But what most wondered him, was the sweet smell that came from the water source. It was sweeter than anything he smelled before. As if someone mixed every sweet stuff together times two.

Stunned at the different smells he totally forgot the incoming vibrations.

"Scree!"

Breaking the calming atmosphere created by the dripping sound, was a high-pitched squeal coming from the tunnel right in front of the snake.

Hearing the sound he panicked and quickly slithered towards the grass to hide in. He was really flat and the grass was tall enough to hide him, so he could easily go unnoticed unless you really carefully look out for a tiny snake.

As the creature comes closer toward the pond, he gets more and more anxious.

What if he gets discovered?

Will he die again?

As all those questions plague his mind, the creature stopped moving towards the pond and turned its head from side to side.

It stood up from its front legs and stood on only his hind legs.

The creature turned its head again and looked around while sniffing the air.

The snake got a bad feeling about that and wanted to slither away, but before he could, the creature spotted him and looked in his direction while releasing another ear-piercing screech.

(Snake Perspective)

I froze up in fright.

Damn it, my second life just started, and I have to encounter an unknown creature that I can´t even see?

How the hell should I kill it, and where is my damn tutorial?

I am a snake after all!

I raise up my body as high as I can to look intimidating and let out a hissing noise.

"hisss~"

...

But it didn´t sound intimidating at all, and I think the creature thinks so too, as he got down on all four again.

Flickering my tongue around a few times I can roughly estimate his size and shape. It had the shape of a rat, a giant rat, as it is way bigger than me.

Not having another choice I decided to attack first as I coil myself up to prepare for a jump attack.

As the mouse charges me, I jumped at him, but as it was my first time doing that, I missed it and landed embarrassingly next to it...

The giant rat creature turned to the side and tried to bite me, but I only slithered around it and bit into his hind leg.

"Screed!"

Letting another scream out, it stood up again and slapped me away with its hand, sending me flying towards the wall.

Hitting hard against the stone wall and limping down I let out a growl or more like a pained hiss, after feeling the sharp pain at my side.

I smelled an iron smell coming from me and realized that the damn beast has clawed me in the side.

The creature has claws!

Three pretty sharp ones at that!

Not going to just lie there and being killed, again! I ignored the pain as best as I could and coiled up again to prepare for my second launch attack.

Sensing him getting in my striking distance I immediately jumped, and this time I perfectly hit his throat like an arrow and buried my two sharp fangs right into his neck.

*putchi*

Not letting go I just tightened my grip and hoped he would die first.

As I almost fainted due to exhaustion and blood loss, I realized his scratching became weaker and weaker. Not long after, the monster finally collapsed on the ground letting out a final screech.

Making sure it really is dead I continued holding him in my death grip for another minute, before unwrapping my bloody body from the now-dead rat's neck.

I never thought my second life would be this terrifying.

But at least it is not boring, right?

Ha haha ha...

*sigh*

Finally over, I feel extremely tired and moved on top of the dead creature and curled up into a ball.

But before succumbing to the tiredness I heard a string of familiar sounds inside my head.

*Ding*

*Ding*

*Ding*

*Ding*