Venomous Snakes Pt.5

Continuing their search aimlessly bore no fruits. If the search keeps up, they will all die not from snakes but from suffocation for being in a forest fire for an extended period of time.

"Liam." Brandon calls out, "I know it attracts the attention of snakes, but if I don't scream, this search will be pointless, no one will know we're here and we won't know where anyone is."

"We could always pull out." Is what Liam wanted to say, but that would get him in trouble with Chris, the self proclaimed big tough masculine man, so instead he gave an "Okay."

"Thanks." Brandon said and patted Liam's shoulders. "Alright everyone, be on your guards. HEY! IS ANYONE STILL OUT THERE?!" Brandon coughed a few times right after that, he was getting gradually weaker through the journey.

No yells for help can be heard, but a lot of hisses can be.

"James."

"Got it." James took care of a snake crawling towards him from a tree nearby easily, unfortunately, there was another one down below who appeared from the bushes, it pounced upwards and got a bite on James's exposed arms, "Tsk."

"James!" Brandon exclaimed, the snake's bite only gets deeper as James fails to shake it off.

"Get it off him! Dumbass!" Chris reprimands the rescued male survivor who stood idle despite being right next to James while rushing himself to help James.

With one furious swing, Chris sent the snake flying off James's arm, but the bite was still deep, and black veins were already starting to spread, "Shit, he's wasted."

The snake returned even after receiving a clean hit from Chris, and is now aiming for the rescued man with a powerful leap.

"Kill it!" Chris instructs furiously, but fear overpowered Chris's threat, instead of fighting the snake, the man ducked down, the snake' leap continued it's path forward, towards Brandon behind him.

The snake opened it's gaping mouth, revealing two sharp fangs reflecting the light of the fire around them, that was centimeters away from Brandon's eyes and getting closer.

Chris managed to kill it at the very last minute before Brandon was also bitten. It was close, the snake had gotten so close that Brandon flinched hard and fell onto the ground.

James's body is now covered in black veins, Tyler caught it before it collapsed onto the ground, "Shit." Tyler exclaimed noticing James's eyes go dark.

"Look what you've fucking done." Chris immediately points fingers to the man who ducked down, he picked him up by the collars and condemned him, "Brandon could've fucking died, 100 of you wouldn't worth one of him. James did die, 'cause you just stood there like a bitch when you could've easily killed the snake on his arm."

"Hey! Stop it." Tyler yells.

"Stop what?! It's this dumbass that caused us James, how do you call yourself a man, huh?" Chris asserted with a threatening glare on the man.

The man couldn't get a word out, he simply accepted the scoldings while having his eyes closed.

"He can't even look me in the eye." Chris lets go of his grip on the collars and the man fell onto the ground.

"Stop..." Brandon muttered, on the ground with his palm on his face. He had just saw his life flashed before his eyes when that snake's fangs almost made contact.

"You too?! This dickhead just dodged when a snake came at him, it would've killed you if I wasn't there!" Chris claimed aggresively while pointing his branch at Brandon.

"We shouldn't waste time on trivial matters like this! Right now, our survival matters more, let's focus on heading back." Brandon suggested.

"Huh?! We'll never fucking make it back with this dead weight." Chris said while looking at the man, "We have a bitch to protect too, don't forget." He said while pointing the branch towards the rescued woman that had kept silent this whole time.

Tyler was going to argue back, but Liam stopped him by squeezing his shoulder, "This argument is already ridiculously loud, snakes might be coming, we need to be on guard."

"We won't make it back with this helpless asshole." Chris said while picking the man back up by his throat, "Guess I'll awaken your fighting spirits."

Saying that, Chris punched the man in the face, a tooth was lost from that punch.

"Guys!" Tyler tries to warn them about the snakes.

"Stop! What are you doing!" Brandon hurriedly gets up to try to break the fight, but it had already begun.

"Come on! Don't be a pussy, learn how to fight!" Chris provoked while walking confidently towards the man.

His provocations were effective, the man tried to swing back, but Chris evaded that easily with a counter jab to his ribs.

"ARGH, you fucker..."

"There it is, your first words as a man."

The man kicks Chris's abdomen, pushing him backwards a bit, then picks up a branch from the ground as a weapon.

"HARHHHH!" He swings it with both his hands towards Chris. Chris couldn't evade this one in time, he puts up his arms to block. After the blow landed, Chris's arms were cut by the branch and bleeding.

"Damn it!" He swings it again, but Chris didn't bother blocking this time, he threw a left jab straight at the man's face. Offense is the best defense, the man dropped the branch when the punch landed right on his nose.

"HAHAHAHAHA!" Chris laughed frantically, "NOW YOU FINALLY KNOW HOW TO FIGHT!"

"STOP! CHRIS!" Brandon stood between Chris and the man.

"GUYS! SNAKES ARE COMING, WE WERE TOO LOUD!" Tyler warned yet again.

Suddenly, the canopies of the trees started rattling, and it rained venomous snakes.

"Shit! All focus above!"

"Goodbye, world." Liam thought to himself.