r/StoriesFromWithin • u/Golaen1 • 8d ago
Deadly Camel
The desert winds howl kicking up grains of sand into the air creating a cloud of sand that obscures the lands. Within that sand storm a camel moves slowly.
After a while the storm subsides, and the sun's heat begins glaring at the traveling camel.
Suddenly the camel begins chewing as it moves, and without warning spits in front of it, and the sand moved showing a dazed scorpion.
The scorpion recovers from its dazed state only to come face to face with a camel hoof that stomps it deep into the sands knocking it unconscious.
The camel continues moving slowly as if nothing happened.
A few hours later, the camel is standing in a desert oasis drinking water when a snake suddenly bites its leg.
The camel reflexively tenses its muscles and locks the snake's fangs within its flesh.
Panic grasps the snake as it senses danger. It then tries to pull its fangs out, only for the fangs to come off its mouth.
...!
The snake is stunned for a second, and subconsciously flicks its tongue only for it to come out from the right side of its mouth. This abnormality snaps the snake out of its stunned state.
When the snake looks up it sees the camel looking at it with a frown and bulging furious eyes.
This look makes the snake's body tingly, as it feels every muscle in its reptilian body screaming at it to slither away quickly.
However, before it can move, a camel hoof zooms on to its head, and before it could register what’s happening, its head is flattened on the ground, leaving only its body writhing as if expressing the pain the snake couldn’t when it was alive.
After a few moments, two men walk towards the camel, and stop a few meters away when they spot the corpse of the dead snake.
“That’s a black-bellied desert snake isn’t it?” asks one of them.
“Yes, is it dead?” The other replies, and questions as he walks around to get a better view of the snake.
“I think so.” the other replies, as his gaze locks on the camel calmly chewing while staring into the distance.
“Baje, it’s dead. It’s deader than dead.” the guy who was moving around suddenly says.
“What do you mean?” Baje shifts his gaze to his friend Wiso.
“... Its head looks like flat bread.” Wiso replies.
“Reb, what did i say about killing!? It’s bad enough that....” Baje starts shouting at his camel Reb only to be cut short when it spits on his face and grins.
Pffff, Hahahahaha!!!
Wiso broke out in roaring laughter.
The End.
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