Bijou Means Beautiful

Anastasia's hiccup wouldn't stop, as she pointed a shaky finger at the snake that was swirling in circle losing his head over the fact that he lost his pearly shiny eyes.

The serpent stopped its madness, and froze in its place and move its head slowly, "I'll just have to eat you, you left me no choice."

The silver reptile lunged at the toddler who simple slapped the snake's face as an attempt to flail her hands in panic, but that knocked the little snake off its game, "How dare you slap me?!"

The reptiles tail gently came and caressed the cheek that was slapped, 'Sorry, buddy. You left me no choice you were going to bite me!' She exclaimed in her mind, distressed noises coming out of her mouth.

'But sheesh, you sure are one weak snake, for a baby to knock you off your feet, are you sure you are a cobra?'

"Did this brat dare to call me weak?!" The snake screeched, banging its tail against the door, but both froze in realization.

'Wait you can hear me?'

"Wait you can hear me?"

The snake started hyperventilating, "It must be because you have swollen my eye, what a catastrophe. That means we formed... contract? NO, NO; I refuse it!!!!"

Anna tilted her head, she was no longer shook of the talking snake, meh, she was reincarnated into a different world for god's sake.

'contract? Wait, then that means you are my familiar?'

Familiars are mythical creatures that exists in this world and you can have them as familiars only if blood was exchanged. In the place of the bite, a tattoo would form, indicating a partenership. Taming the familiar is a whole different matter.

"Aren't you too young to know about familiars, now that I have a closer look at you. There is something weird about you."

Anna looked quite disappointed at the snake, she disregarded his questions, 'What is so mythical about you, you are just,' Her eyes wracked over the snake's form with detest, 'Just a snake,'

"EXCUSE YOU," The snake raged at the girl, "There is nothing special about you too, poopy pants!"

'I don't know about that,' the brunette rolled her eyes, the snake circled around her trying to see what's so special about the child, 'If you didn't notice it yet, I have the royal blood running in me, dunno if that is a good thing or not,' the last part of her sentence was murmured, which the serpent caught it with ease, "Geh, that is why you reek of that bastard."

Anna tilted her head in confusion, 'Of who now?'

"Kaiser, that sadist!"

'O-oh, My father,' Her breath hitched in excitement, this was the first person(?) to ever mention that cruel man, 'You know him?!' She grabbed the snake by its nonexistent neck, managing on suffocating the poor creature.

"H-Hands o-off, the hell is a baby this strong?!" The snake sagged to the floor, breathing in the oxygen that was robbed away from him a minute ago. "Is it because you are his descendent?"

Anna brought her fist and connected it to the snake's head, 'FOCUS with me you slimy loser,'

"I'm no loser!" He bellowed, his voice echoing in the dead silent night, Anna covered the snake's muzzle with her chubby palm, and made a shushing motion with her free hand.

'SHHHH are you trying to get use caught because you are growling for the world to hear you!'

For once the snake was cooperative, "That'd be bad, I'm finally free after all of the years!" His voice dropped an octave down. Both of them were now huddled against the metallic door, the snake curling around her like a shawl.

'So, how do you know my father?'

"How I know him that bastard is the one that sealed me within this palace." He was bristling as he looked over the metallic door, 'He uhh sealed your puny ass, for what reason?'

"PUNY! I might be tiny now, but that is because my powers have diminished over the years," The snake was red with rage, he was ready to fight anybody right now.

'Yeah right,' her blue eyes were on the verge of getting stuck from how hard she was rolling her them, "Do you know what I was back in the day?!"

'What?' She thought of humoring him, sarcasm dripping from her tone badly which lead to a ruptured vein from the snake's forehead, "I WAS A MF DRAGON!"

Anna blinked at the snake that somehow managed to pump his chest with air, kinda looking like a proud rooster, 'So what are you supposed to be now, a tadpole?'

"One day, one day that is Imma have your neck you poop monster."

......

Somehow or another, Anna reached a truce with little serpent as the day's sun has risen up and a knight found her snoozing against the door. The snake was long gone from the scene, not arising suspicion except for how did little Anastasia left the room.

......

Anna thought that maybe the security would tighten, but the next night, the door was left open. Seriously, there was something fishy about it. She crawled away out of the safety of her room and headed towards the metallic door where heads of multiple snakes protruded from it. She sat against it, waiting for her little friend to appear.

It was too late and quiet for her, that was how she rested her eyes, sleeping against the coolness that seeped out from the metal behind her.

.......

"Your back?!" The snake's voice arose Anastasia from her sleep. Finally after a week of the snake MIA, its finally back. As per usual she was sitting outside the locked room, sneaking out of her room that is suspected to be haunted.

Who keeps on opening the door that late at night?

'Where did you go?' She whined as she squeezed the life out of the serpent that was hacking for its life.

"N-None of your DAMN BUI- WAIT I CAN'T BREATHE!" Anna watched with delight at the snake that was suffering at her mercy, she released him from his agony. He slumped weakly against the floor, "You are a devil, it's no mystery that you are Kaiser's offspring."

Anna gave her companion a smack for linking her to that bastard. 'So, where did you disappear to? I waited for days alone in the dark, what would you have done if somebody came and assassinated me during that time?'

The snake rubbed his now bruised forehead with his tail, "Ain't my problem."

Anna rose her shaking fist, 'You have a death wish you stinky tadpole!'

"I'm not a tadpole, and back off ya gorilla princess! I'll tell you now, so hold your horses down," The snake curled on her lap, resembling a dog wanting attention and pets, but she had the urge to slap him instead. Anna refrained herself from doing it, she was not an animal abuser even if the dumb serpent deserves it.

'Talk then,' Anna ordered narrowing her sea blue eyes at him, like father, like daughter he murmured under his breath. Anna opened her mouth to retort, but the snake finally started talking, "I went around the palace to see how bad the conditions are,"

'What conditions?' Anna nervously played with her hands, did she mange to somehow change the events of the timeline. Nothing was supposed to happen until a few years from now.

"Nobody is aware of my revival!?" He exclaimed, looking at the dark, heavy clouds out of the windows, cursing the sky. "I'm offended to be honest, I'm the god of darkness that ruled over the empire and after decades of warriors, knights, magicians, trying to take me down; but none of them were able to put a scratch on me, but then youuuu!" He pointed dramatically with his tail at Anna, 'What'd I do?' She rose one of her thick eyebrows, challenging the serpent who cowered for second, before puffing his chest with bravado.

"It's well not you, your father, it is the same thing basically; you are his blood! He slayed me and sealed me away."

'Not like I wanted to be his daughter,' or reincarnated, She argued back, ignoring his last bit of sentence, "Well you can't do anything about that!" He taunted and stuck his tongue out.

"Anyway where were we? Ah yeah, the golden days, makes me emotional every time I recall those times," He stared off into space, reminiscing the day he wasn't a weak tadpole. Anna sighed, 'So, basically you didn't find anything usual, huh?' Anna helpfully supplied, patting where she assumed his back would be, 'Don't worry I'm not judging,' The snake slapped away the rude hands, hissing at her, "WAIT, you don't believe me!"

'Oh no, honey. I'm not calling you a liar even if it was all made up by your imagination,' Anna gave him a thumbs off, shoved the serpent off her lap and started crawling her way back to the room while mumbling under her breath, 'Wasted my precious time for this nonsense,'

"I'M TELLING YOU TRUTH,"

'Yeah and pigs fly. Oh, you can tell me the rest of how you ruled the empire back in my room, Bijou.'

The snake sprung up from his position, raced to where Anna was moving, "What'd you call me?"

'Well, I assumed you didn't have a name as after a week, you still were nameless, so Bijou it is'

"W-Wha? Who the hell said I don't have a name, my name is-" Anna interrupted him, 'Bijou, I know your name because I'm the one who named you.'

They entered the room, Anna scanned for anyone who could have entered her room, but it was as still as a calm night at the sea. She was kinda skeptical of everything in this palace, but it was too late to play detective games.

"OKAY, but why Bijou, I don't like it change my name," the silver snake whined as he circled around the toddler who snuggled against her red wine rug. Seriously, it was softer than her mattress.

'But it suits you, you even look like one,' A yawn escaped her lips as she rubbed her eyes tiredly.

"Like what," He frowned, coming into her view.

'A Bij,' she shrugged at the snake that looked skeptical.

"That sounds like an insult, I don't like it change it!" His complaints fell on deaf ears as Anna fell to sleep, cuddling the soft rug.