Pov: Vik
I was sleeping quietly on a tree when I heard a sound of someone moving which clearly startled me as I didn't find anyone other than me in this forest. Not wanting to miss the chance to meet someone other than trees I moved towards that sound there I see two people a old man with European facial features and a young man with Asian facial features they both are injured and looked like they ran away from someone different from old man the young man is seriously injured he have a huge wound on his chest because my sharp sense I can hear his heart beat which is slowing down continuously if no action is taken he will die.
I moved towards them and reaching close to them I said, "Do you need help!"
The old man clearly felt fearful after seeing me I can understand anyone will feel fear after seeing a giant talking snake, but soon he overcame his fear and get on his knees and said something about giving me his life and soul in exchange for saving that boy's life. I don't understand most of it in fact I am surprised that he can understand my language and he also spoke in English maybe this has something to do with me getting stronger maybe he is talking in some other language but I can understand it and talk on same language. But finding that comes later first I need to help this boy.
I said to him to move this boy on a stone slab there I examined his wound from the looks of the wound it is very serious the wound is deep enough to penetrate lungs and opening on back side it was clearly made by some sort of sword or spear.
Thankfully the weapon missed his heart by close margin so it is safe and still beating but the excesses bleeding made his condition critical I don't have any stiches to close the wound nor I have and blood infuse. So first tried to visualize a healing light that makes differentiation of cells faster which in tern makes healing of body faster I focused on visualizing structure of a cell and its differentiation and opening my eyes it worked, rather than a white light a blood red light fell on the wounded part and the skin close to it start regenerating but as soon as they tried to heal fully a dark light will flick and make the wound open again.
Realizing that this dark light may be some kind of poison or magic I focused on the part of wound where dark light is shown, there I visualized a microscopic view to see the cells and from what I see I can deduce that this dark light is some kind of magic which mutated this boy's cell which in tern fighting and devouring other cells. This is like cancer cells so to fight these cancer cells I tried the best method which is by destroying them.
I visualized my op fire again this time I visualized it to only burn the cancer cells and leave healthy cells alone just like it did in forest. Soon fire visualized on the wound and start burning the cancer cells and then the magic worked and wound closed on its own but the issue of excesses bleeding still persists so I take an apple form a nearby tree and squished its juice in boy's mouth. I don't know why but after being burned by fire these trees become magical as their fruits hold vast vitality they enough to heal someone on the brink of death.
Soon the apple showed its effect and the boy's skin become rosy from the earlier pale tone.
Sigh! sighing I finally saved the boy now he only needs to wake up from his sleep I turn my head towards the old man he is looking me with strange eyes not minding that I offered him an apple because he is also injured which he hesitantly accepted and after eating it his body wounds healed completely in fact it also healed some of his older injuries.
Now both of them are in good condition I can relax I tried to talk with old man, from him I came to know their name, this old man is called Roman and that unconscious boy is called Lu Xiaoran.
They were travelling to another city when they got ambushed by their enemies and got injured, to escape from their adversaries the old man cast a teleportation spell which got malfunctioned because of their enemy attack and they fell here.
Maybe it is their luck to meet me here if got teleported elsewhere then saving there lives would be difficult, now for the best of it I told old man to wait here in the mean time I will gather something for them to eat.
I moved through the forest and after gathering different kinds of fruits for them eat I returned to their place there I see that Roman has started a fire as sun was going down on the horizon and they need fire to keep them warm. I crawled close to him which startled him as not detected me until I was in front of him, I said to him, "these are some fruits that I gather for you to eat there is only fruit sin this forest so bear with it."
In response he timidly said, "O Great one Thank you for your mercy, we will forever be indebted to you."
I don't know why he talk like that maybe this is there way of talking, but I don't like to be talked like that so I said, "My name is Vik you can talk to me in informal way I not some Great being you think I am, I am just a simple snake."
Saying this I waited for his response, after thinking he said, "are you not a great devil who reside in abyss? Who likes to eat human souls?"
Surprised from his question I said, "no I am not a disgusting devil who likes to eat human soul I am a good snake who like to help people and study mysteries of this world."
As I was talking to Roman the boy Lu Xiaoran shows signs of waking up, we both noticed that and get close to him there lying on the stone slab he gently opened his eyes he first saw Roman and then he sees me, after that he said, "Roman did a we arrived in afterlife and why is a giant snake here?"
Sigh! I think that this boy has some kind of misunderstanding, I don't know why but seeing both of them I feel like my peaceful life will not be peaceful anymore.