Speaker 1: Welcome to micro Terrors, scary stories for kids where it's
always the spooky season, full of chills, thrills and spine
tingling spooks. Micro Terrors are family friendly frights for those
ages eight and up, and while our stories are for
younger years, we are still talking about things that go
bump in the night, and some children may not be
able to handle what others can. Parental consent is recommended
now for tonights micro Terror.
Speaker 2: The Alien Snake written by Scott Donnelly narrated by Darren Marler.
As the snow fell, twelve year old Rupert Miller left
his home for a wintry hike in the woods behind
his house. He wanted to get pictures with his new
camera that he'd gotten for Christmas. He wanted to bask
in the brisk air and let the snow fall around him.
He wanted to escape his little sister and brother for
a short while. All that crying and back and forth
arguing was getting on his nerves, and that's not how
he wanted to spend his snow day away from school.
Rupert armed himself with a backpack full of fruit, snacks
and water, and draped his new camera around his neck.
With a sense of freedom and adventure, he hiked deeper
into the woods. Little did Rupert know, however, as he
hiked deeper and further into the woods, an other worldly,
dangerous menace awaited him. Rupert trudged through the snow. The
normal paths and trails he normally took were lost beneath it.
With how much snow had fallen and how much blinding
white surrounded him and blanketed everything he would normally recognize,
his imaginations began to run wild. The woods now appeared
as a whole new, strange world to him. Rupert began
to have intrusive thoughts of mysterious creatures or beings lurking
in the new snowy world. Would they be friendly dangerous?
Would he be able to capture images of them on
his camera, or would they turn out blurry like all
of the bigfoot ones. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a rustling
sound echoed through the trees. Rupert's entire bonny froze up,
aside from his heart, which raced with ferocity. He scanned
his surroundings, panning himself back and forth, searching for the
source of the abrupt noise. Could it have been one
of the creatures imagined, or worse, a blurry bigfoot. But
before his mind had a chance to imagine and assume
anything else, something large lunged out from the snow capped
thicket off to his right. It was a long, slimy
creature with scales that shimmered purple and blue colors. It
was a giant snake, unlike any Rupert had ever seen
before outside of movies, video games, or comic books. Its
eyes glowed with a fiery intensity. Its triforked tongue flicked
in the air, tasting Rupert's scent. Than with a deep,
throaty hiss, the creature coiled its body and prepared to strength.
Rupert's blood ran as cold as the icy precipitation fell
all around him. He realized he'd come face to face
with a predator that couldn't have possibly been from this planet.
He had never seen a snake this big, this long,
and with these colors. Rupert's body surged with panic. If
he were going to make it out of this alive,
he knew he was going to have to stay as
calm as he could. With trembling hands, he reached for
a nearby branch and snapped it off from its tree.
He held it up in front of him like a sword.
The alien snake didn't hesitate. It struck, flashing its razor
sharp fangs. Rupert swung the branch with all of his might,
clocking the alien snake across the head, barely avoiding its
vicious attack. The alien snake, however, was relentless. It slithered
quickly around Rupert, carving a trench into the snow, before
coiling up again in preparation for a second attack. Desperate
to escape, Rupert turned and ran. He frantically weaved through
the trees, but no matter how fast he tried to run,
the other worldly reptile was right behind him. Giving up
crossed Rupert's mind briefly. Surely it would raise his social
status at school to be taken out by an alien snake.
There wouldn't be much shame and that sort of demise,
although he was sure it would hurt something fierce. However,
just as he was about to stop and allow himself
to be gobbled up for a legendary status, Rupert stumbled
upon a small clearing. With nowhere left to go aside
from back into the woods, he turned to face the
tenacious snake and composed himself for the final confrontation. The
alien snake reared its head back and hissed loudly, its
cold gaze fixed upon Rupert. But as it once again
opened its mouth to show its long, sharp fangs, a
strange sensation washed over Rupert, a tingling warmth that rippled
from deep within his bones. Was it determination, bravery? Whatever
it was, it felt good. Sure, if he didn't make it,
people would remember him as that kid who was eaten
by an alien snake. But if he were the one
to come out on top of this interstellar, slithering behemoth,
he would be lifted above legendary status. Statues would be
constructed in his honor, Holidays would be named after him.
Those things were much more enticing than the ones that
included his demise. Rupert summoned every ounce of courage his
body could conjure and focused on the inter settler serpent
before him. With a sudden burst of energy, he unleashed
a wave of invisible force, sending the alien snake recoiling
in shock. Rupert was stunned. What did I just do?
He thought? Do I have superpowers? As being around this
alien snake make me some sort of superhuman. In that
moment of vulnerability, Rupert seized his opportunity. With one swift motion,
he lunged forward and plunged the branch into the space
serpent's side, piercing through its thick scales. With the satisfying
grinding crunch, the alien snake led out a horrible screech
before exploding into millions of sparkling space particles that mixed
in with the snow and slowly fell down. Rupert was exhausted,
but he was victorious. He would be a legendary go
Old statue with his own holiday and a top it
all off, he had some kind of superpowers now. Just
being around the alien snake had somehow given him invisible
space force powers. As his adrenaline began to wane, Rupert
took out his camera and snapped a picture of the sparkling,
shimmering snowflakes. Things were calm and quiet, then, unexpectedly, breaking
through that tranquil atmosphere, a thunderous crack resolved from above.
The sky unnaturally opened up. From within the gaping void
of galactic winds, a profusion of identical alien snakes began
to fall through, soaring down like dozens of shooting stars.
Rupert smirked. He set his camera up to automatically snap
pictures of his battle. He cracked his knuckles and said,
let's see what these powers can do. And with that,
Rupert burst into a gloring aura, his fists blowing with
flames and his eyes pulsing with building lasers. The snow
around him began to melt in the heat of his
new powers. As the storm of alien snakes plummeted into
the woods, Roper's camera began to snap picture after picture
as he unleashed what would become known as the alien
snake Wallop of the Century. Coming up next week on
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new listener Terrors episode with three spine chilling stories from you,
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