My list of things I thought I would never see in life is very short.

It includes things like Pokémon and talking animals. You know the basic things you'd shit your pants over if you saw. And at the top of my list has always been flying snakes, because number one it's a fucking snake, and number two that thing can literally fly! Yet here I am, staring wide eyed and open mouthed at a very angry flying snake.

The snake was the average size of a normal copper head, and it's scales were all different shades of green that sparkled in the bright afternoon sun. It's wings were positioned a little behind it's head so that the body hung down in a limp fashion, but the end of it's body was constantly moving like that was how it chose which direction to fly in. It had eyes that were bright, florescent yellow and seemed to dart back and forth like it had an important mission to find someone.

This abnormal snake was floating a couple meters off the ground above a group of people in front of me. I looked around expecting people to be running and screaming, but everyone was calmly going about their business like there wasn't a flying snake right above them. I looked back up at the snake and it seemed to look directly at me and glare with it's yellow eyes. I took a step back from fright, and my heart beat started to quicken.

"Hoseok, what are you looking at?" My friend Woonjin, who had been beside me this whole time, looked up at the sky and showed no signs that he was seeing a flying snake.

"You don't see that?" I motioned at the sky and Woojin just shook his head.

"Man I think you've lost your marbles. I'll see you back at campus for class." Woojin started to walk down the street and the snake paid him no attention but instead hissed and started to fly towards me.

With no second thoughts I turned in the opposite direction of Woojin and ran for my life. Not daring to look back, I ran through crowds of people that screamed at me as I pushed them out of my way. Why was no one else freaking out about the flying snake?

I was starting to run out of breath, so I ran down an alley hoping to find a weapon to defend myself with. All I found was a rotting piece of wood that had been tossed beside a dumpster. Since I was in no position to be picky, I grabbed it and held it out in front of me as the snake flew into the ally barring its, probably poisonous, fangs at me.

Pausing, the snake seemed to look at my piece of wood and question if it should attack or not. While it was questioning itself, I started backing away with the piece of wood still held firmly in front of me hoping to exit the alley and get to a safe building. However, the snake noticed this and charged. I wildly slung my piece of wood around hoping to hit the snake but it easily avoided it and managed to spray some strange liquid at me. Luckily, the liquid hit the wood and not me because the wood started to melt as I held it.

"Holy shit." I tossed the wood and started running again.

I weaved in and out of alleyways looking for any kind of safety, but seeing nothing except dumpsters and stray cats. I took a hard left and made my way back to the street and the crowds of people. As I came back onto the street I looked around for a building I could run into.

Across the busy road was an old brick building that held a thrift shop inside. It looked run down and abandoned but it would have to do for now. I dashed across the street, avoiding cars and apologizing as they slammed on their brakes to avoid making me into a pancake. By some miracle, I reached the other side of the street and entered the thrift shop.

As I slammed the door behind me, a girl at the check out counter looked up from her book and smiled at me. "Welcome, let me know if you need any help."

I smiled and walked further into the store. Hopefully there was no way the snake could find a way to get inside. Everything in the store smelled like moth balls and dust, so maybe that would somehow repel the snake. Not to mention, the stuff in this store was probably from the seventies, and not even a magical flying snake would want to look at that.

I went to a section of hats and found a black baseball hat to hide my blonde hair. Maybe the snake was chasing me because I had such bright hair. Further into the store I found a pair of sunglasses that could easily make anyone look like a different person, mainly because they had the typical giant nose and mustache on them. I know this seems crazy, but I swear the snake recognized me and that's why it was chasing me, so who knows, maybe it wouldn't be able to see past my horrible disguise.

I was walking to the front of the store to pay for the hat and glasses when I heard a horrible bubbling sound, and smelt burnt wood. I looked towards the check out counter just in time to see the rest of front door melt into a pile of goo. My heart immediately decided to beat at twenty times the recommended speed. The girl at the register looked confused and started to walk towards the door. When I heard hissing close by decided it was time to leave.

"Sorry, I promise I'll pay for this later," I screamed at the girl before I ran towards the back of the store, and the emergency exit.

As I pushed opened the door an alarm blared, but I kept running at top speed. However, after several minutes of running from this snake my top speed had dropped to a slow jog. I knew I was screwed, so when I spotted another dumpster I held my breath and jumped in, closing the lid behind me.

I had to hold in my scream when my foot landed in some kind of liquid. After a few second I had to take a deep breath and the smell of dirty diapers and rotten food hit my senses. Everything in me told me to get out of the dumpster and risk death, but then I heard a faint hissing sound and my body froze. I held my breath, trying to not make even the slightest sound to let it know where I was. I stayed silent and still for what seemed like an hour, but was probably only a few minutes. My heart beat was loud enough for me to hear, and I thought I was going to die from my heart exploding.

After a few minutes of silence I barely opened the lid to the dumpster to look out and see if it was gone. Of course, me being me, it was right there waiting. As soon as it noticed me it started hissing and growing. I don't mean it made itself look bigger or anything like that, I mean it literally grew to two times it's original size. So now, here I am, looking at a snake the size of a monster truck and I'm about to piss my pants, or maybe I already did, honestly it was the least of my problems right now.

In anger the snake pulls the end of its body up and slams it into the dumpster. With only a split second to think, I dodge to the other side of the dumpster, and when I look at where I had been, the whole dumpster is flattened like a soda can.

In fear, I jump out of the dumpster and run to the end of the alleyway as fast as I can but, of course, it's a dead end. I look at the top of the brick wall, wondering if somehow I can climb it fast enough to get to safety before the giant snake crushes me. I decide it's not possible and start looking for an escape.

Sadly, there's nothing around me but a rusty fire escape on the side of one building, a brick wall behind and beside of me, and a giant snake in front of me, determined to kill me. The snake, tired of chasing me, becomes determined to kill me and starts to slam down the end of its body again. As soon as I notice this movement I roll away, barely surviving. Knowing I can't keep this up I pray, to anyone listening for a miracle that would save my life.

I avoid another attack and end up crouched down against the wall underneath the fire escape, hoping my death by giant flying snake is quick and painless. As the snake starts to attack again I close my eyes and move even closer to the wall curling up into a ball. After a few seconds of there being no pain, I open my eyes and slowly look up towards the snake, only to see a man standing in front of me dressed in all black with a sword the size of his arm in his right hand.

The man looks back at me with a look of disgust and says, "You know, you're the most useless demigod I've ever laid my eyes on."