Snake Food

You're not sure why you decided to adopt a pet.  You wanted something cute and harmless, so you went with a ball python.

At first you liked it, but as time went by you began to neglect it more and more.  Within a few weeks, only rarely would you remember that it was even alive, let alone remember to feed it.

This morning you happen to glance at the snake.  It makes eye contact with you-- and you suddenly find yourself unable to look away.  Under what isn't entirely your own free will, you approach the snake's aquarium and open the top, peering inside.  Not once do either of you break eye contact.

You put your hands on the sill of the aquarium, peering at the snake from above.  The snake flicks its tongue at you once, twice, three times-- and suddenly an unnatural shiver runs down your spine.  Your first instinct is to pull back, but it feels like your hands are nailed to the aquarium sill.

Then you start to shrink.

With your hands still paranormally attached to the aquarium, your feet soon leave the ground.  Thankfully, you're becoming lighter as well as smaller, otherwise your weight would tip the aquarium over.

You feel other changes as well.  Your ears are growing larger.  Fur starts to spread over your body (you catch a glimpse of it on your chest-- it's brown).  A tail sprouts from your backside.  Your senses are going crazy; your vision is getting fuzzy, and you're detecting sounds and scents you couldn't before.

Your clothes fall off your body and into a heap on the floor as you become too small to wear them.  You feel naked for a moment, but that line of thinking quickly passes.

Finally it stops.  You're now completely on top of the aquarium, which is now the size of a house to you.  The python continues to stare up at you, expectantly.

Your hands are no longer stuck to the sill, and you lose your balance and fall into the aquarium.  The impact doesn't injure you, but it is painful for a moment.

You take a moment to examine yourself.  Your new tail is long and skinny.  Your ears are large and round.  You have whiskers.

You're a mouse.

The python, now much larger than you are, advances on you.  You try to call for help, but instead a soft -squeak!- escapes your lips.  You take off running, but are not used to your new body; on top of that, being confined to the aquarium leaves you with little room to run.

A scaly coil encircles you tightly, trapping you.  You stare helplessly up at the python's head as it constricts you tighter and tighter.  Its grip is incredibly painful-- it feels like your ribs are about to break!-- and you find yourself having more and more difficulty breathing.

Finally it releases its grip on you, but by then you are too weak to put up any resistance.  The last thing you see or feel before you pass out is the python's mouth enveloping your body.