Snake

Peach grunted as she started to wiggle into the Jar. It was a bit smaller than she expected, but the shade it was starting to provide was appreciated. That alone made it feel so much cooler than the outside. Even with the tight squeeze, this was going to be a comfortable stay; all she had to do was just hang out for an hour or two while her pursuit was still running around in the heat. Hopefully they'd burn themselves out while sprinting around the jungle paths and pitfalls.

"I can just take a quick nap and get back to the adventure in a moment." Peach muttered, as she shifted a bit to get slightly a bit more comfortable and started to close her eyes.

She didn't realize that her jar already had something inside, one of those snakes she was worried about from before. Offended by someone being inside it's home, the snake slithered under Peach's dress and next to her leg. It figured a good bite would get the intruder out of it's lair. So it readied it's mouth, made sure it's 'venom' was pulled back and struck.

Peach yipped in pain and quickly stuck out her leg as far as it would go in reflex. In the tight confines of the Jar through, this resulted in only a short distance traveled. But due to just acting out of instinct, the princess kicked as hard and as fast as she could, slamming her leg against one of the walls of the jar. Peach screamed in more pain as she struggled with whatever was biting down harder on her leg and... something else. Some weird feeling was starting to course through her leg up into her body. A strange tingly feeling that slowly started to burn through her body. When the princess slammed her leg against the jar wall, she also slammed the snake into it. Which made it release it's venom into Peach's blood stream.

The snake, a Cobrat or Cobatious Shotoicus, had a special type of venom. To ward off larger creatures and to hunt prey, the Cobrat would form a solidified ball of it's venom and other components, letting it spit the mixture out at responsible speeds to attack or stun. The resulting bullet was a inert when it came to it's venom but also hard enough to crack brick. Kept in a side pouch chamber near it's mouth, it always had a supply to use. To this day, few if anyone actually knew what the liquid form of a Crobat's venom did. But when it struck it's head against the jar wall with ****, the Crobat on reflex released it's venom. Shortly after, it also let go of it's bite grip on the dainty leg.

Dazed, the snake descended further into the jar, moving through a small hole or crack. This creature could keep the jar for now, it needed to rest from the head ache the snake had decided. Peach for herself struggled to get out of the jar. Her limbs started to feel like jelly, her head burned and her eyes couldn't focus. Everything felt like it was spinning around her and the princess found she could barely get strength from her hands. While posioning wasn't something that Peach had history with, short of anything Bowser tried, this felt beyond anything she felt before.

If...., maybe if she summoned all of her strength, she could get out of the jar but then what? Where could she go, what could she do? Maybe find some sort of power up, but that was a long hope at this point. But the other possibility was to suffer in the Jar as the venom burned through her body until..... until what? Maybe she had something with her that she had picked up that could help? Her focus was thus that she couldn't recall if she got found anything useful.

In short, the question was; Stay or Go?