So, Humans Were GODS All Along?

'Splash'

Purple blood spurted out in the air and also seemed to be leaking out from the corners of its mouth in a steady stream.

The eyes of Shaggy lit up in joy, but before it could even lick the purple blood leaking out from the corners of its mouth and munch on its long-awaited delicacy, a torrential stream of water gushed out from all the three doors and crashed into its body.

'Thump'

The body of Shaggy crashed into the railings of the handrails while the water pressure had further locked it in the same place as it flowed around its body.

The water pressure pressured it towards its left where the railings on the handrails imprinted upon the flesh of Shaggy and formed a depression that traversed deep into its fur.

The high water pressure had made it so that it could neither swim-up nor struggle for breath while the force at which its body kept pressing against the handrails started to damage its internal organs and make its bones creak, producing a series dangerous bone-crunching sounds.

"It Stinks!" Prakash thought as his two palms held onto the gums of the upper oral cavity of Shaggy while a steady stream of purple blood leaked out from his legs.

Earlier, when he had jumped towards Shaggy, he had missed the perfect timing by a hair's breadth which resulted in him losing the portion of his legs below his t.h.i.g.hs.

Nerves popped out like tree vines on the regions of his neck and face as Prakash bit his tongue to endure the pain of losing most of his legs. His eyes turned red as tears streamed out of them, showcasing the amount of pain that he was currently experiencing.

The amount of power left in his transformation would last a couple of seconds at most and he had to make good use of it.

"Ugh…" Prakash concentrated to the best of his ability as his body swayed back and forth like a boat trying to stay afloat in the raging seas as a torrent of water impacted upon the body of Shaggy and pressed its body against the railings of the handrail, rocketing its insides.

A stream of blood gushed out from its throat and drenched the swaying figure of Prakash. The stench was nauseating to the extent that it made him feel like he had to vomit out his guts but since his stomach was currently empty, he could barely resist the urge.

Suddenly, purple smoke coagulated around his hands and dissolved in the air like a wisp of smoke as his body lost its grip and fell down.

As his body fell on the soft but slimy tongue of Shaggy, Prakash noticed a faint tattoo on his body that looked like an ant flickered in purple radiance and vanish like it had never existed there in the first place.

As Prakash willed for his 'Record' to appear, thin purple smoke that looked too sparse as compared to before seeped out of the pores on his body at a snail's pace and condensed into a broken screen that flickered incessantly, as if it couldn't maintain its appearance.

Prakash was shocked when he found a blank space in his Karma attribute that belonged to the 'Ant'.

"Another mystery to ponder," Prakash muttered to himself in frustration as he could no longer undergo a transformation no matter how many times he willed it. Thankfully, the body of Shaggy no longer moved and its internal organs no longer wriggled. Its body seemed to be stuck in a stable spot for now.

Even though he was trapped in its jaws, at least he was safe for now. Moreover, if he could reduce his breathing rate and take slow breaths, then the amount of air present inside the body of Shaggy would be breathable for him for quite some time.

Prakash sat in a comfortable position atop Shaggy's tongue as he tried to inspect his injuries while wrapping a small piece of cloth over his nose to filter the unbearable smell. Surprisingly, his legs no longer bled blood and the cut area even seemed to be regenerating the lost flesh and blood, albeit at a snail's pace.

His 'Record' suddenly shattered into purple mist and seeped into his body. It seemed as if his 'Record' could no longer maintain itself outside his body.

With nothing else to do, Prakash became lost in his thoughts for a long time. He lost track of time until suddenly, the body of Shaggy violently jerked a few times before it went still.

Before he could manage to think up a response; from the depths of Shaggy's throat, a thick purple snake slithered out, illuminating the dark oral cavity of Shaggy.

Unlike all the purple snakes he had seen so far, this purple snake was huge. Its body thickness was almost the height of his body as it slowly inched closer towards him. Its body looked intangible while it slithered in and out of the muscles in its path as it inched towards him.

Its head looked just like Shaggy's head as if Shaggy had grown a snake-like body below its neck.

As it slowly hovered before the face of Prakash, he could see many images flickering in the long streamlined body of the purple snake. The images were a series of blurry humanoid figures, trees, birds, etc or stuff that he assumed them to be at the very least judging from their design, shape, and movements.

These images were small and ever-changing so Prakash wasn't sure about what they represented. Moreover, they looked like stars in the night sky as they shone with a blinding purple hue.

"I guess I have to take a leap of faith first at this point." Prakash cleared his puzzled mind of all confusion as he slowly raised his right hand towards the face of the huge purple snake.

The moment his palm came in contact with the face of the purple snake, it immediately let out a roar and dashed into his body.

"Aaaaaaaahhh!" Prakash screamed in agony as the amount of pain he currently felt was many times greater than the pain he felt when he lost his legs. It felt like his body was put into a grinder and then roasted in boiling hot oil.

A massive amount of purple smoke tried to gush into his body but like a small hose that was limited in its discharge/inlet capacity, the body of Prakash was simply unable to absorb gushing purple smoke at a sufficient speed.

As a container, his body had its limits while the purple smoke tried to compress itself and further squeeze into his body that seemed as if it would burst into pieces due to the pressure it was exerting on him.

A part of the purple smoke that was leaking out of his body once again materialized into a d.o.g.g.y face which extended into a snake's body from the region below its neck. The d.o.g.g.y face with the snake's body looked at the wailing Prakash whose entire figure seemed to be showing signs of collapse and at the long trail of its slithering body that seemed to have no end.

The eyes of the dog-headed purple snake slowly gained a trace amount of sentience as it rapidly consumed the image fragments in its body and further materialized into a more solid form.

It slowly took on a form that swayed from being intangible to tangible and vice-versa many times in a second as it gradually slithered through the body of Shaggy and into the sea of water outside.

The dog head that was situated on one end of the purple snake made sniffing motions as if it could smell through water and slowly floated to the entrance of the room on the centre and proceeded into it, all while sniffing for something in the sea of high-pressure water that expanded before it like a maze.

Many objects drifting in the undercurrents that would occasionally bump into its body passed right through it as the purple smoke seemed to be unaffected by physical objects. It also thinned out the longer it travelled and the further away it was from the body of Shaggy.

It only had the width of Prakash's thumb as it neared a huge cuboidal object. This cuboidal object was three feet in length, one foot thick and two feet in height with two terminals situated at the very peak on its top that were placed on the two edges opposite to each other.

It was a lead-acid battery that had been connected to an inverter that was used to power the house during power failures.

The dog-headed purple snake immediately passed through the outer walls of the battery and proceeded towards the inner components as its face morphed into various shapes that ranged from hair-like strings to spanner-type structures as they latched onto the different components, acids, etc within the lead-acid battery.

Suddenly, the body of the dog-headed purple snake jerked in response as faint electrical arcs passed through its body. The blue electric arcs collided with many image fragments along its path which quickly got consumed by the electric arcs as it was slowly dyed purple after hundreds of collisions and travelled all the way to its source and eventually landed on the body of Prakash.

"Aaarghh!" The body of Prakash began to jerk even more violently as the pain he felt multiplied further when the purple electric arcs seeped into his body.

Everywhere the purple electric arcs passed through in his body, the purple smoke in the area got slightly compressed while faint modifications occurred to his body in that particular area that further increased the capacity of his absorption and containment.

An unending stream of purple smoke came out from the throat of Shaggy intending to be absorbed by Prakash while small purple electric arcs were sent to his body through the purple snake that had extended out of Shaggy's body.