A monkey in a tree, gazes silently upon a sleeping serpent, lying down upon the forest floor, it's form hidden in the shadows of the woods.  Awe, the monkey child, has been a good boy as of late; and when he is a good boy, he eventually gets bored....  He gazes up into the sky, watching his big brother, Xevioso.  Xevioso, the eldest of them all.  Xevioso, lord of thunder and lightening.  Awe moved on top of the tree he was climbing in, positioning himself directly in front to the serpent.  He looks back up to his eldest brother, a devilish smile crossing his facial features. 

"Oh big brother..." says Awe.

Xevioso peers down, his face saying "What have you done this time?"  Awe only calls him that when he has something up his sleeve, most likely yet another prank.

"What do you want, Awe?"

"Big brother!" says Awe, indignantly.  "I only wanted to ask you what you thought of my brand new hat!"  With that, Awe puts a shoe on top of his head.

Xevioso looks down upon his own feet, finding one of his own shoes missing.  "AWE!" he shouts.  Xevioso despises an act of injustice, thievery being among them.  "GIVE ME BACK MY SHOE!"

"What shoe?" asks Awe, pretending to be dumb.  "I only have a hat."

"AWE!  DON'T MAKE ME COME DOWN THERE!"

"Or what?" said Awe.  "You'll hit me with a lightening bolt?  You couldn't hit me if you tried!" 

Awe as usual, was pushing it!  He was more than aware of Xevioso's aim.  He was also aware that if Xevioso hit him with a lightening bolt again, their parents, Mawu and Lisa, would ground him and take his favorite toys away from him again. 

But Awe, he also knew his brother well enough, that even if he couldn't shoot right at him, he would at least shoot near him.  Awe ducked just in time, causing the lightening bolt to aim straight to the sleeping serpent below.

"OW!" shouted the serpent, her feminine voice lovely even in the rage of her bellows.  "YOU HIT ME!"

"It was your twin brother's fault," said Xevioso.

"AAAAAAAAWWWWWWEEEEEE!"

"Sis, let's not do anything hasty, sis!"

The serpent rose.  Aidohwedo, the serpent goddess, was enraged.  She bared her fangs, hissing at the little monkey.

"Sis?"  For the first time, Awe began to fear for his life.

Aido struck, holding the monkey in her mouth.  He was at her mercy now.

"SIIIIIS!  DON'T KILL ME!  XVIEOSO!  HEEEEEELLLP!"

"Little sis," said Xevioso.  "What do you plan to do?  No matter how mad we are at him, Mum and Dad would never approve if we killed him."

"I'm not going to kill him, I'm just mad at him!"

"In that case, you can let me go," said Awe.  "Don't you think you can get back at me much better if I'm out of your mouth?"

"Nope," said Aido.

"Now sis," said Xevioso.  "I know that your angry, but I don't think our parents would appreciate it if you chewed him up to a bloody pulp either."

"I won't," she replied.

"Then what do you think you could possibly do with me still in your mouth, if you can't eat me, or chew me up?" asked Awe.  He really thought he had asked her a question she couldn't answer.

"Do you really want to know?" asked Aido.

"Sis..?" asked both Xevioso and Awe.

Pbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbp!  Aido began to spittle all over her twin brother Awe.

"What?"  Pbpbpbpbpb.  "Ew!"  Pbpbpbbpbpbpb.  "Stop!"  Pbpbpbpbpbpb.  "This is gross!"  Pbpbpbpbpbpb.  "Xevioso!"  Pbpbpbpbpbpbpbpb.  "HEEEEELLLP!"  Pbpbpbpbpbpbp.

"I don't know that I want to," said Xevioso.  "I'm kind of enjoying this."

"Sister!"  Pbpbpbpb.  "Stop!"  Pbpbpbpbpbp.  "I BEG OF YOU!"

Aido stopped.  "First, give Xevioso back his shoe."

"What shoe!"  Pbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpb.

"Alright alright!  Here, take back the shoe!  I didn't want it anyway!"  He threw the shoe back up to heaven.

Xevioso sniffs his shoe disdainfully.  "Sis, what have you been eating?  Your breath stinks!"

"HEY!"  In her indignation, she dropped Awe out of her mouth.

"I'M FREE!" the monkey climbs all the way back up to the tree tops. 

"Why did you do that, Xevioso?" asked Aido

"I had to help get him out somehow.  If he stayed their any longer he would have drowned."

"Ha!" said Awe.

Aido stuck out her serpent tongue one more time and pbpbpbpbpbbpb.

"Can't reach me now, can you, Aido," Awe said derisively.

Aido says nothing.  She just sinks back down in the shadows.

"Aido?" asks Awe, his voice full of concern.

Aido never gave up chasing him after a prank before.  He looks to Xevioso, and he looks just as worried.  They both come down to the forest floor.  The damage from the lightening bolt has burned Aido's snake body.

"Oh no!  Aido, what have I done?"

"What are either of you going to do?" asked Aido.  "I know you weren't supposed to have your lightening bolt until two weeks from now, Xevioso."

"But the 200 years are almost over!" cried Xevioso!

"I knew that wouldn't have made any difference," said Awe, sheepishly.  "I just wanted to see you get into trouble again."  He looked back at his sister's singed form.  "It doesn't feel so funny anymore."

Xevioso pulls a packet from the folds of his pockets.  "I have a salve that could help her.  I anticipated that you would be up to mischief and I would be tempted to lash out at you.  She is much bigger than you are though in this form, and you will need to devote more time for her to heal."

"I will," said Awe, all too happy to make amends.

Awe had to do this often.  The lightening bolt sent Aido ever-lasting damage.  It would injure her all over again whenever Aido was sad.  So Awe made it his personal image to keep Aido happy, doing anything to make her laugh.  Sometimes the pranks were just so she could come after him and keep her active.

They went throughout this pattern for many years, stretching hundreds of human years.  Then came the time when Aido and the others decided to marry.  She fell hard for her human mate.  She and the other siblings.  They filled their world with beautiful music, song and dance... while they were here.  Aido and her serpent siblings gave birth to many serpentine children, the torso of a human, and the tail of a snake, their skin covered in scales from head to tip.  These were the Kings and Queens from Mawu's bloodline. 

Uncle Awe was the happiest of all, with plenty of nieces and nephews to play pranks on.  But there came a day when his nieces and nephews wished to marry as well.  It became much harder for Uncle Awe to play match maker, as the kings and queens of Mawu did not have the ability to shift their form into more human looking appearances.  This saddened them, and no amount of pranks could lift their spirits. 

There was one King that managed to find a wife.  There was much rejoicing in their family.  He was given a daughter by this woman, though she lost her life in childbirth.  This saddened the father greatly.  He became very possessive and over protective of daughter, with her very human torso.  "You look so much like your mother."

Eventually, Awe was able to find a mate for each of his niece and nephew kings and queens, and each of his kings and queens had to bury their human mates.  So did the rest of Awe's siblings, including Aido.

Aido buried her husband's remains, and curled up her serpent body on top.  Her sadness took hold, making her injury from the lightening bolt show up once again.  The rest of the family followed suit, burying their husbands and wives. 

Awe would come with the poultice, and nurse her wounds.  Every once in awhile, he would ask her, "Are you still angry at me?" and Aido would reply, "Pbpbpbpbpbpbpbpb."

This would make Awe happy, for he knew that her reaction meant that she would eventually be happy again, no matter how long her time of mourning took.  He also knew that she would have to be the first to move on before anyone else could. 

Awe, and the Prince's and Princesses of Mawu began to build temples around the serpentine family, creating beautiful buildings, and give them privacy from the rest of the world, and time to heal.  The intentions were good, but it attracted much attention from unwanted outsiders.  There began to be rumors that if you found a beautiful city inhabited by the serpentine, you will find a goddess serpent coiled up on top of a buried treasure....

And so the bloodline of Mawu and Lisa were put on pause until they could live in peace with humanity once again.