vs python

So stealthy was this creature that Kong did not feel its cool touch until the thing had affixed itself to him, and began to settle in.
The sounds of Kong sleeping were varied. Grunts, snuffling snores, even an occasional groan. These last might have been the product of submerged hunger pangs.
When Kong awoke, it was sudden. His eyes snapped open and their amber depths took in his surroundings. First, he saw only blue sky.
It dawned on his drowsy mind that he could not breathe. This was a new experience.
Then he noticed a tightness in his throat. Another new experience.
Sitting up, Kong looked about to see what had gotten hold of him, what powerful animal had seized him by the throat.
But he beheld nothing. Nothing lay in sight.
Still unable to breathe, Kong pulled himself clumsily to his feet, and stood swaying. A choking sensation clogged his throat. His lungs seemed paralyzed.
Turning completely about, long arms flailing blindly, he sought what manner of monster was cutting off his breath.
As he did so, his massive fingers reached for his throat, and encountered something elongated and muscular. It was hairless to the touch, the hide scaly yet smooth.
Growling, Kong seized it with both hands and began exerting pressure.
Briefly the thing resisted, but the power of Kong’s anthropoid arms was too great and he wrested it free, overwhelming its constricting embrace.
Suddenly, Kong was holding in both hands a writhing, twisting serpent, as long and powerful as anything he had encountered back on Skull Mountain Island.
It was a massive python. And it had wrapped itself about his thick-muscled throat, although for what certain purpose was hard to fathom. Kong could not be consumed by its yawning maw, no matter how much it dislocated its massive jaws.


King Kong vs Tarzan, Chapter 54