It's Saturday and you know what that means! Yup! It's time for the weekend story. As always, please pick up where the last person left off, and be cautious in the language that you choose to use (as kids often read this particular post).
Today, in the spirit of Conan (read the books by the originator: Robert E. Howard - who was incredibly talented), The Hobbit, and other great fantasy tales, let's write one ourselves!
Piercing the Darkness
Pierce paused for a moment. The night was dark, with a faint glow from the two moons above. He had been quietly pacing through the forest for a couple hours now (it was best to move at night and remain unobserved). The sun had set when he started out, and the moons were just beginning to rise.
The reason he had stopped momentarily was due to the crick in his back. He irritably reached up and grasped a handful of fur. The fur hissed angrily. "Look," said Pierce, "I know you hate moving about on your own, but you are simply getting too big for me to carry all the time."
He pulled something off his back which was about the size of a cat. Seen in the moonlight,the color was hardly discernible. But viewed in the daylight, the fur was a motley mixture of greens and browns (perhaps to help camouflage its ancestors in the woods).
Disengaged, the creature sat for a moment on the forest floor, then looked up and said in a squeaky, plaintive tone "But I don't wanna walk." It stood up to the height of a small monkey (and indeed it resembled one closely except for the third arm) and stretched. "What Pierce got to eat?" it asked, yawning.
"Nothing right now,"Pierce answered irritably. "We still have a ways to go before we can take a break. Now let's get going, Mnemu!"
Mnemu shrugged and, saying nothing more, climbed a tree and began hopping from tree to tree as Pierce continued walking, following a faint path...
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Just then Pierce heard a noise ahead. Mnemu heard it at the same time and swung down and got on Pierce's back again. "Damn you." said Pierce. "I'm too tired to carry you." But he had to hide in the brush and leave Mnemu where he was for the moment.
As the third moon started to rise, a shallow could be seen on the forest floor. It was casted by a huge figure. The figure raised its head and...
...sniffed the air. Human?, it thought. Where? Those things have gotten so pesky, lately. Too many of them. Transylville was almost overrun.
The creature paused. Oh, yes, there is something else. A three-armed tetrabiner, surely. Such good soup they make. Where is it? There! It lunged. Mnemu....
dug his claws into Pierce's back and hung on for dear life as Pierce ran as fast as he could. Branches were tearing at Pierce's face and Mnemu was screeching.
"Shut Up, Mnemu!"
Luckily the creature chasing them was slow and cumbersome.
Pierce jumped into the river and let the current carry them downstream.
As they were tossed about by the raging current, Pierce felt something tug at his leg. He thought it must be the rocks, but then...
The two climbed out of the water and quickly entered the forest on the other side. Pierce held Mnemu in front of him to keep the tetrabiner from climbing onto his back again.
Mnemu chittered, and Pierce shushed him, trying to listen for further pursuit. He could not hear anything above the sound of the water, however, so Pierce picked up Mnemu and headed downstream, keeping to the shadows of the trees.
He wondered how far they were from ...
Why, there it is! The City of Transmorgrifry, where people like him had begun assembling in self-defense from the Creatures of the Forest.
Pierce arrived in the middle of an argument:
"I say we call 'em Bigfoots!," Zane Grey Nebulous exclaimed.
"No, BigFEET!" cried Kit Carson Larson.
"In any case," said a woman who was taller than them all, and appeared, somehow, to be in charge of those in the argument. "they must be ..."
eliminated completely. They are too dangerous to us colonists."
"WE colonists," corrected a prim looking little man. The others looked at him in disdain. "Look schoolteacher," said one. "Can you go bother someone else for a while?"
"YOU asked me to attend this meeting," answered the school teacher. "If you recall, I am the one with the doctorate in nuclear physics."
Well, this one sputtered out in an untimely death. Ah well, some just don't take~!
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