Dry - 6

"Cazeer, there ain't no one else here, but us."

 

"No. The people across the streets. They have party. I gave them mask along with their… how you say—hooch—and it begin soon."

 

"What begin soon?" Uncle Bill said.

 

"The celebrate."

 

Monster looked out the window. Sure enough, there were several people walking across the street in their direction. A man had something over his shoulder. It looked like…

 

"A rocket launcher?" Monster thought that was funny.

 

Until the room exploded.

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"Hey, there he is!" The fireman pointed right at him.

 

"Where?" a fairy asked. She flapped her wings and floated up. Monster thought about dropping out of the tree and trying to land on the fireman, but he was too high up. He might miss. Hell, he might fall on him and still break his legs.

 

THWACK! went the axe into the tree. Monster's breath caught in his chest. He could see them gathering beneath him. There was nowhere to run. The fireman yanked the axe out of the tree as the fairy came eye level with Monster. A couple of the hounds barked up at him.

 

"You're going to die," she said. THWACK! went the axe again. "You'll burn in a pyre and we'll dance. We'll all dance naked while you cook to death and your eyes pop out of your skull and your flesh peels off your bones. We'll all dance. And then we'll do it."

 

"What the hell do you people want with me?" he tried to ask, but it was no good through the mask. In came out like unintelligible screaming to even his ears (which was weird underneath the mask). Like Frankenstein.

 

She hovered closer, making sounds like a snake hissing intermittently. THWACK! It wasn't going to take that fireman too long at this rate. She raised her wand, clutched in her hand like a dagger. Monster could feel the popping of the trunk between his thighs. It was going to give soon. He had to chance it.

 

He took a swipe at the fairy, his giant paw smacking off the side of her head. Her eyes rolled around in her head and he reached out and grabbed onto her.

 

They dipped, his considerable extra weight too much for her magical wings. The world went into a blender as they spun and Monster closed his eyes. He heard the tree give and a second later he could hear several people scream.

 

Instead of crashing they leveled out about a dozen feet in the air. The fairy shook her head and stared down at Monster, gripped about her waist and thighs.

 

"You!" she said and reared back with that wand again.

 

He let go and tumbled when he hit the ground. Monster was still picking himself up when she floated over to him.