Skippy

Oh hia boys and GHOULS, I was just PR-SCARE-ING A SICKENING-SALAD!  The greens I chose to use for it are from a big HUMAN-HEAD full of RO-SLAIN LETTUCE hee-hee-hee-hee.  BILE I'm finishing up this for the FIRST CORPSE OF SUPPER, FEAST YOUR EYES on my EERIE-APPETIZER I call...

A boy and girl were sitting on the bank of a pond over in northern-Scotland, back in the Spring of 1935 one day.  They both were fishing, and there was something that resembled a grey rock out, in the water.  A gray-skinned mouth with pointy-teeth bit the piece of bread on the hook underwater, the girl's fishing-line tugging.  She gasped and reeled her line in.  The rock-like thing in the pond glided through the water to the bank, and the child reeled it in.  The rock-like thing was the head of  a monster with grey flesh and the fishing-hook was in its mouth.  The kids both gasped in fright and surprise at its tiny solid black eyes, cone-shaped, rock-like head, humanoid-body, and white claws on its hands and feet.  The thing was on its stomach, and stood up, being the size of an average man.  The monster took the hook out of its mouth, swallowing the piece of bread.  It roared deeply and the children ran for it, screaming in fear.  "Aye, James, what kind of monster was that from thee pond?" the girl inquired of the boy as they ran.  "Some sort of pond-monster, Anna me Sister!" James responded to her.  James and Anna made it to a cottage, where a man was chopping wood outside with an axe.  "Father, Anna and I saw a pond-monster while fishing!" James proclaimed to the man.  "Ye did Son!?  Not to worry.  Why, that monster has been living within that pond for a century" their father informed him and hugged him and Anna.  "Will it harm us Father?" Anna inquired.  "Why, no me Daughter.  Me Friends when I was young named it Skippy.  It enjoys eating bread aye" James and Anna's father explained to her.

Anna and James were in a schoolhouse the next day, and listened to a teacher teach, "alright, children, if ye have ten apples and ye eat three of them, how many apples remain?".  Anna raised her hand.  "Yes Anna" the teacher called on her.  "Seven apples, Mrs. O'Dairy!" she answered.  "Correct Anna dear.  Very good" Mrs. O'Dairy smiled, congretulating her.  Four older bullies caught James and Anna later on that afternoon, outside the schoolhouse.  "Let us go Samuel aye!" James begged the one bully who had ahold of his one arm.  "But we just wish to play with ye and ye Sister, James" he said back to him in reply.  "Please leave me Brother James alone Samuel" Anna pleaded.  "Cork ye mouth Anna.  How about a little game of beat Anna and James to a bloody mess boys?" Samuel fired back at her, responding, then inquired of the three other bullies.  "What a bloody idea indeed Samuel" they agreed.  An hour later, James helped Anna to their cottage-door, and their father showed up, dripping with water.  "Good day me children.  Why oh why are ye bruised and ye clothes torn?" he asked, hugging them.  "Oh, Father, Samuel and his Friends beat us up on our way back home here!" James explained.  "Oh no.  I am deeply sorry me Son and Daughter.  I was swimming in thy pond!" he told them.

That night, the bullies walked along the shore of the pond together.  "Alright fellas, we must quickly kill Anna and James, or else their Father shall notify our Folks about what we did to them.  We can carry their bodies back to this pond here, and make it appear that they drowned aye!" Samuel explained to his friends.  "Aye, yes indeed, Samuel" they agreed.  As they were making it around the pond, a shadowy-claw struck Samuel's ankle from within the tall grass suddenly.  He screamed, falling into the weeds.  It was the pond monster, and the thing stood up then, roaring deeply.  The four bullies screamed in horror, Samuel getting ready to stab the creature with a knife in the moonlight.  But it knocked it out of his hand and feasted on his shaking-face.  The three bullies got close to the monster and Samuel, but the thing dug its clawed-hands into the faces of two of them, killing them instantly in the darkness.  As it rose its head from the body of Samuel, the last bully started running.  As the monster pursued him quickly in the light of the moon, its white, needle-like pointed-teeth sank deep into the bully's shoulder.  He screamed, falling down, as the creature roared, striking his head with its claws on both hands.

In the morning, James and Anna had their fishing-rods with them in their hallway by the front door.  "Aye, have a splendid time fishing Anna and James me Children.  I recall finding ye both as babies outside our door there!" their father called to them from an archway, remembering.  "Thank ye Father" they called back and journeyed out the door then.  James and Anna's father drank a bottle of Scotch Whisky he had with him.  As the kids fished together at the pond, James spotted the corpses of the bullies in the weeds.  "Anna me Sister, that pond-monster named Skippy got Samuel and his Friends!!!" he proclaimed.  "Aye, it did indeed, James me Brother!" Anna agreed, seeing the bodies in the brush herself.  They reeled in their lines and made it home fast.  Running into their living room, the pond monster was sitting on their sofa, and turned around, roaring slightly at them.  Then it transformed into James and Anna's father.  "Oh, Anna, James, no worries please.  Fore I am the pond-monster me Friends had named Skippy, aye!" he revealed to them.

   So, James and Anna's Dad was the pond monster eh?  Heh-Heh.  Like the old saying goes kiddies, FATHER KNOWS BEAST!  He sure took SCARE of that POND SCUM Samuel and his Friends for his kids aha-ha-ha-ha-ha!