The Elephant

Hia BOILS AND GHOULS! I, CREEPS, took a few COOKING FINGER-TIPS from CHEF GORE-DON RAMSEY ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. SLIME RIB is a SLAY-VORITE DISH, as well as a MAIN CORPSE! But while I cook kiddies, here's what's for JUST DESSERT. A MONSTROUS-MORSEL I call...

It was back in the July of 1960, out, in western-New Jersey, that two boys were up, in a treehouse, looking out a window together. The treehouse was in an oak tree within the backyard of a house, and the boys sat within it on a bench, looking down, at a bunny walking in the grass. "Hopefully Michael gets here by four o'clock, Jacob. I'm waiting to play Rummy!" one boy said to the other. "Yeah, he should be David" Jacob replied to him. A third boy rode his bike into the backyard and climbed up, into the treehouse. "You're right on time Michael" David said to the boy. "Yep, four o'clock sharp, David" Michael replied to him and he sat down on the bench by David and Jacob. Jacob dealt a deck of cards on a table and gave five cards each to David and Michael. David turned a transistor radio on and Chubby Checker sang "The Twist" on it then. Meanwhile, four teenage bullies walked up the sidewalk on the other side of the backyard's fence, all running the blades of their switchblade-knives along the fence. "We'll catch those freaks guys" the bully in front of the rest said to the three others. "Yeah, Larry, they put us in Summer School for cheating on too many English tests" another bully said to him. "We'll put them in graves, Paul" Larry said to him. "Yeah, this is David's backyard" a third bully said. "We better be quiet William" Paul told him. "Alright Paul" William replied. "Come on, Ned" William said to the fourth bully. "Comin' William" Ned replied. Larry, Paul, William and Ned turned the corner and closed their switch-blade-knives.

That evening, David was asleep in a bed, in an upstairs-bedroom in the house. His bedroom-window was open and a low-growling was heard. He stirred and woke up. Hearing the growling, David got out of bed and went over to his open-window. The low growling came from his treehouse. David climbed up, into his treehouse with a flashlight and he shined it around. There was a huge, mysterious and eerie statue of an elephant on the far end of the treehouse. It was black, its tusks were shining-red and its eyes were shining-yellow. David gasped in surprised-fear at it, and then backed up, where Larry put his hand around his mouth from behind him. The bully held up his knife to David's throat then. The statue of the elephant suddenly was the thing growling deeply, being alive, and opened its mouth to show big glowing-red fangs. It was some sort of monster and both David and Larry screamed, seeing it. Larry let go of David, and David climbed out of the treehouse, and down, into the backyard. He shined his flashlight up at the treehouse, as the sounds of Larry's screams and the thing's growls were heard. David ran into his house. The following day. he stood in the treehouse, finding Larry's skull tucked in the elephant's mouth. The thing was still and quiet. Jacob and Michael came up into the treehouse then.

"Hia David. Whoa, what the heck is that elephant statue?" Michael said to him, then asked him. "Hi Michael. It just appeared in here last night. It was some monster, because it growled. Larry was going to stab me, but I escaped. See, that is his skull in its mouth!" David explained. He, Michael and Jacob got out of the treehouse and saw a man standing by the oak tree. "Hello, boys, having fun up in David's treehouse that I built for him?" the man said to Jacob and Michael, asking them. "Hi, Mr. Calloway, yes sir, we sure are" Michael and Jacob answered him. "Hi Dad. We sure are sir" David said to Mr. Calloway. "Oh, good boys and Son. I've got to mow the lawn in the backyard here just to let you know" Mr. Calloway said to them and walked away. David, Jacob and Michael rode up the sidewalk by David's backyard fence on their bikes. As they rode downtown, William, Paul and Ned were lighting cigarettes in an alleyway. The teenage bullies then smoked together. The boys made it downtown and the bullies stepped out of the alley, in front of them, causing them to stop their bikes. "We have not seen Larry all day for some reason, but at least you freaks are here" Paul said to the boys. "Oh no. Please leave us alone, Paul" Jacob begged. "Shut up Jacob you whiny jerk!" Paul said to him meanly. Paul blew smoke from his cigarette into Jacob's face. Jacob coughed and Ned hit Michael right in the face. Michael screamed out in pain, turned his bike around and rode off. Jacob and David rode after him and the bullies chased after them. That night, David, Michael and Jacob were sitting up in David's treehouse on the bench together. Paul, Ned and William were standing on the other side of the fence by David's backyard.

David flashed his flashlight on an orange rug and said to Michael and Jacob: "Dad said the elephant statue seemed to come from a place underneath the oak tree. It is indeed some sort of monster that is protective of humans and animals alike. When he built this treehouse for me, he covered up a hole that is an entrance for the thing with that orange rug". He shined the flashlight to the far side of the treehouse and the monster was gone. David got up and moved the orange rug over, then shined his flashlight on a huge square-shaped hole. Michael and Jacob got up and shined their flashlights on the hole as well. David slid down, into it and Michael and Jacob followed. The boys stood within the huge oak tree, shining their flashlights around the wooden-place. The deep-growls of the elephant-like monster were heard. Meanwhile, the bullies were up in the treehouse, shining their flashlights around. "Where are those freaks at Ned?" William asked him. "They went down that hole William" he answered. "Come on guys" Paul said to them and they walked over to the hole. The boys climbed down a second hole carefully and the growling of the thing got louder. David jumped down, into an underground-cavern that was lit up by eerie blue and white mist. Michael and Jacob jumped down, into the cavern too and they saw the monster standing within the blue and white mist, peering at the three of them with its eerie eyes shining-yellow.

Jacob screamed in fear. Paul and the other two bullies climbed down the second hole then. They also jumped down into the cavern and got their knives out of their jacket-pockets, flicking them open. The black elephant-monster growled and attacked William, biting his head with its glowing-red fangs. He screamed in horror and pain, as his head was covered by the thing's mouth. The monster moved backwards, dragging William into the mist with it. The sickening-sounds of eating were heard accompanied by the low growls. Then, the skeleton of William flew out of the mist, landing on the ground. Everybody screamed. The boys climbed up, into the hole, and both Paul and Ned looked at the elephant-like monster in horror, silently-shaking. The thing growled at them eerily, stepping close to them. The following morning, David, Michael and Jacob woke up, lying in sleeping bags within the treehouse. They gasped and smiled, seeing the skeletons of Paul and Ned sitting on the far side of the treehouse. The black trunk of the elephant-like monster rose up, out of the square-shaped hole, and gripped the boney-leg of Ned's skeleton. It pulled it down, into the hole with it, as growls were heard. Then, the thing's trunk rose out of the hole a second time, grabbing the boney-leg of Paul's skeleton, dragging it down, into the hole with it too.

Hee-Hee-Hee, what a DRAG that ending was. David's treehouse seems to be SKELETONS OF FUN! AN ELEPHANT NEVER FORGETS they always SLAY, Kiddies. What a TRUNK OR TREAT that was for it aha-ha-ha-ha.