Chapter 1: Monster On Her Ranch
It was a normal morning to Sapphire Darling. She woke up, dressed into her usual cowgirl clothing, put her blonde hair in a ponytail, topped her head with her cowgirl hat, and went off to do her daily chores. She tended to her horses, feeding and grooming them, then she stocked the hay. After stocking the hay, she went out and tended to her cornfeild, scowling about her tractor still not working right. After tending and scowling, she decided to take a break and go on a nice long trail ride. So she brought out her most gentlest mare, Love, saddled and mounted her.
"Ready girl?" Sapphire asked the white mare.
Love snorted and nod her head. Sapphire smiled and put Love on a nice good trot. They were about to turn a corner when all of a sudden, Love started to go crazy.
"Whoa Love! Whoa girl!" Sapphire called to the frightened mare.
Love ignored her and continued to rear, neigh, and kick. By this time, Love's white area of her eyes were showing. Sapphire knew that something had spooked her horse, she only wished she knew what.
"Easy! Steady girl!" Sapphire unmounted Love and tried to calm her down.
Love looked into Sapphire's eyes and immediately calmed down.
"That's better." Sapphire smiled.
Her smile faded when she heard a moan behind her. It sounded like someone was in pain. She turned around, but saw no one. She heard the sound again, coming from behind a bush.
"What in the world?" Sapphire asked herself as she tied Love to a tree.
When she heard the moaning again, she quickly ran to the bush. She pushed aside the ferns and gasped at what she saw. There, laying in the bush, was a purple reptile like creature. It was completely purple with a little blue going down it's back and covering it's tail and had about eight legs with three fingers/toes. It had three fronds on top of it's head with red tips, and it's flat head had a wide mouth filled with sharp teeth. Sapphire would be scared of this creature if she was like 5 or 7, but she was not afraid, for she loved all sorts of animals, no matter how strange they were. What really scared Sapphire was all the injuries this creature had. It was completely covered with scars, cuts, and bruises, and it was coated with dry and wet blood.
"Oh." Sapphire made a pitiful noise when she heard the creature moan again. "You poor thing."
The creature, at the sound of Sapphire's voice slowly opened it's eyes to show emerald green eyes. It slowly turned it's head and stared at Sapphire. Sapphire could see in this creature's eyes that it was afraid.
"You don't have to be afraid." She told it. "I won't hurt you."
The creature just closed it's eyes and moaned again. Sapphire's heart ached. This creature was in pain, and all's she was doing was sitting here looking at it.
"What the hell am I doing?" She smacked herself. "I should go get help and quickly."
Sapphire stared at the creature once more.
"I'll be right back." She promised it. "Don't go anywhere."
With that, Sapphire stood up, went back to Love, untied and mounted her, and rode off back to the ranch.
Minutes later, Sapphire came back driving a white pickup truck. The creature stared at the truck with interest. Sapphire got out of the truck, carrying a first aid kit. She knelt down to the creature and opened the kit. The creature stared at the kit and gulped, Sapphire noticed.
"Don't be frightened." She cooed to it. "This will only make you feel better."
Sapphire took the alchohol rub and started gently cleaning the wounds. The creature shook and hissed as the alchohol stung it's wounds.
"I know it hurts," Sapphire stared at it. "But you have to bear with me here, or you'll never get better."
After the wounds were clean, Sapphire started with the disinfectent. As she was disinfecting the wounds, she finally noticed the deep gash going down it's back.
"That gash is deep." Sapphire stared at it in awe. "It's going to need stitches."
Sapphire pulled out a needle that was filled with fluid. The creature stared at it in horror.
"Don't worry about this." Sapphire told it when she noticed. "This is only used to make you go numb so that you won't feel the painful stitching."
With that, Sapphire injected the needle into the creature's back and emptied the fluid. Imediately, the creature felt itself go numb. Sapphire took out a needle and thread and started stitching up the gash. When the creature had feeling again, Sapphire was already done.
"There, all better." She smiled.
The creature did feel a lot better. It got up and stared at Sapphire. Sapphire's smile faded. The creature truly looked out of this world.
"You're not from around here, are you?" She asked it.
The creature gulped and slowly shook it's head.
"I now see what you are." Sapphire stepped toward it. "You're a monster, aren't you?"
The creature stared at her, then slowly nodded it's head. Sapphire smiled and laughed.
"Wow!" She laughed. "I never thought that I'd actually have to tend to a real live monster."
The creature smiled a thank you, turned and attempted to leave. But once it tried to leave, it staggered and fell over.
"Oh, oh!" Sapphire cried out, picking the creature up. "You can't leave just yet. You've lost a lot of blood and have to rest for a couple of days. I'll take care of you in those times."
With that, Sapphire picked up the creature and carried it to her truck.
"You know, you're pretty light for a monster my size." She laughed as she placed the creature in the passenger seat.