Me-Whoooo! Look, two days in a row! Happy Thanks Giving!
Grimm-What is Thanks Giving?
Saabel-A holiday that you get to eat like Thatz and not get in trouble…
Renji-Who's Thatz?
Me-He's from the anime Saabel is from….It's not important…On to the story guys…
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Chapter 3
Trapped!
There was a huge rockslide blocking the road, you could clearly see the construction workers truck and the generator by the road.
"Is there some higher force here?" Grimmjaw asked, staring ahead dumbly. "I mean, are we asking too much out of life?"
"Where the hell are these guys?" Renji asked, hopping out of the truck. "What are they doing? HEY! Where are you guys? It's not like there's another road ass holes!" Renji yelled, stepping on top of the rockslide to try and see Momo and Luppi.
Grimmjaw had also stepped out of the truck, and searched the rockslide. He found Momo's helmet, which was covered in her blood, partially buried next to the power line. "Renji, Renji," He called quietly, motioning to him to back up and look in the same direction.
Renji looked over, noticing a clump of her hair was still in her helmet. He backed up slowly to the truck. Him and Grimmjaw hopped in the truck quickly, closing the doors.
Grimmjaw pulled out a small pistol, checking quickly to make sure it was loaded.
Renji backed up, bumping into the canyon wall, surprising Grimmjaw. He tried to pull forward, but the truck stopped shortly after he started pulling forward, "Jesus, I don't believe this!"
"You hung up?"
"I am not!" Renji defended, looking out the window to be sure.
"You're hung up I tell ya!" Grimmjaw yelled back, "Burn the clutch!"
Renji tried for several long seconds, before they broke away from whatever had been holding them there, and they shot off down the freeway.
"You could break an axel like that." Grimmjaw scolded.
"Could you shup up!" Renji growled at him.
"Hey, I don't need to spend the night out here!" Grimmjaw shot back.
They drove for a few seconds in silence, "Crybaby," Renji muttered.
Grimmjaw turned and glared at him.
Back at Tosen's market, Nel was wandering around as Halibel asked questions, "Could it have been coyotes?"
"No way," Gin replied, followed quickly by a "Naw," from Tosen.
Nel looked out the window curiously.
"Coyotes didn't kill Barragan," Gin said softly.
"Hey! Grimmjaw and Renji!" Nel called, looking back at the grownups.
Kenpachi, Soi Fon, Gin, Aizen, Nnoitra, Halibel, and Tosen looked up.
"They shouldn't be here already!" Soi Fon exclaimed, with a hint of question in her voice.
"Thought you two were in Bixby by now," Kenpachi said as he left the shop to greet them. Everyone followed him out.
"You're never gonna believe this, but the canyon road dropped not two hours ago."
"Mom!" Nel yelled in shock, pointing under Renji and Grimmjaw's truck.
"Oh my god!" Halibel cried in slight discust.
Grimmjaw pulled out his gun and aimed it under the truck, Kenpachi moved closer. Kenpachi got on his knees to examine the strange snake like creature that was wrapped around the axel.
"Oh Kenpachi be careful!" Soi Fon warned.
"Unreal, where'd you get it?" Aizen asked in amazement.
"I didn't know we had it…" Renji said in a stupefied voice. Everyone looked at it is shocked disgust. It was an orangish color, it was thicker towards the back of it, and it looked like it had been torn off of something much bigger.
"Discusting!" Halibel.
"Is that a snake?" Nnoitra.
"Looks like an eel to me," Gin put in.
"I thought eels lived in the water?" Nnoitra shot back.
Kenpachi had gone off, grabbed a shovel, and returned during the banter. He knelt down next to the truck again, shovel in hand.
"Big mother slug maybe," Grimmjaw thought aloud.
"Don't touch it!" Tosen warned.
"Relax, it's dead," Kenpachi sighed, attempting to use the shovel to remove the snake like creature's teeth from the axel. He pried it off with a grunt, pulling it out from under the truck.
"Hey, it must have grabbed us, that's why the truck stalled!" Grimmjaw realized.
"Next time I tell you I'm not hung up…" Renji trailed off.
Kenpachi and Soi Fon set to examine it, "This stalled out your truck? It'd have to be one strong son of a bitch…" Kenpachi stared at it in amazement.
"Stinks too," Soi Fon added shivering.
"I'll give you guys five dollars for this," Tosen stated, looking at Renji and Grimmjaw.
"Twenty," Renji shot back.
"Ok, ten." Tosen tried again.
"Fifteen," Grimmjaw said with a glare.
"Ok, fifteen," Tosen sighed.
"Damn right fifteen," Renji nodded.
"I don't believe you guys," Halibel sighed.
"Could be a snake," Kenpachi said, using a knife to hold the creatures head up. It had two black horns that stuck up on top of its head. "Some kind of mutation…"
"Yeah," Soi Fon agreed.
"Whatever it is, just one of these things couldn't eat up Barragan and his flock of sheep." Kenpachi observed.
"So you think there are more of them out there?" Renji sighed.
Everyone looked at each other in slight fear, thinking of what that could mean for them.
Later that night, at Szayel and Yylfordt's home…They were working diligently to build their dream home, under the stars. Yylfordt pulled out a pack of shingles from the back of the station wagon, setting it in the pile.
Szayel sat down in the back of the station wagon to take a break, groaning softly, "Let's put this stuff up in the morning."
Yylfordt smiled, sitting next to him, "We have to go to Bixby in the morning. The cinder blocks are in."
"Oh! The cinder blocks…Oh my god," Szayel sighed tiredly.
Yylfordt laughed quietly, looking at the stars, "Just keep looking at that beautiful sky. Thhat sky is gonna be over our roof every night when we're done."
"What if we don't finish the roof? Then we could look at the stars all the time." Szayel asked with a smirk, cuddling up to Yylfordt and they both laughed.
Suddenly the lights went out, the hum of the generator stopped.
"Aww, that damn thing." Szayel moved, pulling a flashlight out so he could see what he was doing. He walked over toward the generator.
"Maybe it's time we buy a new generator, huh?" Yylfordt laughed slightly.
"It's gone!" Szayel exclaimed, looking back at him.
"What do you mean it's gone?" Yylfordt asked hopping up and running over, "Are you sure this is where it was?"
"It was right here, there's the cord!" Szayel motioned toward the ground. There was another strange indent in the ground, that looked like something from under the ground had simply pulled it under ground with it. The extension cord was running out of the hole, proving that Szayel was right.
"Hold this," Szayel sighed, passing Yylfordt the flashlight, and pulling the extention cord out of the ground. "Maybe the ground caved in, there are a lot of old mines around here."
"Well, you don't want to fall in," Yylfordt sighed, dragging him away, as he pulled the last of the cord out of the hole…It looked like it had been bitten off.
There was a strange noise, and a spot no to far from where they were standing shot a puff of dust up…and a generator.
"Come on, let's go!" Yylfordt trying to pull his husband to the car.
"God, what is that smell?" Szayel took the flashlight back as a low grumble filled the air, "You hear that?"
"Come on, let's just go!" Yylfordt tried again, pulling him away, towards the car again, "Let's go back to town! Please Szayel!"
"Maybe it's a geological thing, like natural gas or a geyser, they stink like that! Remember in Yellowstone?" Szayel started to explain, and then yelped, as his legs were pulled under.
"Szayel!" Yylfordt tried to pull him back out.
"Something's got me down here!" He yelled, as he was pulled down a little deeper.
"Oh Szayel!" Yylfordt yelled, looing around for something he could use,
"Get something! Get me out of here!" Szayel was in up to his underarms now, trying to hold himself us as Yylfordt grabbed a two by four and tried to use that to hold him up. It didn't work, the board broke in half, followed by Szayel's screaming as he was pulled completely under.
Yylfordt held his hand, and fell face first on the ground. He got up quickly, trying to dig him back up, "Szayel!" He yelled almost desperately. Then, one of the snake creatures popped up where his husband had gone down. It lunged at him, and he screamed, running to the station wagon, and pulling the door closed. The creature smashed its head into the window, and Yylfordt knocked a radio over. The radio turned on, Yylfordt paid no attention to it, instead was more concerned about the creature outside. He attempted to start the car, unfortunately, Szayel had had the keys. Yylfordt wasn't going anywhere… Now there were three of the snake like creatures at the back window, so Yylfordt locked all the doors. Then the creatures disappeared. Yylfordt let out a small sigh of relief, relaxing a little. Then the car started to shake, dust flying up around the car. Then the back of the car was pulled underground, in a last effort, Yylfordt turned on the brights and honked the horn. The windows broke due to the pressure, and the last thing that could be heard across the valley was an ear piercing scream, and the headlights going out.
Back at Tosen's market, at roughly the same time, Nel was whimpering trying to move away from the snake-like creature. There was a sign up behind them that read, 'Photos-You & Snake Monster-$3'.
"Nel smile." Tosen tried.
"Nel, I promise it won't hurt you!" Halibel was attempting to sooth her.
"Nel, look up, smile," Tosen tried again, when she finally did, he took the picture. "Aizen, get out of there!" Tosen yelled at the boy, moving him away from the cash register.
"Old Tosen, slick as snot, and I ain't lying." Grimmjaw sighed taking a sip from his beer.
"Fifteen lousy bucks," Renji sighed, smoking a cigarette.
"Man who plans ahead," Grimmjaw sighed, turning back to Renji.
Kenpachi moved over to everyone, "Look, we arm ourselves, we set perimeters, we stand guard. Any of those snake things show up here, we make them extinct." He smirked.
"Alright," Aizen agreed enthusiastically.
"Come on Kenpachi, get serious!" Nnoitra shot out.
"Yeah, you make it sound like a war," Gin agreed.
"What have you people got against being prepared?"
"Wait a minute, Tosen's got a CB radio, why aren't you calling somebody in Bixby? The police, or-" Halibel yelled at him.
"Oh no, we can't reach outside the valley because of the mountains!" Tosen explained.
"Oh," She nodded.
"Aizen, your turn now! Sit down, look scared." He led Aizen to the chair for a picture.
"The phones out, the roads out, we're on our own," Soi Fon threw out there.
"You two are just loving it aren't you?" Halibel asked sarcastically.
"Come on Halibel, don't get personal about this thing! We gotta do something!" Soi Fon defended.
"Hell yes!" Kenpachi threw in, "We are completely cut off! We got the cliffs to the north, mountains to the east and west! That's why my family settled here in the first place, geographic isolation."
"Well there's got to be some way we can get help," Halibel threw out tiredly.
"Godsake, this isn't the moon," Nnoitra agreed.
"What are you gonna do, walk the thirty-eight miles to Bixby?" Kenpachi asked.
"Hey! There's Tosen's saddle horses!" Gin thought aloud.
"You're welcome to them!" Tosen nodded.
"Somebody could ride to Bixby," Gin grinned.
"That's not bad," Kenpachi nodded, "Not bad. Who's best on a horse?"
Everyone turned an stared at Renji and Grimmjaw, who feeling eyes on them turned around.
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Me-I am soooo tired! But I passed two-thousand again!
Grimm-Why did you kill Yylfordt?
Me-I get the feeling everyone else would have left Szayel there…
Ichigo&Hichigo-Good Point.