Eduardo Chapter 2 Part II
Eduardo was frightened by the man's grasp but his thoughts shifted when he felt the man's full weight bare down on him. Eduardo reached for his rape whistle before realizing that the man was losing control of his legs.
"I apologize young apprentice," The man said as he slipped further to the floor, "I can only stand for the first one minute and thirty-seven seconds of being in my human form." Eduardo looked confused. "That is," the squirrel-man continued, "unless I do this!" Quickly, he sucked some blood from the spot on the boy's neck where he had bitten him in his squirrel-from. It lasted only a few seconds before he replaced his loose grip on Eduardo's arms. "As disgusting as that was, it alone will keep me standing for another –" he looked at his watch, "another minute and fifty-eight seconds."
Noticing that Eduardo was trying to back away from him, the squirrel-man tightened his grip on his arms, effectively trapping him. Eduardo suddenly noticed how tall and looming this squirrel-man was, and began to look really constipated and scared.
"Oh no, oh no, oh no!" Eduardo started rocking back and forth, screaming useless exclamations, "Emeto! Papi! Alicia! Somebody help! The squirrel! The squirrel!" The squirrel-man laughed at Eduardo, but Eduardo was suddenly unfazed. "I am used to people laughing at me, estúpido. Eduardo is no one's apprentice, so unhand me or mi papita will hurt you!"
"Oh," the larger man said, "that wouldn't be the papita who left your sorry tushy in this forest, now would it?" He smirked at Eduardo's glare, "No, my young apprentice. Neither God nor your papita will help you now. The transformation has already begun."
Eduardo noticed that his butt was beginning to tingle. "What are you talking about?" he asked.
The squirrel-man only smirked again and said "You ask too many questions, grasshopper. I will see you again before dawn." Suddenly no one was grasping Eduardo and there was only a pile of clothes on the ground in front of him. Thoroughly frazzled, he kneeled down to assess the clothes when he noticed a little moving bump under the t-shirt.
A squirrel suddenly darted out from under the shirt, and hissed at Eduardo's pudgy, grasping fingers before disappearing into the forest.
"It is just as well that you leave me, too, squirrel-man," the thrice abandoned boy muttered to himself before making the rest of the way down to the ground and laying his head of his knees. "Oh. a-my. A-god. good day." Drowning in his sorrows, Eduardo didn't know what to think. That is, until he realized that his tingling butt was becoming more and more tingly. He had something to think about then because as the tingling increased, so did the screeching noise coming from somewhere in the woods…
TO BE CONTINUED…