Little Firefly

A House of 1000 Corpses/Devil's Rejects fanfiction

By: Butterfly Wolf

Disclaimer: I only own Shax, Claudia, Miles, Reaper and Fluffy. Everything else is owned by Rob Zombie and the film producers unless stated otherwise. I make absolutely no money.

Authors Note: Halloween will be the last chapter of Little Firefly. After his first Halloween as a participating member, look for the story As the Devil's Rejects. In which, he will be nine.

It was eleven thirty when Claudia ran up to the house, banging frantically on the door.

Momma was awake and in the living room, lounging as RJ had been called up to Cutter's shop to 'handle something' about an hour ago and she had sent him up some more birds.

When she herd the frantic banging, her instinct was to grab the nearest pistol and peer out the window, a little shocked to see a little girl at her door instead of somebody covered in blood or a pig.

Shax wasn't though. It scared Shax half to death, having extremely sensitive hearing, the pounding on the door below was enough to jerk him out of his bed and peer out his window before cursing his entire way downstairs, not even sparing Momma a look as she peered cautiously out the window with a pistol.

Ripping the door open, in nothing but some jeans and a sleeping tank, he growled.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM!?"

"SHAX, LET ME IN, LET ME IN!" She yelled, trying to get past him. He spared Momma a look to make sure that she had put the gun away before allowing the frantic seven year old access to the house.

"What is wrong with you!?" he said, giving her a look as Momma stomped off, clearly not pleased with something like this. He was gonna end up loosing an ear over this stupid shit.

Claudia grabbed him and pointed out the window.

"That's my problem! It fallowed me all the way here, I think its gonna eat me!" She said, clearly frightened.

There, swaying as it walked up his driveway, was a rabid dog, its mouth full of white foam as he swayed.

Instantly, Shax was thankful Reaper was inside and in his room before he realized Fluffy was still out there.

"Shit! Stay right here!" he said, looking at her with his best scary look.

"Alright, just hurry before he goes out of sight!" She said, her eyes terrified.

Running up the stairs, he ran over to Otis's door and pounded on it twice before running in, Baby, thankfully asleep in her own room as Otis jerked away and gave him a glare.

"Otis, can I use your pistol!?"

"Fuck no, you little shit, now go away!" He said, scowling at having been woke up, the bound woman on his bed squirming to get away from him as he looked down at her with a sleepy grin.

Sneering, Shax ran inside and grabbed his bow and quiver, about four arrows inside as he quickly vacated the room.

"SHAX YOU LITTLE SHIT BRING THAT BACK HERE!"

But he was already back at the front door, Claudia having only moved a couple of steps to better peer out one of the side windows to see where the dog had went.

"Where is he now?" He asked, putting the quiver on.

Claudia turned to him and gave him a confused look before turning back out the window.

"He went behind one of your barns, I think he's gonna go for the cattle." She said, peering outside.

Momma's head turned, suddenly catching some of the conversation.

"Child, what are yew talking about?" She asked, giving Claudia a look from over the back of the sofa.

Shax ran out the door before Momma caught sight of him, cautiously walking closely to where Claudia had said the dog went.

Claudia turned back to the woman Shax had told her to call Momma Firefly.

"There's a rabid dog out there! It fallowed me all the way here, Ma'am, that's why I was so terrified! But Shax went out there with a bow and arrow!" She said, turning back to the window.

Instantly, Momma was on her feet.

"WHAT!? Oh Jesus fuck, where's the rifle!?" She growled, running into her room to quickly get one of their rifles before emerging again and running out the door, Claudia fallowing right on her heels.

Shax had already caught sight of the creature, as it was turned away from him as it swayed it's way to the shade of the barn. It would stop soon, once it hit the shade, he knew, as he took aim. And once it stopped he would fire, but not until then. He had his eye locked on the target, deciding to take his chances and just aim for the head, and if that didn't work, he'd go for the heart, or at least the dogs middle, knowing he wouldn't miss that. He had rarely used a bow and arrow, it really being Otis's pretty much pride and joy, but he had touched it a couple of times. He had faith in himself as the dog slowed, coming to the edge of the shade.

He herd the door open and the feet near as Momma and Claudia ran out the front door, and he knew he had to shoot now before Momma yelled at him and distracted either his aim or the dog.

SWISH

And it was fallowed by a sickening

SLUNK

Of an arrow piercing through the animals skull, it's head falling forward as it's whole body slowly slumped to the ground, almost looking like a regular dog in a sleeping position. And just in time too.

"SHAX BERITH FIREFLY GET THE HELL AWAY FROM THAT DOG!" Yelled Momma, her rifle already out and aimed in the general direction before she realized from the dogs head an arrow poked out, making the head lay at an odd angle on the ground, the weight of the skull slowly sliding down the wood of the arrow.

Claudia gave the scene a disgusted look before grabbing Shax's hand and pulling him farther away from the animal, Momma lowering the rifle with a sneer and turning towards Shax.

"Go get your brother and tell him to bring some kerosene and a lighter."

After Shax had gotten Otis and Momma had delivered a firm slap on the top of his head, he was free to walk Claudia down to the shop, well, at least after RJ returned. Momma told him in private Daddy had done something to a customer and RJ had to go get them, so to make sure he went into the shop first and that everything was clear.

The walk to the shop wasn't really that bad, considering they pretty much had to walk half a mile everyday just to get to their bus stop and it was a three mile walk between Shax's and Claudia's house.

"You know, that was pretty brave." Said Claudia as she turned toward Shax.

Shax had put on a strangely blue colored shirt with a skull in the middle for the walk, a little bit of a blood stain near the edge of it, but it was so small only a pig would notice.

He turned towards her.

"What was brave?" he asked, having been in his own little world. Halloween was tomorrow and it would be soooo much funnn. RJ probably had the newest rabbits in his truck. And it was Shax's first Halloween as a participant! It was his initiation into everything! Every time he thought of it it put an evil little grin on his face.

"You are brave. The snake, the dog, that bully. Rabid dogs, bullies twice your age, and poisonous snakes don't even make you twitch. Are you afraid of anything, little Demon Knight?" She asked, giving him a smile.

Shax's eyebrow rose.

"Demon knight? What the hell is that? And yes, I have fear, just not for petite things like that." He said, sticking his head up.

"Well, Shax is a duke of hell, a Demon Knight. And you're my Demon Knight, you've saved me from three different things so far. Besides, what can be scarier than rattle snakes and rabid dogs?"

Shax's eyes went to the ground as flashes of Otis covered in blood, wearing peoples skin, Baby gouging out eye's, Momma taunting people with guns as RJ threatened to pick them up and break them in half, the Doctor with a drill to a wide-eyed victim, or just Earl coming down the stairs, flew through his mind.

What indeed.

He blinked, a smirk coming to his face as he turned to look at her.

"A Murder Ride is scarier than a rabid dog and a rattle snake."