Little Firefly

A House of 1000 Corpses/Devil's Rejects fanfiction

By: Butterfly Wolf

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

Authors Note: This is the last chapter to Little Firefly, the next story, As the Devils Rejects, is a lot more serious and traumatizing. Shax is nine when his house is raided by the police and his brother his killed in front of him.

The Rabbits were tied together and led out by RJ, Momma and Baby holding Otis's cloak up as well as their own little outfits as Shax stayed behind with Grampa and Tiny, walking slowly towards the well. The grin still hadn't left Shax's face as he skipped, sometimes going up to shove one of the rabbits to see them fall with a laugh.

Tonight was his first night participating, what Otis had in mind for him was a question that kept coming to his mind. But it wasn't like a test he dreaded, oh no, he couldn't fucking wait.

Shax skipped this way and that, circling around the rabbit's while holding his knife out.

"Ring around the rosy, pocket full of poesy, ashes to ashes, we all fall down!" And then he'd give one a kick and make them fall. RJ would jerk them roughly back up by the rope and give him a grin before continuing their walk, Baby sometimes laughing at the little chants he did when he skipped around them.

It made him grin bigger, skipping his way up to the front as they neared the well/tree.

Smirking, he stood next to Otis, watching as he tossed one of the rabbits in, holding the other one with his hand.

"Alright, fuck face, get in the box." He had said, roughly jerking him into the wooden coffin like structure.

"And you…" Said Otis, turning to the girl that had annoyed Shax, he gave her a grin.

"Ohhh, you got a special treat comin, bitch!" Said Baby, throwing grass at the woman as Otis smirked at her.

"Oh yeah, you got a real special treat." Said Otis, pulling out one of his knives and cutting her gag and rope.

"Run." He said smirking at her confusion.

Baby pushed her roughly, Momma laughing in the back ground as Shax turned to them, RJ standing there with a small grin on his face as Tiny stood on stand by with the crank for the well.

Shax turned back to the woman with a smirk. He knew this was just a trick, because no one got away. No one. It was just another way to fuck with the rabbits before the slaughter.

Finally after the third shove, the woman gave a scream and started running as fast as she could, but to Shax's surprise, Otis nor Baby went after her, and neither pulled a gun either. Looking up at Otis in confusion, he waited, until Otis turned down to him with a smirk.

"Go get her." He said, raising his eyebrows for emphasis.

Shax gave Otis a look, then Momma, for permission who gave him a drunk smile.

"Go get her my lil demon boy!" She laughed, nearly falling into Rufus.

Smirking, Shax took off with a run, running as fast as he could toward where she had went. She was going to enter the burial site, he knew, and he knew a short cut to get there.

Running through the side trees, he waited for her to come into sight before he took his belt off his belt. There she was. Run rabbit, run. He smirked to himself as she continued running, only looking directly behind her to see if anyone was coming after her.

Shax licked his lips and tossed his axe sideways, and through the air it flew, colliding right with the back of her knee with a strange noise.

His prey was caught.

"Ohh, think the fish are biting today!" He said with a grin, skipping his way over to her.

"Humpty dumpty sat on a wall." He said, as he neared.

"Humpty Dumpty had a great fall." He roughly pulled the axe back out of her as she tried to crawl away, tears rolling down here eyes as sob's escaped her, a wail coming from her when the blade left her flesh.

"And all the kings horses and all the kings men…" Said Shax, bringing his axe down full force on her left forearm, the severed limb leaking blood out on the ground as he picked up the dismembered part and made a hand motion.

"Couldn't put humpty dumpty back together again!" He said as she screamed, cradling the bleeding limb to her chest, the blood staining the white rabbit custom.

Smirking down at her, he offered her her arm back.

"Here, let me give you a hand." before laughing manically to himself and grabbing her by the hair.

"Sorry, gotta have proof of the kill!" Said Shax, readying his axe.

It was about ten minutes later when Shax skipped his way back over to the tree/well, blood coating his bare chest as he made his way over to Otis, who had just finished lowering the tape player in the well. As Otis stood up, Shax tossed the head at him.

"Here, catch!" he said, smirking at Otis's wide'eyed look at the decapitated head.

Turning toward Shax, he gave him a smirk.
"Perfect." Said Otis as Shax raised an eyebrow at him, Momma coming over to give him a hug.

"Make sumthin out of it." Said Shax, RJ going to pick him up and put him on his shoulders, Shax feeling almost as tall as a tree as he stared down at everyone, even Tiny, as the giant raised a hand and patted his head with it. He felt so wonderful, so loved and right, that this was his family and where he belonged, and nothing else mattered.

Maybe his family was fucked up, maybe they were evil and sinners. But he was one of them now, a true Firefly. And Otis could be an asshole but he loved him. And RJ could be distant, Baby could be manic, Tiny could be silent, Daddy a little absent and Momma a little strange, but Shax loved them. He loved them all more than anything, than his own life. And he swore that day, that he'd never let anything happen to them, like every child does. Like every child does at one point, he felt invincible, and with it he swore he'd never let harm come to any of them. He'd rather die.

The next day Daddy came up to see him, and asked him how his first Halloween went, but Shax merely gave him a hug with a huge grin on his face, the clown laughing and patting him on the head, saying anytime he didn't want to do Otis's stupid shit on Halloween he could come up and stay up at the shop with him. But Shax merely said fat chicks scared him, and that was enough to make the clown break into laughter.

Yes, this was his family.

And he'd never let anyone take it away from him.