Chapter 55: Animal Chainsaw

Ralph felt his eyes blink repeatedly for a split moment at the huge creature before him, his mind failing to immediately process just what he was seeing underneath the lonely street light.

The massive mutated scorpion before him, however, was hard to completely block out or to unfathom for too long.

This creature, this monster, was indeed all to real.

It was almost up to Ralph's high-setting chest in height, with a large, round body somehow held up by three pairs of long, stubby legs. Its' two pichers, roughly the size and width of basketballs, snapped suprising quietly towards Ralph, while blinking its' monsterous, illuminating green eyes in sync.

Although the beast was fairly calm before Ralph, it was still bone-shaking terrifying all the same. It made the fairly big scorpions back at the hospital even the one that had gotten attached to his nose, seem like mere picnic ants.

But as Ralph's eyes danced around all those amazing features of the scorpion in front of him, they landed on one of the most horrifying features of the whole animal.

There, attached at the end of the creature, was a watermelon sized tail, the the biggest one Ralph had ever seen- so huge, he almost thought he was just imagining it and that there was no way it was real. It was massive and was clearly heavy, curled into a lose ball, thick and colossal.

Suddenly, after a low hissing from the creature, its' tail was slowly raised and uncoiled. Within seconds, it stretched out...revealing the sharpest, most deadly looking stinger Ralph had ever been unlucky enough to lay eyes on.

The stinger itself quickly became the length of a long machete, appearing just as sharp. The outside edges of the 'blade' of a tail had ridges all along the sides, almost like some horror animal chainsaw. The tip was beyond razor sharp, so fine it could easily slice anything in two pieces in a mere half second.

It was the craziest -and scarriest- mutation Ralph had ever seen.

And that stinger and all its' demanded glory was raising slowly to point directly right at Ralph's nose.

The mastiff could only tense up and shake as he watched the stinger extended to its' full length, now so long that if Ralph had been a half an inch closer, the stinger's tip would've stabbed right into his nose.

Ralph felt his eyes widen as his instincts finally kicked in and as he unfroze. Finding his legs, the dog slowly began to back up, his ears flat up against his head in panic. His teeth subconsciously gripping a little tighter around his good dog collar, he gulped as his eyes stayed glued to the creature before him.

Noticing the dog's sight movement, the scorpion suddenly hissed at Ralph meancingly, as if daring him to challenge it. Its' eyes flashed green and blue, clearly a sign of the creature being angry that its' canine component was backing down.

The startling hiss and flashing eyes caused Ralph to jump back clumsily, forgetting he was high up on a hill...causing himself to go stumbling down the hill towards Sugar Russia City.