Mountain Trail

Chapter 4

Skin squirmed in The Blobs grasp, squealing his little head off. Blob stared at the little gray piggy wondering if this was a dream or just a really bad case of gas.

"Put me down!" Skin squealed.

"What kind of sausage are you??" blinked the mountain troll Blob, "You so small and speak like a human and yet you're nothin' but a itty bitty piggy. Maybe you just a figment of my imagination or maybe you some kind of weird mutant who can shrink and morph into different forms."

"If you don't put me down right now I'm gonna make you!"

Blob pulled him closer to his face, "You in no position to be making demands, small fry. How's about I just eat you right now, so I no longer have to hear your annoying voice?"

Skin gasped, "Gah! Uh, no no no. Let's not get drastic now."

"Then tell me who you are and why you be waking me up from my nap!"

'Got to think fast.' Skin thought to himself, 'But what can I say to make this tub of lard let me go?' suddenly a thought came to him, 'Wait a second! I read somewhere in the archives that Blob is actually one of the slowest mutants on the Brother Hood team. Maybe I can out smart him or trick him into letting me go.'

"Answer me, tiny one, or I shall eat you right now!"

"Uh… I am a Ang- I mean, I am Oolong the Great and Powerful Pig Demon! I go to different regions and do as I please. Release me now there'll be a great reward for you down at the bottom of the mountain."

"A reward?" a smile quirked at the corner of Blob's mouth, "What kind of reward?"

"Riches beyond your wildest dreams and a never ending supply of Twinkies."

"Wow Twinkies!!!" he tossed the little piggy to the side, "I love Twinkies! I'm gonna get them before someone else does!"

Skin rubbed his head with his piggy hoof and watched Blob race down the mountain. He shuddered when he saw that Blob wasn't wearing any cloths, "I could have gone without seeing that." he looked around and saw a path leading down the opposite way, "I'd better make myself scarce before he comes back realizes that there's nothing down there but trees and dirt."

He raced down the path not caring where it would lead him as long as it put some distance between him and Blob.

Blob reached the bottom of the mountain to find that there was nothing there, "Wha? No! The talking piggy deceived me! I'll make him pay." he turned back around and raced back up the mountain to find that Skin was no longer there.

It had been an hour since skin left that part of the mountain. He soon found himself at a cave opening. He was tired. Reluctantly he walked inside the cave and fell asleep. When he woke up, he found himself in a different part of the cave. He sat up to and looked around. In the far corner of the cave there was a figure hunched over a fire, cooking something.

The figure looked up, "Oh. You're awake. Good."

The voice sounded familiar. Skin rose to his feet and walked over to the fire. He squatted down by the figures side and peered into his face, "Everett?? But how- You're suppose to be-"

"Dead?" Everett chuckled, "Yeah. I was, but something brought me back to the physical world. I don't' know what it was, but it's something not natural."

Skin looked his friend up and down. Everett's body looked real and it looked almost human, only thing different about him was the fact that his skin was gray instead of its natural color. Skin reached out to touch his long departed friends body, his body was hard as a rock, and cold to the touch.

Everett sighed, "I'm as stiff as my old body." he looked at Skin and smiled, "At first when I saw you enter the cave I thought I was seeing things. It's not everyday that you get to see a pig that can walk on its haunches and talk in their sleep. At first glance I wouldn't have recognized you, but when I heard you speaking Spanish and took a closer look at you I then knew who you were. I knew that you were a egotistical pig, Ang, but I didn't think you'd actually turn into one."

"Funny, amigo. At least I am not a walking statue."

"Better to be a statue than to be what's next on the menu."

"Cute, Ev. Real cute. Speaking of cute, I just saw Jubicita some time ago. She had this weird looking dress. Made her look like a Chinese version of Little Red Riding Hood. Monet and Paige were pigs though."

"So, I guess M's not gonna be winning the beauty contest this year, huh?"

"She's not gonna be winning anything, homme. She's got herself blown up."

Ev blinked, "What?! How?"

"Jube's put a live hand grenade in her mouth. All's that's left of her are some very over charred pork grinds."

"Dude, that's not funny!"

"You're right. But what's funny is that you dated her. I can't believe that you of all people dated the one person who was more colder that the White Queen."

"Oh, and you think I could do better?"

" Hell ya. I'd rather have the one chica that was chasing me since the first day that I met her than the ice bitch who gave everybody the third degree."

"You're just jealous that she became my girlfriend instead of yours."

"Jealous?! If I was jealous you would have been missing your pinga, amigo."

"Yeah, right."

"You know, I think those worms have eaten away at your brain for way too long. You've become even more dumber than when you were alive."

Ev groaned and leaned back against the wall, "Maybe this isn't your dream. Maybe this is hell and I'm being punished for being associated with you."

"Go to hell!"

"I think I already am."