Help Wanted
The ad read "Temporary help wanted. Server needed, must be 18 or older. Alcohol will be dispensed. Call 341-785-0836 ask for Ash."
It was about 5 feet covered in light blue scales and clawed. There was a tuft of red hair, mohawk style,on the top of it's head. It was in the trees. The thing had a taste for human tar tare, preferably still breathing. I pumped it full of bullets until it stopped moving. Then I chopped it's head off and burned the body and the head separately. Wasn't taking any chance of this thing regenerating. Any idea what it was, asked Sarah?
No, really hope I don't run into one though Jacob said. Okay it likes forests,was it nocturnal? How fast was it?
Might have been some kind of forest spirit. You piss them off and they get mean. The people taken, were they messing with the forest Ash asked? He placed 2 beers on the table.
There was no pattern to the victims, Ash, just people passing at the edge of the trees. It never took kids only adults, huh said Sarah. Kids would have been easier, maybe it understood kids get searched for?
It was more active after dusk Jacob, but the sunlight didn't appear stop it just slow it down. Sarah took a sip of her drink.
Could you tell if it was female? Maybe it was feeding babies Ash questioned?
I searched the trees and area for about a mile around. No signs of a nest she answered.
It's possible it could have been storing energy to spawn. If it was, adults had the most nutrition. Ah, you said it was slow in the light maybe it was blind in the light. If it was using scent to find prey close to the edge perhaps it only took adults because, it needed the hormones from the adults. Before puberty children and adults smell different. How fast did you say it was asked Jacob?
It could have won several gold metals in the Olympics Sarah sighed.
Samantha somehow paled a little more and returned to the bar. It was enough. She took off her apron and handed it to Ellen. I quit. I don't know what these people are talking about or where they come from. I don't want to know. They are either dangerous psycho's or way too involved with D&D. That table is wondering which are harder to kill werewolves or vampires. The one by the window is trying to figure out if you can you use a demon blade on Lucifer or not, because he started out an Angel. The one Ash is at, is talking about some unnamed creature that prefers to eat adults alive but not kids. This is just tonight's crowd, these people are weird. The conversations I have heard would give Wes Craven nightmares. She gathered her coat and purse from behind the bar.
I'll send you, your check Ellen sighed. Ash get up here now!
Ash flashed Samantha a smile as she made her way to the door. Thunder clouds were white in comparison to Ellen's face at the bar. Tell me why you thought hiring a civilian was a good idea.
Ellen, you were on a hunt, Jo was down with the flu. I couldn't do it all myself. I told her it was temporary, I guaranteed 2 weeks. I told her any more then that was conditional upon your return. I also said that we got a lot of people here who were into D&D. So if she heard any odd conversations to ignore them.
That explains her comment. From now on The Roadhouse DOES NOT hire civilians even temporarily. What do you think, will she go to the sheriff asked Ellen?