Meanwhile in another part of the country...
Rick lived about a three hour drive from Cultus Creek,and spent much of his time checking
on the latest groups formed on the internet.
He was sorting through the were and dragon sites when he noticed a new one in the listings.He
clicked on it and came upon a form for new members.It was called Monsters R Us and was a group for
monsters.Werewolves,dragons,basilisks,piata birds and many others he'd never heard of.The
introductory blurb was short but as he reread it a second time it slowly dawned on him that
this was a group FOR monsters to get together on the internet,rather then ABOUT them.
This was one group he had to join.Visions of stoned kids RPG'g came to mind.
The group was only accepting six new members before it would be closed off .He
started up a new internet identity under a female persona,and then put in the application with as
vague a description of his internet identity as possible.Where it asked her species,height,weight
location he either left the fields blank or pushed a button on the form titled " surprise me".
sadie_sicklove@yahoo.com,female,of unknown species,origin,age and supernatural abilities,then
sent in her membership application to someone named missipishugurl@hotmail.com.
He waited for the confirmation that her email had been received,then put Monsters R Us on
the babckburner.
After checking the latest news,which talked of a savage bestial attack on some teens at a bush party
up north,he turned in for the night.
She tossed and turned on the grass,her wrinkled grey skin covered in healing scratches.
She tried to tell herself that this was just a weird dream,but the smell in the air of the other beasts,
the rhythmic chanting ,her aching jaws and bruised ribs felt so real.Rick got up off the grass and
stared at the shadowy forms that danced around her.In front of her lay a clay bowl with a black
liquid in it.
One of the shadow forms walked up to her and held out a four clawed paw and slowly slid
the razor sharp talons from her neck,over her breasts,down her belly and down to her legs.
Two forms materialized behind her and brought her to her feet.She felt a spasm of sexual energy
between her legs,and as the bowl was placed between her legs,felt her own blood and juices drip
down her thighs and into the bowl.She heaved her chest in and out as she struggled to breath.
Her heart was pounding,and when the mysterious bowl was placed to her lips,she greedily
slurped the foul feral smelling contents down her parching throat.Then with a bestial roar the shadow
monster in front of her tore open her chest with its claws and squeezed her rapidly beating heart with
one massive paw.
Rick jerked awake with a scream,and coughed out a mouthful of black liquid.He could feel the
four lines of irritated skin redden and rise into welts on the front of his body.
The loud clang clang clang of the clock striking out midnight startled him for a second,and he
pulled up the blanket closer up around him,just in case something with fang and claw leapt out of
the shadows at him.
He could hear the wind stirring the curtains,and finally got up to check on the wiindow.It was
sealed.The wind was coming in through the open door to his bedroom.Hadn't he closed it?The breeze
must have pushed it ajar.
He could hear the howling wind rattlle the window panes now and could hear a eerie whistling
sound come from inside the darkened house.He crept outside the bedroom and followed the whistling
to the living room,where he traced the noise and the draft to the huge stone fireplace.The chain screen
in front of the opening rattled,and he saw that it had been pushed aside.
He'd had a horrible dream about his own apparent death,someone might have snuck into the
house while he slept and he had four vivid red lines on his chest.There was no way Rick would be
sleeping anytime soon.So he went to the computer and logged in.
Rick wasn't too surprised that sadie had been approved as a member of Monsters R Us.The email
from missipishugurl contained her membership number and password as well as some text telling
her to check and update her membership profile as soon as she logged onto the site.
So with trembling fingers and a eerie howling wind behind him,the middle aged man logged in.
He gasped as the websites homepage popped on the screen in all its gory graphic glory.He barely
noticed the wind howl louder behind him.On the screen ,in glorious colour was the image of a young
woman on the bloodstained grass,her dress pulled down .On top of her straddled a blurry panther
lizard thing that was midway in the process of ripping out its victims ribcage with its oversized fangs.
Off to one side off the photo was a time stamp from less then three months ago.