The Brave Journey by Jefferson Knapp

Author:Jefferson Knapp
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780984377107
Publisher: Kraken Books, Ltd.

The moonlight shone on its reddish-brown hair. Its dark, bloodshot eyes looked past both its tusks–one broken off but extremely sharp–and stared angrily at the four.

Shrill squeaking came from its mouth, where a rat’s tail twitched back and forth. “Help me! Help me!” Crunch! The boar ground the rat carelessly between its teeth and swallowed. Roscoe almost fainted again. Benjamin walked slowly to the other three, who now stood on the flat rock. The dripping water was muted by the mounting snorting and breathing. There was no escape. They were trapped and they knew it.

Wuuuh. Snort. “Ooh, what a treat for me!” said the deep, gravelly voice. Snort. Wuuuh. “Four pieces of meat.” Snort. Its tongue slid over large, crooked yellow teeth. Its enormous belly expanded and contracted with every labored breath.

Roscoe kept his eyes glued on the beast. “Pig? You met my cousins. Why don’t you introduce us to yours?” Clementine couldn’t utter a word.

Snort! Wuuuh! “So which one will be first?” Snort! The giant boar looked each of them over. “A small dog! I wouldn’t even taste him before he went down.” Wuuuh. Paco shook, and his cold, damp fur didn’t help any. Snort! Wuuuh! “A little pig? A salty one you would be!” Clementine gulped. Snort! “I haven’t had goat for many moons! I picked my teeth with the horns of the last one, but yours wouldn’t do the job.” Wuuuh. “I guess your bones would do the trick.”

Roscoe fainted again. Benjamin patted him but kept his eyes on the boar.

“Human!” It breathed and snorted louder in excitement. SNORT! WUUUUH! “Ooooh, I have never tasted human before.” Its eyes rolled back in the large head as it inhaled to smell the boy. SNORT! WUUUUUH! “You smell so delicious, too!”

Paco stared straight ahead and whispered through rigid lips. “My King, do you have any of those pretty fireworks on hand?” Benjamin had forgotten! He removed the backpack and laid it at his feet. The giant boar angrily stomped the flat rock. Boom!

Snort! Wuuuh! “Human, you will be the main course tonight!”

Clementine couldn’t bear the thought of seeing his king eaten. “Hello my name is–”

Snort! Wuuuh! “Salty talking food! Ooh, I believe I’ll eat you all!” Snort! Wuuuh!

“Look, I don’t think you’d want to–”

Snort! Wuuuh!“I haven’t eaten anything larger than a rat for three days!” It noisily licked its teeth.

“Well,” Roscoe snapped, “from the look of it, you could go a couple more days!”

Clementine gasped. “Did you hit your head when you fainted?!”

Snort! Wuuuh!“You will take turns coming to me so I can eat you, or I will come to you.” SNORT! WUUUUH! “Decide who will be first, but I want human last!”

Benjamin pulled out a roman candle, which looked puny compared to the boar.

“Sire,” Paco said, “I don’t believe fire will work on this monster.”

Roscoe jabbed Clementine in his side. “Can’t you talk sense into your cousin?”

“That thing is not my cousin!”

“Well, the resemblance is uncanny! Are you sure–”

“Goat, that’s rich coming from someone whose relatives spend every minute going ‘Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!’” He mimicked the goats and hopped around in circles.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.