Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781771483681
Publisher: ChiZine
Published: 2014-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Jessica Page was lying at the bottom of a large claw-foot tub. It was half-filled with water, and more was pouring in from the gushing faucet. Staring at the submerged girl, Jerry was reminded of the alien monster from The Thing, except it had been encased in a block of ice.

“Ice is water,” Jerry muttered, and that was enough to snap him out of his daze.

Felix turned off the faucet and climbed into the tub. He got his hands under Jessica’s arms and started to lift. “Grab her legs, Jer,” he said, straining. “She’s fucking heavy for a kid.”

The bathroom was large, with a window over the tub, spacious enough for both of them to move around without getting in each other’s way. But before Jerry could step forward to help, the water in the bathtub suddenly leaped up in a wave and slammed into Felix with enough force to knock him out of the tub and smack him into the nearby wall. He slid to the floor groaning in pain.

That’s twice today, Jerry thought. If he’s angry now, he’s going to be positively pissed later.

Assuming there was a later.

Jessica’s body had slid back into the tub. The water level had lowered after the wave leaped out to strike Felix, but it was still high enough for her to slip completely beneath the surface. She was going to drown if they didn’t get her out of there.

Jerry froze as a sharp hissing sound filled the room. The floor was covered in water from the wave attack, and as Jerry watched, it began to race around like quicksilver, joining to form puddles, puddles combining to form a single large pool between him and the tub. As Jerry stared, the pool curled into a tube that writhed around on the floor like a worm. Several smaller appendages sprouted from the main body to form slender, jointed limbs. The back end elongated and swung up to hang in an arc over the main body like the tail of a scorpion.

That’s what it was, Jerry realized. Some sort of giant scorpion made of water.

He tried to step around it, and the water scorpion skittered to the side to intercept him. Despite the fact that it was composed entirely of water, the stinger at the end of its tail still looked incredibly sharp. Jerry wondered if it would explode like a water balloon if it struck him, or if it would skewer him like meat on a kabob. He decided he didn’t want to find out.

“The chair!”

Jerry managed to tear his gaze from the creature to look over at Felix, who was rising slowly to his feet. The water scorpion turned in his direction, then turned tentatively back to Jerry, seemingly conflicted about who presented the greater threat.

Felix held one hand to his head, which was now bleeding freely from his second trip into a wall, and pointed with the other. “The chair!”

Jerry turned and saw the straight-back chair that had been propped under the closet door.

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