Part Five

by Jesse Gloyd

Just as the rattler was about to elongate it's slender pulsating body into death strike pose, Emmy took off her shirt. The snake was mezmerised. It's head bobbed back and forth and Emmy began to sing and shake. "Everybody knows in a second life we all come back sooner or later, as anything, from a pussy cat, to a man eating alligator."

The snake began to harmonize with an evil slither,"now you all might think my story is more fiction than its fact." Rick was taking his clothes off as well. Cody, in fear, began to scream. His leg was turning leathery and his feet were morphing into claws. "But believe it or not my mother, dear, decided she'd come back," they sang. Cody's hair fell out and his eyes sucked into his skull. "As a car, she's her very own shining star..."

A voice from another dimension called to them as they stood naked in the middle of the floor. Cody had taken the form of a small dragon. Smoke filtered from his nostrils and sulfur bubbled up from his insides. "THE DUBOIS FAMILY," the voice said. Rick had taken on the lower body of a goat and Emmy now had prehistoric wings of what seemed like fish scales. "Yes," they answered in unison. "YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN POWER OF THE BEASTS, YOU MUST USE YOUR POWER TO DESTROY THE FORCES OF MALDRIGON!" And with the blessing from The One, the three forced united and flew through the roof and into the air.

Arms stretched, they made their way across the rolling golden hills. Below them, they watched a herd of elk gallop in formation. Emmy let the cool breeze run under her wings. "What is our mission?" she asked Rick. "Were you not listening?" he answered. "Listening to what, Dad?" asked Cody. "Don't use that tone with me son," he said. "I have been given power by The One to hear the longings of his heart, what he speaks with his spirit." "What has he told you?" asked Emmy. "That we need to do everything withing our damn power to STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF THE OZONE LAYER!!!" The boom of his voice could be heard as far off as Fargo, the power of his baritone killed the heard of elk below him, turning them into ash.