Theme Thursday.....Blue

Opal Nation23

Father stood up, walked over to where he stood, and then looked to see what the Packwitt was staring upon. Slowly they both backed up to hide behind a bush and looked at a most terrifying site. They could see in the distance the dead zerthbeelee, lying there on the ground.

I stood up, and looked at Father and Ben staring at me. I had to get out of the room because I felt so sad for the zerthbeelee and Packwitt who had died and at the same time I was so thankful that my Father was still alive. I knew I should only be thinking of the Packwitt and his family but I could not. Father was all that Ben and I had left. If anything had happened to him then what would we do. I went to stand on the back patio to get some fresh air. Neither Ben nor Father followed me. I think they knew that I needed to be alone.

I am not sure how long I stood there, just staring out and not really seeing anything. The sun started to go down and I knew I better go back inside. I walked into the library, Father was still sitting in his chair holding his glass that I knew held his Special Reserve. I looked at the couch and saw that Ben had fallen asleep and was lightly snoring. Father then looked up at me and I could tell that his look held the unasked question of whether or not he should continue with his story, and if I would be up to listening to it. I wanted to refuse but I knew that I had to hear about everything my Father had been through when he had gone to the Opal Nation. I nodded a yes to my Father. He nodded back, and I knew I had to wake Ben up so that he too could hear the rest of the story.

Ben finally woke up when I pushed him off the couch and he fell on the floor. "What did you do that for?", he griped at me while rubbing his shoulder. I just gave him a look and then nodded again at Father.

Father then continued with the story.

He said they could see these creatures attached to the zerthbeelee and thought they could hear a loud sucking noise coming from them but could not tell for sure because of the two zerthbeelees still wailing while watching the other Packwitt. The Packwitt with Father looked at him and whispered, "Bullcomimao!". Then he and Father looked at what was happening and knew that they had better be as still and quiet as possible. Father motioned to the Packwitt to go and try to get the two zerthbeelees to stop the wailing noise. He looked like he was afraid to leave Father, but at the same time he knew that he needed to get the zerthbeelees to quiet down before the Bullcomimao's came back to their camp.

Father looked back at the scene before him and was fascinated by the creatures feasting upon the zerthbeelee. They were smaller than a dog, larger than a cat, about the size of a very large racoon. There looked to be around four of them in what seemed to be their area in which to suck the blood out of the zerthbeelee. Three of them must have been there longer then the fourth one because they were already starting to turn brown, but what what the Packwitt must not have known was that first they turned a pale blue color before they turned brown. Father said it was strange because you could almost see which parts of their body the blood was going into. You could see the pale blue color moving along from their head and making it's way to the rest of their bodies. It was fascinating and it was terrifying at the same time.

The fourth one was larger and this was the one that frightened Father the most. It was still pretty much green in color but it had the most blood on it's body. It would stop sucking and then look at the other three bullcomimao's and then look back towards camp. Father swore the creature looked right at him, but then he told us that he was holding his breath so tight until his lungs hurt that he knew he had not moved. The green creature then went back to sucking with such a vengeance that Father was worried that it had seen him and wanted to make sure that it got it's share of the blood before something happened.

Father then noticed that the two zerthbeelees had lowered the sound of their wailing, maybe that was why the creature had looked towards their camp. The creature was probably thinking about attacking the other zerthbeelees when it was finished with this one. Father tried to see where the missing Packwitt had been dragged, only he could not see him. He saw a trail of blood a few feet away from the dead zerthbeelee but there were too many bushes in the way for him to see if the Packwitt was over there. Hopefully there was not another Bullcomimao with the Packwitt, but Father knew there was a possibility.

Father continued to study the creatures, mostly the large one because it was changing faster then the other three. They had no hair, no feathers, and he could not see any scales, but it was hard to tell at this distance. They could have had scales, but they might have been small ones, but for now Father could only guess that they had a very thick looking type of hide. It was almost like a deer skin once the hair had been removed. Father then noticed that they had a short tail, which he could see they were using to balance their bodies while on the Zerthbeelee. The tail was still green on the four of them. Maybe that would be the last part to turn pale blue and then brown. He looked closer and could see that the tail had what looked to be almost like fish scales but not really fish scales. They were almost triangular in shape but the tips were rounded off. For some reason they made Father think of a shovel. The Bullcomimao's continued to suck, seemingly ignoring everything going on around them. Father could now even hear the sickening sucking noises they were making, but he could not stop watching. He told us it was like watching a horror movie and you just had to see what was going to happen next. The only difference he said was that he soon began to realize that he was a part of this horror movie.

He knew that the moment when the Bullcomimao's stopped sucking on the Zerthbeelee, withdrew their large claws out of it, and looked back towards the camp.

For those who missed part 22, here is the link. Which also links to parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,17, 18, 19, 20, and 21. For more Theme Thursday's please go here.