Bat V
von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright)
It was a sunshiny day at ‘the place’ and the people were going ‘Ho-Ho-Ho’. They were going ‘Ho-Ho-Ho’ because they had outsmarted Batty. He was somewhere far away flying harmlessly through space.
They went about their daily business at work, school and home, assured in the fact that Batty no longer posed a threat to their peaceful existence. The day passed peacefully and uneventfully. As darkness fell over ‘the place’ the people closed their windows and shut their doors, and turned in for a good nights rest, except for a few late night revelers in the city pubs.
But, unbeknownst to the people, Batty and Belinda were close by. They were somewhere in space, close to the place, but they were no longer alone. They had prospered in space. In tow flew their offspring, four little bats; Berty, Batny, Betty and little baby bat. One happy, albeit thirsty, vampire bat family.
The mayor was one of the late night revelers at a local pub, and started walking home in a carefree fashion, after all, there weren’t any bats around tonight. He was also bound to be re-elected, he thought to himself, after all it had been his idea that they should escape the bat and fool him. He was laughing to himself as he strolled down the street, ‘Ho-Ho-Ho.’ But suddenly he was over whelmed by six thirsty bloodsucking bats, they appeared out of the night as if from nowhere. His tune changed to ‘Argh!-Argh!-Argh!’ as he was being mangled to death by the bloodsucking bats. Once he had expired, Batty and his family had a virtual feast of blood. They sucked, and sucked, until their little bellies were filled to capacity. In the early morning hours, while ‘the place’ was still shrouded in semi-darkness, they retired to Batty’s old cave for a good days rest. They had flown far, and blood was their reward. The pure life giving essence of blood.
As a new day dawned over the place, the people found the mangled remains of the mayor in a lonely side street, the place was a bloody mess, and they knew, Batty was back. They had traveled across the galaxy in an attempt to evade the bloodsucker but had failed. There was no escaping that bloodthirsty bat. The people all packed their bags and headed for the launch pad in town. They were getting away while it was still day.
Batty the vampire bat could feel there was something amiss when he awoke this evening….
The End.