Eerie, Indiana fanfiction: Biters

[froodle]

There was screaming coming from the backyard. Simon was up and out of bed in one quick movement, and his body was half-way down the stairs and pulling on a pair of too-small wellington boots before his brain caught up.

It had been raining for three days, and the Holmes's patched and scrubby lawn had before a morass of sucking black mud that devoured shoes right off the feet of unwary travelers. Simon burst through the kitchen door like an avenging angel with sleep-dust in it's eyes and pillow-marks on it's face, launched himself from the back step and landed ankle-deep in the soft earth.

Harley was sitting in the middle of a patch of dead ground that had once been occupied by a garden shed, but was now the deepest part of the quagmire. Stray tufts of blond hair showed through the inch-deep coating of muck that covered him head to toe, and his eyes and teeth flashed bright beneath the layers of clinging dirt. A mudsnake had coiled itself around his leg, and Simon was for a brief moment rocked by a wave of dread and panic that made his head swim and his stomach roil. Then he realised that it wasn't Harley screaming.

The mudsnake was a young one, barely four feet long, and it was bleeding from a very familiar set of bite-marks set across the bridge of it's broad, blunt nose. Simon tugged up the sleeve of his pyjama top to compare his own pale scars, and sighed.

"Harley Schwarzenegger Holmes!" he shouted. "You leave that poor mudsnake alone right now, or I'll come over there and blister your butt!"

Harley laughed and pointed at him, mockingly. Simon scowled. He wasn't looking forward to another set of angry mudsnake parents showing up to talk about this.





Holmes Brothers

The End by froodle, in which Simon reads Harley a bedtime story

Drains by froodle, in which clowns are evil, murderous sacks of shit, and Simon is having none of it

Kaleidoscope by froodle, in which Simon has cause to regret buying cheap toys at the World o' Stuff

Sneakers by froodle, in which the latest Sky Monsters are released

Reception by froodle, in which Simon has problems with his mobile phone

Festival by froodle, in which Eerie's local businesses celebrate the summer

Strawberry by froodle, in which there is unauthorised hubbub in Eerie

Anticipation by froodle, in which Simon and Harley look forward to the Equinox

The Hut by froodle, in which Simon takes on the forces of Eerie solo