Tales Of The Floridiot's
The Great Gator of the Swamp
Somewhere in Naples Florida.
Pete screams, “She’s here!”
“Ok good job Pete. Mike, how’re the shish kabobs doing?” Billy asked.
“They’re don- burnt, they’re burnt Billy-” Mike exclaimed in horror.
As Billy looks at the steaming black food on the back porch, Billy almost throws up at the steam that smells like rubber, “You had one job Mike! I thought you knew how to cook?!”
Snarkally, Mike replies, “Well to be fair I said I could make tuna sandwiches.”
“Well, these will have to do, put them on a plate…” Billy goes to the front door to greet his mom Pete and Ted stand next to him.
“You said that Mike knew what he was dong.” Says an unpleased Ted.
“Give him a break.” Billy States.
The door opens and as their mom looks at the three she looks almost fearful.
“What have you guys done now?” She asks.
Mike walks in with a plate of burnt shish kabobs “Behold dinner.” he bows holding the burnt food out.
“Aww, wait that smells like gator?” She tilt’s her head waiting for a answer.
Hearing that the boys know they are doomed in many ways
Billy steps forward speaking “So what. We made your food!”
Sighing she looks up at the ceiling “You broke the rule, no going out doing illegal things.”
“It was their idea,” Ted smiles as he points to Mike and Peter.
“Ted you jerk!” Pete screams.
“It was my idea mom.” Billy says well holding Pete away from Ted.
“Interesting- Well ok no more video games for a week, for all of you.” She states not showing any remorse.
“nuuuu” ted whimpers.
“Ok! Good night mom, we have to do our homework” Billy says as he pulls Peter and Ted to the bedroom well Mike follows waving back to their mom.
As their bedroom door closes Billy smiles and nervously laughs. “Well that went great!”
“No, it didn’t you idiot.” Ted says as he climbs up the bunk bed.
“Ehhhhh, maybe for you nerd.” Mike sniggered well pointing limp risted at Ted.
Billy almost laughs at Mike then laughed “You love Star Wars, heck we all love Star Wars!”
“Ok what next fearless leader?” ted says to Billy as his feet block the view of Pete who is sitting on the bunk below Ted.
“Hmmmmm, give me a second'' Billy stands there for a minute and works out a bad plan.
“Ok, here's the plan: we kill one more gator and bring mom the skull as a sign that we will stop and listen.”
Mike nods and says “Sure, what could go wrong!”
Ted sighs, “It’s a bad idea.”
“I know, now let's get some sleep, we get up at 1:00 am.” Billy says before laying down.
1:00 am comes and goes and at 2:30 but as fate would have it Ted gets up and seals the fate of the four brothers.
Ted almost laughs. “Well I can’t believe that I'm going to do this, okay idiots get uuuuuup.”
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The room was full of confusion,
“Wha-” Mike muttered.
“Come on it’s Saturday…” Pete cried.
“Shuuuuu, thanks Ted, ok get your shoes on and I’ll open the window.” Billy says as he gets out of his bunk that was one of the two bottom ones.
As they all got ready grabbing spearguns from under their beds and flashlights, they all jumped out the window one at a time, then closing the window and walking through town till they got to the edge of town where the Everglades start.
“Here we go again.” Mike mummers once more almost like someone saying they will only have one more drink.
“Okay, everyone ready?” Billy asks well looking back at the silhouettes of his brothers.
The three all nod saying “Sure!” before walking out onto the marsh.
“Remember, be careful where you step, and stick together.” Billy urged.
As Billy looks at his brothers remembering that one wrong move and they could lose their limbs, or if you're really unlucky fall into a deep spot where the water goes down so deep that it might as well be an ocean.
As they walked they all hoped that they wouldn’t have to walk all the way to the “Evergreen pine forest” which is a forest that is like a small island a mile from the start of the Everglades that is like a wasteland in a wasteland, there is a bridge to it but nothing lives there.
Each of the boys holds onto their speargun so tight that they start to lose feeling in parts of their fingers.
Pete stops and blurted “H- hey isn’t it odd that it's so quiet right now like no sound at all? Usually by now, we would be in the middle of killing a gator.”
After Pete finishes talking they all listen and there was nothing- It was so quiet that they only hear each other breathing.
“Okay, what the heck??” Mike babbled loudly.
“Oh, Mike are you going to cr-” Ted is cut off by Billy
“SHUT UP, something spooked all the animals away, that may be bad, or maybe there is a big gator?” Billy smiles to put them all at ease.
But each of them start to feel as if they are being watched.
Billy says the calmest trying to see if there is any movement under the unstable ground.
Mike thinks of turning back and even starts to look behind himself.
Pete thinks of ways to talk everyone to go home.
And Ted thinks of how he won't be able to beat the next level of Mortal Kombat 3 for a whole week!!.
As they are lost in their thoughts till the floating ground of the swamp starts to shake making them panic.
“Is that an earthquake?!” Pete exclaimed.
“No, worst we are too heavy, spread out.” Billy calmly states well getting glared at by Ted.
“Oh ok.” Mike responds.
They all spread out and keep walking, hoping to find a gator to kill before they are out all night.
But about ten minutes later the ground shakes again, this time stronger than the last and in a single second a gator the size of a school bus jumps out of the deep marsh.
“Run!” Ted bellows, before running straight.
“No, no wait! Stay together!!” Billy exclaimed before trying to follow the running boys who all went in opposite directions that all led to the forest.
As the reptilian beast runs hunting the boys, but then it just stops as they get into the forest.
Each still alone and out of air, they start to take a minute to breathe, Billy looks over at an open paint can, still dripping. “Well that’s odd.” But just as they get a small amount of their breath back the Gator starts to rip through the trees as if they were rug beaters and starts chasing them again.
“Well, great.” Billy remarks as he darts running to the first one of his brothers he sees.
“I TOLD YOU THIS WAS A BAD IDEA!!!” Ted screams as they both run for their lives.
“OK FIRST OF ALL THIS WAS NOT THE PLAN!!” Billy screams as they get to the others.
“BILLY!!! WHAT DO WE DO?!?” Mike screams as his feet rip through the ground as they all run for their lives.
“TO THE BRIDGE!” Billy stammers well he points to the one way of the island.
They barely keep their distance from the monster of a gator, when they get to the bridge they keep running till they are back deep within the town not looking back.
“OK NOW WHAT?” Ted says still screaming.
“You stop screaming like a baby and we get home and sleep.” Billy gasped, out of breath.
“Sounds good to me…” Mike mumbles.
“Same.” Pete nods.
They all make their way back to their bedroom window tossing the spearguns back under their bunk beds and they all sleep till 10:00 am. When they would get up, as each ate their breakfast with not a word being said. Until their mom left, when Billy walked from their neighbor who was a biologist.
“Okay boys, what we saw last night has not been possible for a long time.” he says as he puts a couple of biologist books on the table.
“Wait, you mean that it did in the past through?” Mike leans on the table trying to get a look at the book Billy had.
“Maybe, there was a few teeth from a gator that size found fossilized but nothing else.”
“So what the heck was it?” Pete says starting to get annoyed.
“Something impossible, so because of that I think we need to start to realize we have heard of things like this from dad, and grandpa.” Billy states trying to believe his own idea.
“Wait, are you saying some of those crazy stories we were told might have been real?” Mike emphasizes in disbelief.
“Yes, but Mike. if you believe then your halfway there!” Billy throws his hands up well saying a family line he always thought was odd.
“So that’s what that means…” Mike says.
“Okay let's do this.” Billy said sarcastically well closing the biology book.
To be continued…
All events are based on true events and names have been changed for privacy reasons.