| Water cascaded down and off the creature’s fur and splashed back into the lake. Arnold jumped backwards and ran into Hubert who was able to keep his light on the creature. Arnold’s light was flashing everywhere as he struggled to get his feet under him. Meanwhile Jerry was already looking at the shoreline for where to swim. Arnold tried to climb over Hubert to the back of the boat. As this was all happening the creature that had rose out of the dark water shook the water from its face and then it opened its mouth revealing sharp-fanged canines. It roared and grabbed the front of the boat twisting it until the thing first made a cracking sound and then the boat was turned over. All three boys went into the water. There was another roar that came from whatever it was that had turned over the boat. Hubert had the best chance to see what it was; and he was the most frightened of the three when it was all over. He saw a creature standing waist deep in the water. It was obviously standing on its back legs. It had long stringy-wet hair hanging from its body everywhere except around its face. There were deep wrinkles in its forehead and it had teeth like a dog, two big fangs on top and two big fangs on the bottom. It had no nose to speak of and it’s eyes were red and terrifying. Long arms were extremely muscled and Hubert was reminded of the big muscles on a horse. The creature handled the flat bottom boat like it was made of styrofoam. Each of the boys lost track of where they were at and where the creature had moved. next page |  |