Part Three of the Story

	The Other Beasties.
	The Kelpie.
	End of Part Three.

The Other Beasties.

Out, out of the underworld rushed The Skriker
& she was followed by many spirits not unlike her:
the Redcaps that haunted old, abandoned peel towers;
the Nymphs that lured men into their drowning bowers;
the Incubi & Succubi that ravish you in your sleep;
the Knockers & Duregar that live in large caverns deep;
Jimmy Squarefoot, a giant who rides about on a boar;
the Boggarts you saw in the cracks in the floor.
The Rawheadsandbloodyboneses hiding under the stairs;
the Flibbertigibbets going "Boo!" at unawares.

& all the other...

Goblins, Elves, Sprites, Pixies, Nixies, 7 Dwarves, Hobgoblins, Thrumpins, Bluemen, Green Women, Yallery Brown, Kelpies, the Nucklavee, those wolf-riding Goblins from Legend, Spriggans, Jenny Greenteeth, Brownies, Fawns, Leprechauns, Cluricanes, Black Annis, Redcaps, Djinns, Effrits, Ouphs, every creature that Ral Patha or Citadel ever made a pewter figure of, Changelings, Trowes, Trolls, Brownies, Bogles, Bogies, Bugganes, Beasties, Giants, Jimmy Squarefoot, those things from Labyrinthe that took their heads & limbs off, Black Dogs, Hags, Witches, Wizards, Fu Manchu, a Dragon or two, Griffons, Unicorns, Auld Goggie, Me Mysel, all those wee ugly Demons from Buffy, Lammasu, Manicores, Wights, Wraiths, Myrmidons, Harpies, Will-o-the-Wisps, Merrows, Selkies, yet more Goblins, Yrch, Gnomes, Sylphs, Undines, Salamanders, Gorgons, Furies, Knockers, Kobolds, Duregar, all those nasty creatures from HP Lovecraft novels, Drowe, Vampires, Werewolves, Phooka, Robin Goodfellow (also known as Puck), Imps, Great Wyrms from the northlands, Sea Monsters, Padfoot, Valkyries, Baba Yaga, the Lamia, Lorelei, Grendel, Skexis & the other creatures from the Dark Crystal, Fairies, Satyrs, Dryads, Flibbertigibbets, Rawheads and Bloodyboneses, Brollachan, Scarecrows, Scrags, Jemmy-Burties, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Jinny-Burnt-Tails, Clappernappers, Nickies, Nacks, Tutgots, Joint-Eaters, Hobyahs, Nymphs, Incubi & Succubi, Boggarts, Rumplestiltskin, Jack-in-Irons & Tom Tit Tot.

In the same recreation park that had been visited by Josie & Lily a girl with a telescope spied a Green Woman in the distance. The strange sight bewitched her & she was unable to go for another minute without recalling the time she had spied the beautiful creature. So she pined away & took her own life by slashing her wrists open.

Yallery Brown was no man about town. Covered chin to shin in golden hair he had a certain flair for punishing those who paid him any kindness or care. In the cities of the modern world he made a literal killing busking for any who gave him any money or compliment never ever stopped dancing.

Murder was the Redcaps' trade, many were slayed. The Rawheads joined in too & many they slew. Hags their victims found & in swollen rivers drowned.

The Kelpie.

The Kelpie looked like a man handsome & thus it did romance.
Dressed in soaked shirt in fine clubs with it's victims it danced.
The wicked creature made a suitor who was both dandy & fine
as it's glad victims it would gallantly red & white wine & a-dine.
But then it's form would plasticate, shift, mutate & all-change;
a carnivorous, canined water-horse swift & suddenly became
& to it's poor victims disbelief & sudden shattering shit-shock
would drag, drown & devour them 'neath the waters of a Loch.

Black Annis was a hoary goddess in times of old.
Her body was electric blue but her teeth were sabres of steel.
She had a single fishy eye that burned with a fire of cold.
After darkness of straying children she would make her meal.

The tiny Spriggans are thought to be the ghosts of dead giants & the guardians of hoardes of golden fairy treasure. They could swell & grow so fat & tall from almost nothing at all. They towered over houses, to them the people were like mouses. Thoughout the land they spread terror.

The Nucklavee is a centauroid beast with no skin & it hails from the Orkneys. Muscle & wet flesh adorn it's frame & you can clearly see the blood & lymph running through it's extended capilleries, arteries & viens. It's head is as wide as it's body & it has a second, wide mouth set just above it's first pair of legs. Rising from the waters of the sea to hunt human prey it eats anyone who it can catch & the only way to escape it is to run across a fresh water stream. This is bane to the Nucklavee as it's cells would burst via the process of osmosis as water molecules permeate it's skinlessness.

Jimmy Squarefoot was a giant who rode about on the back of a huge boar, though sometimes his shape would change so that he appeared to be a pig-like man. His favourite pasttime was to throw boulders about, mainly at his wife, & much chaos & destruction he caused.

Much elf-shot was at targets flung
caused coughs in those who at it was slung.
Those craggy bags, Hags, did their witchcraft
as Knockers caused accidents in mineshafts.
Jack-in-Irons clubbed travellers to death.
Bogles stole a criminal's breath.
With a pike a Redcap would it's foes spear.
Cluracanes with Fly Agerics would spike drinkers' beer.
Sick, scared & saddened was every mortal
who met a creature from through Skriker's portal.

Children were stolen, changelings left in their places.
People's pets disappeared without leaving traces (burp!).
Folk saw such sights that they went out of their mind.
Trapped in strange realms without an exit to find.
Dancers reeled to their deaths inside mushroom rings.
Some were given strokes by the flints a Pixie flings.
Some were led along steep cliff faces to fall.
Yet of evidence the fairies left nothing at all.

The news readers had nothing of substance to report,
just the effects, not the cause, of the eerie onslaught.

& The Skriker was delighted at these actions of it's cronies. But still it hankered after the attentions of Lily & Josie, who had given it the power to unleash these forces on the world. Therefore the story must continue without too much further digression.

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