American Nightmares

The Pup

It was a normal day at pets' store. The employee was Lumpy, a young boy of 26 years that enjoyed of his work. The manager had brought along a box exported from animals' control. The manager put it in a place outside by sight while he left Lumpy to position. He came out of the store and at the same time entered a father with his 5 years old to the store.

- Hi, Sir. What can I help you?

- I'm looking for a pet to my son.

- Then observe well. We have a variety.

The child searched meanwhile to see if he found something and in a room he went to look around just when he found the box. He opened it and took out something from inside unknowingly that behind the box there was a label that said: Danger, deadly. Never to open it or the consequence is Death .

Lumpy talked to the father until the child interrupted taking something in his arms. It was a coffee puppy with brilliant eyes and a tender little face.

- Where did you get that puppy from? - The father asked.

- I found it in a box, dad. Can I keep him?

- I don't know. How much for him?

- I don't know, recently it came, but as it is for you son, will be 50$

The father paid and escorted his son home with the new pet. Lumpy stayed with the doubt in his mind and he went to see the box. At discovering the label, he knew that something was not doing all right and he went to look for the buyer to get sure.

At the house of them, the child took a bath along with his pet and the father drew them from the tub to dry them. When finishing, he took his little son to the room and let him alone with his puppy in order that they play. Before closing the door, the last thing that he told to his son was "Have fun".

The child felt so comfortable that he walked to his table and took a whistle that his father had given him as a present. He blew it and the puppy got strange when he felt the whistle.

The father watched the news calmly until he felt a noise and a shriek coming from his son's room. He knocked at the door and said:

- What happen? Everything's alright?

But there was no answer and he decided to come in. When he opened the door, his face turned pale and screamed to the knowledge that the puppy was biting with brutality the little child's belly and was taking his entrails out. The child shrieked and cried at the same time of the pain and the pup supported him with his snore beginning to shake him by the neck as he was a cloth doll. The father saw his baby dying and he ran to the drawer which had a revolver. He took it out and when turned, the pup jumped over him. It didn't give him time to fire a shot. He tried to take it off from the top by force, but it was useless. The dog bit his throat strongly and pulled a piece of flesh out from him. In question of seconds, the man died by drowning in his own blood.

Lumpy got through where they had taken the pup. He knocked the door, but nobody answered. He went to the back and came in by the backdoor. There was a total silence in the house. Lumpy checked to get to the child's room where he found the ripped child on a puddle of blood and also the blood was sprinkled everywhere. Lumpy covered his mouth and walked back slowly until he tripped. When falling, he looked up and saw that he had trip with the father's dead body. He came out frightened of the house with the whey face and sweating. At understanding what meant the box's label, he decided to be going to look for the murderous dog.

Close to a pool, a girl was hanging up towels and clothing that recently took out from washing. When finishing, she turned right about and she came across the puppy. She looked tenderly at him and started to talk to him pretty.

- Hey, fella. You are really cute. Where you came from?

The pup began to move his tail of joy and the girl raised it. A little bird landed on the thread where clothing was hung up and when it whistle, the pup attacked the girl biting her face. The girl released it all of a sudden and began to give forth wailing irritated by the grave injury in her face. Her face was covered with blood and the pup bit her hardly in her left ankle making that the girl lost balance and fall to the pool. The pup jumped to water and began to attack the girl. In some minutes, water became red and the dog got out of the bloodbath.

Lumpy kept on searching despaired while at the next door road a policeman patrolled. He saw the pup on the street and a drunk driver headed toward him. The policeman brought quickly his whistle out and puffed. The dog's eyes crystallized and had the tongue beetling showing his sharp teeth. When the vehicle was brought near, the pup jumped, impacted hard against the windshield to break it and began to attack the driver. The car faltered at the road until impacted against a young man that rode a bicycle and smashed him against the wall tearing apart his bones and internal organs.

The policeman ran to see the accident and saw the starred car and the young man run over against the wall. The dog went out by the broken window getting down from the car and the policeman began to think: What the fuck is this? The pup ran towards the policeman and jumped biting his genitalia. The policeman fell in the floor and screamed loudly. He took his baton and began to hit the pup. The dog got furious so much that he bit stronger and pulled the policeman's genitalia out. He couldn't move for the pain and he just could scream until the dog decided to silence him biting his tongue and pull it out from him. The policeman began to spit blood by the mouth. Lumpy found out about the accident and went to see. When arriving, he came across the dog that was tearing into pieces the policeman's face by biting. It was so horrible what Lumpy was seeing that he knew well what he had to do. He called the beast by a whistle and the pup ran straight to him. The pup jumped over him and Lumpy brought out something that nailed to the dog in his belly. It was a kitchen knife that he had taken from the house of the first victims of the animal. The dog didn't stop of move in spite of the stabbed. Lumpy thought about that poor torn up child and knew that he should do what was right. He took the animal by his neck, in spite of the fact that he put a pup's little face and began to stab him with all his anger. The pup was moaning of pain, but Lumpy knew that he deserved it. The pup died after 20 stabs and Lumpy had his face, clothing, hand and knife covered with blood.

That night, Lumpy was on the way back to the store and outside everything seemed normal when he arrived. But when he came in, he found the putrefied dead bodies of the pets from the store. Blood and entrails were everywhere as if a massacre would have happened. Lumpy entered slowly wondering what happened here. And he noticed that the shelf's telephone had 2 recorded messages in the answering machine. The 1st said:

Lumpy, I'm the manager. I couldn't tell you that the box that I brought must be well hidden until animals' control claims it. They said that they will send us more. I don't know what they contain, but I will investigate it.

Lumpy attended the 2nd message that said:

Here animals' control announces you that the boxes contain savage dogs that react by means of whistles. They are cute, but dangerous. Never take them out of the boxes until we claim them to kill them or the consequences will be grave.

Lumpy got impacted and in the glass of the manager's door saw a sort of shade. He opened it and he came across the manager's corpse inside. His body had been torn into pieces and the only thing that remained was bones, visors, organs and remains at a blood puddle. Lumpy looked up and he saw than inside there were many boxes similar to the previous one and they were all open. The frightened Lumpy realized that his life was in danger. He turned to flee, but he came across a pack of pups with fierce stares. Lumpy tried to escape, but all the dogs rocked on. Lumpy did an effort to get to the door that was useless to him. When being near, he stood before him a dog with a bloody bone in his snout. He released the bone and attacked Lumpy in the face. The blood painted the store glasses and it came out spilled below the door. A scream of despair whip the dark night and that was the only thing that was heard that bloody day.