HELL MUT

by Dwayne Oakes

It all started at the market when a very sick young man was looking for some medicine for his sickness. At last he came across a stingy looking man and he said, "Watermelons are the cure, swallow two every 4 hours." So the young man was chatting with him for a while and he said that they were magic watermelons and cured any kind of sickness. The young man took them home and followed the instructions as directed.

That night he woke up and he was a little, lost puppy dog. He was all white, but for one black patch on his eye. The little puppy felt so frightened he yelped. That night he wandered the street scabbing for food, when the pound came and was running after the puppy trying to catch it. There was two people after him and one fell over. At last he was caught and they took him away.

They took him to a pet shop and sold him. The poor dog didn't know what was happening. He felt really lost and lonely. The puppy was left there overnight.

The next morning an old guy, in his late 40's, came in. He had a big grin on his face. He had blonde straw-like hair and was wearing a tuxedo. The guy bought him for $200. The man then took the dog home. The puppy still felt lost. The old man was thinking what he could call the dog. Finally it came to him - he called it 'REBEL'.

That very morning he was sassing the dog up with sticks and teasing it as well as bashing it to make the dog become ferocious and bite people on the neck. After Rebel had been taught all this the man put him in his front yard as a guard dog.

Two girls were walking to school the next morning with a basketball and it bounced over the man's fence. The two girls were going to knock on the door and then they saw a huge white pit-bull with a stumped tail and one black patch on its left eye in their way. It was biting the fence and drooling. One of the girls screamed as the dog bit one of her fingers off. The man came out and screamed, "Go away you girls!"

The dog got sick of being treated the way he had been treated, so he decided to try to kill the man. One day he was in his front yard chewing on his cricket ball and barking. The old man was trying to watch television, but he couldn't hear, so he went outside, took the tennis ball off Rebel and threw it on the roof. Rebel was trying to jump on to the roof, but he couldn't. After the third go he made it. He said to himself, 'What a miracle. I'm a super dog.'

He closed his eyes and tried to fly back down but he couldn't concentrate, he tried again and it worked.

He went on to the lawn and realised their relationship was pathetic and they didn't really like each other at all. So he bashed the door down with his head. He charged at the man and bit him on the neck. Now that Rebel had got the man, he shook him like a rag doll and his owner died.

He then wandered around the streets again and he found a bull dog. The bull dog then took him to her house and the owner of the bull dog adopted Rebel, where, they lived happily ever after.


Big Book '97