The Creature that Crawled on the Sky, Part II
Narrator: The harvester listened as the boy had his say / While his spindly hand hovered inches away
Narrator: And just when the child began to despair / Skeleton Harvester took to the air
Narrator: The youth thought he'd lived by the strength of his ploy / But there were other reasons for sparing the boy
Narrator: Skeleton Harvester today would be gentle / For the child below him had so much potential
Narrator: With bone structure fair, skeleton just right / What a waste not to wait until it was ripe
Narrator: Furthermore, what the child had said was quite true / That beast was a treasure that would vanish soon
Narrator: So for now the boy lived, though this wasn't the end / In several more years, they'd be meeting again
Narrator: Back in town, events were somewhat suboptimal / As the creature above descended atop them all
Narrator: It surveyed its prey and showed its long teeth / And delighted at all the fresh morsels beneath
Narrator: The villagers wondered who'd be its first victim / When an unlikely ally suddenly drop kicked in
Narrator: Skeleton Harvester had finally arrived / Intent now on making this beast his new prize
Narrator: The creature was stunned by a blow to the head / But it quickly regrouped and it wanted him dead
Narrator: So it snarled and it snapped and it swiped and it slashed / And it bit and it swung and it stomped and it gnashed
Narrator: Every strike from the Creature That Crawled simply whiffed / Its opponent was small and incredibly swift
Narrator: Yet because all this dodging was hyperintensive / There wasn't a chance for a counteroffensive
Narrator: The balance of battle was delicate, clearly / The first to slip up would pay for it dearly
Narrator: And, so it was, he dodged the beast's claws / The harvester swooped too close to its jaws
Narrator: The razor-sharp fangs swept in attack / And closed upon him with an audible crack
Narrator: The blow, while no lethal, could not be called small / With his wing torn to shreds, he started to fall
Narrator: But he would not be so easily defeated / In that instant he had the chance that he needed
Narrator: He grabbed on to the spine, and with all his might / He ripped the foul creature right out of the sky
Narrator: With tremendous force, it came crashing down / (And it luckily only smashed part of the town)
Narrator: As the dust finally cleared, it was plain to see / Which of the two had achieved victory
Narrator: The one-winged one was on top, and below / Lay silent his defeated osseous foe
Narrator: Though normally his presence was cause for fright / The townsfolk all cheered when he came into sight
Narrator: The boy, who had run back as fast as he could / Whooped happily, too, from the hill where he stood
Narrator: Perhaps from the shock everyone was still reeling / But the town was beset by the bizzarest of feelings
Narrator: No, more than bizzarest; it was bizzarester / They all felt safe with Skeleton Harvester