"The Debt"
By Austin Wolfclaw
�2003 Wolf Den Productions
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So innocent.....yet so guilty.

James knew he could not pay back Marcus. James lost all his money gambling tonight, and he owed some guy named Marcus, who was not at the gambling tourney, $200. He did not have it. He smiled and told one of Marcus' colleagues he would have it next week. It was a Monday. Coming close to 9PM. Wrestling was coming on soon, but he would have to miss it just one time.

He walked into the old shoddy green door of the Fox Hunt tavern. A few of his fellow workmates were there, surprised to see him.

"Bad day, I take it?" the bartender asks.

"Tell me about it." James replied.

James sat on the old 50's style stool and took off his black wooly trench coat. A dirty red shirt and aged tattered blue jeans were revealed. He also took off his hat revealing an unkempt head of greasy black hair.

"Whoa, you haven�t been keeping yourself clean lately," someone replied. It was Joe, his boss at the American Motors company, where James worked. "Maybe I shouldn't have given you those 2 weeks off as you requested!"

James has not been keeping himself clean, or at least clean-shaven. He had grayish-black mustache stubble growing. "I was working on my car today." He needed an excuse to evade the comments on his looks. He really has not been working on his car. He has been focused on paying back Marcus. How would he get the money? He had another week off to go...

"Hey Jamie, wake up, you're in La-La Land! Here's your beer, and wrestling's on the tube!" It was the bartender, who was wearing a grey beret and apron. James did not want to comment on why the bartender wanted to wear the beret.

James was about to drink his beer when the door opened.

"McDermott!" It was one of his gambling buddies, this one named Rico.

"M-m-me?" James replied.

"You're the only one who's last name is McDermott. Get over here; I want to talk with you."

James obliged and followed Rico out the door. There he is met with four other of his gambling buddies...Jason, Austin, David, and Alan. All were wearing hats that came from the 20's Gangster era.

"We have some issues we need to resolve, James." Rico said.

"What iss---" James' speech was cut short when Rico knocked James unconscious with a sharp blow to the top of the head by his blackjack. "Get him inside the car." Austin and Jason drag the limp unconscious body into the back seat of Rico's car, a black 1997 Lincoln Continental with dark tinted windows. As soon as the body was inside, the two men stayed with the body in the back, while Rico and the other two climbed in the front.

The car sped off as the bartender peeked out the door to see if everything was OK...

Two hours later, James came to. He found himself being tied up, his hands and legs aligned in a crucifix position. He also found himself stripped naked of all his clothes.

"About time you woke up!" It was Alan, who was finishing tying the last rope on James left arm.

"What the HELL?!?" James retorted. "Where am I? And what the fuck have you done with my clothes?!?"

"Relax, Jamie..." Alan replies. "No need to swear....we're buddies...." He turns to the other three, sitting at a table and playing cards. "Right?"

"Right!!� the three replied, chuckling a bit.

James took this time to look around at where he was. It looked like an abandoned warehouse. Apparently an old motor parts warehouse, cuz he could smell the motor oil. He could not make out a lot of things since the only lights illuminating the warehouse were 3 out of 60 fluorescent bulbs and the light that lit up the table the three guys were playing cards at.

Suddenly the door opened. "Just in time!" Alan replied.

James saw the silhouette come closer to him and the guys at the table. The silhouette turned out to be Rico, carrying jumper cables and a DieHard car battery. He had a whispered conversation with Alan. Meanwhile, the three men cleaned up their table, putting the cards and chips and any money they earned away. Rico finishes and then pads over to James. "I presume you had a pleasant sleep?" He snickers a bit.

"Pleasant my ass!" James retorted. "Where the hell am I? Why did you knock me out like a light? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!?!?"

"Relax, Paisano, relax. I told you we had issues to resolve and we are going to resolve them right now. Austin! Get the hose!" Austin runs somewhere, gets a long green garden hose, and hands it to Rico. Rico puts the cables and battery down and takes the hose. "OK Austin. Turn on the water current." Austin runs over to a valve and starts turning it. Water starts gushing out of the hose and Rico points the stream at James' semi-muscular, naked body, the cold water dousing his hair, face, body, arms, crotch, and finally, his legs. "OK, turn it off!" Rico says. Austin turns off the water. The flow dissipates from the hose. James panting from the coldness of the water.

"Now comes the FUN part!" Rico says.

"F-Fun part?" James stutters.

"Yea, of course. THESE!" Rico holds the cables up to show James.

"What are you going to do with them?" James asks.

"You'll see my friend....you'll see..." Rico then walks over and fondles James' testicle sack. "You know, you got nice huevos, you know that?" With that he places the black jumper cable over James' left testicle -- and releases. A shot of pain races up to James' brain as he screams in pure agony as the alligator clamp pierces his scrotal skin and almost "bites" the testicle in half. Rico runs his finger across the bleeding sack and tastes the blood. "Mmmm, sweet agony" he replies. He then repeats the procedure on James�s right testicle, only this time the red alligator clamp "bites" through the skin and bites clean through the testicle. James screams and screams until his throat is dry, then his screams are reduced to loud whispers.

"Now, on to the issues." He attaches the red cable to the car battery's negative connector. "How much did you pay at the game tonight?"

"All I had,� James replied in a raspy voice. "About $647 in cash."

"OK..." Rico starts. "Did you know that ALL the bills you gave to us were COUNTERFEIT?!?" He touches the black cable to the battery's positive connector sending a short wave of electricity to James. James screams as he is electrocuted, his hair starting to stick up. Rico releases the cable, laughing evilly.

"No...." James moans, still in pain. "It can't be....I got it from my friend Jack, who works out of the black market!"

"Which is the reason why YOU SHOULD NEVER TRUST A NIGGER!" Rico touches the connector again, shocking James again.

"PLEASE STOP I BEG OF YOU! I HAVE A JOB! I CAN PAY YOU AND MARCUS NEXT WEEK!" James shouts.

"Your VACATION ends next week, ASSHOLE!" Rico taps the cable to the connector again, shocking James, and putting him in agonizing pain. "Now, time for your lessons..."

"Wait up....did he mention Marcus?" Alan interrupted. "He IS here, you know..."

Both James and Rico reply. "He is?"

"Yup. Unclamp his nuts and I'll get the motor started." Rico obliges to Alan's order, and unclamps James' bleeding testicles. "Maybe Marcus will teach you a lesson you won't forget."

James sighs in relief. He feels like he was struck by lightning numerous times. Alan pushes a button and the rope that was holding James' handmade crucifix starts to move forward, like an assembly line conveyor belt. The five men follow him at his side.

"You know," Rico starts. "Marcus isn't human. He is not even half-human. He is a brutal selfish animal who wants every for himself when he wants it..."

James starts thinking about what Marcus looks like. He pictures a wrestler type figure, working as a bouncer at a nightclub, or the Jerry Springer show. "So you're going to have this "animal" pound the living shit out me while you guys sit and laugh?"

"You don't understand, kid..." Rico starts. They stop at a large pit. David runs over and flips a switch. The pit lights up to reveal a very large, full-grown Siberian tiger. James gasps in surprise at what he sees. "Marcus..." Rico continues, "...is a large male Siberian tiger!"

"WAIT A MINUTE!!!" James shouts. "I'm paying almost all my rent, to a TIGER?!?"

"No." Rico replies. "You're paying for his meat, which runs out every week. Marcus sometimes winds up going with or without food for a day or two.....But now, since you confessed you didn't have any money to pay for Marcus' meat, well..." Rico snickers evilly. "...You'll just have to suffice as a meat replacement!!!"

"NO!" James shouts, a bit scared at his fate. "You WOULDN'T!"

"I would!" Rico smiles, an evil grin on his face. "In fact, we do it to anyone who blackballs us!"

"It was a mistake! I did not know! Please don't do this..." James pleaded.

"Sorry kid...time's up. You shouldn't have crossed us to begin with." Rico says, and then nods to David who pulls a lever. The rope winds upward, lifting the crucified James into the air. He then pushes a button and the rope moves forward. Soon, James is hanging over the pit, with a hungry tiger pacing around the pit below.

Rico produces a 12-Gauge, and points it up at the rope. "Goodbye James, soon to be Food Item". He fires, the bullet hitting the rope point-blank and cutting it, sending the naked crucified human down to a grisly demise.

The crucifix lands in the pit with a loud BOOM, which irritates the tiger. He roars out loud as the crucifix topples over backwards. Now all he sees are the five men watching him, and Rico flicking his cigar ashes down into his eyes.

"MARCUS!!!" Alan stars ringing a bell "DINNER!"

The tiger roars and sees James and licks his lips. "HEY MARCUS!" Rico shouts to the tiger, which looks up on command. "Keep him alive as long as you can!"

The tiger looks back down at James, snarling, and baring his 5-inch fangs at him. James shivers in fear. The tiger senses this and he jumps on the human, the massive weight nearly crushing the poor human, and the cat starts clawing and biting at James face. Claw swipe after claw swipe, James screams in pain as he starts to bleed from his wounds.

"Marcus! MARCUS!!!" shouted Rico to the tiger. "I said keep him alive! Start at the feet and work your way up!"

The tiger growls and moves over to James' feet, which he then licks the bottoms of. James starts to feel this and starts to laugh uncontrollably, but immediately turns to pain as the tiger bites down on his left foot below the toes and pulls back, ripping the toes and more off of James' foot. James screams in immense pain as the five guys grinned wickedly above as they watched the tiger then gulp down the meat.

The tiger then grabbed the left ankle into his mighty jaws, clamped down hard, and started yanking. James continued to scream in agonizing pain as the joint broke free and blood flowed freely into the tiger's mouth. He chewed the appendage up and swallowed, baring his wicked bloody fangs at James.

"No more, please....no more" he pleaded.

The tiger growls and takes James' whole calf into his mouth. The tiger grrrrrs as he pulls and pulls, blood oozing out of the wound, and James crying in pain. The tiger then manages to tear the bloody meat from the bone and he sets it aside to devour into smaller pieces.

James' vision started to get blurry as the tiger now started taking bites out of his left thigh. Marcus GRRFS as he yanks piece after piece of tasty flesh from James�s thigh, murring as he savors the taste then swallowing it then sinking his bloody muzzle in for more.

When the tiger starts on his right leg, Rico said to the four, "Let's go. He is not screaming anymore. The four agree and leave the scene as the tiger feeds.

About 20 minutes later, they hear a cough. Rico walks over to check on the tiger. Rico's eyes widen as they see a puddle of blood, Marcus, and James, with his arms and legs eaten, and his belly slit open. James, during those 20 minutes, lost his bodily functions and he just coughed up blood and choked to death as the tiger ate away at his organs.

James McDermott was dead. Eaten alive by a hungry tiger.

The men went out. About a couple hours later they return. They check up on the tiger and are AMAZED at what they see. The pit is clean; all the blood had been lapped up. And James...he was nothing but a SKELETON with his head cracked open. And there was Marcus, REAL full...in fact, overstuffed! He lies on his side, purring contently.

Rico and the boys climbed down the ladder and opened the cage door that rose upward once David punched in the remote code. The tiger looks up at Rico as Rico starts to pet him. "Yes Marcus, you ate ALL your food! Good boy!" The tiger purrs with delight, a loud GURGLE coming from his belly. "That's right..." Rico says, "Digest him! Turn him into the shit he is!"

Alan appears and sets up a large litter box outside the lighted room. "Is this good enough, Rico?"

Rico walks over with a Sharpie and writes on the litter box "JAMES MCDERMOTT". He then looks up to Alan. "Alan, take the rest of the boxes out of here and have them cleaned" Rico says. Alan obliges and does what Rico says, starting with the first litter box in the left hand corner, picking it up and taking it to another room.

Rico returns to the tiger to listen to it digest. He puts his ear onto the belly. Marcus turns around and licks Rico's face as another loud gurgle emanates from the stomach.....he smiles in delight as he listens to the stomach churn and grind up it's meal...the meal formally known as James.

It was 7AM, the next day. The boys arrive at the pit to see the tiger. They sat at a table that was conveniently placed there. About 10 minutes later, the tiger appears from the pit, looking a bit more normal than last night, a bit bloated still. He looks around for his usual litter box, which was located at the left corner of the room. Rico whistles and points to the new litter box. The tiger pads over to it, and sniffs it. He then climbs in and squats down.

A gut wrenching smelly fart later, a soft brown goop slowly squeezes out of the tiger's anus and into the litter box. The tiger squeezes again, and again, and again. When the tiger is through, a HUGE mound of excrement stands. The five men smile as the tiger buries his waste.

David turns to Rico. "Maybe we could've shot him and buried him?"

The five went silent.

Rico replies after a moment. "Nah!"

The five laugh as they begin a fresh round of poker. The tiger shits again and another small mound is made and buried....but in this mound, James' eye, undigested, watches the five from the mound of excrement.

Here's looking at YOU, kid :)