Waffles

"Please sir, no! I swear it was beyond my control! I had no ide-" his body flew across the hall and crashed against the bookshelf. He fell to the floor, and books rained down around him. In pain, he pulled himself out from underneath a stack of encyclopedias and crawled on his knees towards the looming figure.

"There's no way I could have known! I did everything I could, you must believe me!" Suddenly, the man grabbed Ramon by the throat and lifted him up off the ground untill he was at eye level. Ramon peered into his master's eyes. They were blood red.

"That's the problem Ramon," the assailant said, "I don't." He flung Ramon up. Ramon's body bounced off the ceiling, and as he fell back towards the earth, the man spun around lightning-quick and kicked him square in the chest. The impact folded Ramon's small, slightly overweight body and sent him flying. He crashed through the bookshelf and smashed through the stucco wall into the room beyond. Strewn with debris, the room lightly resembled the site of a recent demolition. Ramon struggled up onto his knees. He coughed and clutched his chest while the dust settled around him. As the man approached, he still managed to croak out a plea.

"Please, don't kill me…" He coughed loudly.

"My friend," the man said calmly in a deep voice as he crouched down beside Ramon's broken form, "I'm not going to kill you." Ramon looked up and smiled brightly. A tooth fell out of his bloody mouth.

"They are."

As he said those words, a sound like the crack of a whip reverberated throughout the room. The air next to the man seemed to vibrate, and then suddenly it tore open. Out of the shapeless void crawled two fearsome dog-like creatures the size of tigers. The beasts were pitch black, with glowing red eyes and a mouth full of gnarled, ferocious teeth. Rancid drool dripped from their lips and like acid, burned the hardwood floor. Smoke seemed to billow from their bodies and rapidly dissipate. They looked at Ramon and snarled, clawing the ground with their thick, muscular legs in anticipation.

"Eat him." The man instructed his pets.                                                                                     

"Slowly."