Chapter 85: Mine! Mine Alone!
"You’ve been a naughty little rascal, haven’t you?" The tall figure bowed and entered the small mouth of a cave.
The creature leaped like a frog and circled the tall man like a dog. "Master! Master! Gollum missed you. Why didn’t you visit Gollum? Gollum was very hungry, and he thought that he was abandoned because you never gave us food..." he spoke like an excited little boy.
"I see... You were so hungry, you broke the chains, huh?" the man’s blue eyes twinkled menacingly as he grabbed the metal collar of the creature.
"We smell food..." Gollum grinned widely. "Master...master..." he licked his frothing black lips. "Give us...Give food to your pet..." Saliva dripped from his mouth as he smelled the leather bag in the man’s hand.
The man whipped his hand and the creature flew backward and hit its head on the cave wall. "Master..." he whimpered. "What did I do wrong?"
"You don’t know what you did wrong?" the man’s low deep voice rumbled and echoed inside the cave. He pulled out a cattle prod from the bag and saw that the creature stumbled back.
"No, master...please, don’t punish us..." he pressed his forehead on the rocky ground and covered the back of his head with his hands. "We were hungry and we left..."
But the pleadings of the creature were not enough to placate the man. He pressed the button and high voltage passed between the small rods at the end of the stick.
"Master..."
"Master! Forgive us!"
"Master!"
As the creature shouts music to his ears, the man smiled. He mercilessly stuck the creature with the cattle prod without stopping.