Story pitch · 6:45am Jul 27th, 2018
Wrote out the original thing on my phone, and I don't feel like bothering to edit or revise anything before pushing it up. Anyways, here's a pitch for my next short story. Perhaps I might later on adapt it into a fanfic, even.
Not A Monster
A boy finds a strange set of glowing gates one day as he takes a walk. As he travels through them, his cartoon world begins to shift, becoming increasingly realistic as his surroundings flash between flat, 2D cartoon, and 3D real-life.
The final portal he walks through, strangely, transforms him into a horrific 3-mouthed wolf-looking monster.
Nearby, park rangers had been called out to investigate a wolf problem, when they notice the now-transformed boy. Short to say, they tranquilize and capture him out of terror.
The boy wakes up, still as the monster, tied to the top of the rangers' vehicle, being carried away to who-knows-where. He overhears the rangers mentioning that he looks horribly mutated, and that it'd be best to put him down after a conversation.
In a panic, the boy attempts to speak. The only words he can make out are "No, stop! idiot!".
Hearing the supposed monster belt out those words in a growling voice, the two rangers stop, surprised that the creature can speak.
Desperately, with a single free paw, the boy scratches out a message in the dirt beaide the road.
"I'm not a monster."
Out of interest, and after a few more back-and-forth conversations, the rangers decide to take him back to where they caught him. The boy instructs for them to follow, and the rangers reluctantly comply. The boy leads them to the final gate, a swirling purple ring of light. Though he doesn't fit through it anymore, the boy instead passes over it in his monster form. As he passes over, the rangers watch in awe as the ring glows even brighter.
In a matter of seconds, the monster is nowhere to be seen, instead replaced by a strangely cartoonish boy waving from the other side of the gate.
That’s really cool.
I think it has potential