Banging The Local Cryptid

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Hurrah! One of my favourite chapters I ever made! A modern au where Jiraiya is a toad man creature who lives in a swamp and reader accidentally stumbles upon him!
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You're a photographer for a wildlife protection organization based in New York. Your job is to travel to exotic places and snap photos of endangered species. It lead to some fun and unique experiences. You met interesting creatures. You swam with sea turtles. You sat at the edge of watering holes with elephants. You hung on trees with sloths and became the perches for macaws. It seems animals had a natural draw to you. You love them and happy your job helps them.

You are blessed to have a very rich but mysterious founder who visits the media office you work at often and is excited to hear your stories. He was an interesting man. Tall and thin. With pale skin and long silky black hair. He wore nice suits. He had many ambitions. He owned and funded many scientific facilities that focus on getting animals off of the endangered list. It's a noble goal. But he always gave off an odd vibe. He asked lots of questions about the weirder things you've seen. It seems like he was a true believer in the weird and unusual. Like monsters and aliens. You however, are more skeptical of such things. The human brain is a tricky thing and will make up things. All these monsters are a result from local superstition. Some stories more popular than others. It's probably just an animal doing something that a human brain took out of context and in confusion.

At the moment, you are on assignment in the deep swamps of The Everglades. There's going to be a statement piece about the nature of the strange area and your boss backed it. He commissioned you to take the photos for the project. It's a place full of mystery and is apparently host to many cryptids. It was a spooky place. The deeper you go the more wild it gets. Just off putting with all the loud nature noises and real isolation from the untameable foliage. And the heat! The heat alone was probably enough to trick people into seeing things! It's a gross kind of heat where the humidity just stuck to your skin and it felt like it was cooking your brain.

After a large drink of water, you return to your sightseeing. Your little rowboat was drifting slowly along the river. You grab your camera and bring it up to your face. You turn to focus the lens as you look around to the trees and thick bushes for any sort of creatures. Your assignment wasn't really special. Just gather a few rolls of pictures for the project. They didn't ask for anything in particular other than the natural beauty of the somewhat dangerous swamp. The Everglades is full of life! It hasn't been hard. And there's no Bigfoots or Mothmen about. Nor a big stinky ape that's apparently lived there for years. The scariest and rarest thing you've seen was a Florida panther. You even got a good snap of it! That'll make the boss happy. It maybe no monster but the Florida panther was a threatened species.

Before you know it, the sun is starting to set. Even more bugs were biting you with the heat dropping enough for them to emerge. Crickets are beginning to sing their tunes. Same with the toads. You've seen plenty by the banks today. Hm... must be mating season. But you got to take plenty of pictures of them! You've seen plenty of grumpy looking males sitting by the water alone, awaiting a mate to come their way. Heheh poor suckers. Unfortunately, you don't have the tech with you to take quality night shots. It was too much to pack in your bag. The boat was fairly small. It couldn't hold all of your equipment anyways. It could barely fit you and another person.

It's time to head back to your hotel. It's a long way back and you've already stayed too late. You began rowing backwards. To not further add to habitat destruction, you stuck with the rowboat. No gas or motors for you! Plus the noise pollution would have scared off the animals. It's not so bad. Just a sick arm workout. A half hour into your journey home, something went wrong.

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