V5S3- The Devil Went Down To Jersey {Verse 5 Story 3} Agents & Aliens Series

Chapter 1: Crash Course in Cryptids...

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Okay good. Done with that. He's got all there is on the Bunyip, onto the next.

Alec sighs, shifting in his seat, slipping the Bunyip card back into the middle of the stack, idly shuffling the laminated flash cards a bit more before drawing another one at random, bright, sharp gaze flickering over the name.

Tahoe Tessie.

Hmm...Tahoe Tessie. Oh! Okay he knows this! Tahoe Tessie is the lake monster thought to live in Lake Tahoe. It's in category one, very similar to Ogopogo which is completely different than Nessie- category two- but somewhat similar to Champ and Pressie but with a head more like Kusshii a-no wait...

Wait...Kusshii is the one with the horns. Right? Right, right—horns, humps on the back, long neck. So like Champ but with a head like Mussie?

No, no that's not right. Mussie is the three eyed sturgeon/walrus thing which looks like a fever dream you'd have after getting too much sun on a fishing trip at the San Francisco pier. So not like Mussie. Mussie's very much in the third category. Tessie falls somewhere between category one and two. Like a giant serpent but with a few prehistoric type traits tossed in for good measure.

Okay so Tahoe Tessie isn't like Mussie or Kusshii or Hodgee. It's not like a plesiosaur or some other extinct prehistoric beast, more of a traditional sea serpent type. So some kind of snake or eel type thing...only bigger and toothier and apparently with its own line of merch...okay whatever. Enough about Tahoe Tessie.

Back to the others.

He sighed, shuffling the deck yet again, flickering through the cards. Okay well if anything he seems to be getting the basics down...they don't make any sense but at least it's a start. He hums softly, gaze shifting over the titles before pausing, head tilting curiously.

Wait...which one was the bat winged, giraffe necked, six legged bulldog whatever? Was that the Elizabeth lake monster or the Lake Worth monster? N-no...no...Lake Worth is the fishy man-goat with white fur and scales...O-or is it the other way around?

He groans, rolling not only his eyes but his entire head, just barely fighting the urge to throw the entire pile of cards in the air in exasperation.

Ugh, these damn names!

Would it really be so hard to add the fishy-man-goat part? Really The Fishy Man Goat of Lake Worth has a much better ring to it. And at least then it'd stand out.

Though that also tells you just how insane the thing seems. Maybe they keep it so generic specifically BECAUSE the actual description sounds so crazy. Okay...that'd actually kinda make sense.

Doesn't make it any easier. Maybe he can just assume the more generic the name the more insane the creature. that works...well except for the Devils lake monster which is just a giant octopus. Or the Iliamna lake monster which is just a pissed off barracuda with an attitude or the-