The Show Off Vs. The Sheriff
a coyote cowboy comes by and is a major show off, after he pushed the sheriff too far, he hypnotizes the whole town into making him the new sheriff
Excuse me, but I'm affraid I'm lost, oh no wiat, I can leave any time I wish, thank goodness cause if I stayed here I would not be happy. I'm guessing you're confused as to why this place is so bad, or even what the heck this place even is, well I'll tell you, but I still warn you to get out while you can... Taking place in the old west, a town run by a firm but fair squirrel sheriff named Jimmy handled everything in the town properly, with compassion and determination. He managed to keep enough order to where there were only two shootings a year, and for cowboys, that's saying something! With him, people were kept in order and were able to stay safe and happy, from ranchers to saloon owners. Initially it was not easy but after he established that he was the one incharge, people became a lot more warm hearted. This town used to be a horrible place before he took over, nobody cared or respected anyone in anyway, there was looting, black mail, and addiction everywhere one would turn one's head. Working with them was not easy and it's not something he would take lightly if someone got in the way. He handled visitors very well as well, from simple newcommers to impending robbers, he managed to convince them all that this place was a place of order. Normally the newcommers came around and believed everything he told them, but recently, one person had different motives...
One afternoon at noon, (because that seems to be the requirement for cowboy stories...) the train dropped off the usual visitors, the families, the friends, the ususal; however, there was a new face, and a body attatched to it. This coyote grabbed his bags and istantly started looking around with a mixture of admiration and suspicion, as if he had a motive. This coyote has a problem with being a show off and often tries to call the shots over things he doesn't have the power over just to show how good he can be in a situaltion, and trust me, he can get anyone to cheer for him no matter how concieded he is. Once he entered the saloon, he sat at the front of the room at the bar and ordered only one drink, he wasn't that thirsty but he wanted to check out this place. After the attractive opossum waitress handed him his drinks, they got a bit flity...
"Well hey there cutie, I'm Beth, ain't seen you around here, ya new?" she asked as she started cleaning cups (again, a requirement in cowboy stories for some reason...) and he took notice to her tone.
"Well most people I know greet eaach other with 'howdy' but you soom to be right forward, i like that miss, also, of course I'm new if you haven't seen m..." he began at first trying to seem humorous until he accidentally drank too fast and it went down the wrong tube making him cough uncontrolibly... making her laugh even more.
The two seemed to hit it off, but it was clear that the coyote wasn't interested that way in her. When she walked off, a squirrel came in and sat not in the seat next to the coyote, but the one next to that, come on, we don't need to get all close like that with the new guy yet. However he did take notice to him and was curious as to who he was and of what he is doing visiting West Corner. The coyote noticed he came by and after he ordered his five drinks, the coyote got kind of chatty and sassy.
"Only five? What's the matter, did you forget to cut the coupon book this morning?" he told the squirrel, which he tried to ignore, but the coyote wanted to show how witty he could be. "Okay don't talk, I understand spending the days wasting your life in a horse field tending to animals who only listen to you because you claim them in a store can be grating."
That was too far, clearly it wasn't anything enough to tick this squirrel off but he knew if he was willing to go there, he would go anywhere so he turned and asked him, "What's your name sir...?"
"David Coyote, does it matter?" he said, noticing his star badge with the word 'sheriff' on it. Normal people would be worried that they were telling the sheriff off like he was, but he was more concerned that he was actually able to bring a rise out of the sheriff, thinking it was like a trophey or something. "I see you're the sheriff, and for the record, that doesn't scare me, I can do anything."
"Well that may be, but this is my town and here you need to treat your fellow animals with respect, you're a coyote, not a wild animal!" he responded, hoping to intimidate him more, but it apparantly wasn't working, he still seemed pretty cocky.
"Well I'd love to stay and chat but I over heard there was a horse shoe competition and I want to get first prize and some fans, when you learn to be scary and you know, a sheriff, give me a call, or what ever it is cowboys use to send messages..." David said as he walked out of the saloon, right when Beth came by again.
"And I thought that jerk was cute?" she told the squirrel in embarassment, trust me, she regrers flirting with that coyote after he told odd the town hero.
David walked around for a bit and noticed the competition has yet to begin so he stil has time to enter the competition. He reads that the prize is a new horse, which he would like because walking around on his aws is tiring, why not get an animal to slave over you for it instead? {for the record that was the author's commentary on riding} Once he entered, he was put as the last thrower, which makes sense, he was the ;ast one to sign up. There were some pretty good throwers but they all managed to only get scores like 7/10 or 8/10. The crowd cheered them on all the way despite their scores. Once it was David's turn, he picked up a horse shoe comedically trying to look like he was not knowing what he was doing at first. He swung his arm around in a funny way while sarcastically saying he didn't know what to do. The crowd didn't like this so they told him to throw his horse shoes now! He ignored this and then made his build up verry slowly, poking fun at how stries manage to handle the slow throw, and again, the crowd was annoyed because he stopped and did it again at normal speed, this coyote love to show boat. Once he finally, and I mean finally threw one of his horse shoes, he got it on the pole right on the first try, and began to gloat like no other. The crowd was annoyed again and they yelled at him to throw the other one now. This time he gave in and did it inatantly. He effortless ly tossed it and it instantly hit the pole in a perfect way. He bagan gloating and show boating again and the crowd was not ammused in the slightest by this show off, and it looks like the judges didn't either by the way their faces were as they were writing his scores. When he noticed their faces, he knew how to end his gloating prefectly, with a great big howl! The coyote let out a very loud howl at the end of his bragging which left everyone confused, but once it ended the crowd began to cheer for him and were very impressed with the perfect throws and applauded him. The judges also exed out their scores, flipped their cards over and wrote 10/10 on all three cards. The coyote got a smug look on his face as a badger judge handed him the horse and his trophey, and he wasn't suddle about his happyness...
It was now night time and the coyote returned to the saloon for a quick little gloat to Beth just to see how she would react while still not wanting anything from her, but she wasn't there, however the sheriff still was and he wanted a word with David. "I was there for your part in the game, you got some skill."
"Thank you, it's nice to be appriciated for skill as good as mine," he sarcastically and conciededly said while nonchilantly looking at his trophey.
"However, you got nothing in your heart that makes a true cowboy, you have no humility or modesty, now I'm not sure you got the crowd to start cheering your gloating on, but it's not gonna last partner, you need to take the rules of my town seriously or else..." he began but at this point it didn't even matter, the coyote had already walked out after hearing what he wanted to hear. The squirrel was annoyed, but also confused as to why all the people he taught to be respectful and kind would applaud someone with neither of those traits, and he intended to find out, but he wasn't that worried, he knew his town knew right from wrong like he taught them to know.
The next day, the coyote decided to show off more talents, so he wanted to show how he can be as a competitive ridder this time, but there wasn't a competition today so he just wanted to ride around showing off. He rode around the town casually at first, but later on the way around, he started doing more tricks, however most people were too busy with their ranch work or really their plane jobs to care or even notice him. He got annoyed that nobody cared so he got really skilled tricks out and started yelling "yeeha!" a lot which finally got people's attntion, but again, they were annoyed with his attitude. On the way back around, he interupted the yeehas with some loud howls that at first hurt the people's ears but then people started yeehaing and cheering the coyote on, much to his selfish pleasure. Once he had his fill, he got off the horse and the people started clapping at him. He walked over to a raccoon who was about to eat a cupcake and told her to give it to him instead, which she did without question and started clapping again. The squirrel was in his office with the fox deputy, but nnoticed what was going on, and when he saw him take her cupcake, he wanted to have a word with him, so he took out his lasso and catroonishly realed the coyote into his office through the crowd, which made them bummed out but then then continued on with their buisness.
"Okay I tried to warn you about being a gloat, what is your deal?" he asked him as he took the lasso off him.
"You think I'm just here to get fans, which I am, but there's more to it than that, I've got big plans involving this whole town, including you," David sinisterly said, looking directly at his face as he adjusted his hat. I was born with many special skills and I have yet to let the best ones surface, tomorrow at high noon because no other time is ever available for cowboys... I will show my greatist skill yet, and even you will appriciate it..."
"I don't think so, a rule here requires a permit to ride a horse through the town the way you did and another one to have a gethering like yours, I'm sorry but for a week you need to spend time in my jail cell."
The coyote seemed nervous for the first time, as for once his plans were being hendered, at first he tried to run away, but Jimmy is really good with his lasso and managed to get him in the cell. Davd was worried that he would not be able to complete his plans, but when he found out the deputy was going to keep watch over him through out the nights. The squirrel gave the fox very specific orders not to let this coyote out under any circumstances no matter how good he comes off to be.
It was ten o'clock at night and Jimmy had left the fox alone with David, and David was happy for this. He tried to make some small talk brfore trying to escape, just for some laughs.
"So deputy, howdy, second banana here huh, must be infurerating having to take his orders huh?" he asked hoping to bait him, but nit the way you're expecting.
"Nice try partner, but I've delt with people like that before who try and play that card, you're not getting out that easily."
"Oh I'm gon' escape from this place whether you like it or not, and something tells me you're gon' like it a lot more than ya expect now." he said, again looking intentionally nonchalant.
"Last time I checked, I was ordered to make sure you stay here, so just sit down, shut up, and leave me alone!"
The coyote took this order, but he was planning to, he knows what to do, "Nice full moon out tonight." he said.
"Why would I care about that?"
"I'm just giving ya a warnin', a nice moon like that makes a coyote wanna howl pretty loud..." he responded, followed by a very long howl, the longest one he had done yet. We see the fos holding his forehead from back perspective, and then the coyote tells him to open the cell the fox instantly opened the cell without question, and the coyote was free.
The next day, it was high noon and everyone was out minding their own buisness but once David came by with his cowboy hat in his paws, all bets were off as he yelled for attention, making the sheriff angry, but David was happier to see him more than anyone. The sheriff came by and wanted to know how the coyote escaped right now!
"Howdy there sheriff, I'm assumung ya's waonderin' how I got out, it's simple, well not really, it's actually long and complicated but I don't want to bore y'all with the details, but all I need to say is once I show y'all my best talent yet, ya ain't gonna be too worried..." The sheriff got out his lasso and started to spin it, but bfeore he could, the coyote let out his biggest howl yet, so loud that the entire town heard this beautiful howl.
The towns people were having their heads hurt with this howl, more than they could have assumed was even possible, but soon they all joined in with the howl and howled as loud as they could. The sheriff was trying hard to block out the howling, he put his paws in his ears, his hat over his ears, everything he could to make it stop, but it was inevitable, he began to howl too, he howled as loud as he could at the coyote. Once everyone was howling, they began to get on all fours as if they really were coyotes howling at the head coyote, but it was also as if they were bowing down to him as servants... Once he stopped howling, they all atopped howling and opened their eyes, which have been transformed into red swirls, while David's were green. They all had stood up in attention staring into the coyote's eyes waiting for orders.
"Now isn't this nice, alls y'all under my command, alls y'all wanting to praise every action I can do, alls y'all wanting to do anything I says, it's great isnt't it?" he asked with a scowl and smerk on his face, knowing their answer, they all agreed in unison as they tipped their hats in front of their new master, but David didn't like that title, he wanted something even better... He walked right up to the sheriff, and commanded him to hand over his badge to him, and the sheriff did so without a single thought of resistance, in his mind, nobody could be a better sheriff than David Coyote, he is the best at everything and knows all in his mind now. David pinned the bedge on his vest and was excited to take his new role as sheriff of the entire town. "Now everybody, some ground rules from your new sheriff, from now on, everytime I show case my skills, y'all gon' cheer and enjoy it with every 'yeeha' in y'alls bodies, and love my gloating..." he said as he shot a pistol right at an apple hanging on a tree, "Starting now..." At that moment everyone cheered their sheriff on beyond belief, shooting 'yeeha' so much, holding their cowboy hats up, some were even square dancing, they were very impressed with how great a shot the coyote was and they were very greatful to have a perfectly talented coyote lead over them now.
So what if it took some hypnotizing from a stranger who has a horrid ego to get this way, it's what got them to where they are today, still old fashioned cowboys. Of course David didn't even need to get arrested in the first place, he could have done that to the sheriff anytime, but he loves to make a scene, and not having the sheriff surrender to his will infront of everyone just wasn't a victory in his eyes, and I can't blame him. Heck this coyote can do anything, including great planning, he will make a great sheriff, and I'd love to stay but we're about to start another round of horse shoes and I want to see the sheriff win again, YEEHA! *throws cowboy hat up*