Hercules & Goliath (The Sandlot) and Jack (Henry & Me)

Credit once again goes to Taren from discord for helping with writing this.

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It was a quiet day at the sandlot, and Hercules and Goliath were contenting themselves with laying under a nearby tree in the shade. Since it wasn't the summer there were no kids coming around the field at the moment, leaving the two without any playmates or anything to watch. While summer brought a large number of kids to play baseball on the sandlot, spring still meant school was happening, and afternoons were too full to spend on unofficial ball games. Both dogs sighed together in unison, watching the field longingly.

That was about to change, however... ~

Jack McCarthy was walking down a path, a breeze slightly lifting the brunette bangs of the 11 year old while his eyes were scanning his surroundings.

Recently, he’d been hearing rumors at his school about a pair of beastly canines with jaws like steel traps, and eyes that glowed even during the day. It sounded rather ridiculous to be certain, even as far as urban legends told by middle schoolers went. But still, the fact that so many of the boy’s classmates believed it did spark curiosity in him.

It probably helped that according to the stories, they were supposed to reside at an old abandoned sandlot about due east of the school, where many little league team claim to have witnessed these dogs, and thus the start of the rumors. And given Jack was a baseball fan, he certainly wanted to check out the sandlot for himself.

It didn’t take long before he saw a large silhouette from a distance that let him know that he was almost at the sandlot.

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The two dogs looked up at the sound of footsteps, turning towards the sidewalk that bordered the sandlot past the fencing. There was a boy there, a young one, who had apparently come to check the thing out. Hercules and Goliath looked at one another, then back at the boy, waiting to see if he would stay so they could play with him.

The instant that the boy came up to the fencing, he inspected it for just a couple of moments before he started climbing it. It didn’t take too long before his landed on the other side, brushing some grass that got on his pant legs when he landed on his feet, looking around before he started walking he saw now sign of the alleged beasts.

Seeing that the boy seemed intent on investigating, Hercules and Goliath looked at one another again, and nodded. Standing up, the two massive dogs started walking out onto the field, heading right in the kid's directions.

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Jack had to admit, his surroundings seemed to have a certain vintage charm, from a time where things seemed simpler compared to today. He trekked on, chuckling to himself when he saw no sign of the ‘beasts’, finding it rather silly that his classmates would find a place as peaceful as this something to dread. Honestly, it seemed that the little leaguers who claimed to have seen the dogs may have just let their imagination run wild.