In the Jungle: Chapter 16

Chapter 16
“Awesome!” exclaimed Zoe.
“Cool!” cried Bo.
“Amazing!” Tommy marveled.
The three of them scampered up to the jewel. They narrowed their eyes at each other, all wanting to get ahold of the jewel first. Their grimy paws slowly reached for it --
“STOP!” yelled Faysaham. Everyone stared at him in surprise.
Faysaham frantically pointed at a sign and jumped up and down. Everybody (except our three heroes) walked over to him and peered at the sign. Mahasyaf read it aloud.
This jewel cannot be touched if you do not crack the code on the side of the platform it is sitting on. After you --
“Wait!” He was cut off by Zoe who ran back to the jewel stand, bent down and checked all the sides to find the code. She found it. It was one of those rolly things that you roll the numbers to crack codes with.
Mahasyaf continued.
After you crack the code, you will be allowed to take the jewel - but use it in the right way. Here is --
“But what’s the code?” Bo wailed.
Mahasyaf ignored him and kept reading.
Here is a hint for the first two spaces of the code: 90 divided by 3 equals?
“That’s easy,” said Zoe, top in math class. “It equals up to...” She quickly did the mental math in her head. “The answer is 30!” she exclaimed.
Tommy quickly did the problem in his head to make sure Zoe was right, and to his relief, she was. Zoe ran over to the stand and rolled in a 3 and a 0. There were six spaces left to be filled. Zoe came running back and Mahasyaf continued reading.
This guide will help you figure out the rest of the code. The code is a mixup of numbers and letters.
a = 1 b = 2 c = 3 d = 4 e = 5 f = 6 g = 7 h = 8 i = 9 j = 10 k = 11 l = 12 m = 13 n = 14 o = 15 p = 16 q = 17 r = 18 s = 19 t = 20 u = 21 v = 22 w = 23 x = 24 y = 25 z = 26
You can find clues for the rest of the spaces if you look on the wall.
Bo ran in excitement over to the wall and squinted at it. “I can’t see anything!” he moaned in utter disappointment.
“We need a light,” said Zoe.
Tommy sprang into action. He morphed his arms into torches and turned himself into fire. The torches lighted up the whole cave. “Now you can see,” he said.
“Oh, look! I found it! ‘For the rest of the code, use the guide to figure this out. The remaining characters are: 5 1 14 4 2 15.’ Gee whiz, that’s as easy as math!” said Zoe, her face lit with excitement.
“C’mon, let’s look at the guide,” said Bo excitedly.
Bo took his place at the guide, Tommy stayed at the wall, and Zoe ran over to the code rolly thingy and waited. “First, there’s a 5,” said Tommy.
“Okay, 5 equals E,” Bo said.
Zoe rolled in an E.
“The next number is 1,” said Tommy.
“1 equals A,” said Bo.
Zoe rolled in an A.
“Next is 14,” said Tommy.
“14 equals N,” said Bo.
Zoe rolled in an N.
“Next is 4,” said Tommy.
“4 equals D,” said Bo.
Zoe rolled in a D.
“Next is 2!” said Tommy.
“2 is B,” Bo proudly announced his initial.
Zoe rolled in a B. She also rolled her eyes as she did so.
“Lastly, put in a 15,” said Tommy.
“15 equals O!” said Bo. “Yay! It’s done!”
Zoe called them over. “Look!” she said, and pointed at the code rolly thingy. It said:

30EANDBO

“Now that,” declared Bo, “is too awesome.”
“We’re famous!” Zoe added, and she and Bo did a high-five. Tommy watched them sadly. “Well?” he said irritatedly. “What about the jewel?”
“Oh yeah!” Zoe and Bo exclaimed, and ran to the jewel. Zoe allowed Bo to take it, and Bo held it up high. “I wonder if this can help us in any way,” he said.
“It can!” Faysaham said suddenly. “I should know. I’ve lived in this jungle and explored it long enough to know what happens around here. Once I got stuck in a cave like this. There was an exact same code rolly thingy, and a sapphire was on the jewel stand. I figured out the code and - and -- I forget -- oh yeah! I put the jewel in this chute in the wall, and then, the gate opened and I was able to escape. We should try and find the jewel right now!”
Everybody was silent - silent from hearing this long speech, and silent because this clever speech was unexpected from somebody as clueless as Faysaham.
“I heard that!”
I KNOW you can hear what I say, mortal. Now be quiet.
Mahasyaf flared at this injustice toward his little brother.
“You flare too much, Mahasyaf. You will now have to be called the Flaring Bro of Faysaham,” said Bo kindly. “Okay, Narry?”
Well, I’d like to do that, Bo, but according to the Head, that is unkind and not allowed.
“Aww,” Bo moaned, and started looking for a chute in the wall. Mahasyaf grinned smugly and high-fived the Head. Well, at least he tried to. Everyone rolled their eyes at him.
“I found it! I found the CHUTE!” yelled Faysaham. He looked at the others and pointed frantically at the wall.
“Great job, Fayster!” said Bo. He ran over to Faysaham, who sulked at the hideous new nickname Bo had given him. Bo slid the diamond into the chute.
Suddenly, things happened.
The ground rumbled. The wall cracked open. A small shaft of light flooded the cave. Through the opening, the creatures could see a flat, dirt ground and trees with vines hanging from them. The sun shone down, making everything appear to have a little glow.
“Wow!” said Faysaham.
“Wow!” said Bo.
“Wow!” said everybody. They scampered out and gazed at everything. Zoe and Bo clambered up the trees and swung on the vines. Now that every Hakrin water victim had grown back to their original size, they were extra-happy.
“Wow, this is fun!” exclaimed Bo. “Back to my old monkey days!”
Zoe grasped the vine she was swinging on with one hand and slapped her forehead with the other. Tommy cackled.
“Did this happen to you too, Faysaham?” asked Bo. “Did this weird place open for you?”
“No,” Faysaham answered. “The wall opened and I was free! Simple as that.”
Bo’s eyes widened. “Then something must’ve gone wrong!” he cried in horror.
And just at that moment, something tragic happened. All of the trees and the vines disappeared. Everything went black. Everybody, sprawled on the ground, gasped in horror. A huge cackle sounded from nowhere. “BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
Suddenly, everybody was sucked down into a big hole that opened up from under them. “AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!” they screamed.
Faysaham sobbed at the thought of losing his brother again. “Nohoho! NO! NOOO!” he wailed, flailing his arms desperately. But nothing could be done. The creatures were caught, and that, was that. Zoe tried to find her friends in the darkness, but the endless black hole went on forever, and Zoe didn’t see how she could possibly move her body sideways. No, not when she was falling down.
THUD! Every creature’s chin banged, HARD, on their chests as they fell down on a hard, smooth surface. The long hole turned out to be a tube, which the creatures slid down the rest of the way. Suddenly, SMACK! Everybody’s face whammed into a big netting. They squirmed and writhed in anger. A big cackle sounded in front of them. “Bwahahahaha!” Crech cackled. “You mortals didn’t stand a chance!” Crech was standing before them, hands on hips, in a lab. Test tubes bubbled. Machines clanked and beeped.
Zoe glared up angrily at Crech.”Let us go!” she cried.
“You don’t think I’d listen to you, do you?” he snarled. “Well, we’ve had enough of you silly kids bothering us and trying to save the four animals we’ve cleverly hidden. You guys just had to meddle with us!” He growled and picked up an odd-looking contraption. “And now you’ll wish you hadn’t!”
“I’m not a kid!” Mahasyaf howled. “I’m 16!”
“I’m 14!” howled Holly.
“I’m 13!” howled Johnny Boy.
“Me too!” howled Chimpi.
“I’m 12!” howled Bo.
“I’m 11!” howled Zoe.
“I’m 10!” howled Tommy.
“And I’m 60! Just kidding! I’m 6!” howled Faysaham.
“Silence!” growled Crech. “I don’t care ONE smidgen about how old you all are, you old men. Just stop meddling with me and my assistants!”
A howl came from another room. “Assistant?! I’m the BOSS here!” The howler turned out to be Retro, who suddenly came barging in from another room. “You’re the second-in-hand here, remember that! And I’m the BOSS!” His forehead wrinkled up in anger and his fists were tightly clenched. His face was twisted into a scowl.
“Yeah, yeah, whatever,” said Crech. “Where’s Turey? We need him.”
Retro gave Crech a box on the ear just as Turey came slithering in from the same room as Retro. “Here I am,” he said meekly. “What’s the problem?” He turned and saw all of the eight creatures squirming in the net. “You caught them, Crech?” he exclaimed. “Great! I knew the trees and vines were the perfect attraction for them!”
Johnny Boy scowled at Turey. Turey scowled back at him. The two snakes hissed at each other, tongues swirling. Suddenly, HSSSS!!! Johnny Boy tore through the net and lashed out at Turey. Turey advanced on Johnny Boy. Johnny Boy slid closer and closer to Turey, and closer still, until...
“AAARRGGHH!” Johnny Boy yelled, and striked. He twirled his body around Turey and choked him. “I can kill you with my python skills right now,” he growled. “Any lassst words?”
“Skills? Aghh...NO!! DON’T KILL ME!” Turey howled. He writhed desperately.
The rest of the creatures who were watching, still in the net, looked at each other in fright. “C’mon, c’mon, we just gotta save him!” Faysaham squealed. He pointed at the hole Johnny had made. Tommy nodded curtly and made it bigger. Retro and Crech saw what they were doing. “Get ‘em, Crech!” Retro yelled. Crech aimed a gun at them. He chuckled nastily.
“NOOOO!” Faysaham howled, and clutched at his brother. Holly’s eyes were wide. Chimpi and Bo were shaking in fright. Zoe just sat there, frozen, unable to speak. Tommy, as usual, was not afraid, and tried to calm everybody down. He calmly shot a ray at Crech’s gun. Crech dropped the gun in surprise. It burnt into crisps. Smoke billowed out, as tears did from Crech’s eyes.
“Why you little -” he began.
“CHAAARGE!” Tommy bellowed, and everybody snapped into action. They all poured out of the hole in the net and started to fight. Bo and Chimpi tussled with Retro. Mahasyaf and Holly and Faysaham wrestled with Crech on the cold stone floor, losing lamely. Zoe helped Johnny with Turey, even though he didn’t need help, because he had ‘skills’. Tommy frantically looked around the place for the last missing animal - the orangutan. He peered into every room with his X-Ray vision. While he was doing so, his friends were still fighting.
Zoe gave Turey a long scratch down his green, warty face. He groaned.
“HI-YAAAAAAAHHH!” Bo screamed, kicking Retro in the stomach. Retro made a sick face and collapsed on the ground.
Mahasyaf charged as fast as a cheetah could - right at Crech. His head whammed into Crech’s stomach. Crech growled in anger and grabbed Faysaham. “NO NO NO!” Faysaham screamed, and poked Crech’s eyes with his fingers, while his feet were at work in kicking Crech’s mouth. That’s a Radkids move. Crech eventually dropped Faysaham. Mahasyaf and Holly gasped as Faysaham started to fall down to the ground. Just as he was inches from the ground, Holly slid and cushioned his fall.

Meanwhile, Tommy was walking around what seemed to be an underground laboratory. He peeked in every room where he thought would be a good place to hide an orangutan. He was just about to give up until...Tommy stopped at a yellow, glittering door. What was this? Tommy opened it. A cold gust of wind blew out at him. Tommy shivered. He walked into the cold yellow room. It was lit with bright yellow lights all around. Boxes were piled up neatly in every corner, stacked on top of each other. Shelves were piled high with odd-looking trinkets. Tommy turned on his X-Ray vision again and scanned everything in the room. He stopped at one cardboard box with holes poked in the top. Another box was next to it, also with holes poked in the top. Tommy scanned them -- and found an orangutan inside the first box, and in the second box, who else could it be but -- Chitter, the chattering monkey!
Tommy smiled. He opened up the boxes and let the monkeys out. Chitter chittered with delight when he saw Tommy.
“Thanks for rescuing me,” said the orangutan. She was a tall, orange ape with a pale face and kinky hair. She was about as tall as Chimpi. “My name’s Lily. What’s yours?”
“My name,” said Tommy, “is Tommy.” He silently went through the names of all his friends and figured out that these were the only names that were real: Tommy, Zoe, Bo, Holly, Johnny, and Lily.
“Okay, cool. Thanks for helping us, Tommy,” said Lily. “Let’s get out of here!” She walked toward the open yellow door.
As Tommy, Lily, and Chitter walked down the hall to where the rest were fighting, Tommy told her the story of the mission, the three bad guys, the diamond, the vines and the trees, and the aftermath. When they reached the battle scene, they found Crech, Turey, and Retro all on the ground, with scratches on their faces, and blood trickling out of their mouths. Zoe, Bo, Mahasyaf, Faysaham, Johnny Boy, Chimpi, and Holly were all leaning against a wall, breathing heavily and heftily. When they all saw Tommy with Chitter and the last trapped animal, they cheered.
“Yay!”
“You found the last one!”
“You’re a genius!”
“WOOT!”
“You abandoned us. Woop!”
Tommy smiled modestly. Then after all the cheering was over, he said, “Well! Let’s get out of here!” He went into the supply room and grabbed three big nets made out of wire. He put the three bad creatures in them and then threw them in the supply room. He closed the door and locked it with his alien skills. With that, he made a hole in the ceiling and shot through it. “C’mon, guys!” he called down.
The creatures all looked at each other. “Oops,” said Tommy. “Haha. I forgot.” He then morphed his arm into a long rope. Then he morphed his other arm into a big weight and made it heavy so he could balance. “Okay, guys, climb the rope!” he said. All of the creatures, one by one, climbed up Tommy’s arm rope. Bo was the last to come up. When it was his turn to go up the rope, he found a SELF-DESTRUCT button on the wall. He pressed it, then shimmied up the rope as quickly as possible. Then the creatures all ran away from the underground lab as fast as they could before it exploded. They ran past the cave and the weird fruit tree, the Weird Puzzle Rocks zone, the Hakrin stream, the dungeon, and the tree with barbed wire. They ran until they came to where they started. Tommy’s black clothes and stilts were still where they were, kicked carelessly into a bush. Tommy was about to say something, but suddenly, a big blue hole appeared out of nowhere. A big, booming voice came out of it, saying:
“YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR MISSION, AND JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME, TOO! CONGRATULATIONS. YOU MAY NOW GO HOME. PLEASE JUMP INTO THE PORTAL.”
“Well!” said Bo happily. “Our mission is over!” He, Tommy, and Zoe did a high-five.
“You mean...you...you mean you have to...LEAVE?” Faysaham asked, almost in a whisper. His lip wobbled. He began to tremble. He whimpered sadly. Then suddenly, he BAWLED.
“WAAAAHHAAHHAAAAAAAAAAAA!” he wailed.
Zoe, Tommy, and Bo felt awkward. “Uh...yeah, we do have to leave,” Bo said.
“WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
“Bye guys!” Zoe said, waving at all the animals.
“Bye!” they called (except Chitter), waving back.
“WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
“Oh, be quiet, Faysaham.”
Zoe jumped into the portal. Bo and Tommy jumped in there too, and the last they saw of the Zamanon Jungle was in a blur before their eyes as they teleported back to Otnemarcas, Ainrofilac.

In the Jungle: Chapter 15

Chapter 15
“Where do you think a panther would hide?” said Zoe.
“Use your brains, mortal,” said Bo. “If you haven’t learned about biomes and habitats yet, then, wow, you’ve got a problem.” Then he chuckled. “Besides, it’s not hiding. The bad guys trapped it somewhere.”
Zoe flared up.
“Calm down, kid,” said Tommy. “Let’s go look over there,” he said, pointing to a cave which was blocked by a tangle of vines. He walked over to the cave and yelled, “Hello? Is there anyone there?”
Then he stood back to wait for the answer. When he didn’t hear anything after three minutes, he turned up his supersonic hearing. “Hmm...” he muttered thoughtfully. He called again.
“Maybe there’s no one in there,” suggested Bo.
Tommy ignored him. Finally, he heard some feedback.
“MMMmmmffff!”
“Aha!” said Tommy. He looked triumphantly at Bo. “See? I told you there was someone in there!”
“Actually, you didn’t,” said Bo.
Tommy made half-eyes at him. “Welllll-uh,” he said in frustration, “let’s go in and see who it is.” Then he walked into the vines.
Bo looked at Zoe, who looked at Mahasyaf, who looked at Faysaham, who looked at Johnny Boy, who looked at Chitter. Then they all stared at Tommy, shaking their heads.
“Hehh,” said Tommy, backing away from the vines. “Let’s think of cutting next time, shall we?” He morphed his hand into a knife and started to cut. But just as he was about to make the first cut, he jerked crazily, rolling around on the ground.
“It’s...it’s...IT’S POISON IVY!!!” he cried.
Everyone gasped. They all started towards Tommy, then stopped.
“It will spread!’ said Faysaham.
“Obviously,” muttered Mahasyaf.
“Anyone got anti-itch lotion?” asked Johnny Boy.
Everyone said, “Nope.”
“Maybe there’s another entrance?” suggested Zoe hopefully.
“Nah.”
“And there’s no one else here with powers who can fix him up,” said Bo. Then, suddenly, he noticed a small sign next to the poison ivy entrance. It said, ‘DO NOT TOUCH. IF YOU DO, THE CURE IS ABOVE.’
Bo looked up. He saw a weird, rare-looking fruit. It was round and red, with blue and yellow spikes. “Wow. How odd,” he said.
“What’s odd?” said Zoe, who was hanging upside down by her legs on a tree.
Bo stared at her. “Look at that sign. I think it’s the cure for Tommy.”
Zoe stared at the sign. After reading it, her eyes went wide, so wide that the weight of her eyes made her fall from the tree. Everyone stared at her, except Tommy who was still tussling with himself. Zoe quickly got up and brushed off. “Bo, we’d better get that fruit quickly! Tommy’s hand is morphed as a knife; he might cut himself!”
Bo gasped. “I never thought of that!” he exclaimed. He sprinted over to the tree and clambered up it nimbly. He grabbed one of the fruits and descended down the tree. “Now all we need to know is this: How do we use it?”
Tommy saw what was going on and morphed his sword back into a hand, for he couldn’t stand the sight of blood, and if he cut himself, he would definitely faint. The itch on him was beginning to wear off, but not so much. “Hurry up, Bo! Aaaaghh!” he screamed.
Bo and Zoe stared at him. The rest, who kind of didn’t have any idea of what was going on, just stood there daftly.
Zoe looked around. She looked at the tree of the weird fruit. She squinted at something carved on the trunk. She walked up to see it closer. Bo watched her read it, and then come running back to him with an excited smile on her face.
“What did the trunk say?” asked Bo.
“Nothing. Trunks don’t talk, apparently. But the message on the trunk said...I don’t want to tell you.”
“And why is that?” Bo inquired of her.
“Because it’s too long to say. Come and read it.” Zoe scampered away.
The others thought they should help too, since Tommy had saved most of them, and they decided he needed some payback. Nice payback, of course. So they followed Zoe and Bo to the tree.
The scrawly message said,
Break the fruit to get the precious seed inside and scrub it all over the poison-ivied victim. But mind, bury the seed deep into the ground RIGHT after use. Danger will happen if you don’t. Good luck.
“I guess we should try it,” said Bo. He hurled the fruit on the ground and used his best monkey skills to break it open.
“Monkey skills?” said Zoe. “Joke, Narry, joke.”
Bo ignored the conversation. “I’ve got it!” he said, holding the seed up high. It was shaped as a cube, and it had orange, purple, and green swirls on it.
Now you might be wondering how Bo could hold the spiky fruit without saying an ‘ow’. Well, I don’t have the answer for that.
Bo quickly ran over to Tommy, followed by Zoe. While Zoe dug a very deep hole in the ground, Bo scrubbed Tommy. He scrubbed him on the shoulder, then grabbed him by his shoulder so he could get a good hold of him. Then he finished scrubbing Tommy all over his whole body.
“Phew! Thanks, Bo,” said Tommy. But Bo didn’t have time to answer. He tossed the seed into the hole Zoe had dug, and then he and Zoe quickly covered up the hole.
“Great! Now we can cut open this poison ivy properly,” said Bo. “Tommy, morph your hands into knives again, and then change yourself to metal, as metal doesn’t get itchy like skin.”
Zoe gave Tommy a thumbs-up. Tommy nodded curtly and morphed his hands into knives and changed himself to metal with his mind. Then he walked up to the poison ivy and started to chop. As he was doing this, he thought, It sure wasn’t clever of the bad guys to trap one of the animals in here, since there’s a cure for this poison ivy.
The ivy was soon all chopped down. It was in shreds on the ground below the entrance, like a wind blocker at the bottom of a door.
“C’mon, guys,” said Tommy, motioning to his friends. They all carefully stepped over the poison ivy on the ground as they entered.
The cave was lighted with torches, so the creatures could all easily find their way. Eventually, they found a dark lump in a corner of the cave. “There he is!” cried Zoe. “One of the trapped animals!” She grabbed one of the torches off the wall and ran up to the lump. She held up the torch to what seemed to be the lump’s face. It was the big black face of a panther! The panther frantically pointed to the gag at her mouth with her tail. Zoe untied the gag and the panther’s paws. The panther stood up and stretched.
“Phew! Thanks!” she said. “That was sooo totally uncomfortable. Who are you? My name’s Holly.”
“I’m Zoe, and these are my friends Bo, Tommy, Faysaham, Mahasyaf, Johnny Boy, and Chimpi,” said Zoe, pointing to each creature when their name was mentioned.
Holly studied them with her green eyes, then turned back to Zoe. “What are you doing with such a big group as this?” she asked.
Bo butted in. “We are on a mission, Zoe, Tommy, and me.”
“We are supposed to find four trapped animals in this jungle. We found three already, including you,” Tommy added. “The other two are Mahasyaf and Chimpi.”
Zoe rolled her eyes. “In complete answer to your question, me, Bo, and Tommy are on a mission, like Bo said. Faysaham is Mahasyaf’s brother, as you may guess, and Johnny Boy is a friend of ours that helped save us from death. So they’re just following us wherever we go.”
“Oh. Okay,” said Holly. She looked around. “Well, shall I join you too, in that case?”
“Sure,” said Zoe. She turned to the others. “C’mon, let’s get out of here, guys!”
“How ‘bout we go the other way?” said Bo. “I have no intention of going back to the ivy.”
“Why?” asked Tommy.
“You never know,” Bo replied. “Somebody could’ve stalked us and blocked the entrance, or something.”
“How CLEVER,” said Zoe sarcastically. She turned and led the way out of the cave. The eight creatures walked on for a long time, turning dark corners, climbing small rock walls, and crossing little glowing pools.
“I’m scared,” said Faysaham, after a while.
“Aww, chill out,” said his brother. “This isn’t a trifle scary.”
The cave got darker and darker, as there weren’t any torches in the area where the eight creatures were walking. Tommy turned his eyes to flashlight mode, so his friends could see a little bit.
Suddenly, there was a gasp from Zoe. “I can see light!” she cried, turning a corner and running away. The others followed. Zoe gasped again. At the exit of the cave, in a marble bowl on top of a small stone box, was a glowing white diamond!

In the Jungle: Chapter 13

This one may be a little weird. Just read it anyway.

Chapter 13

“AAAAHHHRRRGHHH!!!” screeched Crech, throwing down his AK47 lightning bolt blaster. “They’ve escaped - again! We have been going on too easy on them. We’ve got to - “ Suddenly Crech whirled around. No one was around. He was talking to himself. “What ‘we’ am I blabbering about?” he grumbled. “I’m gonna go get Retro and Turey. It will be unanimous! Those dummies will be outnumbered! Three against - ”
He paused to count how many creatures he was going after. When he found out there were eight, he stomped his foot. “Never mind,” he grumbled. “It’s three against eight. Forget it, Crech.”
Crech, are you talking to yourself, or me?
Crech glared at the Narrator. “Why, to myself, of course! Your name isn’t Crech, is it?” he growled.
Then, as Crech walked back into the blue room to get Retro and Turey, a thought popped into his head.
Well...it might be three against eight, but remember, quality vs. quantity! There may be a lot of them, but us three are very powerful. Much more powerful than all those useless victims. An evil smile spread slowly over Crech’s face as he quickened his pace to get into the blue room.

***

Meanwhile, all eight creatures were...well...still walking up the stairs.
“I’m tired,” Faysaham finally said.
“Tell me something I don’t know,” retorted Mahasyaf.
“You’re tired? What about me? I’ve never slithered this much!” cried Johnny Boy. “It’s not as easy as it looks, you know.”
“You guys...are so...WEAK,” panted Chimpi. “I’ve walked, like way more than this! Right, Chitter?” He turned to look at the chimp.
Chitter chittered something, then shrugged. Chimpi glared at him.
While all of those guys were arguing, Zoe, Bo, and Tommy were jogging up the stairs.
“C’mon guys...we’re used to this...we run a lot...we’re almost there...” panted Zoe.
“Really?” panted Bo.
“Well, I...don’t know. I just...said that...to make you...feel better,” panted Zoe.
“Let me check to see where we’re going,” Tommy said (not panted). He turned on his X-Ray Vision and aimed it up. He could see more stairs and...(drumroll)...the wired hole! “We’re almost there, guys!” he exclaimed. “Hurry up!”
“Hey! I was right!” said Zoe, speeding up a little.
Finally, they reached the wired hole.
“Well?” said Zoe. “Are we just supposed to grab it and push it up and get out, or what?”
“Hold on!” said Tommy. “No touching. It might be radioactive or something.”
“Or something,” said Zoe, trying to copy Judy and Stink.
“What a genius,” said Bo. Then he and Zoe laughed and slapped each other on the back.
Tommy ignored them. He turned on his detector and aimed it at the wire. His detector said...

Detecting...detecting...Please wait in order for us to continue detecting...

...

Element detected. Radioactivity found.

Tommy gasped.
Tommy gasped.
Tommy gasped.
Tommy...screamed!
“Think fast!” he yelled to the others. “This is radioactive!!!”
Everyone stared at him strangely.
“Why would we have to act fast? Just don’t mess with it...” said Bo, top in science class.
Tommy stared dumbly. “Oh...” he said embarrassedly.
Suddenly Faysaham and Mahasyaf burst through Zoe and Bo and Tommy, thinking there were more steps, and they ran right into the wire gate. Mahasyaf froze as radiation blasted at him. Faysaham screamed long and loud, monotonously. Tommy, Zoe, and Bo gaped, and so did Johnny Boy, who had arrived just in time to see Faysaham and Mahasyaf’s dumbness occur. Chimpi and Chitter almost ran into the gate too.
“CHIMPEH, CHITTAH, MEWWWVVVVVV!!” someone bellowed. But it was not any of them. It was Retro.
“RETRO!!” Chimpi and Chitter screamed, “MAH BUDDEH!! HUGGA!!”
They rushed over to him, hairy arms wide. As they came closer to him, his wide grin and stretched arms slowly contracted. He opened his mouth instead and howled in their faces. And they ran into it, screaming and yelling with joy. Then they hugged the hanging thing and patted the tonsils, leaving dirty footprints all over Retro’s tongue. Then they bit it. The Hanging thing. And they renamed it the Hanging Thing.
Retro let out a nose piercing howl. Everyone got rings! For their pierced noses! Bo got a Bum, Zoe got a Zircon, Johnny Boy got a jewel, Tommy got a turd shaped gemstone from Mars...but alas - Chimpi, Chitter, Mahasyaf, and Faysaham were not allowed to have gems. Because they were not living. And they were not dead. They were zombies!

AHEM - said the Turd a.k.a. The Head

Head: HOW RUDE. You are FIRED. FoREVuH. New narrator will be inserted...

DEN DEN DEnnnnnnnNNN -

NATURDO!!!! (his eyes gleamed)

彼 らは毛深い腕が広い、彼に駆け寄る。彼らは彼に近づいてくるように、彼の広いにやにや笑いとストレッチ腕が徐々に縮小した。彼は代わりに彼の口を開けて、 彼らの顔に遠ぼえ。そして、彼らは叫び、喜びで叫んで、それに走った。その後、彼らは絞首刑のことを抱きしめ、扁桃腺を叩いて、すべてのレトロの舌の上汚 い足跡を残す。その後、彼らはそれを噛んだ。ハンギング事。そして、彼らはそれをハンギング·シングの名前を変更しました。
レ トロでは、鼻ピアスの遠吠えをしましょう。誰もがリングを持って！そのピアス鼻のために！ Boが範を得たゾーイは、ジルコンを持って、ジョニー·ボーイ宝石を持って、トミーは火星から、糞の形の宝石を持って...しかし、悲しいかな - Chimpi、さえずる、Mahasyaf、とFaysahamは、宝石を持つことができませんでした。彼らが住んでいなかったため。そして、彼らは死ん でいなかった。彼らはゾンビだった！

Head: YOU are FIRED ALSO!!

Naturdo: しませんでした

Head: GO AWAY.

Naturdo: しませんでした I SHALL TAKE OVER THE WULD.

Head: YOU CAN SPEAK ENGLISH? Ok, you can still narrate.

Naturdo: しませんでした

Head: ಠ_ಠ
Naturdo: ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠ Bye.

Head: Bai. I shouldn’ta hired you in the first place. Smella. Go make your tupa’ movies or whatever.

Narry (scaredly): Well, um, Head, can I come back? Am I hired or still fired?

Head (sighs): You’re hired, I suppose. Please begin.

Narry: Yes, Head.

A-hem...well, continuing the story, let’s see...where did we stop? Let us rewind a bit.


Okay. We were here.

...hanging thing and patted the tonsils, leaving dirty footprints all over Retro’s tongue. Then they bit it. The Hanging thing. And they renamed it....err...

Okay, never mind that actually. Rewind! That really messed up the story.
Okay...THIS is where we were...
... Suddenly Faysaham and Mahasyaf burst through Zoe, Bo and Tommy, thinking there were more steps, and they ran right into the wire gate. Mahasyaf froze as radiation blasted at him. Faysaham screamed long and loud, monotonously. Tommy, Zoe, and Bo gaped, and so did Johnny Boy, who had arrived just in time to see Faysaham and Mahasyaf’s dumbness occur. Chimpi and Chitter almost ran into the gate too.
“WHOAAAA!!” Chimpi screamed as he was held back by his fellow monkey, Bo. Chitter crashed into Chimpi’s back and started to roll down the stairs! He screeched as he rolled down each step with a bump.
“CATCH HIM!” Tommy shouted, and Zoe took off. She grabbed Chitter’s tail and hoisted him up. He was heavy despite his scrawniness. Zoe pulled with all her non-existent might, and finally got Chitter up.
“Well...that was close,” said Tommy. He turned to stare at the radiated Mahasyaf and nearby, the sobbing Faysaham. Bo crossed his arms, shook his head, and sighed. Johnny Boy stared down at the ground with an ashamed look on his face as if he had caused everything. Chimpi stood daftly, scratching his head. Zoe and Chitter leaned against the stair railing, breathing heavily.
“Well...what do we do now? Mahasyaf is radiated, and Faysaham is being a baby, and the bad guys might come in any minute, and...” Tommy was cut off by an offended Faysaham.
“Did you j-j-just call me...a-a-a...a BABY?!”
“Well, no,” Tommy said quickly, “I said you were being a baby.”
“Same thing,” said Faysaham with a sulky face, and then continued sobbing.
“Well,” said Zoe in answer to Tommy before Faysaham interrupted, “you should know what to do, Tommy...I mean, you being the powerful one and all...”
“Well this time count me out. Use your brains this time, guys!” Tommy said, suddenly feeling angry after experiencing getting shrunk, morphed, tortured by the danger, getting interrupted, and now asked to do everything. He was very pressured. He turned away.
Zoe glanced ashamedly and nervously at Bo. “Well what do you think we should do, Bo?”
Bo, being the second smartest from the group, scratched his head. “Well, let me think. First of all, Mahasyaf is radiated. Second of all, Faysaham won’t stop sobbing. Third of all, Tommy is angry at all of us. Fourthly, the bad guys might come in any second, so we better run. Fifthly, we have to finish this mission before 5 pm, and right now it looks like about maybe 1 pm or 2. And sixthly, we still have to find the orangutan and panther.” Bo scratched his head again. “We have gotta do something,” he said and sighed. “Count me out too.”
Zoe bit her lip and glanced around. Her eyes landed on Chimpi. “Aha! Chimpi, what should we do?”
“Urmmm...we should un-radiate the cheetah and cheer up the lil guy, then we’ll be all good!” said Chimpi. “How’s that, Shorty?” He grinned.
“Never mind,” said Zoe, who thought that this little bit of advice was not the least bit helpful.
“How ‘bout you, Chitter?” she asked him. Chitter thought for a minute, and then his eyes grew big. He chattered something that would have been maybe a mile long if it could be translated and written down. Zoe turned to Johnny Boy.
“I really don’t know, but I do know one thing,” said Johnny. “According to my calculations, in order to put an end to radiation, you need lead...”
“Where are we gonna get lead?” asked Zoe.
“Don’t ask me,” said Johnny.
“Hmm...” said Zoe. She scratched her head until suddenly, a light bulb popped out of her head! Literally. “Aha! I know exactly what to do! Listen up, guys!” Tommy turned around, Bo glanced, Chimpi perked up, it took awhile for Chitter to understand what was going on, Johnny stared, and Faysaham raised a shiny tear-stained face. Mahasyaf could do nothing. He was radiated, and that was--
“Get to the point, Narry,” said Zoe rudely.
Okay. Fine.
So Zoe started telling everyone her plan, but just at that moment, the bad guys burst in. The door broke off its hinges and fell to the floor.
“Hurry guys!” a voice growled. “They’re probably already gone!”
Since the staircase was a curved one, the bad guys didn’t spot the eight immediately. But thanks to Turey’s genius idea, they met the eight in seconds, on a hovercraft.
“Ha! We got you! You thought you could escape us, huh?” Turey hissed. “Well, we had a discussion, and I got a great idea. So now, we have you in our hands forever!!!”
“Uhh...I’m scared?” Bo asked sarcastically. Then he screamed. “TOMMY! HELP!”
Tommy thought fast and burnt a hole in the wall and jumped out, taking Mahasyaf with his powers. Everybody else fatly piled out, while the creature trio watched in anger and horror. “GET THEM!” Crech yelled. Chimpi had a hard time getting through the hole. When he finally got out, Chitter began to get in. But just as he set foot on the rim of the hole, Retro grabbed him. “Ha! You can’t get away, you little betrayer! You used to be on our side, and then you ditched us!” Chitter chittered something in protest, and Retro growled. “It’s because I slapped you?!” he raged. “Well you’re coming back with us and we’re gonna make sure you don’t ditch us again!” Turey and Crech blubbered in agreement and left the place on their hovercraft, grumbling.

Meanwhile, the remaining seven creatures were huffing and puffing from the run.
“We lost them,” Bo huffed.
“But they caught Chitter!” said Zoe.
“Yes, we’ll try and get him later,” said Tommy. “Right now, we should find a hideout place in case they come to get us again. And we still have to find the two remaining animals for our mission.” He un-radiated Mahasyaf, and then watched Faysaham go over to him in glee.
“Right. Now where do you think they’d be?” said Bo. “Wait, what are they again?”
Tommy wondered why a top science student would have such a bad memory. “According to my wonderful remembrance, they are an orangutan and a panther.”
“Oh yeah!” said Bo, slamming a fist into his hand. “I knew that.”
Sometimes Bo could just make Tommy want to explode.
“Well, let’s start searching!” said Zoe, who had been quiet all the while.
“Hey, guys, wait!” said Mahasyaf. “What’s the deal here?”
Zoe, Bo, and Tommy looked at each other, then said, in a most grave tone, “We plan, to save the world.”
Faysaham raised an eyebrow. “Excuse me?”
“We are on a mission. We have to find four lost animals here in this jungle. We already found two of them. They are Mahasyaf and Chimpi,” the three said darkly.
“Ohh...okay...” said Mahasyaf. “In that case, let’s begin.”
He and Tommy gravely shook hands, and nodded curtly.

In the Jungle: Chapter 10

Chapter 10

“HELP! I LOST MY BRO AND MY WEIRD FRIENDS!” Faysaham ran around the jungle, yelling like a weirdo.
A python lowered its head above Faysaham’s. “Were you guys at the Hakrin stream?” it asked.
“I suppose so,” said Faysaham. “Why? Can you help me?”
“I think so,” said the python, whose name was Johnny Boy.
Johnny Boy slid down out of the tree he was in, and followed Faysaham to the hateful stream of Hakrin water.
“How long have they been in there?” asked Johnny Boy. “If it’s past 10 minutes, they’re as good as dead.”
“They’ve been there for about eight minutes,” said Faysaham.

*Theme song with scary tone in it starts *

“Well then, I guess I better get them out quickly,” said Johnny. “Us pythons are known for our amazing speed!”
Johnny Boy went for the first to fall in, which was Bo, and shot his head in the brown water. In three seconds, Johnny Boy came back up and tossed Bo on the ground. Then Johnny Boy shot his head in again, and brought Zoe up in four seconds this time. He grunted under Zoe’s weight and tossed her on the ground. Tommy was next, and this time it took Johnny 4.5 seconds. Tommy seemed about 200 pounds, despite his small size. Mahasyaf was last. Johnny dove down. It took him two seconds to grip onto Mahasyaf, and then he slowly hauled Mahasyaf up.
3 - The python strained all his muscles.
2 - They were almost there!
1 - Mahasyaf burst out of the water.
But as for the snake, it floated down, eyes glazed as it settled deep down into the mud.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Faysaham screamed and lunged forward, again.
He quickly ran around the jungle again and yelled for another python.
“HEAR YE PYTHONS! THOU FELLOW PYTHON HATH SLIPPED INTO HAKRIN STREAM, AND YE MUST SAVE YE FELLOW SPECIES!”
But there were no more. Johnny Boy was the last of them all.
In dismay, Faysaham ran back to the Hakrin stream, just as everybody was coming to. Bo sat up, rubbed his head and groaned. Then Zoe got up and moaned. Then Tommy got up and tested his powers by zapping Faysaham’s buttock. Mahasyaf sat up and leaned back. His bones cracked. Faysaham’s face brightened at this.
“You guys’re all alive!” he exclaimed.
“What happened?” Bo groaned.
“Guys, quick!” Faysaham said suddenly. “Johnny Boy is stuck in the stream of Hakrin!”
“Johnny Boy?” all four creatures asked and moaned at the same time.
“Yes, Johnny Boy, your hero!” Faysaham said, impatiently.
For some reason, everybody suddenly stared at Tommy. They screamed, despite all their moans and groans.
“What?” Tommy croaked. He looked down at himself, and screamed a high-pitched, croaky scream. His body had morphed!
Tommy’s head was shaped like a heart, and weird tubes poked out from the sides of his head. His arms were short and wiggly, and his fingers were very long. His body was small at the top and big at the bottom. And his feet were nothing but short stubs.
“How-how  did this happen?” Tommy stammered. “How could this possibly happen?!”
“No time to explain!” Faysaham said, jumping around in impatience. “Johnny Boy must be saved!” He pointed frantically at the stream.
Although they did not know who Faysaham was talking about, Zoe and Bo scampered over to the Hakrin stream. Through the muddy, bubbly, murky water, they could see Johnny Boy.
“We have to be very quick about this,” said Zoe. Bo nodded.
Zoe leaned as forward as she could - while Bo grasped onto her tail tightly - and stretched out an arm to grab Johnny. Her finger touched him, and she edged him a bit closer with her finger until she could finally wrap her paw around him and pull him out. Just as she pulled him out, the muddy hand shot out of the water and grabbed Johnny Boy’s tail.
“AAAIIIEEE!” Zoe screamed. “Everybody, pull! Pull! Pull as hard as you can!”
Everybody snapped into action. Mahasyaf grabbed Bo’s tail, and Faysaham grabbed his brother’s tail, and Tommy was last, since he did not have a tail. Then they all pulled with all their non-existent strength!
“Arrrghhh!” grunted Zoe.
“Unnnnhh!” grunted Bo.
“Errkkkhh!” grunted Mahasyaf.
“Ooooff!” grunted Faysaham.
“Mmmmfff!” grunted Tommy.
With a sharp tug, the snake slipped out of the muddy hand’s grasp, and everybody collapsed on the ground.
Zoe had had her eyes closed tight. Then she slowly opened them. She saw her hand tightly holding a snake, and after gasping, loosened her grip. Then she stood up and put the snake on the ground so she could pull the others up.
All the five creatures stared down at Johnny Boy.
Slowly, Johnny’s eyes unglazed. His skin slowly darkened to a sickly gray color.  Then...his gray skin crackled off his body and moved its way all the way down to his tail. Under the sickly gray skin was new, shiny scaly skin! Johnny had shed!
“I feel wunnerful!” said Johnny. “Thank you to whoever got me out!”
“I did,” said Faysaham proudly.
Zoe, Bo, Mahasyaf, and the morphed Tommy drew back in offense. “No you didn’t!” they said.
“I did,” Faysaham repeated, ignoring them. He puffed out his chest and thumped it. Mahasyaf glared at him in fury. An argument flared up, like Mahasyaf’s nose.
“Did not!” said Mahasyaf.
“Did too!” retorted Faysaham.
“Did not!”
“Deed three!”
“Did not! And that’s final!”
Faysaham crossed his arms and stuck out his bottom lip. “I don’t LIKE you!” he whined.
Mahasyaf ignored him and turned to Johnny Boy. “So yeah, anyway, we all got you out.”
“Yeah. Thanks,” Johnny Boy said, staring oddly at Faysaham and trying to hide his amused face.
“I have to go find my friend,” said Bo. Zoe and the morphed Tommy stared oddly at him.  Bo narrowed his eyes at them and hissed, “The mission!”
“Ohhh,” Zoe and Tommy mouthed in understanding, nodding their heads.
“Yeah. His name is...umm...Chimpanzee,” Tommy said dumbly.
Bo glared at him.
“You guys can come if you want,” said Zoe. She turned and motioned to Bo and Tommy.

Soon, Zoe, Bo and Tommy found themselves trudging through the jungle, pushing away vines, parting the bushes, and the whole time an annoying, blabbering little cheetah was, well, blabbering.
“So you know, yeah, um...I have really fuzzy fur and you know, my brother called me Kinky. He had smooth fur, so I called him Slick. He didn’t like that so he started fuzzing his fur every second of the day.
“And when one time I went fishing, I caught what my brother called a whopper! I never ever heard of a whopper fish before. Maybe they’re called that because--”
“That’s enough, Faysaham,” said Mahasyaf. “Your stories are really dumb. And they’re sometimes not even true!”
Faysaham glared at him. “You’re not supposed to say that!” he hissed.
“Well, I already did, so it’s too late. No sorry, it’s TOO late!” Mahasyaf said. Suddenly there was a thump.
“AAAIIIEEE!” screamed someone. The someone turned out to be Zoe, who was nowhere to be seen.
“Umm, where’d Zoe go?” asked Mahasyaf.
Bo looked up in the trees...and there she was! She was hanging upside down from a tree branch by her foot, which was tied up with a rope. Despite her gray color, her face was slowly turning red as all the blood rushed to her head. Her face was also frozen in shock.
“Oh....my....God,” Bo said, also in shock. Then he yelled, “Guys! Looks like Zoe walked into a trap! We gotta get her down!”
“All right!” yelled the two cheetahs and Johnny Boy.
Bo rushed over to the tree Zoe was tied to, and he climbed it in most nimbleness. But as he did, a net fell over him. “GAAAAAAHHHH!” he shouted.
Tommy whirled his head around. Bo was sitting in a net, clawing at the ropes.
Mahasyaf ran over to Bo - but just as he took a step...
“AAAAAHHHH!” Mahasyaf was trapped, too! For the third time, he was trapped.
Tommy, Faysaham, and Johnny Boy were the only ones left...to be trapped. They stood stone still. Then, a big net fell around them. They were not surprised.
“Aah,” screamed Faysaham fakely. “I lost my pitiful bro again.”
Then , they heard a chattering laugh from above. Everybody looked up, except Zoe, who couldn’t.
It was the chattering chimp that appeared back in Chapter 3! It laughed crazily and didn’t stop.
“What...a...weirdo,” Zoe managed to say. She hoisted herself up and tried to claw the rope, but she fell down again. She kept hoisting up and clawing until the rope frayed.
“Almost...there..” Zoe grunted. She hoisted up one last time and clawed.
And the rope slowly became thinner and thinner...and thinner...and thinner again....
until it finally broke with a snap!
Zoe sailed down to the ground and landed on the dirt.
THUD!
“Ooohh,” Zoe groaned, rubbing her head. She quickly looked up for the chattering chimp, but then she fell back, eyes closed, flat on her back on the ground.
The chattering chimp’s jaw dropped and his eyes grew as big as grapefruits. Then he jumped around crazily and chattered.
Bo peered down at Zoe, who had blacked out. Zoe’s face was slowly turning from red to a normal gray color.
“Hey, Chattering Chimp! You caught em!” yelled a voice from within the depths of the jungle. The voice’s owner came out from the shadows. It was Retro!
The chattering chimp turned and saw his beautiful master, Retro. “So you caught them all, right?” asked Retro.
The chimp chattered something, then pointed at Zoe on the ground. Retro stared at her, then said, “Well, we’ll take them all back to the dungeon. We’ll leave her here.”
Bo stared in horror at them. They were gonna leave Zoe here! “She’s gotta know about this!” he thought. But he couldn’t find a way to tell her. “She’ll find out later. She’ll find us soon and figure something out,”  he thought. He stared at the others and saw looks of dismay on their faces.
Retro walked over to Bo’s net and growled, “You ran away from me the first time, but you’ll never run away again! I fixed the dungeon, by the way.” He chuckled.
Bo scowled.
Retro reached up and took down Bo’s net. Then he slung it over his shoulder.
“Come on kids!” he said. “Let’s go fishin with this here net.”
He grinned with one eye bigger than the other.
Then he guffawed.
“YOU guys?! Fish!? With me? And this joke of a net?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
The cheetahs looked at him strangely, and tried to run. But lo and behold, the net fell over them both. How sad for a cheetah. Those broz need to get their acceleration up to date.
“Ha, try to run away again, ha, and get killed by this net!” he said again with one eye bigger again. But alas, he hadn’t noticed that Bo had escaped from his net.
“Naa-naa-ne-naa-naaah!” taunted a voice behind him. Retro whirled around and saw Bo dancing and making funny faces at him. Retro repeated his phrase and lurched forward.
“Ha, try to run away again, ha, and get killed by this net!”
Bo grinned, then took a fast step back. Retro lurched forward, then stopped when he saw that Bo had tricked him.
“Ah, just go jump in a lake, smelly brown guy.”
“I think I will. Can you direct me to a lake?” Bo asked.
“Ah, go jump off a cliff.”
“Do you have a parachute?”
“Gunh.”
“I don’t have one, but I sure would like a AK47. I could shoot you down with it.”
“You just try that, and-”
“As I said before, I don’t have one.”
“You creep...”
“I’m a monkey!”
“Sure do smell like it.”
“Well, you smell like turds.”
“You little - ”
“I am actually bigger than the majority of 12 year old monkeys.”
“Yes, I can see that by your flabs, and I’m sure I wouldn’t be surprised by your diet.”
“I’m not on a diet.”
“Well, you sure need one. Are you dumb or something? There’s a school for the mentally challenged I know of.”
“Well you’re returded.”
“That isn’t even a word.”

“Oh, is that why there’s a red dotted line under it?”

“You’re not supposed to say that, I think.”
“Why not?”
“You’re only supposed to talk about stuff in the story.”
“Well, a dotted line below the word returded is in the story. Tommy, if you will?”
Tommy then used his holographic laser to show Retro. Then he left it permanently there, where it floated amazingly.
Retro did a serious facepalm. The chimp chattered next to him.
“Ah, be quiet.” Retro grumbled, slapping the daft chimp’s face. Bo’s face reddened in anger at the injustice towards his fellow monkey. He started his boxer shuffle. The chattering chimp did a boxer shuffle too. Sweat poured down their faces. Their armpits grew soggy. They breathed heavily.  Then, Bo leaped out and did a swirling punch at the monkey. The monkey collapsed on the ground, eyes shut. There was a big black, grapefruit-size mark on the chimp’s eye. The monkey groaned and chittered. He held his eye. Then he showed it to Bo and chittered something.
“Ooh, that looks bad,” said Bo.  “I’m really quite sorry.” He picked up the eye from the chimp’s hand and washed it in a stream that came from nowhere. Then he shoved it back in the chimp’s socket. The chimp grinned and chittered and jumped.
Retro rolled his eyes again. One moldy eye dropped out, tendons snapping and flapping. Veins hung.
“Ugh, not again,” he grumbled, picking it up, and stuffed it back in his own socket, torn tendons and all. He cupped his hands around his mouth and breathed a breath.
“HOOOO-WEE!” he exclaimed. “Smells like Gorgonzola cheese! How cheesy!”
While all this hygiene checking was going on, Retro didn’t notice that all his captives were gone. Even the smelly, yelly, orange chimp. And even Zoe.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Birds flew out of trees, screeching at the loud yell.
Meanwhile, Bo, Zoe (who had already come back to life) and the others snickered from under their bush. Let me rephrase that - the huge bush.
“That was hilarious! Gorgonzola cheese! Come on la dey!”
“Sure was cheesy!” said Johnny Boy.
Retro growled.
“Come back here! Don’t make me angry! You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry!” With that, he clenched his muscles and roared to the sky.  The little wobbly thing at the back of his throat wiggled in fright.
“Let’s split up,” Bo whispered, “then it will be harder for him to find all of us.”
So they all went their own ways. Faysaham and Mahasyaf hid in rabbit holes (big ones) [lol], Zoe, Johnny Boy and Bo scurried up trees, and Tommy stood clearly in a middle of a grassy clearing. Invisible of course. Retro gave up and stomped away to his smelly friends. Seeing this, Bo and Zoe and Tommy suddenly had the same idea.

“We plan, to save the world!” They all yelled, pumping their fists in the air.

The others stared strangely, but the three weirdos acted as if they hadn’t done anything out of the ordinary. They all suddenly realized something.
“Hey! Why is everything so big? I mean, big bushes, big rabbit holes...”
Bo looked grave.
Tommy looked solemn.
Zoe looked normal.
Johnny Boy looked surprised.
Faysaham and Mahasyaf were hugging each other in fright.
“There is only one explanation,” said Bo.
“Yes. One explanation,” said Tommy.
“We have shrunk,” Zoe said normally.
Faysaham and Mahasyaf let out little screams like girls.
Johnny Boy was shocked.
“But how?” he asked.
Tommy again connected to his speedy 4G network and looked at the Hakrin water page. There he saw, at the bottom of the page.

UPDATE: After some research today, our researchers have also found out that Hakrin water has another strange effect on non-humans. Research shows that it shrinks all non humans down to one-fourth of their size.

**A more recent update shows that it has even stranger effects on aliens. They are already smaller than usual, so instead of being shrunk, they morph into human body part shapes. Some Uranians have been known to transform into bladder shapes.

He slapped his left forehead (remember how a heart is shaped, seeing how Tommy is morphed) and read it aloud to the others. They too, slapped their normal foreheads.
“Tommy, you look disgusting,” Zoe said, “and when you slapped your left forehead, the dent stayed.”
“Lol,” said Bo boredly.
“Oh my God!” said Faysaham, just understanding what Tommy had told them.
“You’re so late, Faysaham. Your new name is The Late Faysaham. We’ll call you that from now on. Got that, Narry?” said Bo kindly.
Yes, Bo. Whatever.
The Late Faysaham, TLF for short, pouted in the non-existent corner.
“B-b-b-but-” TLF blubbered sadly.
“No, no it’s just plain TOO LATE. Subject’s out.” said Bo, Zoe, and Tommy in unison.
“You guys are extremely mean and close minded. Literally. You always all say the same thing at the same time.” said Mahasyaf.
“Defendin’ yo’ bro, huh?” they said in unison again. “Well, it ain’t our fault. It’s the narrator’s.”
Mahasyaf snorted. Green snot spurted out of his nose. “Ow!” Mahasyaf said. “My nose hurts.”
“Are you oka-” TLF started.
“Your snot is so green, Mahasyaf. From now on, we’ll call you the Green Mahasyaf. Got that, Narry?” said Bo kindly.
Yes, Bo. Whatever.
Well, the Green Mahasyaf, Grema for short, started protesting.
”Hey, Gramma, where are yo’ wrinkles?” asked Bo.
Grema pouted in the non-existent corner.
TLF cried. “Why do WE have to have names like these?” he wailed.
“You deserve it, that’s why,” said Tommy, trying to be prim with his hands clasped near his morphed abdomen as he couldn’t really reach it because his legs were all short and his torso was all long..
“I believe I must fix this morphedness,” said Tommy. He then grabbed the bottom of his huge torso and pulled it up, hard. His veins bulged. His face turned red. His huge torso slid to the top of his body, and his small torso went down. Now I am Muscle Man! (They always have wide tops. )
Now Tommy’s body was fixed.
“Now, about these fingers and arms of mine.” He mashed his fingers against a wall until they shortened.
“Hey, where’d a wall come from?” asked Zoe. “We’re in the jungle.”
I took it away, Zoe. My imagination put it there.
“Hmph,” said Zoe. “Well, then, don’t listen to your ‘imagination’ !”
How else will the story go on?
“Hmm....however we characters want it to!”
A very bad choice indeed. But that is how it is supposed to go according to the Head. How do you want the story to proceed?
Zoe cleared her throat and said, “Tommy rammed his hand, fingers outstretched, into a tree.”
How very unoriginal Zoe.
Anyways. Go on. SPEAK.
Zoe stared in dismay at the narrator. “I can’t narrate the whole story!”
NO. You must speak. I will narrate as always.
“Huh?”
ENOUGH ARGUMENTS WITH ME.
Tommy grinned proudly as he admired himself in a pool that came out of nowhere.
“Beautifully blue and Martian-shaped!” he exclaimed, holding out a dainty hand.  “But my head is still shaped like a heart and my legs are still stubby. Oh, and I still have weird tubes poking out from the sides of my head.”
Tommy then got hold of his right forehead, and squeezed it. His veins bulged. His face turned red. His wimpy muscles strained. BLOOP! His left forehead disappeared! But Tommy’s right forehead felt very heavy. His head sagged. He felt his right forehead.  It was HUGE! Lumps hung from it.
“Look what you did Narry!!!!” Tommy bellowed slapping Narry.
Ow, Tommy, you tilted my words.
Bo grabbed Tommy’s leg stubs and pulled them until they stretched. Then he shaped the end of them into the normal boot shape of Tommy’s feet. Tommy grinned even more proudly.
Tommy stood between two trees and whammed the right side of his head into the tree on his right, and did the same with his left. The tubes sank into Tommy’s head. Tommy grinned the proudest. His face shone with oil and sweat.
“I did it all by myself!” he yelled to the jungle. Retro heard him and growled. But alas, he still could not find them. He had got himself stuck in his own dungeon. He roared again and bashed his behiney fiercely. There was a CRACK, and all was lost.
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The chattering monkey chattered something. Bo, being a monkey too, understood. “He said he knows about a hidden monkey friend. He’s a chimp, too. He could be the one we’re looking for!”
“Oh! Great!” said Zoe. “Why does he only chatter, though? Why doesn’t he, like... you know... talk?”
“Because he wouldn’t be himself if he could talk. His name is Chattering Monkey,” Bo answered.
Bo then turned to the chimp and asked, “So where is this chimp?”
Chattering Monkey chattered something, then ran away. “Hey, Chattering Monkey! Slow down! Don’t leave us!” Bo yelled in dismay. He ran after Chattering Monkey. “He said to follow him. Come on!” Bo yelled to the others.
The others sprinted after him.
When they reached Bo and Chattering Monkey, they found themselves at what seemed like a secret place. There was a circle of trees surrounding a patch of dirt with a pattern of rocks on top. Chattering Monkey motioned the others over. Then he squeezed in through the tree circle. He chattered something.
“He said to come in,” said Bo. So the others squeezed in too - except Grema, who was kind of big, even though he was shrunken. He finally got in.
“So...is the chimp trapped under this dirt?” asked Bo. Chattering Monkey nodded. Then he chattered something.
Bo said, “He said we have to arrange the rocks on top in a certain way. It’s like a code. It will unlock the trap and we can get the chimp out.”
“Well, how should they be arranged?” asked Zoe.
“Use your brain, ding dong,” Bo said. “All we have to do, is look at the patterns on each rock, and arrange them into some kind of shape. Or else ask Tommy, the know-it-all. But we don’t need that kid right now.”
Tommy swelled in offense, but Bo continued on. “See, I’m real good at hard puzzles, so I should know what to do. First of all, we’ve got to get all the rocks lined up neatly. Then we may begin.” Bo efficiently arranged all the rocks scratch-up, (each rock had a dark scratch in it) then inspected them. Then he looked closely. He scratched his head.
“None of these scratches meet each other!” he exclaimed. “It seems that we need you, Tommy.”
Tommy, though still sulking, quickly connected to his 4G connection and searched up ‘weird puzzle rocks’. He got a result.

Weird Puzzle Rocks

One of the hardest puzzles in the world, Weird Puzzle Rocks is a puzzle that has 5 different pieces that come in 5 different kinds of scratches, from very deep, D1, to shallow, D6. The other difficult thing about Weird Puzzle Rocks is that they are complete squares, with no little knobs to connect them. When puzzle is finished, it makes a symbol in an unknown language that most of our astrologers believe it says ‘OPEN’. Puzzle Rocks are very rarely found, but when they are, there is always danger. A more recent study shows that once you get into a Weird Puzzle Rock zone, you are locked in until you complete the puzzle or survive the danger that will come after not completing the puzzle within around 20 minutes.  

“Oh my God!” said Tommy, squeezing his cheeks in surprise. To his mighty surprise, his cheeks morphed! He then took hold of his index finger with his left hand, then pulled. Just as he was expecting, it stretched! The other animals looked in amazement. Tommy then had an idea. He went to one of the trees on the side, and rammed his fingers against the tree until they were gone. Then, using his other hand, he carefully pinched the end of his hand and stretched it making it look rather like a large shovel. Using his mind, he hardened his now morphable body. He plunged his shovel hand into the dirt. He dug and dug, until he uncovered a gleaming steel block, 7 feet deep. “Guys, look at this,” he said.
They all peered into the hole.
“Hey! There’s a possibility that the chimp might be down there!” exclaimed TLF dumbly.
The others stared at him with half eyes. “Duhhhh.”
TLF stared back at them in confusion. “Well, amn’t I right?” he asked in pure dismay.
“No, you never are. And ‘amn’t’ isn’t a word. Tommy, if you will?” said Zoe and Bo in unison.
Tommy used his holographic laser to show TLF. The word floated amazingly.
TLF stared up at the word in dismay. “Yeah, yeah, what-evah, bro,” he said, face reddening.

Tommy rolled his eyes and continued shoveling. Or should I say digging. He finally made the hole big enough for them all to fit in.

“Okay, fatties, hop in!” he said.

Then, when everyone hopped in, he morphed his hand into a hammer. Then, with his old powers, he lit up his hammer hand with fire and started smashing the iron cage with his burning hammer. The iron, melted and dented, finally made a hole big enough for them to enter. But before they could go inside, two big animals leaped out at them. Quick as the wind, Tommy morphed both of his hands into swords, materialized himself to metal, and slashed at the two animals. They screamed in pain and ran out into the clearing. Then, there was a rumble. It has been only 20 minutes since they entered the weird puzzle rock zone, and the danger was here. Suddenly, they were all surrounded by a bright white light. They all squeezed their eyes shut in pain. Then, the whole place started to shake. A  hairy tentacle shot out of the dirt wall, wiggling nastily.

Everybody carefully opened their eyes. It was still bright, but in the brightness, they could make out the nasty tentacle. Then, the bright white light darkened to a sickly, nasty blue-green. Everybody opened their eyes fully, and gazed at the light. They barfed immediately.

“Eww!! Ugly!! I thought it was bright and white!!!” Everyone squealed like girls, eyes shut again. Then their eyes popped open again and they gazed lovingly into each other’s eyes. And then.....nastiness...happened. Narry could not control himself. He burst out laughing.

Head: NARRY!!! You know it is against the rules of narrating to put nastiness in this story and LIE!!! Rewrite! I will now cross it out.

So now Narry, chastised, narrated again.

...Everybody popped open their eyes again and squinted against the hideous light.

“What’s up with this light, man?” TLF asked, uglily.

“I don’t know, man.” Tommy answered, “Lemme check ma 4G network again, man.”

“WoMan...” replied TLF.

Tommy did a quick search on lights.

Ultra-Violet (C) Light

There are three types of UV rays, UVA, UVB, and UVC. Although UV light is invisible to humans, it is very dangerous to be exposed to it, especially UVC. In some fictitious jungles, UVC is known to be a sickly, nasty, blue-green color. Victims of UVC light have experienced skin redness and eye irritation. The most dangerous thing about this light is that it highly energetic and can burn skin.

Tommy suddenly felt nauseous. He felt his skin darken.

“Uh...hey man, what’s wrong with you, man?” TLF asked.

Tommy weakly put out a holograph showing the results he had just found.

After reading it all, everybody’s mouths opened wide into a big ‘O’.

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Ultra-Violet (C) Light

There are three types of UV rays, UVA, UVB, and UVC. Although UV light is invisible to humans, it is very dangerous to be exposed to it, especially UVC. In some fictitious jungles, UVC is known to be a sickly, nasty, blue-green color. Victims of UVC light have experienced skin redness and eye irritation. The most dangerous thing about this light is that it’s highly energetic and can burn skin.

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“OH MY GOD!” they all screamed.

Tommy searched again on his network and found another fact about lights.

Loud Sounds

If a victim of any of these lights makes a very loud sound, such as screaming, things are expected to happen. Small, winged animals might make an attack, and there is a high probability of a lightning bolt war or hairy tentacle tickling-to-death.

“Uh oh,” the creatures all whispered meekly.
But it was too late.
Bats streamed out from every corner of the hole as lightning flashed and tentacles snaked out from the ground wrapping themselves around the little group.  Suddenly, the whole hole smelled of burning skin. Everybody glanced at each other and cried while laughing (tentacle tickling). As their skin burned to crisps, the tentacles tickled and peeled off the crisps until fresh new skin showed beneath. As the fresh skin was exposed, it too, started to burn. It was revolting.
“This is like HELL!” Grema managed to choke out from his uncontrollable laughter.
Suddenly, the Head butted in.
Head: Narry, you should stop calling those cheetahs awful names. Even though they deserve it, it’s still mean. So please, from now on it’s  Faysaham and Mahasyaf. If that’s too hard for your wimpy self to do, then-
“I second that!” Grema and TLF yelled.
Head: Narry...
Narry: ...Excuse me; ...Mahasyaf and Faysaham yelled.
Head: Very good. Continue.
As skin burned, everyone screamed and laughed awfully. Soon, it was increased to a cackle and a wail, and then, it was increased to evil laughter and sad bellowing. The six creatures had become evil from the constant punishment.
“How long does this laaaast?!” Johnny Boy chuckled.
Suddenly, everything stopped. The hairy tentacles sucked back into the dirt wall. The bats flew away, squeaking. The lightning bolts jumped away. The sickly, green-blue light brightened to a light blue. A voice boomed from within the depths of the dirt walls.
“YOU HAVE SURVIVED THE DANGER. YOU MAY NOW PROCEED INTO THE BLUE DOOR ON YOUR RIGHT. ”
Then there was a rumble, and a blue door suddenly appeared on the creatures’ right. The door was robin’s egg blue in color, like Zoe’s eyes, and it was bordered with glitter. Embedded in the door was a shiny, blue metal frog.
Bo had a daft look on his face. Then he stared down at his skin. “AAAAAAUGHH!” he screamed, chokingly. His skin was black, and skin was peeling off, uncovering flesh and protruding bones.
Everybody else looked at their skin too, and screamed. “Eeekh!”
“Let’s take a peek in that blue door...muahahahaaa,” said Zoe evilly. (She was still evil from the constant punishment.)
Johnny Boy slithered over to the door, followed by the others, who were kind of drunk.
Zoe opened the door with a blackened, burnt paw - and a gust of cold, blue dry ice swept over them. It covered them for five minutes and then it faded away.
Everybody stared at themselves. Instead of blackened, burnt skin and protruding bones, there was a replacement of new skin, unblackened. No protruding bones. Everybody was no longer evil.
“Ooh! That was great!” exclaimed Zoe, rubbing her arm. There was a ripping sound when the skin peeled off the flesh. Zoe’s eyes opened wide, but Bo ignored her.
“Well, let’s go inside this door!” Bo said. He strutted proudly into the room. He saw hundreds of boxes - steel boxes. In the corner, beyond all the shelves and boxes, was an arched door. Bo spotted one steel box that shook crazily on a blue shelf. Angry chitters were heard from inside.
“It’s the chimp!” Bo said. “The trapped chimp!”