This is my first ever Fanfiction so please be kind boosh fans, i've heard how nasty you guys can get. I am joking, that was a joke... please get the joke. Anyway here goes nothing, oh and i have corrected the mistakes for the earlier readers.

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, 'The mighty boosh' do!

'The sniffles'

Chapter 1

The shop was predictably empty this morning and inside sat two very bored shopkeepers. Vince was sitting in his usual spot at the front of the shop window reading a Cheekbone magazine, whilst Howard was sitting at the shop counter stacking matchsticks on top of each other to create a pyramid of boredom. Normally they would be bickering about clothes and each others interests but today wasn't one of those days, they sat in silence and the only sounds to be heard were the rufflings of Vince's magazine pages and the sound of cars passing by from outside.

The silence was suddenly broken as Vince slammed his magazine down on his lap and swung his chair around to face Howard.

"Howard! I'm bored, I wan' do something fun" Vince sighed

"Why don't you do something fun without talking to me, It's never been this quiet since the shop first opened and I'm enjoying it!" Howard replied without taking his eyes off the matchstick pyramid.

"Don't lie Howard, your bored as well. Let's do something like errm We could build an ant farm? Or we could try and make the perfect perfume fragrance!" Vince visibly pondered at his own idea with a smile, he was right though, Howard was bored but he wasn't as bothered as Vince. For some reason he just always enjoyed the company of Vince whether it was boring or not.

"Don't be stupid Vince, hey why don't you go to the shop and get me a sandwich or something or go and bug Naboo!" Howard replied, trying not to sound too harsh on Vince. He knew Vince wouldn't take anything too seriously but he still cared about his feelings, as a friend.

"Naboo isn't feeling well apparently, probably too many White Russians from last night but I will go up and check how he's doing anyway."

"Yeah you go do that, ill just finish my little project here" Howard replied leaning back on his chair with a proud grin on his face as he looked at his matchstick pyramid but as he leaned back, he leaned a little too far. Using his feet to cling to the table to resist him falling, with one swift movement each matchstick fell to the ground making Howard twitch slightly and his face turned red slightly with annoyance. Vince left the scene trying hard to hold in the loud cackle of laughter waiting to leave his throat, just able to squeeze out a 'Whatever' remark as he ran up the stares.

Outside the small shaman's bedroom Vince was about to open the door when a hairy gorilla walked straight into him, holding bottles of medicine in his paws.

"Oh sorry Bollo, Hey how's Naboo feeling since this morning? I was gun' ask him if he wanted…" Vince questioned before he was cut off by Bollo

"Naboo no good, he has the sniffles! Bollo bring him medicine" Bollo answered quickly as he opened the door and walked straight into the bedroom, Vince followed behind him and walked straight up to Naboo's bed.

"Hey Naboolio, heard your not feeling too good, is there anything Howard can do to help?" Vince joked but suddenly changed the tone as he saw the sweat dripping from Naboo's forehead and noticed his worryingly pale complexion. The "Sniffles"? this looked a lot worse than the sniffles, flu, infection maybe or a virus Vince thought to himself. He was then distracted by the sound of coughing coming from the pale looking shaman.

"Vince! I need you to do me a favor" Naboo whispered as Noel edged in closer to listen to his friend, nodding his head in agreement.

"What is it Naboo?" he asked softly

"The sniffles is known to be a very deadly virus back in my home town on Xooberon, I forgot to take my yearly jab to stop me from catching it…" Naboo was cut off by his own coughing fit as Vince looked down at his friend then up at Bollo who also shared the same worrying expression as Vince. He grabbed Naboo's hand trying to comfort him whilst he caught his breathe back.

"What do you want me to do?" Vince asked, trying to sound calm for his companion but failed as his voice cracked slightly.

"I need you to go there and retrieve the cure from one of the shaman medicine keepers, use the transporter medallion and get back before… before I…" At that moment Naboo had another coughing fit and closed his eyes before he could finish his sentence, Bollo put a cold wet flannel onto the shaman's head in attempt to bring the fever down slightly.

"Before you what Naboo... Naboo? Wake up! Bollo find the medallion! I need to go get Howard before… before time runs out!" Vince said with huge worry in his voice before he ran out the door and shouted down to Howard. Bollo went over to the draw were Naboo kept his shaman equipment and pulled out the familiar device. A gold neck medallion that glittered a dark shade of green from the light coming from the window, Bollo growled underneath his breath.

"I gotta' bad feeling about this!"

In no time at all Vince had explained Naboo's situation to Howard and the two friends found themselves appear in the same familiar spot they did when searching for the fountain of youth. There was only one difference this time though, they had no time to loose and both of them were not in the mood to bump into any annoying short "Blue berks" on their voyage because their best friend's life was at stake.

"Did Naboo mention exactly were this medicine keeper would be?" Howard asked as they both started to walk in no particular direction, not having a clue were they were going.

"He could hardly talk Howard. let's just hope for the love of Jagger that he or she won't be too far!" Vince said through pants as they both increased their speed.

As the two shop keepers walked on into the deserted areas of the strange lands of Xooberon, surrounded by sand and rocks. Vince couldn't keep his mind off of his friends well being, what if they don't make it back in time? Naboo has been part of the group since he could remember working in the Zoo. He was always helping Howard and himself when they got into difficult situations, he would never had thought that one day Naboo's life would be in his hands and he would now be responsible for anything that happens. He also wondered what it would be like without the magical shaman, the shop would have to be closed down and he and Howard would have to get another job somewhere else and there were very limited choices in Hackney when the only skill on your CV would be the gift to talk to animals.

"That's it!" Vince shouted as he stopped walking and started to look around wide eyed at the area they had stopped in.

"Vince?" Howard questioned as he too stared at the sand and rocks to which Vince seemed to suddenly have an interest upon.

"Animals Howard, I can speak to them! ask them were the medicine man is!" Vince replied still searching for the slightest evidence of life between the tiny sand pebbles ands large rocks.

"Well you better get that beak of yours howling, tweeting, hissing or whatever noise you make when you speak to animals. The sooner we find the medicine keeper, the sooner we can get back to Naboo!" Howard said with a hint of hope and excitement in his voice. He also loved the way Vince talked to the animals, it was like he was possessed by a wild animal himself and for some reason Howard enjoyed watching it.

And as if by a miracle, a rabbit bounced into the scene and wondered over to Howard and glared into his eyes making a small noise as if it were trying to talk to him. Vince started to make the same noises back at the small critter as it faced Vince and after a few minutes, bounced away again. Vince grabbed Howards arm and started to walk at a very fast pace and Howard tried to keep up.

"What did it say?" Howard asked through pants of breath with a slight disappointment wondering why Vince didn't introduce him to the rabbit. Vince stopped and stared at Howard, suddenly Howard could see that Vince was upset and he couldn't help but put a reassuring arm over his shoulder.

"The rabbit knew… knows of Naboo and he overheard you mention him earlier. He said that the only one group of people that possess the cure for the Sniffles are just a few miles that way" Vince said through the hair that had fallen in front of his newly tanned features on his face, Howard never knew Vince produced freckles from sun exposure, Vince must have forgotten his sun cream from being in such a rush.

"Well what are we waiting for? we better get a wriggle on if we want to save Naboo" Howard advised as he pulled Vince's arm slightly but he saw the fear in the boys eyes, fear he had never seen before.

"What if they have already used it and there's none left? Naboo might die Howard and it will be my fault for not thinking it might have been serious when he said he wasn't feeling well this morning. What if he's already…" Vince trailed off into thought as Howard didn't even care to think before grabbing him and pulling him into a comforting hug, which surprisingly felt quite nice. He started rubbing his back with relaxing circle motions, hoping it would calm Vince down.

"He's fine Vince, he's a shaman! he will pull through. He is strong Vince and we have to try, try for Naboo and we will never find out whether these people have the cure on them until we act fast and get there now." Howard said in his most calming voice. He then pushed Vince forward and held his face in his hands as he wiped the tears from his freckled cheeks. It was a good look for Vince whether he was aware of them or not.

"Now are you ready to go or what?" He asked and with that Vince smiled weakly and started to walk with Howard towards a place which may hold a future for his shaman friend. He also couldn't wait to get Naboo better so he could get Howard into bed with him.

WHAT!! Vince couldn't, he just shouldn't and it was Howard, jazz freak, social freak and fashion enemy!