The Adventures of the Clavats and Selkies and Stuff
Chapter 2 : Garnos Gets Hungry...DAN DAN DAN!!!
In the first chapter, the 4 travelers got together and left Riverki to start their journey for the myrrh tree for a lousy drop of myrrh and stuff like that. That is one thing I will never get. I mean, the entire tree seems to be made of solid myrrh!! I guess it just takes it like 2 years just to melt off 1 drop by itself...
As you all know, or at least everyone who paid some attention to the first chapter, Garnos did not eat anything for breakfast-
"Yes I did!" Garnos interrupted rather rudely and is in danger of being hurt in some way, for it is a complete NO-NO to interrupt the narrator. "I ate that fishy when I was running out of the house! Roland vomited because of it, remember?"
-Of course I remember! Hmph! The next time you interrupt, I shall give you an atomic flick! Now put that stuff about raising your hand you learned about at school to good use!
Garnos look confused. "What is school?" He interrupted...again! (Here my imaginary-like giant hand of narratorness comes out of the sky and gives Garnos an 'atomic' flick. Basically, I flick him so hard, its like he's got some atomic jetpack on, 'cuz one second he's here, the next he's gone!)
Garnos pretty much exited the planet and all its deadly miasma and went into orbit around the planet. He was going so fast, he completed 4 revolutions in 20 seconds before descending back into the planet. He bounced off the treetops, slammed into the ground and skidded to a halt next to the wagon, back to where he was before I flicked him, in the saftey of the little crystal's power. You know, that little one on the chalice thing that collects the myrrh.
"Was that physically possible? For an organism to burn into orbit and complete 4 revolutions around the planet in 20 seconds? And to survive that fall??" Silvon asked, all smart and stuff.
Plothole!
"Man, all that revolution stuff and going into orbit makes me hungry!" Garnos exclaimed, getting up and dusting himself off as though he did not just do something impossible for any soft-fleshed being and traveled faster than he will ever travel in his life. He jumped into the wagon and, once he located it, instantly gorged himself on the caravan's food supplies. The noise was loud and slightly sickening.
"What the crap is going on in there!?" Rikana dropped behind the wagon and peeked in. "OH MY GOD!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" She screamed upon seeing that Garnos had already depleted 3/4 of their food supplies. Garnos paused in his massacre of the supplies, looking up at Rikana with a hint of guilt on his food-stained face. Serina, who was driving, turned around, and began laughing at Garnos.
"Garnos! Are you eating or taking a bath in the food?" Serina laughed, her laughter sweet and clear like a summer breeze among bluebells.
Everyone stopped and stared at the narrator, with the exception of Silvon, who had been secretly staring at Serina from the moment he saw her. He sighed as he mentally agreed with the narrator...
-...Whatchya looking at? I got that little part from a book, ok? I am not good at making up those kinds of stuff!! Now stop looking before I MAKE you stop!
Everyone instantly looked down and returned their attention to Garnos, who was starting to feel like they had forgotten about him. He immediately hid under some thick blankets as everyone turned back to him. Rikana was furious.
"OH MY GOD, YOU JUST WENT AND PRETTY MUCH ATE ALL OUR FOOD! NOW WE ARE ALL GOING TO STARVE, AND IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT! BLAH BLAH BLAH..." Rikana gave Garnos the sternest lecture he had ever received in his life. In fact, he was sure it was worse than the time when he stuck his sister's pet tortoise's head up one of Serina's cow's butthole, which sparked a fat cow stampede that caused death and destruction and doom and damage and...and...some other words that start with 'd'! He was grounded so bad, they literally dug him into the ground with only his head exposed. Don't worry, he got out only because the narrator thought his stunt was so funny and decided to dig him out.
Rikana's lecture, or more like her screaming rampage thing went on for a good, long time. Everybody's ears began to hurt, and Garnos began to get hungry again, so he finished off the food supplies and sat dully, waiting for Rikana to stop. Even after he consumed some 400 plus pounds of food, his stomach still growled for more. Whatta pig...
"You're telling me! Now could someone get that young Selkie to stop?"
Serina jumped with suprise as she turned and saw that a small fluffly moogle was sitting next to her without her noticing. The moogle twitched its ears in irritation, as Rikana was still screaming so loud no one else heard the moogle, and the moogle's ears were on the verge of exploding.
"Oh, they are?" The moogle looked horrified as he heard the narrator say this. "I can't let my ears explode now! I have to stop that Wolfie!"
With a few flaps of its ridiculousy tiny purple wings, the moogle was airborne. It flapped to the back of the wagon, where the Selkie was, who was indeed a Wolfie (for crying out loud, I described her in the first chapter you know), and tried to float backwards in front of Rikana to get her attention.
"Excuse me, Miss, could you stop-" The moogle tried to quiet her down, but Rikana was screaming something about cutting up the masumakicomwa whatever you call that blue thing pulling the wagon, and eating it. The masukiki heard, and stopped in its tracks, rearing back and trying to break free of its harness and run away. It had to get away!! Away from these mamuluke eating people!! Because it stopped, and the moogle was still flying backwards with Rikana still power walking fowards, they both crashed into the back of the wagon, Rikana's face burying itself in the moogle's fluffy white body, a big mouthful of the fur gagging her.
"I say! HELP!! HELP!! THIS LADY IS TRYING TO EAT ME!!" The moogle cried piteously as Rikana started working her mouth, trying to get the fur out of her mouth. Of course she failed miserable, cuz the moogle was still in her fat face! Silvon came running round.
"Oh my god!! RIKANA!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING??" Silvon cried, and, grabbing her by her huge mane of silver-blue hair, started pulling her away from the poor moogle. She came free of course, it wasn't like she was stuck or anything, and, tripping over a rock, knocked Silvon backwards and landed heavily on him. The moogle dropped to the ground, some fur missing from his chest, as it was still in Rikana's mouth. The manlymoo managed to break free of its harness and, panic-stricken, hurried away, with Serina calling after it.
"Bobo! Come back!! She didn't mean it!!" Serina yelled, but it was no use. Bobo was gone...FOREVER!! Serina's golden-brown eyes welled up with tears. She dropped to the ground on her knees, shook her fists at the sky, and wailed all dramatic like.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
-Let's make this even more sad and dramatic!
The weather suddenly changed all stormy like and rainy, soaking the little long-haired Clavat kneeling in the now muddy path, still shaking her fists at the stormy sky.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
Garnos, who was still sitting in the wagon, and was still hungry, was bored now, and he jumped off, not at all noticng the freak change in the weather, and headed off into the woods to find some food. But wait...How could he wander off in the deadly miasma without a crystal protecting him?
Plothole!
I guess he could manage that the same way he managed to go through all that revolution stuff around the planet and not get a single fractured or broken bone...
The weather suddenly stopped, 'cuz the dramatic scene grew old already to the narrator, and we turn our attention back to Rikana, Silvon, and the poor little moogle. Rikana rolled off of Silvon and slowly got up.
"Ugh! Look at me! I'm all wet!" Rikana wrung like 10 gallons of water out of her huge, long hair.
"I'm not," Silvon sat up. Indeed, Silvon and even the patch of ground he was laying on did not have a single drop of water land on them; Rikana's huge fatness of hair had caught it all for them. How weird... "Hey, is that moogle alright?" Silvon went over to the little moogle's side, who was lying forbiddingly limp on the ground, a little tuft of white hair in the mud. He rolled the little body over, and tried to discern whether the moogle was still conscious. He didn't know it, but the moogle was staring at him, staying perfectly still, afraid the Bandanna Selkie would try to eat him too. There was no way Silvon could have known it; I mean, come on!! It's like moogles don't have eyes!! Just little black lines on their faces!
"I say, sir, you don't plan on eating me, do you?" The moogle asked in a tiny voice.
"Of course not," Silvon replied gently. "Rikana wasn't trying to eat you either...actually, I don't know what she was doing."
"HEY!! WHERE IS THAT FAT PIG GARNOS!?" Rikana thundered as she tore through the wagon, searching madly for Garnos. "I AM NOT DONE SCOLDING HIM!!!" She jumped off the wagon and spotted his tracks going into the woods. "DAMN IT, HE WANDERED OFF!! I NEED TO GO FIND HIM!!"
"You go do that, but could you please stop yelling?" Silvon glared at Rikana, his hands clasped protectively over the poor moogle's sensitive ears so that they would not explode.
"Just in a sec... HEY NARRATOR!!! CAN YOU GIVE ME A LITTLE HELP HERE?" Rikana roared at the narrator, who was busy creating some trouble some distance away.
-Hm? Oh, sure thing...
Here, a little portable crystal thing that would protect Rikana appears magically in her hands. Not bothering to tell the others to wait, as they could go nowhere without Bobo pulling the wagon, she stalked off into the woods after Garnos. Garnos better start running for his life, quick!
"Are you alright?" Silvon asked the moogle after Rikana was gone. "What's your name?"
"I...I think I will be alright," The moogle said hesitantly. "My name is Hamithonean Arcitonutarmos Makilocomwa...But you can just call me Ham," The moogle added quickly when he saw Silvon's face go blank.
"So Ham...I am Silvon," Silvon replied cheerfully. "The young man that Selkie was yelling at was Garnos, the Selkie as you know is Rikana, and that sad looking lady over there is Serina..." Silvon trailed off as he looked at the sad little form still kneeling in the mud.
"Very good...though why do you say 'was Garnos'?"
"Because when Rikana catches him, she just might kill him."
"How brutal..."
"Yep..."
They sat silently there awhile, listening for the telltale sounds that Rikana caught Garnos, but there was none. Here the narrator got bored and didn't know what to write, so we shall just sit here and be bored too.
Several minutes later...
"Well, it's gonna be awhile before Rikana catches Garnos and comes back, so why don't you make yourself comfortable? I got some problems to straighten out," Silvon said to Ham. Nodding wearily to Silvon, Ham flapped into the wagon, where he made himself comfortable in the thick blankets Garnos was trying to hide in. He promptly fell asleep.
Silvon went over to Serina, who was still kneeling there in the mud as though if she knelt there long enough, Bobo would come back. He didn't.
"So, Bobo is gone? Our wagon is stuck here unless he comes back or something?" Serina nodded dumbly. Silvon sighed deeply and laced his fingers behind his head. He studied the deep tracks Bobo had made in his flight. "Perhaps I can go looking for him..."
"But who will watch the wagon? That moogle and I can't guard it against any small groups of bandits. Lone monsters, sure, but we can't take on any major forces..." Silvon looked down at Serina, then sat down wearily next to her.
"Looks like we are going to have to wait Rikana returns, and hope that she brings Garnos back alive with her. We will need someone to pull the wagon." Serina nodded, then began to cry.
"WHY OH WHY DID BOBO HAVE TO LEAVE??" She wailed. She was so sad!! Bobo was gone!! The world was going to end and blow up and everything if Bobo didn't come back! And Bobo is still not coming back!! WE ARE ALL DOOMED!!! All of a sudden the Long-haired Clavat needed something to hug to bits. The only thing huggable near her was Silvon...
"ARRRGHHH, GASP, WHEEZE," Silvon gasped for air as Serina wrapped her arms tightly around his middle and squeezed really, really hard. She buried her face in his chest and began to soak him in her tears. Ah great...He thought. He attempted to break free, but failed miserably. In the end, he managed to loosen her grasp a bit, and, hoping that comforting her would make her let go sooner, put his arm around her. It looked cute from the distance, but really Serina was squeezing Silvon to bits. I think she even broke one of his ribs...mmmmm, ribs...
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Meanwhile, in the woods with Rikana hunting Garnos down...
Rikana was having some trouble tracking Garnos. Here and there, his tracks would disappear next to fruit trees, and she could see all the scuff marks and scratches and broken limbs from Garnos scaling the tree after its delicious fruit. All the trees were stripped of their fruit. Often times, she had to go through thick bushes and prickly brush. Garnos was not bothered by this, as he was wearing thick clothing that covered his entire body except for his knee-short shorts. Rikana, however, was dressed in what most female Selkies were dressed in; smallish tube top, smallish skirt thing, sometimes some leggings of some sort, those things she wears on her shoulders, and some fur wristbands. All in all, it didn't provide much protection from prickly bushes and stuff.
"Stupid Garnos, can't you just go around these things?" Rikana grumbled as she fought through another one; her legs, arms, and middle were scored with many scratches, some were bleeding. Suddenly, she found that Garnos' tracks turned sharply and, looking down the path he took, she saw a small path of destruction going through the bushes and underbrush and all that vegetation. She saw that it zig-zagged terribly, as though Garnos was desparately trying to escape some monster chasing him. Upon closer examination, to her horror she saw many more footprints overlapping each other, all of them chasing Garnos' footprints. Big footprints. The entire place stunk of some disgusting smell Rikana could not identify; afterall, this is her first time going outside Riverki, so she had no experience with any monsters of any sort.
"Ah shit," Rikana muttered, taking out her staff and, dropping into a crouch, moved stealthily foward. "What trouble did you get yourself in now, Garnos?"
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Cliffhanger! What kind of trouble DID Garnos get himself into now? Will Rikana be able to save him in time? Is Rikana even planning to save him? Will Bobo ever come back, or will the world end and blow up and doom us all? Please review and I shall update!