Leaving the jungle hut behind them Felix And Oscar were now in the deepest part of the jungle.
"GROWL!!!"
"W-What was that? A lion?" Felix said shivering.
"That was my stomach, Felix. Guess that meal I had at the canteen wasn't filling enough. I'm still hungry," Oscar said rubbing his tummy. "Wish I had a sandwich."
Oscar suddenly felt his pork pie hat moving on top of him. It rose up slightly.
"Oscar, Look!"
On top of his head was a sandwich. He took the little plastic platter with the sandwich on it off his head then put his hat back on.
"How did this get on my head?" he thought.
"That couldn't have happened," Felix thought aloud. It suddenly hit him. "Oscar, You weren't wearing this hat when we came into the jungle."
"Yeah. I wasn't. Then I wished I had it and it suddenly materialized," he said to Felix. "As a matter of fact. A note came with it and read that it somehow was enhanced now."
"As proposterous as this is to say. I think your hat is now magical." Felix hypothesized.
"That's ridiculous!" he scoffed.
"Go ahead and test it! Just Think of what you want before you want it," his best friend said.
Oscar reached into the hat which for some reason felt bottomless but he could feel things simply on instinct. Out came an eight ball from a pool table, then he pulled out the pool table which expanded out of the hat along with sticks and an extra set of balls.
"Pretty predictable," Felix snorted. "Try something bigger."
Oscar did. A fridge expanded out of the head wear with more food in it.
"We'll never get this thing out of here. I got it."
Oscar climbed up a tree and tapped his hat twice. Out fell a van.
"Slick looking van, Madison," Felix said grinning.
The door of the van burst open and a man walked out.
"That tunnel must've been deeper than I thought," he said. "This isn't The New Jersey Turnpike."
"Afraid not, son," Felix said.
"Oh. OK. Is there a bar in here somewhere?" the stranger asked.
Felix pointed in the direction where they just left from and turned back to Oscar who was in the van. He opened the door to see a party going on inside. For such a small van the interior was just as big as the jungle canteen they were in.
"Oscar! Oscar! Oscar! " Unger scoffed.
"Hey! I'm allowed to have a break can't I?" he said.
"Remember we're on a scavenger hunt. Not at Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion," he said sternly.
"Aww! Don't go, Oscar. You were going to do the Limbo with us," a girl dressed in a scantily clad bikini pouted.
"Sorry, girls. Duty calls!" he said with a resignated look. Getting out of the van he and Felix began walking again.
"Party's Over!" he said as he took off his head piece and told everyone to jump back into it. He then pushed the van and it shrank back inside.
"Can't we at least take the fridge?" he begged Felix.
"How are we going to lug it around?"
Oscar thought for a moment then reached into his hat and pulled a long grey snout, then two big ears and then a rope.
"An Elephant?" Felix said looking quite aghast.
"Yeah. And this rope I have on his tail with take the fridge with us as we go, Felix."
Climbng on the pachyderm. They saw the same stranger they met earlier walking back to look for the van of party animals. Oscar offered to give him a lift but he said "No."
Reaching into his hat he pulled out an airline ticket for Mexico and gave it to the stranger.
"Oscar. There's no airpline strip here that goes to Mexico," Felix said.
"I have that covered too. Watch!"
He pulled out a door which expanded and the stranger thanked them and walked into the airport terminal.
He stopped short - "I'm afraid of heights," he said.
"There's money hidden on the plane," Oscar told him appealing to his sense of greed.
"I went through that phase once without a hitch," Felix said with a smug look on his face.
Oscar just rolled his eyes upward.
"Oy!"
To be continued...
