Chapter 7: The monster family.
Tahu and Kopaka were spitted off the creature's mouth. They fell in some kind of nest made of stones.
"YEACK!" Yelled Tahu "I'm covered with saliva. This is disgusting, let's get out from here." But before he could stand up, the creature stared at him and growled. He immediately sat down again. "What do we do now?"
"I don't know!" Kopaka snapped. "Look!" They stood up and looked above the stones. The creature was caressing some other creatures like her. But those creatures were smaller. They were at least like a Toa's size.
"Her cubs" Kopaka muttered.
"She's gonna feed them with us!" Tahu yelled "HEY, YOU, FUCKING MONSTER, YOU…" Before he could continue yelling, Kopaka pushed him to the ground and covered his mouth with his hand.
"Shut up." He said quietly. "If we don't wanna be their food, we must get out from here now"
"Do you have a plan?"
Kopaka looked at the ground.
"Not really."
The monster approached them and grabbed them softly between its jaws.
"This is it" Tahu said. "We are gonna be eaten"
The monster left them with the cubs. The cubs began smelling them and they licked them.
"Ugh!" Kopaka said, cleaning its saliva from his mask "That was gross… Are they tasting us?"
"Maybe" Tahu answered. At that moment the momma monster smelled both Toa and licked them and began stroking them with her snout. The brothers stared at each other.
"Wait. Does that thing think that we are her cubs?" Tahu asked stunned.
"She does."
Tahu looked up and saw a liana in the cave's roof. Then he looked at the stones. They had a ramp form. He grabbed Kopaka by the chest and ran to those stones.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"Trying to escape!" Tahu snapped. But as soon as he ran and tried to use the stones like a ramp, he and his brother fell to the ground.
"You idiot!" Kopaka shouted "Do you forget that we DON'T have powers in this island?"
"SHUT UP!"
"NO, YOU SHUT UP!"
They looked at each other with fury.
"Freak" Kopaka said.
"Don't call me freak, you greasy toad." Tahu answered.
"Don't call me greasy toad, freak"
"Greasy toad!"
"Freak!"
"GREASY TOAD!"
"FREAK!"
They began fighting again. The cubs thought that they were playing and they began wrestling too.
Tahu punched Kopaka on the face. Kopaka punched his jaw and sent him to the ground. The he kicked him on the ribs. Tahu hit Kopaka's legs and toppled him to the ground. They began rolling like two cats as they were trying to punch each other.
While they fought, the momma monster called her babies to clean them. Kopaka was about to punch Tahu on the mouth when the monster grabbed him.
"HAHA!" Tahu laughed "HEY!" He yelled when the monster grabbed him too. The mother began licking Tahu to clean him.
"WAIT! NO! STOP!" He protested. Kopaka was laughing too hard to notice that the mother was about to grab him too.
"NO WAY! I refuse to be cleaned by a monster's tongue!
He tried to escape but the monster grabbed him between its paws and was licking him in the whole body. "STOP! NO FAIR! HEY!"
When the night fell, the cubs were sleeping, the mother was sleeping, and Tahu and Kopaka were trying to ignore each other.
"We gotta get out from here" Kopaka said. Tahu ignored him. Kopaka grabbed him by the arms and gave him a violent shake. "Tahu, leave your pride aside! We need to get out from here!"
"WHY?" He snapped. "Once we are out we are gonna fight again, I'll tell you I would have like you been never born and you'll say that you hate me…" He looked at the ground. "You escape if you want. I prefer to stay here"
"No way, if we don't go together… if we don't go together it won't work."
Tahu kept in silence and began to make a bonfire.
"Why do you do that?" Kopaka asked.
"Because I'm freezing here and you won't do it for me"
Kopaka sighed.
"Okay, what do you want?"
"I want you to don't be bad with me, I want you to stop ignoring me and I want you to treat me like your brother when I'm trying to be nice at you. If you do that I'll do the same. Is that clear?"
"Yes, it is." Kopaka sighed.
"See? It wasn't so hard. Now, let's get out from here."