Hey guys, I know it's been a while. But I'm back! My energy is back and I thought I take a little break from my BFG story, but I'm still planning on my battle. I hope you guys like it. Please read and review!


In James's dream, he was a light green caterpillar with black and white stripes, with orange spots, rosy cheeks and red antennas. As he was eating a peach, he heard a loud sound and he looked up and gasped as he saw an old car driving on a bridge and it stopped and he saw Spiker looking at him and she said to Sponge,

"Look! The little maggot is stuffing his face with our peach! Get him Sponge."

"Ahhh!" James screamed as he jumped behind the peach.

"You can't crawl away from us!" Sponge said as she proofed out some smoke filled with lightning and it started to follow James.

James ran for his life on the stone wall and the smoke was gaining on him. He jumped on a tree branch and kept sprinting from the smoke.

He heard he aunts chanting, "The rhino will get you! The rhino will get you!"

He ran through a broken can and jumped in a hole to hide. He was trapped and the smoke headed straight towards him and there was the rhino charging towards him with his yellow eyes staring at him, the very same rhino that killed his mother and father.

James screamed as the dreamed ended.

The next morning, I woke up and rubbed my eyes and felt very cold. My bare arms were covered in goose bumps and I noticed Diana waking up and shivered.

She noticed snow was coming down.

We turned around and saw James shuddering from his dream, we headed towards him and Diana gently shook him and he woke up and gasped.

"James are you okay?" she asked hugging James.

"Yes, I think so," James hugged her.

"Don't worry, it was only a dream," I said.

James sat up freezing. He put his coat on to stay warm and Diana and I wrapped our selves in blankets.

We looked up at the lantern and saw Glowworm shivering. James, Diana and I climbed out of the hole to see where we are. We were all shocked to see that we were not in New York City.

We were in the Arctic filled with icebergs, a graveyard of sunken pirate ships that were broken and the wood was rotting away and ships made of steel also.

I felt shivers coming up and down my spine at the sight. My friends and I saw the pieces of cracked ice in the water and looked up to see the seagulls still flying with their bodies and wings frozen almost like frozen statues.

"This is an outrage!" The shouting startled James, Diana, and me; the voice was none other than Mr. Grasshopper. We looked over and saw Mr. Grasshopper, Mrs. Ladybug, Dragonfly, Butterfly, and Earthworm cornering Centipede on the fence pathway.

"You are a disgrace to your phylum, class, order, genus, and species!" Mr. Grasshopper shouted to Centipede in a way to scold a person.

"Say it in English!" Centipede shot back at Mr. Grasshopper.

"You, sir, are an ass!" Mr. Grasshopper shouted back at Centipede.

"Where are we?" asked James. "What's going on?"

"What is the meaning of this?" Penelope asked the others as she tightened her sarong around her shoulders.

"I found this dime-store Timmy asleep at the helm," Mr. Grasshopper said to us evenly as he raised his voice as he poked Centipede in the chest. "Now we're lost!"

"We are not lost!" Centipede snapped back.

"Then where are we?" asked Mr. Grasshopper impatiently.

"Somewhere north, or possibly very, very far south."

"What's your latitude? What's your longitude?"

"W'at is ye north, south, east and west?" Dragonfly asked.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Centipede yelled. "That's personal, bub."

"You said you could navigate!" Said Mr. Grasshopper sharply.

"You said you traveled the world," said Mrs. Ladybug.

"You said you'd been to Bora Bora!" said Earthworm.

"Ye said ye were experienced laddie," Dragonfly said.

"Was it all a lie?" Butterfly asked pitifully.

"Well, not Bora Bora, per se, uh—" Centipede trailed off as he backed up from Mr. Grasshopper, Dragonfly, Mrs. Ladybug, Butterfly, and Earthworm.

"What about the shores of Tripoli?" Miss Spider asked.

"Did I say Tripoli?" asked Centipede and he chuckled. "I meant the Halls of Montezuma."

"That's what you said," said Earthworm angrily.

"Never have I heard such mendacity!" shouted Mr. Grasshopper, who is getting angrier.

"Charlatan!" shouted Mrs. Ladybug.

"Liar!" Dragonfly shouted.

"You're a deceiver!" Butterfly yelled.

"Wait!" shouted James and tried to reason with Centipede.

"Stop it!" I yelled.

"Hold it right there," Diana said.

"If he says he's seen the world, then he's seen the world," James said. "Right, Mr. Centipede? Right?"

"Is this true Mr. Centipede?" Diana asked firmly.

"This has got to be a joke right?" I asked

"Well… I did used to live between two pages of a National Geographic."

"Huh?" Asked James.

"What?" Diana asked as her brown eyes widened. "Are you kidding me?"

"Centipede," I said as my eyes were filled with tears. "How could you?"

Everyone gasped and learned that Centipede lied to them about traveling around the world.

"Very informative magazine, National Geographic," Centipede said. "Wonderful pictures."

"You incompetent, blithering nitwit!" Mr. Grasshopper lost his temper.

Centipede put down his cigar and got himself ready to fight Mr. Grasshopper.

"All right hoppy! Them's fightin' words. Put 'em up! Put 'em up! Come on!" Centipede yelled and made punching moves with encouragement, "Gimme your best shot."

Then all of a sudden, Mr. Grasshopper kicked Centipede hard in the jaw with his left leg.

"Whoa. Good shot," Centipede fell back and said while rubbing his cheek, He spit out a lose tooth and looked at us. "Did you see what he did to me?"

"Hmph! Serves ya right," Mrs. Ladybug sternly as she, Mr. Grasshopper, and Earthworm turned around without helping Centipede up. Dragonfly and Butterfly stood there glaring at him.

"Dragonfly…." Centipede said. "Please… I…"

"I can't believe ye," Dragonfly snapped. "I t'ought ye were me best friend. Ye are an idiot!" He then stormed off. Only Butterfly stood there in anger and sorrow.

"Butterfly," Centipede looked at the winged insect. "I…"

"You're a liar!" she yelled. "I thought you were my friend. I thought you were unselfish. I… I guess I was wrong. You're a coward! Tu es stupide!"

Butterfly turned her back away from him and walked away and put one of her right arms on her chest with her eyes squeezed shut. Just when she was able to make a friend, who would've been a brother-like figure, she learned that he deceived everyone in the peach. Deceived even the one he fell in love with Miss Spider. She felt her emotions coursing through her mind and leaving her entire body.

"Why would anyone have the heart to do something like that?" she thought. "Why do I have to stay positive now? Why do I have to stop being afraid? Why do I want to have friends?"

Centipede sat on the fence pathway feeling extremely guilty for lying, after everyone walked away from him.

"What do we do now?" James asked. "Which way do we go?"

"Is there any other way we can get out of this frozen hole?" I asked.

"If we don't get out of here," Diana said. "We'll die and freeze to death."

"Oh it's very simple, really," Mr. Grasshopper said. "All we need to do is to determine our coordinates, then use triangulation to chart a direct route to New York."

"Then there's hope," said Earthworm.

"Don't be ridiculous," said Mr. Grasshopper as he poked Earthworm in the nose and finished his sentence. "There's no hope at all! We don't have a compass."

"We'll never reach New York," Earthworm said sadly. "We're gonna be stuck here forever. We're gonna be frozen like living statues."

"Dead living statues," said Mr. Grasshopper.

"I could not agree with you more…" Butterfly said.

Centipede overheard us and started to feel a sharp pain in his chest. Was it shame? The bugs continued to speak.

"No dark hiding places," said Miss Spider sadly.

"No new inventions," Dragonfly said sadly.

"No cozy leaf in the park," replied Mrs. Ladybug with sadness in her voice.

"No city where dreams come true," said James sadly.

"There's nothing we can do," Diana and I said.

Centipede felt those words cut deep into his heart, now he felt even guiltier. He sank down and placed two of his hands on his face and was close enough to cry. Thanks to him, they were all going to die and not make it anywhere.

"Don't ships have compasses?" James asked.

"No doubt. But to brave those icy waters…" Mr. Grasshopper said. "Would mean certain death. Only a fool would do it."

Diana and I walked over to the side to see Centipede filled with regret at every word the others said. Filled with determination, he put his cap on his head and his cigar in his mouth.

"Geronimo!" he dove off the pathway fence and landed in the water. The others heard the splash and came over to where we were standing.

"What? What was that?" cried Earthworm.

"The Centipede jumped in!" James cried.

The others gasped in shock.

"He did what?!" Butterfly exclaimed and thought to herself. "What kind of idiot would do that?!"

"Holy typhoons!" I cried.

"Is he outta his mind?" Diana cried.

"Good heavens!" cried Mr. Grasshopper. "He's committed pesticide. Oh, this is all my doing.""

He leaned forward sadly and as he blamed himself for what he did with Centipede.

"Don't take all the credit," said Earthworm and blamed him self too and said, "I helped too."

"Don't blame ye selves, I did it too!" Dragonfly said.

"I have to go after him!" said James with determination.

"Not on your life," but Mrs. Ladybug put her hand on James's shoulder. "You'll catch your death in cold."

"But he's my friend," James said. Diana and I knew he was advocating for himself.

"James is right," Miss Spider agreed. "Centipede is one of us. Get on my back. I'm going with you."

As James climbed on Miss Spider's back, Butterfly grabbed the arachnid's hand.

"You guys are not going there…" she said. Everyone stared at her until she had a response. "Without me."

Miss Spider nodded in agreement.

"You had better take good care of him," Mrs. Ladybug said.

"This I promise," said Miss Spider.

"Trust us," Butterfly said.

"We're going with you," Diana said.

The bugs and James looked at Diana and I. We took our blankets off.

"We can help," I said.

"Oui mon amies," Butterfly said as she winked.

Diana and I walked over to Miss Spider and got on her back just as James has. Butterfly stood by our side while Miss Spider get her string and gave it to Mr. Grasshopper and the others.

"Stay by the line," James said. "And when you feel two tugs, pull us up."

"We'll be back in fifteen to twenty minutes," Diana said.

Miss Spider jumped off the peach and we were lowered into the water with Butterfly.

Once we were in the water, we could see and breathe underwater. I felt that the crocodile tongues were helping us breathe underwater.

Miss Spider swam deeper into the water. James, Diana, Butterfly and I looked around and saw a figurehead that looks exactly like Spiker and Sponge.

We kept swimming and a thought came into the girl's head.

"Hey guys," I said. "You don't suppose that Centipede was trying to find a compass right?"

"He must have felt bad for himself after lying to us and wanted to make things right and prove himself," Diana said. "With all those sunken ships, I remember that pirates use compasses to help navigate in seas."

"You could be right Jenna and Diana," James said. "No matter what mistakes he or we make, he still counts as our friend."

"Let's keep going, I can sense him nearby," Miss Spider said.

"We should be getting close," Butterfly said. "I do hope he is not dead."

We swam down into the deep dark sea.


More chapters will be posted soon and another opera song too! Will we be able to rescue Centipede? To be continued...