Chapter 41: The (Attempted) Escape- Part 2
Ralph was so startled by the glowing eggs in front of him that he yelped, dropped his collar, jumped back in alarm...and managed to knock right into the hospital bed laying on it's side.
The bed was flipped upright with the force Ralph accidentally imposed on it. It teetered for a moment, threatening to land back on one of its sides when it finally came to rest back on all four legs with a loud clash.
The eggs, once held together by the bed that once acted like a barrcade for them and the outside world, now went rolling all over the floor...including right into the puddling water.
Ralph was shocked to see that most of the eggs continued to glow, completely undisturbed and unaffected by the water they were now in.
Upon landing, one egg began to glow rapidly faster and faster right before it started to hatch, resulting in a little tiny multated scorpion to come emerging from the shell. The creature laid tiny -and almost, dare Ralph say, cutely?- for a moment as it looked blankly around...and, to Ralph's horror, with seconds it doubled, then tripled in size.
It started to crawl off it's now tiny in comparison egg shell, and unknowingly slipped right into a pool of water. The creature, as it's adult protégés had been, was instantly crippled as it fell head first into the water...and gradually lost its glow and died seconds later.
Ralph peered at the creature, his mind racing. So...the water kills the hatched scorpions and when they're adults, but it doesn't affect the eggs in any way? That's a bunch of malarkey right there!
His eyes danced around the room...to see that the eggs were everywhere and that they were now in the path of the window Ralph needed to get to.
Aye, aye-aye, you really had to go and flip that table over, didn't ya Ralph?! the bull mastiff screamed at himself. Now you've got to avoid stepping on these guys to get over to the window!!
Shaking his head in annoyance, Ralph sighed begrudgingly as he was about to scoop up his collar again when he realized that an egg had rolled right onto it.
Rolling his eyes, Ralph tried to blow the egg off, but it clung to the collar. Giving up in his blowing, the dog finally just decided to pick up the collar and that then the egg would fall off.
Instead, the egg continued to stick as he picked the collar...and continued to cling to it without his knowledge.
Ralph stood up as far was he could on his tip toes once again as he carefully eyed down at the floor in front of him. He swung and dodged and maneuvered the best he could around the eggs, a feat that much more challenging with having such large paws and now that the floor was wet with water.
Somehow, he able to avoid stepping on any of the eggs as he approached the window. He turned back and smiled in pride with the collar in his mouth.
Hey, maybe I could be a police dog one day, he thought smuggly to himself as he raised up to place his paws on the window sill. He examined the scene just outside to see if any of the humans were around.
Seeing there were none and that now was his time to make a break for it, Ralph was about to jump through the window when he looked down at the collar clutched safely in his mouth...and that the end of it had a freshly hatched multated scorpion.
The creature turned to stare up at Ralph and scampered up the collar- and right onto Ralph's nose.
Ralph yelped and stumbled backwards...right into a small cluster of scorpion eggs. The eggs hatched immediately at being stepped on, and hissed at the giant foot that forced them from their sleep.
Ralph shook his head hard, trying to get the growing creature off his nose- or to at least prevent it from biting him square between the eyes.
His shaking only caused the creature to cling on to him for dear life as the dog continued to stumble around, stepping on yet more and more eggs, causing more and more of them to hatch.
Ralph forced himself to stop shaking his head, his brain getting way too jostled around as he panted for a split moment. Before he knew it, all he could hear was the angry growling of hundreds of baby scorpions at his feet- and all he could see was a now big scorpion still clinging to the fur on his nose.
He knew immediately what he needed to do.
Ralph desperately turned his head enough so he could see the windowand to get an estimate on where exactly it was...and blindly sprung diagonally into the air.
