Chapter 16

(Thank you Jerry mon and Sam for the spelling help, Microsoft was very useful in the matter…)

Raven and Erk ran on stage. The fans eagerly cheered them on.

Raven pressed the microphone to his lips and began, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, you're far too kind."

The audience began waving their arms.

Raven, "Now can I get an encore, do you want more? Cookin raw with the Brooklyn boy So for one last time I need y'all to roar!"

Erk sang, "Now what the hell are you waitin for?"

When the song was over the fans were restless. Erk grinned. Jaffar was gone, the contest was as good as theirs. Could life get any better? He asked himself this.

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Jaffar struggled in the net, no good. He was stuck. Knoll knew his weakness, Nino. He clenched his fists, yes, Knoll must die. But, the question that kept circulating in Jaffar's head was, 'Did he hear about the cow?'.

Jaffar put a smirk on his face. Then hear this Knoll, he thought.

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Knoll suddenly yelled out, "He's sending me telepathic death threats!"

A random nurse patted him on the back and said, "Yes, yes Knoll. I believe you but I think it's time you took the pill."

Knoll struggled the nurse's grip as he made a scowl, "I hate the pill."

Fudgemonkey came on the stage, "And next Jaffar!"

The fans screamed in delight.

Fudgemonkey laughed uneasily, "Speaking of Jaffar, has anyone seen him? If he dosen't show up soon, he'll be disqualified."

The fans stopped talking moving or anything. They just stopped. Finally a random fan grabbed a pitchfork and yelled,

"Get 'em!"

Several hundred fans tackled Fudgemonkey and ran across the stage.

Erk glared at RICK and said sarcastically, "Greeaattt plan RICK."

RICK sighed and answered, "It's what I do."

Raven pointed to a small prop by the stage wall, "To the bat cave!" he yelled.

Erk, RICK, and Cormag said nothing.

Raven sighed, "Fine, let's go take cover in our cast room."

Erk patted him on the back, "Good boy, for a second there I thought you were turning crazy like that Knoll."

He looked over at Knoll who screamed out, "The blood lust! Make it stooopppp!" and was soon pinned down by nurses.

Erk shuddered, "Scary."

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Jaffar struggled again in the net. He pulled out his two blades. He looked at them and said,

"Well my friends, it looks like you'll never get to kill Knoll at this rate."

He paused and looked at the rope net surrounding him. He looked at his incredibly sharp blades. He looked at the net. He looked at the blades…

He made an ashamed face, "Oh geez…"

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Erk slammed the door and leaned hard against it. "They're worst than Serra!" he exclaimed.

RICK, Cormag, and Raven gave him a look that said, 'I doubt you really feel that way'

Erk slapped himself, "What am I crazy!" He had a flash back of the times he had with Serra….

He screamed. "Okay, so they SO aren't worse than Serra. But they're still pretty annoying."

Suddenly the fans behind the door stopped trying to breakdown the door. Erk listened hard, where they screaming or squealing?

Suddenly the door swung open and Erk was slammed against the wall along with poor Raven.

Jaffar stood in the doorway.

RICK was twitching although he tried not to show his fear, "You're not still mad about the ne—"

Jaffar cut him off, "Is Knoll in here? And don't try to hide him. I WILL find him!"

RICK and Cormag shook their heads violently.

Jaffar forced himself to smile, "Well then… do you think we… could… hang out? At least until I find another trail on Knoll?"

RICK and Cormag were nodding their heads violently. Jaffar went off and peeled Raven and Erk from off the wall.

"Sorry about that." Jaffar said.

Erk spat out a few of his teeth and shakily said, "No problem."

While Jaffar turned his back Cormag grabbed RICK by the shoulder's and shook him, "It's a part about getting away with it, YOU DON'T ADMIT THAT YOU DID IT!"

RICK nodded as Jaffar turned around. Cormag sat on the couch hastily and tried not to look directly at Jaffar.

Jaffar looked at Raven, Erk, Cormag, and lastly RICK. It looked like he wanted to break out laughing, or throw up. Jaffar thought if no one was going to say anything he should, so he started a conversation,

"So I was… in my cast room, and suddenly I heard a loud cow noise. I stuck my heard outside the door to er… investigate, and—"

RICK cut in, "YEA RIGHT!"

Cormag's gritted his teeth and punched RICK hard on the head. Jaffar looked down at the dazed RICK, puzzled.

Cormag forced himself to smile. He said, "Go on."

Jaffar was still a little confused but continued anyway, "And right in front of me was a Nino doll!"

Raven put a hand to his face and pretended to seem shocked, "No way!"

Jaffar said, "Yes way. I picked it up to you know, return it to it's rightful owner and then…"

Cormag had a hard time pinning RICK down so he wouldn't make a smart remark like, 'Liar! You wanted to add it to your collection!'

Cormag was finally satisfied with putting a pillow on RICK's head. RICK stopped kicking and moving, but Cormag couldn't tell if that was because he had already suffocated.

Jaffar took this as the queue to go on, "It then pulled away from me because it was actually attached to a wire. And then, I found Nino, or at least I thought I found Nino. It was actually Knoll in disguise! Then he trapped me in a net, and here I am now!"

Erk clapped his hands, "That was an amazing story! I can't believe Knoll would really do that! Scary." Erk shuddered again.

Raven elbowed him and whispered, "Nice acting."

Erk said out loud, "Who's acting?"

Jaffar looked at them suspiciously.

Erk was still puzzled, "I still don't understand this."

Raven punched him, "YOU were in the Nino costume, Mr. Short term memory!"

Erk smacked himself, "Oh, jeez… But it sounded so different when he said it!"

Jaffar eyed them now with disbelief, "What are you talking about? You don't mean to tell me that YOU—"

Raven yelled out suddenly, "Oh, shit he's on to us!"

Erk pointed behind Jaffar and yelled, "Hey is that a life size Nino doll?"

Jaffar turned his head eagerly, "Where!"

Cormag grabbed the unconscious RICK, threw him on his shoulder and yelled, "FLEE!"

END OF CHAPTER 16

Erk flicked a fuzz off his cloak, "What was that all about RICK?"

RICK asked, "About me going ballistic? I just was taught never to lie. In fact, Kiddies drugs are bad… but drinking is fun!"

Erk was clapping, "Nice. But any idiot can lie! And—"

RICK smirked, "Well you're just that idiot."

Erk glared, "Let me finish. I was going to say, 'Well you're just somethin' special' but I'll just go with, You suck!"

Jaffar pulled out a blade, "You two both suck. There was no life size Nino doll, was there!"

Erk asked RICK, "So, I suppose next chapter will be about running and putting the blame on Knoll?"

RICK nodded, "Yep."

Erk asked, "Like now?"

RICK nodded again, "Exactly like now."

And they were off.