THE BIGGEST FRIENDS

AUGUST 21, 1964

Gilligan had built some lobster traps and was spreading them out in the lagoon to test them. Mary Ann was walking along above the bend when she could see Gilligan swimming in the clearest part of the bend about 6 feet below. Then all of a sudden she saw what appeared to be a giant octopus swimming right towards him. She gasps and started running back to camp.

"SKIPPER, PROFESSOR!" She yelled running back to camp.

"Mary Ann what's wrong!" The Skipper replied as Mary Ann came yelling back to camp.

"I saw Gilligan swimming around the bend in the lagoon and a giant octopus was swimming right towards him!" Mary Ann exclaimed and everyone gasped.

"Come on we have to hurry!" The Skipper replied as he grabbed a machete and followed Mary Ann back to the lagoon.

Just as they arrived at the lagoon Gilligan was walking out of the water.

"Gilligan, Little Buddy are you all right?" The Skipper asked anxiously.

"Yeah why?" Gilligan asked confused.

"When I saw you swimming at the bend I saw a giant octopus swimming towards you!" Mary Ann exclaimed.

"Oh that was just Olivia!" Gilligan replied smiling and the Skipper and Mary Ann looked at each other.

"And just who is Olivia?" The Skipper asked folding his arms.

"She is that giant octopus Mary Ann saw," Gilligan began as Mary Ann raised her eyebrows and the Skipper sighed. "She really neat! She squeezed into this tiny little hole and laid a ton of eggs and she won't take anything I offer her. She's a really good mom!"

"Why did you name her Olivia?" Mary Ann asked.

"I named her after one of my friends' mom!" Gilligan replied. "She had a total of twelve kids!"

"Gilligan promise us you won't go near her again!" The Professor replied walking up. "She might not be so friendly next time!"

"Okay I promise!" Gilligan replied pouting a little.

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This is an AU to the episode 'The Big Gold Strike'

AUGUST 27, 1964

"Oh this isn't real gold!" Mr. Howell replied after he and Gilligan had fallen in what looked like a Gold Mine.

"How can you tell?" Gilligan asked as he picked up a small piece off the floor and looked at it.

"My hands usually shakes if it's several karats," Mr. Howell began. "And when you scrape it across the ground here the streak is green and black and not bright yellow! Oh well C'est la vie!"

"Who's Celia V?" Gilligan asked as he spotted a strange rock on the floor and picked it up.

"No C'est la vie is French for that's life!" Mr. Howell replied. "What have you got there?"

"I don't know it looks like a giant egg!" Gilligan replied holding up the egg.

The egg was the size of an ostrich egg. It was dark green with black speckles.

"Egads whoever laid that must be big!" Mr. Howell replied. "Let's bring it to the Professor!"

They were about to leave when they heard an eerie screech. They look to their right and see a strange creature. It was the size of a huge Great Dane. It was the same color of the egg and scaly. It had a strip of feathers that started on top of its head then traveled under its mouth, down its neck and all the way underneath it. It had a big rectangular head with a black beak shaped like a parrot. It had a long neck, a long body and four long legs with three toes and long claws and a tail as long as it's body. It stared back at them with amber colored eyes.

"I'm sorry is this your egg?" Gilligan asked holding it out to the creature.

The creature walked towards them and stopped in front of them. It took the egg from Gilligan gently in its beak, turned its head and wrapped its tail around, sat down and seem to place they egg in a hidden pouch. Then it looked back up at Gilligan and shifted closer to him. Gilligan slowly reached out his hand and patted it. It seemed to purr at his touch.

"Good girl nice girl!" Gilligan replied. "I think I'll call you Rita!"

After a few minutes the creature got up and walked back to where they had spotted it and seemed to crawl through a crack in the wall and disappear.

"You're not going to tell anyone are you?" Gilligan asked Mr. Howell as they climbed out of the so called mine.

"Nobody would believe us if we did!" Mr. Howell replied as they headed back to camp.

SEPTEMBER 9, 1964

After Mr. Howell decided to put on Ginger's play on the island Gilligan went along with the Professor to collect some berries to make some paint. They climb up a mountain where the Professor knew there was some vibrant berries. After a couple of hours they each had four baskets of berries. They were on their way back when they heard some rustling all around them. They both raised their machetes.

"Who goes there?" The Professor explained.

Out of the corner of their eyes they could see that they were surrounded by several gorilla's.

"We need to get down on our knees!" Gilligan whispered and they both got down on their knees.

After a few minutes they saw two gorillas approaching them and Gilligan felt a big hand on his shoulder and felt it breathing on him. Gilligan looked up and saw two familiar gorillas.

"Hey it's Brock and Diamond!" Gilligan exclaimed.

"Who?" The Professor replied looking up.

"That gorilla who took Mrs. Howell and his mate. This must be their band!" Gilligan explained as he and the Professor stood up.

The gorillas grunted and chattered and went back to making their nests as the Professor and Gilligan headed back to camp.

A/N: The giant octopus can fit through an opening the size of a lemon. They can lay thousands of eggs the size of rice. Females will stop eating to care for them and then will die after they hatch.

The show's creators had wanted Gilligan to befriend a dinosaur on the show but it wasn't in their budget.

A group of gorillas is call a band. It makes sense that there would be a band of gorillas, etc. on the island because they never really explain how apes and monkey got to the island.

If Gilligan were a dog what type of dog would he be. Vote now on the poll on my profile!

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