SCREAM part 3
A/N: Pay VERY close attention to the song mentioned in this chapter, So Insane.
A day before Kyra and Flaky were riding the train and while Flippy and his pals were on the bridge, Cuddles and his friends were walking along the pier, waiting to get aboard a cruise ship. Cuddles got lucky and won a free cruise to an exotic island with a few friends to go along with him. So Cuddles talked to Nutty, Mime and his cousin Rhyme, and Nappy to tag along with him. They all had something to gain during the trip. Cuddles wanted to go exploring and sunbathing…and maybe meet a few single female rabbits he could have a relationship with. Nutty wanted to ransack the jungle to look for luscious and rare fruits filled with sweet, sweet juices. He never ate a coconut candy bar or a guava lollipop before… Mime wanted to go find some other mute deer in the city that were mimes too, so he could…mime with them. Rhyme was focus on the same thing as Cuddles: having a good time and looking for anyone who was currently dateless. And Nappy? Well, he wanted to apply for a freelancing carpenter so he could put his building talents to use. Although the employers might get angry when they realize he builds stuff with food… But anyone as creative as Nappy should be able to get the job, so why not give it a shot?
"How'd you win this cruise again?" asked Nappy.
"Some guy I knew on the subway was just handing out free lottery tickets and I won!"
"…You won a free cruise from a lottery ticket?" asked Rhyme.
"Uh-huh!"
"…From some random dude in the subway?"
"Yeah."
"…Are you sure those tickets are bogus?" asked Nappy.
"Of course not! What do you think Nutty?"
Nutty was too busy slurping on a lollipop and giggling to himself to notice, but he still managed to respond to Cuddles.
"I WANT CANDY! CUDDLES TAKES US TO CANDY!!"
"See? Nutty thinks it's okay!"
Rhyme and Nappy groaned and continued to walk down the pier until they finally arrived at their cruise ship. Everybody gasped (including Mime, inaudibly) at how grand the boat was. It was like looking at a five star hotel built on water.
"OOOOOHHH!! What ship is this called?" asked Nutty.
"A Five-Star Hotel Built On Water." said Cuddles.
"That explains it."
The ship was at least a few miles long and must've weighed several tons or more, judging by all the cargo that was resting upon the bow. It was the color of the sea and even glittered like it when the sun shined upon the sides of it. If Cuddles and the gang went inside, they would be overwhelmed by the smell of lavender and vanilla pumping through the air vents and their mouths would water when they got a whiff of juicy grilled T-Boned steaks with A1 Steak Sauce on the side. Room Service was 24 hours a day and they'd be able to get a free massage in their own room while eating cherries and watching movies that haven't been released in the theater yet. It would've felt like heaven for them. Mime was flaring his nostrils while rubbing his stomach, as though he already smelled the steaks from outside the ship.
"Yeah, I can smell those T-Bones already." said Rhyme, with his mouth watering.
"What are we waiting for?! I bet they have a truckload of candy of board!!"
Nutty began to sprint to the cruise ship at lightning speed (due to his sugar rush) so he could ransack the whole food supply and guzzle down as much sugar his mouth could hold. Nutty was giggling and sputtering incoherent phrases as he reached the door of the cruise ship. But just as he reached for the door knob, the cruise ship dissolved into nothing but dust within two seconds and it revealed a ratty old pirate ship underneath the rubble. There was never a cruise ship at all.
"…Candy?" whined Nutty.
Everyone else had their jaws hanging down to the gangplank; they were so traumatized at what they just witnessed.
"What. The. Fuck." said Nappy.
Cuddles was panting and mumbling to himself as he continued to look at the pamphlet he was handed. He thought they were at the wrong pier, but he checked the brochure and the address was correct.
"No…no, no, no! This can't be right! I thought there…"
Cuddles rushed to the sailor standing next to the pirate ship with his hands behind his back, acting like one of the main guards.
"Sir? SIR!!" yelled Cuddles, running to the guard.
"What?"
"Um…we seem to be at the wrong location. Can you tell us where this ship is supposed to be ported at?"
The sailor studied the brochure carefully before handing it back to Cuddles and said, "It's right here."
"What?!! But-But-But it said we were going to this cruise ship, not a ratty pirate ship! See, look at the picture!"
Cuddles waved the brochure in the sailor's face while he looked at the photo of the luxurious cruise ship.
"Funny, it says right here in fine print at the bottom, 'This is not a real brochure; you're getting sent to a pirate ship.'"
"Where?! I didn't see that!"
"That's okay, cause on the back there's a big ass picture of this pirate ship and it says in red bold letters, 'YOU'RE NOT GOING ON CRUISE!!! YOU'RE GETTING SENT TO A PIRATE SHIP!!' Honestly, I don't see how you could miss that."
Cuddles looked at the back of the brochure and the pirate ship several times over, unable to believe his friend on the subway duped him. Cuddles scratched the back of his head and laughed nervously while looking at his friends.
"Oops." he said meekly.
His friends responded by growling at him and making fists with their hands.
"Okay, okay, this is my fault, I know, but look on the bright side!"
"What bright side?"
"We're still going to the island and-and I'm pretty sure their bunks and the food are decent enough."
Everyone was still pissed off at Cuddles and Nutty chucked his lollipop at his head.
"I am going to kick…your…ass. Right after I finish this lollipop!"
Nutty pulled the lollipop off Cuddles' fur, taking some of the fur with it. Cuddles screamed loudly.
So there they were, standing aboard a pirate ship with many other pirates, including Russell. In fact he was the one who was introducing the gang to some of the crew at the moment.
"And over here's my first mate Salty!"
Cuddles and the gang looked next to Russell and saw a black otter wearing yellow overalls and boots. He looked a lot like Russell, except without the pirate hat, hook hand, and peg legs.
"Glad to have ya aboard the ship mates!" said Salty, sounding a lot friendlier than most of the other pirates.
Salty shook Rhyme's hand so hard it almost lifted him into the air and rattled his bones. After he was done, his whole hand was covered in slimy goo.
"Urgh…no problem." said Rhyme.
"Hey, Russell! Remember that time when you and yee shipmates were takin' on that sea monster?"
"Yaargh! Corse I remember that sea tale! You guys wanna hear it?"
"NO!!" shouted Cuddles and his gang.
Russell had been talking about his sea adventures for hours; they were sick of it at this point and were about to die of boredom.
"So thar we's were, staring at the foul beast eye to eye. I told me shipmate Salty here to grab the speargun and WHAP!! I jab the creature right in the noggin!"
Cuddles and the others slowly backed away from Russell and his shipmate so they wouldn't have to hear another one of his sea tales.
"This place sucks! Why don't they have any sugar on board?" whined Nutty.
"Don't you mean this place stinks? I know that fish doesn't smell like cookies and cream but DAAAMMNN!! It's like walking in a cesspool!" said Rhyme.
Mime's face was green and he was swaying to and fro like he was drunk or seasick. Mime was getting ready to vomit.
"Mime if you're gonna throw up, do it in the water!" said Rhyme.
Mime ran over to the side of the ship and threw his head over the railing, vomiting inaudibly into the water. He wasn't even really vomiting; he was leaning over the edge with his mouth open and jerking his body as though he were vomiting. Cuddles was slowly backing up when he bumped into a green reptile's tail. The reptile turned around and growled angrily at Cuddles. The creature was a burly alligator wearing a striped red and blue tank top and black pants.
"Heh heh! Sorry!"
"Watch where you're walking, twerp!" said the alligator.
The alligator had a menacing voice that would've made Flaky release the contents in her bladder. But aside from that, the smell of his breath was downright disgusting. Like mildew and some dead animal. Cuddles retched loudly and held his mouth and nose shut.
"Got somethin' to say Fluffy?! Wouldn't by any chance have somethin' to do wit me breath now, would it?"
Cuddles swallowed his vomit and said, "Of course not! I was just…seeing how long I could hold my breath."
"So it wouldn't be bothersome if I did this?"
The alligator belched right in Cuddles' face. The smell was so sour that he did start vomiting…but since his hands were covering his mouth, it didn't come out all at once. It seeped between his fingers and dripped onto the wooden planks like slime dripping off a stalactite. The alligator couldn't help but laugh.
"Hey Bladz! What the 'ell do ya's think ya doin' wit that rabbit?" asked a black wolf from the distance.
The wolf raced over to Bladz and saw the rabbit with vomit on his fingers. He was wearing the same clothing as Bladz and if his fur was green and he was an alligator, he'd look just like Bladz.
"Nothin' Jerry. Just havin' a little fun with him. Apparently this bloke doesn't like the...aromatic scent inside me jaws."
Jerry chuckled. "If you're gonna have fun wit the fluff-ball, do it right."
Jerry picked up Cuddles and started rubbing him underneath his arms like he were deodorant. Sadly, this wolf was one of the stinkiest members of the crew and never showered or took a bath of any sorts, so his armpits smelled like a strong variation of musk. Jerry was sighing as Cuddles was inadvertently scratching his armpits too.
"Yeah…that feels better!"
Jerry dropped Cuddles and laughed when he saw nasty brown gunk on his head and face. Cuddles, appalled at the smell, ran over to Mime to go vomit over the railing into the water.
"Sugar…I need sugar…" whined Nutty, jerking his head like a bird.
Nutty suddenly screamed like a maniac and burst through the doors leading down into the cargo hold of the ship.
"Well…I guess it's just you and me Nappy." said Rhyme.
Nappy turned around and saw some sailors trying to push a mast back into position after it cracked. It looked like it was about to fall over and crash through the boat.
"Hey, you guys need any help with that?" asked the blue cat.
"Yargh! Yee got any solutions?"
Nappy took out a pack of 5 gum and stuffed all the sticks into his mouth, chewing them slowly and savoring the flavor. Then he opened his mouth and started to blow a giant blue bubble until it was the size of his head.
"What the…"
Nappy walked over to the cracked section of the mast and poked the bubble on the shard of wood, popping the bubble. But when the bubble popped, it expanded and filled in the broken segment. Nappy replaced the missing with a large, sturdy piece of 5 gum. He even tried to push the mast over to see if the gum was working properly.
"Wow! How the 'ell you fix that so fast?"
Nappy shrugged. "It's my talent."
And so, Rhyme was left standing in the middle of the pirate ship alone, trying to find something entertaining to do.
"Hey! Landlubber!" cried another wolf.
The wolf had yellow fur and was wearing the same outfit as Salty, only it was black. Rhyme walked up to the wolf and began to talk to him.
"Do you like guitars? I got this band thing I wanna try out, but hardly anyone has any guitars."
Rhyme smiled widely. "Yes…"
Cuddles finished vomiting and began to walk over to the stairwell when he heard a loud squish. Cuddles looked down and was surprised to see that he just stepped into a heaping pile of fish guts, fresh from the sea. Cuddles held his mouth again and slowly stepped out of the fish innards, removing his slippers so the slime wouldn't soak through his toes. Realizing how smelly and slimy they were, Cuddles was gonna have to burn the slippers. But just as he was about to, Bladz showed up again and belched his foul breath in his face again, forcing him to vomit over the rail again.
Meanwhile, Nutty was in the cargo holds of the ship ravenously slurping up all the sugar treats he tore out of the crates. He was lying on his back giggling in a muffled voice while his face was buried in a bag of sugar. After Nutty finished consuming his servings of glucose, he started hopping up and down and laughing wildly, spinning around like The Tasmanian Devil. When he finished enjoying his sugar high, he started to walk up to the deck, only to trip over a small blue marble.
"Huh?" mumbled Nutty.
Nutty picked up the marble when his sugary curiosity kicked in and…he licked it. Nutty laughed and threw the marble into his mouth, which he realized was a jawbreaker. Nutty started sucking out all the sugar when a sailor bumped into him from behind and caused him to spit the jawbreaker out.
"Sorry mate."
Nutty screamed as the jawbreaker rolled down a series of stairs and wound up inside the boiler and engine room of the ship. He threw himself down the stairs to chase after his jaw-cracking ball of candy, hoping no one else would find it and eat it themselves. Of course, Nutty was running so fast that he tripped over a whole box of jawbreakers and the whole thing spilled down the stairs, making Nutty panic even more.
"Hey, jawbreakers!" said a sailor working on one of the turbines.
"NOOOO!! MINE! MINE! THOSE ARE MINE!!" said Nutty.
Nutty then proceeded to bite the sailor so hard on the arm that he started bleeding. Nutty scurried across the ground like a rat, picking up all the jawbreakers with his tongue. Nutty collected all the sugary treats within a few minutes and, like always, he was going into a sugar high. Nutty giggled and shook his way to the stairs and he went up to the top deck.
Too bad Nutty forgot the blue jawbreaker that got jammed in one of the turbines of the ship...
After learning that the yellow wolf used to be part of a band, Rhyme decided to perform for the whole crew as the night entertainment. Rhyme was playing guitar and one of the singers next to the yellow wolf, Mime was playing the drums, and Nappy was control all of the other musical effects in the band. Cuddles, unfortunately, got so sick from Jerry and Bladz that he passed out and Salty had to drag him to one of the cabins, where he was currently lying down. Rhyme and the yellow wolf were getting their instruments ready so they could perform the song.
"You sure that dripping water won't shock us to death if it lands on the guitar?" asked Rhyme.
"Yeah, we should be fine…I guess."
"Okay! Let's do this!"
Mime started playing the bass drum for a few seconds before Nappy started playing his artificial keyboard that activated cool techno-like rocks sounds. Then…Rhyme and the wolf began to sing.
"Have ya, looked at the stopwatch lately?
When was the last time you clocked-in?
There is a race to be won and a song to be sung.
There is a fine line wearin' thin."
Rhyme and the wolf paused for a moment before starting the next verse.
"So don't look back, the past is past
The future is comin' fast
You better make room, we're comin' through
Loud and clear!"
The audience, knowing this song shouted out "OOH! OHH!" at the pause before they started again.
"We got the hands to turn this around
We got the plans to make it go down
We go the voice fillin' this room
We got the minds, the minds that go BOOM!
Get up, get out, get on that train
It's becoming so insane!
This tiny blue marble is rollin' away."
The gang started another verse.
"Have ya checked out the temperature lately?
There's a fever that's about to break
There is a game to be won and a song to be sung
This is our battle cry, make no mistake."
Another verse.
"So don't look back, the past is past
The future is comin' fast
You better make room, we're comin' through
Loud and clear!"
"OHH OHH!"
"We got the hands to turn this around
We got the plans to make it go down
We go the voice fillin' this room
We got the minds, the minds that go BOOM!
Get up, get out, get on that train
It's becoming so insane!
This tiny blue marble is rollin' away."
The gang stopped singing for a moment so that Nappy could play more keys on the keyboard and so Rhyme and the wolf could perform a short solo performance. After some time, ad a few more "OHH! OHH!" they started singing again:
"Don't look back, the past is past
The future is comin' fast
You better make room, we're comin' through
Loud and clear!"
"OHH OHH!"
"We got the hands to turn this around
We got the plans to make it go down
We go the voice fillin' this room
We got the minds, the minds that go BOOM!
Get up, get out, get on that train
It's becoming so insane!
This tiny blue marble is rollin' away."
They repeated the chorus.
"We got the hands to turn this around
We got the plans to make it go down
We go the voice fillin' this room
We got the minds, the minds that go BOOM!
Get up, get out, get on that train
IT'S BECOMING SO INSANE!!!
This tiny blue marble is rollin' away."
The music began to subside and all Rhyme, his cousin and the others could hear were their own breaths and their heart beating. But after a while, all of the pirates and sailors began to cheer thunderously and clap until their hands (or in Russell's case, hooks) got tired.
"Maybe this won't be such a bad trip after all." said Rhyme.
Mime mimed out an agreement and shook his head up and down.
Back in the cabin, Cuddles was trying to get some sleep when Salty entered the cabin after hearing the band performance…chowing down on some dead squid.
"Hey Fluffy! You don't mind me sleepin' on the top bunk now, do ya's?"
"Whatever! Just as long as you stop expelling your squid breath in my area!"
"Squid breath?"
Salty exhaled into the palm of his hand and sniffed it twice before he shrugged and hopped to the top bunk.
"Hey Salty, do you smell musk?" asked Cuddles, looking onto the top bunk from his lower section.
"Oh yeah, that must be Jerry. He's supposed to be bunkin' wit us tonight."
"WHAT?!!? He's the reason why I got sick in the first place."
Salty laughed. "Sucks for you mate. Oh, and word of advice, leave the portholes open; I hear Jerry ate some beans for dinner and his farts could wipe the vision out me other eye!"
"WHAT?!!"
"Why do you think I'm wearin' this eyepatch now mate?"
The next day, Cuddles decided to call his cousin, Kyra, who was riding a train headed back to the HTF village. Nappy was helping Russell fix a messed up speargun…with cheese. Rhyme and Mime were reminiscing with the yellow wolf about the band performance the other night, and Nutty was sucking away on another lollipop.
"Okay, I think I got it. Now all I gotta do is stuff the cheese right there and…"
Nappy finally fixed the speargun, but the second after it was fixed, it fired a spear.
"This tiny blue marble is rollin' aw--WURGH!!" said the wolf.
The yellow wolf was re-singing the chorus of the song when the spear hit him in the back, piercing his torso in the process. The wolf groaned and slouched over to the deck.
"A.J.A.X.!!" yelled Russell, rushing over to the injured wolf.
"I'll call you back." said Cuddles, shutting his cellphone.
"What happened?" asked Rhyme.
"I was trying to fix a speargun and it went off! Maybe I should've bubble gum…" said Nappy.
"Take him to the captain so he can patch him up!" commanded Russell.
A sailor took the wounded wolf up a set of stairs and escorted him to the captain.
"As for you…" started Russell.
But before he could finish, the pirate ship rumbled and shook like a miniature earthquake at sea. Something had exploded in the engine room.
"What the bloody 'ell was that?" asked Bladz.
"Maybe you should go an' check it out, eh gator?" said Russell.
"Awright, awright. I'll go sniff out the bug." said Bladz, walking down into the engine room.
It was at this time when the sun was blocked by several thick clouds and it suddenly got so dark that it looked like it might rain. Anyways, Bladz was in the boiler room…well, he was actually swimming through the boiler room; one of the turbines exploded and the whole place was flooding.
"DAMN! Who's been screwin' wit the turbines?!" demanded Bladz.
Bladz jerked his head left when he heard something growl and thought it might've been one of his shipmates…but all he saw was a glimpse of a tentacle with purple suction cups.
"What the…"
Bladz ignored what he just saw and swam his way to the bottom of the boiler room, where he saw the source of the problem. It was a large jawbreaker that had been jamming the systems, thanks to Nutty. Bladz carefully removed the piece of candy and swam back to the surface to breathe in some air.
"There we go! Good as new!"
Bladz was about to toss the jawbreaker into his mouth when he was suddenly getting sucked into the bottom of the ship. Somehow, the turbines were configured to suck in the water in the room…and everything in it.
"What the fuck--HEY! Someone shut off the damn turbines!"
Bladz tried to swim away, but he soon felt his tail grinding away. Bladz turned around in horror to find out the turbine was grinding his tail away like it was nothing. Bladz screamed and used all of his strength to swim away, but it was no use. The turbine chopped up Bladz's body starting from his tail and slowly traveling upwards to the rest of his body, splattering his organs and blood across the room. There was nothing Bladz could do but scream until his vocal cords were shredded in the turbine, followed by his head.
"I wonder what's taking Bladz so long?" said Russell.
"I dunno, but do any of you guys see that thing in the water?" asked Nappy.
"Look, I'm sure your gator friend with the malodorous breath is fine. I'm just wondering why it got so cloudy all of a sudden." said Cuddles.
"Um guys…you realize what I'm looking at has tentacles…right?" continued Nappy.
"Until those turbines an' boilers are repaired, we can't maneuver!"
"Meaning?"
Russell sighed. "Ya haven't any brains at all, do ya bunny? We be shipwrecked at sea!!"
"Guys?!" said Nappy.
"Yay. I've always wanted to be shipwrecked in the middle of the sea." said Rhyme, flatly.
Someone shrieked loudly and the gang turned their heads to see a large accumulation of bubbles one the rim of the water.
"Nappy?" asked Rhyme.
Mime started jumping up and down and pointing at the water, trying to alert the crew that he saw something.
"What is it Mime?" asked Rhyme.
Mime leaned over the edge and pointed to some slimy red and pink like tentacle that had skin in its suckers. It was blue skin.
"Oh my God, it ate Nappy!!" yelled Cuddles, with realization.
The lollipop in Nutty's mouth escaped from his jaws the second he saw a massive tentacle hanging in the air. Nutty started panting and jolting up and down when he the tentacle land into the sea and create a thunderous wave.
"Oh shit!" yelled Rhyme.
The tidal wave hit the boat at full force and knocked several wooden planks out of place. What made it worse was that it breached the cargo hold and water was quickly rushing in.
"MAN YOUR STATIONS! RED ALERT!! RED ALERT!!" yelled the captain from his captain, a white otter wearing black clothing.
"Uh, cap'n?" asked A.J.A.X. when he saw a tentacle sifting through the captain's cabin.
"What-what do you want us to do?" asked Cuddles.
"Put that cannonball in the cannon an' light it on fire! I'll go find some gunpowder!" said Russell.
Russell turned around and took a step forward. He tried taking another step, but couldn't because his peg leg was stuck in one of the holes in the plank. Russell grunted multiple times and tried to pull out his leg, but it was no use. And the giant tentacle staring down at Russell wasn't making the situation any better. Cuddles put a cannonball in the cannon and aimed it at the tentacle, waiting for someone to set it on fire. Someone grabbed Cuddles by the ears and placed him over the cannon.
"How's it goin' Fluffy?" asked Jerry.
"Now's not the time Stink-Hair! Just set the cannon on fire!"
"Awright."
Cuddles screamed repeatedly when Jerry rubbed his head on the cannon until a spark flew and set the rope on fire, traveling slowly into the cannon.
"FIRE IN THE HOLE!!" yelled Jerry.
Everyone covered their ears and waited for the cannon to fire, but instead of a loud boom, they heard a clang and a slimy "whoosh" sound. Everybody opened their eyes and saw that the cannon was aimed right for them instead; the monster must've hit the cannon with its thick tentacle and moved it towards the crew.
"HIT THE DECK!!" yelled Jerry, throwing himself down.
Everybody threw themselves down (except for A.J.A.X., who just left the captain's cabin to see what was happening) and dodged the incoming cannonball. A.J.A.X. didn't duck fast enough and the cannon wound up taking his whole head off in an instant.
"A.J.A.X.!!" screamed Russell.
But it didn't stop there. The mast that Nappy repaired with the 5 gum slowly broke away and was falling forward…right in Rhyme's direction. Rhyme turned around and gasped loudly before a sudden force shoved Rhyme out of the way. The mast landed on the deck and threw wood shavings and planks into the air like rain, hitting some of the pirate's in the face. Rhyme slowly stood up and looked at the broken mast. Then he looked underneath the mast and got near close to crying when he realized his cousin was lying under it. Mime had saved his cousin's life by pushing him out of the way…and wound up giving up his own life in the process. Rhyme started to whine a little and began to cry, but those tears soon dried up before falling off his chin and his whines turned into raspy growls. His teeth suddenly became sharp and his eyes turned dark purple, like he was possessed.
Then he screamed ferociously and charged towards Jerry, who was still holding his friend Cuddles by the ears. Rhyme pounced onto the wolf and started strangling him with the red bandanna tied around his forehead, before he bit down on the dirty wolf's neck, ripping it out like he was a rabid dog himself.
"Whoa! Holy shit dude…" said Cuddles, backing away from the vicious green deer.
Nutty was whimpering after he lost his lollipop and was wondering around the deck looking for it. Nutty finally found the candy on a stick and leaped for it…only to have a tentacle snatch it away from him and drag it into the sea.
"NNNOOOOOO!!!" wailed Nutty.
It a state of hysteria, Nutty threw himself into the water to go search for his lollipop. Meanwhile, Salty was helping Russell get out of the hole when a bowling pin impaled him in the mouth.
"MMPH!!?" mumbled Salty.
Suddenly, a bowling pin impaled him in his right eye and then his left eyepatch. Salty was choking and screaming as the bowling pins crushed his windpipe and retinas. Rhyme was the one who chucked his acrobatic utensils at the squid reeking otter. In the state he was in now, people would call him "Flippy" But he wasn't Flippy at all; he just…had a bad childhood. Now whenever his "demon" comes out, anyone who looks like a bully or a hostile gets killed. It was Salty's unfortunate luck that it looked like he was abusing Russell by tugging on his body. So Rhyme got three bowling balls and laughed evilly, before he threw them all at his head. The bowling ball that hit the bowling pin in his mouth shot through the back of his neck and the ones in his eyes broke through the skull and scrambled his brains. All in all, he had two bowling pins sticking out his eyes that went through his brain. Salty fell to the deck and died.
"RHYME!!"
Rhyme snorted and said, "What?" in his normal voice.
"Get me outta this thing before--"
The boat suddenly split in half like a popsicle stick and water splashed everywhere; the creature used his tentacles to rip the ship apart. What made things worse was that the captain fell out the bridge and he spilled into the opening…just as the ship began to close together. Imagine if you broke a popsicle stick in half, then placed something in-between the broken segment and closed it back up. This is what the ship did…and the captain wound up getting severed in half by both sides of the deck. Rhyme, realizing he couldn't save anyone else, grabbed Cuddles, ran over to Russell, snagged him out of the hole, and jumped off the boat.
"What about me shipmates?!"
"There's no time Russell! The ship was gonna explode anyways!"
Everyone turned around to see that the ship somehow erupted into a fireball and blasted wooden planks…and body parts all over the sea. A large plank from the boat splashed in the water next to the three and Rhyme placed Russell and Cuddles onto it, while Rhyme continued to tread water.
"Where's the sea monster?" asked Cuddles.
"Hopefully it's nowhere near--"
Rhyme shouted loudly when a tentacle latched onto the side of his face and began to pull it apart, stretching out his skin. Rhyme screamed and yanked the suctioned tentacle away, only to have another one grab the other side of his head. Russell and Cuddles used their hands to row the plank away from Rhyme. Five more tentacles glued themselves to Rhyme and began to stretch themselves apart, gradually ripping off his face. Rhyme screamed hysterically when his skin and clothes were ripped off by the tentacles and his muscles and tissue were showing. Suddenly, a tentacle stuffed itself into Rhyme's mouth and started to choke him…just before another tentacle stuffed itself into Rhyme's eye sockets and ears, sucking out all of his organs through the holes until he was dragged underwater and devoured.
"What are we gonna do? WHAT THE HELL ARE WE GONNA DO?!!?" asked Cuddles.
"Just…just stay calm. We'll get through this okay?"
But just as Cuddles felt a sense of relief, a whole arsenal of shark creatures with tentacles for arms popped up from the water, enclosing Russell and Cuddles in a circle. Cuddles and Russell gulped hard.
"Russell?"
"Yeah mate?"
"Please tell me you have anti-shark repellent in your trousers!"
"I…I left it in me cabin."
The sharks growled and devilish smiles appeared on their faces.
"FFFFFFFUCK."
The shark mutants began to tear Russell and Cuddles apart…
Amazingly, Nutty survived the whole epidemic unscathed and was resting face down on a beach. He groaned and lifted his head to see that the jawbreaker from the night before was in his mouth. Nutty started to laugh and toss the jawbreaker up into the air with glee, happy that he was finally able to eat the damn thing after all the trouble he went through. Nutty extended his tongue and placed the jawbreaker on his mouth…and then a coconut impaled him in the face. Yes…a coconut. It seemed to have came out of nowhere and struck the sticky green squirrel in the face, smashing it. Nutty whined twice before he fell forward and died. And then the sea monster extended its tentacle and dragged Nutty into the sea, devouring his corpse.
The jawbreaker was resting on the sand on a slope…and it began to roll away.
This tiny blue marble was rollin' away…
To be continued…