Chapter 12: Atom Heart Mother (Another Cave)
C. Mother Fore
The storm kept raging in, the freezing wind carried leaves and dust while the rain created puddles. The imprisoned foreign teens cried on the ground and the evil natives smirked at their suffer. The place that they were taken to, was another open field. The trees where the natives lived were far away, some cannibals watched from the trees and others on branches. The tree houses were not the amusing thing of the 'village'; a few meters away, a huge sink hole terrorized anyone who noticed it. The hole had a type of shrine, maybe for some kind of ritual.
Arnold moved his hands trying to untie the rope made of weed, they were too hard and strong it was impossible.
"Agh! My stomach! My stomach!" Sid moaned "Someone help me! Please!" he wouldn't quiet down. Sheena cried and everyone felt helpless, Sid's requests where in vain.
Some aborigines spoke with others and arranged some kind of feast. Strange coloured flowers were brought together to make natural paint and others were burned. A group of female inhabitants appeared and stood near a rock.
'What's going on?' Phoebe wondered.
"Du!" a male cannibal yelled to some others and pointed at the scared teens. Another tribe group walked to the prisoners and forced them as they ushered them towards the sink hole.
"Let me go!" Velda screamed as she was taken away along with Nadine, Sophia, Sheena, Phoebe, Violet and Mr. Simmons. The hole got larger and larger as the group strode closer to it.
"Oh no!" Phoebe suddenly began "I remember I read somewhere that long ago, some ethnic groups believed that sink holes were portals…"
"Shut up Phoebe! This is not the time to brag about your knowledge!" Mr. Simmons shouted monotonous.
"They sacrificed themselves by jumping in!" Phoebe finally gasped, there was no stopping her when she had something important to say.
That terrified them; they imagined themselves falling in the abyss, an endless fall. Velda began to weep and Sheena went hysterical shaking like a snake.
The ritual was prepared, the group of women began to chant "uh… Tu!"
"This is all your fucking fault, you little twit!" Roberto yelled at Arnold.
"Shut up!" Helga glared at the guide.
Gerald focused his attention to the other side where Phoebe and the others were taken to 'I have to help her!' he thought.
"You stupid uncivilized fiends!" Wartz screamed at some passing natives and another pair dragged him along Roberto. Wartz didn't rest his anger, he kept yelling with scorn.
Arnold wondered the fate of his Principal and his foe, he turned right and saw Harold. He looked at Arnold with a hopeless expression and moaned, for he had no longer a tongue to talk with. Arnold felt pity and guilt.
"Ka… sincoumpaaaa…" The female chorus sang "Di… tu! Garlic…yea…"
The guide and Principal were dragged to some large stones where two natives waited holding a type of stone mallet.
"You fucking piece of shit! I will kill you! I will kill you motherfuckers!" Wartz groaned "You don't know who you are messing with! I'll have you fucking heads on my fucking dinner table you fucking Indians!"
"Tza tza tza za za za!" the chorus sang "Fusss rrrrrrrrrrrrroky! Rapatita totocha!... Rapatita totocha!"
"Fuck you! Fuck you in the ass!" Wartz yelled as the natives held him down on the rock. Wartz realized soon he would be dead and began to cry "No! No! Please don't! No! Let me go! Please!"
Roberto just stared at Arnold with a grim look as he was smacked down on the sharp rock.
"Zaa za garly, rapatite..za raparure… ummmm, matza pu maza pu mazapu uuuuuuh auah!" they kept singing.
Suddenly Arnold felt a hand behind him which shook him.
"Calm down, It is I… Eduardo" Somehow he had freed himself and was now untying him "Hold still and don't run until I tell you to, I'll free the others" Eduardo crept behind Gerald and Helga "Don't runaway yet, until I tell you to" He told them as Helga and Gerald nodded together.
Principal Wartz and Roberto 'La Sombra' gritted as their heads were held down and the two natives raised their arms holding the mallets high. Wartz screamed as pee filled his pants.
"Rabano rabaho yea yei yei, uh! Uh! Yuhu hut u tu hulu uh yo tu! Hu hu juuh" The chorus raised their hans to the rainy gray sky as they sang louder "uuuuuuuh uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh uuuuuuuuuuuuuh uuuh uuhhu uuuuuh" The strong natives smashed the mallets down crushing their heads open "uh uh uh aha aah aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" the chorus finished loudly.
The heavy mallets hammered Wartz's and Sombras's skull. Pieces of brain and blood splashed out onto the stunned viewers that barfed instantly. The crushed skulls bled as brain slid down their hair to the rock and ground.
Arnold's eyes almost popped out, the brains and blood were too real. Stinky also peed himself while he trembled. The natives grabbed Harold and Sid, they looked confused because Sid didn't move or complain.
"Aty alaya futury?" One said and the other shrugged.
Sid had died minutes before, the illness had taken his soul. Sid had blood in his nose and yellowish fluids that dripped out of his mouth.
"No!" Stinky cried as the cannibals threw him on the ground and headed towards Helga.
"No! they are coming for me!" Helga cringed "Can I run now?" she yelled.
Eduardo patted Arnold's back as he bid him goodbye "It was a pleasure to meet you, you've got your mother's eyes. Please escape immediately, don't worry about me" Eduardo smiled at Arnold's confusion "I'll see you in the other life" Eduardo jumped out and ran roaring at the natives as he tackled them "Run! Now!" The teens ran away to the wild as fast as possible.
"Wait!" Gerald shouted "I have to save Phoebe!" Stinky and Brainy didn't listen and preferred to flee. Helga, Arnold and Curly followed Gerald towards the sink hole.
The cannibal tribe screamed and angrily persecuted the kids. Helga dodged natives, they weren't far from the abyss. As they got closer, they saw how Nadine and Mr. Simmons were thrown in the dark hole as their screams fade in the deep.
Phoebe saw the guys running to save her, she was glad they didn't leave without her.
"Phoebe!" Gerald and Helga screamed. The natives standing on the shrine were about to throw Rhonda in.
"Curly! Save me!" Rhonda begged. Curly's adrenaline raised and gave him extra stamina as he pulled the native to the rocky ground. They rolled on the ground hitting and punching, Curly bit the cannibal's arm and the native grunted in pain. Rhonda ran to help Curly but another cannibal held Curly as the other slid his throat.
"no…" Rhonda muttered.
Gerald reached Phoebe and began to untie her "Hurry! Hurry!" Phoebe yelled as a tall skinny cannibal ran to them. Arnold reached into his pockets and took his compass out.
"Don't let me down!" he told the compass and threw it with all his strength.
The compass flew over the hassle and hit the cannibal right before he reached Gerald and Phoebe. He fell hard on the grass, he groaned and pouted towards Arnold.
"Oh shit!" Arnold said as the Indian approached slowly to him.
"Run baby run!" Gerald shoving away Phoebe away "I have to help Arnold!" Gerald ran and pushed the scoundrel hard on the grass. The man was overwhelmed by anger as he gave a raging look.
"Run!" Gerald yelled to Arnold, and so he did with Helga as Rhonda, Velda and Sheena joined. But Arnold noticed Gerald didn't come along 'What are you doing?' He thought and was surprised when he saw Gerald hand to hand with the native.
The ugly cannibal threw a punch, Gerald ducked and jabbed him right on the ribs. The thin brown man spit his breath and Gerald punched his jaw knocking the foe down. Gerald grabbed a pointy rock and began to smash the man's skull.
"Die motherfucker! Die!" he screamed and all of a sudden, five male natives held Gerald off "Get off me!" Gerald withstood but they were too strong.
"Shit!" Arnold ran to Gerald's aid.
"No Arnold! Save yourself and the others! Go! You can't make the difference!" Arnold stopped "Go!" Gerald yelled.
Arnold didn't know what to do, he knew it was suicide helping him and so he twirled around. He was about to join the brawl but he was held by an arm.
"Come on! Let's go!" Helga pulled Arnold "There is nothing we can do!" she made a sorry expression.
Gerald used all his strength and dragged all the natives who held him tight towards the huge earth hole.
"Gerald! What are you doing?" Arnold screamed out and Gerald threw himself into the black hole dragging with him all the natives who held him.
"No!" Arnold cried "No! Gerald! No!" he ran to the sink hole but Helga stopped him.
"Are you crazy! Come on! There are more coming our way!" Helga gasped as more natives ran to them far away.
They ran away once again into the woods, Sophia wasn't lucky and tripped and as she got on her feet a spear punched through her knee. Sophia painfully yelled wicked screams as the natives took her. She broke her nails trying to attach to a rock.
Velda, Phoebe, Arnold, Rhonda, Sheena and Violet were now on the run.
"Run faster!" Violet shouted being on the lead. A sound of breaking wood cracked as Violet fell into a trap. She screamed when she fell into a hole with sharp wood placed at the bottom.
"Watch out!" Helga said jumping the trap hole. She was able to see Violet agonizing with the sharp wood crossing all of her body.
Arnold glared back and saw many natives chasing them and an Indian falling into a trap too. A flying spear skimmed Rhonda's right shoulder and squealed loudly but kept shifting.
The teenagers ran passing by many traps and fortunately no one else fell into one.
"A river!" Rhonda cried and jumped straight in it and the rest did as well except for Velda.
Velda stood on the edge "I don't know how to swim!" She yelled but the tribe was nearer and Velda had no other choice but to jump.
The river's current was aggressive and fast; the native clan hesitated in jumping in and ran along the edge throwing all kinds of things to the fugitives.
"Help!... hel.. he..prss!" Velda screamed splashing around "Please!" she begged but no one could do a thing, for the river flowed violent and unsteady. Eventually, Velda no longer moved, she drowned while she cracked open her head on a rock.
"Helga!" Arnold yelled as he tried swimming to her "Hold my hand" and stretched his arm out. Helga also tried reaching his hand but there wasn't any time, the river divided in two not so far away. The aggressiveness of the river didn't let them reach each other in time. Helga was dragged by the opposite current and Arnold to the other dividing them in different directions.
"No! Helga!" Arnold swam faster as they were taken apart.
"Arnold!" Helga gasped swallowing some water watching Arnold fade away.
The heavy rain and fast river were not a nice combination. The river reached incredible speed taking Helga for a heavy ride. She feared for a waterfall to be part of the trip 'Please don't take me to a waterfall, please!' she begged.
Luckily for Helga, that waterway didn't lead to one and instead calmed down slowly. Helga scanned her new surrounds, no native was in sight.
C) Funky Dung
The river led Helga to a cave under a great mountain that seemed to cross through the whole mount. Bats flew around wondering who that strange little girl was. Helga swam to one edge and climbed up 'Where should I go now?' she looked back and forth to the mouth of the cave, the cavern had many dark tunnels that looked threatening 'What if I go back?... No! No way! Those damn cannibals will find me' so she decided to venture deep in the gloomy tunnels.
The inner tunnels were very high, damped, humid and drops of water fell from the stalactites. Helga paced slowly, lot of things tormented her mind until another troubling sound shook her attention. She stood still as she heard the echoes of many natives running and yelling through the tunnels.
"Oh no!" Helga began to run ; the echoes seemed to come from everywhere, behind, front, from the tunnels above, she didn't know where to flee next.
"Auuuuuu!" yell sounded everywhere "Auu auu auu uuhh uhhh!" Helga listened to all kinds of sounds and began to lose her mind.
"Shut up! Shut up!" She covered her ears and hid in the dark. Maybe she was so afraid that it was all her imagination "Shut up! Shut up!" a headache bounced in her brain, Helga fell in a never ending spiral while loud sounds vibrated. Then, suddenly, they stopped.
e) Mind your throats
Helga opened her eyes and slowly crawled out of her hiding place 'Maybe they are gone, maybe it was only my imagination' She walked cautiously through the tunnels once again. A light of another entrance stood only a few meters away from her.
"The exit!" Helga joyfully yelled and ran towards it. She felt relieved but her happiness didn't last long, she restrained when Helga saw one cannibal native standing on the entrance. She quickly hid once again behind a rock, her legs tingled.
'He saw me! He saw me!' Helga thought. She peered out and saw the dirty human standing, he could see her cause he was faced the other way looking out at the jungle.
Helga sighed 'what do I do now! I am doomed! What should I do?' she asked herself as she saw her hands shake like a washing machine. Helga peered once again, the man stood watching the wild. She searched around and found a large sharp stone.
'Alright, let's do this!' Helga muttered and crawled out and slowly sneaked behind the cannibal. Helga sweated like never before.
The smelly native moved to scratch his gluteus and Helga stood still, she began to feel scared once again 'No, I can't do this!' she thought, but it was that same fear that led her to her basic animal instinct. She crept behind him, mysterious sounds began to ring again. Helga raised her hand holding the stone and hammered him down 'Silence in the studio!'
F) Remergence
Helga screamed like a wild animal, she smashed his head open "Die! Die!" blood splattered on her as his eye popped out. Helga stopped when she felt the rock break in two "Aaaagh!" she roared and threw the pieces away. She twirled her eyes and ran out the cave as the storm thundered the raining clouds.