Seymour "mini-phil, cabbages and insect repellant"

***snip***
"I vote we follow that midget..." cried Niples running after Efof, who had
gained a clone midget on his back.
"Sounds good to me!" Phil shouted, and let Vanessa run ahead then followed,
shooting a few random blasts at the bugs.
"into that cave!" shouted Niples,
Efof did a sharp right, still squealing, and ran into a small cave in the
cliff-face, with Mini-Phil "eee"-ing on his back.
***snip***
The cave was damp and cold compared to the warm sunny day outside, Seymour
didn't like the sun too much. He winced as he felt the sunburn on his
shoulder.
"I wonder awfully if we could just stop running a moment so that I could
apply some moisturiser...."
There was a loud roar from the monster at the opening of the cave, it was
one of the not so big ant-like insects. If it were the huge beetles then
they would be safe, but this one was smaller- it might be able to get into
the cave.
"On my planet we had a saying that people that dived quickly into a cave
whilst being chased by a monster are very stupid..." Said Efof. "or was that
a poster for sex awareness?"
Seymour wondered what the simple Ffionian was talking about but dismissed it
as he usually did.
The beast clawed at the cave entrance. Staring in with almost glowing,
slitty yellow eyes, unusual for an insect- but all the more menacing.
Seymour looked down, having the feeling that someone was watching him, other
than the beast outside. He looked down and Mini phil was down at his ankles,
thinking about humping it. "oh its you." Seymour said. "I thought I could
smell cabbage."
But MP jumped back as the insect lurched closer, the four of them in the
cave pressed themselves against the back wall so that the creature couldn't
reach them. A clawing tendril ripped Seymour's jacket. "hey! This was very
expensive, it's official Ambassador clothing I'll have you know!"
"How are we going to get out of here now?" Asked Phil.
"We could build a weapon, can anyone see anything that would make a
rudimentary lathe?" Suggested Niples as the ant-like creature squeezed
closer through the hole, pressing its head in, and snapping at them with its
shiny black pincers.
"These ants would really spoil a picnic..." Said Seymour.
That gave Phil an idea. "That's it! We need a distraction, ants always come
when you're having picnics right?"
"So what are you saying? we get someone to have a picnic over there to
distract them? That's just silly!"
"Maybe if we could just find a large jar of jam-" Said Efof.
"Oh yes, I bet theres one of those around here somewhere...." Seymour said
sarcastically.
"Even better idea..." Said Seymour fumbling around in his pocket.
He found some insect repellant and sprayed the can in the ants face until it
turned red and ran away in shock. The others turned to him as if to say "Why
didn't you do that earlier."
Seymour laughed nervously, "I was only going to use it in extreme
emergancies, now its all gone and i get very sore skin if I get bitten and
come up in rashes...."
He frantically tried to brush off the mosquittos. While only a few hindred
meters away, giant mosquittos smelled human sweat too.
David "Onion" Ball
Captain Seymour Niples, JMC Blue Dwarf
WWW.BlueDwarf.co.uk
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He went to kiss her, but remembering her recent wave of vomiting, thought
better of it and went to kiss her hand. The first one he went for was
covered in vomit, so he changed his mind and went for the other. That one
was covered in blood.
What a predicament for a gentleman.
(Katrina Swete+Seymour Niples, BlueDwarf.co.uk)
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