Bananas in Springtime

Bananas in Springtime

Chapter 2

     The Story The Authors
"Whet phau me!" Valerian weakly shouted, his face still flat from the boulder which had allegedly sent him to the land of the 6-feet under. "Wou giize!" It was no use. He had troubled Jeremy far too much in the land of the non-breathers with his speech impediment. "Nod on wou wife!" teased Jeremy. He lead the Janice, Joel, and Kristi away from he-with-the-wicked-slur, and into The Grand Cavern. "We'll wait him out," he whispered. "Stay quiet everyone." Happy Boy
An angry tyrannosaur awoke from its 70-million-year sleep somewhere beneath the Grand Cavern. Unlike many others of its kind, it had remained in suspended animation instead of dying and rotting. It rose, stretched (witch was quite comical-looking, condiderind its puny arms), and sniffed the air. It smelled people above it. It was very hungry... Janice, Joel, Jeremy, and Kristi huddled in a corner of the Grand Cavern, hiding from evil Valerian. They dared not whisper, they dared not even move or Valerian would find them. Kristi heard a distant roar right below her and the floor started breaking open as if some huge monster was crashing through it. Carolyn
Because, if fact, a huge monster was crashing through it. Janice, Joel, Jeremy and Kristi crouched behind a boulder deeper in the dank cavern. Kristi wimpered in fear. Valerian heard Kristi's wimpering which was amplified by the cavern's natural accoustics. He made his way toward the sound despite the rumbling of the cavern floor. He assumed the rumbling was just an earthquake, and he was not afraid of earthquakes since he'd been raised in California. Just as Valerian was about to discover Janice, Joel, Jeremy and Kristi in their hiding place, the angry tyrannosaur's head burst through the stoney floor of the cavern with a monstrous roar. Everyone let out a horrific shriek but the first person the dinosaur laid eyes on was Valerian. The tryant lizard grabbed Valerian by the leg, tossed him into his great toothy mouth and swallowed him whole. By this time, Jeremy had quieted his family and they huddled tightly together behind the huge boulder. The giant animal's appetite had been whetted by the tastey Valerian so seeing that there was nothing else to eat here, the monster broke free of it's cretaceous prison to find more juicy morsels to eat. It seemed like hours before Janice, Joel, Jeremy and Kristi could move or even speak. Finally, Janice broke the silence... Sandy R
"Anybody care for a salami and cheese?" "I think I got a couple of sangers and a warm diet coke in my kit." Leaning back on a stalagmite, she whispered, "That was awful, worse than when the van crashed, everybody okay?" Still stunned, Joel , Kristy and Jeremy just stared back at her. It was the vacant look on Joel's face that startled her, it was if he wasn't there. "HULLO JOEL, do you read me? Earth to Joel, come in" Joel returned her questioning eyes, then turned slowly in a complete about-face, sauntering off without a word downhill, deeper into the cavern. "What's wrong Joel?", Janice shouted. Then Kristi looked at her and in a monotone replied, "vesuvius, O74, B9, I23, N47, stepford dumbo." A confused Janice realized something was radically wrong with her cohorts. elixer
A Note said,"We have come to feel the space between the toes of your leader. Please take them to me. The time has come to say 'qwienvosivnfei'" They didn't under stand it Dan
"Strange," Janice said. "It's as if someone was randomly tapping keys on a typewriter." She decided the note was meaningless and tossed it away. She had more important things to worry about, specifically, what was wrong with Jeremy, Joel and Kristi. Sandy R
Reaching into her kit, Janice was able to find her cellular phone. Her pals were in trouble, somewhere in the back of her mind she recalled reading something about cavern gases. Was it methane that seeped from the walls and caused delirious thinking? She needed to get them out into the fresh air, but couldn't possibly do it alone. Where were Fluffy and Nellie? Kristi's message made a little sense, those were bingo numbers she was recalling, but the rest was goobeltygook. How do you ring a seeing eye elephant at bar anyway? She needed help fast, but as she dialed 9-1-1 the phone dial read, low battery. What could she do? none


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