Friday, December 31, 2010

Brunei, Lightening Storms upon Descent, and Jakarta, yarrrr!

Hello all my imaginary readers and vaguely concerned parents! Welcome to the first blog post of my Indonesian travels - I figured this was the easiest way for people who are interested to check up on life in Jakarta.

For those of you wanting bonus friend points (redeemable where all good credit cards are used), I will make NOT ONLY a brief list of important lessons learnt for the day, but also, possibly, haikus. I'm not sure about the last one. We'll see.

As a writing-type, you know, maybe, I mean, were I to CALL myself a writer, exercise, Ima try and write something every day - just like a diary, only without the references to Nazis (too soon?). I'm pretty sure this'll fail fairly soon but you never know - I might annoy Helena and have no friends, and have to resort to moaning about it in this blog every day. Yeah. You look forward to that, beloved audience.

SO! Without further ado:

I was REALLY nervous when waiting for my plane in Auckland, but foolishly had a leaving party (why?! It's only 6 weeks. Stupid idea, although wonderful to see people!) which went quite late into the night. I also had to pick up Helena from the airport, my fellow Canterbury course graduate and plane-trip buddy (and drug mule. I joke! Ah ha...) So I had about, ohhh I don't know, 4 hours sleep? So we waited until 3:30 am to fly out, what with the inevitable flight delays, and the screaming children in the departure lounge caused a serious discussion between Helena and I about the merits of beating brats on the buttocks with blunt batons (ie wooden spoons). Helena and I bonded over the fact that both had had a sibling beaten until the spoon broke.

The plane took off into the dark, and a lady had stolen my window seat (which actually only consisted of the plane wall anyway) but it was still exciting as all hell, and the moment the plane's wheels left the tarmac and I knew we were off, I couldn't help turning to grin at a very tired (and I should have mentioned, extremely ill) Helena. She was watching Easy A, and I wisely decided to leave her to it and stare at the receding lights of Auckland as we winged our way to Brunei.

I don't really know why people complain about long haul flights, but I guess it was a) my first flight and b) only 9 hours. Anyway, I enjoyed the movies, enjoyed the food (what is wrong with me?!) even though it was foul (does that even make sense?), and enjoyed my semi-conscious naps. The trip was pretty uneventful - the hostesses had really pretty uniforms, with floaty white head scarfs, there was a prayer to Allah to thank him for the mode of transport, which was pretty neat, and we landed in Brunei without any trouble.

It was 7am, and the humidity hit you as soon as you walked up the tunnel from the plane. The runway is lined with palm trees and the airport is pretty small and poky, which I thought was interesting for one of the world's richest states. We headed to our (FREE!) stopover hotel, passing a huge, gold-topped mosque, big tracts of unused land filled with tropical scrub, right next to big complexes of concrete apartments. There are some pretty funky buildings in Brunei, but we were pretty tired, and ended up sleeping at our hotel (awesome!) until the afternoon, when we went exploring! Unfortunately, we didn't really know where to go, so we just wandered around, looked in the HUGE new mall, called very helpfully, The Mall (18 floors or something, we went to ONE), bought some Bruneiian (or actually, Malay) food ( I had Heaven and Earth Passionfruit Drink (yum) and Broad Beans in Garlic and Oil which were delicious, but I'm pretty sure KILLED ME when we tried our next explore.) So, we ended up lying down (both our stomachs having rebelled against us) and finally, venturing down the the sushi restaurant downstairs to order vegetarian maki (mini sushi). We figured it was forgiveable, since Japan invaded Jakarta in WW2 and thus we could classify it as historical research.

After a two hour wait at the airport, we caught our flight to Jakarta! It was pretty bumpy, made up for by the fact that the plane descended through a lightening storm, playing out just past the tip of the plane's wing, where the lightening would strike straight downwards and from side to side, flashes of white and green (which may have been the smog) that crawled across the sky. Brillo!

We landed okay and, clutching the sheet of instructions sent to us by our course co-ordinator guy, we headed to pick up our baggage. The key to not spending money in Jakarta is to ignore everyone. Which is terrible, but probably good advice for a naive tourist - EVERYONE offers to carry your bag (and then will apparently demand to be tipped). Having been warned, Helena and I clung to our bags like whelks to a keel (I'm pretty sure that simile is completely wrong but I like the word whelk so what the hey), ignored all solicitations of luggage lugging and headed through Immigration (where I got nervous and blathered about courses at Catholic Universities - too many Hunter S films make me nervous around airport officials) to customs. People who know me well will understand how it was I who managed to leave my declaration form with Immigration, and had to explain this to the confused, non-English-speaking guard of a recently liberated military country. He was pretty awesome though, and just said "Are you New Zealanders? Go through." Yussss.

We then had to navigate the taxi drivers. LE SIGH. One of them told us he was Bluebird, the trusty taxi company - he wasn't. He then told us it would cost us 250,000 rupiah to get to our hotel (it costs half that). Then he tried to palm us off to his friend with the shady taxi. Eventually we made it to the right company, and headed into Jakarta.

What a city! Firstly, it's sprawlingly massive, lots of giant, electronic signs (the funniest was Samsung's: "Welcome to Ja ta, powered by amsung"). Massive highways, usually filled with INSANE drivers - there are more cars in Jakarta than people, and there are approximately 15,000,000 people here. Lots of ojek, or motorcycle drivers who are even crazier. Terrible air pollution - coming out of the airport, the smell was awful. The humidity is pretty bad too and I'm drinking water constantly, but it's not as bad as I feared and I LOVE the hustle and bustle of this city - it's certainly not boring, and it's nothing like New Zealand. There's rubbish and people EVERYWHERE and on the trip to our hotel, when we stopped at some lights, a little boy ran up to us playing the ukelele and singing "Baby baby baby" (NOT to the tune of Justin Bieber you sickos) "Miss miss miss hey miss baby hey baby". Very funny, especially when he said a rude word that the driver wouldn't translate when we didn't give him any money (apparently begging is illegal in Jakarta, although technically I figure he'd be busking).

We arrived at the Ibis, and wandered around a wee bit rattled, looking for our hotel, the Rota, but found it very quickly and managed to collapse in our small, but perfectly serviceable room, complete with the obligatory mosquitoes. I slept under my mosquito net (thanks Gen!) but couldn't set it up properly since you have to screw things into walls so basically I looked like a mummy, or a particularly large fly. Yummo.

This morning, we met some of our fellow JPPers in the hotel buffet and then headed to the course (9AM?!). It was a basic run down of health and security today (and I managed to fail the pop quiz about Jakarta miserably, le sigh, apart from my knowledge of colonial history). The rest of the JPPers all seem really friendly and it was great to meet them - the next couple of weeks should be good! At lunchtime we were taken by our Pandamping, or student helpers, to a huge mall where I had Baksu (sp) soup, spicy broth with meatballs which is DELICIOUS! Then it was back to the course and then time to view our kos, or boarding houses. Six of us squashed into a car and travelled to one of the suburbs (it slips my mind here, cos I'm useless) and experienced the narrow winding roads, street stalls, rickity houses next to plush apartment rises, open drains running alongside the street, rubbish everywhere, AWFUL heat, the guys who carry enormous loads of rubbish in literal horse floats and then pick through them (I guess to find things worth salvaging?). We weren't lucky enough to find a kos, after looking at about five or six, but maybe tomorrow we'll have more luck - I had a bundle of fun, my eyes are hurting from being so wide for so long and I'm extremely tired - but it's New Year's Eve here and I can hear the brightly coloured horns many Indonesians will be blowing into the night, and which I first saw being hooted by a six year old boy in the carrier basket of a wobbling motorcycle today. I think it's time for a beer with my homies, so I'll sign out here. MUCH shorter entry tomorrow, I promise.

LESSONS LEARNT 1:

- It is essential for me to ride an ojek before I go home
- Indonesian people are very friendly! New Zealanders have a very misleading reputation!
- Control of temper is, like maturity, something to work on (for your MUMS)
- There's no place like home, for non-pollution and quiet
- Home can be hella boring
- Indonesian food is awesome
- Taxi drivers are generally schiesters in Jakarta
- Travelling is frustrating, expensive and a whole bucketload of fun




Sunday, June 20, 2010

This is it! Le Finis! Let me lick your tears...

Ew. That title is a wee bit creepy, non? Still, THIS IS IT, dear non-corporeal readers! The end of the most epic tale ever told. If you haven't read the start, head to the first ever post (story telling in reverse. So hot right now). Due to waning authorial interest, the story does tend to end, well, abruptly. But life is short and you should be out praising Alice and I, instead of exhaustively reading our literary works of greatness! So without further ado, the very last few passages of the story-to-end-all-stories-even-that-one-about-the-Jewish-carpenter (too far?) :

Okay okay I decided we should finish this story, so let's make a deadline
of FOUR MESSAGES EACH to finish, okay? And then we can decide
whether to start a new one or just cough awkwardly and pretend we
never met...
HUZZAH!
Her journey was filled with events such as dodging spades
(which so happened to be the castles great security plan) and
avoiding gnomes. Approaching Alice's prison, Ellie saw how
spades were probably the most expensive part of the security plan.
Two small kids were sitting at the barbed gate, shoving spaghetti
in their mouths and comparing stones they had found earlier in the
day. Ellie slowly approached, keeping in mind she may have to
breakout the Hoedown Throwdown if in fact these kids were more
than just a recessions effect on prison guards.
However luck was with her, as the children began to have a slap
fight over who had picked the biggest bogey. Ellie waited patiently
as they slapped, kicked and bit their way into tantrums and then
followed in their wailing wake into the castle, where she heard an
imperious voice say "Less feta, MORE par-mee-sahhhhnnn! I will
be in the broomstick yard when you learn to cook, you philistine!"
and saw a cheese-covered security guard and a very pretty girl
coming toward her.
overwhelmed with excitement that she had found Ailce so quickly
Ellie quickly ducked behind a cabbage bush to avoid being spotted
by the guard. Alice had taken a seat near one of the windows and
was absintmindedly twirling her hair muttering various cheese songs
she'd made up. Once the guard was out of view Ellie began to quietly
sneak towards Alice.
(You have TWO left!) "Alice! Come on, let's go!" whispered Ellie,
grabbing Alice's pre-occupied hands. Alice started and then knocked
Ellie's hand away. "Ellie! I haven't done my HAIR yet!" she said
grumpily, and quite loudly. Making an executive decision, Ellie nodded
gravely at her sister's words and then hit her over the head with a
vase that was handily nearby and just hadn't been mentioned so far...
Draping her sister over her shoulder, Ellie hastened toward the
broomstick yard, where she intended to hitch a ride on a sticky
broom outta hurrr.
To her surprise no one put up much of a fight. In fact, they were
all rather glad to be rid of Alice, even if it meant giving up the
Elixer as she was becoming quite the demanding prisoner.
Ellie raced towards her favorite broomstick, the Shifty Sweeper
(made popular around the mid 2000's by a famous chimney sweep
called Gary who also doubled as a secret agent). She hopped on,
threw Alice in the basket on the front and speed off before the
guards changed their mind and realised that in fact the Elixer was
what the whole story was based around and was therefore probably
worth fighting for.
(LAST ONE ALICE!) As Ellie flew into the air, wobbling frantically
past a bloated, oversized moon (plagiarism? What plagiarism?!),
Alice moaned, stirred and dropped her shoe on the heads of the
frantically mobilising guards. With a complete lack of physics the
shoe bounced onto all five heads, knocking them out for the count,
just as Alice pulled out the Elixir and Ellie kicked the Shifty Sweeper
('Gary's Home -made Vasectomy! It Flies, It Soars, It's More Effective
Than Chemical Castration!') into high gear and flew back towards
Cuwuba Island, to find the gravesite of Colorado Bones, closely
followed by several salmony characters riding a baby seal with
strangely disgusting eyes.
Alice turned to Ellie and asked "I don't understand what all the commotion
was about, and why can't we go back to the castle?? I was in the
middle of a high five championship with only 1 guard left to beat!"
Ellie rolled her eyes as they flew off into the distance,chuckling as
she thought of the friends lost along the way, all due to this simple
minded sister of hers.
"Don't worry Alice, we'll make you the high 5 champion yet."
And they both lived happily ever after.
The End.

Alex Walls Bro. I had one more too. Awkward...

Thursday, May 13, 2010

More Story!

Before you read this, STAY THINE EYES! Stayyyyyy. Have you read the start of this epic-of-epic-proportions? Because things generally flow better when you begin at the beginning. Yeah. You can have that for FREE. Oh yeah. And the story starts, confusingly, at the bottom of this page. Go figure.

Alex Walls 05 January at 11:51
(Not at all! It's about time we dispatched Johnny)

Meanwhile a passing witch with PMS (Post Magic Syndrome) bad
temperedly transmogrified (kudos Bill Watterson) Hogwarts into a
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AND THEREFORE NON-LIABLE CASTLE,
which LUCKILY still contained the Olympian Princess Alice (insert
lavish worship here) and the chicken coop that was Ellie's destination.
Most unfortunately, the peasants of the castle, sick to death of the
constant quips about supposed revolutions sounding humourously
(or humourLESSly) like a slight upon their personal hygeine were
indeed revolting and had laid seige to the castle, kidnapped the
ineffable Princess Alice as their new goddess and had released a
statement claiming the chickens had been liberated from their
bourgeoise oppression in a coop (NB: pun re coup) and were now
being integrated for the common good into communal nutrition
production housing.
Alice Claire Hunt 05 January at 12:00
Recovering from the length of the sentence, Princess Ellie and Miike
(who had caught up with our new heroes) hid in the cave which Clucksy
had initally been running to, in order to form a plan.
"We must save Alice!!!!" exclaimed Ellie, becoming distressed at the
thought of her sister having to speak to commoners. "She is the keeper
of the Elix...i mean the family jewels!!"

Although Ellie was dim witted in most aspects of life, she knew the
importance of the Elixer and was appalled at her almost slip of the
tongue.
Alex Walls 05 January at 12:18
Having recovered from the perilously long sentence (apologies), the
fearless trio set off, Mike none the wiser that his precious Elixir was
in the hands of a beautiful yet mercilessly cruel FIEND. For yes! Princess
Alice was a sorceress of unparalleled power, having managed to swing
the American elections so that Bush won! Ellie, cowed all her life by her Republican-pushing sister, knew it was time to fight for the powers of
good: a free form government devoid of human presence! She would
fight for honour, freedom, her true love Johnny (who, among other n00bs,
had fallen for Alice's charms and agreed to seek the Elixir) and non-dairy, gluten-free, organic apple pie!
Alice Claire Hunt 06 January at 17:57
In the cave, many a bat were living.
Ellie crouched next to Mike and asked "How are we going to approach
the castle? There are many hidden entrances but they are mainly
around the back of the castle, so we must find a way to distract the
rampaging workers!!!"
Miike having completed Final Fantasy 7 knew a thing or two about
adventures so he began to devise a plan!
Alex Walls 07 January at 22:10
He also knew a thing or two about poor graphics and incredibly
intricate plot, two factors this story is definitely without, so he pulled
out his 3D DrawPad (TM) and began to create Holo-Selves for himself,
Ellie, Clucksy and a bat who happened to be napping in front of him
named Cornelius. Before he could get carried away with the moon and
cuboid-inspired trees, Mike sent forth the Holo-Selves to spout consumer rhetoric as a distraction for their sneaky sneak through the laundry
chute into the castle.
Alice Claire Hunt 08 January at 07:50
Dashing into the laundry chute Ellie got her seam caught on a
loose nail. She pulled and pulled to free herself but the nail
seemed to be having a gay old time watching her silently struggle.
In the distance the Holo-Shelves were proving not much of a
distraction as they merely housed objects, and once the rioters
were satisfied they had in fact read all the issues of "Buffy the
Vampire Slayer" on display they continued on with their angry
commotion.

Yelling down the landry chute Ellie tried to alert the others of
her situation.
"Mike! Mike please, I appear to be caught!"
"Mike can't save you now deary..." replied the voice from
deep below her.
Alex Walls 10 January at 17:23
And into the light swung Spike, who had been hanging down in the
laundry chute, waiting for women's underwear to pass him (don't ask).
"Hey baby" he said, prominent cheekbones glistening in the light,
successfully hiding the fact that he was a) anorexic b) not ACTUALLY
good looking and c) was utterly creepy. Ellie, caught off guard by said cheekbones and also the fact that Spike had ripped his shirt off whilst
staring into the distance, entrancing her with his abs, slowly walked
towards the gaping entrance of the chute...
Alice Claire Hunt 10 January at 17:38
the chute being in the ground, Ellie fell forwards and ripped her
dress. But this was the least of her worries, as when she landed
she saw Miike and clucksy tied to chairs in the corner. Before she
could free her mates Spike had once again flashed his abs, a
technique he learned from twilight, and Ellie was under his spell
once more.
Alex Walls 10 January at 17:43
Yes, and before this writing can get too Twilight-esque (read:
UTTERLY CRAP) Spike had in turn been mesmorised by Ellie's
now rather minimalistic clothing approach and had started to
slobber. Repulsed, Ellie shook off the last of the ab-trance, saw
Spike for what he was (a D list scare crow) and kicked him in a
place no man who wants children should be kicked.
Alice Claire Hunt 10 January at 17:47
Spike knealing on the ground Ellie shouted "It's ok guys, ill set
you free!!!" and pulling her handy princess switchblade from her
garter she cut them loose and hurried out of the laundry room,
locking behind them a howling Spike.
"Are you alright" Asked Ellie, as Miike still wide eyed, followed her
down the long passage way.
"you were amazing back there, truly amazing." Miike was starring
at Ellie in such a fashion she decided it best to focus her attention
on Cucksy, as to not encourage this appernt new crush further.
Alex Walls 10 January at 17:53
The chicken formerly known as Clucksy had removed the 'l' in
her name in a reaction against binary programming code, for
a reason one could only assume was valid and powerful, since
it was expressed in indecipherable chicken sqwawks. This didn't
stop Cucksy trying to warn Ellie about the mummy shuffling
towards her from the crypts (conveniently, if rather unhygienically,
located behind the laundry) as Mike stared contentedly and uselessly
at Ellie and her now-on-display anatomy.
Alice Claire Hunt 12 January at 18:37
Cucksy pecked and pecked til Ellie noticed the shuffling toilet
roll and responded "OH Cucksy don't worry that's just Jim,
your cleaner!"
Jim was rather unfortunately burnt beyond recognition in a
chili sauce competition and the only place he'd been able to find
work was deep underground where no one had to look at him.
He shuffled on pass, wards the dryers and Ellie slapped some
sence back into Miike.
"Ok, so the entrance to the main hall is just up on our left, but I
think it will be guarded. Our best bet is through the kitchens!"
And with that they were off!!!
Alex Walls 15 January at 12:19
As they ran, Mike mentally noted to avoid seemingly innocent,
family-fun chilli competitions in future. Another blow for small
town entertainment, alas, but when one's chilli causes bowel
movements that set off the Richter scale, something needs to
be done. Skidding to a halt inside the kitchen, Cucksy sqwawked
in horror. Frozen chicken carcasses were piled up for the
horrified hen's eye to see. Recognizing a certain club footed
body, she screamed in horror, said "Uncle Mike?!" in Chickese
and fainted away just as a chef yelled "Fresh meat!"
Alice Claire Hunt 16 January at 07:20
Ellie and Miike were running too fast thru the kitchen to
notice Cucksy faint and unfortunately left her behind! Will our
chicken hero be ok? Or will she end up in front of our heroes
with a side of chips?
A good thing too that Ellie and Miike were busy hiding in the
pantry while a bustle of angry rioting workers (i think it was
the workers who were upset?) as the high death toll of this
story is enough to make anyone give up and roll over.
Alex Walls 19 January at 06:43
Mike decided that it was now or never with the fair princess
and accordingly he turned toward Ellie and whispered soulfully
"Have you heard of the game 'Seven Minutes in Heaven'? Cos I
feel like I'm in Heaven when I look into your eyes." Ellie replied
appropriately by throwing up on his shoes and then apologising
vaguely for spoiling his loafers as she watched Cucksy formulate
a daring plan of escape from her comatose position.
Alice Claire Hunt 10 February at 18:51
Cucksy is dead. And therefore cannot, willnot and shallnot be
making any type of escape plan. At least this is what the writer
thought, but it turns out Cucksy was usefull, even in death. As the
trollop of workers stormed by, and Miike tried to make his move
once more on the princess (he'd had far worse reactions than
vomit and was taking it as a plus) Cucksy body was blown into
a vent, blocking it and causing havoc to break loose EVERYWHERE!
Alex Walls 13 February at 12:03
With a BOOM! and the muffled sound of Cucksy's heroic corpse
being shredded into several hundred pieces, the castle kitchens
exploded upward in a huge fireball, severely scorching our heroes'
eyebrows and completely disbanding (and dismembering) the troop
of trollops marching against lowering the standard of living in the
castle. Thus Cucksy, that heroic fowl, freed our heroes to continue
their quest to find Princess Alice and the Elixir of Life and also single
handedly (or wingedly) upheld an economy of oppression for another
hundred years. Huzzah!
Alice Claire Hunt 14 February at 15:13
Huzzah indeed!
Ellie and Miike dashed thru the now empty corridors, occasionally
retracing there steps as they found their exits blocked by rubble.
"Where exactly are we going again?" asked Miike, as they doubled
back yet again upon finding a pile of rubble too large to move.
"I'm sure Alice will be in her room, the problem is she has 3 rooms
in the castle, so I figured if we can get to the operations station of
the castle we can figure out which one she is in!"
Ellie sounded so convinced this plan was good that Miike decided it
was best to just follow and hope.
Alex Walls 14 February at 16:01
Unfortunately Mike and Ellie had forgotten that Alice had been
kidnapped by the revolutionists and was at this moment sending
a prison guard on his way covered in the sticky rice she refused
to eat. Beautiful she may be, but spoilt rotten with no taste to
boot was the Princess Alice. So Mike and Ellie, with a last farewell
cake walk for Cucksy, headed to the laundry chute, miraculously intact,
and began to climb with a vengeance, Ellie firstly ensuring, with a
poin-ted stick, that Mike climbed up FIRST.

Alice Claire Hunt 14 February at 16:43
The stick came in handy for keeping Miike's pace up while
climbing the chute as well.
They cautiously peered out the top of the chute to asses their
surroundings. "Everyone seems to have gone inside to investigate
the explosion" commented Miike, as they glanced from the forest t
o the castle."I still can't believe I forgot Alice had been captured!"
Exclaimed Ellie, "I mean, I was the one to tell you that!!!"
Feeling this was an opportunity to show Ellie he really was capable
of being a good and prospective boyfriend Miike decided to bound
from their hiding place and triumphantly head towards the prison.
Pity he didn't see the upturned spade.
Alex Walls 06 March at 11:56
hahahah asses, I love your crazy spelling.

With a fall worthy of Charlie Chaplin, Mike bowed gracefully
from the scene, crumbling to the ground like some very crumbly
thing. Ellie rolled her eyes and decided the adventure would go
a lot quicker and a lot less retardedly if she just left Mike behind,
so she scattered some leaves over him and placed a branch carefully
over his prone form. THen she hiked up the remains of her dress and
stared ruefully at the pair of grey underpants she was wearing that
had once been green. "First stop, a clothes line!" she muttered and
headed toward the revolutionists' camp with gusto (an action, not to
be mistaken for gumbo, a really very tasty stew).

Monday, January 4, 2010

And so it begins...

This really should have been in the introduction bit, but Google wouldn't let me max out the character limit. Curse you, technological conglomerate! This is a blog dedicated mostly to a story written over the course of two years (and counting!) via Facebook messages. It was inspired by a similar effort back in 2003 written on refill during fifth form maths, with the result that I failed maths, Alice was successfully distracted from Calculus and a co-authorship of truly staggering proportions of awesome was born. IF YOU WISH IT, dear non-existent readers, we can also do the actual blog thing and fill you in on interesting tidbits from our lives from time to time (for instance, my top ten list of fictional hotties (I don't need your pity!)). Without further ado, BEHOLD THE AWESOME:



Alex Walls 07 October 2008 at 20:08
"Once upon a time there was an old scientist walking down a forest path. He was obviously a scientist, for he wore a shiny white lab coat that lit up in the forest like a small, coat-shaped sun. His sciencyness was his downfall, for being more concerned with his scientific credibility than his health and safety, he was shot in his shiny white lab coat by a hunter coked up on caffeine pills and misplaced aggression, who thought the scientist was an albino deer. 'Oh deer' said the hunter and one must at this time reflect on the cruel sense of humour of the gods, viz, that despite his horrific abuse of the english language, it was not the hunter who lay bleeding upon the ground."

Alice Claire Hunt 07 October 2008 at 21:29
The red slowly ran down onto the grass surrounding the scientist and as the hunter drew close he noticed a speck of salmon that was only now visible due to the glowing edges of white coat that had not yet sponged up the ever flowing blood.He leaned in and as his hat fell over his dilated pupils he realized that this was no ordinary piece of fish.

Alex Walls 08 October 2008 at 00:27
Removing the offending hat he absent mindedly removed the monocle that had been perching, cheekily, on the scientist's cheek (for he had been a German scientist) and screwed it onto his own eye, which prompty filled with blood. He then removed said eyeware, wiped it inconsiderately on the remains of the German scientist and once again leant in to further inspect this mysterious substance of the fishy persuasion.

Alice Claire Hunt 08 October 2008 at 09:10
It glistened in the fading light of the coat and reminded the hunter (who consequently is named Calvin) of a tiny slug.As he reached down to prod it, it suddenly slithered into the grass and disappeared.Astounded the hunter gasped, then just as suddenly forgot why he was gasping, how there was a dead man in front of him and why his hand was covered in eye blood.

Alex Walls 08 October 2008 at 13:20
Thoroughly confused, Calvin wandered around in circles and occasionally smote his head with his hands until yea, he did surely trip upon a tree root, bashing himself unconscious on the tough old pine's trunk. The slug-fish-thing then appeared in a clap of smoke, tiny eye stalks quivering with triumph as the pine tree hurriedly removed his old fashioned luggage, muttering about saplings having more respect for aged wood in his day, never mind allowing his elders first go at the sunshine, thank you very much..

Alice Claire Hunt 08 October 2008 at 14:49
A while later, along came a cute little bunny named Henry. Henry often came down this way as everyone knows that the oldest pine trees have the best roots for burrowing in.As he bounded along the path he noticed a pair of eyes attached to what could only be described as thin strips of salmon attached to a fatter piece of salmon. Usually such oddities in the forest didn't phase Henry but there was something about this little fellow that had him worried...

Alex Walls 08 October 2008 at 17:09
"Hello...you!" said Henry, for he had been brought up a polite bunny and even knew how to fold an origami thank you crane, complete with origami thank you baby. "Would you care to help me burrow?" he asked, sniffing (as is polite in bunny terms, and which of course Henry, being brought up a polite bunny who knew intricate origami, would do) at the thin-strips-of-salmon-attached-to-a-fatter-piece-of-salmon and gagging a little at the overpowering whiff of the piscine he received. "FOOL!" cried the T.S.O.S.A.T.A.F.P.O.S. "Do you know who I am?!"


Alice Claire Hunt 09 October 2008 at 09:25
Obviously Henry didn't, otherwise he would have greeted him accordingly, but the bunny held his tongue (as the suspicion curiosity and fear were all building up in him and he now felt rather angry) and replied "I'm sorry but I must admit I don't frequent these parts often and I'm rather unaware of the creatures who dwell in said area". Oh the upbringing! Oh the word structure! Henry's mother would have been so proud.

Alex Walls 09 October 2008 at 20:29
Proud of his perfect, if pedantic, grammatical structure and not so proud of the T.S.O.S.A.T.A.F.P.O.S. and his rudeness, who for brevity's sake we shall now call Salmony, as though he were some sort of delightful toy as opposed to the abrasive slime ball he appears to be. These thoughts too ran through Henry's head and so he did not quite notice Salmony making a spirited, if somewhat sluggish (badum schhh) escape from the scene, inching furiously along the pine root.

Alice Claire Hunt 09 October 2008 at 22:03
Fortunately Henry wasn't one to dwell on such trivial things as the whereabouts of the person he is talking to. So he continued on his way down the path towards Laaloon Lake as if nothing had happened, and I'm sure if you asked Henry he would say it was a rather uneventful journey from burrowing in the pine roots to the lake. (Henry, although being an astounding English scholar had smoked one too many carrots back in the day and his memory has suffered terribly) Fortunately for Henry, upon arrival he was informed that the Jonas Brothers would be giving an impromptu performance that evening!!

Alex Walls 11 October 2008 at 16:20
Yes..the Jonas Brothers...were playing at a Lake which this writer strongly suspects is the name of the lake in that horrible made-for-tv movie on Disney about Rock Camping or something but ANYWAY! Henry lollopped along toward Laaloon Lake occasionally bumping into trees and apologising absent mindedly as he did (carrots again). As he ambled along he began to see streams of other foresty characters heading the same way. Despite all appearances, the Jonas Brothers seemed to be a popular act! Seven dwarfs with spectacles on marched past carrying briefcases and singing "Hi hoo, hi hoo, if you cross me I will sue!", many of the fairy tale characters having evolved somewhat at this point. Indeed, Henry even saw Sleeping Beauty in a 2 Litre, 6 cylinder, fully hydraulic Corvette with the bass down low, bouncing her way along towards the lake and so far avoiding police notice for SWD (Sleeping Whilst Driving) by the simple fact that she had her sunglasses on. As he watched all this, Henry began to wonder about his own, quaint and yet a little gay, fluffy bunny rabbit gig.

Alice Claire Hunt 11 October 2008 at 19:47
Henry finally got to the Lake (which is named after no such disney movie, it is infact an alice orginal) and started to feel he could finally relax and not worry about his bleeding paw. The cabin parties were in full swing and Henry went to join the other bunnies in the corner who, desipte the recent raid on the farms but the Police Pigs, had manged to score some Parsnips!!! As Henry didn't have to worry about his gig until later that evening he didn't feel an ounce of guilt taking a nibble.Up at the bar a cafuffle was going down between a man who was trying to convince everyone else he was an extra in Wall-E.

Alex Walls 11 October 2008 at 20:15
His bleeding paw (from where he had bumped into trees in a carrot-induced haze) twinging a little, Henry decided to go sort out the KERfuffle, and have a look in on the cafuffle too, which was a rare sight indeed, being a type of alpine toaster. His Parsnip-enhanced charisma (drugs are bad mkay, but veges? Everyone knows you gotta have 5+ a day of those babies yeahhh) coming to the fore, Henry made his way past his fellow slurring bunnies, all idly thumping their legs in preparation for the gig that night and made his way to the bar, where he ordered a round for everyone. After the cheers died down and the crowd rushed the bar as one to place their orders, Henry made his way to the Wall-E extra, having first put the round on Barney the Dinosaur's tab, who was passed out in a corner, one arm around a comatose powerpuff girl, who had lived up to her name and so was surrounded in a cloud of greenish smoke.

Alice Claire Hunt 11 October 2008 at 21:29
The Wall-E extra wannabe was trying to tell everyone he was "that guy", in the annoying "you know, that guy! from the beginning?" unfortuantely for him he hadnt actually seen the movie and didn't realise he had been left on the cutting room floor. along with token black guy and ginge girl. Oh and the fact its an ANIMATION DICKHEAD. well thats the gist of what Henry was saying anyway.

Alex Walls 11 October 2008 at 21:30
The Wall-E extra gazed at Henry with remarkably good puppy dog eyes for a drunken fat guy and burst into large, alcoholic tears. Henry, more disgusted then guilty, shuffled away into the now-mob that was, well, mobbing the 'free' bar.

Alice Claire Hunt 13 October 2008 at 16:59
Henry wasn't sure how to deal with crowds, growing up he had always been the reclusive bunnie in the burrow...his mother figured it was because he missed his dad who had died in an unfortunate wheelbarrow collision. So his mother had always tried to encourage him to be part of the crowd but Henry preferred his own company to that of mobs. Bizzare really.

Alex Walls 13 October 2008 at 18:28
Mobs being the fun loving scalliwags that they are. Still, there's no accounting for taste, so Henry tried desperately to extricate himself from the crowd, remembering in his panic his father's words of advice, to look both ways before crossing the vege patch. These not being particularly useful (besides being very hypocritical) Henry breathed deeply twice and then shouted "The Fuzz! Split!". He then proceeded to alternately scream in a high pitched falsetto and howl like a siren. Chaos ensued.

Alice Claire Hunt 14 October 2008 at 10:17
As everyone ran left and right, confused as to why hey were running only then to remember sirens mean DOGS!!!!and no one wants to be attacked by a dog these days. henry slowly hopped into a side alley to avoid the fuss only to see Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato!!! MAKING OUT!!!He almost spewed a little in his mouth, then gathered his senses and took a photo. The two looked startled at first, but henry was stealth and just put on hisbig cuddly eyes and they forgot all about the photo. Henry hadnt of course, that baby was going get his kids through private school!!!

Alex Walls 14 October 2008 at 14:26
His twenty one children that was, all stuck at home with his highschool sweetheart Mitsy, who was working double shifts at the 'Veg n Go' to support Henry's dream of being a famous forest star. Unfortunately, the pre-teen couple, sick to death of Paparazzi and their 'intrusion of privacy is a point of view' attitudes, pulled off their shoes (high heels, Nick Jonas going through a bit of an alternative phase) and began to beat Henry about the head with them. In his haste to flee the hail of retributive (it's a word) footwear, Henry bumped heavily into a rather familiar bespectacled figure...

Alice Claire Hunt 14 October 2008 at 16:28
HARRY POTTER!!!cried Henry in a moment of joy!"IM NOT FRICKIN HARRY POTTER!" shrieked Jared Leto "im just trying out the smart glasses look GOD!"and he stormed off in a poof of Armani Light Blue.This strange encounter seemed to distract the Jonai long enough for Henry to make a quick escape down through the sewers.

Alex Walls 14 October 2008 at 17:35
Leaving poor God clouded in Light Blue and all alone in the face of adolescent angst. Having pitched Jesus off to earth purely to AVOID this, he did some finger twiddling and miracled his butt back up to the Pearly Gates, leaving Henry to make good his rather smelly escape.

Alice Claire Hunt 14 October 2008 at 18:17
Having no idea what just happend Henry settled down for a nap, having convinced himself he was going insane.Up on the main land Jared Leto was having a fight with the bar tender (who had ignored the sirens and kept at the mob).Leto was convinced his band were playing, while in fact it was the Jonai Trio who were to grace the stage that evening. But Leto was having none of THAT!

Alex Walls 17 October 2008 at 13:29
Sharpening his nails and applying his ceremonial war eye liner in practised strokes, he shook loose the bandages about his wrists and leapt over the bar onto the bar tender, who, all ready beleaguered by a mob of people convinced someone had shouted a round and a SWAT team hinting heavily about 'protection alcohol' whilst tapping their batons into their palms meaningfully, with much raised eyebrow action, WHO I say, started foaming at the mouth (the bar tender, stay with me) and leapt to meet the mid-air Leto. With an all mighty thump they crashed to the floor, causing a small tsunami in the sewers below, that crested crustily into a mighty wave and, farting methane as it went, flowed toward Henry...

Alice Claire Hunt 17 October 2008 at 17:44
Who drowned.It was a devastating way to lose our hero, but alas there isnt much a little bunny can do against a tide of (for lack of a better word) poo.Fortunately his body shored on an island where the magical Voodoo tribe "cawuba" lived. They stewed his feces soaked body into a syrup which can extend life until 200+, little did they know this would soon become the sought object of many a death fearing man.

Alex Walls 20 October 2008 at 11:46
Death fearing, but not infection fearing. The cawuba island became a sort of golden fleece island, you know with jason and the argonauts and that crazy lady who cut people up into pieces but ended out Queen of somewhere which just goes to show you, nice guys do finish last, or at least, finish covered in poo. The cawuba tribe placed Henry's stewed essence into a small golden vial and then hid it away in a labrinth in the centre of the island, complete with traps and sliding trap doors behind which hats could fall off and be grabbed at the last minute, just waiting for some likely adventurer...

Alex Walls 20 October 2008 at 11:47
Death fearing, but not infection fearing. The cawuba island became a sort of golden fleece island, you know with jason and the argonauts and that crazy lady who cut people up into pieces but ended out Queen of somewhere which just goes to show you, nice guys do finish last, or at least, finish covered in poo. The cawuba tribe placed Henry's stewed essence into a small golden vial and then hid it away in a labrinth in the centre of the island, complete with traps and sliding trap doors behind which hats could fall off and be grabbed at the last minute, just waiting for some likely adventurer...

Alice Claire Hunt 20 October 2008 at 11:57
Head of the Cawuba tride, Maabumba, wasn't the brightest spark. He came into power purely because ancient Cawuba prophecies state that it will be the fattest of them all who rules, and Maabumba happened to weigh in at a hefty 95kg. (he's 3 foot tall) As Maabumba was so excited to finally have something going on in his island he told everyone he met about the magical vial hidden deep in the labyrinths depths, much like when hagrid got drunk and told a disguised Quarrel how to tame Fluffy.

Alex Walls 20 October 2008 at 12:50
So, like some midget version of a certain famous character from someone else's book, Maabumba slowly circulated about the island, always arriving at dinner time and managing to stay 'just for a slice, really, musn't hang about, bigger than that, call that a slice you tight fisted bitch?' Rumours of the Life Longevitor (yeah, that's a word too) flew about the surrounding islands as Maabumba couldn't, being slightly impeded by his huge rolls of disgusting fat. In a remarkably short time, both real and narrative, the rumour reached the ears of one Colorado Bones, archaeologist, adventurer and studmuffin extraordinaire. Ooh, Colorado, he so fahn!

Alice Claire Hunt 20 October 2008 at 20:36
Colorado was busy doing a Kalvin Clein ad. (like what i did there? to avoid copywrite?...oh yeah) As he was in his room stuffing wocks down his y fronts and bluebird perched on the window to share the news. The bluebird was such a good friend to Colorado because he was blind and therefore could never judge him for his sock habit.Upon hearing the news Colorado became so excited he neednt have put the socks in! He was fine on his own!!

Alex Walls 21 October 2008 at 17:41
Cos copywrite is such an issue an all...and what the heck are wocks? Are they like, another species of ewok? Retarded ewoks? The evolutionary predecessors of ewoks? And ewwww alice you so wrong :D) Okay! So the bluebird, being a rather dim witted lil guy, said "My, you bought me a new perch Colorado! You're so wunnerful!" and proceeded to step onto the part of Colorado that made sock stuffing unnecessaryand flex his little blue bird talons. At this moment Colorado's mother walked in, having finished cleaning his whips (get it? You see? COLORADO BONES? Adventurer with a whip? Sounds a little like someother-american-state jones, doesn't it?? Sigh. My genius is so unappreciated) His mother froze, Colorado froze mid-scream and into the echoing silence the blue bird said "So anyways what's the haps?"

Alice Claire Hunt 21 October 2008 at 18:17
(ahahahaha i meant socks. and I would never have got the name linkage on my own...how sad. but now that i do i can appreciate your talents all over again...)...while kneading his claws into the strange branch. Colorado flicked him off with the power of his pinkie, and ran off to the bathroom to regather himself, knocking over his frozen mother on the way who fell to the floor and had her hand snap off.

Alex Walls 21 October 2008 at 20:14
(HA! Her hand! YOu're hilarious!) Once Colorado had put some pants on and placed the stunned bluebird upon his ACTUAL perch, he then stood over his dismantled (and dismembered) mother and danced from side to side in anxiety, saying "Ooohh" shrilly over and over. Finally the bluebird, who had a concussion headache from his 'fall', asked him severely to shut up and Colorado, calming himself (and applying fresh socks to his y-fronts) gathered his mother up, handed her over to the baker with instructions to join her severed hand to her wrist with dough and then defrost her in the oven and then gathered all his clothes, money and 'Cooking Weekly' magazines and jumped aboard the first ship heading for Cawuba Island, ominously named the HMS 'The We-Arrrrrren't-Really-Pirates'

Alice Claire Hunt 21 October 2008 at 20:36
Deep within the bowls of the ship, unbeknown to CB was small Johnny Weewinkle (who in the movie adaptation of this book will be played be Gael Garcia Bernal). Johnny was a castaway from the island of MExico, and had been living off wood shavings, needless to say he was very thin and not very smart. You see it had never occured to Johnny to leave the ship before.Up on deck Bones had set up his boombox ready to do his rendition of "in the navy"

Alex Walls 21 October 2008 at 22:42
Turning the backing vocals up high, Bones struck his elvis pose and began, his voice warbling between high falsetto and false base as it struggled to hit a pitch even remotely connected with the melody. Johnny, having just finished a breakfast of teak shavings, sat up like a dog who's seen a cat sidling by, and cocked his head to the side. "Sirens!" he gasped as strains of "you can sail the seven seas..." floated down from on deck.

Alice Claire Hunt 21 October 2008 at 23:16
Johnny hurriedly finished his breakfast and rushed up to the main deck, swaying to and fro as the waves pushed the boat along."You!" he exclaimed as he got to the top of the stairs and had full view of the Bones pelvic thrusting with a mop between his legs. CB slowy turned around and with a gasp dropped the very mop he had been faux fornicating..."Son???!?"

Alex Walls 21 October 2008 at 23:21
"Mum????!" cried Johnny, rushing to where the mop had fallen, abandoned, like some one night stand at a lonely port bar somewhere, to the ground. Cradling the musty mop in both hands he wept woody tears of joy at having found his long lost mother. At this thought, however, he realised his mother had never been lost, she was at home baking a pineapple ring cake and singing along to Maroon 5 (we never said she had taste). He stood up, coughed and cleared his throat and then in a very deep voice said "Ahem hmmm uh Dad?"

Alice Claire Hunt 22 October 2008 at 10:18
"No no boy, you're not my son!" replied Colorado, seems he hadn't put his contacts in yet "I DO apologise dear boy, I just, well my son disapeared 3 years and 23 hours ago, and now I see him everywhere".Slightly gutted as Johnny had recognized Bones from the cover of a womens magazie (the type his mum read while baking goods such as the aforementioned cake) and Johnny wouldnt mind a bit of inheritance in his life. While pondering these thuoghts of cake, magazines and money, Bones had slowly wondered off towards the mast, and Johnny heard a faint "son?!?" as Bones approached the long wooden beam.

Alex Walls 22 October 2008 at 17:39
An idea slowly wormed its way into Johnny's wood-addled brain like some abstract form of bora and he rearranged his hair and clearing his throat, muttered a few phrases to himself in a french accent. He then made his way toward the terminally confused CB and said "Papa???"CB turned around, gasped and said "Son??!" and staggered towards the deck railing, arms outstretched. Johnny sighed gustily and said loudly "Oui mon pere c'et moi!" His french then being almost exhausted, and CB still loudly addressing the railing, he shouted "YEZ, MAH FARTHURRR, TIS AH, YOUR LONG LOUST ZON!"

Alice Claire Hunt 22 October 2008 at 20:41
This shouting caught Bones by surprise as he had never heard of a country called france let alone its language, but in his dazed state he accepted that this boy must indeed be his son and embraced him like only a guilty man can. His guilt steming from the 3 years of neglect he believed had ocurred, but i guess that's what you get when you take your kid to a foster home 'kids for sale' parade and leave them unattended.

Alex Walls 22 October 2008 at 21:57
Who would've thunk it? At any rate, Johnny found the French accent quite taxing and also suspected that it wasn't really you know...that french actually so he soon knocked off and Bones attributed it to Post Traumatic Stress brought on by seeing his estranged father, guilt being an amazing lubricant for the insertion of nonsense into the mind. (Ew) And also cash into the hands of one young Johnny NoGood Conman (which was unfortunately Johnny's real name, since he'd changed it before his last court appearance so he could claim he couldn't have ever avoided a life of crime, with a name like that. The judge, being no fool, did some investigations and found Johnny's 'black taint forever at my shoulder' name had been around for a grand total of three days and had slapped him in hard service on a brig for three years, hence the naval confinement and eating of wood). At any rate a conscience-ridden bones handed over his aged wallet to Johnny, which also happened to contain the map to Cawuba Island.

Alice Claire Hunt 23 October 2008 at 23:26
Astounded Johnny looked at the ancient map and al the possibilities came to him at once!An unknown island, think of the tourism values, think of the secluded huts that could bring in the rich and famous!Perhaps Angelina Jolie would even adopt one of the natives bringing the country world fame!!!As Johnnys eyes grew wider Colorado took the sudden enthusiasm as a sign this boy WAS in fact his son if he could get this excited over the possibility of an adventure!!!And an adventure was only just beginning...

Alex Walls 23 October 2008 at 23:50
Three days later, they arrived at the island, having passed an unadventurous (ah ha) journey whittling wood, singing shantys and in Colorado's case, holding in depth conversations with inanimate objects. As they rowed the boat to shore, Johnny fidgeted with excitement-a whole new island! To himself! His hands played with the set of blueprints he'd brought, intending to map out the island as soon as he could so as to figure out just where to put the luxury resorts, gift shops and 'Cawuba Family Tours'. But as they neared the shore, his jaw dropped in amazement, for instead of a quiet untouched shore, there lay a bustling port, complete with all ready established crappy gift stores that stocked the ubiquitous 'Berst Mumme in the Sevene Sees!' mugs.

Alice Claire Hunt 24 October 2008 at 12:13
Colorado, having already researched the island, wasn't surprised in the least, and was looking forward to buying a mug to add to his "random island tourist mug" collection.As the moored the boat Johnny was trying not to show Bones his tears by becoming unnecessarily interested in sea shells he was bent over.

Alex Walls 27 October 2008 at 16:23
As he was bending, he saw something glittering in the water! Like some waterlogged cat he pounced upon it and brought it out of the water. Though it's surface was marred with various crustaceans, he could see it was a lamp of some form and began to rub at the limpets attached to it with vigour, displacing several poor shellfish who'd never done a day's harm in their lives but fortunately had absolutely no brains with which either to feel, pain, bad or to hire lawyers, so we shall move on from them and to the big billowy cloud of greasy purple smoke pouring out of the lamp onto the beach, behind the happily engaged Bones, who was currently engrossed in haggling for a 'Everyone Makes Mistakes, Son!' novelty mug.

Alice Claire Hunt 27 October 2008 at 16:33
the smoke wrapped itself around Johnny causing him to fall into the damp sand, then manifested itself into a giant elephant seal."youuuuuuuuu boy" growled the E. S. with it's wrinkled trunk blubbering about, "get up out of that sand".Johnny was helped up by Bones who had won his mug and was now concerned with the well being of his Armani shorts which he had lent Johnny and were now covered in sand and crustaceans.

Alex Walls 29 October 2008 at 16:26
Absently he took a hold of the E.S.'s trunk and began to wipe the shorts carefully, patting at the crustaceans with infinite care, murmuring to the shorts comfortingly as he went. The E.S. snorted in anger and then began to cough and splutter, having mainlined three limpets and an anenome which had, ironically, turned out to be his enemy. Johnny, meanwhile, was staring in calculation at the large gold manacle attached to the E.S. stumpy tail, the golden chain of which disappeared into the lamp. "Ah HA!" he said.

Alice Claire Hunt 30 October 2008 at 09:23
So it turns out that the Elephant Seal was in fact a Genie! A eleenie? Or Geniphant? What ever you want to call him, he owed our heroes (or lack there of) 3 wishes!Tugging on the chain, Johnny confronted the Eleenie Geal (I'm at a loss really what to call him now) "So you're a genie huh?""Why Yuessssssblubesssblubs I ammmblublub" Replied Gerald (Lets use christian elenames!) "But I'm no ordinary genie..."

Alex Walls 30 October 2008 at 10:26
"I amblusssssblub in factsssss blub an ELEPHANT SEAL GENIE!" cried, or rather, spluttered Gerald in wild triumph beaming round at both our, dare I say it, 'heroes' who in return said "EwwwW" and "Oh gross" and made gagging noises. "I WISH you could speak properly" said Bones and POOF! Gerald's huge disgusting wrinkly nose disappeared to be replaced with a little teapot spout. Everyone then looked at everyone else and Johnny coughed uncomfortably. Gerald, meanwhile, prodded his new nose carefully with a flipper and then, ever so gently, leant forward until hot, brown liquid poured forth onto the sand. "I HOPE that's tea" said Johnny into the silence which was now so uncomfortable it was comparable to making a public speech and having your pants begin to itch half way through.

Alice Claire Hunt 02 November 2008 at 21:04
The locals of the island had been carefully watching this strange but oddly familiar transaction. As it turns out elephant seal genie lamps were all the craze back in the 90's so a few of the teenage natives could lookly fondly back on memories of their own wishes, only to see that pair of bright yellow oversize sunglasses and packet of yu-gi-oh cards and wishing they had been wiser.Johnny, unaware that he and Bones had become the new entertainment on the island, was carefully thinking how this seal could help him in his quest to take over Bones's fortunes....and how best to throw out the tea without anyone seeing...

Alex Walls 03 November 2008 at 10:42
"Come on come on" said Gerald, impatient at all this plotting and due to the rather narrow spout which now operated as his nose-type orifice, his voice now had a distinctly nasal squeak to it, which endeared him to no one, least of all the watching locals who'd had enough of that kind of thing from the pre-adolescent dweebs who'd made ridiculously wasteful wishes in just such warbling, mickey mouse tones (as everyone knew that yu-gi-oh was no MATCH for po-ke-mon back in its glory day, word up say whaaaat?) back in the 90s. At any rate the locals withdrew in disgust to watch out of ear shot through high power binoculars and Johnny cleared his throat several times with a noise like a pig stuck in a drain pipe in preparation for the beginning of his scam to get all of Bones' money which he'd cleverly called the 'scam Bones of all his money' scam. A professor, he ain't.

Alice Claire Hunt 03 November 2008 at 12:13
no he isnt, but a schemer and dreamer was our Johnny.Gerald pulled out his genie contract and showed it to johnny just so they all knew what was happening."so you see here, under clause 7 paragraph 2, you are entitled to 3 wishes for performing the action of rubbing my lamp" said Gerald pointing with his flipper.Bones was busy grinning with the delight of the sexual connotations involved in the process...mind out of the gutter Bones...out of the gutter

Alex Walls 04 November 2008 at 18:43
And out of the gutter to you too, secondary and rather MYSTEERIOUS author! "Three wishes!" said Johnny estatically! I wish I had three million gold coins!" he said, his plan not being all that great in the end (see comment about professorships above). With a rumble and a rattle, Gerald sneezed, spraying Bones with boiling hot liquid, who screamed, jumped up and down and then dove beneath the waves. Gerald, meanwhile, wiped his spout with a fin and handed Johnny a piece of paper that said "Entitles bearer to THREE MILLION (genie) COINS!" "Genie coins? What're genie coins?" asked Johnny suspiciously as Bones emerged from the surf, blotched all over, in the arms of a mermaid.

Alice Claire Hunt 05 November 2008 at 18:51
"Genie coins, " replied Gerald "are the currency used in lampland. but one must perform 3 task to get to lampland..."While the Genie was trying to st up some kind of suspense filled side adventure for our heros, Johnny thought to himself "I wish these were REAL coins and that this guy would shut up and go back to his lamp.." Little did he know THINKING wishes was the same as saying them, so BOOM 3 million real dollars and BOOM genie gone back to his lamp to await the next rub happy tourist.

Alex Walls 06 November 2008 at 15:22
Meanwhile Bones was chatting quite happily to the mermaid, an elderly lady with a purple knitted hat on her grey curls and a woolly vest instead of the fabled shell brasiere which has largely been discarded under the sea due to chafing. "Well deary I think the liquid you're looking for might be around by mable's place. She's a great cook you know and her son Jim is a lawyer don't you know, working for a firm down in Marine Parade he owns a dog who..." she continued, her eyes beginning to glow a strange and disconcerting red as her voice lulled Bones into an interminable and fatal sleep for she was not a mermaid but a SIREN!

Alice Claire Hunt 08 November 2008 at 17:16
Crickey, that sure was unexpected!Who would have thought our hero would meet such an untimely death? Not me THATS FOR SURE.Johnny, too couldnt quite believe what had happened, but had the sense to close his eyes while he stabbed the siren in disguise with his samurai sword he'd picked up on his trip to china town.(or japan town? shizz, i dunno)Feeling rather alone, Johnny looked up from the shore to the island, realising that finding this magical potion was the only way to avenge Bones's death!

Alex Walls 12 November 2008 at 16:32
So he decided to take a trip back to japantown..yeah...and pick up some supplies. Accordingly he hailed the nearest horse and cart taxi and settled himself in for a bumpy journey. As the grass huts and cheapo tourist stands turned into pagodas and cheapo tourist stands further in toward the centre of the island, he began a long haggle with the driver about the charge of the fair. "One Bajillion dollars" was a price Johnny was not too happy to accept but the driver didn't seem to want to accept "A punch to the face" either and so the journey wore on, the price increasing from "A kick in the butt" to "One monkey and a china dog named Anna".

Alice Claire Hunt 12 November 2008 at 17:21
Finally the shinny lights of Japantown came into view and the bumpy journey came to an end. Johnny hopped off the cart to haggle further with the driver only to find he was a tiny slimy piece of salmon!!!Johnny rolled his eyes ands said "you dont even have pockets!" and walked off towards "Sushi For You"

Alex Walls 12 November 2008 at 17:29
The enraged screams of the tiny piece of salmon creature followed him into the busy 'Sushi For You' which ironically, or perhaps just crappily, served only steak. "I'm looking for some supplies bub." said Johnny to the cook who was a salmony colour himself and also strangely reeked of fish. This wouldn't have been strange in any sushi place that actually served sushi but as it was, Johnny became a little suspicious. "I've got a supplies for you!" said the chef racistly and turning around, revealed himself to be a huge chunk of slimy salmon with weird salmony eyestalks quivering in Johnny's direction!

Alice Claire Hunt 12 November 2008 at 20:22
What a carnivore!Thats what Johnny was thinking! What kind of a salmon works in a steak store? NOT A FRIENDLY ONE!!!The salmon swung left, Johnny dodged right, Hiro time traveld from Heroes (yes. i see no problem bringing in jolly characters from tv shows) and got Johnny just before the Salmon chef got him with a clever. Hiro teleported them to a small bar, just down the road from "Sushi For You"."Woah, are you ACTUALLY Hiro from Heroes???" Johnny asked as they regained their balance after a wobbly landing."Johnny, listen, you are in grave danger, the forces which took Bones will not rest until you are off this island." Hiro urgently whispered while glancing around the bar.Johnny, still amazed at the fact it was Hiro, wasnt really listening. "So you're REAL? Thats so cool, woah... weren't you annoyed when arthur petrelli was alive?? i mean what a twist!"Hiro rolled his eyes, hit Johnny over the head with a spade and left a post-it on him saying 'please dont kill me'.

Alex Walls 14 November 2008 at 20:13
This was Hiro's (SIGH) one mistake, equivalent to putting a 'kick me' sign on someone. It's just asking for action to be taken. Nonetheless the unconscious Johnny remained remarkable unscathed as Hiro wrote on consecutive post-it notes the identity (and species) of the piece of salmon. This being more than two words long, it took quite a bit of post its and by the end the comatose Johnny resembled some form of fluorescent shambling monster. Hiro, wrist cramping up from OOS, took himself off to see an occupational specialist and sue Heroes for the development of what he now termed 'samurai wrist' which no one wanted to ask (or know) about. Johnny, meanwhile, covered in post-its, happily caught up on his sleep as salmony creatures patrolled the streets, unaware that he was anything more than a fluorescent, gummy bum covered in paper.

Alice Claire Hunt 19 November 2008 at 23:02
Meanwhile, a old witch doctor was taking her yearly stroll along the coast line, and stumbled across Bones's old glass eye! (Yes, I've decided he had one) She tucked it deep inside her pocket, knowing that she could very well res erect this glass eye's body if she felt so inclined, and perhaps would be inclined later in the day.Unbeknownst to them all, the glass eye wouldnt just bring back Bones but...

Alex Walls 21 November 2008 at 18:53
Would also summon hordes of flying monkeys named and personality-matched to millions upon MILLIONS of celebrities, most of them MYSTERIOUSLY tween idols! So she knew it was something to be used only in DIRE need (and we're talking dire here). Meanwhile meanwhile, Johnny regained consciousness slowly in the salmon-patrolled street and gasped as he saw the mounds of squishy orange moving past. What could he do to get away? And what exactly was going on??

Alice Claire Hunt 21 November 2008 at 20:25
He decided his best bet was to roll, as his mother had always told him if in doubt - roll.He rolled and rolled until he found himself rolling right into the forbidden forest! Who would have thought that Hogwarts was actually on this island?!?!?! But indeed it was. Feeling safe that no one had noticed him Johnny slowly got up and started to peel the many many post-its ff his bruised body."Well, well, well...what do we have here?" came a voice from the shadows.

Alex Walls 23 November 2008 at 15:36
Johnny gasped. "Father?!" he said and put on a face of pained hope but the voice from the shadows just chuckled. "I really doubt it kid" it said and stepped into the light to reveal a small green creature with huge bloodshot eyes (and accompanying bags), liver spotted green skin, huge pointed ears that in fact pointed at the ground and a cigarette in its stained mouth. It's whole body seemed to slump in apathy and it dragged its feet toward Johnny. "That's really only gonna work once and ONLY on a drop kick like Colorado Bones. But maybe you and I can help each other out. The name's Dobby, Lobby Dobby, and I'm a private eye."

Alice Claire Hunt 23 November 2008 at 17:58
Johnny stepped backwards in fright and tripped onto a pile of crunchy leaves. "come now boy, stop being clumsy - these are testing times, we cant have you alerting the whole forest of our whereabouts by crispy crunchy all over the show!" Dobby pulled on Jonhhy's trouser leg and helped him back onto his feet."So, how exactly can I help YOU?" Johnny questioned the hideous creature, "I mean, if you're a private eye you should be helping me, right?""ahh a curious kid huh?" pondered Dobby while taking drag on his cigarette, " well follow me and ill explain everything."

Alex Walls 28 November 2008 at 11:26
Our two heroes set off through the forest, Dobby puffing away on his cigarette and keeping up a running commentary that was funny for about five minutes, after which Johnny asked him sharply to shut up if he valued his life. "Life!" said Dobby "Don't talk to me about life kid. Life's like a dame with a thing for diamonds-she'll shake you up good til she gets the shine outta ya." Johnny frowned and said "That technically makes NO sense, you realise that right?" But by this time Dobby had arrived muttering at the local bar, called 'The Transparent Fig Leaf'

Alice Claire Hunt 28 November 2008 at 17:17
with a sharp rap on the door Dobby let out a "rarrrrooooorrr who whoot" causing Johnny to jump back into the arms of a hooded stranger."you shouldn't have come round the front" rasped the clocked being, "I would have thought you'd have learnt from last time Dobby" and with a twirl of their clock they disappeared into the nothingness just as the door of the Transparent Leaf opened."rorrrroearrr ohwwoh www" exclaimed the doorman "we've been expecting you young Jhnny come in". Dobby turned to Johnny and with a whisper explained "now you will know everything harry..."

Alex Walls 01 December 2008 at 17:40
"Um it's Johnny" said Johnny tremulously, more than a little freaked out by the goings on. Both the doorman and Dobby were looking at him in expectation and after a while a light went on in Johnny's brain, albeit a whale-fat lantern from 1798 and he said "Oh ah Reeee....roooooorooooorrrrr...?" The doorman began to frown and Dobby began making frantic hand gestures. "WHAT did you call myt mother?" said the doorman taking out a rather battered baseball bat with 'Ol' Trusty' written along its length.

Alice Claire Hunt 12 December 2008 at 16:11
hurriedly Dobby shoved Johnny through the door and they blended into the crowd to avoid "ol' trusty" seeing where the sun don't shine.Johnny was pleased to see there were no Salmon like creatures in this dwelling, yet there were a strange group of men about as tall as Dobby huddled around some beer saying something about a ring. Perhaps they were miniture boxers thought Johnny.

Alex Walls 17 December 2008 at 20:57
"I want half a pint!" said one of the hairy men and Dobby sniggered. "You are a half pint" he said and the tiny man spun around in anger and then tripped over his sword. Dobby sighed, flicked his cigarette ash over the prone guy and then placed his pint on his equally vertically challenged friend. "You boys lookin for a ring, or looking for some BLING?" said Dobby craftily and a few hard gangsters groaned and died in the corner. "Is not a ring bling?" asked one of them and looked soulfully into the distance until Dobby used his head as a footstool for his impertinence. "I'm not talking about some nancy piece of fairy boy jewellery!" he scorned scornfully "I'm talking about THE ELIXIR OF LIFE"

Alice Claire Hunt 23 December 2008 at 08:46
Silence spread like butter threw the pub, even the old man playing pool had missed the 8 ball and consequently lost the game he'd been playing with himself for over 5 years."Oh ALWAYS the joker aren't you my friend" said a tall hooded figure, walking up to Dobby and successfully hiding the exasperation in his voice. He tugged at Dobby, leading him into a private parlour booth and hissed n his ear "what are you doing fool? trying to get yourself killed?

Alex Walls 02 January 2009 at 18:08
Dobby didn't answer, being fully preoccupied with rolling another ragged cigarette. The tall hooded figure sighed and removed his hood, revealing a face of unparalleled ugliness. "Oh my god!" said Johnny, who'd followed them over "Please! Put it back on man!" The man glared at him and then burst into sobs. With his hands covering his face he rushed away, unfortunately into the group of short men whom Dobby had tried to use as a drinks table. As he sprawled over them and thrashed about trying to get up, the grumbling men drew back, brushed themselves off and then stood around in uncomfortable silence as they watched the tall man flail about on the floor, looking for all the world like an epileptic, or perhaps just a retard.

Alice Claire Hunt 02 January 2009 at 18:28
At this moment "We Got The Party With Us" by Hannah Montana came over the sound system and the pub broke into a formation dance, allowing Dobby to grab Johnny and the hooded man and make for the back entrance.Still recovering from his dance with the floor, the hooded man swayed slightly in his new surroundings before quickly remembering what had distressed him just minutes before."The elixir of life" he rasped, shaking Dobby, "Tell me what you know of it!"Johnny, slowly realizing that another quest was being conceived, tried to remember the first reason he was on the island and became thoroughly confused.

Alex Walls 02 January 2009 at 20:46
This of course could have something to do with the unmentionable song now playing. Johnny looked around idly as he tried to work out his presence here on the island and came to a stunning realisation - the dancers in the pub looked less formation and more zombie! The song was controlling them and turning them into mindless automatons! As the zombie alchys began to shuffle towards the three no-hopers, Dobby took a look around, whistled sharply, broke into a fit of asthmatic coughing and rubbed a shiny gold ring on his finger. "Elixir of life cave entrance!" he wheezed and with one last hack of phlegm, our three heroes vanished.

Alice Claire Hunt 02 January 2009 at 21:01
THUD!!!(In my mind there is a thud when they re-appear. im just adding these notes for the motion film adaptation of our story)Our heroes (really, heroes??? doesn't that imply they've done something heroic??) landed in a mossy puddle near a clearing filled with reindeer. Dobby got up and brushed himself off. He then turned to his unfortunate travel buddies, preparing to explain the situation when he noticed Johnny had already gotten up and was running towards the reindeer "gleeing" at the top of his lungs.

Alex Walls 02 January 2009 at 21:15
(Ah good call. Can we have Johnny DEPP play johnny? see what i did there?)Gleeing is a sort of fish-like movement of the waist with the arms held stiffly at one's side and the hands straight out. Gleeing is now an Olympic sport and Johnny was one of the champions but since this is a made up story this was of no importance. At any rate, the reindeer watched with vague unease as Johnny flopped towards them. His plan was to catch a reindeer and use it to ride on or possibly to eat and then skin and use as a tent to shelter from the rein (haha) or even a fashionable but hideous coat.

Alice Claire Hunt 05 January 2009 at 20:59
The reindeer happened to be psychic so were off running into the woods well before Johnny had time to think of what lining he would use for his coat.With a click of his grubby little fingers, Dobby summoned Johnny back and began his long awaited monologue."I think it's time you all knew what exactly you have gotten yourselves into" explained Dobby."It began in Africa...."Dobby stopped dead, looking murderous, as Johnny (who had thought of the song) become consumed in a fit of giggles, which Hooded Man mistook for choking and performed the Heimlich maneuver ultimately causing Johnny to actually choke. Dobby, shaking with rage and disgust, started to walk off, leaving Johnny spluttering on the ground in the recovery position with Hood Man profusely apologizing from above.

Alex Walls 14 January 2009 at 09:23
Dobby's anger soon burned off however, as his nicotine addiction began to raise its ugly head, making his temples throb and his hands shake. With a little thrill of horror, Dobby realised he was all out of Lungrot Larry's Tobaccy, his favourite brand of cancer stick. He looked about him wildly for some Nature's Antibiotic to the Disease That Is Humanity and saw some ways off, a leafy, tobacco-looking plant waving gently in the wind. Meanwhile, Johnny had shaken off the incoherent Hood Man, who felt so bad about almost killing someone that he decided to shave off all his hair and become a monk, not having had much luck with the ladies anyway. Johnny watched him scrape the last of his hair from his now gleaming (and fairly raw head) with a blunt stone and examine his pate in a handy pond. Not thinking much of the beautician set up ol' nature had going here, he decided to find Dobby and ask him if he'd actually ever solved a case.

Alice Claire Hunt 27 January 2009 at 16:54
(omg im soo so sorry i went away for a holiday and forgot but now i remembered and will continue the story!!!)To this question Dobby was insulted, but upon reflection realized that he never had actually completed ANYTHING in his life, just stared many things and become distracted."You know what Johnny?" said Dobby, "Love's alot like a roll of sellotape""Sometimes its hard to find the end?" Replied Johnny, swaying to the beat in his head.Before our dear companions could continue a car went flying past out of the bushes with number plate "Y U H8N" and crashed into a nearby turnip patch.

Alex Walls 28 January 2009 at 08:47
(All g, can we hang out soon? I miss Alice :()"My turnips!" yelled Farmer Maggott and Johnny, Lone Ranger/Monk and Dobby all took to their heels followed by a rather groggy Flava Flav. "Awww shit son" he panted as he weeved to and fro in front of the irate hobbit farmer, currently waving four dead corncobs in the sky by their ears (oh ho!). The heroes were beginning to get into serious trouble with the Lung Police when suddenly Johnny had a bright idea. This being an entirely new experience, Johnny stopped suddenly, causing the howling Farmer Maggot to trip over his inert form and sail gracefully into the air, straight into a herd of reindeer. The reindeer, being sick to the antlers of crazy weirdos, proceeded to pound him into the dirt with their dainty hooves and our heroes backed off very slowly from Satan's Little Helpers. When they were a safe distance away, Johnny whispered his bright idea to the others. "Flava Flav! Can we use your car to get to the Vial Of Everlasting Life (Formerly Known As Billy The Bunny)?"

Alice Claire Hunt 02 February 2009 at 20:42
"Yeah yeezy fo sheezy, gots me ride down wit da tunes out" replied Flava Flav as he crossed his arms over his chest and pouted his lips."I thik that means yes" whispered Dobby into Johnny's ear. and with that they climbed in the 2 door Volvo which Flav had stolen from Edward Cullen. (The wampire, yes i WILL bring him into the story if it kills me).Throwing the volvo into first Flav speed off into the remanding turnips and out onto the main road which was surprising close and clearly sign posted.

Alex Walls 09 February 2009 at 17:07
"THIS WAY TO 'THE DRUNKEN TOURIST'" said the sign and Dobby pointed and shouted hoarsely to Flav over the thunderous base, who flashed him a yellow-grilled smile and shouted something like "Say whaaaat!" but headed off in the right direction so Dobby breathed a sigh of relief and turned to find Johnny and the Bald Ranger having a slap fight over which seat belt to use. Dobby sighed and turned away thinking wistfully of using the aforementioned seatbelt as a handy hang rope with which to end his increasingly embarrassing existence.

Alice Claire Hunt 11 February 2009 at 16:14
Looking out the window Dobby saw a unicorn drinking from a stream. Flav drove on down the road nodding his head so forcefully to the beat in his brain that he nodded it right off! By this point in time Dobby was so over everything and anything to do with adventures that he simply pushed open the drivers door, rolled Flav out and continued the drive to the Drunken Tourist.Jonny and B.R. had decided it best to sit on each other and use one seat belt so Dobby was forced to stare at their foolish grinning faces in his review mirror.

Alex Walls 11 February 2009 at 16:36
But he bore up under their inanity. That is, right up until they started singing 'On the Road again' at which point he snapped and turned around to scream at them. They didn't really understand what he was saying as he tended to gobble and slur his words in his rage but quailed beneath the combined might of his awe-inspiring fury and sudden storm of spittle. "You'd better shut your traps until we get there or I'll introduce you to Mr Cooltastic" said Dobby ominously and so fearful did this entity sound that both Johnny and B.R. remained silent the entire way to the Drunken Tourist, Johnny contemplating the distinctly negative difference in story book character's temperaments when placed in real life. What had happened, he wondered, to the good ol' tea towel wearing, abuse loving Dobby of yore and his happy lack of any self-esteem?

Alice Claire Hunt 11 February 2009 at 16:41
That Dobby had fallen victim to a crazed crack habbit and a love of the "ladies". but gooing into dobby's past is far to R rated for this fine story so to the Drunken Tourist we go!They pulled up into a park outside. Dobby glanced into the back seat where Johnny and B.R. were playing hand claps games, and he then slid out the front door unbeknown to his happy dappy companions. Dobby had been here only a few times in his brief stint on the island, but each of those times had been memorable.

Alex Walls 13 February 2009 at 12:45
The last time was memorable unfortunately for being completely UNmemorable, for Dobby had received a concussion from a high velocity exit at at 180 degree angle to the ground, ie he'd be thrown with considerable force by the billy goat bouncer of the Drunken Tourist. Well, for thrown read kicked-in-the-head, a very similar verb, and as such Dobby had retrograde amnesia and couldn't remember anything for a 24 hour period before the concussion. He could feel the old headache start up again as he eyed up the billy goat bouncer nervously, noticing the sharpened horns, bulging foreleg muscles and the tattoo saying "Nan" on his left hoof. This, he decided, was a job for the Tard Twins and so deciding, turned to the car and induced Johnny and the B.R. from their game of 'I spy'. Since it was night they'd both got as far as "I spy with my little eye something beginning with"- 'D' for dark, 'N' for night and 'B' for black.

Alice Claire Hunt 07 March 2009 at 18:35
Just as Johnny was about to solve the puzzle of "it starts with D" again (these boys aren't the sharpest knives in the draw and had started reusing the same words for I spy) Dobby opened up the back door and hared his plan with the boys."We need to get inside without Mr Billy Ice T over there seeing us so this is the plan"Johnny, having slowly learned that whenever anyone said the word we" and "plan" in the same sentence it meant trouble, slowly edged towards the other passenger door.

Alex Walls 29 March 2009 at 00:24
So Dobby turned to B.R. "It's all up to you my friend!" he began in a grandiose manner only to realise that he was speaking to thing air, B.R. having a rodent's instinct when it came to personal danger. Dobby deflated rapidly and with a deep sigh and a muttered imprecation at the sky he slouched over the the billy goat bouncer, who took one look at him and said "Dobster! Anymore idiots I can bounce my knuckles off've?"

Alex Walls 17 December 2009 at 14:31
ALICE! Remember this?? It's hilarious! Do you wanna keep going, or shall we let it die an honourable death?

Alice Claire Hunt 17 December 2009 at 16:10
I'd completely forgotten about it!!!I gotta re read it then ill write the next part :)

Alice Claire Hunt 22 December 2009 at 18:35
Dobby glanced down at the bouncers feet and replied "Seriously Billy? I've had a rough day just let me in." and head hung he wondered in wondering how his life had come to this."Yo Dobby!" a cry came from across the room. Dobby looked up to see the grinning Johnny. "But, how??!?" began Dobby"Came in the servants entrance!" exclaimed Johnny. "So, what is this plan? I hear we have to get the Exliar back to Princess Alice before dawn on the 5th day of june!"

Alex Walls 22 December 2009 at 18:39
Dobby rubbed his temples tiredly, wondering vaguely how the Prince of Lame had ACTUALLY gotten in (the sewers) and what on earth he was now talking about. Deciding to skip the inevitable "What do you mean?" "What do YOU mean?" conversation, Dobby jumped right ahead to the throttling Johnny until he explained just who Princess Alice was, why she needed the Elixir before that day and why exactly there was a napkin with 'Call me xoxox Frank" written in lipstick on it pinned to his coat.

Alice Claire Hunt 22 December 2009 at 18:43
"I..I...I saw it on her twitter!" gasped Johnny.Dobby released him from the choak hold to reflex. "Twitter huh...hmmm interesting"Johnny, now free to flash his eyelashes at frank from across the room, become a far more enjoable character and let Dobby in on everything."Wee;, at first I wasn't sure if I could trust you so put on the dumb blonde act. But now Dobby Lobby, I see you are indeed a true detective and able to help me on this quest"

Alex Walls 22 December 2009 at 19:05
[Your spelling. Is atrocious, Alice. Lucky you're funny]This all sounded a little 'deus ex machina' to Dobby, who as a point of interest actually thought the phrase meant a small slicing mechanism of Escher design. Luckily he also thought that Johnny's story sounded highly suspicious, so he decided that he too would play the 'dumb blonde act' and go along with Johnny's 'quest' which he suspected was nothing more than an elaborate plan to break into the ice cream store and scream for ice cream, Johnny's humour so far being unremarkable. "Wah, Johnny, ah thought you'd never ahsk." said Dobby disturbingly, fluttering HIS eyelashes in turn, winking at Johnny (and coincidentally, Frank, who sat up with renewed interest) and slipping into a polka dot pinafore and sparkly heels. "Do tell me AIRvraythan" he murmured, rearranging a blonde wig and doing a complicated two step shuffle in Frank's direction.

Alice Claire Hunt 22 December 2009 at 19:35
After a quick look on wikipedia, Johnny professed his innocence to Dobby that he WAS in fact who he was now saying he was. (that being an intelligent, handsome, sweet, kind, loving vampire) Dobby, caught in a tango with Frank, could do nothing with this news other than concentrate on the blood pouring out of his mouth as a result of Franks rough Rose-in-Mouth-Dance treatment.Johnny, deciding Dobby was slowing him down anyway, flew off into the night to pursue the true purpose of his life, to obtain the love of Princess Alice.

Alex Walls 22 December 2009 at 19:51
As Dobby faded out of Johnny's life and loomed large in the world's all-time worrying nights category, Johnny couldn't help reminiscing about all the good times they'd had: the tango de la muerta battle for Frank's love, the dramatic cape flourishing, the time they'd both danced upon B.R.'s head in joyous celebration of their mutual love of the dance...Johnny shook his head of such memories (which were derived solely from an '80s movie anyway) and gunned his broomstick toward Hogwarts to meet Princess Alice and to enquire about the whereabouts of the Elixir of Death, clutching the pamphlet the stricken Dobby had tucked into his hand as a parting gift before his life (and sexual preferences) changed forever with Frank, that detailed the removal of the Elixir from its Cave Fortress on Cawuba Island to the Hogwarts' 'Room of Requirement'.

Alice Claire Hunt 23 December 2009 at 22:40
The night was moonless, and dark like coffee, but Johnny had the wind in his hair and an ipod to keep him focused. Turning up the volume on his "Quest" playlist he ventured towards hogwarts triumphantly knowing that in mere minutes he would be gazing into her eyes once again.But wait! Whats this? Could it be! Johnny's broom is not a broom at all but little Mike Snow, the Jamaican boy from down the road and his out of control afro!

Alex Walls 27 December 2009 at 13:25
"Mike, you fiend! You never told me you were an obeah practitioner!" said Johnny in surprise, falling off Mike and maintaining air speed and altitude only by gripping Mike's little toe. Wincing in pain the obeah boy (this is a practitioner of voodoo magic for those ignorant, sad souls out there. How I laugh at your uselessness! How I...well, I THINK it's voodoo magic, anyway) lifted Johnny back onto his back, clicked his spine in pain (Johnny had gained a few pounds) and said "The Princess is yours, the Elixir is MINE!" It should be mentioned that also travelling with Mike was his chicken companion, Clucksy, who was currently nesting in Mike's radical 'fro.

Alice Claire Hunt 28 December 2009 at 12:00
Knowing his life was in Mikes hands Johnny thought better of informing his human broomstick that the elixir was in fact what Johnny needed to gain the princess's love. She was a very classy princess and had the best of everything, except she was suffering from ostacoli del cuore (i can be fancy too, look THAT up in your italian dictionary why don't you) and only the elixir could heal that.Flying through the air mike, johnny and Clucksy passed over forests and lakes until in the distance the castle began to take shape.

Alex Walls 29 December 2009 at 14:18
It is indeed unfortunate that Johnny's thinking processes had yet to catch up with his mouth. "Hey Mike I actually need the elixir..." etc etc and with a shout of rage, Mike plummeted toward the ground in kamikaze effort to take out his annoying passenger. Luckily Clucksy's impassioned squawks pierced the fog of anger clouding his mind and he pulled out of his death dive to land with a rattle and a roll in the Forbidden Forest.

Alice Claire Hunt 29 December 2009 at 22:30
But was it the forbidden forest? Dashing through the leaves, Johnny bid his escape. Dodging the various roots and lashing vines he made his way into a clearing. In the distance he could hear Mike and Clucksy fighting over leadership as Clucksy was SURE tree only grew upwards while Mike was sure they pointed north.Johnny had to think fast, as he didn't know how dangerous these two were, so he knew which direction he took from here could determine the rest of the story!

Alex Walls 03 January at 18:21
>:(And with this ominous thought, thunder cracked in the sky and a bolt of searing lightening flung itself from the clouds and made its comfy and really moderately priced home upon Johnny's head. Screaming in pain as he clutched his perforated forehead, Johnny's normal voice suddenly gave up for good, handed in notice to the vocal chords and took a hike. His brain hurriedly held a conference, ordered chinese and hired an English accent not affiliated with the Vocal Union to take its place and as hundreds of Hogwarts' students surrounded Johnny to see whether Dumbledore was up to his old tricks with troll pimping again, Johnny turned and said in a very plummy British accent and with a freshly smoking lightning bolt scar on his head, "Hello, old chaps!"

Alice Claire Hunt 05 January at 09:41
and then dropped dead. which was amusing to watch as he was in fact already on the ground and had no way to emphasis the "drop" so he stood up, threw his hand to his forehead and dropped to the ground.Dead.Not debatable. Someone tried to rescue him but a small green haired fellow kicked him in the ribs. Fortunately for this story we still had Miike! A young fellow who was rather lost in his ways and had in fact fallen far from the corpse of Johnny and was lying in a pile of twigs wondering where he was.

Alex Walls 05 January at 10:31
(Awww you spoil sport, I totally thought I was doing you a favour with the whole Harry Potter thing).Mike was aware that he needed to find Princess Alice and also possibly the Elixir of Life but the fall into the twigs had slightly concussed him and had also liberally coated his face in scratches and ergo, blood. He began moaning in pain and shuffling toward Clucksy, who in her rather shell-shocked state, thought the zombie invasion had begun. Remembering her score on the 'How Long Would You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse' quiz was 'O. Days. And. FOUR. Seconds: You clucked, son', Clucksy sqwawked with horror and sped with all speed (...) towards a strange cave in the distance. Running full tilt into said cave, Clucksy was brought up short by the fairly discouraging fact that she had run head first into a rather Princessy human leg...

Alice Claire Hunt 05 January at 10:44
(I'm sorry. This is why I shouldn't write in the early morning. people die if i write in the early morning.)"Awww, hey there little chicky!" said Princess Ellie, bending down and picking up Clucksy, "What are YOU doing in this part of the forest? The chicken coop is on the other side of the castle!" and with that she set off to return this wandering chicken to it's family. Well in her mind she assumed all the chickens were related. You see, in school Ellie hadn't really paid attention to much of her surrondings, she was constantly distracted by her twin sister Alice's beauty and wit, her elegance and poise, and did we mention her beauty? So Ellie, bless her little cotton softs, was rather dim witted when it came to worldly knowledge.