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This is the last one I'm doing because nobody ever reads them, sorry for all of you that do.
----------------Back with the heroes then-------------------
As the group walked through the sunny plains, coming up to the huge mountain. Shaneo looked up the path and suddenly burst out with,
‘Can’t we rest first, I don’t want to go up there and I’m too tired.’ He said plonking himself down onto a rock.
‘I say we should rest, I’ve been running around too much.’ Tony Blair replied, sitting down next to Shaneo.
‘And I still haven’t recovered from that fight yet.’ Lord Badger said in a tired voice.
‘I’m fine, I don’t need any rest.’ Allardini looked down at them.
‘But Toni…’ The Exterminator said in a distant, disappointed voice.
‘I know,’ Little Hedgehog said in a loud voice, ‘how about me, Allardini and The Exterminator carry on up the mountain to find Toni Cabbarini and you lot can rest then catch up later.’
The others nodded in agreement and three of them left up the mountain. The others fell asleep.
Walking up the mountain, which was bright and sunny thanks to Edgy who had ventured up there earlier, they discussed matters about finding the other chosen one.
‘So where does he live?’ Allardini asked The Exterminator.
‘In a cave by some pictures he drew. But he’s hardly in his cave.’ The Exterminator replied.
‘Why in a cave?’ Little Hedgehog sounded confused.
‘I dunno, you ask him.’ The Exterminator said in a lazy voice.
‘IF we find him.’ Allardini added.
Then The Exterminator yawned,
‘I’m tired, we need to find somewhere to rest.’
‘It’s getting dark, can’t we rest, please.’ Little Hedgehog said in a scared voice.
‘Oh all right, I don’t want any whinging. There’s a palace nearby. The others will find us anyway.’ Allardini replied.
It was getting dark and colder, they walked for a bit then they came across a large building.
‘This has to be the palace.’ Little Hedgehog said.
‘Hmmmmm, I better knock on the door then.’ Allardini said whilst knocking on the large wooden doors. A man opened it and looked at them.
‘What do you want?
Go away, we don’t want your type here.’ The servant grumbled at them.
Allardini begged the man,
‘Please sir, we are only travellers looking for a bed for the night. We’ll be on our way in the morning.’
The servant was about to say ‘Bog off!’ then he noticed the staff Little Hedgehog was carrying,
‘Well come in then, we can’t let you children stay out there in the cold. Come come,’ he turned around and shouted in the direction of the kitchen, ‘get these children some food, the look like they haven’t had any food in ages.’
Little Hedgehog turned and smiled at Allardini and said, ‘You must have been very convincing to make him change his tune.’
He ushered them into three different rooms and shoved a hot plate into each of their hands. The plates had dumplings and beef on them, they didn’t look very appetising to the three.
When they had gone into their rooms the servant went down to the kitchen and turned to his jester friend who was waiting in there for him,
‘I thought you said we shouldn’t have travellers in here.’ The jester said,
‘My dear Grix Thraves, I only let them in because of the staff the girl was holding, it has powers in it. I have to go get the supreme ones. Trap those three in here and wait until I get back.’
‘Ok, I’ll try TomUK.’ Grix replied. Then he went and fetched three planks of wood, he made sure that they were fresh so they wouldn’t break easily. When he returned to the kitchens, Tom had gone.
‘Didn’t even do so much as say ‘Goodbye’.’ He sniffed, he walked up the stairs, making sure he didn’t make a sound to wake any of the guests, then, he shoved the planks into the holders on the doors and made sure they were secure. Then locked the large double doors and off he went to bed.
Unknown to the two, Allardini had stayed awake and had listened to their conversation,
‘I have to warn the other two.’
He ran to the door but it wouldn’t open,
‘Dammit! They’ve done it already.’ He slammed his hands against the large wooden door whilst swearing.
‘Oh well, may as well go to sleep. We can think of a way out tomorrow.’ He muttered, walking to his bed and he fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.
---------------------------Sunrise--------------------------
The Exterminator was the first to wake up, he was bored so he watched the sun come up over the dark green hills, they were made brighter and richer in colour as the bright orange sun enriched them. The whole area became brighter. For a moment he forgot about the quest in hand as he watched in wonder, then he remembered,
‘I better go and wake the others up then, can’t leave Toni waiting.’ He said in a bright voice. He walked over to the door, he tried to open it but it was stuck fast. He slammed his hands onto it, it still wouldn’t budge and he carried on till his hands became red raw, it still wouldn’t move.
‘OI, EXTERMINATOR!’ came a shout from next to his window, ‘GET TO YOUR WINDOW NOW!!!!!’
The Exterminator walked to the window and saw a tired, fed up Allardini,
‘What is it?’ he asked.
‘We can’t get out, they’ve trapped us in here.’ Allardini said, ‘And your banging woke me up!’.
‘Oh, sorry, didn’t mean to,’ he said apologetically, ‘Where’s Little Hedgehog?’ he said quickly changing the subject.
‘I dunno, I’ll see if she’s awake.’ Allardini replied.
‘LEAVE ME, ALONE I’M FLIPPIN’ TIRED, AND I CAN’T GET OUT!’ came a shout from Little Hedgehog’s room.
‘Well let’s think of a way out then.’ Allardini said a bit perkier.
‘We could climb out the windows.’ The Exterminator suggested.
‘Just look at the drop.’ Little Hedgehog said coming to her window and pointing down at the 15ft drop.
‘Oh yeah, good point.’ The Exterminator said whilst looking down at the drop.
‘Allardini could continuously charge at the door till it smashes open. He is older and stronger than us.’ Little Hedgehog said.
‘The question is: Will I be able to make it through without hurting myself?’ Allardini answered.
‘Oh, well you think of something then.’
‘Just send the others a message.’ Allardini grumbled rubbing his eyes.
‘Ok, anyone got paper?’ The Exterminator said.
‘Rip a bit off your habit, too big for you anyway.’ Allardini replied.
‘How can we write on it?’ he asked.
‘Spit on it, eat it, rip it in, do whatever you want, just don’t ask me!’ Allardini groggily answered.
‘Here, done!’ Little Hedgehog said throwing a bird with a piece of paper attached to it out of the window, it went straight down to the bottom of the mountain in a swift swoop. Allardini just looked at her in surprise then turned to The Exterminator and said,
‘See, she did it in the time you were trying to work out how to write it on. Well now that’s done we can just sit here and wait.’
They sat there and looked out towards the other mountain at the side of the land, it was dark, had clouds surrounding it and looked intimidating. Then Little Hedgehog spoke,
‘I wonder why they trapped us anyway.’ She said in a puzzled voice.
‘They saw your staff and worked out that we’re after their leaders and they trapped us in here to get their leaders to kill us.’ Allardini replied to her answer casually.
The Exterminator looked amazed, ‘How did you know that?’
‘I heard their conversation last night. They’re the two that Ant warned us about. Hopefully Shaneo, Lord Badger and Tony Blair will get the message, I want to get out of here.’ Allardini said in a hopeful voice.
‘So do I. The food is awful, it tasted like weeds’ The Exterminator said in a disgusted voice.
‘You actually ate that stuff!’ Little Hedgehog exclaimed.
‘Well, I was hungry.’ The Exterminator replied.
‘I am as well, but I didn’t eat that poison. Didn’t you realise it was cooked by a gambling Jester with a fear of brickwork?’ Allardini said in a funny voice.
‘How do you know that?’ The Exterminator asked.
‘He’s a very famous Jester, he was banished from the palace I used to work in because he tried to kill the King.’ He mumbled, taking interest in the view.
‘You worked in the palace.’ Little Hedgehog sounded interested.
‘Yes, I was a soldier in training, I was thrown out because I never went to training. I preferred to mess around in the town, I kept getting back in though.’
‘Shows how good the guards were then.’ Little Hedgehog giggled.
‘Yeah, they can’t fight either.’ Allardini laughed, ‘they don’t even know what a sword is even if you wave it in front of their face. I was about the smartest one there.’ He laughed again, ‘I miss it though.’ He sighed.
‘Well you have us, we can’t throw you out.’ Little Hedgehog sounded comforting.
‘Yeah, you have us, we’ll keep you company.’ The Exterminator added.
‘But you’re not thick idiots which I can take the mick outta.’ He replied.
‘We might be.’ The Exterminator retorted.
‘It’s very comforting knowing that you want me to think that you’re stupid to make me happy.’ Allardini smiled.
‘I’m not that stupid.’ Little Hedgehog said.
‘I know,’ Allardini sighed and looked out to the green plains, the large towns, the vast hills, the wide valley, the dark mountain, ‘I hope they hurry up,’ he said sadly, ‘I want to go home.’
----------------Back with the heroes then-------------------
As the group walked through the sunny plains, coming up to the huge mountain. Shaneo looked up the path and suddenly burst out with,
‘Can’t we rest first, I don’t want to go up there and I’m too tired.’ He said plonking himself down onto a rock.
‘I say we should rest, I’ve been running around too much.’ Tony Blair replied, sitting down next to Shaneo.
‘And I still haven’t recovered from that fight yet.’ Lord Badger said in a tired voice.
‘I’m fine, I don’t need any rest.’ Allardini looked down at them.
‘But Toni…’ The Exterminator said in a distant, disappointed voice.
‘I know,’ Little Hedgehog said in a loud voice, ‘how about me, Allardini and The Exterminator carry on up the mountain to find Toni Cabbarini and you lot can rest then catch up later.’
The others nodded in agreement and three of them left up the mountain. The others fell asleep.
Walking up the mountain, which was bright and sunny thanks to Edgy who had ventured up there earlier, they discussed matters about finding the other chosen one.
‘So where does he live?’ Allardini asked The Exterminator.
‘In a cave by some pictures he drew. But he’s hardly in his cave.’ The Exterminator replied.
‘Why in a cave?’ Little Hedgehog sounded confused.
‘I dunno, you ask him.’ The Exterminator said in a lazy voice.
‘IF we find him.’ Allardini added.
Then The Exterminator yawned,
‘I’m tired, we need to find somewhere to rest.’
‘It’s getting dark, can’t we rest, please.’ Little Hedgehog said in a scared voice.
‘Oh all right, I don’t want any whinging. There’s a palace nearby. The others will find us anyway.’ Allardini replied.
It was getting dark and colder, they walked for a bit then they came across a large building.
‘This has to be the palace.’ Little Hedgehog said.
‘Hmmmmm, I better knock on the door then.’ Allardini said whilst knocking on the large wooden doors. A man opened it and looked at them.
‘What do you want?
Go away, we don’t want your type here.’ The servant grumbled at them.
Allardini begged the man,
‘Please sir, we are only travellers looking for a bed for the night. We’ll be on our way in the morning.’
The servant was about to say ‘Bog off!’ then he noticed the staff Little Hedgehog was carrying,
‘Well come in then, we can’t let you children stay out there in the cold. Come come,’ he turned around and shouted in the direction of the kitchen, ‘get these children some food, the look like they haven’t had any food in ages.’
Little Hedgehog turned and smiled at Allardini and said, ‘You must have been very convincing to make him change his tune.’
He ushered them into three different rooms and shoved a hot plate into each of their hands. The plates had dumplings and beef on them, they didn’t look very appetising to the three.
When they had gone into their rooms the servant went down to the kitchen and turned to his jester friend who was waiting in there for him,
‘I thought you said we shouldn’t have travellers in here.’ The jester said,
‘My dear Grix Thraves, I only let them in because of the staff the girl was holding, it has powers in it. I have to go get the supreme ones. Trap those three in here and wait until I get back.’
‘Ok, I’ll try TomUK.’ Grix replied. Then he went and fetched three planks of wood, he made sure that they were fresh so they wouldn’t break easily. When he returned to the kitchens, Tom had gone.
‘Didn’t even do so much as say ‘Goodbye’.’ He sniffed, he walked up the stairs, making sure he didn’t make a sound to wake any of the guests, then, he shoved the planks into the holders on the doors and made sure they were secure. Then locked the large double doors and off he went to bed.
Unknown to the two, Allardini had stayed awake and had listened to their conversation,
‘I have to warn the other two.’
He ran to the door but it wouldn’t open,
‘Dammit! They’ve done it already.’ He slammed his hands against the large wooden door whilst swearing.
‘Oh well, may as well go to sleep. We can think of a way out tomorrow.’ He muttered, walking to his bed and he fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.
---------------------------Sunrise--------------------------
The Exterminator was the first to wake up, he was bored so he watched the sun come up over the dark green hills, they were made brighter and richer in colour as the bright orange sun enriched them. The whole area became brighter. For a moment he forgot about the quest in hand as he watched in wonder, then he remembered,
‘I better go and wake the others up then, can’t leave Toni waiting.’ He said in a bright voice. He walked over to the door, he tried to open it but it was stuck fast. He slammed his hands onto it, it still wouldn’t budge and he carried on till his hands became red raw, it still wouldn’t move.
‘OI, EXTERMINATOR!’ came a shout from next to his window, ‘GET TO YOUR WINDOW NOW!!!!!’
The Exterminator walked to the window and saw a tired, fed up Allardini,
‘What is it?’ he asked.
‘We can’t get out, they’ve trapped us in here.’ Allardini said, ‘And your banging woke me up!’.
‘Oh, sorry, didn’t mean to,’ he said apologetically, ‘Where’s Little Hedgehog?’ he said quickly changing the subject.
‘I dunno, I’ll see if she’s awake.’ Allardini replied.
‘LEAVE ME, ALONE I’M FLIPPIN’ TIRED, AND I CAN’T GET OUT!’ came a shout from Little Hedgehog’s room.
‘Well let’s think of a way out then.’ Allardini said a bit perkier.
‘We could climb out the windows.’ The Exterminator suggested.
‘Just look at the drop.’ Little Hedgehog said coming to her window and pointing down at the 15ft drop.
‘Oh yeah, good point.’ The Exterminator said whilst looking down at the drop.
‘Allardini could continuously charge at the door till it smashes open. He is older and stronger than us.’ Little Hedgehog said.
‘The question is: Will I be able to make it through without hurting myself?’ Allardini answered.
‘Oh, well you think of something then.’
‘Just send the others a message.’ Allardini grumbled rubbing his eyes.
‘Ok, anyone got paper?’ The Exterminator said.
‘Rip a bit off your habit, too big for you anyway.’ Allardini replied.
‘How can we write on it?’ he asked.
‘Spit on it, eat it, rip it in, do whatever you want, just don’t ask me!’ Allardini groggily answered.
‘Here, done!’ Little Hedgehog said throwing a bird with a piece of paper attached to it out of the window, it went straight down to the bottom of the mountain in a swift swoop. Allardini just looked at her in surprise then turned to The Exterminator and said,
‘See, she did it in the time you were trying to work out how to write it on. Well now that’s done we can just sit here and wait.’
They sat there and looked out towards the other mountain at the side of the land, it was dark, had clouds surrounding it and looked intimidating. Then Little Hedgehog spoke,
‘I wonder why they trapped us anyway.’ She said in a puzzled voice.
‘They saw your staff and worked out that we’re after their leaders and they trapped us in here to get their leaders to kill us.’ Allardini replied to her answer casually.
The Exterminator looked amazed, ‘How did you know that?’
‘I heard their conversation last night. They’re the two that Ant warned us about. Hopefully Shaneo, Lord Badger and Tony Blair will get the message, I want to get out of here.’ Allardini said in a hopeful voice.
‘So do I. The food is awful, it tasted like weeds’ The Exterminator said in a disgusted voice.
‘You actually ate that stuff!’ Little Hedgehog exclaimed.
‘Well, I was hungry.’ The Exterminator replied.
‘I am as well, but I didn’t eat that poison. Didn’t you realise it was cooked by a gambling Jester with a fear of brickwork?’ Allardini said in a funny voice.
‘How do you know that?’ The Exterminator asked.
‘He’s a very famous Jester, he was banished from the palace I used to work in because he tried to kill the King.’ He mumbled, taking interest in the view.
‘You worked in the palace.’ Little Hedgehog sounded interested.
‘Yes, I was a soldier in training, I was thrown out because I never went to training. I preferred to mess around in the town, I kept getting back in though.’
‘Shows how good the guards were then.’ Little Hedgehog giggled.
‘Yeah, they can’t fight either.’ Allardini laughed, ‘they don’t even know what a sword is even if you wave it in front of their face. I was about the smartest one there.’ He laughed again, ‘I miss it though.’ He sighed.
‘Well you have us, we can’t throw you out.’ Little Hedgehog sounded comforting.
‘Yeah, you have us, we’ll keep you company.’ The Exterminator added.
‘But you’re not thick idiots which I can take the mick outta.’ He replied.
‘We might be.’ The Exterminator retorted.
‘It’s very comforting knowing that you want me to think that you’re stupid to make me happy.’ Allardini smiled.
‘I’m not that stupid.’ Little Hedgehog said.
‘I know,’ Allardini sighed and looked out to the green plains, the large towns, the vast hills, the wide valley, the dark mountain, ‘I hope they hurry up,’ he said sadly, ‘I want to go home.’
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Nice one Hedgy! Keep it up! I was sad to see the last chapter, but I hope that you do another series or something, because I found them all highly entertaining. It's a shame that these aren't read by more people. You're disrespected by one regular and the rest follow like herds of sheep. Bah.
This is the last one I'm doing because nobody ever reads them, sorry for all of you that do.
----------------Back with the heroes then-------------------
As the group walked through the sunny plains, coming up to the huge mountain. Shaneo looked up the path and suddenly burst out with,
‘Can’t we rest first, I don’t want to go up there and I’m too tired.’ He said plonking himself down onto a rock.
‘I say we should rest, I’ve been running around too much.’ Tony Blair replied, sitting down next to Shaneo.
‘And I still haven’t recovered from that fight yet.’ Lord Badger said in a tired voice.
‘I’m fine, I don’t need any rest.’ Allardini looked down at them.
‘But Toni…’ The Exterminator said in a distant, disappointed voice.
‘I know,’ Little Hedgehog said in a loud voice, ‘how about me, Allardini and The Exterminator carry on up the mountain to find Toni Cabbarini and you lot can rest then catch up later.’
The others nodded in agreement and three of them left up the mountain. The others fell asleep.
Walking up the mountain, which was bright and sunny thanks to Edgy who had ventured up there earlier, they discussed matters about finding the other chosen one.
‘So where does he live?’ Allardini asked The Exterminator.
‘In a cave by some pictures he drew. But he’s hardly in his cave.’ The Exterminator replied.
‘Why in a cave?’ Little Hedgehog sounded confused.
‘I dunno, you ask him.’ The Exterminator said in a lazy voice.
‘IF we find him.’ Allardini added.
Then The Exterminator yawned,
‘I’m tired, we need to find somewhere to rest.’
‘It’s getting dark, can’t we rest, please.’ Little Hedgehog said in a scared voice.
‘Oh all right, I don’t want any whinging. There’s a palace nearby. The others will find us anyway.’ Allardini replied.
It was getting dark and colder, they walked for a bit then they came across a large building.
‘This has to be the palace.’ Little Hedgehog said.
‘Hmmmmm, I better knock on the door then.’ Allardini said whilst knocking on the large wooden doors. A man opened it and looked at them.
‘What do you want?
Go away, we don’t want your type here.’ The servant grumbled at them.
Allardini begged the man,
‘Please sir, we are only travellers looking for a bed for the night. We’ll be on our way in the morning.’
The servant was about to say ‘Bog off!’ then he noticed the staff Little Hedgehog was carrying,
‘Well come in then, we can’t let you children stay out there in the cold. Come come,’ he turned around and shouted in the direction of the kitchen, ‘get these children some food, the look like they haven’t had any food in ages.’
Little Hedgehog turned and smiled at Allardini and said, ‘You must have been very convincing to make him change his tune.’
He ushered them into three different rooms and shoved a hot plate into each of their hands. The plates had dumplings and beef on them, they didn’t look very appetising to the three.
When they had gone into their rooms the servant went down to the kitchen and turned to his jester friend who was waiting in there for him,
‘I thought you said we shouldn’t have travellers in here.’ The jester said,
‘My dear Grix Thraves, I only let them in because of the staff the girl was holding, it has powers in it. I have to go get the supreme ones. Trap those three in here and wait until I get back.’
‘Ok, I’ll try TomUK.’ Grix replied. Then he went and fetched three planks of wood, he made sure that they were fresh so they wouldn’t break easily. When he returned to the kitchens, Tom had gone.
‘Didn’t even do so much as say ‘Goodbye’.’ He sniffed, he walked up the stairs, making sure he didn’t make a sound to wake any of the guests, then, he shoved the planks into the holders on the doors and made sure they were secure. Then locked the large double doors and off he went to bed.
Unknown to the two, Allardini had stayed awake and had listened to their conversation,
‘I have to warn the other two.’
He ran to the door but it wouldn’t open,
‘Dammit! They’ve done it already.’ He slammed his hands against the large wooden door whilst swearing.
‘Oh well, may as well go to sleep. We can think of a way out tomorrow.’ He muttered, walking to his bed and he fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.
---------------------------Sunrise--------------------------
The Exterminator was the first to wake up, he was bored so he watched the sun come up over the dark green hills, they were made brighter and richer in colour as the bright orange sun enriched them. The whole area became brighter. For a moment he forgot about the quest in hand as he watched in wonder, then he remembered,
‘I better go and wake the others up then, can’t leave Toni waiting.’ He said in a bright voice. He walked over to the door, he tried to open it but it was stuck fast. He slammed his hands onto it, it still wouldn’t budge and he carried on till his hands became red raw, it still wouldn’t move.
‘OI, EXTERMINATOR!’ came a shout from next to his window, ‘GET TO YOUR WINDOW NOW!!!!!’
The Exterminator walked to the window and saw a tired, fed up Allardini,
‘What is it?’ he asked.
‘We can’t get out, they’ve trapped us in here.’ Allardini said, ‘And your banging woke me up!’.
‘Oh, sorry, didn’t mean to,’ he said apologetically, ‘Where’s Little Hedgehog?’ he said quickly changing the subject.
‘I dunno, I’ll see if she’s awake.’ Allardini replied.
‘LEAVE ME, ALONE I’M FLIPPIN’ TIRED, AND I CAN’T GET OUT!’ came a shout from Little Hedgehog’s room.
‘Well let’s think of a way out then.’ Allardini said a bit perkier.
‘We could climb out the windows.’ The Exterminator suggested.
‘Just look at the drop.’ Little Hedgehog said coming to her window and pointing down at the 15ft drop.
‘Oh yeah, good point.’ The Exterminator said whilst looking down at the drop.
‘Allardini could continuously charge at the door till it smashes open. He is older and stronger than us.’ Little Hedgehog said.
‘The question is: Will I be able to make it through without hurting myself?’ Allardini answered.
‘Oh, well you think of something then.’
‘Just send the others a message.’ Allardini grumbled rubbing his eyes.
‘Ok, anyone got paper?’ The Exterminator said.
‘Rip a bit off your habit, too big for you anyway.’ Allardini replied.
‘How can we write on it?’ he asked.
‘Spit on it, eat it, rip it in, do whatever you want, just don’t ask me!’ Allardini groggily answered.
‘Here, done!’ Little Hedgehog said throwing a bird with a piece of paper attached to it out of the window, it went straight down to the bottom of the mountain in a swift swoop. Allardini just looked at her in surprise then turned to The Exterminator and said,
‘See, she did it in the time you were trying to work out how to write it on. Well now that’s done we can just sit here and wait.’
They sat there and looked out towards the other mountain at the side of the land, it was dark, had clouds surrounding it and looked intimidating. Then Little Hedgehog spoke,
‘I wonder why they trapped us anyway.’ She said in a puzzled voice.
‘They saw your staff and worked out that we’re after their leaders and they trapped us in here to get their leaders to kill us.’ Allardini replied to her answer casually.
The Exterminator looked amazed, ‘How did you know that?’
‘I heard their conversation last night. They’re the two that Ant warned us about. Hopefully Shaneo, Lord Badger and Tony Blair will get the message, I want to get out of here.’ Allardini said in a hopeful voice.
‘So do I. The food is awful, it tasted like weeds’ The Exterminator said in a disgusted voice.
‘You actually ate that stuff!’ Little Hedgehog exclaimed.
‘Well, I was hungry.’ The Exterminator replied.
‘I am as well, but I didn’t eat that poison. Didn’t you realise it was cooked by a gambling Jester with a fear of brickwork?’ Allardini said in a funny voice.
‘How do you know that?’ The Exterminator asked.
‘He’s a very famous Jester, he was banished from the palace I used to work in because he tried to kill the King.’ He mumbled, taking interest in the view.
‘You worked in the palace.’ Little Hedgehog sounded interested.
‘Yes, I was a soldier in training, I was thrown out because I never went to training. I preferred to mess around in the town, I kept getting back in though.’
‘Shows how good the guards were then.’ Little Hedgehog giggled.
‘Yeah, they can’t fight either.’ Allardini laughed, ‘they don’t even know what a sword is even if you wave it in front of their face. I was about the smartest one there.’ He laughed again, ‘I miss it though.’ He sighed.
‘Well you have us, we can’t throw you out.’ Little Hedgehog sounded comforting.
‘Yeah, you have us, we’ll keep you company.’ The Exterminator added.
‘But you’re not thick idiots which I can take the mick outta.’ He replied.
‘We might be.’ The Exterminator retorted.
‘It’s very comforting knowing that you want me to think that you’re stupid to make me happy.’ Allardini smiled.
‘I’m not that stupid.’ Little Hedgehog said.
‘I know,’ Allardini sighed and looked out to the green plains, the large towns, the vast hills, the wide valley, the dark mountain, ‘I hope they hurry up,’ he said sadly, ‘I want to go home.’
----------------Back with the heroes then-------------------
As the group walked through the sunny plains, coming up to the huge mountain. Shaneo looked up the path and suddenly burst out with,
‘Can’t we rest first, I don’t want to go up there and I’m too tired.’ He said plonking himself down onto a rock.
‘I say we should rest, I’ve been running around too much.’ Tony Blair replied, sitting down next to Shaneo.
‘And I still haven’t recovered from that fight yet.’ Lord Badger said in a tired voice.
‘I’m fine, I don’t need any rest.’ Allardini looked down at them.
‘But Toni…’ The Exterminator said in a distant, disappointed voice.
‘I know,’ Little Hedgehog said in a loud voice, ‘how about me, Allardini and The Exterminator carry on up the mountain to find Toni Cabbarini and you lot can rest then catch up later.’
The others nodded in agreement and three of them left up the mountain. The others fell asleep.
Walking up the mountain, which was bright and sunny thanks to Edgy who had ventured up there earlier, they discussed matters about finding the other chosen one.
‘So where does he live?’ Allardini asked The Exterminator.
‘In a cave by some pictures he drew. But he’s hardly in his cave.’ The Exterminator replied.
‘Why in a cave?’ Little Hedgehog sounded confused.
‘I dunno, you ask him.’ The Exterminator said in a lazy voice.
‘IF we find him.’ Allardini added.
Then The Exterminator yawned,
‘I’m tired, we need to find somewhere to rest.’
‘It’s getting dark, can’t we rest, please.’ Little Hedgehog said in a scared voice.
‘Oh all right, I don’t want any whinging. There’s a palace nearby. The others will find us anyway.’ Allardini replied.
It was getting dark and colder, they walked for a bit then they came across a large building.
‘This has to be the palace.’ Little Hedgehog said.
‘Hmmmmm, I better knock on the door then.’ Allardini said whilst knocking on the large wooden doors. A man opened it and looked at them.
‘What do you want?
Go away, we don’t want your type here.’ The servant grumbled at them.
Allardini begged the man,
‘Please sir, we are only travellers looking for a bed for the night. We’ll be on our way in the morning.’
The servant was about to say ‘Bog off!’ then he noticed the staff Little Hedgehog was carrying,
‘Well come in then, we can’t let you children stay out there in the cold. Come come,’ he turned around and shouted in the direction of the kitchen, ‘get these children some food, the look like they haven’t had any food in ages.’
Little Hedgehog turned and smiled at Allardini and said, ‘You must have been very convincing to make him change his tune.’
He ushered them into three different rooms and shoved a hot plate into each of their hands. The plates had dumplings and beef on them, they didn’t look very appetising to the three.
When they had gone into their rooms the servant went down to the kitchen and turned to his jester friend who was waiting in there for him,
‘I thought you said we shouldn’t have travellers in here.’ The jester said,
‘My dear Grix Thraves, I only let them in because of the staff the girl was holding, it has powers in it. I have to go get the supreme ones. Trap those three in here and wait until I get back.’
‘Ok, I’ll try TomUK.’ Grix replied. Then he went and fetched three planks of wood, he made sure that they were fresh so they wouldn’t break easily. When he returned to the kitchens, Tom had gone.
‘Didn’t even do so much as say ‘Goodbye’.’ He sniffed, he walked up the stairs, making sure he didn’t make a sound to wake any of the guests, then, he shoved the planks into the holders on the doors and made sure they were secure. Then locked the large double doors and off he went to bed.
Unknown to the two, Allardini had stayed awake and had listened to their conversation,
‘I have to warn the other two.’
He ran to the door but it wouldn’t open,
‘Dammit! They’ve done it already.’ He slammed his hands against the large wooden door whilst swearing.
‘Oh well, may as well go to sleep. We can think of a way out tomorrow.’ He muttered, walking to his bed and he fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.
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The Exterminator was the first to wake up, he was bored so he watched the sun come up over the dark green hills, they were made brighter and richer in colour as the bright orange sun enriched them. The whole area became brighter. For a moment he forgot about the quest in hand as he watched in wonder, then he remembered,
‘I better go and wake the others up then, can’t leave Toni waiting.’ He said in a bright voice. He walked over to the door, he tried to open it but it was stuck fast. He slammed his hands onto it, it still wouldn’t budge and he carried on till his hands became red raw, it still wouldn’t move.
‘OI, EXTERMINATOR!’ came a shout from next to his window, ‘GET TO YOUR WINDOW NOW!!!!!’
The Exterminator walked to the window and saw a tired, fed up Allardini,
‘What is it?’ he asked.
‘We can’t get out, they’ve trapped us in here.’ Allardini said, ‘And your banging woke me up!’.
‘Oh, sorry, didn’t mean to,’ he said apologetically, ‘Where’s Little Hedgehog?’ he said quickly changing the subject.
‘I dunno, I’ll see if she’s awake.’ Allardini replied.
‘LEAVE ME, ALONE I’M FLIPPIN’ TIRED, AND I CAN’T GET OUT!’ came a shout from Little Hedgehog’s room.
‘Well let’s think of a way out then.’ Allardini said a bit perkier.
‘We could climb out the windows.’ The Exterminator suggested.
‘Just look at the drop.’ Little Hedgehog said coming to her window and pointing down at the 15ft drop.
‘Oh yeah, good point.’ The Exterminator said whilst looking down at the drop.
‘Allardini could continuously charge at the door till it smashes open. He is older and stronger than us.’ Little Hedgehog said.
‘The question is: Will I be able to make it through without hurting myself?’ Allardini answered.
‘Oh, well you think of something then.’
‘Just send the others a message.’ Allardini grumbled rubbing his eyes.
‘Ok, anyone got paper?’ The Exterminator said.
‘Rip a bit off your habit, too big for you anyway.’ Allardini replied.
‘How can we write on it?’ he asked.
‘Spit on it, eat it, rip it in, do whatever you want, just don’t ask me!’ Allardini groggily answered.
‘Here, done!’ Little Hedgehog said throwing a bird with a piece of paper attached to it out of the window, it went straight down to the bottom of the mountain in a swift swoop. Allardini just looked at her in surprise then turned to The Exterminator and said,
‘See, she did it in the time you were trying to work out how to write it on. Well now that’s done we can just sit here and wait.’
They sat there and looked out towards the other mountain at the side of the land, it was dark, had clouds surrounding it and looked intimidating. Then Little Hedgehog spoke,
‘I wonder why they trapped us anyway.’ She said in a puzzled voice.
‘They saw your staff and worked out that we’re after their leaders and they trapped us in here to get their leaders to kill us.’ Allardini replied to her answer casually.
The Exterminator looked amazed, ‘How did you know that?’
‘I heard their conversation last night. They’re the two that Ant warned us about. Hopefully Shaneo, Lord Badger and Tony Blair will get the message, I want to get out of here.’ Allardini said in a hopeful voice.
‘So do I. The food is awful, it tasted like weeds’ The Exterminator said in a disgusted voice.
‘You actually ate that stuff!’ Little Hedgehog exclaimed.
‘Well, I was hungry.’ The Exterminator replied.
‘I am as well, but I didn’t eat that poison. Didn’t you realise it was cooked by a gambling Jester with a fear of brickwork?’ Allardini said in a funny voice.
‘How do you know that?’ The Exterminator asked.
‘He’s a very famous Jester, he was banished from the palace I used to work in because he tried to kill the King.’ He mumbled, taking interest in the view.
‘You worked in the palace.’ Little Hedgehog sounded interested.
‘Yes, I was a soldier in training, I was thrown out because I never went to training. I preferred to mess around in the town, I kept getting back in though.’
‘Shows how good the guards were then.’ Little Hedgehog giggled.
‘Yeah, they can’t fight either.’ Allardini laughed, ‘they don’t even know what a sword is even if you wave it in front of their face. I was about the smartest one there.’ He laughed again, ‘I miss it though.’ He sighed.
‘Well you have us, we can’t throw you out.’ Little Hedgehog sounded comforting.
‘Yeah, you have us, we’ll keep you company.’ The Exterminator added.
‘But you’re not thick idiots which I can take the mick outta.’ He replied.
‘We might be.’ The Exterminator retorted.
‘It’s very comforting knowing that you want me to think that you’re stupid to make me happy.’ Allardini smiled.
‘I’m not that stupid.’ Little Hedgehog said.
‘I know,’ Allardini sighed and looked out to the green plains, the large towns, the vast hills, the wide valley, the dark mountain, ‘I hope they hurry up,’ he said sadly, ‘I want to go home.’
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