Drinking water

Submitted into Contest #170 in response to: Start your story with the line “I’ve got a plan”. ... view prompt

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People of Color

"I've got a plan." John said and glanced at his own reflection. He was a thoughtful, and kind, juice drinker. Once, he had even made a cup of tea for a youthful chicken.

But not even a thoughtless person who had once made a cup of tea for a youthful chicken, was prepared for what Becky had in store today.

The sun shone like a walking monkey, making John jumpy.

As John stepped outside and Becky came closer, he could see the blue glint in her eye.

"I am here because I want some more followers," Becky bellowed, in a cool tone. She said "I need your expert advice"

They looked at each other with great Ideas this is what John's plan was : to go into public and find a human, like two mashed, many monkeys skipping at a birthday party, which had orchestral music playing in the background and two hopeful friends  drinking water to the beat.

They posted on social media they have many good ideas.

They go around town to share ideas John comes across with his mom.

''Hi mom" he says.

"Hello," she says. "Look who came!!" she says.

Outcomes Virginia Gumdall.

"Sis?'' he said, looking surprised.

They stand confused but then they get a good idea.

Let's post something that says Virginia.

And they posted a new video that now has very good reviews!

Heather is just an ordinary three-year-old girl living in Los Angeles, until she sees a horrifying troll, called Menace Gloop, climb in through her bedroom window.

 Menace Gloop , who is built like a potato filled with rocks and smells like grated stinky socks smothered with sauce made from skunk trainers, sings a song about making little girls into lasagnes.

Heather tricks the troll into falling out of her window by telling him that there are child-brain cheesecakes outside. She realizes that the troll has to be stopped before he eats any more children and sets to work trying to invent a trap. She looks up a video posted by John and builds a pretty decent trap. 

She then after building goes into town same place were John and the others are Heather looking like a little kid as she was whent to say hi to the social media posters.  After a long time of tacking they agree to help Heather because they are worried.

Meanwhile, in a cave just outside Awfulpool, Head bottom starts to suspect that eating children is wrong, and grows tired of hunting with his fellow trolls. He decides to live as a vegetarian.

After a brief misunderstanding involving a finger and lashings of ketchup, The famous social media posters and Heather encounter Head Bottom, he notices he is wrong. But now there are bigger problems to worry about.

Ocean Wu has the perfect life working as a police officer in the city and chatting with her friend, Jessica .

However, when she finds a knife in her cellar, she begins to realize that things are not quite as they seem in the Wu family.

A rave leaves Ocean with some startling questions about her past, and she sets off to dull Sludgeside to find some answers.

At first the people of Sludgeside are incredible and adorable. She is intrigued by the curiously hilarious cleaner,  Slaughterhouse. However, after she introduces her to hard pain, Ocean slowly finds herself drawn into a web of fraud, vandalism and perhaps, even abduction.

Can Ocean resist the charms of Slaughterhouse and uncover the secret of the peculiar knife before it's too late, or will her demise become yet another Sludgeside legend?

Heather finds out about Ocean as she is her daughter for Heather is actually Heather Wu this causes The Flam family and Becky to form a superhero team called Like and subscribe. Like and subscribe try to track down slaughterhouse before the real damage is done. They find one clue in an old abandoned warehouse: it is a knife stuck into the roof with a riddle that reads: I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?  

Answer this to find what you need.

Oh come on they say and they go to ask their voice assistant which says its a map. What map are they to look for though?

They head to the library for clues, clues that seem impossible to find so they look in riddle books instead after a long time of looking they almost give up when they cant find anything but then, a small map slips out out of a riddle books this map is like a scavenger hunt they must look for different things until they find were the villain is this map takes them to a factory then a grocery store and then all around town until they come to another factory this time an abandoned one this makes Heather a little nervous but the others try to reassure her and tell her if they leave her she will be in more trouble than ever and it was better for them to keep watch on her, she had to stay brave because if she is left alone worse could happen. Once all of them are inside a disturbing music box goes off it lets many slow noises out, and scary person gonna come for you vibes, they ignore it though they ceep venturing halfway through and are attacked by living mannequins. Those living mannequins are no match for the flam fams martial arts skills they defeat them then are trapped. You'll never get out siad slaughterhouse who was there . Jessica was there now “Don't hurt them!!” She bravely says she looks almost unrecognizable in her new look. Slaughterhouse says nothing, she just stares. And with some rope accidentally hits something that is actually meant to destroy the superhero group Like and Subscribe. Too bad , says the bad villain, it's very simple to escape. You are all just pathetic. They all stand frozen as the ray makes bright blinding colors. Their cage is destroyed but, The heroes are alive. “How do you figure it out?’’ asks Slaughterhouse going to jail, “You said it was simple, so we simply opened the door!! So easy and surprisingly not hard.” Says Heather. And they all are happy, very happy and go out for boba. Jessica happy she at least stepped in a little bough herself cheesecake. 

THE END!!!!!

October 31, 2022 02:15

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