Corey and Oats in..
Zara’s Nightmarish Chalkboard World.
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Corey and Oats were all about using their imagination and creativity to
express themselves and they loved seeing others do artwork, but one day
the two of them were feeling very sad when Piff and Tangie’s expression of
love in the form of the fish chalkboard mural was removed.
True, they had been told that everyone had to take turns but they were
crying because they did not want to say goodbye to it. ‘But that is the
symbol of my love for Tangie, who is my sweet fish-cake.’ ‘And Piff is my
delicious sashimi with two spring rolls!’ Anglo laughed at their food their
food themed terms of endearment so hard he turned bright red.
‘That gets me everytime.’ ‘And we know Zara isn’t exactly as talented as
Mel.’ ‘And she has a thing for kiddie characters and Peter Pan, she will
probably either draw Peter Pan or Simba because she is a big baby.’
‘Give her a chance.’ ‘How about uhhh…nope?’ ‘Corey, come on, she could
do something really clever.’ Piff gulped as he saw Zara drawing something
up on the board, he was horrified at what she was doing…’Okay, why is
there a duck with two tails and no head?’ ‘I think that’s supposed to be a
cat.’ ‘It looks like it’s hiding its own secret wish to die.’
Zara drew the sun shining in the sky and Piff rolled his eyes…’Okay what is
the sun supposed to represent? Is he smiling because he is emotionally
fulfilled with his life or is he smiling because he is pretending to hide his
feelings of isolation?’ ‘Who made you an art critic, Piffy?’ ‘Pufferfish are
naturally gifted artists.’
Which was followed by flowers and the word ‘wavy’ or ‘happy’. ‘What do
you guys think of this piece?’ ‘I don’t know, Zara does not know a thing
about proper character development. Why is the cat smiling and why does
have no legs? Why is the sun smiling? What is the message here? Is this
really about some kind of propaganda that is telling us to hide our
emotions and to be happy all the time?’
‘Come on, Piff - be nice.’ ‘I’ve tried to give the artist the benefit of the doubt
but this does not have any plot to it. Or any thing that would even make it a
so bad it’s good piece.’ Piff got an idea as he pulled out some chalk and
drew a speech bubble next to the cat and the speech bubble read ‘Help, I
have no legs and I am in pain!’
He then doodled a version of Zara and wrote ‘I stink at character
development’ on it and he drew a monstrous worm coming out of the
ground to eat the flowers and he made it look like the flowers were made of
blood. ‘There, this art piece has been improved.’
Just then the cat leaped off the chalkboard, moaning and groaning as if it
was dying…’Help me, help me, please…help me, I cannot move my legs
because my creator fused all four of my feet together and i’m all head and
tail.’ ‘Poor thing.’ Tangie used the chalk to create a new set of legs for the
cat.
The monstrous worm lunged at the chalkboard as did the crude monstrous
version of Zara, dubbed Araz, Araz stomped her massive feet as she
rampaged around the house, roaring and scoffing down chocolates and
chips like an animal. ‘Araz likes chips, Araz likes Peter Pan and junk food.’
‘Am I really like this?’ Zara asked. ‘Sadly, yes.’ Piff responded.
They all fought off Araz and the giant worm before they had some lunch
followed by afternoon tea and they battled more creations that had been
brought to life. ‘See? This is what happens when you do get to do the
chalkboard, Zara. You make monstrosities like these.’ ‘But it is not my
fault.’
‘Yes it is, look at that poor cat.’ They used some magic to erase the rest of
the chalk-monsters before re-desiging the background to make it look like
a HR Giger painting of a fantasy forest setting with a cave that had a
monster inside it. ‘That poor cat had no legs until he came along to fix
him.’
The cat walked over to them…’Thank you for granting me the gift of
something my creator could not have given me, legs. I am now extra happy
and I can go back to my world with a smile on my face.’
Araz roared as she grew taller than before and ate more and more junk
food. Tangie drew up a wand much like the one used by Rita Repulsa and
brought it to life, waving it at Piff and the others. ‘Magic wand, make my
Piffikins and his friends grow!’
Piff and the gang all grew to the same size as Araz and fought her, the
pufferfish entered a fighting stance and did a sumo wrestler style pose and
lunged into battle, charging at her and defeating her with a super sonic
blast that made her explode into pieces.
The cat jumped back through the chalkboard and into his improved chalk
homeworld where he lived a much better life and the worm followed suit, as
all they all finished just in time for dinner. They all sat down together and
had dinner.
After dinner they all played games as Piff and Tangie went fishing with all
their friends and Piff showed off his fish collection which he had earned
and they all relaxed before Mel emailed Jill about their adventure,
explaining what had happened.
They had a karaoke contest and when their contest had finished, they all
got ready for bed - an hour later - with Corey putting on his bat pajamas
and Oats putting on his pink night-gown. They all hurried into the
bathroom to brush their teeth.
Afterwards they returned to the bedroom and gathered up all the friends
before jumping onto the bed, they jumped on the bed and all laid down as
they all said good night to each-other and Piff turned off the lights, they
drifted off to sleep and they all had sweet dreams as they did so.
And so another adventure had come to an end but more are coming up, so
stay tuned.
