cornflakes are good

Part Seventeen

The three octopuses lunged at the children and Sophia and nabbed them with their available octopus arms. Child, Another Child, Other Child, and Sophia shrieked with horror. Everyone at the party turned in their direction and screamed at the sight of the three horrifying octopuses. Instead of helping, though, they all scattered particularly in all of the directions except for the one that the octopuses and their victims were in.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Another Child screeched. He bit Octopus Three and tried to wiggle out of his grasp. "LET US GO!"

"We could let you go," Boss said, "if you accept an offer of ours."

Another Child quit kicking at Octopus Three and looked up at Boss with a curious look on his face. "An offer? Seriously?"

Boss grinned deviously. "You see. . . If you join the dark side with us. . . We wouldn't hurt you anymore."

Other Child gasped and pushed Octopus Two's tentacles away from her face. "Don't do it, Another Child! They're tricking you!"

"You have potential," Boss told Another Child.

"NO YOU DON'T!" Other Child screamed. Octopus Two clamped his tentacle over her mouth.

"Did you just hear that?" Boss said. "These 'good guys' don't see you like we do. To us, you are strong and brave and clever. To them, they think you're just some lowly scum who just tags along."

"NO! THAT'S NOT WHAT WE MEANT!" Child yelled. "ANOTHER CHILD! YOU CAN'T JOIN THEM! THEY'VE SAWED OUR ARMS OFF A BUNCH OF TIMES BEFORE! THEY KIDNAPPED YOU! THEY JABBED YOUR EYE OUT WITH A SEWING NEEDLE!"

"There's lots of red water involved. . .," Octopus Two said.

"Blood?" Another Child asked.

"Red water," Octopus Two responded.

". . . You mean blood," Another Child told him.

"I said red water and I meant to say red water," Octopus Two said. "Whatever— The point is: There's lots of killing people involved."

Another Child gasped. That was certainly a game changer.

"NOO! ANOTHER CHILD! YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THIS!" Child yelled. Octopus Two clamped a slimy octopus tentacle over her mouth. "MMMMMPHHHH!!"

Other Child pushed Octopus Two's tentacle away and took in a deep breath before speaking again. "IT'S FAKE BLOOD!"

"Fake blood?" Another Child asked and gasped. "Well that's no fun."

"REAL RED WATER!" Octopus Three screeched.

"CHOPPING OFF LIMBS!" Octopus Two yelled.

"OF A PLASTIC DUMMY!" Other Child shouted.

"HUMAN!" Octopus Two screamed.

"A PLASTIC HUMAN DUMMY!" Other Child screeched back. "IT'S ALL FAKE ANOTHER CHILD! THEY'RE LYING TO YOU!"

"SAWING THE LIMBS OFF YOUR ENEMIES' MOMS!" Octopus Two yelled.

"YOUR ENEMIES DON'T HAVE MOMS!" Other Child shouted.

"YOUR ENEMIES!" Octopus Two screamed.

"Your enemies are the octopuses!" Other Child told Another Child. "NOW KILL THEM!"

Another Child punched the three octopuses, in which they all were rendered unconscious. All of the children, including Sophia, pulled theirselves out of the octopuses' grasps and started running in different directions. Eventually all of them unknowingly fell into Emily's hidey hole.

"Ouch!" Other Child yelped.

"What is this place?" Child asked.

"Oh," Sophia said with a frown, "it's Emily's hidey hole."

They observed the bare hole.

"It's pretty hot, not gonna lie," Other Child said. The other children agreed.

"Meh," Sophia muttered.

And so the children danced in the hidey-hole.

And then Emily leapt inside.

"What are you guys doing in my hot hidey-hole?!" she screeched.

The children and Sophia immediately tried to scatter, but Emily pulled out four pairs of very convenient handcuffs and put them on her intruders.

"AaAhHhhhHh!" they all screamed as Emily tossed them inside her closet and locked the door.

So it seemed as if they were in a pickle. Other Child observed the broom closet for any keys or tools to get them out of there or release them from their uncomfortable handcuffs. There was nothing. Except a fish.

"Huh?" Other Child said.

"Hello," the fish replied.

"Who are you?" Sophia asked the fish. She said "you" in a tone that she would probably use when talking about Emily's dancing.

"I am the fish that insulted Emily's seizure-slash-dancing," the fish told Sophia. "I have been trapped here ever since. Please. Help me. She's planning to cook me for her dinner."

Sophia gasped and said, "Oh-em-gee, this fish is depressed." She turned to Another Child. "You're kind of messed up. Help fix this fish."

Another Child nodded and gave her a thumbs-up. He then turned to the fish and picked it up and put it in his mouth. Everyone gasped.

"You weren't supposed to do that, you IDIOT!" Other Child screamed.

"Oops," Another Child said.

The children and Sophia uncomfortably shifted around in the broom closet while trying to devise a plan that would get them out of there.

"Okay, who's the most macho person in this room?" Other Child asked.

Everyone pointed at Sophia.

"That's sad. Nevermind. We need a different plan," Other Child said.

Everyone sighed with disappointment. They continued to spin in circles until they heard an awfully high-pitched voice say, "I may be of assistance."

Sophia frowned. "Bunny. . ."

[Ten minutes earlier in Spookman's house]

After crawling out of the pond and inhaling a healing potion, Bunny scurried over to Spookman's house and stood outside an open window and looked inside. They weren't sure why they were doing this, but they figured it might have been for plot convenience. Fortunately they didn't have to wait a long while before something unexpected happened.

Spookman was happily vibing in his house after he left the party. After Sophia and the children were kidnapped, the party games started, and one of them was a drinking game. It turned out that Spookman could not drink because he was a skeleton and he embarrassed himself in front of everyone, so he ran away and cried. But soon after he was in a happy mood again.

That is until Senpie's Ghost showed up in his house uninvited.

"Why, hello there Spookman," Senpie's Ghost greeted him.

"Ew, what do you want," Spookman asked him rudely.

"I want you to tell one of my children goodbye. . .," Senpie's Ghost told him.

"You had children? Gross. I feel so bad for the mother," Spookman said.

"Shut up," Senpie's Ghost said. "Anyways. I had fourteen children in an alternate timeline. . . In this timeline though. . . All of my children weren't even born. . . However. . . One was brought here on accident. . . This information has only come to me now, so I want to tell my child as his father goodbye. . ."

"And so who is this child?" Spookman asked Senpie.

"It's . . ."