Chapter 6

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On a throne made of coral and shell sat an enormous prawn wearing an impossibly large crown made of pearls and shells and bits of sand and coral and, to add a touch of the fearsomely grotestque, lots of fish skulls.


[insert pic of prawn on throne wearing massive crown]


"I'm a King Prawn, you know," said the prawn to another prawn who was sitting in front of it and wearing a silly three-pointed hat. At the end of each point was a bell that rang when it moved. Or when the prawn on the throne hit it over the head with a length of seaweed.

"So am I," said the prawn in the silly hat.

The prawn on the throne hit the prawn in the funny hat over the head with a length of seaweed. The bells rang.

"But I'm the one with the capital letters," said the prawn on the throne. "And anyway, you're a shrimp."

The other prawn gasped.

"I am NOT!" it hissed, which is an odd sound for a prawn to make. "And how DARE you!"

"Oh, shush," said the King Prawn as the prawn in the funny hat continued to mutter to itself.

The throne on which the King Prawn sat was placed at the end of a long cave decorated with strange glowing sea creatures. Some of the creatures were telling jokes that no one found funny. Others were comparing moustaches. And yet others were painting pictures of bowels of fruit. No, that isn't a typo. I meant bowels, not bowls. Like I said, these glowing creatures were 'strange'.

A door at the end of the hall swept open like it was the most important thing it had ever done and that the King was watching. A coincidence? Fate? Who can say? Who cares? It's just a door. Stop going on about it...

The jokes stopped. Moustaches stilled. Bowels of fruit remained disturbingly unfinished. And in scuttled a prawn.

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