Richard the prawn dashed (slower than running, quicker than walking, often done when things are urgent, such as 'to the shops' or 'to the toilet'. One rarely dashes to school or into a hairdressers.) out of the secret escape tunnel and into a crowd of prawns all gathered in front of the King Prawn's palace.
"It's him!" one of the prawns shouted.
"Could be anyone," said another.
"Nope, it's definitely him!" came the reply.
Then the prawns started cheering.
"Hurrah for that prawn over there what's going to save us!" they all shouted, displaying an uncanny knowledge of what each of them was going to say before they said it. "Bye bye Earth! Hello us not getting gobbled up anymore by Her Big Fat Greediness Kath Hoolu!"
[insert pic of crowd of cheering prawns]
Before Richard could do anything about it, the prawns picked him up and passed them over their heads.
"Hurrah!" they continued to cheer. "Hurrah for our hero!"
Then, just when Richard thought it couldn't get any more awkward, the King's voice boomed out from the hidden depths of his palace.
"Richard the Prawn is a traitor! He knows of the secret passageway! The secret one! The one that's a secret that only I know about and told Richard! He wants to save Earth! He has disobeyed, nay defied, Kath Hoolu! Stop him! STOP HIM!"
Silence fell on the crowd like an enormous bear tripping over a little twig to then land on a little family of beetles having a picnic. Suffice to say, it wasn't pretty.
"Kill Richard!"
"Tear off his claws!"
"Mash him up good and feed him to my pet starfish!"
"Give him a cuddle and a mug of hot milk then send him to bed!"
There was a pause.
"... and... er... after that... er... PUNCH HIM ON THE NOSE! WITH A SHARK!"
The crowd were wild with Richard-the-Prawn hatred. Then they were wild with Richard-the-Prawn loathing. Then they were wild, like proper wildlife that lives in the wild. Like a cheetah, for example. I mean, that's pretty wild. But not like a rabbit. Wild they may be (the ones that live in the wild), but I can't really imagine one going all crazy and loony-like, can you? And finally they were just wild. The prawns, not the rabbits.
Richard knew he had only one chance left, like when you play a game with three chances and you've used up two and have only one left.
He whistled.
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Super Prawn!Book 1: Super Prawn Escapes!
HumorRichard the Prawn, AKA “Super Prawn”, with his side kick Clamp the Hermit Crab, is here to save us all from a giant, evil intergalactic squid-octopus creature that, with the aid of its numerous minions, is intent on melting Earth's ice caps to drown...
