GOD OF ...?

The Middle (2/4)

Or maybe it's just the leaves moving in the wind?!

I slightly, still eyes closed, lift my head to understand better. It seems to be a conversation. But who is talking?

Maybe it's the palm trees? Maybe they saw me inside the hotel room and felt empathy, so now they want to include me in their palm tree talk. What do palm trees talk about?! Themselves? Other palm trees? For sure there is something like palm tree gossip.

"Look at this b*tch, her leaves, the color... all fake!". "Yeah too green to be true Doloris. I bet her coconuts are implants too!". It must be like this. Or close to that. Similar at least!

My stomach is cramping like hell and gone are the voices. I have to squint my eyes. But then...., all of a sudden something or somebody is blocking my palm tree view. Yes, it's true I can't see them anymore. What happened?

Ahh, I can't figure out what's going on. Now, I hear a knocking on the glass door, that leads to my sea-view terrace. Well, maybe "knocking" is the wrong word. It sounds more like somebody is smashing against the glass with a trunk. I'm shocked and terrified and also surprised that the glass doesn't break immediately.

A short moment of silence.

Then again ...BOOOM BOOOMMMMM!.

Oh SH*T. WHAT is this? I'm afraid that if this, whatever monster it might be, smashes again against the door it will break and burst into a thousand pieces. And then this barbarian will probably come inside my room and ... god knows what happens then but something super scary for sure. Also, if I would survive the assault, the hotel is going to charge me a fortune for the damage.

All of them horrible scenarios.

I am leaving my bed and make my way to the windows, next to the door.

Zaahhhhh, my stomach cramps again. Like I took a bullet, I am sinking to one side, holding my stomach but I continue to make my way to the window, always in the fear that any second the glass might get smashed again. If this was an acting performance, somebody would hand me an Oscar straight away. The problem is, it's not. It's real. Then, I'm there! I'm here! I look outside to see where the palm trees have gone. I squint my eyes again to see clearly.

Yes, something is standing there, right in front of my terrace. Something ... GI-GAN-TIC.

It is .... a monstrous ... cat!!!? OMG, a giant cat is ..... no. No, it is not a cat.

I start to realize, that there are actually TWO gigantic objects. Now I can see their eyes. And now something is coming down to ... knock on the door again. NOO!

In an act of heroism mixed with stupidity, I am opening the doors to the terrace and step, or better, crawl out of the room! This might be it .... two giant .... things might end my life here, of all things, on Phu Quooocc.

The island that sounds like ... CHICKENS! Holy sh*t.

The giant creatures are two gigantic chickens! Each of them has the size of two large elephants.

"No!", I'm saying decisively as the beak of one of them comes closer to my face with lightning speed. But it doesn't seem to stop. As it almost reaches my height, right in these desperate seconds, my brain can only come up with one last idea to stop these monsters. To stop them from destroying my room, my belongings, and then most probably also my body and soul.

"Phuuuu Quuoooc!!!".

It's the name of the island that I am shouting with all that I have left in my lunges. To my very own surprise, it works...?!

The beak stops. I stop. No smashed doors, no smashed brains, for now....

"YOU"! one of the chickens says, clearly meant in my direction. Just imagine gigantic chickens speaking and add some deep, diabolic, angry tune to it, and – then you have the sound that just came to my ears. I am, again, scared to death.

What is going on? Why am I having these cramps?

And why are there two gigantic chickens in front of my room that ... well yes, WHAT do they want?