Mike
I pulled myself up out of my house while my newly forged cannons cooled. Wearily I dragged myself towards the pond. I passed the rabbit den and noticed a few staring from the top of it. I didn’t care. I dropped myself into the pond and gasped as the cool water brushed my scorched skin.
I sat there for thirty minutes just letting my skin cool. I had made two extra plated cannons over the night. I finally pulled myself from the water. As I walked back I felt my strength returning. "Water is good," I said. I shook my hair and walked into my house. I waited for a minute before plunging into the heat that had consumed my lower level.
Amazingly I found that most of the heat had drained out. I dropped down into the furnace room and checked the cannons. They were under a constant deluge from the dragons spring, still bits of steam came off of them. I shook my head and walked out. Grabbing my spade and a metal bowl, I headed for the cave. I slowly started raking the gunpowder into my bowl.
About thirty minutes later I walked out with a full bowl. I laid the bowl on the ground near the dragon and Went back into the furnace room. I checked the cannons and found that the Dragon had triumphed! The Cool water now poured evenly onto the cannons I felt them and they were nice and cool.
I dragged the Cannons outside and found the sun directly above me. "Noon Already!" I thought. Shaking my head I loaded the cannons and prepared a ball of shrapnel to be shot. I moved behind it and triggered the explosion. I dove to the ground as the explosion rocked the area. My hands had made it to my ears not a second to soon.
I got up and was amazed to find that the cannon had actually shot the shrapnel at least Sixty Blocks. Amazed I Just stared. The Test on the other cannon worked the same. I tested the two about a dozen times before my second bowl of gunpowder emptied. Almost not believing I dragged the cannons back towards my house. I knocked little holes in my walls and fit the cannons on the other side.
I tested them twice from my side and found that they had a pretty good range of fire. Happily I treated myself to one of the special meals. Then sat planning how I would set more things up. Then My House shook when one of my outer mines went off.
Jack
I had just managed to get into the office again from convincing the fire department to help a cat that regularly climbed onto the power lines to chase squirrels. When I got to the office I half expected to sit for an hour doing nothing. The Receiver got up and came to me before I got to my desk.
Surprised I stopped as she handed me the keys to the bulletproof Cruiser. "What?" I asked as I weighed the keys and looked at the directions. She started talking "We have had forty-five calls and counting coming from the forest you checked yesterday. But these explosions are bigger! And early this morning there were huge plumes of smoke coming from that direction."
I stopped and turned around heading towards the door. Here I thought I was going to stop for a couple of minutes at least. As I loaded up in the Bulletproof Cruiser I felt tired. I drove out the forest and drove back out the direction I had yesterday. I wasn’t as attentive as yesterday so when I drove over the mines I didn’t even see them coming.
