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At the circus place Oliva were dragged away to her
'Hypnotic Fortune-telling'--tent. Jesper, on the other hand went away
in the absolute opposite direction, and ran into Big-Nose Sally
who said:
"Hi, Jesper. I've been looking for you all day. What have you
been doing all day?"
"Nothing special."
"Listen Jesper, I just heard on the radio that Wilfor--Toto has
escaped from prison through a hole in his prison cell floor."
Jesper at first had a déjà vue, but he just couldn't
put his finger on why he had one. Oh, that's right he himself
had also escaped through the prison cell floor. For a while he thought
that the two incidents had a connection, but then he remembered
that identical twins often experienced the same things simultaneously
without any logical explanation, rather a supernatural one.
However, he took up the notes, that he had made in the prison cell,
and added:
- Both Wilfy and I escaped through a hole in the prison cell floor
He felt convinced that if he got a few more clues, he would solve
the mystery of why he was arrested. Then he started to realize that
he hadn't replied to Sally's statement for a few minutes so he said:
"They didn't by any chance say something on the radio about someone that
looked like Wilfor-Toto that had escaped through a hole in my...
his prison cell?"
"No!", Sally said looking surprised, "Are you sure that there isn't
something that you done today that you haven't told me about?"
"Me!!??", Jesper said with his most innocent
voice and added to his list:
- Only Wilfy's escape was on the news, even though the charges
against me was as severe as the charges against Wilfy must have been.
Sally looked at Jesper and said:
"What are you writing?"
"Nothing", Jesper said as he put his notes in his pocket and looked
up to the sky and started to whistle
'Always look on the bright side of life'
Sally interrupted:
"The radio news was not the main reason why I wanted to talk to you.
Someone is trying to start the helicopter!"
"So,..", Jesper said relieved that Sally took no
further notice of his notes.
"In case you have forgotten: The helicopter is inside Darren the
Dragon's stomach!!"
"And?"
Sally looked insecure:
"Well, it was just that.."
"O.K., we can go to Darren if you insist",
Jesper said and so they did.
When they came to Darren, Darren's owner were talking to him:
"Exactly what did you eat yesterday?"
"Stuff", Darren muttered.
"Stuff like helicopters, cats, frogs, camels and peoples?
"No comments!", said Darren who knew that that was the answer to use
when the questions were tough. He had learned that
from politicians, and
grave criminals and other persons that had things to hide.
He then realized that attack was the best defense, so he said;
"Well, it was you who said that I shouldn't eat fairy-floss!"
"And I thereby indicated that you should eat other things like,
helicopters, cats, frogs, camels and peoples?", Darren's owner
said with his smoothest, but still sarcastic, voice.
"Yes, that's right. Precisely so!", Darren said relieved but surprised
that his defense speech went so well. Darren's owner turn around to
Jesper and Sally and said:
"Any ideas what we shall do about Darren?"
Jesper, who seemed lost in his own thoughts and didn't seem to listen
to Darren's owner, were surprisingly the one who yelled:
"I've got it! I've finally got it! The police thought that I was
Wilfy and not Jesper, since we are identical twins.
The charges were for Wilfy and not for me! No one was squint-eyed.
It all makes sense...."
All the people around Jesper stared at him.
Darren's owner said the word that
stood written on everybody's face:
"What!?"
Jesper felt embarrassed, when he realized that his thoughts
had came out as words.
Should he say that had sung a rap song. That could
work. Or should he say that he just became insane.
That could also work. Or
should he tell them the truth.
That could hardly work. However, he was
saved by Darren who started to cough.
He obviously had something in his throat.
He coughed up a ball of black hair.
The hair-ball proved to be Olivia's black cat
Snow-white. Snow-white hissed and growled, and then she ran away to
Olivia's tent.
Then they all heard a hollow rumbling sound.
Darren started to giggle, a giggle that soon turned into a
roar of laughter. He laid down on the ground, still laughing
and started to flounder with his legs in the air.
Then the hollow rumbling sound ended, and Darren calmed down.
Darren owner, who unlike the others realized what was going on,
explained what had happened:
"Darren is, if you didn't know already, probably the most
ticklish dragon in the northern part of the
Milky Way.
He just can't stand it when the helicopter starts, and the
rotor blades tickle him!"
"But who is starting the helicopter?", Sally asked.
"According to the list of missing persons and animals, that I made,
it must be either Tom, Clara, Clementine or Olivia's little cute
green frog, Kermit. My guess is that it is Tom."
"Are we just going to stand here and wait for Darren to cough up the
others, or are we going to try to get them out of him?", Sally asked.
The question was directed to Darren's owner, but Jesper answered
instead:
"Why can't Olivia hypnotize Darren to think that he is a mine shaft.
She can do that, I bet. Then we can send down a rescue team down the
mouth of the mine. If it is hard to find volunteers I bet Olivia can
hypnotize someone into being a bold rescue person."
After Jesper had come up with his ideas,
the others so often had to tell
him to shut up, that it had almost become
a conditioned reflex for them.
Thus, Darren's owner replied:
"Shut up moron!", when he suddenly realized that the fool's bolt
actually had hit the mark. Jesper's idea was brilliant!
The first thing they must do was to hypnotize Darren. For
that purpose they needed Olivia.
They had just started to argue who should
go and fetch Olivia, when she came walking towards them carrying
Snow-White. Olivia looked like she was in heaven when she petted with
her cat. Nothing around Olivia seemed to matter now, when Snow-White
was back.
"Great, she has probably completely forgotten all about me, now that
her beloved cat is back from the inner of the dragon.",
Jesper thought and smiled.
When Oliva came close to the others she stopped and said:
"My baby is back! Snow-White must be the cutest
creature in the world",
she looked at Jesper who smiled even more and added:
"Except for you my Jesper with that cute smile of yours that
I hadn't seen before!"
"But on the other hand maybe
she hasn't completely forgotten about me",
Jesper continued his thinking as his fatal smile disappeared.
Darren's owner, who had took charge over the rescue operation,
explained their plans for Olivia. She listened and responded:
"Oh, I'm sorry, but I can't do that. When I was taught how to
hypnotize I had to give a vow that I would never put the hypnotized
person in any danger. Sending a hypnotized person down the throat of
a dragon can be associated with a certain, non negligible,
amount of danger, I'm afraid. The vow I gave is more sacred than
life itself. So, nothing can make me change my mind."
But Darren's owner still had one ace up his sleeve:
"Oh, what a pity. Then we can't save poor Kermit
from a painful death!"
The diameter of Olivia's eyes doubled
(i.e. the size quadruplicated), as she gasped:
"Save Kermit? You mean that we might be able to
save my little cute green
frog? I'm all yours! I'll do what ever it takes! Who cares
about a stupid vow!"
So, Olivia hypnotized Darren, and Tim,
who volunteered to be hypnotized.
Even though Tim now were a bold rescue man, he at first refused to go
into Darren's mouth, but a few gallons of mouth-water
later he entered.
Darren's owner, who knows a lot of the interior of a dragon,
had written a
map for Tim so he should find his way. With the aid of the map and a
small torch, Tim evaded with style to wander down to the lungs.
Due to a lot of fire-spitting the flagellum
in Darren's throat was eliminated,
so Tim had not much to hold on to during his descent.
He tried to move
carefully, but he lost his grip and fell. It then occurred to Tim that
a Dragon probably had very strong gastric juice, due to its eating
habits. As he fell, he just waited for a splash followed by
a corroding
sound as he would become nourishment to the dragon. But when he landed
the sound was not 'splash', rather 'boink'.
He turned on his torch, and saw that
he had landed on a helicopter. He saw someone inside the helicopter.
So, he knocked on the window, and Tom opened:
"Tim, what are you doing here?!"
"I was just in the neighborhood,
so I thought I could pay you a visit."
"Where are we? Yesterday I was just showing Clara and Clementine how a
helicopter works, when a cat and a cute green frog ran in. They seemed
to be chased by someone.
Then it became black outside, and it felt like
the helicopter was moved to a smelly acetous marsh. The strangest
thing is that every time that I start the helicopter
there is an earthquake!"
Tim then explained the situation to Tom.
They both soon realized that there
were no way that they could climb up through the gullet, so Tim
staged plan B. Plan B was in case
Tim didn't return out of Darren within an hour.
Then the others should pour down a cubic meter of a
laxative substance down Darren's throat.
Tim and Tom decided to dismount the rotor-blades
and other projecting objects on the helicopter, so transport out were
made easier.
The dismounting was just done when the helicopter was covered
with the laxative substance.
Less then 30 minutes later all the peoples
and animals in the helicopter could climb out and see the sun again.
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