Darren had almost walked all the way around the plantation, when he
heard a scream. Obviously one of the Bleepic women had seen a barber.
With his sensitive dragon ears he could hear:
"Look!! A barber! No lot's of barbers!"
"Yes, It looks like the cute little fellows have come to visit us.
Look at this one, it has the hair-do I always dreamed of."
"Why don't you put it on your head, and try it on."
"O.K., I'll do that."
Darren could see how a Bleepic woman took up a barber and put it on
her head. Her friend said:
"Wow! You look lovely. Let's get one for me too. No, let's get one
for each of us, then we can have a beauty contest."
All the other women thought that this was a terrific idea.
Darren put down his stools on the ground.
He suddenly realized something that made all his huge body cold.
The animal that the Bleepic women was afraid of, might have been
'barbarians' not 'barbers'. The more he thought of it the more
convinced he become. And when the fact that the women put the barbers
on their head, where considered, he realized that he had made a
terrible mistake. He ran back to Oliva and Jesper, murmuring for
himself:
"Why? Why, are someone so stupid that the name animals
both to barbers and barbarians? Don't they realize what confusion
such similar name causes?"
When Darren had come to the hiding place where Olivia and Jesper
stayed, Olivia asked Darren:
"Our hero! Everything went good? No, minor problems I hope?"
Then Darren fainted.
The beauty contest at the plantation was a great success. All women
looked beautiful, so beautiful that it was impossible to select a
winner.
They had just decided that they all should be
winners, since they all got one vote, when one of the women
noticed the 14 stools. She said:
" Look! Someone have brought 14 prize winners podia.
One podium for each one of us. Let us all climb up
on them and celebrate our victories."
When Darren woke up, Jesper and Oliva asked him lots of questions.
But the only thing that Darren said to all questions
was:
"No comments!"
So, Jesper and Olivia had to go and look for themselves, to see if
Jesper's plan had succeeded or not. When they came to the stools and
found that all 14 Bleepic women were glued to the stools, Oliva
said:
"What did I say, everything went according to your plan. The have
climbed up on the stools to get away from the barbers."
"Yes, but one thing really puzzles me. If the reason to climb up on
the stools was to get away from the barbers, why on earth
did they carry the
barbers with them?? You Olivia, who are sort of a woman, do you
understand why these woman brought the barbers with them to the
stools?"
"Yeah, that's obvious! Don't you understand why? Actually,
it's so obvious that I will not bother to tell you why. And
besides you probably wouldn't understand it anyway.",
Oliva answered and smiled. Finally she had got her revenge.
She had made Jesper feel almost as stupid as he had made her
feel lately. As they stood there Darren slowly approached them.
When he noticed that all the women was glued to his stools,
the huge green dragon couldn't believe his eyes. It must have
been some magic involved somehow. When Jesper noticed Darren,
he said:
"I think you are ready to hear my plan, part two. Part two starts
when all women are glued to the stools, that is right now.
When the women are stucked to the stools, it is easy for Olivia to
hypnotise..."
"Why do I always have to hypnotise!? Why can't I ever
do something else?", Olivia protested.
"O.K., Oliva you convince 13 of the women, convince them
in any way you like, to fly back to Bleep and destroy all
space-crafts on the planet. They must do this so no Bleepic people
will come back here to enslave the aboriginals again. The only
problem then is that we are stranded here with no rocket fuel.
That's what the 14:th woman should help us with; fixing rocket
fuel, or rather fuel substitute. So, this women Olivia should hyp...
convince to make heaps of the 'Special Diet Home Brew Drink'.
You Darren, you should drink a lot of water, and I mean a lot.
Because you are going to contribute with the other part of our
two component rocket fuel substitute. But, before you start to drink
water, you should, after Olivia have convinced the women to
do the things we want them to do, unsaw them, so they just get
wooden shoes under their feet instead of a wooden stool."
"Oh no! No more sawing! My tail is sore!", Darren protested.
"In that case: Darren you may carry the 13 women, on their stools,
to their space-crafts, and the last women to all the ingredients of
her drink.", Jesper suggested.
Jesper then walked away from the stools, as Olivia started to
hypnotise, and Darren started to unsaw, the women. When Jesper had
found a cosy place in the jungle, he sat down and took up his
pocket diary. Then he wrote down his thoughts, ideas and explanations
to what had happened that day. His theories was so ingenious, and so
brilliantly presented that, they should be a candidate for a Nobel
prize both in physics, and literature. Unfortunately, no one but
Jesper ever read his diary, and the theories should forever remain
a secret for the rest of humanity. After he had finished his
masterpiece he fell asleep.
by Patrik Norqvist