Hello everyone!
I am doing the 100 theme challenge and this is the first one I did #8 Innocence. please excuse the silliness and complete fluff if you don't like that sort of thing (But please read it till the end, it makes sense then). this is my first attempt at a short story that I actually finished (So please be gentle) thanks for reading and hopefully reviewing.
“Help!” Evangeline screamed as she dangled precariously out over boiling lake of red hot lava. She wriggled and tried to get out of the ropes that had been wound round and round her many times. “Help me somebody, anybody! I'm too young to die.” then she heard the "scritch, scrabble, scratch, scratch" that was the noise of the worlds best or depending on what side you were on worst villain in the whole history of anything. Professor crabs half genius half crab. He scuttled over his toe-less feet clicking on the dark rocks.
“Scream all you want to Evangeline, no one can hear you, no one will save you. Now tell me the location of the Device!” Evangeline looked down at the lava and then at the professor.
“Never! I promised I wouldn't. I double pinkie promised I wouldn't. Besides Dudley will save me.” she tossed her head to the side and refused to look at the Professor. He turned a purplish color then a mean smile crept over his face.
“Do you want to know something Evangeline?” He was rummaging about in his white coat pocket. “I already have the Device!”
“No!” cried Evangeline throwing her head back. He father had worked so hard on the Device.
“So you see my dear you've already lost! You lost the Device and Dudley doesn't know about my hideout-” there was a tremendous crash at the back of the hideout.
“Stop right there villain!” Dudley shouted as he rode into the cavern on his trusty dinosaur Trevor.
“Yeah!” Trevor added “Stop right there crab cake!”
“Blast you Dudley!” Professor Crabs shrieked. Evangeline was weeping for joy then she remembered.
“Dudley! The Professor had the Device.” Dudley went several shades paler a hunk of his sandy golden hair falling into his deep brown eyes. Evangeline felt almost safe. She knew her beloved Dudley would save her. Professor Crabs gnashed his teeth.
“Yes Dudley I do have the Device so don't come any closer.” Dudley moved so slow you almost couldn't see then quick as a wink he pulled his magic sword and charged the professor. The professor from under his lab coat pulled his atomizer disintegrating ray gun and fired a million shots at Dudley. Evangeline screamed and fainted, Trevor roared and charged the company of robots the professor used as security guards that were now blocking the only way out. Dudley wasn't hurt of course and he stood tall the smoke billowing around him. He started again towards the Professor who held up a hand and moved aside to show a rather large switch.
“Hold it right there Dudley. One step closer and Evangeline gets barbecued! This switch controls the rope she is tied o and if you try to take the device form me, well.” Dudley looked from the professor to his beloved Evangeline. Professor Crabs laughed wildly.
“I've won! Don't you see? All I have to do is to inset the Device into the main frame computer in the tower of London and the world will be under my control!” as he spoke he leaned backwards and more on purpose than on accident he flipped the switch and Evangeline who had woken up plunged towards the lava!
“No!” Dudley cried.
Professor crabs was getting into his helicopter and was about to escape, and Evangeline was plunging towards certain doom. Dudley didn't know what to do. Save the world and loose his beloved or save his beloved and have the entire world under the claw of Professor Crabs. Just then Trevor who had beaten all the robots shouted
“Don't worry Dudley if we-”
“Megan! Time to go, Sarah and her mom will be waiting for us. You don't want to miss the kite festival do you?” Megan looked up and shouted.
“Coming!” Megan got up looking for her sweater, she found it tossed over the bookcase. She looked around as she turned out the light and closed the door.
“Goodbye everyone, be good.”
“Megan?” her mom shouted again.
“I'm coming!” and she was gone. When the front door slammed the lights in the playroom suddenly came back on.
“Clear!” Evangeline, who was really called Barbie's Friend Tina, shouted from her vantage point, tied to the desk lamp by a very long and very overly knotted piece of pink sparkly yarn.
“Hey can anyone help me get down?” she added squirming. Professor Crabs, who was really a rather beat up old stuffed panda named Gus , creaked to his rather floppy legs and with a voice you would expect out of a London theater actor and not a stuffed panda addressed Tina as he pulled the lamp back over the desk.
“Oh my dear Tina! Are you quite alright?” he fussed about as he helped her untie the yarn.“I am so sorry about all this- it's my first time playing a villain you know-loved working with you by the way. You should be on the stage of the opera house, your skill and control are truly breathtaking!” Tina smiled and rubbed her arms.
“Oh you were wonderful too Gus.I would never have guessed you are not used to this sort of thing. You stay in character beautifully. The performance you gave was spot on.” Gus bowed and like the Genteel panda he was he helped Tina down from the desk seeing her home to the large doll house in the corner.
Dudley also known as Logan helped Trevor, Megan never did bother to change his name when she played. The poor dinosaur had been thrown in her haste to the floor and had gotten himself stuck between a stack of books and a hard place. Once he was free he went to complain to his fellow terrible lizards about how much he disliked always being the steed.
Logan stretched and cracked his stiff neck. He was getting up in years. He was an odd old toy. Megan had bought him at the church rummage sale the year before. He was like many rag dolls except his arms and legs were made of wood sewed into the cloth and his head was that of a horse. Logan straitened the red cape Megan had made for him and climbed up the bookcase to look out the window. Megan and her mom were just driving away. He smiled. He had many children over his long life and he knew that what he had with Megan wasn't going to last. She would grown up stop playing with toys and he would be passed to another child or forgotten in a box somewhere. The thought of that made him sad. He was going to miss her when she became a grown up but Logan was never one to dwell of the past he gave him self a good shake to resettle his sawdust.
He was going to relish her her childhood and innocence as long as he could, and while she was still on her Indiana Jones kick he as well as every other toy in the house were in for one wild ride.
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