Saturday, June 2, 2007
Bom Bom the Rat
Once, there lived a rat in a hat. His name was Bom Bom:
"Hello you nimsy-wimsy nincompoop! Ain't my hat cute! Wheeee!"
However, contrary to his kiss-my-ass way of talking, Bom Bom was a born coward. (not ratward, people!)
Regardless of whether there was real danger or not, Bom Bom would hide here,
Look whose butt is sticking up in the air! (Bom Bom says, " Not mine, definitely!")
there, and anywhere, really, as long as he heard so much as a squeak in his direction. (Though the squeaks were mostly made by himself.)
"Ahhh, me poor bones, I'm squashed!"
There finally came a day when Bom Bom became fed up with his own cowardice. He felt that he just had to keep up with the tough-guy image his manner of speaking had created. So, on this fine day, Bom Bom finally ventured out!
He scampered here, scrambled there, constantly sniffing at the exciting perfume of adventure diffusing through the atmosphere.
"Wheee! Why was I ever scared before? I feel on top of the world! Now, if only there were some food..."
Scampering, scrambling...
"This is the life!"
He spoke too soon. Without a by-your-leave, Bom Bom fell off the precipice that he was on and landed on a conveyor belt with a hard thud on his butt. With a weak:
"Excuse moi, but I think I just farted." , Bom Bom fell unconscious due to a concussion in his butt.
Oh no, is this the end of our hero, Bom Bom? Is this the fate every new adventurer will meet?
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No! Living in a departmental store has its dangers apparently. Bom Bom had actually fallen off a trolley(yes, a trolley, how pathetique!), and had, somehow, been brought to a new place! There he is now, hiding in a shelf:
"Yo yo yo! How are you all, you little yo-yos? Hah! Big guys have big luck, no? Look, no broken bones, no fallen whiskers, just a very sore butt! Hiak hiak hiak! This place has lots of food! I'm like, gonna forage for some now!"
Whistling a lively little tune(Bom Bom's mightily pleased with himself), Bom Bom turned and... came face to face with a giant cat!
Presenting... Mao Mao as giant cat.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Lively little tune turned into a petrified squealscream.
With a fierce "meow!" and a lethally graceful pounce, Mao Mao had his prize in his paws, Bom Bom!
With a fierce "meow!" and a lethally graceful pounce, Mao Mao had his prize in his paws, Bom Bom!
However, with the newly ignited fire of courage and adventure in him, Bom Bom struggled valiently, determined to escape death by Mao Mao!
"You idiot cat, take your paws off me!"
Sadly, even an iron will can fail you sometimes. After a few hours of struggling, when he merely looked on and occasionally tightened his hold on Bom Bom, Mao Mao, bored of wasting his time, effectively silenced Bom Bom permanently when he bit off his head.
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Now, this is what happens to every new adventurer! Or, more specifically, to Bom Bom, a rat who lived in a hat, who would have had a glorious memory to remember his new-found courage by, if not for an unfortunate turn of events.
THE END
