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Who’s in charge?

Ello!

Ello!

May 14, 2023

Burt is laying on the ground with a hand on his chest
He opens his eyes to see a tall bamboo forest, and further up through the clearing he can see the cliffs where he just fell, it was a big fall. He tried to save Who and their carriage but got stuck on a bamboo and like a slingshot sent back up to the sky, to fall again not so far away from the first spot, far from Who.
Like a flea, he jumps and starts to listen with attention, the face someoen does when trying to see with their ears, or antennas, or in this case the slight vibrations some bugs can feel.
He looks up, no, the giant didn’t follow them; that might had been a brutal fall for it. Relieved, he starts running around the place, crawling ing up and down the tall bamboo as if looking for something.
He’s looking for Who. He stops and jumps to stand in the middle of the clearing, turns to his left and stares attentive -there- you might see him think, through the heavy dense bamboo that’s ts the way. Burt dives towards it and starts squirming his way through, it might take him some time as he seems stuck with his legs kicking the air.



Who groans as it slowly lifts herself from the ground, her hair and clothes covered in leaves and dust. She looks around and sees herself surrounded by a tall bamboo forest, and nearby several tall and thick bushy vines hang close.
Who shakes her arms to get the dirt out, she adjusts her shorts and starts rubbing her waist and tummy “That wedgie really stung” she says.
She looks up to see through the clearing, a couple cliffs apear far, with a heavy fog, but then the sky is clear all the way to the top of the bamboo forest she just fell into, or was thrown into by our reverse driving beetle friend.
“I guess your big monster was too chiken to fly huh?” says Who, upset by the wedgie marks on her skin. “Well I’m going to find out who’s in charge? of this theater, and oh believe me you’ll get it!” she says, waving her fist around
“I’m so angry imma kick your bamboo” and swings a kick to it “and your roots!” She yells stomping at a thick root in the ground “and your bushes!” but when she kicks the bush it suddendly turns towards her, and another bush very close also turns, they look like if someone was wearing camouflage, or maybe it’s just another hungry plant.
“Not again…” She whimpers softly.
Who dashes running through the bamboo jungle maze “Oh! I’m fast!” She says surprised, and as she turns around and sees the two bushes are catching up, they look like ice skaters sliding easily across the ground.
“At least they are not raptors, at least they are not raptors!” Who screams as she starts stepping on some small muddy puddles. She sees a huge boulder nearby a lake and runs towards it
“Let’s see if you can swim you hungry things!”
She runs on top of several tall roots and quickly climbs to the top of the boulder, it sits inside a small lake in the middle of the bushy bamboo. Who turns around and sees the bushes are not behind her, they are running back to where they came from.
“Afraid of a shower huh!” Who says triumphant “You stinky pots! You think you can eat this bug? but I aint no bug! I Aiieeeee” a huge splash follows, Burt just tackled Who from atop the giant boulder,sending them straight into the lake. Burt starts swimming easily and fast, like a water beetle, and drags who under the water until reaching the opposite shore.
“Bleghh! What is wrong with you? I had defeated them!” Who yells and now looks at her wet clothes “Oh! you just wanted to wet my clothes huh? Do you have any idea how long will my hair take to dry? Hey! Burto! Answer me!”
Burt is in front of Who, he seems worried and stares at the boulder on the other side of the pond.
“Oh, is that poop ball from one of your enemies Burt?” asks who while she starts to rinse her hair “Or you wanna steal it? I think your chariot wont be to easy to fin Whoaaagh!”
Burt lifts her and runs away from that place “Aieeee! Whatch your hands mister!!” Who yells as Burt carries her over his head.

Who and Burt stop after a while, they are in a different part of the jungle. The bamboo grows like flat planks and is as tall as the eyes can see. There is not much light so it looks like dawn at all times. The ground is covered by many small and big ponds, formed by big thick roots
Burt jumps around, flicking like a flea from root to root. Who has trouble walking barefoot on the slick roots and slips backwards into a pond. She gets up as its just knee deep, her hair and clothes are soaking wet.
“That’s s it, I’m done with this, It looks like I have a soggy diaper!” Who says.
“Turn around!” She yells at Burt, he turns to see what is she pointing at. Who starts removing the clothes and twisting them to get water out. She notices a couple yellow flowers whose petals look like ruffled silk, they are as long and wide as a newspaper.
“Woa look at this” She says as she grabs a couple petals and puts them around her waist, measuring them up.
They hear a deep rumbling far away
Who jumps and hugs Burt "We need some weapons Burt!”. They hear the rumbling noise again, closer “We need to run Burt!”
She rips all the petals from the flowers “Sorry, Sorry!” And they start running again, adventuring even deeper into the new jungle.
When they slow down again, they see several blobs and rocks that look like honey but they are solid like amber “ls that honey?” Who says as she grabs a small piece, it feels hard and flexible, like  rubber.
Who finds a small bamboo shoot covered in the solid honey, making it look like a small sword.
“Bziuuuuuuuuummm, bziummmmmm” She makes the sound while waving it around.
Burt is clueless as he looks at her “Burt I have no Idea but somehow I remember a cool story about a sword doing this sound” Says Who “Oh my god I had an idea for my hair!”

Minutes later they are both siting on the giant roots in the ground, close to a big ponds. Who Is telling a story about swords of light, while she rolls her hair like a certain princess.
Burt jumps up, the rumbling has returned and now is more like a roaring hum; they can see a dark cloud coming like a wall from afar, covering the forest in darkness
“Run!” Yells Who.
As they try to run, they see its a massive swarm of giant bees that are as big as basketballs.
They have long dragonfly wings and are making that deep buzzing sound.
Burt strides ahead thinking Who was behind him but she just fell into a pond. She ducks as the swarm buzzes by with a roaring hum. “Dive Burt! Dive!” She gets up and yells as hard as she can but Burt can’t hear her she can’t even see him “Oooof!!” One of the bees knocks out Who, there is an intense flash that came from somewhere close.

Who wakes up “What happened?” She asks, and sees the big bee knocked out at her feet covered in a honey goo drooling from the bees mouth.
“Helloo?” She asks carefully, trying to get away from the bee but the goo is sticky.
“Oh no” Who says, the honey is all over her skin and dificult to clean.
“Burt!” She exclaims, looking around finding noone.


“Eeeeehhhhlooooooooh”
“Aiee! What was that?” Says Who, scared as the noise was close to her
“Ehhhloooohhhhh glurglegugrgle” The Bee is talking while asleep and drools that honey goo.
“Hey you can talk!” Says Who concerned “Im a friend! frieeennnnd”
But the bee doesnt move
“Hello?” Who asks again, carefully gathering the flower petals she collected.
The swarm can be heard far away, and who remembers bees can smell their wounded to find them and help.
Who gets up and notices a piece of crystal that is broken
“Woa look how this sparkles” She says as she handles the crystal
The Bee is looking at her, it flips onto its tiny legs and starts flapping its wings so quickly that a wind gust is felt.
Aiee!” Who screams, She unsticks herself from the goo and runs over the roots almost falling into the ponds.
The bee tries but it can’t fly. It  jumps and falls as it hops after Who. And then gathers all its strength and flaps its wings as hard as it cans, jumping into the air and tackling Who into a pond
A big splooosh! Is heard as they sink into the pond. And a second later a huge flash lights up from inside it.

Who comes out of the pond, soaked wet, the flower petals are all over her like algae making it difficult to move.

“Im all wet! and these things are so sticky!” She says as she slaps a petal over her shoulder 
“Aagghh!” She screams as she sees the goo is now a thin rubber patch glued on her arm’s skin
“Oh no oh no” Who says worried as she struggles to remove the petals from her. Then from above she hears “elooooooh”
Who looks up and the bee is standing on Who’s horn
“Ah! Go away go away” She says as she tries to shush it
“Vey vey” Says the Bee, and starts to slowly flap its wings while it vibrates itself into a hot fuzzy ball.
“Aieee!  Hot! hot! go away!” Who cries
“Veyy!” Screams the Bee. And with a swift wing stroke makes a big puff! of steam come out from  Who.
The steam cloud fades away to reveal they are both dry. Who’s hair is now stylized as if someone used a hairdryer. She grabs her hair “Hey its dry!” And she hears a noise behind her 
“Brrt” She hears and can see Burt is back
“Burt! You found me!” Who says relieved< but pauses as Burt seems strange, like hypnotized as he stares at her
“Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrt”
“Huh?” Says who “Burty are you ok?”
Noomue
Noomue

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#jungle #bee #swim #pond #flowers #cute #dress #adventure #honey #fashion

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