It’s finally done, Mica’s made a come back, everyone’s scared, and Nicou’s been on the beans! You wanna know what’s gonna happen next? Well, here ya go… a chapter entitled,
Chapter 10, Mica comes back.
Mica revved his saw and leant over the person he hated second most, on the whole planet. The diamond-edged blades sang as they approached Nicou’s spine. Mica was ready to plunge them in, when he heard a cry:
“NO!”
Mica looked over at Scrat, and then back down at Nicou.
“Mica, wait! Scrat was like me, just terrified of what Raffe would do to him if he didn’t hurt you.”
Mica looked up. “Where is Raffe?”
“He was banished for… for killing… well, trying to kill… kill you.”
Mica swore.
“Cause Nicou told…”
Mica froze. So that was it… So Nicou hadn’t wanted to… But he had… Then again, he had been like Scrat… But Scrat hadn’t attacked him… And anyway, Nicou had been hurting him for years…
Mica remembered then, what the vykkers had said. That was it then. He was about to slice Nicou’s spinal cord in half when he remembered something else. Something someone had said, years ago, he couldn’t remember who, and he couldn’t remember it all, but someone had said, a long time ago,
“Revenge may be sweet at first, but I promise ya this, you’ll feel awful sick about it in the morning…”
Mica paused, and then thrust his chainsaw down, strait through the tip of Nicou’s tail, and then deep into the ground.
Scrat ran over, well, more, waddled over, and looked at Nicou, who lay gasping on the ground. And then at Mica, who had turned off his chain saw and left it in the ground, with only it’s handle showing.
Scrat looked at the centimetre of flesh that Mica had cut from Nicou’s tail. And then up at Mica himself. “Does this mean you won’t kill Nicou?” He asked.
Mica nodded.
“And I suppose this means you’re alive.”
Mica grinned, and Scrat burst out laughing, with relief and joy.
Nicou looked up at Mica, and Mica looked back down at him. “I deserved more than that. I shouldn’t have let Raffe rule my life. If we’d all stood up against him…”
“It’s all right now. Raffe’s gone and… I’m not…”
Just then their father ran up. He looked first at Mica, then at the chain saw embedded in the ground, and then at the bleeding Nicou.
Ok boys, we are going right home, RIGHT NOW, and you are going to tell me what has been going on, why Mica is alive, why he has legs, and who sliced Nicou’s tail.
And then there Father marched them right home, all in a line in front of him, even Mica, and made them sit in the eating chamber until he, and everyone else, had heard the content of the last 10 chapters, as well as a bit extra from the years before.
What’ll there father say about the story? What’ll happen mow Mica’s back? Where have the vykkers been while all this is happening? Where will the story go from here? Find out the answer to as many of these questions as I can manage, in the exiting sequel, chapter 11!
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