Walking in the door was...SARA! (haha, gotcha, you thought it'd be someone famous, didn't you?) Tania couldn't believe it! She hadn't seen Sara all summer! She ran over to her and then, after saying hi, introduced her to Amy, Taylor, and Isaac. Behind them Rocky the Singing Dog had begun yet another exuberating song, "Barbie Girl" by Aqua. Now, Tania didn't know about anybody else, but she found it quite humorous to see a dog singing about a Barbie, but whatever.
Amy then suggested that Sara walk around Never, Never Land with them, considering that they apparently weren't going to be playing miniature golf anytime soon. They all agreed to this proposition and as they started to walk out of Hook's Miniature Golf, Ike put his arm around Tania (awww...). That stupid dog started singing another song. It was "Crush" by Jennifer Paige. (How appropriate.) Tay turned to the dog and said, "Yo, Rocky, you better not quit your day job."
Sir Alfredo Cheesier insidedly wondered where Zac and Jack were. Neither had missed one knight practice until today. He decided that he probably shouldn't be too worried, but he kept having the same feeling: that something hacing to so with happy weasels was going to harm Zac and Jack. Try as he might, he couldn't get these thoughts out of his head all during knight practice. Or as he walked home. Then, right as he was about to enter his front door, something grabbed him from behind! He tried to scream, but whatever it was had its hand over his mouth. He couldn't believe this was happening! And to think that he had been worried about Zac and Jack.
Zac, while Jill went downstairs to get a beverage, began thinking about what else but, cell phones. If only he had had a cell phone when he had seen Laura Vanlandingham walking down the street...then he could have called someone to come and see her, too! Oh, that would've been SOOOO cool! Jill then came back into the room, interrupting his thoughts. And, to his surprise, she began talking about Laura Vanlandingham. She wanted to knw what, exactly, had happened to her. Zac began...
Well, about two years ago, Laura had been the head cheerleader for the FIghting Knights. One night her boyfriend Tom had angered the Happy Weasel and he had challenged Tom to a duel. Tom then said, "Ok, shaving cream at seven paces," he paused, "Until death." Laura had been sure that Tom would win, he being the expert at shaving cream duels that he was. So, she and the other Fighting Knights cheerleaders went out to cheer Tom on. They began the fight with the principal of Knight School Sir Alfredo Cheesier starting them. He counted off the paces, "1...2....3...4...5..6....7!" They turned and started shaving creaming each other. Now, considering that it was only shacing cream, this duel lasted through the night and into the next day. By that time Tom was beginning to tire. Suddenly the Happy Weasel brought out his secret weapon. Toxic Shaving Cream. Now, there were no rules against this, so Sir ALfredo could do nothing to save Tom. With one spuirt of the toxic shaving cream, Tom fell. Laura also fell, crying. She then cursed the Happy Weasel and swore she would never return to Tulsaville. She left the town to live in Oklahoma Cityville with Bula May.
Zac also said that Isaac had seen then duel, because Tom's brother TIm was a friend of Sir Ike's. Jill was speechless! And she was just as curious as Zac to find out why Laura Vanlandingham was back in Tulsaville. They decided to investigate.
After it started to get dark and Rocky that stupid Singing Dog began to lose his voice, Taylor, Amy, Isaac, Tania, and Sara all walked to the exit of Never, Never Land. They all agreed that the day had been much too eventful. Too many famous people and too many horrible renditions of good songs. (Made by who else but that marvelous singing dog?) Since Sara lived only about four blocks from the Hansons', she decided to walk home with them. (Yes, walk, we are in the Medieval Period, remember?) On the way home they talked about Katie, Amy's cousin from Albertane. Amy said that she had an imaginary pet mouse. His name was Arfy...Arfy the Singing Mouse. This name sounded all too familiar to Taylor...it reminded him of a certain non-talented dog. He brought this to Amy's attention. She said, in his defense, that Arfy was actually quite talented. Katie was going to take him to a recording studio sometime next week. She then suggested that maybe Isaac, Taylor, and Zac would like to perform a song with Arfy. Hmm, not a bad idea....
Her parents were such moroms! I mean, all they could say was "ga-ga-goo-goo"! Big vocanulary...What did they think she was...a baby? Yeah, she was almost a year old! Then again, it wasn't just her parents that were like that, Zoe had noticed, her brothers and sisters were, too! Except for Mackie, becuase he remembered what it was like. So maybe she drooled a little bit and hurled her pre-chewed green peas (YUCK!) every where on occasion, but still, she wasn't THAT much of a baby, she thought she was quit mature for her age.
While all this was running through Zoe's head, her mom brought in differ. For the family lamb chops, beets, and potatoes. For her pre-chewed green peas (AGAIN!!), pre-chewed hamburger, and a pre-chewed carrot/pineapple mix. Yuck. That was BABY food!! WHen were they going to get it through their heads that she wasn't a baby anymore? She was going to be one in just a few months, but, alas, her parents apparently did not remember this. What was she going to do?
Sir Alfredo Cheesier then got a brilliant idea. He would call his brother Sir Big Ears to come take care of the situation. You see, Sir Big Ears, before he became a Sir, had worked for the FBI (Farmers Bureau of Investigation). Maybe he could help out, but, alas, there was a problem! How was Sir Alfredo going to get away from this being that had hold of him? Well, if he could figure out WHAT the beingwas, maybe he could come up with an idea...but how was he going to do that? It was dark and probably wouldn't be daylight for hours! He was pretty sure that it was the Happy Weasel, but for all he knew it could be an ETB (extraterrestrial being)! This wasn't getting him anywhere...he had to think of something... Suddenly he knew...he would ask!! (As you may have noticed, Sir Alfredo is NOT the brightest crayon in the box...) He cleared his throat and said, "Excuse me...yes you, could you be so kind as to tell me what you are?"
"Sure," was the reply, "I could...I'm a sirknapper."
Sir Alfredo began to thank him, but then realized that the answer had gotten him nowhere...a sirknapper?? Well, he would just have to think harder...but thinking was definetly NOT Sir Alfredo's strong point. He immediately thought of Zac...and his...uuh...what were they...sell...? No...cell phones, yes! If only he cuold have one right about now! Maybe Zac wasn't as much of an idiot as Sir Alfredo had thought...he had, no doubt, come up with the solution to many people's problems..oh nut if only Mr. Cellular HAD invented one! well, when Sir Alfredo got away from this sirknapper, if he ever did, he would make sure to introduce Mr. Cellular to Zac...and the world would be a better place!
