marg

bella.. Chester belongs to whoever adopts him.. and I REALLY like matthew's tiger, and he seems to be settling in quite nicely..

lynnspotter

Lynnspotter, typing slowly with her toes, says this is VERY entertaining! Must go off to consider how to wrangle the cookie back.....

marg

.. better be quick, Lynn, 'cos this tiger's REALLY fast ..

(heh, heh.. and sorry about your hands, but I AM going to end up with the cookie - and possibly the gold teeth ?)

TehMushKat

...and TehMushKat, original cookie owner, pounces up, using EyesOnly's magic leg splints, and catches said cookie between her teeth. Landing with an earthshattering "plop", she pegs it across the fields and glens of Blighty with the speed of a man with IBS in a restaurant. Unfortunately, this speed meant she couldn't see the cliff coming towards her. Cue cartoon-esque standing in midair for a few seconds, then a terrific drop. Thankfully, Mushy's cookie land precariously on the edge, where it wobbled and nearly toppled into the cliffy depths until...

matthew

Matthew walks up, picks up the cookie quite calmly, folds up the picture he drew of a steep and sudden drop off and places it in his attache case...

... wanders off into the sunset having no concern of pursuit concidering that the other side of the sunset picture was a picture of a buffalo stampede...

Little did we know that...

Dragon

...Dragon was hovering far above watching for the perfect chance to regain the cookie. Having learned her lesson about swallowing thong-clad pole dancers whole in the past she opts instead to swoop in silently from behind and snatch matthews attache case deftly from his hands. However, upon regaining the ground Dragon finds the locks on the attache case are too small and fiddly for her to open with her dragon sized fingers. Roaring in frustration she flings away the attache case in a rage.

belladonnis

.....Where it literaly knocks Bella off her trusty steed D'Artagnon, whom is fleeing from a buffalo stampede. Bella looks around in time to see......

matthew

Matthew with a bewildered look upon his face wondering where his atache case went... Then she notices... BUM BUM BUUUUUMMMMMM... He is still holding THE COOKIE!!! For he never put IT in the case with the picture...

matthew

The next thing he knows is...

Hazer

He's down for the count with a not-so much-in-the-party-mood Chester sitting on his chest, drooling....

Nylecoj

but the cookie having rolled out of his hand is picked up by Nylecoj while both he and Chester are busy. Nyle thanks her lucky stars because she can now sell the cookie again, and keep the money from both sales!

belladonnis

Dragon swoops down just in time to save Bella from the raging Buffalo. Bella realizes she will be useful to Dragon because Bella can open the case holding the prize cookie! Ah but when the deed is done.....to be the victor over such a mighty foe, Dragon! But wait Bella has been tossed aside and is falling!!!!!! As Bella lands on her galloping savior D'Artagnon she spies Dragons new target........Nylecoj with cookie in hand. Now Bella and D'Artagnon must race against hope to beat the mighty Dragon. Will she make it......

marg

marg, meanwhile, has been wandering around Heathrow airport feeling slightly jetlagged.

She perks up a bit, though, when she spots a small child playing with what appears to be a sat-nav type gadget for pinpointing people's exact whereabouts by tracking their mobile 'phone.. hastily, she swipes the gadget from the now-squalling child and hurtles (by rented stretch-limousine, to allow for the duty-free bottles of vodka) up the M1 to Yorkshire.

Arriving, all seems strangely quiet, except for a smallish, sandy haired American tourist who is wandering around complaining loudly about some 'stolen attache case' (whatever it was, he was definitely very attache'd to it).

Suddenly she sees what appears to be a dragon, swooping down out of the sky towards a sprightly lass, proudly carrying something in her upraised hand as she sprints towards the town.. and then notices a horse, galloping at full tilt towards the lass, with a somewhat frenzied rider lashing it's sides with what might be the tourist's brief case.. she decides to take a closer look..

puzzler

Unbeknown to marg, her stalker, Puzzler, had tracked her all the way to Yorkshire and was delighted to see that her hunch had paid dividends. While marg moved slowly in towards Nyle and the cookie, Puzzler relied on the element of surprise and stepped into the path of Nyle and the shadowy marg.
"'Ow do!" greeted Puzzler in her best Yorkshire accent,"Tha'd best pack it in lass and thee (with a nod at marg), keep tha neb out! I'm reet famished. I'll tek that! Now be off wi' ya!"
With Nyle and marg in a shocked and confused state and wondering what on earth Puzzler had just said, Puzzler grabbed the biscuit and dived over the nearby harbour wall, into a waiting speedboat, as a dragon and a horse pulled out of a steep dive and were forced skywards to avoid certain death.

marg

marg carefully retracts her neb, and after a few quick swigs of vodka, recovers enough to point the exhausted and bewildered Nyle to a local hostelry that doesn't have a thatched roof.

Scanning the horizon with her new sat-nav type toy, she locates Jonas, her ex-fiancee, who is currently in charge of a NATO submarine patrolling the North Sea. marg knows that Jonas has been feeling frustrated that all the action appears to be happening in the Pacific and Antarctic oceans, and that there don't appear to be any research-worthy whales in the North Sea.. but he has been practising a new 'sudden surface' manoeuvre to keep tourists entertained.

A quick text, and Jonas surfaces under puzzler's speedboat, causing both puzzler and the cookie to land in a rather undignified manner on the hull - the happy submariners escort both into the sub, and Jonas texts 'mission accomplished !'.

With a quiet smile, marg climbs into a convenient jet boat and heads for the submarine...

TehMushKat

Little knowing that Teh MushKat, after being swept into the "big, blue wet thing", is holding on for dear life to the motor of said jet boat, alternating hands to avoid the blades! In one slick, soggy moment, she jumps upon the boat, startling Marg so much that she in turn falls in, leaving Mushy and Cookie in the boat, speeding off into the horizon... or so we think....

Nylecoj

Yes into the horizon, or rather another one of Matthew's fabulous paintings of the horizon! Thunk! The boat is flounders and TehMushKat and the cookie are thrown over board. Nyle, who has regained her senses, swims out to rescue the soggy cookie!

puzzler

Puzzler, still puzzling as to how Nyle manged to scupper marg's boat to get a cookie, when the cookie had already been taken down into the submarine with Puzzler, nevertheless, hatches a plan to unite the two cookies into one giant one. Having sweet-talked Jonas and his crew into showing her their manouveres, she gets them to position the sub beneath the sinking cookie, before following the escape hatch drill. Puzzler niftily, bursts up to the surface, neatly swiping the sinking cookie. Whilst bobbing in the sea and after setting off her distress flare to await rescue from a naval helicopter, she carefully combines the two soggy cookies.

marg

However.. puzzler forgets that the sea is now quite full of bobbing, rather annoyed, people..

.. seeing puzzler concentrate on mending the cookie, marg swims up close and uses one finger contact on puzzler's life-jacket to gently guide puzzler away from the squalling and splashing TehMushKat and Nyle, who seem to be arguing about something.

Once away from the madding crowd and seeing the helicopter hovering overhead, she suddenly pulls down on the back of puzzler's life-jacket, submerging puzzler head-down in the North Sea, and snatches the now combined cookie from the flailing puzzler's grasp..

With the other hand, she releases her glorious red hair and the top two buttons of her blouse, and gaily waves at the lads in the helicopter..

Dragon

marg notices, however that the lads in the helicopter seem to have looks of abject terror on their faces as they point at something behind her. She turns just in time to see a very determined (and still frustrated over that whole atteche buisiness) Dragon swooping down on her. Though marg tries valiantly to hide the cookie in her life jacket Dragon scoops her and the cookie out of the water and flies off toward land with them...