“Are you ready?” Juliana asked Penelope.
Penelope nodded. “We’re now one step closer to achieving our goal so it’s now or never.”
They put their invisibility bracelets on prepared to go in the greed demon’s cave. According to their survival guide, the greed demon eats continuously and she’s quite a fat slob. Each time she burps, she sheds some of her pigtails and this would be a good opportunity for them to collect those pigtails.
“My bracelet is a bit loose,” said Penelope.
“So is mine. I hope it doesn’t fall off or we will be in a lot of trouble when we are no longer invisible.”
“Yeah, we can’t afford to be seen by the greed demon. Goodness knows what she would do to us.”
When they stepped into the cave, they saw a human like creature sitting in front of a mountain of food. The mountain of food piled from the floor to the ceiling. The creature was very big and fat and she had so many pigtails on her head. There were some pigtails lying on the floor. Slowly and quietly, they sneaked up near her to pick up those pigtails and stuffed it in NTUC plastic bags.
“BURP!” The creature gave out a really loud smelly burp and a pigtail fell off from her head.
“It’s going to take us a really long time to get two bags full of pigtails, “ said Juliana.
Five hours passed and they finally got their two bags worth of pigtails. Both Penelope and Juliana were very tired by then.
“Let’s go,” declared Penelope. “This should be enough.”
However just as Juliana was about to get up, her bracelet came off. “Oh no!”. The greed demon suddenly turned around granted with surprise. It’s surprise slowly changed to anger and it came upon the realization that it was not alone. The greed demon charged at her but Juliana managed to dodge. The demon cornered her and stared at her angrily. It picked her up and raised her in the air.
“Run Penelope! Save yourself, you need to complete the mission.”
“I’m not going to leave you here.”
“Just go!”
“We still have the power of confidence with us. We drank the orf portion remember?” With that, Penelope walked over to the unsuspecting demon who is still not able to see her because she had her invisibility bracelet on. Without thinking, she reached toward the smelly greed demon and tickled it. The creature giggled uncontrollably and released Juliana. She fell on the ground with a thud and quickly made a run out of the cave. The demon was still laughing and giggling when Penelope quickly backed off and headed out of the cave. That was a close shave.
Coming soon: FOTTP Episode 13
