Chapter 14

SONG: TAINTED LOVE - SOFT CELL


Lily woke up to the air feeling strange around her, she sat up from lying down to find herself in a small rowing boat being lift up into the air and into a humungous tree all lit up and it seemed to have people living in it. Lily stood up straight when she realised when she was on her own and she looked beside her to see Frank standing up surrounded by two of the people that were on their boat. 


See looked behind her to see an empty boat and hoped that MacGregor and Rose were on there. "MacGregor? MacGregor?! MacGregor!" Lily's whisper slowly turned into shouting as MacGregor sat up swiftly at Lily's shout. 


"I'm up. Wait! Where am I? Why am I being lifted into the air? Am I dead?! Is this me going to heaven?!" MacGregor panicked. 


"MacGregor!" Lily shouted at her brother again.


"Lily?!" MacGregor finally looked up to see his sister. "Frank?!" MacGregor looked up at the man who didn't know how to handle MacGregor panicking, unlike Lily, so he just gave an awkward wave. 


"Where are they taking us?" MacGregor whimpered.


"We're headed into headhunter territory, which is a terrible.... to be headed!" Frank smiled to himself.


"Oh, Frank, come on, not now!" Lily sighed.


"I can't turn it off!" Frank shrugged.


"MacGregor. WHere's Rose? I she with you? Is she okay?" Lily was the one to panic now realising her daughter was missing as she didn't hear a sarcastic comment about Frank's terrible pun.


"She's here yeah, she's fine still passed out though." MacGregor sat down on the mini boat bench and held your hand.


As soon as the boats landed on top of the massive tree trunk the people who were guarding Lily, Frank, MacGregor and Rose pointed their spears at everyone pushing them forward. But as soon as Lily saw one of them pick Rose up and carry her off the boat she immediately pushed past them, rushing to her daughter, ignoring Frank's and her brother's protests that she could get hurt as the people were literally pointing spears at them. 


The person carrying Rose placed her gently on the floor as Lily placed her hand on the back of her neck, delicately lifting the top half of Rose up. "Rose? Sweetheart? Petal? It's Mum are you okay?!"


"Mmmm five more minutes Mum." Rose mumbled stirring in her mother's arms. 


"Oh thank god!" Lily sighed when Rose woke up, all kind of thoughts running through her mind. She helped her daughter up, the tranquilizer serum still in the young girl's system. Lily wrapped one of Rose's arms round her shoulders as she helped her walk back to MacGregor and Frank.


"Hiya kiddo you alright?" MacGregor places a hand on Rose's back, smiling knowing she was alright. The drums began to play as a massive chair began to spin round revealing a masked person, most definitely the leader. Then the drums stopped and there was silence. Then Frank began to speak some kind of language which turned out to be the native language of these people. 


"What did you say?" Lily whispers.


"I said they should let you, mini-pants and MacGregor go, and live. In exchange, you'll have to leave all of your things and your clothes, and I'll stay back aswell."


"That's very, very brave. That is not something I agree to Frank." Lily sighed.


"Me too I won't agree with it." Rose added mumbling still feeling sleepy. 


"We're not doing it!" Lily spoke for all three of them.


"There's no way that the three of us can get out of this situation alive. I know these people. Leave now and let them..." Frank scoffed.


"No!" Lily interrupted.


"Can I please talk for five minutes without you interrupting me?" Frank groaned, MacGregor and Rose watching in slight amusement as some of the natives seemed amused by the two bickering. Frank turned away from Lily and began speaking the different language again, then the leader held their hand up ordering and shouting for Frank to stop. 


"Oh down you've done it!" Rose rolled her eyes at Frank who glared at her already having enough backlash from Lily. Then the chief began to speak in their language, Frank muttering under his breath to himself. 


"The only thing of yours I want is the Arrowhead." Frank translated for the others as Lily shook her head repeatedly. "Don't shake your head like that. They hate that. They hate that. Don't do that." But Lily continued, as Frank continued to translate. "I know you have it. It belongs to my people, taken long ago. You can return it and go free. Or I can pry it from your fingers...... After I pick them clean of meat."


"Bloody hell!" Rose muttered. "Well we're buggered!" 


"Come on. You heard the nice cannibal!" MacGregor leaned closer to Lily trying to convince her to give the Arrowhead over. "Hand it over."


"I'm a little rusty in the Puka Michuna dialct, so I want you to translate what I say, word for word." Frank nods and Lily completely ignores MacGregor. "No, I cannot give you the Arrowhead." Everyone groans except from Rose, Rose just smiles in amusement knowing Lily would never hand over the Arrowhead until she found the Tears of the Moon.


"Shut up just say it!" Frank translated it the others not knowing he was expressing his annoyance with Lily and partly Rose. "I will return it. But first I must use it to find the Tears of the Moon. Now, if I die for that, so be it.But you must let these two men and my daughter go free." Frank continued to translate the complete opposite.


"Lily!" MacGregor caught Rose as Lily was quick to move.


"Mum!" MacGregor and Rose panicked as Lily rushed to run off in the opposite direction, the natives instantly holding up their spears but Lily was quick to grab one from one person who was previously guarding behind her. 


"Come on, fight me. You, come on, fight me. Go! Do it! What's wrong with you?" Lily muttered to herself holding the spear to the people holding their spears to her. The chief came up to her as they all began to laugh. 


"Seriously, Frank. Next time I'm going to charge you more for this "booga-booga" nonsense." The chief takes of her mask speaking English.


"Sam we had a deal, okay?" Frank sighed behind all three of the Houghtons as they turned to glare at him, Rose able to stand on her own now. 


"No, no. I'm tired, and this is a whole production, with these ridiculous costumes! And you told me this was a nice English lady with her wimpy brother, along with the lady's infuriatingly annoying daughter. And she's gonna get herself killed." Sam dumped her mask on the floor, fed up with Frank just like the rest of them.


"I know, because she's crazy! ... She's crazy determined. Lily, listen, the truth is I didn't get a chance to call this entire thing off. Remember, it's only a scam if you fall for it." Lily, MacGregor, and Rose approached the man. Lily leading before she punched him square in the face making him groan as she walked off, MacGregor was next.


"You've gotta stop doing that!"


"Wimpy, eh?" MacGregor repeated Frank's statement as Frank frantically tried to explain himself before MacGregor punched him just like his sister, then Rose approached him.


"Oh god."


"I'm infuriatingly annoying?!" Rose placed her hands on her hips as Frank again tried to explain himself holding out his hands thinking Rose was going to punch him where as she bought her knee up and kneed him in the privates making him fall and kneel to the ground."


"Come on!" Frank groaned as Rose walked off, the group of people laughing at Frank getting kneed by a kid. "Strong form, whole family has strong form!" Frank groaned to himself.

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