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Forget using carnival karate,

  • Forget using carnival karate,
  • you need to master the Crane's Death Fingers if you want to knock over the milk jugs and get the humongous lime-green hippo. I am the Midway Martial Arts Master.
  • I was a street urchin, until a carnival came to town. Master Roy took pity on me. He showed the Mystical Martial Arts of the Midway. He showed me the Dart Balloon
  • in the back of his trailer. He showed me what it looked like when a grown man cried. I wanted out of the carnival, but I couldn't leave until I'd pulled together enough coin to
  • be beseiged by egg babies. Carnivalous egg babies bounced up and down on me, squeaking incessantly. I cried like the grown man I had seen earlier. "Help! Egg babies!" I bellowed.
  • One of the eggs bit me, initiating a transformation. My body took the shape of a Cassini oval, and a hard white coating formed. "Does anyone have an incubator?" I asked the Carnies
  • It was the last I saw of them as the shell hardened around me. The carnies had one of the elephants sit on the egg gently to keep it warm & I became a popular circus sideshow.
  • It took 5 long & claustrophobic years before my egg was fully incubated & I could begin hatching out. It was slow going at first, any shell that can take an elephant sitting on it
  • is going to take a while to break out of, but eventually an extraordinarily cute lizard-human hybrid baby emerged. It was sweet as could be and proceeded to immediately gnaw on its
  • glittering green tail. Its scales glistened in the half-light as it blinked upward in confusion.The experiment had been a success... but what would become of this strange creature?
Started
2011-10-03 20:54:20
Finished
2011-12-19 20:44:37

1 Comments

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    SlimWhitman Dec 20 2011 @ 05:39

    I like how the story ends with a wink at the paradoxical self-eating lizard while neatly solving another one: the egg came first.

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