Victory Feast

The Gorilla With Twenty Four Heads chapter 8

Captain Nathaniel leads the monkey warriors south, scanning for The Gorilla. Finally, he detects it and moves to intercept. When it is less than half a kilometer away, he directs the monkeys to split into two equal groups and run around a tall hill in opposite directions. “The Gorilla is on the opposite side. If we approach from two directions and spread out, we can trap it before it runs,” he says. The monkeys enthusiastically submit to this plan without comment and run around the hill. With the power to track The Gorilla, Nathaniel is now the leader.

The Gorilla plods slowly until it sees the first group of monkeys. It impulsively charges toward them, club held high. It smashes its club onto the closest monkeys, missing some and squashing others. As monkeys continue to round the hill in great numbers, The Gorilla realizes it is outmatched and starts to retreat.

It is too late. The second group of monkeys closes in behind it. The Gorilla runs to slip through the gap in the ranks, but the monkeys are too fast. The Gorilla frantically sweeps scores of monkeys away at a time with its club. Then it bends over and expels smoke from its bottom. The thick cloud of green-grey smoke rapidly expands, overtaking the monkey troops. Three or five of them faint. From a distance, Doctor Bill scans the cloud. “The Gorilla has arsenic farts!” he reports.

“I wish I had that power too!” Haticat declares.