As the troll swung around to free his buttock from the excruciating pain, Paulie lost his toothy grip and was sent flying. As luck would have it, the savage animal was sent sliding straight into the hole where Feea and Toddy had had their lucky escape.
As Paulie crash landed against a rock next to Feea, his natural instinct was to regain his footing and go after the tasty troll buttock again, but an overwhelming smell assaulted his senses causing his feet to spin and the direction of his head. His beady eyes landed on the greasy chicken which Feea hadn’t had a chance to devour yet. Just at that exact moment, Feea realised the savage creature was beside her and followed his eye line to see what he was looking at. Sure in that split second Paulie was after the Toddy the hobbit. Not particularly bothered, Feea would have left well enough alone and ignored them but then she realised Paulie actually had his eye on her chicken.
Well, if Paulie thought he was savage, he was a pussy cat compared to the wrath of Feea when it came to that chicken. Both of them simultaneously leapt into the air and dived on the chicken. Paulie with teeth at the ready and claws fully extended, Feea with the wailing of a mad woman. At this point, it is unclear who actually got to it first as Toddy dived out of the way and the air was filled with a dusty cloud of dirt. Screams, roars and swear words echoed off the cave walls until finally the air cleared just in time for Toddy to witness two feet disappearing through the hole in the wall again.
“Feea!” he roared in terror, sure the crazed animal had taken her and the chicken and was about to devour them. Abandoning his own feast, Toddy leapt up and took off after them “Come here you!” he roared after Paulie “you can’t take her, she’s with me”. Poor Toddy was starting to seriously worry now, he was a long way from home and wasn’t exactly sure which direction home lay.
As his head appeared cautiously from the hole, he felt his lip starting to quiver with fear but the quivering lip quickly changed into a deep confusing frown. “Feea?”
“Let it go!” she screamed up at Paulie who’s tail she had a tight grip of and who was by now dragging her across the ground. “That’s mine! Give it back!” Feea furiously demanded wrapping his tail around her wrist and desperately trying to get her feet under her to give him a right hard tug. “If I find one tooth mark in the skin of that chicken, I swear I’m going to skin you alive!” she screamed viciously at him.
This commotion of course, once again, altered the troll to their presence. In the blink of an eye, the whole scene descended into chaos and with great amusement, Toddy dragged the rest of his food stash out to the cave entrance and set himself up comfortably for the show. “Lovely!”
TBC
