Humbalow

By the Great Randini Yum

Part 1

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ham! It hit him hard. They’ve been playing for hours. In this part of Africa, in this time, a popular game was hitting anything they could find (including each other) with sticks. Humbalow played this game with Muttumbono (his best friend) everyday to train him with his hunting skills. His dad needed Humbalow to help him with hunting, without Humbalow, his family would surely starve. Humbalow was lying on the ground with a bloodied up nose. Humbalow was a scrawny little 16 year old boy, who lived with his Mom and Dad because his siblings died at birth. He wasn’t educated in anything but hunting and games. He got back up and hit Muttumbono on the back. Muttumbono shrieked with pain and ran away.

Humbalow went home and went hunting with his dad. Their favorite hunting spot was in the fields of the Watering Hole. They liked this spot because the animals lived here during the first 16 hours of each day. Humbalow and his dad (along with everyone else in Africa) used long wooden sticks with sharp rocks at the end. Humbalow threw the spear with every ounce of power left in his scrawny little body and pierced a stag straight through the legs. There lay a stabilized stag bleeding pools of blood. Humbalow grabbed its legs and started walking when CRASH, a large, unidentified ship, landed on his stag. Three mysterious figures crept out of the fog. “Come to Ularklar!”

Humbalow grabbed the half- crushed stag and started to run home but one of the mysterious figures grabbed Humbalow. Humbalow dropped the stag while he struggled to break free of its grasp. The figure carried Humbalow into the ship and took off!

One of the figures sat Humbalow down and said,

“My name is Urklar. This is Urkel and this is Ularkle” Humbalow spit in Urklar’s mouth. Urklar took that as a welcome and spit in Humbalow’s mouth. This went on for about an hour or so. After their mouths were nice and dried out, they came to a halt. Everyone looked out the window and Humbalow was amazed with what he saw. Ularklar was split into two sides; one side was filled with grazing farmlands, waterfalls, fields, and beautiful rivers, while the other side was filled with cities and buildings. Humbalow’s jaw dropped to the floor. Right now, at this moment, so many thoughts were rushing through his head he felt dizzy and passed out. A minute later, he arose and the same thoughts came through but this time, it felt nice. He thought about bringing his whole tribe to Ularklar instead of starving, out in Africa. Humbalow saw children and adults having fun and he thought about what his life would be like here on Ularklar. He trotted towards Urklar and asked him if he could bring his tribe to Ularklar.

Urklar answered, “Of course, the more the merrier.”

Part 2

They boarded the ship and left for earth. Humbalow fell asleep when suddenly, CRASH, their ship landed with a destructive sound. As they got out of the ship, their hearts almost gave out. The ship was demolished.

Humbalow screamed with all of his might, “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH,”

He screamed again “NOW I’LL NEVER BE ABLE TO BRING MY TRIBE TO ULARKLAR!”

Humbalow kicked and screamed and swore, he ran around until he lost all of his energy. He started bawling. Soon, his face was swollen with tears. Humbalow got up and walked back to his hut. For fourteen days Humbalow stayed in the hut. During this period of time, the Ularklarians were fixing up the ship and explaining to the tribe that they could come to Ularklar. When Humbalow managed to find his way out of his hut, the Ularklarians and his tribe screamed with laughter. The ship was completely fixed. Humbalow cried again, but this time, tears of joy. They boarded the ship and took off for Ularklar. They were in for the time of their lives.

About an hour of light speed traveling through black holes and nebulas can get really tiring unless something cool happens along the way. Humbalow thought he was going crazy because he was hearing things. Boom…Whiz…Zoom…Crash. Every few seconds or so, the noises were getting louder. Boom…Whiz…Zoom…Crash! Boom…Whiz…Zoom…Crash! Boom…Whiz…Zoom…Crash! Boom…Whiz…Zoom…Kaboom! The ship was under attack! Everybody screamed as another ship whizzed by.

Urklar yelled, “Everybody strap in!” At this point, Humbalow wondered if they’ll ever make it to Ularklar.

Urklar pressed a big pink button that said “DO NOT TOUCH UNLESS THERE IS AN EMERGENCY” Instantaneously, a voice from the main computer boomed, “Security systems and destructive weapons enabled!” Everybody closed their eyes as the ship shot towards Ularklar. Suddenly, the Ularklarian ship did a sharp turn and shot the other way. As the ship maneuvered past the asteroids and meteors to escape the enemy ship, the enemy fired a missile. The missile speeded by missing the ship, but thump, something small hit the ship. Foolishly, the Ularklarians and the people ignored it. They turned around again and headed towards Ularklar. Right before the enemy fired, the Ularklarians dropped a bomb that (unfortunately) the enemy ran straight into.

Part 3

They looked out the back window to see the ship blow into smithereens.

They shouted with pride, “Yeeeaaah, woooooooo!” They were unfortunately still in for more trouble. They were traveling and traveling and traveling until a huge black hole appeared in front of them. Immediately, Urklar turned and tried to accelerate forward but the black hole pulled them in. The pressure of the black hole made them all feel like their bones, muscles, and organs were all being obliterated into pieces. After the ride was over they all blacked out. When they awoke, they appeared to be in Ularklar. They felt so weak they couldn’t move there faces into a happy expression. As they headed towards town, they saw another Urklar, Urkel and Ularkle. Everyone was extremely puzzled to the point of freezing into one facial expression (like a botox treatment). They realized they were in parallel universe. For some weird reason, they all ran towards the ship and jumped in. Just like that, they were gone. They darted out into the black hole. They went through the same torture and pain as the first black hole. Then they were back where they were. Unintentionally, they heard a loud beeping noise. The thump on the ship, was a bomb. Hurriedly, Humbalow put on a pressurized air helmet and suit, and jumped out the pod. Humbalow tore the bomb off of the ship and loaded it into the cannon. Urklar fired it into the same black hole they came from. They just realized that they destroyed the parallel universe. They safely returned to Ularklar. Humbalow and his tribe thanked the Ularklarians for bringing them here. Urklar accepted their thanks and they had a celebration. From then on, everything went smoothly, and whenever an intruder came to Ularklar, they simply just shot them, and laughed.