Gazooks

Lord of the Deep and World's Greatest Tickle Monster!

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Sailing

By Beth
Posted Jul 22, 2007

I was sailing with my friends Josie and Kelly on the day it happened.

We had just finished our summer sailing class and had rented a 15 foot sail boat to try out our new sea legs.

Everything was going fine. It was a beautiful day and we had a good strong breeze the whole morning. It carried us around the inlet into a small secluded cove.

The breeze died off and our sales drooped down. We took it as a sign to take a break and eat the brunch we had prepared. Josie had made this great spinach quiche with red bell peppers and Kelly had mixed a fruit salad. I had made some delicious raspberry crepes with powdered sugar.

We were also celebrating Kelly's acceptance into UCLA. Josie and I would find out by next week what four-year college we were off to this fall. We had all paid our dues to the local community college and now we were off to become successful career women.

Josie had taken her usual nibble at her meal and now was lying down on the deck at the bow, enjoying the sun's rays. Her long blonde hair was sprawled out above her, glistening in the sunshine.

Kelly and I sat on the stern�s deck. We talked about tomorrow's picnic at her parents' house as she braided my long brown hair. Kelly tossed her short blonde curls and giggled with me as we joked about the boys she would meet at school.

The boat was starting to sway back and forth as waves approached us. I looked out over the water and saw a speedboat tearing through the bay off in the distance. I figured we were in its wake and paid it no mind.

Kelly and I had decided to sun bathe as well. We laid out in the sun and relaxed as the boat gently swayed us to sleep.

Then they came.

None of us were paying attention to anything going on outside the boat. I have no idea how long they had been following us.

The boat started rocking a bit more and woke us up. Josie joked to us from the bow, "Hey, you guys, stop rocking the boat!" She had her white sun glasses on and her back to the water.

Kelly and I looked at each other, and then around the boat. First we looked over the bay. Then I looked over to where Josie was lying. My mouth dropped.

Coming out of the sea was a giant green octopus-like creature. It had big yellow eyes and a big silly grin on its face. Tentacles that ended in ivy leaf-shaped hands started rising out of the water and grabbing a hold of our boat.

I yelled to Josie, "Behind you! Monster!"

At first Josie ignored me, thinking I was joking. �Yeah, right, Jesse!� she laughed back.

Then as the sea monster's shadow cast down over her, she turned and gasped as the creature continued rising out of the water to almost 30 feet. She stood up and stared at it in shock as it settled itself by our boat.

A funny little man had been water skiing behind the creature and was now being lifted out of the water in one of the monster's many hands.

The man looked down at us and exclaimed to the monster, "What luck, Gazooks! Three cuties to play with? Quick, grab them!"

The monster smiled in agreement and started to reach for us. Being the closest, the monster grabbed Josie instantly with its leaf shaped hand before she had time to react. Kelly and I snapped out of our shock. We were a little further away and tried to make a break for it. It didn't do us any good. The boat was too small and the sea monster�s reach too long. Kelly made it half way down the steps to the cabin below, before a hand snatched her up and lifted her into the air. I tried to jump over board into the dingy, but a hand caught me in mid-air before I hit the water. I could feel the wind rush past my face as I was lifted high into the air.

The man chuckled as the monster brought us up closer to him for his inspection. He grinned at all three of us. "They're adorable,� he remarked. �We're going to have a lot fun with them."

"Let us go this instant...you maniac!" Josie boldly yelled to the man.

"Oh-ho! A feisty one!" the man snickered back at her. He looked up at the monster and casually commanded while pointing at Josie, "Start with her."

The monster smiled and surprisingly chuckled with a slow deep male voice, �This is going to be fun.�

Kelly and I watched, unsure what was going to happen to her. The monster turned Josie upside down in his hand, so that her feet were sticking straight up in the air. He then squeezed her legs together. Her feet flutter-kicked as she struggled with the monster's grip.

We watched in fear as the monster poised another tentacle over her. I expected the creature to pull her legs off. Surprisingly, the monster gently moved the tip of his tentacle over her bare feet, and started wiggling it over her left sole, up and down. It looked like it was tickling her.

Sure enough, it was! Josie didn't see it coming and started giggling uncontrollably. Pleased, the monster grinned as he started alternating between her left and right foot, tickling her more and more. She was laughing harder and harder to match as she tried to kick her feet away.

Delighted, the man smiled as he watched Josie laugh wildly from the monster's tickles. Then he turned his attentions towards Kelly.

Kelly looked very pale as she watched Josie getting tickled.

The man asked, "And where shall we start with you?"

"No, please, I don't want to be tickled!" Kelly begged.

"Nonsense, you're going to love it," the man snickered. "Let's start you off easy...how about your belly?"

Before Kelly could respond, the monster smiled and opened his hand holding her. She sat in his palm only for a moment before another tentacle came down gently and pushed her onto her back. Then it began to wiggle the tentacle over her stomach. Kelly started screaming with laughter almost instantly as the monster playfully rubbed up and down her belly.

I could see Kelly and Josie laughing hysterically just a few feet away from me as the monster gently tickled both of them silly. I knew I was going to be next.

The man looked at me after a couple moments. "Are you going to give me any trouble, young lady?" he asked sternly.

"No..." I stammered, watching the tentacles gliding over my friends.

"Good," the man smiled, "Then I�ll let you pick. Where would you like to get tickled?"

I didn't know what to do. I knew he was going to have his monster tickle me, whether I consented or not. I thought, maybe if I cooperated, they wouldn�t be so rough on me. I knew how ticklish I was, and seeing how hard my friends were laughing made me more than a little scared. I was hesitant to answer. I tried to think of a spot I felt I could handle getting tickled.

�Quickly,� the man said impatiently.

I looked at Kelly. "My stomach..." I meekly replied.

The man smiled, "Ah, an excellent choice, but I think want to see you tickled under your arms too.� He motioned to the sea monster.

The monster smiled as his hand opened up that was holding me. I found myself sitting in his palm. Then I saw the second tentacle coming for me. It was already wiggling before it touched my bare skin. It pushed me on to my back and started rubbing up and down my mid-section and then tenderly moving over to my sides up into my underarms and then back to my stomach again. I screamed and laughed at the same time as it brushed my skin. The tip was cool and moist. It gave me goose bumps, which made the monster's touch even more ticklish. I was unprepared for how it was going to feel when it happened to me. I was laughing as hard as my friends were.

The man was pleased that we were all so ticklish. He sat in the monster's hand and watched us get tickled with a big smile on his face.

Josie kept trying to yell at the man between laughs to let her go as the tickling continued. All it did was focus his attention on her and get her tickled even harder than us.

Kelly was frantically trying to push the tentacle away from her with little luck. The monster teased her by letting her push his tip away occasionally, only to come back for her again with more vigor.

I barely saw what little luck my friends were having with fighting the tickling off, for I was too busy doing that myself. I enjoyed laughing so freely, but it was more than I had been thru before. I instinctively tried to push the tickling tentacle away from me even know I knew it was hopeless. I was gasping for breath, trying to try to hold out as long as possible. I hoped it would stop before it became too much.

After a couple minutes, the man commanded, "Ok, now tickle them all over!"

Josie was flipped over and laid flat in the monster's palm. Then all three of us felt a slight suction as the monster gripped our backs firmly in his palms, so we couldn't wiggle out of them. We received only a moment's break before more tentacles reached for all three of us and starting tickling us on our feet, stomach, and underarms all at once. We screamed with laughter.

The man let the monster tickle us for the longest time. You could hear the echoes of our laughter over the water as the minutes went by. Our bodies were flushed, literally tickled pink, but the monster was able to keep us from getting too out of breath. Finally, the man told the monster to stop when we were too tired to laugh. With a disappointed frown, the monster withdrew it's tickling tentacles from us and put us down gently on the deck.

The man bowed and said, �Thank you ladies for that wonderful tickling. Be sure to drop by again sometime for another.�

We were all too tired to respond as the monster backed up and began to swim away from us. I saw the man water skiing behind it as it sped away.

After they were gone, Josie was the first of us to speak. "I can't believe the nerve of that man! He can�t just go around tickling people against their will."

I replied, "I found it kind of fun. I don't know what your problem is Josie, they just tickled us. Maybe if you hadn't made such a big deal about it, you might've liked it."

Josie glared at me and then we both looked at Kelly. She blushed and said, "Yeah, it wasn't too bad."

Josie looked at both of us in disbelief. "You two are as crazy as he is!" she exclaimed and went down below.

I smiled at Kelly. We both knew Josie well enough to know she was just too proud to say she had liked it too.

THE END