It started out as a normal morning for the girl called Selene. She got up at quarter to 6, showered, dressed, and ran around frantically trying to get assignments together and in her bag as well as getting breakfast in the toaster and her teeth brushed. As I said, a normal morning. Finally she runs out the door to get to her bus stop. She arrives out of breath, skidding to a stop next to the adults that take her bus. But instead of a bus pulling up this fateful morning, something of a strange occurrence happens. Out of nowhere, a renegade gang of cantaloupes parachutes around the startled girl. She blinks, the adults blink, she blinks again as the cantaloupes confer in their canataloupish-language. Suddenly the knock Selene's feet out from underneath her and carry her off, kicking and screaming as they roll down the street. The adults look at each other.

	"Did you just see something odd?"

	"That couldn't have happened John. It's impossible."

	"We were just hallucinating weren't we? John? Mary?"

	"Yeah Alice, we must be working too hard."

	"Yeah, that must be it."

	"Yes it's DEFINATLY time for another vacation." The strange occurrence put out of their minds, the adults went back to drinking coffee and waiting for the bus.

	Meanwhile, the renegade gang of cantaloupes still rolled down the street carrying the screaming and kicking Selene.

	"Put me down! I need to catch my bus and go to school! If I don't turn in this lab my teachers gonna kill me and she's not gonna believe me when I tell her I was kidnapped by cantaloupes!" Her protests were cut short, as she was suddenly sent airborne through the cross-dimensional time portal, the renegade gang of cantaloupes following after her.

	She landed on her butt in a very orange field. The cantaloupes parachuted to a much more graceful landing beside her.

	"Owwy," she moaned, pretty much out of it. The renegade gang of cantaloupes moved to surround her chattering in the cantaloupy-language then rolled off with her again. They went up and down orange hills until Selene was sure that if they went over another hill she would be sick. Thankfully they didn't but instead passed through a huge orange gate into Cantaloupe City. Cantaloupes of all sizes rolled around the marketplace, chattering in the cantaloupy-language. Selene stared in wonder at the Cantaloupe City, but her captors headed straight for a magnificent orange palace that towered over the rest of the city. Through the gates they went, rolling all the way to the audience chambers of the great, all mighty orange goddess, all wise and beautiful Queen of Cantaloupes. Selene was tossed on the floor in front of the all mighty orange goddess, all wise and beautiful Queen's throne.

	"Owwy," she muttered. "What is it with you guys and tossing me on my derriere?" Ignoring her, the renegade gang of cantaloupes respectfully explained themselves in the cantaloupy-language to the all mighty orange goddess, all wise and beautiful Queen of Cantaloupes. After hearing them out, she sent a disparaging glance towards the girl who was rubbing a sore tailbone and muttering about careless cantaloupes. She gave a cantaloupy sigh and told the renegade gang of cantaloupes in the cantaloupy-language that she would give the new slave they had brought her a chance, but if she didn't work out, the should send her back to the human world and get her a better slave. Selene of course, was still in the dark about all of this, so she was quite surprised when she was pushed into a giant orange bathing room, the Cantaloupe Queen following her. Shrugging off the royal cloak, the Cantaloupe Queen hopped over to the bewildered girl and informed her, via telepathy, that she her new slave and was to scrub her rind so it wouldn't be all rough and bumpy like the rinds of the commoners.

	"What!?!?!?!?!" Selene screamed. "I don't wanna be a slave! You can have Dane! He's perfectly suited to such menial labour! I'm sorry, but I have a commitment to the cows!" She summoned a blue cow to her and it mooed angrily at the all mighty orange goddess, all wise and beautiful Queen of Cantaloupes. She sighed and called her renegade gang of cantaloupes to her.

	"Send the girl and the cow back to where she belongs and bring me the human called Dane," she commanded in the cantaloupy-language. They nodded and chattered in the cantaloupy-language before knocking Selene AND the blue cow over and sending them flying through the cross-dimensional time portal and following in search of the human called Dane.

	Selene and the blue cow fell through time and space before emerging near the ceiling of her Biology class. They came crashing down, Selene landing on the desk of one of her classmates, the cow on the floor beside her.

	"Owwy, those cantaloupes have no respect for pain," she muttered climbing off the stunned boy's desk and helping the cow up. " Go on back to your pasture Bessie and thanks for your help," she said patting it on the head. It mooed in return and did the cow approximation of a bow then ambled out the door and disappeared. Selene walked up to the staring teacher and dug her crumpled lab out of her bag.

	"And of course they just HAD to rough handle me so it got all crumpled," she muttered. The teacher took it with a raised eyebrow. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you, Ms. Bandola..."

	Meanwhile, the renegade gang of cantaloupes parachutes down around the human called Dane as he kissed his girlfriend, Becky. They break apart, confused as the cantaloupes confer in the cantaloupy-language, then knock Dane's feet out from under him and roll down the hall, carrying him off, kicking and screaming...

The End.