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By MSTieLYn
(For a mental picture, check out www.rainylake.org)
“Are we there yet?!?”
MSTieLyn turned her head to see who asked but was not sure who.
“Just a couple more islands”, she replied. Then she returned her attention to
guiding the speedboat over the calm waters of Rainy Lake. The passenger list included
Mystic Cobra, GlitterRock, medusaD, DanZero, and Gray Zombie, who were all becoming very
bored, like watching a day of Sentinel chain reaction.
As the boat sliced through the lake, the passengers tried to pass time
by looking at the sights flashing by them. It was a sunny day with a couple clouds and
there were a few islands, couple fishing boats, floating underwear, and a houseboat.
“Are we there yet?!?”
Lyn knew who it was this time and said, “Yes, Gray, it’s
right in front of us now. We‘ll be out of this boat in a few minutes.”
The others looked to find a small island covered with towering trees
except a couple of clearings. After the boat was close enough to the island, Lyn
maneuvered the boat right next to a very low cliff, killed the engine and jumped out onto
the ground. As she tied the boat to a nearby tree trunk,
the others jumped out as well.
“Although it seems very pretty out here, this is Minnesota’s
idea of relaxing for the weekend?”, medusa asked while looking around the island.
“Sure it is,” Lyn said smiling, “fishing for your
supper, swimming in frigid waters, keeping the mosquitoes from draining you, s’mores,
ghost stories . . .”
Dan, laughing, interrupted Lyn before she could go on like that,
“Okay okay, I’m sure all of us will have a great time. I know we’ll need it
after our last Kortac encounter.”
“Yeah, man, I need some peace and quiet so I can write another Top
Ten hit. This place looks groovy, in a rustic kind of way.” Glitter added as he too
took in the serenity of the island.
Mystic turned to MSTieLyn, “Couple of questions though, what are
the, uh, sleeping arrangements going to be like? We don‘t have to sleep directly
under the stars do we?”
“Well, I got two tents, both enough for four, so I guess in one
it’ll be me, you and Glitter. In the other will be medusa, Dan and Gray. That way, we
all can have extra room and us girls can each have two guys protecting us. Is that okay
with everyone?”
The others nodded their heads in agreement, and realizing that Lyn, the
little nature wonder, was going to be the one calling most of the shots for the weekend.
Which won’t be too bad since this is her territory and she knows what she‘s
doing.
*******
About 50 yards away on a boat was an old man, holding his fishing rod
in one steady place and not really paying any attention if he got any bites. He kept
glancing toward the island, which was being occupied for a couple days. Then a tiny
beeping came from his vest pocket, he reached for the
small object and held it to his mouth, “This is post one, over.”
“Vask, you are the only post!! Have you attained visual with them,
yet?” asked a voice coming form the communications device.
“Yes, Commander, they are beginning to get settled down for the
weekend. It seems as though they are taking time off after demolishing our last attack,
over.”
“Perfect, with precise timing we may be able to strike them when
their guard is down. If the other cappers at Capper Central want to see their friends
alive and in one piece again, they will have to tell us where their headquarters are!!
Bwahahahahahaha!”, the voice said, uncontrollably laughing.
“Bwahahahahahaha!”
“Quiet you fool! The cappers might hear you! You are posing as a
fisherman, not an evil and scheming commander!!!”
“Sorry. Do not fret my lord, I will keep watch on them and when
the opportunity arises, they WILL be ours!! . . . . Um, over.”
*******
Glitter stretched his back as the other cappers tried to find somewhere
comfortable to sit, they have spent two hours setting their equipment up.
“Dude, I wish you would have brought some of those pop up tents.
Hammering stakes into the ground is brutal on the spine!”
Sympathetic, Lyn turned to him, “Well, I think those are too
flimsy, besides you had your back bent out all of whack.” She looked at the others
and smiled, “So does anybody wanna go for a swim?”
“Sure!” they shouted. The guys, being the gentlemen they are,
allowed the ladies to have the tents first to change and then they took turns to get
changed. Soon, when they were all ready, they charged towards the beach and right before
they made contact with the water . . they stopped.
“Wait-a-minute! Lyn, didn’t you say the water is really
freezing?!?”, Dan asked with his eyebrows raised.
“I think it was frigid, but I don’t know if I could make
myself go through this dramatic change of temperature!” said medusa.
“I know it might not seem very pleasurable at first, but if you
rush into the water you’ll get used to it much faster that way.”, Lyn tried to
explain.
“’Get used to it?’ What if we freeze into capper-sicles,
Lyn?!? Then what are we going to do? Vacation in the Sahara Desert to warm up?” Cobra
said, well whine is more like it.
Gray looked at all of them, “C’mon you guys, I think that if
we rush into the water right away, it’ll be better than trying to take our time and
then we’ll really be freezing our hinders off.”
“Look, I don’t want to stand here on the beach all day.
Let’s just say the last one in is . . a rotten Shatner thong!!”, Glitter
offered, without trying to get the others to blarf.
They all looked at each other and ran into the water like their
‘you-know-where’s were on fire. Soon after a few minutes it was okay, until Lyn
spoke, “I hope we don’t have that many leeches on us!”
In one jiffy, they were all out on the beach trying to towel off.
Fortunately, there were no little bloodsuckers on any of them.
Lyn turned to all of them, “I think it’s time for
supper.”
“You have no idea how starving I am!”, Gray said.
“I’m so hungry I could eat a cow!” Dan said.
“I’m so hungry I could eat from Hardee’s.”, medusa
declared, as the others cringed.
The group started to get their food ready and soon th