Monster Moon by Lucy Courtenay

Author:Lucy Courtenay [L A Courtenay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847155320
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Published: 2014-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

The Space Penguins huddled around ICEcube. In the background, Cuddles was sucking Splash’s welding torch. He finished it and burped.

“It’s clear what we have to do,” said Captain Krill. “Give Cuddles a sedative to send him to sleep. One for all and all for…”

“FISH!” said Fuzz and Rocky.

“He won’t like that,” said Splash unhappily.

“It’s him or the ship,” the Captain pointed out. “We’ll keep him where we can see him. Everyone follow me.”

“Arf!” cried Cuddles.

Splash scooped him up with difficulty – he was getting bigger all the time – and carried him back up the ladder to the flight deck after the others.

Rocky turned the Tunafish round and set it to full cruising speed while the others tried to get the little Flogisaur to sleep. It was harder than they expected. Cuddles drank a whole bottle of SleePeeZee with no effect, slurping up the metal cap for afters. He swallowed a box of Snooz-FX, spat out KipperWile and gargled SnorSumMor before spitting the lot at Splash and eating the metal legs off the dining table, which hit the floor with a clang.

“Now what?” said Splash, wiping Snooz-FX pills, KipperWile and SnorSumMor off his feathers.

“Fly like there’s a leopard seal on our tails,” said Captain Krill grimly.

“Or a robot penguin,” Fuzz added.

The Captain, Fuzz and Splash waddled off to different corners of the ship to find enough metal to feed Cuddles for the journey. What could the spacecraft spare?

Wires, old piping, rusty tools. Rivets from the walls and ceiling. The ice-bath taps, rungs from the ladders that led from the bottom deck of the Tunafish to the top. The legs from the wing-pong table and the dining chairs, Rocky’s eyebrow comb, Splash’s second and third best toolbelts. And…

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