Dot Com's First Adventure

DOT COM'S FIRST ADVENTURE
…how an ordinary schoolgirl became an INTERNET VOYAGER!
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Chapter 50 - Back with all her friends! Verrry slowly Dot's eyes came open. YESSSSSSS! She'd done it - she'd REALLY done it! She'd escaped from Void and brought Luis and the sad little doll with the moustache and the cap with her! Mind you, she could tell that even before she opened her eyes. From somewhere music was playing - very loud, happy music from an orchestra (it was actually coming out of Cursor's special rapmaster mini-disc player!) Have you ever seen a Borzoi dog and an Afghan Hound dancing the waltz together? Well it's worth seeing... must get you a picture one day... because that's exactly what the two Searchers, Louise D and Luis de la Zarpana were doing! Their long silky goldeny-brown fur flying in the cool, warm breeze of the Search Zone, they were weaving in and out of all the search devices, dancing cheek to cheek and barking and shouting for joy at seeing each other again. Every so often they'd stop, look deep into each other's eyes, laugh out loud, and then off they'd go again... twirling and whirling away across the soft, gently rolling floor of the Zone, their paws just gliding across the thousands of little lights showing where more information was being searched out by the Search Engines in the sky above. Dot suddenly realized that Wizzie was up with his paws, his eyes all shiny with relief, his tail wagging so fast she could hardly see it. "Oh Dot, Dot!" he went, looking up at her. "I thought we'd lost you forever! Oh I'm so glad you're back!!" Mr Mouse hopped up on her shoulder, in his usual place. He gave her ear a flick - which can be very ANNOYING, but Dot was too happy and relieved to mind. "Yeah, cool, kid!" he drawled. "Knew you could do it!" Adrienne was there, smiling as she spayed a little of her delicious-smelling perfume on her tiny squirrel's wrists. "Vair' good!" she laughed. "VAIRY good, mon amie! I did not think you could do thees but you did!" The little sad-eyed doll was happy too - he was using the Search Zone floor like a trampoline, bouncing higher and higher in his joy at being free. "Ciao, Void, CIAO forever!" he went. "Goodbye 'orrible place!" And as for Cursor the Cat... well... "I got to say you're the coolest thing I ever did see, makes me sing In my heart, in my head, to the bottom of my soul You got 'em Dot - brought 'em back whole!" ... he went. Dot blushed and wriggled with pleasure. It was so cool, having Cursor do a rap about you! But kind of embarrassing too. The big cat laid a silky paw on Dot's shoulder, his yellow eyes gleaming in a most friendly way. "Well done kiddo" he said softly. "You sure are a true child of NetWorld - reckon you're going to do good things for us net-people!" Then before Dot could get any more embarrassed, he raised his voice in a shout so he could be heard over the music. "Hey LOUISE!" he went. "We gonna do this InterNetRap Competition thing, or what?" With a twirl and whirl, back came the two dancing dogs, panting and laughing all at the same time, just as the waltz music finished. They gave each other a BIG hug, then stood apart. Louise D smoothed her beautiful golden cot down with one paw. "Why certainly my dear" she said in her silky voice. "Thought you'd never ask But first... what do we do with Blackshanks there?" She waved towards Blackshanks the Baron - the Information Inverter who'd been such a load of trouble - who was sitting (still in his black canary shape, still not a crow!) on a nearby A-drive, sulking. When he heard his name he looked up and snapped his beak angrily. "We got a DEAL, remember?" he whined. "You just - " "Oh" said Cursor carelessly, ignoring the Baron completely. "I feel like a bit more BOBBLE! He bounces so well!" "Now you LOOK - " snarled Blackshanks. "OK OK only kidding!" laughed Cursor. "What say we let the little black bummer go back to his normal horrible self so we can get him out of our hair, Adrienne mon amie?" But Adrienne wasn't listening. She was tapping again and again on the external keyboard on her Search Engine, muttering to herself. Then she turned round - with a very worried expression on her face. "No one is going anywhere I fear, Cursaire" she said, flicking her bushy red tail from side to side and nervously scratching one of her tufty little ears. "Ze truth is - my Search Engine, 'e's - 'ow you say? Mort! Dead! KAPUT!!!" JOIN US EVERY MONDAY FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER! *********************************
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