A journey begins with a single blow

We live inside the "living house". Its purplish red, soft but hard walls are containers of warm and gooey liquids we swim in. Can you guess what we are? We are considered most repugnant and loathsome creatures of the world. We are the parasites inside you, we have names that are loathed by humans; hookworm, roundworm, whipworm, tapeworms, etc. Regardless of your opinion we live unaffected, almost.

Morning came with delicious gurgling of liquid and solids coming down the gate. Thonk! Thonk! The foods are in the yellowish acid pool where they dissolve but we don’t. All the worms swarm like bees in beehives round the food so greedily, making noise no better than wild pigs. Away from them in the higher area are us, the royal Ascariasis. We eat what our servants give, not those pre-salivated foods.

“Your highness, I have grave news” a roundworm covered in dust and earwax came forth.
“What is it, lesser one?” I answered carelessly. Probably another engine going wild.
“Workmen from the sound-effect room have heard news of new parasiticide called…”
“What??? Now? When? How? Why?” I screamed. This is a nightmare!!!
“Right after this meal, it is so called Ascariasisless, meaning…”
“Shoosh” I stopped him.
Anger rose right up to my nose but I calmed down and said in a cool voice, “you may join the rescue group. All royalties must be delivered to the external areas first, than the lesser ones” I ordered.

A loud, clear voice through the empty vein split the worms in thousand pieces, mothers grabbing food for their children, worms scurrying away in twos, holding each other’s hands. It was a chaos. In this mess, I hurriedly climbed above the walls of the stomach quickly and swiftly. There was only one way to stop the parasiticide coming. I’ll get to that later.

I climbed up the esophagus, grabbing the wobbly slippery walls, I reached the nose. Inside the little cave was heaps of hair-like grass on the ground and sticky liquid on top. My tails grabbing onto one of the grass, I scratched and danced around the cave crazily and wildly over and over again! “Why is this earthly being not sneezing, for the stomach’s sake!!” I shouted. Well, that must have had an impact on him. “Ah, Ah, Eh, Ehh..Titchoo~~~~” Finally the human sneezed, as I suspected but I suddenly felt light. My tail still grabbing onto the grass but no ground in my hand! BANG!!! I was on the ground now but different. So hard and grassless?

Then I was exposed to something so bright and new to me, I was enlightened and bewitched by it. I heard many workers in the eye-lid team get blind for some reason, this was it! The light, the light, it was the most horrible and devastating thing I’ve seen! It must be the monster. I thought. Then a dark and gloomy shadow fell on me. I felt the coolness of it, cooling the burning ache of my body. I looked up, shaking both in my heart and soul, I looked up.

A horrible looking thing was staring at me. With an egg-like body but covered with skin and hair, it had two moving spheres and a tube with two holes and another big cave with stones stuck neatly on top and bottom. This thing must be…. Before I could even finish the line in my mind, something shook the land like an earthquake. A big lump of hard flesh with five limbs! What creature! I looked up and saw the human’s face folding like walls of esophagus, its mouth crooked upward and its eyes decreasing in size. The thing with five limbs began to fumble to get me. It seemed miss me all the time, I knew I was going to go back to my home soon, for this thing seemed to be bline, indeed.

Suddenly and totally unexpectedly, the thing ferociously grabbed me by my head. “SHRIEKKKKKKK~~~” I screamed. “HELP SOMEBODY, HELP!!!” but no matter how long and loudly I screamed, I knew no-one would dare come. Each limbs of the thing went over me and seemed to squeeze me, harder and harder and harder. Then I saw it. Something I only saw once before I came into the flesh of this monstrous human. Earth. What an earth is this human thinking of? The five-limbed thing dropped me into this heap of smelling earth mixed with food. “I have to go! I am the heavenly King of YOUR worms in YOUR stomach! Pick me up or I’ll get you diarrhea!” I screamed but the human seemed to be deaf! “Nice wormy” the human said. “Even though I’m blind, I can feel and sense you. You’re an earthworm aren’t ya? That’s my compost and will be your new home.” The human whispered. “You think I’m that unearthly earthworms! Think again! You think I’m going to live here like them? Fine than, I swear I will ruin your compost cos im no earthworm!” I shouted on top of my lung, if I had any. The human stared at me and frowned, while picking its nose, “Anyways, how’d you get into my nose?”

The end..^^