Pizza
There were two kids.
There were two pizzas.
The lights in the house went out.
When they flickered and came back on, there was no pizza!
The boy moaned.
The girl said, "The worst part is the smell is still here." She grabbed her stomach and said, "I'm so hungry."
The boy jumped to his feet, "The smell! Quick follow me." He ran out the front door of the house and into the night. A streetlight lit their front yard.
"What are you doing?" she asked as she looked at her brother.
He had his head back, nose in the air.
"Are you trying to smell where they went?"
He didn't answer, his mouth hung wide open like he was trying to catch a snowflake.
She put her hands on her hips. "Answer me!"
He pointed to the sky.
The girl humphed, but looked up. When she saw them she gasped.
Up in the open air above the massive oak's branches were two glowing creatures. The one with green-orange skin was almost finished with the meat lovers pizza. The other still had more than half of the veggie lovers and was making a humming noise.
The boy yelled, "Give us back our pizza!"
The little one stopped humming and held the pizza up against its pink skin. The big one dropped the remaining meatlovers. It clipped a tall branch and a parallelogram of cheese pealed off, both pieces continuing to fall.
A splat began a split second before a softer thud, like a baseball being dropped on a leather couch.
The girl laughed as the boy groaned and began whipping cheese off his face. He did see the pizza chunk on the ground in front of him and had to do a half jump and contort his back to keep from falling. He breathed in as he got his footing and straightened up. "Stop laughing."
The girl couldn't though, she kept giggling as he whipped cheese from his left ear.
Then the pink one was floating beside her, mimicking the girls giggle.
The larger floating creature hovered near the boy and stuck out what looked like tentacle made of waffle fries. As the appendage released there was a dark box held out to the boy. The creature had no eyes, no seeming face, but raised the tentacle slightly as if to offer the box to the boy.
The boy took it. As soon as he held it fully in his hand, the two floating creatures blinked out of sight. There was a distant echo of the girl's laughter and then the night was silent.
The two kids looked at each other, then at the box in the boy's hand. She reached for it and he pulled it back, close to his chest.
"Come on, let me see it."
He turned his back on her and tried to open the box. He shook it. He pulled at both sides.
"Don't break it."
He sighed and turned to the girl. "You try."
She held it on both palms, up right next to her nose. "Please open little box."
There was a little gurgle as the box edges grew out in curves. The sound and the growing waves gave the impression of a spring of oil.\
The girl gasped and pulled her hands back. She took two steps back and put her arms around her brother, burying her head in his chest. When she looked back up the waves had finished moving and the box had grown into a stable archway. The boarder of the arch looked solid, you could see the light of the streetlight giving it shape to it's edges. But within the arch the black was different, like a deep hole with no light escaping./
The kids looked at each other and held hands. The boy took the first step. They both walked together to the arch.
They could feel a warm breeze and it carried a strong smell of brown sugar. Then they heard the girl's giggle come from within. They took a step back as the blackness stretched out in two humps. Then with a flash of light both creatures popped through the blackness. They each held a disc about three times the size of a pizza over themselves. With multiple waffle-fry tentacles they each extended a disc a child. They smelled like cookies.
The boy was the first to try a bite. He grinned, "Delicious!"
The girl took a bite, smearing something golden brown over one cheek. It tasted like putting her whole face in a bowl of chocolate-chocolate cookie dough. She laughed and said "Thank you!"
The larger of the creatures mimicked her laugh and voice, "Thank you!" Then he dipped up and down and shot back into the archway, leading against it and then disappearing as the archway snapped back flat.
The little creature also dipped twice and giggled, then leaned against the archway and flashed through it as it snapped back to flat black.
The siblings looked at each other, both still eating.
The girl smiled, "Want to go through?"