This is a serial, first part HERE

Chapter 40: Rock Eaters, no. Rock Eater

-Hold on! Hold on! WE AREN’T HERE TO EAT YOU!- Doctor Bones screamed in fear of the coffin becoming difficult to access.

-EH?- The rumbling stopped.

“We don’t eat rocks, or at least you aren’t the kind of rocks I’d eat” Miss Fern said, thinking of rock candy.

-So you do eat rocks!-

-She wants to branch out!-

-She’s a plant after all-

-Just wants us to let down our guard-

The rumbling started again.

-Thanks a lot Miss Fern-

“Sorry”

-Well, this calls for more drastic measures!-

Putting a hand into his spacial darkness, Doctor Bones pulled out a brickwork jug that couldn’t decide if it really wanted to be a pot. Within the pot was a bubbling grey liquid that made obscene noises! Wasting no time, he poured it directly into the cracks on the massive ‘Papa’ rock.

-OOOHHHH OOOOOHHHHHH THAT FEELS WONDERFUL-

The rock went still.

-Look, Papa’s cracks are closing!-

-Could this be some wicked plot?-

-Maybe they’re alright-

-What if its like mayonnaise, sauce before they eat Papa!-

The jug-pot almost dropped from Doctor Bones’ hands.

-It isn’t mayonnaise! Its Allment! It heals rocky creatures! Its like cement more than anything else! We aren’t here to eat you!- he protested

Allment! Known to be up there with a certain kind of tape and lubricant in sheer usefulness! Allment may not the be strongest of cements, but it does happen to be unchallenged in terms of promoting regeneration in rocky lifeforms. The issue with Allment is that it really is just a mix of bone dust from regenerative creatures, rock dust from rock beings and of course water.

Naturally if the quality of these ingredients is lacking, the allment will be lacking. When it was first introduced to dimensional doctors there were quite a lot of complaints such as ‘this is really stupid’ or ‘Come on, you’re just pouring cement into the wounds!’. However the results over time laid to rest the objections. What helped it become widely used was the fact that the ingredients could be found in many dimensions and for most dimensional professions, being able to secure one’s materials ‘on site’ is usually a big plus.

“Uh, Doctor, if that’s allment, what’ll happen to the coffin?”

Doctor Bones twitched slightly in a distressed manner. Had he not been a skeleton, he might have cried a little bit.

-IF YOU AREN’T HERE TO EAT ME, THEN WHY DID YOU ATTACK ME WITH A COFFIN? HUH, OH KEEP POURING THAT STUFF IN PLEASE-

-We didn’t attack you, we uh, crash landed- Doctor Bones explained.

-A likely story-

-Who ever heard of a flying coffin?-

-Well, this is Elcon-

-Wait, coffin, bones, ARE THEY RISEN?-

-They’re going to make us into ghost rocks!-

“I’m not undead though.” Miss Fern pointed out.

-Looking closer, I guess she isn’t-

-What a relief-

-I’m too young to undie-

-OK, SO YOU AREN’T UNDEAD, YOU DIDN’T ATTACK ME AND YOU AREN’T HERE TO EAT US. I’LL ACCEPT ALL THAT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU KEEP POURING THAT STUFF IN-

The flow of allment didn’t stop coming from the pot-jug, in spite of the fact that it probably shouldn’t have held that much in it.

-Well, our coffin broke down, and we need to fix it up a bit, so is there any dodgy ruins or something out of place near here?-

-OH THAT? WELL…-

Before the rock could say anything a scream of terror came from him and along with a drilling sound, the rock itself exploded! And from the shattered rock a beast with spinning horn arose, munching on the poor unfortunate rock!

-Its a rock eating beast!- One rock screamed out.