The Waiting Game

A chapter to the Red Ant Army and the ongoing saga to the lives in Farmer Johnson's Garden.

                           The Waiting Game.......

While Betty...... Bettina was sleeping, K.C. wandered off to finish what he started to do. He happily did his job, then he heard Rufus buzzing around.

“ K.C...... Master K.C., where are you?” Rufus said quietly.

K.C. came out from behind a stalk of corn, and said “Right here Rufus, you got something for me?”

Rufus landed on the ground in front of K.C., reached in his mailbag and brought out an envelope.

“Yeah, here's another letter, this one is marked " Very Important!” Rufus said, as he handed the envelope to K.C.

In big letters, K.C. saw the words “Very Important” in large red letters. He hurriedly opened the envelope pulling a letter out, unfolded it and began reading it.

At first Rufus let him read to himself. Then he got anxious, so he asked “ What's is say, is it really that important?”

“Shhhhh” K.C. replied, as he kept reading.

Rufus shrugged, then lowered his head and backed away. He stood silent, and let him finish the letter. K.C. didn't read very fast so just as Rufus showed his impatience he held up his hand. Rufus once again backed off and began to frown.

Just then K.C. bellowed “Oh my God, oh my God!”

Rufus quickly stepped forward and inquired “what is it, if I may ask or is it so bad you have to let the King know first?”

“ Oh well..... I suppose I could tell you, then you could pass it on to the other wasps!” he replied.

Rufus waited while looking at K.C. wondering what was so important.

Finally K.C. spoke slowly and calmly, “ Rufus, I have a cousin that's traveling here from Japan. He had sent a previous message to me in a letter, telling me he was coming with important news. Now he sent this saying its taking longer than he thought to get here. So he says that a General in the Chinese Government has begun to gather his army. He is heading toward Europe first to decimate the land, then somehow get over here to take over.

Rufus kept saying, “ Wow” over and over.

“Now, I want you to go warn all of your kind, bees and yellow jackets included. Not sure about the mosquito's or moths, but we'll figure that out after I talk to the King! He will know more about what to do, and how to proceed” K.C. said as he put his left arm on Rufus's shoulder.

Rufus inquired “ Can I finish delivering this here bag of mail first? It'd be a whole lots easier if I didn't have this with me!”

K.C. replied “ Oh sure, sure do your job first. We got plenty of time before the destruction of our world commences. In fact, according to my cousin General Yìng pìgu

has just begun to assemble the Red Ant Army. But I will know more after he gets here, my cousin that is. For now go finish your deliveries, I am going to check on Betty, and see if she is still resting. Then go have a quiet conversation about this letter, and its developments. The King may have a plan to stop this invasion.”

Rufus shook his head, then flew off to finish his mail round. When he was done with that he went from hive to hive, spreading the news about the impending doom if something wasn't done.

K.C. sauntered over to where he left Betty to rest, and saw that she was still resting comfortably. His cheeks turned red as he watched her sleep. She was so pretty, and he found himself embarrassed to be watching her, especially without her knowledge. He quickly turned and headed toward the music. As he heard the soothing Jazz music, his pace began to slow down.

He thought “ Funny how some music is so calming to the soul!”

K.C. had almost forgot the urgency of why he wanted to speak with Sherman. But once he got nearer to the King, he remembered that he would be the one to know what to do, and how to proceed. He seemed like he was a snail of action. Even though he was an unusual snail, he was the King! Not only of the millions of snails, but to the few who lived in the garden. Even fuzzy ole Nikki considered him as King!

As he walked up to Sherman, he spoke quietly yet firmly “Excuse me, King Sherman, are you busy? I have something important to talk with you about. It's about the future of the garden, and well - the earth in general!”

“ Hey K.C., how's that beauty that fell in your lap? Bettina was it, she sure is a looker! But you saw her first so I wont intercede on your territory. You have staked a claim on that precious gem of a girl....... haven't you?” Sherman asked with one eyebrow raised in a questioning look.

Again he got embarrassed and stammered “ Well no, not yet. I got more important issues to worry about, besides if we don't figure out something it wont matter who's with whom!”

The King now spoke with authority “ now now my boy speak your mind.”

K.C. took the letter and held it up to Sherman, emphatically said “read this!”

King Sherman went inside his shell, then came out with glasses on. He began to read to himself, only glancing up every once in awhile to look at K.C. When he was done all he said was “ Hmmmm.” Then he began to pace back and forth, then tipping his head to one side then the other.

After a few minutes, K.C. said “ Well King, what's your plan?”

Sherman said slowly “ Well I could call my relatives around the state. Then they could get in touch with everyone they know, and so on!”

I am having Rufus tell all of his kind, along with the bee's & yellow jackets. I love my red ant relatives, but if they are planning the decimation of the earth........ then I don't like them too much anymore. I will know more once my cousin arrives, and according to this letter it will be another two weeks” he replied to the King.

Sherman stood listening to K.C., then said “Good, good you're an ant of action. Once word spreads across the land all our troops of insects could be ready to stop the invasion. Time is of the essence, if we are to save this land. According to your cousin they plan to take over the world. Tragic, my boy, can't they just stay on that side of the planet? After all its a huge ball, and China is a big place already.”

K.C. shook his head, then said “ yeah it is!”

“I want you to alert the others, and let them know what is going on. Then when your cousin arrives we can plan a battle strategy to thwart this invasion of the Red Army Ants! Also tell Herman to let all the other worms know what's about to happen. Maybe if we all unite as insects, and garden creatures we can stop some of the ant invasion!” Sherman continued.

K.C. started to leave then turned back, and then whispered “ What about Bettina, should we wake her to let her know what's going on?”

Sherman nodded his head, then replied “ No let her sleep as long as she can. Then we will let her know what's going on. I have planned something special for her sister, Suzee. Even she doesn't know what's really going on. This is going to be fun, and maybe Suzee will be distracted enough to leave Nikki alone. At least for awhile that is!”

K.C. implored “ Oh tell me, tell me what's going to happen, Sherman?”

Sherman just smiled, then slithered away with a big grin on his face.

K.C. stood there dumbfounded, he began to wonder what the King had in mind. At first, he mumbled to himself “ I wonder if he has a party planned of some kind? I haven't been to a party in a long time. I must go find Herman, then tell it's party-time! Could be our last one, depending on how serious my cousins information is. Better hurry and find Herman.”

As he went off to find Herman, he was whistling as he hurriedly walked away. When he came upon Herman, he yelled down into the first hole he saw. He hoped that Herman would hear him, but he couldn't. K.C. went from one hole to the next, bellowing “ Herman, are you in here?”

Finally after checking the tenth hole Herman popped up behind K.C., and yelled “ BOO!”

K.C. jumped up and flipped over, which made Herman bust out in loud laughter. Nikki rolled over, and yelled sleepily “ What's going on, I thought you were going to keep things quiet for me. Then you go off and laugh as loud as a group of kids watching cartoons.”

“Oh sorry Nikki, I just couldn't resist scaring K.C.; I knew he wouldn't expect what I would do” he replied laughing and pointing to K.C.

“ Well keep the hilarity down, I can't get back to normal with all this noise you're making” Nikki said angrily.

Then as he went to crawl off to get more sleep, K.C. said, “ hang on Nikki, I got some news to tell Herman, but since you are here I might as well tell you too!”

Herman inquired “ Oh yeah, this better be good, I have a lot of work to do.”

Then Nikki chimed in “ And I have lots more sleep I'd like to get back to!”

K.C. replied “ I'll make this quick and give you the short version. First for the good news- and this will make you happy Nikki. Do you know a Bettina Bee? Well, it doesn't matter..... she's in this very garden, so Suzee wont be disturbing you much. And now for the bad news...... the Red Ant Army is being assembled by a very mean General, and he plans to invade every inch of the earth!”

Both Herman and Nikki's jaws dropped then stood in silence when K.C. stopped speaking.

Author's Note

Update: Picture has arrived- hope everyone likes it!

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