Topmonhit Story '07 Thanksgiving Special (Sorta): The Turkey Trail
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"…are you inviting me just because you think I can get a turkey?"
-Croco, Topmonhit Story '07 Thanksgiving Special (Sorta): The Turkey Trail
Topmonhit Story '07 Thanksgiving Special (Sorta): The Turkey Trail is the second Topmonhit Story holiday special, and is more of a Jinjiving special than Thanksgiving (although the two holidays are essentially the same). It is currently the only Thanksgiving special so far, and is the only special to star Croco and Bien.
Characters (in order of appearance): Croco, Bien, Gonji, Chimeck, Pawno, King Jingaling
Locations: Bubblegloop Swamp, Jolly Roger's Lagoon, Jinjo Village
Time Period: Thanksgiving (or Jinjiving) 2007
Story
9 AM on Jinjiving morning, Croco and Bien were asleep at Bubblegloop Swamp when there was a loud ringing, causing Croco to wake up; he saw up from this, and as Bien was asleep on him, he was tossed into the swampwater and attacked by piranhas. Croco went to a nearby pole with a phone on it and answered it, hearing Gonji on the other end. Gonji told Croco he was invited to Jinjiving dinner, a holiday about giving and turkey. Hearing turkey, Croco was automatically in, but Gonji needed Croco to actually find a turkey to take.
With no way to get out of it, and Jinjiving dinner on the line, Croco agreed and he and Bien went searching. Three hours later, they were at Jolly Roger's Lagoon but had no chicken. Bien saw a random fortune teller's shop and they went inside. Inside, there was a table with a crystal ball sitting on it and a chair on the other side turned around. Bien yelled that they were looking for something, and Croco specified they were looking for a turkey for Jinjiving dinner.
The chair turned around and they saw Chimeck and assumed she was a turkey; Chimeck corrected them, as she was a chicken. Croco wasn't picky, and Bien said she was going to be dinner. Chimeck looked into her crystal ball and predicted they would take her to Jinjo Village by the end of the story; despite this, she refused to go with them, and sprung them out of the building with a giant spring. Thus, as Wally Plotch said, began a series of futile attempts to capture Chimeck by Croco and Bien.
Their first attempt was simple: Croco had a pile of chicken feed in front of the shop with a cage hanging over it and a string connected to it that he held. He would drop the cage when she came out, but she had her own trap set; Bien saw a box of honeycomb cereal, went over to it, and picked it up, activating a flamethrower that hit both Croco and Bien. Chimeck suggested they give up, but Croco refused.
An hour later, Croco had a large magnet he planned to use to get Chimeck out by attracting the ring through her feathers. Instead, it attracted a bunch of Pawno's items, after which a UFO became stuck to the magnet and the aliens inside fired ray guns at them and they ran off. Two and a half hours later, Croco had several sticks of dynamite tied together. 5-second cooking, he said, and asked for the match. Bien had none, and Croco asked how they were supposed to light it, but it was already lit; Chimeck had lit it, and waved to them from her shop. Croco tried to throw it but it exploded in his hand, and he finally gave up.
Chimeck told him that her earlier fortune was still true, however; she had been invited to Jinjiving dinner as well. She didn't tell them because it would have made for a boring Jinjiving Special. With that, they went to Jinjo Village, where Chimeck had brought a tofu turkey. Croco was disappointed, but Bien said Jinjiving wasn't about the food... except Gonji said it actually was. Bien began to fly around eating a bunch of food, and Croco questioned the ethics of Jinjos, which were bird-things, eating turkeys. Finally, Bien wished a merry Thanksgiving/Jinjiving to all, and to all a good Givethanksing. He was then attacked by a bunch of piranhas again.
Trivia
- This is the first appearance of Chimeck.
- This is Croco, Bien and Gonji's first appearance in Topmonhit Story. They would later appear in an actual story in Jinjo Crossing: The Novel.
- This story would logically occur either around The Plot of Evil Dreams, Omnia Causa Fiunt, and/or Wiggly Jr.: Second Journey Chapter 3: Yoshi Times and Ghostly Crimes.
Connections to Other Stories
- N/A
| Preceded by: Topmonhit Story '07 Halloween Special: Bleah! Countdown to Doom | Topmonhit Story Holiday Specials Topmonhit Story '07 Thanksgiving Special (Sorta): The Turkey Trail | Followed by: Topmonhit Story '07 Holiday Special: How the Angry Scientist Stole a Christmas Carol |
