A clatter and a rumble wells up like hooves pounding hard-packed earth. The clatter grows louder and closer. The ground shakes. By this time Stobey and Slutter are holding on to each other. Suzanne and Roger stand close by, confused by what's happening. They feel themselves to be strangers, and don't know what to expect. And Chug? Well, he just stands there.
A cloud of dust suddenly puffs up out from the hole. It forms into a cloud and drifts away. Another cloud of dust rises in which floats a long smooth shaft. The shaft is smooth and rises up out of the hole. The other end is attached to a head. The head is that of a small white animal that looks like a horse.
Another cloud of dust. The animal leaps up out from the hole. It's a unicorn, and on its back is a saddle, and in the saddle is a knight in pure white armor, and in the knight's grip is a lance pointing straight at where our friends are standing.
The front of the knight's helmet is open. In the middle of his face is a pudgy nose, above the nose are fierce eyes, and under the nose a long, bristly, handlebar mustache that ends with three twirling loops on each side.
'Who are you?' he roars. 'What do you want here?'
Stobey steps forward until she is right under the unicorn's head.
Looking up, she shakes her finger at the knight.
'Before we go any further,' she says, 'you point that lance somewhere else.'
The knight in white armor stares at Stobey for a five seconds.
'Umm.. ah…,' he says as he lowers the lance until it points at the ground.
'OK. Is that better?'
'Yes, that's better,' Stobey says. 'Now, I'm Stobey and…' pointing… 'this is my friend Slutter, and these are our new friends from Planet Earth, Suzanne and Roger.'
She points up at Chug. 'Do you know Chug-a-lug?'