It's break time and I'm just standing there talking to my friends when suddenly I feel a peculiar tickle on my ankle. My brain's alarms go off for it feels like it may be a spider, and I jump. I look down instead to find a praying mantis, whom I luckily didn't harm. The mantis appeared to really like my shoe and relentlessly climbed back on. Not wanting him to crawl up my shorts or something, I coaxed him onto my hand.
My sunglassed eyes locked with his black insectoid eyes. It was such a strange sensation. I've never felt this way before. It was like the mantis wanted me to know something but wouldn't say. Or maybe he just thought my sunglasses made me look like a huge mantis. I passed him over to Captain Jim and the mantis perched on his shoulder, unmoving.
So apparently the mantis spent the next hour in a jar (one with a purpose that's not important to the story) until he looked at the Captain as if to say "May I go now?" So he was released. I hope he's okay now--there are some stupid people in the world who live to destroy. Me, I like some insects--not like flies, mosquitoes, or gnats. Crickets and mantises are cool--they just look nice and mind their own business, peacefully. Not like spiders.
Coincidentally, not a week before, a mantis flew into the kitchen. My mom had dismissed it as a moth when it did. I let it go but I'm afraid one of the dogs damaged its wing. We didn't make eye contact like the mantis from yesterday though.
If you must know about the jar, we decided to make the upcoming Brawl tournament more interesting, so all participants contribute two dollars. We want sixteen entrants to not only make the brackets perfectly even, but to make an even thirty-dollar prize for the victor. I really don't know if Ness is my best for an item-free environment, so I'm going to use Pikachu. I wish the mantis could enter.
