The great tickle monster moved silently through the forest. It was a 8ft high hungry specimen with 6 tentacles. It was from the planet cochiecochie and since its spacecraft had crashlanded in the deep forest a few weeks earlier it had been hungry - not for food but for children to tickle. On its own planet it had plenty of kids from all over the galaxy that had been brought there for the tickling appetittes of the tickle monster inhabitants but since being stranded on earth for the last few weeks without any, it was craving for just one or two to capture and tickle.

Unable to return to its own planet due to its spacecraft being a rightoff, It wondered through the forest not sure what to do but it was but feeling that if it stayed there rather than going out of the forest in to the nearby towns it would be much safer from the strange beings in blue clothes with a rather deadly looking device that they had strapped to their wastes and that it once saw taking another being into a strange craft with flashing lights and then to a building not far away.

It never occured to this tickle monster that these beings may just be more scared of him if they saw him than him of them. It needed to tickle and too tickle a child fast or it would go out of its mind. It hid in the forest a rather deep scarey forest that a some unsuspecting children sometimes played in - in the summer for something to do.

There were lots of adventures that could be had in a forest but also lots of perils that the kids knew they should be aware of such as swamps, snakes etc. The kids from playing in the forest many times before knew where to go and where to step to be safe but they had no idea the forest was home now to an extra terrestrial, not one like E.T. but a going mad tickle hungry tickle monster.

Two such children who lived in a nearby town decided to go any play in the forest after their mom asked them to give her some peice for a while and go and play outside little realising that they would be gone a lot longer than she thought. The children were Hansel and Gretel. Two 8 year olds that played a lot of times in the nearby forest and had many happy times there. They skipped and giggles happily through some paths in the woods that they knew well and hid from one other jokingly and laughed.

Just then the tickle monster overhead some laughing and silenty crept near the sounds her heard and then saw --children -- at last it thought. It saw a little boy - hansel and a little girl - gretel. It is tickle time now it whispered. It quietly waited for a chance to capture them. Then Hansel stopped to tie his lace while Gretel carried on a few yards further on. This was is it though. It crept behind Hansel and with its 6 tentacles pinned his hands to his sides and held a tentacle over his mouth while he silently carried him off. Poor Hansel didn't stand a change. He could not move or yell to warn his sister. The tickle monster carried hansel to a unused cabin in the woods that he had made his temporary home while on earth.

Gretel turned around and saw her brother gone and though he must be hiding again. She heard nothing and did not have any idea what had happend and slowly looked behind trees to try and find him. The tickle monster tied Hansels feet and hands to the bottom bunk of a bunkbed that it had prepared just in case it bumped into some children in the woods. Hansel started calling his sister Grreeeeteeeel. Now we cant have that it said and took Hansels socks of and started moving his tentacles over Hansels feet Hansel started laughing and tried to tell the monster to stop but was laughing too much and was unable to say a full word. After a few mins the monster stopped and said I am going to find your sister now. Dont yell a word or you'll get twice as much tickling when I get back. Suddenly the monster was gone and after a min or so Hansel got his breath back and thought about calling out for his sister but thought again and said to himself that maybe his sister having not found him by now realised something was wrong and went back to town to get help. He strugged with the ropes but could not free himself.

The tickle monster was watching Gretel having found her roaming through the woods wondering what happened to Hansel. As she passed near it, it crept behind her and caught her. It took Gretel struggling to escape to the cabin. Gretel said Hansel are you alright. But she could not speak as one of its tentacles was around her mouth. It tied Gretel to the bottom bunk tying her hands and feet to it the same as Hansel in a spreadeagled fashion. It chose a bunk bed because it new how much children like bunkbeds and thought they might feel better near each other. Another benefit of the bunkbed was that because the kids were close together it could tickle two of them the same time.

It took Gretels shoes and socks off as well and then It then started to wiggle its tentacles and tickled the two children. Gretel screeched with laughter as 3 tentacles went all over her tummy and armpits and Hansel was no better of as three tentacles tickled his feet. The sound of their laughter and screeching was music to its ears and carried on tickling them swapping over often tickling Gretels feet and Hansels tummy and armpits both for about 10mins until they started turning red.

It stopped for a short while and Hansel and Gretel struggled with their ropes again but to no outcome. Gretel said could I have some water please I am thirsty now. The tickle monster said okay as it expected them to be here a while and would look after them as well as keep them here. It asked Hansel if he would like some of water too and he said yes but not to drink Im gonna pour it all over you if I get loose he said. It said your asking for another tickling and when to get Gretel's water.

The two stayed quietly on their bunks tired after being tickled all over and did not have the energy to yell for help. It came back with a cup of water and put it up to Gretel's mouth and she drank the water. She was feeling a little bit refreshed and asked the tickle monster what it was and why it kidnapped them. It said it was a tickle monster and it came from the planet cochiecochie and is stuck here after its spacecraft crashed im the forest. It said that it needed tickling to survive or would go crazy.

It could not go back to its own planet to tickle kids so it had to find some children here, you children it said. It started tickled Hansel and Gretel again with its 6 tentacles moving over different ticklish zones of their bodies and swapping over tickling them. More screeming and yelling with laughter made it carry on more it could not stop. After about 15mins this time it stopped for a while to find out if they were ok. Red and panting for breath they wondered how much more they would have to endure. Gretel asked if she could have some more water. The tickle monster said sure and put the cup up to Gretels mouth but she said please untie me i want to drink the water myself.

No no it said, please untie me just once for me to drink the water myself. It thought it could not do any harm and untied her arms. Gretel drank the water slowly very slowly, are you finished said the tickle monster I want to tie you up again. Just then there was a noise outside and the tickle monster tied Gretels arms up now not a sound it said or another tickling when I get back. It went outside to investigate what it is. Outside there was a hunter looking for some game. He was about 100 yards away being watched by the tickle monster. He was following a deer through the forest and started to take aim and a shot went out through the woods but missed the deer by a little, startling it and it hurried away. Darn it said the hunter and starting following the deer again.

In the cabin Hansel and Gretel heard the bang and realised there was someone there and began to screem and shout. It caught the hunters attention and he went through the forest towards the screeming. The tickle monster jumped up from behind him and grabbed him. Entwined by tentacles the hunter could not move and struggled to realese himself. The hunter then with all his strength he had left stamped with his steel toecap and heeled boots on the tickle monsters feet. The tickle monster shrieked with pain and for a tiny moment released his grip on the hunter. The hunter broke free and went for his gun.

Eat this he said and blasted the tickled monster with both barrels of his gun. The tickle monster said in its dying voice I wasn't going to hurt them I only wanetd to tickle them and fell to the floor. The hunter then carried on towards the shouting and entered the cabin to find Hansel and Gretel tied to bunk beds. He untied the kids and said what the devils being going on here then. They said it was a horrible monster from another planet that brought them here and started tickling them. They all went outside and the sight of the tickle monster on the floor made them scared and they run off without the hunter.

Next moment they woke up in their own beds it had been a very strange shared dream. There was a commotion outside their house and they looked out through the window. There were polic officers, men in white suits, the army and some men in suits carrying clipboards and looked very official men. Hansel and Gretel went outside and asked one of the men what was going on. He said a strange creature had been found shot in the middle of the forest and they were tryimg to find out what is was. Hansel and Gretel looked at each other and though perhaps it wasn't a dream after all.