We were blocked by their bodies and gaping jaws. They had surrounded us in the front, the back and the sides. We couldn't move forward and we couldn't run away. We were stuck.
"There's no way out," said Jeremy as he looked around. "What should we do?" asked Melody as she started to retreat into her shell from the sight. "What would Toast do?" asked Kevin out loud. "Now's not the time Kevin!" replied Melody. "It's okay, I'm sure we will get out of this situation," said Jody as she/he tried to reassure every snail.
As we stood there not knowing what to do, one of the creatures took the initiative first. It crawled up and latched its jaws into Kevin. "Ouch." Kevin cried out in response. He then used his eyes and whacked the creature away.
He shouldn't have done that as the creatures around us instantly became more rowdy and erratic. It was like the action set them off or something. Soon, they closed in and bit into all of us. With our bodies tightly gripped in their jaws, they started to pull us apart from each other. I watched as five of the creatures latched onto Kevin's body and started to pull his body away. "We got to keep close and bat them away!" yelled Melody somehow through the chaos.
I watched as six of the creatures latched onto Melody. Our formation was slowly breaking down. Soon some of the creatures got in-between Melody and Jeremy and began to pry them apart. "Melody!" Jeremy yelled as she watched Melody being torn from his side. He didn't just yell, he reached out his foot. He slammed int onto Melody's shell and tried to drag her back in. I watched as he winced in pain as more jaws bit into the underside of his exposed foot.
The same thing was happening to Kevin on my left side. I think Jeremy's action influenced mine as I copied him. I just couldn't sit still and watch Kevin being dragged away. Just like Jeremy, I stretched my puny body over Jody's shell onto Kevin's. Using my body, I tried to stop Kevin from being pulled away as he fought the creatures in front of him. With every pull on Kevin, by the creatures, I could feel my body tearing. It felt like I was going to be torn into two.
In the commotion and through my pain, I noticed that SY had hidden in his shell. It was like he had just given up. Without resistance, the creatures carried him away in their jaws. As he was being pulled away, he poked his head out slightly and called out. "Give in, we will find a way to escape when they carry us wherever they are going,".
"That's suicide!" Jody cried out as he batted down a creature beside him. "I'm game," said Kevin below me as he slid into his shell. "NO KEVIN YOU IDIOT!" I shouted as he was carried off. Unable to hold onto Jody's shell any longer, I was carried off as well.
Luckily, the creatures hadn't found me yet. I slid on top of Kevin's shell and maneuvered myself so I was furthest away from the jaws of the creatures. I managed to turn myself around just in time to observe Jeremy hide into his shell. It looked like he couldn't take the pain from the jaws anymore and he decided to hide as well. Soon, Melody and finally Jody followed his actions.
At that point, our portable homes called shells became a portable prison.