2 The Mystery of the Missing Mr Big Nose

CHAPTER 2 THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MR BIG NOSE If you're like most of our readers, you're probably wondering how old we are. Well, it's funny you should be wondering that because today is actually my birthday! I can't wait to see what sort of amazing surprise Terry has planned for me. He's probably in the kitchen baking a cake for me right now.

Hang on… I'm in the kitchen… and there's no cake- baking going on here. Hmmm. He knows how much I love juggling chainsaws. Maybe he's planning on throwing me a surprise party on the chainsaw-juggling level! Nope. There are a few chainsaws, a bit of blood and a couple of severed fingers, but no Terry and— even worse—no party!

Perhaps he's planning a make-your-own-pizza party… I climb up to the make-your-own-pizza parlour, acting like I've got no idea that Terry's waiting for me and… guess what?

He's not! Okay. I think I know what's going on— I bet he's forgotten all about my birthday and he's in that stupid Ninja Snail Training Academy! He's been spending all his time there lately trying to turn a bunch of dumb snails into Ninjas (which, of course, as everyone knows, is totally impossible!).

I climb up to the Ninja Snail Training Academy and, sure enough, there he is.

'Oh, hi, Andy!' says Terry. 'I'm just training my Ninja Snails. 'Watch this!' 'Attack!' 'Fly!' 'Use super Ninja stealth!'