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Chomp Chapter 17 Summary

  • We learn that Derek keeps a set of vampire DVDs in his motor coach, which are based off of a really bad vampire book trilogy, but Derek loves them anyway.
  • Derek didn't think about vampires at all when he tried to eat the bat, though he had been scared and in a lot of pain when it bit him.
  • Before running away, Derek wakes up in his tent at night with a fever and a swollen tongue as big as a sausage. He has an infection that makes him kind of crazy.
  • Derek takes a flashlight and helmet camera and climbs a tree to hide, because that is the only thing he wants to do.
  • Once up there, he realizes he could have bitten by a vampire bat. Ah, fevers.
  • So Derek decides to do what the main character of the vampire movie does: He goes off alone to deal with being a vampire and save himself, because he believes he is turning into a vampire.
  • After Link drives up in his airboat and goes to get Derek, the feverish star sneaks down and steals the boat.
  • Crashing into another island, the jolt sends Derek flying into a patch of poison ivy.
  • Remembering that vampires can melt in sunlight, he hides from the sun and chants weird words from the vampire movie that supposedly will keep him human.
  • Back at Sickler's shop, the crew buys all sorts of stuff to help them in their search.
  • Sickler really doesn't care if Derek is lost—he is just thinking about publicity for his store.
  • Then a man walks in wanting a beer and looking pretty awful.
  • The man is Tuna's dad and he is looking for her, saying she is sick with a rare disease and that she could die if he doesn't find her.
  • Sickler decides whatever kind of trouble this is, he doesn't want any part of it and tells the man he hasn't seen her.
  • Angrily, Tuna's dad gets really close to Sickler and tells him she called home from his shop.
  • Realizing that he is out of shape, Sickler pulls out a hammer for protection and to threaten the man.
  • It works, and Tuna's dad backs away and starts speaking normally.
  • Still, Sickler doesn't trust him because of how mean he just was… and because Tuna had a black eye.