"let me guess another photo shoot?" phil was at it once again, making all of them fall for one of his get rich quick schemes. What ever it was this time they were not going along with it.

"phil what ever it is we have to stay here. Dragunuss is out there. If we leave for one minute who knows what havoc will be unleashed"

"but this has nothing to do with hockey. it has to do with this letter I am holding in my hand"

he left up his hand and waved the letter in their faces, as if the letter was a contract to life itself. It was his little baby right at the moment. Wildwing rolled his eyes in annoyness.

"well dude would you tell us what this letter is all about"

nosedive piped in as he himself waited to hear what was phils great news. Phil was standing there for over twenty minutes and still had not spilled the beans. He told them this was the first time in years he got a letter form his niece in nashville. Then he went ahead bragging about how great she was. How many awards she won in horse jumping, rodeos, all that fun stuff. So their was another perfectionist in the family.

"this letter is from my niece over in Nashville"

there beaks fell in aghast at the mention of the word niece. There was a first for everything.

"What? Was it something I said?"

Mallory was the first to gain herself.

"phil you are an uncle."

"what I person like me is not allowed to have family. How shallow can you ducks be"

relizing that what they were thinking was quite indeed as phil put is shallow grin spoke up.

"every one deserves family in their life"

"thanks"

"so could you at least tell us what is in the letter"

at that point he dropped his arm and the look on his face was to much.

"will um see the thing was, I never really got to reading it yet"

now this time every one gave a great big sigh. Tanya walked over and yanked the letter out of his hand.

"someone with brains should at least read the letter"

she sat down, she lightly put a slit in the envolope. She ever so carefully opened it up, as if this was precios cargo. When every one could seee the fine crisp white paper with writing come out they all gathered round.

With a clear of her throat she read on

" dear uncle phil, I know I have not recently wrote you for along time. You know how much my father hates you. How he says you can be a jerk at times. I really wanted to write you so many times. Well now is the chance. My father left us a year ago. Yes I know I have no excuse why its been a year. Well that was not why I wrote you this letter………."

Tanya had to stop. She skimmed ahead before she actually told them. She happened to see the look of love on his face. If he loved his sister as much as the letter read then that smug face would isapear buy the next sentence.

"phil did you love your sister"

"with my whole heart. Are you going to read anymore"

she placed the letter on her lap before she turned to the rest fo her teammates.

"does any one else want to read. I don't what you to all feel left out"

thye all reached out to grabb for it. Nosedive would have had it if Mallory did not garb it out of his hands.

"hey I had that"

"sorry kid finders keepers losers weepers. Now where were we. Ah yes here we go

the reason why I wrote to you uncle Phil was because I have some bad news. My mother, your sister was recently killed by a car crash……………………"

she dropped the note unto dukes lap. She could not read anymore. She turned her face towards phil. The look on his face was devastating. It was in-between disbelief and sorrow. For once he was not talking, he was extremely quite.

"phil…..i am so sorry phil"

for once wing saw that phil was in a way just like them. He did indeed care.

"phil…..maybe it would be best if you read the rest"

"wildwing he is in to much pain to read this. Seeing as I now have it I could read some more. I wanted to inform you that the funeral is on Tuesday january fifth. I know my mother and myself would love to have you there. If you were to come there well be more we would have to talk about. Something that has nothing to do with my mothers funeral……. I wonder what it is she wantes to talk about."

"I have no idea. I am no mind reader I never even meet her"

" I wasn't asking you dive"

"yah I kinda figured that out. Couled I read the rest"

there wa sno need to protest. He corrigibly haneded him the letter"

"I have sent seven tickets in hereas well. Seven why do ask. Well I heard that you are the manager of a team. Congrats. And I heard they are extremely smart, no duh. I need help uncle and I have a feeling these alien ducks could help. Did I forget to mention that the Nashville predators are in town. Of course hits were they live. They know I am your niece and they would very much like to meet the duck. All I know is that I am asking you to please come and pray with us at my moms funeral.here bro I give you the p.s. to read"

"p.s. Greggy and Bo would love to see you again. Phil who is Greggy and Bo."

"Greggy is a german Shepard while Bo is a thourobred"

" a horse?"

" yes she lives on a ranch"

"great ducks going to a farm. I could just see the head lines"

duke laughed at the little remark that dive pulled off.

"who even said that we are planning to go. I am not going to clean up horse dirt"

"Mallory you won't need to clean up anything. We are not going" wing looked at all of his team. He could not afford leaving here when the suarinas are at large.

" we all must go with our hearts. Even when our brains are telling us different. And my heart is telling me this girl needs our help" grin put on a strong face

"wait did I forget to mention that she also has a ice rink"

dive practically fell off the couch.

"were do I sign up?"

Tanya pulled out her laptop.

"if my calculations are right this may actually help us out with endurance. I heard that farmers have a lot of workd to do. It does not matter how much they eat because by the end of the week they would not of gained a single pound. I would like to go"

wildwing knew he could not afford losing three teammates and as much as he would hate to admit it. This sounded quite fun. He could sure learn a lot.

"what do the rest of you say?"

"as much as I don't like the thought of being knee high in manure I got to say phil need us there and kicking those predators behinds would be the icing untop of the cake. I Mallory is in"

"I am the last one. I think this would be a great experience. I have always wanted to learn how ride to those horses ever since I caught a race on the television. Yes I would like to go"

"well then team pack your bags. We are heading to Nashville"