I am really sorry, this was supposed to be updated sooner but it took a while for me to continue writing it as i am currently writing several other fanfics.

So this explains why Nod was kidnapped and who by... dun dun dun :)

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It was loud voices that wakened me. Blinking rapidly and shaking my head in an attempt to clear it, I alerted the owners of the voices of my return to consciousness.

"Oh good you are awake, we were starting to worry." Warm brown eyes gazed into my own and a kind face filled my vision.

"Sorry about ambushing you and your bird but we figured it was the only way to get you here without you shouting out for help and alerting someone to our presence."

I tried and failed to rise to my feet and instead looked around me, trying to find something with which I could guess where I was and how far I was from Moonhaven.

As far as I could tell we were standing on a high branch, far above the forest floor, there was a door that lead into the inside of the tree and from where I stood I could just see a winding staircase, made from the tree bark that wound its way around the inside of the tree. This wasn't unusual; many trees in Moonhaven had this feature. Yet it didn't feel like home, the sense of security that I had always felt whilst in Moonhaven was gone and everything just felt strange and unfamiliar.

"No, this is not Moonhaven" The brown-eyed woman had noticed my examination of my surroundings and was quick to affirm my suspicions.

Great, I had been kidnapped and taken far away from where I lived, perfect just perfect…

"Don't worry though, we will return you to Moonhaven as soon as the time is right and you have learnt what you need to."

At my blank look the woman smiled slightly while the man behind her sighed loudly.

"Mira try to explain it to him, he doesn't look particularly bright so try saying it very slowly." The man sent a half serious, half joking look my way and I returned it with a dark glare.

First they kidnap me then they insult my intelligence, these strange people really weren't making an effort to create a good first impression.

"Marco! Leave the boy alone, I am sure he is plenty clever enough." Mira snapped at her male companion who shrugged casually and turned his back.

"Ignore him, he is just bitter that… well never mind that is a story for another time but now I will tell you why we brought you here."

"Finally, but first, my bird where is she?" I had neither seen nor heard any sign of my hummingbird and I was beginning to worry that these strangers had harmed her.

"Your bird is fine, in fact she is on her way back to Moonhaven as we speak, you will have no need of her for the next while, now are you ready?" Mira stood, pulling me up with her and Marco turned around and led us through the wood door and up the winding staircase right to the very top of the tree.

It took a while, the tree was enormous and we are only very little but eventually, just as the sun was beginning to set on the horizon, Marco led us out through another small door and very gracefully and carefully stepped out onto the top most leaves and quickly bounded from leaf to leaf, moving before his weight sent him plummeting downwards in a fatal fall.

"Come along Nod, its easy just move quick and trust your feet to find the safest way across."

With this advice Mira leapt from the top stair and was soon catching up with Marco.

I looked back and briefly considered running back down the stairs, finding the nearest bird and flying back to Moonhaven, where ever it was.

Being me though, filled with curiosity and eager to find out where exactly we were going I turned away from the stairs and after taking a deep, reassuring breath, I leapt out onto the delicate leaves.

My feet touched the pale green surface and I could feel the leaf beneath me bending downwards as the weight of my body pushed it down, but before I fell my feet had already moved on, leaping into the air again and landing easily on the next leaf before repeating the action again and again until I joined Marco and Mira in the very centre and the very top of the tree. The tree that held us was so old that many of the branches had started to grow in a deformed way, growing upwards instead of outwards and because of this, the branches grouped together in the centre, forming a platform type thing, that was carpeted with thick leaves that prevented anyone who stood there from falling down to the forest floor, and could only be reached by jumping from leaf to leaf.

From the platform I could see over the tops of even the tallest trees, and far out into the distance the dull grey structures that marked the homes of the stompers.

"Marco and I brought you away from Moonhaven because you are needed for something very important and you needed to be prepared for it and that would be impossible if we had to meet in Moonhaven, so that is why you were brought here."

"So what is it I am to be 'prepared' for?" By this point I was beginning to think that I had been set up by Ronin and my fellow leafmen trainees and that Mira and Marco were too convince me of the authenticity of the prank. They would soon learn that I was not going to be pulled into a trick so easily.

"Your friend, M.K is going to find very soon that her world is in grave danger from enemies who are far worse than Boggans and when she does, both her and her world will need your help."

"Why? How can someone threaten all of Earth?" Being so small and thus seeing the world as such an enormous place, the idea of an enemy who was strong enough to threaten the entire world seemed slightly far-fetched to me.

"I never mentioned the entire world, I just said M.K's world, her friends, family anything remotely connected to her is in danger, and as such Moonhaven is also in danger."

I shot Mira a disbelieving look, her words having done nothing to persuade me that she was telling the truth.

"Just let the boy go Mira, I said that he would refuse to believe anything that we said to convince him."

"He must and will Marco, Nod please, we are not lying to you but ultimately it is your choice, we cannot and will not force you to help however M.K and the people she loves are in danger and you are the only one who can save them."

The serious tone made me hesitate and look back, a part of me starting to waver towards believing them.

"Say I do think that you are telling the truth, how would I help save M.K?"

"We do not know how we just know that you will." Mira didn't seem at all bothered by how annoyingly cryptic her answer was and Marco just snorted at my frustrated expression.

"Just go to her for a short while and if anything bad happens, I promise Marco and I will bring you back as soon as you require us too."

It would be nice to see M.K again and ensuring that she was safe and well at the same time would be an added bonus but there was one problem.

"I would say yes but our Queen has already tried and failed to shrink M.K down to our size so how are you two going to try and do something the Queen failed at?"

"Simple, we aren't going to shrink M.K."

I stared at Mira, unsure how to respond.

"So if M.K isn't being shrunk then how are we supposed to be able to communicate without the use of her father's cameras?" I was beginning to think that this was trick again as there was no way that M.K and I could meet while i was the size of her little finger.

Mira smiled at me and all of a sudden I felt very apprehensive about what they two were planning for me.

"M.K is not going to be shrunk because you are going to be grown."


Not a great ending sorry :( but this time the next update will be quicker i will force myself to write this time :)
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