As Gabriel ran for the nearest town, she ran the plan through her mind, making sure it was flawless. "We have to bring the Lost Block together, or it is hopeless!" Gabriel shouted outloud. "Those boys better learn to cooperate or I'll have their heads!"
She dashed across the bridge, dodged passerbys and ran in between buildings. Finally, she stopped at a bench and sat down to rest. Gabriel was absolutely exhausted, but luckily, she was surrounded by super markets. As she caught her breath, she studied her surroundings. A bunch of people, most of them bald, some still had their hair. Hair hunters must have came through here. Maybe she would be lucky and find Wild Wister here!
"Just my luck!" Gabriel exclaimed when her eyes saw a figure of a familiar man. "Wild Wister! Over here!"
"Gabriel?" He turned.
The man had shoulder-length brown hair, wore orange sun glasses, an opened collared white floral shirt, purple pants and purple shoes. He was covered in sand and quite dirty from what seemed like rough housing. Most of all, he wore the same curious bell necklace that Gabriel and that man wore.
"Gabriel, you're awake?" He asked as he walked up to her.
"Yeah silly." Gabriel said as she stood up and brushed off the sand from his clothes. "Come on. We have an important date." She said grabbing his hand.
"A what!?" He was surprised.
"We have to find the others and get the treasure chest!" Gabriel shouted as she dragged him through town.
"Oh." He sounded disappointed. "Wait you mean we're going to open the forbidden chest!?"
Gabriel nodded.
"Are you crazy!? That is way too much power even for Bobobo!"
"Do you want to lose to him again?" Gabriel asked, turning to him like a mother to her cantankerous child in a grocery store. "Only this time, in front of me?"
"No." Wild Wister replied lowering his head.
"Then come on. We have to find the other two so we can unlock the chest."
"It's so good to have you back." He said calmly. Gabriel grinned.
She noticed she was still holding his hand. She threw it aside. "You can walk yourself!" She shouted before continuing on.
"That's my Gabriel." Wild Wister said to himself as he followed her. She pretended not to hear.
They soon entered a barren area outside of town. In the distance was something black, advancing at a slow rate.
"That must be the Hair Hunters that General Lee Fishcake chased off." Gabriel said. "The other two might be there!"
They ran towards the black blob and saw that they were advancing on Bobobo and his gang. Gabriel grabbed Wild Wister by the collar and darted off to the side, unnoticed. They stood on the sidelines, reading every face that passed by.
"So the one guy and his living candy is awake too?" Wild Wister asked.
Gabriel nodded. Then she scrunched up her face in confusion. She looked up at him. "What are there names anyways?" She asked.
"I do not remember." Wild Wister scratched his head. "It seems like they never told us."
"Yeah I mean, we've been a team for so long and we don't even know their names. Odd." Gabriel looked deeper into the army. "There!" She sprinted towards the crowd and leaped up over their heads. She landed in front of the man that was with her earlier.
"Gabriel! What..." He started but Gabriel interrupted.
"Come on." She said grabbing him by the collar and the candy creature by the hand. By then, the army had passed them by like a passing train. She walked them over to where Wild Wister stood, dumbstruck.
"It's been way too long since we did a mission together." Wild Wister managed to say.
"A mission! Gabriel are you sure?" The man asked.
"Well, you can ask Wild Wister what he thinks. He fought Bobobo." She said. The man looked at him.
"Listen to her, or she'll kill us." Wild Wister said to him a harsh whisper. Gabriel quickly grabbed him by the collar.
"I'll do much worse." She whispered in his ear. Wild Wister's eyes widened at the thought.
He could see it now. He would be tied down and tortured by the heat of a thousand suns and all that time, he would have to deal with Gabriel feeding him General Lee Fishcake's secret recipe. Wild Wister shook the thought away.
"We have to go and find the chest. Then when we battle Bobobo, together, we'll have that at hand." Gabriel said. "The map, if you will?" She held out her hand to whoever had the map.
The little candy creature reached into his sock and pulled out a small piece of parchment. He flew up to Gabriel and dropped it in her hand.
"Thank you." Gabriel smiled. She opened up the map and studied it. "Wait! This is just a coupon for flower hairpins! Where's the real map?"
"It should be in here somewhere." The creature said as he dug in his socks.
"Don't tell me you lost it!" The man demanded.
"Nope, I don't got it." The creature said calmly, acting as if it was an everyday thing that you lose a map to the most important treasure in the world.
"Alright, well let's think back. Who had the map last?" Gabriel asked. The four started to think.
"For awhile there, you had it Gabriel." Wild Wister said.
"Yeah then she gave it to me." The man said. "Then I gave it to him." He pointed to the candy creature.
"Then Jeda asked me to give it to him." The candy creature blurted out. Everyone's face fell except his. He kept smiling.
"Jeda...has...the...map?" Gabriel turned away.
"This is bad." Wild Wister said.
"Why?" The man asked clueless. Wild Wister grabbed him by the shoulder and pulled him away from the Gabriel bomb.
"Listen, when we're not around, the other generals start hitting on Gabriel. I hear about it at the general meetings. Plus, Gabriel is disgusted by all human men so it doesn't really get pretty when that happens." Wild Wister said.
"And you do nothing about it?" The man asked, furious.
"Well, no. Gabriel can pretty much take care of herself." He said, unsure of his own words.
"Gabriel is strong, I know, but she doesn't need to be taking that from her own comrades. We're her friends and should help her in every step of the way, not sit back and watch her get hurt." The man clenched his fists as he lectured Wild Wister.
"You're right. I'm sorry." Wild Wister lowered his head.
"I'm not the one who needs an apology." He said pointing to Gabriel. Wild Wister sighed.
Gabriel sat on the ground, cross legged. Her hair covered her face and she bent over staring at the ground. There were wet spots on the ground in front of her face. The candy creature sat in her lap, trying to comfort her. Wild Wister and the man came and sat on opposite sides of her. Wild Wister looked up at the sky and looked for words. He turned to Gabriel.
"Gabriel, I'm sorry for all the things that you've suffered from. But now that we're here and together, we're all here for you." He said sincerely. Suprised at his speech so far, he continued. "We'll go and get the map from Jeda and find the chest." That was a good prep.
"Yeah and get some ice cream!" The candy creature exclaimed.
Gabriel smiled. "Thank you boys. I really appreciate that." She pushed her hair back behind her elf ears. She stood up. "Well, no use in moping around so let's go get the map!"
"She sure has some random mood swings." Wild Wister whispered to the man as they followed Gabriel back towards the castle. The man nodded.
The four friends walked towards the castle determined to find the map. They were ready for anything that would come at them. But in the Bobobo world, everything was random.
