Hi, I'm back again. I'm gonna try to update everyday until school starts again. Had a little bit of trouble with this chapter. I couldn't figure out how to prank Horace, but i got there in the end. Hope you like it.

It was a dark night but much hotter than average, with that in mind the small company from Araluen had decided to sleep on deck. As Horace lay he had a feeling that someone was watching him, he turned towards where his friends were laying and saw them breathing evenly and deeply, he sighed and passed it off as his imagination. He fell asleep almost immediately looking forward to beating Gilan in their sparring match tomorrow. About five minutes after Horace had fallen asleep the three Rangers rose and headed to do their designated assignments. During dinner that night Halt, Gilan and Will had secretly made a plan of how best to prank the tall warrior. Halt was to find Horace's sword and shield while Will and Gilan were gathering Horace's bed roll ready to move. Halt returned with the weapons and went to wake Gunder. They had passed a small island before dinner and Will had convinced Gunder to take part in this prank. When everything was prepared and they had silently bumped into the island; Will, Halt and Gil had gently lifted Horace's bed roll and placed it on the beach. When morning came they would complete the second stage of the prank.

Will quietly crept up on the sleeping figure and positioned his mouth next to his ear, "IS IT FUNNY NOW?!", Horace woke with a start only to see that he and all his belongings were on some beach with no one in sight except for Will.

"Will" he breathed, but now Will was rolling on the ground laughing his head off and out of the shadows stepped Gil and Halt. "What did you do that for? Why am I on a beach? And where is the ship?"

"Oh we help you have a little move" Gil said while holding his sides. Will and Gil couldn't contain their laughter at the sight of Horace's face but the real surprise lay with Halt, he was laughing softly.

"Is it funny when it happens to you?" Will asked

"No. Okay I understand why you woke me up like that but what I don't understand is why I'm on this island." Horace replied, glaring at each Ranger in turn.

"Oh its quite a good metaphor, you see when I snuck up on Will yesterday he was in his own little world, when he snuck up on you today so were you, literally." Gilan said, still wheezing with laughter.

"Horace you'd better wipe that stupid look off your face before my apprentices drop dead with laughter" Halt called to him brightly.

"Okay let's get back to the ship" Will said, like Gil wheezing with laughter.

After they were all sitting comfortably onboard the ship, with steaming cups of coffee, Horace asked the question that had been on his mind for awhile. "How did you come up with it?"

"Oh it was simple, Gil and I were just gonna sneak up on you but Halt heard us planning and made it that one step better, He suggested that we leave you on the island and hide until night fall when we would sail out and get you. But Gil was the one who suggested that we put it together. While we were planning Halt figured out the metaphor and we polished it off with Gunder." Will said, as if it were the simplest thing in the world.

"Well it was a little different, but that's about it" Gil added, cheekily.

"If you are quite finished, we're here" Halt called from the rail.

"How the devil did he get over there without us noticing?" Horace asked wide eyed, all the others could do was shrug.