As the gang continued on, Cilan, or now called Sarukki, was running ahead, stopping every so offten to sniff the flowers. At one batch he was smelling, a bee came out and promtly stung him on his nose. Judging by the amount of chattering, he was both yelling and swearing at the bee. "There... there... its ok, its gone now..." Iris calmly said. "I got some onitment and a bandaid." Ash offered, to which Iris took. "Thanks." she said, as she applied the onitment and put the bandage on there after.

After a bit, Elena was wondering what they should do now, since Cilan doesn't remember himself or possibly even them. "Well, we should still go and see Neolexy and see what she can do. Hopefully, she can get him back to normal before-" the raven haired teen responeded, but stopped in mid-sentence when he saw the cursed monkey kill a barn spider and caterpiller, and eat them with no problem. "Cilan's gone full monkey on us... litteraly..." the white haired teen mutters, as their friend ate more insects.

"Hmm... in this book, it states that monkeys eat insects, fruits, berries, leaves, and blossoms. A favorite snack is ants ad termites." Ash decuced. "What about chocolate?" Elena asked, not noticing Cilan was inching closer to the bar she got out. "No, I'm pretty sure they can die from that if they eat it." he said, swiping the candy bar. Cilan wasn't pleased, but Iris offered him a snack of dead ants wrapped in a leaf. He happily nommed it. "It shouldn't be too hard to take care of him. We just gotta feed him the right food." the wild monkey states. "Hope he hasn't lost his appitite for human food..." Ash wonders outloud. "I'm sure he hasn't." Elena says.

Soon after the snack, the cursed monkey swipes Ash's hat, with his mouth and runs ahead a few feet. "Ok, I can understand my hat being stolen by a Mankey, Aipom, and Ducklett, but by my friend? Thats just ridiculous... and now its gonna have monkey slobber all over it..." Ash mutters, chasing Cilan. "I think he wants to play with you, Ash." Elena calls out, chucking. "Well, the book says that monkeys have lots of energy, so Cilan is using his to play." Iris says, looking at the book.

Ash soon found Cilan lying in a flowerbed, and nomming on some of the flowers. "I've got you now..." the teen says smirking. The monkey's ears twiched slightly and he ran off, until he came to a tree that had a jar of honey under it. "Ooooooh..." he cooed, as he started to eat it. Ash soon came up and shook his head in amusement at his friend's gluttony. "Hey Sarukki, can I have my hat back, please?" he asked. To his surprise, Cilan gave it back... covered in slobber, honey, and flowers... ewww...

Ash held it by the rim, which wasn't dirty. "Thanks... you're a real pal..." the teen mutters sarcasticly. He didn't hear a response, so he looked and saw his friend asleep, with both of his hands (or paws?) on his stomach, which had distended a bit. The jar was empty and next to him. Ash couldn't help but smile at him warmly. Putting his hat up, the teen gently picked up the monkey without waking him up and carried him back to where the others had set up camp...

"You wore him out, huh?" Iris asked. "Nah, I'm just gonna guess that everything he ate today finally made him sleepy. He looks pretty full." Ash says, lying Cilan down. "Hey, where's your hat?" Elena asked. "Oh he gave it back, but I gotta wash it, cause of all the slobber... and I hate washing..." the neen mutters sadly.

While Ash went to a nearby stream to wash off his hat, Iris sat by her sleeping boyfriend and gently stroked his hair (or fur?), while watching the sun set in the distance.

What awaits them next? Stay tuned...