Disclaimer: I do not own Cat Returns.

Chapter 7: Two Heads Are More Annoying Than One.

Back at the small pool of water 'Mace Head' suddenly came shooting out of the whirlpool and landing on his head at the shore. On the other side of the pool, his comrade 'Talons' was thrown out of the stump and landing next to his partner and landing on his rear. He turned back with a furious growl only to be spat in the face by the stump.

Angry and sore, the two went in search of their master, knowing very well that he was not going to be happy with their incompetence.


In another part of the forest, Phoebus and two more of his men were following around Natori as he circled around a rock. Natori was looking over and around the boulder and side to side into the forest he began to crawl on all fours, as if he would find the sword by sticking his nose to the ground. Phoebus held an angry glare on Natori and after about the fifth time that he circled the rock he let out a loud growl which caught Natori's attention.

"You worthless, magical hack!" he screamed at him. "Where exactly did you drop the sword?!"

Flinching, Natori lowered his head in embarrassment. Then pulling out some spectacles from his robe, he placed them on his face and began to look skyward.

"W-well y-you s-see, my lord," he mumbled. "Everything looks just so much different down here."

In an angry fit, Phoebus stepped towards Natori, grabbed him by the ear and tore of his glasses then proceeded to stop them into the ground. He then threw Natori to the ground after them, he simply laid there quivering as Phoebus continued to pace aggressively.

Suddenly tumbling from a slippery hill, Natoru came rolling down and landing in a mud patch, strange fuzzy creatures with what looked to be yellow eyes staring at him and making almost laugh-like squeaks.

Phoebus turned at the commotion and seeing that it was one of his newly made soldiers stomped after to him and peered down with a frustrated snarl. He let out a rough growl to gain Natoru's attention. Looking up, Natoru's eyes widened and he began to quiver.

"You!" Phoebus snarled. "Where have you been, report any of your findings!"

Natoru didn't know what to do, he didn't want to betray Haru, but at the same time he was not a brave cat. Making a decision he told Phoebus what he had learned.

"Ha- uh I mean, the girl and a blind warrior are following a black crow," he fumbled over his words as a large, dark smile began to form on Phoebus' face. "The crow claims to know where Excalibur is." Phoebus began to cackle gleefully.

"They'll lead us right to it," he whispered happily, then setting a fierce snarl onto his face he called out to his men. "We are going after them, come on!"

Natoru, after sighing with relief and beginning to wipe the mud of himself, had just got the last bit of mud off when Phoebus stomped right next to him and splattered it all over him. Groaning in frustration he watched as Phoebus moved on and a determined frown set on his face. He may have told Phoebus what Haru was doing and who she was with, but he hadn't told him where and with any luck he could come up with a way to warn them before Phoebus and his men getting to close to them without anyone being the wiser.


Back at the castle, men were at work repairing the tower that held the round table. Soldiers were conversing in whispers of worry on the castle grounds, no one noticing as three rings, like those on the shields of Camelot, began to softly glow on the stone from which Excalibur came.

Up in one of the castle's towers, Yuki was applying medicine to Lune's wounded arm, as he sat on his bed, and began wrapping it in linen. He winced in pain, she continued her ministrations as gently as she could. She then tied a sash around his neck and placed his arm in it. As she began to clean up the medical supplies, Lune reached out with his good arm and grabbed onto Yuki's hand, turning her deep blue eyes looked into his mismatched ones of ice and fire.

Setting the supplies down on a side table she turned back toward Lune and took his face into her heads, he closed his eyes with a sigh of happiness as she gently rubbed his cheek. He raised his good hand to lay on top of one of hers on his cheek. He then looked up at Yuki with smoldering eyes.

Returning his gaze, Yuki began to bend down to him and softly covered his mouth with her own in a gentle loving kiss. He returned it in full and began to stand up wrapping his good arm around her waist. However, as he was still unwell from his injury, Lune's knees began to shake and just before he fell, Yuki pulled away and caught him, gently sitting him back on the bed.

"You need to rest," she said gently. Lune sighed in resignation.

"I know, has there been any word on Excalibur?" he asked. Yuki gently shook her head back and forth.

"No, the knights have found nothing yet." She stated. Shaking his head in grim acknowledgement, Lune looked up towards the doors leading to his balcony and with a determined frown attempted to stand again.

"Then I must go after it myself," he said with an air of finality, but like the first attempt he barely made it a step before his world was swept out from under his feet.

Yuki was able to catch him again from behind, a worried expression on her face. "No, Lune!" she reprimanded as he was finally able to stand up, gripping his arm in pain. "You must rest; you can't go after the sword in the condition you are in."

Lune slowly walked to the balcony doors, leaning on the wall next to it. Yuki followed after him, the worrisome look never leaving her face.

"Yuki," he said softly. "Is there anything your magic can do?"

Coming to stand by him, Lune looked to his left as she shook her head no, he then lowered his in disappointment. As he did, Yuki thought of where Toto was right now, and the vision she had seen. Of him in the forest with Baron, the son of Duke von Gikkingen, and Haru the daughter of Hasho Yoshioka. She did not if they would succeed but she knew that they would try no matter what. With this in mind she laid her hand on Lune's shoulder. As he turned to her she smiled softly and gave him the only words of reassurance she could.

"You must rely on the courage of your people." She waved her hand out to the village square and the lands beyond. Following her hand and gaze, Lune looked out to his kingdom, as his hopeless expression began to rise in a determined frown, he nodded his head. Yuki was right, he had to trust his people and hopefully things would become right again.


Haru and Baron continued on their trek through the forest and came to a large clearing with few trees. Toto circled up above as they made their way across the open field. Up on a rocky ledge, Phoebus and his men grinned down darkly as they spotted their prey. Natoru stood of to the side with worry, trying to think of a way to warn Haru without alerting Phoebus.

As they their walk a large fog began to surround the clearing making it difficult to see past one's own nose. Baron kept walking on unaffected, but Haru began to lag behind as she tried to gain her bearings. Seeing this Toto swooped down to gently land on her shoulder.

"Haru, Baron is about four feet in front of you to your left." He told her softly.

Nodding her head in gratitude Haru turned towards the direction he had indicated and slowly walked that way as Toto took off to the sky once again. Haru had walked about three feet when she saw Baron again, kneeling down towards the ground and seeming to sniff the air.

"Are you alright?" she asked. Baron gently waved his hand back towards her.

"Shhh," he whispered. "Quiet Haru, there are dragons nearby."

As he said this he lifted what looked to be a giant piece of shell from an egg, colored sickly yellow. As Baron stood, she saw that he had been kneeling in front of a large nest. Eyes widening in fear, she quickly ran to stand next to Baron and began looking around skyward, seeing if she could spot any fire-breathing lizards.

They had come to a huge cavern with high walls on both sides. Toto flew far ahead as they made continued to make their way slowly, the thick fog still swirling around them. As Haru became nervous she began to babble and ask many questions.

"Are you sure there are Dragons nearby? Have you ever seen a dragon? How dangerous are they? What do we do if one spots us?"

To stop her from rattling on, Baron gently raised his hand to her and made a shush noise. "Quiet."

"Why?" she whispered back. "Do you hear something?"

"No, I just need you to be quiet."

A scowl appeared on Haru's face as she gave a harrumph and placed her fisted hands on her hips. Opening her mouth to make a remark back, Haru suddenly heard a loud snap. She quickly looked back to spot something, ahead of her Baron was gently tapping the ground as he inspected large hatched eggs. Haru continued to look around when she tripped over a rock and fell to the ground. Quickly standing up she began to look for Baron to find he was missing. She began to look around worriedly when she heard a loud roar, looking a large shadow passed over the trees as she ran towards the eggs.

"Baron. Where are you?" she called worriedly.

Turning back to keep an eye out for the dragon she was suddenly pulled into the large egg, Baron holding a finger to his mouth to quiet her down. He slowly raised his head and Haru peeked over the shells edge. Looking to the wall next to them, Haru saw a looming shadow casted on the wall. She gasped in fright and jumped back.

"A dragon?" she asked in fear.

"I don't see any dragons." An unfamiliar voice cried out in worry and Haru turned quickly turned towards it.

She came face to face with a large cat looking down at her sitting with another cat in the egg shell next to them. She and the cat both let out a load scream. Haru jumped back and fell over the edge, destroying the egg. Baron stood with his staff at the ready. The two cats ducked down into the egg. Looking up from where she had fallen, Haru slowly stood and came next to Baron. She called softly to the cats hiding in the egg.

"I'm sorry for scaring you I thought you were a dragon," she apologized.

Whisperers began to come from the egg.

"They sound friendly." One voice stated with excitement, it was quickly followed by what sounded like a slap then an "Ow!"

"We don't know what they're doing here, you idiot! Don't go getting all happy-go-lucky on me. We need to scare them off." A gruffer voice whispered in a reprimanding tone. Then in a very deep and echolike sound from the egg the gruffer voice began to speak louder.

"We are dangerous mythical monsters, far worse than dragons," the voice called out, then a fat paw came from out of the shell and began to do a shadow puppet of a claw onto the wall. "Run now before we devour you whole."

The voice then made snarling noises as the paw made what appeared to be a monstrous mouth. Haru watched in slight amusement as Toto came swooping in and gently landing on her shoulder, Baron lowered his staff and an amused smile came to his face. A second much thinner paw then also popped out of the shell. The first voice spoke again.

"Really, Muta that looks fun, let me have a go." As it said this, the thinner paw made a pair of bunny ears and began dancing around humming a little tune.

"Oh, absolutely wonderful," the gruffer voice sarcastically groused as the fatter paw gripped the other hand, almost as if it were choking the bunny. "The bunny of death."

The fatter paw pulled the thinner one down and proceeded to punch the owner of said paw. Haru and Toto looked on in befuddlement as Baron slowly walked towards the egg and poked the outside and two heads popped up a large piece of the egg between them. Two white felines with a touch of brown on their ears, the one to the left, who looked to be quite a portly cat from the size of his head, had his brown spot on his right ear, and the one to the right, who was a bit thinner and slightly taller, had his brown spot on the left ear. They were wearing matching grey shirts with brown vests. The egg hid anything from their midway down.

"Please, don't hurt us, we were just looking for some food is all." The taller one began to plead. Baron let out an exasperated sigh.

"Food?" Haru asked.

"Dragon eggs are actually quite delicious for your information," the gruffer one stated with a huff.

"And here I thought you were a ferocious monster." Baron stated disapprovingly. The gruffer one looked up with a bit of shame in his eyes.

"No, but there are dragons in this area, who knows what other kind of creatures there could be." He tried to explain soundly. Baron began to poke the gruffer cat inquisitively.

"Hey watch it with the stick, buddy." He angrily swatted it away.

Baron tilted his head questioningly. "Forgive me for my rudeness," he asked. "But, what are you?"

"Well," the taller one drawled looking to his companion. "We are an example of why you should never cross a witch."

After saying this, the two cats slowly began to rise out of the egg. What Haru thought to be matching shirts was in fact one as the two cats were actually two heads on one humongous feline body. Noticing Haru, the thinner cat gave a gentle smile and came towards Haru, the second one trying his best to stay put and being dragged along for the ride, a disinterested scowl on his face.

"Oh, greetings good lady, I am Renaldo," he gestured to himself with a flourish, then he unenthusiastically gestured to the fatter cat on his right, "and this is Muta."

Taking Haru's hand he gave her a tight smile. "What's up, Chicky," he greeted disinterestedly.

Haru and Toto looked on in shock, then Toto began to snicker behind his wing. Muta glared at Toto menacingly.

"What's so funny, birdy?" he asked lowly.

Before Toto could say anything, Haru having finally gaining her senses back, quickly and without pause said only one thing.

"You are without a doubt the fattest cats I have ever seen."

At this Toto lost all sense of control and proceeded to laugh fit to kill and go tumbling off Haru's shoulder. Haru quickly rose her hands to her mouth having realized what she just said. The Muta began to growl lowly as Renaldo shook his head in a resigned affirmative to the remark. Behind them even Baron was snickering softly under his hand covering his mouth.

Haru looked to the cat apologetically. "I am so sorry; I should not have said that so bluntly."

Toto still laughing on the ground said between breaths. "Couldn't…. have…. said…it better…my self Haru, HAHAHAHAHA!"

At this Muta began to turn the body and move towards Toto, his paw letting out a very sharp set of claws. "You think that's funny, Birdbrain?!" He yelled.

Seeing the oncoming danger, Toto quickly took to the air, far out of the cat's reach. "Actually, I find it absolutely hilarious."

Muta attempted to take a swipe at Toto while he was in the air, when Renaldo quickly brought his paw around to hold Muta's down.

"Now really Muta that's enough," he reprimanded. "You know he's right, we are rather large."

Muta, growled lowly but did not fight against Renaldo's paw. "Doesn't mean it always needs to be pointed out," he said with a pout, crossing his paw in front of him.

Baron had begun to move around towards the next path during the fight. Now he called out to his companions.

"Come along Toto, Haru, we have to go." Looking to him, the brunette began to follow after as Toto flew ahead. Renaldo and Muta looked at each other worriedly than after the leaving trio.

"Wait," Muta called.

"Where are you going?" Renaldo asked.

"To save Camelot." Haru responded back.

"Camelot," Renaldo said wistfully, "The music, the theatre, the art."

"The food, the money, the women." Muta said gleefully as Renaldo looked at him disgustedly.

A loud roar sounded behind them.

"The dragons," Renaldo said obliviously, then looking at each other realized what he had just said.

"Dragons!" they yelled.

Haru looked back in fear as a large dragon flew from behind the rock wall and made its way towards them. Haru grabbed Baron hand and began to run as fast as she could, Renaldo and Muta coming after them, their tail now a bit on fire.

Toto flew ahead as Renaldo and Muta began to run ahead of Haru and Baron towards what looked like a green river with a waterfall, steam rising from it, and what appeared to be strange white boulders on the surface.

"Wait," Haru called. "What is that?"

Renaldo and Muta began to hop across the whit boulders as Haru, Baron and Toto stood at the edge of the river.

"Don't worry, it's completely safe." Renaldo called back.

Baron stuck the tip of his staff and then pulled it back out, only to have the tip completely burned off with just a sliver of black wood left. Haru looked frighteningly at the staff then back towards the approaching dragons.

"Safe?" Baron scoffed, then making a decision, Haru pulled him towards the floating white boulders and began to make their way across. Ahead Muta and Renaldo were stuck between two of the floating rocks and trying not to fall.

"So long as ya don't step in it." Muta clarified as they fumbled.

Haru, Muta and Renaldo made it across to the other end. Baron with the help of Toto's guidance was gradually making his way towards the other side, the dragons right on his tail. Turning around, Haru saw Baron still trying to make his way across when he nearly fell back, Toto catching him just in time. She made to go back out to help him but was stopped by Muta and Renaldo.

"Hey buddy, hurry up." Muta yelled back, keeping a strong grip on Haru.

"Do you really think this is easy for me?" Baron growled lowly.

Suddenly a dragon popped out from under the waterfall just a few feet from Baron and blew a large column of fire, then jumped into the river. A huge wave rose from the water and carried Baron, still on the boulder, over to the river's edge. He tumbled head over feet to the ground and Haru grabbed his hand and they continued to run for their lives the dragons right after them.

Dodging another blast of fire, they all tripped over a small rock wall above the ground and laid down to avoid another blast. Looking up, Muta saw something else flying from the other direction.

"Oh no, it's another dragon." He called frightened.

Haru looked up and her eyes widened in even more fear.

"That's not a dragon, it's a sphinx," she yelled as Natori in his transformed state flew right for them, Phoebus and his men following from the ground charging towards them. "And Phoebus, they found us."

Looking left to right, Muta and Renaldo grabbed Haru and Baron and ran towards the forest at the edge of the cavern, a huge drop awaiting them. Haru looked ahead to see the drop and tried to get her and Baron out of the cat's grasp.

"Wait, what are you doing?" she yelled franticly.

"Don't worry, just follow us." Muta answered.

Then the two-headed cat proceeded to jump into a large tunnel, Haru and Baron stopping at the edge. Looking back at the oncoming dangers from both sides, Haru hesitated only for a moment before she grabbed Baron's hand and jumped in after Muta and Renaldo, Toto flying in after, and screaming all the way down, the tunnel then suddenly closed up.

Phoebus and his men stopped at the edge as the dragons came upon them. They stood face to face to three large dragons. One dragon directly in front of Phoebus opened its great ugly mouth, drool flowing down his razor-sharp fangs. Shaking his head in frustration, Phoebus pulled his paw back than forming it into a fist, punched the dragon directly in the face.


Haru and Baron continued to fall through the tunnel, pitch black surrounding them. Suddenly a light appeared below them. Haru landed first, seeing Muta and Renaldo already up and about in what appeared to be a small cave, that looked lived in. Toto glided in from the tunnel above, and before Haru could move a body landed on top of her and they began to roll across the ground. When they finally stopped, Haru was now pinned to the ground by Baron their faces incredible close.

Her entire face began to flush red as Baron was still too dizzy from the fall down the tunnel to grasp the situation he was in. Toto, Muta and Renaldo were off to the side, cackling together at the predicament the brunette was in. She sent them a withering glare and once she could see that Baron's head was no longer spinning, she softly cleared her throat.

"Baron," she spoke softly. "Are you alright?"

"I…. believe so." He answered. At this point Baron had the sudden realization that Haru sounded very close. Reaching his hand down, he brushed it gently across her face. Haru gasped at the sensation which did not last long as Baron quickly jumped back and off of her, his face taking on a red tinge. He used his staff to right himself then reach down for Haru's hand, words tumbling out of his mouth in a fast and almost incoherent apology.

"I-I am so sorry, Haru." He then began to ask questions as fast as Haru had when she was nervous about the dragons. "Are you hurt? Did I hurt you at all? Please forgive me for putting you in such an uncomfortable position? I meant no disrespect towards yo-"

Haru caught him off by placing a hand to his lips, he stopped immediately at the new sensation, having not been this close to anyone in a long time, and certainly having no one ever touch his lips like that.

"It's alright, Baron," Haru calmly reassured him. "It was an accident, and no I'm not hurt."

At that Baron sighed in relief and gently removed Haru's hand. Smiling softly at him one more time, Haru began to look around the cave they were now in. In the corner there was a large bed made of hay and lanterns strewn all across the cave for light. Muta and Renaldo were sitting over on a rickety old chair next a makeshift table made from a large rock and barrel lid.

"Do you two live here?" she asked the two-headed cat.

"For the past thirty years we have," Muta answered her question than pointed to Renaldo, "Thanks to Mr. Clumsy over hear."

Renaldo, who was currently petting Toto nicely and getting along swimmingly with the crow unlike his brother, quickly turned to Muta with an indignant scoff and sent him an angry glare.

"Excuse me, my dear brother, but it was your inexcusable rudeness that got that witch angry at us," he sniffed with an air of superiority, then taking a moment to think turned to scream in his face. "AND BECAUSE YOU STOLE FROM HER! I MEAN HOW ABSOLUTLEY STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO STEAL FROM A WITCH!"

After the scream, Toto flew over to rest by Baron, getting as far from the feuding brothers as possible. Muta simply took a finger to rub in his ear to try and clear it out from the blood-curdling scream his brother had just used on him. Then turning the other way, he scoffed in indifference.

"Hey, it was a good score, and she wasn't supposed to be back for another hour." He explained it as if it were obvious. "Not my fault she came back early."

At this point Renaldo was shaking in fury, if he had two paws instead of one, he may have tried to strangle Muta. After a few minutes of fuming he let out his anger in a long loud sigh and simply turned his head away from Muta. Watching the fight, Haru tilted her head in confusion at one of the words Muta had used.

"What did you mean by 'a good score'?" she directed her question at Muta.

Raising his head to Haru, he gave an easy smile as he went to explain.

"Before, Ms. Prissy here and I get stuck together like this I was a great Bandit Magician," he stated proudly, then was interrupted by a load cough.

"We were both great bandit magicians, you egotistical maniac." Renaldo explained indignantly.

At this Baron snapped his fingers, a look of realization on his face.

"I thought I recognized your names, your Renaldo and Muta Moon. The Moon Brother Bandits." He claimed knowingly.

At this Muta and Renaldo both shared a melancholy smile, having not heard that name in years.

"Yes that was us," Renaldo recalled fondly. Then glaring at his brother he remembered their earlier argument. "Till this greedy oaf got us cursed by witch for trying to steal from her than insult her."

Muta took a swing at his brother, which he quickly dodged, and growled in his face.

"The only reason we got caught in the first place was because you had to critic the decor of her home," he snapped. "And you were the one who insulted her. On her taste in drapes!"

"With the way you two argue, I'm surprised you haven't killed each other." Baron stated in a matter-of-act tone.

"Can't you two use your magic to separate?" He asked them before their argument could go into a fist fight. At this Muta scoffed.

"Ever since we became fused like this he can't use his magic, though this moron didn't have much to begin with." Muta laughed mockingly in Renaldo's face. At this Renaldo became truly and utterly enraged.

"Excuse me, self-denial buffoon, but neither one of us can use our magic!" he snapped.

"Only because you are holding me back," he growled back. "If I didn't have you dragging me down, I would be a lot better off. There would be so many things I would be doing."

"Oh really," Renaldo laughed, "Like what?"

Muta smirked as his imagination began to run wild and with music playing in his head he began to sing.

"I'd be rockin' with the Dinos

"Swinging with the Rhinos

"I would banditize this cave in a minute!"

"Muta!

"They would sing because I would be the bandit king

"I would love this world without you in it!"

As Muta continued to imagine what his life would be like again as just himself, Renaldo appeared, now separated, and watch with a scowl on his face as Muta sang of his 'freedom' from him.

"If I didn't have you!" Muta pointed and yelled loudly at Renaldo, Muta imagining his head floating in a crystal ball.

"If you didn't have me?" Renaldo sang in indignation. His head disappeared from the crystal ball and was now suddenly laying on a platter which Muta was holding.

"If I didn't have you!" Muta snapped again.

"Or how about if I didn't have you, huh?" As Renaldo asked this, Muta shoved an apple into his mouth to shut him up. Then the now separated brothers began to jump and dance in front of one another as they sang together.

"O, what I could be if there was only me

"O, what I'd do if I didn't have you!"

"Would you two stop fighting," Haru told them. "Get your act together, you're brothers for pity's sake."

"Act! Did someone say act! I can act!" Renaldo claimed as he and Muta were now dressed in what appeared to be theatre garb, connected to each other once again. He then continued their song.

"If only I had separate parts," he wacked Muta over the head and the two suddenly disappeared. Renaldo reappeared, by himself now, working on a sculpture with an exact likeness of Muta.

"My career would be the arts," he brought a tiny hammer down on a peg placed on the sculpture and the whole thing crumbled apart.

"I'd be the STAR of Camelot!" As Renaldo sang he imagined himself in the theatres of Camelot, praise and adoration from all the crowds. He then suddenly held Muta's head in his hand, glaring down at him.

"You'd be the half that the whole world forgot!"

"If I didn't have you." He then threw Muta's head into the air, Muta sarcastically responding back to him.

"I should be so lucky!" He then landed once again next to Renaldo's head on their shared shoulder, his brother now screaming into his ear.

"If I didn't have you!" Renaldo gave a burning glare as he sang this to Muta.

"Oh wait, you'd be dead!" Muta exclaimed with a huge smile on his face. Then the brothers began to sing together as they imagined extreme ways of separating from each other.

"Oh what I could be if there was only me

"Oh what I'd do if I didn't have you!" Muta imagined using an axe to chop Renaldo's head off, with fear filled eyes, Renaldo attempted to hold Muta's hand back. The scene suddenly changed.

"Oh what I'd do if I didn't have you!" The scene changed to them both imaging being tied to a log heading towards a huge saw, Renaldo reading a book with spectacles on as Muta tried to escape. The scene changed once again.

"Trapped! Oh trapped!" Renaldo screamed as an imaginary boulder came rolling towards his head being stretched out from their shoulder in an attempts to separate the pair.

"Stuck here with you for 30 years, feels more like centuries!" Muta groused shaking his paw in agony. Toto landed on Renaldo's shoulder and said along with him in a fake tone of worry.

"Oh dear it's learn to count." Renaldo proceeded to poke Muta in the eyes and Toto flew off with a gleeful cackle.

"If you had gotten me a good lawyer,

"I would have split 20 years ago." Muta sat at what looked to be a witness's podium as Renaldo stood in front of him dressed as a judge. At this he bent down to come face to face with Muta.

"Now listen here pal, I didn't come here to be insulted!" He stated with an air of anger, shaking his fist into Muta's face. The two were suddenly in the cave, attached, once again as Muta looked to Renaldo with mock surprise on his face.

"Oh? Well where do you usually go?" he asked sarcastically.

"I'd create a giant freezing blizzard!" Renaldo imagined using his great magical powers to command the weather at will.

"I'd be one high flying wizard!" Muta imagined flying high above the clouds, alone without a care in the world.

"You'd be nothing without me

"You'd be extinct

"You'd cease to be!" Renaldo claimed arrogantly as he suddenly appeared next to Muta in his flying daydream and cut hidden strings above him, which sent Muta crashing to the ground.

"I'm so tired of your nagging!" Glaring furiously, Muta stood up from the ground and yelled this into Renaldo's face.

"I'm so tired of your bragging!" Still in the air, Renaldo moved his body upside down and snapped this right back into Muta's face.

"Haha without me, you'd have no brain!" Muta claimed arrogantly, and Renaldo looked at him pityingly as he knocked his hand onto Muta's head and a long echo sounded from within.

"With which to think!" They sang together. They began to overlap as they sang their separate parts together.

"I'd be rockin' with the Dinos. "Swingin' with the Rhinos." Muta spun a female cat into his arms and dipped her to kiss her only to have her turn into Renaldo, he ran screaming.

"If only I had separate parts. My career would be the arts." Renaldo sang as he looked into a mirror smiling, when suddenly his reflection turned into Muta.

"I would banditize this cave in a minute! MUTA! They would sing because I would be the bandit king." Muta danced cockily within the mirror as he smirked at his brother.

"I'd be the STAR of Camelot." Renaldo grabbed Muta out of the mirror and suddenly bunched him up into a ball and threw him away carelessly.

"I would love this world without you in it!" they sang as one again.

"If I didn't have you!"

"If I didn't have you!"

Muta and Renaldo appeared again, dancing in a sort of tango fighting over who should lead.

"Let me lead Muta!" Renaldo swung Muta around like a rag doll. Then Muta picked Renaldo off the ground and held him over his head.

"No this way, twinkle toes!" Muta couldn't keep his brother above him as his knees began to wiggle and they both fell to the ground, their heads knocking together.

"Life could be so sweet if these were both my feet!" They sang as their heads spin.

"Oh what I'd do if I didn't have you!" Attached again, the brothers were dressed in what looked like an Elvis outfit and impersonated the singer as they finished their song.

"If I didn't,

"If I didn't,

"Have you!"

They posed extravagantly on a stage.

"Thank you very much." Renaldo yelled to an imaginary crowd.

"You've never sang before have you?" At that Renaldo punched Muta in the face without even batting an eyelash. The stage and outfit disappeared and the boys were once again in their dingy cave, their guest looking their way as they posed for real.

Haru began to softly clap as she stood by Baron on the other side of the cave. Toto, who had moved to Baron's shoulder during the musical number, was trying and failing to hold back the giggles coming from his beak. Baron himself, having not able to see the performance, was relived, only guessing by how ridiculous the two looked from the song he heard.

"That was a wonderful song, guys." Haru complimented them sincerely. She then began to look around the cave questioningly. "But, is there any way for us to get out of here without being seen by the ones chasing us?" She asked the brothers softly, her brown eyes wide with an innocent and pleading look.

The boys took one look at her eyes and were done for. Smiling they looked to each other and then Haru again as they shook their heads up and down quickly.

"Of course there is," Renaldo exclaimed proudly. "We know countless secret passages and tunnels to get from here to other parts of the forest."

"Yea, how do you think we've been dodging the giant lizards up there?" Muta asked rhetorically as he pointed at the roof of the cave. Then waving his hand he beckoned them to follow him and Renaldo to a darker corner that turned out to be a tunnel. "Come on, we'll get you all out of the area safe and sound with no one being the wiser." Muta promised with a large smile towards Haru.

Haru's face brightened and grabbing Baron's hand gently, followed after the brothers. Toto took off from Baron's shoulder and glided above their heads as they went through the tunnel. He looked back for a moment and began to giggle again, then quickly turned his head before Haru could notice.

With the girl's excitement at moving on for their quest, she had failed to notice the light blush that had begun to color Baron's face when she had taken his hand.

Again.

Disclaimer: If I didn't have you belong to Erik Idle and Don Rickles from Quest for Camelot.

A/N: Phew, this was one of the longest chapters I have written, I hope it makes up for the few days I haven't updated. I just love Muta and Renaldo in this, and the interesting moment between Baron and Haru was extra fun too (*wink, wink*).