Chapter Seven

The animals woke up the next morning and got to work finding food for the next meal, well, almost everyone. Surly, Andie and Buddy were still fast asleep, they were so tired after helping gather the pillows and blankets Megan needed that they decided to sleep in this morning. Megan woke up and watched the trio sleep, thinking that this was the cutest thing she had ever seen before her stomach began to growl in a very demanding way.

Not wanting to wake up the trio, Megan slowly and softly snuck around them before she accidently stepped on a creaking board, waking up Buddy as he sat up and rubbed his eyes. Megan felt sorry she woke him up and whispered "Sorry, I'm just hungry."

Buddy walked over to her and climbed up her body before he stood on her shoulder and pointed outside.

"Are you going to help me look for food?" Megan asked.

Buddy nodded. Like the squirrels, he adored his adopted human niece and was willing to do anything to make her happy. Megan smiled before she climbed down and left the mill. With Buddy on her shoulder, Megan looked around her beautiful new home and smiled "I hope I'll be able to become a good park animal, like you Uncle Buddy."

She gently scooped up Buddy into her hands, holding him before she began tickling him, making him squeak and giggle happily. Buddy decided to get even and quickly climbed out of her hands, dove into her shirt and began to move around. Megan squeaked before she began to laugh, giggling as she tried to catch the little moving bulge under her clothes that was her Uncle Buddy, tickling her from all over as he ran across her little body.

"Please stop! It tickles!" she cried before she lost her balance and fell over.

When the tickling movements stopped, Megan gasped in horror as she cried "Uncle Buddy? Buddy, where are you!?"

She felt something climb up and stood on her head before she looked up and saw Buddy sitting on top of her head, smiling down at her. Megan sighed as she pulled Buddy in for a gentle hug and said "For a moment, I was worried that I sat on my uncle."

Buddy hugged her back as he sighed in content, happy to be given such loving affection before he heard the sound of Megan's growling stomach made them realize that there was still the matter of eating breakfast... there was just one problem; where were they going to find enough food to feed Megan?

Buddy decided to talk to Mr. Feng about the situation. After all, he was a city mouse so he should be able to point out where in the whole city humans can get access to food. Buddy took Megan to Mr. Feng, who was wrapping up another Tai Chi lesion with his multiple white mouse friends before Megan said "Mr. Feng, I don't suppose you would be able to find something for me to eat around here, would you?"

"There are no food carts out this early," Mr. Feng said "The only way to get food to feed you would be to leave the park and go to a restaurant."

"Will you take me?" Megan said, rubbing her belly as she looked at the white mouse before her "Pretty please?"

"Well, I don't know..." Mr. Feng said "It has been quite a while since we were in the city... and it would be suspicious if anyone saw us or you with us... maybe it would be safer if you waited for the next food cart to come around."

"Please?" Megan asked again, her stomach roaring a bit louder then it was before.

Mr. Feng looked at his army and then at Megan, her large puppy dog eyes staring right back at him as he felt his resolve melt and he sighed "Alright, alright. We'll leave as soon as possible to find food for you."

"Yay!" Megan exclaimed as she scooped up Mr. Feng and snuggled him close to her cheek as she said "Thank you! Thank You! Thank you!"

But in all the excitement of exploring the city with the kung fu mouse army to find food, Megan had forgotten one very important detail she was suppose to do beforehand; she forgot to tell Andie and Surly where she was going.


A couple of minutes later, Surly slowly began to wake up along with Andie as he helped her get back on her feet. They were about to say good morning when they noticed that Megan's 'nest' was empty. Immediately, Andie began to panic "My baby! My baby! Where's my baby!?"

"Calm down Andie, don't get all worked up, or you might jostle the other babies." Surly said, wrapping his arms around his mate to calm her down "I'll go out and find her, while you stay here and take care of yourself."

"No, Surly," Andie said "That's my baby out there and I refuse to stay behind and let her get hurt on her first day in the park, no matter how pregnant I am!"

"Okay, but at least let me help you over and under a few things while we look." Surly said.

"Deal," Andie said, looking down at her stomach and rubbed it "Don't worry my dears, we'll find your big sister."

Suddenly, Surly got an idea "I got it! I'll get Precious and she can use her sniffer to track her down. If anyone can track one special human in a crowd of millions it's Precious."

"Great idea Surly, let's go!" Andie said

And soon they were off. It didn't take much effort to find her as they heard her and her family snoring under a shady tree before Surly grabbed her collar and shook the pug awake.

"Wake up Precious! Wake up!" Surly said "We need you!"

"Ugh, are we having bacon for breakfast?" Precious asked

"Forget about food, Megan's gone missing!" Andie said "We need your help!"

Precious snapped awake, standing on her four feet as she said "Megan?! Don't worry, I'm on it!"

Immediately, Precious went to work sniffing out the scent before she allowed Surly and Andie to climb up on top of her and took off to find the girl in the city, fearing something terrible had happened to her but in actuality she was having the time of her life.