The two yetis were making their way below the 'clouds' (the Stonekeeper had told Migo earlier about the clouds being steam while Percy and Meechee were in Meechee's bedroom talking and drawing), Migo still having the Smallfoot laying in his arm, unconscious now.
Migo led the way, Meechee followed close behind, looking in awe at everything that was around them. It was such a beautiful world the Smallfeet lived in, she didn't expect their world to be so big and full of wonder, it was breath taking.
They were both climbing down the mountain carefully, this time they couldn't just drop off and fall down randomly as Migo did last time, this time they had to hold on to the mountain tight to make sure they wouldn't fall off and drop the little guy that was all cradled up in his sleeping bag in the safe crook of Migo's arm, he was going through enough already.
The male yeti checked on his little friend every few minutes to make sure he was okay, he couldn't get the thought of him being the cause of Percy's death out of his head, Migo cared so incredibly much about him, he couldn't lose him, he just couldn't! Meechee noticed Migo's worry, his tender and unstable climbing gave it away.
"Don't worry, Migo." Meechee said with a supportive yet quiet tone. "Percy's gonna be okay, as soon as we get him home, he'll be safe and sound." Migo really liked her feeling of needing to be comforting and reassuring, he smiled up at her. But there was also another thing that was bothering him.
"I know Meechee, it's just... I'm kinda scared." Migo said. "I - he's my best friend and... I don't wanna just let him go like this. What if something happens later on, and I'm not there-"
"Migo," Meechee suddenly cut him off, "I understand your concern, but if you want him to be happy and alive, then it's better that he stays down here."
"But, Meechee-"
"If he stays with us he's gonna die, Migo! Look, I know it's hard to let go, but right now we need to do what's best for Percy, okay? If anything happens we can always visit him." Migo was left thinking for a moment, trying to figure out a way for this to work out the best possible way for all of them. After a few minutes of thinking, all the possibilities ended up with the same result. As much as Migo hated to admit it, Meechee was right, they had to let him stay in his own village.
"Do you recognize any of this?" Meechee asked, still being amazed by the looks of it all. Migo looked around to see if anything looked familiar to him.
Soon after he saw the town where he'd discovered the Smallfoot, they seemed to already be walking towards it.
"There it is, that's where I found him. I think that's where he lives." Migo said while pointing at the human village. Meechee stared in wonder at the city that lit up in all sorts of colors, it was such a beautiful home Percy had.
"Hey, that's the shape of Percy's home! What's it called? Uhm... a house! Right!" Meechee said, she'd seen the advertising sign of a coffee house, which was house-shaped, making her think it was an actual Smallfoot home.
They both walked over to it, investigating this strange, glowing 'house'. They both noticed something under the sign that seemed to expose steam (a vent).
"I bet that would make him feel warm." Meechee said, encouraging Migo to place Percy on it, Migo did so with careful hands.
"Okay Percy, you can breathe easy now." Migo said to the sleeping Smallfoot reassuringly, "You're home now, okay? You can relax." The two yetis stared at him for another moment, making sure he was okay.
"What is that?" Meechee asked as she saw something in the village, already about to enter it to take a closer look. "Are you coming, Migo?"
"No, you just go. I'll stay here and keep an eye on Percy, just until he wakes up. If he wakes up." Migo whispered the last part, hoping that his poor friend was gonna be okay. Understanding Migo's worry, Meechee left with an 'okay', and went down to the city by herself, her expectations were skyrocket for something new and exiting.
Migo turned his face to the Smallfoot, paying very close attention to his every move and face expression. He didn't move a lot if he even did move, but he was starting to breathe more easily, which was a relief for Migo to see. His friend was getting better.
"That's it, Percy." Migo whispered to the little guy while gently placing his one hand on top of his unconscious form, "Just take it nice and slow."
Within a few seconds, Percy woke up with a sudden twitch, making him sit up, quickly taking in big breaths in and out.
"Whoa, whoa, take it easy little guy." Migo said, glad to see that his friend seemed to be fine. Startled, Percy turned his head around to see Migo, sitting on his knees beside him, smiling.
"Migo?" Percy said wearing a questioning face.
"Percy, are you okay?" The yeti asked attentively, now placing a hand on his friend's back for comfort and support.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Percy said. Though he started to realize that he wasn't in the yeti village anymore and that he could breathe way easier suddenly. "Where am I?" He asked.
"Don't worry, Percy. You're safe now, you're home." Migo told Percy with a reassuring voice, while comfortingly rubbing his Smallfoot's head with a finger from the hand that was resting gently on Percy's back.
"Wha... Home? I-" This made Percy really confused, he looked around and almost immediately saw the coffee house sign. He used it to get his balance and pull himself up to have a more clear picture of where he was exactly. He then realized that he was back in the human village. Processing what was going on, he looked back at Migo in shock.
"You... brought me home." Percy said surprised, sure he knew that the yetis were intelligent creatures and that they were very observant and caring, but he hadn't expected one to actually save his life and bring him back home.
"Well, of course." Migo said both with a 'why wouldn't I?' though still very gentle tone. "You were dying! I wasn't just gonna leave my friend to die." Percy was touched by this, though it was clear to him that the two of them were getting along really well, hearing Migo calling him his friend was something different. Could you imagine that? A yeti and a human being friends, and as close as these two were. It was amazing that such different creatures could call each other friends like Migo and Percy could.
The moment was soon over when Percy heard what sounded like something falling to the ground from the village. He turned to see what had caused the sound, and then spotted Meechee walking through the village, curiously looking into windows. The Smallfoot got a very worried look on his face.
"Oh no, no no no no no!" Percy said showing an alarming expression.
"What's the matter? What's wrong?" Migo asked confused, but the look on Percy's face clearly showed that something wasn't right, which gave him a worried feeling as well.
"No no no, she can't be here, you can't be here, they'll find you." Percy said so many things at once, Migo could barely get anything together.
"Percy, what are you talking about?"
"Migo, you have to get out of here, and fast! I'll do what I can to help Meechee!" Percy commanded to Migo before running as fast as he could into the town. Migo was left completely lost, what did he mean by 'they'd find them' and 'help Meechee'? Who were 'they'? What would happen to Meechee if Percy didn't get to her? What was going on?!
Meanwhile Meechee was inside the city, admiring everything in it.
"I can't believe what I'm looking at," Meechee said looking at all the different houses with wide, curious eyes, "this is incredible." Meechee then noticed a little girl, reaching out for her from her window, giggling joyfully too.
"Oh my gosh! A baby Smallfoot, you're so cute!" Meechee cooed at the little human while bringing her finger to the window, so the girl could reach her, and the little girl placed her tiny hand on the yeti's big finger. Meechee caught her breath as this happened, the tiny Smallfoot's touch made Meechee feel something she'd never felt before, a new amazing feeling that made an unexplainable rush run through her body. This was a whole nother level of happy!
Though something pointy and flashing quickly caught her eye, she turned her head and saw a smaller version of a pagoda in the center of the city. Now that was something Meechee had never seen before!
"Super pointy." Meechee said while tapping one of the pointy roof edges, she then took a look inside of it.
"Oh it's so pretty!" She said in adoration, though a very short amount of time passed before the female yeti saw another Smallfoot, walking inside the pagoda.
"Another Smallfoot! How many of you are there?" She asked, but when she turned, she found herself surrounded by hundreds of Smallfeet, she had now become the center of attention.
"Oh! A lot!" She said while smiling politely. Everyone gasped, they had just heard a yeti speak what sounded like English words! Surely just seeing a yeti would have been the big deal of the day, but no, a talking yeti was.
"Hi!" Meechee said while waving at the crowd, the humans were speechless, they all dropped their bags, food and drinks on the ground as they kept staring up at her.
"D-Did that yeti just...?" Someone from the crowd tried to ask as he gasped for air. When Meechee heard the Smallfoot, she bend down to him.
"Oh hello, little guy! Aw, you're cute too!" Meechee cooed at the male Smallfoot as he was slowly backing away from her, terrified that she wanted to hurt him. Not long after he screamed and tried to run, but slipped on the snow and was forced to crawl away.
"No no no, don't be afraid! I don't wanna hurt you!" Meechee said as she reached out after the horrified Smallfoot while slowly walking closer to him, trying to convince him that she wasn't dangerous. Though her wild movements made everyone else run and scream in terror. Meechee didn't know what was going on, she didn't want anyone to fear her suddenly, she only wanted to see the world that they lived in.
"No, come back! You don't have to be scared!" Meechee said to the terrified Smallfeet, that was running in all directions like homeless ants.
Then a couple of police cars showed up, slightly surrounding Meechee.
"Woah, what are those things?" Meechee asked, fascinated by the moving red and blue light throwing creations. Though soon after, a Smallfoot came out of each car, carrying big things that also threw light, but they were directed right at Meechee's face, blinding her.
"Oh! Uh, that's really bright!" She shouted while bringing up her hands in front of her face, blocking the light from her eyes. Then something unexpected happened, one of them was carrying something big, that threw out a big net. Meechee quickly moved, not to get hit.
"Hey!" She yelled at him, then a long wire with a talon on its end wrapped itself around Meechee's arm, keeping her down. She moved her arm back, trying to free herself from the wire.
"Ow! What's going on here? Why are you doing this?" She yelled again, still pulling back her arm. Though she pulled so much, that she accidentally swinged the car that the wire came from, right into someone's house. She got the wire off of her though.
"Oh, sorry!" She said, about to go over and get the car off of the house, but then more police vehicles showed up, driving towards Meechee. Scared, she ran off through the town as fast as she could.
Soon after she found a big building and then hid behind that, hoping they'd lose her.
Then the buildings gates suddenly opened. Meechee was expecting it to be something that would harm her, but when the persons face was revealed Meechee got very relieved, it was Percy.
"Meechee! Get in here!" Percy shouted to her, and he didn't have to ask twice, she would gladly come in! The building was a big museum so there was enough room for her to walk around, and it was kind of obvious that no one would be in a museum when such a threat was in the village, so it would be a safe place for now.
"Meechee, are you alright?" Percy asked with a worried voice, but she was quick to reassure him.
"Yeah, I'm fine. What about you?" She asked him. At first Percy wasn't sure what she meant but then he remembered that he was close to dying just a few minutes ago.
"Yeah, don't worry, I'm all better now. But we have to get you out of here!" Percy said in a serious and hurrying way, "If they find you, they'll catch you and hurt you!"
"But why?" A voice suddenly said. With a yelp, Percy turned to the sound and found Migo, stepping out of the shadows.
"Migo? What are you doing here?! You were supposed to leave!" Percy yelled, anxiously wishing that Migo had followed his orders. "Now you'll both get in trouble!"
"I know Percy, and I'm sorry, but I couldn't just leave Meechee here when she was in danger." Migo said, not wanting to raise his voice at his friend. Migo would never do that, especially not at Percy!
Percy didn't want to raise his voice and get mad at Migo either, but there was just so many bad things happening, and he only wanted to protect them.
"Great, now we have to get you both out of here without being seen."
"But why are they doing this to us? Why are they so scared of us?" Meechee asked. Percy sighed, he looked behind him and found a wall of framed pictures and paintings about humans either hunting down yetis or being killed by them.
Percy knew they had to know the truth about how humans actually thought of yetis, but he also thought it would scare them so much that they wouldn't want to have anything to do with humans when they went back up to the mountain. Percy let out another sigh before he turned his face to the two yetis and began to speak.
"If you really want to know the truth, then it's right here." Percy said, stepping aside and gesturing to the wall of paintings and photos. Meechee and Migo went down on their knees and began to study the wall of truth, their eyes got wide. Meechee had no idea that the yetis were so intimidating to the Smallfeet, but when she looked at herself and then looked at Percy she quickly found out why. The Smallfeet were so much smaller than the yetis, and honestly the yetis looked a lot more intimidating than the Smallfeet, that must've been why they didn't feel safe around her!
Migo was especially shocked, they thought they were monsters! He could still remember how terrified Percy was when they first met, but seeing that they all saw them like that gave him a really bad feeling inside. But then again, Percy changed, he chose to go with him when he had just met him. And within a day, he showed a huge amount of both safety and trust, Migo had somehow changed Percy's point of view. And if he could win Percy over, then why couldn't he with the rest of the Smallfeet?
"But Percy, I changed your mind about our kind, can't we do that to the other Smallfeet? Then we don't have to fear each other." Migo tried to suggest a compromise, but Percy knew it was easier said than done. The human race was a very stubborn and judge-mental kind, if it was even possible to convince them, it would probably take a really long time for them to trust the yetis fully like Percy did.
"I'm afraid it's not that easy, Migo." Percy said with a defeated look on his face. "Humans can be really untrusting when it comes to new things, we are scared of what we don't know, it can be really hard for us to take in a whole new kind. Especially when they're way bigger and more intimidating than us."
What Percy said made a lot of sense, to get used to such big changes was a lot to ask for. Meechee and Migo could both fully understand why they wouldn't accept them right away, but Migo didn't want to imagine that just because of that, him and Percy wouldn't be able to see each other anymore. With his Smallfoot getting sick whenever he was above the clouds for too long, and yetis not being welcomed among these 'humans' as Percy called them, how would they ever see each other again?
"We fully understand Percy, but will they really never accept us?" Meechee asked with a disappointed and sad face.
Percy looked at both of them, and then looked down at his right knee. His pants still had an opening from when his leg was hurt, though there was still no other sign that there had been a wound there before.
Percy then looked at his hand, the wound that once was there was also all gone. There was no doubt that he could trust the yetis, they had been taking care of him as if he was one of their own. But he knew that no one would ever believe they could be so gentle and kind without seeing it with their own eyes, or at least that would be the most obvious outcome.
"I don't know, but we can't wait around here to find out." Percy said. A second later, they heard someone knocking hard on the gates. They didn't know what to do, at that moment Migo and Meechee were seconds away from being killed.
Then the doors opened with the police going inside with guns. But instead of finding the yetis, they found a huge yeti-shaped hole in one of the walls, they had ran off and were hurrying through the city, hoping to get home safely.
Migo led the way once again since he had been down there before, Meechee being behind him holding Percy in her hands to keep him from being caught too. If he had just been left there next to a big yeti hole in a wall, surely he would be accused of having something to do with it.
Of course the yetis weren't planning on taking him up the mountain again, they would drop him off somewhere no one would see them so he could stay safe and unsuspected.
As the two yetis ran, they accidentally hit every streetlight they were passing by, making them go out. The sounds of lightbulbs breaking was followed by a lot of 'ows', but luckily, because the lights got hit it also made the streets they were running through dark, making it easier for them to not be seen.
And at one building there was a power box (forgive me if that's not what it's called, but Idk what it's called so I'm just going with this), which Migo also accidentally hit with his shoulder, breaking it and making almost the whole village dark, turning off all of it's light.
Though because of that, it was almost impossible not to get out of there unseen.
They both snuck through the city as well as they could. But when they passed a house that Meechee found familiar. A little girl's head popped out of the house window, it was the baby Smallfoot that Meechee had approached earlier!
"Oh! Hi again, little one!" Meechee cooed at the tiny human while bringing her finger up to her again, holding Percy in one hand now, of course the girl was still giggling with joy.
"Meechee, what are you doing? We don't have time for this!" Migo whisper-yelled at Meechee, anxiously trying to make her follow. "We have to leave, now!" Migo gently grabbed Percy so he could keep him safe, and also trying to get Meechee going.
Though to their surprise, the officers and the SWAT team that was after them found them (some from the SWAT team didn't wear their helmets). They pointed tranquilizers, guns and bright flashlights at them, with a mix of anger and fear in their eyes. The two yetis quickly put their hands up in the air, and so did Percy (Migo only held one hand up because he had Percy in the other).
"Put him down, now!" One of the officers yelled, Meechee and Migo looked worryingly at each other, not sure of how they were gonna convince them that they didn't wanna harm them or him, that they weren't a threat. They did what the officers said though and carefully put Percy down on the ground, but when he was put down he didn't step away from the yetis.
"Sir, step away from the yetis!" One of them yelled, but Percy stubbornly stood his ground. He'd remembered what Meechee had told him.
"It's what you choose to do afterwards that matters the most. That really defines you." After everything the yetis has done for him, Percy thought it was his time to do something for them for a change.
"No!" Percy said flatly, getting both the officers and the yetis completely off guard.
"Sir, do what we say or we will shoot you, now get away from those yetis!" Another one of them yelled, now pointing a gun at Percy. Migo reacted to this, he didn't know what the guns did, but he was still really scared for Percy at this moment. But Percy didn't move an inch.
"No!" He yelled again, even louder and more serious than before. "Please officers, don't hurt them! They haven't done anything, to me or anybody else!"
"That purple one smashed a car into someones house!" One of the officers said while motioning to Meechee with his gun, scaring her.
"Because you tried to hurt her! And what she did was an accident!" Percy yelled back in defense.
"Sir, what we do we do to protect this village from threats! How can you possibly not call those yetis a threat?"
"Because they aren't what we think they are! They're not monsters, they're not cold hearted beasts! They're intelligent, caring creatures, that don't judge others because of they're appearance, because they think of others before themselves." Percy used a more reasonable and calm tone this time, to try and convince them that there was no reason to be afraid of them.
One of the people from the SWAT team, a female (Brenda), lowered her tranquilizer gun a bit. The man seemed to be very serious about this whole situation, like he was trying to reason with them about trying to accept the yetis, and honestly, he did sound pretty reasoning. She considered that the man might not be all too crazy, that the stuff he said could actually make sense, maybe even be true.
"Please," Migo said with a careful and gentle tone, "we don't want to hurt you, and we never meant for any of this to happen."
"We promise if you let us go, we will never intrude this village again." Meechee continued. "Look, if you could just give us a chance-" Meechee stepped closer to the SWAT team and police officers, making them cut her off, readying to shoot at her as a fear reflex. She then got scared and walked back to Migo. Percy walked in, in front of the yetis with his hands in front of his chest.
"Please, guys." Percy said almost begging, "They didn't hurt me, they actually helped me."
Suddenly a helicopter flew over them with more people from the SWAT team, pointing their tranquilizer guns at the yetis. They shot two darts at them and hit them both right in the chest.
"No no, don't hurt them!" Percy shouted, but none of them listened.
"Percy..." Migo was starting to get very dizzy, and his vision was all blurry, though he was still able to show the sad and scared look in his eyes to Percy. Soon both him and Meechee was hit by another tranquilizer dart, making Migo let out another grunt. The SWAT team seemed to wanna make sure that they were all tranquilized, although Brenda wasn't quite happy with the sudden change of plans, she heard what he said about the yetis helping him, and she actually wanted to hear what he had to say.
"Hey!" Percy yelled at them, sending an angry expression too. Migo's eyes then rolled back in his head and he passed out, and not long after Meechee did the same.
Okay, so to get the first thing out of the way, I know I said I erased Brenda from the story, but I just came up with this cool little idea of her being in the SWAT team, so please don't get upset, Percy just needs Brenda, okay? But, I'm hoping you liked this chapter, it took a REALLY long time to come up with all of this and what happens next I still need to think through. (But I do have something in mind for another story I'll make after this one, but to do that I need your opinion on a random question -Only if you want to of course-. What is better, a 9 year old girl named Penny, or a 9 year old boy named Tim? Write me your opinion down in the comment section) Anyway, thank you again for reading, and have a nice day;-)
