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Here's chapter 8.
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Friends Come in All Sorts
Chapter 8: River Recruit and Rescue
-Nightmist Forest-
Alan was leading the group inside the forest but it wasn't easy because of the foggy around them, so they took easy steps to avoid bumping into things.
"Stay close, everybody!" Alan ordered. "If you get lost in the mist, you stay lost."
Lucky shuddered as the area gave him the creeps. Eva saw her brother and comforted him. "Don't be afraid, Lucky, I am here with you."
"I'm not afraid. I'm terrified!" Lucky whispered the last part hoping that no one heard him. Suri stubbornly went ahead of Alan feeling confident in her sense of direction and leadership while Sasha accompanied her.
The others followed while holding hands in order to stay together. "How long until we find the Star Flower, Alan?" Eva asked.
"Not long now." Alan answered. Suri and Sasha were feeling kind of nervous as they heard various animal noises and screeches around them.
"AAHHH!" Sasha suddenly screamed in terror and ran ahead, dragging Suri with her.
"Stop, Sasha!" Suri yelled and Sasha did as she was told and a good thing too because they were at the edge of a cliff.
"What is it, Sasha?" Rook called out to her.
"Something slimy touched me." Sasha whimpered as she shuddered. Suddenly the fog got thicker and the group was losing sight of the girls
"Sasha! Suri!" Eva cried out to them. She heard Sasha scream as they disappeared from view.
"They disappeared!"Akela said in shock.
"Oh poor, poor Sasha and Suri!" Lucky lamented.
"We will find you Sasha and Suri! Don't worry!" Rook called out as they searched for their missing friends.
"Okay! Just hurry!" Sasha yelled out.
"Please!" Suri whimpered as she didn't like being lost. Suddenly like magic the fog disappeared, revealing the location of the girls.
"There they are!" Rook pointed out, but suddenly they felt the earth shaking. The group turned around to see a herd of Pyroxivors which are cow-like aliens with grey skin with brown patches, red eyes, and beaver-like teeth, heading towards them.
"Look out!" The group yelled in alarm as they ran out of their way and Suri and Sasha avoided them too. Eva and the others were alright until suddenly a wild Appoplexian appeared behind them and roared loudly.
The children ran away from the tiger-like alien in fear. The Appoplexian saw another of his kind roaring at it and charged toward him. Both Appoplexians started fighting against each other.
Lucky, Rook, and Akela cringed at the brutal combat. "I get headaches just by watching them fight!" Lucky shuddered.
Eva, along with Sally, Alan, and Nights, called the rest of them. "Come on. We have to find to find Suri and Sasha!"
As they ran, a sudden rain began falling on the land. "There's a tree we can hide under!" Alan pointed out to a big shady tree. Everyone ran towards the tree to shield themselves from the thunder and rain.
"I do not like it here! No wonder humans aren't allowed here!" Sally complained.
"The inhabitants themselves are dangerous enough!" Alan said. "The sudden weather changes and fog just makes this place worse."
Suddenly, everyone gasped as they heard something rustling. "What's that?" Akela asked.
"I do not know." Rook said as he readied his Proto-Tool and tiptoed towards the bushes. When the thunder and lightning clapped, something jumped on Rook as it ran away in fear.
"AAHH!" Sally screamed as the others were startled by the unknown creature as it hid in a flower patch. Nights followed it out of curiosity.
"Nights, come back!" Alan called her. Then the rain stopped and the sky cleared up as the clouds moved away, leaving the sun shining brightly.
Nights sniffed around the flowers until suddenly, the creature sneezed as it blew some flowers away, revealing himself. The creature turned out to be a puppy that was half the size as Nights. It was a silver brindle Akita Inu puppy with a curled up tail, pointed ears, blue eyes, and a brown nose. Nights wagged her tail as the puppy did the same. She licked the pup and he barked happily, knowing that there was a friendly dog like her.
"Aawww! Is this the creature that jumped on you, Rook?" Eva joked which made Rook nod in embarrassment. The puppy went towards Eva and it stood on its hind legs which Eva happily picked him up as it licked her.
"Look at you! Aren't you the cutest thing?" Eva cooed him.
"Where did he come from?" Alan wondered in amazement.
"Poor thing. He must be lost and alone." Sally said and then pleaded. "Can we keep him?"
"We can't leave him here. He'll starve or worse." Lucky explained.
Eva thought for a moment and smiled. "I don't see why not. Right now, he needs a name." She studied the puppy's silver fur covered with dark brindle like stripes. "I think I'm gonna call you... River. Because you're silver and the stripes look like a river."
"That is a nice name." Rook nodded in agreement. River liked his name as he barked and wagged his tail as Eva put him down.
Lucky walked towards River and asked. "River, have you seen our friends Sasha and Suri? They're a human and a Galvan."
River sniffed around until he pointed to his direction and barked loudly. "I think he found them!"
"I'll go take a look from up there!" Akela flew up and saw the girls. "I see them too!"
Sasha and Suri waited for their friends to come pick them up. They suddenly heard them calling out for them. "Sasha! Suri! Over here!"
"Hey, I see you!" Sasha and Suri happily waved them to their location. But then, the ledge gave out and the two girls fell into the raging river.
"HELP!" Sasha screamed in terror and Suri swam towards her. Suri coughed as the current was too strong for her.
"I can't see!" She yelled as the fog was thick.
The group saw the scene and Eva quickly took out a long rope from her backpack. "Hang on! We'll throw you down a rope!" She instructed as they all ran across the ledge.
"Hurry!" Sasha yelled as she grabbed a tree and held herself onto it as Suri caught up to her. They saw Rook throwing a rope lasso onto them.
"Sasha! Catch this!" Sasha immediately caught it.
"Great work, Sasha!" they cheered. But the tree broke away as the girls screamed and lost the rope. Luckily Suri caught it and grabbed Sasha with her hand.
"Come on! Let's pull them up!" Eva cried out as she grabbed the rope and started pulling it. "PULL!"
Alan, River, Nights and Akela pulled behind Eva. "PULL!" Rook, Lucky, and Sally pulled and walked backwards as they pulled harder. "PULL!"
Not far from them, the two hunters Mako and Tenten were swimming towards the girls as Tenten flew with his jet pack ahead.
Eva's eyes widen as Tenten flew on top of the rope. "YOU?!"
"Thanks for showing us that shortcut." Tenten snickered as he cut the rope with his lasers. "TO DINNER!"
"NOO!" Eva yelled as Sasha and Suri screamed as they swam away with those two going after them.
Mako swept forward until a log floated in front of them. "Gotcha!" Mako grabbed the log with its jaws, thinking it was the girls, but spit it out in disgust once it knew it wasn't them.
"You bumbling buffoon!" Tenten argued. "That wasn't food! That was a log!"
"I thought it tasted funny!" Mako admitted his mistake. Suddenly a rock hit on Mako's head. "Ow! You hit me!"
"I didn't!" Tenten defended himself until he snickered. "That's not a bad idea." Then another rock hit him hard on the head. "Ow! What did you do that for?"
"Do what?" Mako angrily questioned his friend until a rain of rocks of all sizes started showering on them.
"THAT!" Tenten shouted as he shielded himself from the stones and growled. "Oh, it's those rotten little kids!"
From up the ledge, Eva, Lucky, and Sally were throwing rocks at them while Akela, the dogs, Rook, and Alan helped. Alan then gasped as he saw Sasha and Suri holding on a rock in the river as they screamed. He knew that he had to do something and fast.
"You guys keep them busy. I'll save the girls." Alan said as he rolled his chair towards them.
"Alan, No!" Eva warned him. "It's too steep!"
"You'll fall!" Akela cried out in alarm.
Alan carefully tried to roll down to a ramp down the cliff. "Don't worry, I..." But like his friends said, it was too steep that he fell down the ramp and off his chair near the edge of the river.
Tenten saw Alan fall and liked how the situation went. "How nice. Desert!" He said, eying on the boy. "Head for shore, Mako. My sweet tooth calls."
"But Tenten, you know the routine! Dinner first, then desert!" Mako reminded him.
"What are you? My mother? Come on!" Tenten shouted as he flew ahead on his jet pack.
"ALAN!" Eva called out to her cousin, trying to wake him up from his fall.
"Watch out!" Lucky yelled in alarm.
"Wake up!" Rook called out to him as he tried to warn him.
Alan groaned as he tried to regain his consciousness from the fall. He heard his friends voices and woke up. He gasped as he saw Tenten heading towards him but he quickly dodged by ducking his head and Tenten crashed right into the tree.
Alan laughed at the bad guy. "Missed me and now you gotta kiss me!" He said as he heard Tenten mumbling in anger. Alan then dragged himself despite his legs into the water and on top of Mako who was swimming by.
"Sasha! Suri, I'm coming for you!" He yelled out as he held on to Mako's light antenna as Mako tried to shake him off. The girls were shocked by Alan's bravery and they both grabbed his arm when he passed next to them.
Mako, angry by the hitchhikers, swam roughly while the kids screamed as they held on to him. Then the kids saw Akela flying by.
"Need a lift?" He smiled as he grabbed Alan, Suri, and Sasha out of danger while Mako has bumped right into a tree.
"Hurry, Akela!" Sasha said as she held on to him,
"Don't worry, Sasha!" Suri assured her. "Piscciss Volanns can't climb!"
Mako groaned in anger and pain as he watched his meal get away from his grasp. His partner, who was stuck in the tree he crashed in, wasn't too happy either.
"You let them get away!" Tenten growled.
"Me? It was your fault!" Mako argued as he got out of the water.
"You're dreaming! Now be quiet!" Tenten shouted angrily.
"You be quiet!" Mako growled.
"Oh yeah? Well, you're the one with the big mouth!" Tenten argued.
"Oh yeah, well I outta..." Mako argued back.
Akela dropped the girls and Alan down on the cliff where their other friends are and then came back with Alan's wheelchair so that he may sit on it.
Suri panted heavily as she was scared out of her wits. She and Sasha then saw Alan rolling his chair to them.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
Suri and Sasha nodded their heads. After all that, Suri realized that Alan was a very brave boy, risking his life for her even though she treated him badly.
"Thanks Alan." She managed to say.
"You're welcome." Alan blushed as he smiled.
Suri smiled and then called out to her friends. "Hey guys! You don't have to worry anymore! Alan and I are friends!"
Everyone cheered for the big news as they regrouped.
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