"Atticus, you awake?" Phoebus asked.
"Huh? No, I'm awake..." Atticus mumbled.
"Ready for the day?" Phoebus asked.
"Sure..." Atticus replied before snoring.
Phoebus then shook him awake.
"Okay, okay, I'm up, I'm up!" Atticus yelped. He then soon stretched so he wouldn't fall asleep again.
Patch groaned and his eyes flickered slightly.
"Come on, boy, time to get up." Atticus said with a small yawn.
"Alright, I'm up." Patch groaned as he got up and stretched.
Atticus then got ready with Phoebus.
"We should check with Judge Frollo for his orders." Phoebus said to Atticus.
"Yeah." Atticus nodded.
"Come along then." Phoebus told the boy.
They soon went to meet Frollo. The carriage came with the judge.
"Good morning, sir." Atticus and Phoebus greeted.
Frollo saw the morning sun and grimaced as he had dark circles under his eyes and appeared to have a headache.
"You alright, sir?" Atticus asked.
"I... I had trouble with my fireplace..." Frollo replied.
"Mm-hmm..." Atticus doubted that.
"Your orders, sir?" Phoebus then prompted.
"Find the gypsy girl." Frollo demanded.
"Yes, sir." Atticus said, not liking this man.
Phoebus nodded.
The men went all around to find Esmeralda for Frollo's wicked and insane demands. Esmeralda was hiding very well with Djali so they couldn't be found by the judge and where he couldn't seem to find her anywhere. Frollo kept telling people to tell him where Esmeralda was or they would be arrested or gratefully punished and he even tried to bribe them into telling him where Esmerelda was. Phoebus and Atticus shook their heads at Frollo's actions, feeling disgusted and outraged.
They were soon at a house with a windmill next to it.
"We found this gypsy talisman on your property," Frollo questioned the miller. "Have you been harboring gypsies?"
"Our home is always open to the weary traveler," the miller replied nervously. "Have mercy, my lord."
"I am placing you and your family under house arrest until I get to the bottom of this," Frollo replied coldly. "If what you say is true, you are innocent and you have nothing to fear." He soon left without saying another word.
"But we are innocent, I assure you!" the miller cried out. "We know nothing of these gypsies!"
Before Frollo was gone though, he put a wooden board on the door to prevent the family from getting out, he then looked icily toward Atticus and Phoebus. "Burn it." he then sharply demanded.
"What? But they're innocent people." Atticus told him.
"These people are traitors and must be made examples of." Frollo handed a torch to Phoebus since he was the captain.
"With all due respect, sir, I was not trained to murder the innocent." Phoebus replied bravely and sharply.
"But you were trained to follow orders." Frollo glared.
Atticus soon blew out the torch with ease.
"Insolent cowards." Frollo sneered, he then grabbed another torch and lit the windmill and house on fire.
"ARE YOU NUTS?!" Atticus cried out.
"Is that a rhetorical question?" Patch asked as he appeared.
Atticus picked up his puppy with a glare to the judge. "Come on, boy, I have to save the day." he then glared as he crashed in through the window with Phoebus to save the miller and his family from being burned alive and where due to his new strength, Phoebus didn't need to worry about being burned.
"Come on, we gotta move!" Atticus told Phoebus before wheezing slightly from the flames as he helped the children out to safety. He soon cleared his voice with a slight cough into his other arm while the children were being held in his free arm.
Phoebus saved the others so the family could get out of their burning home safely.
Atticus ran with them and once he settled them, he coughed a little more and tried to breathe easily. And where he was able to after he got out of the fire and where he blew out the fire with ease saving their home. "Okay, I need to sit down now..." he then said softly.
"The sentence for insubordination is death," Frollo scolded Phoebus. "Such a pity, you and the boy threw away a promising career."
"Call it our highest honors." Atticus said.
Mo was at a high stand in her pegasus form, she then turned back to normal and aimed for the black horse that belonged to Frollo. Frollo was about to kill both Phoebus and Atticus with a spear until he was then bucked off his horse after Mo threw a stone at the horse which made Atticus, Patch, and Phoebus hop onto the horse's back and ride off.
"Hit them! And don't hit my horse!" Frollo called.
"Don't worry about the arrows, they won't be able to kill us." Atticus whispered.
The other guards shot arrows. Mo narrowed her eyes, she then turned into a pegasus again and swooped down and made it look like that the boys had fallen off Frollo's horse and ended up in the water as she took them to a hidden spot for right now.
"Nice move, Mo." Atticus whispered.
"What just happened...?" Phoebus asked.
"I'll explain later, you're safe now." Mo said as she was with Esmeralda and Cherry.
"Why did you knock us off the horse and into the water?" Patch asked.
"So Frollo thinks that you guys drowned and he won't bother looking for you all again." Mo replied.
"Smart." Atticus said.
"That and to surprise him and the guards about Atticus and Phoebus of their strength." Mo said.
"Wow, Mo, you really are street smart." Atticus replied.
"Hey, I've been on the streets for a few years," Mo smiled. "You learn how to help others who could use it who rely on book smarts."
"Cool." Patch smiled.
"Yes, I'm very impressed with Mo's efforts." Esmeralda smiled admirably toward Mo.
"Oh, you're so lucky Atticus gave you strength, otherwise you could've been shot." Mo soothed Phoebus.
"You can say that again." Phoebus said.
"We have to hide somewhere, but where?" Cherry asked. "We can't stay around with Frollo hounding us."
"I know where we can hide." Patch said.
"Lead the way, boy." Atticus smiled.
Patch nodded and led them to a safe spot to hide out away from Frollo and the guards and where as he led them to where he knew, they would be safe from Paris being burned. Drell was watching them and he went back to the church as they traveled. It looked like doomsday in Paris as the city as nearly burnt due to Frollo's reign of terror.
