It was close to sundown as Raven, Mac, Eduardo, Darling, Bloo and Apple walked through the forest, exhausted from running.
"Things aren't as bad as they seem." assured Mac. "Madame Foster, Wilt and the girls can totally take that bear. Yeah, sure. The Grimms and Herriman? They probably found tons of food by now. And Coco? I bet she's found help."
"Coco?" said Bloo. "Oh, she and Maddie got eaten by a fish."
"OK, thing are as bad as they seem." said Apple.
"What are we going to do?" asked Eduardo.
"It's OK, Ed." said Darling. "We can survive. We'll just have to live off the land."
"But it's so dirty." whined Eduardo.
"She means we gotta trap an animal." explained Bloo.
"Oh, to play with and make a part of our family?" guessed Eduardo as he hugged himself.
Raven, Apple and Darling looked at each other uneasily, then turned to Eduardo and nodded their heads no.
Eduardo bursted into tears as Bloo tried catch them with his tongue.
This was too much for Raven to handle.
"Pull yourself together, man!" she snapped. "This isn't a game anymore. This is life or death. Do or die!"
"Me no want to die." squealed Eduardo.
"Then, we have no choice." said Raven. "We've got to do!"
Eduardo soon found himself in the middle of a snare trap.
"I scared." he whispered.
"That's good, Ed." said Darling. "It'll attract predators to the trap. They can smell fear, you know."
"I hope we catch a buffalo." said Bloo.
All of sudden, a rustle came from some bushes.
"Doe!" shouted Bloo.
And so there was, a beautiful doe grazing on some grass.
As Apple saw this majestic creature, she realized that it wasn't right to trap an animal.
"No, I can't go through with this." she finally said.
"What?" replied the others.
"We've got to stop now!" said Apple.
But Bloo didn't listen. In desperation, he pulled on the rope, setting off the trap, which caught Eduardo by mistake as the deer fled in fear.
"We caught him! We caught him!" Bloo said triumphantly. "We're gonna eat tonight."
"Bloo!" said Mac.
Just then, there was more rustling coming from the bushes.
"AHHH!" screamed Eduardo. "Indios!"
"Indi-what?" said Apple.
"That's Spanish for 'indians.'" explained Mac.
"Well, those aren't Indians, whatever after they are." said Darling. "They're pixies."
"What are they, some sort of Indian tribe?" joked Bloo.
"No, they're just pixies." said Darling.
As she came towards the bush, a pixie peeked her head out.
Not knowing what to do, Mac held up his hand and said, "Uh, how?"
The pixie popped out of her hiding place and examined Mac a little closer and ruffled his hair.
"I think Featherly likes you, Mac." chuckled Raven.
"Featherly?" repeated Mac.
"Well, yes." said Darling. "That's her name."
Another pixie with antlers on her head popped out of nowhere and looked Bloo straight in the eye.
"Why is she looking at me like that?" he asked.
"Well, Deerla can sense anyone who's hurt." explained Darling. "And it looks like your face could use some healing, Bloo."
Before Deerla could touch him, though, Bloo just swatted her away.
"Hands off, will ya?" he snapped. "My beard's been scared enough already."
"Bloo, you don't have a beard." said Mac.
"Says you." scoffed Bloo.
While hanging upside-down, Eduardo heard someone nibbling on the rope. Before he knew it, he fell onto the ground.
"Well, I see Harelow got you out of that knotty situation, eh, Eduardo?" joked Apple.
At that moment, Harelow, another pixie with rabbit ears, fell down from the tree and landed on Eduardo.
"Eh, hola." greeted Eduardo.
Harelow chattered right back.
"How come neither of them don't speak English?" asked Bloo.
But before anyone could answer, a loud howl came though the trees.
"Never heard that kind of animal before." said Raven.
"It is the monster!" shrieked Eduardo.
"We better get away from here before that thing finds us." said Darling.
"Let me try to handle this." said Mac.
Then he turned to the pixies and tried to communicate with them in a way Indians would understand. "Please hide us from beast."
The pixies nodded their heads in agreement and led the campers to where they can stay for the night.
