I actually don't have anything to say for the author's note.... wait.... I just ruined it.
"...and when I was seven, my mom said my cat ran away. But he didn't run away! He couldn't of! I locked him in the closet all day without food or water!" The yeti said through sobs.
"There, there," Mattimeo comforted him patting his shoulder, "It'll be okay."
"And when I was ten, someone stole my Hello Kitty backpack! And the worst part is that they returned it to me! Then when I was fifteen, my girlfriend ran off with my ex..."
"What? Your girlfriend ran off with your ex-girlfriend?" Mattimeo backed away slowly.
"I think she was only trying to make the other one jealous," the yeti sobbed. He grabbed Mattimeo and hugged him.
"I reaaallly have to go now," Mattimeo said.
"NOOO!" The yeti bellowed.
"Uh, Yeti, I really gotta go," Mattimeo was getting really annoyed now.
"My name is not Yeti," the yeti corrected.
"Um........ what is it then?"
"Frank."
Frank got to his feet, allowing Mattimeo to leave.
"You taught me a valuable lesson, mousey," he said.
"What lesson?" Mattimeo asked, gasping for breath after almost being strangled by a yeti.
"...I don't know. But I promise, I'll come to you when you need me most," Frank said.
"How will you know?" Mattimeo asked.
"...I have my ways."
Mattimeo decided not to ask.
"Um... bye," he said, continuing through the tunnel.
Chickenhound was still snoring when Mattimeo got back to the plane wreck.
"Wake up," Mattimeo kicked the sleeping fox.
"Huh wha?" Chickenhound got to his paws. "I wasn't sleepin'!"
Mattimeo shook his head. He finally had a chance to take in his surroundings. He was in some sort of tunnel. Where though? He had no idea. Then he began to hear shouts for help. He ran over to see Veil at the bottom of a hole.
"Gemme out of here, mouse!" He shouted.
"I dunno," Mattimeo said, "You look pretty cozy in there."
Veil cursed at the mouse, but Mattimeo just laughed. Then Chickenhound ran over.
"GUYS, GUESS WHAT!!!!!!!!!!" He yelled at the top of his lungs.
"What?!" Mattimeo asked.
"I SAW A GIANT ADDER!!!" Chickenhound yelled "HE'S COMING THIS WAY, SO TRY TO KEEP QUIET!!!"
"A giant adder?" Mattimeo was scared, "Like Asmodeus?"
"I DON'T KNOW!" Chickenhound yelled, "BUT IT'S COOL!"
"STOP YELLING!" Veil shouted.
Mattimeo, frightened, jumped in the hole with Veil. Chickenhound stood there, staring into space.
"Here it comes!" He said. Mattimeo and Veil were trying to hide. Suddenly, a huge, horrible, deadly... worm slithered up.
"It's a worm..." Mattimeo said.
Chickenhound picked it up. "Opps, my mistake."
"How do we get out of here?" Veil asked.
"I dunno, but wake me up when you figure it out," Chickenhound said, closing his eyes to go to sleep. He was already snoring as the ferret and the mouse groaned.
Meanwhile, the group of animals were standing at the Matterhorn. Matthias looked around.
"Where's Mattimeo? And Cornflower?!" He somehow could talk again.
Then Bluefen cried out. "Veil's gone again!"
Sela noticed Chickenhound was gone, but she didn't care. Before they could do anything, Jodd pointed at the mountain.
"Look!"
They saw Cornflower standing next to one of the waterfalls. Some of the shadow things were attacking her. Matthias grabbed Martin's sword out of his paws and ran towards her. But he was too late, Cornflower plunged over the waterfall. He gasped and the creatures ran over to her.
"No... she's dead!" Matthias sobbed.
"Um... Matthias," Breeze said.
"It's my fault. If I had watched her closer-"
"Matthias!" Nightshade said.
"-maybe she wouldn't have died!"
Cornflower walked up to them. "Hey guys, look, I got some kettle corn! Hey, what's the fuss about?"
"What? Then... who is it?" Matthias looked at the mouse who he thought was his wife. Then he took a closer look.
"Why is Redtooth wearing a dress?" He asked blankly.
It had been Redtooth, dressed like Cornflower (which is really disturbing).
"WHY is Redtooth wearing a dress?" Matthias asked again.
"That's a good question, and deserves a good answer," the writer said.
"Um... he's dead," Tsarmina said, "We may never know where he was... or why the heck he's in a dress.
Sorry to any readers who are disturbed by the thought of a rat wearing a dress.
"I'm hungry," Badrang complained, not really paying attention to what was going on.
They all stood outside of Disneyland. Everybeast cheered, thinking they had escaped.
"Nope," the writer said, "There are still my invisible walls. You can just go to a resturant."
They walked across the street and found a restaurant called 'Captain Kidd's'.
"Captain Kidd's?" Clogg walked up to the sign, "I'd like to meet this 'Captain Kidd'. I'm the real captain here!"
I don't own Captain Kidds and please don't sue me for the description.
He got a large paintbrush (somehow) and painted over the 'Kidd's', renaming it 'Captain Clogg's'. The creatures all walked in. They saw really cheesey paintings of pirates and parrots and all that junk on the walls. The waitress was a snooty teenager who wouldn't smile or make eye contact.
"Right this way," she said in a bored voice.
They walked past the cheap gift shop and sat at their booth. They all went to the buffet part. How to describe the buffet? Well... here it goes.
The salad had jello in it, and the jello had salad in it. The orange chicken was basically like mashed up cardboard dunked in orange jello. The fried chicken seemed like a rock. The chips and salsa tasted like nothing. There were also some cream puff things. Of course, anything else there was unidentifiable because there were red lights under everything. Once they got their 'food', they all sat down. Most of them stared at it, picking at it with their forks. The hares scoffed their food down, even eating some of the other creature's food. Badrang and Rose were sitting together, and Martin was between Badrang and Tsarmina. Matthias was next to Cluny and Cornflower. It was beginning to get awkward.
"Hey..." Badrang said awkwardly to Rose, "Um, sorry 'bout that... thing."
"What?" Rose asked, looking at him strangely.
"Um... killing you and stuff..."
"Oh."
"I mean, you know how when a guy likes a girl, they hit them and put gum in their hair?" Badrang stared into her eyes.
"Yeah, but killing her is a bit drastic," Rose glared at him.
"Maybe... we could... start over?" The stoat asked hopefully.
Rose was silent. Martin was steaming, threatening to strangle Badrang. Tsarmina was staring at Badrang.
"No!" She said, and then punched him in the face. He fell to the ground, and Rose kicked him in the place you do not want to be kicked. He scrambled back up.
"I can take a hint," he said, getting back to his 'food'.
Tsarmina unsheathed her claws, but did nothing more... for now. Suddenly, Nightshade fainted. No one really noticed until she started screaming. Then she jumped on the table.
"I HAD A VISION!" She declared. She turned to Sela. "Sela!" She said, "You are my long lost-"
"GET OFF OF MY CHICKEN!" Basil shrieked, pushing the vixen off the table. She hit her head and passed out. Sela shrugged and sontinued to fight the unidentifiable substance on her plate, which was trying to crawl away.
Bluefen started sobbing. "It's okay," Swartt said, "You'll find him again."
"Swartt, go find your son!" Bluefen said for the second time in this story, "I have to scold him about his bad habit of disappearing."
"'You're not a great mother," a new voice said, "Veil needs a mother to be loving but teach him to make good choices."
Bryony was suddenly sitting in the seat across from Bluefen. Instantly, the ferret hated her son's adoptive mother.
"What he needs is his real mother, who is the same species as him!" She growled.
"At least I raised him," Bryony said.
"You didn't give birth to him!" Bluefen slammed her paw on the table.
"At least I didn't die!" Bryony slammed her paw, but then recoiled because she hit it too hard.
"At least I didn't lead Veil to his death!" Bluefen was starting to shout.
"At least I'm not a ferret!" Bryony said, crossing her arms.
"What is that supposed to mean?!" Bluefen glared at her.
"AND I'm not married to a failure of a husband who thinks he's a warlord," the mousemaid continued.
"He's not a failure! He took over a lot of things... like... uh..."
"Like your father's horde," Bryony felt like she was winning.
"Ladies, ladies, don't fight about me!" Swartt tried to stop them from clawing each other's eyes out.
At that moment, Nightshade came back to her senses.
"TWIN SISTER!" She finished her sentence.
Sela cocked her head. "But... we're born in different time periods."
"Because of a rip in the space-time continuum, you were born in the future, but I was born in the past," Nightshade said.
"That makes no sense," Sela scratched her head.
"And our parents are Plugg Firetail and Fortunata!" Nightshade said.
"NOW you've lost it," Sela said, "They were born a long time between each other! And neither of them had kids if you haven't noticed!"
Nightshade hugged her sister. "We gotta make up for lost time!"
The writer chuckled at her own insanity and the fact hat she could bend the fabrics of reality.
Meanwhile, Asmodeus and Baliss were fighting. They tried to bite one another, but both were too swift. Asmodeus finally cornered Baliss against a wall. Before he could make the final strike, he spotted a random shrew. Having a short attention span, he went after it. Baliss hissed at Asmodeus, and because he knew he was too weak, managed to escape before Asmodeus got back.
"HELP!" Veil cried out.
"GET US OUT!" Mattimeo shouted.
"It's no use," Veil said, "The only one here is Chickenhound."
Mattimeo sighed. "This is your fault."
"HOW could it possibly be my fault, Mr. I can fix a plane!"
"You fell down this hole!"
"You jumped in!"
Then Mattimeo got an idea.
"Lemme stand on your shoulders and I can climb out. If I make it, I'll pull you up."
"I don't trust you," Veil said, "So no!"
"C'mon, we're in this together, we can make it out," Mattimeo said.
"No," Veil declared, "I will not!"
Mattimeo sighed. It was obviously no use.
"DID YOU JUST CALL ME A RABBIT?!" Breeze lunged at Dotti with a fork.
"I DIDN'T CALL YA FOR DINNER!" He had her own fork. They fought on top of the table, kicking over dishes and glasses. They used their forks like swords, and both knew this was a fight to the death. In the chaos, Tsarmina lunged at Rose. She wasn't sure why, but she was jealous of her because Badrang liked her. In the chaos, all of the creatures began to attack each other. Cluny was wrestling Matthias, Badrang and Martin were having a slap fight. Korvus and Ironbeak were at each other's throats. Basil and Jodd were fighting over Dotti. Bluefen and Bryony were strangling each other. Swartt was yelling at the poor writer for not adding Sunflash. All the rest of them had a fight with the guy sitting next to them Breeze and Dotti threw their forks away and started to wrestle. They rolled around on the table. It was chaos.
Or, to the writer, it was hilarious.
***
"Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you" Veil sang.
"STOP SINGING!" Mattimeo begged.
Veil grumbled. Then sang:
"Alabama getaway, getaway. Alabama getaway, getaway,
Only way to please me, ya just gotta leave and walk away"
"WHY are you singing about Alabama?" Mattimeo asked. Veil did not reply.
"I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee
I'm going to Louisiana,
My true love for to see
("Um... I forgot the next verses," Veil said, "So I'll just skip them.")
Oh, Susanna,
Oh don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee"
By this time, Mattimeo gave up. Veil started to hum the song until Mattimeo punched him in the jaw. He was quiet after that.
So... Redtooth is dead. That only leaves two. The suspense! So... they went to Captain Kidds and a huge fight broke out. And Veil and Mattimeo are trapped in a hole!
Coming up:
-Slagar actually returns!
-Nightshade discovers that she and Sela have another sibling
-Basil knows kung-fu!
-Mattimeo and Veil are... friends?!?!?!?!
-Matthias sings
And more!
