another day has passed, and everyone was so glad to have gotten on that trip to the Inside Africa park as a family together, even Lynn foolishly hopped in the tiger pen and got grounded for a whole month for her stupidity, it was so fun.

Meanwhile, Lynn was just pulling some weeds in the backyard, and she wasn't exactly having the best time of her life, and she was kept under watch by Lori, who was sitting on a hammock with her shades on while enjoying the sunshine.

The reason why Lori was keeping an eye on her was because in case she Lynn tries to weasel her out of this chore as a punishment, and the she couldn't go over the fence and sneak out of the yard. Lynn was still glad to have gotten on the zip line yesterday, and that was obviously one of her favorites, along with the other rides.

"Ooh, you're a big guy aren't you?" Lynn said, pulling a gigantic weed with a dandelion on top of it, the. She put it in the bucket with the rest of the weeds she pulled. "Boy I need some lemonade."

"Here you go." Said Lori, giving her a nice glass of lemonade with ice as a lemon slice on top of the glass. Lynn promptly took the glass and began gulping down the lemonade down her throat like Renee was no tomorrow.

"can't believe I have to pull all these weeds. It's a nightmare."

"Well you did do something literally stupid." Lori reminded

"Oh shut up your majesty." Lynn said insultingly. "I just wanted to be like Lincoln and try to take that tiger."

"By just hopping in there and say howdy do? To the big guy? That was just dangerous." Lori reminded before sitting back on the hammock. "And without Luke's supervision."

"Okay Okay, But did mom and dad have to ground me from doing sports or practicing?"

"I literally don't make the rules, Lynn." And she took a sip of her lemonade. Lynn just made a groan sound and continued with her work. "Oh, and mom and dad want you to water the plants front in back as well."

"Ugh, do I have to?"

"What they literally say goes, now stop whining." said Lori sternly. "And back to weed pulling."

"Whatever." then Lynn reluctantly went back to pulling more weeds, which there were still quite a lot of them. "Just wish mom and dad would take care of the back more often."

Lori didn't really say anything back, but she just continued reclining on the hammock while drinking her lemonade. Meanwhile, Lincoln was eating some barbecue chips while reading more comic books in his underwear. He couldn't stop being happy about taking his whole family out to the safari park that Luke kinda owned, or at least had a very special treatment there. Lincoln hoped that he would do more fun things with his new brother together, like teaching him how to use a gun some more.

Luna noticed him, and sat next to him. "Hey dude." she said. "Still reading them comics in your undies?"

"As always, Luna." Said Lincoln. "You did have fun yesterday, did you?"

"You kidding me, bro? 'Course I had fun. The rides, the animals, everything in that safari park. Hole to go there again sometime soon."

"Of course. If you ever want to go back there, never be afraid to ask my brother." Lincoln reminded her before turning a page. "Although. I'm worried that Lynn is mad at me for that tiger incident."

"Nah. She's mad, but not at ya. We both know that what Lynn did was pretty goddamn stupid. She doesn't have that gift like you or the Rogue Lion have together. Huh? Huh?" She playfully jabbed his left arm with her right shoulder.

Lincoln couldn't help but laugh at what Luna said. "Don't tell her I said this, but Lynn is dumber than a fly."

Laughing hard at what Lincoln said, Luna said "totally true, Lincoln." Then she gently ruffled his white hair. It was silent for a moment and then Luna said "You guys been doing other fun stuff?"

"With Lynn?"

"No, Luke."

"Oh yeah, we do many cool things. Play video games together, and teaching me how to use a guuuuaaah- I mean, teaching me how to chew gum properly." Lincoln lied with a nervous smile. Luna had a suspicious look on her face in return.

"Okaaay, whatever." Luna said with a raised eyebrow. "Anyway. You wanna help me with something?"

"Sure. What is it?"

"Do you think you can help me move a couple of amps to my room."

"I guess. I'm kinda getting bored anyway."

"Awesome! They're in the garage, and I'll help ya out with them."

"Thanks. I'm not a person who can lift a fridge like Lynn would be able to." He flexed his muscles to her. Or at least, what looked like his muscles.

"Heh, your arms are so thin you can see your bones through them."

"Oh thanks a lot." Said Lincoln sarcastically, and he stopped flexing his arms.

"Oh come on, bro, I was just kidding." And she ruffled his white hair some more. "Now come on, and pet's feel the noise bu lifting those amps, huh?"

"Okay okay." Both siblings worked together to lift three amplifiers to Luna and Luan's room. It wasn't easy, but Lincoln and Luna managed to get all the amplifiers up there without having injuries. "No offense Luna, but where'a Chunk when you need him?"

"I gave him a day off. Yep. Today, he's not going to work." Luna sang. "But we got the amps up here. You alright?"

"I'm good, Luna. Thank you for helping me with this."

"No. Thank you for helping me." She sang enthusiastically. "If ya need anything, let me know."

"You got it." Then Lincoln went back downstairs to play some video games and there was a knock on the door. Since Lincoln was the one closest to it, he answered it, and it revealed to be Luke again, with his warm, brotherly smile. "Luke."

"Hey Lincoln. Wanna come over to my house?"

"Sure. Let me tell my parents." Said Lincoln. He went out of the room, and into the parents bedroom, and told them where he would be going. Rita and Lynn Sr were okay with it, and happy let him go off to hang out with his godbrother. "Okay, let's go."

As the two went off, Luke asked "Is Lynn still grounded?"

"Oh yeah. You should have seen how pissed mom and dad are. Sorry about Lynn going in Tyson's pen like that, we should have seen that coming, and Lynn is not the sharpest tool in the shed."

"Ah, don't worry about it. It's done now. She hasn't been giving you a hard time, has she?"

"No, not really. She's still happy that she went to the Inside Africa park with us as a family."

"Good."

"So right now, I think Lynn's done pulling weeds, and she's watering the plants now. I saw her in the back with the hose."

"Ah. Do you have a lot of weeds at your home?"

"It happens on more than one occasion." Said Lincoln. "That's usually mom, dad, or Lana's job, since she loves anything dirty and disgusting."

"Heh. But then since Lynn did something so stupid yesterday, your folks made her do the weed pulling instead, right?"

Lincoln made a small chuckle. "Right. It's not her favorite job, but come on, it's better than staying inside with no TV or video games."

"True. Anything's better than doing nothing while grounded."

"Exactly. Not I would just stay away from her for now. Unless she comes to me."

"Probably a good idea. Like I said, Lincoln, women are just crazy." And he made the gesture with his finger swirling around near his head, his eyes crossed. And made a cuckoo clock whistle from his mouth, making Lincoln laugh.

"I'll take your word for it. And I might have mentioned that my sisters love all things chocolate. It kinda drives me crazy."

"Stick to the bro code, Lincoln." When they made it to the house, Lincoln was greeted by Shadow and Whopper again, for those dogs are always happy to see Lincoln.

Limey the ring-necked parakeet noticed him and chirped in happiness. "Lincoln!" It said enthusiastically."

"Hey guys. Nice to see you too." Lincoln said to the dogs, who greeted him by pressing their front paws on his chest while panting, wagging their tails happily.

"Oh, you guys." Luke said. "I know you're happy to see him. You want a drink?"

"Yeah, just root beer would be nice."

"Yoy got it, little bro."

Lincoln promptly sat on the couch and the two large dogs sat next to him, desperately wanting Lincoln to pet them both. Of course, whenever Lincoln pets one dog, the other would get jealous, then Lincoln would try the other way around, but it was a normal thing to have with someone with two dogs.

The Rogue Lion came back with a glass 9f iced root beer in his head, and promptly gave it to Lincoln. 'Here you go, Linc. Oh. And guess what I got." Then he pulled out a game that was titled "God of War" on it, and this was the newest one based on Norse Mythology.

The boy gasped with excitement and had a foolish smile on his face. "Oh my gosh! God of war!"

"Yep. I knew you would like that." Luke smiled. "Just got it three days ago."

"Wow. Can I play it?"

"You can borrow it."

"Really?

"Yeah. That's what big brothers are fore after all."

"Thank you, Luke." And Lincoln gave the Rogue Lion a hug to show appreciation. "So... by the way, can you teach me how to use a gun again?"

"Hmmm... we can use the same gun as last time. And I have a couple of squash that you can use as targets."

"Cool."

The Rogue Lion then pulled out the same Magnum as he let Lincoln use before when teaching him how to use it the first time. "Let me just get the bullets from my room." As the young man went to get the revolver bullets, Lincoln waited and interacted with Limey in his cage. The African ring-necked parakeet was climbing in his cage, and came up to where Lincoln's first finger was poking through it.

Lincoln chuckled when he felt Limey licking the tip of his finger with his small, slippery tongue, it kind of felt like a cat's tongue a little when it licks against his skin.

Luke suddenly came back, and saw Lincoln interacting with the parrot. "Oh Limey. He can never get enough of you, Lincoln. Everyone here loves ya here." Whopper than made a small growl at Lincoln, and tried to get his attention by placing his right paw on Lincoln's shoulder. Next, he felt Shadow nudge his nose against his left side. Turns out, the two dogs were getting jealous if Lincoln paying attention to Limey instead of them both. "You guys. You're so jealous."

Young Lincoln couldn't help but try and pay attention to the dogs to make them feel more better about themselves. "Come on, Shadow, Whopper, I would never forget about you guys." And he knelt down to give the dogs a kiss.

"Ah, they are quite the attention mongers." Luke said. "It's the same with Limey. That's why i feel like getting another parrot for him to be with so he wouldn't have to actually be lonely in his big cage. I mean, what good would it be for Limey just jus be all alone in their. That way, he won't get so jealous."

"Nice, what kind of parrot?"

"I'm still looking for one. I want one that would gets,one well with Limey and they wouldn't get into fights. To be fair, i'm Not so sure what kind of species of parrot I wanna old get next.

"Wow. So, you got the bullets?"

"yep." And he showed him the ammo in the palm of his hand. "Come on, we'll do it in the backyard again."

"Right behind you." Lincoln followed his surrogate brother outside and he could hardly wait to try out that gun he shot with before. Luke readied five squash on a small table for each of them, and pulled out the magnum again.

"Okay, remember what I taught you about holding it properly, Okay?"

"Okay." Lincoln stuck his tongue out to the right side of his mouth, and cocked the handgun slowly and carefully. Am I holding it right?"

"Yep, you're holding it with no thumbs outside of the trigger guard, and away from the barrel above them. I think you're ready to try this again, little buddy. Just focus, and keep your hands still like that, and shoot the squash when you think you're ready."

Lincoln nodded his head, and aimed at the first squash. He focused his vision, and when he pulled the trigger, a loud boom sound echoed in the air, and the gun had a lot of force like that.

The round squash just burst open from the impact of the bullet. He moved on to the second squash, and fired again after being careful, and another sound was heard. He shot the third one, then the fourth, then the fifth very successfully with no injuries on his fingers.

The Rogue Lion applauded him for his amazing shooting and went up to him. 'Very nice, Lincoln. Good job."

"Thanks. This gujnis very strong."

"It is strong, that's why you must always be careful with a gun, for these things can go off by accident; as a I said before."

"No kidding, I thought I would have blown my fingers off from all this." And he gave the gun back to Luke. "Here you go." Then he looked at his hands, looking a little red and sore from all that firepower. "Ah, but my hands kinda hurt."

"Don't worry. Can you still use them?"

"Of course I can. But look at this marks on here, what if my sisters ask?"

"Just tell them you were lifting some weights and exercising with me, that's all. It is best if your sisters, or your parents didn't l know about this."

"Don't you worry about that, if mom and dad ever find out that you were teaching me how to use a gun. They would flip out, and dance on my grave."

Luke chuckled, and said. "Okay, So you want to play some God of War?"

"Yeah. You have a PS4, right?"

"Absolutely."

"All right!" Then Lincoln happily went back inside the house and began playing the game. Luke smiled warmly at his younger surrogate brother and out his gun and bullets away in his room for very safe keeping.