Hello to all of you one more time.
It's my fanfiction's, TREASURE TROPOLIS, Twentieth one and very last chapter.
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I'm planning the sequel story for this, but it won't appear so soon. I have many other fanfictions to be finished off.
However...
Enjoy the reading my story's last chapter.
After sailing couple months, Zoopaniola finally arrived to the Zootown's harbor.
The ship's a new hired crew worked tiredlessly as they attached Zoopaniola to its correct place among of the dozens of others berths.
And once the ship was attached to its berth, the crew started to unload a ship's cargo to the piers from Zoopaniola's cargo hold.
Immediately after the ship's docking, the harbor's carpenter was called to the scene to check the damages Zoopaniola had suffered during the entire voyage, who later informed to Susan that Zoopaniola will be brough to the town's docking stations to repair the ship's multiple damages.
And during of Zoopaniola's unloading, the McHorn and his guards were called by Susan to onboard to Zoopaniola and take the jailed pirates out of her sight to the town's fortress prison as soon as possible.
He had received all the important information, all the details and all the possible evidence of the crew's mutiny... as well as Leodore's treason against the crown... and the act of piracy from everyone on board of Zoopaniola Mchorn had interpreted as both victims and eyewitnesses... the guards then brought all the cuffed pirates in line, and even Leodore (still gagged), off the ship to the prison wagon waiting on the docks, in which the pirates and Leodore were taken away for the town's fortress' prison to await for a trial.
However, there was only nine pirates captured and to be brough into the prison, though there was at least ten survived pirates jailed, to Susan's surprise and confusion.
And the missing pirate was none else than Nick John Wilder himself.
Peter was said to be the only one who had saw Wilder the last time, as the fox pirate had attacked him on his watch on the ship's helm and knocked him out for the rest of the night. And once he had woke up from the hard knock into his head in the next morning, he had spotted that one of the ship's long boats was missing...
...leaving the entire survived crew of Zoopaniola to believe that the fox pirate had somehow managed to escape from his jail within the night during of their home trip, sneaked to the main deck, knocking Peter out from behind and stolen one of the long boats and escaped with it from the ship.
Afterwards, he had simply disappeared and none of them had no idea where he could have gone.
Escept for one... who had told as a cover story that she had caught the foxin the attempt to escape right before the dawn, but was unable to stop him from escaping before he was already far away from the ship... out of the reach.
And after a news about Zoopaniola's arrival to the town's harbor spread all over the island...
...Bonnie Hawkins, dressed into a red-striped pink dress and wearing beige sun hat upon her head, had hurried into the town after hearing the news and made her way to the town's harbor with "small" bunch of her 275 another children, either as children, teens, babies carried by teen bunnies of family or as young adults with their own wifes and kids.
After reaching to the berth, to where Zoopaniola was attached into and which was filled with dozens of the large and loud mammals, Bonnie adviced her family to stick together and inform to her immediately about the sight of Judy - or even about the sight of her black-tipped ears upright - as she started to look for Judy from among of the mammals with her eyes.
She noticed the white wolf (White Fang) hugging her gray-furred twin-sister and her white little sister's daughters one by one.
She noticed of course the squirrel (Jack) hugging another male squirrel, probably his brother because of his young age.
Bonnie noticed then the snow leopard (Fabienne) hugging elder snow leopards, one male and one female. Probably her parents.
And Bonnie saw finally the moose (Peter) hugging his own wife and kids, before departing with them after White Fang, Jack and Fabienne and their own relatives from the berth.
But there was no any sight of Judy.
"Judy? Judy? Judy?!" Bonnie called her daughter by her name multiple times while walking through of the other large mammals legs with her family.
After searching for Judy for one hour, and having seen so sight of her daughter among of the crew of Zoopaniola...
...Bonnie started to get really worried.
She even started to ask from everyone she passed that were they seen the young 17-years old female bunny with the amethyst eyes and black-tipped ears.
However, nearly every mammal from whom Bonnie desperately asked for help to find Judy, unfortunately and with apologies wasn't able to help...
...or did not wanted to help her, because among of all those mammals from whom Bonnie asked for help, were levealed to be those mammals who did not want to even hear nothing about Judy, due to her annoying and harmful tricks she had done to them during of her childhood and yet in a teen age.
Those mammals rudely told Bonnie to get lost from their sight with the threat of making her to get lost by force, until they were halted back by several dozens of Bonnie's teen and young adult bunny sons, who protectively stood for their mother against the mammals... forcing them with their number to get themselves lost.
And after another hour...
...after several failed attempts to call her daughter by name or uselessly asking for some help to find her daughter...
...Bonnie's concern over her daughter get even worse.
Because Bonnie had not for couple hours found her beloved daughter from the berth, where she was supposed to be after Zoopaniola was docked, and there was not anyone from whom Bonnie could ask the help to find her daughter... Bonnie began slowly fear the worse.
Bonnie even started to went through in her mind many horrible options, that was her Judy killed by the pirates? Sharks? Was she washed off the ship's deck during of hurricane crossed the Caribbean Sea and get lost? Or something worse.
Bonnie even started, with her teary eyes and devastated spirit, to regret that she ever even allowed her hot-headed daughter to go to this foolish voyage.
"Why? Why? Why did I ever let her go to such of voyage?!" Bonnie tearfully asked from herself, almost starting to break down in tears.
"Judy… my little sweet Judy." Bonnie whispered her apparently dead or lost daughter's name in mental agony and tearfully...
...and the rest of her family shared tearfully and pity feeling their mother/grandmother/mother-in-law's sorrow over Judy...
...but they did to comfort Bonnie with their best efforts, although it was not easy with the bunny mother... who felt herself failed in the parenthood with her only one daughter, who has been constantly in trouble and always have dreamed about the adventures on the seas.
Bonnie's family was then about to lead Bonnie away from the harbor, after they did not see a glimpse of her among the crowd until...
Suddenly, someone then landed the tiny soft paw comfortingly on Bonnie's shoulder from behind of her.
Bonnie startled from this sudden act coming from behind of her and by her bunny instincts she hurriedly turned around to see that whose paw it was, which landed on her shoulder from behind.
And so did her children all around of her, as their mother/grandmother/mother-in-law's loud startled gasp caught their attention and they all turned their attentions to Bonnie and to the stranger, whi had just caught Bonnie by surporise from behind.
And then, after Bonnie had completely turned around to see the person face-to-face standing behind of her...
Bonnie was just about to scold the person, who had stood behind of her and surprised so badly, with the stern and extremely annoyed tone of voice for startling the other mammals from behind of their backs as if it was some kind a game with the bad taste and a touch of childish hooliganism...
...until she immediately halted her scolding words back as she saw right front of her faces the very familiar amethyst eyes in the familiar face, with the familiar sweet smile, which she knew to belonging only to one bunny alive.
It was Judy, Judy Hawkins, alive, safe and sound.
"Hi, mom." Judy said sweetly and near-tearfully, while holding with her paw from Bonnie's left shoulder and looking at her mother's eyes, as Bonnie stood in silent and surprised by the shock after recognizing her daughter she believed to be dead/lost to the sea.
And before Bonnie was able to react in any way to the sight of her daughter due to her surporised state, Judy took the opportunity and wrapped her arms around of her mother's neck as she plunged forwards to embrace her mother after being several months departed from each others.
Still a little surprised, but extremely relieved and happy of seeing her daughter Judy still alive, Bonnie immediately wrapped her arms thightly around of her daughter into the tight hug... and not willing to ever again to let go of her daughter.
And after recognizing the bunny standing behind of Bonnie as Judy, the entire bunny family of Hawkins cheered loudly with joy after seeing their big- and little-sister/sister-in-law/niece/aunt again and the entire Hawkins family rushed around of Judy and Bonnie, surrounding the happily reunited mother and daughter into the massive family hug, much to Bonnie's and Judy's delight.
Judy and Bonnie then broke their hug, but they still hold each others by the hands while looking for each others.
"I'm home, mom." Judy said with the gentle smile.
"And you stay in home, young lady. Because your mother is not going to let you go to another adventure on the seas very soon." Bonnie said.
Judy chuckled and hugged her mother yet again.
Bonnie answered to her hug by hugging her as well.
"You do not even need to deny it from me, mother. Because right now, I'm not leaving very soon from home again," She said.
Hearing this, Bonnie thightened her arms around of her to home returned daughter, as the couple of tears escaped from her closed eyes and ran downwards along her cheeck.
"I've missed you so much, Judy." Bonnie whispered motherly into her daughter's ear.
"And I've missed you too, mother." Judy whispered back.
"Aaw!" The entire Hawkins family said in unison, while looking from aside this emotional reunion between of their beloved mother/grandmother/mother-in-law and big- and little-sister/sister-in-law/niece/aunt.
"I've missed you too! I've missed you too!" Flint mimicked Judy's words, as the monkey jumed to Judy's shoulder, much to Bonnie's surprise.
Flint then jumped on Bonnie's shoulder and the first act the monkey did in the first meet with Judy's mother, was to nuzzle his head against hers.
Though Bonnie was a bit surprised about the monkey's sudden appearance to the scene, she quickly get used to the monkey's presence and reacted to Flint's nuzzled by tickling the monkey.
Judy chuckled at this sight playfully.
And then, Flint jumped off from Bonnie's shoulder bak to Judy and Judy grapped the monkey into her arms.
"Mother, and everybody! I would like to introduce to you my new friend and a new family member, Captain Flint."
Everybody around of her gasped loudly after hearing this.
Of course all of them, not only Judy alone, had at some point in their lives heard the stories about the legendary and famous pirate captain Nathaniel Flint, but they never thought of him to be a monkey in Judy's arms!
Judy of course noticed this in her family members's faces and rolled her eyes to their mistaken belief.
"Long story." Was Judy's only response to their dumbfounded or questioning expressions on their faces.
And then showed himself to the bunny family as the handsome-looking yak than to the island marooned naked cuckoo having lost his mind.
"Hi, Juicy!" Ben called her, and getting every rabbit's attention in the Hawkins family in the process.
During of the home trip, Ben had finally took some bath to clean his dirty and smelly fur.
Ben had also finally got his large and dirty fly-filled hair showered, but he had stubbornly refused to have the hair cut for himself.
Ben had also finally got some outfits for himself, because Judy had severely forbidding him to leave the ship at the dock at her home port without any clothes.
The sight would not be beautiful... and it would make her to be ashamed of her yak friend's behalf the rest of her life.
Ben did not seemed to feel it awkward that every body was dumbfoundedly staring at him, with the one question in their minds...
"Who's this guy?"
"So, Juicy, this is the Hawkins family you told to Old Ben during the home trip?" Ben eventually said.
Judy nodded at Ben as the yak walked relaxed through of the bunnies, until the yak arrived next to her and Bonnie.
And once in middle of all these bunies with Judy and Bonnie, Ben kneeled down and extended his hand at a bit hesitanting Bonnie.
"Very nice to meet you, Mrs. Hawkins. Name is Old Ben but to you just Ben." Ben introduced himself, grabbing from Bonnie's paw and shaking it as greetings.
Bonnie could not help but only to hesitatingly nod to the yak.
And after the shaking the paw and hand with the yak, Bonnie turned at Judy, with the expression on her face of demanding some answers of all of this... especially about the presence of the monkey called Captain Flint and Ben's presence.
Judy's entire family, in fact, followed Bonnie's example and everybody's questions asking and answers demanding expressions were locked at Judy, who a bit annoyed and awkwardly looked all around of her.
"Another long story, mother. I'll explain all of this to all of you later. In fact, I have a really long story to tell you." Judy said to her entire family.
But a first, I have something to show to all you, who probably still believes my voyage to be only wasted trip. Especially you, mother. Judy said, before she gestured Flint to climb off her arms to top of her shoulder, so that she would be able to take the fat bag from hanging on her back.
And after ensuring that no one, except the massive family of bunnies, one monkey and one yak, was trying to peep their doings, Judy secretly opened her bag and showed its content at first to her mother.
At Judy's suggestion, Bonnie took at first the look to inside of Judy's bag... and was immediately surprised, nearly in the edge to faint out of sudden surprise, after finding out that Judy's bag was full of gold coins, gold nuggets and gold bars, variety colored and sized gemstones. Among the gold and precious stones was also a variety of jewelry, such like zooztec-made rings, necklaces, bracelets, bunny-sized golden bunny-masks and zooztec grows inlaid with the gemstones...
All members of the Hawkins family peepe into the bag, leaving the amazed expression to every family member's faces after seeing the treasures in the bag.
All of them were once part of legendary pirate Captain Flint's famous trove.
"I think that we have work to do." Judy eventually said proudfully to her family, as she kept showing to her family her own share from the treasure... which she believed to be enough to pay for the rebuilding of the Bunnyburrow inn into its former glory once more.
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Nine months later
With the help of White Fang, Peter, Fabienne, Jack, some of their friends, Otters, Ben and dozens and dozens of her young men or adult brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces, sister and sister's sons and daughters from Hawkins family, Judy's family had started with the help of Judy's share of the treasure to rebuild the Bunnyburrow inn to its former glory.
Also the new governor of the Zootown, the lioness named Sarabi, who had replaced Leodore's position and title as this town's governor after he got imprisoned for his crimes, was willing to help the bunnies and their friends to rebuild what was destroyed by the pirates about less than one year ago.
And after nine months of rebuilding, the Bunnyburrow inn was finally rebuild to its former glory, except that the error was that it was this time over two times bigger than what it was back then before all of this.
The inn's backsheet was otherwise similar like the old one before it was burned down... but this time it had another house on top of it and now it had much more... maybe even more than enough... room space for the entire bunny Hawkins family and numerous friends to live.
When the reconstruction had been carried out and all those who had participated in the reconstruction of the inn and were at the moment preparing the Bunnyburrow's Inn's re-opening ceremony, Mr. Otterton decided to perpetuate the Bunnyburrow's inn's Grand Opening Ceremony for the first time in months after it was burned down.
And so, Mr. Otterton hired an skilled pig artist to paint a painting about the moment Grand Opening Ceremony and the group painting of all those members of Hawkins family and Susan's crew members, who had involved into the inn's re-building.
Also some Inn's old visitors, who had gladly helped Hawkins family to rebuild the inn, were also perpetuated into the artist's group painting.
It did not took from the pig artist long, though the couple hours, to finish his group painting about the Bunnyburrow Inn's Grand Opening Ceremony and the painting of all those who had participated in the reconstruction.
And when the Bunnyburrow Inn's Grand Opening Ceremony began, Mrs. Bonnie Hawkins was the only one of all of the mammals in the presence, who was granted the honor to cut the red ribbon in front of the Bunnyburrow Inn's doors in honor of the completion of the inn's reconstruction and opening ceremony...
...and especially in honor of Bonnie's beloved daughter Judy Hawkins, who was at the moment training in Zoongland Naval Academy to be one day officially part of the imperal armada of his majesty the king.
Before Judy was accepted to the academy with the captain Susan's help and before she joined the academy to be trained as Zoongland's navy's soldier, and maybe even one day an high-ranking officer in Zoongland's armada for several following months away from home again, she had spend first two-three months with her family and her friends by participating in the reconstruction of Bunnyburrow inn so far as she was able.
And, Judy had also spend time with her dozens and dozens of nephews, nieces, sister's sons and sister's daughters by telling them every night about her the greatest adventure of her life while searching for the legendary pirate captain Nathaniel Flint's legendary long-lost treasure... from the very first moment, when she found the map and to the end of her home trip.
Her storytelling time also attracted even young adult and fully adult family members to gather around Judy to listen her story.
Judy also shoved to her nephews, nieces, sister's sons and sister's daughters the Captain Flint's logbook - which she had saved from the destruction by eventually taking it into her possession from Flint's skeletal remains back in his treasure trove - as an last evidence about Captain Flint, from which she read Flint's a legendary life story to her nephews, nieces, sister's sons and sister's daughters... even to entire Hawkins family...
...and while reading, she also revealed to her family Natahniel Flint's real name, Nathaniel Hawkins, and all of theirs own family roots associated with the legendary pirate as well as Flint's last testament to his future generations in between of the pages of his logbook... and his last statement that his whole treasure belonged to the family of Hawkins.
While the kids were amazed of this, as well as some in young adulthood members of Hawkins family, majority of the entire family interpreted this only merely the sailor story, which they believed Judy having invented during of her time at the sea.
However, Judy didn't care about that. She had herself found out the trust and she was okay with it.
And once the ribbon was cut in half, all the mammals in the presence cheered up for their long-lasted but eventual completion of the Bunnyburrrow inn's reconstruction, and ended up to clab their paws and hands for Mrs. Bonnie Hawkins... as well as some sailors raised their wooden beer mug into the air in honor of the successful opening ceremony of the re-build Bunnyburrow inn.
Later on that night
And, on that night... because the completion of the inn's reconstruction had happened to end to that day when Judy's training in Zoongland Naval Academy had finally come to its end and that Judy was about to return back to home for graduation ceremony, which was by her request about to carry out in her re-build home, Bonnie, dressed into the beautiful purple party dress, had decided to arrange a big parties in the Bunnyburrow inn... one more time in honor of the completion of the inn's reconstruction... but mostly in the honor of her little Judy's return from Academy.
The entire Hawkins family, as well as all the family friends and all the old visitors were invited to the party.
Though both Judy and Bonnie had spend most of Judy's share of the treasure to the tools and building needs to rebuild their inn and home back to its former glory, they still had enough money left over to buy some cozy interior for their home and the some furniture for the inn itself...
...as well as the finest festive foods full of the tables in the main room of the Inn.
And they were such of fantastic festivals that have not been seen for a long time in the family of Hawkins.
The air space of the main room was filled by the happy laughter and conversation between of the visitors, as Susan's crew members were telling to their families and to their friends and other visitors about their adventure to the Treasure Tropolis... which they had promised to Judy to save only for the day when she was about to graduate from the academy.
Ben, who was now living and working as cook in Bunnyburrow inn, was at the moment in the main room of the of the inn serving the visitors, especially to the bunny girls, by bringing for them out of the kitchen the extremely tasteful carrot cakes.
Ben then paid the visit with Otterton and Susan, who were also took the part of this celebration.
Captain Susan herself had dressed into her the finest high-ranking naval officer's red-golden uniform with the black tricorn officer hat with the white plumes. She had said to have used it on her in the past, during of her own graduation ceremony from the Zoongland Naval Academy.
Mr. Otterton had also dressed into his finest clothes he had bought with his own share about the treasure.
The otters had more than just happy smile on their faces, but not only because of these happy festivals... but because of the things they were holding in their arms during the whole celebrations.
Ben looked down at their arms, and much to his amazement and joy, Ben realized that Susan and Otterton had brough the little baby otters into the celebrations.
And these little ones were not any baby otters, but they were Otterton's and Susan's own a few months old baby otters.
This revealed that very soon as Zoopaniola had arrived back to Zoontown's harbor, both Otterton and Susan had started to date with each others first time for the years since their separation.
And after one or couple month of dating, Otterton had eventually asked Susan to marry him with a golden wedding ring, in which was a pure white diamond from his own share of the treasure, which he has ordered goldsmith to make for Susan as soon as he had paid all his debts.
Susan was more than willing to accept Otterton's proposal, and these two love-bird otters had got married, which they had arranged with their own share about the treasure... and to which the Hawkins family, especially Bonnie and Judy, had been invited as a guest of honor.
And shortly after they got married, Otterton had bought a huge and beautiful mansion with the remaining of his share of the treasure from the Zootown, gifting his old house for Judy and Bonnie for while until their own Bunnyburrow home and Inn was once again re-build back into its former glory.
And shortly after that, Susan eventually got pregnant to Otterton and a few months later, she gave birth to three adorable little female otters, whose looked just like their mother... as welll as one boy otter, who strongly resembled his father.
Otterton held three female otters on his arms while Susan held in her arms their son, removing the hood over of his head and giving her son the motherly kiss to head.
Ben was so touched after he saw the little baby otter boy letting out the adorable yawn, before the little sweetheart opened his eyes.
"Awww... let Old Uncle Ben to look at you... awww, you four are so adorable, tui, tui, tui, you little ones. Old Ben has not seen anything so adorable in decades like the little sweet babies who bear similarity to their parents." Old Ben said as he playfully tickled Otterton's girl babies.
Suddenly, the inn's doors were pushed open and the handful of town's soldiers stepped inside of the main room pof the inn.
The soldiers arrived so surprisingly and unexpectedly that their arrival alarmed everyone in the room... especially the Hawkins family.
Much to Bonnie's shock, the entrance of these soldiers seemed too familiar to her.
Because always when the inn's doors were pushed open like that by the guards, the guards - plus Leodore with them and with angered look in his faces in every time - were most likely returning for hooliganism arrested Judy to her and were about to scold her for her daughter's hooliganism in the town.
"Oh, please! Not again, Judy! What have you done now?" Bonnie whispered to herself deeply worrying about the soon-revealing fact that was Judy once again fell under such of hooliganism behaviors... and now in the Zoongland Naval Academy, where they had their own harsh punishments for irresponsible and disobedient ones...
...just like Judy was back then before all of this.
But, however, much to Bonnie's and everybody's shock, relief and joy...
The soldiers made away open for the Governor Sarabi, who had dressed into a solemn, golden-brown and strapless dress, which was decorated with african symbols of nature. The lioness wwith the gentle smile on her faces stepped inside of the inn with the intention to join the party, and alongside with her was Judy Hawkins herself...
...and the young doe had dressed into the finests blue uniform of the high-ranking naval officer of Armada of his majesty the king.
Everybody in the main room started to clab their paws and hands as Sarabi and Judy walked in the middle of the main room.
Half way through the walk, Judy was about to pass her mother, until the young doe decided to stop for briefly and meet her mother face to face.
Both of them were unable to say a word to each others.
However, Bonnie's eyes went teary as she looked at her handsomely dressed daughter into her amethyst eyes.
And then, Bonnie took gently with her paws from her daughter's cheeks, pulled her a bit downwards to her and placed the kiss to her daughter's forehead.
"Awww..." Ben said, touched by this mother and daughter moment.
"Mom, not in the front of the crowd!" Judy complained a little bit embarrassed, but Bonnie didn't care.
"Sorry sweetie, I know that that feels a little embarrassing you in a public place..." Bonnie said as she let go of Judy's cheeks.
"But I wanted to my daughter to know that after everything you have done for our entire family and to yourself, your mother is so, so, so proud of her... more prouder of her daughter than ever before." Bonnie proudly and with the teary smile declared to her daughter.
And after Judy and Sarabi hand reached to the middle of the main room, governor's guards handed to Sarabi the golden badge of the officers of Armada of his majesty the king with the white star - which happened to be the badge, which was usually granted only for the most high-levelled cadets of the academy.
Amazed of this, Judy took her straight and disciplined position as Sarabi, with the prideful smile, placed the badge on Judy's chest.
"My congratulations, Judy Hawkins. You have done well and successfully completed your training at the Zoogland Naval academy in imperial armada of his majesty the king. We have considered twice your hard working and your every performance in each academy's a lot demanding and challenging training program. And with your best ratings, we have come to the conclusion, it is an honor and pleasure for me to inform all the guest in the presence, that I proudly welcome you, Judy Hawkins, as first and high-ranking bunny officer, into armada of his majesty the king. My congratulations, yet again, dear one." Sarabi declared proudly to all in the presence.
Then a loud cheerings from the guests and Hawkins family members took over the air space of the main room, before they were followed by the hundreds of congratulating clappings of paws and hands, during of which, Sarabi and Judy shook their paws with each others, while the imperal soldiers around of Sarabi saluted to their a new high-ranking naval officer.
Judy then turned to look at her cheering and clapping family members with the pride… and from all of them, her mother was more than only just proud of her daughter.
Bonnie smiled proudly at Judy, and Judy smiled sweetly back to her mother.
Judy also looked around of her and smiled to the reality.
She was no longer hated and undisciplined hooligan and a walking disaster she once was.
She was completely mentally and physically changed and different bunny...
...and she was even no longer mentally burdened by the sudden departure of her own father, now when she either knew or guessed her father's reason to it.
She was now in a new high-ranking position in Zoongland's imperal armada of his majesty the king.
Her mother was no longer burdened by the everyday's difficulties, money problems nor her own past-hooliganism.
And the best of all... All things messed by her past hooliganism and the burdening everyday difficulties were now fixed and the life was smiling to the Hawkins family once more.
These things - to become much more better person from reckless hooligan and wanting to redeem herself in her mother's eyes by setting the things right - were the ones of what Judy was after since she found the mysterious map which led to the Treasure Tropolis.
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One Week Later
One week later, there was about to happen the musical concert performance in Zootown's square, to where entire Zootown's population gathered together.
And there, on the stony platform surrounded by the hawaiian torches, was standing eight slender and beautiful tigress fire-dancers and the band of the tiger musicians.
And with them, was standing the super beautiful, young and slender golden-furred Hawaiian girl named Gazelle, dressed into red Hawaiian hula-dancing dress.
She was a moving concert company in the entire area of the Caribbean sea... and now, she had ended to this seaport to performance to carry out one of her famous musical performances.
And once the day turned into the bright night and nearly every mammal of this entire seaport had gathered to the square.
And when the music started, the tigress fire-dancers started along with the music's rhythm to performance their fire-danger skills by twirling couple of long wooden stick with their flaming ends in their paws... either one in each paw or both sticks at the same time in front of them.
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
"Good evening, Zootown." Gazelle greeted to the cheering crowd.
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
"Come on, everybody. Put your paws up!" Gazelle suggested.
Following this, the entire townpeople, especially the large number of bunnies in front of the corwd, cheered at Gazelle as she started to dance in middle of the platform in the middle of tigress fire-dangers who started to follow Gazelle's dancing rhythm, despite performing their fire-dancing and their skills with the use of the torches.
And then, Gazelle started to both sing and dance with hula-style under the bright night and in the middle of her tigress fire-dancers.
I started being a loser
And it was not a wonder
I hardly even believed the life may smile at me
But how did things turn
We'll tell you that soon
And that's why we're here dancing all under the moon
Hold on to your dream
if you even have one such
You've to work for it, if it means to you so much
As I did so
Take for yourself your very own course
And let it lead you to your golden future
Don't ever be afraid though you have to…
Face some pirates, arr!
Until the vicious maelstrom
Face them with the gourage
Never give up for cowardice
Or else you will never become the man
Oh oh oh oh
Follow your dreams
Oh oh oh oh
Sail on the seas
Oh oh oh oh
Find all those riches
Oh oh oh oh
During of this concert performance, Bonnie went through her entire family to see if every member of her family were in one place.
However, she soon realized that one was missing, who was none else thyan Judy herself.
Believing that she had either passed her without even noticing her, Bonnie searched with her eyes her daughter from among of the rest of her family, but Judy was nowhere to be seen among her family, much to Bonnie's confusion.
"Where that young lady now went?" Bonnie asked from herself...
...before she turned back to Gazelle, who had paused her song for a minute, but not her dancing.
And neither were the tigress.
"Now everybody! Let's greeted to the platform our little reformed adventurer and creator of this song…" Gazelle informed...
...as four of her fire-dancers suddenly put their torches down and gathered together to one place, where they poured majority of their their hula-dresses skirts with their paws in the middle of them.
"...JUDY HAWKINS." Gazelle declared, which was followed by the tigress dancers to pull their hula-dresses back and reveal JUDY HAWKINS appearing out of nowhere to the place, where was a moment ago empty air before the fire-dancers and poured most of their together in middle of them.
In fact, after her graduation ceremony, Judy was the one who somehow asked Gazelle to perform her next concert opportunity tonight in Town square... with the song she had herself written for Gazelle to perform in tonight's opportunity... using her former hooligan self, her adventure and her a new redeemed self as the keynote for her song.
The cheering, especially among of bunnies and Judy's friends (Ben, Flint, Otterton, Susan and her remaining crew members from the voyage,) started to get louder as Judy appeared out of nowhere to the platform, dressed into the similar Hawaiian dancer's hula-outfit as Gazelle.
With the only exception that her hula-dress was even golden and as shiny as Gazelle's own.
Judy had even the golden flowed behind of her left ear and he has the golden hawaiian lei hanging on her neck.
Judy curtsy to the crowd, as Gazelle started her speech.
"As some of you already know, our little adventurer bunny, who had just redeemed herself from her hooliganism self in front of the entire townpeople, claims that she had found on her greatest adventure on the sea the legendary pirate, Captain Nathaniel Flint's famous, legendary and long-lost treasure with the riches beyond of the imagination. Most of you in the crowd must say, "yeah, right" with disbelief. But the stories about those riches beyond the imagination were after all truth. There's not much evidence left about those riches existence, but the treasure is the main reason why Judy Hawkins and her mother's down burned Bunnyburrow Inn is standing once again in its former glory, but now only two times bigger and more princely than what it was before. So, let's everybody welcome Judy Hawkins to sing and dance with me on my dance platform. Now… Everybody cheer! Everybody dance! Everybody sing!" Gazelle declared.
All bunnies and most of other mammals cheered up for Judy and the mammals started dance around of the platform.
Judy also started to dance with hula-style alongside Gazelle on the platform, following Gazelle's rhythm, and sing the song what Gazelle was singing few minutes ago.
I went in search of riches
Far, far, far behind of sea miles
I found it but also something more precious
It's not all world's gold
Nor even colored gemstones
But something filled with love in everyone's chest
Judy and Gazelle then started to sing the same song… together, while dancing... together
Hold on to your dream
if you even have one such
You've to work for it, if it means to you so much
As I did so
Take yourself your own course
And let it lead you to your golden future
Don't ever be afraid though you have to…
Face some pirates, arr!
Until the vicious maelstrom
Face them with the gourage
Never give up for cowardice
Or else you will never become the man
Believe in your dreams and they'll always come true
Believe in my words and you'll see it for sure
Every word is true
Oh oh oh oh
Follow your dreams
Oh oh oh oh
Sail on the seas
Oh oh oh oh
Find all those riches
Oh oh oh oh
"Every bunny dance with me, come on!" Judy shouted, smilling at the crowd.
Suddenly, some of her big and little brothers and sisters, as well as some of her nephews, nieces, sister's sons and sister's daughters, jumped on the platform to happily join her dance.
So did even her mother, much to Judy's surprise but was quickly okay with it, as Bonnie stood next to her daughter and began to dance with her.
And so did Otterton and Susan (after leaving their children under Flint's guard) Ben, Fabienne, Peter, Jack, White Fang with their wifes (And White Fang's husband), children, brothers and parents. All of them were more than just willing to dance alongside Judy and Gazelle on the platform.
And all of them kept dancing and singing all together.
Believe in your dreams and they'll always come true
Believe in my words and you'll see it for sure
Every word is true
However, not all in the crowd enjoyed of following this performance.
"BOO! BOO! YOUR DANCING AND SONG IS SOOOO LAME! GO HOME! ALL OF YOU! ESPECIALLY YOU, YOU ACCURSED BUNNY BRAT! GO HOME! BOO! BOO!" Leodore growled loudly from his prison wagons's window-hole with the bars, much to everyone's in the crowd annoyance.
Even the big SHHH from everybody near of Leodore's prison wagons targeted at him wasn't helpful, because Leodore stubbornly ignored all of it and kept doing his loud and annoying protest against Judy's and Gazelle's common performance.
Suddenly, the same old tiger sailor Claw had enough of this and threw with his full force his bottle of rum towards to lion's nose and the bottle was shattered against the wagons window-holes bars, throwing the rum to Leodore's eyes and the sharp pieces of the glass bottle to his faces.
Leodore roared in pain, after feeling the poignant rum in his eyes and the sharp pieces of glass slicing the small wounds to his nose.
"SHUT UP BACK THERE!" Claw growled to the lion before turning back to watch and enjoy Judy and her family's and friends, Gazelle and everyone's dance.
As they all kept still singing the song.
Oh oh oh oh
Follow your dreams
Oh oh oh oh
Sail on the seas
Oh oh oh oh
Find all those riches
Oh oh oh oh
Judy and Gazelle then went still dancing very next of each other, while the fire-dancing tigress eventually stopped their dance and half of them surrounded both of them from every corner, only letting the crowd before of all of them to see them to finish their song.
And before the last lines of their song, two of them lifted both Judy and Gazelle on their arms from the platform.
Gazelle was simply sitting on the tigress biceps, and the tigress seemed to have no trouble keeping her arm up while Gazelle was sitting on it, due to the fact, that Gazelle happened to be the light as feather.
And same with Judy, as she was simply standing on the arm of another tigress fire-dancer.
And they were both held in the air on the level that their heads were on the same level with each others.
And then they finished their song with the very last line... which they sang together.
Follow your dreams…
The cheering just grow louder among the crowd up to the bright blue night sky filled with the bright stars around of the dancers.
Judy watched from the tigress arm down to the crowd as most of them, if not all, cheered and clapped at all of them with joy and happiness.
Judy was more than just happy right now.
She of course remembered those many times when most of these mammas had instead of those long-waited happy faces shouted angrily and roughly, scolded and even threatened her due of her sometimes accidents and sometimes hooliganism tricks to all of them before her first character-building voyage on the seas.
Now, they looked at her with the full trust and happiness.
And then, Judy went completely silent.
Even among of all of this happiness all around of her...
...and even though she also smiled out of happiness of all of this...
...inside of her, she felt a bit sadness due to one certain fox pirate, Who had his own small but very instructive part to all of this, wasn't in presence.
Judy guessed in her mind that maybe without that certain fox pirates life advice he taught to her during of the voyage after that vicious maelstrom, nothing of this would have never happen.
And without that anybody saw, Judy raised her head to the sky to see how the tiny clouds had gathered to the sky above of her home island.
And then, the clouds either formed so that they looked like Wilder's head and face, or then Judy just imagines them doing so, to the sky.
Wilder's cloudy form "kind of" smiled down at her and winked his left eye as the bright star gleamed on the place of Wilder's left eye.
Judy smiled back of this cloudy form of Wilder, before the clouds eventually lost their shape and Wilder's cloud form vanished into the sky.
Though Judy missed this fox pirate and she had no idea that where he was at the moment or was he still alive or dead, Judy at least knew that Wilder will be always somehow watching her. And that he's always gonna be there for her, especially when she need him and his advices in life.
And, in fact, Judy also realized that captain Flint's trove, hidden in the center of the volcano back in the Treasure Tropolis, symbolizes something very important.
It symbolized that that the REAL treasure is not merely hidden gold or precious stones, at least the pirates particularly believe so, but the real treasure is hidden within everybody's chest with all those feelings; loyalty, trust, respect, care, friendship and even love and so on.
And it seems that she had learned well this lesson about the treasures.
"Thank you, great-great-great-grandpapa. And thank you too, Wilder... for everything." Judy whispered up to the sky with the happy smile on her lips.
THE END