Hoo-Boy...Did I say the last two chapters I added to The Secret Ring of Honor would be the final chapters this computer uploaded? Didn't think it would take this long to even start looking for a new computer and I need to write SOMETHING, so without furthur ado...The Chapter in which the Wild Kratts reenter the story.

Meanwhile in Gotham City deep under the Iceberg Lounge, Constantine Savage, and several of his Ninjas including Naomi drop off a bound and gagged Nubs.

"My oh my!" Exclaimed the Penguin as he eximined the Mutant Rhino Calf, "He certainly does look like a prime specimen..." He pinched Nubs in various places, causing protesting squeals from Nubs and squirmed and jerked in his binds.

"I rarely get a creature as rare and exotic as this." Penguin said "Other Hunters bring me common-as-muck creatures, Dogs, Cats, Rats...Sometimes even worse Vermin like Insects!" Penguin shuddered in disgust

"Whatever." Said Constantine, he was sweating, nervous "I need this Calf gone in 24 hours or less."

"I assure that shall be the case." Penguin said "He shall be the crown jewel of the auction tonight."

Nubs could hear everything that was being said...And he was scared...So scared he wished he could die right here and be spared whatever terible fate lay in store for him.

Unbeknownst to anyone but herself...Naomi was beginning to sweat...She saw the frightened Rhino...And she felt such sympathy for him...She was beginning to realize she couldn't let this happen to him...She had to do something!

After Our Heroes awoke the next morning, Karai announced she had loacated the Wild Kratts Team, they were curently in the Canadian Wilderness...They flew overe there in a few hours...There they found the Wild Kratts seemingly languidly sitting about on a pebbled shore.

This was the First Time the Turtles got a look at the Tortuga, Don was speechless at first "How...How did you build such a thing?" He gasped

"Remember that invastion of the Triceratops Aliens?" Aviva asked "We were lucky and managed to get some of that Alien Technology to study."

There was very little time for pleasantries. Mat0oaka quickly showed them the note for the Slave Auction and Karai showed them Constatine's Ransom Note.

The Kratt Brothers sat down...Shocked when they learned the true reason behind Nubs Mutation...

"He was Mutated..."Martin said "...Turned into a Sapient Being...All to be the bait for A TRAP?!"

"Unfortunatly yes," Karai sighed "Constantine Savage is utterly ruthless...He will do whatever it takes to get what he wants...And what he wants...Is my Morning Glories."

Marzipan meanwhile, was drawing, she had been drawing pictures since they had left for Canada.

"So what's gonna happen to Nubs?" Jimmy Z asked "What do these people want a Rhino Slave for?"

"Anything a Human Slave can do and more." Marzipan said stepping forward with her many drawings, "I was a slave once...For seven years I was a slave...In my dreams last night...I remembered so many things I saw when I was a Slave Girl, at Castle Vortex...I realized what I had to do..."

She gave the Wild Kratts her drawings, they were amazingly lifelike compared to her normal drawings "Seems Great Spirit was guiding my hand today." Marzipan said bluntly

As Martin turned the pages over...More and more horrors got revealed. First was an Enormous Man, raping a Dog-Woman, while a Dog-Man holding his bleeding face said "We'll be home by Thanksgiving" Another drawing, a Crocodile-Man with a Gazelle-Woman on his right and a Raccoon-Woman on his left all hanging by their wrists, with what looked like tears of blood streaming down their faces saying "We'll be home by Christmas." A picture of a Rabbit-Girl her dress torn and like the Dog-Man holding her bleeding face and one eyes peeking through her fingers saying "We'llbe hme by Easter."

Finally a picture of something Marzipan saw late one night, she was looking out the window when all the other slaves were asleep. The graves of all the other slaves who met grisly fates on the previous pages, their ghosts were rising from their graves, and they were all looking to a strange Black Cat-Women wearing a black cloak. This was the Black Beast of Death, whoever is looking at the Black Beast sees the Black Beast as a creature of his or her own blood...What was very unusaul about this (Though the Wild Kratts had no way of knowing this at the time) Was that the Black Beast is almost always described as Male but for some reason Marzipan percieved the Black Beast as a Feamle Spirit.

When the Wild Kratts read the song in the Black Beasts Speech Balloon they seemed to also be able to hear what Marzipan heard that night, the Black Cat's haunting but not unpleasant voice singing to the Ghosts of those who had died

"Come wayward souls

Who wander through the darkness

There is a light for the lost and the mek

Sorrow and fear

Are easily forgotten

When you submit to the sol of the earth."

Martin felt two hot tears splash onto the paper, he looked at the Mutants and Humans who had come to him

"We're getting him back." Martin's voice low and dangerous "No matter what it takes."

Come Wayward Souls isn'tmine it's from Over the Garden Wall