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Disclaimer:
I do not own Harvest Moon, or any of it's characters, their respective owners do.. etc, blah,blah,blah. Same routine for everyone.

Stuff About Me:
This is my first FanFic. And I hope that all of you will enjoy it. C'Ya!

Rating: PG (May Contain Dialogues,Etc. That May Offend Certain Audiences)

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Harvest Moon BTN: [Gray's Revenge]

Chapter 5, Spring : [The Shack]

"Mayor, They have a point. What can we do against a multi-national Industry?" Karen asked.

"I know..." Nate said as he dashed off.

"Where is he going?" the Mayor pondered.

"Oh wait! Didn't he have business with Jack?" Ann asked the mayor.

"That's right! I almost forgot!" Karen added.

Mayot Thomas thought for a moment and asked Popuri,

"Popuri, you know who the visitor is right?"

Popuri nodded, and asked in return,

"What for?"

The mayor answered, "Could you go with Ann & Mary in finding him?"

"Sure!" Popuri said with delight. "We'll find him!"

And Popuri ran off without waiting for Mary and Ann.

"Hmm... I wonder where he could be?" Popuri pondered. "I know! He's probably at the Inn!"

And she walked to the Inn, to find out that the only person there was Cliff.

"Cliff, do you know where the visitor is?" Popuri asked sweetly.

"I'm not sure, We haven't really gotten to know each other."

"Oh, Okee! See you!" Popuri said as she left the Inn.

Popuri continued to search, not knowing that Nate had gotten lost again in Mineral Town
(Kinda makes you wonder how anyone could get lost in Mineral Town, doesn't it?)

Well, it was 6:30 and Nate was wandering through the area when he got to the hot springs. He got tired from wandering and decided to rest up a bit.

"Whew! Getting lost isn't easy. I'm beat!" Nate said to himself. "I have to get back to the Inn so I can call 'VM' and tell him the situation. Buy I'm so lost here! Plus the fact that it's nightfall. How am I gonna get back? What a dilemma, good thing I found this hot spring."

When he finished dressing, he noticed the pond. He looked into the crystal clear water, he said,

"Wow! What a pond!"

Reaching into his wallet, he took a coin and made a wish. Then he threw the coin into the water. He was shocked at what he saw rise from the water, The Spring goddess!

"Whoa! What the hell?!" Nate shouted as he fell back,

"Oh, a newcomer! It seems that you haven't heard of me, have you?" asked the Spring goddess.

Nate nodded and asked,

"Who or what are you?"

The goddess answered him, "Well, I'm called the Spring goddess. "

"S-sp-spring G-goddess?!" he stuttered.

"Yup, and now, I have a question for you."

"What is it?" Nate asked.

"Do you have a sweetheart in this town?"

"What?!" he answered.

"Do you have a sweetheart in the town or not?" the goddess asked again.

"Well..." he shyly answered "I guess..."

"Oh.. I see.. Well, See you!" the goddess said.

"B-but what was that for?" Nate asked, but the goddess had gone.

"Wow! That was so amazing!" shouted Popuri as she ran towards the spring.

"Huh?! Who's there?!" Nate asked.

"Hello, My name is Popuri. And you must be our visitor."

"My name is Nate. And it's nice to meet you Popuri."

Nate had been caught by Popuri's lovely pink hair. And he couldn't help but stare.

"Hello? Anyone home?" Popuri asked him waving her hands in front of his eyes.

"Huh? Oh.. sorry.. hehe.."

Popuri giggled and said, "You're weird, but funny!"

"I'll take that as a compliment."

"Oh, anyway, the mayor asked me to find you. He wanted me to remind you that you were supposed to talk with Jack." Popuri told him.

"I forgot about that! Thank you very much Ms. Popuri."

Popuri giggled again and said, "You're the first to call me 'Ms.'"

"I am? Well anyway, Could you help me get back to Jack's place? I got lost."

"Oh sure! It's not that far from here. I'll show you." Popuri said as she took his hand and practically dragged him to Jack's farm. Fortunately for Nate, It wasn't too far.

Slightly dirty, and a little hurt, Nate said, "Thank you again Ms. Popuri. You've helped me a lot."

"It's alright!" Popuri said with a smile. "By the way, I live nearby. At the poultry farm, just in case you want to visit!"

"I'll look forward to it. Goodbye!"

Nate knocked on the door and soon enough, Jack opened the door.

"Are you the one, who came to visit me?" Jack asked him.

"Yes, And I'm here for business."

"I'm not gonna sell my farm! And that's that!" Jack shouted.

"No, I'm not here to buy your farm. I'm here to warn you that you shouldn't sell the farm."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Jack asked.

Nate took a long breath and said, "I'm a representative of the McLaren Corporation. And I'm here to warn that the IIInc. is after your farm as well as the town itself. I want to help you, but once IIInc. finds out that I'm here, the whole town could be in danger."

"What kind of danger?"

"Who knows, All I know now is that the town could be very dangerous place If I'm discovered here."

The door of Jack's house is kicked down as 3 men in strange suits barged in.

"Nate, you must be the intelligence agent of McLaren Corps!" one of the men exclaimed.

"Uh oh, I was afraid of this."

"Kill him!" the leader said.

The 3 men were unarmed but thay had the fighting skills that were amazing. The first man tried to tackle Nate, but Nate backflipped and kicked him towards the oven. The second tried to grab Nate, he took his one arm.

But Nate flipped once again and tossed him outside. The crashing glass was heard by many townspeople, so they rushed to Jack's house to see what the commotion was about.

"What was that?" Rick asked.

"I don't know, I think it came from Jack's house!" Popuri gasped.

"Let's go there!" Rick said as they left their house.

The leader perceived this and got away with his 2 comrades. Jack was hurt and bleeding from the shrapnel, Nate tried to help him but the townspeople arrived.

"What's going on?!" Karen asked.

"Some men came in and attacked us..." Nate tried to explain.

"There doesn't seem to be anyone else here." Popuri said.

"You're probably the one who attacked Jack!" Rick shouted.

"Me?!" Nate asked.

"You can't get away from all of us!" shouted Gotz.

But before Nate could explain any further, they locked him in Kai's shack.

"This sucks." Nate thought, "How the hell could this happen?!"

But as he was thinking, he heard someone trying to unlock the door. Then he heard a 'click' and the door opened.

Nate tried to see who helped him out, but the person just ran. He or she was wearing a cloak to conceal his/her identity. But nevertheless, he was happy to get out of the shack.

"What kind of a shack was that? What does it serve? Pizza?" Nate pondered as he tried to get to the inn.

After a little bit of wandering, Nate climbed through the window and grabbed his stuff. But on his way out, he was caught by someone...

"Where do you think you're going?"


[Chapter 5 is finished! Hurrah!]
[So please R&R!]