Chapter Seventeen: The Forest

When the group got up, they all smelled something wrong. There was something burning! Bubbles turned to see that all of their supplies had been sabotaged, and there was no food or supplies left.

"What happened?" Bubbles asked.

"All of our supplies have been sabotaged, and there is no food or supplies left." Thorninyuras said.

"Someone must have been watching us!" Gandork said. "We must go as far as we can into the forest, and hope that the sabotagers will not follow us." So the group started off into the forest. As soon as they went in, Bubbles knew instantly it had been a mistake. Gandork, however, led them on. The brush was dense, and the air smelt like the gas of three hundred year old Dworcs. Bubbles took out Biter and looked around, having the strange feeling that something bad was about to happen. Pretty soon, something bad happened. White stuff was falling from the trees, and Bubbles knew that it was not snow.

"Oh crap." Thorninyuras said.

"Yes, that is exactly what it is. Bird Crap. We are being watched. We must leave to the Swamps of the Storks!" Gandork said, starting to run to the Swamps of the Storks. Bubbles, making sure that the white stuff did not get on his armor, ran as fast as he had ever ran before. After a very long run, they finally made it to the swamp. Bubbles was immediately disgusted. The air was nearly as green as the ground, and the air smelled, well, bad. Really bad. Gandork, however, was not discouraged. He shook his staff a few times, and a few air refreshers came and floated above the group.

"I have a bad feeling about this." Beefy said. At that moment, some unidentified snake looking thing pulled up from the swamp and pulled Buffy down.

"What was that?" Bubbles asked. Thorninyuras looked like he was about to say something, but he reconsidered. After a small search, they found Buffy.

"What was that?" Buffy said.

"I have a bad feeling about this." Gandork said. "I knew it! We never should have came here! The storks live here!"

"YOU MEAN YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT STORKS LIVE IN THE SWAMP OF THE STORKS!?!?" Bubbles exclaimed and asked.

"What are so bad about Storks?" Thorninyuras asked.

"None of your freakin business." Gandork said. So the group went on, and Gandork kept looking around, obviously worried at the Storks. Suddenly, before you could blink and eye, a few storks came down and picked up each Dworc, including Bubbles and Gandork. Then the entire Group got knocked out from the smell.

When Bubbles woke up, the smell was gone. Bubbles, however, had worse worries. Why had Storks kidnapped them? The rest of the group was still knocked out, and Bubbles looked out. They were on a black tower, where everything else was white and sky blue, except the storks flying around,

"Delivering Babies!" Bubbles said. "That's why they are mad at Gandork, he put them out of business!" After a long and boring wait, the rest of the group woke up. Gandork was sitting, trying to think of an idea on how to get off. Bubbles then got a great idea.

"Gandork, die!" Bubbles said.

"What did you tell me to do?" Gandork said angrily.

"Die, Gandork!" Bubbles said.

"You know what I would do to your if I had my staff?" Gandork said.

"Die, and get the Vultures to save us!" Bubbles said.

"Ohhhh, I understand." Thorninyuras said. "He dies, he comes back, and he gets the Vultures to save us."

"How do I die?" Gandork asked, pacing around the tower.

"Like this." Bubbles said, pushing Gandork off the tower.

"See you later!" Gandork shouted. After about two minutes, Bubbles heard a loud but obvious splat.

"That must have hurt." Bubbles said. After about half a day, Bubbles heard something. The Vultures had come! Bubbles woke up all of the Dworcs and showed them the Vultures.

"The Vultures are coming! The Vultures are coming! The Vultures are coming! The Vultures are coming! The Vultures are coming! The Vultures are coming! The Vultures are coming! The Vultures are coming! The Vultures are coming! The Vultures are coming! The Vultures are coming!" They shouted. They got in a big fight (Where the Vultures and Dworcs obviously won) and the Vultures picked up the Group.

"We must go to their palace! That is where they must have our supplies." Gandork said. So the Vultures picked up the group and started to fly.

"What's that?" Bubbles asked after a long flight, pointing to a large, white house on a chimney.

"The Stork Palace! Fly!" Gandork said.

"We are." Bubble's Vulture said. After a long flight they made it to the palace.

"We must go in silently." Gandork said.

"You think?" Bubbles said.

"Yeah." Gandork said. The Vultures stayed outside when the group went in "Silently". Bubbles looked around. It seemed as though the storks competed on delivering babies. Gandork's name was written in graffiti all over the wall, but it stuff like "Gandork sucks." And "Kill the Wizard."

"You have come at last." Said a voice.

"Meeshendrun*!" Gandork said. "The boss stork." He added, reading the footnote.

"Yes, and as you can see, you are not very welcome." Meeshendrun said.

"Like we care." Thorninyuras mumbled under his breath.

"Boys." Meeshendrun said, and all of the statues (That I forgot to mention) came to life.

"This is unfair! We don't have weapons." Gandork said.

"We don't have motorcycles!" Meeshendrun said.

"What does that have to do with all of this?" Gandork said.

"Kill him!" Meeshendrun said. All of the Vultures then came in and killed all of the Storks. except Meeshendrun. Gandork, now having his staff, shot him a few times with a silver, 22mm bullet. Meeshendrun got hit, but didn't get hurt.

"Why won't you die?" Gandork said.

"Why won't you die?" Meeshendrun said.

"What?" Gandork said.

"What?" Meeshendrun said.

"Stop that."

"Stop that."

"I'll kill you!"

"I'll kill you!" Bubbles, now tired of this conversation, pulled out Biter (Which he had hidden in his underwear) and slit Meeshendrun's neck.

"Man, he sounded like a broken record." Gandork said.

"That's exactly what he was. A broken record." Bubbles said, pulling out the record. Anyways, they picked out their stuff and the Vultures picked up the group and they started flying.

"Thank you, thank you." Bubbles said to all of the Vultures after they drop him off at Habiting. The rest of the group also thanked them, but not sincerely. All of the Vultures then flew off.

"And thank you, Gandork and the rest of you." Bubbles said. "It is nearly time to say good bye to your goodluck charm." Bubbles said. You can see how Bubbles has changed! At the beginning of this book he not have thanked them even if he did get paid.

"Wait a second! Why did you need a goodluck charm? You had fourteen people already!" Bubbles finally noticed.

"Gandork." Thorninyuras said.

"Man, I always forget to count myself!" Gandork said. After a long and boring talk, the group decided they had to leave.

"We may come and visit sometime!" Thorninyuras said. Bubbles then walked to his house, where he found a surprise.

"This cave has been confiscated by the government for all purposes, including rock climbing." Bubbles read from the notice on the door.

"We'll see about that." Bubbles said, fingering the Flower in his pocket.

* The boss stork