Chapter 5: Finding the Chicks

Rocky stood looking at Mac, totally astounded. He didn't know whether to act very cautiously as Mac was looking rather evil, or to joke with her a bit. Fortunately she was the first to speak.

"I found the chicks. Fol'low me," she said blandly.

Rocky obeyed. She was very quiet as they walked. In fact didn't speak a word.

"Mac…how come you slipped that note under my door?" Rocky asked calmly.

"Wat noot?" Mac asked.

Rocky retrieved the note stuck in his feathers.

"'Don't be so ridiculous, yer cock'y cannon-shoot'ing rooster," Mac laughed. "I would never 'ave such bad spellin'. I'm me remember. Always the one to be perfect…coom up with the plan…an' be brainy. The one nobo'y no'ices. The one no'ody apprec'ates."

"Mac…we really are-"

"They're close," Mac interrupted him. "Right around this bend." Rocky followed her around the bend and saw a well. He could hear faintly something screeching.

"They're stuck down the WELL?" Rocky said in disbelief. "How the heck did they get down there?"

Mac shrugged. They both hear something move in the grass. It was talking faintly.

"Get off!" it said. "It's my egg, you stupid rat!"

"I called it!" another voice said. "You said if you had the first two-well…er…hello, Rocky. What are you doing around these-"

Rocky picked up Fetcher the rat by the tail and kicked his friend Nick into a gorse bush and he screamed and screamed.

"The question is," Rocky said coolly but very angrily, scaring Nick "what are YOU TWO doing here?"

"We heard the noise from our hutt by the river," Nick explained coming out of the gorse bush. "And what was with kicking me in there? What did I do to deserve such punishment!"

"Did you take the chicks or not?" Rocky asked, frustrated.

"What CHICKS?" a confused Fetcher replied.

"Don't trust 'em," Mac said. "There about as reliable as strong ec'stasy pills."

"How dare you!" Nick shouted. "How dare you accuse us when you've been down here for the past couple of days nursing and feeding them!"

Rocky turned to her.

"Well, Mac?" Rocky asked. "What do you have to say about this?"

Mac smiled evilly at him. "I don' 'ave to explain an'y 'fing to you. I'm al'ways the one to do the explainin' around here."

"Mac…please…just tell me what you've done. We'll always forgive you, no matter what!" Rocky pleaded with her.

"I don' need your sympathy laddy. May'be I don' wanna be forgi'ven. Go 'ome, and take your precious bebies with you!" Mac shouted and walked away.

"Mac! Please! Come on, sugarcakes! We love ya!" Rocky called her.

Mac stopped for a minute. "Love…" she muttered. And then continued walking, smiling to the sky the whole way.

Rocky cursed and then got Nick and Fetcher to help lower him down to get the chicks.