Catch Me If You Can

PART VI

Having returned to Gummadoon, Sir Plucki told the Council the conversation, which took place between himself and Wesley.

Hearing the news, this greatly interested the councillors, and so they knew then that nothing more could be found at the village. It was left up to the cub, to tell them.

Finding that the cub seemed to be close to Sir Plucki, they asked him whether he could find out any more information from the cub.

Now riding through the forest the next day, being that it was too late to ride out last night, the sky having already gone dark, he thought that Wesley might be asleep.

Accompanied by his two friends, Sir Blastus and Sir Gumlittle, he focused on the road, carefully not to take the wrong turn.

Then finally after several hours of careful choice of directions, Sir Plucki came to a familiar area, near to where he had first seen Wesley talking to the animals.

Dismounting his unicorn, along with his friends, he pushed aside a few bushes, and noticed how it was suddenly very quiet. Only a bush away from the clearing, the three knights tied up their unicorns, where Sir Plucki two friends then remained behind, whilst he went ahead to speak to the cub.

"Wesley" said Sir Plucki, walking into the clearing.

Silence greeted him, and he wondered whether the cub was out playing or still asleep. Walking over to the tree where Wesley's house was located, the gummi captain began to climb, to see whether the cub was inside.

Now he had thought of using his gummiberry juice to reach the cub, but then changed his mind, better to save it for more troubling situations.

Soon reaching the top, and standing on some sort of platform, Sir Plucki then looked around, and noticed that it gave a full beautiful view of the whole forest, no wonder the cub liked this place. Turning round, he saw that there was no door to the entrance of the house, but it was dark inside.

Stepping inside, he went in search for the cub, and soon found him, in his bedroom, fast asleep, though he looked to be having a nightmare. Seeing Wesley thrashing about, he saw that the sheets were slightly damp, and tangled about the cub.

Walking into the room, he kneeled down by the cub's bedside, and caught the cub before he rolled off and fell off the bed.

"Mother" he heard the cub whimper in his sleep.

"Wesley" said Sir Plucki, gently shaking the cub to wake up from his nightmare.

Wesley's eyebrows furrowed, and sweat beaded on his brow, and his mouth was locked open as if silently screaming, but no sound came out, only his laboured breathing.

Then all of a sudden he began to shake violently, his eyes flew open, and he bolted awake, and was about to jump up in the air, but he felt someone restrain him, enabling him from doing so, then he realised he was not alone. Still tangled up in the sheets, he looked up into the eyes of Sir Plucki's.

Panting heavily, and calming down slightly, Wesley untangled himself from the sheets, and climbed out of the gummi captain's arms, he crawled back onto his bed.

Laying back down, he wiped the sweat from his brow, and he looked back at the gummi captain. He felt a rush of relief sweep over him, the nightmare over, and seeing the gummi captain's face, he felt calm.

They stayed there, for a few minutes, neither of them speaking, keeping the silence, until Sir Plucki broke it,

"Lad, six years ago, in your village, what do you remember, when you woke up?"

"I remember the fires and the killing, from the night before, but when I woke up, the village was different" said Wesley

"How was it different?" he asked.

"It looked liked no attack had been there, no fires, or marks, nothing" the cub replied.

"Like now" he said a few minutes later.

This new information seemed to interest the gummi captain greatly, as to how the village appeared different, then something caught his attention, as the cub laid on his bed suddenly tensed, and became scared.

"There here" Wesley said, his eyes watering again.

"Who?" Sir Plucki asked, confused.

"Humans?" Wesley replied.

Then what happened next came as a surprise to the gummi captain, as the cub laid on his bed, slowly started to vanish from sight, though his crying still lingered in the air.

The house after a few minutes then became quiet again, with only the draft of the wind occasionally blowing in through the window, the gummi captain listened intensively, and there it was, his enemy, the humans speaking in the distance, but quickly coming towards him.

Quickly leaving the house and climbing down the tree, he just as to say rejoined his friends, when the humans came into the clearing.

Looking through the bushes, and ready to intervene, the knights could see there were five humans, in the clearing, all armed with some sort of weapon.

"That kid here somewhere" they heard one of the humans say.

"Yeah, seen him, play with the animals, that one" said another.

Hearing that, the knights knew immediately whom they were talking about. Though only the gummi captain knew where the cub was, and whether he was still in the house, it would explain as to why the cub was so scared when the humans did come near.

Holding their staff in hand, they were about to intervene, when they saw the humans draw near and closer to where the cub was living, when they saw and heard one of them scream out all of a sudden, then fall down to the ground unconscious.

This alerted the rest of the group, and the humans held their weapons tighter than before, though they were evidently shaking, as to what this mysterious thing was that was invisibly attacking them.

Another one went down, strangely flipped over, then landed knocked out by what appeared to be thin air, and he joined the other on the ground.

Now three left, the other two went down quite quickly as well, until there was only one standing. Looking around, seeing his companion laying on the forest ground, knocked out, he stood there, totally shakened as to what was attacking them, when he felt someone hit him on the back of the neck, his eyes rolled back, and he too fell to the ground, unconscious.

*Take that you jerks* thought Wesley.

Geez, looked like the humans couldn't get enough of him in his opinion, wherever he went chaos followed him.

First they attacked his village, and took his family from him, and now they hunt him down in the forest, how much more did they want from him.

Wesley took on a look of pure disgust, and hatred towards the humans lying on the ground, and curling his paws into fists, he felt himself shake with rage.

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Meanwhile however, the knights had watched everything from where they stood.

Sir Plucki, knew that what happened there, must have been Wesley's doing, and turning to his two friends, he saw them looking bewildered and confused to everything that had happened, but also shocked.

The knights stood there awaiting for the danger passed, then watched as Wesley slowly, bit by bit reappeared and came into sight, surprising them all as he did so, though he was not one happy gummi.

Approaching the cub, he could see the cub was livid, and trying to calm himself, closing his eyes and turning sideways, away from the humans. Kneeling down to the cub's eye level, he turned the cub to look at him.

Wesley still had a sneer on his face, but then it softened, into a small smile, as he looked at Sir Plucki.

"Lad, you shall be returning to Gummadoon with us" he said.

"Why?" asked Wesley frowning, now not at all happy.

"Your not safe here" he replied, the group walking over to where their unicorns were tied.

"But I'm fine" Wesley protested.

"Lad, you are not" he said.

Pulling away from Sir Plucki tears of something that looked like fear and betrayal filled his eyes.

"I can take care of myself" he said jumping into the tree above him.

"Wesley, please" said Sir Plucki trying to coak Wesley down.

"I have lived in these woods for six years fighting off the humans, but only now once adults find me am I unsafe" in a voice so serious and demanding that he seemed far older than he appeared.

"That's not true" replied Sir Plucki.

Wesley was about to reply when he heard something rattle behind him, and immediately he jumped to another tree, scared, he then jumped through the trees, calling his friends as he did so.

Looking not at all happy, Sir Plucki then mounted his unicorn, and awaited for his friends to get down from the tree, where they had tried to capture Wesley. It seemed that this cub was not going to go with them that easily, and so as his friends mounted upon their unicorns, they then set off deeper into the forest after Wesley.

Now chasing Wesley through the forest, they could hear the cub laughing, he was finding this funny? Looking up they into the tree, they decided against throwing the ropes at the young cub, seeing as he would most likely dodge them, and they would wrap round the tree branch instead.

Nudging their unicorns, making them go faster, they soon matched the pace of the young cub, running and jumping through the trees.

Wesley turned his head slightly, and could see the knights were catching him up. If he didn't hurry up and do something quick, then they would for sure catch him, and take him back to the castle. Refusing to be taken, Wesley whistle a note, crying for help, and soon found the aid of his friends coming to him.

Riding along, the knights heard the cub whistle, and then all of a sudden a wild deer jumped out in front of them, and ran ahead of them, obviously intending to help the young cub.

Watching as the cub jumped from the trees and onto the deer, his paws clinging and grasping the deer's neck as if he was afraid he as going to fall off.

Chasing the cub through the forest, the knights steadily grew more angry at this procedure, why did the cub have to be so difficult?

The knights knew that there was a high and average chance that more humans were nearby, and it was precisely why they had to get the cub out of here, now.

Seeing the cub riding the deer, constantly changing directions, they thought it was pointless throwing the ropes.

Splitting up, Sir Plucki continued on chasing the cub whilst his friends went off in another directions, now intending to surround the cub.

Whistling and talking in a foreign language, Wesley pushed the deer further, just why couldn't the adults leave him alone? He wished now that when they did first appear and returned that he never ventured onwards to see them, then maybe he could still be living alone right now, without them interfering.

Riding onwards, Wesley almost went flying, if it weren't for him handing onto the deer so tightly, when it abruptly stopped.

Mounted on unicorns, were the two adults, Sir Blastus and Sir Gumlittle, staff in hand, with one end pressed to their lips, ready to blow.

Seething, Wesley turned round to see Sir Plucki too also mounted on his unicorn, ready to blow the sleeping gas on him.

Trapped, he whispered something to the deer, then stood up on it's back, his weight not really bothering the deer at all, and stood to face them, when seeing them signal to one another, they blew, releasing the sleeping gas.

Instantly the smoke covered him and the deer, and yet strangely enough, Wesley knew that he should feel tired and fall asleep, and yet he didn't, though it came apparent to him, that his friend was, as it collapsed and fell to the ground, fast asleep.

Knowing he couldn't really do anything for his friend, until it slept it off, he saw the smoke begin to clear, and smiled at their shocked and disbelieving faces.

"Impossible" Wesley heard one of them say,

Not a minute to spare, Wesley jumped into the trees again, just as one of them threw a rope at him, but missed.

Running around in the trees, Wesley saw that he didn't have very many trees to jump to, and so he fell back down to the ground, and ran. However whilst on his way towards another tree, he failed to see a rope coming towards him, until it wrapped itself around him, and he fell to the ground.

Now kicking and screaming, once or twice cursing, he was picked up by sir Plucki, and placed in the saddle in front of him, and the group then headed back to Gummadoon, thankful that the chase was over with.

END OF PART VI

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