((Lol- okay. I'm officially dedicating this chapter to Swimmerkitti- not as
good as a whole story from wyverna, but it's something... Thanks for this
idea!! Lol! It's always great to hear from a fellow Pennsylvanian!! They're
going to Philly now- can't change that, sorry- but we can just pretend
it's Pittsburg... :) :D Thanks to everyone for reviewing! Oh yeah, those of
you who have figured out the muffin thing- you are smart! Either that or I
am just really dumb... I don't know why I decided to have Katie love muffins
in every story, I just did. gleams evilly You know what else I just
figured out? That each chapter in this story has something to do with odd
happenings in my own life. (well, except for this one which was suggested
by Swimmerkitti as I already stated, but ANYway...) Hmm... Well, onward!!!...))
Chapter Three: Crunch.
"Thank you, Philly!!" Dewey screamed into the microphone. Summer gleamed from behind stage as the band exited off. A tickle ran up her leg- and she quickly glanced down only to find... nothing there. She sighed before running up to congratulate Zack, Katie, Freddy, Lawrence, and the others...
She still had tick-o-phobia, but it was starting to ease up...
"Tick!" Someone shouted from behind her. She squealed as she jumped and turned around to face Freddy- who was cracking up.
"Freddy..." She half growled, half whined.
"You should have seen your face!" He laughed.
"Idiot..." She murmured. Then louder, "Good job you guys! The crowd was going wild!"
"Thanks, Summer!" Tomika smiled.
"I am wiped out dudes. To the hotel we go!" Dewey announced after the celebrations at the concert place was complete. Two limos were there to escort them. The "band-band", Summer, Dewey, and Gordon were all in one limo- the rest of the staff piled into the other.
"Tick! Tick! Tick!" Freddy exclaimed in sing-song again. Summer glared him in the eye and he shut up.
"The muffins are gone?! We bought so many though! How can they be gone so quickly?!?" Katie gasped out of nowhere during a conversation with Zack. Summer rolled her eyes. Katie and her muffins...
"We'll get new muffins, Katie, relax..." Summer soothed her friend. The chattering grew down to a minimum- it was around one in the morning and the crew was all tired from a long day of publicity.
They were making there way off of a deserted road by the side of the woods. Clank. BOOSH!!!!!
Alicia, Marta, and Summer all shrieked as the limo screeched to a stop and billowing, gray smoke surrounded the outside of the car.
"Everybody out!" Dewey ordered, and they did as told. The limo driver was already inspecting the limo- with tears in his eyes?
"Come on, Chitty! Don't fail me now!" He exclaimed. Summer looked at Marta- before everybody gave the driver a questionable look. "It's okay- Chitty! We'll get through this!!"
As the driver continued to whisper to his vehicle, Dewey went over to help solve the problem.
"Aw, man. The metal twirly thing is all busted! And that plasticmabob is all like WOOSH!" He exclaimed after examining under the lid.
"I-I can't take this! Chitty has never failed me before- never since we started out together thirteen years ago! I... I need some time alone!" The driver cried, before running a distance away and collapsing at the side of the road.
"Okay then..." Dewey stated, before heading off after the sobbing man. "You guys can go explore the woods. I think we're gonna be hear a while. I'll call a car fixer place and go try to calm this spaz case down. Just don't wander too far off..."
"I don't feel like going into the woods. I'll wait here." Lawrence stated as the group began filing into the dark, shadowy forest.
"Me too."
"Yeah, same here."
By the end of the chorus, only Zack, Freddy, Katie, Summer, and Tomika were off to explore.
"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" Tomika, Summer, and Katie were chanting, with their arms linked. They were following Freddy and Zack, who obviously had no clue where to go or what to look for, but were laughing at the girls all the same.
Crunch. Swoooosh...
The group froze instantly. "What was that?" Katie asked, her eyes widening slightly. Summer looked upward. A breeze had begun to blow across the tree tops, rattling the leaves...
"It's just the wind." Summer said, relieved. The group reluctantly continued on.
"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"
Crunch. Swoooosh...
"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"
Crrrrrrrunch.
The group stopped as they waited for the swoosh of the breeze to come back. It didn't. Summer could feel Katie's arms tighten around hers, and Tomika went stiff. Summer looked up once again- only this time there was no wind.
Crunch.
"Yo- if one of you girls is doing that it is so not cool..." Zach stated as he and Freddy inched back towards them. Crunch.
"We are not doing anything. Freddy if that's you I will shove your drumsticks down your throat back at the hotel..." Tomika threatened. Crunch.
"It's not me- I swear!!" Freddy claimed, throwing up his hands. Crunch. The group grew silent as they huddled together.
"Should we go back?" Summer suggested. What was out in these woods this late? Lions, tigers, and bears? Crunch. Oh, my! Look at yourself, Summer, she thought. There is no need to panic. You are just imagining things after a long night.
"No! They'll think we're chicken! No. Let's just keep going." Zach replied. Tomika and Katie frowned. Crunch. Freddy gulped as he and Zach lead the way once again. Crunch.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!" Just then, a shape jumped out from behind a bush and tackled Freddy to the ground!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Everybody screamed at once. Summer jumped up fifty feet into the air as Tomika froze and Katie and Zach leapt to help Freddy fend off his attacker.
"Frrrrreddy!!!!!!" A girl's shaky voice cried. Katie and Zach lifted Freddy and the girl, who was clinging to him, up.
"GET HER OFF ME!!!!!" Freddy demanded. As Zach held Freddy up from behind, Katie pried the girl, who was grinning madly off.
"Who the hell are you?!?!" Katie demanded, as she, assisted by Tomika- now defrosted- held the girl back. Summer could see the girl more clearly in the moonlight. She looked about their age- with flying brown hair and blue eyes.
"No!!! Freddy! I need Freddy!" She struggled to get out of their grasp.
"No- you don't. Get away from me you creep!" Freddy shouted from next to Zach- who was looking very confused.
"Why Freddy? What's wrong with me?" Zach asked stubbornly.
"Zach- cut it out!" Katie ordered desperately. "Let's try to calm her down."
Zach mumbled something under his breath before he stood in front of the squirming girl.
"Hello. We don't want to hurt you. We want to help. Now tell us your name and where you are from." Zach spoke slowly. Summer couldn't believe this. It was just their luck to have run into a crazy, obsessed girl in the middle of the woods in Philly.
"Cathy Thompson! But it will be Cathy Jones soon..." She turned her head back and laughed. Zach jealously scowled. Freddy cringed as she screamed into the night, "I LOVE YOU FREDDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Well I don't love you!" Freddy told her. She just smiled dazedly.
"He actually talked to me! I knew we were meant for each other!" She squealed.
"Okay- Freddy. Maybe you should head back..." Tomika smiled weakly.
"NOOOO!! Don't let him leave!! He's mine!! All mine!!!!" Cathy finally escaped from Katie and Tomika's hold and pounced on top of Freddy again. Summer gasped. As wrong as this was, it was kind of funny... No, she told herself. It wasn't. This girl needed some serious help!
"GET HER OFFFFF!!!!" Freddy screamed once more. This time it took all of the other four to pry her away from Freddy- who was disgustedly trying to scramble away. Crunch.
"Oh no! There are more of them!" Katie wailed. Zach looked up excitedly. Summer shook her head in fear and disbelief...
"Catherine!" A woman's sharp voice pierced through the woods as a wide beam of light landed on top of the group- momentarily blinding them. More lights came as people dressed in blue uniforms jogged over.
"We'll take it from here, kids..." The woman barked as people in uniform grabbed the girl, forcing her into a straight jacket. Summer was speechless.
"I love you Freddy!!!..." Cathy screamed one last time before she was hauled away. The woman stayed facing the confused band.
"Sorry about that. Catherine suffers from severe mental breakdowns. She got hit by a car on the way back from your Music Fest concert- even though she didn't suffer any physical injuries, she now believes that Freddy Jones is her soul mate. I'm sorry if she caused you any trouble. She really is a nice child when she doesn't escape from solitary confinement. Well, good night you guys! Oh yeah- great show! You guys rock!" The lady explained and smiled before hurrying after the men in uniform. As the rays of light disappeared into the distance, Summer shook her head in disbelief.
"What on earth just happened?" She asked the others.
"I have no clue. But I think we should head back to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang now..." Tomika said. The others nodded.
"That was so wrong. Soooo wrong..." Freddy stated.
"How come I don't have crazy obsessed fans?"
"Shut up, Zach."
The group walked in silence until the highway was in sight.
"Do you think we should tell the others?" Katie asked as they neared.
They all turned and looked at each other, smiling.
"Nah..."
Chapter Three: Crunch.
"Thank you, Philly!!" Dewey screamed into the microphone. Summer gleamed from behind stage as the band exited off. A tickle ran up her leg- and she quickly glanced down only to find... nothing there. She sighed before running up to congratulate Zack, Katie, Freddy, Lawrence, and the others...
She still had tick-o-phobia, but it was starting to ease up...
"Tick!" Someone shouted from behind her. She squealed as she jumped and turned around to face Freddy- who was cracking up.
"Freddy..." She half growled, half whined.
"You should have seen your face!" He laughed.
"Idiot..." She murmured. Then louder, "Good job you guys! The crowd was going wild!"
"Thanks, Summer!" Tomika smiled.
"I am wiped out dudes. To the hotel we go!" Dewey announced after the celebrations at the concert place was complete. Two limos were there to escort them. The "band-band", Summer, Dewey, and Gordon were all in one limo- the rest of the staff piled into the other.
"Tick! Tick! Tick!" Freddy exclaimed in sing-song again. Summer glared him in the eye and he shut up.
"The muffins are gone?! We bought so many though! How can they be gone so quickly?!?" Katie gasped out of nowhere during a conversation with Zack. Summer rolled her eyes. Katie and her muffins...
"We'll get new muffins, Katie, relax..." Summer soothed her friend. The chattering grew down to a minimum- it was around one in the morning and the crew was all tired from a long day of publicity.
They were making there way off of a deserted road by the side of the woods. Clank. BOOSH!!!!!
Alicia, Marta, and Summer all shrieked as the limo screeched to a stop and billowing, gray smoke surrounded the outside of the car.
"Everybody out!" Dewey ordered, and they did as told. The limo driver was already inspecting the limo- with tears in his eyes?
"Come on, Chitty! Don't fail me now!" He exclaimed. Summer looked at Marta- before everybody gave the driver a questionable look. "It's okay- Chitty! We'll get through this!!"
As the driver continued to whisper to his vehicle, Dewey went over to help solve the problem.
"Aw, man. The metal twirly thing is all busted! And that plasticmabob is all like WOOSH!" He exclaimed after examining under the lid.
"I-I can't take this! Chitty has never failed me before- never since we started out together thirteen years ago! I... I need some time alone!" The driver cried, before running a distance away and collapsing at the side of the road.
"Okay then..." Dewey stated, before heading off after the sobbing man. "You guys can go explore the woods. I think we're gonna be hear a while. I'll call a car fixer place and go try to calm this spaz case down. Just don't wander too far off..."
"I don't feel like going into the woods. I'll wait here." Lawrence stated as the group began filing into the dark, shadowy forest.
"Me too."
"Yeah, same here."
By the end of the chorus, only Zack, Freddy, Katie, Summer, and Tomika were off to explore.
"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" Tomika, Summer, and Katie were chanting, with their arms linked. They were following Freddy and Zack, who obviously had no clue where to go or what to look for, but were laughing at the girls all the same.
Crunch. Swoooosh...
The group froze instantly. "What was that?" Katie asked, her eyes widening slightly. Summer looked upward. A breeze had begun to blow across the tree tops, rattling the leaves...
"It's just the wind." Summer said, relieved. The group reluctantly continued on.
"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"
Crunch. Swoooosh...
"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"
Crrrrrrrunch.
The group stopped as they waited for the swoosh of the breeze to come back. It didn't. Summer could feel Katie's arms tighten around hers, and Tomika went stiff. Summer looked up once again- only this time there was no wind.
Crunch.
"Yo- if one of you girls is doing that it is so not cool..." Zach stated as he and Freddy inched back towards them. Crunch.
"We are not doing anything. Freddy if that's you I will shove your drumsticks down your throat back at the hotel..." Tomika threatened. Crunch.
"It's not me- I swear!!" Freddy claimed, throwing up his hands. Crunch. The group grew silent as they huddled together.
"Should we go back?" Summer suggested. What was out in these woods this late? Lions, tigers, and bears? Crunch. Oh, my! Look at yourself, Summer, she thought. There is no need to panic. You are just imagining things after a long night.
"No! They'll think we're chicken! No. Let's just keep going." Zach replied. Tomika and Katie frowned. Crunch. Freddy gulped as he and Zach lead the way once again. Crunch.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!" Just then, a shape jumped out from behind a bush and tackled Freddy to the ground!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Everybody screamed at once. Summer jumped up fifty feet into the air as Tomika froze and Katie and Zach leapt to help Freddy fend off his attacker.
"Frrrrreddy!!!!!!" A girl's shaky voice cried. Katie and Zach lifted Freddy and the girl, who was clinging to him, up.
"GET HER OFF ME!!!!!" Freddy demanded. As Zach held Freddy up from behind, Katie pried the girl, who was grinning madly off.
"Who the hell are you?!?!" Katie demanded, as she, assisted by Tomika- now defrosted- held the girl back. Summer could see the girl more clearly in the moonlight. She looked about their age- with flying brown hair and blue eyes.
"No!!! Freddy! I need Freddy!" She struggled to get out of their grasp.
"No- you don't. Get away from me you creep!" Freddy shouted from next to Zach- who was looking very confused.
"Why Freddy? What's wrong with me?" Zach asked stubbornly.
"Zach- cut it out!" Katie ordered desperately. "Let's try to calm her down."
Zach mumbled something under his breath before he stood in front of the squirming girl.
"Hello. We don't want to hurt you. We want to help. Now tell us your name and where you are from." Zach spoke slowly. Summer couldn't believe this. It was just their luck to have run into a crazy, obsessed girl in the middle of the woods in Philly.
"Cathy Thompson! But it will be Cathy Jones soon..." She turned her head back and laughed. Zach jealously scowled. Freddy cringed as she screamed into the night, "I LOVE YOU FREDDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Well I don't love you!" Freddy told her. She just smiled dazedly.
"He actually talked to me! I knew we were meant for each other!" She squealed.
"Okay- Freddy. Maybe you should head back..." Tomika smiled weakly.
"NOOOO!! Don't let him leave!! He's mine!! All mine!!!!" Cathy finally escaped from Katie and Tomika's hold and pounced on top of Freddy again. Summer gasped. As wrong as this was, it was kind of funny... No, she told herself. It wasn't. This girl needed some serious help!
"GET HER OFFFFF!!!!" Freddy screamed once more. This time it took all of the other four to pry her away from Freddy- who was disgustedly trying to scramble away. Crunch.
"Oh no! There are more of them!" Katie wailed. Zach looked up excitedly. Summer shook her head in fear and disbelief...
"Catherine!" A woman's sharp voice pierced through the woods as a wide beam of light landed on top of the group- momentarily blinding them. More lights came as people dressed in blue uniforms jogged over.
"We'll take it from here, kids..." The woman barked as people in uniform grabbed the girl, forcing her into a straight jacket. Summer was speechless.
"I love you Freddy!!!..." Cathy screamed one last time before she was hauled away. The woman stayed facing the confused band.
"Sorry about that. Catherine suffers from severe mental breakdowns. She got hit by a car on the way back from your Music Fest concert- even though she didn't suffer any physical injuries, she now believes that Freddy Jones is her soul mate. I'm sorry if she caused you any trouble. She really is a nice child when she doesn't escape from solitary confinement. Well, good night you guys! Oh yeah- great show! You guys rock!" The lady explained and smiled before hurrying after the men in uniform. As the rays of light disappeared into the distance, Summer shook her head in disbelief.
"What on earth just happened?" She asked the others.
"I have no clue. But I think we should head back to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang now..." Tomika said. The others nodded.
"That was so wrong. Soooo wrong..." Freddy stated.
"How come I don't have crazy obsessed fans?"
"Shut up, Zach."
The group walked in silence until the highway was in sight.
"Do you think we should tell the others?" Katie asked as they neared.
They all turned and looked at each other, smiling.
"Nah..."