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The Fox and the Hound 3: The Next Generation

Part Two: The Older Years

Chapter Twenty: Reunited

Ace and Blaze made their way through the forest as quietly as possible. The hound hadn't heard his brother or sister howling yet, so he figured they weren't having any luck either. At least they didn't have a baby fox to babysit for a precious few minutes. Blaze reminded him of Swift as a cub, and he wondered briefly if the two might be related.

When they heard the sound of bushes rustling, they tensed up, when suddenly a rabbit burst out of the hedges and ran straight between Ace's legs. About a split-second later, an adult fox came charging out but he stopped dead when he saw Ace. The fox saw Blaze standing beside him, and immediately he started to growl threateningly.

"Get back and stay away from my brother!" he snarled. "Blaze, get over here by me now!"

"But, Swift, he's not going to hurt me," Blaze insisted. "He's nice, he was helping me find you."

"Yeah, right I'm sure that he—"

"Swift?" Ace asked, repeating the name that Blaze had called his brother. "Swift, is that really you?"

Swift stopped growling and stared at Ace for a moment as if trying to remember him. "Ace? Are you serious, you're Ace?"

The dog's tail began to wag, glad that Swift still remembered him. "Yeah, it's really me. Boy, you've really grown."

"Not nearly as much as you, you're a pretty big guy now," the fox said, getting a look of confusion from Blaze.

"Wait a minute, hold it, you two know each other?"

The two of them had forgotten that the cub was there, and tensed when they heard his voice. "Uh, yeah, when we were kids," Swift explained. "But only for about a day."

"Yeah. What are you doing out here anyway? How's Autumn?"

"She's fine. We have four more siblings now, Blaze here being the only boy. And I'm doing the same thing I assume you're doing. Hunting."

"Oh, yeah, I guess I could have guessed that."

"What about you, how's your family?"

"Well, Beulah's still acting like she used to, and Smoky thankfully got a reality check on his ego," he chuckled, before frowning again. "But Uncle Chief died about a week ago, and he's real upset about it."

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I remember how bad it tore him up when he thought he killed him," Swift remembered. "Well, Blaze, I think we'd better get out of here before—Blaze? Blaze, where are you!"

They both heard a shout coming from the distance and they ran until they could see the railroad tracks about one-fourth of a mile away. And there sitting right in the middle of them was Blaze. He had found a frog to chase after and obviously led him to the tracks. And it appeared that his paw had gotten stuck in between the planks. And the whistle of the train was getting louder and louder.

SORRY SO SHORT!!!

Oh no, the train's coming and poor Blaze is stuck! Who will save him? What will happen? Gotta keep reading to find out!