Chapter 4
The morning turned out to be bright and sunny, just as everyone hoped. When Nick awoke, the sounds of birds chirping, and leaves rusling filled the air. He went outside to meet with the others.
"Morning!" he said.
"Good morning!" Michael said.
"Have any of you guys thought of what to eat for breakfast?"
"That's what we're debating over now!" said Marth, "I vote eggs!"
"Uh...Marth, where are we going to get a chicken?" asked Eliwood.
"...Oh yeah." he said, Nick laughed a little.
"How about we have fish?" asked Roy, "I saw a lake near the edge of the forest while I was collection firewood last night."
"Hmm...sounds good to me." said Calvin.
"Ok, so who's going fishing?" asked Nick.
Nobody raised their hands.
"GUYS, IF WE DON'T GO FISHING, WE DON'T GET TO EAT!" he yelled.
"I don't like fishing!" said Calvin.
"Same here!" said Michael.
"Well…..then what are we going to do?" asked Marth.
"There's plenty of animals in the forest." said Nick, "Can't we hunt for some?"
"Good idea." said Calvin, "Any of you guys going with me?"
Roy and Eliwood raised their hands.
"Ok, let's go." Calvin said, walking towards the forest, Eliwood and Roy followed.
Nick rested his back against a tree. He sighed loudly, and closed his eyes. Then he found himself drifting off to sleep.
Meanwhile.
The others were walking in a forest. It was surrounded by trees. Dead leaves were on the ground. And some of the trees don't have any leaves.
"If we get lost again, I'm gonna hurt you!" yelled Calvin.
"Lost?" asked Roy, raising his eyebrow.
"Yesterday, when Nick, Eliwood, Michael, and I were trying to find the campgrounds, Michael got us lost!" he said.
Eliwood gave Calvin an annoyed look, "And your blaming me because…………."
"SHUT UP!" yelled a frustrated Calvin. Eliwood grew mad, and ended up tackling Calvin. The two began fighting.
"Hey!" yelled Roy, "Knock it off!"
The two stopped fighting.
"Next time, I won't go so easy on you!" growled Calvin.
"C'mon already!" said Roy, "Let's go!"
That's when they saw a Deer.
"About time." said Calvin. He charged after the Deer, but it sped away.
"You IDIOT!" Eliwood yelled.
"C'mon!" said Roy.
They were still walking, then Eliwood saw a Rabbit sniffing the air.
"Would a Rabbit make a good breakfast meal?" he asked the two swordsmen.
"I'll take whatever's available." Roy said, crossing his arms.
Eliwood snuck up on the little grey Rabbit.
"All of you….stay quiet." he whispered
"Can we help?" asked Calvin.
"As long as you two will keep quiet, and don't scare it off."
"Ok!"
Eliwood crept up to the Rabbit, and so did the other two.
"I can catch that thing hands down." Calvin said, "I'm faster than anyone else on the team."
"Well, I can't argue with that." Eliwood said. Then everything grew silent for a moment, until he started counting.
"1……2……3!" he said.
The three swordsmen started chasing the rabbit. The rabbit ran for it's life.
"I'll cut it off up ahead!" Calvin shouted, he ran in front of the bunny.
"That won't work!" yelled Roy.
The rabbit got past Calvin.
"Whoa!" he said, "That things even quicker than me!"
"I got it!" panted Eliwood. He ran after the Rabbit, but got his foot stuck in a gopher hole.
"Drat!" he yelled.
"Leave this to me!" shouted Roy. He finally caught up to the rabbit.
"Gotcha!" he shouted. The rabbit jumped over a log, and Roy tripped over it.
Everyone watched as the rabbit ran back into its hole.
"Three swordsmen…….defeated by one, puny….Rabbit." Calvin said in shock.
Roy and Eliwood were too shocked to say anything.
After 10 minutes of walking, they found a clear, rushing river.
"Ok, hopefully we don't have to chase some fish." Eliwood laughed.
Calvin exhaled sharply, "Ok." He suddenly remembered the time when he and Michael were fishing with their hands, but it was blurry.
"Ok." he said to himself. He thrashed his hands into the water, hoping to scoop up something. Suddenly, he let out a yelp.
"OW!" he said in pain, "Stupid crawdad!"
A large Crawdad was hanging off of Calvin's hand.
"Are you ok?" Roy laughed.
Just then, three Crawdads pinched Eliwood's leg.
"OUCH!" he screamed in pain.
Roy looked around, the river was infested with Crawdads.
"Woah!" he said. Before he had time to jump out of the river, a Crawdad pinched his leg.
"YEOW!" he screamed, jumping to the shore.
"There's Crawdads everywhere!" Calvin shouted, getting out of the river. He grabbed the Crawdads that pinched him and threw them back into the river.
Roy also got out of the river and ripped off the crawdad that was on his leg.
Eliwood also got out of the river. He grabbed the crawdads that pinched him and threw them in a bucket. "How about we have Crawdads instead?"
"You're kidding, right?" Calvin asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Good idea." said Roy, he took out his sword and walked into the river. He stabbed a Crawdad, and later, another.
Eliwood sighed, "C'mon!" He took out his thin sword and stabbed about 10 crawdads.
"Shish kabob anyone?" he joked.
Calvin rolled his eyes. "Fine." he said, grinding his teeth. He took out his sword and stabbed 3 Crawdads. Eliwood set his Crawdads in a bucket. Then it dawned on him.
"Uhh….how did this bucket get here?" he asked.
"I put it there just in case we were going fishing." said Calvin, throwing 3 Crawdads in the bucket, "But since we're catching Crawdads now, I figured we'd put them in there."
"Good idea." said Roy as he threw 5 crawdads in the bucket.
Calvin stabbed 7 more crawdads and put them in the bucket.
"Uhh…guys?" Roy said.
"What?" Eliwood asked, then he looked at the bucket. There were 28 Crawdads in the bucket.
"Not enough!" said Calvin, he stabbed 3 Crawdads and put them in the bucket.
Everyone continued stabbing the crawdads, soon the bucket was overflowing with Crawdads, Calvin walked out of the river, panting."Ok." he said, grabbing the bucket, "Let's go."
As the two brothers watched Calvin leave, Eliwood was mixed up.
"You DO know that we're going to have to eat something other than crawdads...right?" he asked Roy.
"Uh...yeah." he said, also confused.
The two followed Calvin back to the campsite.