Note: By the way, in the last chapter when Spam says, "It's but a flesh wound, Mr. Dodo. Tell them to come back here! You'll bite their legs off!" that is a bit of Monty Python talking. Hehe! The Black Knight…for those of you who haven't seen it, you won't get it, so sorry. Here is the next chapter! Have fun! And please review! We need encouragement!

Mitten looked down at his friend, the gravity of the situation sinking in. "Is he going to die?" he asked, getting more concerned about Dodo and less concerned about skipping dinner.

"No, he will soon become a Nasal like them and enter the shadow world, crawling with clowns. He will soon be far beyond our reach," Strydex responded, a little distracted as he was looking along the ground.

Mitten looked at him in horror. Clowns? But clowns were pure…pure…evil! Even Mitten knew that!

"Spam!" Strydex beckoned the bobbit over to him.

"Yes, Strydex?" he asked, wanting to do anything for his injured master.

"Do you know the Joe bob plant?"

"Joe bob?" Spam was a gardener and he had never heard of that, and he thought he had heard of everything.

"Queens iron."

"Queens iron? Well thats a weed!"

Strydex nodded. "Yes, but it might help slow the poison."

Spam glanced at his master, who was already trying to get up and hop around, but was being restrained by the two other bobbits. He quickly set off in search of the weed.

Strydex went in the other direction, swiftly locating the plant with ease. He knew how to spot things easily. He drew out his knife and started cutting away when he felt a blade at his throat.

"What's this?" asked a loudvoice with Jersey accent. "A mysterious woodsman caught off his guard?"

Dodo wasn't sure what he was seeing. It looked like a beautiful woman with…with pointy ears! Who had pointy ears? He knew it was someone important... He then realized that she had started talking.

"Blah nener blah smackledorf blue snerfum hagger Darwinsay," said the woman with a voice that sounded strangely like it belonged in New Jersey…

In the Common Tongue it meant, "Dodo, my name is Darwin. Hear my voice. Come back to the light."

"He is fadin'," Darwin said when she came up to him. She looked at the wound as Strydex placed some of the chewed up weed on it. "He won't last. He must get him to my dad. If I can get him across the water then the power of my people will protect him."

Strydex looked concerned. Despite the accent and somewhat crude ways, Darwin was a rather amazing Bell. "It's too dangerous!" he exclaimed.

She rolled her eyes and said tauntingly, "I'm the faster rider!"

Her male counterpart sighed, knowing this to be true. Of course he wished she had said it in a more polite manner… He reluctantly nodded his head and let her mount her horse, handing Dodo up to her.

"Has so flafo blue," Darwin whispered to her horse, who took off upon hearing them, toward Driven-Dell, as fast as her hooves would carry her.

"What are you doing? Those Nasals are still out there!" Spam called out, not to be heard…again.

Darwin raced speedily through the wilderness, careful to avoid areas where she last saw the Nasals.

It seems that she wasn't careful enough, for after a while she realized she was being followed, first by one, then another, then another, until all of the Five were after her, swiftly riding their sturdy cows, mooing all the way.

The chase went on for quite a while, until Darwin finally came to the river. She promptly crossed it, pulled out her sword and turned to face them.

"Give up the Semi-ling, She Bell!" the lead Nasal mooed to her.

"If you want him, come and claim him!" She raised her sword higher, taunting them to come get him. With her somewhat annoying voice, it did the job.

The group of Nasals started into the river, a little hesitant at first.

"Eaney meany miney moe," Darwin started to whisper at the water, her voice growing louder with intensity. "Catch a tiger by its toe!"

The Nasals looked at her, thinking she was just a little nuts.

"If it hollers let it go…" Maybe they were right.

"My mom says to pick the very best one and you…are…IT!"

The Nasals dropped over in the river, stunned by the strange Bellish spell.

Darwin smiled in victory, but this victory was short lived. She glanced down at Dodo, whose face had started to turn white and hair to turn into a red afro. He was going into the world of the Nasals- turning into a vampiric clown!

"No, Dodo! Don't give in! Not now!" she exclaimed. She felt tears coming to her eyes and she hugged him, hoping against hope that he survived and also that he didn't use this chance to bite her neck and turn her into a vampiric clown also…

Note: Yeah, I know, it's not as funny, but this one is kind of a serious part in the story. The next chapter is sure to be a side-splitter. Don't worry. PLEASE review!