Miss.Ecofreak: Wow I like broadband, how many times have I updated this fic today Zaku-chan?

Zakura: I dunno. I'm busy. (Is seen building something)

Miss.Ecofreak: ... what are you doing?

Zakura: setting up a trap for Sasuke-kun (an character from the anime Naruto that Zakura loves, he ran away)

Miss.Ecofreak: keep your strange hobbies to the dork-fics. Here's the next not-excactly-new chapter

CHAPTER 10

RETURNING HOME

Two days had passed since the accident with the dragon, and Balder was now standing on his own for the first time since the attack.

"Told you you'd be fine" Doctor Freddy said.

Balder just looked down at his feet, one was completely made out of metal and although the chinbits had tried to make it look like a regular ottsel-foot, it was still metallic grey and showed the reflection of a very displeased ottsel.

"What if it rusts? I like swimming" he said.

"Don't worry. It'll last for a lifetime" Freddy said happily. "Soon you won't even know it's different from the other".

This didn't make Balder happier, not only did his foot look like a star wars-prop (if he had known about Star Wars), but his left arm too, as well as his tail.

At his right hand two fingers were missing, he had refused the chinbits to make any artificial fingers; he didn't want to look more like a freak than necessary.

"You look awesome, like a super robot or something" Rambo said.

"Like those "super robots" Jingo had?" Balder asked.

"No… not like those. More like the complete opposite. I wish I had metallic limbs like those" Rambo said.
"No problem. Let's switch" Balder said.

"Stop moaning. Lio has already gone of to Mountain Lake Town to tell your father and sister what happened, we better get going soon too"

"You go. I'd rather die here"

"Balder…"

"No"

"Anny will be sad"

Balder kicked a passing beetle down from the tree. "I don't want to go back. I'm a freak!"

"No you're not. In fact you're lucky. If we hadn't found you, you would have died" Freddy said. "I'm sure the other ottsels will be very impressed when they hear about you fighting a real dragon and lived."
"Besides, those metal-paws will make you popular amongst the girls" a new voice said.

An albino chinbit jumped down from a higher branch.

It wasn't hard to tell he had been through a lot; he had one food, two hands, and half of his face, including one ear replaced by the same metallic substance Balder's artificial limbs was made of. (His face resembles Cyber Errol, giggle)

"Joey Lop-Lionhead here, first chinbit to ever get artificial limbs" the newcomer said, shaking Balder's real hand. "I was attacked by a draco-bird, and a precdator and a tree wolf (a wolf living in a tree, a chinbits worst nightmare)… bad day. But the new technology saved my life! My love-life too I must add".

"Good for you" Balder said, pulling his hand back. "But you're not me".

"Hey, lighten up. As soon as you get back home no one's going to care about your… defects. I'm sure your mother will be very glad to see you alive" Joey said.

"My mom's dead" Balder said, staring into the tree-trunk.

"Oh… I'm sorry to hear. But I heard you still had your father, and a sister? Don't you think they'll miss you?" Joey asked. "I know mine did. My little brother wouldn't let me out of sight one minute, and that's embarrassing I tell you. How was I supposed to attract mates with a two month-old baby attached to my tail?"

Joey laughed at the thought. Balder did not laugh.

"They were worried sick about me already" Joey continued. "With all white fur I wasn't really hard to find for predators, I guess that's why I was attacked so many times. There are albinos in ottsel-society too right? So you must know what I'm talking about."

"Will you shut up?" Balder asked.

"Sure. Just go home and you won't see me again" Joey said. "Go home and make your family happy."

Balder sighed for like the 3000. Time that day.

"Fine. I'll go if you're so obsessed with getting rid of me" he said, walking towards his uncle.

"I didn't' mean it that…"

"I think he's got the point, thanks for all help" Rambo said, grabbing Balder by the artificial arm and pulled him into the transport that was waiting for them. "Bye everyone. Be sure to visit some day".

There was a large welcome-party waiting for the two ottsels at home.

Buster seemed to have less fur than usual and was shivering as Balder came out of the chinbit-transport.

"Balder! Thank god you made it! I was so worried! How dare you just run of like that!" he yelled and grabbed his son.

"Dad… I can't breathe! And I didn't really "run of", I'm full grown" Balder said.

"You look awesome brother!" Anny said. "Do you have rockets hidden in that arm?"
"Er… no, I don't think so" Balder said as he had managed to break free from his father's arms.

"It's all my fault" Buster said. "If I hadn't been so obsessed with power… if I never made the dark eco… I should have seen this coming."
"Hey. Nobody knew what was going to happen" Rambo said. "Maybe except for Otto, but then again you never believed in soothsayers."

"You're not really helping" Buster said.

"Well that's not what brothers are for is it?" Rambo asked, raising an eyebrow at Buster.

"Don't worry dad. I'm okay, honestly" Balder said.
"That's not what you said back at Lionhead Village" Rambo whispered.

"But this is an amazing discovery!" one of the resident ottsels named Eddie said. "Chinbits still live in Lion Woods, I bet you must be the last colony right?" he asked Lio.

"Not really. There is one colony on Treetop Island, one in the Rex Dunes, one in the Mountain Lake Forest and the Angora Clan actually lives higher up in these very mountains" Lio explained. "And I bet there are even more clans deeper into the continent and on other continents too".

"Up here? How come we've never seen them?" Eddie asked who looked about ready to explode of excitement.

"Because you spend too much time in the tunnels, the Angora Clan's homestead, Teddy Hills, is on the other side of the mountain here, they live in caves."

"We have to explore that sometime" Eddie said.

"The chinbits are a much more advanced society than us, I'm sure we'll be able to learn a lot from them" Rambo said.
"I don't think you'll be the only ones who'll learn a lot" Lio said. "The green, yellow, blue and red eco is an amazing invention, together we can achieve great things, and some day I'm sure we'll be able to defeat the dark makers and that dragon of theirs. That is, if you want to help us".

The chinbit looked in Buster's direction, Buster himself was very surprised.

"You want my help? But without me the dark makers would never be" he said confused.

"Everyone does mistakes every now and then, but you led the team that created the good eco. If you came with us to Lionhead Village, we could take it to the next level" Lio said.

Buster seemed unsure at first, but then he smiled, for the first time in 5 years.

"Okay. We'll make a great team" he said.