I am a Banana: Don't hate me! Besides, there was a reason why it worked like that. With them hardly leaving the castle I couldn't get another way of getting the lazy buggers out of the castle...

Chapter twenty-three: The Big Scary Doggy

Barry and Lemo stood on the edge of the forest with the still unconscious Andy, waiting for Andrew to catch up with them. Sure enough the tall confident figure strolled out of the forest as though he had gone for a Sunday walk, except for the fact he kept glancing nervously behind him,

"Well that was a complete waste of time..." Andrew grumbled once he was standing beside them.

Lemo shook her head,

"Nope, we found Don's rat on out way back." Lemo held up the rat by it's tail, who was desperate to get away.

Andrew looked surprised,

"Well...That's lucky."

"Yes."

They stood in silence. Barry cleared his throat and gently nudged Andy's head with his foot,

"Andy's coming around."

Andrew grunted and bent down to Andy's level,

"You okay babe?" Andy opened her eyes slowly and screamed. "Well you don't have to look so happy to see me..." Andrew frowned.

Lemo began screaming as well,

"FLUFFY DOGGY!" The dog lunged for Lemo's out stretched up, leaping over Andy and Andrew. Lemo began more urgent screaming, "BAD DOGGY! BAD!"

Barry dived in front of Lemo, the huge dog bit in Barry's side and began dragging Barry towards the Whomping Willow.

"Somebody! Stop him!" Lemo screamed helplessly as she heaved Andy to her feet. After a brief moment of blank stares they all chased after the dog. "DON'T EAT HIM!" Lemo begged.

The dog pulled Barry quickly to the Whomping Willow and in a second they were gone. Lemo looked as though she was about to pass out,

"OH MY FUCKING GOD! A TREE ATE MY BOYFRIEND!"

They reached the tree and stared in disbelief at the hole in the ground that the dog must have pulled Barry through.

"Hey, that wasn't there before." Andrew pointed out. Andy and Lemo shrugged as the dropped to the ground and began crawling army-style to the center of the tree, "You two have got to stop watching those crappy old videos I have at home!"

"Your coming, Drew!" Andy hissed.

Reluctantly Andrew dropped onto his stomach and began crawling too, muttering how retarded they looked and that the tree was laughing at them. As usual he was ignored.

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All was going good until suddenly the tree decided the army-crawling trick had lost it's entertainment rating, the Whomping Willow came down and hit Lemon squarely on the head, another branch swept her off the ground and began throwing her around. Andy who was still recovering from her own head injury hadn't relised she was missing was only feet away from the hole when Lemo grabbed her and pulled her onto the branch that was throwing her around. On the ground Andrew lay frozen. Shitting himself. As soon as a branch came near him, he grabbed it and allowed it to throw him about until he reached the girls branch. Which was still them around,

"So...Come here often?" he joked. Both girls looked at him. "What? I was trying to lighten the situation!"

"You should have stayed on the ground! You can't help if your being thrown around too!" Andy grumbled.

Andrew frowned,

"Well I'm sorry I didn't think of that!"

Lemo shooked her head as best she could,

"It was kind of obvious."

Suddenly the tree flung them into the hole and they landed all in a heap. Lemo on the bottom, then Andrew then Andy.

Andrew miaowed,

"Kinky..."

Lemo groaned under the wait,

"You find everything kinky so get your wand out of my ribs and get off me!"

"What if it isn't my wand?" Even though it was dark both girls could tell he was doing his classic eyebrow bounce.

"Your dick wouldn't be that long..." Lemo answered back.

Andy giggled,

"It isn't..."

Lemo gagged and heaved herself up knocking the rest over,

"C'mon, we're moving..."

Andrew and Andy dusted each other and ran after Lemo who was determined to catch up to Barry and the dog.

"Where do you suppose this leads to?" Andrew asked.

Lemo shrugged,

"I don't know, but Barry's there and we have to catch up before that dog eats him!"

"I don't think it'll-"

Lemo raised up a hand,

"Shut up!"

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They walked and they walked until they finally reached a large wooden door. For a moment they just gwalked at it until Andrew sighed in frustration and opened the door for Lemo. As soon as she had recovered she sprinted into the house looking around for a sign, (perhaps reading 'kidnapped children this way'.)

"He's upstairs!"

Andy looked around,

"How can you tell?"

"MY BARRY SENSE ARE TINGLING!"

Andy clapped a hand over Lemo's mouth,

"What are you doing! Just tell everyone we're here!"

Andrew shook his head and looked around the dusty room. It had the shredded remains of a couch and a dusty table with claw marks scratch down it. Andrew let out a low whistle,

"Whoa that dog has anger management problems." At that moment he relised he was alone, above him he heard a high pitched scream. Then silence except the building's gentle creaking. Andrew jumped and began running for the stairs that he took two at a time. Pin pointing where the scream came from he burst through a door, ripping it off it's rusted hinges, he then promptly fell over said door. Lemo slapped her head with her forehead,

"Way to make an entrance Drew-"

"Drew! It's a trap!" Barry warned, lying on a falling apart bed, clutching his side. Andrew was about to try and pull himself up when he felt a foot on his back and a sharp voice stated,

"I believe you kids know someone I want dead."