A/N: And here we are! An all new update for Life is Abominable Episode Three! I'm hoping everybody's finding this new episode Hella exciting and fun so far. Because that was only the beginning, and many more exciting things are about to happen in this new update. Buckle up because starting now, the adventure continues. Enjoy!
Previously on Life is Abominable...
Max, Chloe, Everest, Yi, Jin, and Peng have arrived on the Southern Chinese shore and have made a map of their planned route to get Everest home to the Himalayas. Upon making the plan, Everest had developed a craving for soda-pop, turning him hyper and energetic. Jin has also been in low spirits, which only irritates Max and Chloe, Yi especially. Max has also had time to practice with her newest features to her rewind powers, the focused rewind and the pause. After sneaking off the ship, Everest's hankering for soda has caused him to really need to pee, which results in them getting thrown off the truck that was carrying the crate they were hiding in from anyone who may have been working for Burnish...
Somewhere in the jungles of Southern China 9:54 AM
Max, whom was still irritated from Jin ignoring her words back inside the crate while it was still resting on top of the flatbed, and Everest needing to pee because of how much soda he drank walked further down the woods until she came across a clearing surrounded by blueberry bushes. Everest looked somewhat dazed and tired as he sat flat on his butt on some grass, his eyes halfway opened as he lightly giggled, and Peng was lying on his back looking up at the sky talking to himself.
"I told you this was going to happen!" Max exclaimed. She then turned to her surrogate Yeti-son with a frown on her face.
"No more soda for you for the rest of the trip" Max said with her index finger pointed at him. Everest then groaned and and then let out a moan that almost made it sound like he was saying "But Mooooooom!".
"No buts, mister. Not a single can of coke after this" Max scolded before looking down at Peng.
"Yes, waiter. I'm ready to order" Peng said in a woozy tone of voice, like he had just gotten off a roller coaster that had a million loops and corkscrews.
"I'll have some of Nai Nai's pork buns, with extra pork" Peng continued.
"Alright, get up, Peng. We gotta go" Jin said as he entered the clearing with a strict look on his face.
"Hey, don't talk to him like that. He's just a little whacked out of his mind right now from all that sugar and caffeine" Chloe said in defense of Peng.
"That's my problem, why? He did this to himself, he has to learn that there are consequences for your actions" said Jin, defending how he was talking to his younger cousin.
"And a side of pork!" Peng piped in before chuckling like a hyena.
"Don't lecture me on Chaos Theory, Jin. Max and I BOTH know how it works" Chloe said pointing her index finger into Jin's cashmere sweater-vest. A louder grumbling was heard, and everyone's heads turned to Everest.
"Aww, poor guy must be hungry" said Chloe.
"Yeah. Don't blame him, I'm pretty hungry too" Max piped in. Everest then looked around to see the blueberry bushes, and he smiled as he had just gotten an idea. He got back on all fours and closed his eyes, taking a deep breath and letting out a gentle humming noise. Max's eyes went wide at the sound, she knew that sound. It was the same humming from her visions of the bridge she had been having when Everest was calling out to her for help. A light blue aura began surrounding Everest as he hummed, and the wind around him flowed throughout his pristine white fur.
"Wait, why is he making that..." Jin was about to ask, but Max, Yi, and Chloe shushed him in the middle of his question.
"Jin, shut the Hell up" Chloe whisper-scolded.
"Is he humming?" Jin asked in confusion as he continued to watch Everest. Peng then got up with a confused look on his face, and he looked to see Everest humming and surrounded by the blue glow. Max, Chloe, and Yi watched in wonder as Everest kept on humming. Max then looked to her right to see the blueberries on the bushes were growing to the size of apples, and even more were growing around her.
"Are those...?" Chloe asked, but stopped in the middle of her sentence as she was at a loss for words.
"Blueberries?" Yi finished for her as she kept on watching the blueberries grow all around her. Everest then stopped humming and began to dig in on the blueberries growing all over. Max and Peng helped themselves to some as well, Chloe had some too.
"Guys, these are delicious!" Peng shouted out as he licked purple juices off his fingers.
"Oh my dog, I know! I don't think I've ever had anything this good before!" Max said before picking up another blueberry and eating it like it was an apple.
"You're right guys, these are HELLA amazing! I wish my stomach was bigger!" Chloe exclaimed as she wiped the juices off her lips with her forearm and picked up another one.
"That doesn't make any sense. No, no. this is not possible" Jin said as he continued to watch the blueberries grow, some of them getting bigger, almost to the size of watermelons. One of them exploded right in Jin's face, staining his face, hair, and his clothes. Max, Peng, Everest, and Yi all laughed at him while Chloe just stood there with her hands on her hips, and a smirk on her face while staring down at the purple-coated Jin.
"Then how do you explain Max's time powers? Or even the existence of Yetis huh?" Chloe said with a snarky tone of voice at Jin.
"Still don't think all that crap is possible. And seriously, stop laughing you guys! This is cashmere!" Jin reprimanded the others for laughing at him. They all then stopped laughing and looks of horror on their faces formed as they saw the blueberries had grown even larger. Almost to the size of gigantic boulders.
"Uh, Jin..." Yi said, wanting to stop him in the middle of his rant to get his attention.
"What now?" Jin said before turning around. His eyes went wide and his jaw slightly agape when he saw how large the blueberries had grown.
"Everest! Do something!" Yi urged the Yeti urgently. Everest only ran away in horror, afraid of the blueberries hitting him.
"RUN!" Max and Chloe shouted in unison and began running after Everest further into the jungle. Yi and the others began running after them as well. The blueberries began to come off their stems on the bushes and began rolling after the five humans and Yeti. Everybody still kept on running and trying their best to dodge the blueberries as they kept coming down upon them.
"Chloe! Watch out!" Max exclaimed as she saw a large blueberry about to pin her down. The brunette held up her arm and turned her wrist to the right, pausing the blueberry in time as it was a mere inch away from hitting her right in the back. Chloe turned her head and saw this and gasped in surprise. She then continued running before she turned to Max and spoke.
"Thanks Max. I owe you like, a dozen new packs of Polaroid film" Chloe said gratefully while taking breaths in between her words.
"I'll have to cash in that favor after we're done with this adventure. But for now can we just focus on outrunning the giant blueberries that would put the giant boulder scene from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to shame?" Max asked as she kept on running.
"No problem" the blue-haired girl replied before jumping over a large rock before landing on her feet and kept on running.
"Incoming!" Yi shouted before looking up at the sky. Max and Chloe looked up and saw some of the blueberries were falling down from the sky. One of them projectile landed on Everest's back, causing him to tumble and fall down.
"EVEREST!" Max exclaimed when she saw her surrogate-son hit by the berries. She noticed more were coming down like an avalanche. Max then stopped running and stood her ground against the oncoming blueberry landslide.
"Max! What are you doing!? We have to run!" Jin said before he got hit by multiple blueberries at once. Max then held up her right hand and turned it to the right, freezing every blueberry in time where it stood. This action made Max feel woozy, and her nose began bleeding again and she fell down to her knees.
"Max!" Chloe called out and swooped her brunette friend up into her arms. The blueberries then suddenly began moving forward in time again, the pause had worn off somehow and the landslide kept moving down the slope.
"Don't worry, Mad-Max. I gotcha" Chloe said to Max in a comforting manner as she kept running away. The blueberries then kept on coming down, and kept on hitting the others, leaving purple juice stains on their bodies. Peng groaned as he was hit in the back by a large blueberry and got to his knees.
"I'm hit! Tell Nai Nai's pork buns I love them!" the nine-year-old said in a dramatic over-the-top tone of voice before Everest swooped him up into his arms and ran down the slope alongside Chloe. Everest then saw Max in her arms and got a worried look on his face.
"She's gonna be okay, big guy. She's just a little tired" Chloe said while trying to remain calm as she ran. Max then sat up in her friend's arms and then hopped back onto the grass before she turned to face the blueberry avalanche once again.
"Max, don't! You'll just be hurting yourself even more!" said Chloe, urging Max not to use her powers again. But, Max didn't listen and held up her left arm and turned her wrist counter-clockwise to make all the blueberries go back up the hill and back onto the bushes where they returned to their original size. Yi, Everest, Peng, Chloe, and Jin watched in complete awe at what they just witnessed.
"That's better" Max whispered to herself before she felt blood pouring down from both her nostrils again.
"MAX!" Yi and Chloe exclaimed together before running over to her.
"Are you alright? Max! Hey, Caulfield! You doing okay?" asked Chloe.
"Chloe? Uuuuuggghh. I don't... I don't feel so super" said Max weakly before she fell backwards into the grass and everything went black. The only thing she could hear were the voices of her friends. She could hear Everest cry out "MAMA!" in a worried and scared voice in her head before she blacked out completely.
"Guys!" Max exclaimed as she woke up. She looked around her and she realized she wasn't in the jungle anymore, she was back at the bridge from her visions. Only this time, there was no Burnish, no Zara, not a single one of his armed goons or vehicles in sight. There was no Everest either, she was totally alone. She stood back up onto her feet and looked all around her, not a single person in sight. And to make things worse, it was right in the middle of a blizzard.
"Everest! Yi! Chloe! Anybody!" Max cried out. She then heard footsteps slowly approach her, but then that's when she realized from the sound the steps were making that they were not human footprints at all, they were hoof-prints. Max saw in the distance, right in the middle of the icy and treacherous blizzard stood a silhouette of an animal.
"Wait a minute... I-I-I recognize that. That's the deer from Arcadia Bay!" said Max to herself while she stared into the silhouette. Max could recall what the janitor at Blackwell Academy, Samuel, had told her. This deer could have been her spirit animal, or it could have been Rachel Amber's spirit since she and Chloe knew somehow, that Rachel was guiding them in their quest for the truth in who had murdered her as well as who was responsible for the Dark Room.
"What are you doing here?" Max asked the deer as she approached it. The closer she got, the deer remained where it stood, it didn't even move.
"Why am I having these visions? Why did Everest choose me?" Max asked the deer while hugging her arms and rubbing them up and down to keep warm in the middle of the cold. The deer then began walking away into the distance until Max could barely make out what the silhouette was anymore. She then began to run after the deer into the blizzard until she found herself somewhere completely different. She was now on top of a mountain, and the sun was setting over the horizon, the sky had turned a beautiful shade of pink and the blizzard had stopped.
"W-Where am I now? Where's the bridge? What is this place?" Max asked as she looked behind her to see that the bridge was far down below at the very bottom of the mountain. Max's ears then caught the sound of large footsteps. Each step made crunching noises in the snow the closer whoever or whatever was making the noises got. The brunette then looked in front of her to see another silhouette, only this time it was a large humanoid looking creature covered in fur from the looks of the fuzzy ends of the silhouette's body. Max could also see the creature's eyes were glowing blue, like Everest's eyes.
"No way" Max whispered in awe to herself. She then saw it was looking down at her.
"Why?... Why me?" Max asked out loud to the beast before she felt blood come down her nose once again and drip down from her chin, leaving tiny little droplets onto the ground that stained the snow red. Max then touched her face and looked at her fingers to show more blood sticking to her fingertips before she heard a voice speak inside her head. She could only guess it belonged to the creature that stood before her in the snow.
"You were not chosen by mere circumstance, Max Caulfield. You were chosen by fate" a loud booming echoing voice said inside her head before she began feeling dizzy again and fell backwards into the snow. Everything went black again.
Somewhere outside the Yellow Mountain. 7:44 PM
Max's vision had been blurry as she slowly opened her eyes. All she could make out were shapes and colors. But her vision had cleared up to see Chloe and Yi standing right above her looking worried and scared at the same time.
"Uggghh" Max groaned as she sat up and rubbed her eyes to help adjust her vision.
"Guys! She's awake!" Yi shouted out.
"Not so loud, she's just coming to. Give her some room" Max heard Chloe reprimand Yi on the volume of her voice. Max then looked to see Chloe looking relieved with her hands resting on her shoulders.
"You alright, Max? You went dark on us for a moment" asked Chloe, concerned for the well-being of her best friend.
"I'm alright, Chloe. Just had a dizzy spell was all" Max said as she stood up to her feet with some assistance from her blue-haired companion.
"Must've been some dizzy spell. You've been unconscious for the entire day" said Chloe. Max then looked to see Yi holding out a plastic bottle of water to her.
"Here, I figure you might want something to drink" Yi gently said.
"Thanks" Max politely thanked her friend before taking it into her hand and twisting the cap off before she took a large sip. After that one sip, half the bottle was empty.
"Wow, you must've been really thirsty" Yi said when she saw how much water Max had drank. A worried whimper caught Max's ears and she looked in front of her to see Everest with Peng standing right next to him.
"Are you alright, mama?" she heard Everest ask in her mind.
"I'm fine, Everest. I'll be okay" said Max out loud as she stood up and walked over to the young Yeti, giving him a hug, which he happily returned.
"He was really worried about you. He wouldn't leave your side all day" Peng told her.
"Yi had to pry him away every now and again to make sure you had your room to rest" Chloe added. Max then looked up to see the stars were out in the sky, which made her heart sink to her stomach.
"Wait, what time is it?" asked Max.
"Almost eight-o-clock" Peng said while looking down at his wrist-watch.
"And where are we now?" Max asked before breaking her hug with Everest apart.
"We're just outside the perimeter of the Yellow Mountain. It's getting pretty dark so we decided we're just going to go over the mountain in the morning" said Yi. Peng then turned to see Jin still covered in blueberry juice.
"Hey, Jin! You get enough to eat?" asked Peng. Jin turned his head slightly with a deadpan look on his face before speaking to his younger cousin.
"Let's just say, that I've got blueberries in places where blueberries should NEVER be!" Jin exclaimed before walking away. Max looked down to see Jin had two large blueberries in the back of his pants, which made her start laughing out loud. Once Chloe and Yi saw it, they began laughing along with her.
"Nice glutes, Jin! Been doing lots of squats lately?" Chloe teased while wiping a tear away from her eye due to all her laughing. Max then took her Polaroid out of her bag and then took a photo of Jin walking around with the blueberries in the back of his pants. Jin then gave Max a frown as she took the photo out of the camera and shook it to make it develop faster.
"You better not post that anywhere" said Jin.
"You can't exactly post Polaroids on the internet unless you take a picture of the picture itself. Besides, these pictures aren't meant for the internet. They're meant for us to look at so we can remember everything we've ever been through on this trip" Max said as she put her camera and the newly taken photo back inside her bag. Jin just scoffed and walked away again, blueberries still carried around his backside. Max then let out a loud yawn and stretched her arms out to the side.
"Damn, Caulfield, you still want to sleep even though you've been unconscious half the day?" asked Chloe.
"Yeah, it's just... it's been a really weird day today" Max replied.
"You can say that again. Turns out Everest can do magic, you have some weird new abilities, a giant landslide of blueberries, we got Everest addicted to soda, and you go unconscious for pretty much half the entire day. I'm on the same boat as you" Chloe said before letting out a yawn herself. Max then walked over to Everest and Peng who were playing together like best friends. The sight was enough to bring a smile to Max's face, but she had to break it up because of how late it was getting.
"Hey guys? We should be hitting the sack pretty soon. We got a long way to go ahead of us" Max said.
"Aw, but we're not tired" Peng complained. Everest nodded in agreement.
"Not surprising considering you drank pretty much forty sodas each today. God, that a lot of caffeine you two ingested today" Chloe said. Max then got an idea and turned to her friend.
"Maybe we can help them get it out of their systems? You pack that waterproof bluetooth speaker?" asked Max.
"You know I did, Super-Max. Why?" Chloe asked as she took the speaker out of her bag and handed it to the brunette.
"We're gonna do something fun" Max said as she began linking her phone to the speaker. Once the link was completed, put her camera bag down on the floor and placed the speaker right next to it before walking over to where Everest and Peng were playing.
"Alright you guys, since you guys are all hyper and jacked up on sugar, we're going to be doing something that'll help you get it all out" Max told them.
"What's that?" Peng asked curiously. Everest only tilted his head to the side with one eye raised, wondering what Max had planned as well.
"We're going to have a dance party" Max said before she looked down at her phone and scrolled through her music to find a good song to play. She then found the perfect one to play and she turned back to the two young ones with a smile on her face.
"You guys ready to party?" she asked. Everest and Peng nodded excitedly.
"Well then, let's boogie the night away, boys" Max said before pressing the play button and sound began emitting from the bluetooth speaker.
(Start playing "D.A.N.C.E." by Justice until you read this next part of the story until it says to stop)
"Aw yeah, I love this song!" Chloe said as she began shaking her hips side to side while the raised her arms above her head. Max shimmied her shoulders up and down while she swayed her hips left and right. Peng and Everest began dancing too, the two were hopping up and down while fist-pumping into the air.
"There you go! Shake it!" Max encouraged the two. She began copying their dance moves and began dancing alongside the two of them. Chloe was now watching and bobbing her head up and down to the beat before she dug into Max's camera bag and took out her Polaroid camera.
"That's right, keep on partying you crazy kids!" Chloe said before she took a photo of Max dancing with Peng and Everest. Once the first photo was taken, she placed in Max's bag before she took another photo. This time it was of Everest and Peng standing back to back with their arms crossed against their chest like they were rappers.
"Oh yeah, that's a good one right there" Chloe said before placing the photo she took in Max's bag.
"Shake that fluffy butt, Everest! Shake what your mama gave ya!" Yi called out, which made Everest stop dancing and look confused for a moment.
"It's just an expression, silly. Just keep dancing. Come on, Everest, dance with me" Max said before she began doing the Dougie. Everest then began standing on his hind-legs and began copying her dance moves.
"Yeah, just like that. Do what I do, sweetie" Max sweetly encouraged as the two continued dancing alongside each other. While the two kept on dancing, Chloe took another picture of Max and Everest doing the Dougie together before she swapped out the film pack for a new one. Peng then jumped back in and continued to dance, this time he was doing the Macarena.
"Let's dance like Peng, Everest. Copy Peng" Max said to Everest in her thoughts. Everest nodded in reply and the three of them were now doing the Macarena together. After a while, the three of them put their hands on the backs of their heads and began moving their hips to side to side. Chloe got another photo before Yi ran up to join them.
"Glad to see you could join us, Yi" Max said happily to see her new friend join in on the fun.
"Hey Everest, watch this" Yi said before she began doing the robot. Everest then began mirroring all of Yi's moves. Max and Chloe followed suit. While the four friends did the robot together, Chloe took one last Polaroid of them.
"You guys are Hella awesome dancers" Chloe said in a voice that made her sound like a robot before putting the last photo and Max's camera back inside her bag. The blue-haired girl then ran up to join them in dance and began to shuffle her feet on the grass. Everest then began to shuffle too, kicking some grass up into the air as he copied his Auntie Chloe's dancing.
"Not bad, big guy. Not bad at all" Chloe said as she began doing the Moon-Walk. Everest attempted to copy this dance move to, but all it resulted in was making him trip backwards and fall down. The ground shook when Everest fell and caused Peng, Yi, Chloe, and Max to fall down and laugh up at the sky. Jin just stood there with his arms crossed, shaking his head while he leaned back against a tree.
"You need to learn to grow up. All of you" Jin muttered under his breath.
(You can stop playing the song now)
"How're you guys feeling now? Still pretty hyper?" asked Max.
"Are you kidding? I feel like I'm gonna pass out any second" said Peng in reply. Everest nodded in agreement.
"Good, because it's bedtime for you guys" Max said before she stood back up to her camera bag and bluetooth speaker.
"Fully agreed. I'm exhausted" Yi said while Max disconnected her phone to the speaker and put her camera bag back over her shoulder.
"What? Why are we stopping?" Jin asked.
"Because it's ten minutes past eight and in a few more minutes we won't be able to see our hands in front of our faces" Chloe said as she leaned against Everest's big fluffy belly as a pillow.
"And THAT is exactly why we need to keep moving, alright? Come on, Peng, we gotta get back to that dock" Jin said before he started to walk in the opposite direction of where the mountain was. He then spotted several eyes belonging to a coven of owls staring at him, which caused him to freak out and run back to the others.
"First thing in the morning" said Jin before rejoining the others. Max and Chloe just rolled their eyes with smirks on their faces.
A/N: Part two is complete everybody! Yay! I hope you guys had a blast with his update. I thought the dance party thing was a fun little idea to include into the story. And what is with Max's visions? What do they mean? And what did that mysterious creature's saying have to do with their mission to get Everest home? Keep on reading the next updates to find out! Please review, thanks!