The village became dark and gray when night came in feather. All the houses lights are out, implying all yetis have gone to sleep for the night. The village has entered into a slumber. Everything is silent. It was difficult for the group of yetis to watch their steps and try not to make any sound. They are making their way to the tall palace. Meechee leads the way.

Migo, however, couldn't stop thinking about the Smallfoot; he couldn't focus. His mind replays the Smallfoot was getting angry and shouting at him repeatedly. Although he admitted it was hard to take him seriously due to the cute squeaky voice he has, He never saw his friend so mad at before. In fact, that is the first time he got mad at him ever. He keeps reassuring himself that Percy is back safe at the house, where Fleem is hopefully watching him like a hawk.

Migo knows that Meechee is mad at him too for treating the Smallfoot like he's completely helpless. She's right; the Smallfoots are capable of taking care of themselves. It's just he's so small, he would be lying to himself if he would say he's not worried about him. As for everyone else, he's not too sure.

They hid on the side of the palace to prevent seeing eyes. But now there is a problem."How are we going get in?" Whispered Kolka. Meechee thinks fast; she did not plan to consider this plan, though well.

"Thought that window." Meechee points up to the small window that would lead up to the second floor. The window is high up, and the window is small. Gwangi automatically knew he is not going to able happy thought it due to his poofy fur. Before anyone could say a thing, he spoke.

"I'll give you all boost up; I'll stay out here and keep watch."

"Are you sure?" Migo asked in concern. In response, he nodded.

"Mhmm. I can't fit thought that tiny window anyways."

"Oh."

He gave Meechee a boost up by tossing her up with his hands to the window; she climbed in once she got a good hold on the lege. Then Kolka and finally, Migo is last to be boosted up to the window. Once in, Migo then looked down from the window to see Gwangi starting at him below. He nodded.

"Thanks, Gwangi."

"Stay safe," Meechee added quickly.

"You all do the same. Bring the Smallfoots home."

When they were in and settled, they realized there in the hallway of the castle, made entirely out of ice. The halls are quiet and haunting. At the end of the hallway is the stairway down. With a deep breath, they crouched down and tipped toe down as Meechee lead the way. They wanted to quite as possible. Along the way, they peeked in some of the rooms to see if the Smallfoots were kept in one them.

"Smallfoots? Are you guys in there?" Migo and Kolka would whisper yell in each room. But there is no response in each room.

"I'm pretty sure the Smallfoots would be lower level, their well-hidden there," Meechee suggests to them.

"Where no one can see them," Kolka added, agreeing with her. Migo nodded in agreement. With that, they tiptoe downstairs into the Great Hall, where statues of past Stonekeepers stood proudly and secure as they main the halls. Meechee took a look at before she preceded any further while the others did. It's sort of like the figures back at the ice palace at home. But there's something off about them that bugged her. "Meechee, we have a problem. We need his staff to open the staircase." Migo told her, but she was paying attention.

"Meechee?" Kolka said her name.

"The statues...are all him." She mumbles. She grew uncomfortable.

"The past failed us." A voice from the darkness said. The voice made them jumped. They turned to where the sound is coming from. From out of the shadows, he walked out the Stonekeeper of North with his staff in his hand and the stones that continue to rattle. He is ferrous with rage. "The Stonekeepers of the past did nothing but add stones." Then from their side, Cornell came in the room with Gwangi with his hands tied up with rope. He did not bother to fight back. Gwangi sluggish moved forward.

"Gwangi!" Shouted Meechee. "Let him go!"

"Meechee, it's okay!" Gwangi yelled out.

"I would if you and friends turn around right now and leave and pretend this place does not exist." The Stonekeeper said sinisterly. Before anyone could speak, he spoke right away. He knows why they come.

"But I know you can't do that because you came here to my village for a specific reason." He held out a map that Meechee dropped back up at the surface. Meechee gasped.

"I found it," Cornell spoke up.

"I assume your Stonekeeper gave this map to find this village, hm? And told all the 'terrible' things I have done to the Smallfoots?"

"He did, and you're a monster for it!" Migo yelled. Migo never though he'll see himself call any yeti a monster in his life.

"Monster? How am I a monster? I am merely taking care of our little enemy that our ancestors had to suffer too for generations."

"That was a long time ago; now we made peace with them!" Migo said.

"They don't deserve this!" Gwangi added.

"They deserve everything that's coming to them!" The Stonekeeper yells back at them, slamming his staff to the ground. Cornell's eyes widen; he never saw his father this angry before.

"What have you done to them?" Kolka asked desperately, clenching her fist.

"Just know they are suffering for what they did to us all those years ago. Taking our land and force us into hiding." The Storekeeper pause before he spoke.

"Your Stonekeeper is a fool tell you and your villagers the horrible truth and getting rid of the stones." He snarled.

"My dad is not a fool!" Meechee shouted, hurt by that statement. Then all a sudden, yeti guards came in the room with spacers targeted at them. She couldn't believe this. She couldn't reckon this is the village leader. The Stonekeeper turned his back at them and spoke to the wall with his hands folded to his back.

"I see now they're no other way to protect all yetis...but get rid of the Smallfoots once and for all!" He announced loud. His voice echo throughout the castle. Then guards grab them by the wrist tightly.

"No! Stop!"

"You can't do this!"

"This isn't right!"

"Take them to the dungeon." The Stonekeeper slam and staff. And the guards took them away. The Stonekeeper moans and rubs his exhausted eyes. Cornell went over to check on his father. Cornell is confused and frightened at the same time. He was bombarded with so much info; he swears his brain is going to explode.

"Father? What was all that? I thought the Smallfoots don't exist? I thought there are our friends?" Cornell asked but is quickly shushed.

"Son, breath. What do the stones say about questions? What do those stones say!?"

"Stuff it down."

"That's right." Cornell to a few deep breaths until those pesky questions stayed quite. Then the Stonekeeper realized something. Something missing. "There's a yeti missing, short yeti."

"They probably left him at the house. But why?"

"It doesn't matter why I need him in the dungeon too before he spends the truth. Son, go to the house and retrieve him, you'll have guards with you."

"Yes, Father." With that, he bolted. The Stonekeeper then went to the center of the room and opened the staircase with a twist of his staff that leads underground. He went on down with no remorse on his face.

Then from behind a pillar, stepped out Teal, who heard and witnessed the whole thing. She is breathing in out to clam herself. The young yeti had warm tears coming down from her dark blue eyes. She just saw her stepfather and leader's true colors for the first time in her life, and Cornell was just taking it. She felt cheated and lied to. She had to do something to stop this; it needs to end.

Teal dash to the lever to open the heavy door and start jogging to the house, where that annoying short yeti is. She has to warn him before it's too late.

To Be Continued...