Later on, Micco soon made a fire for the night. Everyone began to warm up before they began to feel sleepy and fell asleep. Kenai soon looked over to see Nita still on her own before he decided to get up and go over to do something to help out. Ingrid made sure that Roshan was comfortable and slept as her friends began to sleep too before an owl and a bat began to watch her from where they stood. The two of them flew down to Ingrid.
"Oh!" Ingrid gasped. "Um... Hello, there..." she then greeted the two nocturnal animals.
"Hello, there," The owl replied. "I believe you're the ones we're looking for."
"Huh?" Ingrid asked.
"Oh, yes," The bat said as he sat on the girl's shoulder. "She's the one."
"Ah, animal spirit guides, huh?" Ingrid guessed.
"Yes," The owl replied. "My name is Sonata. I represent the element of song."
"And I'm Sabath," The bat added. "I represent the element of the night, such as dreams."
"Sounds like Felicity's mother," Ingrid replied. "It's nice to meet you two, I'm-"
"We know you, you're Ingrid," Sonata told her. "We heard about you and your little brother."
"Sonata, it's not nice to interrupt someone." Sabath said.
"Well, we do know who she is." Sonata defended to the bat.
"Hmm..." Sabath rolled his eyes from that. "But yes, Ingrid, we know about you."
"Well, that feels nice," Ingrid smiled. "Especially after finding out about my new destiny with my friends visiting from the city."
"They do look interesting; especially the strong one, he seems to really take after his totem." Sonata said.
"They are good friends of mine," Ingrid nodded. "Are you here to give me your gifts?"
"Certainly," Sabath replied. "And to wish you a good night."
Ingrid smiled at the owl and bat before she was given their marks on her arms as tattoos before she glowed briefly.
"Well, have a good night's sleep." Sabath wished.
"Thank you," Ingrid said softly. "I just hope we can get Nita her amulet back."
"I'm sure you'll find a way," Sonata wished as Ingrid leaned down to go lie down. "Sweet dreams."
Ingrid soon went to sleep. It was a long night for everyone as they drifted off to sleep until the next morning would come.
The next morning came a bit early for the others as Akito woke up first and decided to do his morning jog as he usually did that after he woke up before he would get breakfast, just like back at home. And after jogging and having breakfast, he soon saw Kenai wasn't nearby. "Hmm... Where'd Kenai go?" he soon wondered to himself before he went to go looking for the older male bear.
Nita and the others were still fast asleep as Micco dreamed about becoming a great hero someday with his power, but of course, he would be in the distant future.
Eventually, Nita woke up and saw that her childhood best friend was missing. "Kenai?" she then called out as the others slowly woke up after her.
"Guys, guys, you gotta come quick! You're not gonna believe it!" Koda called out as he suddenly rushed out to see the others as they woke up. "Kenai spent the whole night untangling those tracks. And I didn't think anybody could, 'cuz they were all forks, double-backs and crisscrosses and dead ends-"
"Koda, Koda, where is Kenai?" Nita asked, trying to get him to stop rambling.
"That's what I'm trying to tell you," Koda replied. "He found the river bandit's hideout!"
"Show us." Estelle smiled.
"Please." The others nodded from that.
They soon followed the bear cub over to where Kenai currently was which was in front of a very tall tree.
The others were then heard coming as Kenai stared at the tree before he saw them coming, so he had them come over. "Nita, Nita, over here." he then whispered loudly.
"Well, where is it?" Nita asked as she came over with Koda and the others. "Did you get it?"
"Shh! I don't have it yet," Kenai shushed them as he began to whisper. "It's up in the tree. I'm waiting for them to fall asleep."
Nita soon made her way to the tree.
"How mischievous." A nearby coyote smirked at the sight.
Ingrid glanced over at him from that.
"Nita! Wait!" Kenai whispered loudly as he came towards the tree.
"Hey!" Koda cried out as he fell in the snow from that before going after Kenai.
Micco soon joined them as did the others.
"Nita, what are you doing?" Kenai whispered loudly at his childhood best friend.
"I'm getting my amulet back." Nita replied.
"Let me handle this." Kenai told her.
"Please let him handle this." Vincent added.
Nita decided to keep going anyway.
"No, seriously, you could fall." Kenai warned.
"Shh!" Nita shushed. "I'm trying to concentrate."
"I gotta see this." The coyote smirked as he laid down beside Kabutops who looked concerned for Ingrid.
And where Kenai was right as Nita fell, only to land on two branches. The others winced a bit as the coyote chuckled to himself.
"That's not funny." Kabutops scolded.
"It is to me." The coyote smirked.
"Hey, hey!" A raccoon complained as he soon came out, rubbing his eyes as he came out the hole in aggravation. "Can't any of you morons define the term 'nocturnal'? Anyone?"
"Sorry. Sorry," Kenai smiled nervously, trying to distract the raccoon. "It's completely my fault. Just me. Uh, listen, you've got something of ours."
The raccoon soon looked down at Kenai to hear more of what he was talking about.
"That's not Mapachin." Ingrid said to herself once she took a look at the raccoon.
"Yeah, it's round, about so big." Kenai tried to describe.
"Maybe I do, maybe I don't. That's for me to know and for you to find out," The raccoon smirked slyly. "Either way, it's a moot point. Finders keepers, losers weepers. It's the way of the woods."
"You didn't find it; you stole it, thief!" Micco glared at the raccoon.
"All right. You got me," The raccoon replied before a bunch of other raccoons soon came out of the tree and surrounded them by the branches and they all looked quite menacing. "That's what we do. We rob from the rich and give to the less fortunate. You know, like us!" he then grinned darkly at the ones on the ground.
"Oh, this could be bad," Akito sighed to himself. "Something tells me these guys aren't gonna be as helpful as Sly Cooper."
"You don't wanna mess Kenai or our human friends or Kabutops; they're lean, mean, raccoon butt-kicking machines." Koda told the raccoons before growling fiercely.
Kenai looked a little nervous from that. The raccoons didn't take what the bear cub said seriously and soon threw pinecones at Kenai and the human kids.
"Koda, what are you thinking?!" Vincent complained as he and the others were pelted with pinecones.
"Go ahead!" Koda continued. "Hit them with all you got! They can take it!"
"Koda, what are you doing?" Kenai glared at his little brother.
"I'm tricking them into using all their pinecones." Koda whispered.
"It's a pine forest!" Ingrid told him.
"Oh... Right..." Koda realized. "This could take a while."
"Whoa, whoa, hey, hey!" Kenai yelped in pain from the pinecones. "What about a trade?"
That interested the raccoon leader. "Whoa, whoa! Hold your fire," he then told his fellow raccoons. "Hold it. Hold, hold. He wants to trade."
"Ooh, a trade..." The other raccoons smirked as they looked interested.
"Whatcha got?" The lead raccoon asked with a smirk.
"Oh! Um... Uh..." Vincent chuckled sheepishly. "How about a magical paintbrush?"
The raccoons looked deadpan from his offer as they had no use for any paintbrushes.
"Well, I tried." Vincent shrugged at himself.
"What do I got? I got lots of things," Kenai smiled nervously. "I got... Pinecones?"
This caused the others to hang their heads as that was all they had other than many other things that were on the ground.
"No." The lead raccoon scoffed.
Nita gasped as she soon found the amulet and reached out to take it quietly and carefully.
"Uh, how about this stick?" Kenai asked the raccoon.
"No."
"Rock?"
"You are insulting me."
"I can't believe it!"
Nita soon got her amulet back, only to see a baby raccoon was shown to be attached to it. "Shoo! Shoo!" she told the baby raccoon, trying to bounce it off by shaking her amulet, but the baby raccoon laughed as it felt like a fun ride so far. "Come on. Come on, let go."
Suddenly, the baby raccoon flew back into the hole and felt hurt.
Nita sighed in relief as she wore her amulet before seeing the baby raccoon who looked ready to cry. "Aww..." she said with a small smile as it looked cute.
"MAMA!" The baby raccoon then suddenly yelled out.
This, unfortunately, caught the attention of all the raccoons.
"Uh-oh." Akito and Estelle muttered together.
"This reminds me of when Jane Porter got trapped with the baboons." Vincent remarked.
"Uh... Hello." Nita soon smiled nervously as the raccoons all looked at her a bit darkly.
"Nita, I think it's time to go!" Kenai called out.
Nita soon got down from the branches that kept her up before she screamed and began to fall through the air by the branches.
"...Well, that was graceful." Vincent deadpanned.
Nita caught a loose branch and soon stood on a new branch before the raccoons began to chase her all around the treetops.
"Oh, this is rich." The coyote smirked.
Roshan cupped his mouth in worry as he sat beside the coyote. The treetop soon fell with Nita and the raccoons on it as she slid into even more raccoons on the way down. Nita soon made it onto another treetop only for more raccoons to stampede at her before she whacked some away with the branch she had found.
"This just keeps getting more entertaining." The coyote smirked.
"You are so helpful!" Ingrid glared at the coyote.
"Can't help it," The coyote smirked. "I like some good mischief every now and then."
"Hmm... You must be Kitchi." Ingrid remarked.
"At your service." Kitchi greeted.
"I shoulda guessed." Ingrid replied.
"Does he have to do with that dream you had?" Estelle asked Ingrid.
"Yes, it sure looks like it," Ingrid replied. "Even if Kitchi seems to be quite the trickster among the Spirit Animals."
"Eh, that's just how I am." Kitchi smirked.
"Should one of us help Nita?" Vincent asked.
"Maybe I ought to." Ingrid decided.
"You sure?" Akito and Estelle asked.
"Yes... I should help out..." Ingrid replied before she swung herself over and began to go to help out Nita.
"Get away from my sister!" Micco glared at the raccoons.
"No way! I'm getting back what she took from me!" The leader raccoon glared back.
"You asked for this..." Micco glared as he got himself ready.
"Nita! Behind you!" Kenai cried out.
Ingrid took out a branch of her own and soon hopped up right behind Nita to fight off the other raccoons as they kept flooding in.
"Wow," Estelle said. "Those raccoons sure don't mess around."
"They're sneaky little devils," Kitchi smirked as he showed his fangs at her. "Sometimes you gotta show 'em a little teeth and brute force."
The raccoons soon tackled Nita and Ingrid which made them fall out of the tree.
"NITA! INGRID!" The group panicked for the girls at that.
Kabutops prayed that his trainer and Nita would be alright. The two were suddenly flying through the air and landed in another tree.
"They're not bad." Koda commented as he watched that with the others.
Nita sighed as it looked like it was over, but there were still plenty of more raccoons who ran up the tree towards the girls.
"I got an idea, come on," Kenai told Koda before they ran towards the other tree. "Girls, go to the top!" he then told Ingrid and Nita.
"What?!" Ingrid and Nita asked.
"We're trying to get down!" Nita told him.
"Just listen to me!" Kenai reassured. "I know what I'm doing."
"I sure hope you do!" Ingrid replied.
"Hello!" The lead raccoon glared as he climbed towards Nita in a threatening way. "I want what you took from me."
"You mean she's taking back what you stole!" Ingrid glared back as she and Nita climbed up the tree.
"Don't cross me!" The lead raccoon growled as he came closer.
"Yes, that's it!" Kenai called out to Ingrid and Nita before he climbed up another tree while Koda and the others watched. "Keep going!"
"Oh, Kenai, I hope you know what you are doing." Felicity sighed to herself.
"If he's doing what I think he's doing, the top of the tree will start bending down due to the weight of Nita and Ingrid." Akito said.
"I hope that's what he is doing then." Felicity replied.
"I'm sure it is." Akito nodded.
"Let's get 'em." The raccoon leader grinned as he and the other raccoons came closer and closer as the tree bent a bit, lowering Ingrid and Nita above a very high height.
"Kenai!" The girls cried out of fear.
"Well, well," The lead raccoon smirked. "Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide."
"Kenai better know what he's doing." Ingrid said.
Nita nodded from that as she looked scared about letting go and falling, but...
"Girls, let go!" Kenai soon called out.
"What?!" Nita yelped. "This is your plan?!"
"Just trust me!" Kenai called out.
Ingrid and Nita soon saw the raccoons getting closer to Nita.
"Don't listen to him," The lead raccoon grinned as he reached out eagerly for the amulet. "Come on, be a smart little hunter girl, huh? Hand over the trinket."
Nita looked scared of falling, but also of giving up the amulet before she gave in. "Kenai, this better work!" she then called out to her childhood best friend.
The raccoons were sent flying as the tree flung back and Nita and Ingrid were falling through the air. Kenai soon caught Nita while Micco decided to catch Ingrid before they could crash in the middle of the ground. And where they soon crashed down on the snow and where this would cause fun to happen.
"Well, at least they're having fun." Micco smirked playfully as he set Ingrid down on the ground.
"Yeah, I guess so." Ingrid replied.
Kenai and Nita slid around before they soon slid up a small hill and ended up crashing into a snow pile together like they were sledding and where in the end, the two of them were seen laughing. The rest of the group then went to go and catch up with the two. Kabutops and Roshan ran up to Ingrid and hugged her once she was back on the ground as she hugged them back.
"That was a lot of raccoons." Kenai remarked as he came out of the snow with Nita.
"I can't believe I outran all of them." Nita replied.
"When you jumped out of that tree..."
"Oh, oh! And the way you caught me!"
"And then when we fell..."
"You were amazing!" They then said together with a laugh.
"It's great to have the old Nita back." Kenai smiled.
"What do you mean 'The Old Nita'?" Nita soon asked as she put her amulet away.
"The Fun Nita," Kenai explained. "Come on, you know you've been kind of a stick in the mud this entire trip."
Micco snorted a bit from that.
"I don't think she has noticed." Vincent said.
The others soon came to catch up as Micco then got quiet as his sister flashed him a look.
"Okay, maybe you don't know," Kenai nervously said to Nita. "It's just good to see you loosen up a bit, you know?"
"Now hold on..." Nita glared slightly.
"Ew!" Koda called out as he soon slid down beside the two and came to sniff his big brother. "What stinks?"
"It's not me." Kenai told his little brother.
"Ugh! That's the most disgusting thing I've ever smelled," Koda complained as he plugged his nose before looking excited. "Let's go check it out."
Kenai then laughed and went to walk off with Koda.
"I guess that's just how little brothers are." Estelle rolled her eyes.
"Don't get any ideas." Ingrid told Roshan.
Roshan just let out an innocent coo from that.
"Uh-huh." Ingrid smirked playfully at her little brother.
"Hey! Wait a minute! I'm not finished!" Nita called out to the two bears. "...Ugh." she then groaned as they refused to stop.
Everyone else soon got ready to go until Kitchi stopped Ingrid and she earned his element next as she was close to finishing up her side quest in the adventure as she smiled, feeling very proud of herself.
"Where is that smell coming from?" Vincent asked.
"This way." Koda replied as he led the way.
"Lead on, Koda," Akito remarked. "Like from the Salmon Run."
"It was so cool that you guys got to go too." Koda chuckled.
"Sure was." Vincent said.
"So where are your Pokemon?" Kenai asked them.
"In our bags," Estelle replied. "We didn't want them to get into too much trouble, so we kept them packed away for just in case."
"Cool." Koda smiled.
"I feel like I've never seen Pokemon up until I met you guys." Kenai said.
"I'm sure there's a reason for that." Akito said to himself, mysteriously.
"Oh, brother, I have never known a moose to take this long, eh?" Tuke's voice complained.
"Don't rush me," Rutt told his brother. "I can't do it while you're watching."
"Jeez. You're getting it on my leg." Tuke replied.
"Sorry." Rutt apologized.
"Oh... I think I found what Koda was smelling before." Felicity pointed out to the others.
"And I think I know what one of them is covering himself in." Estelle said as she covered her nose.
The others groaned in disgust from that.
"Oh, hey, Largish Bear." Tuke smiled.
"How's it going, eh?" Rutt added. "Are we glad to see you. Yeah, beauty."
"What are you guys doing...?" Felicity asked, though she felt she would regret that question as soon as she asked it.
"We're still getting the brush-off from those moosettes." Tuke explained.
"Yeah, they seem immune to our rugged good looks, eh?" Rutt added. "So we thought we'd appeal to their olfactory senses."
"Ooh..." Estelle said.
"That's... Great..." Felicity said, uncomfortably.
"Ew!" Kenai and Koda grimaced in disgust.
"Yes, for example, I'm wearing essence of wet leaf compost with just a hint of sandalwood." Tuke said as he buried his face and antlers in a pile of muddy leaves which made him smell even worse.
"And I'm augmenting my natural moosely musk with a blend of pine needles and river mud." Rutt added as he skidded himself across the mud.
"That isn't mud." Kabutops told Rutt.
The kids looked even more sick from that.
"Kind of overpowering?" Rutt asked bashfully.
"That's no good." Tuke replied.
"Guys, don't sweat it," Kenai told the two moose. "I got another plan."
"Oh, yeah, I think we've already seen your expertise in romance." Nita smirked at Kenai.
"She does have a point." Micco added.
Koda and the other kids laughed a bit from that.
"Yeah, very funny," Kenai rolled his eyes. "Don't we have an amulet to burn?"
"Oh, we can spare a moment." Micco smirked as he walked over by Nita's side.
"Micco's right." Nita added, also smirking.
"Beauty, eh?" Tuke smiled as he stood with Rutt.
"What you need here... Excuse me. Is a woman's point-of-view." Nita said as she took a muddy leaf off of Tuke and tossed it over her shoulder which then landed on Kenai's snout, much to his aggravation.
"Yeah?" Rutt and Tuke asked.
"And a plan that actually works." Nita nodded.
"This is going to work out great." Akito said.
"Hopefully anyway." Estelle replied.
"I'm sure if I can get Emi Ketchum and Vincent can get Jenny Foxworth." Akito smirked.
"All right, let's look for those, uh, moosettes." Ingrid suggested as she carried Roshan in her arms.
Nita soon explained her plan. Everyone listened closely as it seemed to be a good plan so far.
"Oh, yeah," Micco smirked. "That should work out just fine."
"I knew you would approve of it." Nita giggled at her brother.
Roshan reached out as Koda was about to go to the two female moose as he wanted to play too.'
"Oh, you wanna play too?" Ingrid cooed. "Well, I guess that would be alright." she then set her baby brother down on the ground and let him go crawl out and go after Koda as it seemed to be a great help to make the plan work even more.
"Hi! We're playing with my two best friends and we need a place to hide." Koda smiled as he rushed over to the two female moose as Roshan joined him as he hugged one of their legs.
"Aw! Look at the sweet little things~" One of the female moose cooed.
"Jeez, I could just eat them up~" The other female moose added.
Roshan giggled as he waved at the female moose.
"Alright, that's your cue." Estelle whispered to the moose brothers.
"Beauty, eh?" Tuke smiled as he came toward the female moose.
"Good luck, eh?" Rutt told his brother.
"Rutt, would you get going?" Nita groaned before she moved him to go after his brother.
"Oh! Okay." Rutt replied as he walked after Tuke.
"Now to watch the rest of the plan to unfold." Vincent whispered.
The others got closer to take a look, especially Nita and Micco.
"Oh, uh, excuse us, ladies." Tuke smiled bashfully.
The two female moose glanced at them, already unimpressed.
"We're looking for our pal." Rutt said to them.
"Brownish?" One of the female moose asked.
"Yes." Rutt replied.
"Furry?" The second female moose asked.
"Yes again." Rutt replied.
"About yay big with a baby human?" The second female moose asked while guessing Koda's size.
"That's them!" Tuke beamed.
"Haven't seen 'em." The second female moose replied.
"Hm..." Tuke pouted from that.
The two female moose giggled from that.
"Here we are!" Koda laughed as he soon came out of hiding with Roshan.
Roshan giggled as he crawled next to Koda.
"There's no beating you, little buddies," Tuke smiled as he tickled Koda and Roshan with his antlers which made them laugh together. "Look at that."
"You're so good with them." The second female moose smiled at the sight.
"Oh, yeah, eh? We have lots of little kid animal friends," Tuke smiled back. "We know a little weasel and a little badger. And we've even got some little baby bunny friends."
'It's working perfectly and nothing is going wrong.' Felicity thought to herself.
"Whoa. Smallish Bear and Pinky are like babe magnets, eh?" Tuke remarked before nudging Rutt to make him talk as he looked too nervous to talk with the female moose. "Socialize. So, would you ladies be interested in grazing on some twigs?" he then asked the two female moose.
"Oh, no, thanks, we just ate," The first female moose replied only to get nudged by her sister. "Ow!"
"We love twigs." The second female moose soon said.
Rutt began to look like he was about to blurt out something out of fear.
"Really? Well, so do we," Tuke smiled at the two female moose. "Right, little brother?"
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's dew?!" Rutt suddenly blurted out which made the others nervous, especially Tuke. "Though it art more lovely and more dewy than you."
"Oh, nice move, eh?" Tuke scoffed.
"What's wrong with him?" The first female moose asked Tuke.
"Don't mind my little brother," Tuke replied as he soon walked off with the two female moose. "He was trampled by an elk herd when he was a calf."
"Oh, jeez, that's awful." The first female moose frowned.
"That's not true," Rutt huffed as he began to catch up with them. "It was only half a herd."
The second female moose laughed at that.
"Oh, good," Felicity looked relieved. "They're still going together."
Roshan and Koda seemed to share a high-five with each other.
"Remind us again who's the better moose matchmaker?" Nita smirked at Kenai.
"Beginner's luck." Kenai smirked back.
"Jealous?" Nita teased.
"All right, that was a really nice thing." Kenai admitted before they walked off together.
Roshan soon crawled back over to Ingrid before she picked up and hugged her baby brother.
"Great job." Ingrid smiled at her baby brother.
Roshan giggled and cooed at her.
"Did you see me?" Koda smiled at Kenai and Nita. "I did it."
"You can do pretty amazing things with moose," Kenai smiled at Nita as they walked off together, seeming to forget about Koda. "That's great."
Teddy soon seemed to come out on his own from his PokeBall and appeared, sensing as though Koda was being forgotten.
"Teddy!" Estelle called.
Teddy soon came out to see Koda as he felt something was wrong.
"Huh?" Koda pouted at Kenai and Nita. "Hey, wait for me!"
"Is something wrong?" Teddy asked Koda.
"Kenai forgot about me." Koda firmly pouted.
Teddy soon gave him a lift so they could catch up with the others.
"Thanks, Teddy." Koda said.
"No problem." Teddy smiled back before he ran to catch up with the others.