Tales of HumferGoo

Chapter 5

I woke up because I heard Clover open my door. I looked up at her.

"Good morning Leafa," she said smiling. I yawned and sat up Good morning."

"Why are you smiling?" I said. "HumferGoo is here and he's waiting down in the living room," said Clover.

"Really? Let me get ready then," I said getting up and pushing Clover out of my room. "Alright, alright," she said. "I'll be downstairs," she said, as I closed the door. I changed and then headed downstairs. Clover and HumferGoo were talking.

"Hey Leafa!" Said HumferGoo. "Hey!"

"How come your here?" I said.

"I have the day off today, and thought you'd want to do something," he said.

Clover picked up her bag. "I got to go, but I'll see you guys later," she said leaving.

"Hmm," I thought for a bit. ,"maybe you could take me to Thorn Swamp?"

"I can do that, but I thought Clover doesn't like it when you go near there," he said. "She doesn't, but I have you this time, and if anything were to attack us, you are pretty good at using a sword," I said.

"Alright, but we won't stay long," he said.

When we got there, we both stopped at the edge. HumferGoo looked around for a bit before he found a small path that wasn't to muddy.

"We got to be careful, there a a lot of dangerous thorns here, along with sinking mud," said HumferGoo. "Yeah I know," I said. "While we're here could we possibly look for someone who lives here?" I said following right behind HumferGoo. "Someone lives here?" he said confused. "Yeah it was mentioned in a book I read. That reminds me. Did anyone stop by the library at all yesterday? I said. "I think we should jus walk around a bit. I don't want to go to far into the swamp. And not that I know of," he said."Why?" He said. "Oh..I was just wondering. That's all." I said. I didn't want to tell him that some of the books were damaged, so I kept it to myself.

"Do you know of any blue lights in the swamp?" I said. "What kind of blue light. Like a lamp? Or something?" he said. "That's the thing. I don't know. There were two pictures of this swamp that both had faint blue lights," I said. "Okay then we should keep a lookout for it," he said. I then remembered that there was a pet that lives here. "Um HumferGoo," I said. "Yeah?"

"We also need to keep a lookout for the person's pet that lives here too."

"Did it show what it looked like?" He said. "No..."

"The maybe we should go back," he said. "Yeah I guess," I said.

When we got to the edge of the swamp HumferGoo said,"We can always do something else if you want. Did your book mention any other place that you might want to check out?"

"It mentioned my moms forest, but th-," I then remembered the ripped out pages. "But what?" Said HumferGoo. "I didn't read where it said it was," I said. "Oh, then we can always check near where we are first," he said. "I only know of the swamp, my forest, and Clover's, but I also haven't actually gone any further then your castle and the area between that," I said. "I know the are pretty well, so we can check near my castle first," said HumferGoo.

As we arrived at his castle, he told me needed to check a few things. I waited in the main area by the entrance. A few minutes passed when he came back. "Alright let's go," he said. When we left his castle, HumferGoo was walking over to the stable. "We are going to need rides, so we get to ride a wubblesnurg," he said opening the stable door. I've never seen a wubblesnurg before, but I know what they are. They have long legs, which help them run and walk fast, along with claws for protection, the wings of a bird allowing for short flight, but only without a rider, a long tale, ears that have spiky feathers on the top, and a short and tiny beak. They can also be ridden bare back, but it's easier with a saddle.

HumferGoo put a saddle on two of the birds and then put helmets on them. There were holes in the helmets for their ears to go through and eye slits so they can see. He then opened the doors to each of their stalls. He brought both out of the stable. I followed him outside. He then got on his.

"Hop on and then we can follow the roads to wherever you would like to stop," he said. These things were really big, so I had to give myself a boost to get up. "Wow this is weird," I said. "You'll get used to it. Now these things are pretty smart, so they know when you want to stop, or go, and they're fully trained," he said. "Follow my lead!" He said starting to ride away. The one I was riding started following HumferGoo's wubblesnurg and they both started walking at a normal pace. "Where are we headed first?" I said raising my voice a little so he could hear me. "We are going to follow the road and as we pass by, we can see if anyone knows about the forest," said HumferGoo.

As we were riding, most of te stuff we passed was just flat fields or a few scattered trees. You could see mountains in the distance, but it didn't look like the road was going to be going anywhere over there. We rode for a bit when we stopped at a small town called LIttle Creek, that I've never been too.

"Have you been here before?" I said looking around. "I come here often. I also know a few people that live here," he said as we stopped at a small stable. HumferGoo got off his wibblesnurg and then put it in one of the stalls. I hopped off mine and HumferGoo put it in the stall next to mine. A person walked over to we where and said,"Hey HumferGoo! How's it been!"

"It been fine. Except for some news about two guys from the North side. But that's not what we are here for," said HumferGoo.

"Yeah I've heard about them. Nothing out of the unusual here. I just hope they don't do anything bad. Who's your friend you brought?," they said looking at me.

"Pardon me. This is Leafa. She doesn't live that close to here," said HumferGoo.

"Hello," I said a little quiet. "Nice to meet you Leafa, I'm Henry."

"Is it ok if we leave our rides here while we are here?," said HumferGoo. "Well of course! Why wouldn't I let you keep them here?," said Henry. "Well we'll be off," said HumferGoo paying. "See you later!," said Henry.

I followed HumferGoo out of the stable. "I know someone here who knows if there might be any forests that belong to your mom," said HumferGoo.