Thanks to AquaIsland-Caroamy for helping me with this chapter. Applause for her! *applauds*
Disclaimer: *applauds too* And now to say that Crazy owns only the Arguvilla inhabitants, the storyline, the island, aaaaaaaand anything else which does not obviously belong to SEGA.
Twenty minutes after the thirty minute argument, they arrived at Arguvilla. Pump was on one side of Silver, and Wave was on the other side, supporting him. The village had fifty buildings in all, and seemingly twice as many porcupines. And all of the porcupines looked quite plump. The buildings were built out of what looked like cherry wood (once again... these mysterious mixes!) with tiles for the roof of each one, some had points, some were flat, and some were like upside down cones. The doors were a hazelnutty brown, and there were lots of brooms, one beside each door. And there were also weapons, such as bows and arrows. When the females in village saw Silver they tut-tut-tutted.
"No tutting, he has an injury that needs tending to."
"We're tutting at the injury wobble-chops." Said one of the females.
"Didi don't make me hurt you..."
"You couldn't hurt a fly if you tried cheesy-whiskers." The two porcupines argued heatedly as the other females came forward and helped support Silver.
"Don't mind them, those two are always fighting. Didi is Pump's daughter."
"Where's his wife?"
"Away." Said one of the females.
"Away where?"
"We don't know, only the men would, and they don't discuss it, they like to pretend nothing has changed so... we're the most ignorant on this island. The men say it's only to protect us... but I don't believe it. I think we could protect ourselves if they just taught us how."
"I'm sure you could too." Said Wave.
"Thank you, I'm Renna."
"Nice to meet you Renna. I'm Wave, and this is Silver."
"How long have you been married?" Asked one of the little porcupines, looking at them curiously. As soon as Silver and Wave realized the question was aimed at them they stopped.
"What's wrong?" Asked Renna. But they didn't seem to hear.
"Married...?!" They both yelled at the same time. All the porcupines stopped what they were doing to watch, even Pump and Didi.
"WHO IN THE WORLD SAID WE WERE MARRIED?!"
"AND WHO WOULD THINK I'D BE MARRIED TO YOU?!"
"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!"
"THAT YOU'RE AN IDIOT!"
"I AM NOT AN IDIOT!"
"WHO FAINTED WHEN I KNOCKED THE WOLF OUT?!"
"THAT WASN'T MY FAULT! IF YOU'D ARRIVED SOONER I MIGHT NOT HAVE..."
"OH LAY THE BLAME WITH ME WILL YOU?!" The argument raged back and forth, loud and clear. The porcupines watched in awed silence, Renna's mouth was open, her eyes wide. They finished twenty-five minutes later, both looking quite angry.
"That was... that was amazing!" Gasped Renna.
"So we've been told." Grumbled Silver. Wave "humphed" and walked on, practically dragging Silver. "WAAAAAAAVE! THAT HURTS!"
"SO WHAT?! PACK IT IN YOU BIG BABY!" Another argument started.
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Silver was quite put out about the fact that he either had to be in a bed (and thus miss the feast), or had to have someone assist him in getting around. He adamantly refused, using his powers (which he was now strong enough to use again) to help him stay upright. This was another source of wonder to the Arguvilla porcupines. As he walked out of the house, with his right leg supported by glowing greeny-blue light, Pump greeted him. "Hello Silver!" Silver smiled.
"Hey."
"What?" Silver blinked, then realized that Pump thought Silver had been going to say something after "hey".
"Oh, I just meant hey like, hello."
"I see. Come with me this way! This is where we hold our feasts." Silver realized it was his turn to be awed as his jaw dropped. Humongous trees circled a sort of semi-clearing, in the center there was a huge pit with a gigantic bonfire in it. The tables were made of what looked like oak wood... with bowls and plates that looked like they were made out of glass. "To see by." Said Pump when he noticed Silver was staring at the bonfire. But Silver was now staring past the bonfire at the stretched out shadow of two figures.
"Who are those?" Asked Silver, the shadows didn't look like porcupines, or even Wave.
"Those are some of our tale-tellers." Said Pump airily, but a worried look came onto his face. Silver pretended not to notice it, but his curiosity was aroused.
"Oh I see, will they be performing?"
"Maybe." Said Pump. "Err.... listen, would you mind going and sitting down? I'm going to talk with them." Pump hurried off around the edge of the fire as Silver zoomed to a seat by Wave, who had a convenient view of the side of the fire that Pump was going to be on with the supposed "tale-tellers".
"What do you want?" Asked Wave as Silver sat down.
"I didn't come to fight...."
"That's new."
"... there's something important I have to tell you."
"It had better not be a proposal." Said Wave, glaring.
"I promise you it isn't." Wave raised an eyebrow.
"Alright, I'm listening." Silver told her about Pump's strange behavior.
"That's... weird." She looked around uncertainly. "Maybe this island isn't what it seems? I mean, we've found a lot of weird things lumped together. Vines and cotton? Raspberries and tomatoes? Bananas... and owls? What other place in the world would have those combinations?"
"None that I know of. Do you think we should do some investigating?" Wave cast a sidelong glance at him.
"You've hung around with Team Chaotix before haven't you?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Hmm." Wave didn't give any other response.
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