Its been some time since I wrote the last chapter, but life keeps finding a way to keep me writing like what people discover on the news and my friends at my full time job who have something interesting to say about a boy wearing protection goggles writing twice as small as them. I love imagination.

Jamie was staring first feeling a shiver of fear down his back, but only until he remembered how easy it was to out wit and live through this bats' encounter.

Hanging off the ground was Jamie by a bats' talon pressing against his chest. The grasshopper that lost a foot may've been too scared to help Jamie but a good mouse knew any mouse meant to survive in a forest could save themselves.

" I am one hungry bat. Good thing I am also a wise bat or you might be at that farm like you told you lil lady mouse," said the bat.

Since he liked to talk about how hungry he was Jamie would show him what he has to offer.

" Would you honestly eat a child mouse or would you like a much bigger mouse?" Jamie asked with a big smile on his face.

The bat was more annoyed than intrigued because he wanted to be the one smiling through this. " I want a quiet area that helps me enjoy my supper. Do you want to fly in the air; see the claws closer than any mouse before I digest you?"

Jamie pointed with his nose in the direction of a mouse body covered in leaves. The bat enjoyed the sight of more food.

" I'll eat it and then you."

He poked into the dead mouse with two talons and shoved it into his mouth. Something the size of a grain of rice was put in by Jamie; humans accidentally poison themselves with it as well could be used to poison animals.

The bat finished the mouse off when he swallowed it down. He felt calmer now since his hunger was half alleviated—the other half of his hunger was longing for Jamie.

He felt a little pain grow inside his stomach. It wasn't just the pain now but hallucinations putting his mind out of ease and in an array of panic. The pain was an omen of what could be his death all brought on by a sneaky mouse.

" You should be able to hear me now." Jamie grabbed ahold of the bat's right wing and twisted the part that helps him flap his wings. " That mouse had fentanyl inside of him. The only reason your still alive is my genius made the drug like moldy cheese to us mice. There is a virus though in my chemical your immune system won't save you from. Once you get sick from my trap you'll die within one hour."

" This is how I die?!" The bat covered his eyes with his free wing. " Why me? Why does God want me to die like this?"

" Because a mouse with extensive knowledge in poisons and drugs who isn't afraid of killing his predator came to be your decided meal." Jamie said coldly to the dying bat. " The good news for you is I see potential in your longevity so I will give you the only cure if you help me get rid of every D.D.T in the farmers house."

Jamie knew as long as a mammal with wings was still breathing it could do things like take flight and also soar through the forest avoiding ferocious cats like Dragon.

Trust had to be shared both ways giving Jamie the feeling the bat didn't trust him so he wouldn't trust the bat. Just at an altitude of two mice standing on ones shoulders the grasshopper Tobby jumped off the ground and landed next to Jamie.

" You succeeded in being the first grasshopper not to be eaten with something that has wings. That being said you have no business being here so once we descend go away." Jamie said to the grasshopper.

" Can't we just let water under the bridge with me standing behind a tree and watching you getting almost eaten so we can work together to save the forest." Tobby cried to Jamie hoping the tears would convince him.

" Never in my life have I found any use in bugs and today is also one of those days."

" Well you wouldn't push a grasshopper that lost a foot fall at a height to big for him to live through? I can tell deep down you're a nice mouse."

Jamie grabbed two of the grasshoppers' front legs and kicked him off the bait. Tobby screamed as his legs wriggled to touch the part of the bat, but the speed the bat was flying made it halt to do so.

" I'll be bait: I'll help you push all the D.D.T into the river just give me a chance!" Tobby shouted.

While Jamie was scaring the grasshopper the bat was thinking about pushing them forward and almost let them fall unless Jamie handed him the antidote to the virus spreading to his body.

Jamie wasn't good or evil because his real parents were smart and good while the spirit trying to control him was smart despite having malice in his ideals. He wouldn't do this sort of thing to the grasshopper who might be his accomplice if there was a two percent chance he would accidentally drop him.

The grasshopper was pulled back onto the bats back. The bat landed on a windowsill.

" This is an important part where you follow me. Although we are small we're not microscopic and alerting ourselves to these humans would mean death. It's a risk, but I might know a way we can move unnoticed."

The bats job was done and thus he was stroked on the right side of his mouth—the uncomfortable feeling of it opened his mouth. After that he drank the cure Jamie gave to him.

" Watch out for what your eating because the next dead mouse you eat might kill you."

The bat knew it was his fault he was pointed to begin with. That being said he would remember this incident to try being more self-aware of what could happen when he misses something on the ground or eat something that could be contaminated.

He flew away happy to be away from that mouse and relieved to be alive with a full mouse in his tummy.

The humans were grateful that they had a trained cat instead of a dog that bites people's faces like a family in the news had. The husband was eating corn with lots of pepper while the wife was eating leftover pasta with spinach and tomatoes.

The corn was safe to eat thanks to the D.D.T he sprayed on his crops thanks to his lawnmower. It was hard on the body but like a chef he could eat everything he is going to sell, chef's have to taste every ingredient before they purchase it because their reputation on the lines farmers know not everything they grow will turn out good. What they don't sell is used to feed pigs.

The ones they know can wake people sick from eating it are put in a garbage but not before being poisoned. Rats eat the poison and warms eat the rats. Jamie wasn't here to try anything these humans call "food".

Jamie noticed the farmer put cream on his face that made him look twenty years older. A man fifty-five years old looked like a seventy-five-year-old man. No matter how many times he wishes that face the zinc in his face didn't peel off.

Jamie and the grasshopper Tobby were tiptoeing around without any suspicion until the insect's feet just slammed into the floor as he yelled in pain. Moving around the way Jamie wanted him to was close to impossible for him. It was his luck that Jamie backed up, raised Tobby's legs until they were on his back, and he carried the grasshopper until they would make it to their destination.

" Why are you doing this for me?" Tobby asked the mouse doing the heavy lifting.

" I need extra muscle to push their container of D.D.T…and I guess its my way of apologizing to your for making you feel like I would drop you."

Tobby now had a good idea of what kind of heart Jamie had. He was just trying to protect his friends.

Tobby jumped off when the mouse was pushing the container of D.D.T, turning so his two good legs were facing the container he raised them up and gave it a good push. To save everyone in the forest he would push it into the sink so he could wash and ruin the drug.

Unfortunately, with the farmer getting off his chair Jamie knew they were in trouble.