So, after an hour of packing, the two young WooFoo knights set off toward the nearby woods just outside of town, both hauling heavy backpacks filled with supplies such as matches, rope, a tent, and such.

"This is gonna be so awesome!" Yang voiced his approval of their situation with vigor. "I mean, no baths or bedtime or alarm clocks or training or chores for a whole week? That's a test I'm willing to take."

Yin, on the other hand, wasn't so excited. "Ugh... No baths for a whole entire week?" She cringed at the mere thought. "I don't think so. That's why I brought baby wipes."

Her brother couldn't have cared less if he tried. "Fine whatever now where are we gonna set up camp? Close to the lake would be good for getting water when we need it, but higher ground would be best if it rains..." He started debating with himself a little, for once thinking strategically, since this was something he actually cared about. Normally he didn't think things through very well simply because he didn't feel compelled to. In this case, why not get a decent grade and have fun at the same time? Besides, it would give him some bragging rights over his sister…

"It better not rain..." Yin muttered under her breath just before stopping dead in her tracks, eyes going wide.

Yang took a few more steps, paying more attention to the task at hand than listening to her whining. Then he happened to notice she wasn't walking right next to him and paused to turn back and remind her, "Uh, Yin? We kinda have to get to wherever we're going before nightfall, 'kay?"

"Yang… Look over there…" she ignored her brother's snarkiness, despair clearly displayed in her tone, and pointed to their left. Sure enough, a few yards away through the leaves and foliage, directly where she was pointing, clad in a torn dojo shirt, coated in coarse, dull green fur, hauling a rather large piece of timber, was the last person the two siblings would've wanted to meet out there in the wilderness.

It was Yuck.

"Oh great that's just what we-" Yang stopped rant almost as soon as it had begun, thanks to his extremely short attention span. "Why is he dragging a dead tree behind him through the forest anyway?" he raised an eyebrow.

Yuck's well-above-average sense of hearing due to his species allowed him to pick up on their presence. He turned his attention away from his query and up to his look-alikes, not much more eager to see them than they were to see him.

"Oh jeez not you two!" he pinched the bridge of his sensitive nose, letting the colossal log drop to the leaf-dappled ground. "Look, I don't need a fight right now, so just drop the sword."

Yang reluctantly put his sword away and shot back a poorly-thought-out accusation. "Whatcha doin' with that log, huh? Gonna knock someone out in the middle of the night and steal all their money?"

Yuck just rolled his eyes. He had to hand it to Yang, he was indubitably the most idiotic person he'd ever met, and probably would ever meet. "No, stupid. I'm using this for firewood." And with that answer, he began making slow progress with the lumber again until Yin interrupted,

"You're gonna set the forest on fire?"

"NO!" Yuck shot back, now becoming irritable. As if it wasn't bad enough he botched the job of cutting the tree down, had to haul almost the entire thing home, wasn't even halfway there yet, and the sun would be setting soon, now these two were sure to mess his evening plans. He was NOT in the mood for this today. "If I wanted to do that I wouldn't need the log!" he tried to reason with his counterparts, albeit sarcastically. Yin had to admit there was sense in that, but Yang was still far from ready to trust him.

"I'm not as dumb as you might think… sometimes. I'm still willing to bet you're up to something."

"I don't have the time for this," Yuck shrugged him off. "I gotta get this freakin' thing back to my place before it gets too dark so I can cook dinner. And it's a long enough trip without you retards slowing me down so just GO AWAY." He hoped this would be enough to convince them to leave, but doubted it.

Yin couldn't help but think dragging the massive log was a little dumb for someone who was as skilled in WooFoo magic as Yuck. "Why don't you just levitate it?"

"Where's the exercise in that?" he retorted, still not having made it much farther with his timber since he'd been spotted. His answer made some sense, but Yang was still a little confused.

"Why would you need firewood to cook anything? Ever heard of a stove?"

"Yeah, I have, actually," the more powerful WooFoo user grunted with the effort of straining his muscles, "but I've never heard of one that works if it's in the freakin' forest and doesn't have electricity. You finished?" He sounded irritated but his answer only confused Yang more.

"Wait, I thought villains always had an evil lair or something?"

"Oh, right, like I can afford one of those." Now Yuck was just mad. 'Are they EVER gonna leave?' he seethed.

"Wait," Yin cut in. "Wouldn't someone like you just steal the money?"

Now his patience was getting dangerously thin. Did these two have nothing better to do with their time but stand there and play 20 Questions with him? "My living conditions are none of your business! And what the Hell are you doing out here anyway?"

"Taking a test. We have to stay out here for a week. You?" Yang answered half-sarcastically, getting a bit of a kick out of annoying his doppelganger.

"Trying to get this dead tree back to my place so I can eat. At this rate I'm going to bed hungry," he grumbled, not intending the last sentence to be a joke. "And there's no way you two are staying out here for a week. You would hardly live a day. So you can just forget about that," he tried using this new tactic to convince them to depart and leave him be. "The only way you'd even have half a chance out here is if you came with me." Despite those last words that wasn't even close to anything he'd want. Or at least, not in Yang's case...

"You wish!" Yang snapped, offended. "Anywhere you stay's probably crawling with fleas and ticks and I don't even wanna know what else!" Not that he was a neat freak, but even he had standards, and doubted very much that Yuck's preferences were on-par with his own. The former just shrugged.

"Yeah, whatever. You gonna go quietly or am I gonna have to make you?" he gave a treacherous smirk, flashing his teeth, which were sharper than that of a normal member of his species. He wasn't the type to make idle threats, and enjoyed making them almost as much as carrying them out.

"As if! We can totally take you and then we'll be just fine by ourselves!" Yang shot back.

Yin wasn't so sure of that. Yuck was a Level 5 and they were only Level 1. Granted, that had managed to defeat him before, but looking back at the fight, it seemed as if it was only luck. Plus, to her at least, it appeared that Yuck had been holding back for some unknown reason...

"Okay fine," Yuck sighed in defeat. "I won't make you leave. Stay out here and get eaten if you want. See if I care."

"Eaten?" Yang repeated, ears perking, alarm clearly heard in his tone.

"Oh yeah, the wolves and mountain lions won't go near me on account of the smell, but I'm sure they'd eat you in a second. Hey you know you're both standing in poison oak, right?"

Both rabbits instantly jumped out of the patch of small plants they had unwittingly been standing in. As if on cue, Yang started scratching his right leg. Yin felt experienced a horrid mixture of embarrassment and utter defeat. Who were they kidding? Yuck was right; they'd never last a week out there by themselves! And she wasn't about to fail their test, no matter what.

"You know what, Yang? Maybe we should follow him..." she admitted both to herself and her brother.

"WHAT?" both boys screamed in unison. "Just think for a second!" Yin lowered her voice to a whisper. "If we keep an eye on him, he won't be able to go out and destroy or steal anything, and he knows how to live out here. We don't."

"Yin, that's a horrible idea," her brother muttered back. "He'll kill us in our sleep!"

The rabbit in question, of course, had heard the whole thing. "You two done yet?" he cut in on their not-so-private debate. "As funny as it would be to watch you guys struggle for survival out here, the last thing I need this time of year is two weak rabbits attracting predators. Either come with me or leave." He only said this because he was sure they would pick the latter option.

By now the sun was setting, and soon it would be nightfall. 'If we don't leave, he might try to make us,' Yin weighed the options, 'But even if we could manage to beat him, we'll have to sleep out in the open...'

"Fine," her brother's voice scattered her thoughts, "but try anything and so help me I'll rip off your-" Yuck didn't care to hear the rest of Yang's threat. "Yeah, sure, now get over here," the scruffy rodent gave up on making his unwanted guests leave. "I'll explain a few rules on the way."

"Rules? I hate rules!" Yang protested. "That was the whole reason this test was gonna be any fun!"

"It's do or die out here, smartass. You comin' or what?"

Both Yin and Yang rushed to his side, favoring the "do" option over the alternative. "Want me to get that for you?" Yin offered, figuring it best not to be both unwanted and rude. Yuck paused his work and reluctantly answered, "I guess..." before dropping the log. Yin levitated it with her WooFoo powers, and the mismatched trio set off.

Hehe he called him "smartass" X3