Author's Note: Apologies if the last chapter wasn't as good. I did it on a 10 minute spurge since I haven't touched the thing in a long, long time. Regardless, hello, I am alive, and will be reworking the chapters soon, but first of all, we need this chapter! Part 2:

Reason #9: You have always have the most igneous plans.

Looking into the mongoose's eye-And yes, I shall be calling her a mongoose now- Will kept his gaze piercing and cold. The mongoose shivered and tried to give him a weak smile.

"Um. By any chance will you let me go?" she asked in a squeaking voice. Kinda fitting if you think about it.

"Well, you have to understand, I'm not in a good mood." Will replied sounding kind of bored. "And when I'm not in a good mood, bad things usually happen to people."

"Oh dear. I do hope you had mercy on those people." the mongoose replied, stuttering now. Will looked away and shrugged.

"No. I threatened to send them to Halt. That was usually enough to make them faint."

The mongoose shivered and felt herself slowly losing consciousness...What on earth would Halt do to her?

Will shrugged. "But then again. I'm talking about people. And you're a mongoose."

The mongoose looked up sharply and glared and Will before spitting out some words.

"I. Am. Not. A. Mongoose."

Will smirked and began to draw his saxe knife. "Oh dear. Better get you to Halt then.."

"Oh. You're mistaken. I'm a mongoose, I'm a mongoose."

Nodding Will continued to smile. "Well, little annoying mongoose that nearly blew my cover. I'm assuming you'll help me now?"

The mongoose thought it over for a few seconds. On one hand, if she didn't, she'll probably get killed. If she did, she'll probably get killed. It was another lose-lose situation.

She sighed. "All right. What do you need help with?"

Will smiled, satisfied. This time, he had a person that actually knew the place, what where the hell he should be right now, since he really had no idea. He knew the pirates are around here…on general terms, but unsure where they were really.

"So. Has anything passed though this place recently? Anything suspicious?"

The mongoose glared at Will's stupidity.

"Oh sure, lots of things. You do realize that this is a thieves' town? Obviously nothing suspicious happens. We have Rangers patrolling all over the place with their bows, and a bunch of Elite Knights standing on guard. Duh."

Will gave her a look of annoyance but she made her point. It was true that in such a place, trying to pin down one illegal barge was like trying to find a needle in a haystack. That Horace was thrashing around in.

Needless to say, that image was slightly amusing and Will smirked slightly. And that gave him the bright idea he needed.

Typically, if Horace gets stuck in a haystack (Which actually happens quite often, contrary to belief. No one's sure how the King gets stuck in such an awkward situation. It just happens), the normal thing he would do was thrash about until the haystack gives up on keeping its shape and breaks apart, due to the kingliness of Horace.

Regardless, it's always a hell to clean up, but Horace usually gets free. And that's exactly the strategy Will would use. If he couldn't find a needle in a haystack, he'll thrash about until the needle gives up hiding and starts a new job as an office assistant or something.

Leaning over to the mongoose, Will whispered in her ear, speaking his plan. The mongoose nodded before finally allowing a broad smile spread all over her face.

"Oh. That's interesting."

~*(Can someone tell me how to make line breaks normally?*~

"Did you know that the Rangers are coming?"

"Rangers? Did someone say Rangers?"

"Oh yes, and they're looking for an Emerald barge."

"What? An emerald barge? Didn't that thing come in recently?"

"Oh dear. We better kick that thing out. We don't want Rangers coming here!"

"Who's going to kick them out? No one can really enforce it! This is a thieves' town for goodness sakes!"

"Well someone's have to. I heard that a Ranger is here already! He was kicking out a mongoose or something…"

The mongoose grimaced, but knew that the plan was working. The thieves' love of shadows made them paranoid of anything coming to arrest any of them. And they would do anything to keep those shadows around them, even stooping to kicking out their own.

Will was waiting out by the docks when the thieves' from the Emerald barge came running out, and it was no difficulty arresting them and throwing them onto their own barge and sailing off.

And he didn't pay the rest of his toll.