Once Bill entered the opened window of a home, his formless misty and ethereal body paused to survey the room he was in.
"Alright then! Since no one can hear me talking in the waking and living world, I can surely say whatever I want, and think out as loudly as I want! Ha! No, but seriously, it's good to not be known in the living realm! I'm basically an unviewable ghost to them! Ha-ha! Okay, now let's see what kind of skin bag is in this establishment!" Bill looked at his surroundings, "Hmm...this place screams 'moderately rich'! Like this person is trying to hold back how rich he is...pfft! If he's rich, he should flaunt it! What's the deal? Man, whoever this poor sap is, he really should learn to live a little!"
With that, Bill let his form float and stretch like invisible smoke to a door that leads to a bedroom. Once he fazed through it, he sees a nicely sized room with a big bed, and in it rested...
...A...frog...person...
...A frog person, supposedly male, was sleeping in a bed...and he had long shoulder-length hair and a goatee...
"...Okay. Not the weirdest thing I've seen. And I know weird! But...yeah, a frog person? I...um, yeah, I-I don't get it." Bill rubbed his non-existent chin. "...Well, actually, I should have known with a name like 'Wartwood' being a town. I mean, come on, it's pretty obvious this town is infested with frog people...still, what's the significance here, Big G? I mean, what? What is this? I-...aw, hell with it. I'm just here to go in this shmuck's dream and bargain with him to go to Earth. Let's just get this over with."
Bill then spiraled his form downwards to go inside this frog person's mind...
...the mind of One-Eyed Wally Ribbiton.
- Wally Ribbiton -
As soon as he entered Wally's mind, the sooner he realized...this was an odd frog-like individual.
Wally was apparently facing a giant purple demon ogre-like thing with actual musical horns growing out of its head, its body full of purple fur, its feet like a sasquatch, along with having monstrous claws.
Wally was wearing...nothing...except for a leaf covering his...area...down there...
"...What fresh Hell is this?" Bill asked himself, a little disturbed.
"You will never take my freedom!" yelled out Wally to the monster in an almost-Irish accent.
The demon roared at Wally and beats its chest to intimidate him.
"Ha! You don't scare me! I was in a resistance! You are nothing but an animal! You hear me!? AN ANIMAAAAAL!"
The monster then took a deep breath and held it...to let his 'horns' play music! Music that sounds like...an accordion playing.
"Great Scott!" Wally gasped, "You play...a concertina!?"
Having heard this, apparently, the monster stopped playing his horns, and then all of a sudden talked normally, "Say what now? Nah man, this is accordion."
"...Oh...wait, what's the difference?" Wally asked.
"Um...there's piano keyboards on the thing. Buttons be on the concertina..."
"...But aren't keyboards buttons?" Wally asked in all honesty.
"...Yo, man...I haven't even thought of it that way," the monster said with his eyes big and full of amazement. "Teach me your ways, Wise Traveler."
"Well, since you asked..." Then, out of nowhere, Wally pulled a concertina out of his...back? Either way, he started to play something fierce...not really doing anything but just playing the concertina.
"...Um..." Bill just looked on.
Then, Wally started playing the concertina like a guitar, which the instrument really did sound like one, the thing not making much logical sense in terms of how it's played and how it's handled.
"..." Bill shifted his eye a bit to see if this is really happening.
Wally kept playing the instrument wildly, head thrashing as if he was in a heavy metal band.
"..." Bill scratched his non-existent head in confusion.
And then, Wally finished the musical number with a push on each side of the concertina, unleashing a soundwave of epic proportions! The demon shielded the soundwave with his arms as the ground shook.
…Bill just floated there as he witnessed the oddity of this dream.
The demon monster then spoke again in his normal voice, "Whoa! Yo, man, that was fire! You made me a true believer in music! Like damn, bro! That destroyed all the negativity in my body!"
Wally stood there victoriously with a heroic pose. "Twas nothing, good ogre! I knew from the moment you played the sounds of the concertina, or accordion, whichever you prefer, you had great taste in music!"
"Wow! Yo, man, you cool! How's about we play the day away and thug it like it's some very distant past year!?"
"Very unique way of saying that, good ogre! But I accept!" Wally exclaimed and started to play some serious beats, almost like the instrument was playing hip-hop.
"Aw, yeah, word up, homes!" The monster then broke off his horns and played one of them, the horn not sounding anything like a horn, which instead sounded like a harmonica.
"Ah, the harmonica! A well-respected instrument!" Wally said intrigued, "Say, how about we use our combined musical talents to play a different genre of music? We can call it...hick-hop!"
"Yo, I'm in!"
"Excellent! Now, as an old, dear, and very good friend of mine would say: Let us JAM!"
"Awwwww, yeah, boooiii! Radical!" the ogre yelled out.
They then started to make the most sickest of beats right then and there as they thugged and jammed the whole day away...
...Aaaaand Bill had seen quite enough.
"Okay, I'm done here." And with that, Bill turned around and created a portal that let him exit out of Wally's mind.
Bill came out of Wally's head and floated there, his eye narrowed in disappointment.
"Wow. Okay, what a waste of time there. What was this freak's name?" he turned to glance over at Wally, "Wally? From what I gathered from the flow of knowledge that was into me while I entered his mind? ...Heh. I like how that works. Saves me the trouble of searching for names. Eh, whatever, this was a bust. He won't help me. Maybe the next house will be easier!"
Flowing through the air as Bill fazed through Wally's house walls, he went through the town to find another home to haunt peoples' dreams.
"Okay, so, which home should I raid next? And who is 'lucky' enough to make a deal? Hmm..."
It was when as he floated around to think, he came up with a big home that looked like someone important lived there...
"...Hm," Bill looked at the estate for a moment and caught a sign near the estate that said the following:
Mayor's Home
Current Mayor: Toadie
"...Toadie? What kind of a stupid name is that?" Bill asked himself, "Well, either way, this looks like the mayor's house! Huh. I wonder if I could strike a deal with ol' Toadie? People in power like more power, so maybe I can tempt this guy…or gal? Eh, tomato, to-mato, I'm just gonna go on in."
Bill flew straight to the estate, entering it. While inside the grand home, Bill maneuvered through the halls and found Toadie's bedroom. He went inside and saw that Toadie was sleeping in a grand bed, too big for his small body.
"So that's Toadie, huh? Not very impressive-looking. Oh well! I'm not one to judge...actually I do! Haha! Alright, enough of this, I'm gonna see if this midget is gonna make a deal."
Bill then entered Toadie's mind as he dreamed...
- Toadie -
As soon as he did, Bill looked around Toadie's dreamscape.
...It looked like a field of flowers...
"...Hm. A serene field...full of colorful flowers...if I can guess, this could be something of a romantic setting of some kind."
Bill kept floating through the dream until he found Toadie standing in the field with an opened button-up shirt and long pants, his hair in the wind without his monocle.
"Ah...tis' a wonderful day to smell the flowers," Toadie said with a deep breath as he sighed in delight, "...I would just love to share this magnificent day with someone..."
"Why, fancy seeing you here, Toadie," said a Southern drawled accent.
Toadie turned around…and smiled fondly at the speaker, "Toadstool."
Toadstool was apparently buff and has a Fabio shirt on and opened up with long pants on. He also looked like he had a square and manly chin. He was also smiling fondly at Toadie.
...Bill...was not liking what he was seeing here.
"My, you look dashing today, Toadstool," Toadie complimented Dream Toadstool.
"Oh, why, you certainly look glorious yourself, Toadie," Dream Toadstool also complimented Toadie, his smile warm.
"Oh stop," Toadie waved him off as he…blushed...
"...Oh my Axolotl, no." Bill's eye widened.
"No, I mean it...you are beautiful," Dream Toadstool said to Toadie as he walked up closer to him, "Handsome, even."
"Why, I, I don't know what to say. I'm flattered. Thank you..." Toadie looked at Toadstool's eyes as they gaze at each other...
Dream Toadstool smiled fondly as he said, "You know, you're doing a marvelous job around the town, Toadie."
"Thank you...I couldn't have done it without you," Toadie told him.
"Oh, it was quite nothing. You were the frog for the job," Dream Toadstool said to him, "I just merely helped you along the way."
"Yes...Yes, you have..." Toadie said as he looked deep into his eyes...
Dream Toadstool looked into his eyes as well...
"...The town loves the statue that you OKed...Mayor Toadie..."
"Yes...I'm glad they do..."
"...You make the finest Mayor in town, Toadie...you know that, right?"
"...I...I do...thank you..."
"...You are the best...I've ever known..."
"...I...I think you're absolutely...the best...the best toad I've ever known..."
They got closer…and closer….and closer...and closer enough that their lips-
"OH SHIT, OKAY, YOU KNOW WHAT? NO! NO, NO, NO, NO, NOOOOOO! I AM OUTTA HERE! PEACE OUT!"
And that's what Bill did.
"GAAAACK!" Bill took deep breaths as he tried to erase that from his memory, "Oh...oh gosh, I...I...ugh...well, I guess they have that as well, huh? ...Yeah. I think I'm done here."
And Bill exited out of the Mayor's Estate.
"Okay, so this may be harder than I thought...like Big G said. Ugh, I hate it when He's right…ah, no matter! I'll find a shmuck sooner or later! They have to be interested in what I have for them! Now, who's next?"
Four Houses Later...
"Oh, come on, are you fucking kidding me with this!?" exclaimed Bill angrily as he exited out of a home, "Uuuuugh! And I thought the last house was gonna be the winner! That Stumpy toad-looking mother-fucker looked like he would've loved to go to someplace exotic! Who knew the community here in Hogwarts, or Wartass, or whatever the hell this place is called was all he ever really wanted! Bleh! It makes me sick."
Bill was having no such luck with his search. Floating elsewhere to find any house that he didn't go into, he was starting to lose hours of the night to find the right 'client'(victim). He went over to a home where he read the name of the residence on the mailbox.
"...Flour? Tch, let me guess, they're bakers? ...You know, I wouldn't be surprised. There are so many pun names around here, that I would be astonished if they haven't said the phrase 'Oh my Frog' every once in a while." Bill looked at the house, "...Well, here goes nothing."
He entered the home...
And upon seeing the baking utensils around the area, Bill was correct.
"...Damn it."
Bill decided to just hover over to the stairs and go up. Upon being on the second floor, he found three doors, two each having signs hanging on the front of them. One of them was a black-painted sign with white words painted on it saying, "KEEP OUT WHEN SIGN IS UP", and the other saying "R, L, and G" in elegant lettering.
"Hmm...must be the kids' rooms," Bill looked over at the door that doesn't have a sign. "...I'm gonna wait on these two. For now, I want to see what's behind door number one."
The dream demon went into the room...
...
...
...
...And came right back out, his eye looking dead...tired.
"Okay...his happiness...is being with his daughters...which I'm assuming those two doors belong to...man, never have I seen so much love from a parent...ugh, I thought I was gonna throw up in there. It was so...eugh...adorable," Bill then gazed at the two doors... "...Well, what's behind door number two, I wonder?" he said in a monotone.
Bill decided to find out as he went inside the room...
...A minute passed...
...And Bill came out of the room, absolutely livid.
"AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGHHHHH!" Bill screamed in anger, "THESE TEENAGED FROG GIRLS AND THEIR...THEIR...I GUESS HORMONES!? I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S CALLED HERE! JUST WHAT IS WITH TEENAGE GIRLS HAVING EXTREME LUSTFUL THOUGHTS OVER GUYS!?"
Taking some deep breaths, Bill calmed himself down.
"Okay. Okay. Okay...okay...so, in review, NO ONE in this bum-hick of a Frog town wants to make a deal. Mostly because they are happy the way they are. I can't really spread my influence on their dream, because they don't want anything that I might want to offer them...I just...I just got to find one...uh, frog…w-whatever, I just got to find one frog person who is miserable enough to strike a deal! Or to see if he or she is at least interested! I just got to break that barrier!"
Bill turned to the other door that belong to the eldest daughter.
"...Uuugh...if this is gonna be another bust..." Bill shook his whole body, "No! I have to keep going! It's my only chance to go back to Earth and regain my body! If I do I will rule over the cosmos and make everything my playground! And then I'll laugh at Big G's face, and add insult to injury by inviting over Lucifer to party! Yes! YES! YEEEESSS! Keep thinking that, Bill! Just…keep...thinking that!" he took a deep breath, "Okay...let's do this!"
And so Bill entered the room...Maddie Flour's room.
"...Huh. Well, I got to admit, this gal sure does have some culture. A cauldron? Books about ancient elixirs? An ornament dreamcatcher? …Pfft! Like those work. Still, classy. What was this girl's name that I heard from the father? Maddie? Yeah, that sounds about right. Who knows? She could have potential! Maybe she's like the goth girl of the town, hence all this voodoo stuff! Ha! This is starting to look good! Okay, let's see what you're dreaming tonight, Maddie!"
And Bill went inside her dream...
- Maddie Flour -
When Bill was inside Maddie's dream, he sees...
...a jungle forest filled with fungi and other growths that surrounded other trees.
"Hmm...okay, so far so good," Bill said to himself, "Now, where could this Maddie be?"
"Wow, Sprig! Check this out!" the voice of Maddie called out.
"Eh?" Bill looked to his right to see that Maddie was picking off a mushroom and observing the fungi.
"Whoa...funky," said a male voice, belonging to what Bill would think 'Sprig'. He came up to Maddie as she showed the fungi to him, "Why's it shaped like that? It looks like a heart."
"Well, actually, it's supposed to represent love, so I find this fungus to be fitting."
"Oooh, love, huh?" Sprig said with a sly smirk.
Maddie looked at him and saw his expression and snickered, "Yeah, love. Like...what we have, you know?"
"Don't need no love potion for that," Sprig teased with a grin and a wiggle of his eyebrows.
"Hehe! ...Yeah..." Maddie said with a blush.
Sprig smiled warmly at Maddie, "Yeah..."
"...Oh for-ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW!?" Bill yelled in aggravation, "Okay, okay, maybe if I stick around some more, something interesting will happen."
"...You know...this fungus...also acts as an aphrodisiac," Maddie said shyly.
Sprig raised a brow in question, but then smirked as he said, "Are you implying something? Cause I don't need one whenever I look at you. You already drive me wild."
Maddie giggled and blushed even more.
"...Please let something interesting happen soon...and I don't mean this."
"Spriiiig...hehe! That's so corny...but...I like it like that," Maddie said huskily with lustful half-lidded eyes.
"Well, I am your cornball," Sprig said, wiggling his eyebrows seductively.
Maddie giggled again, "Yeah, you are..." she looked at him with desire as she tossed the fungus over her shoulder, and lept forward to him, planting a passionate kiss on his lips. She put Sprig's back against a tree as she and her boyfriend make out, both of them sliding down the tree trunk to let Sprig sit on the ground and letting Maddie kneel on the ground as they continued to fiercely kiss each other.
"...Damn...it…"
If Bill could pinch his nonexistent nose in annoyance, he would do so right now.
"Uuuuugh...this is gonna be another wet dream, is it? Alright, it seems this one was another failure. WHAT A SURPRISE. I swear, if I ever find someone who would make a deal with me, and once I go back to Earth in my body, then I will surely transport this town into Weirdmageddon and let them suffer..." Bill sighed, "Well...time to find another one around this foreign-esqe frog-like town...yee-fricking-haw...ugh."
But as soon as Bill turned his ethereal body around to leave...
"Wait, no, Maddie, I...I have to be honest about something. I-I just...I'm so sorry, I-I just can't keep going on like this," said a…remorseful Sprig?
"Say what?" Bill turned around quickly, viewing the scene.
Sprig held onto Maddie's arms, while he looked...regretful.
"W-What?" Maddie asked in questionable fear, her eyes widened in shock, "Wh-What do you mean?"
"...Maddie...I...I li-...love someone else," Sprig admitted, closing his eyes as he winced in shame.
Maddie gasped, her eyes expressing surprise. "Wha...What?"
…Bill looked on in interest.
"...Okay, okay, keep going. I love to see some romantic tragedy in action."
"I...love someone else," Sprig repeated, not looking at Maddie's face.
"...Wh-Who?" Maddie asked, the tears running through her eyes.
"...I...I can't say."
"...It's Ivy, isn't it?"
"..."
"...It's Ivy Sundew, isn't it!?" Maddie exclaimed, the tears running down as she felt anger, betrayal, and sadness.
"...It's...someone else," Sprig admitted, the tears appearing in his eyes.
Now Maddie looked confused as she blinked, fresh tears still falling down her cheeks.
"It's...not Ivy...?" Maddie asked him.
"...It's...someone else," Sprig answered again.
"...Who?"
"...Somone...else..."
Maddie looked at him puzzled, "But...who, Sprig?"
"...Somone...else…"
Wondering why he was not telling him who this frog was(he'd gone this far in telling her), she asked him again, "But, who, Sprig?"
"...Someone else..."
"Sprig...?"
"...Someone else..."
"...Sprig, why aren't you...?"
"...Someone else..."
"...Sprig, just...tell me..."
"...Someone..."
Maddie was starting to get frustrated, but at the same time, frightened. She said it again, a little forcefully, "Sprig, just tell me who it is!?"
"...else..."
"Sprig!? Sprig!? Sprig!? Sprig, just tell me! Sprig!? SPRIG!" Maddie yelled desperately.
And then, Maddie's dream started to fade into white.
"Uh-oh. Gotta go if I want to be thrown out of this dream," Bill said as he hurriedly create a portal out of Maddie's mind.
Once Bill got out of Maddie's dream, she herself woke up, sitting up in her bed with a gasp and a shocked look on her face.
Taking some deep breaths, Maddie calmed down, whispering, "Oh...Oh thank Frog, it was just a dream..." she put a hand to her chest, "I...I thought..." she turned around and looked at the dreamcatcher, "...I got to fix that thing." Turning back forward, she took a deep breath, and let out a sigh, "I..." she shook her head, "Come on, Maddie, Sprig loves you...he...he wouldn't...I mean, he's not...he isn't...it was all just...it was just a bad dream..." nodding to that, Maddie rested her head on her pillow and tried to go back to sleep...
"...But...does he really...have...someone else...he's thinking...about...?" Maddie then drifted off into a slumber.
Above her, Bill just hovered there...intrigued.
"...Well, that happened. Hmm...ah, who cares? It's definitely not my problem! I mean, what am I, a matchmaker? Pfft! Please! Although it was entertaining seeing all of that heartache! Ha! Man, this house was almost worth stopping by! Okay, enough talking to myself, it's time to go to another home!" Bill then exited out of the Flour residence, finding another house to invade.
Upon making his way through the empty town at night, he stopped when he approaches and sees the Tea Shoppe in town.
"Hmm...Felicia's Tea Shoppe, huh?" Bill reads the sign above the entrance. Even more curious, he went to see the mailbox having the name 'Sundew' on it. "...Sundew...huh," he turned around and looked at the building for a moment. "...Eh, why not?"
So he went into the teashop, which he quickly surveyed the area, and went upstairs. When he did, he approached the closest door and entered it.
The room belong to none other than a girl, who was snoring away. Her room looked to have fighting equipment and sparring dummies around.
"Huh. The tomboy type, huh?" Bill went over to the girl frog and hovered over her, "This must be that Ivy girl that that other gal was talking about...hmmm...well, why don't we have a peek inside that dream of yours, huh, Ivy? Just in case! Haha!"
Bill entered Ivy's dream...
- Ivy Sundew -
As soon as Bill entered Ivy's dream, he was in some sort of...grassy field with a mountainous landscape in the background. There standing in a white flowing sundress was Ivy, looking on at the field with flowers in her hair.
Ivy took a deep breath and exhaled...
"Enjoying the view?" said...a familiar male voice.
Bill who was watching the dream, had his eye slightly widened in surprise.
"Hey, it's that Sping guy...or is it Sprig? Ah, whatever, I don't care. Point is, he's in this as well."
Ivy turned around to see Sprig wearing his trademark adult outfit of today, goggles included. He stood there with a fond smile on his face.
Smiling brightly, Ivy replied, "Yeah...I'm also kind of enjoying this view as well," she said teasingly.
Sprig snickered, "Well, I'm glad I'm still an eye catcher."
"Hey, you better believe it," Ivy smirked, giving him a wink.
Chuckling, Sprig also said, "Man...you know, you don't take yourself too much credit either."
"Oh stop, I'm not like, pretty, or anything," Ivy rolled her eyes with mirth.
"Ivy. You are. You're very much pretty," said Sprig seriously.
Ivy blushed, "I mean...well, my Mom basically did do my hair, so..."
"It suits you," Sprig said with a smile.
"Heh..." Ivy shifted her stance for a moment and said, "Do you, uh...do you remember when we went to Newexico? When we went to the Newtca Nation?"
"Heh. How could I? I was screaming my head off when those natives attacked us," Sprig said chuckling.
"To be fair, I was too..." Ivy frowned somberly, "...I missed that."
"...I miss it too," Sprig said with a dejected frown as well.
They stood there for a little while...gazing at the ground...
"...Sprig..."
Sprig looked up at Ivy.
"...Would you...Would you..." Ivy took a deep breath, and said, "Would you want to go to South Amphimica with me? At that beach that we discovered when we were teenagers? Just...the two of us?"
...Sprig smiled...but looked down at the ground again. "...Ivy...I..." His smile then turned into a melancholy frown. "...I'm sorry."
"..." Ivy looked down, emotionless and quiet...until she said, "You still think about her, don't you?"
"..."
"...You...You already have Maddie, and-"
"I...I have my farm to take care of."
Ivy looked up at Sprig, showing a little hope in her eyes, "Well, hey, Polly can take care of the farm while you're away."
"...I...I'm sorry, I...I can't leave it."
Her hope dwindled as she looked confused, "You can't leave it? Why?"
"...It...I-It reminds me...it reminds me of..."
"...Reminds you of what?"
"...It reminds me of her."
Ivy stared at Sprig, unsure of how to perceive this...
Sprig, though, continued, "I just...she stayed at our home...and...ever since growing up, I just...admired her more and more...even before she left to go back to her home."
"...I...I knew it," Ivy said as she lowered her head in defeat.
"Ivy, I'm sorry, I-"
"No...this was the reason why we broke up...why I...broke up with you, actually."
"...Ivy..."
"...You were always distracted when we had our time with each other...you always thought of her, did you?"
"Ivy, I just-"
"Don't lie."
"...Yes, but it wasn't like that."
"Then, what is it then!? You said you admired her, is that it? Admiration?" Ivy asked, desperate to know the answer.
"Ivy-"
"Oh Frog, does...does Maddie know about this?"
"...No. She doesn't. But Ivy, look, I...I can't explain it okay...I just...I just can't. I don't...I don't really know myself..."
"...I think you already know, Sprig. You just...haven't realized it yet."
"...I'm…I'm so sorry, Ivy..."
"...Me too..." Ivy was tearing up. "I'm sorry that...I wasn't...good enough."
"No, Ivy...you...you were..." Sprig was tearing up as well.
"...I...I really did li-...no, I really...I really loved you, you know that?"
"...I know..." Sprig frowned, despair written all over his face.
"...I..." Ivy winced at the pain that she was feeling inside her heart, "I...I still do..."
Bill was out of Ivy's mind in an instant.
"Whoa!" Bill shouted as he was now back to hovering over Ivy, "Holy crap! Warn a dream demon next time, will ya!?"
Ivy didn't hear Bill as she sat up from her bed with a gasp. Taking a few deep breaths, she let out one shuddering sigh. She put her face onto her hands as she whimpered, the feeling of despair coming back to her.
Sniffling, she rubbed her eyes with her hands as they were tearing up. "I...I can't believe I'm still thinking about that...that sweet dork..." she sniffled, "He...He was always so...so oblivious," she hiccuped and sobbed, "Sprig...just...just don't hurt Maddie. And...I just hope you really are and truly happy," Ivy sobbed out and cried into her hands.
While Ivy laid back on her bed and cried herself to sleep, Bill looked on...certainly intrigued...
"...Hmm...Dream Sprig said he lived on a farm...I gotta find this...farm..."
And with that, Bill left the Sundew residence.
After exiting the house, Bill floated into the streets and roads of Wartwood, finding a path or a sign that leads to this farm. While he does that, he monologues.
"Well...that, was, interesting. This Sprig fellow, even though he has a girlfriend, and used to date this other girl, misses someone very dear to him...I wonder who this someone could be? All that I gathered, is that this woman, from what I heard, sounds like she's departed from this town..."
It was then Bill was at the human statue again...
...He read the plaque out loud.
Here stands Anne Boonchuy.
One of our three otherworldly saviors of Amphibia. A dear friend and a once resident of our town, Wartwood, she, along with her friends, saved our world from the path of destruction and chaos. Anne will always be cherished as a Hero, a Friend, and an Inspiration for us all. She will truly be missed and remembered, forevermore. Her departure from our world has left a lasting legacy here.
"...Otherworldy savior, eh?" Bill narrowed his eye in interest. "Huh...so this does have some significance. Anne Boonchuy...she just looks like an average human girl to me..." he read the last part of the plaque, "...'Her departure from our world'...hmm...I wonder...is this the special someone that this Sprig guy can't let go of?"
Bill floated there in thought...
"...Hm...guess I got to find this guy and see what he's dreaming tonight," he looked up at the night sky and calculated the time, "It's probably around 4:00 AM around here. I need to find this farm and find this Sprig. He may have potential. And if my assumption is correct, then this Anne might be from Earth...and if she's from Earth, then by some chance, these frog people might've been or could've visited Earth at one time. I mean, hell, who knows? That's just my theory. All I know is, is that I gotta stop talking and get to finding this guy before day breaks!"
He kept going around Wartwood to find any sign that points to this farm. As he floated around, he then came up to a sign that was pointing in different directions, but one direction caught his interest tenfold.
Plantar Farm: 2 miles
"Plantar Farm, huh? Well, I'll be damned! Haha! Let's see if this is who I'm actually gonna barge in tonight!"
Bill rushed through the path to the farm, making sure to pick up the pace. When he came up to the farm, he stopped to look at it.
"Plantar Farms: Home of the Avocado Plant and Other Natural Goods...hm...if this place is the home for a superfood back on Earth, then my assumption is getting more accurate here."
Flying through the home and entering it, he looked at his surroundings in the home.
"Okay...now, where is Sprig Plantar?" Bill wondered. He went upstairs first, going through each room to find Sprig. He did go over to Polly's room, thinking Sprig was resting there, until he saw that it was just his sister. He went back downstairs and made sure he didn't miss anything...until he saw a door to the basement.
"...Well, let's see, shall we?" Bill said rather ominously.
Bill went into the basement...
...to find Sprig Plantar resting, sprawled on his bed as he snored.
"Yep! Looks like him! Okay then, Sprig, let's see if I actually struck some gold here! Hahaha!"
And with that, Bill dove into Sprig's mind…
- Sprig Plantar -
Bill was in...some sort of battlefield...filled with robots.
It looked like the robots were fighting Sprig, who was armed with an...energy sword?
"...Okay, not what I was expecting, but this is promising! Let's see where this leads..."
As Sprig sliced an octopus-looking arm on the monstrous robot, he slid underneath to cut its legs off, letting topple over and wires as it malfunctioned. And once it did it exploded!
BOOOOOM!
"Yeah! How do you like me now!?" Sprig exclaimed as he posed with his sword out.
"SPRIG! WATCH OUT!" hollered a girl's voice...
"Huh?" Bill looked to his right to see...
...That it was the Anne girl. She looked just like the statue...
Either way, she jumped behind Sprig, and along with her energy sword that she has as well, she sliced a missile that was heading toward Sprig. Once she cut it in half, the leftover halves of the remaining missile spiraled and landed in different parts of the ground exploding on impact.
BOOM!
BOOM!
Sprig turned around and saw that Anne sliced the missile just in time. "Whoa! Thanks, Anne!"
"Don't thank me yet!" Dream Anne said as she twirled her energy sword with her hand. "We got to beat the big guy here!"
Sprig turned around to see the robot that was carrying various weapons, including missile launchers, blades, and robotic arms. It was also around ten feet tall.
"...Yeah, that's a big guy alright." Sprig confirmed.
"Yep. So what do you say, Sprig? Ready to make robot sashimi?" Dream Anne said with a smirk.
"Heh. I miss that stuff, you know? But awww yeah! Let's go, Anne!" Sprig exclaimed.
They sprinted towards the robot and, with acrobatic agility, they dodged, ducked, and jumped over missiles, robotic arms, and blades, even slicing the former two and blocking the latter with their energy swords.
Soon, as they grabbed one of the robot's arms, they used them to fling each other up in the air and soon land on the machine, energy sword blades pointing down as they held onto them, puncturing the metal of the Robosapien.
"LET'S FINISH THIS!" shouted Sprig and Anne.
They both hopped off the robot while still holding their swords' handles, dragging their weapons downward as they cut through the entire robot, cleaving it. As soon as they landed and got their swords out, the robot fizzled, wires and black oil oozing out of the shell. Once it staggered, it finally tilted over and landed on its back...
…following that, was a big explosion.
BOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Anne and Sprig stood victorious.
The first one to break the epic silence was Sprig.
"Woooo-hoooo!" Sprig cheered, pumping his arms up in the air with the sword still in his hand. "Yeah! Man, that was great! We totally trashed those robots! You were really awesome, Anne!"
Anne chuckled, "Aww, come on, Sprig, you were way more awesome than I was."
"Nah-uh! Who saved my butt back there!?"
"Well, I did, but, you were the one doing all the fancy moves."
"Well, who taught me those 'fancy moves'?"
"Heh. Okay, I might have helped. But give yourself some credit, man!"
"Heh-heh! Alright, alright, I guess I did kind of awesome...but you're way awesomer!"
"Sprig, 'awesomer' is not a word. And let's just say we both did awesomely."
"Heh. Deal."
Anne and Sprig shook hands as they smiled at each other.
"Man...it's good to see you again, Anne." Sprig said with a warm smile.
Anne returned the smile, "Yeah, man, me too...but..." she looked down with a hesitant frown. Her hand soon slipped out of Sprig's after they shook them.
Sprig didn't like the melancholy feeling behind her letting go of his hand, as well as the look on Anne's face, or that 'but' after her sentence. He's getting a sinking feeling behind this moment, something that will make him wake up to reality.
"Anne...wh-what's wrong?" Sprig asked her.
"...I'm...I'm so sorry, Sprig, but...I have to go again," Anne tells him.
"Go?" Sprig asked in confusion...until he realized, "...O-...Oh..." he frowned too, this one being sorrowful. "But...you just got here."
"Did I really? Or...is this just a dream?" Anne asked him.
"A...dream...?" Sprig then finally realized with wide eyes. "...Oh...n-no...ju-just let me-"
"I'm sorry, Sprig. It's time for me to leave," Anne said, frowning as she looked to be floating backwards...getting smaller...further away from Sprig.
"N-No! No! NO! Anne! Please, c-come back! I-I just want to see you again! I just want to know what you're doing back on Earth! I just want to at least talk! I-I just-I-I-I just-I-I mean, p-please don't, don't leave! Not yet!"
"Goodbye, Sprig..." Anne looked downcast as she held her arm in dejection, looked down to not look at her friend...her friend that she left behind...
"Anne! Anne! ANNE! NO!" Sprig tried to rush after her, but it felt like he was running in the same place, until he felt like he was hovering in place. Swinging his arms in a futile attempt to maybe just grab Anne's arm, his eyes started to water...
"ANNE!" yelled out Sprig.
"GAH!" Sprig woke up from a start, sitting up from his bed.
...His room remained silent...
"...Another dream..." Sprig muttered in disappointment.
He sat there on his bed, bare chest and all...
"...It..." he sighed solemnly, "...It can't be helped," he ran a hand through his shoulder-length hair, "...I really wonder what she's doing right now..."
Sprig sat there to contemplate...
"...Ten years...time certainly goes by..."
...Sprig took the covers off and got out of his bed, standing as he stretched his joints.
Sighing in relief, Sprig then said, "Well...I should probably get to working right now. Got a lot of farming to do...I wonder if Polly is up yet."
And with that, Sprig walked over to the stairs and went up them to get some early breakfast...
...
...Little did Sprig know, someone was watching him...
And if that someone had a mouth, he would be smiling deviously right now...
"Heh-heh-heh-heh...ha-ha-ha-ha...HAAAA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAA! Well, well, well, weeeeellll! I think we got ourselves a WINNER." Bill said to himself with a hint of sadistic glee in his tone. "Well then, Sprig Plantar, how about next time when you sleep, we make...A DEAL!? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!"
(Author's Notes)
Just to let you know, I won't let Sprig be lovestruck or anything when he thinks about Anne. He'll only have great admirable respect for her...until I reach one part of the story...I won't tell you what it is, cause I'm not a spoiler guy, ya hear! XP
Also, I think Sprig will be in Amphibia a little shorter than I expected him to be...maybe. I don't know. ^^; But I do have some plans for this story, so no worries about that! XP
Lastly, sorry if I'm not being as descriptive as I usually am, but hey, sometimes, it's kind of pointless to describe certain areas, and people at times. ^^;
Either way, I hope I did well with this chapter, especially with characters such as Wally and Toadie! Tell me how I did with a review! :D Or give me a fave and a follow! I love them all, really! ^_^
Until next time, thank you all for reading, and keep on rocking, everybody! :D
-TSP