TRICKS AND TREATS: CHAPTER 7
SO CLOSE. PART 1.
Soon, after leaving from the Halloween Town, Nick and Skippy were heading towards the downtown of Savanna Central, during of which Nick told to Skippy everything that Zeke had told him.
"So, the bad guy's name is Nermal Midas Wolf… Zeke Midas Wolf's twenty-two years old and only son. He was the five years old when his mother died in the robbery, after which Zeke raised him along with the entire circus group, who acted to him like the big happy family during his childhood. And as Zeke told us, his son had during of his younger age the great interest, which eventually turned into a blind and obsessive love, to the candies."
"And he ate and ate, ate and ate the candies so much and so long until he became really fat when he was five years old little wolf. He had also a bit troubles with the officers because he was always caught by eating the candies in the shops. This led Nermal to be cowardly bullied by the other animals. Both prey and predator alike, who were either in same age and same sized with him and slightly bigger and older teenagers, who, as a slim animals, labelled him as the "walking meatball." which began to haunt him for the rest of his life." Nick explained.
"Just like the muzzles still haunts you for the rest of your lives, right?" Skippy asked.
Nick's furred skin got goose pimples when he remembered the pain on his muzzle when those prejudiced mammals in the Junior Scouts were mercilessly and for their own amusement pinned him down and placed the muzzle on him without the any reason… except the fact he was the fox and the another fact that the foxes were labelled as the most shifty and untrustworthy mammals on Zootopia.
Skippy saw the expression on Nick's face and his ears dropped down out of guilty, knowing it very well what Nick was thinking about the muzzles.
"Sorry, Uncle Nick. I should not have said that." Skippy said with the apologizing tone.
However, Nick landed his paw over Skippy's shoulder.
"It's okay, little pal. It's only the past now." Nick said, while still hopping in his mind that the whole muzzle incident was just a bad nightmare.
"Well, where were we again?" Skippy said, reminding him to continue to explain him all what they got from Mr. Zeke during of his interrogation.
"Oh yeah! ahem… Well, worried about Nermal's future and health, his father was then ordered by the doctor to put him to the ruducing diet. Zeke even had to force his son to eat his diet food and exercise until he was again slim teen wolf, denying the candies from him for a several following years. This, however, caused his deep and secret desire to candies to grown up within him.
And, after he became the slender wolf again when he was nine-ears old , and exception of teenager mammal children, Nermal continued working with his father in the circus for eleven following years, during of which he grown to like the five-, six-, seven-, eight-, nine- and ten-years-old mammal children and more younger ones as he appeared in a circus as a clown magician, distributing at the Halloween Eve's show the sweets to children during the magic show, secretly his own shock and sorrow, because his father had allowed him only a limited amount of candy... and seeing how much the other children at the candies right before him, made him secretly unhappy.
"This kept until he was twenty years old and still working in the circus, when the one eight- or nine-years old female pig named Mertle, who was the worse boaster and even the big spoiled brat on her class, made to him a cuel trick at one Halloween night show, which changed his whole life permanently. She tied his clown outfit's sleeves and hacked the small fan device attached under of his clothes before the show, and when the show began, the trick was activated and soon he looked like the big ball because all the air gathered on the inside of his clown clothes as the balloon. And it was then when Mertle called him as "walking meatball" which had left the traumas to poor Nermal from the time of his childhood when he was bullied for the same reason… and you really don't want to know what happened next when his air balloon like clothes just in the front of the crowd… well you know." Nick explained to Skippy the everything Zeke had told them.
"He got terribly humiliated in the front of the entire crowd in middle of the show, didn't he?" Skippy asking, guessing in his mind that Nermal's clothes exploded in front of the crowd after the pression under of his clothes got too high...
...to which Nick answered with the sad nod.
"Oh man. I'm getting to feel a pity for that guy." Skippy said with the expression, which told Nick that he felt sad for Nermal.
"Yes… poor guy indeed, but remember that he's still the bad guy by breaking the law with the commit theft and the frame-up, and we need to catch him before he makes the things go worst." Nick reminded him.
"Yeah." Skippy nodded. "What happened to Nermal afterwards?"
"Well, Zeke told me that his son never fully recovered from the humiliation he experienced and which even broke his preference for the little children. Afterwards of the experience, he never again appeared in any show. He quit but decided to continue his career on the streets as street magician... but far away from where his humiliation took the place." Nick explained.
"And what was then the thing Zeke said of Nermal taking from him before he left?" Skippy asked.
"His watch." Nick answered.
Skippy was immediately confused about Nick's answer.
"His watch? Only a ancient watch clock?"
Nick nodded.
"But not a ordinary watch. it was his hypnotism watch from his old times as the clown. Maybe that explains Judy's and that elephant skater's current state and their behavior like the brainless zombies, plus all those children gone missing."
"But aunt Judy isn't a child anymore. Why did Nermal then target aunt Judy to do his dirty works for him?" Skippy asked.
"Maybe he mistook her from the child... by the same way as Judy once mistook my con-partner Finnick as child in the elephant costume when we first met." Nick said and let out a small laugh at that memory.
"Well, did Mr. Zeke give us his home number or something?" Skippy asked.
"No, he didn't. He does not even know where Nermal is right now." Nick answered.
"How so?"
"As Zeke told me, year after Nermal left from circus, he just disappeared for the next two years… without the trace. For two years, he has not answered to his father's phone calls neither to his text messages. Maybe he has either lost his phone or threw it away a long time ago."
Now Skippy get more annoyed.
"That means that we'll never find him! And I guess that you're gonna say again that everything we've already found out from this case isn't still enough to proof aunt Judy's innocence to that Detective-Horse-Butt. Now I'm starting to believe that our attempts for it are already in vain and this is all hopeless!" Skippy yelled out of frustration and walked ahead of Nick. Nick suddenly stopped as his eyes caught something nearby in the the area where they were.
"Wait for minute, Skippy. Do not yet throw the ax into the pit. Maybe we don't even need to find him. We're gonna let him to find us first." Nick said with the smile on his lips.
Skippy then turned around to watch Nick in frustration.
"And how we're gonna do that, Uncle Nick. You know that he'll immediately run away to hide after he finds out that you're cop and that we're looking for him in order to arrest him for his crimes." Skippy said loudly out of frustration.
Skippy's loud shouting got Nick quickly to raise his finger in front of his mouth.
"Shhh! The less you yell, the less he even suspects it." Nick whispered.
"Well, if you have as a sly fox officer some plan to lure him out, tell me what it is, Uncle Nick." Skippy demanted to know, in a low voice but impatiently.
"The bait." Nick answered with the sly grin.
"Wait what?" Skippy asked in double confusion.
"If Nermal loves so much candies and children… well, before he got humiliated by the less than ten years old children… maybe were able to use these weaknesses against him. Come on, I think I know where he's probably heading right now." Nick said and crabbed Skippy from the wrist.
But because Skippy was too little to run as fast as Nick, even though he immadietily denied that he "is not too little" in annoyance and much to Nick's pleasure, because it reminded him from Judy's annoyed reaction when she's called with that C-word by non-bunnies, Nick had to take him to piggyback.
"Where we are going, Uncle Nick?" Skippy asked as Nick rushed with the fox's speed through the streets.
"Salmiac the Sloth Bear's candy shop. He runs that shop and he's another the big fan of the sweets along with Nermal and who happened to be one of my few friends before I met Judy and became the police officer. Salmiac's candy shop is the largest candy shop of the city with the one hundred different types of candy." Nick said.
"That's sound sweet." Skippy said, licking his lips.
"Remember that we're now doing the detective work instead of going to buy some candies." Nick reminded as he ran on one of the parket cars...
and leaped from the car's rooftop to on the road driving cars rooftops, and proceed by jumping from the one rooftop to another rooftop, sometimes landing on the cars front plates or on the heads of the mammals in convertibles, much to the annoyance of the drivers.
Later...
Once they had arrived to Salmiac's candy shop, which was already closed for the day, Nick and Skippy went into the hide behind the nearby bushes to avoid to be seen by Hermal, if he was already around of the place.
Nick's plan was to use Skippy as the bait, albeit against his own will even though Skippy agreed to go without hesitation, for Nermal by dressing him with the worn and torn clothes to look like the homeless, poor and helpless little street rabbit who is standing in front of the candy shop and watching the candies behind of the shop's showcase in hunger until Nermal's arrival. And then, Nick would use Skippy's camera to take the video footage from his criminal activities as evidence against the charges against Judy's innocence and capture and arrest the criminal itself with the another important evidence, the watch.
And, to make sure that the bait is both credible and successful, Nick had confiscate everything unnecessary stuff from Skippy, except his wooden sword.
"Are you sure you're ready for this, Skippy? You know, your mother is certainly gonna kill me and place you under house arrest for the month if even longer when she find out that what's going on in here." Nick said.
"Hey, I already agreed to do this as your partner and so I intend to." Skippy answered.
Nick smiled at Skippy's bravery, despite being still worried about Skippy's safety.
"Okay, you know the plan or should we rehearse it one more time?" Nick asked.
Skippy shook his head negatively, letting Nick to know that the answer is clear no.
"I got it, uncle Nick. I'm ready."
"All right, little detective. Let's do it." Nick said and send Skippy off...
And after Skippy was in the place, in front of the candy shop, Nick climbed with the camera to the nearby tree and settled to the brance, from where was the open sight to the candy shop and Skippy and which was out of the reach of the nearby lamppost's light so that Nermal wouldn't see him stalking him from the tree.
And then, Nick placed the camera carefully on its place with the supporting stick to ready to film the crime scene and snatch the villain in the act.
"Let the show begin." Nick said and remained in the tree while Skippy turned around to watch the candy shop, pretending to be helpless homeless little bunny with the hunger in the stomack.
One hour passed.
And yet another hour.
Third hour passed.
And yet fourth hour.
And when the fifth hour passed, nothing had happened.
And during of the five hours, Nick had to timely turn the camera off to make sure that the camera's battery does not go empty in the bad time and in the middle of everything when its needed.
Meanwhile, down in the street in the middle of the candy shop, Skippy was still playing his role but the little bunny was slowly starting to get impatiend.
Five hours had already passed an no sight of Nermal.
"How long do I have to be like this, Uncle Nick?" Skippy asked whispering, without turning his head to uncle Nick and. "I'm getting tired and cold down here. Besides watching the candy shop's candies makes me hungry for real." The white furred rabbit complained.
"Be patient, Skippy! Be patiend, or…"
Nick was suddenly interrupted after he heard the footsteps coming towards them.
Someone had spotted them and was coming right towards of them.
"Finally. The patience will be rewarded. I was starting to think he'll never came." Nick whispered.
"What? What is it?" Skippy asked, after he sensed with his sharp hearing Nick's whispers.
"Throw yourself back into your role. The bad guy's coming." Nick whispered loud enough for Skippy to hear it.
"About time!" Skippy whispered and threw himself back into his role.
And with that, Nick quickly turned the camera back on, taking the camera's video on use and started to film the situation.
There he came. Dr. Nermal approached Skippy suspecting nothing about of being secretly filmed from Nick's hiding spot in the nearby tree.
"Well, well, well. Look what we have here. A little homeless and helpless rabbit boy." Nermal said with the friendly tone, alerting Skippy as he turned quickly around to see the large gray timber wolf standing behind of him.
Skippy eyed the wolf standing in front of him and noticed that the wolf was wearing a long and night-black circus magician's coat, a circus clown's dark blue striped overall pants, green-orange lattice shirt under the coat and long and black clown shoes - very uncommon habit in Zootopia, where everybody walked with the bare feet. He also had a long grey chin beard, large clown classes and tall black top hat on his head and also two long canine teeth.
"Don't be afraid, little one. Dr. Nermal does not want any harm on you." Nermal said as he slowly and calmly approached Skippy, who tried to act as uncle Nick had told him.
"Never let them see they get to you."
Which meant that Skippy did all his best to not show to this wolf that he was afraid, even though he did not want to be afraid.
Nermal grabbed gently from Skippy's cheek and gently shook his head.
"Has the little "cute" little bunny boy the name?" Nermal asked.
Nick's ears jumped upright as he heard the word "cute" coming from Nermal's mouth.
"Gotcha, buddy." Nick whispered as he continued the filming.
Trying his best to not look to the direction of Uncle Nick and revealing to this wolf Nick's location plus presence and ruining the entire plan…
"S-Ski-Skippy, sir." Skippy said shyly.
"Skippy. That's a good name. Dr. Nermal likes it." Nermal said.
"T-Thank you, sir."
Nermal then took off Skippy's street hat from his head and stroked Skippy's head gently.
"Uncle Nermal likes so much the helpless poor kids like you, the brisk little kids like you, Skippy. And do you know why?" Nermal asked as he gently grabbed from Skippy's head with his fingers and gently turned it from the side to another to make him to shook his head as an negative answer.
"You don't?"
Nermal's odd behavior confused, and even freaked Skippy that he slowly retreated with two steps to back off.
"Because the little children loves candies as Dr. Nermal does. They know how to sneak in the candy shop undetected and steal as much candy as you want to... FOR DR. NERMAL."
Here it was, that was what Nick wanted to hear as he filmed the stituation. They had found the bad guy and have found out his criminal activities. Their plan had worked perfectly and Nermal had fell to it, believing that as the homeless bunny, Skippy would not be in any way able to report the crime to the police even though Nermal had just revealed his true colors front of Skippy's face.
"He uses the children to do his own dirty works for him and the blame targets to the innocent and brainwashed little children. Whatta cowardly snake!" Nick murmured as he kept filming, hoping to Nermal now to reveal the bigger evidence of this whole scheme.
"And now…" Nermal started as he took out what Nick wanted to be captured on the film, Zeke's hypnotism watch!
CONTINUES…
Nick had got now everything he needed to prove Judy's innocence to Detective Oates. And now, he had to get to there and take that watch from Nermal before he could hypnotize Skippy to do his dirty works for him.
And with that, he immediately stopped filming the stituation, pressed camera's "stop" button to save the record, placed the camera into his pocket and jumped down from the branch, landing to the bush beneath of him.
Nermal was about to swung the watch from the side to another before of Skippy's eyes, until he heard someone landing onto the nearby bush in next to them and the candy shop, much to his surprise.
He turned to see that what had just fell from the tree to the bush, and was immediately surprised as he saw the red fox emerging out from the bush, holding the taser gun in his right paw, pointing with it at him, and the office badge in his left paw, emerging out from the bush.
"ZPD! Put your paws up and don't move, or I'll shoot!" Nick yelled at the wolf with the officer-like stern voice.
Nermal yelped in shock, as he realized now that the whole thing was just a fake to lure him out to reveal his criminal activity.
Suddenly, he quickly turned around and started to run to the direction of arrival.
"Stop! In the name of law!" Skippy yelled after the wolf as he rushed after him.
Nick quickly put his badge back in the pocket and rushed after Skippy and Nermal.
As the bigger and faster than Skippy, Nick catched him easily and quickly took him to piggyback again without stopping - though he lifted Skippy to sit over his shoulders - and telling to Skippy to hold on, because he needed his hands to keep his balance and pick up more pace to stay in tail of the runner.
Skippy's light weight a little bit slowed down his running, but despite that, Nick barely managed to keep up after Nermal's running speed.
Nermal, sounding like in the child in the panic, pushed the people out from his way in order to get far away from the fox officer or the game is over and done. He even threw rudely some people on Nick's way in order to slow him.
Nick, after seeing Nermal throwing the people on his way to slow him down, then turned to Skippy.
"Climb on my back, Skippy. I have to go this through on my all fours!"
And after hearing that...
"AWESOME! Such of pity that I didn't take my cowboy-hat along with me!" Skippy shouted the excited expression on his face, for the chance that he can actually ride on Nick's back, and started to slowly climb down on Nick's back,
And as Skippy climbed off from his shoulders and slipped along his back to the perfect level on his back, Nick took his animal instincts to use and jumped on his all fours, accelerating his two-foot running speed to four-foot running speed as he charged forward.
"YEE-HAA!" Skippy shouted, earning the weird and confused look from the other passing animals, as they looked down to see the white-furred rabbit riding in all fours running red fox that ran through of their feet.
And, using his instincts and natural animal speed, flexibility and agility, Nick managed to avoid the every on his way or over him collapsing bodies, and after managing to avoid the falling crowd, Nick managed to even gain the double speed by running his all fours in Nermal's tail.
"Stop in the name of law! This is my last warning!" Nick yelled after Nermal as he and Skippy were very close to catch him.
Then, to Nick's and Skippy's shock, Nermal turned around and pulled out the pistol under of his jacket.
"Take that, red runt!" Nermal shouted and pressed the trigger.
Seeing the pistol and hearing the sound of PANG got everybody in the presence into panic and run for their lives away from the source of the loud gunshot.
Fleeing crowd halted Nick's proceed after Nermal, and forced to take his animals instincts into double-time to avoid the impact with the numerous for their lives running animals pairs of feets... which slowed him down greatly.
And after the shot, and after witnessing that the fox officer along with his bunny partner were left behind, Nermal threw his weapon away, turned around and continued his escape.
But Nermal didn't reach far as Nick and Skippy emerged out from the crowd...
...and seeing Nermal running in the end of the long distance, Nick kept running on his all fours.
And during of which, Skippy spotted Nermal's gun and snatched it from the ground as Nick ran pass of it.
And while Nick kept the hot pursuit, Skippy checked the gun in front of him.
Skippy noticed that, fortunately to him, Uncle Nick and other civilians around of them, the gun wasn't even real.
It was just the toy gun, and the loud PANG, had came from the small pen radio (similiar to Judy's carrot pen) attached to the weapon to make the loud gunshot.
"Good news, Ungle Nick, the gun wasn't real. It was just the toy gun. And the loud gunshot sound was just the record that came out from that pen radio attached to this gun. Besides, the bullets of this toy weapons are nothing else bu only a small red plungers." Skippy informed.
"Actually, I already know that." Nick said.
At first confused of what Nick meant, Skippy lowered his head to see that what Nick actually meant...
...until, much to his amusement, he spotted that Nick had got the hit from such of red plunger that was hanging right now in middle of his forehead
And with that, there was also a small red paper attached to plunger's stick, in which was written the word…
SUCKER!
"OH YEAH!" Nick shouted in annoyance as he tore the plunger off from his forehead, throwing it away.
"Let's see who's laughing when you got two electric darts on your butt!" Nick growled and boosted his four-feet running to gain even more speed to reach to Nermal.
Because Nermal got unfairly distance between of them and time to hide among the people, although it was still sure that he was somewhere running among the people, Nick turned his course and jumped onto the fire post and from it to the driving cars rooftop.
And from that now on, Nick started to jump from the rooftop to rooftop as he seek with his eyes the giraffe-sized car, on top of which he could locate with his eyes the Nermal's location among the crowd.
Nick soon spotted one coming and jumped to it as it was about to pass the car on which he was standing.
But Nick found out soon that he was unable to climb to its rooftop because of the driving speed and the distance between the cars, along with the car's smooth outer wall, on which Nick remained to hang for his dear life, which depended on the hold of his claws... and with Skippy hanging for his own dear life from Nic's shirt.
However, looking around of him to find with his eyes some useful to him, and thinking quickly after seeing the one, Nick gathered his strength and waited for the good opportunity to make his move.
And when the opportunity came to him, Nick bounced from the giraffe's car's outer wall onto the passing convertible's elephant driver's tusk, quickly moving onto his head, and then jumping from it to the rooftop of the giraffe car and looked down at the crowd in order to find certain wolf among the several people on the street.
Skippy, who had managed to keep his hold on Nick's shirt during the whole dangerous situation, placed his vision binoculars upon his head and looked through of them down at the crowd bellow... to help Nick to locate the runner among of them.
And then, through of his night vision binoculars, Skippy spotted him at first.
"He's over there. Trying to escape to Central Park!" Skippy shouted as he pointed with his finger at the entrance of the Central Park, where Nermal was trying to sneak out of the crowd and into the Central Park.
"I see him too, Skippy." Nick said as he put safety gloves on his paws.
And then, without even warning Skippy about his next move, Nick gathered all his animal strength and leaped into the air above the driving cars, until he grabbed to the lower power line, which snapped due the mixed weight of adult fox and young bunny.
"COWABUNGA! WHOO-HO-HO-HOO!" Both of them yelled in unision as they flew in the arch through the air, earning the astonished looks from the mammals in the presence as they did such of daredevil stunt.
Nick then dived into the leaves of the tree on their way and landed on the higher brance, from which he gathered more strength into his legs and bounced forwards from it and emerging out from the another side of the tree... and they both landed directly on the back of Nermal, catching him off guard and managing to pin him on his stomach to the ground.
"Dr. Nermal! You're under arrested for..." from the running in the full pace panting Nick said, until...
"IN YOUR DREAMS, COP! NO ONE OUTSMARTS DR. NERMAL! NO ONE! NOT EVEN THE FOX!" Nermal barked and, as a bigger and stronger animal than either of Nick and Skippy, Nermal rolled around, catching Nick and Skippy out of surprise and managed to shake Nick and Skippy off him.
Nick, with Skippy still hanging on his back, rolled over the ground until he landed on his feet...
...and he was about to get Nermal again, until the wolf poured some sand with his hind legs and kicked it straight to Nick's face, blinding him but only temporarily!
"Eat dust, fox! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-haa!" Nermal taunted, as he climbed back on his feet and ran off.
"Hey! That was unfair move! Wasn't it an unfair move, Uncle Nick." Skippy shouted after the mammal.
Strongly in the dust cloud coughing Nick quickly wiped his eyes clean from the sand and lifted his head up.
"Tell that to him, Skippy. The baddies always uses the unfair tricks to outsmart the cops." Nick said, untikl he jumped on his fours and rushed after the escaping wolf.
However, the fact that Nermal got the head lead wasn't Nick's and Skippy's next problem.
The real problem was, that there was a numerous roads where to run in the central park and numerous entrances where to exit from the Park, and in addition of that, it was the late night and the night's darkness covered most of the Cetral Park natural enviroment because of the lampposts lightened only the walking roads of the Park, meaning that Nermal had the chance to escape by hiding and sneaking among of the shadows and bushes while heading ti one of the entrances and escape from the park... and before Nick and Skippy would realize that, Nermal would be gone and completely far away out of their reach.
However, Nick and Skippy had to try to find him again, for Judy, before it was too late.
However, it proved to be quite difficult to try to track Nermal down because of darkness, bushes and the labyrinthine roads of the Park… and to Nick's annoyance, Nermal knew that too well.
And, much to Nick's and Skippy's annoyance, Nermal started to make the brief appearances from behind of the bushes and tree trunks, making with the annoying tone of voice the differend exclamations.
Starting with the "Let's play the hide and seek, coppy!" and continued with the several other taunting exclamations, such like...
"Wohoo! Over here!"
"Nononononoo, Nermal's over here!"
"You can't catch Nermal!"
"Catch Nermaö if you can!"
"Hehehehee!"
"Wohohohoo!"
"Woo-hoo!"
"Here-here-here-here-here!"
"Come here, boy!"
"Misss me, miss me, now you gotta kiss me!"
"You can't even catch your shadow!"
"Nice miss!"
All of these exclamations were starting to get into Skippy's and Nick's nerves...
...as Nermal managed at least couple dozen times to make Nick and Skippy to lose either him or his tracks while wandering all around if the park.
Nermal even paid several clown pranks at them.
For example, he shot several spitballs at both Nick and Skippy from every corner while hiding among of the bushes.
And when Nicck jumped up on his feet to peek over the bushes to see if Nermal was behind of them, Nick got the hit straight to his faces from the thrown cream cake, that knocked Nick over, and which was following the taunting laugh among the further bushes.
Nermal even dared to hide to the bush next to Nick and Skippy when the duo - Nick on his all fours and Skippy standing on his back - was about to pass it, and triggered his pranks... by sounding the horn can right next to them.
The loud sudden sound caught both of them out of surprise, but it made poor Skippy to yelp loudly out of pain, as Nermal had sounded the horn can right next to Skippy's ears, whuch caused Skippy to grab with his paws from his head as the painfully loud sound echoed in his head.
Hearing Skippy's moaning out of pain and complaining in pain the echoing painful sound in his ears...
"Hey! Don't you know how sensitive ears the bunnies have!" Nick barked as he angrily turned to the bush, only to suddenly get the strong spray of water from the water hose straight to his faces.
And as the spraying stopped, leaving Nick to wipe the water off his faces and eyes, he heard yet again the taunting laugh from behind of the bush.
"Alright, that's it!" Nick angrily barked and charged through of the bush...
...only to find nobody when he and Skippy reached to the other side, leaving Nick confused as he bounced on his feet to look a bit further to see that where Nermal had gone now... and that how he had managed to disappear so quickly after he was right next to them before he triggered his pranks.
However, suddenly...
"I am the biggest chicken... Kwak-Kwak-Kwak-Kwak-Kwak-Kwaak... from what every fox is dreaming... Kwak-Kwak-Kwak-Kwak-Kwak-Kwaak! Come to get me, you fox-fox... Kwak-Kwak-Kwak-Kwak-Kwak-Kwaak... who can't catch his own shadow... Kwak-Kwak-Kwak-Kwak-Kwak-Kwaak!" Nermal song tauntingly, as he appeared from behind of one bush and moved to behind of another bush, imitating the chicken.
Nick let out the annoyed growl to escape out of his mouth.
"Although in such a short time, I already hate this clown." Skippy said, as he was starting to slowly recover from Nermal's horn can's sound.
"I hate you! I hate you!" Nermal mockingly imitated Skippy's words, far away in the bushes.
"SEE?! I'm already so sick of this clown!" Skippy complained with the annoyed tone of voice.
"Such of pity he isn't e real chicken, because if he is, I would take the pleasure of fleecing him, put him on the pot and eat him." Nick said, with the dark humor... which is the first time in his entire life when he actually has used the dark humor.
"However, you're right... this clown is also getting into my nerves, and for the personal reason than just because of his pranks!" Nick said, referring to Judy and the situation to which Nermal had got Judy into because of his own obsessive desire for candies.
And then, Nick jumped on his all fours again.
"Climb on, let's go after him!" Nick ordered.
Without the question nor hesitation, and with the strong will to hunt down the baddie and bring him down as an retribution for intentionally hurting his ears with the loud sound from the horn can.
"No other than on the back and to the baddie hunt! YII-HAA! Onward, Uncle Nick!" Skippy exclaimed, with the cowboy style.
Nick shook slightly his head with the smile on his lips.
"In case you haven't noticed yet, Skippy, but I'm fox, not the horse." Nick said.
"But you know what? You forgot something else than just your cowboy hat. You should have to take with you a star-shaped badge and lasso, then we would have here a junior Sheriff Skippy." Nick humorously added as he rushed after Nermal.
TO BE CONTINUED...