A/N: Now, Sherman has befriended Peabody, the werewolf, and he has gotten the red hood and his father's knife. Now they're on their way to Sherman's grandmother, who is a witch like Grunion only she's good, and she can help Sherman destroy Grunion for good and avenge his father. So, here you go! Enjoy!
Sherman and Peabody exited the wolf village and Sherman was a little confused at something.
"Mr. Peabody, we're not gonna walk through the streets of New York to get to this place, are we?" asked Sherman.
"Good heavens, Sherman, of course not. We're going through the gate" said Peabody picking a stone up from the ground and twirled in in between his claws.
"Gate?" Sherman asked with a raised eyebrow and adjusting the red hood over his head a little more since it wasn't up on his head all the way.
"Yes, this gate to be exact" Peabody said pointing at a large gate made from stone. There was a cryptic language carved on the door glowing light blue.
"Woah, where does it go?" Sherman asked in awe.
"The forest of Memnonia. It's a place you could only imagine of. It's a utopia for all the creatures of the world to live in peace" Peabody said. He then walked up to a little hole in the center of the gate that was surrounded by tiny little branches that had some little branches and thorns on them and placed the stone in his paw in the hole. The stone was a perfect fit and the twin doors opened up.
"Let's go" Peabody said. Sherman nodded and followed him through the gates. As soon as the gates closed and made a loud thud sound, Peabody and Sherman looked behind to see that the doors had closed. The two kept on walking deeper into the woods.
After a while of walking, Sherman and Peabody had a little snack as they walked. Sherman was eating a full carrot and Peabody was drinking from a leather pouch that contained water.
"Where are we now?" asked Sherman.
"We're in the Wicker woods. It's where the tree people live" Peabody said.
"Tree people?" Sherman asked. Little did Sherman know that one small tree behind him came to life and placed it's branch arm on Sherman's shoulder. The boy looked down on the red clad shoulder to see a wooden hand with little branches as finger.
"Um, who do I know with wooden hands?" Sherman asked himself and turned around. It was a tree person. It looked like a normal person except it was surrounded with roots, bark, and moss, and instead of hair on it's head was a stump with some bark shards sticking up from the rim of the stump.
"AHHHHHH!" shouted Sherman. He slapped the tree person's hand off his shoulder and took his knife out and held it up.
"Sherman, calm down. Tree people are totally harmless. They never hurt anyone unless they intend to burn down their home" Peabody said walking up to Sherman and lowered Sherman's armed hand down to his waist.
"I'm very sorry for the inconvenience good tree person. This boy has never been to Memnonia, nor has he seen any magical being in his life" Peabody told the tree person. Tree person then nodded at Peabody and got on one knee and placed a hand on Sherman's cheek.
"You are Malachi's son" the tree person said in a masculine voice.
"Yes, we're going to see Lucinda. She's going to help us destroy Grunion" said Peabody. Sherman was too shocked to speak for himself due to an actual tree speaking to him.
"Then I wish you both the best of luck on your quest, child. But be warned, there are many trials ahead of you and each one of them are filled with danger and treachery" warned the tree person as he walked back to a more foggy part of the woods.
"Well, now that our little interaction with the trees has ended, let's move forward, shall we?" Peabody asked. Sherman nodded and followed him out of the woods. Several tree people gazed upon them, some smiled at them and waved at them. Some of the waves Sherman returned.
After an hour and a half more of walking, Sherman and Peabody were in the middle of a field of dead yellow grass, rocks, and dead trees.
"Stay close to me Sherman, the badlands are a dangerous place" said Peabody he took his paw in Sherman's hand and Sherman gripped onto the paw tightly. The other hand gripped onto the collar of his red cloak. Peabody then stopped walking and began sniffing around.
"Don't. Move. A. Single. Muscle" Peabody advised. Sherman nodded and began looking all around him. Sherman then looked up at a dead tree to see someone standing in it, but then looked up to see that the person was gone.
"Ai-yi-yi-yi-yi!" shouted a female voice that jumped out of the tree. The mysterious female wore a dark blue hood with a cloth mask covering her mouth and nose. She wore a dark blue ninja gi with dark gray leggings and black boots that went up to her knees. She had a sword in her hand and had both hands on the handle.
"Who is that?" asked Sherman.
"She's a huntress, a skilled assassin of the woods" Peabody said. He then got down on all fours and began growling at the huntress. Sherman took the knife out and held it up to defend himself.
"You, in the red hood. Who are you? And why are you allied with a wolf?" she demanded as she raised her sword.
"We're just passing by, we don't want any trouble" Sherman said trembling with the knife still in his hand and wobbling as he was shaking.
"Tell me who are and you won't get any trouble" she said. Sherman tried to speak, but the huntress did a couple of front flips and knocked the knife out of his hand. Soon the sword was at Sherman's neck and he held his hands up.
"Get away from him!" shouted Peabody as he pounced on the masked huntress. Peabody's eyes met hers and she kicked him off her. After Peabody landed on his back on the dead grass, the huntress threw black rope at him and it tied him up.
"Mr. Peabody!" Sherman shouted. He spotted his knife on the ground and picked it up. Then Sherman ran over to the huntress and swung it at her, causing a cut to be placed on her cheek. She then snarled and kicked the knife out of Sherman's hand a second time and then punched him in the face, causing him to get knocked out.
"All too easy" said the huntress as she knelt down by the unconscious Sherman and tied his hands behind his back and carried him and Peabody into a deeper part of Memnonia.
A/N: So, there you have it. We have had a glimpse of Memnonia, where Sherman's grandmother resides, we also got to see tree people (or Dryads if you wanna call them that) and now Sherman and Peabody have been captured by the huntress. More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!