Pierre sees Thomas riding towards them atop an obsidian-colored horse as he and the other apes in his Clan approach their village. Thomas is accompanied by other apes on horseback.

"So you are all here," says the gorilla.

"God favored us," replies Joseph.

Soon, enough the formerly captive apes finally reach home. They can see some burnt logs from the old log buildings, and parts of the old log palisade are still up.

"Pierre!" yells Nicole, as the gorilla runs up to her older brother.

"Great to see you," says Pierre.

"Nicole!" calls out a mandrill.

"Madeline!" exclaims Nicole, hugging her friend. "I was so worried."

Deer and pig meat are cooked, with the captives getting the first juicy cuts. For there this is the first good meal they had since the Levain attacked. Gratitude fills the village.

"We should all remember those who died," says Antoinette, clasping her furry hands together. "They now play with toys in Heaven."

The others do so. They know there is no way to bring back those who are gone.

Soon, the sun sinks below the western horizon. Most of the apes sleep under the stars.

Three of the Clan members sit atop the treetops in the nearby forest. The forest is silent except for the sounds of the small critters that populate the woods.

"The Levain, they no like to lose," says Joseph. "They will come back for us."

"They from far away," says Thomas. "It would take long time for them to get here."

"That didn't stop them from fighting us first time," points out Antoinette. "So many killed."

"We might have to find new home," says Thomas.

"New home?" protests Joseph. "This is home. King Louie led our Clan here after God created us, gave us His breath!"

"The Levain will come. They will no spare us."

"We fight Levain to defend out home."

On another tree maybe ten meters away, Hector looks at them, hidden by the green leaves. The chimpanzee frowns.

He goes down and heads back to the village. Some apes are still working, erecting logs to make buildings. Most of the people still sleep exposed to the night sky.

"You feeling all right?" Pierre asks Hector.

"They're talking about us having to leave, to move. Thomas, Antoinette, even Joseph wants Clan to leave."

"But why?"

"They say the Levain will come back."

"And they will," says the gorilla. "I understand wanting to leave. But what if the Levain keep chasing us."

Pierre looks and sees that Rusty has joined him; the dog has a worried look in his eyes.

The jovial mood upon the return of the captives is replaced by worry and nervousness.

Oooooooo

Arthur, Alpha of Alphas, wakes up and leaves his tent. Looking up, the sky is a dark purple. The air feels cool. The only sounds are that from the apes-at-arms sharpening their blades or inspecting their crossbows and getting prepared. Breakfast, which is simply boiled oats and what grains, is served.

There is a log palisade nearby, with several apes-at-arms who stand watch at the southern frontier of the Levain turf. Two hot-air balloons rise high into the sky; each balloon having the traingles within triangles within triangles that is the emblem of the Levain.

The Alpha of Alphas walks up to the cream-colored horse that he calls Sir Lancelot. The horse whinnies at the sight of his master.

Arthur raises his hammer. "All right!" he commands. "Time to go and destroy enemy Clan!"

His apes-at-arms cheer.

"You read the Alpha of Alphas!" barks de Gaulle. "Get going!"

And so they do, unfastening guy wires from tent pegs and folding the tents. Supplies are placed inside large, five-meter long wagons. Some of the troops fasten leather saddles onto horses. Others apes fasten leather shields to their arms. And some chimpanzees make last minute inspections of the catapults.

De Gaulle faces his Alpha. "We are ready, your Majesty," he says to the mandrill.

Arthur raises his hammer as he sits on top of Sir Lancelot. "We ride!" he exclaims.

The Levain fighters all march in formation along the hard pathway.

oooooo

Using stone axes, the apes of the Clan chops down dsome trees in the nearby forest to make logs, cutting off the branches which would be used for firewood, and collecxting sawdust that can be used as fuel for cooking and smoking fires.

Pierre climbs a tree during a much-needed break. There had been so much focus on rebuilding.

And he still remembers Hector telling him how the Clan is goingh to find a new home.

He loks throiugh thius toy that allows him to see far, something he had picked up on the way back. It is a great toy, allowing the gray gorilla to see far away objects like he was up close.

And he sees some apes on horseback, and others apes carryinh spears, and oxen pulling huge wagons.

He sees the cloth banners with the triangles within triangles within triangles.

The Levain are coming.

Pierre climbs down the tree and runs towards rthe village.

"The levain are coming!" he tyells "The Levain are coming."

"What is going on?" asks Joseph.

Pierre hands the bonobo the toy, and points.

Joseph can clearly see the apes on horseback, bearing the Levain banner.

"Pierre is right," he says. "We can not stand and fight. We must flee into the forest."

"And if they follow us in there?" asks Antoinette. "There's so many of them,"

"Then it'll be their mistake," says Hector, walking up to them even as the other apes in the Clan gather around them. We know the forest; they do not. We can scatter them among the trees, pick them off."

The other apes- the gorillas and the chimpanzees and the bonobos and the mandrills- all gather around.

"What if it doesn't work?' asks one of the mandrills.

"Hey everyone!" exclaims Pierre, looking at his parents, then his little sistewr Nicole, his dog Rusty, and his fellow Clansapes. "I know we';ere scared. And I know we have to retreat into the forest. Maybe our Clan will have to find a new place to live and grow crops and raise pigs. But the Levain will just keep coming after us.

"But mabtye they will think twice if we can hurt them. If they follow us into the forest, we need to fight.

"We are a Clan. King Louie gave his life here on Earth for us. We fight for him.

"We are Clan Louie"

"We are Clan Louie!" yell the other apes.

"Take up spears and clubs and bows," says Joseph, holding a club with stone spikes.

Everry ape old enough to take a weapon does so. All of the Clan's remaining horses are mounted, and they all go into the forest.

Oooooo

Arthur sees this with the binoculars, seeing the enemy Clan flee into the forest.

"Not good enough," he says. "We will take them."

The horde of apes-at-arms approaches closer and closer, and soon they are over the tilled fields the enemy once used to grow food.

"We wil start by firing the catapults," says the Alpha of Alphas, raising his hammer.

Commands are issued, and the catapult crews position the catapults os that they can fore their payloads at the forest. They release the catapults, and boulders fly into the air at an arc. Theyy hear the sound of trees cracking from even over one hundred meters away.

"Again!" commands Arthur.

The catapult crews load more boulders into the spoons and then reset the catapults to add potential energy. Upon command by a Levain officer, the crerws frelease the catapults, and another volley of boulders crash into the forest.

"Move forward!" yells Arthur. The formation moves closer to the forest.

Another volley of boulder is launched deep innto the forest.

Siting at the treetops, Joseph can see this.

The Levain are just less than three meters from the edge of the forest; some of the apes can glimpse the downed trees.

Arthur looks as four horseapes riding point ewntert the forest.

"Easy, Sir Lancelot," says the mandrill, rubbiung the horse's blond mane.

Horseapeas and sp[earapes enter. Some other apes climbs the trees to the treetops.

The fighters of clan Louie are in the treetops, all looking at the the horseapes below.

Hector glances at Joseph. He draws his bow, which has a seventy-five kilogram draw.

Joseph places the tip of a horn in his mouth.

And he blows.

Hector releases his bow, and it strikes one of the spreapes, who fgalls down, dead. Other archers open fire.

Arthur raises his shield. "We are attacked!" he yells, raising his iron shield even as a stone from a sling bounces off it. He holds onto Sir Lancelot who rises his front hooves and neighs. "They are baove the trees!"

The branches rustle as the Levain fighters engage Clan Louie's fighters in the treetops. One of the Levain's bobnobos jumps to the tree where hector is. The chimpanzee sees an opening and then shoves a metal dagger into the bonobo's chest, causing the Levain ape to fall down to the forest floor. Hewctor glances and sees a gorilla from his own clan fall from a tree, downed by a crossbow bolt.

Hector hewars more rustling. Looking at his dagger, he gets an idea.

He saws quickly through a tree branch.

A mandrill jumps right at him, grabs on the branch,.

And it snaps, causing the ape to fall into the ground.

Hector swings away to get to another tree.

The battle goes on in both the treetops and the forest floor. Arthur himself takes down another masndrill and a chimpanzee with his hammer, crushing bone and skull.

He looks around. The forest is too thick in trees for his apes to gather in numbers. And the treres provide so much cover to the enemy from his crossbowapes.

Above him, Pierre suddenly struggles with a brown gorilla bearing a club. He tries to swing away.

The enemy chimp shatters the gray gorilla's wooden buckler, and then swipes at his leg.

Pierre falls. He grabs onto a branch, which snaps and he falls.

When his feet tocuh the ground, he allows his knees to bend, and then slams the ground with his hands.

The gorilla still hurts.

He immediately draws his aspear.

And then looks and sees a mandrill wearing a leather jacket and riding a cream-colored horse. The horse is galloping tiowards him, and the mandrill raises a hammer.

Arthur can see his next target who had just fallen from the treetops.

Pierre rasises his spear and points it at the horse and his rider.

And Sir Lancelot collided with the spear, which pieces his skull.

Insitincivelty, Arthur jumps off. He looks and sees Sir Lancelot lying on his side,m motionless.

He then looks at the gray gorilla who just stuck a sxpear inside the horse.

"Sir Lancelot!" yells the Alpha of Alphas. He swings his hammer, and it snaps the enemy ape's spear.

Pierre knows he has to retreat to the treetops, and he climbs the nearest tree.

Arthur will not let that ape get away, puttingclimbing after him.

"You're dead!" yells the mandrill. He swings from branch to branch, chasing Pierre.

Just meters away, Hector is watching the battle, and he nocks another arrow.

He looks down and sees Pierre's father, who had gotten ionto the ground.

A chimpanzee on horseback draws a blade.

Hector aims and lets the arrow fly.

The arrow strikes de Gaulle in the back, and he falls from his horse. The other Levain apes look and see their war leader fallen. They slowly back away, holding uop their shields.

Pierre keeps looking behind him, swinging from tree to tree. That mandrill clearly wants him dead before all others. He figurtes he is far from the battle, as the sounds are not as loud.

The gorilla takes a deep breath.

Arthur jumps to that same trees and lands on a branch.

Pierre jumps up to grab a higher branch with his hands.

And then he swings and kicks the mandrill.

Arthur falls back, grasping the tree branch with his feet. His hammer falls out of of the leather sheath on his back, making a thud on the ground below.

He quickly swings back up and leaps at the gorilla. They both fall on the firest floor, with Pierre on the bottom.

The Alpha of Alphas pins the enemy ape down. He grans the left arm and pulls really hard.

Pierre screams in pain, unimagineable pain like he had never felt before. His scream can be heard for hundreds of meters.

"You took Sir Lancelot," says Arthur. "I take you."

He feels something hard sterike against his head. And thern he feels something else strike against his shoulder.

He looks and sees three mans. These mans are clearly wild, unlike Pasdefourrure.

"You beasts!" yells Arthur, looking at the animals.

Pierre sees the hammer on the ground.

With his right hand, he grabs it.

He swings the hammer.

And its hard steel head makes contact with Arthur's head.

Pierre swings the hammer again and again, hearing the shattering of bone.

He then gets on his knees.

"Pierre!" yells Hector. "Are you all right?"

"No," replies the gorilla. He looks at one of the mans, who has dark brown fur on his head and chin. "Thank you," Pierre says to the man.

The man grins. After five seconds, he and his friends walk off.

Oooooooo

Once again, Pierre and Hector are on top of the Eiffel, inside the giant Toymaker village called the Paris. He can still see the old Toymaker buildings, many with green vines growing along the walls. The blue sky above does not have a single cloud.

Three apes from the Levain meet with them and Antoinette. One of them is a mandrill wearing a black leather jacket named Charlemagne, the son of Arthur and the new Alpha of Alphas. Another is a chimpanzee named Milo, who wears a white coat and a green bowtie. The third ape is an orangutan named Virgil, who wears an orange flax shirt. They had been discussing the terms of the peace.

"The Levain will recognize a reservation for Clan Louie," says Virgil. "You can rule yourselves as you see fit in your reservation. Your will not owe tribute to the Levain, not from your crops or meat or the wood you cut from your forest. Your apes may travel in peace and law through the turf of the Levain; they will not be treated different than Levain subjects while doing so. And you may continue your custom of climbing the Eiffel.

"In turn you will recognize the Alpha of Alphas of the Levain, not fight the Levain any more, nor will you help those who fight the Levain."

Antoinette thinks. There is no way Clan Louie could destroy the Levain, who are too numerous and can make better toys, and better weapons. "You will keep your word," she says. "the other Clans know you can lose. They believe your word, which is why they give tribute. If they don't believe your word, no more tribute."

"The Levain have helped us make more food with their toys," says a bonobo named Bright Eyes, whose Clan swore tribute to the Levain. "we trust their word. Tribute based on trust."

"Then we agree," says Charlemagne. "You defeated my father in battle. We..respect you. We will know this as the Treaty of Eiffel."

Pierre and Hector look on, worrying whether there will be true peace or if this is just a reprieve until the Levain strike again.

This feeling persists even as they are back home, with a few log buildings already constructed. Pierre and hector sit around an open fire. Pierre's parents and his sister Nicole sit with them.

Rusty looks at Pierre with sad eyes. Pierre looks at the pieces of deer meat roasting on a wooden stick. He removes a chunk of meat from the stick and gives it to the orange dog.