Hurricane Island (Diddy x Dixie)

by LucyM22

Threatened by a quartet of bully children, Diddy is afraid to tell his situation. One day, he meets Dixie and family in the middle of their fugitive situation. They both establish a special friendship, where feelings for each other later arise. Their frustrated attempts to take a first step will lead them to live an unexpected and dangerous journey away from DK Island.

63. Strange Events

Chapter 61: Strange Events

The sunset hours passed when, on the open sea, a medium-sized wooden ship was sailing, which had been sailing for maybe an hour since it sailed from Hurricane Island. This ship had been built, more than a couple of weeks ago, by a herd of kong children... A herd which was now being moved and apparently kidnapped aboard on it, among them: a little chimpanzee girl with blond hair and pink clothes, who was trembling and shivering. Four hooded ones with long dark cloaks were on board, constantly watching all the children, who were bound from head to toe and blindfolded. Among the crew, there was also a particular quartet made up of two boys and two kong girls, who were sitting on one of the steps of the ship... all with an apparent fixed gaze and without any expression.

But in addition to all the crew mentioned, there was a little monkey of red garments who had infiltrated and that was fastened by a protruding bar on the outer sides of the ship. During the whole journey he remained in that position, since the bar to which he was grabbed was very short and he had no other object within reach to be able to climb to the deck of the ship.

"We are less than a kilometer away, prepare the sacks for these brats," said one of the hooded ones to the others of his kind.

The four hooded ones took some large sacks, into which they began to introduce all the kong children. All these children seemed to show no resistance when those mysterious figures took them and put them in the sacks, except for the blond chimpanzee girl in pink, who with all her strength tried to untie herself in vain.

"Stay still, girl!" exclaimed one of the hooded ones as they put her in one of the sacks, at the same time that she tried to scream and staggered trying to get free.

Diddy, from the angle he was grabbed to the sides of the ship, could not see what was happening on the deck of the ship and had no way to climb; he was literally hanging while he had the sea running below him. His arms were already quite tired of being held down, but he could not let go, since when falling into the sea, he ran the risk of being run over by the ship or losing it from his reach.

During the journey, Diddy was also with all the uncertainty in his mind. He kept wondering what all that sudden event was about: maybe those mysterious ones appeared out of nowhere and kidnapped all the kong children along with the ship... or perhaps, his past friends were accomplices and would have been used to kidnap them all and that's why they built that ship; the second assumption being the most likely, since Diddy had very recently discovered something curious about those four kong children... something shocking that, if he had known before... he and Dixie wouldn't have rescued them the day they met them from the alleged kidnapper gorilla they mentioned to them, and instead would have investigated what the four of them really were.

A quarter of an hour passed when a rock islet appeared in sight, to which the ship was heading. The islet looked like it was covered with rock, which gave the impression that the ship would be about to crash... It was not until, in front of the ship, there was a sea cave to which it was going.

The ship began to enter the cave, which was getting darker and narrower, which was beginning to make it difficult for Diddy to see. There came a moment when the sides of the ship were almost touching the rock walls of the cave, to the point of causing slight scratches to Diddy, so he had to let go immediately and now cling to the walls until the ship finished passing. The ship continued to move through the cave while Diddy had now stayed behind, holding on as much as he could to several rocks protruding from the walls. Anyway, Diddy couldn't be left behind, so he set out to follow the ship. He, although with great difficulty, was holding on to any protruding rock to reach the ship, the problem now was that everything was dark and that prevented him from advancing fast, and the ship was already going quite far. Diddy tried to move as fast as he could, but as he hurried so much, he reached a point where he put his foot on a wet rock, which caused him to slip instantly and fall into the cave water. The water was so rushing that on several occasions Diddy was bumping into small rocks and it was difficult for him to swim.

After a few minutes of passing through the dark sea cave, outside light could be finally seen, so Diddy immediately swam there, hoping that the ship hadn't been lost sight of in its entirety. When finally got out of the cave, he could observe that the islet wasn't rock in its entirety, but also had an internal river that surrounded a ground with vegetation and, in the middle of this ground, there was a high building of maybe about six levels. That building was gray to black colors, with several normal windows on the first floors and high windows on the upper floors. This building didn't appear to be built by common animals... Or maybe not because of animals at all, as it was a building with an urban style. The whole area was surrounded by the huge rock as a wall, as if it were a secret place.

Diddy, finally reaching dry land, was speechless to see all that scenario, because that place didn't seem to be good due to the location and the perception it transmitted. Suddenly, he managed to locate the ship carrying all the kong children; this one was parked in a corner of the river... But the children and mysterious figures were no longer on board. Diddy immediately ran to the ship to make sure if there really was no one, he got on it trying not to make so much noise so that they wouldn't find him... And, when he boarded, he realized that, indeed, there was no one on board. Diddy continued looking for them quickly, when suddenly, he could see from afar the hooded ones entering the building: they were all dragging the large sacks with the children inside. Immediately, Diddy got off the ship and ran towards the building as fast as he could. Unfortunately, he wasn't even halfway there when those hooded ones closed the door the instant they entered. Diddy stopped and just breathed heavily while thinking about what to do now, because the building didn't show any other alternative entrance, even the windows contained several bars where not a bird would pass and, likewise, the walls were smooth almost entirely, so he couldn't climb.

Even so, Diddy was not going to give up and knew that he had to find a way to enter that mysterious building, so he began to walk around it to look for some shortcut. He spent a few minutes searching, but still found nothing. What was most visible on the facades of the building were barred windows and long smooth walls.

Suddenly, in a low corner of the building, Diddy managed to find a small square tunnel and, without further thought, went to it. The tunnel appeared to be a duct leading into the building, it was so small but enough for Diddy to enter it. He stared inside the duct, which was very dark inside and generated some fear because he didn't know what would be inside and where it would lead. Anyway, it was the only thing that could be considered as a shortcut to enter, so Diddy, swallowing all the fear he felt, began to enter through it and just continued to cross it and let himself be carried away along the way. There were times when Diddy got hit and realized that the pipeline was not entirely linear, but also had vertical direction, so he had to climb up with his limbs. It took him a couple of minutes to traverse the pipeline, both horizontally and vertically.

After an exhausting tour inside the small shortcut, Diddy managed to see lighting in front of him, and with that he assumed that the course would be over. When he reached the end of the pipeline, he peeked stealthily and realized that he was now inside the building. He felt a little excitement that he had succeeded, but now he had to look for where the hooded ones would be with all the kong children. Who he thought of most... it was in Dixie; he knew on the terms he was with her, but he also knew that he couldn't leave her alone in a situation like that, despite no longer having the same consideration for her after what he believed she had done to him.

Inside the building, he could see high gray walls and long corridors that gave the feeling that something bad would appear at any moment. Suddenly, Diddy was beginning to perceive a heavy atmosphere in that place; it was like an energy that only conveyed a feeling of never being able to get out of there. He looked everywhere and, with all the caution of not being seen by anyone, began to walk aimlessly through the corridors of the building. The walls had colors of bluish or gray tones all dark, which gave all the feeling of not being a good place to visit. The floors of the building also had gray tones and a few had black and white mosaics.

Diddy continued to walk through the corridors, taking stealthy steps and begging not to run into those hooded ones, as he was sure that if they found him, they would catch him too immediately. He was trembling with fear and just wanted to think that soon he would get Dixie and the rest of the children out of there to escape... Although with a whole herd of kong children, it would be very complicated to plan a safe escape.

Minutes later, Diddy could hear murmurs of deep voices that seemed to come from behind one of the walls... Apparently, they were the mysterious ones, so Diddy hurriedly followed where their voices came from. When he reached that wall, he noticed a door that led directly to the interior of that room, but... this was locked; he had to find some other way to get in easily. Suddenly, he looked up and noticed a tall barred window that had a direct look inward. Diddy, with great stealth, jumped and climbed until he reached the window: it had only a small space to put his feet, so he had to hold tight to the bars. From there, he already had a view into the room...

"I don't think it's necessary to keep these brats tied; they quietly stay still if ordered," said one of the mysterious figures.

"But the pink-clothed chimpanzee does; she didn't get the main hypnotist," another added. "We can't give her the second dose to keep her still."

What Diddy could observe left him shocked: inside that room, there were several mechanical chairs where the hooded ones were placing each of the kong children, this time without blindfolds. And, as they had mentioned, these children didn't seem to have the initiative to run away and flee; they obeyed everything those hooded ones said to them while looking at them as if they had no expression of their own on their faces. Diddy was too confused, as he was sure that in such a situation, those children would run away or at least put up some resistance... But no, they didn't even show fear of those mysterious ones.

Suddenly, among all those kong children, Diddy managed to spot Dixie, who unlike the rest, did have all the face of fearing for her life while she was also in one of the mechanical chairs, tied up and unable to escape.

The hooded figures headed toward each of the children and began to manipulate the mechanical chairs, which contained lamps that they used to do what appeared to be check-ups, like if they were doctors examining patients.

Inside that room, some shelves also could be seen, in addition mechanical devices and instruments that gave a laboratory look to that room.

Suddenly, another mysterious figure entered the room through a door that was inside it. This one was also hooded like the others and, as soon as he arrived, he began to watch each of the kong children.

"How is everything going?" asked the new one who arrived. "Did they manage to catch all those brats?"

"Only that red-clothed monkey was missing," replied another of the mysterious ones with an angry tone. "All because those boys let him and the pink-clothed chimpanzee leave... Although we did manage to catch the chimpanzee."

At another point, one of the hooded figures went towards Dixie, who as he was walking towards her, began to tremble and even tears to flow from her eyes and breathe with agitation of fear... In fact, it was as if she knew something about those hooded ones... and knew them.

"What will we do with the chimpanzee?" asked the hooded one stopping in front of Dixie.

Then, the new one who entered the room, also walked towards her, at the same time that the rest of the hooded ones were also observing her.

"I don't know yet," replied the new one before pausing as Dixie continued to tremble at the sight of them. "I don't know if we include her with these children as well... or we take her for testing... or we exterminate her... or else... we'll also go to look for her little siblings on DK Island. Hmm! Who knew they've been living on that island all along... Where on DK Island exactly do they live, little chimp?" he asked Dixie.

"N-no... I won't tell you anything!" Dixie replied firmly as she continued to tremble and have a horrified expression toward them.

"Well... If you want, don't tell us now... But we'll force you to do it later," the hooded one warned before turning around and heading toward other children.

Hearing that, Diddy had frozen: did those hooded ones mention DK Island... and mentioned Dixie's little siblings?... Suddenly, everything seemed to point to something that was known to him before.

"Well, we have to start now!" said the one who entered the room last. "Let's finish examining these brats... Hey, Will!" he said to another of the hooded ones, apparently calling him by his name. "Can you go see the star electric scalpel please?"

"I'll bring it in," replied the other one as he vented his hood. "By the way, we can already take this off from us."

Suddenly, the mysterious figures began one by one to remove their hoods and black cloaks and then leave them hanging in a corner of the room... Diddy was now completely shocked to the point of almost stopping his breathing and feeling an intense shake inside him, when he clearly saw the full appearance of the ones who had been hooded... Two of them were orangutans, while the others were three mandrills that he had already seen a long time ago, and whom he fought... the day he met Dixie, Tiny, Kiddy and Chunky. The very group of mandrills and orangutans that had held Dixie and family prisoner a while ago, were those apes. The last ape that had entered was a tall orangutan, who was apparently the leader among the five ones. Then, the other orangutan was the one who left the room for a while.

All these apes wore short cloaks and thick necklaces with a stone, each of a different dark color, as if they were a band. Orangutans wore green and black cloaks respectively, while mandrills' cloaks were blue, red and brown.

Diddy, trying to recover from the impact, knew that he had to get Dixie out of there no matter what, because remembering all her history with those apes, he knew what danger she was exposed to... Much more so if she had now been a fugitive from them and they had caught her again. He could not enter through the door, as it was secured; nor through the window, since the bars didn't allow him to pass. Diddy panicked as he thought about what he would do to rescue Dixie.

Suddenly, the door that was inside the room began to open again as other figures were peeking out... Diddy opened his eyes to the fullest and felt a huge sensation of shock again that almost made him fall from the window when he saw the silhouettes of those who entered the room… He didn't know what to think of all that now. A group of four kong children consisting of an orangutan, a mandrill, a red-shanked langur and a capuchin monkey entered the scene, and began to observe also the children who were in the mechanical chairs... while smiling as if nothing. Diddy had gone blank for a few seconds and then started thinking thousands of things and generating more assumptions in his mind about the matter.

Then, the group of those four kong children noticed Dixie and immediately headed towards her.

"Ahh, but look who's here!" Mandrew said in a mocking tone when he saw Dixie.

"Long time no see, monkey girl," Rocky added in the same way.

Dixie, in the same way, was all shocked and with her eyes open with intensity to see the four of them in that place. She also didn't imagine finding them there and began to make quick guesses in her mind.

"B-b-but... H-how?" stuttered Dixie without recovering from the impact and looking at each of them fearfully at first.

"Oh, are you afraid, Dixie?" Melenky said, smiling mockingly.

"How are you, baby?" Jemky said by taking her hair and playing with it. "I wanted to see you again, beautiful."

"W-what are you doing here?!" Dixie asked, looking earnestly at the four of them. "Do you... Do you know those apes?!"

"Which ones? Do you mean them?" Mandrew pointed to the group of adult mandrills and orangutans, who were on the other side examining the other kong children.

"They're our dads, in case you didn't know," Rocky replied with a gesture of affirmation.

Dixie gasped and shocked again as she began to wonder if all that wasn't another one of her random nightmares. She tried to process what Rocky had said about the group of mandrills and orangutans.

Diddy, from the high window, had also been extremely shocked by this revelation to the point of feeling that, of so many impressions that he was taking that day, he wouldn't endure any other shocking novelty that came his way.

"W-wh-what... H-Ho-how...?" Dixie kept stuttering without wanting to believe it. "A-are y-you... their... children?"

"And yes, don't you see Jemky and me who look like our respective dads?" Mandrew replied proudly, his hands at his sides. "My dad is the blue-cloak mandrill and Jemky's is the green-cloak orangutan," he added, pointing to the adult apes. "Only Melenky and Rocky don't look the same as their dads because they're adopted," he added jokingly.

"Hey, that's not true!" Melenky and Rocky exclaimed, pushing Mandrew.

"Oh, why are you trembling, sweet?" Jemky told Dixie afterwards. "Nothing will happen to you if you behave-"

"You!" interrupted Dixie, looking at Jemky with extreme fury. "Be thankful I'm stuck here because otherwise I'd beat you until you'll beg me for mercy, orangutan with annatto hairs!"

"Wow, wow, calm down, baby!" Jemky replied in a mocking tone. "Do you say it because of... everything I said in front of that dumb dwarf Diddy?... Hmm, what a pity I have for him," he added, shrugging and laughing.

"Urgh, why did you survive when I shot you?" Dixie grumbled, rolling her eyes and waving her feet in the air.

"Well, yes, I survived," Jemky replied in the same mocking tone. "But don't worry, baby, we won't take revenge or anything, because thanks to you who gave us that emerald, our dads brought us here and revealed their work that we wanted to know so much about."

"Yeah, they told us that they capture animals and experiment on them. It's awesome!" Mandrew added, admiring as if nothing, to which Dixie looked at them with a bad face.

"And by the way, how did you know that Diddy and I were on Hurricane Island?" Dixie asked them before exploding. "How did you know all our information?! And you, Jemky, where did that letter, those photos, everything come from-"

"Hey! Calm down, cute," Jemky interrupted, smiling. "Look, I can only tell you that... the letter was made by me. Wait, here I have something to show you," he added before rummaging through the pockets of his vest, and then pulling out a piece of paper and unfolding it. Do you remember this?" he showed her the paper, which had written instructions for making a miniature pyramid. "Yes, the same instructions you wrote me that time to make that pyramid that in the end I could not even do... But anyway, this paper helped me to copy your handwriting and write that letter... fake, by the way," Jemky finished and then put the paper back in his pockets before smiling mockingly. "What a pity that your now ex-boyfriend has believed it."

Jemky started laughing out loud, and the other three kids joined him afterwards. Meanwhile, Dixie looked at him with all the rage she could feel and, if not for the mechanical chair that had her trapped, she would have already given a hard beating to him.

Diddy, for his part, had been open-mouthed and paralyzed by that new revelation... He could no longer deal with so much novelty that left him shocked at that moment. Now he felt an enormous sense of guilt and remorse begin to invade him.

"You have nothing to do, do you?" Dixie said to Jemky, looking at him indignantly.

"Well, no," Jemky replied with a cheeky shrug, making Dixie angrier. "And by the way... afterward that monkey cheated on you with that girl called... Jenny, right?"

"And how do you know that?! Where the heck do you get our information?!" Dixie grumbled more and more shocked, trying to shake her limbs. "And the photos! Where the heck did you get them, Jemky?!"

"We can't tell you anything else, pretty," Jemky replied calmly.

"Wait a minute... wait a minute!" exclaimed Dixie, recalling an important detail that would fit the whole situation. "Mandy... She stopped me the moment I was kidnapped," she said, looking thoughtful, before raising her voice. "Urgh, I must have guessed! You all are complicit with those other four hypocrite fake ones we built that ship with, right?!"

The four stared at her for a while with some strangeness, at the same time looking at each other. Then, they started laughing out loud again, while Dixie was consumed by enormous fury and felt like she wanted to kick them all if she could.

"You mean... Melvyn, Mandy, Ricky and Jenny, right?" asked Mandrew mockingly, before pausing. "Well, 'complicit' is not the word we would use exactly."

"Where are those four?! I want to see them!" Dixie exclaimed furiously. "I need to talk to those-"

"Hey! Calm down. They're not here right now," Mandrew interrupted. "By the way, I'm very sorry that you and that stupid monkey Diddy believed that those four were your friends."

"And now that monkey doesn't even love you anymore because he thought you cheated on him!" Melenky added, and then they started laughing.

Dixie was bursting inside with the fury, that she was even sure she would give each of the four a good punch.

"Don't worry, cute girl... I can be your boyfriend now," Jemky said, winking closely. "I promise to treat you like a queen-"

"What are you doing so much here?!" exclaimed an additional voice suddenly.

Everyone turned to look and it was just the group of adult apes, who were staring sternly at the four kids, in turn they stood still and looked at each other as if they didn't know what to do.

"Uhh... We had only come to see how the children are," Jemky replied with a trembling voice and a forced smile.

"All four of you get out of here!" ordered the leading orangutan firmly and pointed to the door.

"B-but-" stammered Melenky.

"But nothing!" interrupted the apes severely. "At this very moment YOU'LL START CLEANING ALL THE ROOMS HERE!"

"Oh, again?! But why?" Mandrew complained.

"Why do you ask why?!" exclaimed one of the adult mandrills. "We're going to punish you all again because for your fault WE COULD NOT FIND THE MONKEY IN RED!"

"What?! Just for that?!" Rocky replied. "But there are other ape children! And there's the monkey girl!"

"But we also wanted that MONKEY BOY!" replied another of the mandrills. "We need that monkey so we could exterminate him for letting us lose the chimp girl and her three little siblings a year ago! And now this was the chance to catch him, but you guys because of your childish games you LOST HIM!"

"B-but it's that-"

"BUT NOTHING!" interrupted the adult orangutan. "Besides, you had to be the ones who had to bring all these brat kids on the ship! But no! We had to go, specifically for those two little apes, since you guys came out with your ANTICS!"

"But it was Jemky!" Melenky replied.

"Hey!" Jemky replied, giving him a push.

"Jemky nothing! The punishment will be for the four of you!" snapped the apes. "We send you on a serious mission, NOT TO GO AROUND STEALING BOYFRIENDS, GIRLFRIENDS AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT!"

"You couldn't even tell us before that those two monkeys lived on the very DK Island and were your schoolmates!" added the leader orangutan.

"Because you never listen to us and ignore us!" Jemky replied pointing at them and making them more enraged.

"Urgh, naughty and insolent boys! RIGHT NOW, THE ROOMS ARE GOING TO BE CLEANED BY YOU!"

The mandrills and the leading orangutan grabbed and pulled each of the four kids by the ears, and carried them almost dragging to the other door and then releasing and throwing them out of the room as if throwing an object.

"By the way, weren't you going to give us guns if we caught all those kids?" Melenky asked them after they were released.

"WE ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT WE WON'T LET YOU USE GUNS AFTER WHAT HAPPENED TO JEMKY THREE MONTHS AGO!" replied the leading orangutan. "Guns do NOT fall from the sky! And you'll also clean that jet ski for taking it without permission and breaking it down! And right now, you'll REPAIR IT!"

Without letting them say another word, the apes slammed the door shut and secured it, leaving the four children outside.

"These kids don't change!" complained the apes very angry. "Nor because we send them to school to study."

Meanwhile, Diddy and Dixie, from their respective positions, shrugged their shoulders and smiled even a little after seeing the scolding imposed by the mandrills and orangutans on the four annoying kids. But then, both began again to fear for those apes. Diddy had yet to figure out how he would get Dixie out of there, while several thoughts were hovering in his mind after hearing everything the four evil kids had said.

Then the adult apes started walking around the lab. All of them adjusted their short cloaks and necklaces of different dark colors that they wore. They also wore in their arms thick bracelets of the same color as their short cloaks; It was as if they were in uniform, as the team they were.

"Well, let's wait for Will to bring the star scalpel to start with these brat kids," said the leading orangutan, who wore a dark green cloak and necklace, before heading to another corner of the room where there were some shelves. "Meanwhile, I'll be crushing the quartz to make the intravenous mixtures."

Both Diddy and Dixie didn't understand anything those apes were talking about or what they were planning, but what they two were sure from what they heard was that it wouldn't be anything good.

Suddenly, the internal door of that room suddenly opened. The other orangutan, who wore a black cloak and necklace, returned again in a hurry and with a rectangular mechanical device in his hands.

"Hey!" exclaimed the orangutan while holding the device which also had external cables. "The electric scalpel broke down!"

"What?!" exclaimed the mandrills, going immediately to look at this device. "But how is it possible?! And now what do we do?!"

"And not only that: it doesn't have the blade! It's missing!" added the other orangutan, showing quite angry and showing one of the cables. "I can't even find the spare blades... And you know something else? I found it under one of the boys' beds."

"But...?!" one of the mandrills exclaimed, before he started screaming in anger. "Oh, no! THOSE FOUR! We told them not to touch any of these machines!"

"Wait a minute!" exclaimed the leading orangutan, who was rummaging through the shelves before, and then turned to the rest of the apes. "Where are the colored quartz?!"

"We had left them there, Ray," replied one of the mandrills, apparently calling him by name. "Why?"

"Because they're not here!" the leading orangutan replied, showing a glass box, from which he took a small colorful quartz. "There is only one."

"But…" said one of the mandrills, looking confused along with the rest. "And that?"

Then, the green cloak leader orangutan, totally changed his face, put away the glass box, almost breaking it, and began to scream again.

"URGH, LET'S BRING THOSE BOYS BACK! Maybe it was them, no one else has entered here!"

"We'll bring them right now! WE'LL BRING THEM!" exclaimed one of the mandrills, who wore a brown cloak, adopting the same expression.

Suddenly, two of the mandrills in the group immediately left the room taking long and firm steps. It took a minute, when on the return, they came bringing from the ears again the four bully kids.

"You guys! You have to explain this to us!" exclaimed one of the mandrills, at the same time that they released the four abruptly into the room.

"Ugh! And now what do you want?!" Jemky replied, raising his voice while rubbing his ear as the other three.

"Did you damage this?!" another mandrill asked them sternly, showing them the electric scalpel machine. "And where are the blades?!"

Suddenly, the four of them were silent for a while, as they watched the device. Later... among them they looked at Jemky sideways.

"What's up? Why are you looking at me?" Jemky asked them, looking strangely at the other three and adjusting his vest, specifically, his pockets.

"What's in your pockets, Jemky?!" asked the leading orangutan, looking at him harshly when he noticed his gestures.

"Uhh, n-nothing!" Jemky replied, tightening his vest.

The green-cloak leader orangutan, who was apparently Jemky's father, grabbed his tufts, and began to check every pocket of his vest... Until from one of them, he took out some objects and showed them to the rest of the apes.

"The blades!" exclaimed one of the mandrills, who wore a red short cloak, taking what appeared to be scalpel blades, and watching them. "And they are... broken... and burned! And these things stuck here at the ends are remains of... paper! You guys were cutting PAPER?!"

"No, no, no!" Melenky hastened to reply. "We can explain to you, it's photographic paper and-"

"Shut up," Jemky whispered, elbowing him, without looking away the adult apes.

"Photographic paper?! This is NOT for cutting paper!" the mandrill shouted at them. "Paper burns the blades! Were you wasting the photographic paper?!... And what did we tell you about taking these devices before we left?!"

"And we have another question!" interrupted the other black-cloak orangutan, showing them the glass box they had taken from the shelves. "Did you take the quartz?!"

The four of them fell silent again, as they looked sideways at each other.

"Uhh... quartz are those colored stones, aren't they?" asked Melenky, to which the other three kids threw murderous looks at him.

"Where are they?! What did you do with them?!" exclaimed the adult apes quite angrily.

Suddenly, Mandrew, Rocky and Melenky began to look sideways again at Jemky, to which Jemky beckoned them as if he wanted to tell them not to answer anything to adult apes.

"Jemky!" the leading orangutan exclaimed, staring at him again. "Do you have anything to say?!"

"N-no... No!" Jemky replied firmly but trembling at the same time. "I don't know! We don't know anything!"

"Tell us the truth!" the orangutan replied, raising his voice more. "If you don't tell us the truth, we will whip you!"

"Rocky!" exclaimed one of the mandrills, who wore a brown cloak and was apparently Rocky's father. "I want you to tell us what you did with those quartz!"

"W-well... See... About the jet ski…" Rocky replied, looking sideways at the other three kids. "What happens is that we use those stones to decorate a painting that-"

Immediately, Jemky began to pinch Rocky's arm in disguise, to which Rocky pushed his hand away.

"Rocky! I want the whole truth!" replied the brown-cloak mandrill, raising his voice more. "What happened to those quartz?! Or we will punish you all!"

"Ugh, so that! We made a painting and used those stones," Rocky replied before sighing. "And if you want the truth, so… do you know how the jet ski broke down? It was because the trunk was broken at the bottom, and Jemky and Melenky had kept some things there and then the stones broke off the painting and passed into the engine, and it exploded... Are you happy?" he added, shrugging and rolling his eyes. "You'll no longer whip us, will you?"

The apes were gawking at Rocky's explanation. Suddenly, little by little, they became extremely furious, while the quartet of kids began to look at them with some fear.

"Where is the whip?!" exclaimed the brown-cloak mandrill, turning to the other apes. "Pass us the whip!"

"Hey! Didn't you want the truth?!" Rocky replied.

Without saying more, the leading orangutan took some whips off the shelves and then handed them to two of the mandrills, and they immediately walked quickly towards the quartet, whipping the whips in the air twice. Meanwhile, the quartet began to be frightened and to beg for mercy.

"Give the four of them their due!" the leading orangutan ordered the two mandrills.

"No, no, no! WAIT!" the four kids exclaimed, moving away from the apes and, at the same time, protecting each other. "We'll get more of those stones and that scalpel!"

The four immediately left the room and began to run in terror, while two of the mandrill apes left to chase them with whips in hand.

"COME BACK HERE, LITTLE IMPS!" the mandrills were heard shouting.

The other three apes stayed in the room, and then closed the door, all very angry.

"Always these boys!" complained the apes, stomping their feet. "They think things fall from the sky!"

"And now what do we do? Without that scalpel and those quartz, we can't do anything," exclaimed one of the mandrills, still angrily. "Especially that scalpel; without that we cannot start."

"Urgh, we'll think about what to do!" the leader orangutan added, grumbling. "For now, we have to leave all these brat kids in the cells. Meanwhile, we'll have to find a way to get more quartz and those blades for the scalpel... Ugh, we even have to go to the bosses again, and we're going to have to steal them; this time they won't want to give us new ones."

"Blast!" exclaimed the mandrill, who wore a red cloak. "Don't tell me we have to cross the whole sea again, Ray. The weather is not even so good for sailing; that hurricane is coming here."

"Well, that's what we'll have to do, Terry," added the leading orangutan, his hands to his temple, still angry. "These naughty boys! They always come out with some antics!"

"By the way, we have to lock the chimpanzee girl apart," said the other orangutan, looking toward Dixie.

"Aren't we going to include her with these other children as well?" asked the mandrill.

"No, because she didn't get the hypnotist; she's all conscious and will go wrong with the procedure. Although anyway, we could consider it."

"Well, so, let's send her to the cells first. And fast! That we're going to have to almost teleport from here to get another scalpel and other quartz where the bosses are."

The two orangutans and the mandrill pulled Dixie out of the mechanical chair, and began to carry her in their arms out of the room, while she screamed and shuddered to get untied from them.

"Stay still if you want us to have mercy on you, girl!" ordered the mandrill holding her tighter.

The mandrill took Dixie away, while the two orangutans continued to do the same with the rest of the kong children, although these, on the other hand, didn't put up resistance and didn't show any fear.

Diddy went into despair as he thought about how he was going to reach that mandrill that was taking Dixie. He recalled that on the facades of the building there were several high windows on the upper floors, so he assumed that the cells mentioned by those apes would be found there.

Diddy immediately came down from the window and walked through the corridors again. He knew that he would have to find some stairs or something to get to the top floors, and he had to do it as quickly as possible. If he was ever able to face those apes, he wanted to be sure he could do it again... even if this time he was in more danger...

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A/N: We're halfway through the fanfic. Yes... here is the half, because the next chapters will be long... and hold on tight from now on.