a few minutes later of quietness of consciousness, scott heard a noise of talking come from outside again. daniel was laying on the floor and he heard the noise too.

"thought that they watched those stupid saturday morning cartoons," daniel whispered.

there was 5 to 7 animals standing in a line behind the rabbit and pat. they were thinking of ideas of how to get the large boy's arm out of the window.

"have you heard the noise of the crashing?" pat asked some of the animals.

"not me," said a guinea pig. "i was sleeping inside my cage."

"not i!" a squirrel yelled. "i was eating acorns!"

the others said no, except for a lizard. "if you needed to barely hear, why were you all in homes?" the rabbit asked.

"because our owners wanted to stay in our cages," said a capybara. "i was outside, while you had to stay in homes with your owners."

pat was silent for a second. "we need you, bill, to go down the chimney." said a goat.

bill was the lizard. "but what if that boy will shoot me on?" it asked in fear. "just go down the chimney and mind your business, slack." said the rabbit.

daniel then heard what the animals were saying. his eyebrows were down, as if he felt very guilty. scott looked down to daniel.

"bill hasn't went down any chimney, man, hasn't he?" the karate kid asked, walking to the window.

"i believe so," scott said, still desperate in being very large in one house. "my mom wanted me to read a book about giants, like one of my old teachers told me about robert wadlow."

"you could've went small," daniel said, turning to scott. "but i could've talked more about mr. miyagi being in this hole, teaching karate, and doing life lessons with them kids."

they then heard a noise of running and they zipped their mouths.

"maybe you could use a ladder," said one of the animals, handing bill a ladder. the lizard climbed up in shock to the point that he would've not climb very soon.

"come on, bill!" the animals chorused. "go catch that roof below!"

"will the rood hold?" bill asked.

"mind your own business and go!" the rabbit called out. so the lizard, in fear, jumped inside the chimney.

scott heard the noise of rustling again. "they seem to put everything upon bill, daniel." he thought. "if so, i must protect myself."

he putted his foot inside the chimney, only to prevent bill from going into it. he heard a little chitchat from the animals, until they all went silent again.

"LOOK OUT YOU BOYS!" bill screamed. scott then heard the lizard, and when it came to his foot, he whispered.

"this is bill."

and with that, his foot blasted bill out of the chimney and the animals chorused and yelled, "THERE GOES BILL!"

bill couldn't get to a safe place further, and he fell into one of the bushes. one of the animals had to get to where the lizard was.

"what happened, bud?" said the capybara. "tell us about it," said the squirrel.

bill tried to explain, but his voice sounded hoarse. "well, that foot went me up like a jack in the box, but this one is whole... whole... huge!"

the rabbit then had a mad expression. "we must burn the house down!" it declared. the two boys heard it and daniel ran to the window and yelled, "if you do, i will throw a mr. miyagi on you!"

but the animals didn't hear him, nor so they picked up some pebbles and threw them at the karate kid and scott's arm.

"i hate them frigging animals," daniel whispered, running to the table with the fans and 3 pairs of gloves. "i have to put a stop on them."

"you oughta do that later," said scott. but soon as he continued, he looked back to the pebbles, and realized that they were turning into slices of cake.

"if i eat one of them," scott said, grabbing a piece of cake. "maybe these would make me small again. so they cannot make me bigger, i suppose." the cake got closer to his mouth and he bit more of it.

and his prediction was right. he was by far rumbling again, and daniel smiled at how much the teenage boy has rumbled. scott was 3 feet and 2 inches high when he stopped rumbling.

"come on," he told daniel. "we need to get out of here." he grabbed onto daniel's hand and ran out of the front door. the animals nor the rabbit or pat didn't notice, but they continued to throw pebbles at the time being.

after a little while of running, they were bypassed from long grasses. daniel and scott had fell into little puddles while they ran, and some of their clothing was lightly wet.

"i can't believe i'm wet again after slipping into your own pool of tears," daniel said, moving the long grass away from his sight. "it ain't my fault, though."

"now all i needed," said scott, following his friend down. "was to find my way to get back to my normal size again. and the 2nd thing was to get to that hole, i think it was a garden or something. man, i can't guess."

soon, the two boys bumped into a mushroom, a mushroom taller than them. the karate kid looked up to see who was up there. "i'm sorry if i didn't see where i was going," he whispered to his breath.

up the mushroom was one of daniel's enemies. chozen.

chozen looked down to where the two boys are. daniel looked up to him in a way that his enemy never saw before.

"hey, daniel," chozen spoke. "long time no see."

"yeah right," said daniel. "last time i saw ya was when i was at my 2nd karate tournament or something."

chozen turned his head to the other boy down below. "who is he?" he asked.

"he's scott," daniel told him, holding scott's body. "i saw him when he was standing beside me."

"i know that, but i don't see." said chozen.

"yeah, you know," scott flirted back.

scott had flirted on one of the fusoma family's 43 kids at times. one time when he babysitted the 3 babies, they all began crawling to his ankle, and began babbling. he flirted out on them and one of the babies fell on the floor, laughing and all of a sudden at once, they all pooped. scott's babysitting day was full of changing diapers at that time.

"well, if you wanna know what some random boys do when they babysit, explain yourself." chozen said.

"i think i cannot do that, mister," daniel said. "if you turn into a butterfly, then you have to be in a whole family."

chozen narrowed an eyebrow when his enemy said that. "can i ask you a question?" scott asked.

"what is it that you're asking me?" asked chozen. "your kicks, compared to daniel's crane kicks." scott laughed.

chozen frowned. he thought this was a funny joke, he really did. but it was not funny for him, and it didn't fit his personality well.

"that doesn't fit me much," he whispered. daniel then kicked a mushroom off the floor.

"because," he said, walking up to the enemy in a guiltless way. "he's certain like me!"

"why's that?" chozen asked.

"because i've been in this situation of rumbling, growing big, and shrinking small, whenever i eat or drink, this happens." scott said.

"i think i don't know about that," said chozen, throwing a hookah away. "come here, you two, i have something to tell you."

the two boys then climbed up the mushroom so that they could see him better.

"what size do you two want to be?" he asked.

daniel putted his hands on his laps. "i been small since i fell into scott's pool, so you believe 3 inches high is a good height, don't you?"

chozen stood up. "NO!" he yelled. "3 inches high is a good height indeed!" he hopped off the mushroom and daniel looked down.

"oh goodness," he said. "i didn't know you didn't like the idea." he hopped off the mushroom, as if he was about to fight chozen after so long. but then, the enemy walked closer to him.

"3 inches high must be good." chozen told daniel. "yeah, well," the karate kid said, sitting down. "i just wish you kept your temper better than us, man."

"keep your temper." said chozen. "is that all, mister? is this all you oughta say?" scott asked.

"NO!" yelled the enemy to the troubled son. chozen then walked another direction towards daniel and looked back at him.

"listen, you two." he told the two boys. "if you look onto that mushroom, one piece will make you larger. and the other piece will make you shorter." he walked away shortly after.

scott looked down again after a second. "one piece.. the other piece.. for what?" he asked.

"the mushroom, for crying out loud!" chozen said, running off.

"well," daniel said, climbing onto the mushroom again and taking a piece off. "i guess this could help me."

scott took the other piece off the bottom of the mushroom.

the karate kid took the piece off of his friend's hand and looked at the two pieces he has gotten.

"which one should i eat?" he asked. "any piece?"

"go for it," scott told him.

daniel has never ate mushrooms in his life, even not when he was little. his mom had taken a little bits of mushrooms when he used to be in new jersey. unlike his mom, his dad ate lots of mushrooms when he was little. he thought that this would be his first time eating mushrooms.

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