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Its A Kind Of Magic - Part 3

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If you have missed the previous episodes you can find them here:

Episode 1:
1st half & 2nd half

Episode 2:
1st half & 2nd half


The story features primarily characters made by me and :iconfrankyding90:. If you don’t like fan characters, don’t read this story.
Everyone else happy reading!!! :woohoo:

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It’s a kind of magic - Day 3
Rebirth…


There was something that prevented her from breathing, but she couldn’t define what it was. Slowly she opens her eyes but is met by a thick fog. It felt like she was in some sort of liquid substance. She opens her mouth and fluid enters her mouth. It provokes a powerful twitch in her and she sits up, now her head was above the water like substance. Still having difficulties of breathing she starts to cough and slime comes out of her mouth.
When she has recovered she looks around, she was in a large empty room, with black walls and red glowing markings. There was something that prevented her from having full movement in the head. With one of her hands she touches her head, and let her hand slowly move to the backside. Her eyes widen when she finds something that is attached to her head. Carefully she grabs it and pulls it out. She bites her lips as it was quite painful. Still holding the unknown object in her hand, she slowly turns her head and sees what she is holding is some sort of wire with a nasty looking large needle. Spooked by it she drops it on the metal floor with a loud bam! Still shaking all over her body she carefully touches the area of her head where the needle was. Her fur raises a little as there was something metallic hidden in her hair and she couldn’t get if off.
She panics and lets out a loud scream as she wasn’t able to talk and didn’t know how else to draw someone’s attention. Her screaming stops when she all of a sudden sees something standing next to her. She looks at it but she couldn’t determine what she was staring at. It was a creature made of metal that didn’t show any kind of emotion, in its hands it was holding some thick fabric. It bends a little over and offers her a hand. She hesitates a little but takes it and the creature helps her out of the container. Still lying on the floor the creature wraps her in the fabric, and helps her on her feet. She tries to walk on her own, but it was difficult, not that her legs were weak or anything but she didn’t possess the technique that was required. The metal creature sees her struggle and helps her. She wanted to thank it for its help, but she had no words to express her appreciation.
She was fully aware of herself and her surroundings, but it was like there were gaps, black holes in her head, pieces were missing…
The mechanic creature leads her to what appeared to be a hallway and the other side on which there was a large metal door. The door makes a lot of noise and opens slowly on the other side; she sees a creature larger than herself. She couldn’t see it that well as it was glowing with a bright light. It reaches out for her as she comes closer.


She gasps and opens her eyes and finds herself lying in a bunk bed. It was all just a strange dream… A strange dream that seemed so real… She looks around in this strange place. She was in a small brown wooden room that smelled old, and the bed she was lying in was a smaller one made for mobians. She looks on the floor and spots a larger pair of black boots and a jacket. Now she remembered everything… She was on a crazy road trip with Jack to find a shadow knife and bring her back to normal… But speaking of Jack… Where was he? She stands out of the bed, but feels a little wobbly on her legs. She leans up against the bunk bed for a short moment. She takes a deep breath and heads towards the hallway, not so far from the room there was a small bathroom, the door wasn’t all closed and there was light coming from inside. As she walks closer she can see there is some movement from inside judging from the shadows on the floor. She slowly opens the door and was meet by some steam.

“Jack?” She asks and then freezes. On the middle of the floor the green raccoon stood with his back turned to her drying his face. He was only wearing shorts. Airy could feel herself slightly blushing and panics.

“Hmm?” The green raccoon stops as he could hear something and he looks at the door as he sees it is half open.
“Old piece of crap…” He sighs and closes the door again.

Airy has rushed back to safety in her bed and hides herself under the blanket. With her hands she tries to cover her snout.
“Stop it! Stop it!” She mumbles to herself as she could still feel her cheeks and nose being warm.
“What is wrong with me?! It doesn’t make any sense!” She whines still having her head under the blanket.

“Airy? Are you alright?” The green raccoon asks worried as he enters the room.

“…Yes…” She answers sounding a little tense.

“Hmm…” Jack wasn’t all convinced and sits down on the bed.
“I have prepared the bath for you, shall we get going?” He gives her a gentle poke.

“No thanks... I’ll handle this on my own…” She sits up in the bed with her back turned to him.

“You sure?” He asks her surprised and then looks intensely at her as she slightly looks over her shoulder.
“You sure you feel alright kiddo? You look like a tomato…. And you are very warm!” He plants his hand on her forehead, which makes the young golden hedgehog girl more uncomfortable. All she wanted was not him to see her like this, or have him around to fuel it…. Whatever “it” was…

“What is the matter? You look like you have seen a ghost” He chuckles a little. She ignores him and picks up her stuff and leaves the room in a hurry.

“Perhaps I should have the doctor look at her again…” The green raccoon scratches himself confused on the head by her unexpected reaction.

“What the heck did just happen? Why did I get this feeling when I saw him?” She intensely rubs her face out in the bathroom and takes a deep breath.
“Okay Airy, focus… It is possibly just my period that is messing with my head… or some sort of… well, trauma from my transformation….” She looks herself in the mirror.
“I gotta pull myself together and get this under control…” She sighs and gets undressed then turns on the water.
As she was almost done washing the soap out of the hair, someone knocks the door

“How many eggs do you want for breakfast?” Jack opens the door a little. She gets a small shock and steps on a small piece of soap inside the shower she hadn’t seen, and slips. Not only does she take the curtain with her down in the fall, but the old worn sink too, which shatters into many pieces by the impact…

“… Oh snap…” He rushes to her side.
“Are you okay kid?!”

“Yeah…. I am fine…” She says a little disorientated and then panics as she realizes Jack was in the room with her and she wasn't wearing anything! Franticly she covers herself with the shredded curtain. The green raccoon looks at her puzzled but offers her a hand, but she declines and stands up on her own.

“I think we have to eat breakfast some other place” The green raccoon looks uneasy at the pieces of porcelain scattered on the floor and the water that slowly covers them from the damaged water faucet.
“… I am afraid we are gonna make a hasty check out!… This isn’t good for my insurance…” He says and in a few moments he had gathered all their stuff and loaded it into their car.
They both freeze when they hear a man shouting at the parking space. Franticly they look around and spot the elderly doctor mouse.

“Damn pigeons!!!! Get of my car!!!... Oh, bloody hell… They have pooped on the handle too, those little bastards!” He growls and throws a small rock after the birds.

“No time to waste!” Jack grabs Airy’s arm and pulls her inside the car.
“Fasten your seatbelt kid and pray we won’t get busted!” The green raccoon turns on the engine and drives away in full speed.


For the next few hours they kept driving; the whole time there was a complete silence in the cabin.
Airy couldn’t bring herself to say anything; she was embarrassed by herself and of what had happened in the bathroom. It was a whole new emotion... She had experienced regret and sorrow before, but she didn’t fully understand the meaning of embarrassment until now… And then there was the other new feeling… For some reason she now felt drawn to Jack, she wanted to get close to him and have his acceptance. He all of a sudden seemed VERY good looking and appealing; the thoughts it provoked scared her a lot!
Carefully she turns her sight to him and studies him for a brief moment. Out of the corner of his sight he sees Airy looking at him. Convinced she was beginning to come around from the shock from the bathroom and willing to talk, he smiles to her. Instantly she blushes and looks away. His smile fades, and he looks questioning at her.

“Look kid… About the sink… It was old and worn, it was only a question about time before that old piece of crap would fall down.” He tries to cheer her up, but she still keeps her back to him and doesn’t answer. He sighs a little to himself, what was he to do about her?
On the road he spots a sign that right away captures his attention.

“Say kid? Would you like to go to a carnival? We could have lunch there, and perhaps I could try to win a stuffed animal for you. What do you say?” He asks her; she looks a little over her shoulder and nods a little. If he didn’t know better he could swear she was acting like a shy teenage girl.

“Thought that could be of interest.” The raccoon grins and after a couple of minutes of driving they arrive.

“We are here.” Jack says and gets out of the car, Airy hesitates and looks out of her car window, now she wasn’t so sure if she wanted to go. Deep down she just wanted to disappear…

“Come on kid!” Jack encourages her and she gets out of the car. At the entrance there were a lot of people. Jack grabs Airy´s hand and leads her through the mass. The brief moment where he held her hand made her warm and fuzzy inside, she totally forgot how embarrassed she was. She was now in bliss and she liked it!
First they went to a hotdog stand and got one each, after that they started looking for a stuffed animal Airy wanted. Airy set her mind on a white unicorn plushie in a shooting booth. After Jack pays the man he starts shooting the moving targets with an air gun.
Not so far from them a mobian family of six pass by. A middle aged couple, an overweight pink elephant male who looked quite goofy, a brown skinny cocker spaniel woman who looked surprisingly good taking her age in consideration (and in spite the fact she had four children), and their four children. A pink cocker spaniel toddler girl, two boys who appeared to be around 10, one of them a pink elephant like their father and the other one a brown cocker spaniel like their mother. The oldest of the children was a brown cocker spaniel girl with pink ears and tail, she was somewhere around 18-20 years old and quite good-looking. Judging by her skimpy outfit and lack of enthusiasm she looked like an easy target. As she passes by she looks at Jack who gives her a blink. He aims at the target in the booth again and concentrates, if he played his cards right he could have a moment of this cocker spaniel girl´s time. He shoots and hits the target.

“YES!!!” He shouts.

“Here you go, sir.” The man hands Jack the stuffed animal which he gives to Airy, who gets very excited. She was indeed glad for her new toy, but the feeling that Jack had done something for her made her feel special and very happy! Jack looks over Airy´s shoulder and sees the family heading for the huge Ferris wheel and he leads Airy the same way, from the distance he can see that the whole family except the girl enters it. This was his chance!

“Airy” He says to the hedgehog girl.

“Yes?” She asks him.

“I need to… You know…. And it will take some time.” He says and picks up some cash from his pocket.
“Go buy yourself a ride or two on the Ferris wheel, I will be back as soon as possible.” He hands her the money.

“Okay” She complies and goes to the ticket seller. As she stands in line he rushes away and when he thinks he is out of her sight, he approaches the cocker spaniel girl.

“What do you want?! Who are you?” The cocker spaniel growls displeased at him.

“Your parents worst nightmare.” The green raccoon grins to her.

She raises surprised her eyebrow.
“Is that all just barking I hear? Or do you really bite Prettyboy?” She grins to him.

Meantime Airy has got inside the Ferris wheel, and when it starts to role she gets a good overview of the carnival. She holds her stuffed animal close as she was a little scared of heights; it would have been nicer if Jack had been there with her. She raises her eyebrows and leans closer to the glass as she spots a green mobian guy talking to what appeared to be a girl. When the ride is over she rushes to the place where she saw them. She freezes; it was Jack and he was now leaving with another girl.

“What is going on?” She looks at them confused and follows them on distance to a more deserted area of the carnival. Suddenly they turn corner, Airy leans up against a truck and sees them entering a restroom wagon together.

“No, Jack… You are with me…” She takes a step closer but stops.
“Frak!” She kicks a rock and turns around, since Jack had told her to wait for him at the wheel, she had however only taken a couple of steps when she starts to feel very awful and something was dripping on her lips. She carefully rubs her mouth to discover she was bleeding from her nose again. Franticly she tries her best to clean herself with her free hand. All of a sudden she feels a great pain like she was stroked by a lightning and she collapses on the ground.

“ARG! What is happening?! My heart!” She takes herself to the chest. She stands up again and goes to the backside of the large truck to avoid attracting too much attention to herself. She lies down on the thin grass and breathes heavily. From there she could see the toilet wagon between the trucks wheels.
“God, I wish something awful happened to that girl…” She growls to herself; she was jealous. All off a sudden she felt a great pain in her body. She looks down herself, and her eyes widen as she was now imbedded and a bright magenta glow. She raises her hands and looks at them, it was just like the creature from her dream! All of a sudden screaming was heard right next to her. She turns her sight to the toilet wagon and gasps, it was flying around in the air!

“Sorry! Sorry! I didn’t mean it! I eat my words!” She apologizes as the wagon falls down with a loud bang, and its wheels fall off by the impact. Airy curls a little from her hide as one of the wheels is coming her way, but it was luckily too high to get under the truck and hit her. She stands up and grabs her unicorn. From all over the carnival people came to see what was going on.
Out of the wagon the cocker spaniel girl walked out, she looked very pissed. She was wet and covered with toilet paper. She was shortly followed by Jack who wasn’t as wet as her. He walks up to her and grabs her arm. Airy sneaks out and hides in the crowd, she looks over her shoulder to see the angry cocker spaniel girl yelling at Jack and then slap him in the face. Airy gulps and hurries back as fast as she can with the tail between her legs to the Ferris wheel as she could hear the girl now turning her frustration at the curious crowd.
Airy finds a bench and waits for Jack there, she didn’t know how long she was going to wait and she didn’t care, now she was far away from him and couldn’t make more trouble. She holds the unicorn plushie tight, it surprised her how much Jack had come to mean to her…

“Kid?”
She looks up and sees the green raccoon standing in front of her.

“Sorry about the wait, broken toilet.” He says and shows a large wet spot on his jacket. She gives and awkward smile and stands up.

“How was the Ferris wheel?” He asks her.

“Good… It was great.” She says simple and hands him the leftover money.

“You only went once?” He asks her surprised after he made a quick count on the money.

“I didn’t feel so well…” She says but stops as she could see he seemed a little concerned.
“But I am better now.” Airy assures him, but he looks a little sceptical at her as her cheeks were red.

“Are you sure? ‘Cause you look like a tomato again! And there is some dried blood under your nose” He points at her and crosses his arms.
“You know, Airy… It is okay to tell others if you aren’t feeling well… Adult.. Child… It doesn’t matter, if you are feeling ill you shouldn’t keep it to yourself.” He looks her in the eyes and she nods a little and looks down.
“Seems to me you overheated… Come, let’s buy a slush ice and hit the road.” He gives her an assuring smile and gives her sign to follow him. Airy smiles a little to herself and follows him. Now everything was back to normal and knowing Jack cared about her already made her feel much better!

Later they returned to the car and kept driving till later afternoon where they made a stop at a gas station to buy some fuel. As Jack goes inside to pay, Airy steps out of the car to stretch her legs. After walking back and forth a couple of times she stops and leans up against the car and looks out on the road. All of a sudden something heavy lands on the car, she gets a major shock and turns around.

“Hello Twerp! Missed me?” It was Harley! The spider/monkey girl.

“YOU!! JA--” She shouts as she spider/monkey girl shoots some web at her mouth.

“Hope you don’t have a cold, else you would have a serious problem.” Harley laughs with her rusty voice as the golden hedgehog girl tries to get it off. It was totally hopeless and the hedgehog girl makes a run for it.
“And where do you think you are going?” Harley jumps down from the vehicle and blocks Airy´s way.

“BA! BOO! BA! BOO! BA! BOO! BA! BOO! BA! BOO! BA! BOO! HARR! HARR! HARR!” Multiple voices shouts. Airy looks back and sees the three hyena sisters from Donna´s gang coming from the road. They were all three riding on police motorcycles and wearing police hats. The text on the motorcycles had been painted over, where it used to say “To serve and protect” now stood “To enslave and destroy!”. They all three drive up to Airy.

“Like our paint job? It was my idea” One of the hyenas says proud.

“No! It wasn’t, DeeDee! It was mine!” Another hyena slaps her sister in the back of her head.

“No way, LiLi! It was MINE!” The third hyena interferes.

“SHUT UP!!!” A deeper woman voice sounds and the hyenas moves aside. It was Donna Prima Mantis! The fearsome leader of the biker chicks, she too was wearing a police hat.

“Here, hold this…” She says cold as she takes off the hat and places it on the frozen hedgehog girl’s head.
“I have a jackass that is going to be arrested… persecuted… and executed….” She folds out her whip.

“Wow, you are so cool…” One of the hyena girls says as she admirers her leader.

“Shut the pie hole, DeeDee!” Donna snarls and enters the shop.
“OUT!!! EVERYONE!!! BEAT IT!!” She shouts as she gets inside the shop and swings her whip and destroys a shelf. The costumers panic and run to the nearest exit. The green raccoon wasn’t really interested in testing his strength in a direct confrontation with the mad mantis woman, and he tries to flee with the crowd. But Donna has already seen him; she swings her long whip and catches one of his legs and he falls. She pulls the whip back and launches another attack with it. Jack rolls and dodges it. He drops his jaw when he sees the force from it had made a crack in the stone floor. The green raccoon gets back on his feet and grabs a can from a nearby shelf and tosses it at the mantis woman. She swings her whip again and destroys the can, slicing it in two pieces.
The raccoon grabs another can, this one was bigger and he tosses it at the mantis. With her whip she catches the can; he couldn’t tell how on earth she managed to do it, but she used her whip as a slingshot and sends the can right back at him in full speed, but he acts fast and dodges it.
She launches another attack with her whip, Jack holds up his arm and shields himself. He feels a slight pain in his arm and the whip wraps around it. He can feel Donna is pulling in the other side. He grabs the whip with his free hand and pulls harder. Donna takes advantage of being pulled towards him and chargers him when she gets close enough. She pokes him on various places on the body and he loses all feeling in his limbs.

“Damn you…” He growls with a tense voice before she punches him in the gut and forces him down on his knees.

“Hellga! Take the trash” Donna calls, and the large mobian shark appears holding a big black plastic bag.
“With pleasure, boss.” She growls and picks up the raccoon and stuffs him in the bag.

“Bitches!!!” Donna snaps her fingers as she gets out of the shop followed by her large minion.

“What about the twerp? Can I keep her? Oh please can I?” The spider/monkey girl asks her boss.

“Sure… She would make an excellent coat stand in the base.” Donna pats Airy on the head and takes the police hat back..

“All right, move it or lose it, princess!” Harley orders Airy on her motorcycle. All the biker girls turn on their bikes and follow their leader further down the road and makes a turn to a gravel road that leads inside a thick forest.

“We are on an express elevator to hell; going down!!!” Harley shouts and the hyenas chuckle.

After a longer drive they all stop at a clearing near a big and deep canyon. Where Hellga empties the black plastic bag and Jack lands hard on the ground.

Airy makes some loud sounds as her mouth still was covered by spider-web and gets off the bike.

“Harley! Our coat stand!” Donna says arrogant with her back turned to them.

The young hedgehog girl makes a small gasp when the spider/monkey girl grabs her hair.
“Not so fast, pipsqueak.” She tightens her grip on Airy´s hair and pulls her closer.

“Now, where were we?” The mantis woman says and looks down at Jack.
“Oh yes! That is right! Today it is my birthday!” Donna announces and looks at her subjects.
All the biker girls cheer for their leader, except for one of the hyenas.

“Um, wasn’t your birthday last month?” She asks her leader confused.

“Hellga?” Donna calls the huge shark, who slaps the hyena without any real effort but quite hard on the head.

“Sorry, my bad. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOSS!” She mumbles and collapses.

“At a real birthday party! There has to be some fun activities! Does anyone have any suggestions!?” The mantis woman asks her minions.

“Uh! Pick me! I know one!” One of the other hyenas asks.

“Yes?” Donna responds.

“How about we play put the tail on the Jackass?” She says and holds out a rusty nail and a piece of cloth. All the biker girls start to chatter and grin.

“An excellent suggestion, but I have a better one…. How about we play piñata? All real birthday parties should have one.” The spider/monkey girl suggests and holds up a thick stick.

“Hmmm, hitting Jack with sticks till his insides comes out? I like that!” Donna claps her hands and the large shark picks up Jack. She grabs some rope from her pocket and ties the green raccoon to a thick branch on one of the larger trees.
“Come on Hellga, sweetheart. You don’t wonna do this? Do you?” Jack tries to smooth talk the large buff female shark.

“In soviet Russia, wife beats husband….” She growls cold to him.

“Stick around Jackie boy!” One of the hyenas chuckles and pats him on the cheek.

“Allright girlfriends, get in line.” The spider/monkey girl claps her hands and all the girls get in a line with Donna as the first and Hellga the last.

“I can’t wait to see him in pieces!” Harley says excited and rests her arm on the terrified Airy, who was caring all the biker girls police hats.

“Scream as much as you want, my dear Jack, no one can hear you!” Donna says and raises her stick.
“I am gonna teach you to show some more respect to women!” She hits him on the butt; he bites his lips from the pain.
“RESPECT TO ME IN PARTICULAR!!!” She shouts at him and hits him again the same spot.
“YOU LIED TO ME! SPIED ON ME! AND HUMILIATED ME!!! NO ONE! I REPEAT, NO ONE! GETS AWAY WITH MESSING WITH ME!!!!!” She hits him again and the stick breaks.
For a few moments she stood and took a few deep and heavy breaths, and there was complete silence. All the biker girls look uneasy at her and each other, not moving an inch. The mantis woman drops the remains of the stick and the ground, she clears her throat and corrects her long beautiful blonde hair.

“He is yours, girls!” She says and moves aside, allowing the next in line to get her turn.
Airy closes her eyes and turn the other way. She couldn’t bear to watch this or hear it. Jack was holding his ground and didn’t scream, but he did come out with some sounds that indicated he experienced great amount of pain. She began to cry, God she wishes she could do something to help him… Now would have been a good time to make something fly…

“HEY! This is a birthday party! No sad faces!” Harley scolds Airy as she slaps the hedgehog girl.
“I know what could cure that sad mug of yours!” The spider/monkey girl grabs the hedgehog girl’s head and forces her to look at herself.
“When the line starts over, you will be the first to hit the Piñata! How’s that, sweetie?” Harley grins.
The hedgehog gets pale in her face, the last thing she wanted was to hurt Jack. She didn’t like what he did few hours earlier at the carnival, but that was not reason enough to hit him. In the background she could see it was now Hellga´s turn, she grabs a large trunk from a dead tree on the ground and takes aim. The hedgehog girl panics, she had think up something quickly, else Jack would be scattered all over the place! With all her might she pulls the spiderweb off her mouth.
“If Hellga hits him, your party´s activities will stop here!... And it wouldn’t be anyone´s turn afterwards!!!!” Airy shouts to Harley. Who gets surprised by her sudden outburst.

“The twerp has a point…” Donna interferes.
“Hellga?” The mantis looks at her largest minion who growls displeased and tosses the large trunk over her shoulder and almost hit one of the hyenas. The beaten raccoon sighs by relief and looks at Airy, then turns his sight to the tall mad mantis woman.

“Let’s play a little role-play… Based on my favorite scene from the first Narnia movie… The one where the White Witch shaves the LION!”
All the biker girls cheer and clap excited. The large Hellga cuts down Jack from the tree and picks him up.

“I will be the witch, you and the coat stand over there are the angry, evil mob, and the Jackass will be the Ass-lan lion.” Donna instructs them.
“Now… Since we lack the probs, we will have to improvise… That large piece of rock over there, near the edge will be the stone table!” The light green mantis woman points. The biker girls cheer and follow her. On the hard piece of rock the large shark woman dumps the beaten raccoon who struggles to get back on his feet. Donna smiles content.

“DeeDee! My nail trimmer!” She commands one of the hyenas.

“Right away you evil white witchness.” She bows and rushes back to the motorcycles and comes back with something large and heavy. Both Jack and Airy drops their jaws when they see the hyena handing the mantis woman a chainsaw.

“That’s her nail trimmer?!” The golden hedgehog asks shocked.

“Yep! You should see that woman’s toe nails!” Harley grins and holds Airy closer.
The chainsaw makes an awful lot of noise when Donna starts it. Jack gulps and starts walking backwards as the mad mantis woman chops down a small tree and approaches him.

“Oh my god, I am so gonna Twit this!” Harley chuckles and grabs her phone.
“This is so epic!”

“Hirr! hirr! And I will post this on my wall!” One of the hyenas chuckles and takes a picture with her phone.

“Go for the tail! Go for the tail!” All the biker girls shout.

Jack speeds up and all of a sudden he runs out of ground beneath him.
“ARGH!!!!” He screams and falls.

“Jack!” Airy shouts and start to struggle in Harley´s grip.

“NO!” Donna shouts frustrated.
“It is too early!” She tosses the chainsaw and rushes to the edge to see Jack lying on a small fragile rock ledge, few meters down.

“Fetch him!” She yells at her henchmen. In the meantime Harley forces the hedgehog girl down in the ground.

“Fighting is useless. If you keep resisting you will share…” Harley stops her speech as Airy throw dirt in her face and gets free.

“YOU LITTLE!!!” The spider/monkey girl gets back on her feet and jumps Airy from behind.
“You will pay for that, pipsqueak!!!” She bites the hedgehog in the neck and delivers a lethal dose of her venom.
“See you in hell, princess…” She kisses Airy on the cheek.
Airy´s sqirling stops as she gets all stiff and lifeless. Harley lets go of her and joins the others who try to get Jack back up.
Although she was totally stiff, she was still conscious. She could feel her heart beating rapidly in her chest and the blood pulsing in her body.
From her lying position she could see the biker girls arguing. Her sight starts fading and it all gets pinch black…

Down at the rock ledge Jack begins to come around. He slowly opens his eyes and looks carefully over the cliff. He curls up a little when he realizes how far down there was to the lake below in the canyon. In the distance he can hear a lot of talking and yelling, he looks up to see Donna scowling at him with her all minions by her side.

“Grab the branch” Donna shouts at him as the huge shark holds out a large tree trunk.

“No way!” Jack replies and leans away from them.

“You are gonna fall you moron!” The mantis yells at the green raccoon.

“I take the chance!!!” The raccoon replies.

Behind them a bright magenta flash appears out of nowhere.

“Hmmm?” One of the hyenas looks over her shoulder.
“Something creepy is going on with the coat stand!” She freaks out and grabs Donna´s arm, who slaps her.
“Don’t touch me!!!!” She snarls at her minion.
“Harley! Didn’t you deal with her?” She addresses the spider/monkey girl.

“I did… But I will make sure she stays dead this time!” Harley stands up and rushes away. Jack peaks his ears and gulps.

“What are you waiting for?!” The mantis shouts at her minion and turns her attention back to Jack
“What a wuss…” She growls annoyed.
“Get up from there now!!!!” She yells at the raccoon.

“AAAAAARGH!!!” Screaming echoes.

“WHAT?!!!” The mantis turns around and freezes
“Holy shit!”

“DEMON! DEMON!” One of the hyenas freaks out.

“Pull yourself together!!!!” Donna slaps the hyena.

“It appears we are dealing with a mobian of a higher class.” The mobian cat in the gang says dry and turns on a cigarette.

“Thanks captain obvious! Now get it!!!” Donna yells at her minions, all of them stand up and run back.

“What is going on up there?! Oh my… Could it be Shadow or Ember that has found us?!!” It ran cold down his spine. From above, dust, dirt and small branches fall down.

“YIKES!!!!” Jack shouts when Donna´s so-called nail trimmer suddenly lands right next to him, with the engine still on. Frantically he grabs his big fluffy tail as the rotating blades caused the chainsaw rotating his way. When it is only few centimetres from him he panics and kicks it over the cliffs with all his might.
As the raccoon dusts the dirt off his face more screaming echoes from above.

“Airy?!” He stands on his toes.
“I can’t just stay down here, I have to do something!!!” He gets restless and turns his sight to the stone wall. He takes a few deep breaths and starts to climb. He hasn’t got far before he grabs a loose stone and falls down. It wasn’t a high fall, but the impact from his body was enough to make the fragile rock ledge crumble under him.

“Oh snap!” He freezes.

“HELP!!! SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP!!!” Jack shouts with all the strength of his lungs, as large pieces of rocks falls off. The raccoon leans up against the rock wall.

“HELP!” He shouts again.

“JACK!!!” A familiar girl voice sounds; he looks up and sees Airy looking down at him from above.

“Airy?!!!!.... Quick! Get a rope! Call someone, please do something!” He begs her as more of the fragile rock ledge crumbles.

“Okay…” She looks frantically around and spots some rope not so far from here.

“AIRY?!” Jack calls and the last piece of rock disappears under his feet and he was falling. Without a moment of consideration the hedgehog girl rushes to the edge of the cliff and jumps after him.

“ARE YOU CRAZY!?! NOW WE ARE BOTH GONNA DIE!!!” He shouts at her.

She doesn’t say anything and wraps her arms around him. He looks at her flabbergasted and closes his eyes as he braces himself for the impact.
After a while he opens his eyes... Everything around them was standing still… And pink? Slowly he looks around. They were floating right above the lake. He turns his sight to Airy who was totally frozen and starring empty in the sky with glowing eyes, still holding him.

“A… Airy?” He asks her worried, and waves his hand in front of her, but there is no response.
“Airy!” The green raccoon tries again and snaps his fingers in front of her eyes.

“Jack?” She blinks a couple of times.
“What?!” She asks confused, and they both fall in the water.
“HELP! I can’t swim!” She panics.

“Don’t worry kid! I got you!” The green raccoon grabs her and drags her to the shore of the lake. For a while they both just lied there. Jack was the first to sit up; he noticed a large red spot in the sand. He checks himself; despite all the beating he had received there weren’t any wounds, “only” LOTS of painful bruises and marks. He looks at Airy who too had come around; she had both of her hands resting on one of her legs. It was her who was the culprit, her hands were totally red.

“Kid, let me see.”
She slowly moves her hands aside, luckily it had almost stopped bleeding. He takes off one of his boots and takes the sock off his foot. He wraps it in order to dry it.

“Here…” He says and wraps it around her leg.
“It is not hygienic or anything, but it will help stop the bleeding.” He tightens the knot on the small wound. He sighs and lies down again, for a while he just laid there. Everything inside him hurt, especially his butt…

“Airy? What the heck happened up there?” He asks her after a moment of silence. The hedgehog girl gets an empty look on her eyes and doesn’t say anything.

“Hmm?” Jack gives her a gentle poke.
“Airy?” He tries again and she starts shaking all over her body.

“I…. I… I don’t know… I can’t remember anything…” She buries her face in her hands.
“The last thing I remember was you falling and…. Harley bit me….” Tears begin to emerge in her eyes and she touches her neck.

“Can you remember what happened to your leg?” Jack tries, hoping he could help her remember. She gets an empty face again and lets her hand run over the knot. She bites her lips a little.

“I think it was Donna…. But I am not sure…” She says after a while.

Jack sighs a little.
“Well… Speaking of the devil. I guess we have to get back to the car before her…” He stands up and grinds his teeth as it was quite painful. Airy nods and stands up too. Now they head back to their car which hopefully still was at the gas-station. The whole way Jack and Airy were both limping from their injuries, it was a long and painful walk. At last they reach their destination. Before they went to the car, they check the area to see if there was any sight of the biker girls, but they weren’t to be seen anywhere. Both of them rush inside the car and with no hesitations they drive away in high speed.

After a few hours of driving they arrive in a small town. After asking the locals they find their trip’s destination. They park outside a somewhat odd looking shop and walks inside, it was a shop that sold all kinds of Indian inspired items. There was everything from huge Buddha’s to various incenses.
At the counter an older Indian human man sat, it seemed to them he was asleep as he was leaning back on his chair. Jack and Airy look at each other and as they are about to approach him...

“Can I help you?” They look back and see a huge grey mobian elephant.

“Yes, hi… We are looking for something called the Shadow Knife…” Airy says and pauses as he gets an odd expression on his face.

“The Shadow Knife? Are you sure?” He asks them uneasy.

“Yep, that’s the one.” Jack says calm.

“I see…” The elephant scratches himself behind the ear and goes to the human man and wakes him up. When the man is fully awake the elephant whispers something in his ears. The old man makes a small twitch.
Airy looks worried at Jack who clenches his firsts a little. He had been through hell for that knife and wouldn’t accept walking away empty handed. They had come way too far!
The old man looks at them and gives them sign to come.

“Is it true you seek the Shadow Knife?” He asks them.

“Yes.” Airy replies. The old man looks at her and Jack with an intense stare, and then smiles overbearing at them.

“Children, children… There is a say. What you want, may not be what you need…” The old man says calm. The green raccoon’s fur raises; this wasn’t the answer he was looking for.

“Do you have it or not?!” Jack asks him impatient.

“Yes… But are you really sure you want it?” He asks them and looks serious.

“110%!” Jack says and leans a little over the desk.
“We have travelled far to get it… Whole the way from Dalum. Which by the way reminds me to tell you that you should consider getting yourself an online shop.”

“Huh? I do have one!” The old Indian man says.

“You what?!!” The green raccoon’s eyes widen.

I am on ebay… Ebay.com, ebay.co.uk and Amazon too… Didn’t you check before you left?” The old man says surprised and looks worried at Jack who was now hitting his head in the desk.

“You got to be f?cking kidding me!!! That knife was just one, ONE mouse click away!!! Kalisto you sadistic… You knew that!!! You knew it all along and didn’t say anything… You are probably laughing your ass off right now…” He stops hitting his head in the furniture and stands up.
“Here Jack, take this map and go on a road trip to hell and back again!!!” He says with a girly like voice.
“All I needed was just looking on my laptop… Heck, or even my phone! And I could have got the knife delivered to my door! TO MY DOOR!!!” He face palms.

“Jack?” Airy asks him worried.

“I am fine kid… Just fine…” He sighs and looks at the old human and the elephant who both look shocked at him.

“Very well… If you want the knife, it is yours… But you have been warned!” The old man says and picks up something from a drawer right next to him. He hands it to Jack; it was a piece of cloth with something flat and hard inside. The raccoon carefully moves the cloth aside and sees something that looks like a dark piece of glass.

“A piece of glass?!” He shouts.

“It is the real deal, trust me my son, sometimes appearance can be deceiving...” The old man says.

“That better be, old man…” The raccoon mumbles to himself and wraps the knife again.
“How much?” He says as he digs his hand in his pocket for his wallet.

“10.000” The old man says.

“WHAT?!!!” The raccoon shouts.

“I am just kidding… Take it, it is yours…. But perhaps I could tempt you kids to buy some delicious cookies?” He picks up a jaw filled with them.

Few minutes later Jack and Airy are seen leaving the small odd shop, each of them chewing on a cookie. It was now all dark outside.

“Okay, that is possibly one of the lousiest and most expensive cookies I have ever had.” Jack spits it out and throws the remains of it in the nearest dumpster.

“Yeah… You are right….” Airy says disappointed and throws hers in the dumpster as well. Her belly rumbles a little.

“Hungry?” The green raccoon asks her, and she nods.

“That makes us two… Well… I saw a burger joint when we entered the town, let’s check it out.” He gave his companion sign to follow him. After a brief walk they find the local fast-food restaurant.

“NO WAY!!!” Jack grins all over his face as he points at a picture on the menu outside.
“We gotta try this one, Airy!”

The hedgehog girl looks sceptical at him and at the burger on the menu, which has the same diameter as a pizza.

“The Evil Ton? Are you sure we can eat all that?” She looks at him uneasy.

“What are you? A chicken? I bet your sister could eat two of these alone.” The raccoon teases her.

“But that is Ember we are talking about, there is a reason why she is known as the black-hole in all fast-food-chains in Dalum… I can never compete with her, in fact I don’t think any normal sane person could.”

“Come on kid, show a little fighting spirit! We deserve some real celebration!!!” He pats her on the shoulder and opens the door to the restaurant.
“By the way, I saw they were serving 2 liter milkshakes too.” He grins.


Few moments later.

“I can’t eat another bite…” The hedgehog girl sighs and leans back on her chair.

“What?… Is that all you got?” The green raccoon gasps and takes himself to the stomach.

“Hey you are the guy here… I am just a little girl…” She sighs a little.

“I don’t believe it, we’ve only eaten 1/4 of the burger and barely touched the fries… You won this round burger…. But next time… I swear….” He raises his fist over their left overs.

“Well… We have almost drunk half of the milkshake…” Airy says.

“If we do something like this again, we have to bring back up….” Jack burps.
“Let’s get the bill…” He says and raises his hand.

“Just a moment!” The waitress shouts as she changes channel on a nearby TV and tends some new customers, which were two young human girls. A red haired and a blonde; they were both in the twenties. The raccoon leans a little closer; they looked a lot like the same from the ship. Those with the old Volvo…

“Jack?” Airy says sounding a little worried.

“What?” He asks her.

“Look! On the TV, it is Donna and her gang in the news! They are terrorizing this town!” She points at the screen.

“Oh snap….” It ran cold down the raccoon´s spine.

“Your bill, sir?” The waitress returns.

“Here take this… Keep the change… We are in a bit hurry.” He says and hands her some cash.
“Come kiddo” He gives the hedgehog girl sign to follow him and they both rush out of the restaurant, back to their car.

“So much for sleeping in a warm bed tonight.” Jack sighs as they hit the road and drives. Knowing what Donna and her minions were capable of, he wouldn’t take any chances and settle down in a hostel for the night in the same town as they were in.

“Then what are we gonna do?” Airy asks him.

“We are gonna camp tonight in the forest…” He says.

They keep driving and driving in the endless forest. In the middle of the night they parked inside an area with lots of dense trees.
Before they go to sleep the both take some painkillers as they were both still in pain from their injuries.
Right next to the car there were a small clearing in the forest with a soft mossy floor. They both lay down there under a large tree and go to sleep under the bright night sky.

Airy couldn’t find rest, she was twisting at turning for hours. The combination of pain and all the thoughts racing in her mind made it impossible to sleep. So many things had happened the past few days, most of them bad but some good.
She couldn’t figure out what she should make of her newfound feelings for Jack; at one point they caused her a lot of pain and misery, but on the other hand they also brought her a lot of joy… Was that what the grown-ups referred to as love?
Her sense of smell and hearing picks up something and she slowly opens her eyes to realize it was raining a little, to their luck the large tree provided a good shelter.
She tightens her grip on the fluffy unicorn, and digs her face in it; she was so confused and scared… She was scared of the biker girls, scared of Donna, scared of the new emotions and what they did to her… Tears emerge in her eyes and she starts to sob, she tried her best to be quiet and not wake up Jack, who was fast asleep not so far from her.
All of a sudden, a loud thunder echoes in the forest. Airy gasps and per instinct she moves away from it. She wasn’t usually scared of lightning, but due to the past events her nerves were outside of her clothes, it didn’t take much to spook her…
Her fur raises and she lets out a small gasp, as she all of a sudden feels something warm on her shoulder that pulls her further backwards. It gets warmer and warmer and before she realizes it, she is lying in Jack's arms! Her cheeks get red as she now could feel his strong, soft coated body wrapping around hers. Her heart flutters, as he gently rubs his snout on her cheek and curls his fluffy tail around her tiny feet.

“Jack?” She whispers, only to be answered by a light snoring.
“Thank you, Jack… for everything… You are a good friend… I am thankful for everything you do for me…. And what you give me…” She smiles as she returns the gesture and falls asleep.

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