Once Upon A Forest Pt.2

Here's the second chapter of the story, where a little excitement comes along, plus an extra that might be familiar to some fans viewing this? Enjoy....

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Chapter 01) First Road Encounter?

We now enter a new scene of where the class group is passing by an oak tree just from the left of their pathway. As we see Cornelius was ahead of the group, he begins to teach them something.

“Today! Is Plant Day!” Cornelius exclaimed out what today’s lesson is going to be all about for the Furlings lesson. “We’ll learn that 'Everything' we need, grows right here in Dapple Wood!” The professor exclaimed the forest area they all live in of it's environments while the four Furlings reach the top to follow where Cornelius was heading over towards next. Soon the professor stops by the oak tree while the others stop near him before the badger begins to state something on today’s lesson. “Now! What is this, Furlings?” He points to the tree for the others to guess what tree this was.

As the others watch in listening with smiles, Edger was the first to raise his hand to answer the question! “I know! I know!” The others looked at their friend puzzled before the mole spoke the answer. “A Willow Tree, Cornelius!”

Once done, Cornelius answered back of that answer spoken. “Corrrrrect!” Cornelius stated that was the right answer, as Michelle smiled to her uncle, Edger closed his eyes and smiled in pride of knowing he was right while Abigail and Russell looked to their professor in wonderment of the question? "Breakcrephmm…." Soon Cornelius took a bark of wood shaped like a ‘Y’ before asking this next question to the Furlings. “And did you know that it’s bark, can be used to cure RrrrrRheumatism!” He awaited to hear the others reply on that statement he just made.

Michelle was in thought while puzzle at her uncle’s question before coming up to Cornelius to get some help? “Uncle Cornelius?” She tucks on her uncle’s elbow sleeve which Cornelius felt to notice his niece wanted to ask something that was puzzling her? “What’s RrrrrRheumatism?” She tried to pronounce how her uncle said it as best she could, not understanding what the word’s ‘meaning’ stands for?

“RrrrrRheumatism!” Cornelius repeated the word with a smile to his niece wanting to know of such a question? “Michelle.” He rub Michelle’s cheek with the bark he had in his hand playfully to her which she didn’t made and just smiled. "Creakcreakhh…" But then Cornelius yelped from his back giving out on him suddenly. “Ooh?”

While Cornelius was distracted by this, someone else decided to answer that question. “I know!” This got Michelle and Cornelius to turn their attention towards who knew the answer. “Rheumatism makes your bones hurt when the weather gets bad!” Edger pointed out to explain while pointing to state how the term question is explained out.

Soon Cornelius approached Edger to say this to his reply. “Correct again!” After Cornelius said this, he gives to Edger, the ‘Y’ bark wood in the mole’s hands while the other Furlings watch in being interest?

Edger looks at the bark he received and replied in surprise on his little gift from the professor. “Woooh?” Soon he puts it in his right coat pocket, pats it to know it’s secure with a smile up at his professor.

“Now….” Cornelius spoke while taking the forest pathway down another road for him and the others to take while explaining more things. “As we get further along the trail…..” We see the Furlings tagging along, with Michelle in front while the others where together. "Notice the vegetation around the….." But the professor didn't notice the frown faces from Russell and Abigail both staring at their smart friend, Edger.

"Hey, real good, Mr. Smarty-pants!" Russell remarked off before he swiped off Edger's hat while making a teasing laugh. "Hahahaugh?"

"Heeey! Give that back!" Edger snap with a frown to reach for his hat against the taller hedgehog who smiled before passing it over to Abigail who was open.

"Yipeeeeh!" Michelle watched this and was cheering and jumping with her arms out in thinking they were playing a game now.

"Huagh-Huagh, hauh-huah!" Russell laughs on while having a fun game of keep-away with Edger's hat from it being in his hands from Abigail before he tossed it over to the door mouse again.

"Over here! Over here!" Michelle called out over to play the same game as the bigger Furlings.

"Haaayyy!" Edger yelled out, as he was trying to reach up where Abigail held his hat to get with a smile in just having a little fun.

"Furlings!" Cornelius' voice spoke out with a stern scolding tone, as the Furlings enjoying the game had their smiles disappear.

"Gaaugh?" Michelle gasped when she looked to her uncle staring at them, not to pleased.

"Uh-ummm?" Russell yelps out a 'uh-oh' response while he sees they were in trouble, even Edger looked back from his upset face to a puzzled concerning face at their professor's upset expression?

"We shall go home rigrigright now!" Cornelius spoke in stating that he'll have everyone return back home with a wave of his arms before stating a reason. "If you are not going to take this ramble seriously!" The professor exclaimed out what he'll do if the little ones don't behave themselves.

"No-No! Please Cornelius?" Edger eagerly asked the professor not to do that, as non of them wanted to miss this trip.

"Well behave, honest?" Abigail exclaimed to say that they'll behave, so to not be in trouble.

"We promise we'll be good?" Russell spoke to himself and the others to be good for the professor, so they don't miss out on anything.

"Come on, Uncle Cornelius?" Michelle begged her uncle with her hands in a prying sign to ask Cornelius to forgive them.

"Come along then, guahuagh?" Cornelius spoke again towards the know understanding Furlings, as he took a breath moment before stating this next part out. "We've lots to see!" He stated with a smile, before turning around to continue their trip while seeing the sites.

"I'll lead the way!" Abigail spoke out, as she took the head lead of her professor leading them.

"You always lead!" Russell stated off with an annoyed face that the door mouse girl always leads the group.

The old badger watched these two go off ahead of him with another of their competing behavior. "Not so fast, Abigail!" Cornelius pointed his cane towards Abigail taking the lead to not go off so fast in front, but the door mouse girl and Russell were going ahead of the group after a left turn corner.

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We now see Abigail and Russell running out on the field to lead, as Abigail leaps over a tree's root with Russell behind her.

"Guagh-huagh?" Russell was panting like crazy, as he followed the girl's lead.

"Hughn-hugn?" Abigail suddenly stopped to take a breather before noticing that Russell was now ahead of her. "Hay!" Abigail waved off her arms to call out to the hedgehog, as she ran off to catch him. "What do you think your doing?" Abigail asked what Russell was doing, as she followed him trying to cross over a log over a small river.

"You've been leading long enough!" Russell protested that the door mouse girl behind him was leading enough times as it is. "Now it's MY turn!" The pudgy hedgehog exclaimed after getting off the log to run down a hill path.

"Forget it!" Abigail remarked off to state, as her friend tried to hop over a tree's root while trying to lead. "You don't even know where I am going?" The door mouse girl stated that the hedgehog can't lead in front of her if that person doesn't know where to go?

"Auhmm..Huagh? But I know where I'm going!" Russell panted a bit to respond back, as he ran with Abigail chasing after him to now go over towards another path up a small dirt hill.

"Trusuh..Rusuhmm…." Then from out of the grass fields, Russell came out with a smile in being ahead of the Abigail when…. "Gaauughh….Gulphmm…?" Russell tripped over a tiny stone by his feet when he wasn't looking, which made him trip and fall on the ground before him!

Soon Abigail rushed out of the grass field to catch up with Russell while being followed by the others.

"Uhm-Humph-hmm?" Michelle 'hum's' to herself happily in a little song while hopping across the field path by her friends with her eyes shut.

"Hey! Wait for us?" Edger called out to his friends to wait for them, as they were just catching up to them. Just then, Edger stopped his urge to catch up to notice something odd about the ground before their grass field, it was dark and smoothed?

Abigail rushed over to check Russell who was on the ground, a bit dazed? "Russell?" Abigail spoke with a frowny expression at seeing her friend was causing a problem from being so rushful. But once she picked him up, the door mouse girl looked around the strange ground with a puzzling expression? "Where have you lead us?" Abigail and Russell looked around, unsure of what this place they were in was?

"I don't know?" Russell shrug off his shoulders in not knowing where he's lead the group to?

From the right side, we see what looked to be a simple road leading in and out of the forest while looking over to the left side. "Frusussvuhhmm…." The wind was heard blowing while both the door mouse and hedgehog looked from right to left at this scenery, never seeing anything like this before?

"This ground isn't normal?" Edger spoke a bit concern and puzzled in seeing the road ground before them? "It's….it's hard?" Edger pressed his fingers on the ground to feel the floor was kinda hard, which to a natural forest creature, was an unusual thing to find in the forest? "Prickh…prieckhhh…." The mole boy even was opening his arms while carefully placing his feet on the hard ground to walk a bit on it where the others are at.

"Sniff-Sniff, Sniffh?" Michelle bends down to the ground, sniffs it before coming up to tell her friends with Russell nearby what she thinks. "And it seems kinda funny?" The badger girl exclaimed off in thinking the ground before them smelled a bit funny?

"Huagh…huagh?" Cornelius was panting when he finally caught up to the group, but yelps from what he saw! "FURLINGS!" Cornelius shouts out with a worried concern in his voice, as he raised his hand to warn the young ones. "GET AWAY FROM THERE!" He waved his hand away to get those on that ground spot to move away for some reason. "Get Out Of The Road This Instant!" He points his cane which got Abigail, Michelle and Edger's attention to turn to see their professor was trying to tell them something?

"Grruussvhhmmm….." Suddenly, there was a red car being driven by some person, who held out a bottle in his right hand.

"FURLINGS!" Cornelius shouts out once again with a more serious concerning tone that he wanted the little Furlings to move off the road quickly before it was too late!

"Huuaghh/Gaauugh?" Abigail, Edger, Michelle gasp from seeing something ahead of their surprised shock eyes, the approaching vehicle?

"MOVE!" Cornelius ordered the trio to get moving which they did with Abigail and Edger grabbing Michelle by both her hands to lift the smallest member away with them.

"WaahhhaAAAahhhhh/Wuuaahhhhhh!" The three Furlings ran while shouting their screams towards Cornelius to get away from the danger.

"HAauugh?" Russell yelps with wide shock eyes from seeing this event's attention a little late, as he wasn't fast enough like the others, and stared at the approaching danger!

"RUUSSVhhumm……" Soon the red car drove right towards….and over a ducking Russell, just before tossing his empty bottle out the window. "BREakiisishhmmm….." Which as it twirled, it soon smashed against the road's hard surface, shattering it to pieces. "Cirkircirkirhmmm….Breakbreaakihmm…." All that remain of it was a bottom part which was pointing a sharp point up from what happen to it.

"Fruushmmfrushphm…." Soon we see Russell rolled his rolling hedgehog body over across the broken glass part without getting cut. "Gaaugh?" Russell undid his ball form to let off a sign of relief and lied down on the ground exhausted from such an experience. As Russell opened his eyes to figure out what happened, he was surrounded by the others (Abigail top left, Michelle bottom left, Cornelius bottom right, and Edger top right) staring at the hedgehog in puzzling concerns?

"Huagh?" Abigail breaths in deep relief for her friend's safety while looking puzzled at his situation.

"Huuuagh?" Edger made a deep sign of being glad his friend was okay from being concern.

"Uaagh?" Cornelius just signs in being so concern for the young hedgehog's life was still there.

"Haagh?" Michelle yelps out seeing if her friend was hurt from what he went through musta been terrible?

"Russell…?" Cornelius spoke in deep relief while the pudgy hedgehog was slowly getting up from his lying down state a bit puzzled and spooked while the others were concern of what they witnessed happened. "You are one lucky hedgehog." The professor stated on Russell being lucky, as he felt glad that the Furling was not caught in that incident in a far worst state. "Guuuagh? It's rare that a Furling survives an encounter with…." Cornelius begins to speak out, but stops to ponder what to say while Michelle listens in on her uncle's words? "With…..?" The old badger couldn't nearly get the words out in describing it, as it seemed very rare that even Furlings would survive something what they saw that came on this road territory.

"The monster?" Michelle spoke out to finish what her uncle was going to say, clapped her hands in almost fearing that was what they saw, as Cornelius looked to his niece with a worried expression?

"That…." Cornelius spoke in trying to reply to his niece's words as best he could.

"Sniff…sniff?" Edger meanwhile was observing the strange broken glass, even to sniff the thing from never seeing it before?

"Is a good name for it?" Cornelius exclaimed off to answer his niece, Michelle's question on stating the red car that passed by them, as a 'monster' that seemed terrifying to their eyes.

"What was it REALLY, Cornelius?" Edger asked out to his professor, in wanting to know what the 'monster' they saw was actually known as?

"Where did it come from?" Abigail asked out concern on where such a creature came from while Edger was poking his left finger at the broken glass until….

"No more questions!" Cornelius sternly spoke off, as he shoved his cane to stop Edger from trying to touch even the tip of the broken glass bottle.

"Uphm…Oooh?" Edger yelps from his professor's strict behavior in not wanting the young ones to ask anymore of this event that took place.

"I want you to forget this place!" Cornelius sternly stated with a serious stare while leaning on his cane, he wants the Furlings to never remember this spot for as long as they live.

Once that was done, the other Furlings couldn't help but listen to their professor, and decided it was best they leave now. Edger took the walking lead, followed by Abigail, Russell, then Michelle, and lastly, Cornelius.

As Cornelius got in front of his group, just as they await near the tall grass spot. "BrushhmmBruushhmm…." Cornelius hold open a tall grass patch to allow the Furlings of Abigail, Russell, Edger, and Michelle to go off ahead of him, while he trail behind? "Guuagh? Owh-owh-woh-owh?" Cornelius however, looked back at the sight behind him of the road, as he shudder at the spot before leaving it well alone and shook it off his head. Once the old badger went through the grass, only the broken glass sharp point stood on the road side, left unchecked, as it's point sparked from the suns rays! For without knowing it, this would lead to a great deal of danger later on for our group's forest folks and their homes?

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Meanwhile, with the Freelance Police at this very moment? We see their black and white police vehicle, the Desoto parked by an old abandon gas station, chatting out of the area a few blocks away from the forest we were just in?

"Gee Sam, you think we catch some perk breaking laws on the road here?" Max asked off disappointed while looking a bit bored again, as they sat in their car waiting for something to happen.

"Be patient Max, it'll hit us like a case cracking on Sunday's Mail!" Sam assured his impatient partner that if they just wait a little longer, something is bound to come to them?

"FRruvuhmm….." Suddenly, a zooming familiar red car drove by, but not before tossing another glass bottle out that almost hit our favorite duo? "Breakiriishh….." The Freelance Police looked shock and stared at the car leaving the scene without checking on the deed he just did?

"Or some jerk that throws bottles out his car's window and lets them smash on the ground without watching or caring of bystanders?" Max remarked off in stating what had just happened near the two before snapping out loud this part of what he had to say. "NAMELY US!" Anyone that dare do that to the Freelance Police is just asking for trouble, from them!

"And without aiming to throw them in the recycling bind to clean and protect mother Earth!" Sam exclaimed off with a frowny face in thinking that was just wrong, and the two won't stand for it? "Come on Max, we got a litterer to apprehend!" The K-9 crime fighter exclaimed in what to do while getting their ride ready to roll.

"Yeeah!" Max cheered out with a wiggle of his fingers, as the duo coppers started their ride and drove off after their crook! "GRRruusvhhmmmm….." After a while, the copper duo were behind their chaser, as Max spoke to his partner and best friend on an idea he got? "How's about we do something to this guy to really make him wish he shouldn't have come busting into our neighborhood!" Max wanted to teach the jerk a lesson, and he's got just the right idea to pull off this act.

"How crafty, sneaky, and underhanded of you to think up, Max." Sam commented on what his partner was gonna do, as Max took out his gun to aim and then….

"Banng-Bang…/Breakiishh…/Truushmmm…." Max shot off two headlights which got broken from his action course. Then Max brings out a megaphone, as he used it to talk to the driver. "Alright pal, PULL OVER! We got you cornered!" Soon the red car pulls over, as the Freelance Police goes over to the left driver side to talk to the driver they were chasing? "Alright buddy, bring your head out?" Max issued out for the driver to show his face, so the duo can pretty much mess it up.

"Um, I'm on the other side of the vehicle here?" The mysterious hidden driver spoke from being on the far right side of his vehicle.

"Oh sorry, didn't see you there?" Sam yelped sheepishly to the driver, as he and Max didn't see it was the other side? Once the duo walked over to the other side of the vehicle, Sam spoke in a serious stern tone. "Alright buddy, we're Sam and Max, the Freelance Police!" The dog introduced his badge, same for Max, in showing they mean business.

"And were here to mark you down a list of crimes you committed!" Max pointed out what the two coppers were gonna give this guy a list of crimes he committed.

"What crimes could those be?" The mysterious hidden driver asked in rhetorically stating he couldn't have done anything wrong?

"First off, what's with the car, your driving on the far right side of the driver's usual left side?" Sam stated that it was strange for someone to drive a car of any on the far right side instead of it being the left?

"Yeah, explain that to us, punk!" Max interrogated with a smirky expression in rubbing it in the victim's face.

"It's a Japanese made car, you're suppose to drive them on the far right side when being the driver! I just got it from a salesman and just driving it home." The Mysterious hidden driver stated out a very well put reason of what he was dong, and the fact wasn't much of a lie either?

"Then that's the first rule you broke!" Sam pointed out to state the first rule that this follow just commented of his criminal act. "All drivers are suppose to drive American Cars while being in the left side of the vehicle!" Sam stated that here in America, it's the law to be the driver in the left side with American Vehicles, not another Country's work!

"Yeah, the only people that drive on the left side are mail people that try to deliver mail in mailboxes if they don't have a van or a passenger buddy!" Max added off to explain something else he wanted to add his claim in the discussion.

"Now on to the second Crime you committed today!" Sam soon went ahead to make the next statement of this driver's crime committed today. "You drove by holding an empty glass bottle without so much as stopping to dispose of it properly!" The K-9 pointed to the hidden driver in recalling what the duo saw him do of littering before them.

"Heck, you could just slam dunk it if you tried, instead of throwing it where someone nearby, namely 'US' were position!" Max shrug off to make some off remark of what the suspect could have done instead of being somewhat a cruel jerk to toss something out when useless.

"Ugh….my hand slipped, yeah, that's it, plus the air condition was off, and I couldn't stop cause I had to get home before this car attracted too much attention on the road?" The mysterious hidden driver slowly yelped out to exclaim his reason which sounded almost a false statement to the Freelance Detectives ears!

"Oh sure, so you decided to let your arm rest out and then unintentional thrown your arm back like a slip when someone that doesn't care just wants to throw his useless garbage away." Max was slowly nodding in sarcastically agreeing while pointing out all the flaws in how this character did things, all were bad from the sounding of it.

"If you were a better citizen, you would have stopped to pick up the broken pieces, why they could poke an eye of stab someone's toes." Sam pointed out a truthful fact of what this driver should have done, a more safer action where nobody got hurt from a busted glass bottle.

"I'm lucky my rabbit's feet weren't damage?" Max showed to lift his left rabbit's foot while wiggling his toes to show they were fine.

"And lastly, driving with a broken taillight!" Sam then finally pointed out the final part of what this hidden driver did to commit the last crime of the day.

"Two if you count one that got damage from when you pulled over!" Max stated that from one view, the driver pulled over, but hit something that broke the other taillight?

"But on that last one, you were the ones that shot at it!" The mysterious hidden driver complained to state that it was the Freelance Police that made one of his taillights get busted before the other was broken afterwards?

"Max, what's the fee for two broken taillights, driving an un-authorized American car, and littering without a care in the world?" Sam asked his hyper-active maniac of a rabbit partner of the total account for all the listed crimes this driver committed!

"Oh 10,000 dollars were for one taillight, but considering two, then add in the amount on the last ones of unAmerican vehicle, plus non-recycle Michael, I say…..a 1,000,000,000 dollars would do?" Max was summarizing up all the amounts in his tiny brain, before bringing it all together on a price that was TOO Ridiculous to even believe possible?

"WAH? That's crazy! Nobody pays that much on those charges? Is this some joke?" The hidden mysterious driver yelps out to gasp at that unbelievable price of all the damage of the stated crimes?

"If it were, we be laughing at your face, under the name 'To Bad Sucker' on it!" Max pointed out while making a remark in labeling this guy under a certain category.

"Well I ain't paying that price!" The mysterious hidden driver remarked off with a scruff 'humph' sound with his arms cross, as he wasn't gonna go along with Sam and Max's payment demand. "All of that is not even close to being sued by such amounts at an abandon gas-station that only idiots stop by such a dangerous site." The driver remarked off in stating, to bad he really shouldn't have said such a thing.

"Then you leave us no choice? Max, you know the protocol of resisting to pay up!" Sam exclaimed off from giving a fair warning before turning to his partner in giving the word on what the rabbit knows what to do here.

"My joy is my own reward!" Max smirked wickedly in knowing this, as he slowly approached the driver by his open window and…..

"POwh! Bamm!/ Riiiph!" Max jumped in the red car, as Sam watched outside, heard a lot of punching, banging, a lot of cloths ripping before the screams came in? "Gaaugh! Get him off me! HEEEEeelllph?" The mysterious driver screamed out, as Max was torturing the poor guy?

"Be sure to leave some for the other officers to hail him to the Department for questioning, little pal!" Sam covered his hands over his mouth to shout in the window opened to give his noise-making partner the note on that statement. After all, they want some of this lawbreaker to be pressed for charges of his bad crime of being a liter and such else on the matter, etc.!

Well this case seemed wrapped up on the Freelance Police duo's part, but the true terror that even they don't know well drop down to them in more ways then one?

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The payment for the taillight was from the first Sam & Max Season One, Episode One game.

Now this was interesting, and now what comes after this...will be something that could be...dangerous? When an accident on the road causes a certain leak of poison gas enters the forest. What horrors await, what waste will become of the forest home to many animals, and what victims will fall....that is to be seen next time in the next chapter, so stay tune....