The Fourth Friend (An Amphibia Story)

Part 9: Reunion

Skylar's P.O.V

The day of the banquet had arrived and Brenton was working overtime to get all of the food ready. Turns out that tonight is Wartwood's Frog of the Year party which is pretty much just the most outstanding citizen award, good thing is that it means the whole town will be in one place which just makes this whole thing that much easier.

Right now I'm just strolling around the tower, lending a hand if I can but mainly just trying to think. I still feel weird about the whole thing. I mean, killing someone, frog or not was wrong and I know that. I guess I'm thinking about this with the trolley dilemma, would I rather run over 1 stranger or 1 friend and I think the obvious answer is one stranger, Sasha does too and I trust Sasha so that's what we're gonna do.

'Commander Skylar, commander Sasha was looking for you' the voice of a toad guard said.

'Oh ok, where is she?' I ask.

'She's in the courtyard, nearly everyone is ready to move out to Wartwood'

'Alright thanks, I'll head down there now'

The toad salutes and then marches back down the hall. I sigh and slowly follow after him.

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'There you are Skylar' Sasha calls out to me as I arrive in the courtyard.

'Yeah I'm here, so are we ready to head out?'

'Yes. The banquet is completely ready and a large amount of the toads are all ready to march with us to Wartwood' Grime explains.

'Wait we're not gonna have to walk all the way there are we?' Sasha asks.

'No you two will take a carriage, I'll be leading the toads and we have a barge to carry the citizens back here' Grime says.

'The carriage taking me and Sash wouldn't happen to be pulled by a snail would it?' I sheepishly ask.

'Of course not, spiders are much faster. We leave in a few minutes, be ready' Grime says before walking off.

I sigh as I follow Sasha to the carriage.

'I'm surprised you're not putting up more of a fight about the spider' Sasha comments as we walk to the carriage.

'I guess that my desire to get to Anne outweighs my fear of spiders' I say. 'But that doesn't make seeing a spider double my size any less scary' I say while standing frozen in front of the carriage.

'I'm sure you'll be fine, now come on' Sasha says as she drags me on board.

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'Now who in the world are you two? And why is the entire toad army with you?' a toad asks and from the research I'd done I assumed he was the mayor.

'Relax toad man, we're just here looking for a friend of ours' Sasha responds.

'Yeah, would someone named Anne who looks kinda like us happen to be here?' I eagerly ask.

'Well yes, Toadie go get Anne. You lot better not be up to any funny business' He says before heading back to the town.

'I'm surprised he didn't question the whole toad army part more'

After a few minutes I notice someone looking at us, upon closer inspection I noticed who it was.

'ANNE!' I call out, completely overjoyed.

'Skylar! Sasha!' She calls back.

The three of us all run to each other and spin around in a hug.