The Fourth Friend (An Amphibia Story)

Part 18: Swamp and Sensibility

Skylar's P.O.V

'Don't you get it mother? I know you want me to be a ballerina but my heart belongs to hip hop. Are you disappointed?'

'No, I'm proud of you. All that hipping and hopping was... breathtaking'

'Oh mother!

'That's an hour and a bit I'm never gonna get back' I mumble as the movie comes to an end.

Anne wanted to watch some movie with Sprig and I thought that I may as well join them.

'And that was the masterpiece, From Point to Popping' Anne says, wiping some tears that the emotional movie.

'Talk about an emotional roller coaster-WHOA!' Falling off the bed cute off his sentence.

'Sprig!' Anne yelps.

'You alright buddy?' I ask, looking over the edge.

'What the heck is going on out there?' Anne wonders aloud.

We all poke our heads out of the Fwagon to see what was going on and are greeted by the scene of Hop Pop struggling to control Bessie.

'C'mon Bessie, c'mon. Almost..... there.....' Hop Pop strained, pulling hard on the reins until they finally snapped. 'Oh dang it, the ding dang reins snapped' Bessie caught sight of a sheep/fly hybrid and charged after it, pulling the Fwagon with her. 'We gotta get these reins fixed or we can't control Bessie'

'Don't worry Hop Pop! There's a town right down the road, see? Ribbitvale' Sprig showed Hop Pop the map that had the town marked.

'Ribbitvale? The most expensive town in all Amphibia? No way!' Hop Pop shutdown the idea.

'Looks like we don't have a choice HP' Anne commented, gesturing to Bessie cuddling with a sheepfly.

'You're right. But when we get there, don't get sucked in by the fancy' Hop Pop sighed.

We all hopped off the Fwagon so we could pull Bessie to Ribbitvale. Even with all of us minus Polly who's too small to really help with this it still took a lot of effort to pull her that distance. We arrived at the town and were in awe of the sight in front of us. The entire town sparked and it seemed that every non living thing was covered in gold.

'So shiny! So sparkly-' Polly awed before Hop Pop sprayed her with water.

'Hey hey, I said look AWAY from the fancy' he scolded.

'It's like nothing I've ever seen before! A ten tier fountain, solid gold snail carriage, there's even a one eyed Wally!' Sprig looked around before stopping on some blue frog. 'Wait what?'

'ONE EYED WALLY!?' Everyone but me said in unison as they approached the frog.

'Who's Wally?' I quietly ask Polly.

'Wartwood's town weirdo, we're just shocked to see him here' she responded.

'Oh ok' I nod, still knowing nothing about this Wally guy.

Anne walked forward and gave the blue frog a playful punch. 'You didn't tell me you were leaving the Wally you scamp'

'Oh, umm' he stuttered

'Walliam, you know these pungent common folk, do you?' A slightly taller blue frog asked, appearing at Wally's or Walliam's side.

'Uh, yes father. I met them on my business travels' Wally explained.

Town weirdo? Business travels? Those don't really add up.

'These must be your servants from Wartwood then'