Calamitous Intervention

Luz or Beast?/Best Fronds

Previously on Calamitous Intervention

After the portal door sucked her in, Luz ended up in a strange world called Amphibia. Unlike Anne, she doesn't have any athletic abilities and is too weak to defend herself against the dangers in the wild. How will she survive in this strange new environment? Find out now.

Chapter Three - Luz or Beast?/Best Fronds

In front of an old, rundown restaurant named Stumpy's Diner, a turquoise frog exited the diner. He has a dark blue hat, black shorts, and an old scarf with stitches. "Goodnight, you frogs!" He hopped on a nearby rock and walked away, waving to two frogs sitting down with drinks, sitting by a worn-down wooden patio table.

The turquoise frog's name is Wally. He didn't watch where he was going and bumped into some barrels, falling over. The two frogs at the table saw this and burst out laughing at his misfortune.

Ignoring this, he got up and walked across the forest, while playing his accordion and humming to himself. He suddenly stopped when he heard rustling and cracking next to him. He looked around, getting nervous. "Hello?"

Behind him, a shadowy figure approached and he gasped, turning around. "What's that?!" He took a step back as the figure approached him, trying to speak to him. "No! No, no, no, no!" He took a step back.

The figure grinned, looking terrifying in the dark, and he cried out. "NOOO!"

After that horrifying night, it was now daytime when the inhabitants of the village known as Wartwood went about their daily business. One of the butchers sliced a centipede-looking creature in half, expecting this to kill it, but the top half screeched and quickly scurried away, nearly tripping a frog carrying a wooden bucket as it climbed up the nearest house and broke into it through the window.

Sitting on the ledge of the fountain in the center of the town, a couple was about to kiss when a massive dragonfly came out of nowhere and snatched the man, carrying the screaming frog away.

A couple of kids hopped around, laughing while playing with each other. As that was happening, a rental snail pulled up, trying to eat a leaf on a pole that an old, orange frog was carrying. His name is Hopediah "Hop Pop" Plantar. Next to him was a short, pink frog with a dark forest-green hat with goggles, a sleeveless jacket, and black shorts. His name is Sprig Plantar.

Also in the cart was a pink tadpole in a wooden bucket filled with water, with a yellow bowtie. Her name is Polly Plantar, the youngest in the family. Hop Pop stopped the cart and turned toward the two frog children. "All right, kids. I'm gonna do a little shoppin'. You watch the cart."

Sprig leaped up and backflipped onto the edge of the cart. "You got it, Hop Pop! I'll defend this cart with my LIIIFEEE!" He dragged the last word out while pounding his chest.

"Sprig, I was talkin' to Polly," Hop Pop corrected, and this shocked the boy. "What? Polly's a baby!"

In response, Polly pointed at him angrily. "You're a baby!"

"Polly's got more responsibility in her little flipper than you have in your entire body," Hop Pop explained.

"Ridiculous!" Sprig protested. "What makes you think I'm irresponsible?"

"Oh, gee," Hop Pop replied sarcastically. "Let me think." He reminded Sprig of the time he put something in the pot while he was cooking dinner, causing it to explode everywhere, the time he crashed through Hop Pop's room while riding a Cowapillar, and the time Sprig forgot to turn the lights off, resulting in massive fireflies ramming into the house.