Quest for the Blue Monkey

chapter 5

It was now blazing hot with the sun out and Kate was now on her. Cherry was nowhere to be found when they all woke up and tried to beat the heat from the scorching desert.

"When I find Cherry, I am so going to get her for disappearing."Atticus growled as the heat was almost getting to him.

Patch panted heavily from the heat. "I smell roast duck..."

"Oh, God, don't put me on hold!" Kate cried from her phone and she looked very weak and drained. "I can't die out here!"

"Where the heck is Cherry?" Patch pouted.

Where was Cherry indeed? She was in the far distance and took out a necklace that was given to her as she wore it around her neck now and she pressed her thumb against it and muttered ancient prayers. There was a big white blast and a gold sphere came to speak with her.

'Cerise, how may I help you today?' the sphere asked.

"I want you to run a scan on this card," Cherry handed the Queen card through the sphere. "It's very important, but we don't know what it might do."

"Right away." The sphere said before the card.

Cherry folded her arms as she didn't seem bothered by the heat, even if she couldn't stand hot weather and she tapped her foot slightly in impatience.

"I have found something on the back of it and it seems to be of some importance." The sphere said.

Cherry took the card back. "Anything else?"

"You can find out in Paris, France." the sphere told her.

Cherry looked annoyed, but she accepted that as her answer and put the sphere back, going to the others.

"Where the heck is Cherry?!" Patch exclaimed from the intense heat.

Bugs could even fry an egg on Daffy's beak it was so hot. DJ flipped a coin to decide where they should go to try to look for Cherry and some help and they went south.

"Say, who are you kidding here?" Daffy clung to Kate's leg as she forced herself to drag him along the broiling sand. "Water! I can't die now. Think of the millions of children who want me to have the diamond. The poor children!"

"I didn't think it was possible, but this is hotter than Roger and Anita's new barn..." Patch panted as he went with the others.

"This is the desert, so it would make sense." Atticus said, hoping they would find help.

"Look at that!" DJ pointed in the distance.

Everyone looked and they could've sworn they saw a Walmart.

"Is it a mirage?" Bugs had to ask. "Or just a product placement?"

"Who cares!? With shopping convenience at such low prices!" Daffy grew happy and ran over to the shopping place with them.

The others decided to just go there.

When they got there, they found Cherry in proper clothes for the dessert and she was just standing there as she tried on new sunglasses that were hanging by fresh produce.

"Cherry!" Patch growled as he began to run towards her.

Cherry looked down to Patch and splashed some water on him.

"Brrrrrgghhh!!" Patch shook himself.

"You look like you needed to cool off." Cherry said to him.