Chapter 17: Let it grow

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(Art by me :3)

Narrator's POV
When Ted and his granny got in the main park, they got down of the electric motorcycle and tried to find soil for planting the seed.

"Ugh, of course, here is no soil, how we will be able to plant the seed?" Ted said worried. Then Granny Norma spotted a TLB and ran to it.

"I got an idea!" Granny Norma said and got inside the machine and turn it on. She drove it a little but since she didn't exactly know how to use it, she crashed the TLB with O'hare's gold statue's head, it broke and fell on the ground, creating a hole and revealing there still was soil under the fake grass.

"There! So easy!" Granny Norma said, but then everyone saw the statue destroyed and came to see it, not believing what it happened. Some people were murmuring the fact that the statue was destroyed.

"What do you think you are doing kid?!" a woman yelled at Ted.

"Um, I'm looking for a place to plant a tree. A walk one!" Ted said to the people.

"Why would we need a tree?" another woman said.

"Exactly!" O'hare said being beside his statue's head.

"Oh man" Ted groaned.

"Folks...The last thing you want around here is trees. They're filthy! Spewing that sticky, nasty sap all over the place! They bring poisonous ants and stinging bees! Think about the kids! In fact, that wild girl might got coo coo, because of them!" O'hare said to everyone and everyone was believing him.

"No! That's not true!" Audrey came to the park.

"Audrey!" Ted said excited that she was ok.

"We know you are against trees, because they produce fresh air! For free!" Audrey said to everyone and they gasped surprised.

"Oh come on, the trees just brought us the wolves! They want to destroy our town!" O'hare said.

"No, they don't want to hurt us, they want to protect their home! That girl you saw is one of the guardians of the trees! She just wanted to get her parents, which you put in a cage!" Audrey said.

"*laughs* Wolves are her parents?! See everyone? She IS crazy! Thneedville is perfect just the way it is. We don't need trees! That boy has a seed. We have to stop him! Who's with me? Come on!" O'hare said and everyone was with him and started to get close to Ted, Audrey and Granny Norma. But then Mike as wolf ran at them and protect them from the crowd. Everyone got scared as he grunted upset and walking to them, making them to back off.

"Wolf! Run" people started yelling and panicked.

Ted grabbed Audrey's and Granny Norma's hand and led them to the TLB and get inside of it. Ted started driving it.

Mike saw them and make a side and people too as they were getting to the wall.

"Ted, you're going to hit the wall!" Audrey said.

"Yeah. I know." Ted said confident as he made the machine hit the wall, then did it again and again and the wall was crumbling until it completely fell, revealing the truth.

Everyone came to see the destroyed forest and they were speechless of the reality.

"Wow, did you see that? Who does this kid think he is, huh?" O'hare said trying to catch people's attention again. But then Ted climbed to the top of the machine.

"I am Ted Wiggins, and with my best friend Audrey, we are Wolfwalkers who speak for the trees! And the fact is, things aren't perfect here in Thneedville. And they're only going to get worse, unless we do something about it, unless we change our ways. And we can start by planting this!" Ted said showing the seed that was starting to show small tufts which made everyone gasped in shock.

"Ok, Come on, now. Everything is fine. Right? I say we tell this kid what we think about the seed!" O'hare said and everyone didn't respond to him. Then he pointed to one of his delivery guy.

"You! Get out there right now and get these people on my side, or else you are fired! Go on, tell them what you think." O'hare said upset and the delivery guy looked at everyone else and started singing.

The kids were happy that everyone supported the idea about the trees, but before to plant the seed, they released Lily might need their help so with the help of Mike, they went to the forest to help their friend.

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