Akito and Estelle's Rugrat Adventure

chapter 9

"You got lost, didn't you?" Eloise frowned.

"Unfortunately, we did." Akito nodded.

"And all because we kept on following the hands of a pocket watch." Estelle groaned.

"Why did you follow a watch anyway?" Eloise rolled her blue eyes.

"Sorry, but we didn't know it was just that at the time, Tommy thought it was responsibility, we thought it was a compass, besides, we couldn't let him feel bad since he was getting along with Dil then." Akito explained.

"Wish I could've been there..." Eloise sighed a little. "Please tell me it got better after that?"

Akito and Estelle hesitated.

"What happened?" Eloise asked.

"Monkeys." Akito and Estelle folded their arms.

"Oh, no, what did the monkeys do?" Eloise asked.

"Mostly annoy us..." Estelle frowned. "It was a scary sight to see their train crashed, but still... I just wish one of them could've been George... Curious little monkey, but has a heart of gold."

"Same here." Akito said.

Eloise looked curious.

"Next time." Estelle knew she would want to know who 'Curious George' was.

"What's a train doing in the middle of the forest?" Phil wondered.

"Maybe some giant baby lost his choo-choo." Lil guessed.

"No, this train must have crashed here." Akito said.

Chuckie was afraid because the train had a clown on it. There was a huge pile of clothes and there came out circus monkeys and the monkeys circled around the kids, starting to play with and torment them while singing 'Witch Doctor'.

"Make them stop!" Estelle screamed.

The monkeys kept bugging them and messed with their heads.

"Ugh, monkeys are so annoying!" Akito growled. "First babies and now monkeys, this is not what I wanted in an adventure!"

"Huh? Did you human just speak 'Monkey'?" One of the circus monkeys that was female and wore a diaper asked.

"Did we?" Akito tilted his head.

Estelle shrugged.

The monkey came over to the Fudo twins. "It was one of you!"

"Oh, that's right, I nearly forgot that we can talk to animals." Estelle said.

"Uh, we don't want any trouble..." Akito told the monkey.

"Yeah." Estelle nodded.

"How did you guys get here?" Akito asked.

"We crashed," the monkey sadly explained. "We were left alone in the train while our trainer and ringmaster went to get coffee, so we acted up and ended up here!"

"Oh, dear..." Estelle frowned.

"I'm sorry if my family frightened you..." the monkey looked back to her family that was harassing the others.

"It's okay, they're just doing what they know how to do, being monkeys." Akito smiled.

The monkey then climbed onto Estelle's back and sniffed her hair. "Mm, strawberry shampoo!"

"Right on the mark." Estelle smiled.

The monkey giggled to her, swinging from her arm slightly. A monkey took Dil's bottle from him and put the bottle into the girl monkey's mouth. The monkey Akito and Estelle befriended had her eyes widened and she started to gently suckle, enjoying the milk very much. Dil started to cry after his bottle was taken from him and he was very hungry.

"Can't we talk some sense into your family?" Estelle asked the girl monkey.

"If you think you can..." the monkey frowned as she continued to drink the milk, making her smile.

"Come on, let's give it a try." Akito said to his sister.

And with that, the Fudo twins went to have a few words with the monkey.

"Excuse me, can we have a few words we you all?" Estelle asked the monkeys.

The monkeys slightly glared to Akito and Estelle as Tommy decided to give banana baby food to Dil.

"Look, maybe we can make a deal?" Akito suggested.

The larger monkey who seemed to call the shots jumped down in front of the human boy. "That being...?" he snarled, not even seeming to care he was actually talking to a human and the human talked back to him.

"If you help us find a way out of this forest, either it is to a wizard or not, we'll make sure you all are returned to your circus owner and with bananas." Akito said.

This caught all of the monkeys' attention.

"And if you can't?" another monkey asked.

"Then all of you can be wild in the forest." Estelle said.

"Very well..." the lead monkey folded his arms, then jumped up to a high branch of a tree and hooted to his fellow monkeys.

The other monkeys looked to him once they got Dil's diaper bag.

"Looks like they're on our side." Estelle smiled.

"Leave the humans be!" the lead monkey told them.

"But we're hungry!" one monkey said, then snatched the baby food from Tommy. "This'll do just fine!"

"Hey!" Tommy tried to keep the baby food so he could give it to Dil.

"Listen! We help them find their way out of this forest and we get bananas and get to be back with our circus owner and that means while we're helping them, no more stealing their food." The lead monkey told them.

The monkeys looked to each other, feeling very hungry then, and decided to go along with helping the humans this time.

"Glad that's over..." Chuckie sighed in relief, but looked for his glasses that had been knocked off. "I tell you, it can't get worse than--" he then winced as he heard a crack noise under his shoe and saw he had accidentally stepped on his glasses. "This..."

"Oh, dear..." Estelle frowned.

"Seriously though, can I have some?" the monkey baby reached for the banana baby food that Tommy had.

"Tommy, how much food do we have?" Akito asked.

"That was it..." Tommy frowned. "But Dil needs food more than we do... We have to get to the wizard and quick!"

"Well, I'm sure that there has to be some food in the forest." Akito said.

"We'll take you to this 'Wizard' and he can bring you back home." the lead monkey told them, starting to lead the way.

"Come on, guys!" Estelle called to Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil. "Guys! ...Guys...?"

"Guys, you coming or what?" Akito asked.

The others were mad at Tommy and Dil again.

"Oh, come on!" Estelle groaned.

"Listen, we have to follow the monkeys." Akito said.

"They're kinda scary..." Chuckie trembled. "They look like they wanna hurt us..."

"Trust them, they won't hurt you." Estelle promised.

"How can ya be so sure?" Phil scoffed.

"Because we can talk to animals." Estelle said.

The others looked doubtful of that, but Tommy actually looked like he believed.

"We really can talk to animals." Estelle said.

"Okay..." Lil shrugged. "Lead the way, guys."

"Follow those monkeys." Estelle smiled.

The kids were still hesitant, especially Chuckie, but they agreed and followed. Akito carried the diaper bag while they followed to find a way out of this forest. While they were following the monkeys, Spike, Patch, and the Pound Puppies were still stuck with Angelica.