a fixed hope

chapter 2: kidnapping and lakes

While the three were searching the tubby house they had missed a small piece of discoloured yellow fur stuck to the broken glass of the window in the kitchen, if they had looked carefully they would have spotted it and had a rough idea on what happened to dipsy as well as who could have possibly taken him. When the three regrouped they had made a plan to split up and look in different areas to try and find the salad green tubby before he got hurt or even worse, re-infected which was something both walten and ron wanted to avoid at all costs as walten only made a limited number of cures with a few spares just in case any of the syringes had broken in his bag; with all three regrouped they all agreed on locations they would go to when searching for dipsy, walten would research the house looking for clues, tinky would search the cave and mainland incase he was nearby or lost, which left ron with the only place left being the lake which made him somewhat nervous as he wasn't exactly the best of swimmers among those currently present.

All agreed on the tasks that they were given before splitting off, tinky and ron both receiving torches from the work bench near the slide since it was starting to get dark again which everyone had just noticed when things had finally started to calm down again. When the blue and purple tubbies left it gave walten time to turn the lights on before going back to the kitchen where ron had last seen dipsy in order to start his investigation, with the lights on the first thing walten noticed was the broken glass littering the floor in front of the fridge and broken custard machine 'for once i'm glad tinky broke something in his infected state, we won't be fixing THAT any time soon' thought walten as he begun cleaning up the broken glass to dispose of properly to make sure that no one got hurt when they next came into the kitchen. Just before he put the glass in the bin was when walten noticed the tuff of discoloured yellow fur caught on a broken piece of the window which instantly made walten worry as he knew of only one tubby that has discoloured yellow fur but... she should be dead, he crushed her head with a rock back at the ruins!

--meanwhile in the mainlands--

After guiding ron to the lake to start his own search that left tinky on his own to resume his search though the mainlands and he knew his first place to look was around the house at the center of the mainlands to see if there was any clues on where dipsy had gone as well as who could have possibly taken him, once he navigated his way through the trees he stopped in his tracks seeing deformed hand like footprints leading to the house as well as away from it heading in the direction of the lake. With his eyes wide tinky ran towards the house as fast as he could in order to get walten as well as dipsy's chainsaw from when he was infected 'still makes me wonder how he even got that thing in the first place...' mentally questioned tinky as he ran back to the house before they were both too late to help ron who was still at the lake exploring all by himself in the dark, near very deep water which would be the death of the blue tubby if he wasn't careful or.... Pray this doesn't happen....or if he was attacked

--back at the lake--

To say ron was nervous would be the understatement of the year, he was a damn nervous wreck! When ever any little animal made any noises or sounds he would jump at the sudden sound before shakily calming his nerves once again with his torch shining a light over the surface of the lake and with his lack of swimming skills he kept to the shore while staying far enough away from the water to keep himself safe along with being dry. While circling around the lake ron kept his ears perked to listen out for anything that his torchlight didn't catch but with some things he had to learn to block out, such as the sound of frogs croaking and rabbits burrowing in the dark but one sound made him stop walking and look towards the lake; having heard a loud splash he directed his torchlight to the lake before letting out an audible gulp seeing the once still water now rippling with life at what ever had dived in or came out of the lake.

Taking a step back the blue tubby let out a startled yell when his back made contact with skinny furred legs that didn't feel natural, quickly turning around he shone his light on what he had walked into and before he could stop himself a fearful scream ripped itself from his body as he spun around and started blindly running around from the discoloured deformed... creature or whatever that was that he had seen in his blind panic to escape; while running ron wasn't paying attention to his surroundings which led to him tripping over rocks, roots and at one point even fall over resulting him landing face first in mud which in turn made him drop his torch. Letting out a small pained groan ron started to push himself up from the muddy ground while at the same time feeling around for his torch, when he found it he wiped the mud off of its lens and his face in order to see again but he didn't like what he did when he could; coating the entire surface of the lake was a purple mist which he didn't want to get near as he had a fearful feeling about it.

Backing up from the shore he was now close to due to his fall but in doing so he froze when his back made contact with something that was standing behind him, slowly turning around ron came face to face with a cracked screen surrounded by discoloured yellow full that had some blood staining on it and on the cracks of the screen on its stomach. Letting out a high pitched scream ron once again started running but now he was being following by the creature he had bumped into, taking a nervous look back he jumped in shock seeing its shaking form running after him while letting out a guttural screech. Not looking back ron continued running, oblivious to the water starting to surround his feet but he eventually did stop however when the water was now up to his waist and the shaking creature was a good distance away, on dry land which ron quickly noted when he shone his torch at the creature before freezing up seeing he was now in the water.

Looking around fearfully ron could see the purple coloured mist covering the surface of the lake which couldn't be anything good but going back to shore didn't seem like it was any good either, before ron could make any decisions he let out a startled scream when there was a splash right behind him from something bursting out of the water and taking hold of his shoulders, whatever it was it was certainly taller than he was. Shining the light behind him he couldn't help but freeze in shock; standing behind him was a 11ft tall green and cream scaled tubby with claw like fingers and sharp teeth sticking out of their mouth, their eyes were entirely red with a darker red to show where the iris was along with the pupil which looked at ron with a feel of worry within them; as it started opening its mouth to either bite ron or say something it stopped hearing a guttural screech from the shore which it promptly looked at before frowning.

While the green and cream tubby was distracted ron took this chance to start running and in his current state he thought he would have a better chance at surviving on shore with the trembling discoloured yellow tubby, instead of in the water with the green and cream coloured tubby; while ron was running he didn't hear a groan come from where he once was but he did however hear another screech from the shore he was quickly approaching. When ron got back to the shore he was promptly knocked to the ground resulting in the wind being knocked out of him while pain washed through him from his back and shoulders, rolling onto his side his eyes widened seeing the discoloured yellow tubby standing there over him getting ready to finish him off.