The Great Gulon Incident

Chapter 2 - Green, Lumpy, and Cold

The day was horrible.

Not at all how Keefe had expected it to be. But, at least he could count on the end of the day being amazing! Right?

He hoped so. He was going to take Fitz gulon hunting! And, best part was, Fitz didn't even KNOW what they were doing. Each time Keefe thought about it, he cracked up internally.

The last class of the day--multispecial studies--was soooooooooooooo boring. Lady Anwen was literally just droning ON AND ON AND ON AND ON about boring, hairy ogres.

He didn't care about how they had weird tattoos to mark their status or what type of swords they used for defense. BUT, he definitely hoped that he could meet one someday.

Though, he obviously loved gulons WAYYYYYY more!

Finally after the-most-boring-class-of-all-classes-in-the-history-of-classes was over, Keefe ran over to Everglen, this time without any warning because he had already told Fitz the day before, and practically knocked Fitz over as he had slammed open the door.

Then he tackled Fitz again as he closed the door a few minutes later, after blindfolding Fitz, but realizing that he still hadn't made it through the doorway yet.

"Oh my gosh, Keefe! Why do you keep forgetting meeeee?" Fitz teased him.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry! But, like, it's the most exciting day EVER!"

"Ah! I told you! STOP screaming in my ears!"

Keefe giggled and then brought out a pathfinder that he had stolen from his dad.

Keefe and Fitz ducked behind one of the humongous rainbow trees around Everglen and then they lightleaped.

To a muddy swamp.

That smelled disgusting.

Fitz immediately whipped around to face Keefe and started peeling the teal colored blindfold off of his face.

Keefe didn't interfere because that was what he was about to do anyway too.

Then Fitz almost gagged.

"Where exactly are we???" he asked Keefe.

Keefe bit his lip, hiding a smile that was starting to form, "Umm, we're going gulon hunting!"

The smile that he had been suppressing burst out extravagantly and Keefe almost fell to the ground, laughing while he did.

Then Fitz also joined him which was VERY unexpected.

Finally, after their laughing fit had finished, the 2 boys walked cautiously (or maybe not so cautiously) toward the edge of the swamp and suddenly dropped their hands in the freezing waters of the mud-drenched river.

When their hands came out again, Keefe was holding 2 gulons and Fitz was holding 3.

Keefe squealed in joy and Fitz just stared at shock at his gulons.

Then... they burst into laughter... again.

But, fortunately, 1 hour and 7 minutes later, they had caught exactly 48 green, lumpy, and cold gulons. Most of them were wiggling in the boys' hands, too.

Keefe and Fitz had even made a competition to see who caught the most gulons.

Keefe had gotten 23 and Fitz had gotten 25. OBVIOUSLY, because Fitz was a Wonderboy, he had won. AS USUAL.

But Keefe didn't really care. What he did care about was that now he only had a few more steps of his great amazing plan!

Fitz and Keefe washed the mud and dirt off of themselves with a small part of the swamp that was--thankfully--not filled with mud galore!

Of course, Keefe hadn't thought to bring an extra pair of clothes, because he was cRaZy and hyper, but at least they looked decent.

Even though Keefe was whining a lot that this "field trip" had ruined The Hair.

Then, FINALLY, Fitz and Keefe lightleaped home to Everglen and Keefe lightleaped to Candleshade from there.

Now, he could check off step 1 and 2 of his Great Gulon Incident plan!