Chapter 62: The Unexpected Traveler

Fan looked at the travelers' room. She grew wide-eyed, as if she just noticed. Ash turned; he gasped. He had been so busy looking around the room that he hadn't recognize it at all, either.
Stone growled. "Tiggerkat!?"
The animal in the room woke up. It stretched, and Ash saw that, indeed, it was Tiggerkat.
"Hey guys," Tiggerkat yawned. She turned to look at Stone.
"What're you doing here?" Stone growled.
"I followed you guys to the Water Tribe. I heard they were being attacked by Firebenders, and Airwing said that they stole the land's reese cups. So I decided to avenge them," Tiggerkat growled, looking like she was imagining clawing the Firebenders.
Bluefall looked at Stone, and Ash knew Bluefall was certain that Tiggerkat was crazy. Stone murmured something to Bluefall, and Bluefall rolled her eyes.
"So, um, the rest of the Water Tribe'll be coming back when?" Fan asked Bluefall.
"Soon. We've been training so we can beat those Firebenders - those poor excuses of Benders," Bluefall growled.
"How much are there left of you?" Flare asked.
"Not much," Bluefall sighed, looking quite sad, "our leader had been killed by Poisonfang. So we recently got a new leader, and Darner was recently appointed deputy."
"Maybe you guys could join The Bending Tower?" Slice suggested.
"We'd be showing weakness," Bluefall replied, "and then the Firebenders'd take our land!"
"Oh," Slice whispered.
"See! We've got to beat those Firebenders!" Tiggerkat had jumped to her hind paws.
Everyone ignored Tiggerkat.
"When the rest of the Water Tribe returns, we'll start discussing plans," Bluefall promised, "you guys have a good rest."
With that, Bluefall left the patrol.

Author's Note:
Hehe, Tiggerkat followed the patrol. TIGGERKAT was what Ash kept hearing all the time on the way to the Water Tribe. I have a new Poptropica blog, click here to see it [link].