Kaelin mrrfs softly as the injured mouse is placed on his back, blinking a bit as he feels a second form on his back as well. "Mmf. Dunno. Prolly. I'll try." he chatters hyperly, standing back up on all fours once he's satisfied the mice are holding on. The squirrel then blinks, peering up at the sky, "Xan! Stop playing with those mushrooms and get down here! We gotta go! ... Uh.. which way is the big house, again?" he asks, whiskers splaying.

Belumine clasps onto Kaelin, firmly but not uncomfortably so. "Mmm, whatsa fur doin' with mushrooms? He should be ready ta go!" he syas, ears twitching as he looks around. "Zeeeeen? Which way's tha big house? I's dunno the way, does you?" He cranes his head around, the better to look at Zen as his tail swishes back and forth.

Timothy clings a bit tighter, bracing himself for a somewhat bumpy ride... He blinks a little at the question Belumine and Kaelin both ask, looking around at the surrounding forest. His ears splay back a little when he realizes he doesn't really recognize where he is. Still in the valley at least.

Zen's ears perk a bit as he smiles and bites his lip. "That's a good question! We must first find the big house! Erm... Maybe we could ask the colony rats where the big house is? I know how to get there!" He smiles and points in a general direction. "If you go that way and follow the trail, I think you'll eventually end up at some steps and there ya go!" He then looks around for Xan. "Oh, uh... heheh, we don't need mushrooms I'm afraid... Good thinking though!" Turning to Belumine, he nods and smiles at his eagerness. "It shouldn't be -TOO- far from here... and then we'll get Tim back home and... and... then maybe they'll help us with our plan!" Of course, he keeps this plan to himself and in his own mind... "We had better hurry though before some predator or nut fiend shows up..."

Kaelin chitters agreeably as a direction is pointed in, waiting just one last moment for Xan, before twitching his ears and beginning to run as quickly as he can manage without outright bounding in the general direction Zen points in. "Alright alright! Whoo, ooooh! I smell foods!" The squirrel picks up his pace a bit, making for a bit of a bumpy ride for his passengers.

Belumine grits his teeth, his ears folding back on his head as his flattens himself againt Kaelin's fur. "Eeeeee! Big mousie's runnin' faaast! "We's gettin' inna big hurry!" he says, trying to stare ahead as Kaelin picks up speed, his tail curling around the nearest thing (in this case, Zen's arm). Despite being half-scared of this kind of speed, he can't help but feel a little giddy, excitement of adventure starting to flow through him.

Timothy squeaks and holds on tight while Kaelin runs, burying his muzzle into the squirrel's neck.

Zen yelps a bit at going fast, but, Zen was a mouse made for speed! OH how he loved things to move fast! He lets out a playful giggle as he turns to see Belumine's tail gripping onto his arm. "Heh, fun, right!?!" He then turns to check on Timothy as he grins. "Don't worry! As soon as we get back to the colony and..." His ears perk up a bit as he turns to the side. Did... he hear something? Was something following them?!? "Uh... we... we might want to pick up the pace a little! Uh... I heard something!!" Sure enough, there was a rustle from grasses near where the rodents were moving... It wasn't anything big, but whatever it was, it was struggling to keep up!

Kaelin squeaks as he feels his passengers bouncing about a bit as he runs, and tries to keep his back more straight to compensate. "Don' let go! We'll be there soon, right Zenmouse?" he chitters, then blinks, ears suddenly splaying back as he hears the noises behind them too. "Eeek! Nut fiend?! Hold on, we're gettin' outta here!" Kaelin gives them a quick second to brace themselves, then runs with all his speed, hopefully leaving whatever's behind them eating his dust!

Belumine gives a loud, almost panicked 'squeak!' as Kaelin puts on a burst of speed, trying hard to hang onto the squirrel as the landscape seems to speed past at lightening speed! "Eeeeeek! We's goin' too faaaast! Whateva's behind us issa gooooone, right? Issa gettin' scary!" he squeaks, a second later burying his muzzle into Kaelin's fur, shutting his eyes tight.

Timothy feels a bit dizzy again, and clings a bit tighter when Kaelin pauses. He feels a bit queasy; fortunately, he doesn't really have anything in his stomach.

Zen's ears splay back as he himself finds he needs both paws to hang on to Kaelin!!! HE didn't really want to turn behind him to look at what was following, but... all off a sudden there was shouting from the grasses! "Hey! Hey!!! WAIT UP! Zen?!?!" Soon enough, two feral mice came out into the open. Zen tilted his head a bit, finding it a bit odd his name was being called out. Looking amongst the rodents, he placed his paw on Belumine as he squeaked to the Kaelin. "Hey, slow down! I... I think they're friendly.."

Kaelin is in a full run, the underbrush of the forest whooshing by in blurred patterns of brown and green. He barely makes out Zen's squeak, screeching to a halt as he exclaims, "Huh??" The squirrel pants, lowering his body close to the ground while he rests, but remains fairly alert. "Friendly? What what?"

Belumine still has his teeth gritted, but he cannot help but bring his head up to look at these new voices he hears, his ears even perking up. As Kaelin slows to a sudden stop, he feels himself spring forward a little, visibly shaking now. "W-w-who's there? More mousies? We's not goin' fast anymore...why's we stop now? Huh huh huh?"

Zen blinks as Kaelin comes to a near dead stop... and finds he's no longer on Kaelin!!! Thrown from his back, he tumbles on the ground and quickly springs up onto his hind legs, blinking and looking around with an obvious look of daze. "Errhs... sm... mmmyes! I... I'm ok... erm..." The two mice that were following finally manage to catch up. The blond mouse smiles as he looks Zen over. "Heh, hey! It's just me and my brother... Harry and Brenden. Why are you, well... what's going on?!? You were screaming for help earlier.." Brenden seems to be a rather quiet mouse as he goes to sniffle at Zen a bit as Harry goes over to Kaelin, tilting his head a bit. "Yea, what's up? Hehe, we can run with you!" Zen manages to get some of his thought back as he nods. "Erm, uh... yes, You... can follow us.. erm, is that ok with everyone else?" He then chuckles at Belumine, "Oh, I... these are friends of mine I've known for a while. Kind of best friends when we were growing up!" He then snickers, rubbing his paws together like he was scheming... "More for my plan.. yes..."

Soon after the rodents bumped into each other and made it to the colony stairway, they all started talking and getting to know one another. Soon after Kaelin had mentioned Xan, one of the feral mice pointed out that they couldn't see Xan. Looking around, Kaelin thought that Xan may have ran off, so went off to find him! Now with two friends gone, both Kaelin and Xan, the rest of the rodents are left to fend for themselves! That's when a sudden noise was heard coming from the colony!!!