The dragons landed in a rice field outside of a Japanese village and remained there as, under Bubu's instructions, Silly, Diana, and Fred walked to the rice field's owner's house. There, the humans were surprised to see the Japanese family that ran the field running around in a mad panic.
"Just walk right in," Bubu said dismissively, "They'll never notice."
Sure enough, the yelling Japanese family failed to notice as the three Americans entered the house through a backdoor. Inside, objects were flying about madly and the sound of gleeful, maliciouslaughter could be heard.
"Hey boys!" Bubu yelled.
Suddenly, four large foxes standing on their hind legs like men appeared in front of the three humans.
"Hey, Bubu!" the largest laughed, "What's up, little babe? Other than stuck in a jar like a lightening bug, that is!"
The foxes laughed as Bubu answered, "Hiya, Jak, this is Fredrick, Diana, and Silly. Fred and I struck a deal that if he let you all live at his place, then I'd turn his head back into a human head."
"Sweet! Our own place, man!" another fox exclaimed, grinning at his freinds, "No more being excorsized from a place every other Sunday!"
The foxes jumped and barked and whooped happily, punching the air with their paws.
"So, how we gonna get to his place? He looks American," Jak said.
"Jump in," Bubu said, pointing to Fred's computer head.
"Oh no!"Fred said, handing the jaw to Diana and wavinghis hands in front of him as he shook his head and the foxes got into a pouncing position, "Don't jump in! Don't jump in!"
But withsome troublesom cackles, the foxes leaped forFred, dissolving into an orange mist and swooping into Fred's screen. Fred was knockedagainst the wall and collapsed to his hands and knees, hacking and coughing as he felt the goblin fox's essecenes swirl around in the blacknees inside his head and settle down. Hegasped for breath.
"Fred!" Diana exclaimed worridy.
"Don't worry," Fred coughed, "Just a bit heavy headed, but I'm okay."
He got to his feet. "Come on, let's go home so I can dump these thingsoff and get my head back to normal."
Soon after, the girls were back on Bloodwing andFred, with Bubu and thegoblin foxes in his head, on Saphoroes and they were in the air, flying overJapan eastward over the ocean. And all seemed to be on the one-way track to normal when...
Suddenly, agiant flying blue serphent flew by them! The serphent surrounded thestartled Saphoroes, making Fred cling to the spikesfor dear life. Growling, the flying Chinese dragon jerked his head and one of his whiskers wrapped around Fred and yanked him off of Saphoroes! Fred yelled as Diana screamed his name and the Chinese dragon flew off with Fred in tow.
"Jak! Tak! Bak! Lak!" the Chinese dragon roared, "I sense you in this human thing! Come out! I have not forgotten that night 1600 years ago when you four ate from my horde and fled off even as I fell to the Slumber Spell! Come out so that I may take revenge for your insolance!"
"Um, My. Dragon?" Fred squeaked.
"What?" the Chinese dragon snarled at him.
"Um, they're stuck in my head," Fred began, then yelled in pain as he felt one of the golbin foxes-Bak-bite him inwardly. But he mentally bit down on Bak, making him stop chewing on Fred, then told the Chinese dragon about Bubu and the whole deal he and she had made.
"Bubu," the Chinese dragon sighed tiredly. The entire time, the dragon had been flying all over the ocean, away from Saphoroes and Bloodwing. "That damn girl's at it again? Stupid insolant little..." He snarled. "Spit them out. I'll talk to them about this."
"Alright then," Fred said, then made a queer hacking motion in his head before spitting all four goblin fox brothers and jared Bubu out to float in the air. The dragon released Fred, leaving him to float in the air with the foxes and pixie. The foxes, pixie, and dragon all chattered for a while in Japanese before finally, the foxes all sighed in relief and flew back into Fred's head.
"I've allowed them to live," the dragon said, "On the condition that they make sure that Bubu holds up her end of the bargain."
"Um, thanks," Fred said, grabbing Bubu as the dragon turned and flew off even as Saphoroes came in to pick him up.
"What was THAT about?" Saphoroes asked.
"Looks like our new passengers pissed some other dragon off," Fred answered simply.
That night, the group was finally back at home, but Saphoroes and Bloodwing has gone their seperate ways.
"Alright then," Fred said, unscrewing Bubu's jar's lid after spitting the goblin foxes into their new, if not messy, home, "Get this thing off me."
"Alright then," Bubu said, then winked as she held her hands out to Fred.
Fredrick felt the bonds of the computer loosening around his head, becoming lighter, lifting up. He could feel his real head forming in it, and the blackness squishing down into its proper form. But then... Suddenly, the bonds smacked down around him hard, making him yelp in pain, and Bubu yelled as she collapsed back onto the counter. Instantly, the goblin foxes were around her and the human girls around Fred, making sure that they were alright.
"What happened?" Fred moaned, rubbing his plastic head, trying to massage the pain in it away.
"I-I can't get it off!" Bubu gasped, sitting up. "Fred... You've been cursed!"



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