Here's 25... or is it 26... I don't care, here's the new chapter!
Chapter 25
"Not again," Jazzy bickered.
What Bella had seen was her first hawk.
"What is it," Nikki asked. Suddenly, the hawk swooped down and tried to grab Bella.
"Surround the chicks!" Nikki urged.
"Chicks, get in my wing!" Jazzy yelled. They immediately obeyed. Nikki then charged the hawk who was trying to swoop down again at Fenix Jr., grabbed in with her claws in middair, and fought it.
Eventually, the hawk became all bloody and wasn't fighting any longer, but instead was trying to escape. Nikki let him go, who flew off and didn't even circle.
"Why'd you let him go," Jazzy asked.
"Because, I wasn't going to put him in pain that he shouldn't have to go through, regardless if he tried to kill us or not," Nikki explained.
"But he tried to kill Fenix Jr.!" Jazzy argued.
"So? It isn't going to help us if we turn into a bunch of killers." Jazzy understood this and began walking down into the countryside again with Nikki and Sunny, once again for their journey.
Later that day, they arrived at a river with a forest on their sides and what appeared to be a canyon a few miles north. As they walked along, they noticed some scurrying around in the bushes and grass. However, they shrugged it off, thinking that it was just a mouse of something, and continued on.
However, they were wrong. At the canyon, they found some insects that were different that what they had ever tried before- strange bugs that rolled up whenever they pecked at them, and others that tried to pinch whenever they pecked at them. Nevertheless, they had a tasty meal of that with canyon-river water, and continued on their way through the canyon.
About midway through the canyon, however, Bella and Gabby started bickering, forcing them to switch backs.
"I told you that was my roly poly!"
"I already ate it, Bella!"
"Girls, hush," Jazzy demanded. "Bella, hop on my back." Bella listened.
"Listen! What was that," Nikki asked.
To be continued