Previously, on The Lion Sleeps Tonight

There was the screeching of a bird from above. Alarmed, BDubs looked up, then swore under his breath in a very uncharacteristic manner, shutting his eyes very, very tightly.

And now, the conclusion.

"Bubbles?" Keralis asked, concerned. He looked up where BDubs had, and saw the silhouette of a bird circling. It was odd behaviour for a parrot, sure, but that wasn't enough to prompt BDubs' reaction. Instead of giving a verbal response, BDubs just covered Keralis' eyes with his hands.

"Bubbles- what-" Keralis protested, trying to swipe BDubs hands away.

"Close your eyes!" BDubs quietly urged. Keralis sighed, and obliged. BDubs carefully removed his hands.

"Now will you explain what is going on, Bubbles?" Keralis half-shouted.

"Shhh! It'll hear you!" BDubs cautioned. "That's not a parrot up there. I'm not sure what it is, but let's just say that from my last encounter with that kind of bird, I'm very lucky that I have a left eye right now. Healing potions are amazing." Keralis winced, realising how close he'd come to putting the two in danger. "We just need to keep our eyes shut and wait for the danger to pass."

"Right." Keralis agreed. "Shouldn't be too hard."

"You just had to tempt fate, didn't you." BDubs muttered, before shutting up.

The two stood there, as still and silent as possible, for quite a while, until it seemed impossible that the bird would still be there. Cautiously, ever so cautiously, BDubs opened one eye, tilting his head up. He slammed that eye back shut the moment he'd processed what he'd seen, but it was too late. A horrific cawing, screeching cacophony broke through the air, and the sound of dozens of pairs of wings flapping to gain speed in a dive met BDubs and Keralis' ears.

BDubs snapped his eyes open, telling Keralis to do the same, then grabbed Keralis' hand and dragged them both out of there. The flock of birds followed them, making a racket at first, but it was soon drowned out by the duo's heavy breathing, pounding heartbeats, and the blood rushing through their ears. The two had to keep running, they had to get away no matter what, stopping for nothing.

Well, until the two ran into a dead end of densely packed trees. The two came screeching to a halt, turning to see the birds bearing down on them. They were slowly backed into the wall of plant life behind them, until one of the birds attacked. It dove down at Keralis' face, but he quickly batted it off. If flapped back to the flock.

Making full use of the brief respite, Keralis looked around. It seemed like there was no escape — wait. To his left, there was a break in the trees, big enough for someone to squeeze through. He went to reach out to BDubs, before realising that BDubs already had his hand wrapped rather firmly around Keralis'. A soft smile appeared on Keralis' face at this sight, before he made a break for the gap in the trees, dragging BDubs along with him.

Keralis ran, and ran some more, occasionally slowing down to make sure he hadn't lost BDubs. However, they both eventually ran out of breath, collapsing against a tree. BDubs was very confused about what had just happened, and Keralis quickly explained how he'd gotten the duo out of there. BDubs looked around at that: the birds were gone. The two walked on a little further, until they came to a large tree, taller than any of the other trees in the Jungle.

Keralis quickly brought up his coordinates, and they confirmed his suspicions.

"Whether through luck or... something else, we found your coords, Bubbles." He smiled. "Your dreams were leading us to this tree."

"We're here?" BDubs gasped.

"We're here."

Two BDubs/Keralis chapters until the end... And then what? Who knows? I don't. Maybe a fish.

I've been Entropy, peace out from the present!