fWhip's Perspective-

fWhip had no idea what Gandalf was trying to tell him.

It was getting late and fWhip decided he would just sleep on Gem's couch before returning to Grimlands the next morning.

Well, he had a surprise for him when he woke up.

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"Oof."

fWhip moved Gandalf off of him.

"Gandalf; I know you miss Gem, but jumping on my stomach when I'm asleep is just mean." fWhip said.

Gandalf meowed and poked at a book that was on the coffee table.

"Huh?" fWhip sat up and looked at the book.

I don't remember grabbing any books.

He looked at the title.

'The Cats Language: How to Write to Your Pets'

fWhip looked over at Gandalf who was grooming himself.

fWhip then grabbed the book and flipped it open.

He thought it was just a book that taught you how to read a cat's body language but to his surprise it gave a layout of the alphabet and numbers in cat writing.

fWhip looked at the letter that Gandalf gave him last night and after a couple minutes of struggling, he figured out what it meant.

'Gem told me where she was going. It's a town in the woods called Frost Ford.'

fWhip gasped but then slumped down.

"I've never heard of Frost Ford." He groaned.

At that precise moment, Gandalf sprang up and started upstairs.

Halfway through he stopped and looked at fWhip before meowing.

"You want me to follow you?"

Gandalf nodded.

fWhip got up and practically ran upstairs to find Gandalf meowing and pawing at one of the bookshelves.

fWhip ran over and started grabbing books off of that shelf until finally, he found it.

It was a book about small towns.

Most were talking about where to find them until finally it came to examples of small towns.

'Frost Ford is one of many mini towns in the woods. It is a peaceful place that is ruled by their king, Wade. The people of the town are magically talented, but many people's powers don't grow since they don't have the proper training system and King Wade was never blessed with these powers. He does fully support them though and believe that there is a good in the people's magic.'

fWhip's mouth fell open.

So that's why Gem left to go there. The people have magical powers.

fWhip looked at Gandalf, "Do you mind if I take this with me? I promise I'll return it."

Gandalf blinked and fWhip took that as a yes before flying off to Grimlands.

He dropped the book on his desk and started searching his bags for the letters from Gem.

When he found them, he frantically scanned them until he found the one mentioning the king.

King Wade must've died, and Everett replaced him. Shame, Wade sounds much better than Everett.

fWhip was about to head out.

I need to tell everyone about this.

But as he opened his window, an owl flew in.

"Huh?"

The owl dropped a letter on his desk and flew back out.

"Hey! Wait! I'm supposed to be able to write back!" fWhip shouted at it but the owl just flew and flew.

fWhip looked at the owl before it disappeared, and he shrugged.

This is more important right now.

And so, he left and flew towards Rivendell.

Little did he know, the letter was addressed to,

'The man with red hair who is called Gem's brother.'

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"Scott!" fWhip called all through Rivendell but he wasn't there.

Probably with his husband.

fWhip flew off towards the Cod Empire and saw Scott and Jimmy sitting at the dock, chatting.

"Scott!" fWhip landed with the book and Gem's letter.

Scott and Jimmy turned around.

"fWhip? Where've you been?"

"Long story." fWhip set down the book and opened it up to the chapter he read a couple of minutes ago, "You need to look at this."

The husbands read it and after a moments silence Scott said,

"I don't understand. Frost Ford...is that where Gem went?"

fWhip nodded frantically.

"How do you know this? Where did you find this?" Jimmy asked.

"Gandalf."

"Gandalf?!" They both exclaimed.

"You mean Gem's cat?" Jimmy asked, "The gray one that wanders around?"

fWhip nodded, "Yep. Gandalf. I stayed the night at Gem's place, and he gave me a letter. I don't know how he found the ink but there were pawprints all over the paper. The next morning, there was a book telling you how to read cat's writing. Gandalf put the book there. I figured out his letter and it said that Gem told him she was going to Frost Ford. Gandalf then led me upstairs and I found this book."

Jimmy's mouth fell open.

"Wait, wait, wait, there's still a problem." Scott said, "And that is, we don't know where Frost Ford is."

"It says it; in the woods." Jimmy pointed to a line.

"Yes, but where in the woods? It's a big place, Jimmy. You said that yourself at the meeting yesterday."

"And all of our maps don't reach that far." fWhip muttered before sighing.

All hope was lost.

"Wait a sec." Jimmy said, "I think Liz said that she and Sausage have been working on expanding the map in her map room. Why don't we go check that?"

"Worth a shot." Scott shrugged and the three of them flew off.

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"Thanks Sausage. We can tell the others tomorrow."

Lizzie then cut herself off as Scott, Jimmy, and fWhip flew down to her balcony.

fWhip got uncomfortable at the sight of Sausage.

Lizzie then giggled, "Guess I'm the 5th wheel, huh?"

fWhip looked at Sausage, horrified.

Sausage looked to the ground, embarrassed.

People still didn't know about their breakup.

"Er..." Sausage coughed awkwardly, "We broke up two weeks ago."

The air in the room got tense.

"Oh." Lizzie said and her eyes landed on fWhip, "So fWhip, what do you have there?"

fWhip took a deep breath and started filling her and Sausage in.

Eventually Lizzie led fWhip to her map room.

"Gosh there are a lot of towns in the woods. And there are a lot of woods." fWhip muttered, walking around the map.

"It's going to take me forever to search all of them."

"That may be true." Sausage said, "But we're going to help you. We can all split up into groups and search each town. Some of us, multiple towns. And when we do a search, we're not going to fly over, we're going to land and look around. Maybe ask some villagers. But we have to be careful."

"Meeting in Grimlands tomorrow." fWhip said, "Spread the word."