Our second to last piece is a fun and silly one.

Of course, that's to be expected when you put Sassy Snake and Becky Joy together, I guess. Hehe.

 
It's another lovely day in Degrassi Knoll, even if it does look like it might rain, and Becky Joy has conducted more questions and answers with the Gnollish people! Becky Joy was more than happy to wake up to her job! Since Cattaras was letting her be the law, she had to keep herself busy, so she decided to go for a stroll, errrr, I mean patrol, around Degrassi. Little knowing that after a fateful encounter,, Sassy Snake, the musical healer from the Flipworld, was making her way down from Degrassi Knoll to try to fill out the last wish of a dying stranger.

Using side roads and avoiding crowded streets and thoroughfares, Sassy heads toward Degrassi.  She finds a lonely isolated spot and buries her ruined gloves; she wouldn't want anyone to find them and use them as evidence against her.

Some time later, she arrives in Degrassi after passing some very nice looking farms.  Thinking it might be best to ask in Degrassi where Uncle Shava's farm was, she had not stopped at any of them.  Looking up, she sees a young lady skipping toward her, smiling as she comes.

Sassy doesn't yet know it, but that's no lady, that's Becky!

Becky tilts her head at seeing the stranger. "Hi, I'm Becky Joy.  Who are you?  I am the law here.  Did you know that?  Do you need help of any kind, because you do look like you could use help to me."  Sassy waits till Becky unwinds a bit. Becky takes a few deep breaths and stops talking. So Sassy tries to answer.

"Hi Becky.  My name is Sassy Snake."  She stops when she hears Becky giggling at her name.

"ooooh, I like that name, lots of esses in it!"

"Yes, there is.  I like it myself."  Sassy laughs and smiles a bit too.

Becky smiles wider. "I'm pretty happy that you like your name!"

"Thank you. Well, I am looking for someone and maybe you may help me.  Have you ever heard of Karrak, the Camel Nose?"

Becky now roars with hysterical laughter.  "That's even funnier than Sassy Snake!  Karrak Camel Nose!"

Sassy shakes her head.  "I take it by your reaction that you haven't heard of him.  He has an uncle named Shava that owns a mushroom farm near here."  Looking at Becky, she can tell by her vacant expression that she doesn't have the faintest idea of what Sassy is talking about. Though, she also wonders if that might not be Becky's default facial expressions too.

"Anyway, I was asked to try to find his uncle and tell him something. Can you help me?"

"I don't know, can I? I hope so," Becky says. Then she gets excited again. "Oh, can I, can I please? I really wanna! Cause I'm the law and the law's one! One helpful Becky, I mean!"

"Of course you can help me!  I want you to help me because I could certainly use your help.  It is always nice to have the law on your side."  Sassy chuckles and offers her hand to Becky who takes it. They stand holding hands for a bit, but then a memory of her childhood strikes Sassy.  Grinning, she lets go of Becky's hand and begins to walk in slow circles around her.  As she does, she begins to sing a chant to confused Becky.

"Haw, haw.  Who's the law?"  She stops in front of Becky and does a slow spin ending up with her finger pointing right at Becky as she says, "Becky is, let's give her a paw!"  She pretends to shake her hand then she chants, "And that's all!" She tags Becky and runs away laughing.  Becky, catching on to the game, streaks after her and tackles Sassy, tickling her until they both fall to the ground.

Next, Becky gets up and she says, "Haw, haw.  Who is the law?"  She spins and points at Sassy.  "Sassy Snake is, let's give her a paw!" She tries to shake her hand and then says, "And that's all!"  After tagging her, Becky runs off with Sassy chasing her and catching and tickling her until they both fall on the ground laughing.

Becky says, "You're the law!"

Sassy says, "Not me, you are the law!"

"No, you're really and really the law!"

Sassy laughs. "No you are really the law!"

They keep this up for a bit then both of them stop and take a rest.

Sassy finally says, "Well, I guess we should start finding Uncle Shava now, huh?"

"Oooooh!  Is that another game?  Finding Uncle Shava?  It sounds like fun, how do we play it?"

"Yeh, um, I guess it is a game!"  Sassy smiles to herself and continues.  "Here is the way you play it.  We go up to every person in town we can find and we ask them if they have seen Uncle Shava.  If they say no, we go to someone else and ask them.  If they say yes, then we find out more about where they have seen him and try to go find uncle Shava ourselves.  What do you say?  Want to play?"

"Sure!  Let's do it now!"  Together they begin to ask the townspeople.

After a couple of hours with no results to show except failure, Becky finally gives in and says, "I want to stop playing this game.  I think it is boring.  It sure isn't as much fun as Haw haw, who is the law!"

"No, it isn't, is it?  Didn't think it would be easy and I had hopes that it would be fun but maybe we should stop for a bit.  It's going to be harder to help Karrak, the Camel Nose than I first thought."

Becky begins to laugh at the name again and then she brightens up!  "Is that a new game?  Karrak the Camel Nose?  We could take turns pretending we each had a long bulging camel nose!"  She puts her hands up to her nose and makes fists out of them positioning them so they look like a huge nose.  Sassy sneaks up behind her and can't resist the temptation to tickle Becky while her hands are up to her nose.

Sassy tickles her until she laughs and says, "'kay, it's your turn now!"

When Sassy makes her camel nose, Becky tickles her too.  Together they are enjoying themselves and, though Sassy isn't learning much about either Uncle Shava or Karrak the Camel Nose, she now knows that none of the townspeople have seen them or know of their farm.  If she wants to find them, she will have to go in to the farms themselves.

The problem is that there are a lot of farms in many different directions and this is not going to be an easy job at all.  At least she knows that "The Law" Becky will help her as long as keeps playing games and stays friends with her.

Sassy is thinking of giving up on the search for Uncle Shava and his farm but she suddenly sees an inn.  She thinks that this place might know something and anyway it is worth trying.  "Hey Becky!  Why don't we ask in here about Uncle Shava before we give up on the game of finding him, what d'you say?"

"I guess so, Sassy."  They go in to the inn and they start to ask around.  One grizzled old farmer seems surprised at their question.

"Shava!  Did you say Shava?  Knew a Shava that had a farm out yonder a piece, 'bout a mile from my own."

Sassy brightens up.  "That's great!  Can you tell us how to get there?"

"Sure, I could do that. But why you want to go there, missie?"

"Because I had promised his nephew to deliver a message to his uncle Shava."

"Might just as well yell that message in to the wind.  It would get to Shava just as easy.  He ain't at his farm.  Shava ain't anyways anymore.  Been dead now for a while now."

"How about his farm?"

"Oh, it's still there, Miss.  Course it's under new management, you might say.  Others have taken it over for their own evil reasons. Grows some of the strangest and ugliest mushrooms you have ever seen. Don't know what use they be, but I does know they are in demand!"  He laughs and chuckles.

Sassy is depressed by this news.  "Oh, I see.  Well thanks for the news, Mister . . ."

"Uh, Pete Moss, ma'am.  As silly as that seems; that's me name Pete Moss!  Sorry you made the trip for nothin' and I wish I could have given you better news.  Take good care of yourself now, Miss."

"Thank you Mr. Moss.  Well, Becky, I guess we can go now."  She reaches out to take Becky's hand and the two of them go out of the inn.

Becky does her very best to cheer Sassy up and soon they are both laughing and giggling again.  Well, Sassy thinks, I couldn't help Karrak, but I did get a good blade out of all of that mess.  She grins and smiles a bit as she lovingly caresses the hilt of the sword.  Soon Becky and she are skipping hand in hand around the town.  Finally, Becky and she ran into four Knob Goblins!

"Uhho, who are they, Becky?" Sassy asks.  She's rather unsure of the four Knob Goblins!

Becky doesn't seem scared at all so Sassy figures they can't be too bad.  "Oh, those are my Knobbies, I mean, my friends from Knob Goblin!"

Then Becky runs up and hugs them!  This is a big surprise to Sassy.  After all, Becky isn't a Knob Goblin!

"Hi, Knobbies!" Becky says.  "Oops, they don't like to be called that. I mean, you don't, huh?"

The only female in the group speaks.  "It's okay, you're getting better about it.  Who's your new friend?"

"Hey Goblina, this's a girl with a lot of esses in her name!"  Becky says, but then Becky does her classic trademark "?!?" expression.  She adds, "But that isn't her name.  Her name is Sassy Snake.  Ssssssnake!  Ssassssssy!"

The female turns to Sassy.  This one doesn't look nearly as bad as the older looking Knob Goblin.  "Hello Sassy, it's a pleasure to meet you.  Think of me, Red, Green and Darson as her guardians."

"Yeah let me- oh hey, I recognize a guy!"  Becky turns away from Sassy and the others and darts into the distance, hmm..  How very odd, Sassy thinks to herself!

There's that itch again. ah, joy, thought Zed, whom Becky had spotted in the distance.  "Greetings Deputy Becky, out patrolling the lands?"

Becky stops and takes several big puffs of air as the others catch up.  She smiles excitedly.  "I remember you and you remember me! And also, didn't you know that I finished patrol earlier? I guess it's a surprise to you.  But now I am talkin' to our new friend Sassy Snake, and her name has a lot of esses!  And you should say hi, and do you wanna?!"

"Hello Ms. Sassy Snake, I am known as Zed.  Are you new to Becky or new to the area entirely?  I hope you enjoy your time with her."

"It's a pleasure to meet you," Sassy says, offering him a handshake.  "Yes, I'm both new to Becky and new to Degrassi.  I've never seen anything like either!  I'm quite enjoying my time.  If you don't mind me asking, are you new to Becky or the area, too?  I must admit that you don't look like anyone I've seen anyone that looks quite like you.  And judging from your accent, would it be safe to say you're not from around here? If it doesn't seem rude, I'd be curious as to where you're from?  And are you a member of Becky's police or just visiting?"

Not wanting to overdo the questions anymore, Sassy pauses in order to allow Zed to answer.

"I've been around for a short period now, but long enough to familiarize myself with the area and some locals.  I'm sure if you wander long enough, you'll meet my doppelganger, or perhaps just a distant family member.  Where I came from isn't as interesting as our current setting, or where we might meet next.  And no, I haven't been asked to assist Becky's police duties."

Becky laughs uproariously at this comment.  "I'm sorry, did you want to be in my police duties group?!"

"Doppelganger?" Sassy says.  "This might sound like a strange question but are you saying you're not from this dimension?"

"I do not think I should wish for the honor of patrolling the streets with you, Becky.  As to your question Sassy, I don't believe I've ever travelled so far as to cross a dimension."

Sassy doesn't look surprised by Zed's answer but does look a little disappointed.  Becky lets out a low "Awwww" sound.  Darson finally chimes in.

"Well, we should probably let this innocent bystander go and not pester him all day with questions, don’t you think, ladies?"

"That is probably a good idea," Sassy says.  "Although if you don't mind sir, I'm curious if you're at all familiar with a local known as Karrak the Camel Nose or his uncle Shava?"

Becky breaks out giggling.  "Karrak Camel Nose!"

Seeing the others stare at her, she collects herself.  "I think it's a funny name, hehe!"

"Not individually, but those do sound like Gnollish names.  Some families recently relocated, so perhaps you will find someone who knows them at their new location... farewell ladies, and safe travels."

Becky's still giggling at the name so she can only wave at Zed as he leaves.  Sassy shrugs, no closer to the answers she was seeking than before.  "I do hope we're not driving you away with all my questions, but it was certainly a pleasure to meet you again, and I wish you safe journey, Zed."

Zed bows and strolls off into the distance as Becky turned to Sassy.  "I'm very, very sorry you didn't find your friend Camel Nose's uncle, but if you want, I'm sure you can still enjoy the city.  You can also hang out with me more, cause now we're friends, and friends stick together like, well, friends.  Okay?"

Sassy smiles and says, "'Kay."

And that's all that really has to be said, huh?!

And Zed as well! Well, we're almost done with this mission. Fairly short one, so next up is a piece featuring Konall and space elf Glyn. Then we jump to the single piece mission finale!