Finding Happy ~Happymistakess

Chapter One: Finding Happy

On October 10th to 12th of 2020, many animals were taken from their pets, their homes, their items. Some haven’t found their way back, some may never get back. This is a story of one jammer who got taken away, she may never find get back, unless her pets can find the way.

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“Breaking news. All over Jamma, animals have been disappearing from their dens. Be careful, lock your homes, move your stuff somewhere safe, we are all trying to figure out why this is happening.” Swampy slowly blinked, trying to wake up. “Why is the TV on this early?” He stretched his red and green legs and tail and trudged over to turn off the TV. “What even is this?” He watched as he saw a random Jammer show up on the screen. “My sister- She’s gone! One day she was here and then I heard all over that everyone was mysteriously disappearing and she was gone!” They kept talking and interviewing people, Swampy was getting curious but didn’t want to watch any further. “Who could be doing this to these innocent jammers?” He walked over to wake up everyone else, he had to tell them what was going on. “Hey,” He whispered as he shook them one by one. “There is something going on that you should know.” They all started yawning and stretching until all of them were awake. “I woke up to the news on, people are disappearing from Jamma!” They stared in shock, but they couldn’t really process what was going on since they were half asleep. “Probably just some scary movie.” Noodle said plucking fuzz of his yellow,tan scales. “I don’t know- This sounds pretty serious.” Vuli said in a worried tone. “Don’t panic, we will get through this it can’t be that bad.” Burt said hugging her, his orange and green scales complemented her brown and they stayed close. “Thank you, Burt. Mabel and Peri, could you go wake up Happy and get her in here?” They looked at each other and bolted in her room. Happy was their owner, she loved her lizards much more than anything. Out of the corner of Swampy’s eye, he saw orange and yellow scales creeping away. “Chef! What are you doing?” He turned, but still continued on. “I’m hungry..” Swampy rolled his eyes and yelled, “Get in here! This is a serious issue!” He looked down and ran over to the group. Mabel and Peri ran back in, but something seemed off. “Hey where is Happy?” Froggy asked hugging his lime tail. “Sh- She wasn’t in there-“ They all stared at Mabel and Peri, the room was filled with stunned silence. “Where could she be..?” Asked Froggy, he was always very sensitive and everyone of them knew that he was sooner or later going to break out in tears. “This can’t be because of everyone disappearing... Could it?” Noodle asked, finally realizing this was a real situation. “Maybe.. We don’t know she could have gotten up early and left.” Swampy said, trying to make things better. “Without one of us?” Mabel said. “She said last night that she promised to let me come with her today.” Mabel took off her tiara and hugged it against her purple scales. At that moment everyone realized that she was one of the taken jammers, that had to be the only option. Froggy broke out in tears, Swampy began to pace the room. “No.. This can’t be happening.. How will we get her back?” He mumbled to himself. “I know what we can do,” Said Chef as he stuffed another Cheeto in his mouth. “We can get her back! All we have to do is leave and search everywhere we can, places she likes to go, places where someone may keep her, or maybe she will find us!” They all looked at him hesitantly. “All by ourselves? We have never left without Happy though..” They nodded, how would they be able to go out and survive the world by themselves? “Well we would have to one day, right?” Added Peri. “That’s true, but what if we get lost? Can’t find our way home? What if Happy finds her way back but we don’t?” Asked Froggy, he was over thinking everything and was worrying so much about his owner. “Life isn’t about ‘What if’s?’ okay? Sometimes you have to do what the moment needs you to do, take a risk. Happy needs us. We need her. Who’s with me, who is going to save Happy with me?” Yelled Swampy confidently. “I will!” Yelled Mabel. “Me too!” They all started chiming in, they all wanted to get Happy back. “Then let’s do this.”

Chapter Two: Finding Happy

They all took a deep breathe as they walked out. Chef grabbed enough food to last them the whole trip, mostly for him but he knew everyone else would get hungry.

Mable stopped right at the end of the fences, right where the grass began. “I don’t know- is this really a good idea? We haven’t been out alone, how will we know how to get out of town?” They stopped and turned to her. “Well, she has taken us all over Jamma, we know this place a little.. But we know this is for Happy, we have to do it for her and our own good.” Froggy said, walking closer. “For happy.” Mabel put her feet in the grass. “For us.”

They walked through the fields, trying to keep their eyes on the lights in the distance. “We first need to get to the lights, that’s Jamma Township. From there we should find a way.” They all nodded at Swampy’s idea and continued on.

When they finally reached the town there were people everywhere. “Watch out!!” Peri screamed as a bunny wearing a princess necklace reached down to them. They dove into a near bush trying to avoid any paws trying to grab them up. “This is dangerous- Can we turn back?” Noodle whimpered, scooting father back in the bush. “Of course not you wimp! Remember what we are doing this for. Now how will we get out?” They looked around, observing many Jammers randomly jumping, dancing, staring, yelling. It was chaotic here, especially for a group of lizards.

“There!” Burt pointed his tail at a bush near a sparkly blue shop. “That’s a start. We have to get closer to the center of town so we have options to get away.” Chef slowly started creeping out but Froggy grabbed him by the tail and dragged back in. “Hey!” He grabbed his tail, the pain shooting through his body. “We can’t just walk out there! We are going to get snatched up!” Chef scoffed. “Then what do you suppose we do?” Peri blankly stared at him, thinking, until an idea finally popped in his head. “We should find a disguise! Like-“ He looked around, searching for something to hide them in. “Of course, we can use the bush!” He pulled off leaves and branches and covered himself. “C’mon, cover yourselves!” They all covered themselves, head to tail, and started sneaking out.

They slowly creeped along the dirt pathway, avoiding stomping paws around them. They all stopped when they heard a yelp come from Vuli’s direction. “Vuli!” Burt whisper screamed. “Are you ok?!” The rest of the lizards slowly moved ahead, trying not to stop but Burt refused to leave Vuli behind. “Yeah- I’m fine, just someone stepped on my tail. It’s okay.” Burt stayed by her side as they creeped closer to the bush.

“Just a few more steps-“ Burt and Vuli finally fell under the shadows of the bush. All the lizards were tearing the leaves from their backs and brushing away the dust.

“What do we do now?” Asked Swampy stretching his front legs. “Can we just stay here for some time? I’m hungry..” Chef said reaching into his little backpack to get food for everyone. “Of course you are- But to be honest I could eat.” Noodle reached over to see what he had brought. “I guess we can, we can plan our next move.”

As they quietly ate, every now and then discussing where they thought they should go, they heard a rustle in the back of the bush next to the wall. “Who’s there?!” Burt slowly went closer to the spot where they heard the noise and peeked through the leaves. Two lizards were curled up in the tall grass covered in branches. He saw a reddish and grey lizard by a yellow and pale white lizard sleeping by the wall. “Th- there are lizard over there,” Burt whispered to the others. “What should we do? Maybe they lost their owner- Maybe they can join us!” Mabel exclaimed, a little to loud. Burt saw out of the corner of his eye the two lizards sit up quickly. Froggy quickly ran back to where they were.

The two lizards jumped at the sight of another lizard. “Don’t be afraid! We are like you, lizards. We lost our owner to whatever is going on and we have left home to find them, that’s why we are here hiding in this bush for now.” The two looked at each other. “We are here for the same reason,” The yellow one nodded. “But we don’t have much and need help-“ Froggy interrupted them. “My name is Froggy, we have food, many lizards, and will gladly help you.” They stood up when the heard the word ‘food’. “My name is Leon, and this,” The red lizard said pointing to the yellow lizard next to him, “Is Emma. We would love your help, and food sounds amazing! How many of you are there?” Froggy used his tail and moved the branches showing seven more lizards. “Wow-“ Froggy led them to the food and they are and got to know each other.

“So, who could help us? Maybe a jambassador or-“ They all looked at Swampy as he gasped. “AJHQ!”

Chapter Three: Finding Happy

“Of course! Why didn’t I think of that,” They chuckled, everyone knew Chef wasn’t good at making plans very often. “Where could we find AJ headquarters? Is it in Jamma? Or far far away?” Asked Burt, falling to the ground tiredly emphasizing far. “Well, there is a map somewhere. I’m pretty sure in Coral Canyons.” They all looked at Emma when she said this, she hadn’t really talked at all the whole time.

“Thanks, Emma. I guess our next stop would be Coral Canyons then.” Swampy motioned to Chef to pack up all the food again so they could start heading that way. “First let’s make sure everyone is here and ready. Let’s see.. One.. Two..” He mumbled numbers to himself counting them all until he reached himself. “There is them two and seven of us, we are missing someone!” They all looked around at each other trying to figure out who wasn’t there. “Froggy! Where is he?”

They all started looking around the bush, but Froggy was no where to be seen. Peri peaked his head out and looked around. His heart started racing until he finally spotted Froggy by the Suggestions Box trying his hardest to write something on a notecard with a pen in his mouth.

“Froggy!” Peri whispered. Froggy turned his head but continued to write. “Get over here before someone picks you up!” Froggy dropped the pen and whispered back, “I’m nearly done!” He scribbled one more word on and claimed to the top to insert the note card. When he did, he slid down the pole and landed firmly in the soft grass surrounding to structure.

“Now get over here right n-“ Peri stopped and ran as he saw Froggy being lifted from the ground by a monkey. “Oh my gosh!! A lizard!!” Peri gasped as the monkey threw around Froggy and hugged him. “No!!”

The monkey stomped into the blue, sparkly shop covered in blue sapphires. “Guys! Someone stole Froggy and they just ran into the shop!” They all started to panic when he said this and started talking very loud, they couldn’t just leave Froggy!

“Shhh! If we are too loud we are going to be taken too!” They all hushed when he said this and they led their eyes to him. “What are we going to do?” Quivered Mabel. “We are going to go in there and find that thief. We are maybe weak as individuals but as a team, we can do this.” They all hesitantly nodded and started to follow Peri to the door.

“Now we wait for someone to go in...” A snow leopard pushed the door open rapidly and ran in. “Go!” They all rushed in the door, Noodle’s tail nearly getting caught. They shot to the right and hid under a table. They looked around the chaotic room until Peri spotted the blue monkey who snatched up Froggy.

“There!” He pointed to them with his little claws and they saw the monkey at a box watching something. In his paw was Froggy who was crying a river. “All we have to do is get over there and get Froggy while the Jammer is distracted.” Swampy said confidently. “Ok, stay along the wall.”

They inched along slowly, keeping themselves pressed tightly against the wall. Vuli was curiously looking around, many posters were hung, many over sales and bargains, until her eyes landed on a large poster of names. At the top of the poster it said “Missing Jammers” and Vuli stopped to see who was on it. There was many, manynames. And it looked like someone was even writing another. “Alphabetical order..” She whispered to herself. She scanned through the As.. Bs.. After thirty seconds she landed on H. Somewhere in the beginning of that letter she saw the name written messily- Happymistakess. “So it’s true.. She really is gone, and all those others! Who could be doing this..?”

“Vuli! Watch out!” Burt screamed from ahead. Vuli finally snapped out of her thoughts and saw someone approaching her. “Ahhh!” She ran to try and catch up with the others but tripped over her tail midway. “Vuli!” Burt tan after her and picked her up. He threw her on his back and ran to the others.

“What were you thinking?! What were you even doing?!” Vuli looked at her feet. “I saw the list of the missing jammers.. It was so sad, there so many! Happy was even one of them on the list..” They all remained silent. “C’mon, we need to get Froggy.”

They slowly trudged on, only a few feet away from the monkey. He was still watching the screen so they still could get Froggy, hopefully easily. “Leon, can you get him?” Leon looked surprised, but he still nodded. He thought this could help make him more trustworthy in their group. He quietly ran over to them, and crawled up the monkey’s backpack.

“Froggy,” Leon whispered. “''I’m here to get you, the others are waiting down there. Grab my tail.”'' Froggy wiped his scaly nose and grabbed on to his red and grey tail. “I got it!” Froggy yelled quietly. Leon started crawling down the backpack, Froggy slowly moving with him. The monkey seemed so intrigued that he didn’t notice the lizard moving away from him. “Ok, I’m going to go a little faster and hop down, got it?” Froggy nervously nodded and held his tail tighter. “''One. Two. Three.'' Now!” He hopped down from the backpack and fell flat on the floor.

“Argh!” Froggy landed right on top of him, squishing Leon flat. “Are you okay?!” Asked Emma worriedly. “Yep, totally okay.” He said rubbing his back and tail. “Froggy, you ok too?” He nodded and smiled at him, and gave Leon a hug. “Thank you!” This made Leon smiled and he hugged him back. “No problem.”

“Okay, we gotta get out of here!” They all scurried along the wall, the need to get out of the shop. Many paws were stomping around and it was giving them all a headache from the chatter.

When they finally managed to make their way out, they all let out a sigh of relief. “Glad we are all okay!” They all laughed, and plopped themselves back under the bush. “So next stop is Coral Canyons, huh? Then we can get the map of Jamma, and there is some of outside of Jamma on there as well. From there we can find AJ Headquarters and hopefully find out what’s been going on. We will find Happy, no matter what. Who’s with me?!” They put their tails together, and shouted, “For Happy!” Leon and Emma then added, “For Bella!” They looked at them and Swampy asked, “That’s your owner?” They both nodded and Swampy shrugged his shoulders and said, “For Bella!” They all joined in and laughed, they were a great team, ready to save the ones they needed.

Chapter Four: Part One

They packed up what they needed to, then peeked their head out. “How will we get to Coral Canyons?” Asked Mabel, looking at all the different paths. “Well, we could go that way,” Emma said, pointing at one path by the building next to them with her tail. “Or that way.” She pointed her tail across from the fountain to the other path.

They looked at each, one path to the other, to the other path, then the other. “What if we go to the one over there so along the way we can stop and get water from the fountain?” Suggested Noodle, licking his dry lips. “I think we all could use a little water, don’t you think?” He added. They all agreed, after eating and walking so far, their throats were getting dry and raspy.

They all covered themselves in leaves in branches again, tucking all the greenery under their scales. They slowly moved out of the bush, one by one. When each of them reached the fountain, they got close to the bricks and waited for the others. “Just climb up the wall, drink what you need, and head over to the path.” Swampy said, trying to find a good first foot hold. They nodded and started their way up.

When they got to the top, the water was so cool and soothed their throats. They even dipped themselves in the water to cool down their burning scales. When each of them finished, they headed over to the path.

They walked across an oak bridge, watching the river water flow beneath their feet. “Okay, welcome to...” The sky was no longer bright and sunny, the ground no longer bright browns and green. “The Lost Temple of Zios!” Shouted Burt. They looked around, there was a little stream running over jagged rocks, frogs hidden in darken shadows, and in the middle of the area was a large structure where Zios stood, well not anymore.

“C’mon, this way.” Leon led them, dipping his foot in the cold water. He placed his feet slowly, step by step trying not to catch claws on any rocks.

“Ouch! Help, my foot is caught!” Peri shouted, trying to pull his foot from underneath the rock. “Peri!” Swampy ran over to where he was stuck, he could see a cut running from the top to the bottom of his leg. “Wiggle it out slowly, don’t move quick it will make the wound turn out even worse. “Ok..” He whimpered.

He slowly started maneuvering his leg up, only to reveal a nasty cut covered in mud. “Ouch- That’s gotta hurt.” Swampy said looking at it. “You think?!” Peri yelled. When he finally got his foot out, he let out a sigh of relief, but also groaned in agony.

“Need some help?” And unfamiliar voice said from behind them. They all jumped, startled. Could it be another pet? A jammer? They turned to see another lizard, green on white. “Sorry to scare you- I’m Fozzie! I was watching you,” Fozzie paused when he was interrupted by Vuli. “Watching us? Explain.” Fozzie but his scaley lip. “Well I saw more lizards and.. Well its always nice to be around more lizards I guess. Y’all seemed to be struggling so I decided to come. Then I saw that cut and I thought I could help.” Vuli looked him up and down skeptically. “Then how could you help?” He pulled a little sack from the top of his back and pulled out a roll of bandage and a bottle of ointment.

“Okay, stand still. I’m going to rinse the scratch, put some of this on it, and wrap it up. It may burn a little.” Peri nodded, but worried a little. He cupped his front legs and poured water on the scratch, after that he poured some of the liquid medicine on top. Peri winced but he knew this was for the better. Fozzie wrapped it up and tucked his supplies back in his bag. “Now can you hop on my back? I can carry you along the way.” Fozzie thought to himself ''“Maybe I can gain their trust like this, be apart of their team. I want to let them know I want to help.”'' Peri hopped on top his back and they carried on.

As they approached the unfinished Zios statue, they paused. “The Zios statue was destroyed when the phantoms attacked,” Fozzie said, looking up at it. “I’m glad they are rebuilding it, Jamma wouldn’t be the same without it.” They all stared. “Could everyone disappearing be because of the phantoms?” Froggy wondered out loud. “It’s always possible, but we will never know until we find out.” Fozzie walked on. “Uhhh.. Which path do we take now?” Mable said staring at the four paths. “This way,” Said Emma, pointing one direction. “Actually this way.” She pointed her tail a different direction. “Wait- That way. No-“ Leon stopped her. “We will just pick a path and hope it leads the right way I guess.” Emma shrugged her shoulders. “This way I guess.” She turned to the right and headed over.

“Now let’s see.. We made it to..” Fozzie paused. The sky became bright, the ground hot, and a salty breeze blew around them. “Looks like Crystal Sands!” They observed, let their claws sink in the sand. “Maybe we should turn bac-“ Before Emma finished her sentence Chef and Noodle were running into the water. “Never mind then!” She followed them into the water, a little fun wouldn’t hurt!

They waded their way their way through the water until they were in the middle, and they splashed a little to enjoy the beach. “Hey, look at them!” They watched as a Jammer put their lizard in a boat and hopped in. They hugged it and hopped out but left the lizard inside the boat. The boat started floating away, leaving the lizard on their own in the water. “What did they just do?!” Fozzie watched the boat sail further and further until it was speck in the water. “They sent it out for what they call an expedition. They send their pet out to find something.” She tilted her head, still a bit confused. “I wouldn’t like that- Being away from my owner.” Fozzie could understand that but he knew that it would help. “It’s fine- Hey, we need to get moving!”

“This is the only path really. Hopefully it leads to Coral Canyons.” Swampy said as they walked up the steep sand. They saw when they went through many large rocks forming a path, lots of plants growing everywhere, and cacti. “This must be...” Fozzie said, trying to dig through his memory. “Canyons Pathway.” Emma said. “Of course, I knew that.” He chuckled. They walked along, quickly to try and get to Coral Canyons as soon as possible. “So this leads straight to Coral Canyons, correct?” Asked Leon. “Yep! Here it right ahead.”

They walked straight into Coral Canyons from the path, the orange rock everywhere they looked. “Finally!” They walked over to the large rock bridge. “Up there is what we are looking for, in the tent up there is a map. Hopefully we can find the information we need off that.” They followed Fozzie up the canyon, avoiding running paws and cactus spikes.

“There!” They spotted a tent set up at a ridge in the canyon and ran in. There was pictures, books, shelves, carpets, all packed in the little space. They ran their eyes along the wall until they spotted the map.

“Let’s see.. Pillow room... Walls and Floors... AJ Headquarters!” They all tried to get closer. “Where?” He checked all over the map but it wasn’t marked. “I- I don’t know.” He kept looking but all he found was.. A code? “He look at this, it says AJ headquarters is here but ‘here’ is just a code.” Froggy ran up. “I love solving codes, lemme see!” He looked, going through different techniques in his head. “If I’m correct.. It says Waterfall window.” They all were confused, what could it mean by that?” They all sat and thought. “What about..” Burt said breaking the silence. “Epic Wonders. Happy took me there sometimes and on the upper floor there is a window. Epic Wonders is under the waterfall so it must be that.” They all thought this could be a good idea, if not, who knows what could it be. “Let’s head down there then...”