Chapter 9 - JEAN-BISON, WHERE ART THOU?

THE STORY OF ARPEGGIO AFTER SLY TURNED MATTERS TO CLOCK-LA CONTINUED...

We were nearing the Kunlun Mountains in China. "Wow!" Kara exclaimed. "That didn't take so long! Just a week or two, really!"
"Well...it never takes THAT long, how long did you expect?!?" I asked.
"Uh....like...a lot longer than that???"
"Fair enough."
We had been looking down, enjoying the view, when Orville called to us, "We're nearing a wall!"
"A wall?!?" Kara and I said together.
"That wasn't on the map!" I said.
"Well, I wonder who built it and for what reason?" Kara said thoughtfully.
"Well, let us find out!" I said, reaching out a wing. Orville handed me a telescope. I handed it to Kara. "Ladies first!" I said with a smile.
She playfully returned my grin, and carefully examined the ground below. "It's heavily gaurded." she said, her smile fading. "There's a big palace in the middle of it all."
"Well, THAT I can see!" I explained. For the castle was the only thing I could see plainly.
"There's this HUGE golden statue outside the palace. It looks like some...rooster dude."
"Rooster, eh?" I said, puzzled by all this. "Well, whoever he is, we should steer clear of this place. We're not looking for trouble. Not yet. Once we retrieve our companion, he'll only
have time to thaw out in here, because we won't want to stay long enough for any of those gaurds to know we're here."
We soon landed within a safe distance from the wall. Kara and I walked out, and sent some of my guards to scout out this rooster. Then we had some flashlight guards stand around the blimp with
orders to shoot any intruders on sight. Kara took a long rope and to reel in Jean Bison. Then the two of us set off: Kara on foot, and I on her shoulder.
We searched the ground until we were sure that he had not been buried in the snow anywhere. Then we searched near the water.
After only a short time, Kara pointed out a tiny remote control chopper pulling a giant ice block along in the water. "Could that be Jean?" she asked.
"I don't suppose so. If it were, there wouldn't be an antenna sticking out of the top, would there?" I said sternly, but not angrily. Kara laughed a bit, and we continued searching, not any longer
heeding the little chopper. We searched for quite a long time. We walked and walked until our feet hurt. (Make that KARA'S feet, because I wasn't walking at all!)
We searched until the sun set. I could barely see, but Kara, being in the cat family, could see just fine. When ever she was at a certain angle to the
light, her eyes glowed a briliant light. As was the same with her Cousin Rajan.
Kara paced back and forth through the snow, longing for something to turn up. The little chopper was the only interesting thing that had happened to
come our way all day. We were just about to go back to the blimp for the night when Kara saw it. (I didn't though, I could hardly see a thing, as I said before!) A
glint of light from the water marked a giant ice berg floating on toward us. "It's him!" Kara cried. "It's Jean-Bison!" Our hearts were cheered as the ice berg slowly
floated down the water as the creature inside came to view, I knew all our searching was over. After weeks (and a LOT of coffee), we found him! The reason we-wait!
That wasn't Bison. It was some stupid group of baby penguins trapped in an Iceberg! We were about to turn back once more, when Kara turned back one last time. She somehow knew Jean was near. I urged her to go in, but suddenly, she leaped off the ground.
"It's him!!!" she cried joyfully. "JEAN-BISON!!!!" We raced to the edge of the snowy bank and sure enough, there was Jean-Bison with...a sympathetic look on his face?!? Oh well, no time to ponder that. Kara used
her scepter to drag him in. Then, when he had reached the shore, we both tried to pull the block of ice. It was REALLY heavy. Now I knew how Neyla felt!

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