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Mr Beautinglroth Regard thought he was dead. Well, he didn’t think he was dead, he thought that the man opposite him was dead. Not dead now, obviously, or he wouldn’t be standing, but he had thought he was dead before. Not dead before he was standing there, that would be silly. Beatingleroth Regard was confused.
He had been told, and thought, that Beauhoth, his father, was dead. but there he was now, stood tall as ever, lips slightly parted, and his brown paw-like hands clasped tightly together behind his back. Next to him the frog he recognised, and a young woman with red hair and a strangely shaped face.
“Hello,” Robin Frog said, breaking the awkward silence. “I don’t recall your name, but I landed on you a while back.”
“Yes,” Mr Regard said, his eyes never leaving his father’s. “My name is…”
Beauhoth Tinglroth interrupted. “I am Beautinglroth keeper of the sacred wooden hearts, and leader of Raenbu from before the birth of the new great nation. Who, sir, are you?”
Mr Regard seemed to pause a moment in hesitation, then, he moved one step forward, and bowed onto one knee. “I am no one. My name is not mine, but yours until it is given. You are my father, I am your son.”
Skeeter didn’t believe it. This Kennekte was old, white hair, walking stick, beard. Beauhoth was young, well muscled and healthy. This was not his son, looked more like his grandfather.
“My son?” Beauhoth said calmly. “Where have you been to grow old?”
“I went through the rainbow, I left to find you. My mother, she told me you were my father. She said you had gone through the rainbow. I could not find you there. The other side was in a war. They called it World War Two.”
“My son,” Beauhoth said again. He laid his firm hands on the bent head of Beutingleroth. “No more shall you be nameless, for my name I pass on to you. From this day you shall be Beautinglroth Regard, son of Beauhoth Tinglroth keeper of the sacred wooden hearts and leader of Raenbu.”
Slowly, very slowly, Beautinglroth looked up to his father’s face. Tears glinted in his grey eyes, reflecting the sunlight. He got to his feet, and leant heavily on his walking stick. “We must go,” he said. “Mrs Nancy has taken your place, and she threw my son into the outside world.”
“Your son?”
“My son. Beauregard. I never gave him a new name, I dreamt of one day you’re visiting me with the name for my son. And now you are here.”
Skeeter folded her arms across her chest. “Enough,” she said. “We have work to do. Can we keep the smushyness down to a minimum till it’s done?”
Robin pointed up at the giant mansion belonging to Mrs Nancy. “This is it guys,” he said. “Onward and upward!”
*****
The Fraggle cave they were in wasn’t the exciting, colourful and glittery place many of the others were. Here there was barely light to see by, except Kermit’ touch flashing around the walls in a beam. They were in Australia, and not many Fraggles lived this far from the main Fraggle Caves under America. But it was here that Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Rowlf and Sam had come searching for little Robin, and the mysterious sister Scooter never spoke of, Skeeter. Where Scooter had finally come across his sister, and how they had got to the Cave of Rainbows was a story for another day, and Kermit was sure that Scooter would tell it to them soon enough.
Right now, they had to find the door shown on the map, and get into the cave of rainbows themselves. The problem was the door wasn’t there. It had either disappeared, the map was wrong, or the door had been blocked up.
“Where’s the door?” Miss Piggy asked. “There’s no door.”
“It’s disappeared,” Fozzie said.
“The map must be wrong,” Sam added, turning the map upside down to take another look.
“Maybe it’s been blocked up,” Rowlf suggested, and he was right.
“Here,” Kermit shouted, examining the cave walls with a torch. “Here! We got it people!”
In the beam of the touch-light, a brighter section of wall sent shadows and smatterings of light skittering across the cave floor. A thickset wooden door was firmly blocked into the wall, and hundreds of Dozer-sticks were crisscrossed across the entire thing, shutting it up and closing the entrance from use.
“Oh great!” Fozzie said, seeing the door. “Oh, no,” he added seeing the Dozer-sticks.
“Now what do we do?” Sam asked fluffing his feathers. “All entrances are blocked, and the only way out is back up that, disgusting, little rubbish chute.” He glanced above them to the two dark opening of tunnels that showed black above them like the eyes of Mahna Mahna.
“Er, Miss Piggy,” Kermit said. “Could you try and smash your way through here?”
Piggy shook a curl of hair from her forehead. “I beg, your, pardon? What do you take moi for? A battering ram?”
“Er, no,” Kermit said, “But.”
Fozzie interrupted. “Hey, guys. What do you get if you cross a base-ball bat with a sheep?”
“A battering-ram?” Kermit ventured.
“No. An angry sheep! Get it! Cross. Sheep. Wocka, wocka!”
“Not now, Fozzie. Piggy, would you please? Just for me?”
“No.” She turned away in a sulk. “Not even if you ask little old me very, very nicely.”
Kermit stormed forward, and grabbed her shoulder, suddenly angry. He spun her around to face him. “Miss Piggy,” he said. “This is not the time for games. My nephew is stuck in that cave, he may be in trouble. Now would you, please, help me!”
Piggy looked at him shocked, then her face softened and she smiled. “Of course,” she said. “I’m sorry.” She walked up to the plaster of Dozer-sticks and rubbed her gloved hands together. “Oh right. Uno, dos, three. Hiiiii-yah!” She swung her arm and smashed into the Dozer-sticks sending them shattering around the cave. Some broken pieces stuck in her hair, and one landed square in her mouth. “Uuch!” Miss Piggy said, spitting, then, “Oh wait. Umm. That is yummy! Radishes! Ooh. Delicious!” She eagerly started stuffing Dozer sticks, while Kermit, Fozzie, and Rowlf worked to remove the remaining ones from the doorway.
They opened the door…
…and were hit with a wall of water that threw them all over, under, and down.
*****
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