Suspenseful nothings (5)

"Oh, Lucy! Please talk to me! Tell me what is wrong!" Sarah whispered over the pale face. She knew it would do no good, but had Lucy just stirred?
Firgrass sped through the woods as fast as he could. The vegetables were surely traveling fast! He could see them coming up to a stream, and hoped they would stop there, but no! They reached the stream and splashed right through it, making a wave so big, it splashed on the ground only 5 yards from where Firgrass now stood, panting, and wondering what to do.
"Hey, you old veggies, calm down!
The girl has been finally been found!" Firgrass yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Come back, come back!
No speed do you lack!
Please, oh, please start to slow!
Pretend that you're in a thick storm of snow!"
He was very glad to see the vegetables slow down, and begin to turn in his direction. He proudly led them back to the two girls, and called them to a halt.
"Okay, now we can take care of Lucy!" Firgrass said. He caught an old radish as it went dancing bay, and crushed it to juice. To this, he added a mixture of squash and creamed corn, and a bit or two of carrot and tomato juice. This he poured down Lucy throat.
"Ugh! Ick! Choke, cough, cough!" was Lucy's reply. "What the heck was that? Ugh!"
"That," Firgrass replied with another proud look, "Is the liquid that has awoken you, and that is all you need to know."
"But there is some thing I want to know," Lucy replied. "Is there any thing that will take away that horrid taste?" She made a face.
"No, not that I know of. Now then, I'll release these vegetables, and scurry home." He turned to go.
"Wait!" Sarah cried out. "What about my mother? What about getting home?"
"Arg!" Firgrass exclaimed. Sarah frowned at him.
"What would the authoress say?"
"She'd say I've done my part and is time to leave now. Goodbye!" Firgrass and his troupe of vegetables hurried off through the woods. Sarah and Lucy watched them till the last cloud of dust they had kicked up disappeared.
"Well, that's that!" Sarah said angrily. "Come, Lucy! We'll have to find mother all by ourselves now."
"Let's just try to not get separated," Lucy agreed.
"Yes," Sarah said. "Do you know the way back to where you started?"
"I do, but I don't see that that will help, as the living room had disappeared completely. Also, these woods are so weird, I think they could move locations very quickly and leave us more lost then before."
"Maybe," Sarah said. Then an idea came to her. "Maybe we can call the vegetables back! We can make them help us!"
"Aren't they too far to hear us, though?"
"Possibly," Sarah said. "But we can still try!" This is what she sang:
"Vegetables, vegetables; Why, oh, why?
Why did you leave us, can you hear us cry?
Come again to help us once more,
Lead us to mother, and our living room door."
Nothing in the woods stirred, not a bird nor a beetle. The two girls sadly turned away, and trudged down the best looking path, in hopes of some how finding mother. Then they heard a dreadful noise. It was the sound of yelling, and as it got closer, they could hear the words more distinctly.
"Hey! Hey, you veggies! Hey!" It was Frigrass' voice, and he sounded more than annoyed.
"Hurrah!" Lucy called at the top of her voice, and the vegetables came running faster then ever, leaving Firgrass far behind. Sarah commanded them, and they followed her. One old cornstalk seemed to know it's way around better than the other vegetables, and thus, Sarah ended up following him. Lucy was in spasms of delight over the vegetables, and an old watermelon tree consented to bearing her on his shoulders. The happy group finally reached a stream, and on the other side of the stream, they met up with the tallest of trees and underneath that tree, they found they're mother standing there . She looked up with great surprise in her eyes, as she saw her daughters and the band of vegetables approaching her.
"Mother! mother! We've found you!" Sarah and Lucy cried, rushing up to give they're mother a hug. (Sarah had wisely halted the vegetables already.)
"And I've been looking every where for you girls!" Their mother was exclaiming. It was at that moment that a very tired looking Firgrass arrived on the scene; his hair hung in his eyes, and his slightly green face was looking more than just slightly green.
"Ugh, Ugh!" He was saying. Lucy and Sarah quickly explained about Firgrass to their mother, and mother simply shook her head at Firgrass' impolite behavior.
"And now to find home," she said.
"Wait, mother!" said Sarah. She walked up to the vegetables.
"What can we do for you?
You who have been ever true;
Could it be that you'd like to talk,
In exchange for that very long walk?"
And the vegetables all seemed to exclaim, "Yes, yes!" Though how Sarah knew they were saying it, she did not know.
"Then please do talk,
and hold conversation,
Yes, yes, talk!"
It wasn't exactly a rhyme, but it did the trick, for soon the air was full of the happy voices of vegetables. Then Sarah told them that they could go free, for their service had been completed, and the happy band scattered here and there, talking about all things imaginable.
"And now for home," Sarah said with a smile.

To be continued later.......