3…A LONG JOURNEY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A RAINBOW SPEAKS.

The journey was long and tiring. The Rainbow Big Flops had to stop several times along the way to sleep, cuddled in a warm pile for a few hours, before starting off again.

During that time they watched many storms come and go along with their surreal, wicked-looking gray-bows. They wanted so bad to set things right then and there, so the rest of their animal friends wouldn't worry any longer, but they couldn't do anything until they got there.

And even that was iffy. Never having been there, they didn't know how to get there on foot much less just appear there. The only thing they had going for them was watching where the cloud and gray-bow cannonballs were coming from and try to keep on that heading. All they had was the hope that they would get there soon—that and each other's company.

“I just don't get it,” Rudolph said. “Knowing what they're doing, making sickening-looking gray-bows, how can they keep on with it? Don't they see that they're scaring everyone?”

“I can only imagine that they do, but why they didn't stop and return the Rainbow Cannon, I don't know,” said Olivia. “And they might not know what they're doing. If they haven't left the Gray Way since taking the cannon, they couldn't see how they're affecting everyone.”

“Well, we need to get there and show them that they're making everybody sad with their gray-bows and that they're not helping anyone,” Yorick said, determined to get to the Gray Day Big Flops' home city of the Gray Way and try to set things right.

“So, what are we going to say once we get there?” Gary asked.

“I don't think we'll know until we arrive,” Bunny replied.

“I know how I feel now and that's... sad. Stealing the cannon was wrong and I... just never thought that they would ever do something like that,” Isabel said, finding a small rock to sit on as she held her furry head in her furry hands and tried to hold back a tear.

“I know how I feel, too, and it's also sad. But not because of the Gray Days stealing the cannon. Rather, because you're not feeling good about it,” Violet said as she sat beside Isabel, put an arm around her with one paw on her shoulder and the other holding her hands. Violet didn't know anything else to say, but she did know that sometimes saying nothing and just being there was the best comfort of all.

In time the Rainbow Big Flops got to the Gray Way and saw, for the first time, the Gray Day Big Flops, their counterparts from the other side of the world. Of course they knew of each other, what they looked like and all, but neither had ever seen the others. At least, not until then.

After untold years, beyond what anyone could remember, the Gray Days saw the Rainbows and the Rainbows saw the Gray Days. They both knew why they were there, together, but no one knew what to do next.

Approach each other to get within talking distance was the first thing to occur to them. With that, the Rainbows started toward the Gray Days and the Gray Days toward the Rainbows, intent on meeting in the middle. Where things would go once they officially met was anyone's guess.