Fanfic: The Adventures of Det. Anna Gram 🕵️‍♀️ Case Three: Finding Tiny Axe

Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Silver Sword. Enjoy!

(Start from the prologue, or continue from Case Two)

Even though it was hard getting out of Tiny Axe’s office, Anna still had to rescue her. Anna was a little nervous, though, because she didn’t know what Tiny Axe was like, and she didn’t know what the mysterious bandit might do to her.

ANNA: “I should bring some case files, you never know if the bandit is under cover.”

She grabs a new case file and writes: “The mystery of the mysterious bandit.”

ANNA: “Now I can go save Tiny Axe!”

Anna hurriedly sprints to the elevator, and it goes down slloooowly.

ANNA: “I really should have just used the stairs!”

The elevator lands and just as Anna steps out — BOOM! The elevator bursts into pieces, waking the sleeping security guard who never wakes up.

GUARD: “Hey! What did you do! You broke the elevator and you stopped my napping streak! Someone could beat me now! Boy, I gotta call someone for that elevator… Stay here!”

As the guard walks over to the phone, Anna takes that chance to dash out of the office and hurry over to Goofside.

GUARD: “Stop right there! I’ll get some help to…”

But she is running so fast she can’t hear the rest.

ANNA: “They’re probably after me. I should head to Goofside, and hopefully find somewhere to hide.”

Anna runs as fast as she can to Goofside. She dashes up to the nearest house and knocks on the door. The door creaks open and a woman is standing inside. She has bags under her eyes and grey earrings that are half-chipped, and a dress that would be colourful if it wasn’t so faded and dirty.

ANNA: “I don’t mean to be rude, but am I in Dullsville or Goofside?”

VERY DULL WOMAN: “Goofside. Hey! You’re a detective! Come in, you’re very welcome here!”

Anna steps inside a cheerful house, with colourful posters all over the walls that say:  “WE NEED A DETECTIVE!” and “Tiny Axe has gone missing! We need help! -Axe family.”

VERY DULL WOMAN: “Sorry! I forgot to introduce myself! I’m Cuddly Axe, and this is Wild Axe! WILD, I FOUND A DETECTIVE!”

Cuddly Axe must have been really excited, because she is screaming even though Wild Axe is just a few feet away from her. Wild Axe, on the other hand, is reading the newspaper. It looks like he is reading a page about Tiny Axe over and over again.

WILD: “REALLY!?”

ANNA: “Uhhh… nice to meet you too?”

CUDDLY: “Oh, sorry we are just very excited!”

ANNA (thinking to herself): “I can tell.”

ANNA: “My name is Anna Gram, and I am a detective. I can’t help you with another case, though, because I’m saving someone right now.”

Somehow, Anna fails to notice the posters on the walls, the page in the newspaper that Wild Axe is reading, or how Cuddly and Wild’s last names are both Axe.

Cuddly and Wild’s smiles fade.

WILD: “Who are you saving?”

ANNA: “Detective Tiny Axe. She was taken by a bandit who locked me in her office.”

The Axes’ smiles come back, bigger and brighter than ever.

CUDDLY: “She’s already on it! You’re a great detective, Anna.”

Now she notices the clues around her, and it finally hits her.

WILD: “Follow us.”

Wild and Cuddly show Anna a bright bedroom. It has millions of completion certificates on the walls. Notebooks and pens are stacked neatly in piles across the floor. The bed is a really light grey, so light that it looks like white, with the name Tiny Axe spread across it. Behind the bed is a large poster that reads:

Tiny Axe, hero to all the islands.

Tiny Axe, thank you for saving all the beloved islands, and helping Poptropicans stay in existence. We will remember you forever.

Signed, everyone in Home Island, Jade Scarab Island, Fairy Tale Island, and there are too many islands, so everyone in Poptropica

ANNA: “So this is Tiny Axe’s room! But what’s that?”

Anna turns ghost white and points at a glowing yellow portal.

CUDDLY: “You have to go in to save Tiny Axe. But be careful. Wild put his arm in, literally.”

Anna looks at Wild’s arm, and to her surprise, he only has one arm!

ANNA: “Whatever it takes to save Tiny.”

She steps inside. She glows yellow for a second, and looks around. Anna is in a giant black lair. A giant spider web has Wild’s arm and Tiny Axe stuck on tight.

TINY AXE: “You! Help me!”

TO BE CONTINUED…

What will happen in the lair of the thief? Is it a total surprise or is the future known? Find out in the next case!

Silver Sword ⚔️, out!

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