The Clearing

## Chapter Info

**Chapter 24: The Clearing** is the twenty fourth chapter of Furry Fight Chronicles.

## Summary

The chapter starts with Cookie once again asking Kalita to become her Combagal. Once again, Kalita refuses, much to Muko and Cookie's collective dismay. Kalita states that she has two reasons. The first is that she refuses to be Cookie's tool for her vendetta, as she can see that there's bad blood between the squirrel and the Tendonchi Champions. The second reason is that she refuses to fight two champions by herself.

Cookie corrects Kalita by stating that Muko is her tag team partner. Kalita still refuses, pointing out that Muko is a loser and won't become a worthy partner in just two months. Cookie tries to provoke Kalita by asking if she's afraid of the Tendonchi Champions. Kalita replies that Cookie should be afraid of her if she doesn't give her the money by the next week.

Angry at being insulted, Muko challenges Kalita for a rematch by the next week. If Muko wins, then Kalita will become her partner. Kalita dismisses Muko, telling her and Cookie that they're a pair of dreamers and she will crush them with the wheels of reality. Kalita leaves Monyan, which causes Muko to collapse at her inability to convince Kalita to join them. Cookie reassures her, telling Muko that she did the right thing.

Cookie decides to get Muko training for her fight with Kalita. Cookie states that she has regained her foresight thanks to Muko, claiming that she can see the path they must take. First, Muko will have to defeat Kalita. Then, she will climb higher to face Nyarai and the Cyclone Crushers led by Shun Gonfano. Once Muko has surpassed them, she will keep fighting until she faces Team Thousand Hearts, led by Donkizari and her tag team partner.

The following day, Cookie takes Muko to the Megaton Punch Gym to be trained in boxing and furry fighting by Patchwork, the best trainer in Botaun, Patchwork, much to Muko's glee as she's a fellow rabbit. Cookie asks Patchwork if she's ready to train the next Donkizari. Patchwork refuses and shoves Muko and Cookie out of her gym, telling them to try their luck at another gym. Perplexed at what happened, Cookie drags a crying Muko to another gym, laughing in denial at the sudden rejection.

Cookie takes Muko to the Wallop Scallop Gym to be trained by Bill Moray, the best trainer of Tendonchi. However, Bill tells them that he doesn't want the pair on his gym. Undeterred, Cookie takes Muko to the Rolling Rowboat Gym to be trained by the best trainer of East Tenengi Street. Like before, the gym owner refuses, which enrages Cookie, who angrily points out that she's been punished enough these last two years. The gym owner tells her that he's not refusing Cookie for her reputation, but because Muko has a bad name in the Spotter.

Muko uses her phone to check on the Spotter and notices that there is a new article about her. She suddenly freezes upon reading it. Cookie checks the video in the article, revealing Miho Barkowitz, the stripper who caused Adelgund's defeat, being a Spotter journalist uncovering Muko's past. Besides her poor showing against Nyarai, Miho brings up the fact that Muko is a sex offender. She interviewed the maids of Cafe Carrots who all,state, with the exception of Shira, how Muko tried to steal their underwear. Likewise, Roora angrily remembers Muko breaking into the showers to see her naked.

Miho also reveals that Muko left high school at age 17 prior to her graduation eighteen months ago. Muko left school at the same time as her school teacher Matroshka, age 34, was expelled. Miho brings up the connection by revealing that,the two had a secret affair. Miho interviews Matroshka, who starts crying because she misses her job, her husband, and her two sons. As Miho comfort's a crying Matroshka, the disgraced teacher speaks about Muko, telling how she had a weakness for her cute facade. The chapter ends as Matroshka claims that Muko seduced her and tricked her into thinking she was a lesbian.

## Continuity

* Muko gets another Spotter article like the one she got in Chapter 10.
* Miho, the member of the Exe-Cutie-Ves who set up Adelgund, reappears since her disappearance in Chapter 18.
* The maids at Cafe Carrots (mainly Mel and Tunky) bring up the perverted antics Muko did in Chapter 3.
* Roora reappears as she angrily remembers Muko spying on her at the showers during Chapter 2.
* An image of Nyarai's fight with Muko from Chapter 14 appears in the Spotter article.
* Matroshka, the cat lady from Muko's flashback in Chapter 22, is revealed to have been Muko's high school teacher and first love.

## Trivia

* Bill Moray is a parody of Billy Murray.