Wicket Wystri Warrick

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Wicket Wystri Warrick was an Ewok scout, warrior, and later ruler of Bright Tree Village on the forest moon of Endor. The great-grandson of Erpham Warrick, Wicket was the third son of Deej and Shodu Warrick, following Weechee and Willy, and was the older brother of Winda.

Wicket led an adventurous life, even from a very young age. He and his friends, namely Teebo and Princess Kneesaa, continually protected their village and the surrounding forest from those who would do them harm, such as Morag the Tulgah witch, the Duloks, and other threats from Endor and beyond. He almost even inadvertently killed Emperor Palpatine while defending the sunstar during Doctor Raygar's quest for Imperial domination.

Wicket aided the Towani family when they crash-landed on Endor, and later assisted Noa Briqualon in the battle against the Sanyassans. Wicket also played an instrumental role in helping the Rebel Alliance defeat the Galactic Empire during the Battle of Endor. After the death of Chief Chirpa, Wicket Warrick and his bride Kneesaa together ruled over Bright Tree Village.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early childhood 1.2 Village scout 1.2.1 Early scouting missions 1.2.2 The sorcerer's apprentice 1.2.3 A tale of Sorrow 1.2.4 The rise of Morag 1.2.5 The magnificent duo 1.2.6 Star Child and the Dulok treaty 1.2.7 Little help for the Fleebogs 1.2.8 Morag's thorn monster 1.2.9 Slave 1.2.10 Preparing for the Wistie Fest 1.2.11 Hallowe'en 1.2.12 Kradak attack 1.2.13 Climbing the Mountain of Doom 1.2.14 Other adventures 1.3 Becoming a warrior 1.3.1 The skills test 1.3.2 Morag strikes back 1.3.3 Return of the Phlogs 1.3.4 Saving Deej 1.3.5 Traveling with the Jindas 1.3.6 Restoring the Tree of Light 1.3.7 The lucky rock 1.3.8 Friend of the Gupins 1.3.9 Morag's end 1.3.10 Rebuilding Erpham's battlewagon 1.3.11 Troming the stranglethorn 1.3.12 Romancing the Phlog 1.3.13 The Red Ghost 1.4 Filling the belt of honor 1.4.1 Flight to the floating mountain 1.4.2 Kneesaa's wish plant 1.4.3 Moving out 1.4.4 Serving "Princess" Latara 1.4.5 Cap of the Raich 1.4.6 The totem pole 1.4.7 Mother's birthday 1.4.8 Stranger invasion 1.4.9 Prize of the Mimphs 1.4.10 Zarrak's revenge 1.4.11 Door-to-door trader 1.4.12 Training Teebo 1.4.13 Odra's summer freeze 1.4.14 Duloks and the prow 1.4.15 Jadru's maze 1.4.16 Horrification from the Hut of Horrors 1.4.17 Elbo and the flute 1.4.18 The trouble with Norky 1.4.19 Kneesaa's parties 1.4.20 Girl trouble 1.4.21 Raygar and the sunstar 1.4.22 The Black Cavern 1.5 Helping the Humans 1.5.1 The Towani family 1.5.2 Stopping the Sanyassans 1.5.3 Falling-out with Logray 1.5.4 Imperial occupation 1.5.5 Rebel encounters 1.5.6 The Battle of Endor 1.5.7 After the battle 1.6 Later life 1.6.1 Freeing Opunia 1.6.2 A new beginning 2 Personality and traits 3 Powers and abilities 4 Belt of honor 5 Behind the scenes 6 Appearances 7 Sources 8 Notes and references 9 See also 10 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early childhood

The great-grandson of Ewok warrior Erpham Warrick,^[1] Wicket Wystri Warrick^[6] was born and raised in Bright Tree Village on the forest moon of Endor.^[1] Wicket's first name was that of a brave and inquisitive nature spirit of Ewok legend, and his surname "Warrick" was reserved for the greatest of warriors to honor another legendary figure who bore the name.^[8] Early on, Wicket exhibited a sense of adventure; though his father Deej did not understand where it came from, Wicket's mother Shodu knew that he was simply taking after his father.^[9] Wicket grew up with two older brothers, Weechee and Willy,^[10] and he developed close friendships with Teebo, Princess Kneesaa, and Latara.^[1] Wicket and Teebo played games, like seeing who could hit a burr ball the farthest.^[11]

One spring morning, Wicket joined his older brother Weechee as he went off into the woods for archery practice. But when Wicket lost Weechee's arrows and broke his new bow, Weechee castigated his young brother. Wicket fled to the base of his Soul Tree and sulked all day, deciding that if he ever had a younger sibling, he would not be mean to them. (He eventually did gain a baby sister, Winda.)^[4] Eager to grow up, Wicket was continually saddened when he wasn't allowed to go on expeditions with the older Ewoks. He was thrilled to no longer be considered a wokling when he officially gained his hood at the Festival of Hoods.^[1]

On one occasion, when Wicket and Kneesaa were picking berries in the forest, they stumbled upon two creatures attempting to cut down the forest's trees. When the two got back to their village, they told Chief Chirpa of the giants, which they learned were called Phlogs. Wicket later recounted the story before the Council of Elders, an opportunity he had never had before. Unsatisfied with the Council's decision to send a scouting party the next morning, the young Ewoks turned to the shaman Logray, who told them the history of the Phlogs of Simoom and what a threat they posed. Logray gave them a white powder which they were able to use on the Phlogs to make them run back to their own land and leave the Ewoks' forest alone. During the celebration that day, both Wicket and Kneesaa were made honorary members of the Council of Elders.^[12]

When the day of the Harvest Moon Feast arrived, Wicket invited Kneesaa, and the woklings Nippet and Wiley she was babysitting, to join him for a picnic in the woods. Along the way, Wicket kept an eye out for rainbow berries, which had been particularly hard to find that summer. When the Ewoks arrived at their place by the river, Wicket decided to teach the woklings all about fishing. As Wicket caught the fish, he handed them off to the woklings to place them in a basket. Wicket later found that the baby Ewoks had been dumping the fish back into the river. Just when Wicket began to think that babysitting wasn't so hard, the woklings had another mishap involving bees and honey, forcing the four Ewoks to jump into the river. As they dried off later, Wicket and Kneesaa decided to hang out in a tree and left the woklings to play hide-and-seek. When Wicket and Kneesaa got down, they saw that the woklings were covered in berry juice, for they had discovered some rainbow berry bushes. The Ewoks then gathered berries which were later made into rainbow berry pies for the Harvest Moon Feast, and the woklings' mother thanked Wicket and Kneesaa for making the event so special.^[13]

The annual midsummer festival was another special time for the Ewoks, as they would participate in contests to show what they could do best. Wicket encouraged Kneesaa to enter the basket-weaving contest, but she felt that she would rather enter a competition in which she wasn't so experienced. When she expressed interest in the archery contest, an event which Wicket intended to win, he revealed to Kneesaa his sexist views on females in athletics. When Kneesaa entered the contest anyway, Wicket continued to put her down and promote his chauvinistic viewpoint. Still determined, Kneesaa entered the vine-swinging contest and then inadvertently got herself into the dangerous Log Ride Contest—and won. This impressed Wicket, so much so that he apologized to Kneesaa, realizing that girls could in fact be good at sports. Kneesaa then suggested that Wicket might perhaps win the next year's basket-weaving contest.^[14]

One fall season, as the Harvest Festival approached, Wicket and Teebo put off their chores and decided to go hang-gliding. As they traveled far away from home, the two got caught in a storm and were separated. After Wicket was blown to the ground, he took refuge from the storm in a cave and was soon joined by Teebo. Lost, afraid, and hungry, the two young Ewoks waited out the storm inside the cave. Once it cleared, Wicket tried to determine where they were; when Teebo spotted smoke in the distance, he feared their village was on fire, but Wicket recognized it as a smoke signal, beckoning the Ewoks back home. Upon their return to the village, they thanked Kneesaa for signaling them. She promised not to tell anyone the boys had be playing as long as they would complete her chores for her in return. After Wicket reluctantly agreed, the three sat and shared a meal of bread and jam.^[15]

[edit] Village scout

At a young age, Wicket became a scout for Bright Tree Village, as did his friend Teebo. Wicket learned how to use the stars to guide him in his travels.^[16]

On one berry-picking occasion, Kneesaa stepped on a fatally poisonous nightshade thorn. Unwilling to accept Kneesaa's fate, Wicket and Teebo sneaked into the Council Hut and stole the rainbow crystal that created the forbidden rainbow bridge which they used to cross over the Gorge of Fire into the land of Zandor to attempt to take the glowing nectar from the cave of Gantu the Ogre. A confrontation with Gantu ensued, and the Ogre's bowl of nectar was spilled and the rainbow crystal destroyed, their passage home along with it. However, the spilled nectar immediately caused new nectar-producing sunnydew flowers to sprout from the ground. The local Zandor Rockers, grateful to the Ewoks for their allowing the plants to flourish again, dug an underground tunnel for the Ewoks to travel back to the village. There Wicket gave Kneesaa a sunnydew flower which instantly brought her back to health.^[17]

[edit] Early scouting missions

Wicket and Teebo spent several weeks training a baby bordok as a gift for Kneesaa's birthday, but they ended up being stuck with scouting duty on the day of her party. Fortunately for the village, the two were the first to spot the return of the Zorbian space pirates. While Teebo was captured, Wicket escaped, although he was knocked from his post high in the tree and had to struggle his way back to the village to warn the Ewoks. Injured and exhausted, Wicket was bedridden while Kneesaa and the women of the tribe saved the village from the Zorbians. Wicket recovered soon enough, although he kept his right arm in a sling for a while.^[18]

Chief Chirpa later declared Wicket, Kneesaa, and Teebo the guests of honor for the harvest ceremony. The distinction allowed them journey to a location on Endor where the mountains and the forest met, a location Wicket had scouted before, to harvest the special light wood the Ewoks used to make their hang gliders. Upon their arrival, they discovered that the trees had already been harvested by the Quorks. Upon trying to escape, Wicket was captured by a devil beast. The Quarks then presented Wicket and the harvested wood as gifts to their king, Marlox. The king ordered Wicket to build a glider for him, but Wicket refused and insulted the king. Wicket was then sentenced to solitary confinement in a cell with no food or water. Before Wicket was even put into his cell, his two friends attempted to rescue him, but they failed and were instead imprisoned along with Wicket. Marlox later forced the Ewok boys to build him a glider by threatening Kneesaa's life if they didn't. The Ewoks outsmarted the king by building a him a glider that would not fly, and they rescued Kneesaa and returned home with the sacred wood for the harvest ceremony.^[19]

Wicket and Teebo were soon sent on another scouting mission, several days' journey away from the village. When Teebo suggested a shortcut for their return trip, the two were captured by Joddar and the Lizard Warriors. When Wicket heard the name of the warriors' Ewok leader, Graak, he knew they were in trouble, for Graak had been banished from Bright Tree Village by Chirpa many years earlier. The scouts tried to sneak out, but Graak would not let them get away so easily. Instead, he made the two participate in a most dangerous game: he would allow them to go home through the valley if they could escape the Lizard Warriors who would be hunting them as prey. But Wicket and Teebo managed to outsmart the warriors at every turn and even saved Joddar from an Endorian swamp beast. However, after they escaped the valley, Graak went back on his word and refused to let the Ewoks leave. When Graak began to strangle Teebo with a whip, Wicket took matters into his own hands by grabbing a forked stick and pinning Graak to the ground. When it seemed Wicket had the upper hand, Graak threw dirt into Wicket's eyes and lifted a giant boulder, intending to crush the blinded scout to death. But Wicket was saved by Joddar, returning the compassion the young scouts had shown him. As the scouts headed back home, Wicket remarked that while the shortcut had taken days off of their journey, he felt as if it had taken years off of his life.^[11]

In between scouting assignments, Wicket was out with Kneesaa in the forest one day when they were encountered by Dooni, a baby foonar who had been separated from his mother. As they went to search for the missing mother, Wicket fell into large hole in the ground and injured his ankle. The hole, he surmised, was intended for foonars; they soon found further evidence with a prodding rod, although Wicket was able to use the rod as a crutch to relieve his injured ankle. The Ewoks soon discovered the ship of the foonar-capturing invaders, and Wicket quickly climbed up the outside of the ship and observed the goings on inside. But the ship's thin viewport was not only unable to block sound waves, but it also could not withstand the weight of a small Ewok, for Wicket shattered the window and fell though it and into the ship. After a quick skirmish with the aliens, Wicket was able to escape through the window from which he came. The aliens decided that one Ewok was no threat to them, but they had underestimated Wicket Warrick. He knew all about the aliens' plans to utilize the foonars to power their "harvester" to cut down the trees of the forest. Wicket and Kneesaa wasted no time in hijacking the harvester machine, and Wicket demonstrated his technological prowess by engaging the blade and pointing the machine towards the invaders' own ship. As the aliens fled the moon, Dooni's mother destroyed the harvester and was reunited with her child, and Wicket's heroism was celebrated once again.^[20]

[edit] The sorcerer's apprentice

During one winter season, Wicket spent much of his time at Logray's hut. One night, he asked Logray if he would take Wicket on as an apprentice so that he could one day become a medicine man. But Logray dismissed the idea, for he didn't feel that Wicket was ready for such things. Later in the night, Wicket passed by the hut of his friend Latara and saw Logray rushing in. Wicket learned that Latara was ill, and he overheard Logray and Warok saying that they needed a fuzzynettle plant to make more medicine for her, although they would wait until the next morning to retrieve it. Knowing exactly where the fuzzynettles grew on the far side of the forest, Wicket retrieved Baga, the bordok he had trained, and headed out into the frozen forest, the stars as his guide. Wicket found the fuzzynettles and returned to the village with the plants the next morning at dawn. Logray used the plants to create a healing powder, giving Latara a quick recovery. Logray decided that Wicket was indeed very brave and that he would make a good medicine man, so the next day, he began to teach Wicket as his apprentice.^[16]

One day, as Wicket began to learn Logray's magic, he once stole the sorcerer's staff to show off to his friends. Unbeknownst to Wicket, the Ice Demon Stagorr was watching the young Ewoks via his magical ice mirror. Stagorr tricked Wicket into summoning an a wind tunnel from Ice Mountain and inadvertently transporting himself into the heart of the mountain. There Wicket learned that Stagorr intended to steal Logray's staff to seek revenge on the sorcerer who confined him to the palace of ice long ago. Stagorr put Wicket under a spell and sent him to use Logray's own staff as a weapon against him. While the spell took over Wicket's body, his mind remained intact, and he was able to warn Logray when he arrived at Ice Mountain. His plan failing, Stagorr reclaimed the staff from Wicket and prepared to battle Logray again. But with some help from Logray, Wicket was able to recall some magic his master had taught him before. He used fire crystals to melt a portion of the icy ceiling onto the Ice Demon; the water hit Stagorr and froze on contact, trapping him by his own power. On their journey home, Wicket apologized to Logray for stealing his staff and decided not to pursue studying sorcery.^[21]

[edit] A tale of Sorrow

Taking a break from harvesting honey melons, Wicket and Kneesaa decided to take a dip in their favorite swimming hole while Teebo opted to wander off and write poetry. Ready to head back to the village after their swim, Wicket and Kneesaa looked for Teebo, but were unable to find him. This was particularly upsetting, since they had to carry back Teebo's basket of melons in addition to their own. They found Teebo soon enough when the aspiring poet bowled a honey melon at them, spilling all their baskets and knocking the Ewoks over. Wicket determined that Teebo was under a spell and hurried off to the village for the sake of his friend. Wicket found Teebo in the Council Hut, already affecting the elders with his spatially contagious spell. Even Wicket was affected when he tried to stop Teebo. Then Logray told of a possible cure: a being at the top of Mount Sorrow whose tears could reverse the spell. Wicket and Kneesaa did not give it a second thought; they took Teebo and headed to the top of the mountain. Once there, Wicket humbly approached the being, who was in fact the tip of the mountain itself, and began to plead for some tears for his friend. But when Teebo approached, his spell began to affect the mountain, who became offended and exhaled a wind which would blow Wicket and Kneesaa of the mountain and to their doom. But Teebo grabbed a rope and saved the lives of his friends. When Teebo told the two that he would rather live with the spell for the rest of his life than risk losing his closest friends again, Mount Sorrow was so moved that he wept for Teebo and cried him a plethora of healing tears.^[22]

[edit] The rise of Morag

As if their mountaintop wind-blown flight was not enough, Wicket and Kneesaa were soon blown about the air in their own village in a storm summoned by Morag, the Tulgah witch who was once the slave master of Logray. And it was Logray who saved the two Ewoks from again nearly falling to their demise. Then Morag created a sort of Force-apparition of herself and spoke to the Ewoks while her thieves sneaked into the village and stole the crystal eye of the kreegon, a beast which Chirpa's father has slain many years before. With the eye in her possession, Morag had the power to bring the beast back to life; it was for this reason Chirpa chose to journey to Morag's lair at Mount Thunderstone to try and stop her. After his departure, Logray's crystal image spinner revealed that Morag was already resurrecting the kreegon beast. Kneesaa decided to go after her father, and Wicket insisted on joining her.^[23]

As they journeyed to Mount Thunderstorm, Wicket spotted the chief's bordok and became concerned that Chirpa was no where near. They feared even more when they say a path of cleared trees leading back toward their village. When they reached the mountain, they found Chirpa and freed him for Morag's restraints. Heading back to the village with the kreegon hot on their trail, Wicket proposed that the Ewoks make a stand against the beast. Though their attempt to kill the beast in the molten sulfur pits did not go as planned, they were able to fool Morag into using her own magic to bring down the beast. Although her plot was foiled, this would not be the last time Morag would threaten Wicket and his village.^[23]

[edit] The magnificent duo

Out on a sailing trip across Sunshine Lake, Wicket and Teebo searched for pearls in the water. Wicket spotted a flying dragon bird, and felt that it was surely a bad omen. As Teebo return from a dive with a rare blue pearl, Wicket's fears were realized when the two were attack by a devil serpent and forced from their boat and into waters. When Teebo never surfaced, Wicket swam underwater to find his unconscious friend, but Wicket also blacked out before he reached Teebo. They would have likely perished, had they not been retrieved by an Underwater Dweller and taken to their Underwater Kingdom. Back to a conscious state, Wicket and Teebo met Squik and the others of his species. The Ewoks were taken aback by the plethora of pearls among the dwellers' kingdom. The pearls, the Ewoks learned, were the primary food source for the creatures, and it was their prized red pearl which gave off a glowing light that caused the other pearls to grow. The dwellers kept this red pearl hidden, and the Ewoks soon saw firsthand just why: Orcon, an underwater dweller roughly twice the size of the others, arrived mounted upon his devil serpent to steal food pearls, as he often did. Wicket and Teebo, unafraid of Orcon, stood up to the so-called "evil tyrant" but ended up only further enraging the bandit and causing him to unleash the wrath of his devil serpent via his controlling trident. Orcon then discovered the red pearl and, believing it would make him invincible, stole it and fled the cave.^[24]

Unwilling to accept such an injustice, especially one for which he felt responsible, Wicket devised a plan to take back the pearl from Orcon. Intending to travel underwater, Wicket found a nearby patch of bubble plants which produced hard, spherical "bubbles" which were conveniently just big enough to encase the head of a young Ewok and provide a small air supply but not so large that would let in any water around the neck. Donning their newfound natural scuba gear, Wicket and Teebo set off on a pair of water wallocks to Orcon's stronghold, their new friend Squik accompanying them. As the squeaked past the sleeping devil serpent, they entered Orcon's lair. With a quick attack, the trio retrieved the pearl from Orcon, but he soon grabbed his trident and summoned the devil beast. Wicket then was able to outsmart Orcon and take his trident, turning Orcon's own creature against him. However, the red pearl, which was used as a decoy in their counterattack, was destroyed in the process. This caused Wicket to feel remorse, but all was soon made well: on their way back to the underwater dwelling, Teebo found the blue pearl he had discovered when the whole incident began. He gave to the dweller, who discovered that it was even more powerful than the red pearl they had before.^[24]

[edit] Star Child and the Dulok treaty

The morning of the day upon which the Ewoks were to seal a peace treaty with their longtime foes the Duloks, Wicket spotted a blazing object falling from the sky. He and Kneesaa followed Chirpa into Logray's hut, where the shaman read from his fortune stones that the blinding light was a sign of good fortune for that special day. Wicket was among the party who ventured to the swamp where the object had crashed. The other Ewoks began to flee when the object, an escape pod, started to move, but Wicket stayed behind when the alien "Star Child" emerged from the pod. The then delighted Ewoks fed the child honey and began to take him back to their village.^[25]

However, when Wicket and Kneesaa heard a strange sound, they returned to the crash site and saw two droids, C-3PO and R2-D2, which they assumed were demons. When the droids pursued them, the Ewoks ran, but in his haste Wicket tripped the wire of a Dulok trap, bringing down a boulder large enough to crush both the Ewoks and the droids.^[25] The group was saved, however, when R2-D2 extended his third tread to stand on and used his other two legs to catch the boulder over their heads and toss it aside. When C-3PO explained to Wicket and Kneesaa in their own language that their "Star Child," Prince Plooz, was not a good omen for the Ewok/Dulok treaty but rather a rebellious prince and the key to preventing war between Sooma and Alzar, Wicket surmised that the trap they had just escaped meant the Duloks were not actually sincere about the proposed peace treaty.^[26]

Wicket and the others returned to Bright Tree Village warn the tribe, only to learn that the Peace Council had already left with Prince Plooz to meet with the Duloks. By the time Wicket, Kneesaa, and the droids reached the bridge where the two parties were to meet, Gorneesh, the Dulok king, had already kidnapped young Plooz and was having his men sever the ropes of the bridge while the Ewoks where still on it. However, when Ibleam's light shone on the highly-reflective C-3PO and the Duloks saw him approaching, they feared he was a glowing Ewok demon, so they abandoned their attack. Wicket then realized that it was C-3PO who was the figure of Logray's prophecy, not the Star Child as they had previously thought.^[26]

When young Plooz attempted to cross the unstable bridge, Wicket, knowing the child would never make it across, grabbed the end of a rope supplied by the ever-resourceful R2-D2, tied it around his waist, and jumped off the cliff, grabbing hold of the child just in time. After the astromech reeled the two back up to solid ground, Wicket and the Ewoks escorted Plooz and the droids back to their starship so that they could return to their own place and time to settle the Alzarian/Sooman conflict.^[26]

[edit] Little help for the Fleebogs

When Princess Kneesaa was shrunken by a damsel flower and captured by the diminutive Fleebogs, Wicket and Teebo volunteered to have Logray shrink them as well so that they could go rescue Kneesaa and restore her size with growing powder. Once inside the Fleebogs' underground tunnels, the Ewoks encountered a web-slinging ra-lugg which almost captured Wicket, but ended up with only their bag of growing powder. The Fleebogs saved the scouts by flooding a section of the tunnel with water.^[27]

Once they met up with Kneesaa, the scouts learned that reason the Fleebogs had brought Ewoks to the tunnels was so that they could defeat the ra-lugg. Moments later, the ra-lugg entered and used its webbing to capture Teebo. The group then went to the ra-lugg's lair; Wicket struggled with the ra-lugg while Kneesaa retrieved the growing powder. After she used the powder against the ra-lugg, the Ewoks all inhaled it themselves and were restored to their normal size.^[27]

[edit] Morag's thorn monster

When the shaman Logray chose to take a short vacation, Wicket and Kneesaa helped him carry his things to his vacation spot and volunteered to take care of his herb garden back home. Wicket struggled with the gardening, claiming he was "a scout, not a farmer!" While Kneesaa warned him about over-watering the plants, Wicket spotted a flash of light from up in the tree huts. Once the duo reached the village, they saw that the witch Morag had come to destroy the Ewoks; she made a glowing thorn bush sprout from the ground which would grow stronger by drawing up all of the moisture from the ground, eventually killing the forest.^[28]

As Wicket and Kneesaa went to get Logray back to the village, they ran into Morag's beast. First, Wicket slowed the beast by pouring a large jar of honey over it, and then they used vines to tie it to a tree. They finally reached the shaman, but unable to escape from Morag's spell, Logray sent his staff with Wicket so that he might stop the growing thorn bush. Along the way, Wicket used the staff to freeze Morag's fang-faced beast in midair. When they reached the plant, Wicket tried to stop it with Logray's staff, but it was no use; Morag had transformed the plant into a giant walking thorn monster.^[28]

As the Ewoks fled, Wicket came up with a way to stop the monster. They headed toward the lake near the hot springs and jumped in for a swim. When the beast followed them into the water, it began expanding so rapidly that it finally exploded, causing a rain fall over the forest.^[28]

[edit] Slave

When Teebo was picked by lottery to lead the tribe for a day, while Chief Chirpa and Logray paid a visit to the Spirit Tree, it wasn't long before the young scout had caused trouble and turned many of the villagers against him. After he fled the scene on his hang-glider, an alien from another world called Captain Zornak transported to Bright Tree Village and presented Wicket and Kneesaa with "gifts"—necklaces bearing "stones of obedience" that overtook the wearer's mind forced them to blindly bend to Zornak's will. The offworlder then used Wicket and Kneesaa to enslave the entire village of Ewoks; Zornak forced them all to collect gems from the Crystal Valley and load them onto his spaceship.^[29]

Teebo, meanwhile, had spotted Zornak's probe and followed it to the valley. When he was spotted by one of Zornak's men, the alien captain sent Wicket off into the woods with a weapon to capture Teebo. Wicket blindly obeyed, but Teebo outsmarted him and was able to stop his friend and remove his necklace. The two then returned to the alien ship, where Teebo tricked the alien captain and had Wicket place the necklace around Zornak's own neck, and then ordered him to free the Ewoks and to leave Endor immediately. Glad to see the slavers go, Wicket and Teebo returned with the Ewoks back to the village, where Teebo was heralded as a hero.^[29]

[edit] Preparing for the Wistie Fest

Spirits were high in Bright Tree Village the day before the Festival of the Wisties. While Logray prepared for the event, Wicket and Kneesaa volunteered to help him find the things he needed. First, Wicket went out on his own, with a basket in hand, to find fungus from a brillibab tree trunk to aid the burning on the bonfire. Then, he and Kneesaa made their way up a tree to take a pink feather from a lantern bird for Chirpa's ceremonial headdress—but only after asking the bird and stroking its wing thrice. While Kneesaa retrieved items such as the gwanda gourd, Wicket found some ripe rainbow berries for the Wistie Fest pie.^[30]

The night of the festival, Wicket rattled the gwanda gourd and partied with the Wisties around the bonfire. Since Chief Chirpa was so thrilled and the success of the event, Logray made sure Wicket and Kneesaa received credit for their part in the preparations.^[30]

[edit] Hallowe'en

Wicket and Teebo dressed up as ghosts for Bright Tree Village's annual Hallowe'en party. When a hanadak showed up at the party, Wicket rallied the Ewoks and led a charge against the creature. When that failed, Wicket, Teebo, and Kneesaa gathered blue dlock leaves and threw them on the hanadak, causing it to fall fast asleep. While the party continued, the trio went to the harvest store to look for Chief Chirpa, who was supposed to be bringing food for the party. Once they realized Chirpa had been kidnapped by Duloks, they went to the Dulok camp and found the chief tied to a tree. Wicket cut Chirpa free, and after the chief took care of his Dulok captors, the Ewoks returned to their Hallowe'een party and had a great feast.^[31]

[edit] Kradak attack

To cool off from the Sun Season's heat, Wicket and Teebo headed for the dam high above Bright Tree Village. However, as the neared the dam, they began treading mud and soon heard a loud crash as the dam broke. Assuming it was a Dulok trap, the duo rode to the village on the back of a snarlf horse. While the woodsman Chukha-Trok found a way to stop the water from flooding the village, a giant kradak burst through the forest floor from its underground cavern and began destroying the village. After Logray was incapacitated, Wicket and Teebo followed Kneesaa into the shaman's hut while she prepared a liquid sleeping potion. But when Kneesaa had an accident on her way to deliver the potion, Wicket was quick to point out that since she had spilled the potion onto the Ewoks below, the three of them were now the only ones left to deal with the kradak. Kneesaa's second potion attempt was more successful: a shrinking potion which transformed the kradak to a height of mere centimeters. After Wicket congratulated Kneesaa, the two confined the small creature to a cage. Wicket then proposed that they repossess the kradak's home, divert water from the makeshift breakwater, and turn the cavern into a swimming pool for the Ewoks' personal use.^[32]

[edit] Climbing the Mountain of Doom

The Season of Snow was a joyous time when the Ewoks would play in the snow. However, this season began with tragedy for Wicket: while he and Teebo were making a slide, Kneesaa was bitten by an ice-beetle and later paralyzed inside an icy-crystal tomb. Wicket, Teebo, and Chirpa wept at Kneesaa's side while Logray researched to find a cure for the princess. Logray discovered one in the juice of a fire plant which could only be found at the deadly Mountain of Doom. Since Chirpa was unable to spare any of his men, Wicket volunteered himself and Teebo to go to the dangerous mountain.^[33]

Several days later, Wicket and Teebo arrived at the base of the Mountain of Doom by way of hang gliders. Ice-clamps attached to their feet, the duo scaled the mountain. A near-deadly run-in with a dragon-bird forced them into a crevasse in the mountain which turned out to be the entrance to a cave. After a while, they ended up in the throne room of the Frost Giants. While Teebo wanted to stay and eat, Wicket insisted that they keep moving, since the Frost Giants were unlikely to have the fire plant they were looking for. But to the Ewoks' dismay, the Frost Giants arrived. One of them scooped up Wicket into his hand, threatening to breathe on the "trespasser," which Wicket knew would mean he would be turned into a block of ice.^[33]

A glimmer of hope appeared for Wicket with the return of the fire-breathing dragon-bird—an obvious threat to the Frost Giants. Wicket had the frosty mammoths build a wall of ice at the entrance to the lofty cave, and while Wicket baited the bird with his own life, the giants pushed the ice down to smother the bird, sending it to its demise. Teebo feared Wicket had perished as well, but he had in fact managed to escape the avalanche. The indebted Frost Giants then showed the Ewoks the where to find the fire plant. Once back at the village, Kneesaa was freed from her frozen restraints. Wicket modestly denied the trouble of his journey, for he was pleased to have his friend back.^[33]

[edit] Other adventures

Wicket's childhood was filled with many other adventures, such as the event involving the "magic" sunberries.^[34] On another occasion, in the spring, Wicket planned to spend the day trout-fishing alone with his new fishing rod; his plans were dashed, however, when his mother insisted he take his baby sister Winda along. After the wokling freed Wicket's bait worms, ate his lunch, and drove him into a bush of poison ivy after his fishing rod, Wicket was fed up. They returned to the village, where Wicket visited Logray for a cure to his ivy-induced itch, but the shaman added an extra ingredient to the potion he gave. Wicket went into a deep sleep and dreamed of the time when he was a wokling on a fishing trip with his older brother, Weechee. Wicket recalled how he had felt on that day, and when he woke up, he rushed to his sister to apologize for his behavior, and he asked he to go fishing with him the next day.^[4] For another annual celebration, Wicket—along with Teebo, Malani, Weechee, and other Ewoks—participated in a raft race along the river rapids of the underground caves of Endor. When Weechee didn't cross the finish line with the others, Wicket's other brother Willy, with an uncharacteristic burst of courage, went back rescued Weechee. That night, Chief Chirpa awarded Wicket and the other participants with shell medallions.^[35]

[edit] Becoming a warrior

[edit] The skills test

When all the young Ewoks took their skills tests, Wicket vigorously prepared so that he could become a warrior, testing himself in archery, the pole-vault, vine-swinging, and other feats. But since Wicket still felt very nervous, Teebo presented him with a Luck Sprite to help him out. However, when Wicket took his tests, he failed every one. Chief Chirpa told Wicket that he could retake the test someday, but that in the mean time, his results only showed that he was fit to be an assistant bordok stable sweeper.^[36]

Wicket resigned himself to his new profession, giving up on becoming a warrior, even though his friends told him that they he had failed on because the Luck Sprite only gave bad luck. His friends even tried to stage a fake dilemma by tying Latara up underneath a bridge. When she called for a warrior, Wicket wasn't even able to help her out. As he headed to the Cavern of Broken Dreams, his friends followed. But before they could get into the cave, the sprite of bad luck showed up, and Kneesaa found herself caught in the web of a giant spider-creature. Wicket came out of the cave and, with his rope and his broom, saved Kneesaa and stopped the sprite, something not even the greatest of Ewok warriors had ever done before. The next day, Wicket retook his warrior's test and passed with flying colors.^[36]

[edit] Morag strikes back

Morag continued to be a threat to Wicket's village. When Wicket, Teebo, and Paploo were caught playing the forbidden game of drop the sack, they were punished by being forced to clean up the forest floor. When a cursed Wistie, under a spell by Morag, started a fire where the three were working, they were again accused of wrongdoing, despite not truly being to blame. As a result, they were briefly exiled out of the village under the care of Wicket's older brothers. That night, all three punished Ewoks shared a dream in which the Soul Trees were aflame. When they woke up, they realized that the nightmare was real and that the trees had been communicating their plight to them. The trio interrupted the Festival of Hoods to notify the elders of the fire. Although they were initially disbelieved again by the Elders, the combination of his brothers' and the cured Queen Izrina's supporting testimony and the younger Ewoks' sensing of the Tree's distress convinced them otherwise. Wicket later helped save the trees by implementing his of dousing them with Logray's magic foam as he and his friends flew over them on their hang gliders. As a result of his bravery and ingenuity, the punishment was revoked for all.^[37]

Again out picking sunberries, Wicket saved Kneesaa from the grip of a mantigrue which they later learned was on a mission from Morag to steal their sunberry trees. Although Wicket wanted to help the Ewoks with their plan to turn the trees invisible by way of shadowroot soap, he was instead given babysitting duty, a job which included taking woklings to their baths. Some Duloks watching nearby then conceived of a plot to steal the Ewoks' bathing soap to rid themselves of their bug problem. Upon his return to the village, Wicket found that many of the trees were invisible, but since Logray had forgotten about those near the river, Wicket and some others volunteered to coat them with shadowroot soap.^[38]

When the Duloks stole soap from Bright Tree, they got rid of more than just bugs, for they had taken the shadowroot soap by accident. While the Ewoks were covering the trees by the river, Wicket sensed an enemy presence when the Duloks approached, but did not see any trouble. He returned to the village to report that they had not gotten every tree covered, and learned of the Duloks' scheme upon conferring with Logray. The shaman later had Wicket and his friends go out and gather bugs. Then, Wicket was sent on a mission to sneak among the Duloks and replace their soap with a new one made by Logray that would attract bugs. While Wicket was found by King Gorneesh, he eventually succeeded in swapping the soap.^[38]

However, after the Duloks were dealt with, Wicket realized he had dropped the magic soap into a puddle. After regretting that he had failed his tribe, he thought of a solution. He bagged up a portion of the puddle and sprinkled the liquid over the remaining visible bushes while he swung from a vine. The mantigrue returned to the village, but it left when it did not see any sunberries. To honor Wicket's "cleverness and courage," Chief Chirpa declared the day a holiday.^[38]

[edit] Return of the Phlogs

Kneesaa and Latara were the first to spot the return of the Phlogs to the Ewoks' land. When Kneesaa recounted the tale to the Council of Elders, Wicket observed carefully. But at the same time, Teebo's younger sister Malani began expressing a romantic interest in Wicket, but it was not reciprocated considering she annoyed him while expressing it. Later, with his friends, Wicket mocked Malani and made clear his lack of interest in her, but young Malani overheard from nearby and became deeply hurt. As Wicket and his friends continued to play, a small munyip communicated to Teebo about Malani, and that she had run off into the forest. Now concerned, Wicket and his friend went off to find her. What they found instead were the Phlogs, and they made their escape off a cliff and into a river, after which they heading back to the village to warn the Ewoks that the Phlogs were on a rampage. When Wicket and Teebo finally found Malani, she had discovered Nahkee, a Phlog child who was also alone in the forest. Nahkee then smelled the cooking of the nearby Dulok village and dragged the three Ewoks long with him as he ran to the Dulok hideout. Nahkee, it turned out, was merely a pawn in elaborate plot by Morag and the Duloks. The Ewoks, now held captive by King Gorneesh, plotted their escape, and Wicket apologized to Malani for hurting her feelings. The Ewoks then succeeded in fleeing the Duloks and were able to reunite Nahkee with his parents, thereby foiling the Duloks' plot and having them suffer Morag's wrath.^[39]

[edit] Saving Deej

Out on a group fishing trip, Wicket wandered off into the woods when it seemed no fish would be caught. There Wicket met Mring-Mring, a friendly Gupin. Meanwhile, back at the river, Deej and the other Ewoks all struggled to pull in the huge fish Deej had hooked. They called Wicket back to assist them, and the Ewoks all soon fell back as the fish got away. Deej fell harder than the others and cut his arm on a deadly Ronka tree fungus. Weechee made Wicket feel guilty for not being around when their father needed them. The Ewoks took Deej to the medicine man Logray who sent the Warrick brothers off to find the ingredients needed for their father's cure.^[40]

The brothers split up and Wicket went to the land of the Dandelion Warriors to find a starred urchin. There he found and rescued Mring-Mring, who had been captured by the Dandelion Warriors while he was looking for the urchin. The two then evaded the warriors and found the urchin they were looking for. Upon returning to the village, Teebo told Wicket that his two brothers had not returned. They then went and recovered Willy from the lantern bird's nest and Weechee from the outside the frosch cave. When the group got pinned up on a hill and surrounded by hungry frosch, the shapeshifting Gupin turned into a giant flying creature and flew the Ewoks back to the Warrick hut. Wicket and his family waited around Deej while Logray concocted the healing potion. He then brought Deej back to health, much to the Warrick family's delight.^[40]

[edit] Traveling with the Jindas

Wicket and his friends were going to look at Paploo's new raft, they invited Latara to join them, but Latara was not allowed to since her parents had been making her clean up their hut. When the traveling Jindas came to town, Chief Chirpa allowed them to stay at Bright Tree Village and perform their show, which Wicket and the Ewoks all watched and enjoyed. The next day, Latara decided to stow away with the Jinda travelers and hone her flute skills, and she made Wicket, Kneesaa, and Teebo swear not to tell anyone where she had gone. But the elder Ewoks did learn of Latara's disappearance, and fearing the worst, Wicket decided that they would go find her. Logray gave the young Ewoks a magic seed for use in an emergency and sent them on their way.^[41]

Wicket followed the Jindas' path by finding scarves and things they'd left behind, and helped save Kneesaa from a close call on a rickety bridge. They found the Jindas just as a pair of Duloks were kidnapping Latara so that she could babysit the Dulok children. Rather than follow the Duloks, Wicket decided that they should disguise themselves as and perform with the Jindas in a show for the Duloks. When the plan didn't go quite as expected and their cover was blown, the ran and were pursued by the Duloks. When Kneesaa got stuck in the swamp and the Duloks close in, Wicket stopped the Duloks in their tracks by taking the magic seed Logray had given them and throwing it into the water, causing a giant tentacled creature to emerge from the waters and grab the Duloks. Wicket and his friends, Latara included, later returned to the village after the Jindas went on their way.^[41]

[edit] Restoring the Tree of Light

Wicket was once again disappointed when he was left behind on a duty reserved for older Ewoks: delivering the sacred dust to the Tree of Light to preserve its strength, for its demise would surely empower the Night Spirit. However, Wicket refused to stay behind for long and decided to trail the elder Ewok party, which consisted of Willy, Weechee, Paploo, and Teebo. While at first, in a cave, Wicket was mistaken as a ghost, he later saved the Ewok party from certain failure when he retrieved their lantern, a magical gift from Logray which would always lead them in the right direction. Wicket then convinced Weechee to take him on in their caravan.^[42]

When the time came to pass through the Arbo Maze, Weechee passed the lantern off to Wicket and insisted on leading the way himself. Despite wandering aimlessly for hours, Weechee refused to listen to Wicket's suggestions to simply follow the lantern. It wasn't until after the party ran into Kneesaa and Latara that the group decided let Wicket lead the way. When the Ewoks began crossing the Valley of Floating Trees, they were soon pursued by King Gorneesh and the Duloks. When they reached the Mountain of Light, Wicket and Kneesaa engaged in a skirmish with the Duloks, but the Ewoks prevailed when Wicket deposited the sacred dust at the base of the Tree of Light, restoring the tree to its full strength. Upon their return to the village, all seven Ewoks were rewarded with Silver Feathers of Bravery.^[42]

[edit] The lucky rock

As the winter seasoned neared, Wicket and his friends were sent off to barter for goods with the trader Mooth. Since Chirpa had warned not to waste the village's surplus on anything "foolish," Wicket had personally collected and polished a bag of monmon seeds to trade for his something of his own. Although the other Ewoks each had their own ideas as to what he should get, Wicket decided to trade for a "lucky" stone, which he gave to Kneesaa, since she was the only other one in the group who liked it.^[43]

The Ewoks soon found themselves short of luck when a group of Scandits separated them from the wagon of goods and imprisoned them. However, when the Traveling Jindas passed through and learned that their onetime member Latara was in trouble, the Jindas put on a show for the Scandits and helped the Ewoks escape. Wicket led the Ewoks under a snake-like costume which seemed to scare the Scandits. Aware of their fear, Wicket decided to have some fun with them and paraded the Ewoks around on the Jinda stage—a bad idea, as it turned out. The Ewoks fell out of formation and the giant costume ripped apart. Their cover blown, the Ewoks and the Jindas fled to Bright Tree Village.^[43]

Paploo and Weechee continued to deride Wicket about his lucky stone while Logray helped rid the Jindas of the Rock Wizard's curse which forced them to always be on the move. The Rock Wizard himself then showed up at the village in a destructive rage, but he was stopped when he saw Princess Kneesaa wearing her lucky stone—his missing tooth. Once his tooth was back in place, the Wizard was back to his jolly old self, and he called off the Jindas' curse. Wicket then reminded Paploo and Weechee of their comments about the "stupid little rock."^[43]

[edit] Friend of the Gupins

In an effort to return the favor to Mring-Mring for helping save Deej, Wicket pledged to aid Mring-Mring in his mission to open the Juniper Chest which would renew the Gupins' flying and shapeshifting powers so that they could keep the Grass Trekkers away. The party traveled the waters by canoe and through the Endorian Grasslands on the backs of Makants; all the while Wicket stayed true to his cause and ensured Mring-Mring that he had the power to save his people. Once they reached the Gupin stronghold, Wicket helped blockade the doors to keep out the Grass Trekkers. Mring-Mring succeeded in opening the chest, restoring the powers of his people, and taking the throne as their new king. That night, Wicket and the Ewoks were honored guests at the Gupin celebration.^[44]

[edit] Morag's end

Just as Wicket had before, Teebo became the apprentice of the shaman Logray. Curious to see what kind of magic their friend was up to, Wicket, Kneesaa, and Latara spied on Teebo one day, only to learn that Logray had him doing household chores rather than magic spells. Wicket and the others derided Teebo, so in an effort to prove his sorcerer's ways, Teebo took the group out into the forest to show off his magic. But Teebo's tricks failed, and Wicket ridiculed him even more.^[45]

As the Ewoks left Teebo, Wicket heard the sound of a woman singing, and they traced the voice back to a beautiful felinoid in a glistening cave. But all was not as it seemed, for the graceful creature then turned into a familiar old Tulgah and the shining cave turned dark; the Ewoks had walked into Morag's trap.^[45]

Just as Morag had planned, Logray went to rescue the now enslaved young Ewoks, bringing the sunstar along with him. Morag increased her power by joining the sunstar with her shadowstone. She then used her volcanic lair to transform herself into a gigantic lava creature. Wicket and the others watched while she and Logray battled, but the Ewoks prevailed when Logray summoned a gusher of water and turned Morag into stone, thereby ending the threat which had haunted Bright Tree Village for so many years.^[45]

[edit] Rebuilding Erpham's battlewagon

Seeking shelter from a storm while in the woods one day, Wicket and his brothers found their way into an old battlewagon. The brothers soon learned from Mistress Kaink that the wagon was built many years before by their own great-grandfather, Erpham Warrick, and was used to defeat the Duloks. Wicket decided to rebuild the wagon; he obtained Erpham's original construction plans from Kaink, but when he asked his friends and brothers to help him, the only person who seemed truly interested was Malani.^[46]

Over a period of weeks, Wicket, Malani, and Baga worked diligently to restore the battlewagon to its original glory. However, the Ewoks were unaware that the Duloks had been observing the reconstruction. On the day the battlewagon was completed, while Wicket took a nap inside, the Duloks made their move and commandeered the wagon. Wicket was able to escape, but his wagon was gone.^[46]

That night, Wicket sounded the village drum and awoke the Ewoks from their beds to tell them of the Duloks' thievery. But the villagers did not share Wicket's concern, not even Chief Chirpa. Only Kneesaa was sympathetic for Wicket's loss. While the Duloks plotted their new attack on the Ewoks, the heavy-hearted Wicket visited the soul tree of his great-grandfather. There, Erpham's spirit spoke to Wicket, telling him how the Ewoks had made fun of him when he first built the wagon, but that it later proved its worth by helping them defeat the Duloks.^[46]

With his great-grandfather's encouragement, Wicket chose to go after the Duloks. After he overheard their plot to destroy the soul trees, Wicket disguised himself as the old Dulok Murgoob and tricked the Duloks into driving the wagon into the water. But his cover was blown when the real Murgood showed up; Wicket was held captive on the wagon as the Duloks led their attack. When they reached the soul trees, Malani and Baga came to Wicket's rescue. The two Ewoks kicked off Duloks until only King Gornesh and his wife remained onboard. Gorneesh tried Wicket's courage, but Wicket bested the king by pulling the main support peg, causing the wagon to collapse before it reached the soul trees.^[46]

The Ewoks later rebuilt the battlewagon for Wicket in appreciation of his courage.^[46]

[edit] Troming the stranglethorn

As Wicket and his friends partied at an afternoon dance, Kneesaa left her chieftess-to-be training lesson at Logray's hut to join