The Secret Saturdays . Ep. 1 ( Av? The Flame Headed Boy?)
4:34 P.M
Amazon River
A Flashlight-frog sat on a decaying log. The sun casts it's shadow onto the rushing water, Then it suddenly leapt as branches and twigs snapped behind it. A foot stepped down onto the log where the frog had been. A young boy, dressed in pricey clothes, stood there with a glass jar in his hand. He smirked as the frog swam to the middle of the river and pulled itself onto a rock. "Oh, you seriously don't think you'll be able to escape that easily, do you?" The child directed at the frog. He quickly ran his fingers through his hair. The sun caught the beautiful golden locks, and fiery red highlights. And the boy took pride in them, clearly... it was natural.
Suddenly he jumped into the air and the wings of a jet pack unfolded. He hovered there in silence for a while. "Once I catch you, I can treat myself to a little fun." He jetted forward and over the shallow , yet strong waters of the river. Jar wide open in his palm, and then in one fluid motion... the boy scooped up the small frog and closed the lid. The flame headed child held the jar close up to his face smiling at accomplishing this simple task. Like a small child, he tapped the glass making the frog jump and flash on and off. "Now~ here comes the fun part." He snickered and jetted off over the jungle.
4:56 P.M
Amazon Jungle
A ball of mud flew through the air and missed a blur of someone, hitting a tree. The mud 'catapult-tee' laughed. "Watch out Fisk", he then faked a deep 'scary' voice," or the mud-slinger will plant one right in your face!" Suddenly the culprit fell face first into a huge pile of mud. Fiskerton laughed from behind. Zak sat up covered in mud and looked up at Fisk, "It's not nice to push people ..."
Doyle stood leaning on a tree nearby watching Fiskerton and Zak in their mud-ball fight. "Mud-slinger? Is that really~ the best you can come up with?" , he smile was almost a smirk. "Hey, I had to come up with something quickly. It was at short notice!" Zak returned as Fiskerton helped him up.
Drew walked into the clearing holding a map close to her face. "Did you find the right trail mom?" asked Zak innocently. Drew looked down from her map then frowned when she saw both Fiskerton and Zak covered head-to-toe in mud. "Well, no. But Doc just found a recent case of the Hell-hounds we where looking for in the first place, so~. The two he talked to say that two large dogs set fire to their huts and ran. Strange, Hell-hounds aren't common in this country."
Komodo , which was hanging around Drew's legs , opened his mouth wide as he saw a far off light in the distance flickering off and on. "Hell-hounds? That sounds arousing." said Doyle. "Is it true that if you see a Hell-hound 3 times you die shortly after?" Zak said curiously. Drew slightly laughed, "No. If it was, me and your father would have both died a long time ago." Komodo moved closer to the light in the bushes far off.
"Now you two quickly clean off ; your father, Doyle, and I will be waiting inside the airship." called Drew as she was walking across the clearing to the airship, which was slightly splattered with mud in some areas. "Doyle?", Doyle questioned Drew. "Yes, and Doyle!" Drew yelled to him as she boarded the airship. Doyle shrugged and boarded onto the airship. Zak looked at Fiskerton, "how are we supposed to clean off? Mom didn't give us anything to clean up with!" Fiskerton then jumped over Zak landing into a huge,deep puddle of water near the mud piles. The splash made by Fisk covered Zak completely. Soaking , but cleaning, both. Zak frowned as he spat out a squirt of muddy water, and Fiskerton chuckled.
Doc emerged from the forest into the clearing, looking at both Zak and Fiskerton covered in mud-water. "I don't even want to ask." he said as he continued to the airship. Inside the aircraft, Drew leaned against the kitchen counter. And Doyle stood there with his arms crossed as Doc walked to them. "so, what's going on? Why does your conversation concern me?" Doyle started. "Well," started Drew as Doc continued," Besides all the fire warnings , there is a report of a shady youth running around in the jungle. We didn't want Zak to hear about this, then running off to hunt this kid down. We just wanted you to keep your eyes open."
"A 'shady youth?' is what your all worked up about? Hell, we've all seen things scarier than something like that." Doyle sounded a bit annoyed .
Back outside, at the corner of Zak's eye. He spotted Komodo's tail slip into the bush. Zak started to follow in the direction Komodo went as Fiskerton placed his hand on Zak's shoulder, making him stop. "What?" Zak said. Fiskerton made a whimpering noise and pulled Zak back a bit. "what are you afraid of, Fisk? I'm only following Komodo." The sound of Komodo's struggling growls reached Zak and Fiskerton. They both looked at each other and went into the bushes.
There Komodo was; growling as he tried to stuff a jar, with a light inside it, into his mouth. "Komodo~." Zak whined as he walked over and pulled the jar out of his mouth. Zak wiped off the saliva with his sleeve, and looked through the glass of the jar. A angry Flashlight-frog stared back at Zak, " Huh? Why are you trapped in a jar?" As Zak was in the middle of un-capping the jar, from two directions, came two low canine growls. Fiskerton and Zak stood back-to-back , and Komodo stood in a defensive stance near both of their feet. Two large Hell-hounds sprang from the bushes! One growling at Zak, the other snarling at Fiskerton.
Zak was thinking, " Oh man! Only if I had the claw with me! Wait... It's not like I could use it to it's full use. I don't have my cryptid powers anymore..." The Hell-hound facing Zak spit fire at him, but it was weak and effortless. The flame was put out by the wind before it reached Zak's face. Both Fiskerton and Zak yelled for help as the two hounds pressed closer onto them. Zak and Fiskerton then hugged each other tight as both Hell-hounds then gave off huge flames at them, but the dogs missed on purpose. They seemed to enjoy Zak, Fiskerton, and Komodo's panic.
Suddenly, in courses of three, bullets shot from the bushes aiming at the Hell-hounds, but missing them. Both dogs jumped back and stood in defense, next to one another. Doyle came through the bush aiming his wrist gun at the hounds. And Drew came armed with her sword. Doc came from behind Zak and Fiskerton, pulling them out of the way as Drew shot a fire blast at one of the Hell-hounds. But the hound soaked up the heat and rejoiced in it's high temperature. "Fire wont work on these creatures, you have to shoot them with metal pellets." said Doyle as he continued to fire. One of the Hell-hounds immediately split , and got the Hell out of their. The other smaller one waited to bark at them. Then Doyle aimed at that one, it ran.
Zak still held the jar in his hand. Doc grabbed the jar from him and said, " are the three of you alright? And where did you get this Flashlight-frog?" "We're all fine. And Komodo found it." Spoke Zak as he pushed Komodo away. Komodo was hovering around Doc's legs, trying to reach the jar. Drew was already rushing in the direction the Hell-hounds went, "C'mon. We need to catch them before they get to far away!" The Saturdays and Doyle followed the Hell-hounds through the thick jungle into a more shaded clearing. Zak spotted them and yelled, "They're over there!" Once Zak spoke that, the two hounds ran behind a large tree in the middle of the clearing. Something in the tree caught the upper corner of his eye, Zak looked up and was staring at a kid with gold and red hair. Standing on a low branch.
The kid chuckled at Zak. " Hey, you! Get down from there! Why are you-" Zak didn't finish the question. "Young man! Get down from there!" Called Drew, she had also seen him in the corner of her own eye. The flame haired boy responded first by laughing. "Why would I do that? I have a much better view of you guys getting your butts kicked by two dogs, from up here." Zak started to get annoyed, "hey look. Those 'dogs' are Hell-hounds. And if your not careful, they will probably climb up their and claw your 'pretty-boy' face up!"
The boy laughed again, " I think your white hair dye is seeping in through your skull." The wings on his jet pack unfolded and the kid slowly hovered to the ground. They all stared at him suspiciously, now seeing the strange boy owned a jet-pack. Then the two Hell-hounds came running from behind the tree trunk. Doyle spoke up to worn the kid, " Hey! Watch out!" The two Hell-hounds stopped by the kid's side. "Why?" said the boy placing his hand on the shoulder of one of the hounds. You could now see both Hell-hounds were wearing some sort of collar, it was all teched out and had small buttons and a small , blue screen on them.
"Th-They're yours?" Doc said in surprise. "Well yeah. Someone like me wouldn't own something stupid like a pit bull. Pit bulls aren't fire retardant." snickered the flame headed boy. Drew frowned , "What do you mean by that?" "Well, one. I'm worth a million dollars. Two, I own 10x more than that. And three? You can say I'm a bit of a pyro. I'm the best, and I own nothing but the best."
This made Zak angry," Only if I had the claw with me right now, I could knock this jerk off his feet in no time flat!" he thought in rage. "What is your name? Young man..." spoke Doc. Doyle added, " You know, so we can beat you up then arrest you properly." The flame headed boy laughed yet again, then looked at them seriously. He was thinking. Finally the kid spoke up," My name is AAron. You can call me double A. I wont tell you my last name, that would be a stupid move on my part." While AAron was taking his thoughtful pause, Zak noticed something. Around AAron's neck was a large gold-chain necklace. With a HUGE diamond encrusted A and V. "Your last name. It starts with a V. Right?" said Zak out loud in stead of just thinking it.
AAron smiled, " your smarter than you look kid. But that's no reason to tell you what the V stands for."Doyle walked closer to AAron,"Well, AAron. Seems you've got yourself into a lot of trouble." He cracked his knuckles to look threatening. "Whoa~ I'm 'so' scared", AAron used his jet pack to hover above the ground a bit then take off back onto the branch he was on before. The two Hell-hounds then barked furiously at all of them.
Doyle then flew up using his jet-pack, "don't think we can't catch you AAron." "Of course you can... but, you'll be too busy." said AAron. Drew looked up,"What?" Zak also looked confused," What do you mean by that?"AAron smiled evilly," You can't catch me when your busy trying to put this tree out."
Fiskerton made a "what?" sounding noise. But then it was quickly explained , AAron lifted his wrist toward the trunk of the tree he was standing on. He too had a wrist gun, but it wasn't a gun. it was a flamethrower. AAron started blasting off the flames at the tree as he kicked off the tree branch and started to fly away. Somehow the two Hell-hounds mysteriously disappeared and the whole tree was up in flame.
(The end of the first Ep.)