MY LITTLE HERO 108: HEROES ARE MAGIC
CH 1: THE VORTEX
It was another common day on Hidden Kingdom. And that could mean only one thing…
Alarms sounded off in the tactical room of First Squad. The five heroes gathered around the rounded table as the red light flashed out.
-Commander ApeTrully is in trouble! – Mr. No Hands exclaimed – First Squad, DEPLOY! -
The five, most skilled warriors of Big Green: Lin Chung, Mighty Ray, Mystique Sonia, Jumpy Ghostface and Mr. No Hands, pulled off the taps of their seats, revealing the launch tubes underneath and hopped inside.
They slid down until they reached the turtles' Launch hangar, where each one of the heroes landed on top of a turtle with treadmills.
A signal beeped on a screen and the Launch Staff pressed a giant button, catapulting the heroes out of the base and on-route to the rescue of their Commander.
The five finally reached a forest with a large clear path in the middle. It didn't take long for the enemies to show up.
A giant chameleon, with an enormous grey bell like armor, stood along an entire army of smaller chameleons with treadmills and big cannons on their backs.
Sitting on top of the giant chameleon was High Roller, the evil trickster, with a smug grin on his face. Along with him was his personal "Bodyguard" bear: Bearstomp.
Commander ApeTrully, Big Green's leader, was tied up to a tree like salami while the Zebra Brothers, High Roller's lackeys and the ones who should "guard the prisoner", were just sitting nearby marching back and forth like idiots.
-Well, well… looks who is here - High Roller smirked. Just by seeing him, you wanted to kick him outer space.
First squad leaped off the turtles and stuck a fight pose, ready to battle.
-Release Commander ApeTrully! - Lin Chung ordered.
-Oh, yeah? I think not! - the evil emperor said – Chameleon Tank Army, attack!- he commanded.
The tanks fired cannonballs at the heroes, who dodged and returned fire.
-The battle seems interesting. - Sparky Black, the white striped zebra said.
-Yeah. - agreed Sparky White. - let's read some comic books.-
-Good idea! - and the both of them sat not too far away, reading comic books while the battle was going on.
Lin Chung twirled his bamboo staff and shot sharp bullets at the chameleon, knocking out cold some of them. He dodged the cannonballs that were flying toward him and then charged in battle again.
Jumpy Ghostface covered his face with his ears, like a ninja mask, and pulled out a jump rope. He began to jump so fast that the rope turned into a force shield that deflected the cannonballs. He charged toward the chameleons and destroyed some of their cannons.
Mr. No Hands, in flight, shoot darts at the chameleons. The attack wasn't very effective against their armor, but he used the distraction to land powerful kicks at the enemies.
Mystique Sonia twirled her tongue, creating a powerful gust of wind that knocked back some tanks. The still standing lizards did the same, creating a counter-wind that almost blew Sonia off balance. Yaksha reacted quickly and pulled from under him a small block of ice.
-Well though, Yaksha. – said Sonia. She then created again a gust that, mixed with the cold of the ice stone, froze the Chameleon tanks in solid ice cubes.
Mighty Ray kicked and punched enemies here and there, until a cannonball flew toward him and blasted him a few meters away. He got up angrily.
-So you want to play tough, eh?! Then let's play tough! – he pulled out a banana from his jacket and, with a disgusted face, swallowed it whole.
-I am Mighty Ray! - he called out as his eyes begun to glow with electricity – FEAR MY EYEBALLS! –
Thunders shoot out of his eyes and blasted the chameleon tanks. A faint scent of burnt lifted in the air as the chameleons fell to the ground, knocked out cold.
The enemy army was soon outnumbered, which allowed the heroes to advance. As the battle went on, Lin Chung reached for the commander and untied him. The zebras were just too distracted by their comic books to even notice.
-Thank you. – ApeTrully said.
The other heroes managed to defeat most of the army, leaving them and the villains in a standoff.
-High Roller, surrender immediately! - Mr. No Hands ordered.
The evil emperor was, of course, very angry that his army has failed.
-You think you won? You are wrong! - he barked.
-Come on! We beat you every time! - Mighty Ray said out loud, annoyed.
-I won't be so sure. Now I got THIS!- High Roller held up a hand, showing a strange object.
It was a golden and silver amulet, with the shape of a horseshoe with a spear coming out of its center's base. It had six precious stones instead of the nails and a pair of feathered wings on each side.
-What is that? - asked Sonia.
-You will soon find out…- the villain smirked – Zebra Brothers! -
The two zebra jolted up scared, dropping their comic books.
–Ah, yes! We are on it! - they said. Sparky Black pulled out of nowhere an ancient paper and started to read what looked like a poem along with Sparky White.
By the sun of the day
By the moon in the night
By the season in way
And the stars so bright
To another world the gates will open
And the realms of magic will soon be discovered
As they read the scroll, the strange amulet began to glow with light of its own, like if it was pouring energy out of itself.
-I have a bad feeling about this…- No Hands muttered.
First Squad stuck a defense pose, ready to defend themselves from anything that may attack them.
The strange amulet glowed more and more intense by the second, it looked like it was going to explode. Until the light suddenly died down.
-What? - shrieked a confused High Roller as he checked the Amulet – What happened?! -
First Squad looked at their surrounding quite confused. Nothing strange or catastrophic had happened. And that it looked like the amulet was going to, don't know, do something terrifying?
-Uh, was that all? That was lame… - Mighty Ray said not impressed as he crossed his arms.
-Don't be so confident…- Lin Chung said, still alert.
A lightning flash stuck the ground in the middle of the battlefield with a thunderous roar, startling both parties.
The heroes looked up to the sky as it was being covered in dark, thick storm clouds. So thick that the day disappeared and left everything covered in darkness. Lightning and thunders roared out while an eerie wind was making the entire forest shake.
-What's happening?! - Mighty Ray said.
-Look! - Jumpy cried out, pointing at something in the sky.
Above the center of the battlefield, the clouds spun around until they created a dark vortex. Its center then shone of white light, while the whirlpool edges were covered in dark blue mist with blue sparkles.
-What is that thing?! - exclaimed Mystique Sonia, shocked.
Before anyone could answer, the wind was getting stronger and started dragging leaves and small rocks toward it. Everything that wasn't anchored to the ground was being sucked into the vortex. And soon the heroes were too.
-Watch…out! - Jumpy warned as the wind started to pull them in.
-Brace yourselves! - Lin said.
The wind was quickly growing stronger and the whirlpool was also twirling faster.
Lin Chung stuck his staff on the ground for support and grabbed Mystique Sonia's hand to help her. Yaksha hold on to Sonia and grabbed Mighty Ray by the leg. Ray grabbed Jumpy's paw while the rabbit used his jump rope to grab Mr. No Hands by the feet so that he couldn't be dragged into the portal.
ApeTrully clung to a tree, while the turtles clung to him in turn, forming a living chain too.
-This is not good! Not at all! – ApeTrully said.
-The wind is too strong! – Sonia called out, her voice barely audible over the wind and the thunders' roars.
-I feel like my eyeballs are going to pop out! - Mighty Ray shouted while his eyeballs were almost falling out of his orbits.
-I'll end up stripe-less it this goes on! – Sparky White gasped, feeling the slight sensation that his stripes were going to be ripped off.
-Let's get out of here! - High Roller shouted.
The chameleon queen tried to turn around, but the strength of the whirlpool was too strong and eventually she and the villains ended up sucked into the portal.
First Squad was trying their best to hold on, but they too start to lose their grip. Suddenly, a tree fell off and the force of the wind dragged it toward the heroes.
There was no way to duck from the incoming tree and soon, it hit them fully. They lost their grip and the wind dragged them down into the vortex.
-AAAAAHHHHH!- Everyone screamed as they fell and disappeared in the light.
A loud thunder roared out as the whirlpool writhed wildly. It quickly grew smaller and smaller, dragging the clouds with it, until it disappeared in a burst of sparkles.
The clouds dissipated, returning the clear blue sky and the forest went quiet. The path, once clear, was now covered with the remnants of the battle and the wind's force.
Cautious, First Squad's turtles come out of their hiding spots with worry. The rest of the chameleon army had fled out in fear when the storm started.
Commander ApeTrully was lying on the ground, unconscious and worn out. One of the turtles approached to him with worry and nuzzled the Commander's arm, hoping for any reaction.
ApeTrully groaned tiredly and the turtles smiled, both happy and relieved.
-Oww…what happened? - the Commader asked confused as he rubbed his aching head.
The turtles squeaked fanatically, trying to explain what just happened.
The commander then remembered and realization stuck him. He looked around panicky in search for his Squad, until his worst fears were confirmed.
First Squad was gone.
-Oh, dear…-
Author notes: updated first chapter! Yay! :D
I needed some more inspiration and better knowledge of the language. But there it is. Go to update more. See ya!
