Chapter 2: The Powers that Make the Legend

Tap, tap, tap.

Step, step, step.

Thump, thump, thump.

The foot steps of our soon-to-be heroes, Son-ick Boomer, Miles Prower, and Nuck-alls. They zig-zag through the thick forest desperately trying to find BigCat's Froggy.

Son-ick: "Man, where can that frog be? It couldn't have gone that far."

Miles: "Son-ick, slow down! We're trying to find a green frog in a green forest. He can easily blend in with anything, and you might miss him going too fast."

Nuck-alls: "He's right, Son-ick. You gotta..."

Son-ick: "Sorry, can't hear you! I'm going too fast!"

And just like that, Son-ick picks up his paced and fades into the forest. Miles and Nuck-alls stops for a breather.

Miles: "Doesn't he ever listen to anything we say?"

Nuck-alls: "Yeah, I hate 'em too."

Miles: "...Uhh, I didn't say..."

Son-ick: "Hey guys! Come check this out!"

Hearing Son-ick's echoing words, Miles and Nuck-alls run up ahead to meet up with Son-ick. When they got to Son-ick, they saw what he was looking at. They seen a huge shrine with something in the middle shining. Around that shining object were seven pillars with something shining on top of those pillars. Son-ick and the gang walked closer to the shrine.

Miles: "I've never seen this temple here in the forest before."

Son-ick: "Tell me about it. I must've ran pass by here like several times and never seen this."

Nuck-alls: "This place looks...familiar."

Miles: "Have you been here before, Nuck-alls?"

Nuck-alls: "N-no, but...it feels like...I should be here..."

Then, out of nowhere, a blinding light shines from the object in the middle and Son-ick and the gang shield their eyes. The light then dims down.

Son-ick: "Hey, I see something up there!"

Son-ick then runs up the stairs to the shrine.

Miles: "Son-ick, careful! I don't even think we're supposed to be up there!"

Miles and Nuck-alls run up the stairs following after Son-ick. Once they reach the top, they can finally see the shining objects. In the middle lies a big green emarald. On the pillars are 7 other emaralds, except with different colors and they're all smaller then the one in the middle. Miles and Nuck-alls are shocked in awe.

Miles & Nuck-alls: "Whoooaa!"

Miles: "Th-they're emaralds!"

Nuck-alls: "There's...7 of them. And this big one. It must be..."

Son-ick: "Guys! Over here!"

Miles and Nuck-alls turn to see Son-ick sitting down next to the big emerald. Son-ick is trying to fit on a pair of red sneakers.

Son-ick: "Check out what I found. A pair of good lookin' sneakers just lying on the floor. Who would leave these here?"

Miles: "Son-ick, what are doing!? Those could be someone else's shoes."

Son-ick: "Oh yeah? Ok, then let's ask around to see who left these shoes here. Oh, wait, that's right, we're at a mysterious shrine that came out of nowhere in the middle of the woods."

Miles: "...Alright, point taken."

Nuck-alls: "Wait, I think Miles is right. I don't think we should be taking things that isn't ours."

Son-ick: "Oh? Then what if I said I also found items for you guys too? Then would you let me try the shoes?"

Then, Son-ick pulls out two items from behind him. A pair of white spiked boxing gloves, and two yellow fox tails attached by a little device.

Miles & Nuck-alls: "Whoa, what?!"

Nuck-alls: "Cool! Dibs on the gloves!"

Nuck-alls snatched the gloves from Son-ick's hand.

Miles: "Wait, where did you get these?"

Son-ick: "Like I said, I found them lying on the ground next to this big emerald thingy."

Son-ick finally got the shoes on and he stands up to feel them out. Nuck-alls tries on the gloves, which made his hands look big and lethal. Miles tries to figure out how to use or put on the two fox tails. He notices the small device attached to the two tails and hooks it on to his belt on the back of his shorts. Our heroes look at each other to see their new get up.

Son-ick: "We look good."

Nuck-alls: "No kidding."

Son-ick: "Hey Miles, you look pretty weird with those tails. We're gunna have to nickname you if you continue to wear them."

Miles: "Really? Like what?"

Nuck-alls: "How 'bout 'Two-Tails'? Or TT for short, since you have two."

Miles: "What? That sounds so stupid and non-creative."

Son-ick: "Actually, I like it. Your new name is Two-Tails!"

Miles: "What!? But...!"

Son-ick & Nuck-alls (chanting): "TT, TT, TT!"

TT: "*Sigh*, Fine, TT it is."

All our heroes started to laugh. Then Son-ick checks out his shoes again.

Son-ick: "Ya know, I'm gunna break in these shoes and run around the shrine a bit."

As Son-ick starts his run, he notices something majorly different in his speed. He was going faster and faster and faster! He felt a rush he's never felt before. The wind through his hair, his feet shuffling swiftly, all without breaking a sweat! He stops short in front of TT and Nuck-alls.

TT & Nuck-alls: "Whoooooa!"

TT: "Son-ick, you were going super fast! Faster then normal!"

Son-ick: "I know! It felt exhilarating!"

Son-ick looks down at his shoes.

Son-ick: "Do you think it was because of these sneakers?"

TT: "What? Magic shoes? That can't be. Can it?"

Nuck-alls: "If that's the case, then maybe my gloves and your tails are magic too! I'm gunna try to punch the ground."

And when Nuck-alls did, he made a big hole where he was standing.

Son-ick: "Whoa, nice one Nuck-alls. Looks like you have another aid in you anger. Remind me not to mess with you when your angry, ha ha!"

Nuck-alls: "Man, this is unbelievable!"

Son-ick: "Hey TT, what does your thing do?"

TT: "Beats me. This small device is impossible to figure out"

Son-ick: "Nothing's impossible for our smartest guy here! Right Nuck-alls? Uh...Nuck-alls?"

Nuck-alls wasn't paying attention. He was too fixated on the big green emerald next to him.

Nuck-alls: "It...it's like it's calling to me..."

Nuck-alls slowly reached for the emerald and placed his hand on it. Then, it started to shine again, but not too bright this time. The whole shrine and some of the land around it started to rumble.

Son-ick: "N-n-nuck-alls, what d-d-did you do!?"

Nuck-alls: "N-nothing! I just t-touched it!"

Apparently, that's not all Nuck-alls accidentally did. The shrine and some of the land around it along with our heroes started to lift up off of the ground and fly up, straight up. The whole shrine itself turned into a flying island.

Son-ick: "TT, what's happening!?"

TT: "Son-ick, it's plain to see that the shrine is projecting to the sky!"

Nuck-alls: "Wait guys, what the heck is that!?"

Nuck-alls points to a giant red metal sky fortress just about to pass over the flying island that our heroes are on.

Son-ick: "Aw, crap! We're about to hit it!"

TT: "Everyone, brace yourselfs!"

The floating island hits part of the underbelly of the sky fortress. The tremor from the impact cause the emeralds on the pillars to fall off the island and scatter down on to earth. To make matters worse, the giant emerald in the middle stopped glowing and the island started to fall from the sky, with our heroes on it. Well, not really. The impact also caused our heroes to project into the sky leaving them to fall to their doom.

Son-ick: "Daaaaahh! Nuck-alls, TT, what do we do!?"

Nuck-alls: "Here, grab my hands! Maybe we can form a human parachute or something!"

But as soon as Nuck-alls reached his hands for Son-ick, he noticed that he was suddenly falling less faster. In fact, he was gliding in the air!

Nuck-alls: "Whoa! I-I can fly...H-Hey guys, I can fly!"

TT: "Son-ick, I'm right above you, grab my hand!"

As Son-ick reached for TT's hand, he got closer and closer, but unexpectingly, TT stopped falling and started to hover. TT was very confused, until he looked behind him to see that his two tails were spinning in a propeller-like way and lifting him up.

TT: "...H-Holy crap! So that's what that device does. It spins its second part to let the tails spin and give me the ability to fly!"

Son-ick: "Ya know, it's nice to know that you and Nuck-alls can fly, but unless my shoes have built-in jet packs, I'm still falling to my death!"

Without another thought, TT flies down to catch Son-ick just before they hit the ground. As the island falls back to where the heroes found it at, Nuck-alls glides his way towards one of the pillars, hooks onto it, and climbs down. TT lets go of Son-ick and he lands on the ground. Suddenly, TT's tails slowed down its spinning and started to slowly descend towards the ground.

TT: "Hmm...it looks like I can float for only a short amount of time."

Son-ick: "Hey, it did the job and we're still alive. Still seems pretty cool to me. And who knows, maybe you can tweak it a little and make it better with your awesome knowledge of that kind of stuff."

Nuck-alls runs towards Son-ick and TT.

Nuck-alls: "Hey guys, did you see me fly? It was awesome! I felt like superman, or something."

TT: "Yes, Nuck-alls, we seen you, but you weren't flying. It ws more like gliding."

Nuck-alls: "W-what? But...but that was...I wasn't flying?"

Son-ick: "Hey, if it makes you feel any better, to me it was like you were falling with style!"

Nuck-alls: "...Shut up, you blue haired freak..."

Son-ick: "What did you call me!?"

TT: "Guys, stop it! This is not a time to be arguing! If you haven't notice, those emeralds on top of the pillars are gone!"

TT points towards the pillars and Nuck-alls and Son-ick turn aournd to see that the emeralds on the pillars are in fact gone.

Nuck-alls: "What!?"

Son-ick: "Whoa! When did this happen?"

TT: "When the island crashed into that flying fortress, the emeralds must of fell off and scattered across the forest."

Nuck-alls: "This is not good! We have to find those emeralds and bring them back here."

Son-ick: "No way! I wanna go up to that stupid fortress and make whoever's up there apologize to us! I think it went this way!"

Using Son-ick's new super powered sneakers, Son-ick zooms past his friends and into the thick of the forest.

TT: Wait, hold on Son-ick!"

Nuck-alls: "What about the emeralds!"

Son-ick is way too far into the forest to hear Nuck-alls and TT, so they follow after him into the forest.

On the shrine, the big emerald in the middle starts to glow again, but this time with a slight 'Grr' sound coming from it. A crack ensues the emerald, probably from the impact of the fortress. Then a watery figure with green eyes appears in the emerald in an almost ghost-like state. Our heroes don't even know it, but they started something so big, it'll change their lives forever!