The second chapter is here! I felt like I should make this so I can get more readers in, hopefully it turns out good. Let me know if I need to change anything.

Genie For Hire

Scratch woke up a few hours later and it was night-time, he was sure the genie has to be home now, he tried leaning on the door and opening the door with his paws and surprisingly, someone's home! "Whoa, who's in here?" , Scratch thought curiously, to his surprise it wasn't a genie he expected, he was so surprised he quickly closed the door and ran to the back of the lighthouse, hyperventilating, "That's wasn't what I expected." , Scratch thought ,"I thought it would be a guy genie, but I think I was wrong." , Scratch wasn't sure what to think of it , if this town had a female guardian genie, then she must be a really powerful one and he must try to communicate with her, he was sure he could since genies are supposed to be all-powerful. But suddenly, Scratch slipped from behind the lighthouse and plunged into the icy cold water and yowled.

The genie was sure to hear that, so he quickly tried to climb back up and try to hide as he was nervous. He was hiding behind the lighthouse again and heard the door open from it. She was walking from one of the sides of the lighthouse to check behind it where Scratch was, Scratch went to the opposite side of her and had a good observation of her, from what Scratch saw, she was wearing what looked like genie pants, but was red in contrast to the blue ones Aladdin's genie wears, and was wearing a red bikini-like top and had purple hair that was in a ponytail and she had long bangs. Scratch had no doubt she was a genie considering she dressed pretty fancy considering from where she lives. Scratch was too nervous to say anything but had to do something because Ice was counting on him to find a genie, so he had to take to action, he came back from the side he was standing and came to the back of the lighthouse again and said, "Um, hello?", but that was just a simple 'meow' to her as she just stood there with her hands on here waist looking like she was upset with him.

Scratch tried to lift one of his paws and tried waving at her. She waved back and turned around. Scratch was losing her so he knocked on the lighthouse wall and she turned back and Scratch thought of something, "Let's see of I can write something in the ground." He tried lifted his paw and tried writing 'need genie help' and succeeded, she looked down at and said, "Why do you need genie help?" Scratch erased the message and wrote down, 'Need voice back'. This confused her when he wrote this, Scratch tried to stand up on twos again to try to make a point and fell back down, she kind of understood this but still was confused, "What does that mean?", she replied to the troubled cat, Scratch came to the conclusion to just try to draw out his problem, so he drew a picture of him and Wrench running to the lighthouse and she just laughed, "You're pretty artistic for a cat." , she looked at it some more and said, "Is that Wrench?" , pointing at the drawing of the falcon.

Scratch nodded, "Did he help you find me?" , she asked , Scratch nodded , "Okay, I need more information then this so let me try something." , the genie girl said as she started to do a dance, confusing Scratch on what's going on. She was transformed into a monkey, Scratch was confused for a second but then realized, if she was an animal then she could understand him. "Um, hi?", Scratch said to the newly transformed genie, "Hi" she responded smiling, "Hey! You can understand me now.", Scratch said surprised, "Well, that's the plan." , she said back.

"What made you have the idea to transform into a monkey?" , Scratch asked her , "Well, since you said that Wrench helped you, I had to know that what you need is something important. Well, is it?" , she asked , "Well, yes it is" , Scratch answered back. "I used to be a bipedal cat and could talk normally, but this trip made me lose my abilities." "What trip?" , the genie asked, "Oh, yeah, I am from another dimension and my friend needs me to find a genie so we can defeat his evil clone so we can gather back the magic he stole from our dimension, he could come to your world, now I think of it." , the genie monkey girl was shocked to hear this and she looked like she was ready to help him. "So will you help me?", Scratch asked her, "Yes, I will help you, for both of our worlds.", she asked sounded vigorously. "Thanks and oh by the way, my name is Scratch, what's your name?", Scratch said, "My name is Shantae, the genie finally asked him. "Nice name." , Scratch said complimenting Shantae's name, "Thanks, should we go on out quest?", Shantae asked, "Yes we should, but before we can do that, I lost my hoodie traveling to this dimension and I believe someone stole it, do you have any ideas who it could be?", Scratch finally ask Shantae, "Well, it does sounds like Risky Boots could be involved in this." , Shantae replied.

"Risky what?", Scratch answered confusedly, "Risky Boots, the terror of the seas, and my arch nemesis!" , Shantae answered with a serious tone as she has dealt with her many times. "Well, sounds like she is trouble, but I don't care, no one steals my hoodie and gets away with it!", Scratch said furiously as he loves his hoodie that he had since he was a kitten. "Wow, you sound brave! I have to warn you though, she caused some dangerous things in this town." Shantae warned Scratch. "Like those holes leading up to your lighthouse?" , Scratch mentioned. "Oh you noticed that, huh?", Shantae asked Scratch, "Yeah, I did and I almost fell in the last one, why don't anyone fix them?" , Scratch asked Shantae , "Don't ask, I have no idea why, I just know that they're still there." , Shantae responded.

"So where do we start to look for this Risky Boots character?", Scratch asked, "Well, she has a secret hideout and she only comes out when there is only something important I'm after." , Shantae replied, "Well, my hoodie isn't that important.", Scratch stated. "Well, she does has minions and they perhaps are the ones who took it.", Shantae pointed out. "Well, okay, let's go and start to find Risky and demand her to give me my stuff back." , Scratch determined stated. "Well okay, I can't stay in monkey form all the time so I need you to stay here and I go get it back for you." , Shantae said to Scratch. "No way, I need revenge, I must go too!" , Scratch demanded Shantae. "It's too dangerous, but if you have to then I can put you in something, follow me." Shantae said as she changed back to normal and walked to the front of her home as Scratch, finally shook himself dry, followed her.

They reached to the front as Shantae opened the door she said to Scratch, "Wait here." , Scratch nods and waits for her to get the thing that he will be in. After a bit she came back out and had a purple silk backpack in her hands. "This may be a tight fit but, try go in this backpack." , Shantae asked Scratch. Scratch did just that and he found out it was really comfortable, "Is it comfy enough for you?", Shantae asked Scratch. Scratch nods and ducks in the backpack and the flap closes and Shantae puts the backpack on."Let's go now, shall we?", Shantae said as she walks away from the lighthouse. Behind them a strange portal came out but Shantae and Scratch was already too far away to notice it, there came out a penguin, it seemed to look like Ice but his eyes were red and he was of a darker black than Ice, his santa hat was green like Ice, but had red stripes that moved up with the hat, it was Ice's evil clone! "It seems that the feline fool as given me the genie magic I have desired. It also seems that have successfully escaped my inferior copy. One day, that genie power will be mine! But in due time, I must gather minions to plan my ultimate plan!" The evil clone did a super ninja jump away from sight and vanished.

A similar portal appeared a bit later and it popped out another penguin and this time it was actually Ice. "Darn it! I lost him! I must not let him get away, let's hope that Scratch has recruited the genie we need, only he can stop his destruction, I'll meet up with him later." Ice did the similar super jump that his evil clone did everything was silent except the sound of seagulls.

End of Chapter, next one coming soon, until next time!

Peace Out Guys!