Hey guys, just got back from Berk! Anyway, welcome back to the story. Without any further ado, let's begin...
Rexy! Stop being lazy and turn the slide!
Rexy: Okay, sorry, I just needed a nap!
The Experiment of Argavid
Chapter 3
Bella and he butos walk back to the lake. Like last time, there are many creatures of many different sizes drinking and playing near it. She went for a swim while the butos bask under the planet's white star.
"Hey Bella!" She remembered that voice. She looks upon the shore and see's the same cub from yesterday. Along with him is an eagle-like bird with four wings and a silver colored pig-like creature. They join her in the swim. They play together, swimming around and going underwater to see what they can find.
"Woah, this is cool," Bella said, holding a large ball. The ball unfurls, revealing a strange creature. It looks like a larger version of a hallucigenia.
"Can you please put me down. I'm afraid of heights," the creature said. She put it back down and it crawled away. She swims back up and continues playing with the children. The butos smiled as the children played, knowing that the creatures here only eat fish, which is very abundant.
On the other side of the lake, an animorph, with long brown hair, translucent wings, and a constant frown fishes for food to feed his family. Along with him is a girl with wings in the shape of a cloak and two feathered tails. The male throws a spear into the water, and pulls out three fish at the same time.
"Impressive. But I can do better," the girl says as she throws a spear into the water. She grabs it and finds...no fish.
"I thought you said you could do better," the man jokes. She pouts at him as they notices a girl in the water playing with a few creatures.
"Isn't that the girl Anomaly talked to us about yesterday," the girl asks. The man nods. They continue fishing, unaware that the girl had just noticed them.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the lake, Bella had just gotten out and shook herself dry. She runs over to the butos.
"Guys! I just saw a human," she exhales. The butos eyes would've widened if they were able to.
"Bella...those aren't humans," Beiviz told her. She was saddened by that.
"But their a descendant of humans, known as animorphs. There able to transform into an animal that they have features of, like if one is a buto, like me, then it will transform into a more, cuter version," Eigriz explains. That caused Bella to lighten up.
"Come on, lets go, we don't want them to find out your here," Beiviz said. They got up and walked into the forest. The trees waved their leaves in the wind as they walk by. They fount their nest and sat down. All was quiet until Bella saw a small butterfly with ribbon-like wings and a pincer-like mouth. It looks at her curiously, and it flies onto her shoulder. She picks it up with her finger and feels it's thorny skin. It flies away, and Bella chased after it playfully.
She ran right back to the lake. She decided to head over to Flasaur's herd. Maybe he has room to talk and play with the children. He noticed that Cateric isn't there, which she didn't mind. She never liked Cateric in the slightest. She felt the ground shake as something big approached her from behind. Her eyes widened when she turned around. It was Cateric, and he sure doesn't look happy.
"Oh, it's you. The little girl that managed to play with the children of some of the most predatory animals in this area," Cateric said. She takes a step back.
"I didn't mean to, they just...were attracted to me for some reason," Bella replied.
"I'm starting to believe that you are the reason that I failed at beating the old one, considering the fact that you did that," Cateric said. The butos finally found her and appear by her side.
"She did nothing wrong! Your just jealous that she gets more attention than you do," Eigriz chirped.
"That's-" Beiviz was interrupted when he was swatted to the side. He crashes into a tree, and Bella rushes over to him.
"Why you!" The girls tried their best to defend Bella against Cateric, but he managed to knock them both out. He prepared to charge at Bella, but suddenly, he was rammed into by something. Bella finds out that Flasaur has joined the fight.
"Bella, grab your friends and get out of here, you can't fight Cateric," Flasaur said as he and Cateric engaged in a brawl. Bella was too scared. She couldn't move an inch. She watches as the enraged Cateric manages to land a lucky solid blow to Flasaur's face. The old one collapsed onto the ground, and Cateric looks directly at Bella.
"No point in running you spineless worm," Cateric insults as he charges to her.
"...Bella..." Flasaur tried to get up but was proven ineffective. He watched in horror as he picks up Bella and prepares to stab her with his tusk. Suddenly, her eyes turned ash grey as the ground began to shake and a storm forms overhead. The animals hunker down and try to survive the onslaught. Cateric was confused on how it started this quickly. And in a flash, a bolt of lightning comes straight at him. It was like slow-motion for Beiviz, who had just opened his eyes, as a huge bolt of lightning strikes Cateric and he releases Bella. She falls to the ground as Cateric collapsed. He's still alive, but barely. Bella got up after her eyes went back to normal.
"Wha...wha..." she couldn't even find the right words to say. Flasaur managed to get up by the time that she burst into tears. He picked up Eigriz and Chemyrt along the way.
"I don't know what happened, but I'm glad your safe," Flasaur says. She looks up to him, tears streaming from her eyes as the sky went dark. Beiviz weakly gets up and walks over to Bella.
"I reccomend that you two stay with my herd. You'll be safe here," Flasaur said. They both nod weakly as she gets on Beiviz's back. They head over to the herd, who check on her and the butos to see if they were alright. Luckily, only some minor bruising occurred from them. For the rest of the night, Bella couldn't even sleep, the horror of almost being killed still fresh on her mind.
"Oh no, this ain't good," Anomaly said as he walks out of a bush. Along with him is a tall man, his hair replaced with camouflage feathers and fangs sticking out of his mouth.
"Is there something wrong," the man asked.
"The girl has something in her that I'm all too familiar of," Anomaly said.
"Oh really? What is it?"
"It's called Argavidium. It's what I like to call, "a magical living element," that manifest in anything it chooses. It gives its host great powers that it activates when the time is right," Anomaly explained.
"Intriguing, but why did it choose the girl? She's only five," the man said.
"That is a problem I noticed. A power like that only occurs when she turns nine. There must be something odd about her's," Anomaly said. They walk back to their village, who were a little shaken up by the events that happened today.
"I know your confused on what happened tonight, and your not alone. I know the exact reason why. The girl, Bella, was attacked by a rouge lutrosia a few minutes ago. I noticed her eyes they...went blank. She somehow summoned a storm that managed to badly injure the lutrosia," Anomaly explained. The villagers were furious, believing that she's a witch.
"Calm down. She ain't a witch, she has a mysterious element, only fount on this planet, known as Argavidium. It's a magical element that is seemingly alive and picks its host, providing the host with extraordinary power. So no witchcraft," Anomaly continued. They calmed down a little, but we're still surprised.
"My guess now is to figure out what to do now before she gets killed."
"I say we take her in as a villager," one of the villagers, a brown skinned man holding a cigar, recommended. The villagers all agreed to that. They cheered to take her in as her own to Anomaly, which smirked under his red helmet.
"Funny, because I was just about to say that," he said. They cheered and began to prepare her a hut, along with pens for her family. They're going to enjoy Bella being in their village!
Bella finally got to sleep. It was hard, as what happened is still fresh in her mind. She thought she was going to have a nightmare, but instead, got something very different.
She awoke in a pitch-black room. She got up and felt around, but fount nothing besides the floor. She tried calling out to Beiviz, but she never got a response. She tries calling out for everyone she knew, but again, no response. She sits down, telling herself it's just a dream. But then she heard something she hasn't heard before. It sounds similar to a national anthem, but of what.
"Is little girl alright," she heard a male voice, roughly in his fourties, ask. She turns around and sees a huge man in attire she has never seen before, translucent with a bright blue glow. He looks down at her and smirks.
"I'm Sporchuvak, and I'm your Argavidium guardian," he says. She gets up and looks at him fully.
"Argavidium?"
"Argavidium is what I'm made of. I'm the reason why that storm came in," Sporchuvak said.
"You...did that...for me," she asked shockingly.
"Da, and I even caused the cubs to play with you," he said.
"I...can't believe I have an alien serum inside of me," Bella shyly said.
"That meteorite that those bad guys found, that contained the serum that they called RU-19. You know that right," he asked. She nodded, still traumatized from all the experiments they did to her.
"Well RU-19 is actually me! They just didn't know that yet," Sporchuvak said. He levitated over to her and puts his hands around to comfort her.
"Don't worry, nothing will try to kill you when I'm around." He put his arms lightly around her in a hug.
"Really," she asked. He nodded as he lets go of her. Her vision began to turn black as she was awakening. She'll have to meet him again soon.
That wasn't so hard was it? Anyway, the third chapter has been finished. If you have any ideas for the next chapter or for a new chapter in the Lone Dragon, post a review.
Alrighty, this is Sporedude135, signing off...
Rexy, cut the feed!
Rexy: What if I dont
Spore: Ugh, let me do it...wait, why is there a tiny desk engineer on the table.
Rexy: I certainly didn't put that there.
Bella: Aren't they explosive?
Anomaly: Yeah...I think we should step back a little.
Spore: Oh please, only if there are many of them are they explo-BOOM.
*Cough* I stand corrected.
Rexy: I guess I'm gonna have to end the feed now.
Spore: You should've a long time ago!
Anyway, let's try that again. This is Sporedude135, signing off...
how many words do I have to flippin add to this part!? Sheesh, why can't it already be 2000 words already!? Wait...hang on... ah! Finally.