Chapter 2: Unleash the true power

The mercenaries travelled on a huge pipe that bent itself over many small islands. They went sideway, upside down and even backward. Sometimes, they needed to wait because either a giant caterpillar slowly moved on the width or metal-coated spiders assaulted them. No matter what attempted to stop them, the mercs always succeeded the challenge.

Leon looked at the giant pipes and asked Buzz: "How do you build things like that? It must take years or even decades for sure."

The master laughed: "The funniest in all this is that we didn't invent this. It comes from the most gigantic tree in Reptilia and it's near the seaside of Bakuldo. Since we dressed those spiders, we took its roots to travel from Chimerum to Bakuldo."

"I'm impressed."

"What's your story? It's been around six years that you're here and I want to know what you were doing before coming in our world."

"I remember the time when you found me. The only thing I remember is that, when I opened this portals, humans came out of it and threw me inside."

"I don't understand that humans did this to you while they should be reptilians."

"Each world has its own molecules combinations. Depending on this factor, a person will change if it's not the combination he was born with."

"Does it hurt when someone changes?"

"Strangely, I didn't feel anything when I entered Reptilia."

The master shook his head. Behind him, Scaler was sleeping. He was dreaming that he was walking near a cliff with Zack, Jasmine, Ricther and Tony. He felt in safety with them because they were persons that he have been knowing for six years. He was a human. He walked at the end of the cliff. He saw a strange light far away. It then swallowed everything at changed it for the new world. When it touched Bobby, he was turned into a lizard. When he looked behind, his friends disappeared. They were replaced by monsters and they wanted to catch him. The child stepped back but felt down the cliff. Arms tried to grab him, but he was already too far to be grabbed. The boy looked down and saw the void. When he felt inside he heard a voice:

"Wake up Scaler. We're here."

Bakuldo's seaside

When he realized that he was still sleeping, he opened his eyes and saw a completely different environment from Chimerum. The bright blue sky illuminated the oceanic and tropical flora. To the left, the beach was reaching the endless borders of the island while many rocks took a bath in the sea during all their existence. Branches of coral grew on the big rocks that resided on the sandy ground. To right, he noticed a village where the houses were made of very rigid trees. When he looked back to the left, he saw the rocks slowly moving.

He told the others: "Hey! those rocks are moving."

The master quietly laughed: "Don't mistake the rocksters for ordinary rocks. They often move but they are very slow."

Scaler shook his head. The group headed to the town but, when they were about to go in, the gate closed itself. Buzz looked up and saw a tidoise on the top of the wall.

He politely asked him: "Excuse me. We need to go in. Can you open the gate please?"

The turtle refused: "We already have so much trouble like that because of the cursed embargo. We don't need more trouble, so get lost!"

"Fine then..."

The group returned to the initial place. They made a discussion.

The master debuted: "Here's the situation: The town of Tidos is under an embargo and the villagers don't want to let us in. It's their warning to keep us outside because, otherwise, if they decided to let us in, they would've killed us. Because of this, we're unable to gather information on where the water descendant might be. Does anyone have an idea to get the information we need?"

A mercenary proposed: "We can go in by force if we blow up the gate."

"True, but we don't have any explosives. Aright, I want two of you searching for those explosive blackberries and, be careful when you carry them because they're very fragile. The others explore the place in case that the water descendant wanders around, so that includes you, Scaler."

Everyone went at their post. Scaler walked near the beach. He looked at the endless sea that reflected the sunlight right to the sky. He sat down on the sand and thought about one of his days at the beach when he was in the human world.

"Tell me, Tony ,why don't you want the others to be like you?"

"Listen, kid, my life has been around following Jasmine, so I didn't even build mine. Also, I'm a very clumsy person which prevents me to have a stable job."

"I don't find you that clumsy. You can work on a construction site."

"I learned a lot at work. If I didn't worked like that in my life, I'd still be following Jasmine."

"Do you like water?"

"Of course! I lived on the seaside as a kid. I was always playing in the water. Every day, I got that feeling that I'd be on the sea fishing, but when Jasmine came, all my life changed to the worst."

"Why did you follow her?"

"She promised me that she'll make my dream come true, but it never happened. Why don't you go swim. We're wasting our day talking like idiots."

"You're right. I want to try surfing!"

A smile should have appeared on Bobby's mouth, but the fact that Tony was in fact inhuman saddened him.

He whispered: "I must ask something to Tony..."

He interrupted himself. This name was meaningless here. No one would ever figure out of who he was talking about.

He took a deep breath and continued: "...to Turbine."

Using this name was weird to him. It was like if someone that he knew long ago instantly changed his personality. However, he would always keep a precious memory of him:

"Don't waste your life following the others. Build your own and live it."

A voice called him: "Scaler? We need to search."

He turned around and saw Buzz.

He replied: "I just wanted to enjoy this kind of view. I don't see this in my world every day."

"I see, but don't waste too much time. We have work to do. I'll be watching you."

As the master slowly when farter, Bobby kept staring at the sea. Inside the water, he saw a shiny object. Curious, he decided to examine it. He went into the water and swam until he could reach the object. It appeared as a gem, probably one of those that descendants carried with them. This one was blue with wave patterns as relieves. When Scaler grabbed it, the gem dragged him into the sand. He went deeper until the gem went up. He reached the surface, but he found himself inside a cavern that he had never seen before. This cave was huge and seemed to be inhabited. The child could tell so by seeing the furniture. It was composed of a table with four chair, all of them made of stones. A tall library held many books.

Scaler heard a voice: "... I gotta go. My trap caught something. That's probably a salmon so it will be my lunch."

The chamelightning was afraid. He was trespassing in someone's house and the exit was nowhere to be seen. He notice a pond and thought that it could be an emergency exit. However, as he was about to dive into it, he saw a tidoise. This one had unique and particular traits. a huge drawing of a sea serpent swimming in waves was on its giant round belly. He also had ears and was wearing a golden chain that passed diagonally from the upper right side to stop under the left moob because his size prevented the chain to reach the side. Scaler portrayed him as a blastoise of two different browns

He froze on foot and said: "I'm so sorry, sir. I didn't mean to trespass here. I found a gem and it dragged me here. This gem looked like one of those artifacts that descendants have."

The giant turtle listened to him and sighed: "Every single swimmers get caught in my trap and... Wait! You talked about descendant gems? Why would a child like you go search such divine artefacts?"

Bobby told him: "At Chimerum, Elder Electro told me to come here, at Bakuldo, to search a descendant and two gems."

"Yeah right! Like if all this was true. You're the worst liar to ever exist. Now, get out."

The tidoise put his big hand on the chameleon's shoulder. Then, both felt a weird feeling.

Surprised, the turtle realized: "Oh my gosh! You're not only telling the truth, but you are also the thunder descendant! Sweet Alisa! I never thought that I'd meet a descendant after my tribe kicked me out of my hometown! After twelve years, finally, you show yourself!"

The turtle opened a drawer and took out what appeared to a bubble.

"My name's Blast, I'm the water descendant."

"Just call me Scaler."

"Well, Scaler, take it and put it in your mouth. It will allow you to breathe underwater."

The chameleon took the bubble and put it in his mouth. Inside, the bubble took the shape of the mouth and felt more like a new inside than a tennis ball.

Blast ordered: "Come with me. We'll take a walk underwater."

As the tidoise dove into the pond, Bobby followed him. They went through a tunnel until they could see the ocean. When they exited the tunnel, Scaler saw the many wonders that the ocean hid from the surface. Medusas swam like swimmers upward and slightly inclined, the fished swam in groups and the coral produced bubbles. Despite how dark the sea was, many fishes lit it up.

Amazed, the chameleon child said: "Wow! I never thought that the sea held so many secrets."

"I'm glad that you appreciate this, Scaler. By the way, what do you seek here, at the Bakuldo's seaside?

"I came here with some mercenaries to search the thunder gem. We wanted to go inside the village, but the villagers prevented us to enter. Buzz, leader of the mercs, planned to blow up the door, but they would have to return to Chimerum. They decided to search around the beach, in case that the gem would be somewhere."

"I see. Didn't anyone tell you that you have the power of shapeshifting?"

"Shapeshifting? I can do that?"

"Since you're the descendant, you can do even better. Not only you can take someone else's appearance but you can also copy its moves. Speaking of blowing the gate, I know exactly what monster you can copy: the bakudan."

"The bakudan?"

"Yep! It's a creature that lives in the beach caverns on Bakuldo. It's recognized by its completely green eyes and its small silver horns. It can summon sphere shaped explosives that are powerful enough to destroy obsidian."

They mounted the hill to the surface. outside the water, they saw a cove near the beach.

Blast told Scaler: "Here we are. This places is home for the bakudans."

They entered the cove. Inside, many bakudans inhabited the place, all of them of different size and color. The smallest ones played with what seemed to be balls while the older ones kept an eye on them. Sometimes, a fight happened due to one of the sphere exploding leading everyone to blame the creator of this sphere.

A voice quietly resonated behind the two humanoids: "There you are Scaler. We've been searching you for an hour. We thought that you lost yourself somewhere and... Is that Blast right next to you? Great job!"

The two turned back and saw Buzz.

The master proceeded: "What are you doing?"

Scaler answered: "Blast told me about the bakudans and the unique trait that I have compared to the others. If I succeed to shapeshift into one, we might be able to get into the village. Why didn't you tell me about this?"

His master waited that the chameleon child finished his sentence.

He thought about something and explained: "For a descendant, you are too young to use the maximal potential of your descendant's power. Using your power can cause quick exhausts at a point where you may risk to fall asleep and, if you ever fall asleep alone at the wrong moment, you will never wake up. However, because we're here with you, you don't risk much."

Bobby guessed that he meant that he could die if he uses his power at his age ad at the wrong place. Buzz allowed him to try his power. Scaler approached the bakudans. The tiny monsters, some as tall as him while the others were either smaller or taller, stared at him. The young chamelightning showed that he was not here as a treat. The taller creatures approached him and touched him.

The child heard a voice: [The descendant of thunder needs our explosive power to abolish the mad reign of Dragon Emperor Looger. Shall we aid him?]

[We should. I we don't, our home will be in inestimable danger.]

[Very well then...]

Scaler was surprised that the creatures talked to him. The bakudans prepared the child to a ritual. They had to cover him of ashes and shell parts. The ritual consisted of the person that stood in the middle of an insignia drawn on the ground. four to six spheres, depending of the age of the descendant of thunder. The balls suddenly stopped and exploded into flows of energy that flew around the young chamelightning. Those flows entered the chameleon child's body. Bobby felt something strange like a brutal change in his own body. When the energy ended filling the descendant, the biggest bakudant approached.

Scaler could hear: [Try to become us and impersonate us as much as you can.]

The lizard boy concentrated. he closed his eyes and put his power to test. A pain started to entirely hurt him. He felt his head melting and reshaping itself, his body becoming bigger, horns growing on his new head and arms and feet shortening and rounding themselves. Finally, he heard familiar voices congratulating him:

"He did it! He succeeded to become one of them!"

"He unleashed his true power!"

"The dragon emperor doesn't stand a chance against us!"

The boy opened his eyes and saw that everything became higher. One of the creatures brought him a flat piece of crystal. When Scaler looked inside the crystal used as a mirror, he saw a blue and yellow bakudan.

[Now, unleash the power. Create an explosive sphere.]

The new bakudan placed his hands together. When he opened his arms, a flow of energy travelled into them to unite between his hands and create a small orb. As he placed his arms further of each other, the orb became bigger until it reached the size of a soccer ball.

[Blow it! Throw it somewhere!]

The new creature threw the orb at a wall where it exploded. The explosion shattered a part of the wall.

"Hooray! Now, we can enter the village."

Scaler became back a chamelightning. The group left the cavern, but the chameleon child was stopped by the biggest bakudan.

[The power lies within you. Open yourself to the world and liberate it from the tyranny and corruption that rots it.]

The boy shook his head and joined back the group.

Arrived at a bush near the gate, Buzz told the plan again: "Remember the plan? We blow up the door."

Bobby had a different idea and said: "Buzz, I think that we can enter the village without vandalizing anything."

The master slowly turned his head toward him and, with a silent laugh, said: "What do you expect to do? The tidoises are a race of brutal sharks that only understand violence as a language."

"I'm a descendant. I'm sure that they locked themselves because they fear Looger, but their fear comes from the absence of a thunder descendant for so long. You said it yourself. Twelve years have passed so something would change for sure."

The master seemed barely convinced but gave a chance to the child by saying: "Very well, but if they are too stupid to listen, we'll just breach the gate. Understood?"

"Understood. Blast! Follow me."

The two descendant kept walking while the others hid in a nearby bush. They arrived at the gate where they knocked on.

A tidoise rose from the top of the gate and said: "What do you want? Is that Blast right next to you? We told you to get lost! Why do you keep coming back?"

Scaler presented himself: "Hi! You might not believe me at the first time, but I'm from the thunder descent."

The gatekeeper laughed: "You, descendant of lightning? Don't you think you're too young to fight evil? If not, then prove it. Use your "unique" power."

The chameleon concentrated his energy and turned into a bakudan.

"Not bad, but I've seen normal people impersonating them way better than you do."

Scaler put his energy in his arm to create a sphere. He succeeded. He saw the gatekeeper surprised.

"Okay !Okay! You're right! You're a descendant but please don't point that at the village. Oh and, by the way, tell the others that they can't enter the..."

"IT'S NOT FAIR!"

Buzz emerged from the bush and approached the gate.

"WHY CAN'T I ENTER THE VILLAGE?! I'M ELECTRO'S NEPHEW!"

"I heard your plan earlier. You know, that plan of blowing up our walls? We don't want savages of your kind in our town."

"Fair enough..."

The master returned into the bush. The gate opened and the two descendant entered the village. The town had a tropical settlement with its houses made of a tree that ressembled coconut palms. A few non-tidoises lived among the dominant specie. The gatekeeper escorted them to the town's elder. The elder was the biggest tidoise of the village, but he was more recognizable by the unique drawing that he had on his muscled body. The drawing was a mythical creature that the others called the Tsunami.

The elder greeted them: "I am Leviathan, elder of the town of Oceani. It has been long since the day when our previous thunder descendant died. We were hiding in our own fear and decided to close our village. Now that you are here, young descendant, we will soon open the village to the others. Though, one of Dragon Emperor Looger's commander steals most of our goods."

The elder wanted the two descendants to stop the thief. He said that, every week, the villagers had to bring most of their goods in a cavern where they would be taken by a commander serving Looger.

Scaler asked: "Do you have the thunder gem. If not, can you tell me where to find it?"

"I wish I had it but, unfortunately, I don't. However, I can tell you this: when I was in the cavern, I saw Commander Turbine wearing a necklace around his neck. This necklace had a big yellow crystal tied in it which was the thunder gem. The cavern can be found north-east of here, but it is better to go this night because it will the time where we bring our goods to him."

During hours, Scaler headed to the library to see if he could get some information on the creature he used to know as humans. Blast, instead, returned to his old house where he put his water gem to safety. When the time to go came, they met back Leviathan who told them a plan. The plan was for Scaler to get inside a gasket and to Blast to carry it inside the cavern. They both obeyed and, now, they were entering the cavern.

Note: I forgot to mention this earlier but I will completely write the way I saw Scaler. The problem is that the actual game would have never fitted what I intended to do. Many things will be remade (characters, environments, story).