Skylanders: Cloudbreak Adventure

Chapter Four-Return of the Chieftess-

I awoke the following morning to a ray of sunshine from the windows, shining down on my face. I got out of the hammock in the room I was in and left both the room and the wooden building.

I stepped out into the bright village, where the various creatures were walking about. The village was much more inviting in the daytime, but of course, now was not the time to observe-I still had business to do.

I remembered Rufus's instructions, which were to: "Meet me by the village fountain by the gates in the morning, and we'll discuss what shall be done next." I headed back to where I remembered the gates being from last night and soon found an enormous fountain right in front of them. I walked up to it and saw Rufus waiting there.

"Hey there, Rufus!" I said. He turned to face me and said: "Good morning, Gregory." I looked around and didn't see any of my friends here, so I said: "Um… where are the others?" "They haven't arrived yet. We'll just have to wait until they come." Rufus said.

So we waited as the others trickled in one-by-one until all of us humans were present, although Tessa still wasn't here… Soon enough though, we heard Tessa's voice say: "Hey guys! Sorry to keep you waiting!"

And we turned around to see Tessa running up to us. As she caught up, Rufus said: "Looks like everyone's present. Now I will tell you about-" But just then Tessa said: "Hold that thought, Rufus-I need to see the Chieftess first." And ran off. "Wait! Tessa-!" Rufus said, but she was gone in a flash…

Rufus looked down as I said: "Is she always like that?" Rufus sighed and said: "More or less…" "Well, Tessa does raise a good point in that we're supposed to receive our orders from the Chieftess-were is she, anyway?" Michael asked. "That's part of what I was trying to tell you all-the Chieftess was actually kidnapped shortly after Tessa left the village!" Rufus said. "WHAT?!" We all said. "Yes… It's terribly unfortunate, but a small squad of Greebles came in and abducted her. They've taken her to-" Rufus began, but then Tessa ran back in and said: "Hey Rufus, where's the Chieftess? I couldn't find her anywhere in the Great Hollow!"

Rufus frowned a little before he said: "Tessa, you really should have let me finish! I was just telling the portal masters that the Chieftess was kidnapped shortly after you left Woodburrow!" "WHAT?" Tessa said. Rufus then turned to us and said: "We overheard the Greebles that abducted the Cheiftess on their way out say that they were going to Cascade Glade, so that is where they are headed. Now I know I am not designated to give you orders, but if I may make a suggestion, for a mission of this importance I would hope that you would all travel together, for the sake of having the highest possible odds of success!" Rufus said.

"Well, that makes sense." Aaron said. "Although that's kind of unfortunate as far as speed is concerned; I can't fit six portal masters on Whiskers's back, so if we were all going to go together, we'd have to travel on foot…" Tessa said. "Well then, you'll have to be as quick as possible with no stops if you do all go as a team." Rufus said. "One thing's for sure though; the Chieftess is the one who we were told to take orders from and she is the leader of this village, so as Rufus says, failure is not an option." Michael said. "Well, if that's the case then don't worry, because I have a way we can get there without Whiskers. It will likely take longer, but if we really hurry then we just may do it." Tessa said.

"Alright then. Tessa, you take them to the glade. I wish you all luck and your safe return with the Chieftess." Rufus said. "Okay then! Let's go!" Tessa said.

She then led us up to a giant hollow in the middle of an enormous tree in the center of the village. It looked like there were other creatures in here, too… We walked inside as Darcy said: "What is this place, Tessa?" "This is the Great Hollow. This is where the Chieftess manages Woodburrow from. You could think of it as her workplace." Tessa replied.

She led us down a wooden ramp to the very back, where we saw some chutes that went down through the tree… Tessa then stopped by them and Kathrynne said: "What are we stopping here for, Tessa?" "This is where we'll be leaving to find the Chieftess from." Tessa replied. We all looked at her skeptically as she went on: "These are irrigation chutes that we use to water the roots of Woodburrow. Normally we dump water down the chutes that goes down to the base of the tree, where it soaks in the ground, but it looks like it's big enough for any of you to take. So who's going first?"

"Well hold on, how far is the drop?" I asked. "It's a few hundred feet…" Tessa said. "And we're going to be landing on…?" Irene asked. "Well… solid ground, but don't worry-the bottom of the chute is at ground level, so the rushing water will push you all the way down and you'll be pushed forward onto the ground. The landing may be a little firm, but… well, you can handle that, right?" Tessa asked. We all looked at each other before Aaron finally said: "Alright then, Tessa-I'll go first." "Okay! Go on ahead!" Tessa said.

Aaron went to the mouth of the chute and slid down, where he fell out of sight right away! After a few minutes, Tessa said: "Alright, he should be on the bottom now… who's going next?" "I guess I'll go!" Darcy said.

And then she went down. This repeated again with Michael, until I finally volunteered to go after words. I slid down the chute and immediately went flying down at high speed. It was a lot like going down a slide at a water park, only without getting wet… it did involve getting quite dusty, though, because soon enough I arrived at the bottom, where the chute did indeed go down so it was less than an inch above the ground and I kept going forward until I slid into the dusty earth in front of me...

I got up and waited for Irene and Kathrynne to come down and finally, Tessa came down too! Tessa got up and brushed the dirt off of her before she said: "Alright! Not too bad, huh?" "It was beyond any slide, I'll give you that…" Michael said. "So how are we going to get back to Woodburrow once we get back with the Chieftess?" I asked. "Oh don't worry about that-there's a gondola that will take us back up to the village. The only reason I didn't take it was to save time." Tessa said back. Then she went on: "Cascade Glade is to the East from here-I'll lead the way."

And she took off, but just as soon as she did, she turned around and said: "Oh yeah, that reminds me… I was so wrapped up in getting to Woodburrow before I forgot to ask for your names!" We all told Tessa our names and she said: "Thanks for telling me. That'll help us communicate. Now then, let's go! On to Cascade Glade!" And we marched as quickly as our legs would carry us.

(Meanwhile, in a room in a castle far away…)

A short bald man in a black robe stood on a throne with a tall green troll wearing a brown vest and gray pants next to him. A purple Greeble is kneeling before him talking to the man.

When the Greeble finished talking, the short bald man said: "What do you mean, your expedition was sabotaged? Who stopped you?!" "The portal masters did, lord Kaos…they used their Skylanders to defeat us…" The Greeble said to the man. The troll looked at Kaos and said: "That's not good timing…the other Greeble party just arrived in Cascade Glade with that Cheiftess…" The Greeble then asked: "What are your orders, my liege?" "You are dismissed until I call you back to receive them." Kaos said. "Yes sir." The Greeble said as he left the room.

Then Kaos jumped off the throne and the troll said: "What are you going to do about the portal masters, sir?" "…I had hoped that the Greebles would be able to bring the Chieftess here so I could interrogate her directly, but since the portal masters are in the picture again, I'm not taking any chances. I'm going to have the Greeble party that has the Chieftess get the information now and abandon her as they return here." Kaos said. "But sir, how are you going to stop their advance? I mean, the portal masters are probably going after the Chieftess as we speak." The troll said. "It's simple Glumshanks-I'll just 'evilize' more Greebles with the petrified darkness that we have and send them to fight the portal masters. If the portal masters don't lose, it will at least buy the party with the Cheiftess enough time. Oh, bless the petrified darkness! We have already seen such success with the Greebles-the way it makes them lose touch with any good inside of them and makes them more aggressive! It's the perfect tool for our plans!" Kaos said to the troll.

"It sounds fine sir, but if you are sending reinforcements, why abandon the Chieftess at all?" Glumshanks asked. "Remember-the important thing is that once the Greebles learn the information I want, they must get back here and tell me! I don't want to risk losing that information, even if it means getting an imperfect result." Kaos said. Then he went on: "Now get the idol for communicating with that party." "Yes sir, Lord Kaos." Glumshanks said.

Glumshanks left and soon returned with a brown idol and handed it to Kaos. Kaos then held it and soon the idol started to glow red and Kaos said: "Major Woalf… this is Kaos. Can you hear me?" "Yes sir?" A Greeble's voice answered through the idol. "I have new orders for you." Kaos said. "Okay. What are they, sir?" Woalf asked. "You know of the portal masters? Well, some have been discovered and they are probably coming after you. I want you to find a remote area of the glade and to get the information I want from the Chieftess." Kaos said. "Okay… and what do I do when I have the information?" Woalf asked. "Just leave the Chieftess and her pitiful advisors there. It'll keep the portal masters away from you." Kaos said. "Yes sir." Woalf said. "Oh and Woalf? One more thing…" Kaos said. "Sir?" Woalf replied. "Don't be afraid to get rough if the Chieftess doesn't give the information the first time you ask." Kaos said. There was what sounded like muffled laughter from the other side before Woalf said: "I like your thinking, sir. Don't worry-I'll get that information." "Good. You may go now." Kaos said.

(And back to Tessa, Gregory, Darcy, Aaron, Michael Irene and Kathrynne…)

We had been traveling for a while now. Soon we came up to a coastal bluff with many insects and Tessa said: "Here we are. At last, we've arrived in Cascade Glade!" "Is there any place that the Greebles would be more likely to go to, Tessa?" I asked. "Not in particular. Let's just hurry up!" Tessa said.

And we immediately started rushing through the glade. We kept going, without finding much, although soon we walked down a hill and came to a somewhat foreboding place… it was a circular clearing with long reeds of grass surrounding the area and while there were several insects and even some wildlife in the glade, there weren't any bugs or animals here and it was completely quiet…

As we went on, Aaron, Michael, Darcy, Irene, Kathrynne and I all instinctively slowed down. Tessa soon turned around and said: "What's wrong?" "Doesn't something seem a little off about this place?" Kathrynne asked. "I was thinking the same thing…" Michael said. "Oh come on! We don't have time for this! Let's just keep going!" Tessa said as she quickly marched on.

But looking down at the reeds, I thought I saw something glint by one of the reeds. Was something…there? I quickly went after Tessa, and it was a good thing I did, because when I did, I heard a loud 'BOOM!' from those reeds and a purple sphere about the size of a grapefruit went flying at Tessa's legs!

Tessa froze up, but I grabbed her arm and pulled her back as the purple sphere hit the hill. There was immediate laughter from all around the area after this. "Who's there?!" Darcy yelled. Only laughter answered us. "Come out here, you cowards! We know you're here!" Irene yelled. "Ooh, feisty! Well, I suppose we might as well…" A voice answered.

And then some more purple Greebles walked through the reeds. Two had cutlasses, but three of them were armed with odd guns; they were purple(like the Greebles) and the front had a circular muzzle and a long cylinder-shaped midsection with a circular sphere connected at the back. "Greebles!" Tessa said. "Yes! And you are really darn lucky that guy pulled you back when he did!" One of the Greebles holding the guns said. And the Greebles with the guns started laughing. "Ugh…" Tessa grumbled. We all knew it was time to let our Skylanders do the rest of the talking, though!

I called out Eruptor, Aaron called out Rattle Shake, Michael called out Grilla Drilla, Darcy called out Hot Dog, Irene called out Stealth Elf and Kathrynne called out Whirlwind. Whirlwind ran back up the hill and started shooting rainbows at the Greebles and Eruptor followed her, raining blobs of lava down on them, too. Hot Dog and Rattle Shake stayed where they were and Hot Dog sent walls of fire at the Greebles while Rattle Shake shot them with snake venom. And Grilla Drilla and Stealth Elf ran right up to the Greebles.

The Greebles with the guns started shooting while the Greebles with cutlasses ran up to Stealth Elf and Grilla Drilla. One of the Greeble's shots hit Hot Dog, causing him to run off. As one of the cutlass-wielding Greebles ran up to Grilla Drilla, Grilla Drilla suddenly planted a turret in the ground that shot a coconut at him and made him flinch, which prompted Grilla Drilla to start pummeling that Greeble.

Eruptor pitched in and lobbed a blob of lava onto that Greeble, but then one of the Greebles with the guns shot at Eruptor and hit him. Eruptor moved away after this while the cutlass-wielding Greeble that Grilla Drilla wasn't attacking had run up to Rattle Shake and was getting closer to Hot Dog. Rattle Shake shot venom at him, but the Greeble dodged it and attacked Rattle Shake with his cutlass.

Rattle Shake recoiled at the hit, but recovered and jumped up and spun his tail around, knocking the Greeble down. Hot Dog even ran in and spat fire at the Greeble, too!

As Grilla Drilla continued to pound his target, a gun Greeble shot him with one of those massive bullets! This knocked Grilla Drilla back and the cutlass-wielding Greeble recovered and attacked Grilla Drilla with his cutlass! Thankfully, Eruptor soon broke up the Greeble's attacks by raining lava on him.

Now I switched my attention to the gun Greebles. They had taken a few hits from Whirlwind and Eruptor, but were still going. Eruptor and Whirlwind kept attacking while the gun Greebles were dividing their attacks and soon Stealth Elf appeared out of nowhere behind one and hit him with her daggers. Whirlwind immediately pitched in by shooting rainbows at that Greeble, which made him flinch! Stealth Elf ran over to another gun Greeble and attacked him too, while Hot Dog sent more walls of fire the Greeble's way, too! It wasn't long before the two gun Greebles that Whirlwind, Stealth Elf and Hot Dog were attacking were down, and Rattle Shake and Grilla Drilla had finished off their targets, too!

Now that only one Greeble was left, he backed up and said: "Dah! These portal masters are stronger than I thought… let's get out of here!" And the Greebles all ran off.

We all then called our Skylanders back and everyone started to get going. I prepared to follow them, but then I heard Tessa say: "Um…" And I turned around and saw her. "What is it?" I asked. "Thanks for saving me, Gregory. I don't think I'd still be walking if it weren't for you…" Tessa said. I grinned as I said: "You're welcome. I know rescuing the Chieftess is important to you, but let this experience be a reminder to you to not ever be too rash."

Then I heard Michael say: "Hey! Are you coming?" And then Tessa and I ran to catch up with them as we continued to explore the glade.

We kept travelling, until soon we saw a towering cave before us… and it looked like it was the only remaining path ahead. Tessa led us into the cave and it was fairly dark, but there was also a hole in the top of the cave that let some light down. We walked forward and soon heard a: "Halt!" from somewhere…

We looked around and soon two very large purple Greebles in front of us a ways stepped forward-they were each about twice the size of a regular one. These Greebles were wearing gray armor from the bottom of their necks down that looked very heavy. I also spotted two Greebles that were coming up behind them that had those guns that we had seen before…

"More Greebles again?" Darcy said. "That's right. We WERE sent to defeat you, after all." One of the armored Greebles said. "Then there's no more need for talk. Come and get it!" Irene said.

The armored Greebles advanced as I called out Hoot Loop, Aaron called out Zook, Michael called out Wrecking Ball, Darcy called out Fire Kraken, Irene called out Blast Zone and Kathrynne called out Spy Rise. The Greebles moved as fast as they could go with their armor weighing them down while Zook took the chance to lob another pineapple-shaped mortar at one of the armored Greebles… but it just bounced off of the Greeble when it hit! "HUH?" We said, while Zook said: "Hey! What gives?" The Greebles laughed as one of them said: "Don't you get it? We're invincible. You can't stop us!"

One of the Greebles with a gun followed up by shooting Zook while he was still dumbfounded at this result. I walked up next to Hoot Loop and whispered: "Hit one of the ones in back." And he nodded and teleported behind the Greeble that just shot Zook and blasted him with magic. Unfortunately, while this was going on, the other Greeble with a gun turned and shot Hoot Loop! I saw Kathrynne whispering into Spy Rise's ear and Spy Rise nodded and then positioned his back to the cave wall on the left and jumped up, shooting a string from his back legs at a rock higher up on the wall and Spy Rise successfully wrapped the string around the rock and Spy Rise pulled himself up into the air.

By now, the armored Greebles had closed in and were close to Fire Kraken and Wrecking Ball. Each armored Greeble drew their arm back and immediately performed a(rather clumsy looking) skipping punch aimed at one! Fire Kraken and Wrecking Ball leapt back, and this caused the Greebles to lose their footing and fall flat on their faces, but then something strange happened…it looked like an aquamarine bubble around them suddenly became visible and shattered…

A Greeble with a gun then shot Fire Kraken while this was going on and just then Spy Rise from up near the ceiling shot several arrows all around the area, and while the Greebles with the guns got hit, we ended up seeing something we weren't expecting: the arrows also hit the armored Greebles who… flinched… it looked like they were trying to hide it, but there was no mistaking it… that time-when they were attacked-they had felt pain…

"Did that attack just work?" Aaron asked. "Hmm… so much for invincible…" I said. "Then let's keep trying! Fire Kraken, get 'em!" Darcy said. And Fire Kraken ran up to the armored Greeble in front of him and started hitting it with his baton while Blast Zone threw bombs at the other one. Soon the armored Greebles pushed themselves to their feet and stood upright and we saw the aquamarine bubbles reappear. At this point, Fire Kraken's baton and Blast's bombs started harmlessly bouncing off of them again…

"Fire Kraken, back up!" Darcy yelled. And Fire Kraken immediately did so while Michael said: "Time to go, Wrecking Ball! Roll on off!" And Wrecking Ball formed that green sphere around him before he rolled past the Greebles.

Hoot Loop was still hitting the Greebles in back with magic and Spy Rise was still shooting arrows at them. Between the two of them, they were making pretty steady progress. One of them-annoyed at Spy Rise-immediately turned around and shot at Spy Rise. Spy Rise immediately extended the string and dropped back down to ground level where he dropped down to avoid the shot, but luckily, this created a distraction that let Wrecking Ball roll on in-and right into that Greeble! Wrecking Ball slammed into the Greeble hard and Zook followed up with a well-aimed pineapple-shaped mortar that hit the Greeble too and the Greeble fell on his back and wouldn't get up!

By now, the armored Greebles were running up to Blast Zone, Spy Rise and Zook in the back of the cave… one was after Blast Zone and running him into a corner while the other was running up to Zook, but for some reason, Zook didn't even look like he was interested in the Greeble… When the Greebles were within close range of their targets, they did that skipping punch again and once again, we saw the aquamarine bubbles appear and shatter. Blast Zone was very gutsy and decided to tackle the Greeble head on by blasting the flames from his boots and rocketing forward at high speed, while Zook brought up a wall of bamboo in front of him that the Greeble hit-so that was his plan all along!

The armored Greeble that was after Blast Zone wasn't expecting this and ended up getting slammed hard by Blast Zone and fell on his back while the armored Greeble that had hit the bamboo wall tripped and fell forward. Spy Rise backed Blast Zone up by shooting the armored Greeble that had fallen over with arrows while Zook blasted the armored Greeble in front of him with a couple rocket-like shells before he ran off.

"There it is again… why did our attacks work now?" Michael asked. "Has anyone else noticed that our attacks only start working when they attack?" Kathrynne asked. "That… sounds right." I said. "Heh-heh…so they found out about the shields our armor generates…" One of the armored Greebles said. "Wha-you blabbermouth! Don't just tell them!" The other armored Greeble said. "But they obviously figured it out…" The first armored Greeble said. "So that settles it then! We'll hit them when they try to hit us!" Darcy said.

As the armored Greebles recovered, Spy Rise, Wrecking Ball and Blast Zone all attacked the Greeble with the gun in back and he went down very quickly! From there, defeating the armored Greebles without their gun-Greeble buddies was a breeze!

Once we had defeated all of them, the Greebles fled. We all called our Skylanders back and then kept going.

We traveled through the cave until we exited it… but now we were much higher up in the Glade! It looked like we had exited on top of a dirt covered hill with some plants growing on it.

We kept traveling on, although soon I was starting to get discouraged… "It feels like we've been at this for a while now…" I said. "Yeah…" Kathrynne said back. "I'm starting to wonder just how realistic this is. How do we even know we're going in the right direction to find the Chieftess? What if she-" Darcy began, but then Irene said: "SSH! Quiet! Listen-do you hear that?"

And we all stopped and heard what sounded like… faint voices in the distance… "More Greebles?" Michael asked. "I'm not sure…" Darcy said. "Well why don't we go look over the hillside? Maybe we can get a jump on them if they are." Tessa said. We nodded and walked over to the hillside and peeked over without making ourselves visible.

Down there, we saw what looked like a cyan frog-and-fish like creature wearing a gold robe on the left, a tall blue four-armed beast with white fur on his head, arms and two legs in a maroon-and-gold short sleeved shirt on the right and a tan gerbil in a blue-and purple robe in the center with an odd had that was the same color… she also was wearing a pair of glasses and had gold earrings…

The frog-and-fish like creature looked panicked and he said: "Ooh, what are we going to do? How are we supposed to get back home all by ourselves?" The four-armed beast then said: "Calm down! You have to keep your cool, or we won't do as well." Then he went on: "At least the Greebles have lost interest in us…" Then we heard the gerbil speak. She said in a very old-sounding voice: "Do not fear; I know the way. And the people of Woodburrow would not abandon us. We must have faith that-"

But by now Tessa was shaking. "Tessa?" I whispered. "That's-that's-" she stammered before she got up and yelled: "CHIEFTESS!" And slid down the dirt covered hill!

"Tessa, WAIT!" I yelled as I slid down after her. Everyone else came down after me, as well. All three of the creatures below looked up as we all came down and the gerbil's face lit up as she said: "Tessa! Long time no see!" Tessa came sliding down and said to the gerbil: "Chieftess, are you alright?" "Yes, yes, do not fear-I seem to be all in one piece." The Chieftess replied. As we all came down, the Cheiftess and the other two creatures turned to face us and the Chieftess said: "And who might they be?" "These are the portal masters. They were sent here to help us!" And then Tessa introduced us all, one-by-one.

By the time Tessa was done, the Chieftess and the other two creatures looked thrilled. "Oh thank goodness! The portal masters and Skylanders are back!" The frog-and-fish creature said. "This is such a relief-your timing couldn't be better!" The four-armed beast said. Then the Chieftess said: "Yes, I always knew they would return someday-especially in these times." And then Tessa said: "Yeah! Well now that we've found you all, it's time to go back to Woodburrow!" "That sounds good to me." The Chieftess replied. And we all followed Tessa back.

(Meanwhile, in Kaos's castle…)

Kaos laughed maniacally in the room he was in before the door opened and Glumshanks said: "Master? Is everything alright?" "Of course everything's alright, Glumshanks. Why wouldn't everything be alright? Haven't you heard the news?" Kaos asked. "Well, seeing as how the portal masters and the Skylanders just recovered the Chieftess according to one of the surveying parties, I just thought things might be a little worse off." Glumshanks replied.

"So you obviously haven't heard the news then. Well let me tell you: That's perfectly fine with me. I'm just fine with having that withered old windbag off my hands now. Know why?" Kaos asked. "Why?" Glumshanks asked. "Because I already got the information I needed out of that sappy, spineless Chieftess. Turns out she wasn't as hard to scare as I thought-Woalf only had to threaten her once before she complied!" Kaos said. "So what did she say?" Glumshanks asked.

"According to her, the eruption of Mount Cloudbreak happens every 100 years and is triggered by the four beasts known as the 'Elementals' coming to the volcano and using their powers to replenish the magic in Skylands-" Kaos began, but then Glumshanks said: "So how does this help you?" "Don't interrupt me Glumshanks!" Kaos yelled, causing Glumshanks to flinch.

"…Now as I was saying, the elementals come together at that time before using their powers. I also learned that the next eruption is due to occur very soon-as in, a few months. So if I evilize one, just one of the elementals before it returns to the volcano, the dark magic the elemental will be infected with will be transmitted to the volcano, and cause the volcano to become infected with evil and while it will still spew the magic necessary to replenish the magic in Skylands, it will also spew out the DARKNESS!" Kaos said. "The darkness… those were the days, back when that was still in Skylands." Glumshanks said.

"Exactly! The darkness breeds disorder and malice in Skylands-it's almost like a natural phenomenon that evilizes everything it affects, albeit on a much smaller scale. But with that and the ability to evilize things- that's when things will get good! With so much disorder in Skylands and so many creatures fighting each other, that will be the perfect opening I need to rise to power!" And Kaos started laughing manically again.

"But sir, we don't even know where any of the elementals are yet." Glumshanks replied. "And what do you think my next move is going to be, then?" Kaos asked. "That is all well and good sir, but how do you plan to find one?" Glumshanks asked. "I'll see to it that the Greebles will scout all across this region, looking for every bit of information that they can find! It's only a matter of time." Kaos said.

(And back to the portal masters, Tessa, the Chieftess and the creatures…)

At last, we were back at Woodburrow-in fact, we were exactly where we started, at the roots of the towering tree…

"So how are we going to get back up there?" Michael asked. "It should be somewhere around here… Wait just a second…" Tessa said as she started searching around the grass. The Chieftess turned to us and said: "Tessa is looking for a horn that is hidden down here. We blow the horn to call the gondola staff, at which point they'll check to see if it's us, and then they'll send the gondola down to take us into Woodburrow." "It's hidden? What keeps other creatures or animals from finding it, then?" I asked. "It's enchanted so it will not appear before someone who is not from Woodburrow. Not bad, eh?" The Chieftess asked.

"HERE IT IS!" Tessa said as she ran back and blew the horn. A while passed, but soon we saw a platform-like lift coming down on a pulley, until it was down on our level…

"Right, everybody on!" The Chieftess said, and we all got onto the gondola. Soon, we felt it ascending into the air and arrived at Woodburrow.

At last, we had finally rescued the Chieftess! Now I couldn't help but wonder what mission she would give us next…