Just another Day…
TMS: Hello everyone! I know that this chapter is a few days late, but I was having some technical problems. Anyway it's out now so I hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Spyro, Cynder or any of the other Skylanders characters. They belong to Activison, Toys for Bob, and all the rest.
Gill Grunt was walking along, greeting and fist-bumping any other Skylander he came across, but then he turned a corner and bumped into someone; dropping his sack in the collision, he rubbed his chest where he had been hit and looked over at whoever he collided with. Gill Grunt saw a red and white gremlin with a long, curly, black mustache, wearing a beret, holding a baguette, and muttering "sacré bleu!" under his breath.
"Ah! Pardoner moi monsieur! I should 'ave been watching where I was going! Are you un-'armed sir?"
"Huh? No, I've got this thing…" Gill Grunt said taking out his harpoon launcher.
"Ahahahaha! Mon ami you are très funny! I suppose you are not 'urt."
"Yeah I'm fine, just a little accident… Hey wait a second! Who are you!?"
"Ah but of course! We 'ave not been introduced! I am: Jean François Philippe Lèon Guillaume le trois"
"Le… tuh-wr-ah?" Gill Grunt enunciated.
"le trois; 'ze third."
"Oh okay, so what brings you here?"
Suddenly Jean became very angry; jumping around shaking his fist, waving around his baguette, and yelling.
"I 'ave been… 'ow you say? Bamboozeled! A band of revolutionares with muskets and croissants, forced moi to surrender to 'zem, and 'zey stole mon omlette du fromage!"
"You were robbed!? You should go report to Master Xavier; his chambers are in the highest room of the tallest tower. Go down to the end of this hallway, go through the door, then turn left through the second archway, then go through the third door on the right, the ninth door on the left, then go thought the trap door in the ceiling, then follow the orange arrows through the maze and leave out the center door, then go down the stairs, walk to the end of the hall, go up those stairs, climb to the top of the tower, walk across the bridge to the other tower, then climb down the tower until you see the sliding glass door, then-"
"Wait wait! I am très confused; did you say ze second archway? And vhat color arrows?"
"You know what, just follow those signs there; they'll get you there."
Jean looked in the direction that Gill Grunt was pointing and saw an arrow labeled "The Tallest Tower."
"Merci man ami! I will 'opefully see you later." He said as he walked off.
Gill Grunt continued on his way, however the gillman didn't notice "Jean" Poke hid head out from around a corner, he then removed his beret and mustache to reveal that Jean was really Trigger Happy!
The aforementioned gremlin (who was still wearing the devil horns) smirked and snapped his baguette in half, revealing a pitchfork made entirely out of gold. He then chuckled menacingly under his breath and started tiptoeing after Gill Grunt.
'He's walking right into the trap!' Trigger Happy thought.
As Gill Grunt turned a corner he saw a huge curtain pulled across the hallway, covered in yellow and black hazard tape, with orange cones scattered in front of it, finally a paper sign with red writing on it said "Hazardous material! Do not enter!"
"Well I'm not going in there." Gill grunt made to turn around when he saw Trigger Happy standing there with his horns and pitchfork standing in a tiptoeing position.
"Hi Trigg, I thought the night vision goggles were your sneaking gear, not your… devil… horns… Oh no…" Gill Grunt trailed off as he realized what was standing in front of him.
"That's right, I'm devilified! There's no telling what I'll do!" Trigg pointed his pitchfork at the gillman as he said this.
"Woah! Careful with that thing!" Gill Grunt said as he backed away from the sharp golden trident.
As the gillman retreated, he gently nudged one of the cones with his foot. This caused the one of the near-invisible trip-wires that were between the cones to move just enough to activate something behind the curtain. Gill Grunt felt the floor under his feet begin to rumble.
"…What exactly is back there?"
"My masterpiece: a trap so great that not even your incredible skills could best it!"
Suddenly the curtain was torn away as the "masterpiece" brunt felt himself being carried away like a leaf in the wind as he felt great pain, and his entire vision was filled with just one thing.
"Gold! Gold! GOLD!"
Gold coins literally flooded the castle halls as Trigger Happy cackled like a lunatic as even he was swept away by the wave of coins. As the wave reached a corner Gill Grunt slammed into the wall and rose above the churning money, as he splashed about, trying to keep his head out of the rushing rapids, Trigger Happy rode by wearing a tiki idol on his head and riding a huge gold ingot like a surf board.
"Cowabunga! I'll be taking that dude!" The gremlin pulled the sack from Gill Grunt's belt, and with a wave he surfed off.
"Trigg! Help me!" the gillman cried out as he felt the coins pulling him under again.
Then he saw Trigg hesitate on his "surfboard" and then he turned the ingot around and rescued Gill Grunt; pulling him onto his shining ride.
"Sorry bro, I got, like, no idea what came over me."
"I told you to get rid of those horns!"
As Gill Grunt looked up at his "rescuer" he noticed something: The river of gold had reached the main doors of the castle, the same doors that opened inwards, the same doors that were so strong that not even Boomer could scratch them.
"This is gonna hurt." Gill Grunt said.
"Hey I love that song!" said Trigg as a pink, white, and green spiky haired wig appeared on his head.
A jarring impact struck the gold bar, and the two skylanders were both flung from the ingot. A hill of coins had piled up against the doors and after they bounced off the ceiling; Gill and Trigg both rolled down it, and crashed into two more piles of coins.
Gill Grunt sat up groggily and looked around, realizing that the hallways would need a serious cleaning. However the more immediate thought that struck him was "Where is Trigg and the sack?"
Answer to both questions: Over there. A currently bare-headed Trigger Happy was enthusiastically holding the sack up into the air.
"Trigg stop! Don't do it!"
However it was too late, the gremin tore it in half to claim his hard earned prize. Gill Grunt sighed and closed his eyes, then he opened them and saw the no-longer-bare-headed Trigger Happy; wearing his new hat. He grinned gleefully for a second before clearing his throat and speaking.
"I wear a fez now; fezzes are cool."
*Knock knock knock*
"Zzzz- Huh! Oh! Come in!"
The doors to Xavier's chambers opend and Hugo nervously entered.
"Hi Hugo! How are you? How's your day?"
"Uh sir, I have bad news."
"That's alright Hugo, what is it."
"*ahem* Well during his mission today Gill Grunt found a hat, he was on his way to seal it in Vault #6 as is standard whenever hats are found, unfortunately Trigger Happy found out something was being hidden from him, so he placed proximity mines on the hill, set off a coin-bomb the arena, flooded the halls with gold, impersonated a Frenchman, and managed to get his hands on the hat."
"…Not again."
TMS: There we go! Hopefully that was worth the few days extra wait, I'll definitely have the next chapter out on schedule. See you all next time!
