Chapter IX: Far Far Away
Princess Adora
"It's time to wake up," a voice sang as I slowly opened my eyes. I am in some kind of large glass tank. "You're lucky Horde Prime is on his holiday," Scorpia says as I look up and see her with Octavia looking down at me. "Thankfully the king had a way to deal with trouble makers."
My left ankle is shackled to the floor. The chain itself is short and the manacle appears to be one piece. Scorpia says the king loved trapping victims here and watch them suffer. "I've seen worse punishments than being in a glass box." Scorpia laughed saying that was only part one. She presses a button on the wall and the tank begins to fill with water.
"A pity we can't stay to watch you drown but we have a part to find," Octavia said as the tank is sealed. She laughed watching the water rising before leaving for another chamber in the pyramid. I stand up and look around for some way out but it seems hermetically sealed.
Anacletus (Lead Ghost Vulture)
"I think saw them go this way," the girl said hoping we would lead them to the shef. Once she was gone and I motioned for my crew to come out.
"I hope shef has a plan?" Æsc said adjusted his glasses. I told him that I was given instructions on what to do next. I take a piece of paper out of a tube. It said we were to sneak into the boy's house and take a hemd from his closet. "what about der gayst shrek and the parents they will be all over us?"
I remove my fez and take out a tuning fork like device. According to shef it should disable the Fenton's toys. "First we need to steer the kinderlekh away from here. Acacius, go distract them while we go get the goods." He looks at me and asks why does he have to do it.
"You're the fastest of the three of us. You can easily lead them a way." Acacius whined saying he always gets the hard jobs. "Mir ton nisht hobn tsayt tsu biker if we don't do this now shef will have our heads. Itst geyn!" he sighs and flies off. "Got, vos ikh bin atatsht tsu di idyots?"
Kowl
"Shouldn't you wait for She-Ra's friend?" I asked Bow as he mounted his horse. He said something was wrong her friend should be here by now. "At least you should tell the queen you're going," the archer shook his head and took off for the Fright Zone.
"Psst, Kowl," I heard a voice say as Loo-Kee raced into the room with a couple of Twiggets. I ask him how he got here so fast. "The Twiggets used their magic. Something happened outside the Whispering Woods." I tell him we need to tell the queen about it.
"We can teleport to the throne room," one of the Twiggets say as I swallow hard. I tell him I am not sure that is..." He snaps his fingers and in a flash we are in Angella's throne room
"Loo-Kee, what brings you to Brightmoon?" she asks as he bows before her. He asks if she saw the flash in the sky that happened awhile back. "Yes, I inquired to Madame Razz as what it could be but it was beyond even her knowledge."
"The Horde went to check it out. I saw Shadow Weaver and a couple troopers head that way" The Kon-Seal says nervously. "They found a person, a boy, in the crater. He tried to fight but they took him." Angella frowns and asks where they were headed. "It looked like towards the Fright Zone."
"We have to get him out of there. I will have Bow rescue him when he and She-Ra's friend go to...," I explain that he already left afraid something was wrong. "Then we can only hope he will find him."
Danny
"Welcome to your new home," one of the tin cans said throwing me into a cell. I clenched my fist trying to summon my power but they were still out. Another stormtrooper wannabe looked at my fist and said I wasn't so tough now.
"You won't get away with this. My friends are already looking for me...," they laughed as they attached a collar to my neck and threw me to the ground. I glared at them as they all laughed at me before locking the door. I wanted to shout and call for help but I don't even know where I'm at. "Way to go Fenton, another fine mess you've caused," I sat down in the corner of the cell.
"It's not your fault. Hordak hates everybody," a female voice said from the wall. "What did you do get locked in here?" she asked curiously. I shrugged one moment I was in Vlad's mansion and the next I'm in some forest. "Vlad's mansion? I have never heard of such a place is it in one of the other kingdoms?"
"Kingdoms?" Maybe I was in the Ghost Zone after all. She explained that many kingdoms make up Etheria. "Etheria is it in the Ghost Zone?" the voice said she never of the Ghost Zone but that I was on Etheria. The truth started to sink in- I wasn't on Earth or the Ghost but somewhere completely foreign. "Great," I banged my head against the metal wall.
"You said your friends were looking for you?" That was when I had hope that I was somewhere I knew. They might not even know I am missing. "Don't worry a friend of mine is on his way to get us out of here. I'm Glimmer by the way. It's a pleasure to meet you. Even if I wish it wasn't here," Glimmer chuckles.
"I'm Danny, Danny Fenton," I said introducing myself. Glimmer assured me that when her friend comes she will make sure that I would be able to go home. "That would be nice."
Scorpia
"Are sure we should enter? I mean it is said the king is buried inside...," Octavia quivered as I looked an ornate stone slab. Hieroglyphs identified it as the king's crypt. I don't believe in curses and if fin brain wants to stay out here she is more than welcome to do so.
I grabbed the large slab with my claws and tore it it off. We walked inside the room but to our shock found nothing. "For a crypt of a king it's very sparse," I admitted looking at the walls but they were blank. "Could this have been a trick?"
"I think I found something," Octavia shouted as I raced over to find a simple coffin on the floor. I threw the lid off but there was nothing inside not even a single bone. "You don't think someone else grabbed the piece long ago?" She asks as I punch the ground, "What was that?" She asked placing an ear to the ground.
"There is something underneath," I punched harder until a hole was created. I make it large enough for us to enter.
I got out an electric torch and explored the new room. The writing on the wall identified as the gates of the underworld. I was about to explore when Octavia called me to another corner. A large metal box lay beside the wall. I remove lid and smile and as found the next part of the weapon. "Hordak will pleased," I said removing it from the box.
"Look at this," Octavia pointed to the wall. I held the torch up to and smiled. It was telling where to go next. The Swamps of Despair. I activate a portal to the Fright Zone and tell her to hurry up as Hordak is waiting.
Jazz
"What do you mean 'you don't know?'" I asked Sam as she explained that they lost Danny. They said the clues lead to Vlad's mansion and then nothing. "Well he has to be at Vlad's somewhere." Sam rolled her eyes and sighed. "What aren't you telling me?"
"Look all we know is that Danny and Vlad were fighting." That is hardly answer. I demand again to tell me everything she knew. "I wish there was more but there isn't. When we find something out we will let you...," a noise was heard coming from upstairs.
I slowly walk up to Danny's room and place an ear on the door. Voices could be here arguing about something in another language. I recognized them, they were Vlad's pet birds. Sam motions me to back away from the door but I want to find out what they there doing.
"Bisl gerlz zol nisht arayntsyen," I looked up and saw one of them staring at me. He growls and goes to attack but I run down the stairs. "We have an intruder!" he should as I take out the Fenton ant-creep stick and sending flying into the wall.
"We have what we came for let's get back to shef." The other two fly out but escape before I can attack. "Stop lollygagging," the third one grabs their unconscious comrade and fly away.
"I think we found a clue." I told her about the birdbrains in Danny's room but she had gone. "Looks like it's up to me to save him," I race down the lab to get a few things ready.
Author's Notes
Here is a translation of what the vultures are saying:
Shef= Boss, in this case Vlad
hemd= Shirt
kinderlekh= Children
der gayst shrek= The ghost alarm
Mir ton nisht hobn tsayt tsu biker = We don't have time to bicker
Itst geyn = Lets go!
Got, vos ikh bin atatsht tsu di idyots= God why am I attached to these idiots?
Bisl gerlz zol nisht arayntsyen = Little girls shouldn't meddle
