Ruby and Flora were the first ones to open their eyes… they stood up and looked around, all they saw were dead trees, bones and burned parts of trees on the ground on the ground, also the sky wasn't blue, no it was red… there was also a place that was supposed to be a town, but there were only destroyed and burning buildings "where are we?" asked Ruby "well I think were in the underworld sins…" Flora said, but suddenly stopped talking.
"Flora what's wrong?" asked Ruby worriedly, but Flora remained silent's, Ruby turned towards Flora… but Flora had now glowing red eyes and was very pale, so pale that Ruby even could see through her and then the thought hit her "FLORA YOU'RE A GHOST!" Ruby yelled shocked "what?" Flora yelled as she looked at her own body and then looked back at Ruby with a scared expression on her face.
"Ruby, please tell me that it's you?" she asked slowly "what are you talking about?" Ruby asked confused, Flora's worried look disappeared a bit by knowing only Ruby would react that obviously… "you're a… well…" Flora started and Ruby knew there was something wrong with herself, she looked at her hands and saw all that she had a gray tint into it and had a lot of scars on it…
"what am I?" Ruby asked slowly "I think you're a zombie…" Flora said worriedly, as soon as she said that Ruby made a view weird moves "what are you doing?" asked Flora confused "I just found out that I move faster than a zombie" Ruby said jokingly "this isn't funny, we have to find the others!" Flora said angrily, but as soon as she said it the two of them heard someone…
"could you please keep it down, I was sleeping…" a familiar voice said "Iris!" Flora and Ruby yelled as they spun around only to see Iris with a very pale skin, sharp fangs and blood-red eyes looking at them "wow what happened to you two! You are…" Iris started shocked, but Flora cut her off "a ghost and a zombie, we know" Flora said slowly "and you look like a vampire" Ruby said slowly "well thanks!" Iris said angrily "no, she's serious, you are a vampire" Flora said quickly.
"oh… oh! Now I see! I am a vampire" Iris said as she looked at her own hands to see the pale skin "yes, now that's clear let's find Nukeria, cause I want to get away from here as soon as possible, this place gives me the creeps!" Flora complained "yes, me too, well let's go search over there!" Iris said as she pointed towards a creepy place that was supposed to be a town.
"come on!" Flora said while she tried to grab Iris's and Ruby's hand to drag them towards the place Iris pointed at, but her hands got right through them "huh?" Flora said confused "you're a ghost, you can't grab things anymore, here let me help you" Iris said as she grabbed Ruby's arm and dragged her towards the place that was supposed to be a town "Iris, not so fast your pulling my arm off" Ruby joked "then hurry up!" Flora said as she walked next to Iris.
When they were in the town, everyone was looking at them, but there weren't normal people, mostly skeletons, the three of them walked through the with bones made streets while they looked around and while they did that Ruby bumped into someone with a pumpkin as head, the pumpkin-headed person turned towards Ruby and Ruby shivered in fear as she looked into the glowing purple eyes of the pumpkin-headed person who just glared at her, luckily the pumpkin-headed person looked away and walked off…
"I don't like this place" Ruby whispered in a scared tone to Flora and Iris "me neither, but if we want to find the Nukeria we'll have to search here" Flora whispered back and Iris just nodded as she looked around worriedly, suddenly the three of them saw a huge dinosaur skeleton walking towards them, the dinosaur skeleton stopped before them and the three chosen ones screamed in fear as it moved its head towards them to look at them, they wanted to run, but they were all three paralyzed by fear…
Suddenly they heard a familiar voice say "hey what are you three doing here?" Ruby, Iris and Flora looked up and saw Nukeria standing on top of the head of the dinosaur skeleton, or at least they thought it was Nukeria, the one on the head of the dinosaur was very, very hairy and had wolf-like ears, a furry tail, long sharp fangs and even claws "Nukeria?" Ruby and Flora asked in unison "yea, isn't it great in here… and look I'm a werewolf" Nukeria said happily as she shook her tail a bit.
"so, what exactly are you doing on that… monster?" Flora asked as she didn't know how to call the dinosaur skeleton "going for a joy-ride" Nukeria said jokingly "now hop on and I'll show you around" Nukeria said smiling and helped the others onto the dinosaur skeleton "so how did you get this… pet I guess?" Iris asked slowly "oh didn't you hear, I'm the overlord of the underworld" Nukeria said smiling "that's so cool, but where are we going?" Ruby asked "what do you think? To my palace of course" Nukeria said smiling…
Minutes later they were inside Nukeria's palace and sitting at the table while the food was being served, Flora took something to eat, but it fell out of her body as soon as she swallowed it "ehh I'm not that hungry" Flora said as excuse "well I love the meat, what is it?" Ruby asked "huh? Oh, that's a brain" Nukeria said smiling "OH GOSH! GROSS! GROSS ALL THE WAY!" Ruby yelled and quickly drunk her glass empty to get rid of the taste of brain.
"say Nukeria, Ruby is not old enough for wine…? Neither are you" Flora said as she looked at the color of the drink which happened to be red "but it isn't wine" Nukeria answered slowly "then what is it, I just can't seem to get enough of it" Iris asked as she and Ruby took another glass of it "it's blood" Nukeria said simply, the eyes of Ruby and Iris widened is shock and both of them quickly spat out the blood "that's nasty!" Iris yelled shocked.
"hey, you can't blame me, you both liked it" Nukeria said while she drank some blood "that was before we knew what it was!" Ruby yelled hysterically "hey, I saw you were 'dying' to try it out" Nukeria yoked, suddenly all four of them felt their chairs lift up "and what's happening now?" Flora asked shocked "they're taking us to my room" Nukeria said like it was nothing new, Ruby, Iris and Flora looked down and saw that some of Nukeria's zombie's were lifting the chairs and suddenly music started to play out of nowhere "no, not again!" Flora said annoyed…
"a minotaur's my butler, a Cyclops my valet, a Centaur draws my chariot that takes me down the way" Nukeria sang happily while Ruby, Iris and Flora looked around to the old creepy-looking pictures that hung on the walls "through a river made of fire to a street that's paved with bones I got a dozen zombie skeletons to walk me to my throne" Nukeria sang, while the other three were freaked out by the pictures that seemed to be moving…
A view seconds later they were placed back onto the ground in a huge room with a lot of stuff inside of it, Ruby looked around to check the room out, Iris looked out of the window to check how the underworld would look and Flora sat down on the bed "in the land of the dead, heck boy ain't it grand? I'm the overlord of the underworld cause I hold horror's hand" Nukeria sang while holding up a bone hand at the last part.
"in the land of the dead, I'm dark-side royalty, I'm far renounced in the underground and you can't take that from me… whoa!" Nukeria sang happily while she wanted to show Ruby a view things "whoa!" a view zombies who were in the doorpost echoed "whoa!" Nukeria sang angrily while pointed at hem as a sigh that they had to leave, but they didn't understood that "whoa!" they echoed again "whoa!" Nukeria sang again while she simply snapped her fingers…
As soon as she snapped her fingers three pairs of glowing red eyes opened in a dark corner of the room "whoa!" the zombies yelled shocked before the beast in the corned jumped itself at them and so tacked them out of the room "ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!" the zombies yelled while they were being ribbed apart by the beast, suddenly the yelling stopped and a black dog-like creature with three heads and with glowing red eyes walked into the room, Nukeria kneeled down and petted the dog on top of his head, Ruby kneeled down with the dog as well…
"Cerberus, my lab dog is loyal as can be, my bed is made of skulls, I'm in the lab of luxury" Nukeria sang and Flora quickly jumped of the bed with a discussed look on her face, Nukeria stood up and walked over to iris who was still looking out of the window "I've got dragon's blood Jacuzzi, the Gorgons think it's cool" Nukeria said as she pointed in the garden to her Jacuzzi that was filled with blood, there were Gorgons relaxing in it.
"and a seven-headed Hydra livin' in my swimmin' pool" Nukeria sang while turning back to Ruby and Flora, Iris saw one of the Hydra heads come out of the pool and eat the Gorgons in the Jacuzzi, she looked very shocked at the scene "in the land of the dead, heck boy ain't it grand? I'm the overlord of the underworld cause I hold horror's hand" Nukeria sang, Iris walked over to Ruby and Flora and the three of them shared a worried look with each other…
"Nukeria, I don't like this place" Iris said honestly "yea, me neither, it's creeping me out" Ruby added "same here" Flora said slowly "well I like it here! And there's no way I'm leaving!" Nukeria said angrily and pulled a secret switch on her chandelier, underneath Ruby, Iris and Flora the floor disappeared and the three of them fell on some sort of slide that brought them in the garden of the palace, the three of them looked up to Nukeria's window and saw her looking at them as well.
"in the land of the dead, I'm dark-side royalty, I'm far renounced in the underground and you can't take that away from me! No you can't take that from me" Nukeria said in a dark sounding voice as she glared at the other three chosen ones, she then turned away and disappeared out of sight for the other chosen ones "Nukeria…" Ruby, Iris and Flora said sadly and looked down with a sad look on their face…
"do you think we've lost her?" Iris asked slowly "no! and if we have then we'll have to get back! No matter what!" Ruby said while she stood up "yea! I'm with you Ruby!" Flora said as she stood up as well "what do you say Iris, are you with us too?" Ruby asked while she held out her hand for Iris, Iris looked at Ruby's hand for a second and then took it with a smile, Ruby pulled her up "I say, was there ever a doubt?" Iris said with a smile.
The three of them ran towards the entrance of the palace without noticing a certain pumpkin-headed person with purple glowing eyes was watching them all this time… as the three chosen ones reached the entrance door of the palace they were stopped by a zombie which was a guard of Nukeria "there's no way we're going to give up Nukeria!" Ruby yelled as her pupils turned red and she threw a fireball at the zombie.
When the guard was out of the way the three of them ran into the palace "where can she be?" Flora asked when they reached the room where they just ate, suddenly a chair turned around and Nukeria was sitting in it "so you three are back…" Nukeria said in a deep voice "of course we're back" Iris said smiling "well, I'm not going back" Nukeria said in a serious tone.
Ruby, Iris and Flora looked at each other "so how are we going to get her to change her mind?" Ruby whispered to the other two chosen ones "I have an idea" Flora whispered back and did a step forwards "okay Nukeria, you won, we'll go without you… too bad we will never see you again… and you won't have your powers in here… and no radio…" Flora said slowly although she was just acting it.
"w-what, I'll never see you again… and I have no powers… and… no radio!" Nukeria said shocked, it was just the reaction Flora had suspected "well we'll just go now" Flora said while turning away, Nukeria was still figuring out what to do… "ehh… I… I… WAIT! I'll go back with you! I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT RADIO! Nukeria yelled and Ruby, Iris and Flora shared a smirk with each other before all four of them were blinded a flash of bright white light, it was so bright that they couldn't see a thing, they covered their eyes with their hands to shield it from the light.
When they opened their eyes they saw that they were back in the training dojo and that Andre and Ginny were looking at them worriedly… they felt really weak and fell into their knees "Andre, get Lilly!" they heard Ginny yell as she ran over to them, the last they saw before everything went black was Ginny who looked at them worriedly as she said something like 'don't worry it's gonna be okay' but they were not sure sins her voice slowly started to fade away…
They slowly opened their eyes at the same time, they saw that they were back in their own beds in the training dojo "wha-what happened?" Nukeria said slowly as she held her hand on her head "now I knows how it feels when you wake up after getting drunk…" Flora said slowly " at least were back at the training dojo, right Iris?" Ruby said slowly, but there was no reply "…Iris?" asked Ruby after a view seconds, but there was still no reply, the three of them looked at the window where Iris sadly looked to the outside world.
"Iris what's wrong?" asked Flora worriedly "it's nothing really" Iris said not wanted to worry them "it is something, otherwise you won't be so deep in thoughts" Ruby said quickly "just tell us what's wrong" Nukeria asked "okay… well… when we went to that portal back to this dimension I… I saw something…" Iris said slowly "you too?" Ruby asked "so I'm not the only one who saw it?" Nukeria asked "so that means we all saw it" Flora said quickly "we must find out what it means…" Iris said hopefully, but the moment she said it the four of them got a vision…
I would like to say I own all of the characters, but sadly I do not, Ruby, Iris, Flora and Nukeria belong to friends of mine... I do own Melody and of course the other characters in this story =D