Hello everyone! Time for chapter ten of VI. This is where the big stuff begins, plus it's also the beginning of a villain story arc. But what will happen? Just wait and find out!

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Chapter 10: Tricked?

Maylea walked along the path on the island... thinking about the shell... and how it was in 'good' hands. Apparently, a boy had found her, having the shell, and told her into that he would protect the shell for her... and it would be used for a most important purpose.

At first, the young girl didn't trust him, due to how sinister he seemed, but at the same time, he looked pretty sincere as well. She he trusted him with the protection of the shell... and hoped that he wouldn't do anything to risky with it.

But boy was she wrong, unaware of the plans that boy had in mind.

As she walked, she had met up with Sofia.

"Oh, hi, Sofia. How are you today?" Maylea asked.

Sofia smiled as she replied, "Pretty good."

"That's great!"

With that, after a few moments of silence, the girls decided to walk together, "You know, I still wonder how that tsunami wave even occurred yesterday. There weren't any storm clouds out."

"The weather on Halakuna works in strange ways..." Maylea replied.

"Oh I see."

But now Sofia had another question... regarding the shell. "Say, where's the magical shell?"

Maylea smiled,"Oh it's in safe hands."

"You sure?"

"Yeah! In the hands of a kind but mysterious boy I met fairly recently. His name I can't remember, but he kinda looks like you friend, Jake."

Upon hearing that last bit of what Maylea said, Sofia stopped in her tracks, "Someone that looks like Jake?"

"Yeah. Black hair, green eyes, dresses like a pirate. Almost a carbon copy."

Uh oh.

Sofia knew exactly who she was talking about, "Uh, Maylea. About that boy.. I don't know how to explain this. Bu. he's actually Jake's evil double named Blake."

"Evil? That's kinda pushing it. He's strange... but not evil..."

At that moment, Sofia saw no point in trying to convince Maylea. She wouldn't believe her. But something had to be done...

So, instead of trying to convince her, Sofia just nodded. Meanwhile, after talking with Maylea some more, Sofia rushed back to her friends to tell them the problem. They all met in the hotel's cafe, where Sofia discussed it. Once she finished explaining, everyone was deeply shocked, especially Willow, "So Blake must have tricked her!"

"Sofia, why didn't you try to tell her who he is?" Amber asked.

The younger princess frowned, "I kinda did... but I didn't go further because I knew she wouldn't have believed me."

Shawn K. spoke up, "So, what are we going to do?"

"We have to get the shell back from Blake, before he uses it for any bad purposes." Jake answered.

Everyone agreed, as they went off to find the evil pirate boy. They decided to split up and search in threes. The pirate crew, the royals, and the fly boy, all star, and sorceress princess together. AKA The usual original grouping.

With the pirates, they found themselves on a dirt path, "Jake... what do you think Blake is planning to do with the magic shell?" Cubby asked.

"I don't fully know, but my best guess is something evil."

"Well, of course. It's Blake, leader of the Dark Pirates..." Izzy replied. "Peter said that he saw Blake using some sort of scepter... maybe it as something to do with that shell."

Suddenly Cubby spots something, "Hey mateys, check this out." He then picks up what looked like a gem of some sort.

"Whoa, a gem!" Jake spoke.

"Do you think it could be magical?" Izzy asked.

"Maybe." Jake then took the gem and put it in his vest pocket. Soon they continued down the dirt path, hoping to find Blake. Meanwhile with the royals, While Sofia and Amber were looking around, James on the other hand was goofing around, wanting to have a little fun.

But the girls payed no attention to him at all as they continued to search, "I hope Blake doesn't hurt that gorgeous shell!" Amber said with worry. "It's simply a treasure."

Sofia nodded in agreement, "I know... and if Blake plans to use that for evil, then we're in big trouble."

That's when James walked up to them, holding something, "Hey, check out this gem I found."

The two princesses looked and saw the gem in James's hand. It looks like the same one Jake and his crew found. Only of a different color this time, "That's pretty..." Amber said.

"Maybe it's a clue..." Sofia added.

But is it truly a clue.

As this was going on, we catch up with the fly boy, all star, and magic princess trio. As they were all reaching the end of their trail by this point, but had no luck in finding the Dark Pirates.

"No luck.."

"Well, he can't be too hard too miss, he looks just like Jake..."

"Well we'll need to find a way to speed the process up. And I suggest each of us split up again in three separate directions, hopefully. We should be able to cover more ground, and possibly find Blake too. Peter, you search parts of the island high above. Willow, you take the right side of this portion of the island, while I take the left portion. If you find anything, just give a signal."

Both Peter and Willow nodded as the threesome travel in three separate directions, with Peter. He searched many other portions of the islands, hoping to find Blake. He searched the highest palm trees, the thickest portion of the woods, and even around the volcano ground level areas. But he found no sign of the Dark Pirate at all. He just sighed in frustration, but still kept looking.

With Willow, she was journeying down her path inside the jungle, passing by many exotic island creatures like birds, frogs, snakes, and heck, even lions! But just like Peter, she had no luck at all finding Blake or any clues that he could have left behind. "This is a lot harder than I thought.." She moans to herself at first, before she continues searching.

With Shawn K. we find him on the tallest tree branches, searching for any signs of the Dark Pirate, but he too was having a lot of trouble. "He's got to be around somewhere." He said as he slid back down, once reaching the ground. he noticed something shiny on the ground, he picks it up. And notices it's a gem. Same one as the royals and pirate crew found.

"What's this? A clue of some sorts?!" He asked to himself, looking at the gem.

Whatever it is he just had to show it too the others. So sometime later, after giving the signal. The trio reunite as Shawn showed them what they found, and at this point of time. The groups would re-unite as one, after they all ending up making it back to the seaside beach of the island.

"Did you guys have any luck of finding Blake?" Peter asked everyone.

"Afraid not." Sofia answered. "We've looked all over, but he just wasn't around."

"Same here.." Jake groaned, as he dug into his pocket and pulls out a gem he found earlier. "But I did find this while we were looking."

The others were in awe as Amber said, "Hey, that looks like the one that we found." She then pulled out the same exact gem, as did Shawn K when he said. "Same here."Now this was very mysterious, three same exact gems found by these three groups. This had to lead to something, but the question is what though?!

Just as they were thinking, Cubby suddenly noticed Maylea walking towards them. "Mateys, here comes Maylea." He told everyone, getting their attention and noticing Maylea approaching as they hid their gems. Just as she greeted them all.

"Hi everybody, what are you all up too?" She asked them politely.

"Not a whole lot, though we are trying to find Blake." James said, though ended up earning an elbow bump from Amber in the gut. The prince just groaned, rubbing his gut. "What?!"

"Oh, you know I did wonder where he has been. I just wanted to see how he's taking good care of the magic shell."

"Well, about that Maylea. There's something you have to know." Jake said to her, explaining something. "Regarding the shell, he's not planning to use it for good cares. He's got evil plans in mind for it, considering he's my evil double. And if we don't find him and take the shell back soon, he'll use it to do something horrifying, it might end up destroying this entire island."

Maylea just looked at them for a moment, but began to chuckle a little. Thinking this was just a joke. "Oh come on now, there's just no way he could be able to pull off something like that. Plus he did say he would take good care of it, so I trust him completely."

So with that, she proceeds to walk off, leaving everyone extremely worried. "You see what I mean, she just won't believe us about Blake." Sofia said.

"Well maybe she might not believe us now, but hopefully we can give her some ideas with the gems we found." Shawn said as went to get it out of his pocket, but found it to be empty, much to his shock. "Wait a sec... the gem, it's not in my pocket!"

This suddenly shocked the others as Amber checked if she still had hers, but she didn't. Same went for Jake when he checked every pocket among him, they were all empty. This could only mean one thing, they were stolen.

"Aw coconuts! Who could have taken them?!" Cubby asked, sounding very scared.

"I'll bet ya Blake had something to do with this." Peter answered.

The others quickly agreed as Willow said, "Now we have another reason to finding him. Come on, we better keep looking!" Soon they all ran off to continue searching for Blake. While unknown to them, the hooded women was nearby, and she had in her hands the three gems that our friends though were stolen by Blake.

"Such fools, they've falsely accused someone else of stealing something I have stolen." She said before chuckling darkly. "Gems of Halakuna... awaken the creatures of possession..."

Uh oh...

MC: I think we're in for some trouble here.

Yep! Major trouble, this is where the villain story arc begins.

MC: Starting with the mysterious hooded women. So best be prepared.

And we'll see you guys later tomorrow with the next chapter! And don't forget to review, please. Thank you.