11

TERROR OF THE SAND

The whole group looked at Janga and Anubis. "Who the bloody **** are these ******* cats?!" Isaac said. Janga had an angry look on his face. Anubis just kept his stern expression. "******* cats?!" Janga said angrily to Isaac. "How dare you say things like that to me, you nigger! Especially after I planned that attack earlier!" "What the mama ******* ****!? You calling me a nigger!?" Isaac exclaimed to Janga. "You are going to pay for that, man!"

"So, I see," Krystal said. "Huh? What are you talking about?" Lisa said. "It's just as I thought," Krystal replied. "The zombies were controlled by someone from far away," "Controlled?" Chris said. "What do you mean?" "What I'm trying to say is that those zombies were formed by using a special power and controlled from a far distance," Krystal said to Chris. "Those two cats in front of us are the ones responsible for sending them to attack your base,"

"Are you telling me they used some kind of sorcery to overwhelm the base here?" Jill asked Krystal. "Yes, and that brown cat is the one who has that power," Krystal said. "Wait a minute. I've heard of many B. with special features but sorcery? Now that's hard to believe," Chris said. "Well, it is true," Falco said. "I suppose what you saw me and my friends doing earlier was hard to believe then?"

"You punks!" Janga said. "Quit talking as if I'm not here!" "Relax, kitty," Chris said. "We're just figuring out why you and another one of your kind here is attacking my base," "I am not kitty you bastard! I am Janga the Great!" Janga said. "Janga?" Jill said. "That's quite a name you got there," "Why thank you," Janga said with a wicked smile. "And this friend of mine here is Anubis," Anubis just stared sternly at the group.

"What do you want? Why are you attacking this base?" Kennedy asked Janga and Anubis. "Why, to judge humanity obviously," Janga said. "We are going to prove ourselves to be more superior than the humans," "What kind of trash are you talking about?" Chris said. "Humans are weak, pathetic and stupid. We the elementals were born to bring judgment upon them in order to cleanse the world and make it ours," Janga said.

"Cleanse the world? Elementals?" Jill said. "Hold it. What's going on here?" "I don't need to tell you, lady," Janga said. "Oh, by the way, I'd like to have fun with you all but I think Anubis here is just suitable enough to clear you all," He then said to Anubis, "Anubis, kill all of these wretched humans and their furry companions! Crush everything in your way!"

"Affirmative," Anubis said. Janga ran off while saying to the group, "See ya, punks! Ha, ha ,ha , ha!" "Janga! Wait up!" Klonoa said as he was about to give chase. "Klonoa, don't!" Guntz said while halting his advance. "It's no use. That Anubis guy will block our way to him," A purple UFO came above Janga and took him away. "Janga!" Klonoa shouted.

"You know him?" Chris asked Klonoa. "We'll talk later," Rogan said. "We'll have to settle our foe here first!" "Then, we'll go!" one of Chris's soldiers said. "Yeah! We owe something to the furries here and we're gonna do it!" another of Chris's soldiers said. "Let's go then!" another soldier said. Hearing this, all of the soldiers charged to Anubis.

"Wait! Don't! It's dangerous!" Chris shouted to the soldiers. "Pull back!" Rogan shouted. "You don't know what's going to happen!" The soldiers did not listen to Rogan and Chris's call. They kept on charging. Anubis saw this and he pulled a small grin on his face. "Fools," he then said. "Let me show you humans how powerful I am,"

Anubis lifted a hand and pushed it forward. Upon what he did, waves of sand in the shapes of spikes came out from the ground beside him and knocked a lot of the soldiers into the air. The unharmed soldiers retreated back to the group while the soldiers that got hit landed on the ground hard near the group. A lot of the soldiers that got hit were bleeding all over themselves and were suffering from great pain.

"What is this?!" one of the unharmed soldier said. "He knocked a whole lot of us just without using his hands!" "And just with sand?!" another one of them said. "That's why I told all of you not to charge without thinking!" Chris said to the unharmed soldiers. "Listen! We could have lost all of you for that recklessness!" "We're sorry, sir," an unharmed soldier said to Chris. "We just wanted to help…"

"Let the soldiers think to themselves, Chris," Fox said. "They've done their best," The group continued looking at Anubis. Anubis then said to the group, "It appears there are those who have the same power as me," "Power? What are you talking about?" Lisa said. "I see that two of you are elementals too," Anubis said. He then pointed to Miyu and Fay while adding, "Isn't that right, you two?"

Miyu and Fay just felt a little surprised upon Anubis's words. "We are elementals alright. So, what's your point?" Miyu said to Anubis. "In that case…" Anubis said while he looked down and lifted his arms up in opposite directions. Grains of sand travelled slowly around him and as he brought his head back up again, he had an extremely evil look on his face and said, "…I won't hold back!"

"Rogan, bring all the humans here and take them aside. I'll handle this with my friends," Fox said. "What?!" Claire said. "Wait, are you sure about this?!" "Isn't it obvious?" Powalski said. "You and your friends' weapons are of no use against that sand controlling freak. So, get back," "But, wait…!" "Just go!" Powalski cut short Rebecca's words. "You wanna die?!"

Rogan didn't hesitate to follow Fox's advice. He did what Fox told him to do and was standing away from the battle area, watching it with the rest of the humans. Rebecca tended to the soldiers' wounds. "Okay, everyone," Fox said. "You all ready?" "More ready than anything," Falco said. "Here he comes!" Anubis, with his evil expression, slammed his palms onto the ground. Once he did, a tidal wave of sand was formed and it was heading to the anthros.

"A tidal wave?!" Rebecca exclaimed. "Just like that?!" "Let's hope they survive this," G said. "They better, man! They better!" Isaac said. The anthros got themselves ready. "We got to stop that wave!" Fox said. "If we don't, not just us will be destroyed but the base too!" "Then, let's hurry!" Chipple said. "Come on!" "I'll go first!" Krystal said. "Let me try this!" Krystal pointed her rod to the wave. The tip of it extended to become a gigantic tree branch which pushed against the wave.

The branch and wave pushed against each other. However, the wave was consuming the branch slowly. "I can't push the wave back! It's too strong!" Krystal said. "I have an idea!" Miyu said. "Fay! Shoot some ice large enough to push the tidal wave!" "Huh?! But, how will that work?!" Fay asked. "Just do it!" Miyu said. "Now!" "R-Right!" Fay said as she prepared an ice spell.

Fay conjured a powerful spell to be shot at the wave. By that time, the wave had completely crushed the branch Krystal produced. As the wave went to the anthros at a fast speed, Fay unleashed her spell. Two dragons of ice were shot out from her hands and headed to the wave. Miyu then prepared her own spell. She made hand signs and chanted.

Once she finished the spell, she spit out a large phoenix of fire from her mouth. The phoenix went to the ice dragons and melted them, turning them into gigantic sprays of water. The water hit the tidal wave causing it to disappear. Soon, the tidal wave was no more. Anubis saw this and had a stern expression on his face. "Everyone, now!" Fox said.

Upon hearing this, Falco and Wolf dashed towards Anubis. Fox did the same. The rest ran to Anubis. Fox, Falco and Wolf engaged in melee combat with Anubis first. Anubis blocked their punches and kicks with sand. While fighting with the trio, he saw the rest of the anthros coming closer to him. He made a hand sign and caused sand zombies to surround them. "Oh, no! They're surrounded!" Lisa said. "Don't worry. They can make it," Kennedy said.

Fox, Falco and Wolf saw what happened and stopped attacking Anubis. "Now that your friends are surrounded by my unlimited army of zombies, I can fight the three of you with full force!" Anubis said with a wicked smile. "We've got to let the rest of us tend to themselves, Fox," Falco said. "Anubis might stop us if we tried to help them," "I understand, Falco," Fox said. "Let's go, then!" Fox, Falco and Wolf then continued fighting Anubis.

As the rest of the anthros were being surrounded by the sand zombies, Klonoa said, "Okay, guys, what now? We're cornered!" "We'll have to fight," Katt said. "It may take a long time but, we'll just have to so that we can reach Fox, Falco and Wolf," "Well, what are we waiting for?! Let's fight!" Guntz exclaimed. Klonoa turned his hammer into the Wind Sword and sliced through the zombies. Chipple hit his fist on the ground, causing spikes of rock to come out from it and hit some zombies. The rest of the anthros used their weapons to kill the zombies.

Fox, Falco and Wolf were having a hrad time battling Anubis. Anubis could block all of their attacks with sand efficiently. No matter where the trio struck him from, Anubis could still call upon sand to block their attacks. "This guy's tough!" Fox said. "We can't give up yet!" Wolf said. "The rest of us are surrounded and are fighting hard! We have to do the same thing!" "There has to be a way to hit Anubis!" Falco said.

As Fox, Falco and Wolf fought Anubis, their friends were fighting the sand zombies with their fullest efforts. The zombies that were destroyed turned to sand which remained on the ground and were beneath the anthros' feet. Krystal was slowly being cornered by the zombies. Seeing this, Fox went to try and help her. "Krystal!" he shouted while running to her. "Not so fast!" Anubis said. He called upon a vine of sand which grabbed Fox's foot and hit him on the ground multiple times.

"Fox!" Krystal, Rogan and the humans shouted in concern. Wolf saved Fox by using his strength to cut down the vine. He caught Fox and brought him back to the ground. "Fox, you okay?!" Falco asked. "I'm fine. Just feeling a little bruised up that's all," Fox said. Back at the cornered anthros' side, Powalski said, "I'm sick of being surrounded by these zombies. We've got three of us being owned by that sand freak. We can't just stand here killing these zombies!"

"Leon's got a point," Katt said. "Some of us will have to help Fox," "Tell you what, Katt. You and the girls take care of the zombies. The rest of us will charge through to get to Fox!" Guntz said. "Wait, are you sure about this?!" Miyu asked. "We have no choice!" Powalski said. "We can't let Fox die! Now, go get the zombies!" "Alright, Guntz," Krystal said. "I'll leave the rest up to you," "No problem. Alright, boys, let's go!" Guntz said.

The cornered male anthros pushed their way through the zombies to assist Fox while the female ones used their powers to kill the zombies. Fox, Falco and Wolf were wounded by Anubis. The three of them were kneeling on the ground in front of Anubis, taking a short rest before moving on with their fight. "Great!" Falco said. "Isn't there any way to beat this guy at all?!" Anubis smiled wickedly and said, "You all are fools to face me. Time I finished the three of you off,"

Anubis pushed both of his hands forward. Streams of sand rushed from out of the ground towards Fox, Falco and Wolf. No good. Fox thought. We might be dead… All of a sudden, Klonoa came in and swung a large wind shockwave out of his sword. The wave cut through the sand streams destroying them in a short time. The wave even gave Anubis some small cuts on his body and face. "You guys?!" Falco said to the male anthros who were surrounded earlier. "How did you manage to make your way through the zombies?!"

"It was hard but no worries. Your girl along with Fox's girl, Miyu and Fay are killing the zombies," Chipple said. "Besides, you three were in trouble," Panther said to Fox, Falco and Wolf. "We couldn't just let you all be overwhelmed by the enemy," "Thanks for the help, guys. Especially you, Klonoa," Fox said. "Don't mention it," Klonoa said. "Anyways, we have to deal with Anubis!"

Anubis glared at the male anthros. At that time, the female anthros had defeated all of the sand zombies. A lot of sand was beneath their feet. They were a little exhausted and were taking a rest for a while. "Now, Anubis," Fox said. "There's no need for us to fight now. We just want some answers," "Answers?" Anubis asked in a stern tone.

The humans saw the anthros talking to Anubis. "What are they doing?" Rebecca asked. "They're not fighting," "Maybe they're trying to reason with him," G said. At the anthros' side, Fox asked, "Just answer this-Why did you attack this base?" "Why? Janga has already told you," Anubis said. "To judge humanity for their sins," "Again with that stuff?" Wolf said. "Look, how long are you going to keep on with the "judgment" thing?"

"That doesn't matter to you," Anubis said. "By the way…" Anubis looked at fox and asked, "…you're Fox McCloud aren't you? Leader of the Star Fox team, right?" Fox became surprised aand asked, "What? How did you know?!" "I'm not going to tell you," Anubis said. "There's one thing I'll tell you though," Anubis made a hand sign and added, "Look behind you,"

The male anthros looked at their back. Their female friends were coming. To the males' horror, the sand beneath their feet turned into something which sucked the females into the ground in a slightly fast speed.

Krystal, Katt, Miyu and Fay were sinking in quicksand!