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Chapter 25 Fight for the Fountain Part 1
(Cairo, Egypt)
The Planeteers took the day out to reminiscence about their adventures which was way; way cool unfortunately a hero's work is never done. Realizing that the team made need info the Geo cruiser drops off a lone team member in the middle of Egyptian desert. Alone with just her cycle and determination in her eyes Eria speeds off into the sandiness of it all looking for her target.
Upon getting out of the Geo cruiser, Eria shielded her eyes as the sun blazed in her eyes like Apollo making her place shades on. Man it's hot out of here, I've been in Gemina castle to long I almost forgot that Egypt's temperature can really kill me I used to be used to it but not I gotta get adjusted to it."
She soon began looking down at her child body realizing what she had on, ladies cargo shirts with a plum t-shirt with the saying 'I'm trouble so either leave me alone or die' on itshe looked at herself strange for not wearing these clothes before. Topaz and Sapphire has been her personal stylist but she felt kind of awkward wearing these clothes into town. "Well better head out there, gotta lot of ground to cover and little time to do it."
Realizing the key to her mission was at hand to find Alexander Perez; Eria hopped aboard her solar cycle and went full speed with the machine into the endless sea of sand toward Cairo.
(Dark Dimension)
"Damn she does not give up." Cursed Madam Maya as the vision of Eria appeared next to her in the crystal ball as she held it out of her balcony to look at with the monk man.
"She has Lightnors determination, the same determination that has defeated so many dark warriors in the past, if she locates the archeologist she will soon discover that we have known about the dimension teleported and are planning to seize it."
"This situation can be rectified." Maya soon left her balcony going over to the silence mirror and charming her powers around it until Nala's image appeared into the screen. "Nala, come in Nala."
"Yes Madam Maya, Nala here at your service." She said bowing.
"That little brat Eria, has gone searching for answers about Lightnors dimensional travel, I want you to keep the other planeteers busy."
"What about Eria Madam?" Nala asked
"I shall make haste and get rid of the girl if she succeeds in finding anything, just continue soul collecting and following are plans."
"Yes Madam I understand." Nala said closing the communication to proceed with the plans already set in motion.
"Does the child worry you?" The monk man asked looking at a smirking Maya who recharmed her mirror to make Eria reappear in it.
Maya glared into the image, the smirk on her face getting wider with each passing moment as her mind entangled itself thinking of endless ways she could dispose of Eria and the Planeteers. "No, she doesn't scare me, I will have her taken care of soon enough all I need is a little patience."
(Geo Cruiser)
As Eria sought out Alexander Perez somewhere in Egypt, the team did there usual patrols while sailing back to Hope Island. Kage, Ma-ti and Topaz at the wheel while, Kwame and Linka watch an interesting game of cards between Wheeler, Sapphire, Tate and Gi in the back.
"Ok everyone the name of the game is poker, you all know how to play so let's get started." Sapphire who was the lead dealer, dealt five cards to the players each with a timeless expression on their faces. Wheeler's was sneakiness, GI was calm, Tate's was angry and Sapphire was worried.
"Ok who's in?" Wheeler was first as he threw in two chocolate chip cookies. "I raise mine by two."
"I'm in." GI went second throwing the same amount in.
"Count me for three." Tate said
"I'll bet one." Sapphire was the last to go but was the calmest throwing in only one cookie.
"Heheheh!" Wheeler began snickering behind his five cards before slamming it down on the table. A straight flush composed of red six, seven, eight and black nine, ten.
"Awww man." Tate and GI signed while throwing their hands down in defeat. "We fold."
"Well I don't, and here's proof!" Sapphire tossed her cards on the table revealing she had a straight flush made up three queens and two ten's. "Three lady's and two tens pay up pyro."
"What in the world, how did you get that!" Wheeler stared at the cards hard before gritting his teeth as Sapphire raked in her winnings.
"Great job Sapphire." Linka commented patting her on the back.
Kwame noticing the strange behavior leaned over to Linka. "Aren't you mad that Wheeler lost?"
"Nope I want him to lose so he will never gamble again." She said giggling.
"Oh."
"That's it one more hand!" Wheeler suddenly shouted grabbing all the cards for another shuffle.
Sapphire gave Wheeler a light smile as he gave her dagger eyes from across the table. "Ok why not, another friendly hand to settle the fact that I'm still winning."
"Fine!" He said dealing hands. "How much does everyone want?"
"Three." GI said
"None." Sapphire added
"Two." Tate answered.
After passing out the required number of cards, Wheeler began thinking and getting a good idea and began looking at Sapphire. "Let's make this a little bit interesting shall we." The man obviously lost his mind as he threw his watch to the table along with the rest of his cookies. "If I win, you guys got to do my chores for the rest of the week."
A scared Tate threw down his hand with rapid gestured. "No way I fold."
"Me too." GI stated also folding "Too rich for my blood."
"I'll take you on." Sapphire then followed suit with Wheeler betting all her cookies, her sun shades and her crescent shaped earrings she had in her pocket. "But if I win you clean the Geo cruiser for the next month."
"Deal!" They shook each other's hands and backed away from the table each looking at their own cards.
"This time I got ya, behold!" Wheeler once again slammed his hand down onto the table revealing his cards as he did it, four aces of each color stood before them. "Beat that Vixen."
"OH I can't beat that all I have is a ten, king, queen, jack, and an ace all black."
"Yes, wait what!" The Planeteer of fire looked in horror as his four of a kind was kicked aside to make way for Sapphires spade royal flush.
"Sorry I guess I win." She said raking in all the prizes on the table.
"Damn, well I lost." He muttered putting his head down. "Who taught you to play; your poker skills are amazing."
"I wouldn't call them amazing." Kage shouted from the front seat. "I would call it a slight of
hand."
"Shut up Kage!" She barked back
Tate and GI looked at each other with raised eyebrows upon his comment. "Sleight of hand?"
"Hey Wheeler, did you ever wonder why my sister wears those bracelets?"
"No why?"
"Check under them, you will like what you see."
"Sapphire what does he mean by that?"
"Um I have no Idea what you're talking about hehe." Sapphire placed her hands up in the air innocently, forgetting that her bracelets were raised up high which made the contents spill out. Everyone looked to the floor to see several aces, jacks, queens, kings, tens, nines, and eights of each color right in front of them.
"So that's how you won." Wheeler eyed as he advanced upon Sapphire who backed away and hid behind Kwame.
"Now Wheeler it's just a game." She said smiling.
"I've been losing bets and board games to you for months and you've been cheating!"
"Oh crap!" Wheeler began chasing Sapphire around the back of the Geo cruiser with Tate and GI right behind him to stop him for going mad.
"Nice call Kage." Topaz complimented and lightly brushed Kage on the face with a playful gesture.
"Thanks, but I just wanted to deflate her ego since she's been on that winning streak with the cards, it's nice to see her exposed for-." Kage stopped in mid-sentence alarms and bells going off in his head. Without warning his teammates, Kage suddenly jerked the controls to the left slamming the Planeteers to the left side of the Geo Cruiser.
"Kage what's wrong?" Came an alarmed Topaz who hung on the seat with one hand while she struggled to hold on to Ma-ti who was on her other hand.
"Everybody hang on!" Kage shouted jolting the Geo cruiser to the right this time, and slamming his teammates against the windows.
"Kage what the hell's up buddy?" Wheeler shouted with a pissed expression on his face.
"Look outside!" Kage shouted back, never taking his eyes off the wheel while he drove. The rest of the Planeteers payed heed to his advice and looked out the window. The team was shocked to see a dark colored cloud had engulfed the sides of the geo cruiser
"What is that?"
"I'm not sure, but whatever it is its draining the energy from the panels and trying to bring us down, I can't resist much more."
"Kwame, it's time for a team beam!" GI exclaimed
"Then let our powers combine."
"Earth!" Kwame let out his green beam.
"Fire!" Wheeler let out his red beam.
"Wind!" Linka let out her white beam
"Water!" GI let out her blue beam.
"Heart!" Ma-ti let out his yellow beam.
The five elements formed together, first creating a wire silhouette and then the body of Captain Planet. "By your powers combine, I am Captain Planet!"
"Go Planet!" The team chanted
"Hang on Planeteers ill have you out in a second!" Captain Planet flew into the cloud and began to spin wind around it to extinguish it but the cloud remained intact.
"No good, how about the tornado." Cap created more wind in the form of a tornado but the cloud grew bigger as he attacked it.
"Cap where outta power!" Kage screamed as he noticed the gage on the Geo Cruisers Solar panel was empty. The Geo cruiser soon began dropping to the earth at an unsafe rate.
"Take about a crash course, I'm coming Planeteers!" Captain Planet reside his speed like superman going faster than a bullet. The Planeteers braced themselves as the ground came closer and closer to where it could hurt their vision. Before they could even flinch, Captain Planet managed to make it there grabbing the Geo cruiser and placing it on the ground.
The Planeteers safe but dizzy opened the doors sprawling out of the Geo cruiser to get some sleep. Not sure where they landed, the team looked around to notice that Captain Planet had set the Geo cruiser outside large bronze gates, from what they could see the gates lead into some buildings up ahead, the gates however were surrounded by a sea of trees similar to the amazon forest.
"I'm never doing that ride again." Wheeler panted heavily holding his chest and stomach to prevent him from throwing up or having a heart attack.
"Kage where did the cloud go?" Linka asked
"There!" Kage pointed into the sky seeing the hazy cloud had lowered itself from the sky and into the gates leading into the unknown city.
"What was that, that just attacked us?"
"Not sure, but Planeteers but If the Geo cruiser is out of energy then you might wanna investigate to see why this happened. I must return to the rings, give me a summon if there's trouble, the power is yours. Captain Planet reverted into his power form returning to the Planeteers rings.
"Where exactly are we?" Kwame questioned
Topaz pulled out her navigator and began scanning the land around the team where they had crashed landed. "According to the Navigator we are close to Japan."
"Am I the only one who feels that?" Kage who had never taken his eyes off the strange town felt uneasy as something was not right about this place.
"Now that you mention it, I did feel something evil about that cloud that attacked us." GI agreed.
"Maybe Cap was right, were all rested up so I don't think a little snooping will do us harm."
"Alright then, Topaz tracks that energy source on the navigator we will follow."
"Gotcha!" Topaz began compiling data onto the navigator instantly spitting out results. "North full speed ahead guys."
"Ok then, Planeteers move out." The team then headed out into the gates of the city to track down what attacked them; little did they know surprises awaited them behind the gates.
(With Eria)
The landscape of Egypt were rough on Eria, every turn nothing but heavy sand hills each containing its own stories, from scorpions to bones to ancient treasures all buried beneath the sand. The tire shredding sounds of the Solar Cycles came to a halt as Eria had finally reached solid road, her head began clear again as she knew her target was close. She had made it to Cairo and now it was just a matter of finding Alexander. She was amazed to see that Egypt had grown into a bustling city of business similar to that of New York city, merchants had been changed into business man in suits with brief cases, tour busses filled with tourist were changed to numerous private vehicles and cabs, small family owned corner stands had sky rocketed to different buildings each with its own story to tell. She was overall impressed but hoped that the culture that was once here may have still resided since she left.
"General Knowledge don't fail me now." Eria began thinking more about the archeologist's whereabouts which lead her to drive farther into the city. A quick but light sprint lead her to a dark part of town which was cut off from the rest, similar to the poor sections of normal cities where fights and danger is located. Five minutes of driving lead Eria to the last building in town completely separating the town and the desert.
The building was made of brick, dirty and dim no signs of good hearted people just ruthless thugs from motorcycle gangs who sat outside of taverns like in the movies. The men eyed Eria as she parked her cycle far away from the others; she paid no attention as she got looks of lust, hatred and bitterness she got as she entered the bar.
The inside was something you would find in a western saloon, rows and rows of chairs all perfectly aligned, men at tables playing cards, darts and TVs, few pictures on the wall of famous people that settled in Egypt and the last thing completely making a bar a bartender.
The female warrior acted like she was a pro from the streets of Brooklyn or Manhattan, she jumped up into the bar stool staring the bartender in the face. A slim man with a mustache wearing a waiters outfit polishing glasses and taking orders "Excuse me sir, can I get some service over here?"
"Look kid, you may act tough but it's against the rules to serve little girls alcohol, but you got spunk so I got something for you." The bartender mixed together a concoction that was white and black, after a minute he came back setting it in front of Eria.
A hesitant but friendly Eria took a sip of the drink, recognizing the taste of the concoction she drank it up happily. "Thanks for the chocolate milk."
"Little lady, if you don't mind me asking what are you doing here, this is no place for you."
"I'm looking for a man." She plainly said.
The bartender raised an eyebrow smirking a little at the same time. "Aren't you a little young to be looking for a husband."
"Not a husband strictly business, I'm looking for Perez the archeologist."
"Ohhh, Perez huh well I'm not sure what a little person would want with Alexander but he's at the top floor, there's a small library built up at the top of the building. Since one of his discoveries lately he has been bombardment with press so he comes here and retires up there to escape it all.
"Thanks for the info."
"Stay outta trouble kid."
"What if trouble finds me?" Eria chuckled as she jumped from the table and began to head toward the stairs. She may have been happy from the expression she had just said but it wasn't too far off. Upon reaching the stairs, Eria found her way blocked by three bodies. Three men, one heavy the other two small wearing biker clothes with assortments of tattoos and leather stretched across their bodies. There stench of cheap woman and alcohol stirred around Eria as they stepped closer to her.
"Um excuse me, I have to get through." Eria calmly said trying to bypass the men.
"Hold on their short stuff." One of the smaller man said blocking the path even more.
"I have business upstairs, please move aside!"
"Watch it you little bitch, you should respect your elders me and the boys saw you and are trying to give you a hand now, so be a good little girl and we won't have to get rough with you."
"Listen I don't wanna have to hurt anyone so I will ask one more time, step aside!"
"Hey boss, my nephew could always use a wife he just became a man she might make a good wife despite her attitude."
"Let's teach her lesson boys." The heavy set man gave the order as he and his men advanced upon Eria ready to teach a lesson to her.
"Here we go again!" Eria shook her head preparing herself for what was about to happen next.
(Upstairs)
From within a sealed room at the top of the bar secretly sat the office of Professor Perez. The office was no smaller than a miniature office that you would find in a corporate building, a desk a few bookcases, a laptop, a long coach, and decorative statues resembling Egyptian Gods and Goddesses'. Alexander Perez is a man in his sixties, grey hair on the side but bald on top, a small mustache resembling one of the Mario bros, wearing one of the best Italian suits that money could buy. Alexander was currently in a hazy cloud of paperwork, several textbooks, papers and classified documents had placed itself on his desk.
"Yes! Perfection once again!" Alexander shouted scribbling more things down onto his notebook entitled 'Gemina findings and proven truths' "Everything is placing together as my findings occur, if only I could find the rest of Lightnors clues my research would be complete."
Alexander's thoughts were interrupted by powerful and loud bangs at his door. "Mr. Perez Sir!"
"What is it Steve, I'm very busy?"
"We have an emergency Sir and-."
"Take care of it Steve I'm very busy at the moment!"
"But sir-"
"Take care of it!"
"Ok!" The man behind the door known as Steve gulped and went to take control of the situation. Alexander paused for a second as he heard complete silence then another noise, screams and hollers which filled the inside of his office. The sounds of breaking wood and bones came next making the archeologist scared and cringe behind his desk. A few moments later the sounds seized prompting Alexander to check it out, as soon as he went to get up, the door exploded. The impact knocked Alexander to the floor, as he backed himself toward the wall he saw Eria standing before him, several off his security staff were behind her beaten and bruised as well as the biker gang who tried to attack her.
"Alexander Perez I presume." Eria panted from all the fighting she did but managed to bow respectfully toward the man who was in fear of his life from what she did to them. If a little girl could break grown man into nothing imagine what she could do him, snap him like a twig, and crush his skull or many things he dare not think of.
"W-who are you?"
Realizing that the man was to seconds from having a heart attack, Eria raised her hand violet energy surrounding her as she did it, changing her clothing to her sacred Egyptian garments that she had when she first came to earth. "Time is of the essence but I my name is Eria and I need your help."
(With the Planeteers)
As Eria was discussing her business with Alexander Perez, the Planeteers had their own work to do. Topaz's navigator had led the Planeteers into the town of shrine forest. The walk was long even as they were running but they somehow had made it to the center of the town which was surrounded by larger buildings and vegetation of the forest which spread for miles at a time.
"Man this place is huge." Tate stated observing the nature serenity and beauty of the town which was practically a maze in its self.
"I know but luckily the navigator can track down anything no matter how big or small."
"Where is the cloud now Topaz?" Ma-ti asked
"I'm not sure ill check." As Topaz went to check the navigator in her hands, the ground shook violently like a six point scale earthquake, some of the people in the area ran while others stood in place, a few statues and buildings shook cracking windows. The sounds of buildings crumbling, glass shattering and people screaming could be heard all around.
"What the hell was that?" The team picked themselves up after embracing the earthquake's fury and looked around to see the damage it had caused. For only a few moments the shaking had done much to the town. Several buildings that once hovered over the planeteers were now nothing but bits of rubble on the ground, the once populated place had left only a few people scattered around some running for their lives while others stood eerily close to the Planeteers.
"Kwame, I'm not sure what that was but we need to help these people." Linka suggested
"Good idea Linka Planeteers, let's get to it!"
"Wait guys." Topaz's navigator suddenly bloomed off the scale with energy pinpointed in the area where they were standing. "The navigator says there's something right on top of us."
"Topaz is right look!" Wheeler pointed into the sky toward a tall sky scraper like building that was still standing, not impacted from the earthquake the team focused on the very top there was a cloud of blackness, the same black cloud that attacked them before. But this time the cloud wasn't the only thing on the top of the building, also standing at the very top was the planeteer of dark water Ty.
"Ty!" The team shouted getting into fighting stances ready to face him.
Instead of attacking the planeteers, Ty raised his ring and the black cloud turned into a small sphere of water which evaporated into the air "Well isn't this just wonderful, it's amazing what you can do with a little vapor and magic this cloud brought you right to me."
"Why did you bring us here Ty?" GI shouted demanding an answer. "What are you and the other dark planeteers up to?"
"You'll find out in due time, but right now instead of asking questions you should prepare yourself!" Ty wasted no time; jumping down from the building he whipped out his ice sniper at the planeteers firing several warning shots for the team to get ready.
"Everyone armor on now!" Kwame gave the orders and the planeteers pressed there planet belts replacing there normal uniforms with their protective stealth suits.
"Just as I had suspected, Tsuisutokuròn attack them!" The Planeteers braced themselves for TY to summon the Tsuisutokuròn but they didn't come. A strange creepy feeling came over the planeteers as several people who were standing around them came together in front of Ty. The team lowered their guard trying not to attack innocent bystanders but unfortunately it was a big mistake. As soon as the planeteers dropped there fighting stances it happened, the people disappeared into thin air being replaced by squads of Tsuisutokuròn soldiers all armed and ready to fight the Planeteers.
"Dark Water! Hydro Whirlpool!" Ty summoned his powers swirling together a vortex of water which he sent at the planeteers.
"Space!" Sapphire thinking quickly summoned space energy around her friends creating a shield that blocked Ty's attack.
"Ok frost freak you wanna play, let's play Kwame let's get Cap!"
"Gotcha let our powers combine!"
"Earth!" Kwame let out his green beam.
"Fire!" Wheeler let out his red beam.
"Wind!" Linka let out her white beam.
"Water!" GI let out her blue beam.
"Heart!" Ma-ti let out his yellow beam.
The five elements came together to form captain planet but shockingly once the powers came together to form his body, they reflected back at each other going back to their owners.
"Oh no!" The team watched in horror as there powers landed back into their rings, whatever was happening to their rings prevented Captain Planet from being summoned.
"What happened to Captain Planet?"
"Such music too my ears!" Ty spoke laughing while the Tsuisutokuròn raised their hands with victorious pride that the planeteers couldn't summon Captain Planet. "You Planeteers are in our domain, your puny little powers can't summon Cap here."
"Why not!"
"Enough questions, Inferno, Nala now!" Ty shouted
"Dark Fire! Blaze!"
"Dark Wind! Air Bullets!"
From out of nowhere, hellish flames and powerful blasts collided into the Planeteers on impact shocking them severely. The team looked over behind Ty and the Tsuisutokuròn to see Inferno and Nala in the green sports car, Pixia standing next to them.
"Damn, the rest of the dark goons are here." Kage stated quickly getting back to his feet ready to take what they have to throw at him.
"That's right!" Inferno wittingly remarked then turned his attention to the sports car as he and Nala exited it. "Demon racer, reveal your true form!"
The headlights on the sports car flashed and the engine vroomed louder and louder until a thick mist started coming out from its hood surrounding it. The mist continued to swirl around the car, the planeteers looked in amazement as the sounds of gears grinding and metal clanking filled their ears.
"Demon R-Racer!" A ghoulish laugh erupted from the mouth of the dark servant as the mist cleared. The sports car had reverted into its true more powerful form. Demon racer was a tall skinny woman with tan skin; she was wearing a green NASCAR uniform. The front tires and the back tires of the car reverted as bases for demon racers arms and legs. Pipes were located in her skin from her head down to her feet transferring oil to various locations of her body. Her head was the size of two bowling balls put together, her face was manly the headlights which made up her eyes, a biker helmet and a small mouth. She had a small size chain on the side of her hip and a steering wheel shield in her arm.
"Terrified yet Planeteers?" Ty asked
"Dream on freaks!" Kwame took charge into a heroic pose and then a fighting stance. "Guys ready!"
The Planeteers ready themselves on Kwame's command to take on the dark forces. "Ready!"
"Humph, you planeteers will not listen to reason! Attack!" Inferno gave the commanding order sending the dark troops at the Planeteers. The Tsuisutokuròn attacked in swarms at the teams, followed by Pixia, Demon racer then Nala, Ty, and Inferno.
"Dark Fire! Burning Laser!" Inferno raised his hand which became engulfed with fire and began shooting laser beams on contact.
"Lightning!" Topaz summoned her soul dagger from lightning then held it up to Inferno's laser deflecting it the other way and destroying some Tsuisutokuròn.
"Surging Crash!" The oil in demon racers body began racing faster as she became engorged with dark aura energy. The wheels on her body ran like a revving car, demon racer then charged at the planeteers dark energy covering her body. She ran into the planeteers at full speed past them blasting them left and right.
The Tsuisutokuròn followed suit, and attacked the planeteers with dark blast of energy beams.
"Sound!" The Planeteer of sound went next; generate powerful sound waves to stop the energy beams in their tracks.
"Wind!" Linka summoned a tornado toward the Tsuisutokuròn
"Fire!" Wheeler sent several fireballs into the tornado.
"Burning Tornado!" With a combination of Linka's tornado and Inferno's fireball the Burning tornado was created extinguishing some Tsuisutokuròn soldiers.
"Mega Spear!" Tate pulled out his spear charging it with metal powers and sent slashes toward Nala.
"Opal Claw!" Sapphire also took her weapon sending cat like slashes with Tate's weapon.
"Sniper Shot Capture!" Pixia activated her powers, flashing a photo, Tate and Sapphire's attacked came to a halt leaving only a photograph to remain.
"Dark Wind! Whirlwind!" Catching the two off guard, Nala summoned a fierce whirl wind swirling Tate and Sapphire up in the air and sending them at Kage and Topaz.
"Ahhhh!" Topaz and Kage collided into Tate and Sapphire at an unsafe speed knocking them far away.
"Earth!" Kwame gathered seismic power into his fist punching the ground. The ground shook and collided around the Tsuisutokuròn trapping them like bees to honey
"Water!" GI summoned powerful rain from the sky and froze it into shards which she directed at the Tsuisutokuròn.
"Heart!" Ma-ti filled the shards with heart energy that struck the Tsuisutokuròn on full impact. The shards didn't kill them at first but the heart energy exploded within the shards destroying them on contact.
"Dark Ocean Flute!" Ty played several notes on his ocean flute levitating Kwame, Ma-ti and GI up into the air. "Dark Sniper Freeze!" Ty then summoned his sniper blasting the three with cold beams leaving parts of their body frozen and knocking them next to the rest of team.
"Surging Crash!"
"Sniper Shot Blaster!"
"Dark Fire! Fire Wish!"
"Dark Scepter Blast!"
"Dark Water! Blizzard!"
The dark minions focused all there powers into a massive power beam that they used to blast the team with. The team lay helplessly as they were being used as ragdolls, even though there were more of them, this time it seemed as if the dark planeteers were stronger than usual.
"Come on guys, we can take um!" Kage said weakly
"Guys you guys are not so powerful without all ten of you here." Nala snickered
"I can't wait to see what the Madam has in stored for the little girl?" Inferno said
"What have you done to Eria?" Topaz cried out in anger.
"None of your business now stand up and fight!" Ty gave the order and the dark goons proceeded to attack the planeteers again, the team rose to fight again trying their best to hold off.
(With Eria)
"Oh my god! Oh my god! I can't believe this!" Alexander Perez was currently acting like he had drunk fifteen cups of coffee; he was bouncing all over the room. Upon Eria revealing crucial information about her origins, he began to completely go crazy. He grabbed several notebooks, laptops, disk and whiteboards ready to right down everything about Eria that he could possibly find out about her or Lightnor.
"Professor Alexander! Please calm down, I need your help." Eria stated reverting from her Egyptian garments to the clothes she was wearing when she first arrived.
"I'm sorry my dear, but that simply must wait, you are the simple piece of information I need to complete my research. Finally years and years of working will finally pay off with me discovering the real location of the Gemina staff and glorious.
Professor Perez was cut off by the sound of an ear piercing noise that made him stand still, fear running through his body. "Shut Up!" Eria screamed at the top of her lungs halting the professor's actions. "Look Alex, or professor or whatever you want to be called, I can give you all the information on my master you need but I need something of you first."
"But of course, how can I help thy apprentice of the strongest warrior ever to set foot on earth." Alexander began groveling at Eria's feet kissing her opened toed sandals like he was a slave.
"You have researched my master's life for many years; I need to know about what you recently discovered that has the press and government officials snooping around."
Alexander didn't say a word, only rose up from Eria's feet and closed the door locking it tight. "I'm sorry but I swore that what I found cannot be told to anyone, it blows through laws of both science and nature."
"Professor please this information could help the planeteers out greatly, dark forces are attacking not only this world but other worlds tied in between, if something is not done earth will cease to exist leaving the Gemina staff vulnerable. Please I need this, if you care about the safety of the planet, and then please tell me.
"If it's for the greater good I will help, but you have to promise me that when this is over I can interview you for my further future studies, all in exclusive leave nothing out."
"Ok." Eria chuckled "You got yourself a deal, but time is of the essence, I need to know now."
"I can show you what you need but we need to go to the dessert, it's about thirty minutes from here."
"Time is crucial, it may take a lot of energy outta me but I can teleport us there." Eria pointed her attention to the now closed door; taking out her wand Eria pointed it with her left hand while raising her ring at the door also.
"Void!" Eria's ring and wand activated at the same time summoning powerful void energy's toward the door creating a vortex into who knows where. "Step through the portal, it will access your mind and take you to the destination at which you desire."
"Please follow me then." Grabbing his jacket from off of the desk, Alexander and Eria stepped through the portal in hopes of finding what Eria sought.
(Dark Dimension)
Madam Maya and the monk man watch Eria's progress as well as the Planeteers fight inside the silence mirror upon Madam Maya's balcony. "Maya this isn't good, that little runt has found Alexander Perez, and your plan is getting way outta hand if she finds out what were after you can call this whole entire operation off."
"No flaws in my plan this time, everything is right according to my plan, all I have to do is wait until she reaches what she wants and then she'll get what's coming to her."
(With the Planeteers)
"Dark Flare Blade!" Inferno slashed his blade at the planeteers generate powerful hellish flames at them to burn them.
"Space!" Sapphire created a shield outta space energy saving the team from Infernos attack.
"Metal!" Tate turned his entire body into solid titanium.
"Lightning!" Topaz summoned fierce Lighting bolts down from sky, striking Tate and reflecting onto the dark planeteers shocking them.
"My Turn! Fire!" Wheeler lunged at the dark planeteers and there servants pulling his sword out in the process, he began fighting them manually with multiple slashes and fire attacks to different parts of their body. "Guys now!"
"Wind!" Linka thought quickly summoning a tornado around her enemies propelling them up into the air and back down at a fast rate
"Water!"
"Heart!"
"Sound!"
"Earth!"
Kage, GI, Ma-ti and Kage came together for a group attack; calling upon their powers they sent a multi power flash beam striking the dark planeteers critical strike on them
"Alright guys!" The team huddled together raising their rings to strike the dark planeteers in case they were to try anything. "You guys give up?"
Ty gave a slight smirk and sprung to his feet, the attacks barley fazed him or his friends. "Hmmm, I was trying to spare your pathetic lives but I can live with killing you all now, Dark Servant Shade Witch, I command you to arise now!"
On his command the planeteers felt something was about to happen and braced themselves for what was about to happen next. "Guys look!" Ma-ti pointed beneath Ty's feet, multiple shadows erupted from out under Ty taking to the sky. The shadows came together fast and quickly forming another dark servant right before the team's eyes.
"Wherever there's hate and despair, Shade Witch will be there, at you service master Ty!" The Shadows formed into a woman, she was a wearing a red and blacked stripped leotard, leggings and a large cape that was strapped across her neck like a superhero. Her skin was pale grey; she had blue hair, small white eyes with no pupils. She also had on a large witch's hat that swallowed half of her head and two daggers embedded into her arms.
"Not another one."
"You got that right, Shade Witch destroy them!"
"Yes master! Shade strings!" Shade Witch proceeded to attack the Planeteers with her powers, shadow like strings erupted from with under the team grabbing them by their arms and legs to pin them down to the ground and continuously burning them with dark energy.
"Surging Crash!"
"Sniper Shot Blaster!" Pixia and Demon racer attacked the planeteers in sequence with blasting shots and slashes again and again, the planeteers took all that they could stand strong against the attacks.
"Planeteers just give up, you're outnumbered this time." Nala snickered blasting them further with her dark scepter.
"Bite me, we will never give up!" Topaz screamed with courage but you can tell they were in pretty bad shape. They had tried their best to hold off and usually could fight off the dark planeteers on their own but three dark planeteers and three dark servants was a little much even for them.
(With Eria)
Unaware that the planeteers were being horribly slaughtered by the dark planeteers and there minions, Eria proceeded with her mission as she and Alexander Perez walked deep into the celestial dryness known as the Sahara dessert. Even dryer and hot than the previous dresser, Eria had no choice to follow Alexander deeper and deeper into the dessert far from civilization.
The two had walked miles at a time before Alexander stopped in the middle of a clearing with the sun blaring down on him and Eria. "This is the spot."
"How do you know?" Eria eyed him curiously while seeing nothing but the desert for miles at a time.
"Cause this is the only spot that I have where the sun is at its brightest, I know it's an unorthodox method but it works for me." Alexander then bent down into the sand with Eria right behind him; he began digging into the sand with his bare hands. He dug at the sand like a mole to the ground until a 'clank' sound was heard.
"What is that?" Eria came closer to him seeing that he had a small lockbox in his hand; he had buried it into the sand to protect whatever was inside.
"Your master is one tricky fellow I must agree, his voyages have given me a run for my money since I was a lad but this has got to be the most dazzling discovery yet." Alexander opened the lockbox and held it up to Eria showing her the contents. Five large keys completely made up of gold plating with a star on the end of each. Carved into the stars at the end of the keys were elements written in Arabic, each in a different color. The First key was green and black carved with the symbols of Earth and Sound in it. The second was red and gold carved with the symbols of Fire and Lightning in it. The third was white and silver carved with Wind and Sound. The fourth key was blue and teal consisting of the symbols of water and space. The last key was yellow and purple with the symbols of heart and Void on them
"What are these?"
"These are the rainbow keys, during my journeys of your master's temples I found this in one of his sacred rooms. If what you and I believe in about what your master said about the dimensions needed to be freed, then these are what you need to do it.
"This is what he was talking about; to free the dimensions we must impute good powers to it. These keys, he left these for us in case the dimensions were ever in trouble and needed to be saved, but that still doesn't help if I don't know where the portal entrance is."
"Don't you worry your head now, I have also discovered that. Your master had a fascination with different cultures and languages but what I discovered was that your master had a monument built in Shrine forest Japan, a fountain to be exact, it was named Kingdom Fountain."
"Kingdom Fountain."
"Yes Kingdom fountain, during the times I was studying about his war with Zinwar, Lightnor built a beautiful fountain within side the underground tombs of Shrine forest due to it being holy land. The fountain was considered by many to be a myth as it was never found, but many think it exists but never has been found."
"Even if it is a myth I can't take those chances I have to go investigate."
(Dark Dimension)
Madam Maya looms over her balcony with her staff ready in hand as she watches Eria and Alexander. "Now I've got you, dark servant sand beast Darma, arise now!" Maya pointed her staff toward her mirror which shot out a dark beam. The dark beam went through the mirror and into the sands of the desert.
(With Eria)
"What was that?" Eria stopped in her tracks feeling eerie about the environment around her, thinking something was wrong Eria brought out her weapon ready to strike.
"Something wrong Eria?" Alexander asked noticing the pause of her movement.
"Armor on now!" Eria activated her stealth suit for protection "Void!" With quick haste Eria raised her wand warping Professor Perez from where he was standing to her side.
"What was that for!" He roared
On cue he got his answer, the sand where he was standing erupted like a volcano spilling sand everywhere. A gigantic black widow spider stood before Eria and the professor, almost as big as an army tank. Its entire body was metal plated to protect it from harm and its legs were made up off giant spears that dug deep down into the sand. The beast known as Darma eyed the two with a hateful glare as it jumped at them.
"Void!" Eria fired void energy beams at Darma with quick accuracy; the beams hit Darma head on but didn't scratch her a bit thanks to the armor it was wearing.
"Eria, what is that thing!" The professor yelled cowering behind her trying not to stare at the creature head on.
"A dark servant, I'm guessing it was sent here to stop me!" Eria then jumped in the air, landing on the back of Darma. She began hitting the armor with her bear fits trying to penetrate the armor, which had little effect on the creature. Darma hissed angrily and began shaking until it knocked Eria off onto the ground.
The creature then turned its attention to Alexander Perez. "No keep away!" He yelled trying to out run the creature. Running was a good idea but didn't faze the Darma at all; the spider landed on the archeologist and began digging its claws into his chest.
"Alexander noooo!" Eria screamed rising to her feet to reach him, however she was too late Darma's fangs dug into Alexander's chest deep within where his heart is located. The beast retreated and jumped back when it saw Eria running toward it.
"Void!" Eria created a powerful void shield around Darma which pulled it into the sand temporarily trapping it there.
"Oh my god Professor." Eria said kneeling to his side, trying to get him to answer. But he lay there bloody, a gaping hole in his chest with blood spilling out on each end.
"E-eria." He whispered with little strength he had, barely making a sentence.
"I'm going to get you to a doctor; just hold on you'll make it."
"L-look out!" Alexander pointed his eyes at Darma who had carried its long dangerous legs out of the sand and began crawling toward Eria like in the movie eight legged freaks. Eria stood her ground ready to fight back against the beast but before she could land and attack, Professor managed to stand up and push Eria outta the way.
"C-om-e a-n-d g-et m-e yo-u b-a-stard!" Alexander stood like a champion beaten, bruised and bloody ready to face the creature. His bravery was to be astounded but Eria looked on in horror as Darma opened its massive jaw and dug his fangs into the sand where the professor was. Eria prayed that it wouldn't end like this but it did, the professor had been swallowed by Darma. The arachnoid then turned its bulging eyes to Eria and began charging with his mouth open ready to swallow Eria.
"Not this time! Twilight Vibration!" Eria raised her wand which shot powerful mists at the creature who began surrounded within it, the mist began eating, irritate and zapping the creature in its face blinding it from what Eria was about to do next.
Eria paced herself slowly by feeling the rhythm of the ground, within an instant she began running further and further toward Darma's armored body, she began climbing and making her way up until she stood above the creatures eyes "Die! Void!" Eria raised her wand again filling it with void energy as she stabbed Darma in both eyes with the wand. Upon striking it, Eria jumped down and began hearing screech sounds from the creature's mouth. Eria managed to stab it where it was most vulnerable its eyes which transferred void energy throughout its body. Needless to say the attack worked, a few minutes of screeching and its eyes burning Darma was destroyed. Its body started deteriorating with the armor, and then the rest of it, by the time that the creature had fully been killed there was nothing left but a pile of black dust in the sand.
"Damn you Maya! This man has done nothing to you!" Eria screamed up into the sky trying to get Maya's attention but nothing it was just her in the Sahara desert, guilt consuming her about what just happened to the professor. His presence was now gone and his soul was probably snatched up while he was inside Darma, all Eria could do was give a heavy sigh before remembering why she was there in the first place.
(Dark Dimension)
Madam Maya basked in her glory as she witnessed Professor Alexander being swallowed up by Darma. "Perfect dead as a door nail ha!"
"What exactly does killing that man do for us?" The cloaked monk man asked
"That stupid egghead has critical information about not only Lightnors past but what is about to happen in Egyptian culture not that far from now, I had to destroy him to keep his mouth shut, I not only have his silence but I also have his soul!"
"I am most confidant I did not put the wrong person in charge."
"You didn't now hush!" Madam Maya hissed at the man then turned her attention to the silence mirror where she brought up the Planeteers and the dark planeteers fighting. "This is too perfect, finish them off already you fools!"
(With the Planeteers)
"Dark Fire! Fire Wish!" Inferno launched more hellish fireballs at the planeteers burning at close range. The team was getting outdone by the Dark Planeteers who decided to wise up and attack them when there guard was down. The team struggled to stay on their feet as they kept trying to defeat them.
"They just don't give up do they?" Nala shook her head in utter disbelief and a little pity.
"Enough fooling around, Demon Racer, Pixia finish them off now!"
"Yes Master! Wheel Chain!" Demon Racer swung the chain from her hip to at the Planeteers, the chain extended in length wrapping itself around each one of the planeteers like an anaconda squeezing its prey to death.
"You won't get away with this!" GI yelled
"This time I believe we have, Pixia finish them off!"
While the chain constricted the Planeteers further toward almost a fainting point, Pixia positioned herself in front of the planeteers ready to take there take their souls and capture them in the picture. "Everybody smile one, two thre-."
"Twilight Vibration!" Shots rang out through the air toward Pixia blasting her directly in the face.
"Eria!" The team shouted in relief.
"Guys it's the little brat Eria!" Nala growled as her, Ty, Inferno, and Demon racer backed away.
"Hang on guys! I'll get you out!" Eria began tugging on the chain with her strength trying to get her friends out of there.
"You little bitch; nobody messes with my photography skills and gets away with it! Sniper Shot Capture!" Pixia activated her powers, the eye on her cleavage glowed and she shot her capture beam at the team.
"Oh no Void!" Eria thought quickly trying to create a shield around her and her friends, due to Eria using so much of her advanced powers, the shield powered down only covering her, Kwame and Wheeler. The rest of the team wasn't as lucky as they began stuck in the cameras view and were turned into one single photograph.
"Damn you missed those three!" Inferno yelled
"Well at least we got their souls, hand over the planeteers souls Pixia." Ty said
"Um well I don't really have them at the moment." Pixia began scurrying away from the dark planeteers and hid herself behind Demon racer and Shade Witch.
"Waddya mean you don't have them!"
"I might have forgotten to mention, the planeteers souls are too powerful to be sucked into my camera lens they still have their souls but there trapped in the picture."
"The Picture!" Ty, Nala, Inferno, Wheeler, Kwame and Eria all gazed at the photograph of the planeteers that was on the ground right in front of them.
"Oh no, not this time Earth!" Kwame, who was now free of the chain, summoned a wall of seismic energy between his friends and the dark minions. Thinking quickly Eria seized the opportunity grabbing the photograph.
"Surging Crash!" Demon racer ran full speed ahead into the wall with her powers destroying the seismic power completely.
"Kwame, Eria, let's get outta here!" Wheeler suggested and the three huddled together in hopes of escaping.
"Hang on guys! Void!" Eria summoned a portal beneath her, Kwame and Wheeler which swallowed them up and teleporting them away from the fight.
"Let's go after them!" Inferno suggested
"No let them go." Ty added
"Why?"
"There's only three of them for the moment, there hopes of turning their friends back to normal are slim, besides we have more important matters to worry about, Lee still needs us to collect souls while he searches for that fountain."
"Fine then, we will withdraw for now it the planeteers dare to show their faces we will destroy them next time." The Dark Planeteers along with their minion's teleported out from the battle field to who knows where.
(With Kwame, Eria and Wheeler)
Eria's void portal had teleported the three back outside of the gates where the Geo cruiser was parked. "That was too close for comfort, at least's we got outta there." Wheeler spoke as he sat on the Geo cruiser wing taking a rest.
"I'm glad you showed up when you did Eria, we were almost finished."
"You're welcome, but still we gotta lot of work to do Madam Maya is going to great lengths to make sure that we don't win this fight."
"Then I say we go back in there and finish those dark freaks before they have a chance to do anymore damage."
"Wheeler, there's only three of us; the dark planeteers have this place rigged to make sure that we don't get out."
"What about the others though?" Eria asked as she pulled out what she had in her hands. Topaz, Ma-ti, GI, Tate, Sapphire, Linka and Kage all trapped within this one photograph, the worst part was that none of them knew how to fix it.
"We need to get in contact with Gaia; she might be able to help us."
"But why are the dark Planeteers here, what's so special about this place?" Wheeler questioned.
Tired but thinking clearly, Eria reached into her armor revealing the rainbow keys that Professor Perez gave her shortly before his impending death. Kwame and Wheeler gazed at the keys and back at Eria wondering what she would say next. "I know why there here, these keys are only half of the story though, we need to work fast guys before not only this world but the other worlds fall before the darkness.
To be continued…..
End of Chapter 25
Z here everyone. Don't ya just love cliff hangers on a story? I do because it keeps the readers on the edge of their seats just begging for more. Well like all Cliffhangers there is a conclusion, I will be back soon to give you the second part of this chapter. Anyway remember the polls I have set up and review.
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