I don't want to make this intro too long, so... The intro's over!
"Everyone, get out of the way!" Doyle shouted over the roars, howls, and growls of the oncoming cryptids. Zak looked for a way to escape, but all around him were walls of cryptids. He could no longer see over the edges of the volcano and could only catch random patches of light from the sky above as flying cryptids soared overhead. The cryptids on the sides of him began to tighten their formation around him. The little circle of safety that had naturally formed by the stampeding cryptids was now narrowing. Zak could even feel some of the cryptids brush against his arms as they trampled past.
There was no escape. If Zak dared to step outside of his circular haven, he would be trampled, most likely to death. He didn't want it to end like this... he never imagined that he would fall to the creatures that he, along with his parents, had protected for their entire lives. Zak grinned to himself as he thought of how ironic it would be.
Any cryptid that ran past now pushed Zak to the side. He was bouncing back and forth through the cryptids, unable to find a break to escape into. A cryptid running towards him didn't follow the rest of the herd to swerve off to the side. Instead, it headed straight at Zak, increasing its speed as it charged forward.
Zak braced himself for the impact, but his fingers brushed against something that he had completely forgotten... his claw. In one, fast motion, Zak grabbed the claw with his hand and shot it into the air, hoping that it would latch onto something. To his surprise, it did, but whatever it latched onto was moving. Zak pressed the button on his claw, hoping against hope that whatever it had latched onto was heavier than he was.
His feet lifted up off the ground and, in mere seconds, he found himself soaring above the stampede of cryptids. Without hesitating, Zak looked to see what had been his saving grace. Against all odds, he found that the claw had latched onto one of Zon's legs instead of an attacking cryptid's.
"Zak!"
Looking up, Zak saw Wadi reaching down to him. She helped him clamber onto Zon's back. Zon managed to retain her balance and fly high above the stampeding cryptids under the additional weight.
Zak barely managed to gasp out, "Everyone else?"
"Fisk has your mother and Ain safe in some little alcove on the volcano wall. I saw Munya grab Seti and Komodo, but I am not sure where they are at. Doyle is flying behind us with his jetpack, but I do not know about Basie and Emir," Wadi explained quickly.
"And Argost?" Zak panted, trying to get his breath back.
Wadi looked away from Zak's gaze to look towards the top of the volcano. "I think that he is at the very top of this volcano, waiting for us to get up to him."
"Then we won't disappoint him," Zak growled.
"Wait, we are going to fight him? Now?" Wadi asked, shocked.
"Yeah. I'm not letting him put this off any longer. I'm going to do everything I can to end it here and now."
Wadi said with a smile, "You are not going to do that alone, Zak Saturday."
"He's definitely not doing this alone, Wadi!"
Zak and Wadi turned to see Doyle was flying Drew and himself behind Zon. "We attack on sight!" Drew shouted.
"Alright!" Zak yelled over his shoulder. "Zon, fly higher girl," he whispered to the cryptid. Zon growled in response. Instead of flying just above the volcano's path, she flew straight up into the air, rising above the volcano itself. Doyle followed suit.
In just a few, precious seconds' time, Argost came into sight. Doyle flew through the air first, heading straight for him. Drew unsheathed the Fire Sword and quickly shot at Argost, hitting him squarely in the face. Argost's traditional mask cracked and shattered on impact and his exposed face clearly showed surprise. However, he quickly composed himself to display an arrogant smirk. "Ah, would you look at that? It's the infamous sibling team, attempting to ruin my plans yet again!" he shouted.
"Doyle, drop me down there!" Drew commanded. Neither of them could see past the white-hot anger that was now flaring in their eyes. All reasoning had left them and only impulsiveness remained.
With a ferocious roar, Argost threw a handful of Devonian Annelids up at Drew and Doyle, but Drew countered with another shot from the Fire Sword, blasting the cryptids out of the sky. Both Doyle and Drew landed on the top of the volcano, ready for a fierce fight.
Zon lighted upon the ground behind Argost. Wadi and Zak both dropped from her back on the other side of Argost. Zak gripped his claw and held it out in front of him while Wadi did the same with her yo-yo. Drew and Doyle stood on Argost's other side, holding the Fire Sword and a set of concussion grenades respectively.
"It's rather funny that the five of you believe you can defeat me," Argost was laughing maniacally at this point. "Me, the ruler of the world!" As he shouted this, his eyes glowed green, a brighter, stronger green than they ever had before.
The sight that met Zak is one that he will never forget. Hundreds of cryptids were crawling, striding, stomping, or flying over the sides of the volcano, headed directly for the five on top.
Zak couldn't let them reach the top of the volcano and there was only one way to insure that they didn't: Take out the controller himself. He left Wadi's side to charge at Argost, prepared for a tough fight.
"Ah, Zak Saturday, just the man I wanted to see!" In one swift movement, Argost stepped in front of Zak and grabbed onto the claw. "The Hand of Tsul'Kalu should be in the hands of someone who can put it to its full potential!"
Argost's words hit Zak like a ton of bricks. Zak had never thought that Argost would want the claw. He switched from offense to defense as he tried to wrestle the claw out of Argost's grip. The Yeti's crazed laughter rang through Zak's ears. "You may want to watch out, young Saturday, even old friends can be foes," he cackled.
Their struggle came to a standstill as Zak surveyed how his allies were faring. Argost seemed to hold complete control over all of the cryptids in the area, including the Saturday and Monday cryptids. Wadi was trying to fend off a brainwashed Zon while Drew and Doyle found themselves surrounded by the three Monday cryptids.
"Hand over the Hand of Tsul'Kalu and your friends and family will remain unharmed and very much alive," Argost growled menacingly without loosening his grip on the claw.
Zak glanced back at Wadi who was slowly being pushed towards the mouth of the volcano. He turned his head to find that the cryptid circle around his uncle and mother was tightening. With a deep breath, he looked up into Argost's glowing eyes.
"Well?" Argost said patiently.
Closing his eyes, Zak relinquished his grip on the claw. He fell backwards to the ground as Argost swept the claw through the air and raised it high above his head. "All the cryptids of the world are now under my command!" his voice boomed in the same ethereal voice he had used at Weird World.
The world itself seemed to shake as unspeakable amounts of power surged through Argost's being. Zak cowered against the ground, but he was unable to take his eyes off of the Yeti. There was nothing he could do to stop Argost from completely taking over the human race.
Argost's eyes glowed green, but something strange was happening. The claw glowed orange. His eyes and the claw alternated colors between green and orange before the claw suddenly and unexpectedly exploded. Nothing was left behind; it was as if it just left existence.
Zak gaped up at Argost, trying to piece together what had just happened. He didn't have to figure it out because Argost began talking to himself.
"I have the Kur powers! Why wouldn't the Hand of Tsul'Kalu channel them?" He paused before continuing, "That must be it. It's not the Kur powers that I have, but the Ruk powers. The Hand of Tsul'Kalu channels the Kur powers, but it would block the Ruk powers... So that must mean that I need Zak Monday's Fang..."
The power that had surged through Argost wasn't power at all. It was the Ruk powers and the claw's powers interacting.
"You're not going to get the Fang, Argost!" Zak shouted as he jumped off the ground and threw himself at Argost. The two fell to the ground. Argost tried to push Zak off while Zak tried to keep Argost pinned down until someone could help him. The explosion of the claw seemed to seriously hamper Argost's powers; no cryptids came to his aid. In fact, it seemed that the sound of the surrounding cryptids was beginning to fade.
Zak was losing his power over Argost and the element of surprise was long gone. Argost's natural strength was starting to retaliate. The strength of a Yeti would easily overcome the strength of a sixteen-year-old boy, several times over.
Just as Zak thought that he couldn't hold down Argost any longer, he felt something grab the back of his shirt, pull him up into the air, and drop him onto the ground.
"We'll handle this now."
It was Doyle. For a second, he stared at Zak, but he quickly snapped his head forward to look at Argost. The white-hot anger had never left his eyes.
Zak scrambled to sit up. He didn't have to worry about holding down Argost any more. Drew was standing over him, holding the Fire Sword's point over Argost's neck. The anger hadn't left her eyes, either.
"You spent years attacking people, killing them, and tearing families apart... for fun," Drew said in a frightfully calm voice.
"I bet you thought you would live your entire life without ever having to pay for it," Doyle added in a voice that matched Drew's.
Argost simply laughed. Drew and Doyle looked taken aback, but they quickly showed the same expressions of anger they had before. The Yeti's eyes glowed green yet again, but Drew and Doyle didn't react.
Zak, who was still sitting on the ground, felt a low rumbling in the ground. He turned his head to see a boar-like cryptid charging up the side of the volcano. Zak believed it was a Cafre, but identifying it was the least of his worries.
As the Cafre charged past Zak, he noticed that Emir was riding the back of it.
"THIS IS THE END, ARGOST!"
Zak couldn't comprehend the following events, nor would he until he spent hours reflecting on them the night after.
Drew and Doyle heard Emir's shout. They turned to see the charging Cafre. Drew grabbed onto Doyle's arm and pulled him out of the cryptid's path. Argost hadn't had time to react. He was now directly in the Cafre's path.
With a dull thud, the Cafre, with Emir on its back, collided with the fallen Argost. The glow in Argost's eyes had faded with the impact. Without the control Argost had provided, the Cafre found itself in a heavy dash, unable to stop. With an ear-piercing squeal, it ran directly off the edge of the volcano and into the mouth of the beast, taking Emir and Argost with it.
What are you supposed to say after something like that? Well... Umm... I'll leave you with the typical "let me know what you think" and the equally predictable "thanks for reading".