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Chapter 27: The Lurker, Final Part.


The Lurker Roared before charging at the heroes. The group sprang into action, Wash Buckler and Fire Kracken approaching the beast's left and right flank and distracting it. Zoo Lou then stun the Lurker by summoning birds to blind it. Suddenly, Something began to pull back on the Lurker's neck. Tygra had lassoed onto one of the chunks of petrified darkness and gave it a swift yank, Causing the tiger to be thrown into the air before landing on it's back. The force of the impact caused the second chunk to break loose. "One Left!" Tygra yelled before using his whip to tie a rein around the Lurker's mouth and began to pull hard. It bucked and roared as the Tiger held onto dear life.

"Follow the bouncing light!" Fire Kracken said before jumping up and down on his tail. He then began to use his light to aggravate the beast and get it to follow it. Fire Kracken then got it to follow him through the forest and run it into several trees, hoping to damage the crystals. The Kracken jumping off from trunk off of trunk as he did, They then came back into the clearing where Lion-o was waiting for them.

"Any signs of breaking?" Lion-o called to his brother.

Tygra then looked at the last crystal, It was cracked but it wasn't enough. "It's close, We just need to get one more impact-woah!" Tygra then was grabbed by the Lurker's paw and thrown into a nearby tree.

"Tygra!" Lion-o called out before running over to him but was stopped by the Lurker as it stood in its way. Lion-o then fended off some of the Lurker's attacks before being swatted away onto the ground, The Lurker began to close in for the kill. "...I know that you're in a lot of pain, But acting like this won't help!" Lion-o yelled at the Lurker, trying to reach out to the lizard within. With some of the crystals destroyed. The lizard's rational thoughts were starting to come out, it was starting to grip it's head in pain. "You have to fight it! Fight against the petrified darkness inside of you!"

The lizard's was starting to fight again as the Lurker started to roar in pain and fall to the ground and curl up in a fetal position.

The Lurker let out whimpers of pain as the group surrounded him, Tygra limped over to his brother, with a few cracked ribs from the impact with the tree.

"Oh, Poor little lizard..."

"Koar?" Tygra said looking at the now glowing gauntlet before countering. "That "Poor Little Lizard" Just nearly broke my spine!"

"It's not his fault, Tygra..." Tessa said taking off her backpack and pulled out a splint and bandages before treating Tygra.

"She's right..." Koar said before Tessa started to apply the splint with Tygra's side. "This was once an ordinary lizard in Mumm-ra's army, However, unknown to Mumm-ra himself, Kaos saw a way to sneak by Mumm-ra's gazed. And Judging from the work on this reptile, Kaos increased the output of his evilizer to augment his growth and implanted a brainwash spell to make sure Lion-o was the intended target..."

"Woah...Poor little lizard, indeed." Zoo Lou said approaching the lizard and putting a paw on it's forehead.

"Time to smash his cage open..." Lion-o said climbing on the lizards back and began to chip off the crystal. The gemstone was broken off as black smoke began to slowly leave it's body.

"I'll go collect the SparkFruit!" Hoot Loop said before he disappeared. The Lizard starting to shrink back to his normal size, The owl then appeared again and opened up a ring above him, causing an ample amount of SparkFruit to pile up on the ground. "I'm back! So how's he- Woah..." Hoot Loop stopped when he saw Tessa wrapping the now normal size lizard in a blanket she packed with her.

"How are you feeling?" Lion-o said crouching down to the lizard. The Lizard then looked up at the king, The Lizard had blue skin and yellow eyes.

"Darkness...Hatred...Burns so much..." The Lizard said to the lord. As if oblivious to his presence

"No one's been evilized this much before..." Koar said through the gauntlet. "He just needs rest...Hopefully he'll be fine in a few hours, Maybe he'll explain what happened to him..."

Lion-o then looked at the shaken lizard, wondering the ordeal he went through that turned him into a Lurker.


"That should be enough for the Feliner." Panthro said loading the final basket on Whiskers, The other birds holding onto the rest. It was a few hour till dawn and the group was trying to get some sleep in.

"I don't think Mumm-ra was capable of turning a lizard into...That..." Cheetara said to Lion-o as she checked on Tygra's injuries, She then looked at the chunk of darkness that Tessa had given her. "Petrified Darkness..." Cheetara muttered as she turned to look at it...She sensed it was...Alive, somehow... She then pushed it out of her mind before resuming work on Tygra's broken ribs as she applied more ointment to ease his rib pain.

"I'm more concern on how Kaos manage to turn a lizard into a monster." Tygra said before wincing from the pain in his ribs.

Lion-o couldn't help but worry about the lizard that they picked up, so he went to the tent where he was resting. Lion-o moved past the tent folds and saw the lizard sitting up from his sleeping bag, wondering where he was.

"Hey, are you feeling better?" Lion-o asked the reptile, who was startled by Lion-o's presence when he entered. The king then sat down next to the weakened reptile. The lizard then began to relax when the feline showed him no harm.

"More or less..." The lizard hissed a reply. The reptile then crooked his head before asking. "Where am I?"

"Your somewhere in the CloudBreak Islands. In skylands." Lion-o answered the reptile. "We're going to get you to WoodBurrow, they have a clinic there to fix you up."

"...What? But...how did I get here...?" The lizard started confuse as he started to remember. "Slithe...I remember Commander Slithe talking to the portal master, Kaos...Kaos..." He then began to hiss with anger. "I hate him! He...He strapped me to a bed! Shot me with laser! Pain, So much pain...Slithe doesn't know!" He then gripped the king's shoulders and yelled. "Slithe in danger! Kaos plans to turn us all into lab rats! Not to mention his plan to strip Mumm-ra of his magic..."

"Hold up! Back up a moment..." Lion-o said as he calmed the lizard down. "What does he means by "Stripping" Mumm-ra of his magic?"

"Kaos says the power used by the Ancient Spirits of Evil was once used by the Darkness..." The lizard said shaking. "Has Vial that can suck out the Darkness in people's hearts and used them for his own magic...That's all I know..."

"...What's your name?" Lion-o asked the reptile.

"Why do you care?" The lizard started laying back down. "We burned your city, killed your father...Why treat me with such mercy?"

"Because, it was my people who pushed your kind into joining up with Mumm-ra...I can't hold one lizard to that..." Lion-o said to the lizard as he listened. "Forget about what happened then and tried to makes things right the next time around...That what Koar told me. He kept that knowledge close to his heart when the Core of Life was first destroyed, I learned about his past adventures, and he inspired me, just as I inspired him." Lion-o then chuckled, as he turned away from the lizard. "The only difference is that he had more help than I did..."

"Salmandar..."

Lion-o flinched. "What?" He asked.

"My name..." The lizard said turning to the young king. "Is Salmandar."

"Oh, Salmandar it is then." Lion-o said getting up. "We fly back to WoodBurrow at the stroke of noon. Get some rest until then."

Lion-o then left the lizard alone to sleep as the dawn drew near...

It was a new dawn. That was the thought Koar and Lion-o both shared on that same day.


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