Panthro looked out through a scope as he was surveying the huge armada that was approaching.
Hundreds of lizard soldiers with dozens of lizard robots.
There was one in particular that caught his attention.
It was a bit bigger than the other ones armed with a huge array of missiles and various other weapons and ready to fire on command.
He adjusted the scope's magnification and got a better look at where Grune and Andrea was.
He adjusted the scope to look at where Grune was eying the village with a greedy smile.
Panthro growled in the back of his throat and put the scope away.
He walked over to where the others were waiting outside the Astral Plane portal.
"Bad news, the entire village is surrounded." Said Panthro as he caught their attention.
"How many troops?" Asked Cheetara as she was wanting to know how many they would have to go up against.
"If I had to guess, I'd say all of them." Said Panthro.
Tygra looked up at Anet who was looking into the portal with eyes that betrayed his typical forgetful behaviour but instead showed a wise, aged elephant who wasn't happy about whatever oncoming peril would come from the portal.
"Considering how hopelessly outnumbered we are, maybe you guys could lend us a hand." Said Tygra.
"As always, we will seek to understand our role through meditation." Said Anet.
"I'll take that as a no." Said Panthro as he was going back to survey the soldiers waiting for them.
"I wonder what's keeping him." Said Carter concernedly as he was looking at the portal.
"Keeping who?" Asked Anet.
"Adam, remember?" Asked Kit.
"Ah, yes, of course." Said Anet as he just remembered.
"He went after the Spirit Stone, didn't he?" Asked Anet.
"I bet something went wrong." Said Kat as he was worried for his friend.
"I do sense a dark presence within." Said Anet as he was looking at the portal.
"But on the Astral Plane, he will face an even greater challenge." Said Anet.
"What's that?" Asked Cheetara.
"Himself." Said Anet.
"Unless Adam finds the orgins of the Stones as well as his destiny, the powers he held will turn against him." Said Anet.
Everyone looked at the portal in worry.
In the Astral Plane Adam couldn't stop staring at the vast expense of nothing he walked through.
It was as though he were walking through the sky on the clouds themselves but a solid surface of glass kept him from touching the clouds beneath him and although the clouds above seemed so close that you could touch them although he couldn't reach it.
As he kept walking the ground suddenly began to rumble and in the distance and he saw a tower on its side similar to the ones he had seen in Thundera before it had fallen coming up out of the nothingness.
A moment later a familiar giant panther statue came out of the ground was also tilted onto its side.
A second later even more statues from Thundera poked out of the ground.
Even a statue of King Claudus poked out of the ground underneath his feet lifting him up high as the area became filled with various monuments from Thundera.
"Okay this is beyond creepy." Said Adam to himself.
Adam took a breath.
"Just find the Spirit Stone and get out of here." Said Adam.
"The elephants say that if I can't see something then I'm not looking at the big picture." Said Adam as he tried to remember the advice he'd gotten.
"Of coruse that could mean that means it's right under my nose." Said Adam.
He jumped down from Claudus's statue and continued his search.
Adam didn't noticed the strange crow that was flying over him.
"Embrace your jealousy, your greed, your fears." Said Mumm-Ra through the beak.
"For in this world, I can make your darkest thoughts as real as flesh, here, you are nothing more than my puppet, and when you die, both stones will be mine." Said Mumm-Ra in determination.
Meanwhile Panthro kneeled down and placed an explosive on the ground.
He ran his finger across the surface as he was preparing it to blow whenever someone touched it.
They may have been grossly outnumbered by the lizards but this trap he was laying down would surely do some damage.
With him, Kat and Kit were looking through his scope at the lizard army.
"Look at Grune the snaggletooth just sitting out there." Said Kat as he grinned at his sister.
"I bet he's scared!" Said Kat as Kit grinned with him.
"Ever hear how he lost his tooth?" Asked Panthro as he looked at the twins.
They both looked back at him and shaking their heads.
He got up from where he had been kneeling and went over to them looking over the cliff at the waiting army as he spoke.
"It was during the Lizard War, Grune and I had busted out of a prison camp and were on the run, with no food, no weapons, and an army after us, we hid in a cave, as it turned out, it wasn't empty." Said Panthro.
He looked down at the kittens.
"It was Spidera's nest." Said Panthro.
"S-Spidera?" Said Kat nervously.
"I-I thought Spidera was just a myth." Said Kat.
"So did we." Replied Panthro.
"Next thing we knew, that beast had us backed into a corner, fangs dripping with venom." Said Panthro as he remembered the events of that day.
"What did you do?" Asked Kat.
"Me, once she had me in her web, I prepared for the end." Said Panthro.
"But Grune, he ripped out his own saber tooth." Said Panthro.
"Ugh why?" Asked Kit.
"Because he knew that beast only had one weak spot." Said Panthro as he pointed to his eye.
"Her eyes were her greated weakness, Grune used his tooth and jammed it right into that monster." Said Panthro.
The kittens gasped.
"Afterwards, Grune said something I never forgot." Asked Panthro as he closed his eyes as he remembered his words.
"'Any sacrifice is worth the defeat of your enemy.'" Repeated Panthro.
Panthro looked at the kittens.
"You really think he's scared?" Asked Panthro.
Adam still kept looking for the Spirit Stone but to no avail.
Suddenly the entire Astral Planes went completely dark with stars around him as though he was in space.
He looked down at his chest and saw the War Stone was glowing.
What are you showing me? Thought Adam.
Even Mumm-Ra was curious to what was going on and decided not to interfere.
Suddenly Adam saw what appeared to be flash of light which created six beams of lights with different colours.
One was red, one was pink, one was green, one was light blue, one was yellow and the last one was dark blue and it looked like they landed on a planet that to Adam looked like was Earth.
He saw that the beams landed on Stones on that planet and infusing them with their powers.
They soon transformed into what Adam assumed were the Power Stones, he recognized the first four but did not know what the last two were.
Adam decided to keep on watching to see what else the Stone was showing him.
Andrea sat on the foot of one of the robotic lizards as the army waited outside the elephant village.
Next to her stood Slithe as he was waiting for something from the village.
Andrea getting a little stir-crazy and was growing tired of sitting there and doing nothing.
Grune seemed to be the same way as he went over to where Slithe was.
"Why do we continue to wait when we could crush them in a breath?!" Asked/Yelled Grune.
"Yeah, i'm getting tired of doing nothing, are you worried about the elephants going to fight us?" Asked Andrea as she stood up.
"Of course not." Said Slithe.
"The elephants never fight." Said Slithe.
"Then why aren't we launching an attack?" Asked Andrea.
"Mumm-Ra's orders." Said Slithe.
"If we attack now we risk destroying the portal to the Astral Plane, trapping him inside forever." Said Slithe as he explained.
"Tell me, Slithe, would that really be such a bad thing?" Asked Grune with a smirk on his face.
"Mumm-Ra is our master!" Yelled Slithe.
"He controls the largest army on Third Earth, and wields more power than you could even dream of!" Yelled Slithe in fear as he knew he was not a fool of Mumm-Ra's powers.
"You would dare betray him?!" Asked Slithe in surpise.
Grune smirked evilly, letting that be his awnser.
"Do you really want to be a servant of that thing and make your people slaves?" Asked Andrea as she had no idea what Mumm-Ra was supposed to be.
Slithe looked between the two of them before sharing his own smirk.
"You know for a cat and a human, you are both quite the snakes." Said Slithe.
Adam was then seeing into what appeared to be a building of sort and saw a man with a long dark hooded cloak and a metal mask that covers half of the face, a device of sorts and an ordinary monkey on his shoulder in a snow storm.
"Zhan Tiri!" Yelled the man much to Adam's surprise.
He looked back and saw a woman with white pale skin with long grey hair and buns on the top of her hair and a pendant crown like object on her forehead and was wearing a grey dress with a black gown underneath, snarling at the man.
"This is your last warning, give up this foolish quest for power!" Yelled the man.
Zhan Tiri waved her arm away as though she wouldn't listen.
"This quest for the Stones of Power was both of our destinies!" Yelled Zhan Tiri in anger.
The man pointed his finger at Zhan Tiri.
"No, we were suppose to study the Stones, their destiny is to be with the one who has the powers of both the White Wizard and The Dragon King and bring balance to the universe forever, or it was until you made even darker, you made it into gaining power for yourself, you turned your back on what was right!" Yelled the man in anger.
Adam heard the names of White Wizard and Dragon King before from both Adira and Andrea, but what do they mean.
Zhan Tiri pointed her finger in accusation.
"And you turned your back on me." Said Zhan Tiri.
"And as long as I live, I will not stop until I have the Ultimate Power!" Yelled Zhan Tiri as she took out a weapon, a boomerang.
The man closed his eyes as the monkey jumped off.
"I know." Said the man sadly.
Just as Zhan Tiri thew her boomerang, the man pulled a lever and turn on the machine behind him.
It began to pull Zhan Tiri in but she was able to hold on to the side of the machine.
The device began pulled everyone from it's range in.
"This is far from over Demanitus, I will have that power and when I do I will destroy not only this planet but all of the others you cared for." Said Zhan Tiri.
"I promise you!" Yelled Zhan Tiri as she went through the portal as her voice echoes.
Demanitus turned off the device and his knees fell to the ground.
The monkey went up to Demanitus.
"I had no other choice Vigor." Said Demanitus as he picked up Vigor.
He looked back at the device.
"I had to send her to the Lost Realm." Said Demanitus.
Adam was confused, was his destiny is to unite all six of the stones to bring balance or defeat the Ultimate Evils?
The robotic lizard tanks moved up the mountain.
Panthro looked through his scope at the oncoming army.
"It's time." Said Panthro.
Tygra turned to face Anet and Aburn.
"So, are you gonna help us or wait for that army to roll over your village?" Asked Tygra.
"We were supposed to meditate on that, weren't we?" Asked Anet as he turned to Aburn.
"Completely slipped our mind, come, Aburn let's get right to that." Said Anet as he and Aburn walked away and going to the meditation grounds.
"Of all the slow, dumb!" Yelled Panthro in anger.
Carter was starting to think that the whole Elephant never forgets motto is a lie.
"We can't stop an army that size." Said Cheetara as she was gesturing to the lizards.
"No, but I got a few surprises that'll slow 'em down." Said Panthro as he reached into his pocket and held up one of the bombs he had set down earlier with a grin.
The Lizards neared the village when all of a sudden an explosion came at them.
Another explosion went off not too far away and then another and another and it was taking out some of the lizard soldiers.
Slithe laughed.
"A pitiable defence, Thundera fell in a day, this will only take moments!" Yelled Slithe.
"Andrea, Slithe, take the hut." Said Grune as he pulled out his bludgeoner.
"The Cats are mine." Said Grune as he powered it up and fired off and destroyed all the devices near by.
The Lizards went up the mountainside.
Slithe and Andrea reached the top first and along with a good portion of the soldiers and all of them aiming their weapons at the hut as they surrounded it and ready to fire.
Cheetara saw this and ran towards them and holding out her staff.
"No one gets near that hut!" Yelled Cheetara as she ran through the crowd of lizards and knocking them into the air while disarming them of their bayonetted guns.
She stood in front of the hut.
More and more soldiers coming up the mountainside.
Panthro powered up the tank's cannon and fired it off at the lizards and blowing them away and wrecking some of the lizard robots.
"Come on, you old saber tooth." Said Panthro as he looked at the oncoming soldiers.
"Show yourself." Said Panthro.
He noticed something moved in the corner of his eye and he looked to see it was Grune coming up over the walls of the village.
Fury welled up within him and he moved the tank, driving it over to where Grune was with great speed and stopping in front of him.
"About time you showed up!" Yelled Panthro.
"This is meant to be a battle between Cats, not machines." Said Grune.
"Then the odds are in my favor." Said Panthro as he pulled out his nun-chucks.
Grune grinned.
"To the death then, old friend." Said Grune mockingly.
"Yeah, yours!" Yelled Panthro.
He began jumping off the tank and heading straight for Grune and swinging his nun-chucks in the air.
Grune swung his bludgeoner a few times and brought it down on Panthro's nun-chucks and so the battle between them began.
In the other part of the village Kat had found one of the rocket launchers the lizards had been using, and was having a little trouble resting it on his shoulder to fire it off at one of the robots.
He didn't notice the three soldiers behind him as they began to sneak up.
Once Kat finally got the launcher situated on his shoulder he fired it off, the kickback of the gun being enough to throw him back a few feet into the soldiers behind him as the rockets went to destroy the feet of the lizard robot.
When Kat got up, he saw he'd took out a robot and a few soldiers.
The entire battle Kit was sitting next to Aburn and Snarf beside her as they meditated on whether or not to fight against the lizards.
Adira was using her sword to slice through the weapons and beat the Lizards at Martial Arts.
Carter was using all three of his elemental powers to keep the lizards at bay.
Adam then saw Demanitus walking up some mountain with the six stones in a brown bag.
"Now what are you showing me?" Asked Adam.
He saw three people behind Demanitus.
One was a female with black hair with a pink uniform and had wings on her back.
One was a man with black hair also but had a Japanese kimono as an outfit.
One was another man with long white hair and a thin moustache and his outfit looked like he was an English man back in the ancient times.
Demanitus noticed they stopped.
"What is wrong?" Asked Demanitus in worry.
Suddenly their eyes turn black and raised their hands.
They mumbled some sort of old language, the only English part they was Zhan Tiri.
Suddenly fire came from beneath them and showed Zhan Tiri.
Only she wasn't human this time, she looked like a horned demonic creature.
Demanitus's eyes widened.
Zhan Tiri clenched her fist and brought it down on Demanitus.
Only to have a pink shield come around Demanitus and saving him.
Demanitus held out his hand.
"Ab Deme Inimicos Meos Coram Me." Said Demanitus as he spoke out an incantation.
A glow came from his hands and it hit all of his enemies and banished them to parts unknown.
Soon enough he was surronded by two other people.
One was Mumm-Rana.
The other was a man with a long blue cloak with a bald head and a symbol of a purple crecent moon on his head.
"I must trust you both to hide these." Said Demanitus as he held out four of the six stones.
"They must be hidden until the one who merges with them can take them, Zhan Tiri must never get her hands on them." Said Demanitus.
They nodded and the man took the stones while Mumm-Rana took half a scroll that contains infomation of the Stone's powers.
Soon they teleported with their magics.
He looked at the other half of the scroll as well as the other two stones and split the scroll into four pieces and walked away.
The vision ended after that and the Astral Planes were turned to normal.
"So that's it, my destiny is to find all the stones and stop Zhan Tiri for good." Said Adam as he finally realized what his destiny was.
The Stone glowed brightly, as though it was saying yes.
"Not if i can help it." Said a familler raspy voice.
Adam looked around before he spotted a familiar black crow.
"Mumm-Ra." Said Adam.
It jumped off the branch and flew in front of him.
"Ancient Spirits of Evil, transform this decayed form into Mumm-Ra, the Ever-Living!" Yelled Mumm-Ra.
Adam watched as the bird changed back into the mummified being he was so familiar with and then watched as he grew bigger and a pair of huge leathery wings breaking through the bandages as well as a hugely muscled body and decorated in Mumm-Ra's normal clothing.
He stood tall and was towering over Adam with his wings raised high.
"I'll just have to kill you to prevent you to follow your destiny!" Yelled Mumm-Ra.
He let out a war cry as his hands shot out bolts of purple lightning and pushing Adam away from him.
Adam tumbled onto his side.
Adam groaned in pain, and worked to get on his feet.
He was sure that he had more than enough energy to fight Mumm-Ra.
As he began to get to his feet, he saw something on the ground and his eyes widened when he saw a crack in the ground and where underneath it seemed to be made of an amethyst-like stone.
Could it be? Thought Adam to himself as he hopes this was the Spirit Stone.
Cheetara stood outside the hut while holding her staff and glaring at all the lizard soldiers and the lizard robots that surrounded it.
Andrea was glaring at Cheetara.
"Why are you doing this?" Asked Cheetara as she was confused to why a human would serve Mumm-Ra.
Andrea looked away, not saying anything.
Cheetara saw something move out of the corner of her eye.
She looked to the side as she saw Kat dash up beside her.
"Get out of here!" Yelled Cheetara.
"I'll try to hold them off as long as possible!" Yelled Cheetara.
"No way, i'm defending this hut to the end!" Yelled Kat.
The lizards's weapons hummed as they powered up and as did the cannons on the lizard robots.
Cheetara held up her staff and was about ready to defend the hut until her last breath.
Kat looked up fearfully at the robot and raised his arms in defence of the oncoming blow and his eyes welling up in fear-filled tears as he readied for the end.
The Mecha suddenly went up as the cannon fired missing the hut.
Cheetara and WilyKat looked to see that Anet was under the robot's foot holding it up, preventing it from getting a clear shot at the hut.
"I thought you were gonna meditate." Said Cheetara with a grateful smile.
"We did." Replied Anet.
"And this is the answer that came to us." Said Anet.
He lifted up the leg of the robot and threw it making it hit another robot and explode on impact.
The soldiers all began to run as the elephants rose up and each one was fighting off one after another.
Kit sat on Aburn's shoulder as she was watching the soldiers run.
"You just woke a village of sleeping giants." Said Kit.
"ThunderCats Ho!" Yelled Kit.
Andrea ran away as the elephants began stomping.
She ran to where Slithe was gaping at them incredulously.
"I thought you said the elephants never fight!" Yelled Andrea.#
"Only rarely." Said Anet as he came up to them.
"But when we do, we fight to win!" Yelled Anet in determination.
He brought his fist down, ready to smash them.
Andra and Slithe were able jumped away.
Anet raised his hand up again and this time bringing down both fists on them and Andrea and Slithe instantly went back.
Slithe ran at the old elephant and using the blade of his bayoneted weapon to try and cut him but Anet was able to caught it in his huge fist and yanked it out of the lizard's grasp.
He held it in front of them and they watched with wide eyes as he bent it with such ease and tossing it away.
Slithe ran from him with Andrea behind him.
"What do you say we settle this with our fists?" Asked Panthro as he knew this was a lost cause.
Grune smirked and threw down his bludgeoner and Panthro threw down his nun-chucks.
They both ran at each other with fists flying as they tried to land a blow.
"With you out of the way, there will be nothing to stop me from finding the Spirit Stone!" Yelled Mumm-Ra.
Adam stood up.
"You're too late, I already found it." Said Adam.
Mumm-Ra looked at him suspiciously, thinking he was bluffing.
Adam looked down at the ground and watched as a purple hue began to take form.
As the ground began to melt away.
He saw that they were all standing on top of a huge Spirit Stone.
Remembering how he absorbed the War Stone he dug his flesh hand into the stone and sparks flying from the contact.
Adam shielded his eyes as a bright light came from it as the stone slowly went into Adam's chest, right next to the War Stone and making a small teardrop on the back for a new place to put it.
Adam's hair and eyes turned pink.
When it was done they were standing in a starry expanse of space and his arm extended into an armoured arm.
He held up his arm letting the stone glow blinding Mumm-Ra slightly.
In anger Mumm-Ra built up a huge blast of his power and shot it at Adam who still held his hand and making it act as a shield as he prevented the blast from hitting them like he saw Demanitus did.
Mumm-Ra looked at him with wide eyes and Adam smirked.
"Now let's see what this Spirit Stone can do." Said Adam.
He held his hands and bolts of lightning flew as its power was amplified by the power of the Spirit Stone and a huge amount of power shot out of it to Mumm-Ra, and threw him back until he was out of their line of sight.
He stopped as a rumbling sounded beneath their feet and the starry space beneath him began to crack like glass.
Realizing that without the Spirit Stone the Astral Planes will collapase and began to run for the portal with the Astral Planes falling shortly afterwards into an infinite space.
Just outside the hut, Panthro and Grune were still fighting.
Panthro blocked one of Grune's punches and was about to respond with his own when he suddenly noticed how strong the winds were getting near the portal.
"Take cover!" Yelled Adam.
He looked and saw Adam come tumbling out and heading for safety.
A bird slipped out shortly afterward but his attention wasn't on that.
His attention was on Grune as they both began to slip towards the portal because Grune had grabbed onto him to try and stay out of it.
The winds were strong enough to take Grune off his feet and Panthro had to fight to keep himself out of the collapsing portal but Grune somehow managed to slip through.
"Pull me free, Panthro!" Yelled Grune through the roaring winds,
"Pull me free, or we both die!" Yelled Grune.
Panthro merely looked at Gune.
"The defeat of your enemy is worth any sacrifice!" Yelled Panthro.
As the portal began to close up and never to open again Grune screamed for his life as it closed around him and what little it did of Panthro.
Once it closed the hut exploded as a result as it was no longer able to exist without the Astral Planes.
Once the explosion had ended everyone began to stand once it was over and they looked around and surveying the damage the village had taken.
There were a few damaged homes and some gardens had been destroyed but it wasn't anything that couldn't be fixed over time.
Adam looked around and saw that the damage to the elephants and the cats had been minimal.
Panthro stood at where the hut once was but his arms were gone and a strange material surrounded the place where they had been cut off.
He grunted as he managed to get on his feet.
"Worth it." Said Panthro.
He fell to the ground and everyone ran over to him and checking to see how he was.
They rolled him onto his back to try and get a better look.
That night, the air was filled with joyous music and the smell of deliciously cooked vegetarian foods.
The elephants were celebrating their victory against the lizards.
Kit was having a great time and was providing some of the music with Aburn and a couple other elephants.
Kat was gorging himself on food.
Adam had broken off from the party and was going to find some calmness after the events that took place in the Astral Planes. No one blamed him.
Panthro was sitting in a small isolated area and unable to really join in the festivities and Snarf was spoon-feeding him some of the food.
"I don't need a blasted nursemaid!" Yelled Panthro as Snarf ran away in fear.
"How are you holding up?" Asked Adam as he went up to him.
He shrugged his shoulders.
"You know what I'll miss the most?" Asked Panthro.
"The scars, a lot of history on those arms." Said Panthro as he looked down to where his arms are supposed to be.
"Get some rest." Said Adam.
"Maybe we can go and talk to Berbils later about getting you some new arms?" Asked Adam.
Panthro shrugged his shoulders again in response.
Snarf went back to where he was before and was grabbing a spoon and holding it up to Panthro with a smile.
When he glared at him Snarf only let out a sound that sounded like a nervous chuckle.
Adam stood at the edge of one of the cliffs outside the village.
He heard thumping footsteps behind him and looked to see Anet approaching him and Carter behind him.
"Few could have faced what you did and come out victorious, Adam, you did well." Said Adam.
"Thanks." Said Adam with a smile.
They began to take one last look at the village before leaving and Tygra and Cheetara kissing.
They smiled and walked off to give the new couple some privacy.
Adam held out the scroll Adira.
"I guess thanks to Adira for this scroll, I should be able to understand the Spirit Stone's powers." Said Adam as he began looking at the Scroll.
"Speaking of which, where is Adira, she disappeared after the hut exploded." Said Carter.
They both looked around and Adira had vanished.
Unknown to them she was watching from the darkness before leaving for her next destination, to the next stone.