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Chapter 5

Kidnapping

"How could that Wocky have known?" Sylvester wondered after Azuldragao had explained what had happened.

"Maybe all Ancients smell like sh-"

"PLESIO!" Jadretana screamed.

"Sorry."

"We can't expect that that Wocky can keep a secret," Rash said flatly. "He'll tell what he knows already."

"He won't tell," Azul said crossly. "He didn't tell that I had a crush-" He stopped, embarrased, and turned around. "I need to go to the bathroom," he mumbled, and ran off . Jade and Kalora grinned wickedly.

"We'll trust him then," Rash said, glaring at Kalora and Jade. Kalora frowned back.

"But, still, how did he know?" Kauvara speculated. Rash repeated the question in French ("Comment est-ce que le Kiosk Wocky a su que Azuldragao et Sylvester étaient Ancien?") to Bleue, and everyone thought about it. Finally, Kalora came up with a solution.

"Maybe he has a-"
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"What in the hell was that?!" Jade screeched.

"Yeah, what was that, Rash?" Dr_Death wondered. Rash couldn't say a word, but she had a horrorstruck look on her face.

"Azul!" she choked out.

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"Look! A copy of Da Rules of Da High Magic!" Azul exclaimed. "Pocket-sized!" He put it in his pocket when he heard a huge

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Before he knew it, he was being dragged through a place he knew as the VirtuPets Space Station. He had never been here before, but he had seen it in pictures. And it wouldn't be hard to confuse it with Krawk Island or Terror Mountain. Some mutant Grundos shoved him into a cement room.

The room was awful. Spyders were crawling around everywhere. Slaves - Grundos and others alike - were lined up and connected by chains, being tugged into another chamber, assumingly to be experimented on by the lab ray.

"Hey bub!" a mutant Grundo shouted. "Get in line! NOW!"

"No," Azul said flatly. His eyes glazed over, having a plan in mind.

"No?" the mutant Grundo asked. "Did you just say no? Do you know what happens to rodents like you that say no?" This was going exactly the way Azul wanted it to. He smirked. "They get whipped!" the mutant Grundo shouted. He dug into his pocket and found a cat-o'-nine-tails and swung it around his head. He lashed out, but Azul very easily dodged it. Azul grinned, and changed his form. Gasps arose from the slaves.

"Is that the best you can do?" Azul taunted.

"Rrrr..." the mutant Grundo growled. He struck out again with the cat-o'-nine-tails, but before it hit, Azul grabbed it, and tore it apart.

"Got any others?" Azul teased.

"GET IN LINE NOW!" the mutant Grundo screamed.

"GET IN LINE NOW!" Azul mimicked. "Don't you realize you can't always get what you want?" And Azul blasted his flame at the mutant Grundo, who them became a regular Grundo. It ran off, quickly and quietly. Cheers arose from the slaves. Azul chopped every chain off of every slave and blasted a hole through the cement wall. "Go on. You're free," he told them. Most of the slaves rushed off, but a few stayed behind.

"Thank you for saving us," a Peophin said from behind Azul. "I'm Allegra." Azul turned around, and found himself face-to-face with a very pretty faerie Peophin. Azul was stunned by her beauty, but was able keep himself together.

"You're welcome," Azul told her.

"I was abandoned by my owner here in this place. I think Sloth killed him afterwards though," Allegra told Azul. She saw a Kacheek and yelled at him. "ELLIOT!" she screamed. "COME OVER HERE!" The Kacheek walked over to her. "This," she said, "is my brother Elliot."

"I can't find Bleue anywhere!" Elliot said unhappily to Allegra.

"Bleue?" Azul interrupted. "Bleuemangouste?"

"Yes, Bleuemangouste," Elliot said. "How did you know?"

"She's with the other Ancients," he informed her.

"Really?" Allegra grinned. "Can we pick her up?"

"Sure!" Azul smiled. "Come on!" He paused. "You don't have abilities, do you?" Allegra and Elliot shook their heads. "I don't know how we will get back then-"

"AZUL!" a voice shouted. It was Verderato's voice! "Jade! Plesio! Rash! Faelinn! Bleue! Get over here!" He gestured over to the direction Azul, Allegra, and Elliot were in.

"'RATO!" Azul exclaimed. He ran over to Verderato and hugged in a tight embrace. He saw that Jade was by him too, so he hugged her too. "I'm so glad to see you guys!"

"Tell us the whole story," Jade smiled.

"BLEUE!" Allegra and Elliot shouted simultaneously.

"ALLEGRA! ELLIOT!" Bleue responded happily. They all hugged each other happily. But Rash was staring at Allegra.

"Oh my," Rash said. "That Peophin-"

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Azul: Good place to stop, eh? *dodges rotten tomatoes* Oops.

Bleue: Est-ce que ceci est une chambre de torture ou que?

All: *laughs hollowly*

Bleue: Donc s'il vous plaît lire et réexaminer, ou Kauvara explosera des rayons énormes de lumière à vous.

Jade: 'So please read and review, or Kauvara will blast huge beams of light at you' is a sufficient translation.