Sun and Moon
by InsaneSnakeJig
Authoresess notes - I once again included something in real life. In band class, my teacher Ms. Nelson said 'I need to change my clock.' So my friend Victoria said, 'Argh.. I gotta change me clock!' That was funny, but later in the middle of playing she said, 'Argh.. bite me leg off!' and then all my friends messed up it was so funny! I dropped my oboe and had to use the stand for support, and one of my others friends Heather was actually rolling on the ground, laughing. Everyone stropped playing and they were staring at all of like... my eight friends cracking up. We ended up being sent in the hall and we were still laughing for the whole hour non-stop. My side hurt the next day. *receives stares* Er... you had to be there.
6.
Ron and Kim were taken to a room with shelves of 'stuff' that was in bowls, or wooden containers.
The girl with fur stared at them. She growled in her throat, obviously not able to enjoy their company. Then she started. "What were you thinking, coming to our clan and attacking another?!"
Kim painfully stood, and shouted back, "Pyrolite attacked us! I was trying to put that mad scientist in jail where he belongs! I think he might've even killed someone before, maybe! And then 'she' just comes out of nowhere and makes a mad attack!"
The girl shuddered at first, and then opened her golden eyes. "You were about to send a shifter in jail. You don't understand what jail is to us."
Kim and Ron looked at each other, unsure of what they thought what jail was. Then the girl took notice of all the cuts and bruises on Kim. "I'll go now. Pyrolite should be here any second and both of you need treatment." then her eyes moved toward Ron, who gulped. "You can go walk around. If you try to leave, you'll pay the price."
Then she left, her wolf-like tail swishing. At the doorway, she turned one last time and growled. Then Pyrolite walked in with Cosmos at her side. She was staring at Kim and growling low in her throat. Sitting down on the bed only across the room to them, she continued the staring. The normal girl smiled and quickly pulled out the arrow almost embedded in her shoulder.
"OH GOOD LORD!" Pyrolite jumped, and looked at the girl with a look of death on her face. "You are not WORTHY of being this close to me!"
The girl continued to smile and Ron, not being hurt at all grinned. "So... how old are you and what's your name?" he said slyly, and she stopped struggling to get Pyrolite down for a minute to look at him, eyebrows raised.
"How old are you and your name?" she asked, and continued holding down the kicking, and whining Pyrolite. "Sixteen!" Ron answered, almost proudly. "My name is Ron Stoppable!"
Kim rolled her eyes. Even during a crisis he can't stop flirting. "I'm Moonbay." she said and her voice grew flat. "And I'm twenty."
Ron folded his arms is defeat and looked at the ground. Pyrolite was now twisting and turning shouting out things that made no sense as Moonbay proceeded to pull woodchips out of her shoulder. "Argh... Bite me leg off!" she hissed, trying to sound like a pirate. After Pyrolite was done being and tortuerd - I mean, taken care of... Kim was next. Ron dived off of the bed as Moonbay lunged for Kim knowing she would put up a fight, too. "I'm okay!" she protested, while Moonbay rather savagely wrapped her arm.
He realized he got closer to Pyrolite to dodge and turned toward her. Her narrowed eyes were right in his face. "Leave."
"Sure..." He said pitifully and left the room to be in the familiar hallway. It was good knowing that Kim would be alright. He had never seen her fight so well, too. He sighed. 'For once I wish that I could fight for myself,' he thought and tried to remember his way back to the weaponry. People walking through gave him strange looks. "Foolish mortal..." One muttered and Ron turned to her. She was dressed in a black tank top, had Raven feathers in her hair, black pants and even a jaggedy line on her face made from paint. As you might've guessed, it was black, too. Ron blinked. That was freaky.
He finally saw hangings on walls in the next room and walked in. He grumbled as he saw the last person he wanted to see. Other then Pyrolite, obviously.
"You know, you were mean to Pyrolite. Even though I get petrified while I am in the presence of her..." he trailed off and his 'victim' looked up at him miserably.
"You're acting like you enjoy this freaky place." Drakken muttered, flicking an arrow away from him. Ron looked around the room. "Heck no I'm not enjoying this! Do you think watching my best friend is considered fun?!" Ron shouted, acting like it was his fault that Pyrolite came close to killing Kim before. Drakken shrugged. "This is just me... but it is very entertaining watching Kim get beat up."
Later, Kim was now afraid of Moonbay and her methods of 'healing.'
She was gone, and now only she and Pyrolite remained.
Then the weird mood of Pyrolite took over again. "You blinked."
Kim rolled her eyes. "Gee... when do people actually blink nowadays...?"
"Losers blink."
"Then I guess you'd also be a loser."
"NEVER!"
Pyrolite leaped up, running out despite her injuries. Kim blinked. That was really pointless and well... wrong. She sat on the end of her bed and stretched. It felt good knowing your enemy is more hurt then you are. Then she got up and walked outside. All bandaged up and dressed differently, it was a little hard not to get a couple of stares.
Pyrolite stood in the hallway, absolutely still except she look around her slowly. Finally, she picked up slight voices of Drakken and the other blonde, and zoomed into great hall. (That's the eating place! I got it from Redwall because I didn't want to call it the 'cafeteria.' That just sounds... stupid!) In only a few seconds later, she dashed back out carrying tons of food. Then she ran/limped her way to the weaponry and peeked in. It sounded like they were fighting. "I GOT YUM-YUMS!" she sang, and bounded her way in.
Pyrolite balanced the arm full of food unto her shoulder and used her free arm to shove the weapons off a table and with a loud clang they hit the floor. She dropped everything on the table and shoved her face into a bowl of some creamy looking stuff.
Ron, forgetting his total fear towards her jumped over. "Save some for me!"
Pyrolite used her arm to shove some of it to him. "Try this! It's all yummy- like and goes good with this!"
The two of them shoved truckloads into their mouths. Drakken, who had forgot his total hunger from the events just realized it again. He simply picked off stuff and once got bit in the finger by Ron, who said, "Don't go putting your finger near MY food!" he said, gathering up his mountain into his arms and cradling it.
How many times am I going to get abused in the finger?!, Drakken thought.
And then Kim walked in on the three and immediatly saw the to pitiful figures on the ground. "So I assume you let your hunger get the better of you." she stated and looked up to see Drakken, staring at her nervously. "Paranoid..." she mumbled and stepped over Ron and Pyrolite.
She picked a few stuff and then sat on a table across the room from Dr. Drakken (it isn't like they like eachother now, or anything...).
Then the Kimmunicator beeped, Pyrolite springing to her feet and looking around madly. At the sight of Kim pulling out the jingling 'demon phone,' she gasped and grabbed it. "The devil's tool!"
"Give that back!" Kim smacked her head and talked to Wade.
"Where are you?" he asked and saw Pyrolite in the background with a twisted face. The phone... IT TALKED AND HAD A FACE! He asked who she was and Kim glanced sideways at her. "That is Pyrolite."
Wade grew concerned, and then couldn't help but smile. "SHE is Pyrolite?! Oh, please... she has feathers stapled on her head!"
At this point she growled and grabbed a feather. "They're BEADED on you fool!"
"Right..." he said, seeing that she was in no place to hurt him, and she didn't act like she was going to attack Kim or anything. "Where are you? And is Dr. Drakken there?"
Kim simply adjusted the Kimmunicator to Drakken who was laughing at Ron, poking him in the stomach. "Does that hurt? What about this? And this?"
Ron moaned as each poke got harder. "Stoppat..."
Kim then turned her attention back to Wade. "Well, I'm in some mountain in New Zealand, obviously. But there are 'more' people like her *motions toward Pyrolite* and it's really freaky. They call themselves a clan." Kim saw Pyrolite staring at her evily. "I'll tell you more later."
She turned off the kimmunicator and took a good look around the room. Now that the fight was over, she finally had time to get a good look. And Pyrolite wasn't really making any advances. She walked to a tapestry and there was a detailed picture of a wolf human thing. On the lower left-hand corner it said it's name, which she couldn't pronounce. "HETH - OH- SO- LOOS - AH?"
"Nope! Heth-a-sloos-ah. Sounds funny, doesn't it? I'd hate to name myself that." Pyrolite corrected her, running her fingers up and down the blade of a dagger. "He was a beserker. Fought in one of the only five wars between us and another clan. He pretty much won the whole thing..."
"How can you people, wait - make that... How can you THINGS just have wars without 'us' regular people not noticing?" Dr. Drakken asked. Pyrolite folded her arms and narrowed her eyes.
"Us SHIFTERS usually only attack at night. You people have bad eyesight. And anyway, all of our clan things are well hidden or away from people. Sometimes we have HUGE forts that you can't even see. It's all just hidden..." she said, looking at Kim and Drakken, smiling.
That was almost Cosmos cue to walk in. He at first stared at Kim, not seeming to have a problem with Ron. He actually didn't have a problem with Ron at all, he was no threat to anyone and alot of the clan members found him amusing in a way. "Pyro, since I'm still trying to figure a few things out with what to do with them, can you just give them something to do and give a little tour of the fort? And I'm having trouble with the Reguba clan..." he said, still eyeing Kim suspicously.
"Sure!" Pyrolite nodded and sprang to her feet, stretching. Ron, who felt a little better did the same and looked at Kim, questionly. "You coming, KP?"
"I probably have to." She answered and also got up. Drakken normally would've refused to, but since he had nothing to do he simply went with them.
Pyrolite led them to the main circular room which had three branches of halls leading off in directions. She pointed to the most wide hall to the entrance's left. "That's the dormitories where people sleep and ...sleep..."
Then turning to the middle hall, she started walking down it followed by the three. Ron was humming to himself, Kim was next to Drakken, and both of them ignored Pyrolite's imitation of a tour guide being to busy glaring at eachother. Kim almost fell when the came to stairs, and Drakken did fall.
Luckily the stair stopped after about ten steps for a flat break. All of them burst out laughing, and Pyrolite grinned. "Heh... you okay?"
"Oh yes, I only broke my spine..." he mumbled sarcastically and got up with what was left of his dignity.
Continuing on her guide, Pyrolite walked on. After the stairs, (to the part where Drakken ended up falling :) there was only one door. Pyrolite peeked in, making sure she wasn't seen. "These are the kitchens..." she said in an almost whisper and crawled in. She got over to a table and started picking up a bottle of some strawberry tasting stuff before one of the many shifters used a ladle to whack her hand. "PYROLITE'S HERE! POSITIONS!"
Everyone inside sheilded any food visible and Pyolite ran out in defeat. "Curses!" she shouted peeking into the doorway yet again, but a spoon hit her right in the nose. She retreated, and Kim, Ron and Drakken just shrugged and followed.
They went down another flight of stone stairs, this one spiraling downwards. It felt like it was getting more humid and warm. "When is this going to end?" Dr. Drakken asked, after about five minutes of walking straight down. Pyrolite grinned. "Try climbing back up..." that was when they came to a large room. The walls were kept as they were (red stone) and bricks didn't cover it. A huge spring was at the far end up the cavern, showing that long before the clan hollowed out the mountain it was already there. There was a pool it was flowing into, and then made canals were dug to lead it off under the cavern walls. Torches were the only source of light, so it was dimly lit and made the water look almost orange.
"Those canal things lead to rooms for different stuff. One of them is for keeping the water for drinking, eating and all that stuff and the other is for taking showers and other cleaning method ..stuff... you can clean with. Yeah... But we heat it up when that happens... and the third is for cleaning stuff other than ourselves. Mhmmm." she said, almost boredly. Kim was first staring it in awe... and then hearing her last sentence she turned to Pyrolite. "Thanks for telling me... I would've taken a shower a long time ago if I was told earlier." she mumbled and noticed that a rock sticking straight out of the wall had a sun and moon carved into it's side. (Sound familiar....?)
"What's that for?" she asked, and Pyrolite turned to look at it, and her eyes glistened like it was holy for such a "beautiful" carving could be on the rock of THEIR fort. "It's the way our clan represents Shifters and humans." she simply stated.
Ron actually thought it was worth listening to, and Dr. Drakken just didn't show it. "How does it represent that?" he asked, blinking.
Pyrolite took a deep breath. "The sun is the regular human. The moon is shifters. You see, while humans are usually active during the day, shifters are active at night. That's how we got placed. The real thing kicks in here... The Sun only has one time during a day and night, and that's day. Sometimes you can see the moon, almost barely during daylight. You can barely see the difference between a shifter and a regular human. We shifters think that we're all animal spiritually. But you need the sun's light to be visible if you're a moon. So that's how we're noticed. The sun, or human, isn't active during the night but the moon is, obviously. So it's like we're just a moon, or animal without it's light. But with the sun, or the human body we can be seen. We have our own time, but the sun slightly shares it's time with us without really noticing it and gives us 'light' or a body. Like it's their time, but we don't belong but really do because we're in human bodies. Think of it like kingdoms... animal kingdoms and stuff I mean."
They had to let that sink in for a moment, but it never really made sense to them.
Pyrolite noticed the confused stares she was kidding and grinned. "Well, I'm tired!" she stated, and began climbing up.
The three stayed down there for a while, and then headed up. Dr. Drakken looked one last time at the sun and moon carved on the rock. With the fire, it looked like it was almost glowing. He understood what Pyrolite meant.
Kim strectched out on her bed, smiling. "Finally a nice warm bed..." she said, and then remembered she had to call Wade.
It was good that she had her own little room now, so no one could hear. Whipping out the Kimmunicator she turned it on, to see Wade. "Okay, Wade, here's the sitch..." Kim began.
She told him exactly what happened as soon as she got to the clan mountain, and explained Moonbay's torturous methods of healing. "Kim... what should I say to your mom?" he asked.
Kim thought hard. She had just begun to miss her parents. "Can you... get her on the phone for me?" she asked, and Wade nodded, typing stuff in. A screen popped up of a thin and line and when Wade typed in her phone number, the phone rang and the line began to vibrate.
"Hello...?" A voice answered almost hopefully, and Kim recognized it as her mother.
"Mom? This is Kim."
"Kim?! Where on earth are you? You've been gone for two days..."
She trailed off on how worried she was and Kim bit her lower lip. It was a good thing she was on summer vacation from school. Who knows how long she'd have to stay here.
"I'm alright. I might stay here for a while." Kim said. "Stay? Where?"
"With my friend, Pyrolite. She's really sorry about what she did. She said it looked like I was trying to kill her." Kim had to swallow alot of spit after that. She hated lying so much to her parents, and it was even more stressful then fighting. (No, really! Watch october 31st)
"Oh, alright."
Kim was shocked by the reply. How could she just say 'oh, alright?!' Then Kim knew her mom knew that she was lying. Kim bit her lower lip really hard, trying not to cry. This was so hard. If anyone could've heard their mom say that because they were so dissapointed in you lying.... Crikey!
"Thanks, mom... bye." she said, only adding more onto her pile of problems. Now she ditched her own mother!
"I'm tired, Wade. Gotta go." she simply said and then she laid down on her bed, slowly her eyelids drooping.
Dr. Drakken sat up on his bed, staring at the stone floor.
He was thinking about two things at once - his idea of using the 'shifters' to 'help' him conquer the world and the shifter thing. It was bugging him that everytime he tried to think of an idea to trick the clan, a little voice in the back of him would say, "You're a shifter! Hee hee! MWA HA HA.. ACK! *voice starts wheezing*"
The freaky thing was the voice sounded like a squeakier version of Pyrolite, and she just bugged him. If the voice was real, he'd hit it in the head with a brick. Can't concentrate!
Drakken got up and went outside to look through the normally crowded halls. This time they were all empty. He felt like it was real late. Walking down the halls, he noticed a room that he had never seen before. It was full of books, all hand written. No one was in there. Dr. Drakken stepped in to get a look around. The only light was a fire in the corner. A sudden draft blew the large fire out. Dr. Drakken, who was looking around sighed. This was just his lucky night. Walking over to the doorway, he tripped on a book and fell on what he thought was a bookcase. Luckily it wasn't, so it didn't fall over on others like dominos. The object slowly moved out of the way with a low grating noise that was only low enough for him to hear. A sudden coldness was on his back from where the object had once been. Feeling around, Drakken knew it was a statue of something, and then he felt the beak and wings and assumed it was a griffin. Instead of darkness, he saw a dark blue light coming from a small tunnel. Now being able to see perfectly, Drakken walked in to see a small cylinder shaped room, and there was no roof, only the sky. There was only one bookcase, that had a covering on it to protect it from any rain or snow. Being winter, it was freezing.
But then that stupid little voice popped up in his head. "Read the book! Not that one idiot, THAT one!"
Almost stupidly he looked at a particular book, shrugged and opened it. It was empty. But then a roll of paper, fell out and he picked it up off of the ground. It looked like a map but alot of it wasn't on the 'tour' Pyrolite gave them.
Always having good eyes, (best at night!) he could see a room that attracted his attention. 'Fort Ebony's treasure.' There was more to this clan thing then it seemed. So Fort Ebony was the real name. On the back there was a small note.
This is the last record of what was our clan fort. This has to be short, the Reguba clan had gotten inside the mountain and are attacking. It won't be long until they find this room, but luckily the other areas of importance have been blocked off. We already know that the Reguba clan will wipe out most of our clan, the writings in the treasure room say that, but Hethoslusah, our berserker will win the fight for us. I can here the Reguba clan fighters heading this way. I need to block this room off.
~ Shayron the recorder
Then the mountain winter got the better of him, and he just decided to take the map and note. He really had no clue by what he went by writings in the treasure room. Dr. Drakken walked out and pushed the light stone gryphon back over the doorway. As it was in place, the left wings snapped up and it locked in place. Drakken headed back to the room he was given and finally fell asleep.
"Dr. Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" a familiar and annoying voice rang out. He fell out of the bed and groaned. Oh, great. Pyrolite was awake. He got up and Pyrolite somehow managed to get inside the locked door by using a claw as a key and she pounced on him playfully. Luckily, the map was hidden and she didn't even know that he had been out last night. "Good afternoon! YOU MISSED A COUCIL!" she snapped at him. Rolling her off of him, Dr. Drakken sat up on the floor and shrugged. "I don't care."
Pyrolite looked serious, which was really rare. "I know this is late... but while we were at the mountains I kept seeing people. I knew they were shifters. Well, they were following us and now all of the sudden, a bunch of our clan members have been being followed." Pausing, she continued, "Cosmos finally got a message tied to an arrow saying that the Reguba clan - our rival clan is making us surrender our mountain. They want something, but no one knows what. We can't, so we would have to go to war. It's the thing you have to expect when you're dealing the the Reguba's..."
Dr. Drakken looked like he didn't care. "And this concerns me... how?"
She shrugged. "You might get killed."
"Right..." he said and then gave her a look that said, this is the part where you leave. Pyrolite 'humphed' and got went outside, closing the door behind her. Now that she was gone, Dr. Drakken pulled out the map which he put under his pillow and saw it much better in the light. There were rooms all over the place that probably weren't known by the clan... not even the shark guy! Still, the room that he paid most attention to was the treasure room. Following the map, he was the spiral staircase he already went through and the cavern. He saw the stone jutting out and on it there was pictures of a sun and moon. Then there was the tunnel, leading to another tavern. That was the treasure room. He got up and went outside to see if the rock was a door or something.
Cosmos was outside the mountain, shivering.
His eyes weren't the best, but he could still make out those shadows everyone has been reporting. They were running around the mountain, circling it and stopping sometimes when they met together. He knew that they had to be physical shifters. A regular shifter couldn't run like that. And birds scattered when ever they saw them. They instinctively knew that the shifter would try to eat it. He knew they wanted the Fort, and mountain.
Cosmos didn't exactly know why they wanted it so badly.
He took notice of the shadaows running in a V-shaped line, and when the four met up in the center there was a huge amount of shuffling in the trees. Then they took back off running side by side off to the east, which was straight ahead of the mountain. The rustling died down as they grew farther away, but he could still see birds flying straight up, almost in a line.
He made a 'hmph' sound that was slightly like a growl and turned to walk into the fort. On his way, he noticed a shifter with a bow an arrow, trying to get the arrow notched properly on the string. He rememberd the shifter as a hare. Cosmos sighed, usually not being able to do this.
"Stride, you're fast on your feet, right?" he asked, walking toward him, smiling. The shifter nodded dumbly, not sure what he should say. "And you're just now learning the bow and arrows, why don't you go outside an practice, you'd have lots of targets that way!" he suggested, but it sounded slightly like a command.
Cosmos began to walk away and stopped. "If you see any of those shadows, just shoot at it."
Stride, the hare shifter nodded once again dumbly and started to walk outside of the fort, still messing with the bowstring. Cosmos watched him go and headed down the halls to stuff his face again.
Kim went outside of her room which she was in all day.
She had passed by a couple of shifters and then finally came to the great hall. She immediatly expected Ron to be there, and she noticed a largw crowd in the corner. "How can he do that?" she heard a shifter say and walked over.
There was Ron, chugging down a soup called volcano water. As you tell by the name, it was extremely spicy and hot, and almost no one liked it put drank it anyway for amusement. Ron was on his seventh bowl. It was very amusing because even Pyrolite was there, grinning at Ron who's eyes were watering and his face was red. Finally being able to take no more, he finished his bowl and then slumped downin his seat. That made almost everyone laugh, including Kim.
He looked up to see Kim, and managed to smile. "Hey, Kim! You just try this Volcano water stuff..."
She grinned and convinced him to get up and walk around outside. It was cold, but he couldn't tell the difference. Kim climbed up to the top of the mountain and looked around.
"Ron, do you find it kind of wrong too, that this is like some civilaztion that no one knows about?" she asked, looking over at some feilds where shifters were walking around. Ron shrugged.
"I can't really concentrate when my mouth is on fire, Kim. No wonder they call it volcano water... I've never seen people put so much spice in just plain water!"
Kim smiled at Ron, but whipped around when she heard a frightened scream, and a disquisting noise. (Sounded like - Schlop!) They ran over to the mountain and saw a sight that made Ron come close to throwing up the seven bowls of soup. There was a shifter - Stride, on the ground with his intestines almost hanging out of his dead body on a ledge. Blood pooled around him, and also on the hands of a ...shadow?... Then the shadow looked up at them, and the sun glinted off of emerald eyes before it snarled, turned and walked camly away, striped cat-like tail whipping around. It jumped down the mountain on all fours.
Ron was traumatized by it and just stared, with the urge to throw up, before Kim grabbed him by the arm and pulled. The two of them scrambled down the mountain and finally ended up at the entrance of the fort. They met no other then Pyrolite, who was going out with a bow and arrow to "help" Stride, being sent by Cosmos.
They bumped into her and both of them immediatly pointed in the direction of where Stride lay dead.
"Stride! He's been -" Kim started and Pyrolite nodded, finishing her sentence. "-waiting for me to help him." she answered, and held up the bow and arrows. Ron shook his head. "A big cat wearing a black cloak killed him!"
Pyrolite blinked at them and nodded. "Most likely, and I beleive you. Probably a Reguba clan assassin. Go tell Cosmos." she said and set off to look at Strider, and she was acting like something like this happened almost every day. Even seeing him didn't change her mood. "That isn't good."
Dr. Drakken found it strange that no one looked at him differently. Instead she either said, 'Hi' when they passed or smiled. He realized they thought of him as one of them and just looked ahead of him. Drakken then headed down the spiral staircase and after a while ong walk downwards came to the cavern. There were alot more shifters down here, but in the rooms to shower. A couple were carrying barrels up to the store rooms, but other than that, it was empty. Drakken recognized the big rock pointing outwards in the cavenr and walked up to it. He knew for a fact it wasn't pushable.
He just touched the moon, thinking it would help in some way and there was a sudden white light. The quietness was suddenly a roar of screams, clashing and roars. He looked away from the rock to see a bunch of shifters, all wearing battle armour and carrying weapons. There were about thirty of them all together and bout only six of them were like animals standing up on hind legs. There was a dog of some kind, with gray fur and a few scars. The other five was another wolf, two foxes, a tiger and then something Drakken had no clue what it was. It looked like a giant boa constrictor, with light brown, dark brown and black blotches on it's scales. It had short legs, and even shorter arms. It also had armor on. Then Drakken just realized the banging from the side.
There was a huge wooden door, and it was being constantly pummeled by something on the other side. Then with a loud splintering crack, a huge hole appeared by a log, and it was dropped widening the hole a bit. The shifters already in the room with bow and arrows let loose their shafts into the hole, and there were roars on the other side. A big battle axe chopped through and a large horde followed...
A horde of more animal things. Most of them were cats of some kind. Others were canines and only one ferret looking thing. They all had heavy armour on and big weapons that were either battle axes or long steel pikes and spears. The two groups collided and instantly about three from each side fell to the ground.
Drakken just watched this, mouth open. Things were killing other things and it looked like they kept ganging up on the wolf, who easily threw them off of himself. Then a miss-aimed arrow shaft began to fly straight toward him, like in slow motion. As a reflex, Drakken closed his eyes and nothing happened. He slowly opened them to find that he was back in the regular cavern. No more animal things killing eachother. Drakken dropped his hand from the moon and stared at it. That was really freaky.
Cosmos came storming down, followed by Kim, Ron and Pyrolite. Pyrolite saw him first and motioned for him to come over. As he did, Cosmos turned to him almost angrily.
"I just thought I'd tell everyone in here we are going to war." he said and stormed out, growling. Entering through the doorway, he punched the wall in frustration and dust fell from the ceiling and headed up the stairs.
"War?" Dr. Drakken, asked.
Pyrolite nodded. Then Ron spoke up. "You know, I normally don't drink seven bowls of water so..."
Pyrolite pointed into the doorway. "Thanks!" he said and ran in.
"Anyway," she continued. "One of our shifters was killed. A hare named Stride. And I saw it..." she shuddered and continued, "So you're going to have to make up your mind if you're going to stay longer and risk getting killed, or you can leave."
Dr. Drakken looked at Pyrolite, who seemed a little sad in a way, and Kim just waited with her arms folded. He still hadn't found the treasure of Fort Ebony. "I'll stay longer..."
Kim looked surprised and Pyrolite unexpectedly leaped up high and unto his shoulders, constantly circling her postion for good balance. "Good! More fighters!"
"Who said I was gonna fight?"
"Me!"
"No."
"Why?!"
"Cause I never touched a sword and it's not like I ever fight in the first place."
Pyrolite thought a moment and squeezed his neck in what was supposed to be a hug. "Oh, well!" she said happily, not noticing Drakken struggling for air. Kim found this amusing.
Then Pyrolite jumped down and went to find Kim also went in to take a shower leaving Drakken to catch his breath. He looked at where Pyrolite had gone and Kim, and was confused.
Pyrolite was trying to kill/strangle/suffocate him! He realized, which was more like jumping to conclusions.
TBC
Authoresses notes- Sorry to you squemish people about the intestines things. I couldn't help myself. I have a fascination of things lying out of the owners body. Oh, well. NEway... WAR?! Tum tum tum! Finally I got to the parts that I want to write! If you haven't noticed, I'm also making the chapters much longer. So yah, yah that is all I have to say. Now I wanna take a shower... G'bye! *Runs off shouting 'Im gonna get squeaky clean!'*
by InsaneSnakeJig
Authoresess notes - I once again included something in real life. In band class, my teacher Ms. Nelson said 'I need to change my clock.' So my friend Victoria said, 'Argh.. I gotta change me clock!' That was funny, but later in the middle of playing she said, 'Argh.. bite me leg off!' and then all my friends messed up it was so funny! I dropped my oboe and had to use the stand for support, and one of my others friends Heather was actually rolling on the ground, laughing. Everyone stropped playing and they were staring at all of like... my eight friends cracking up. We ended up being sent in the hall and we were still laughing for the whole hour non-stop. My side hurt the next day. *receives stares* Er... you had to be there.
6.
Ron and Kim were taken to a room with shelves of 'stuff' that was in bowls, or wooden containers.
The girl with fur stared at them. She growled in her throat, obviously not able to enjoy their company. Then she started. "What were you thinking, coming to our clan and attacking another?!"
Kim painfully stood, and shouted back, "Pyrolite attacked us! I was trying to put that mad scientist in jail where he belongs! I think he might've even killed someone before, maybe! And then 'she' just comes out of nowhere and makes a mad attack!"
The girl shuddered at first, and then opened her golden eyes. "You were about to send a shifter in jail. You don't understand what jail is to us."
Kim and Ron looked at each other, unsure of what they thought what jail was. Then the girl took notice of all the cuts and bruises on Kim. "I'll go now. Pyrolite should be here any second and both of you need treatment." then her eyes moved toward Ron, who gulped. "You can go walk around. If you try to leave, you'll pay the price."
Then she left, her wolf-like tail swishing. At the doorway, she turned one last time and growled. Then Pyrolite walked in with Cosmos at her side. She was staring at Kim and growling low in her throat. Sitting down on the bed only across the room to them, she continued the staring. The normal girl smiled and quickly pulled out the arrow almost embedded in her shoulder.
"OH GOOD LORD!" Pyrolite jumped, and looked at the girl with a look of death on her face. "You are not WORTHY of being this close to me!"
The girl continued to smile and Ron, not being hurt at all grinned. "So... how old are you and what's your name?" he said slyly, and she stopped struggling to get Pyrolite down for a minute to look at him, eyebrows raised.
"How old are you and your name?" she asked, and continued holding down the kicking, and whining Pyrolite. "Sixteen!" Ron answered, almost proudly. "My name is Ron Stoppable!"
Kim rolled her eyes. Even during a crisis he can't stop flirting. "I'm Moonbay." she said and her voice grew flat. "And I'm twenty."
Ron folded his arms is defeat and looked at the ground. Pyrolite was now twisting and turning shouting out things that made no sense as Moonbay proceeded to pull woodchips out of her shoulder. "Argh... Bite me leg off!" she hissed, trying to sound like a pirate. After Pyrolite was done being and tortuerd - I mean, taken care of... Kim was next. Ron dived off of the bed as Moonbay lunged for Kim knowing she would put up a fight, too. "I'm okay!" she protested, while Moonbay rather savagely wrapped her arm.
He realized he got closer to Pyrolite to dodge and turned toward her. Her narrowed eyes were right in his face. "Leave."
"Sure..." He said pitifully and left the room to be in the familiar hallway. It was good knowing that Kim would be alright. He had never seen her fight so well, too. He sighed. 'For once I wish that I could fight for myself,' he thought and tried to remember his way back to the weaponry. People walking through gave him strange looks. "Foolish mortal..." One muttered and Ron turned to her. She was dressed in a black tank top, had Raven feathers in her hair, black pants and even a jaggedy line on her face made from paint. As you might've guessed, it was black, too. Ron blinked. That was freaky.
He finally saw hangings on walls in the next room and walked in. He grumbled as he saw the last person he wanted to see. Other then Pyrolite, obviously.
"You know, you were mean to Pyrolite. Even though I get petrified while I am in the presence of her..." he trailed off and his 'victim' looked up at him miserably.
"You're acting like you enjoy this freaky place." Drakken muttered, flicking an arrow away from him. Ron looked around the room. "Heck no I'm not enjoying this! Do you think watching my best friend is considered fun?!" Ron shouted, acting like it was his fault that Pyrolite came close to killing Kim before. Drakken shrugged. "This is just me... but it is very entertaining watching Kim get beat up."
Later, Kim was now afraid of Moonbay and her methods of 'healing.'
She was gone, and now only she and Pyrolite remained.
Then the weird mood of Pyrolite took over again. "You blinked."
Kim rolled her eyes. "Gee... when do people actually blink nowadays...?"
"Losers blink."
"Then I guess you'd also be a loser."
"NEVER!"
Pyrolite leaped up, running out despite her injuries. Kim blinked. That was really pointless and well... wrong. She sat on the end of her bed and stretched. It felt good knowing your enemy is more hurt then you are. Then she got up and walked outside. All bandaged up and dressed differently, it was a little hard not to get a couple of stares.
Pyrolite stood in the hallway, absolutely still except she look around her slowly. Finally, she picked up slight voices of Drakken and the other blonde, and zoomed into great hall. (That's the eating place! I got it from Redwall because I didn't want to call it the 'cafeteria.' That just sounds... stupid!) In only a few seconds later, she dashed back out carrying tons of food. Then she ran/limped her way to the weaponry and peeked in. It sounded like they were fighting. "I GOT YUM-YUMS!" she sang, and bounded her way in.
Pyrolite balanced the arm full of food unto her shoulder and used her free arm to shove the weapons off a table and with a loud clang they hit the floor. She dropped everything on the table and shoved her face into a bowl of some creamy looking stuff.
Ron, forgetting his total fear towards her jumped over. "Save some for me!"
Pyrolite used her arm to shove some of it to him. "Try this! It's all yummy- like and goes good with this!"
The two of them shoved truckloads into their mouths. Drakken, who had forgot his total hunger from the events just realized it again. He simply picked off stuff and once got bit in the finger by Ron, who said, "Don't go putting your finger near MY food!" he said, gathering up his mountain into his arms and cradling it.
How many times am I going to get abused in the finger?!, Drakken thought.
And then Kim walked in on the three and immediatly saw the to pitiful figures on the ground. "So I assume you let your hunger get the better of you." she stated and looked up to see Drakken, staring at her nervously. "Paranoid..." she mumbled and stepped over Ron and Pyrolite.
She picked a few stuff and then sat on a table across the room from Dr. Drakken (it isn't like they like eachother now, or anything...).
Then the Kimmunicator beeped, Pyrolite springing to her feet and looking around madly. At the sight of Kim pulling out the jingling 'demon phone,' she gasped and grabbed it. "The devil's tool!"
"Give that back!" Kim smacked her head and talked to Wade.
"Where are you?" he asked and saw Pyrolite in the background with a twisted face. The phone... IT TALKED AND HAD A FACE! He asked who she was and Kim glanced sideways at her. "That is Pyrolite."
Wade grew concerned, and then couldn't help but smile. "SHE is Pyrolite?! Oh, please... she has feathers stapled on her head!"
At this point she growled and grabbed a feather. "They're BEADED on you fool!"
"Right..." he said, seeing that she was in no place to hurt him, and she didn't act like she was going to attack Kim or anything. "Where are you? And is Dr. Drakken there?"
Kim simply adjusted the Kimmunicator to Drakken who was laughing at Ron, poking him in the stomach. "Does that hurt? What about this? And this?"
Ron moaned as each poke got harder. "Stoppat..."
Kim then turned her attention back to Wade. "Well, I'm in some mountain in New Zealand, obviously. But there are 'more' people like her *motions toward Pyrolite* and it's really freaky. They call themselves a clan." Kim saw Pyrolite staring at her evily. "I'll tell you more later."
She turned off the kimmunicator and took a good look around the room. Now that the fight was over, she finally had time to get a good look. And Pyrolite wasn't really making any advances. She walked to a tapestry and there was a detailed picture of a wolf human thing. On the lower left-hand corner it said it's name, which she couldn't pronounce. "HETH - OH- SO- LOOS - AH?"
"Nope! Heth-a-sloos-ah. Sounds funny, doesn't it? I'd hate to name myself that." Pyrolite corrected her, running her fingers up and down the blade of a dagger. "He was a beserker. Fought in one of the only five wars between us and another clan. He pretty much won the whole thing..."
"How can you people, wait - make that... How can you THINGS just have wars without 'us' regular people not noticing?" Dr. Drakken asked. Pyrolite folded her arms and narrowed her eyes.
"Us SHIFTERS usually only attack at night. You people have bad eyesight. And anyway, all of our clan things are well hidden or away from people. Sometimes we have HUGE forts that you can't even see. It's all just hidden..." she said, looking at Kim and Drakken, smiling.
That was almost Cosmos cue to walk in. He at first stared at Kim, not seeming to have a problem with Ron. He actually didn't have a problem with Ron at all, he was no threat to anyone and alot of the clan members found him amusing in a way. "Pyro, since I'm still trying to figure a few things out with what to do with them, can you just give them something to do and give a little tour of the fort? And I'm having trouble with the Reguba clan..." he said, still eyeing Kim suspicously.
"Sure!" Pyrolite nodded and sprang to her feet, stretching. Ron, who felt a little better did the same and looked at Kim, questionly. "You coming, KP?"
"I probably have to." She answered and also got up. Drakken normally would've refused to, but since he had nothing to do he simply went with them.
Pyrolite led them to the main circular room which had three branches of halls leading off in directions. She pointed to the most wide hall to the entrance's left. "That's the dormitories where people sleep and ...sleep..."
Then turning to the middle hall, she started walking down it followed by the three. Ron was humming to himself, Kim was next to Drakken, and both of them ignored Pyrolite's imitation of a tour guide being to busy glaring at eachother. Kim almost fell when the came to stairs, and Drakken did fall.
Luckily the stair stopped after about ten steps for a flat break. All of them burst out laughing, and Pyrolite grinned. "Heh... you okay?"
"Oh yes, I only broke my spine..." he mumbled sarcastically and got up with what was left of his dignity.
Continuing on her guide, Pyrolite walked on. After the stairs, (to the part where Drakken ended up falling :) there was only one door. Pyrolite peeked in, making sure she wasn't seen. "These are the kitchens..." she said in an almost whisper and crawled in. She got over to a table and started picking up a bottle of some strawberry tasting stuff before one of the many shifters used a ladle to whack her hand. "PYROLITE'S HERE! POSITIONS!"
Everyone inside sheilded any food visible and Pyolite ran out in defeat. "Curses!" she shouted peeking into the doorway yet again, but a spoon hit her right in the nose. She retreated, and Kim, Ron and Drakken just shrugged and followed.
They went down another flight of stone stairs, this one spiraling downwards. It felt like it was getting more humid and warm. "When is this going to end?" Dr. Drakken asked, after about five minutes of walking straight down. Pyrolite grinned. "Try climbing back up..." that was when they came to a large room. The walls were kept as they were (red stone) and bricks didn't cover it. A huge spring was at the far end up the cavern, showing that long before the clan hollowed out the mountain it was already there. There was a pool it was flowing into, and then made canals were dug to lead it off under the cavern walls. Torches were the only source of light, so it was dimly lit and made the water look almost orange.
"Those canal things lead to rooms for different stuff. One of them is for keeping the water for drinking, eating and all that stuff and the other is for taking showers and other cleaning method ..stuff... you can clean with. Yeah... But we heat it up when that happens... and the third is for cleaning stuff other than ourselves. Mhmmm." she said, almost boredly. Kim was first staring it in awe... and then hearing her last sentence she turned to Pyrolite. "Thanks for telling me... I would've taken a shower a long time ago if I was told earlier." she mumbled and noticed that a rock sticking straight out of the wall had a sun and moon carved into it's side. (Sound familiar....?)
"What's that for?" she asked, and Pyrolite turned to look at it, and her eyes glistened like it was holy for such a "beautiful" carving could be on the rock of THEIR fort. "It's the way our clan represents Shifters and humans." she simply stated.
Ron actually thought it was worth listening to, and Dr. Drakken just didn't show it. "How does it represent that?" he asked, blinking.
Pyrolite took a deep breath. "The sun is the regular human. The moon is shifters. You see, while humans are usually active during the day, shifters are active at night. That's how we got placed. The real thing kicks in here... The Sun only has one time during a day and night, and that's day. Sometimes you can see the moon, almost barely during daylight. You can barely see the difference between a shifter and a regular human. We shifters think that we're all animal spiritually. But you need the sun's light to be visible if you're a moon. So that's how we're noticed. The sun, or human, isn't active during the night but the moon is, obviously. So it's like we're just a moon, or animal without it's light. But with the sun, or the human body we can be seen. We have our own time, but the sun slightly shares it's time with us without really noticing it and gives us 'light' or a body. Like it's their time, but we don't belong but really do because we're in human bodies. Think of it like kingdoms... animal kingdoms and stuff I mean."
They had to let that sink in for a moment, but it never really made sense to them.
Pyrolite noticed the confused stares she was kidding and grinned. "Well, I'm tired!" she stated, and began climbing up.
The three stayed down there for a while, and then headed up. Dr. Drakken looked one last time at the sun and moon carved on the rock. With the fire, it looked like it was almost glowing. He understood what Pyrolite meant.
Kim strectched out on her bed, smiling. "Finally a nice warm bed..." she said, and then remembered she had to call Wade.
It was good that she had her own little room now, so no one could hear. Whipping out the Kimmunicator she turned it on, to see Wade. "Okay, Wade, here's the sitch..." Kim began.
She told him exactly what happened as soon as she got to the clan mountain, and explained Moonbay's torturous methods of healing. "Kim... what should I say to your mom?" he asked.
Kim thought hard. She had just begun to miss her parents. "Can you... get her on the phone for me?" she asked, and Wade nodded, typing stuff in. A screen popped up of a thin and line and when Wade typed in her phone number, the phone rang and the line began to vibrate.
"Hello...?" A voice answered almost hopefully, and Kim recognized it as her mother.
"Mom? This is Kim."
"Kim?! Where on earth are you? You've been gone for two days..."
She trailed off on how worried she was and Kim bit her lower lip. It was a good thing she was on summer vacation from school. Who knows how long she'd have to stay here.
"I'm alright. I might stay here for a while." Kim said. "Stay? Where?"
"With my friend, Pyrolite. She's really sorry about what she did. She said it looked like I was trying to kill her." Kim had to swallow alot of spit after that. She hated lying so much to her parents, and it was even more stressful then fighting. (No, really! Watch october 31st)
"Oh, alright."
Kim was shocked by the reply. How could she just say 'oh, alright?!' Then Kim knew her mom knew that she was lying. Kim bit her lower lip really hard, trying not to cry. This was so hard. If anyone could've heard their mom say that because they were so dissapointed in you lying.... Crikey!
"Thanks, mom... bye." she said, only adding more onto her pile of problems. Now she ditched her own mother!
"I'm tired, Wade. Gotta go." she simply said and then she laid down on her bed, slowly her eyelids drooping.
Dr. Drakken sat up on his bed, staring at the stone floor.
He was thinking about two things at once - his idea of using the 'shifters' to 'help' him conquer the world and the shifter thing. It was bugging him that everytime he tried to think of an idea to trick the clan, a little voice in the back of him would say, "You're a shifter! Hee hee! MWA HA HA.. ACK! *voice starts wheezing*"
The freaky thing was the voice sounded like a squeakier version of Pyrolite, and she just bugged him. If the voice was real, he'd hit it in the head with a brick. Can't concentrate!
Drakken got up and went outside to look through the normally crowded halls. This time they were all empty. He felt like it was real late. Walking down the halls, he noticed a room that he had never seen before. It was full of books, all hand written. No one was in there. Dr. Drakken stepped in to get a look around. The only light was a fire in the corner. A sudden draft blew the large fire out. Dr. Drakken, who was looking around sighed. This was just his lucky night. Walking over to the doorway, he tripped on a book and fell on what he thought was a bookcase. Luckily it wasn't, so it didn't fall over on others like dominos. The object slowly moved out of the way with a low grating noise that was only low enough for him to hear. A sudden coldness was on his back from where the object had once been. Feeling around, Drakken knew it was a statue of something, and then he felt the beak and wings and assumed it was a griffin. Instead of darkness, he saw a dark blue light coming from a small tunnel. Now being able to see perfectly, Drakken walked in to see a small cylinder shaped room, and there was no roof, only the sky. There was only one bookcase, that had a covering on it to protect it from any rain or snow. Being winter, it was freezing.
But then that stupid little voice popped up in his head. "Read the book! Not that one idiot, THAT one!"
Almost stupidly he looked at a particular book, shrugged and opened it. It was empty. But then a roll of paper, fell out and he picked it up off of the ground. It looked like a map but alot of it wasn't on the 'tour' Pyrolite gave them.
Always having good eyes, (best at night!) he could see a room that attracted his attention. 'Fort Ebony's treasure.' There was more to this clan thing then it seemed. So Fort Ebony was the real name. On the back there was a small note.
This is the last record of what was our clan fort. This has to be short, the Reguba clan had gotten inside the mountain and are attacking. It won't be long until they find this room, but luckily the other areas of importance have been blocked off. We already know that the Reguba clan will wipe out most of our clan, the writings in the treasure room say that, but Hethoslusah, our berserker will win the fight for us. I can here the Reguba clan fighters heading this way. I need to block this room off.
~ Shayron the recorder
Then the mountain winter got the better of him, and he just decided to take the map and note. He really had no clue by what he went by writings in the treasure room. Dr. Drakken walked out and pushed the light stone gryphon back over the doorway. As it was in place, the left wings snapped up and it locked in place. Drakken headed back to the room he was given and finally fell asleep.
"Dr. Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" a familiar and annoying voice rang out. He fell out of the bed and groaned. Oh, great. Pyrolite was awake. He got up and Pyrolite somehow managed to get inside the locked door by using a claw as a key and she pounced on him playfully. Luckily, the map was hidden and she didn't even know that he had been out last night. "Good afternoon! YOU MISSED A COUCIL!" she snapped at him. Rolling her off of him, Dr. Drakken sat up on the floor and shrugged. "I don't care."
Pyrolite looked serious, which was really rare. "I know this is late... but while we were at the mountains I kept seeing people. I knew they were shifters. Well, they were following us and now all of the sudden, a bunch of our clan members have been being followed." Pausing, she continued, "Cosmos finally got a message tied to an arrow saying that the Reguba clan - our rival clan is making us surrender our mountain. They want something, but no one knows what. We can't, so we would have to go to war. It's the thing you have to expect when you're dealing the the Reguba's..."
Dr. Drakken looked like he didn't care. "And this concerns me... how?"
She shrugged. "You might get killed."
"Right..." he said and then gave her a look that said, this is the part where you leave. Pyrolite 'humphed' and got went outside, closing the door behind her. Now that she was gone, Dr. Drakken pulled out the map which he put under his pillow and saw it much better in the light. There were rooms all over the place that probably weren't known by the clan... not even the shark guy! Still, the room that he paid most attention to was the treasure room. Following the map, he was the spiral staircase he already went through and the cavern. He saw the stone jutting out and on it there was pictures of a sun and moon. Then there was the tunnel, leading to another tavern. That was the treasure room. He got up and went outside to see if the rock was a door or something.
Cosmos was outside the mountain, shivering.
His eyes weren't the best, but he could still make out those shadows everyone has been reporting. They were running around the mountain, circling it and stopping sometimes when they met together. He knew that they had to be physical shifters. A regular shifter couldn't run like that. And birds scattered when ever they saw them. They instinctively knew that the shifter would try to eat it. He knew they wanted the Fort, and mountain.
Cosmos didn't exactly know why they wanted it so badly.
He took notice of the shadaows running in a V-shaped line, and when the four met up in the center there was a huge amount of shuffling in the trees. Then they took back off running side by side off to the east, which was straight ahead of the mountain. The rustling died down as they grew farther away, but he could still see birds flying straight up, almost in a line.
He made a 'hmph' sound that was slightly like a growl and turned to walk into the fort. On his way, he noticed a shifter with a bow an arrow, trying to get the arrow notched properly on the string. He rememberd the shifter as a hare. Cosmos sighed, usually not being able to do this.
"Stride, you're fast on your feet, right?" he asked, walking toward him, smiling. The shifter nodded dumbly, not sure what he should say. "And you're just now learning the bow and arrows, why don't you go outside an practice, you'd have lots of targets that way!" he suggested, but it sounded slightly like a command.
Cosmos began to walk away and stopped. "If you see any of those shadows, just shoot at it."
Stride, the hare shifter nodded once again dumbly and started to walk outside of the fort, still messing with the bowstring. Cosmos watched him go and headed down the halls to stuff his face again.
Kim went outside of her room which she was in all day.
She had passed by a couple of shifters and then finally came to the great hall. She immediatly expected Ron to be there, and she noticed a largw crowd in the corner. "How can he do that?" she heard a shifter say and walked over.
There was Ron, chugging down a soup called volcano water. As you tell by the name, it was extremely spicy and hot, and almost no one liked it put drank it anyway for amusement. Ron was on his seventh bowl. It was very amusing because even Pyrolite was there, grinning at Ron who's eyes were watering and his face was red. Finally being able to take no more, he finished his bowl and then slumped downin his seat. That made almost everyone laugh, including Kim.
He looked up to see Kim, and managed to smile. "Hey, Kim! You just try this Volcano water stuff..."
She grinned and convinced him to get up and walk around outside. It was cold, but he couldn't tell the difference. Kim climbed up to the top of the mountain and looked around.
"Ron, do you find it kind of wrong too, that this is like some civilaztion that no one knows about?" she asked, looking over at some feilds where shifters were walking around. Ron shrugged.
"I can't really concentrate when my mouth is on fire, Kim. No wonder they call it volcano water... I've never seen people put so much spice in just plain water!"
Kim smiled at Ron, but whipped around when she heard a frightened scream, and a disquisting noise. (Sounded like - Schlop!) They ran over to the mountain and saw a sight that made Ron come close to throwing up the seven bowls of soup. There was a shifter - Stride, on the ground with his intestines almost hanging out of his dead body on a ledge. Blood pooled around him, and also on the hands of a ...shadow?... Then the shadow looked up at them, and the sun glinted off of emerald eyes before it snarled, turned and walked camly away, striped cat-like tail whipping around. It jumped down the mountain on all fours.
Ron was traumatized by it and just stared, with the urge to throw up, before Kim grabbed him by the arm and pulled. The two of them scrambled down the mountain and finally ended up at the entrance of the fort. They met no other then Pyrolite, who was going out with a bow and arrow to "help" Stride, being sent by Cosmos.
They bumped into her and both of them immediatly pointed in the direction of where Stride lay dead.
"Stride! He's been -" Kim started and Pyrolite nodded, finishing her sentence. "-waiting for me to help him." she answered, and held up the bow and arrows. Ron shook his head. "A big cat wearing a black cloak killed him!"
Pyrolite blinked at them and nodded. "Most likely, and I beleive you. Probably a Reguba clan assassin. Go tell Cosmos." she said and set off to look at Strider, and she was acting like something like this happened almost every day. Even seeing him didn't change her mood. "That isn't good."
Dr. Drakken found it strange that no one looked at him differently. Instead she either said, 'Hi' when they passed or smiled. He realized they thought of him as one of them and just looked ahead of him. Drakken then headed down the spiral staircase and after a while ong walk downwards came to the cavern. There were alot more shifters down here, but in the rooms to shower. A couple were carrying barrels up to the store rooms, but other than that, it was empty. Drakken recognized the big rock pointing outwards in the cavenr and walked up to it. He knew for a fact it wasn't pushable.
He just touched the moon, thinking it would help in some way and there was a sudden white light. The quietness was suddenly a roar of screams, clashing and roars. He looked away from the rock to see a bunch of shifters, all wearing battle armour and carrying weapons. There were about thirty of them all together and bout only six of them were like animals standing up on hind legs. There was a dog of some kind, with gray fur and a few scars. The other five was another wolf, two foxes, a tiger and then something Drakken had no clue what it was. It looked like a giant boa constrictor, with light brown, dark brown and black blotches on it's scales. It had short legs, and even shorter arms. It also had armor on. Then Drakken just realized the banging from the side.
There was a huge wooden door, and it was being constantly pummeled by something on the other side. Then with a loud splintering crack, a huge hole appeared by a log, and it was dropped widening the hole a bit. The shifters already in the room with bow and arrows let loose their shafts into the hole, and there were roars on the other side. A big battle axe chopped through and a large horde followed...
A horde of more animal things. Most of them were cats of some kind. Others were canines and only one ferret looking thing. They all had heavy armour on and big weapons that were either battle axes or long steel pikes and spears. The two groups collided and instantly about three from each side fell to the ground.
Drakken just watched this, mouth open. Things were killing other things and it looked like they kept ganging up on the wolf, who easily threw them off of himself. Then a miss-aimed arrow shaft began to fly straight toward him, like in slow motion. As a reflex, Drakken closed his eyes and nothing happened. He slowly opened them to find that he was back in the regular cavern. No more animal things killing eachother. Drakken dropped his hand from the moon and stared at it. That was really freaky.
Cosmos came storming down, followed by Kim, Ron and Pyrolite. Pyrolite saw him first and motioned for him to come over. As he did, Cosmos turned to him almost angrily.
"I just thought I'd tell everyone in here we are going to war." he said and stormed out, growling. Entering through the doorway, he punched the wall in frustration and dust fell from the ceiling and headed up the stairs.
"War?" Dr. Drakken, asked.
Pyrolite nodded. Then Ron spoke up. "You know, I normally don't drink seven bowls of water so..."
Pyrolite pointed into the doorway. "Thanks!" he said and ran in.
"Anyway," she continued. "One of our shifters was killed. A hare named Stride. And I saw it..." she shuddered and continued, "So you're going to have to make up your mind if you're going to stay longer and risk getting killed, or you can leave."
Dr. Drakken looked at Pyrolite, who seemed a little sad in a way, and Kim just waited with her arms folded. He still hadn't found the treasure of Fort Ebony. "I'll stay longer..."
Kim looked surprised and Pyrolite unexpectedly leaped up high and unto his shoulders, constantly circling her postion for good balance. "Good! More fighters!"
"Who said I was gonna fight?"
"Me!"
"No."
"Why?!"
"Cause I never touched a sword and it's not like I ever fight in the first place."
Pyrolite thought a moment and squeezed his neck in what was supposed to be a hug. "Oh, well!" she said happily, not noticing Drakken struggling for air. Kim found this amusing.
Then Pyrolite jumped down and went to find Kim also went in to take a shower leaving Drakken to catch his breath. He looked at where Pyrolite had gone and Kim, and was confused.
Pyrolite was trying to kill/strangle/suffocate him! He realized, which was more like jumping to conclusions.
TBC
Authoresses notes- Sorry to you squemish people about the intestines things. I couldn't help myself. I have a fascination of things lying out of the owners body. Oh, well. NEway... WAR?! Tum tum tum! Finally I got to the parts that I want to write! If you haven't noticed, I'm also making the chapters much longer. So yah, yah that is all I have to say. Now I wanna take a shower... G'bye! *Runs off shouting 'Im gonna get squeaky clean!'*