The Fairy Glades...
Rayman and Murfy were now inside the portal. The portal swirled around and around, faster and faster as they were inside it and getting teleported...
"I'm gonna get dizzy," said Rayman.
"I'm gonna get sick," said Murfy, as the portal swirled faster. "I might start puking..." His face turned greener than usual...but soon, the swirly portal dropped Rayman and Murfy out into the Fairy Glades!
As they landed on the solid ground, Murfy buzzed: "We must rescue Ly the fairy!"
"Yup, the Teensies said she's being held captive in a stronghold here," Rayman remembered.
"Also, pick up any Yellow Lums that you find in this area," buzzed Murfy. "I sense that there are 50 more of them scattered here..."
Would Rayman be able to free Ly and retrieve the Yellow Lums? The world's energy was still vanishing fast! Soon there would be none left. If Rayman didn't succeed in his quest, then this would mean total DOOM!
Rayman was in an area that was similar in appearance to the clearing in the Woods of Light. It was a grassy, quiet area, surrounded by some greenish-brown cliff walls. There were red ferns, green grass, and a deep river. The afternoon air was clear, and the bright afternoon sun was shining in the sky above. There was a wooden bridge leading over a deep pond. Rayman crossed this short, brown wooden bridge, which stopped halfway across the pond, at another grassy ledge sticking out of the middle of the pond. This piece of ground had a purple mushroom on it. He walked past it. The path then began to zig-zag across the pond, and at the end of it, there was a cave entrance in some cliff walls. Unfortunately, this cave entrance was currently blocked by a wooden gate. Rayman couldn't get past it, yet. He tried shooting energy from his fists to break down this gate. It didn't work; the gate was too strong. Rayman saw there were also two more of Globox's sons standing near the gate, who were hopping around and seemed to be searching for Globox. They spotted Rayman and Murfy approaching. They started bouncing up and down excitedly, yelling, "Hurry, Rayman! We want our daddy back!"
"Do you know for sure that he's somewhere in this area?" asked Rayman.
"We don't know," replied the sons, "but we hope we're getting closer!"
Rayman still didn't know how to open the gate blocking the cave entrance. He turned around, going back down the zig-zagged path, which was over the lake. It looked like he'd have to take a detour somehow, to find a switch or a button which could cause this sturdy gate to open. He returned to the ground where the giant purple mushroom was. "Hmm..." he thought, while sitting by it. "Where can I go now?..."
"Come on, you ain't thinking hard enough about what to do! Try bouncing on top of that mushroom!" suggested Murfy.
"Bounce on top of it?" said Rayman, perplexed. Still, Rayman did that. He jumped on top of this giant mushroom--he then discovered that it was bouncy like a trampoline! Rayman bounced up into the air, and it helped him reach some monkey bars high-up above. He climbed across them. Murfy followed him.
"Maybe, if I climb to the end of these monkey bars," thought Rayman, "I'll be able to reach a ledge where there's a button or a switch or something which will cause that wooden gate to open!"
"Now you're thinking!" buzzed Murfy!
There were a few Yellow Lums up here, too. (He now had 6 from this area.) When he got to the end of the monkey bars, there was a grassy ledge. He dropped down onto it. On this grassy ledge, there was the entrance to another tunnel. There wasn't any gate blocking this one. Rayman ran through it. It led to an outdoor pool with lily pads on it. There were a few plants and flowers around the perimeter of this lake. On the right of this lake, there was a high cliff wall.
"I still don't see any red button which could open the gate back in the first area," frowned Rayman.
"Unless maybe it's invisible?" Murfy thought.
"Hmmm...are there any Yellow Lums at the bottom of this lake, by any chance?" Rayman wondered. He was about to swim through the lake, but then Murfy suddenly yelled: "Nooo, Rayman! Beware of piranhas! Swimming not advised!" But it was too late. Rayman had already got bitten by a piranha in the lake. "OWCH! Those stupid piranhas!" yelled Rayman! "Can't they just eat each other, instead of biting me?" He turned around and got out of the lake!
So, instead of swimming through the lake, Rayman spun his hair like a helicopter again, helping him glide over the lake. Actually, he glided over to the first lily pad on the lake, and he stood on top of it. From there, he glided to the next lily pad, and so on, until he reached the end of the piranha-infested lake.
From here, there were some green, grassy ledges sticking out of the cliff wall on the right. Rayman jumped across them. At the top ledge, there was another corridor-like tunnel. Rayman walked through it.
"Sheesh, we have to go all this way just to reach one little button," frowned Murfy. "And we aren't even sure IF there really is a button anywhere here!"
In this tunnel, Rayman turned a very sharp right corner. They came to a small, round cave room, inside the cliffs. The walls were green. There was a doorway at the end of this room, leading outside again. Suddenly, before Rayman could go through this doorway, a whole bunch of black, flying eels came swarming towards Rayman! Rayman was shocked when he saw how many there were! He hid behind a rock in a corner of the cave room, while firing his silver energy balls at them. The black flying eels then collapsed and disappeared. Rayman then came out from behind the rock, and walked to the other end of the room where the cave exit was. He came outside again. He was now back in the first area where the mushroom and the wooden gate were, but in a higher-up part of that area. He was now standing ON TOP of those monkey bars that he had climbed across earlier! When standing on top of the monkey bars, he could reach a red button, which he could see up on one of the cliff walls. So, Rayman shot energy from his fists at this red button. This caused the button to be activated! He then looked down at where the wooden gate was, and he saw that it was slowly opening! Yes, the button had caused the wooden gate (blocking the first cave in the river area) to open! Before gliding back down to the river area below the monkey bars, he noticed a pirate cage, which he smashed open with the energy from his fists! This cage contained three Yellow Lums.
"Great!" cheered Murfy. "You now have 9 Yellow Lums from this area! Keep searching!"
Rayman glided off the monkey bars, and back down to the river area where the gate had previously been shut. Since it was now open, he decided to run through it!
"Can we come with you?" pleaded the two sons. "We want to see if Globox is somewhere there!"
"All right, you can come with us, if you'd like," said Rayman to the two of Globox's sons. "Just be careful!"
"Yippee!" said the two sons. So then, Rayman, Murfy, and the two of Globox's sons (we'll just call them the Baby Globoxes) proceeded further, into the tunnel that had previously been blocked by a gate.
"Soon, we should be getting closer to Ly!" buzzed Murfy in excited anticipation.
"And hopefully our daddy!" added Globox's sons in anticipation, even though they weren't sure Globox was really there!
Beyond this gate, the next obstacle was a tunnel containing yet another waterslide which Rayman and the two Baby Globoxes slid down ("Woo- hoo! This is fun!" the two Baby Globoxes shouted while sliding down), and there were even a few Yellow Lums on the way! Rayman now had 15 Yellow Lums. At the end of the waterfall, they were now outside this cave, and in another outdoor area.
Here, in this next outdoor area, there were many trees. There was also a huge pit in the ground, with brambles at the bottom. Rayman didn't want to fall into it, because there would be no way out! Rayman glided over to the end of this giant pit, with his Amazing Helicopter Hair. Murfy flew over it. No problem for them. But how would the two Baby Globoxes get over this pit? They still wanted to come with Rayman! Luckily, on the other side of the pit, there was a button, which Rayman shot at, to make a bridge rise over the pit...so now the two Baby Globoxes could cross over to the other side!
By now, the sun was starting to set. This was a long journey, and they had been outside for a very long time by now. Across the bramble pit, there was a wide-open grassy area, and as they ran through it, a whole horde of black flying eels suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and surrounded them!
"Aaaaah!" screamed the two Baby Globoxes, and they ran away and hid behind some bushes to avoid them, while Rayman dealt with them. Rayman shot energy from his fists at these annoying flying eels, as they came swarming towards him, and they all got hit by Rayman's fists and collapsed and disappeared.
Then, it was safe for the two Baby Globoxes to come out, again. They continued further, and from here, there was a path leading into the deep woods.
Then, suddenly, a fairy named Zy (who was one of Ly's cousins), came flying towards them and warned them: "Look out! The pirates have just created a forest fire which is burning down this area of the woods! The pirates are burning down the forest to make room for their hideouts which they are building!"
"Oh, no!" panicked Rayman. "We've got to put out that fire! But how?"
"I guess you can now call this area the Fiery Glades, instead of the Fairy Glades," frowned Murfy.
"Hey, Rayman," said the first Baby Globoxes, "remember, we Globoxes can do rain-dances, to make rain clouds appear!" So, the two Baby Globoxes performed a rain dance to put out the flames in the forest...but beacuse they were just small Baby Globoxes, they couldn't create very big rain clouds. They could only make small ones, which weren't big enough to douse the forest fire.
"Hmm...it's too bad our daddy isn't here," said the first Baby Globox, "cause he can make really big rain clouds! But now he's been imprisoned by the pirates..."
"Hey," said the second Baby Globox, "maybe if we get a whole bunch of our brothers to gather around here, then we can use our combined powers to create several rain clouds, and maybe that will be enough to put out the fire!" So the two Baby Globoxes went off to get some of their brothers. They came back a few minutes later to where Rayman was. Then, all the Baby Globoxes stood by the forest fire, and used their combined power to create several rain clouds. These were still small rain clouds, but now there were very many of them. There were now enough rain clouds to put out the forest fire!
"Phew, that was a lot of work," said one of the Baby Globoxes.
They could now proceed further into the forest, and to the pirates' hideout...at last! The first two Baby Globoxes continued following Rayman and Murfy...while all the others just went back to their home in the Woods of Light.
It was getting very dark outside. The sun had set, and the moon was becoming visible. Rayman, Murfy, and the two Baby Globoxes entered the wide-open, grassy area where there was the hideout which the pirates had built. This was a large building made of wood, and it consisted of several windows, storeys, and balconies. The grassy area between Rayman and the hideout covered a very huge area of land. Rayman and the two Baby Globoxes were about to run across this wide stretch of grassy land and up to the pirates' hideout. However, it was so dark that they didn't notice the pair of Robo-Pirates walking towards them!
"Arrgh! Get them!" the first one yelled! They then grabbed the two Baby Globoxes and ran off with them! They took them into their hideout.
"Oh, no!" frowned Murfy. "The two Baby Globoxes are being captured too!"
"Dang it," said Rayman. "Why didn't I just shoot at those two pirates!" Rayman was so mad that he ran up to a nearby cliff wall, and started banging his head against it repeatedly.
"Come on," buzzed Murfy. "Let's go after them!"
But as the pirates took the two Baby Globoxes into their hideout, the pirates closed the front door, leaving no way for Rayman to get in.
Rayman ran around the grassy area, wondering how to enter the hideout now that the front door was locked. He couldn't see any open entrance doors or anything! Well, actually, there was a wooden trapdoor on the ground, which seemed like it might lead into a part of the hideout. Rayman tried pushing it open...but unfortunately it was locked, too. Was Rayman stymied?
While they were thinking about this, they noticed a small cavern off to the far side of the area, containing a whole bunch more Yellow Lums (so far, he had now retrieved a total of 25 Yellow Lums), but there wasn't any button here to open the doors of the hideout. After collecting the Lums, Rayman then turned back out of this cavern and returned outside to the area where the pirates' hideout was! They still were puzzled about how to get inside the hideout. Maybe it was impossible. They hadn't seen any buttons to open any doors...
Then suddenly, as they stepped closer to the hideout, another very tough-looking, mean-looking Robo-Pirate (on one of the top balconies) saw Rayman and Murfy approaching. It jumped down to another balcony, and started throwing a whole bunch of cannonballs down from the balcony, trying to hit Rayman! Of course, Rayman dodged them all. The Robo-Pirate continued raining more cannonballs down onto the ground. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! they went, as they hit the ground. Their explosions looked like fireworks in the night.
But then, one of the Robo-Pirates' huge cannonballs accidentally hit the trapdoor (when Rayman was standing near it), blowing the trapdoor open!
"D'oh!" said the pirate.
"Cool!" yelled Rayman! He could now go down the trapdoor to get inside the hideout! "Now, let's rescue Ly and the two Baby Globoxes!"
He glided down through the trapdoor. He landed in the basement of the hideout.
It was very damp and quiet down in here. There was only the sound of dripping water. There was a pool of toxic, green-coloured sludge, ahead on the floor. "Yecch!" yelled Rayman as he looked down at it--and his voice echoed through the basement. There were also a few boxes floating on top of this sludge.
"Hey, Ray! Use your helicopter hair to glide and land on top of the boxes that are floating in the sludge," said Murfy. So Rayman glided across them.
When he got across to the other side of the toxic pool in the basement, he landed on a grey, stone floor. It felt very hard and very cold. Suddenly, the green slime started rising! Rayman felt scared. He looked around and saw there was also a spider's cobweb covering the wall in front of him.
"Quick!" yelled Murfy. "Grab onto that web and climb up it!"
So Rayman grabbed onto this giant cobweb-like rope and climbed up it, to get away from the rising slime in the basement. Up, up, up he climbed. He had to watch out, because two cannon-like objects were hanging from the ceiling above him, and were shooting out small but deadly cannonballs down at Rayman, trying to knock him off the webs! Rayman moved to the right, then the left, of the web, to avoid these cannonballs. When he made it to the top, at last, he jumped off. He was now on the first floor of the hideout. The slime had stopped rising.
On the first floor, there was a door on the right. Rayman looked up and saw a sign above this doorway which read:
"PRISONERS' DUNGEONS"
Rayman quickly ran towards this doorway.
"I'm sure Ly and the two Baby Globoxes are here!" he yelled. Suddenly, before he got through this doorway, a blue laser forcefield appeared, blocking the doorway to the dungeons. Rayman groaned. He couldn't get past these blue lasers.
"This seems like a real prob-lum," buzzed Murfy.
It looked like Rayman would have to take another detour again. He could see a red button which was up on an indoor balcony above him, but he couldn't reach it yet. There was another hallway on the left of Rayman, so he walked through it, hoping to find a staircase leading up to that indoor balcony where the button was.
At the end of the hallway on the left, there was a doorway leading to an outside area behind the hideout. By now, it was almost midnight, and Rayman could hear owls hooting...and some Robo-Pirates snoring.
"Careful!" buzzed Murfy. "There are lots of Robo-Pirates in this area! Your footsteps might wake up some of the Robo-Pirates in this area. If you do, you might have to battle one! To defeat them, try shooting silver balls of energy from your fists; but beware of the energy that the pirates shoot at you!"
Rayman was getting frightened. Still, it was up to him to stop the pirates, so he carefully proceeded further...tiptoeing as quietly as possible. Sure enough, there was a Robo-Pirate on the grass up ahead! Fortunately, it was asleep. Unfortunately, it awoke when it heard Rayman approaching--even though Rayman was slowly tiptoeing!
"Arrrrrgh!" it yelled, pulling out a shotgun and started firing small, red bursts of energy--three at a time--from its gun. Rayman dodged these shots and he shot his own silver balls of energy at the pirate! The battle was a quick one, and the Robo-Pirate was down on the ground within a few hits--but Rayman could sense that more Robo-Pirates were up ahead!
Rayman was still outside. There was a doorway leading to another room inside the hideout. As Rayman predicted, there was a second Robo- Pirate sleeping in this room. Of course, Rayman was going to change that! The pirate awoke when Rayman entered the new room. Rayman fought it the same way he had done with the first Robo-Pirate. Bang, bing, bzoot, shoot, ka-pow. Finished!
"YEAH!" yelled Rayman, after defeating the pirate successfully. Then, a vertical grate lowered from the ceiling. Rayman could climb up it, just like a rope, to reach the second floor of the hideout. But before Rayman could climb up it, a third Robo-Pirate, from the second floor, suddenly climbed down from the grate, and dropped down onto the floor where Rayman was! It fired at Rayman. Rayman was getting tired of shooting back at them, by now.
There was a gunpowder keg lying on the floor. Rayman picked it up (it was very heavy), and threw it at the stupid Robo-Pirate. KA-BOOM! went the keg when he threw it! The pirate blew up into tiny pieces.
Rayman then climbed the grate on the wall, to reach the second floor.
There was a door on the second floor, which Rayman shot at (with the energy from his fists) to break it open.
Behind this doorway, there was a room containing a big gap at the bottom! Across this gap, on the other side, there was a ledge with a doorway, but this was blocked by a blue laser forcefield as well! The red button to turn THESE lasers off, was located on the wall near the bottom of the big gap! At the bottom of this big gap, there was a floor made of cobwebs. A red laser was moving back and forth over the floor, and it looked as if Rayman had to avoid touching that red laser!
Rayman looked down, nervously.
"I don't suppose YOU could fly down there and hit that button, Murfy?" asked Rayman, who was too scared to do it.
"Remember, I can't shoot!" said Murfy.
"Then I guess I'll have to do it..." groaned Rayman. So he slowly glided down to the bottom of the gap, with his helicopter hair, down to where the button was. He tried to avoid touching the red moving laser. He wondered if he would succeed. He did. He shot at the button, and this caused the blue laser forcefield, which had been blocking the entrance to the next room, to turn off. But how would Rayman, who was still down in the gap at the bottom of the room, be able to get back up to the ledge where the doorway to the next room was? Fortunately, the cobwebs that made up the floor happened to be bouncy like a trampoline, and this allowed Rayman to bounce back out of the gap and get back up to the ledge on the other side!
Rayman and Murfy continued further. Behind this doorway, there was a hallway with a few steps, leading slightly downwards. There were also two blue lasers in this hallway, which Rayman had to jump over. When he finally got over them and through this hallway, he ended up...
...on the indoor balcony where there was the red button which could turn off the first blue laser forcefield, which had been blocking the door to the Prisoners' Dungeons, back on the first floor! Rayman shot energy at this button, and sure enough, it caused the blue lasers to be deactivated!
"YEAH!!!!!" screamed Rayman, happily!
"Sssh, not so loud, Rayman!" said Murfy, who had switched to a whispering voice. "You'll wake up that Robo-Pirate that's sleeping next to us!"
"Huh?--Oh, no!" It was too late. Rayman's cheering had awaken this Robo-Pirate! It awoke, got up, and pulled out its gun!
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! went the shots from the pirate's gun. This one fired huge, black cannonballs that trailed towards Rayman. Rayman dodged these. Soon, he realized he could shoot energy back at the cannonballs to destroy them! He shot a silver ball of energy at the pirate's cannonball, and that destroyed the cannonball before it hit Rayman. But Rayman had to destroy the pirate, not just the pirate's cannonballs.
BING! BING! BING! BING! BING! went the shots from Rayman's fist. He was able to defeat this Robo-Pirate.
Then, Rayman glided back down to the first floor, from the upstairs balcony, and he quickly ran through the Exit doorway which was now open! Murfy flew there, too.
"Ly the fairy, here we come!" Murfy yelled!
Rayman and Murfy were now inside the portal. The portal swirled around and around, faster and faster as they were inside it and getting teleported...
"I'm gonna get dizzy," said Rayman.
"I'm gonna get sick," said Murfy, as the portal swirled faster. "I might start puking..." His face turned greener than usual...but soon, the swirly portal dropped Rayman and Murfy out into the Fairy Glades!
As they landed on the solid ground, Murfy buzzed: "We must rescue Ly the fairy!"
"Yup, the Teensies said she's being held captive in a stronghold here," Rayman remembered.
"Also, pick up any Yellow Lums that you find in this area," buzzed Murfy. "I sense that there are 50 more of them scattered here..."
Would Rayman be able to free Ly and retrieve the Yellow Lums? The world's energy was still vanishing fast! Soon there would be none left. If Rayman didn't succeed in his quest, then this would mean total DOOM!
Rayman was in an area that was similar in appearance to the clearing in the Woods of Light. It was a grassy, quiet area, surrounded by some greenish-brown cliff walls. There were red ferns, green grass, and a deep river. The afternoon air was clear, and the bright afternoon sun was shining in the sky above. There was a wooden bridge leading over a deep pond. Rayman crossed this short, brown wooden bridge, which stopped halfway across the pond, at another grassy ledge sticking out of the middle of the pond. This piece of ground had a purple mushroom on it. He walked past it. The path then began to zig-zag across the pond, and at the end of it, there was a cave entrance in some cliff walls. Unfortunately, this cave entrance was currently blocked by a wooden gate. Rayman couldn't get past it, yet. He tried shooting energy from his fists to break down this gate. It didn't work; the gate was too strong. Rayman saw there were also two more of Globox's sons standing near the gate, who were hopping around and seemed to be searching for Globox. They spotted Rayman and Murfy approaching. They started bouncing up and down excitedly, yelling, "Hurry, Rayman! We want our daddy back!"
"Do you know for sure that he's somewhere in this area?" asked Rayman.
"We don't know," replied the sons, "but we hope we're getting closer!"
Rayman still didn't know how to open the gate blocking the cave entrance. He turned around, going back down the zig-zagged path, which was over the lake. It looked like he'd have to take a detour somehow, to find a switch or a button which could cause this sturdy gate to open. He returned to the ground where the giant purple mushroom was. "Hmm..." he thought, while sitting by it. "Where can I go now?..."
"Come on, you ain't thinking hard enough about what to do! Try bouncing on top of that mushroom!" suggested Murfy.
"Bounce on top of it?" said Rayman, perplexed. Still, Rayman did that. He jumped on top of this giant mushroom--he then discovered that it was bouncy like a trampoline! Rayman bounced up into the air, and it helped him reach some monkey bars high-up above. He climbed across them. Murfy followed him.
"Maybe, if I climb to the end of these monkey bars," thought Rayman, "I'll be able to reach a ledge where there's a button or a switch or something which will cause that wooden gate to open!"
"Now you're thinking!" buzzed Murfy!
There were a few Yellow Lums up here, too. (He now had 6 from this area.) When he got to the end of the monkey bars, there was a grassy ledge. He dropped down onto it. On this grassy ledge, there was the entrance to another tunnel. There wasn't any gate blocking this one. Rayman ran through it. It led to an outdoor pool with lily pads on it. There were a few plants and flowers around the perimeter of this lake. On the right of this lake, there was a high cliff wall.
"I still don't see any red button which could open the gate back in the first area," frowned Rayman.
"Unless maybe it's invisible?" Murfy thought.
"Hmmm...are there any Yellow Lums at the bottom of this lake, by any chance?" Rayman wondered. He was about to swim through the lake, but then Murfy suddenly yelled: "Nooo, Rayman! Beware of piranhas! Swimming not advised!" But it was too late. Rayman had already got bitten by a piranha in the lake. "OWCH! Those stupid piranhas!" yelled Rayman! "Can't they just eat each other, instead of biting me?" He turned around and got out of the lake!
So, instead of swimming through the lake, Rayman spun his hair like a helicopter again, helping him glide over the lake. Actually, he glided over to the first lily pad on the lake, and he stood on top of it. From there, he glided to the next lily pad, and so on, until he reached the end of the piranha-infested lake.
From here, there were some green, grassy ledges sticking out of the cliff wall on the right. Rayman jumped across them. At the top ledge, there was another corridor-like tunnel. Rayman walked through it.
"Sheesh, we have to go all this way just to reach one little button," frowned Murfy. "And we aren't even sure IF there really is a button anywhere here!"
In this tunnel, Rayman turned a very sharp right corner. They came to a small, round cave room, inside the cliffs. The walls were green. There was a doorway at the end of this room, leading outside again. Suddenly, before Rayman could go through this doorway, a whole bunch of black, flying eels came swarming towards Rayman! Rayman was shocked when he saw how many there were! He hid behind a rock in a corner of the cave room, while firing his silver energy balls at them. The black flying eels then collapsed and disappeared. Rayman then came out from behind the rock, and walked to the other end of the room where the cave exit was. He came outside again. He was now back in the first area where the mushroom and the wooden gate were, but in a higher-up part of that area. He was now standing ON TOP of those monkey bars that he had climbed across earlier! When standing on top of the monkey bars, he could reach a red button, which he could see up on one of the cliff walls. So, Rayman shot energy from his fists at this red button. This caused the button to be activated! He then looked down at where the wooden gate was, and he saw that it was slowly opening! Yes, the button had caused the wooden gate (blocking the first cave in the river area) to open! Before gliding back down to the river area below the monkey bars, he noticed a pirate cage, which he smashed open with the energy from his fists! This cage contained three Yellow Lums.
"Great!" cheered Murfy. "You now have 9 Yellow Lums from this area! Keep searching!"
Rayman glided off the monkey bars, and back down to the river area where the gate had previously been shut. Since it was now open, he decided to run through it!
"Can we come with you?" pleaded the two sons. "We want to see if Globox is somewhere there!"
"All right, you can come with us, if you'd like," said Rayman to the two of Globox's sons. "Just be careful!"
"Yippee!" said the two sons. So then, Rayman, Murfy, and the two of Globox's sons (we'll just call them the Baby Globoxes) proceeded further, into the tunnel that had previously been blocked by a gate.
"Soon, we should be getting closer to Ly!" buzzed Murfy in excited anticipation.
"And hopefully our daddy!" added Globox's sons in anticipation, even though they weren't sure Globox was really there!
Beyond this gate, the next obstacle was a tunnel containing yet another waterslide which Rayman and the two Baby Globoxes slid down ("Woo- hoo! This is fun!" the two Baby Globoxes shouted while sliding down), and there were even a few Yellow Lums on the way! Rayman now had 15 Yellow Lums. At the end of the waterfall, they were now outside this cave, and in another outdoor area.
Here, in this next outdoor area, there were many trees. There was also a huge pit in the ground, with brambles at the bottom. Rayman didn't want to fall into it, because there would be no way out! Rayman glided over to the end of this giant pit, with his Amazing Helicopter Hair. Murfy flew over it. No problem for them. But how would the two Baby Globoxes get over this pit? They still wanted to come with Rayman! Luckily, on the other side of the pit, there was a button, which Rayman shot at, to make a bridge rise over the pit...so now the two Baby Globoxes could cross over to the other side!
By now, the sun was starting to set. This was a long journey, and they had been outside for a very long time by now. Across the bramble pit, there was a wide-open grassy area, and as they ran through it, a whole horde of black flying eels suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and surrounded them!
"Aaaaah!" screamed the two Baby Globoxes, and they ran away and hid behind some bushes to avoid them, while Rayman dealt with them. Rayman shot energy from his fists at these annoying flying eels, as they came swarming towards him, and they all got hit by Rayman's fists and collapsed and disappeared.
Then, it was safe for the two Baby Globoxes to come out, again. They continued further, and from here, there was a path leading into the deep woods.
Then, suddenly, a fairy named Zy (who was one of Ly's cousins), came flying towards them and warned them: "Look out! The pirates have just created a forest fire which is burning down this area of the woods! The pirates are burning down the forest to make room for their hideouts which they are building!"
"Oh, no!" panicked Rayman. "We've got to put out that fire! But how?"
"I guess you can now call this area the Fiery Glades, instead of the Fairy Glades," frowned Murfy.
"Hey, Rayman," said the first Baby Globoxes, "remember, we Globoxes can do rain-dances, to make rain clouds appear!" So, the two Baby Globoxes performed a rain dance to put out the flames in the forest...but beacuse they were just small Baby Globoxes, they couldn't create very big rain clouds. They could only make small ones, which weren't big enough to douse the forest fire.
"Hmm...it's too bad our daddy isn't here," said the first Baby Globox, "cause he can make really big rain clouds! But now he's been imprisoned by the pirates..."
"Hey," said the second Baby Globox, "maybe if we get a whole bunch of our brothers to gather around here, then we can use our combined powers to create several rain clouds, and maybe that will be enough to put out the fire!" So the two Baby Globoxes went off to get some of their brothers. They came back a few minutes later to where Rayman was. Then, all the Baby Globoxes stood by the forest fire, and used their combined power to create several rain clouds. These were still small rain clouds, but now there were very many of them. There were now enough rain clouds to put out the forest fire!
"Phew, that was a lot of work," said one of the Baby Globoxes.
They could now proceed further into the forest, and to the pirates' hideout...at last! The first two Baby Globoxes continued following Rayman and Murfy...while all the others just went back to their home in the Woods of Light.
It was getting very dark outside. The sun had set, and the moon was becoming visible. Rayman, Murfy, and the two Baby Globoxes entered the wide-open, grassy area where there was the hideout which the pirates had built. This was a large building made of wood, and it consisted of several windows, storeys, and balconies. The grassy area between Rayman and the hideout covered a very huge area of land. Rayman and the two Baby Globoxes were about to run across this wide stretch of grassy land and up to the pirates' hideout. However, it was so dark that they didn't notice the pair of Robo-Pirates walking towards them!
"Arrgh! Get them!" the first one yelled! They then grabbed the two Baby Globoxes and ran off with them! They took them into their hideout.
"Oh, no!" frowned Murfy. "The two Baby Globoxes are being captured too!"
"Dang it," said Rayman. "Why didn't I just shoot at those two pirates!" Rayman was so mad that he ran up to a nearby cliff wall, and started banging his head against it repeatedly.
"Come on," buzzed Murfy. "Let's go after them!"
But as the pirates took the two Baby Globoxes into their hideout, the pirates closed the front door, leaving no way for Rayman to get in.
Rayman ran around the grassy area, wondering how to enter the hideout now that the front door was locked. He couldn't see any open entrance doors or anything! Well, actually, there was a wooden trapdoor on the ground, which seemed like it might lead into a part of the hideout. Rayman tried pushing it open...but unfortunately it was locked, too. Was Rayman stymied?
While they were thinking about this, they noticed a small cavern off to the far side of the area, containing a whole bunch more Yellow Lums (so far, he had now retrieved a total of 25 Yellow Lums), but there wasn't any button here to open the doors of the hideout. After collecting the Lums, Rayman then turned back out of this cavern and returned outside to the area where the pirates' hideout was! They still were puzzled about how to get inside the hideout. Maybe it was impossible. They hadn't seen any buttons to open any doors...
Then suddenly, as they stepped closer to the hideout, another very tough-looking, mean-looking Robo-Pirate (on one of the top balconies) saw Rayman and Murfy approaching. It jumped down to another balcony, and started throwing a whole bunch of cannonballs down from the balcony, trying to hit Rayman! Of course, Rayman dodged them all. The Robo-Pirate continued raining more cannonballs down onto the ground. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! they went, as they hit the ground. Their explosions looked like fireworks in the night.
But then, one of the Robo-Pirates' huge cannonballs accidentally hit the trapdoor (when Rayman was standing near it), blowing the trapdoor open!
"D'oh!" said the pirate.
"Cool!" yelled Rayman! He could now go down the trapdoor to get inside the hideout! "Now, let's rescue Ly and the two Baby Globoxes!"
He glided down through the trapdoor. He landed in the basement of the hideout.
It was very damp and quiet down in here. There was only the sound of dripping water. There was a pool of toxic, green-coloured sludge, ahead on the floor. "Yecch!" yelled Rayman as he looked down at it--and his voice echoed through the basement. There were also a few boxes floating on top of this sludge.
"Hey, Ray! Use your helicopter hair to glide and land on top of the boxes that are floating in the sludge," said Murfy. So Rayman glided across them.
When he got across to the other side of the toxic pool in the basement, he landed on a grey, stone floor. It felt very hard and very cold. Suddenly, the green slime started rising! Rayman felt scared. He looked around and saw there was also a spider's cobweb covering the wall in front of him.
"Quick!" yelled Murfy. "Grab onto that web and climb up it!"
So Rayman grabbed onto this giant cobweb-like rope and climbed up it, to get away from the rising slime in the basement. Up, up, up he climbed. He had to watch out, because two cannon-like objects were hanging from the ceiling above him, and were shooting out small but deadly cannonballs down at Rayman, trying to knock him off the webs! Rayman moved to the right, then the left, of the web, to avoid these cannonballs. When he made it to the top, at last, he jumped off. He was now on the first floor of the hideout. The slime had stopped rising.
On the first floor, there was a door on the right. Rayman looked up and saw a sign above this doorway which read:
"PRISONERS' DUNGEONS"
Rayman quickly ran towards this doorway.
"I'm sure Ly and the two Baby Globoxes are here!" he yelled. Suddenly, before he got through this doorway, a blue laser forcefield appeared, blocking the doorway to the dungeons. Rayman groaned. He couldn't get past these blue lasers.
"This seems like a real prob-lum," buzzed Murfy.
It looked like Rayman would have to take another detour again. He could see a red button which was up on an indoor balcony above him, but he couldn't reach it yet. There was another hallway on the left of Rayman, so he walked through it, hoping to find a staircase leading up to that indoor balcony where the button was.
At the end of the hallway on the left, there was a doorway leading to an outside area behind the hideout. By now, it was almost midnight, and Rayman could hear owls hooting...and some Robo-Pirates snoring.
"Careful!" buzzed Murfy. "There are lots of Robo-Pirates in this area! Your footsteps might wake up some of the Robo-Pirates in this area. If you do, you might have to battle one! To defeat them, try shooting silver balls of energy from your fists; but beware of the energy that the pirates shoot at you!"
Rayman was getting frightened. Still, it was up to him to stop the pirates, so he carefully proceeded further...tiptoeing as quietly as possible. Sure enough, there was a Robo-Pirate on the grass up ahead! Fortunately, it was asleep. Unfortunately, it awoke when it heard Rayman approaching--even though Rayman was slowly tiptoeing!
"Arrrrrgh!" it yelled, pulling out a shotgun and started firing small, red bursts of energy--three at a time--from its gun. Rayman dodged these shots and he shot his own silver balls of energy at the pirate! The battle was a quick one, and the Robo-Pirate was down on the ground within a few hits--but Rayman could sense that more Robo-Pirates were up ahead!
Rayman was still outside. There was a doorway leading to another room inside the hideout. As Rayman predicted, there was a second Robo- Pirate sleeping in this room. Of course, Rayman was going to change that! The pirate awoke when Rayman entered the new room. Rayman fought it the same way he had done with the first Robo-Pirate. Bang, bing, bzoot, shoot, ka-pow. Finished!
"YEAH!" yelled Rayman, after defeating the pirate successfully. Then, a vertical grate lowered from the ceiling. Rayman could climb up it, just like a rope, to reach the second floor of the hideout. But before Rayman could climb up it, a third Robo-Pirate, from the second floor, suddenly climbed down from the grate, and dropped down onto the floor where Rayman was! It fired at Rayman. Rayman was getting tired of shooting back at them, by now.
There was a gunpowder keg lying on the floor. Rayman picked it up (it was very heavy), and threw it at the stupid Robo-Pirate. KA-BOOM! went the keg when he threw it! The pirate blew up into tiny pieces.
Rayman then climbed the grate on the wall, to reach the second floor.
There was a door on the second floor, which Rayman shot at (with the energy from his fists) to break it open.
Behind this doorway, there was a room containing a big gap at the bottom! Across this gap, on the other side, there was a ledge with a doorway, but this was blocked by a blue laser forcefield as well! The red button to turn THESE lasers off, was located on the wall near the bottom of the big gap! At the bottom of this big gap, there was a floor made of cobwebs. A red laser was moving back and forth over the floor, and it looked as if Rayman had to avoid touching that red laser!
Rayman looked down, nervously.
"I don't suppose YOU could fly down there and hit that button, Murfy?" asked Rayman, who was too scared to do it.
"Remember, I can't shoot!" said Murfy.
"Then I guess I'll have to do it..." groaned Rayman. So he slowly glided down to the bottom of the gap, with his helicopter hair, down to where the button was. He tried to avoid touching the red moving laser. He wondered if he would succeed. He did. He shot at the button, and this caused the blue laser forcefield, which had been blocking the entrance to the next room, to turn off. But how would Rayman, who was still down in the gap at the bottom of the room, be able to get back up to the ledge where the doorway to the next room was? Fortunately, the cobwebs that made up the floor happened to be bouncy like a trampoline, and this allowed Rayman to bounce back out of the gap and get back up to the ledge on the other side!
Rayman and Murfy continued further. Behind this doorway, there was a hallway with a few steps, leading slightly downwards. There were also two blue lasers in this hallway, which Rayman had to jump over. When he finally got over them and through this hallway, he ended up...
...on the indoor balcony where there was the red button which could turn off the first blue laser forcefield, which had been blocking the door to the Prisoners' Dungeons, back on the first floor! Rayman shot energy at this button, and sure enough, it caused the blue lasers to be deactivated!
"YEAH!!!!!" screamed Rayman, happily!
"Sssh, not so loud, Rayman!" said Murfy, who had switched to a whispering voice. "You'll wake up that Robo-Pirate that's sleeping next to us!"
"Huh?--Oh, no!" It was too late. Rayman's cheering had awaken this Robo-Pirate! It awoke, got up, and pulled out its gun!
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! went the shots from the pirate's gun. This one fired huge, black cannonballs that trailed towards Rayman. Rayman dodged these. Soon, he realized he could shoot energy back at the cannonballs to destroy them! He shot a silver ball of energy at the pirate's cannonball, and that destroyed the cannonball before it hit Rayman. But Rayman had to destroy the pirate, not just the pirate's cannonballs.
BING! BING! BING! BING! BING! went the shots from Rayman's fist. He was able to defeat this Robo-Pirate.
Then, Rayman glided back down to the first floor, from the upstairs balcony, and he quickly ran through the Exit doorway which was now open! Murfy flew there, too.
"Ly the fairy, here we come!" Murfy yelled!
