Chapter 9: Whale Bay
"Nooo! Don't harm me!" yelled Carmen as the pirates chased her into an underwater cavern. "I have brothers...and sisters...capture them, instead!"
The pirates, ignoring her shouts for help, turned on a blue laser forcefield which stopped Carmen from escaping out of the small, tight cavern. Carmen's brothers and sisters all watched in horror, their eyes wide, as Carmen was being captured.
"So, now that we've captured this huge hulk of blubber," said Razorbeard, "we just have to decide what to do with it!"
"Make it into a rug!" suggested the first henchman.
"Nah, we've got enough rugs," said Razorbeard.
"Well, we could eat the meat from it," said the second henchman.
"I asked what should we do with the BLUBBER? You idiot," said Razorbeard.
Then the third pirate came up with a suggestion.
"Hmm...that sounds like a good idea," said Razorbeard.
"Nooooo!" sobbed Carmen. If only she could escape from the cavern that she was trapped in...
Meanwhile, Rayman was entering Whale Bay--not the same part where Carmen was, though. When Rayman arrived at Whale Bay, he found himself in a large, cold, indoor aquarium room. There were walls made of grey stone, wooden floorboards, and a giant tank full of light blue water and some green seaweed. There was a hallway to the left, so Rayman ran through it. The wooden floorboard creaked underneath his feet. Other than that, it was very quiet in this aquarium, except for the sounds of the fish blowing bubbles.
Suddenly, Rayman bumped into a Robo-Pirate who was hiding inside a wooden barrel, which had holes for the pirates' eyes to look through, and holes in the bottom for his feet to go through. There was also a tube sticking out of the top of the wooden barrel, which started shooting out bolts of blue electricity at Rayman! Rayman dodged this. This was a very strong Robo-Pirate enemy which required several shots to defeat it. So, Rayman just kept on dodging and firing rapid balls of energy and soon he had the enemy defeated. It dropped some Yellow Lums. Rayman picked them up; there were five of them. He now had a total of 510 Yellow Lums!
Rayman proceeded further, down the quiet hallway. The doorway leading outside was blocked by a blue laser forcefield.
"Oh, no..." sighed Rayman. "Here we go again...time to find a red button to turn it off...man, this is getting repetitive..."
He turned back, desperately searching all the walls for a red button. He then spotted one. It was inside the giant fish tank. Rayman climbed into the giant tank (luckily the fish in here didn't bite), dived down under the water, and swam through it, until he reached the button, which he shot at. Then, he swam back up to the surface of the fish tank, jumped out, and hurried over to the exit of the building again, to see if the laser forcefield had been deactivated. It had been.
When he exited the building, he was now in a very wide-open outdoor area, covered in grains of brown sand. The weather was extremely windy and cold, ruining what probably would have been a very sunny, peaceful feel. There were a few tall, green palm trees here. Green pinching crabs crawled along the beaches. There was, in the distance, a huge, deep blue lake. Rayman dove down into the lake in search of anything valuable. It was a good thing that he knew how to swim.
Down in this very, very deep blue lake, there were some small blue whales swimming around slowly. They looked depressed and worried...
"What's wrong?" asked Rayman.
"Our sister Carmen has just been captured by the pirates..." the first whale sobbed. These whales were Carmen's brothers and sisters.
"And we heard the pirates saying that they want to use her blubber to oil the engines of their prison boat..." cried the second whale. "They chose to capture Carmen instead of us because she was the biggest whale with the most blubber."
"She'd better still be okay," one of them sobbed. Carmen's brothers and sisters were all "blubbering" over the kidnapping of Carmen.
Rayman looked around the underwater lake. He could see Carmen nearby, trapped inside a big underwater cavern, surrounded by blue laser forcefields blocking the entrance of the cavern.
"I hear that you've been able to free fairies, Teensies, and Globoxes," said the third whale. "Do you think you could also free our sister Carmen?"
Even though Rayman wasn't associated with Greenpeace, he still agreed to save Carmen.
"Don't worry, I'm sure she'll be fine," Rayman spoke, assuringly, even though he didn't know for sure. He then swam through an underwater tunnel nearby, which was to the left of the cavern that Carmen was trapped inside. Carmen was watching Rayman. She was really worried about getting killed and skinned by the pirates later, but she knew that Rayman was trying to free her, and he'd probably succeed. If Rayman didn't exist, Carmen would only have twenty-five more minutes to live... Rayman's bravery impressed her.
The underwater tunnel Rayman swam through was very long. There were only a few Blue Lums of oxygen here, but they were all real lifesavers to Rayman.
At the end of this long, lengthy tunnel, Rayman found himself inside a strange, wooden room, which he walked through. It was very quiet inside here, except for the creaking of the wooden floorboard he stepped across again. On the wooden wall at the end of this strange room, there was a red button. Rayman shot at it, to activate it. This opened the bars of Carmen's cage, back in the lake area, where the pirates had captured Carmen. She was now free. Rayman turned back and swam back to the lake area, to meet Carmen.
"Thanks, Rayman," Carmen spoke, garteful to be swimming freely once again. "I'll help you find the way to a new area. Follow me and grab the magic air bubbles that I make, if you're low on oxygen while underwater. They'll give you extra breath."
She swam to another underwater tunnel that was also very, very long. Carmen and Rayman both swam through it.
When Rayman's oxygen supply decreased, he quickly grabbed onto the air bubbles that Carmen was making. There weren't any Blue Lums in this tunnel at all. But like the Blue Lums, Carmen's special bubbles contained extra oxygen for Rayman.
Soon, they came out of the tunnel and entered a wide-open pit underwater. There was an old, wooden, sunken pirate ship in the distance.
Carmen warned Rayman: "The piranhas are coming to take my air bubbles!"
A pair of piranhas then swam towards Carmen, and when Carmen tried to make an air bubble for Rayman to grab onto, the piranhas kept taking them and popping them, before Rayman even got a chance to pick up these bubbles.
Rayman's face was quickly turning blue. He could hardly breathe anymore. Water was rapidly filling up in his nostrils and his mouth. He thought that this would be the end of his career as an adventurer...
Then, quickly, he tried shooting balls of energy (from his fists) at these pesky piranha twins, in case it would defeat them. It stunned them for a few seconds--but they then recovered quickly. However, Rayman had stunned them long enough so that he could at least grab one of the air bubbles that Carmen was blowing!
"Ahhhhh...I can breathe, again, at last..." sighed Rayman, inhaling...
He kept on shooting at the piranhas and grabbing onto more of Carmen's precious bubbles, as he and Carmen kept on swimming further...
Eventually, the two of them came to a sunken Robo-Pirate ship in the deep underwater ocean. Rayman swam away from Carmen, and he went over to this old, sunken shipwreck. He could see that there were also some Blue Lums over there, so he wouldn't have to worry about running out of oxygen here, at least.
He swam through a hole inside the bottom of the shipwreck. Inside, there was old, green, wooden board, some artifacts, some wooden barrels, and a few picture frames. This must have been a very old ship. Several groups of tiny fish were also swimming around here, interested in all of the ancient artifacts. There was another hole, in the top of the old ship, which Rayman swam through. It led out of the ship. When he came out, he was in another outside area, on the surface of a lake. He hopped out of the ship, and up onto the surface of the lake. There were a whole bunch of Yellow Lums floating in the water here, too. Rayman made sure he picked up all of them. He now had 540 Yellow Lums! This lake area was surrounded by grey cliff walls. On one of these cliff walls, there was a rope ladder which could be climbed up. He jumped out of the lake, and grabbed onto this rope ladder. While climbing up it, he could reach the top of the cliffs, where there were a few more Yellow Lums and an inactive energy portal. Halfway up the rope ladder, there was also a small cave in the cliff walls, behind a waterfall on the left. Rayman hopped off the rope ladder and glided into the cave ebhind the waterfall. There was a short passage here, containing a peg-legged Robo-Pirate.
"Not another peg-legged one!" frowned Rayman. "I hated the one that I encountered in the Marshlands! He was scary! And he stunk."
"I heard that," said the peg-legged pirate. "Stop insulting us!" It then charged towards him furiously. Rayman turned back and stood near the edge of the cave entrance, which was overlooking the lake. The pirate ran over to there, but fell into the lake. SPLASH! That got rid of it.
Inside this cave tunnel, there was also another pirate cage. Rayman smashed it open--BAM! BAM!--and out came another Teensie.
"Good news!" the hyper, excited Teensie spoke. "I know where the second mask is! I know where the second mask is!"
"Great!" replied Rayman.
The Teensie walked back out of the cave, hopped up onto the rope ladder on the cliff walls outside the cave, and climbed up it, and got up onto the top of the cliffs, where the energy portal was. The Teensie opened it up, with his energetic magic dance. Then, Rayman hopped into the portal.
He now had 555 Yellow Lums! The ones he had got from Whale Bay were a bit wet from being hidden away in the water, though...
"Nooo! Don't harm me!" yelled Carmen as the pirates chased her into an underwater cavern. "I have brothers...and sisters...capture them, instead!"
The pirates, ignoring her shouts for help, turned on a blue laser forcefield which stopped Carmen from escaping out of the small, tight cavern. Carmen's brothers and sisters all watched in horror, their eyes wide, as Carmen was being captured.
"So, now that we've captured this huge hulk of blubber," said Razorbeard, "we just have to decide what to do with it!"
"Make it into a rug!" suggested the first henchman.
"Nah, we've got enough rugs," said Razorbeard.
"Well, we could eat the meat from it," said the second henchman.
"I asked what should we do with the BLUBBER? You idiot," said Razorbeard.
Then the third pirate came up with a suggestion.
"Hmm...that sounds like a good idea," said Razorbeard.
"Nooooo!" sobbed Carmen. If only she could escape from the cavern that she was trapped in...
Meanwhile, Rayman was entering Whale Bay--not the same part where Carmen was, though. When Rayman arrived at Whale Bay, he found himself in a large, cold, indoor aquarium room. There were walls made of grey stone, wooden floorboards, and a giant tank full of light blue water and some green seaweed. There was a hallway to the left, so Rayman ran through it. The wooden floorboard creaked underneath his feet. Other than that, it was very quiet in this aquarium, except for the sounds of the fish blowing bubbles.
Suddenly, Rayman bumped into a Robo-Pirate who was hiding inside a wooden barrel, which had holes for the pirates' eyes to look through, and holes in the bottom for his feet to go through. There was also a tube sticking out of the top of the wooden barrel, which started shooting out bolts of blue electricity at Rayman! Rayman dodged this. This was a very strong Robo-Pirate enemy which required several shots to defeat it. So, Rayman just kept on dodging and firing rapid balls of energy and soon he had the enemy defeated. It dropped some Yellow Lums. Rayman picked them up; there were five of them. He now had a total of 510 Yellow Lums!
Rayman proceeded further, down the quiet hallway. The doorway leading outside was blocked by a blue laser forcefield.
"Oh, no..." sighed Rayman. "Here we go again...time to find a red button to turn it off...man, this is getting repetitive..."
He turned back, desperately searching all the walls for a red button. He then spotted one. It was inside the giant fish tank. Rayman climbed into the giant tank (luckily the fish in here didn't bite), dived down under the water, and swam through it, until he reached the button, which he shot at. Then, he swam back up to the surface of the fish tank, jumped out, and hurried over to the exit of the building again, to see if the laser forcefield had been deactivated. It had been.
When he exited the building, he was now in a very wide-open outdoor area, covered in grains of brown sand. The weather was extremely windy and cold, ruining what probably would have been a very sunny, peaceful feel. There were a few tall, green palm trees here. Green pinching crabs crawled along the beaches. There was, in the distance, a huge, deep blue lake. Rayman dove down into the lake in search of anything valuable. It was a good thing that he knew how to swim.
Down in this very, very deep blue lake, there were some small blue whales swimming around slowly. They looked depressed and worried...
"What's wrong?" asked Rayman.
"Our sister Carmen has just been captured by the pirates..." the first whale sobbed. These whales were Carmen's brothers and sisters.
"And we heard the pirates saying that they want to use her blubber to oil the engines of their prison boat..." cried the second whale. "They chose to capture Carmen instead of us because she was the biggest whale with the most blubber."
"She'd better still be okay," one of them sobbed. Carmen's brothers and sisters were all "blubbering" over the kidnapping of Carmen.
Rayman looked around the underwater lake. He could see Carmen nearby, trapped inside a big underwater cavern, surrounded by blue laser forcefields blocking the entrance of the cavern.
"I hear that you've been able to free fairies, Teensies, and Globoxes," said the third whale. "Do you think you could also free our sister Carmen?"
Even though Rayman wasn't associated with Greenpeace, he still agreed to save Carmen.
"Don't worry, I'm sure she'll be fine," Rayman spoke, assuringly, even though he didn't know for sure. He then swam through an underwater tunnel nearby, which was to the left of the cavern that Carmen was trapped inside. Carmen was watching Rayman. She was really worried about getting killed and skinned by the pirates later, but she knew that Rayman was trying to free her, and he'd probably succeed. If Rayman didn't exist, Carmen would only have twenty-five more minutes to live... Rayman's bravery impressed her.
The underwater tunnel Rayman swam through was very long. There were only a few Blue Lums of oxygen here, but they were all real lifesavers to Rayman.
At the end of this long, lengthy tunnel, Rayman found himself inside a strange, wooden room, which he walked through. It was very quiet inside here, except for the creaking of the wooden floorboard he stepped across again. On the wooden wall at the end of this strange room, there was a red button. Rayman shot at it, to activate it. This opened the bars of Carmen's cage, back in the lake area, where the pirates had captured Carmen. She was now free. Rayman turned back and swam back to the lake area, to meet Carmen.
"Thanks, Rayman," Carmen spoke, garteful to be swimming freely once again. "I'll help you find the way to a new area. Follow me and grab the magic air bubbles that I make, if you're low on oxygen while underwater. They'll give you extra breath."
She swam to another underwater tunnel that was also very, very long. Carmen and Rayman both swam through it.
When Rayman's oxygen supply decreased, he quickly grabbed onto the air bubbles that Carmen was making. There weren't any Blue Lums in this tunnel at all. But like the Blue Lums, Carmen's special bubbles contained extra oxygen for Rayman.
Soon, they came out of the tunnel and entered a wide-open pit underwater. There was an old, wooden, sunken pirate ship in the distance.
Carmen warned Rayman: "The piranhas are coming to take my air bubbles!"
A pair of piranhas then swam towards Carmen, and when Carmen tried to make an air bubble for Rayman to grab onto, the piranhas kept taking them and popping them, before Rayman even got a chance to pick up these bubbles.
Rayman's face was quickly turning blue. He could hardly breathe anymore. Water was rapidly filling up in his nostrils and his mouth. He thought that this would be the end of his career as an adventurer...
Then, quickly, he tried shooting balls of energy (from his fists) at these pesky piranha twins, in case it would defeat them. It stunned them for a few seconds--but they then recovered quickly. However, Rayman had stunned them long enough so that he could at least grab one of the air bubbles that Carmen was blowing!
"Ahhhhh...I can breathe, again, at last..." sighed Rayman, inhaling...
He kept on shooting at the piranhas and grabbing onto more of Carmen's precious bubbles, as he and Carmen kept on swimming further...
Eventually, the two of them came to a sunken Robo-Pirate ship in the deep underwater ocean. Rayman swam away from Carmen, and he went over to this old, sunken shipwreck. He could see that there were also some Blue Lums over there, so he wouldn't have to worry about running out of oxygen here, at least.
He swam through a hole inside the bottom of the shipwreck. Inside, there was old, green, wooden board, some artifacts, some wooden barrels, and a few picture frames. This must have been a very old ship. Several groups of tiny fish were also swimming around here, interested in all of the ancient artifacts. There was another hole, in the top of the old ship, which Rayman swam through. It led out of the ship. When he came out, he was in another outside area, on the surface of a lake. He hopped out of the ship, and up onto the surface of the lake. There were a whole bunch of Yellow Lums floating in the water here, too. Rayman made sure he picked up all of them. He now had 540 Yellow Lums! This lake area was surrounded by grey cliff walls. On one of these cliff walls, there was a rope ladder which could be climbed up. He jumped out of the lake, and grabbed onto this rope ladder. While climbing up it, he could reach the top of the cliffs, where there were a few more Yellow Lums and an inactive energy portal. Halfway up the rope ladder, there was also a small cave in the cliff walls, behind a waterfall on the left. Rayman hopped off the rope ladder and glided into the cave ebhind the waterfall. There was a short passage here, containing a peg-legged Robo-Pirate.
"Not another peg-legged one!" frowned Rayman. "I hated the one that I encountered in the Marshlands! He was scary! And he stunk."
"I heard that," said the peg-legged pirate. "Stop insulting us!" It then charged towards him furiously. Rayman turned back and stood near the edge of the cave entrance, which was overlooking the lake. The pirate ran over to there, but fell into the lake. SPLASH! That got rid of it.
Inside this cave tunnel, there was also another pirate cage. Rayman smashed it open--BAM! BAM!--and out came another Teensie.
"Good news!" the hyper, excited Teensie spoke. "I know where the second mask is! I know where the second mask is!"
"Great!" replied Rayman.
The Teensie walked back out of the cave, hopped up onto the rope ladder on the cliff walls outside the cave, and climbed up it, and got up onto the top of the cliffs, where the energy portal was. The Teensie opened it up, with his energetic magic dance. Then, Rayman hopped into the portal.
He now had 555 Yellow Lums! The ones he had got from Whale Bay were a bit wet from being hidden away in the water, though...
