"Are we there yet?" Panther Cap moaned,
"No" said Fur Foot as he looked at the lands beyond,
The sun was bright and it was windy, drakes were squealing and fighting for a cow above, just as something made a large, dark green bush move, Puff Ball, who thinks everything was food, decided to see,
"Sounds like dinner" he said happily as he moved his fat gut over to the bush,
"Wait!" Beauty Stem shouted at him,
"What?"
"We don't know what it is"
"So?"
"What if a real DRAGON was hiding behind that bush? We can't afford to lose you and if we do we will be to sad to move on, we need you just like you need us"
"Alright..." he then moved away from the bush as it continued to move,
Beauty Stem told everybody not to go close to the bush or any other moving bush unless they were sure, the group decided to move on a little until Fur Foot looked at the soft grass that reminded him that he desperately needed rest, for he hadn't got any sleep since the Price of Ice incident, he shook his head a little,
"We shall sleep here" He said,
The group laid down and rested, the bush stopped moving but Shaggy Mane wanted to see what it was, he ignored Beauty Stem's words and went to the bush, he kept getting told 'Don't go there!' over and over by some unknown being but he still kept approaching, just as he was to touch the bush, he was shocked and got tripped by a rock behind him when a little fuzzy head stuck out of the bush,
"Hello" it said,
He realized it was a wolf like him, and the voice sounded that of a female, and as it got into the moonlight, it was definitely a female wolf the same age as him,
"Are you ok?"
"Y-Yes, just a little scared.."
"You're my brother, aren't you?"
Then he felt it, she was his sister, he didn't know why or how but she just was,
"… Yes, how did you know?"
"I kept being told that you were my brother from the moment I saw you"
"Oh… Want to meet my friends?"
"Sure"
"O.k."
They both walked up to where the others were sleeping, but Puff Ball was having a late night snack of berries and small mammals,
"Who's she?" he asked, eyeing the other wolf,
"She's my sister.. Umm…"
"Night Violet"
"Yeah.."
"Let me wake the others.."
When the rest were awakened, they stared at Night Violet in awe,
"You actually had a sister all this time and couldn't tell us about it and hid her from us?" Fur Foot rolled his eyes and glared,
"No, I found her in the bush"
"You found her WHERE?!" Beauty Stem shouted, surprised about it,
"The bush.."
Beauty Stem lowered her head and gave off a cry as she began to shake her head,
"You.. Didn't listen.. Did you even realize what it could have been?"
"No, but something kept telling me to leave but if I did I would have never known I had a sister.."
The conversation went on for hours and turned to an argument that lasted till the next day, and everyone had to have their part in it, but soon, it turned to a cloud of hate,
"I hate you! I wish you were dead!" Shaggy Mane screamed at his sister who gasped in shock,
She covered her face with her paws, began to cry and ran off into the woods, and Shaggy Mane realized what he had done,
"We.. Need to find her.." he said with shame,
"What for? For you to scream at her again?" Oyster asked,
"What are you talking about? You scream at me all the time!!" Slippery Jack moaned,
Oyster just glared at him and followed the covered in shame wolf, they were supposed to go towards the Land of Air but ended up going towards to Land of The Zaurask, a fiery island that is a gigantic desert, they then entered the Droikaic Tower,
"It's so dark.." Earth Star said,
"Yes.. Were in the Droikaic Tower" Slippery Jack replied,
"How'd you know?"
"I read a book about it back in Emitssassa's castle"
"Oh.."
The group wandered through the amazingly small tower and got to the end, they were almost burned by the hot fires,
"It's.. So.. Hot" Elf Cup said, gasping for air,
"It's not THAT hot" Slippery Jack said, giving her the 'I-knew-I'll-get-revenge' look,
The group wandered for hours through the barren waste land until Panther Cap fell into a deep hole, he shook his head and saw a large bruise on his stomach, he suddenly went from hot to hot and hurting, his small mandrill form couldn't take so much, he felt dizzy, the bruise grew larger and larger, his view blackened out, he thought it was his end…
He awakened later to find Beauty Stem mashing some summer foxfire berries in a molten rock bowl, he saw his chest wrapped with a long bit of the same material used to tend to Elf Cup's cut, he also saw Night Violet back again,
"What happened?" he asked,
"We saw you fall down then pass out, we thought you had died but it was Night Violet that told us the quickest way down here without the same fate" Elf Cup said, looking at Night Violet who was blushing, then he looked back at Beauty Stem, he then saw it, her fur had a purplish-pink tint to it and she started to glow slightly,
"Beauty Stem?"
"Yes?.."
"Why is your fur a abit pink and also why are you starting to glow?"
"Huh?" Beauty Stem looked at herself, she saw it to, then she looked around and saw the others looking at her, then she realized what they realized as well, she was becoming good, but she noticed that Elf Cup was resembling the very crystals that hurt her, Slippery Jack was a tiny bit golden but Puff Ball's fur got dark gray and he began emitting small clouds of black smoke, she saw the three alignments in her eyes, the whole group was shifting, but she just shook her head and continued to mash the berries,
"Eat this, it will make your injury heal faster" She said as she gave the bowl to Panther Cap,
He stuck a hand in the liquid and licked it off with his tongue, like a bear but at least he drunk it all up but soon they had to continue going, the tunnel was very linear and soon they ended up at the lava caverns, deep underground, but they were soon captured by Zaurask, and taken to the lava dungeons,
"Our massster will be pleasssed to have Ssslavess for dinner.." One of them said, leaving the creatures alone,
But luckily for them, they knew miracles, for they were creatures, Zaurask were villagers except different in appearance, so they megablasted the door down and turned invisible, they snuck from the dungeon to the very dining room of the Zaurask leader, he was therer, demanding more food from the kitchen until the duration of the invisibility spell wore out..
"Imposstersss!! Ceasssse thhhem you maggotsss!!" he shouted,
'Why do all these kings want to hurt us? Why can't they figure out that we are trying to stop the Shadow?' Earth Star thought,
"Ssstop the Ssshadow?" the Zaurask leader said, stopping for a moment to think,
"What?"
"I can read mindsss.. I have ssseen your thought about the Ssshadow"
"Can you help us? Do you have a god?"
"Yesss.. Fang-Why.."
"You worship him too??"
"Yess.. Come withhh me.."
The creatures were taken to a long, yet strong, land bridge over lava,
"Thhe path isss very long but thhhere are no ssside tracksss" the Zaurask master said, leaving the creatures on their own,
They started to cross the land bridge, careful not to fall, soon they hit wider land,
But suddenly a full grown red dragon grabbed Night Violet, she screamed in pain, but by the time the pain stopped, her legs were broken, she looked back at the others on land, the dragon flew above the piece of land but was attacked by much smaller black drakes competing for food and Night Violet was dropped, the drop broke her back and a rock cut her, she was bleeding badly, but Beauty Stem could not help her because she would not be able to walk anyway, so all Night Violet could do now was look at her brother.. For the last time.. Shaggy Mane nearly cried until he was as dry as a prune, but had to move on so he wouldn't suffer the same fate, he pulled off one of Night Violets claws.. To remember, the group reached the pyramid of Fang-Why, the fire god, but by that time Shaggy Mane wished he would have been nicer to Night Violet so she wouldn't have ran away and maybe not die, just as Beauty Stem began to talk with the molten ball of light,
"We ha-"
"Have come to see me to gain help against the Shadow?"
"How could you tell?"
"The master of the Zaurask sent me a message trough the mind"
"How do you do that?"
"It cannot be taught, it is only known.. But I feel a strong presence of it.. In that fellow over there, in the left corner"
"That's Panther Cap"
"He must have the power of telepathic arts"
"How could this happen?"
"Emitssassa possibly wanted him to have that because I believe that she knew certain gods can only be talked to this way"
"You know of her too?"
"She be very famous among everyone, I mean, how many other creatures are there that can make more creatures? None, and since you helped me with Juui, I shall help you, find the Shadow and I shall send creatures of fire to aid you"
Before the creatures could speak, they were teleported back on track of the Lands of Air..
"No" said Fur Foot as he looked at the lands beyond,
The sun was bright and it was windy, drakes were squealing and fighting for a cow above, just as something made a large, dark green bush move, Puff Ball, who thinks everything was food, decided to see,
"Sounds like dinner" he said happily as he moved his fat gut over to the bush,
"Wait!" Beauty Stem shouted at him,
"What?"
"We don't know what it is"
"So?"
"What if a real DRAGON was hiding behind that bush? We can't afford to lose you and if we do we will be to sad to move on, we need you just like you need us"
"Alright..." he then moved away from the bush as it continued to move,
Beauty Stem told everybody not to go close to the bush or any other moving bush unless they were sure, the group decided to move on a little until Fur Foot looked at the soft grass that reminded him that he desperately needed rest, for he hadn't got any sleep since the Price of Ice incident, he shook his head a little,
"We shall sleep here" He said,
The group laid down and rested, the bush stopped moving but Shaggy Mane wanted to see what it was, he ignored Beauty Stem's words and went to the bush, he kept getting told 'Don't go there!' over and over by some unknown being but he still kept approaching, just as he was to touch the bush, he was shocked and got tripped by a rock behind him when a little fuzzy head stuck out of the bush,
"Hello" it said,
He realized it was a wolf like him, and the voice sounded that of a female, and as it got into the moonlight, it was definitely a female wolf the same age as him,
"Are you ok?"
"Y-Yes, just a little scared.."
"You're my brother, aren't you?"
Then he felt it, she was his sister, he didn't know why or how but she just was,
"… Yes, how did you know?"
"I kept being told that you were my brother from the moment I saw you"
"Oh… Want to meet my friends?"
"Sure"
"O.k."
They both walked up to where the others were sleeping, but Puff Ball was having a late night snack of berries and small mammals,
"Who's she?" he asked, eyeing the other wolf,
"She's my sister.. Umm…"
"Night Violet"
"Yeah.."
"Let me wake the others.."
When the rest were awakened, they stared at Night Violet in awe,
"You actually had a sister all this time and couldn't tell us about it and hid her from us?" Fur Foot rolled his eyes and glared,
"No, I found her in the bush"
"You found her WHERE?!" Beauty Stem shouted, surprised about it,
"The bush.."
Beauty Stem lowered her head and gave off a cry as she began to shake her head,
"You.. Didn't listen.. Did you even realize what it could have been?"
"No, but something kept telling me to leave but if I did I would have never known I had a sister.."
The conversation went on for hours and turned to an argument that lasted till the next day, and everyone had to have their part in it, but soon, it turned to a cloud of hate,
"I hate you! I wish you were dead!" Shaggy Mane screamed at his sister who gasped in shock,
She covered her face with her paws, began to cry and ran off into the woods, and Shaggy Mane realized what he had done,
"We.. Need to find her.." he said with shame,
"What for? For you to scream at her again?" Oyster asked,
"What are you talking about? You scream at me all the time!!" Slippery Jack moaned,
Oyster just glared at him and followed the covered in shame wolf, they were supposed to go towards the Land of Air but ended up going towards to Land of The Zaurask, a fiery island that is a gigantic desert, they then entered the Droikaic Tower,
"It's so dark.." Earth Star said,
"Yes.. Were in the Droikaic Tower" Slippery Jack replied,
"How'd you know?"
"I read a book about it back in Emitssassa's castle"
"Oh.."
The group wandered through the amazingly small tower and got to the end, they were almost burned by the hot fires,
"It's.. So.. Hot" Elf Cup said, gasping for air,
"It's not THAT hot" Slippery Jack said, giving her the 'I-knew-I'll-get-revenge' look,
The group wandered for hours through the barren waste land until Panther Cap fell into a deep hole, he shook his head and saw a large bruise on his stomach, he suddenly went from hot to hot and hurting, his small mandrill form couldn't take so much, he felt dizzy, the bruise grew larger and larger, his view blackened out, he thought it was his end…
He awakened later to find Beauty Stem mashing some summer foxfire berries in a molten rock bowl, he saw his chest wrapped with a long bit of the same material used to tend to Elf Cup's cut, he also saw Night Violet back again,
"What happened?" he asked,
"We saw you fall down then pass out, we thought you had died but it was Night Violet that told us the quickest way down here without the same fate" Elf Cup said, looking at Night Violet who was blushing, then he looked back at Beauty Stem, he then saw it, her fur had a purplish-pink tint to it and she started to glow slightly,
"Beauty Stem?"
"Yes?.."
"Why is your fur a abit pink and also why are you starting to glow?"
"Huh?" Beauty Stem looked at herself, she saw it to, then she looked around and saw the others looking at her, then she realized what they realized as well, she was becoming good, but she noticed that Elf Cup was resembling the very crystals that hurt her, Slippery Jack was a tiny bit golden but Puff Ball's fur got dark gray and he began emitting small clouds of black smoke, she saw the three alignments in her eyes, the whole group was shifting, but she just shook her head and continued to mash the berries,
"Eat this, it will make your injury heal faster" She said as she gave the bowl to Panther Cap,
He stuck a hand in the liquid and licked it off with his tongue, like a bear but at least he drunk it all up but soon they had to continue going, the tunnel was very linear and soon they ended up at the lava caverns, deep underground, but they were soon captured by Zaurask, and taken to the lava dungeons,
"Our massster will be pleasssed to have Ssslavess for dinner.." One of them said, leaving the creatures alone,
But luckily for them, they knew miracles, for they were creatures, Zaurask were villagers except different in appearance, so they megablasted the door down and turned invisible, they snuck from the dungeon to the very dining room of the Zaurask leader, he was therer, demanding more food from the kitchen until the duration of the invisibility spell wore out..
"Imposstersss!! Ceasssse thhhem you maggotsss!!" he shouted,
'Why do all these kings want to hurt us? Why can't they figure out that we are trying to stop the Shadow?' Earth Star thought,
"Ssstop the Ssshadow?" the Zaurask leader said, stopping for a moment to think,
"What?"
"I can read mindsss.. I have ssseen your thought about the Ssshadow"
"Can you help us? Do you have a god?"
"Yesss.. Fang-Why.."
"You worship him too??"
"Yess.. Come withhh me.."
The creatures were taken to a long, yet strong, land bridge over lava,
"Thhe path isss very long but thhhere are no ssside tracksss" the Zaurask master said, leaving the creatures on their own,
They started to cross the land bridge, careful not to fall, soon they hit wider land,
But suddenly a full grown red dragon grabbed Night Violet, she screamed in pain, but by the time the pain stopped, her legs were broken, she looked back at the others on land, the dragon flew above the piece of land but was attacked by much smaller black drakes competing for food and Night Violet was dropped, the drop broke her back and a rock cut her, she was bleeding badly, but Beauty Stem could not help her because she would not be able to walk anyway, so all Night Violet could do now was look at her brother.. For the last time.. Shaggy Mane nearly cried until he was as dry as a prune, but had to move on so he wouldn't suffer the same fate, he pulled off one of Night Violets claws.. To remember, the group reached the pyramid of Fang-Why, the fire god, but by that time Shaggy Mane wished he would have been nicer to Night Violet so she wouldn't have ran away and maybe not die, just as Beauty Stem began to talk with the molten ball of light,
"We ha-"
"Have come to see me to gain help against the Shadow?"
"How could you tell?"
"The master of the Zaurask sent me a message trough the mind"
"How do you do that?"
"It cannot be taught, it is only known.. But I feel a strong presence of it.. In that fellow over there, in the left corner"
"That's Panther Cap"
"He must have the power of telepathic arts"
"How could this happen?"
"Emitssassa possibly wanted him to have that because I believe that she knew certain gods can only be talked to this way"
"You know of her too?"
"She be very famous among everyone, I mean, how many other creatures are there that can make more creatures? None, and since you helped me with Juui, I shall help you, find the Shadow and I shall send creatures of fire to aid you"
Before the creatures could speak, they were teleported back on track of the Lands of Air..