This chapter is short but sweet. The story begins to thicken from here on. Oh, and by the way. Just one more brand new main character to introduce.

Chapter 5 - Ly's Concern

THE CLIFF HANGER FROM LAST CHAPTER!

"Rayman! It's you!"

"Ly?"

"Yes. Listen, Rayman. Something seriously wrong is going on. I'm so glad you came. I need to explain everything."

Ly led the five of them through a dimly lit tunnel. "What's going on?" whispered Rayman.

"Later. They might hear us here." They hit a dead end. "Nice going..."

"Shut up! This is the way." Ly pressed her hand against the wall. It lit up and bathed them all in a red light. Slowly, magically, the wall simply faded away. "Quickly, through!" she hissed. They all walked through. When Rayman looked behind again, it was just a wall again. "Onto this machine!"

"What is it?"

"It's a transporter. We're gonna go to my room." They all stepped on it. Instantly it exploded. Rayman felt like they were being split into hundreds of thousand of little pieces and shoved along a thin tunnel. To Globox it felt like when you had just eaten ice cream. He liked it.

Suddenly, Rayman face felt like it would explode. He was yanked forward and chucked around. He felt like he was being distorted. Which in many ways, he already was. Then it was over. "Sorry about that, Leader must of felt something going wrong. Never mind. She can't come here." Ly's voice was hushed and worried. Just like it had been when Razorbeard's army had attacked. Rayman shook himself. That was all past now. Nothing had ever been breached so terribly. Had it?

"Rayman? Rayman? Are you okay?"

"What, oh yeah, I'm fine."

"Listen Rayman. I have some bad - or good - no bad - no good - well medium news to tell you."

"What?"

"The Fairy Council has been taken over."

"WHAT!"

"No, no, no. It's not like that or anything. It's just... We've got a new leader. Drasealy." Drealy suddenly looked up, shocked. "Drasealy? But, but - that's my sister!"

"Well, your sister isn't very popular... -?" Ly signalled for a name.

"Drealy."

"Drealy."

"How come?"

"She's brought in the strictest regime."

"Such as?"

"Only fairies can enter the Fairy Council."

"What about good old Minimus here? He was in there." The Grand Minimus (now to be known as Minimus) blushed: "I was a prisoner, a captor."

"What! What has the Grand Minimus done to us!?" exclaimed Chippy.

"That's the thing," continued Ly, "Drasealy being dreadfully unfair to everyone. She's destroyed the whole justice system. True wrong-doers are getting away with things, while petty-rebels are getting imprisoned for life-sentences!"

"This is dreadful!" gasped Rayman.

"I know. And there's nothing we can do. There's already been a rebellion and everybody who was involved is now in the prisons."

"But why is this happening?" asked Rayman. Ly shrugged: "Who knows?"

"I know someone who will," said Globox, quite suddenly.

"Who?"

"Betilla!"

"Ahh, Betilla. The Leader of the Beastie's Palace!"

"Then let's go!"

"Wait!" said Ly just suddenly, "Before you go, can I ask you to do a favour Rayman?" Rayman's eyebrows raised. "It's just I have an old friend. Who needs a helping hand..." Rayman moaned: "Why do I think I'll end up regretting this?"

TO BE CONTINUED!

What else can I say. I just like to write a bit at the beginning and at the end! Au revoir as they say in Spanish... Or was it German?