Well, I've err, had a bit of a break but, finally, here's Chapter 10. I've introduced some bumbling bad guys which will keep popping up as well. Oh, and the darkness is coming... If you vote for Bush! No, just kidding. Um, the darkness is coming in the story.
Chapter 10 - Return of the Robo-Pirates
THE CLIFFHANGER FROM LAST CHAPTER!
For out of no where, balls of fire burst down. "Duck for cover!" screamed Rayman.
"I don't see no ducks!" Rayman sighed and pulled Globox down where the rest of them were huddled. "What's going on?"
"I have a horrid feeling I recognise this sort of fire. I think it's return of the -"
"Hello, punk," snarled a robo-pirate, "I think it's about time, we took you away." The group stared. Unsure what to do. Three more robo-pirates stepped forward. "You're surrounded Mr."
"Okay, now, what do we do?" whispered Ly, in Rayman's ear.
"I don't know. Just don't do anything for now." One of the robo-pirates stepped forward. "Well, well, well," he said, "If it isn't the great Rayman. Not so great now, are we? Mwa ha ha ha! What are you gonna --"
"HOW DARE YOU!"
"Sorry sir, apologies sir!"
"Stealing my lines, like that." None other than the Razorbeard stepped out of the darkness. Razorbeard turned to Rayman: "Well, well, well," he said, "If it isn't the great Rayman. Not so great now, are we? Mwa ha ha ha! What are you gonna --"
Meanwhile, Ly whispered in Rayman's ear. "Use your fists..."
"Use my lisp?" Rayman misheard, "Okay..."
"YOU THERE!" shouted Razorbeard, "Why are you talking?"
"Thowwy, thir, itth jutht that I find the thituation welaxing."
"What?"
"I find the thituation welaxing." Rayman replied. Ly groaned heavily. This is not exactly what she had had in mind.
"You're confusing me!" Razorbeard said. Several other robo-pirates had already run away, in confusion. "You thee. I have a lithp. And I'm not afwaid to uthe it."
Razorbeard started laughing. "The great Rayman has a lisp and can't pronounce his r's."
"I have a lithp and I can't pwonounthe my arth."
Razorbeard thudded to the ground in laughter. "Ha! Ha! Attack them!"
"You and what army," said Kaelinth.
"The one behind me!"
"There is no army behind you." Razorbeard turned round. His army had fled. "Ahh, yes," he said.
"Now," said Rayman, "I'm gonna use my fists." It was at this precise point where outside, the main turret of the Beastie's Palace started to collapse into itself. Causing a chain reaction to wreck the palace and in turn, collapse the ceiling in which, Rayman was under. Always. Both Ly and Drealy pulled Rayman out of the wreckage then tried to tug him in the other direction. "He's mine!"
"No! He's mine!" They yanked his hands right out from Rayman's body. Before realising what they had done. Shrieking, they both let go. Rayman stood up, before being splattered in his face by his own hands. Razorbeard was groaning on the ground. "Everybody run!"
Everybody ran.
"Where do we go?"
"Outta here!"
Meanwhile, a group of robo-pirates were guarding the entrance/exit. "Aww, man... I'm bored," said Barry the Robo-Pirate.
"Me too," said Larry the Robo-Pirate.
"Why do we get this job?" moaned Parry the Robo-Pirate.
"Shut up. you don't even have a real name..."
"But the author had to --" Parry was interrupted by a screeching scream. Barry, Larry and Parry looked forward in the gloom. "What's there?"
"I don't know. Sounds scary."
"Aww, I'm bored. Me too."
"Why'd you say Me too?"
"Aww, I'm bored."
"Me too."
Suddenly, a grinning, extremely irritating bug appeared in front of Barry, Larry and Parry. "Robo-Pirates?" he screeched. "I thought Rayman and his group had just unleashed a monster..." Larry stepped forward, (being the brightest of the three (not saying much)), "You step back, bug."
"Hee hee. Back bug." Parry and Barry twirled around saying the words 'back bug'.
"Bug? Hey, that's insultingly truthful." Murfy sighed and took a fly forward. "Listen Larry. If you don't let me pass and get to wherever I want to go, then I'm gonna kick your a --
"I can't believe you said arth!" shrieked Drealy as the ran, "It was hysterical!"
"It was the only thing I could do."
"I said use your fists, not lisp. Fists. Fists!!"
"Sorry Ly." Suddenly, they heard shooting. "We've got to get to the exit!"
"What do you take us for? Murfys?!" shouted Minimus angrily. It was then that they hurtled into Murfy and in turn into Larry, Barry and Parry. They went tumbling out of the Beastie's Palace and crashed straight into a tree. Larry, Barry and Parry screeched and ran off, falling down a cliff as they ran.
"Now what?" asked Kaelinth.
"We're gonna get to the Teensie's Chambers and the Heart of the World. It'll be safe there for the time-being."
"And how are we gonna get there?" inquired Minimus hysterically. Kaelinth's eyes glistened. "I've got just the route..."
Rayman sighed. He knew he wouldn't like this.
TO BE CONTINUED!
Well, hope you enjoyed and see you soon! What else can I say. Except, soon, very soon, this story is gonna get really fun (to write at least) because, our group is gonna be travelling across not-just-the-world but other worlds as well and this time they have funky gadgets. Oh, it'll be fun. That'll be starting around Chapter 14 or 15 probably.