The next day, Robert was found on the floor (again) and sniffed the air.
"Mmmm, bacon."
He rushed into the kitchen.
"Caroline?!" he exclaimed upon seeing the girl hunched over the stove. "Why are you making breakfast?"
She looked at him and said, "Well, you let me sleep here so I decided to make you breakfast. I hope you like bacon."
"Yeah, well…" Robert began as he sat down at his kitchen table. "Lesser Dragon usually makes me breakfast."
Caroline sat down with the food.
"How can an animal make breakfast?" she asked him.
"Oh that's easy," answered Robert. "Once, my friend Tim was here and all he wanted to watch on my TV was the Food Network. So Lesser Dragon learned how to make food by watching it."
Caroline looked at Robert funny.
"Wow, you ARE weird," she articulated.
Robert and his pet were eating all the food, when the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it." Caroline said as she went to the door. When she answered it, Tim was there, staring out into space. "Ummmm…Robert there's a white guy here. Is this Tim?"
Robert walked up.
"Oh, hey Tim…Tim?" he greeted the white guy. "Tim?"
He waved a hand in front of Tim's face.
"Wow, he's out cold," he declared. "What did you do to him?"
Caroline looked confused.
"I don't know," she replied.
Tim finally answered.
"Oh sorry, I was gone for minute," he apologized. "Who's this?"
Robert introduced the girl to his friend.
"Tim, this is Caroline," he pointed to the girl. "Caroline, this is Tim, commonly known as 'the white guy'."
Caroline cowered behind Robert.
"He's scary," she whispered to him.
Robert let Tim in.
"So what did you want?" asked Robert.
"Well c'mon," replied Tim, motioning Robert to go out the door. "Everybody is waiting for you."
"For what?" asked Robert.
"Duh stupid," answered Tim. "We're going to upgrade our weapons at Lawrence's place."
"Okay, I'll be there," said Robert. "Just tell everyone to sit tight."
"Okay, I'll tell them," assured Tim. "See ya."
Tim left and Caroline went back to normal. Robert got his things and weapons, the same ol' same ol', and started to head over to New Port City.
"Hey Caroline," he said to the poor girl. "I think Tim has a thing for you."
Caroline smacked him with her staff.
"Eww no way!" she cried out in disgust.
As they headed over the Lawrence's house, Robert introduced Caroline to the others.
"I'd like to talk to you guys about something," declared Caroline. "You better sit down."
Everyone sat down, including Caroline.
"What is it Caroline?" Memo asked.
"It's about the elemental gems you're collecting," she answered.
Everybody looked at Robert.
"Hey, what did I do?!" he exclaimed in surprise.
"No, no, no, it's not Robert," assured Caroline. "It's something worse."
They all looked at Caroline with interest.
"It all started about 14 years ago; some kind of evil was around," she explained. "I don't know because I was small. But anyway he ruled this island and was feared by all. A brave wizard cast a spell on four special stones to seal up the evil. When the stones did their job, the evil ruler was gone. No one knows to this day if he's alive or dead."
Everyone began to become intrigued.
"Anyways," continued Caroline. "The wizard and other people decided to make temples for the stones so no one would use their great power. Guardians came to protect them from people who wish to rule this island or even the world. So what we need to do is get those stones and use them to destroy the evil."
Tracy raised her hand.
"But you said that you don't know if the evil guy's dead or alive," she articulated rationally. "So how do you know if he's alive?"
"Because one of his servants destroyed part of my village, killing almost everyone!" Caroline cried out, almost bursting into tears. "Even…even the children that were playing in the streets. The servant said that his majesty will come soon and will do more damage than him. So we need those stones!"
"But the last time we went into a temple, we almost got killed," Lawrence articulated.
"That's because the guardians think you're robbers but we have to do what it takes to get those gems," explained Caroline. "There's an Earth temple near here. We're able to go but we better hurry. If it gets dark, the temple doors shut for some automatically."
Everyone got their things and headed to the Earth temple. When they got there, they saw a sign. Carved into it were the words:
Witches' Forest
Actually, those words were carved into it but the "W" was crossed out and replaced with a "B". Tracy looked at it closely.
"Hmmm, 'Bitches' Forest'," she read it outloud. "Ha ha ha, that's hilarious."
Everybody walked on. When they got to the earth temple, they split up into teams again.
"Okay, I'll decide the groups," said Caroline thoughtfully. "Hmmm…Robert, Tim, and Memo will go with me, while Lawrence and Tracy will form another group. Be careful; the guardian of this temple is a giant spider. Like anyone's afraid, right? Hey, where'd Robert go?"
"Right behind me," Tracy said, pointing to the guy behind her cringing in fear.
"Robert, are you scared of spiders?" Caroline asked him nicely.
"Ummm…yes," he replied bashfully.
Caroline grinned.
"Well, that's too bad," she said nicely. Then she grabbed his arm. "You're coming with us whether you like it or not!"
"Fuck that!" Robert screamed fearfully. "I'm not going anywhere and you can't make me!"
"Heh, you're right," agreed Caroline with a smirk. "But I can do this!"
The girl stepped back, chanted a spell, and held the Nirvana high above her head. It made a bubble around Robert and created a chain link from it to her staff. He began to float inside it.
"Hey, this isn't fair!" Robert complained like a small child. "You can't do this to me! Help!"
Tracy waved goodbye to him and Lawrence laughed as the both of them went the other way.
"Oh Robert, I thought you were the strong type," Caroline teased as they left.
"Not when it comes to spiders!" he yelled out in fear. "I HATE spiders!"
"Over the river and through the woods, to the scary cave we go!" sang Caroline as she marched to the cave with Robert floating behind her and followed by Tim and Memo.