Previously:

"Time to go, remember what I told you, Kyra." Goliath said.
"Yeah, for every hour of Avalon time, a day passes here." Kyra told him.
"Yes, so you can't spend more than a night there at first, I don't want Demona getting the city." Goliath replied. "Brooklyn, you're in charge of them, but let them have say."
"Yeah yeah, I know. Kyra won't let me go dictator or anything." Brooklyn grumbled and loaded his own pack.
"Goliath relax, we were gone for months last time and Xanatos didn't even get one of the clan, neither did Demona. Of course she wasn't in Manhattan until we came back. Besides, Xanatos isn't a problem anymore." Elisa said calmly, "Now let them go. I just hope one of the Avalon clan doesn't find Kyra before Angela can explain her."
"Don't worry, I know not to fight any Gargoyles there, if I meet one I'll tell them I'm with you." Kyra said, heading off with Fang in her arms. He was only half a foot taller than a wild fox, so he was easy to carry, another reason why she chose to take him.
"How do you think Alex is going to take his babysitter being gone?" Elisa asked as Puck came out, holding Alex. The baby's cry answered her.
"Terrific." Puck frowned.
"I hope Oberon won't mind more visitors..." Elisa told him.

"Good boy Fang!" Kyra cheered, "Come on, let's go tell Brook, we'll need all the help we can get." Suddenly, Fang saw something and ran over to some groups of rocks in the meadow. He whined and pawed at the rocks. A faint blue glow came from a crack in the stones.
"I wonder what he found." Angela said and went over to check it out. She gasped as she looked down at the glow. "Kyra, you'd better come look at this thing!"
"What'd Fang find?" Kyra asked coming over, Angela put her hand in the crack and pulled out a glowing blue jewel surrounded by a triangle of olive green metal, it hung on a silver cord.
"It looks a little like your jewel!" Angela exclaimed. She gave it to Kyra.
"Yeah, the Grimorum page said my jewel's part of a set of three." Kyra remembered, "This must be the second jewel!" No wonder the weird sisters let mine in. she thought. "I wonder what it does." As Kyra held it, that jewel and The Jewel of Strength glowed at the same time. Kyra gasped, "Angela, check this out!"
Angela was starting to leave, then turned and saw the glowing. "Oh my gosh, why do you think they're doing that?" she asked.
"I don't know." Kyra answered cautiously, "Maybe if I put them together..." As she did that, the jewels glowed and started to shine with a pure white light. Angela shielded her eyes, Kyra did the same and dropped the gems. Strangely, two jewels did not drop, one did, a pure white jewel, it was blindingly bright, like a diamond or a zircon crystal.

"What happened?"Angela asked over the roar of the storm.
"Fang fell overboard, I grabbed his collar, but it broke!" Kyra answered, her voice was drained a little by the crashing waves.
"Nothing could survive these waters, even Fang." Angela said sadly.
"I know, I should have put a new collar on him before we left New York, this one was falling apart." Kyra replied.
"Don't worry, I'll try to hold the boat here and you look if he's still swimming." Brooklyn told her.
"I doubt it, this current's so strong and there has to be a big undertow in this weather." Kyra said, but looked anyway.
The salt water sprayed her in the face once. At least she thought it was the spray, then realized it was too heavy. Hope started to flood as a dolphin's head poked up from the waves and squeaked a sonar call.
"It's Dulci! She must have been under the boat when Angela cast the spell that sent us to Avalon and followed us out!" Kyra yelled over the wind. Dulci had Fang on her back, Kyra quickly pulled him out of the frigid water and checked him. "He's alive. His fur's soaked to his skin, but he's alive."
"Keep a good hold on him." Broadway told her.
"No problem." Kyra said, ruffling Fang's wet fur, he wagged his tail and licked her hand. "Thanks Dulci, you'd better get under the currents before you wear yourself out. Don't come up until you need to breathe." Dulci dove under the waves and wasn't seen for the rest of the voyage, she was way ahead of them, checking for land.

As Sweet as...

The trio, Angela, Fang and Kyra had left Avalon nearly an hour ago, and they still were shrouded in mist that had reformed after Fang had been rescued. Kyra couldn't help but wonder where in the world they had gone. The mist finally cleared, revealing a vast grassland, it had almost every animal Kyra ever heard about either grazing or hunting.
"Where are we?" Angela asked as Dulci came up to breathe.
Kyra knew immediately, only one place could have so many different antelope in one place, "Africa." she answered.
"Again? But when we were sent to Africa last time, we were in a jungle." Angela replied.
"That was the Congo rain forest, this is the Serengeti savanna." Lexington explained, then added, "Africa has every climate imaginable, even polar on the top of the tallest mountains."
"This is a very strange continent." Angela replied.
"Come on, let's go explore." Kyra said, jumping out of the skiff. She caught the attention of a nearby lion pride. Five grown lionesses, two young lions with thin manes, and three half-grown cubs looked right at her.
"Those won't hurt us, will they?" Angela asked worriedly.
"No, only if we go too close or bother a young cub, but there aren't any around, so we're safe, let's go." Kyra answered. Angela jumped out of the skiff.
"Kyra, is it safe?" Broadway asked.
"The lions would be tense if it weren't, just keep an eye out for leopards and poachers." Kyra answered.
"Why leopards?" Brooklyn asked, "The lions leave us alone."
"Yes, but leopards are fiercely territorial and they eat anything that passes under them, look up whenever you pass under a tree." Kyra warned.
"Right, we'll be careful." Broadway assured.
"Come on, I want to see how many animals are here." Angela said excitedly.
"Then we'll be here for years!" Kyra remarked laughingly as they left. Fang ran after the girls, never letting Kyra out of his sight. The boys went the other way. They had gone about three miles from the river when Fang started growling and barking at a patch of high grass. The grass hissed.
"Angela, keep away, it could be a mamba!" Kyra warned.
"What's a mamba?" Angela asked, a little afraid.
"The biggest poisonous snake in Africa, it kills hundreds of people per year." Kyra answered. Her animal knowledge was concentrated on the dangerous ones.
"You'd better call Fang away before he upsets it." Angela warned, "He could get bitten."
"Fang, get away from there!" Kyra called, "And hush up, you're riling whatever's in the grass." Fang came over, now quieted, he still whined.
Kyra wondered what could upset him like that, a snake would make him run away, something else was there. She listened, a small constant chirping sounded from the grass, "A bird?" she asked, surprised that Fang could be angry at a bird.
"No, listen to it, no bird sings the same note over and over again so much." Angela replied.
Kyra listened a little more closely. She'd heard that sound before, there were so many animals in Africa, but only one chirped like that. "A cheetah!" she exclaimed.
"A what?" Angela asked confusedly.
"It's a big cat, it looks a lot like a leopard, only it's smaller and built for running, not fighting." Kyra explained, "It sounds pretty young, it must be an abandoned cub." she went over and Fang got in her way, growling at the chirping cat which was still hidden. "Fang, get back. Angela, will you get the mutt away from here?" Angela grabbed Fang's scruff and pulled him away.
Kyra peered into the grass, and gasped. "Angela, you don't want to come over here." she warned.
"Why not?" Angela asked curiously.
"Because there's two cubs here." Kyra answered.
"Yeah, so?" Angela demanded.
"Only one's moving." Kyra replied sadly.
"Oh no! The poachers got to them." Angela realized.
"Yeah, this big one must have been hiding well, or put up a good run, she's old enough to have speed, but not old enough to know how to use it to feed herself, we have to find her mother." Kyra said.
"If the poachers didn't get her too." Angela added.
"No, the cubs were hiding, their mother's somewhere hunting." Kyra said, petting the frightened cub.
"Then leave her, the mother will come back." Angela replied.
"No she won't. The scent of death is everywhere, when she smells a dead cub she'll think both of them are dead." Kyra told her, "We have to find the mother and get the cub to her." she added, taking the rope from her satchel and tying it loosely around the cub's thin, furry neck. She led the cub out of the grass, "Come on, the scent of dead cub will attract hyenas, and there's no way we can fight off a pack of those."
"Kyra!" Lexington exclaimed as the girls came back, "Where did you find that cheetah?"
"Fang found her, she's lost. Her brother was killed by poachers and the mother probably won't go near that spot now. We'll have to get the cub to her." Kyra answered.
"Now we know why Avalon sent us." Brooklyn replied. "We should get this cub to her mother before she starves."
"Cheetahs are very endangered, I didn't even know there were some left in pure wild!" Kyra exclaimed. "Most of them are in national parks and reserves."
"Then we must help her." Angela decided. "The mother was hunting when the other cub was killed, the cubs must not have been fed for a while." she added.
"Then she'll be difficult until her stomach's fed." Kyra said, rubbing the cub's head, it purred happily. "Fang won't mind if I give her some meat, will you boy?" Fang growled a response, "Well, I'll do it anyway," Kyra said laughingly. "Come on boy, this cub's starving." She gave the cub some of the meat she had put in my satchel before they left home. The cub gobbled it up as if it were her first meal in weeks, it probably was. "There, the cub shouldn't be any trouble now."
"But Fang will. Dogs don't like cats, even wild ones." Brooklyn said, attaching Fang's leash to his rope collar as he lunged at the half grown cub. The cub hissed in response.
"At least that's our only worry." Kyra said. Of course, she was wrong. she was always wrong, and when she was right, it was only because she'd said something negative.
Fate really hated Kyra, she had learned to live with itFate only bothered Kyra, it played around with the others, but never concentrated on beating up on them. Kyra was what you'd call a glutton for punishment. Now Fate was starting to think about beating on Angela, Savarrius was doing experiments on wild animals in the Serengeti, and the Gargoyles were dangerously close to the laboratory.

Angela and Kyra took the cheetah cub out to find her mother after the cub had rested. Kyra had named the cub Sugar because she was so sweet, she purred at every touch Kyra gave her. Sugar was a different cheetah from the kind Kyra knew, she had long spots down her neck and around her legs. All the other spots were normal, only about half an inch in diameter,
but her long spots were almost two inches from tip to tip. Her tail was white at the tip, most cheetahs had black tail tips. Her eyes were yellow, with a tint of amber at the edge of the iris and around the pupil. Like all normal cheetahs, Sugar had white on her chest and down her underside, her ears had the usual black tips and both eyes cried a single black stripe shaped tear each that ran down past her small, wet black nose.
Sugar looked around and it was obvious they were still in the right territory, things seemed familiar to her. She tried to lunge away when they passed a herd of antelope, but it was sheer instinct. She was as full as a cheetah should be to keep up their speed. Suddenly, her ears pricked up, a lioness with three cubs walked by.
"Don't worry Sugar, I won't let that lioness hurt you." Kyra promised, speaking softly so as not to attract the lioness.
Sugar let out a hiss at the lioness, it was pretty weak. The lioness snapped her head over, directing her ears to the cheetah. She was about to come over, but one of her cubs got in a tangle of weeds and cried out for her. The lioness left with her two cubs to help the third. Angela and Kyra took the time to get Sugar out of sight and hearing distance of that lioness.
"Why was it that Sugar and the lioness didn't like each other?" Angela asked.
"Cheetahs and lions are natural enemies. They share some parts of territory because of the limited area available but a lion pride doesn't like any other predators in their territory. Sometimes they kill any cubs or pups they find to discourage the mother from staying in that part of territory." Kyra explained.
"That's terrible!" Angela exclaimed.
"That's nature, there are only so many prey animals in a territory. If there were too many predators, they'd wipe out all the herbivores and there would be no food for either predator." Kyra said as a Thompson's gazelle sprang by. Sugar lunged at it, causing it to return to its nearby herd.
Fang growled at Sugar, he really didn't like her. In fact he probably hated her as much Kyra hated Demona. Kyra decided to find Sugar's mother quickly, it wasn't the lioness she worried would kill Sugar, it was Fang!
Kyra figured they were in Kenya or some other Eastern country, from the tall lion grass and widely scattered baobab trees. She also noticed something else, a laboratory. What is a laboratory doing in the middle of the Serengeti? she wondered.
She looked over at Angela, who was obviously thinking the same thing. It seemed Sugar wasn't what Fang was growling
at that time!
"Should we check it out?" Kyra asked.
"We should tell Brooklyn." Angela answered. "He is in charge..."
"Well, I'm going to check it out." Kyra ran towards the building, Fang ran at her heels.
"Wait, I'm coming!" Angela called. Kyra stopped and waited for her to catch up and they ran together to see what the laboratory was for. Sugar ran back to the trio, as if she knew the girls would need them.
Brooklyn and the others were waiting for the girls to come back, it had been nearly an hour, Sugar came running up at her full speed. At her young age, the fastest she could go was about 45 or 50 miles an hour, a slow speed compared to her mother's speed of 75 to 80 miles an hour. But it was till fast enough to trigger alarm.
"It's the cub, but where are Kyra and Angela?" Brooklyn asked.
"I don't know?" Broadway answered, "Maybe she does."
"You're kidding?" Brooklyn asked suspiciously.
"No really, cats have great memories and senses of smell, she can lead us to where she and the girls separated and then smell them out." Lexington assured, "They may be in trouble."
"How could they get into trouble here?" Broadway asked.
"There's lots of ways, they probably got mixed up with those poachers. And Kyra probably got them into it." Brooklyn answered, "We've got to calm that adventurer in her."
"They both have that spirit." Lexington replied.
"Well let's go, before the adventurer in one girl gets both of them killed!" Brooklyn said and they let the cheetah run ahead to the hill where Angela and Kyra ran down to the laboratory.
She looked right at the building as if saying, They went in there, but I'm not following.
"They must be in there, but Angela should know better than to go into a laboratory." Broadway replied.
"Like I said, Kyra probably dragged her into it." Brooklyn told him, "Now let's drag them out before they get hurt or captured, or even worse." Suddenly, Sugar started wandering and chirped at a hole. "What's she chirping at?"
Lexington went over to check it out and gasped, "Guys check this out, fast!"
"What is it?" Broadway asked, coming over as a pink glow shot out of the hole.
Meanwhile, Angela and Kyra were stuck in separate cages. Savarrius had set traps, knowing they'd find him sooner or later.
"Great going, Kyra." Angela hissed from her cage.
"How was I supposed to know Savarrius was here?" Kyra asked, "It's not like there was this big sign that said "Gargoyles beware, mad scientist!" so don't blame me."
"Sorry, I guess I just got mad and had to get rid of it." Angela apologized. "I hope I'm not turning into Demona."
"I'm the only one with that problem, you've got a full heart." her friend told her.
Kyra knew she was a little like Demona, because of her years on the street and the life she'd lead before that. She was not very quick to trust people or feel anything, since the two people she should have loved most abandoned her and the person she did love had died.
"The only thing we have to do is get those keys." Kyra looked over at the keys on a table at the end of the room.
"Oh is that all? We'll be out before the guys know we're gone." Angela replied sarcastically.
"Don't knock it till it's tried." Kyra told her. "Fang, can you get to the keys?" Fang pulled and leaped, but the chain stuck fast to the wall. "It's all right, boy, we'll find another way."
"Why don't we just ask Savarrius for them?" Angela asked.
"I thought Brook and I were the sarcastic ones!" Kyra answered. Fang started growling at a covered cage at his side of the room. "Fang, stop growling at that cage! Whatever's in it is scared enough."
"Wait, did you hear that?" Angela asked. "It came from the cage."
"What?" Kyra didn't hear anything, Angela was closer to the smaller cage.
"It's hissing, the cage is hissing." Angela said. "Fang, growl, but softly." Fang did as he was told, and Kyra heard it, the cage hissed, so soft she could barely hear it.
"What is it?" Kyra asked.
"I don't know." Angela answered.
"Wait a minute, Sugar sounded like that when she hissed at the lioness." Kyra remembered.
"So it's a cheetah?" Angela asked.
"Yeah, and I bet it's Sugar's mom!" Kyra said happily.
"We've got to free her, she must be worried about Sugar." Angela said determinedly.
"How? She's on the other side of the room, with Fang and the keys." Kyra suddenly got an idea, "Fang, pull off the cover, go on, do it!"
Fang jumped at the cover many times, on the fourth try, the chain loosened and he grabbed the cover with his teeth and pulled it off, revealing the most beautiful cheetah Kyra had ever seen. She had the same kind of marks as Sugar, she was definitely the cub's mother.
"Angela, the marks! It is Sugar's mom!" Kyra said joyfully, "Fang, can you reach the keys yet, the chain looks looser." Fang looked up at the table, and jumped, it was just a little higher than his chain let him jump. He whined and let his head droop.
"It's ok." Angela said softly.
"There's a collar on her neck." Kyra noticed, "It looks like a tracking device."
"She'll be put in the wild again, so maybe this is actually legal." Angela suggested.
"Savarrius would never do anything legal." Kyra reminded her.
"Then why will she be released?" Angela asked.
"I can answer that." Savarrius said, coming in. Fang growled at his maker. Kyra hissed and her eyes glowed their deadly lavendar. "She obviously has a cub somewhere, and knowing you, that cub's with whoever else you two came with. I was going to let the cheetah out to lead me to the cub, and your friends, but now that I have you, they'll come right to me."
"Then why do you still have the tracker on her?" Kyra asked suspiciously.
"Simple, Alana's cub is the right age to train, she'll make a good attack animal to sell to Xanatos." Savarrius answered. "I need Alana to find the cub, your friends wouldn't bring it in."
"Xanatos doesn't need an attack animal, he has us." Angela told him. "And Micheal won't accept an endangered animal, he has enough trouble with the law!"
"You touch one hair on Sugar's head, Savarrius, and so help me I'll tear you to shreds!" Kyra shrilly screamed, trying to break out of the cage.
"I see I'll have to keep an eye on you." Savarrius observed. "You must be Kyra. I heard you were difficult for Demona to keep. That's why I made this special cage, even Goliath couldn't break out, and it's magic proof."
"No one's built the prison that can hold me more than a day!" Kyra told him. Her eyes flashed pure anger, the lavendar glow was brighter than it had ever been.
"Well, I have. So you be a good girl and stay put." Savarrius said as he was leaving, "Not that you have a choice." he added just before the door closed.
"So, her name's Alana?" Angela remembered. "Kyra, do you think she'll obey if you ask her to do something nicely? She's right by the keys."
"I don't know, it's worth a try." Kyra decided. She had a way with animals, it was her gift, Fate's apology for giving her such a tough life. "Alana, excuse me, but we need a favor. It'll help you and your little cub too."
Alana looked over at Kyra as if to say, "Tell me, please."
"Alana, do you see the shiny things on the table over there?" Kyra asked. Alana looked over at the keys and gave a chirp, yes, she saw them easily. "If you can reach them, please knock them over by the dog."
Alana reached up with her front paw and jumped up. She knocked the keys off the table, they landed right by Fang.
"Thank you Alana! You saved us, and now Sugar will be safe too." Angela said thankfully.
"Fang, bring the keys over, come on, nose them over as far as you can." Kyra called. Fang pushed the keys, but he couldn't get close enough for Kyra's tail to reach the keys. He turned around and kicked the keys right over, they hit the side of the cage with a dull metallic clink. "Good boy." Kyra was about to unlock the cage when Savarrius came in. She hid the keys in her satchel.
"Well, it seems the keys are gone, which one of you has them?" Savarrius asked.
"Not me." Kyra answered innocently.
"Me either." Angela chimed in.
"Ask Fang." Kyra suggested.
"Maybe Alana has them." Angela added.
"Very funny. Let's see, Demona said Kyra had the power to befriend animals, perhaps you got Alana to knock the keys off?" Savarrius asked.
"Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. You'll never know." Kyra said with her not so little attitude.
"From a teenager, that's a yes. That satchel looks a little fuller than it was ten minutes ago, hand it over." Savarrius ordered. "I was also told you had special things in there, they may help me."
"I don't take orders from anyone, even Goliath!" Kyra told him, "And I never take this satchel off."
"Then I'll just have to get it myself." Savarrius replied.
"How? She's in the cage, and you don't have the keys." Angela pointed out.
"I wouldn't bet on that, I always carry spares." Savarrius held up a silver key. "The choice is yours give me the satchel or I take it."
"You'll have to kill me to get it." Kyra told him bravely.
"Then I'll have to." Savarrius replied. He took a gun off a table. Kyra's eyes grew wide. All this for a stupid satchel? she thought in fear. Give the thing to him girl, it's not worth losing your life! Just take the jewel out first.
Suddenly, the door fell in a sudden burst. "Go anywhere near her and you'll be the dead one, Savarrius." Brooklyn threatened. The other two boys stood behind him.
"Look out, he's got a gun!" Kyra called. Brooklyn grabbed the man's arm before the gun could fire.
"And you've got magic," Lexington said, "Kyra, catch!" he threw a purple stone encased in silver to the girl.
Kyra caught it in one hand. "What is it?" she asked.
"It should go with your jewel, it looks right." Lexington answered.
Kyra took out the white jewel and watched as it glowed in unison with the clear stone. She held them together and dropped one stone again, it was still clear, but shone with every color in the rainbow. A prism jewel. Kyra put it on and felt her magic grow stronger.
"Great! Thanks Lex!" Kyra took out the keys and unlocked the cage. She opened the door quickly and jumped out, knocking Savarrius down to the ground as a matter of principle for thinking he could keep her. Then she threw the keys to Lexington and he let Angela out.
"Lex, give me the keys again." Kyra called.
"Why? I can get to Fang easily." he told her.
"Because I have to let Alana out." Kyra replied. "She's the cub's mother!"
"Here." he threw the keys, but Savarrius caught them.
"Not so fast, she stays here." he said.
"Fine, I can get her out myself. You only said you built my cage out of that special stuff." Kyra replied and broke the bars of Alana's cage. She leaped out, hissing at Savarrius. Kyra held her collar, calmed her, and tore the thick collar off like paper, "Easy, it's all right, your daughter's safe outside, go find her." she told the cat and it obeyed happily.
"Good work Kyra." Brooklyn said as he broke off the chain from around Fang's neck. Fang ran to Kyra and leaped into her arms shivering and whining, he always did that when he was scared.
"Let's get outside." Broadway replied. Kyra let Fang down.
"Hold it, none of you are going anywhere." Savarrius said, standing at the door, he held the gun right at them.
"Oh yes we are." Kyra told him angrily and concentrated on a syringe on the table. It started moving and quickly flew into Savarrius' hand. Kyra knocked him down with her tail and they all ran out immediately. Fang had already left.
They were amazed to see that Alana and Sugar had waited. Sugar chirped a good-bye and Alana echoed it, they ran off across the misting savanna. The sun was beginning to rise, the first rays caught Sugar's golden fur and made it shine like real gold. They were free again, Sugar would be raised by a cheetah and in her home. And hopefully, when they left the next night, the Gargoyles would go home too.
"Let's get out of here before Savarrius realizes what we did!" she told Fang and he followed her back to the boats. Dulci had started to swim to the Pacific Ocean to find her pod, she'd be safe and could return to New York.
When the sun set, they all left. After they disappeared into the mist, Kyra thought of the great story she could tell Gabriel in Avalon and the clan when she got home.
"What do we do about Fang's collar?" Angela asked.
The Amulet answered her question. In Kyra's hand appeared four collars, two gold, two silver, and one thin silver falcon leg band. "I guess we put one of these on him." she replied and fit a gold collar around Fang's neck. It fit perfectly, and once on, the two halves joined to create a full collar. This collar would not come off. And Kyra had a feeling that the collar's small bit of magic would bring trouble one far away day, but not immediately.
Okay so it's not Disney, but this story will go on forever and a day, so some of it is NOT going to be pulitzer prize material! Besides I wrote these first parts when I was 16! And I'm not even done with it yet!