Disclaimer: I don't own Spyro or anything else that already has an owner. The Plot is the master work of Turquoise Phoenix from The Realms of Chaos. I do own Mell, Nezzer, Ruben and other creatures. The Guardian for the red rune and Blue rune are also ideas from The Realms of Chaos. On with the story.

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Rating: PG

QUEST FOR JEZEBEL'S

NECKLACE.

Chapter 1: Another Journey begins

One beautiful warm, spring morning in the Artisan world, Spyro was walking through the soft grass, listening to the birds chirping, and the cool breeze that whistled through the trees, all was calm in the Dragon realms. Suddenly, all of the soft sounds were interrupted with arguments coming from a bush in front of him. Burning with curiosity he wondered what all the commotion was about and slowly walked over, trying not to make any noise. He peeked over the bush to discover Hunter and Nazza arguing. Since the cheetah and the blue wolf were both out of earshot Spyro couldn't hear anything only angry noises, "I wish I could hear what they where saying." Just then he saw Nazza stomping through a portal with out looking back at Hunter. He knew that Nazza was in a bad mood. When he saw that the grumpy wolf was completely gone he came out of his hiding place and walked over to Hunter who was sitting down on the grass, mumbling something.

"Hey Hunter. Are you okay?" Hunter looked at him with a frown on his face; "DO I LOOK OKAY TO YOU!" He snapped at Spyro. The purple dragon was shocked, and took one step back, "WOW, Nazza really did get him mad. He's never like this." Spyro thought. As he was about to leave the moody cheetah, two large eyes slammed right in his face making Spyro almost trip over his slumped friend. Spyro and Hunter both looked up to discover Agent 9 staring at them. Spyro was annoyed at the monkey's appearance, "Agent 9 what in the world are you doing." Agent 9 didn't pay attention to Spyro's remark; "The professor needs you in his lab ASAP. He told me to tell you that it's very urgent and important" Spyro and Hunter looked at each other, got up quickly and started to follow the monkey forgetting about the argument that Hunter had.

A little while later they dropped out of the portal to The Professor's island laboratory in The Forgotten Worlds, Spyro and Hunter landed just fine, Agent 9 on the other hand looked dizzy and looked as he was about to pass out. "If I ever get in another portal again I'm going to puke!" He said clutching his stomach. Spyro and Hunter were both surprised Agent 9 usually loves going in to portals repeatedly and getting dizzy, but they decided to ignore it. They walked until they arrived to a metal door with a glass window on the top and a security pad for safety. As the door opened and they both walked inside the lab they saw that Elora and Bianca where both inside with The Professor waiting for the two to arrive. "Ah, now everyone is here Hunter, Elora, Spyro and um... what's your name again, my dear?" He said looking at Bianca confused. "Don't you remember Professor? It's Bianca."

"Oh right, sorry." He said scratching his head nervously. "What did you wanted to tell us Professor?" Spyro asked sitting in a chair. "I'm glad you asked, one moment please." The professor got up and went in to his library and took out a big old Blue book that look like it had more dust than pages. The Professor blew the dust away and opened it. "I found this book this mor-" without warning they heard a pounding noise in the back of the lab. "What was that?" Hunter asked looking over his shoulder. "Um...Um it's probably the birds dropping coconuts on top of the roof they've been doing this all day. Shall we continue?" Every one nodded. "As I was saying in this book it tells about a queen with a magical necklace." Everyone was now more interested in the story. "You see this Queen was very mean and harsh her name was Queen Jezebel the people gave her the nick name of cruel Jessie she was a faun who reigned over the tribe of Avalonites the first settlers in Avalar. That's how Avalar got it's name a long time ago before the Sorceress got rid of the Dragons in The Forgotten Worlds." Abruptly, Hunter interrupted, " So what's your point?"

"I'm getting to that! Anyway every time somebody gets the Queen mad she uses her necklace to take care of him or her. The Necklace is a Time Traveling necklace where you could go back in time whenever you want wherever you want. She used this necklace to destroy the person who got her mad while they where just babies so they never existed." Everyone gulped at just the thought of her doing that. "Anyway the tribe of the Avalonites got tired of her cruelty so one day her own niece took the necklace, went back in time, and killed her Aunt so she wouldn't do anymore cruelty. It says here that they did not want to have the necklace fall into the wrong hands again so they hid it in the heart of Avalar. The keys to open the doors to the necklace are the 4 runes protected by guards one is under the Crystal Ocean, the next one is on Volcano Island and the Next is in the Forbidden forest and the final one is in the Nomans Desert ." After he was done telling them the story Hunter blurted out, "So what's the point?" The professor sighed, "The point is... you have to find the necklace before Ripto does. If he does he can go back in time and change the past and take control of Avalar." Everyone looked at each other, "Wait one minute how do you know that Ripto is going after the necklace?" Spyro asked. "Well... By accident I was going to e-mail the story to The Alchemist and to Dr. Whiskers for some advice, but instead I e-mailed it to Ripto."

"By the way, how do you know Rip-"

"Spyro, Ripto is one week ahead of you! I need you to find the runes, get the necklace and give it to me before anybody else gets it!" The Professor interrupted before Spyro had a chance to finish his sentence. "So what are we waiting for lets go!" Hunter shouted. "I've made this portal to get you to the ocean quickly, but since I haven't gotten all the bugs out it will only get you half way. Also, I made this Device for you..." the professor handed a bluish remote-control type object to Elora, "Thanks. Um... what is it?"

"It's called Talkie pads, walkie-talkie and drawing pads rolled into one." Everyone liked the device that The Professor handed them. The Professor also handed them backpacks so they can carry the runes and Bianca can carry her spell bottles just incase. "Okay your all set." The Professor walked to the table and turned on a machine that made a portal show up. "This is the portal that will take you to the ocean." said The Professor. Spyro looked at his friends wanting to go, "So, I guess another adventure begins for us. Okay everyone lets go!" they all started to run into the portal and they all vanished. The Professor smiled an evil grin, "HEHEHE" he laughed. Just then he started to change into Ripto.

(FLASHBACK)

You see one week before Spyro, Bianca, Elora, and Hunter came into the lab the professor found the book about the Queen and the necklace. He started to do some research about it and found out that there where only two copies of the book in the world. One, The Professor got and the other that Ripto got. When he checked the date that Ripto bought the book he found out that he bought it two days ago. Since he knew that Ripto would go after the necklace he started to prepare the adventure for Spyro and his friends to go after it. Before he could finish Ripto burned the door down, captured The Professor and Agent 9, Used the Professors new invention called image changer 3000 (IC3), and used the IC3 to change Ripto's image to look like and sound like The Professor. He also changed one of his Riptoc to look just like Agent 9, since Agent 9 didn't want to cooperate with Ripto.

(FLASHBACK END)

When Ripto Finished changing to his old self again he went into the room where The Professor and Agent 9 where tied, and gagged. When he opened the door he could see that the rope tied around the hands and feet where cutting off their circulation. "Awwwwwe, is the rope hurting book boy's and the little monkey's hands." He said sarcastically. Both The professor's and Agent 9's head looked up at Ripto. "I told you if you behaved and didn't make any noise I would've taken the ropes off, but noooo you had to get wise and make a sound. Since I'm felling gracious Cuz my planed worked I'll let you live... until I'm ruler of Avalar that is." Agent 9 tried to get his laser blaster in front of him with his feet, "Don't even try it Monkey!" Then somehow The Professor takes his gag off with his tongue. "Ripto, I still don't understand why would you give Spyro the information for me?" Ripto thought for a moment, "Well, I guess there's no harm in telling you. When that purple pest and his three stooges come to a certain part on their way to the beach, two of my henchmen will dispose of them.... Permanently MUHAAAAAAA!" with that Ripto closed the door behind him with a slam. Outside the door he saw his riptoc changing to his old self. "You!" Ripto pointed his finger, the riptoc turned around, "I want you to stay here and Guard the door so the two won't get out. Got that?" The riptoc nodded at Ripto's command. Then Ripto went out of the lab to join the other Riptoc's on their way to the ocean.

The four heroes got dropped on the road in the middle of the jungle, "What now, Spyro?" Elora said dusting off her legs with her hands. Spyro looked "I guess this road will take us to the ocean." As they started to walk Bianca stopped them, "Um...guys don't you think the Professor was a little...strange?" Hunter, Elora and Spyro looked at each other then at Bianca. "What do you mean?" Hunter questioned. "Didn't you see how he forgot my name? Or that noise that we heard, he said that it was birds, but remember that Spyro got rid of the birds?" Everyone now started to become suspicious about the professor and Agent 9. "Maybe the birds came back or something, and sometimes the professor do forget our names, now lets go." So, they started to walk on the road, but Bianca wasn't so sure about the answer that Spyro gave them. In front of them waited the two Riptocs, Nezzer and Ruben. Nezzer was the green Riptoc from the Luau island in Spyro: enter the Dragonfly. He is a little clumsy. Ruben is a Blue Riptoc from Monkey Monetary. He's smarter so he's the head of the mission to destroy Spyro and his friends. "Nezzer come here, quickly!" said Ruben. " Duh, what is it Ruben" he said. "The four are coming and I want you to witness me shoot them so you can tell the Boss my victory." Nezzer didn't like the sound of that at all. "Ruben why should you shoot them I want to shoot you always do the fun stuff while I have to sit and watch. I want to have a turn!" Nezzer started to yank the gun out of Ruben's claws. " You can't shoot the boss said I am the only one who could shoot."

"Nu uh"

"Un hu"

"Nu uh"

"Uh hu" This kept going on until Spyro and everyone else passed them. Just then Nezzer finally yanked it out of his hand then when they looked they both saw that Spyro passed them. "Oh no" the boss isn't going to be happy about this." Ruben looked at Nezzer, took a stick and bonked his head. "Hey what was that for?"

"For you being stupid!" Suddenly, Ruben heard a beep from his wrist He saw that it was the T.V watch that he was wearing and pushed a button on it. He saw that it was Ripto, "Did you dispose of that infernal dragon and his friend yet?" Ruben was starting to sweat all over, "Um... Um... Y-Yes, Yes we did. You will never see them...again?" he lied. "Good job Ruben, now nothing can stand in my way!"

The heroes finally got to the beach, but to their surprise they saw that Ripto and his gang got there first, "Oh no! We'll never get passed the riptoc army and His-royal Shortness now." Hunter complained. "Elora looked at Hunter, "And I quote: were there's a will there's a way and I definitely have a way. Follow me." Elora started to lead her friends around the riptoc campsite to the other side of the beach.

While our heroes where going the long way around, The Professor finally got his hands and feet untied. Then he went to Agent 9 and took his gag and the rope off, "When I get my hands on that roach he'll regret the day he messed with me!" Agent 9 hissed making a fist. "Agent 9 stop talking to your self and help me think of a way to get this door down!" The professor said. Agent 9 picked up his laser gun "Not to worry doc 'ol Mr. Laser blaster and I will take care of everything!" He pointed the laser gun towards the keyhole. The professor knew what agent 9 was about to do "AGENT 9 DON'T SHOOT!!" But the monkey didn't listen and shot at the door the laser bounced off the door and headed straight towards The Professor. The Professor ducked at the site of the laser beam. As the Professor got up he gave a mean look at Agent 9, "Agent 9 your beam won't work on the door because it will reflect it!" Agent 9 made a frown. "I regret the day I gave that monkey the laser gun." The Professor thought rubbing his head. All of a sudden Agent 9 got another idea, "Doc I got another idea!"

"Please Agent 9 no more lasers!"

"It's not the laser that I'm going to use it's..." Agent 9 reached back and grabbed his tail, "It's my tail that I'm going to use." The professor was now convinced that Agent 9 has lost his mind for sure, "Agent 9 just forget it. I mean...this will never work." Agent 9 didn't pay any attention to the Professor and started jamming his tail into the keyhole and started twisting it. "I just turn it like this and then one to the left and two to the right or maybe... left, right, right, left or is it right, left, left, right...?" Agent 9 kept on trying his best to unlock the door, while The professor just set back and watched the monkey working himself out.

The gang finally made to the other side of the beach without alarming any of the riptoc. "We made it!" Hunter smiled in relief. Spyro on the other hand wasn't so happy, they got to the other side of the beach all right, but they still don't know how to get the rune from the bottom of the ocean. As if Bianca was reading his mind, she made a statement, "Okay, now that we are on the other side we still have to figure out how to get the rune. And I just know how to do it!" Bianca reached into her bag and looked through her bottles filled with different kinds of spells. She pick up a bottle filled with white sparkling powder, "Okay since I'm still learning how to do my magic I need somebody to test it out first. Anybody want to volunteer?" she asked. Spyro remembered the time when he volunteered for her to practice her spells, but by accident it exploded on top of him and he was sore for a month! At the thought of that the dragon took a step back. "How about you Hunter, can you be my volunteer. Please?" Bianca put on a sad puppy face for Hunter to say yes, since she knew that was his weakness. "Well...Okay" said Hunter walking up to her. "Thanks I owe you one." She yanked the cork from the bottle, poured a small amount on her hand, mumbled some words and started sprinkling the powder on top of his head in a flash they saw Hunter's yellow-cheetah- spotted fur head turn into a Green-slimy-scaly Frog's head. "RIBIT...RIBIT" Hunter was also talking like one too. Spyro was laughing so hard that he fell on the floor. "Um... Bianca was that supposed to happen?" Elora said looking at the metamorphic cheetah/frog. Bianca gulped, "Well, actually no, I think I said the wrong words, but now he can breath under water." Bianca said smiling at Hunter. Hunter didn't like the sound of that at all and gave her a mean look as in saying, "TURN ME BACK TO NORMAL NOW!!" Bianca took a little bit more of the powder and turned Hunter's head back to normal. Bianca took her spell book out and started to skim through the pages to find the correct words, "Ah ha! I found the correct words. I'm sure of it this time." Hunter was a little hesitant at first, but he gave in, "Alright I'll do it, but if my head turns into something different I quit." Bianca said the words and sprinkled the substance on his head, suddenly a big soap bubble formed around his head. "YES I DID IT!" Bianca shouted. Then she started to give everyone bubble helmets, "What are these for?" Spyro asked. "These are bubbles that will supply you with enough air all the way to the rune and back, but I have to test it if it will pop during under the water. "Can you do it for me Hunter?" Bianca pleaded. "Being a frog for one day is enough for me." He said shaking his head. Spyro had an idea to get Hunter in the water, "Fine Bianca I'll do it since I'm the bravest." He said winking at her. Bianca knew what Spyro was trying to do and played along, "Thanks Spyro I can always count on you for help." When Hunter heard that he got angry, "What! Bianca who was the one who sacrificed himself for you to practice that magic spell, it was me! And if anyone is getting into the water to test the bubble helmet it's going to be me!" he said puffing up his chest and walking into the water. When the water got to his waist he crouched down making the water go above his head. As he came up they saw that the bubble didn't pop. "Wow Hunter you are the bravest!" Spyro shouted. Hunter was confused, "I am?"

"Yeah you got in the water and you don't even like water you keep telling us it's a cat thing." Suddenly, Hunter did remember that and ran to shore screaming, "AHHHHHH! I GOT WET!!"

"C'mon Hunter it's only water and the water didn't hurt you now, did it?" Elora said trying to get the wet cheetah to calm down. Hunter looked at his wet fur then to the ocean, "But I still don't want to go back there." Spyro had enough of this, "Well, okay then you'll just stay here to let Ripto find you." When Hunter heard the name Ripto in a flash he dove into the water. Everyone started to follow him. When they where about 10 min under the water Hunter heard and saw two dolphins trapped by their tails on a fishing net. "Um... guys wait for me on the top of that hill I need to do something." And he swam to the direction towards the Dolphins. As he got close the mammals started to get scared. "Don't worry I'm here to help you." He said softly, Hunter started to cut the rope with his claws and soon the dolphins were both free and swam away. When the cheetah saw that the two creatures were completely gone, he swam up to the gang. When he got closer he saw there was something strange about them, "Hey what's the matter guy's?" All at once they pointed to a floating minefield just like the one in FINDING NEMO. Hunter stared in disbelief "We have to go through there?"

"It's the only way to get to the cave to get the rune." Spyro said and he led the way close to the ground.

The Professor started to sleep of boredom from watching Agent 9 try to unlock the lock with his tail. Agent 9 also was getting tired of it too. "Then ...to the left... to... right..." Suddenly there was a click then the door opened, but Agent 9 didn't notice since he was tired and the professor was sleeping. The monkey took his tail out of the keyhole and he saw that his tail was all twisted from jamming it in to much, "Ooh, I can't do this anymore I quit!" and slammed the door locking it again and sat outside with his arms crossed. At the noise of the slamming The Professor awoke. He opened his eyes but didn't see Agent 9 anywhere, "Agent 9 where are you... Agent 9?" when he looked through the door's window he can see him sitting on the floor. "AGENT 9 YOUR FREE!" The monkey looked around and saw that he was really free and jumped up and started to celebrate. "Yahoo! Hot-diggidy-dog! I'm free!" then he noticed that The Professor wasn't with him. "Hey doc where are you...youuuu whoooo!"

"Agent 9 I'm on the other side of the door!" The professor yelled. Finally Agent 9 looked at the door's window and saw The Professor. "Oh, hi Professor what are you doing in there?"

"Agent 9 never mind that get the key from the guard!" said The Professor. Agent 9 looked behind him and saw the key with the sleeping Riptoc guard. "This will be a snap," he thought. He got on top of the table and gently pulled the key chain off the sleeping Riptoc, suddenly the keys slipped and fell to the ground making a "cling" sound. The guard opened his eyes and saw the monkey getting the keys from the floor. Then the riptoc launched on top of him trying to stop Agent 9 from getting away, but since he was flexible he managed to get away. Then the chase began. A little while after the chase he found himself cornered. He kept moving backwards with the riptoc slowly closing in, "If only I had my laser." Suddenly he saw a lever behind the monster, "Say good-bye fur ball." Said the riptoc getting ready to attack. Then Agent 9 slid under the Riptoc's legs and pulled it. At the minute that he pulled the floor under the Riptoc's feet gave way and sends the riptoc falling in an abyss. Agent 9 steps up to the edge of the hole and looks down, " I warned you you'll be sorry if you mess with me!" Agent 9 shouted giving a little giggle. Then he walked over to the door and opened it. The Professor came out congratulating Agent 9 for his courageous event. Agent 9 blushed, "Awe, It was nothing Doc." The Professor's smile suddenly whipped off his face, "Spyro! Do you think Ripto succeeded in destroying Spyro, Elora, Bianca, and Hunter?" Agent 9 shrugged his shoulders. "We have to find the Talkie-pad and see if they're alright."

"I-I captain." And they both started to look for the Talkie-pad.

The heroes where being really careful about not touching the floating mimes. Hunter was swimming really close to the ground trying to avoid the explosives, but he didn't see that there was a sleeping crab ahead of him. "Just keep swimming close to the ground, don't panic, just stay calm Hunter you're doing fine." Hunter kept saying this so he would stay calm and not go hysterical. Suddenly, Hunter stepped on something hard, then he felt something crunch his tail just like the time Bianca stepped on his tail in Spyro 3: year of the dragon. "Aowwwwwwww!" he shouted painfully. Spyro, Elora, and Bianca stopped and turned around to see what happen to Hunter. Hunter looked back and saw that a crab was the one who pinched him, Hunter yanked the crab off of his numb tail and threw it. The three saw that the crab was headed towards the mimes, "HUNTER!!" They all shouted. The cheetah looked and saw Bianca pointing to something. He turned his head to the direction that the rabbit was pointing and saw the crab headed straight for the mimes, "Swim away! Swim away!" he shouted. Everyone started to swim as fast as they can to avoid being blown to pieces. Then, "BOOM!!!" One by one the mimes started to explode. The bunch started to swim even faster, but explosion was to fast and the force threw them against the side of a rock wall. The force was so fast that it almost knocked Spyro out. Spyro turned around but didn't see Bianca, Hunter and Elora anywhere...until he looked down. There he saw Bianca and Hunter falling unconscious to the ocean floor and tried to rescue them, but then he started to become dizzy and his eyes started to become cloudy the last thing that he saw where to figures coming towards him then all went black.

"Do you think he's dead" Spyro heard a voice. "No he's not, look he's breathing." Another voice said. "He sure is a cute dragon." Said the first voice. Spyro could tell that these were female voices and he started to open his eyes. Spyro could see that his bubble helmet was taken off and that he wasn't in the water anymore. He looked around and saw that he was in a bed with two female humans talking to each other, "W-Where am I?" The two ladies looked and saw the Dragon trying to sit up, "Oh, don't sit up honey. You're very hurt." Spyro saw that these were no ordinary humans, they had webbed hands, feet and gills on the side of their necks. One of them had Blond hair with Blue eyes and was wearing a white dress that stopped at her knees. The other one was a Red head with light brown eyes wearing the same thing. " Who are you, what are you, and what am I doing here?" Spyro asked looking at the two. "I'm nurse Lilly and this is nurse Coral." Said the blond. "We're kind of like mermaids, but we don't have a tail instead we have feet and we could live in either water or land, but we prefer to live in the dry instead of the wet." Said the Red head. "And you're in the Atlantis Hospital!" They both said. Spyro was surprised that he was in the under water city. You see the city is under water only that a big bubble covers it and supplies them with air, but why was he in a hospital? "Um... why am I in a hospital?" Coral took the mirror from a desk and gave it to him to see his reflection. He saw that he was filled with bruises and cuts covered with Band-Aids and with a huge black eye on his left. Spyro widen his eyes he didn't even look like himself, "We found you and your friends unconscious out in the water, so we took you in here to see if you're okay." Said Lilly. Spyro suddenly put the mirror down at the saying of his friends, "My friends, are they okay? Where are they? Let me go see them!" Lilly stopped him from getting off the bed, "Your friends are alright, They're in the next room and in your condition, you can't go see them."

"But I have too!" after much debating the nurse finally said, "Yes." Spyro got out of bed and walked into the next room he saw that Hunter was lying in bed with small cuts and scares and with some stitching on his lower chin. Then Spyro saw Bianca sitting on her bed drinking some water she had minor cuts and bruises, but nothing too serious. After they both saw him they were relieved to see that he was all right. Spyro looked around, but didn't see Elora anywhere, "Hey guys, was Elora with you." Bianca and Hunter shook their heads; "No I thought she was with you," said Bianca. Spyro walked back to his room and saw Coral looking through some pages, "Hey Coral, how many people did you rescue after the mime explosion?" Coral thought for a moment, "Only you that Cheetah and the rabbit, why?" Spyro was starting to worry, "Wasn't there a faun when you checked." She shook her head. "Was there a faun with you?" she asked. Spyro nodded, "I see, let me send a search crew to look for her. What does she look like?" Spyro started to think, "She's a faun with a green shirt and green eyes and with brown fur on her legs and short-brown hair." After she jotted all the things down and left. The worried purple dragon started to pace back and fourth. " Oh, please let her be safe... where ever she is."

Elora was on the surface of the water on top of a floating log sound a sleep. After the explosion Elora's bubble popped and she swam to the surface for air. Then she found a nearby floating log and held on to it until now. The log started to float until it hit the shore. When Elora didn't fell herself floating anymore see opened her eyes, "I'm alive, I'm alive!" she said happily. Then she saw spears drawn to her neck, she looked up and saw the 5 riptocs surrounding her, "I'm dead." She thought. Then the riptocs yanked her out ignoring her injuries and brought her to Ripto. Before Elora saw Ripto, he was busy telling the riptocs how to do the finishing touches on the submarine to capture the blue rune. "Your doing it wrong you idiot... No, No, No, you moron." As Ripto was about to say something else a riptoc interrupted him, "This has better be good!" he hissed. The riptoc could tell that he was in a bad mood, " Well your Excellency, we captured this intruder." He said pointing to the faun. Elora's head looked up and saw Ripto looking at her and gave a mean look at him. Ripto was shocked to see her...alive! Then he closed his eyes, started grinding his teeth and started to close his hands around his scepter making the crystal on it glow dim red. It looked as if he was about to explode in anger, but all of that disappeared when he called two names, "Oh, Nezzer, Ruben can I see you for a moment?" his talk was so smooth you couldn't tell that he was angry. The two riptocs came out. Ripto hid Elora behind a riptoc; "Yes boss?" said Ruben. "You know, I would love to hear the story on how you both killed the four travelers. Can you tell me?" Ruben was glad that he asked, but then Nezzer interrupted him, "But Ruben we didn't-" Before Nezzer had a chance to finish, Ruben closed him mouth with his hand, "Nezzer it's not nice to interrupt someone who's going to tell a story." Not only that, Nezzer was about to tell what really did happen. Then Ruben began to tell the story, "Well, here I was hiding cleverly behind a tree, but when I saw them I came out and started shooting. One by one they fell on the ground....Dead!"

"Can you tell me what each one looked like?" Ripto asked smoothly. "Sure one was a purple dragon, the other was a Cheetah with yellow fur, next there was a Rabbit with a purple cape, and finally there was a faun."

"Tell me, what did the faun looked like?"

"Well, it was a female with brown fur and hair and she had a green shirt and her eyes where green too." Ripto took a step back closer to the riptoc that was hiding Elora. "Oh, really. JUST LIKE THIS ONE OVER HERE!!" he snapped at them revealing the faun. Nezzer jumped in to Ruben's arms when he yelled. Ruben dropped Nezzer on the floor and looked at the faun. "W-W-Well, y-you see it's probably her...twin sister." He said putting on a smile." You two idiotic worthless fools never did kill them. DID YOU!" Ripto started to hold his scepter tighter making the crystal glow even brighter. Elora closed her eyes; she knew what was going to happen. She heard a painful scream then the sound of running feet. She opened her eyes and saw his scepter with smoke coming out of it and then she saw the riptoc's running with burns on their backs. Elora knew that Ripto got so angry with them that he shot a fireball from his scepter. "Twins, Twins with all of the excuses in the world they had to say...Twins" He gave a sly smile and looked at Elora. "What do you want us to do with her." Asked one of the riptocs. "Tie her to a tree and leave the rest to me." He gave a cold smile that sent a chill straight down Elora's spine. She tried everything to get away, but the riptocs where more powerful then her and they finally got her all tied up. Ripto walked slowly up to her face; "I'll spare your life, if you let me get a little bit of your DNA." Elora didn't want to answer his question and just kept quiet. Ripto saw that she wasn't going to cooperate and pointed his scepter at her neck. "Going once..." the scepter started glow dim red, "going twice." The scepter started to glow really bright. It was so close to her neck that she could feel the heat forming inside. "Going-" Finally Elora said something, " Alright! I'll do it." Ripto took the scepter from her neck. "That's a good goat, Elora, wasn't it? You're very helpful just like your father." Elora's head perked up, "Y-You knew my father?" she asked. Ripto didn't answered and just smiled. Then he left when he returned he was carrying a swab, "Now open wide." Unwillingly she opened her mouth and Ripto started to get the saliva. When he was done he got a machine it was the IC3; Ripto took the device after he left the lab. He put the swab inside a tube and called someone, "Mell!" The name was familiar to Elora then a riptoc came into view, "Yes, boss." The riptoc was a female with light brown scales. "The riptoc saw that a faun was tied to a tree, "Elora is that you!" The riptoc said in shock. Elora nodded. Mell was Elora's worse enemy in school. Her real name was Melinda, but people gave her the name of Mell, since she was a tomboy and she like it. She was the female bully and she usually picked on Elora a lot and made fun of her just because she had furry legs. Mell started to walk up to her, "Well... Well... Well, look what the garbage truck brought this time. What are you doing here pest." She hissed. Elora looked up "Do you really want to know, Mell." Elora signaled to come closer to whisper in her ear. "I'm here because... IT"S NONE OF YOUR BUSSNESS!" Elora yelled almost popping her eardrum. She took a step back and put her hand in front of her ear, "Why I ought-" when she was about to punch Elora right on the face, Ripto called her, Mell! come here now!" She looked back, "Go on Mell your daddy is calling you and you look so much like him." She said sarcastically. Mell looked at Elora and gave her a venomous look as if saying, "I'll get you later!"

"Oh, I'm shacking in my fur." She said sarcastically. As Mell walked up to Ripto she saw that he was holding a machine that she never saw before, "What do you want me to do boss."

"I need you to get me the blue rune. By changing into her." He said pointing to the tied faun. Mell was about to refuse to do such a thing, but then she remembered the last guy who said "no" to Ripto and had to suffer the consequences. So to save her skin she said yes. Anyway she wouldn't miss out on destroying her enemy's reputation. Ripto took the IC3 and aimed it to Mell then a laser type thing headed towards her. Elora saw in horror the riptoc changing into a mirror image of her voice and all. When the transformation was over she looked at herself and saw that she had furry legs and looked the same as Elora. Then Ripto started telling her what to do, "You can only stay like this for four hours then after you get the rune you press this button on the watch..." He gave a waterproof watch to her. "...And the submarine will show up to take you out. It will also tell you how much longer you will stay like this." And he gave her scuba gears, when he was done she walked over to Elora, "I'll be sure to give Spyro a kiss from you." She said in a cold smile, Elora gave a venomous look, "Don't you dare touch him!" she hissed, she just wanted to strangle her, but she knew she couldn't. Mell walked away and started to put on the scuba gear and the waterproof watch on, then she disappeared in the water. Two riptocs untied her and pushed her into a cell type place only that it didn't have any bars the only bars that it had was a small window. After the riptoc closed the door she began trying to break it down with her shoulder, "No! You can't keep me in here! You hear me! You can't!" she said ramming her shoulder to try to open the door. Soon she got tiered and here shoulder swollen. Then she heard a gasp; "You're alive!" the voice said. Elora looked around and saw a figure in the corner, "Who are you?" the figure then came out running and hugging her. When she looked she was surprised to see that it was Nazza. "Is that you, Nazza!" Nazza nodded. "What are you doing here?" Nazza's smile whipped off his face, "You see this morning me and Hunter had an argument, don't ask what the argument was about because I'm still angry at him. Any way after I left him I was going to The Professor's lab for a visit, suddenly I heard a noise from the inside I looked through the window and saw Ripto locking The Professor and Agent 9 in the back closet. Then I saw Ripto using this machine to make him look like The Professor and turning one of his riptoc's into Agent 9 and talking about how they where going to... "Dispose" of you with those riptocs that got burned by Ripto. Then I saw you and Bianca coming in, then a little while later I saw Agent9 bringing Spyro and Hunter. After they went inside the lab I looked and saw The Professor telling you stuff then, giving you stuff then sending you in a portal. By eavesdropping I managed to make out where you where going and started to leave to warn you, but then Ripto found me and started chasing me, until I tripped on a tree root and twisted my paw and here I am." Elora was shocked at Nazza's story, "So let me get this straight, that wasn't The Professor it was actually Ripto!" Nazza nodded. "So this whole rune thing is all fake."

"No, the story is very real."

"So if it is real, why did he tell us to get it?"

"Ripto knew that The Professor was going to ask you and that you were going to succeed. So he wanted to disguise as the Professor and send you the long way around to where Ruben and Nezzer where hiding to... You know, dispose, but now we know they never succeeded " Elora smiled, "Good thing Riptoc's aren't so bright!" Nazza gave a little giggle. Then Elora's smile faded, "So, that means Ripto is going to get the rune before we do. We got to get out of here!" Nazza smiled. "Keep your fur on I've got a plan, but it'll have to wait 'till late at night. While we wait do you want to play some cards?" Elora smiled and agreed.

End of Chapter 1

Will Elora and Nazza get out of the Riptoc camp? Will Spyro and his friends know that's not the real Elora? Why did Ripto made that Comment about her father? Did he know him? Find out in the next chapter, Deceiving Appearances.