Disclaimer: Once again I don't own Spyro and other characters that already have owners. Mell, Nezzer, Ruben and other creatures belong to me. If you want to use any of these fan character in your fan stories you have to ask me permission. Again, The plot is similar to The Realms of Chaos so I have to give Turquoise Phoenix credit. The guardian for the blue and Red Runes and the location is also the master work the author for The Realms of Chaos. Please no flames and enjoy the story. Oh! One more thing if you see any incorrect punctuation or the lack of use for transition words please tell me. I'm not good in grammar, but don't rub it in, thanks.Try to enjoy. Nazza(Ripto) is actually Nazza. Just a little hint, so you won't get confused. On with the story!
Quest for Jezebel's
Necklace
Rating: PG
Chapter 3: The Escape!
Mell was sitting on a chair in the submarine looking at the beautiful stone that shined a bluish color in her hand. When she looked closely she could she that there was a picture of a water droplet engraved on it. Then her thoughts where interrupted by arguing, "You had a long turn of driving the sub Ruben, it's my turn!"
"There is no way I'm giving it to you, remember what happened last time?" Ruben said. As Nezzer was about to say something Mell interrupted, "Will you both just shut-up! I'm sick and tired of being under water. If you both can't keep quiet then I'll go crazy!" she said putting her hands up. "Keep your scales on Melinda, we'll be there in no time." Nezzer said looking back at her. Mell got up from her seat, grabbed Nezzer's arm and pinned him on the floor. The brown riptoc was an expert in Judo, so she can take anyone three times her own weight just like Nezzer and Ruben, So nobody messed with her.
Nezzer's widen his eyes and his jaws dropped, "What did I say about calling me, Melinda! I'm Mell not Melinda! And if I ever hear that word again I'll tear you limb from limb, GOT THAT!!" Nezzer nodded his head nervously. Mell smiled from the startle that she gave him, "Good, even though my brother left you two to take care of me, doesn't mean that you have to call me that name!" Mell said letting go of Nezzer from her head lock of death. The Riptoc slowly got up from the floor and returned back to his seat with a very stunned expression on his face. Once he was there he saw Ruben almost crying of laughter from what Mell did to him. "Oh just shut-up, Ruben." Mell said with disgust. Ruben's smile faded and became serious. He didn't want what just happened to Nezzer happen to him, also.
Elora was sitting down on the cold hard metal floor looking through the bared window at the evening sky. She couldn't sleep a wink because of the, "Like your father." Statement that Ripto gave her. Making questions flood into her mind, "Did Ripto really knew my father? Was it true or was he just lying? Where did they meet? And how did they meet?" Every question that she thought was unanswerable. Suddenly, she saw a submarine rise up from the water; Elora rose up and crawled to the window to get a better look. She saw Ruben, Nezzer and Mell get out with the blue rune in her hand. "Huh!" she gasped, "Were to late!" Elora looked over and saw Nazza peacefully sleeping in a curled up ball. She went over and tried to wake him up, "Nazza...Nazza!" suddenly Nazza rolled over still a little droopy. He opened his eyes and gave a big stretch, "What's wrong? Where's the fire?" Nazza started to get on all four, "Look!" Elora pointed to Mell giving a blue stone to Ripto. Nazza was annoyed, "So that's just a rock."
"Not a rock, the rock, it's the blue rune!" Nazza rubbed his eyes with his paw, and strained to see. To his amazement it really was the rune. "Your right it is the rune!"
"So what's you plan?" Elora questioned. Nazza raised his eyebrow, "My what?"
"You know, your plan that you told me, and you'll put it into action at night." Nazza thought for a moment and remembered what he said to Elora in the morning, "Oh! My plan, we'll we have to wait 'till Mr. High and Mighty falls asleep, then we can do it." So they waited until the lightin Ripto's tent was off and there was hardly any noise made on the camp grounds. Except for sleeping riptoc's snoring. Elora went to the door of her room and peered out of the window to check if the coast is clear, then she walked to Nazza who was sitting down playing solitaire by himself "So what's your plan, Nazza?" Nazza put the cards down and smiled. He went to the corner of the jail cell and brought out a file. Elora was stunned, "You want to get out of here with a stupid file!" Nazza was annoyed at her comment," Hey, it's the best I could, all right! Now are you with me or not?" Since Elora had no choice, she helped him and they began to file their way out.
On the other side of the camp Crush couldn't sleep a bit from the constant stress that Ripto put him though; building the sub, fixing his tent and other hard work. He decided to take a walk on the beach, when he came closer to where NAzza and elora were kept he heard a strange noise, "I wonder what that could be?" He whispered when he peek over a bush he could see Elora and Nazza trying to escape with a file. Crush jumped out startling them, "Aha! I got you now!" he smiled. When he saw the file in Nazza's paw he snatched it away, " Oh! C'mon this is too old! This file will never work on these bars. What you need is a plasma ray gun or a laser of some short." Elora and Nazza smiled at each other, "So what's the easiest way to get out of here?" Nazza questioned, Crush began to think. And as dumb as he is he told them. "The easiest way to bust out is to knock me out and steal my keys." Elora had an idea; "Can you demonstrate for us?"
"Sure!" Crush took his club and knocked it on his head, fell down unconscious and the keys went flying into Elora's hand. "Nice thinking, Elora!" The faun smiled at him, "Hey, What can I say? I'm a natural." Soon they where out of the cell, "So what now, Nazza?"
"We go to the submarine and get out of here." As they where walking to the sub Nazza stopped and remembered something, "Hold on there are some Riptoc guards on duty at night, and by the time we get to the sub the riptoc's will lock us up again." Elora thought for a moment and saw Ripto's tent and an idea struck her like lightning, "Follow me." Nazza started to follow her inside a tent, "Wher-" quickly Elora shut his mouth, "Shhhh! Do you want to get us caught? We're in Ripto's room so you have to whisper." Elora took her hand from his mouth and Nazza saw Ripto sleeping on his bed with the scepter by his side. "Why did you bring us here, to get us killed?" Nazza said. "There's a machine here that will change you into Ripto, so we can get into the sub without alarming any of the riptocs."
"Oh... wait why me? I don't want to be a scaly reject." Nazza said shaking his head. Elora sighed, "Do you want to get the saliva out of his mouth or change into Ripto?" Nazza quickly said, "Change into Ripto!" Then they started to search. Finally Elora found it, "Okay, here's what we'll do I get the saliva out of his mouth, change you into Ripto and then we go into the sub." Nazza nodded. Elora took a swab and started to take his saliva, "Ewe... remind me to sterilize my hands when we go, okay." When she finished she put it in a tube on the IC3. The faun aimed it on Nazza, "Ready?"
"Yeah, I guess, but you owe me big time!" Then a laser type thing hit Nazza making him instantly transform into Ripto. When they where done,Nazza(Ripto) looked at himself and saw that he was a mirror image of Ripto. When he talked he sounded like Ripto too, "How do I look?" Elora took a good look at him, "Ugly!" Nazza(Ripto) made a face, "Well, C'mon Ripto is ugly." Suddenly, they herd running feet coming towards the tent, Elora hid under Ripto's bed, "Where do I hide?" Nazza(Ripto) said panicky. "You're Ripto! Tell them something!" Then two Riptoc's poked their heads inside and saw Nazza(Ripto) sitting on the bed hiding the real Ripto, "Boss, I heard a noise are you alright?"
"Do I look alright? Now go before I do something that I regret! I have to plan for tomorrow's trip to get the next rune" The two Riptoc's obeyed his command and left. Elora came out of her hiding spot, "Wow! You're a natural." Nazza(Ripto) puffed out his chest and smiled, "Let's go, we have to get to the sub." Nazza(Ripto) said. "Hold up!" Elora said still whispering. "I have to do something first. Wait for me behind the tent." Then she left, as Nazza(Ripto) was about to leave he saw the blue rune on a desk. He slowly walked up to it, picked it up and looked at the blue rock in his hand. "So this is what the rune feels like." he thought while putting it in his pocket.
Just then he heard Ripto ( The real one) tossing in his bed drooling and mumbling words. Nazza(Ripto) quickly and quietly scurried out of the tent before Ripto sees his double. Once outside Nazza(Ripto) waited for the faun to return. A little while later she showed up. "Where were you?" Elora smiled and showed him a bag full of chips. "I haven't eaten all day so I'm starving took it from the Riptoc cafeteria I was lucky to go and come back in one piece. The only problem is that we can only eat it when we are in the sub..." Elora put the chips in her bag and looked at the submarine that looked as if it was a long way away, "If we ever get to the sub." she finished. "So what am I supposed to do?" Nazza(Ripto) questioned walking up behind her. "You just improvise. Now lets get a move on." They both walked out to the open and began to walk towards the submarine, the two saw that most of the Riptoc's sleep on the sand of the beach trying not to step on any they finally made it to the sub. "We made it... Finally!" said Elora with a whisper. The two tried to push the sub into the water, but it was to heavy. "We need help." Nazza(Ripto) suggested.
Without warning Gulp came out from the commotion that was going on, "Hey who's out- oh! It's only you ,boss" looked at the faun beside Nazza(Ripto) , "What are you doing with the faun." Nazza(Ripto) froze; Elora gave him a small nudge. "Oh...um I decided to execute the prisoner by... drowning her in the ocean." Elora made a face, " Couldn't he of thought of anything better to say?" she thought. "But boss you said that you were going to execute the faun and the wolf by giving them to me to eat the next day." Gulp said with a sad expression. Elora's and Nazza/Ripto's color drained from their bodies. "Well, I changed my mind you got a problem with that?" Gulp shook his head. "Now push this out to the ocean." he ordered. Gulp came and obeyed his command. Soon the faun and the cleverly disguised wolf entered the sub, "Oh Gulp!" Nazza(Ripto) called out. Gulp turned his head toward the two in the sub. "Yes, Boss?" He slowly said, " You can have the rest of the day off tomorrow and start calling me by my first name, okay." Nazza?Ripto said with a smile.
"Thanks Boss, I mean, Ripto!" Nazza(Ripto) and Elora disappeared into the water. Elora was stunned to what Nazza said, "What was that for?" she said opening the bag of chips.
"Oh, a little something to get Ripto mad in the morning. I wish I was there to see him blow his top!" and gave a little giggle.
The cave was very cold at night Hunter warped himself in some seaweed and went to sleep by the fire that Spyro made, but Spyro couldn't sleep at the thought of Elora being captured by Ripto. Then the dragon felt a hand on his shoulder and saw that it was Bianca. "Oh, hi Bianca. How's the arm?" The rabbit sat down next to Spyro and looked at her arm, "Oh it's fine, it hurts a little but I'll live. Is the healing cream that I put on your wing working" Spyro looked and saw his wing good as new with the help from the lotion. "Yep, it's doing better." She smiled. "Why don't you go by the fire it's, very cold back here."
"Thanks Bianca, but I'm okay... It's just that I'm worried about Elora..." Then he started to make an angry face, "...and if that piece of dirt puts one claw on her...I'll...I'll..." Bianca could see that smoke was coming out of his nose again. "Woe! Partner calm down." Spyro saw the smoke from his nose and covered it, "I'm sorry Bianca, it's just that I'm worri-." Then Bianca interrupted him. "Hey, why don't we talk about something different like...what we like to do? I never heard your story and you never heard mine." Spyro agreed, "Okay, I'll go first, but before he could start they heard and saw a submarine rise from the pool of water that woke Hunter up. "What's happening?" Hunter said startled. "Hey, Spyro isn't that the same sub that the fake Elora got in?" Bianca said. "Yes it is, let's hide and see who's inside" so they all hid. "Okay, but no attacking, we have to plan it out first." Bianca said.
Inside the sub, the two where deciding who will go out first, "Let me go out first! Just to make sure it's safe." Nazza(Ripto) said. Finally Elora said, "yes." Nazza(Ripto) unlocked the door and he came out. Spyro saw the person who came out was none other then Ripto. At the site of the riptoc Spyro's face became red with rage and his nose once again started to puff out smoke, "That short lizard, one horned freak!" He thought.
Bianca looked over at Spyro and knew what he was about to do, before she could stop him, Spyro launched on top of Nazza(Ripto) not knowing it wasn't the real Ripto. Nazza(Ripto) was pinned to the floor by Spyro's weight, "Where's the real Elora and the blue rune, Ripto!" he demanded. "Spyro! It's me, Nazza" he yelled, but Spyro wasn't buying it. Elora was hearing all the noise and started to wonder what it was about. She got out of the sub and saw Spyro on top of Nazza(Ripto) about to burn his head off, "Spyro, don't!" Spyro turned his head and saw Elora running up to him. Bianca and Hunter came out at the site of Elora. Bianca looked carefully at Elora and saw that she had scares on her arm from the mime explosion. Once Spyro saw Elora he forgot all about toasting the cleverly disguised wolf and ran up to her giving her a big hug, "Elora is that really you." Elora nodded. Bianca came close and she could tell that it was the real Elora and also gave her a big hug. Suddenly, Spyro let go of her, "Bianca, is this the real Elora?" Bianca nodded. "Then why is she with Ripto?"
"That's not Ripto, its Nazza," said Elora walking up to Nazza(Ripto) . Suddenly the riptoc started to change back into the blue wolf. Spyro started to blush, "Um...I'm sorry Nazza I didn't know it was you... honest." Nazza smiled. "That's okay. I would have done the same thing."
"By the way how did you find Elora and How did Elora find you?" asked Spyro. "I could answer that question." Elora said. The faun started to tell them about what happened after the mime explosion then how Ripto tricked them with the IC3 and how she meet up with Nazza. After she was done she heard a beep coming from her bag, she opened it and saw that it was the talkie pad. "Well, what are you waiting for? Push the button!" Hunter said impatient. "Patient, Hunter." Nazza said teasing him. Hunter looked at Nazza, "Who asked you to come along?" As they were about to get into an argument Bianca stopped it just in time by walking in-between. Then she walked over to Spyro and whispered in his ear, "Why are Hunter and Nazza acting like jerks?" she whispered.
"They had an argument this morning." He answered
Finally Elora pushed the button on the Talkie pad and saw The Professor's and Agent 9's face on the screen, "Oh, thank heavens your all right! You see The Professor that was here earlier wasn't- "
"The real Professor it was actually Ripto. He thought that he could get smart by changing his image to look like you and kill us before we get to the chance to get the blue rune." She interrupted The Professor, making him look stunned. "Wow you're good." Agent 9 said, shocked. The Professor shook his head and continued, "How did you know that?"
"Nazza. He heard and told us what happened to you and Agent 9."
"Nazza is there with you?" Elora nodded her head. Hunter turned his back and crossed his arms, "Unfortunately, he is." Hunter mumbled loud enough that Nazza could hear, but he ignored it.
"Enough chit-chat, did you get the blue rune?" The Professor asked. Elora frowned, "Um...one moment Professor." She covered the Talkie pad so he wouldn't hear what they were about to say. "Nazza! We forgot the rune before we left." Nazza smiled at Elora, "No we didn't." Nazza took out the stone from his pocket and gave it to Elora, "Oh Nazza you're a life saver." Hunter started to mimic Elora's statement, "Oh Nazza you're a life saver...please." Nazza gave a frown at Hunter, "You know what Hunter why don't you be quiet and shut your TRAP!"
"You're the one who's being a show off, so I guess you have to shut your trap!" Suddenly, Elora butted in, "WHY DON'T YOU BOTH SHUT YOUR TRAPS! I can't hear." Both Nazza and Hunter took a step back; Hunter crossed his arms, "What's wrong with her?"
"Beets me?" Nazza said sitting on the ground.
Elora started the conversation with The Professor again; "Here it is Professor, The Blue rune." Elora held up the stone in front of the screen so The Professor could see it. "Who was the one who got it from the guard?" he asked. "I don't know, I... wasn't here." Spyro took a step forward, " I did, with a little help from Bianca, of course." Bianca blushed. "According to my calculations each rune has different magic to it like..." The Professor took the book from a table and began to read it "The blue rune can control the ocean and also can communicate with the animals. The Blue rune will only work in the hands of the person who took it or another person can make it work only by the owners permission. If the that person gets permission he can give another permission to another person only if the rune can detect if that the person will not abuse the runes magic or use the magic for evil." Spyro was amazed with the power to control the rune. "Wow! If I the rune is ever going to be used by someone else, it's going to be my friends." Then The Professor continued, "But anyone can open the doors to Jezebel's necklace including Ripto with or without your permission, Spyro."
"Don't worry Professor we won't let Ripto get the necklace!" Spyro said with assurance.
"I know you won't. Oh, before I forget here's the map to Volcano Island and The Forbidden forest." Said the Professor showing them a map. "I'll transport it to you right...about...NOW!" at the min. he said "now" a map appeared in front of Spyro. "Best of luck getting the rest of the runes. And remember all of Avalar is counting on you." And with that he signed out. Elora turned off the talkie-pad and put it in her bag, when she looked up she saw everyone starting at her, "What are we all sitting and staring around here for, lets get out of here!" everyone agreed and followed Elora into the sub. Nazza was right behind Hunter and as Hunter got in the sub he closed the door in Nazza's face, "That pussy-cat makes me so angry sometimes!" he hissed. Suddenly, Hunter opened the door, "I am not a pussy-cat!" he yelled. There was a moment of silent then Nazza yelled, "A MOUSE!" Hunter came out running, "Where's the mouse? Let me at him! Then he heard a slamming noise and looked back and saw the door closed with Nazza inside. Hunter started to bang on the door, "Let me in!" Bianca finally opened the door to let Hunter in. "When will you both stop it?" she asked. Hunter didn't answer and just got inside the sub.
End of Chapter 3
Will Nazza and Hunter ever become friends again? Will they ever get to Volcano Island? Will-Ahh! Just forget it. I'm tired of asking questions anyway. You'll find out everything in the next chapter: An Unexpected Hero. You'll see what I mean.