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. Enjoy!

Quest For Jezebel's

Necklace.

Rating: PG

Chapter 6: Retrieving the Red Rune from the wrong

Hands.

Feeling like a hero and filled with pride, Ripto didn't bother to look down into the ditch to see if they were really dead. Instead he walked out of the Volcano towards the Riptocs and Coated wagons that waited for him outside and he started to brag about how he "single handedly" defeated the unbeatable Spyro and road off to the edge of Volcano Island.

Ripto had just witness the five-drop into the hot red- molten-boiling lava. While falling Bianca quickly reached into her bag and brought out a jar filled with orange powder. A lot of things happened at once, Bianca opened the bottle, poured out the powder on the lava, quickly said some magic words, and turned the powder into a huge lava proof inflatable raft letting everyone fall on top of it one on top of the other.

Once they were safe and sound and in one piece everyone stayed quiet until they could hear the footsteps of Ripto leaving the Volcano then the noise of the rockslide covering the entrance. Then they all gave a gave a sigh of relief, "Phew! That was a close call!" Elora said. "Yeah! Good thing you heat proofed us and made this raft or we would have been fried by now." Nazza said digging himself out of the pile. Once everyone was settled Elora remembered an important thing, "Um... guys, how are we going to get out of here without getting ourselves killed?" Hunter looked around the Volcano. "Yeah how are we? If we try to climb the wall of the Volcano it's going to be to risky." Nazza thought for a moment, "I've got an idea!"

"Oh, here we go with your idea's again. Could you just shut-up? This is manly work!" Nazza gave a look of disgust, "Well excuse me...pussy cat." Hunter stopped, turned back slowly and stared at the blue wolf. "What did you just call me?" Nazza gave a smile of satisfaction, that was all he wanted; for him to blow his top. "You heard me, pussy cat." Hunter started to grind his teeth and it looked as if his head was about to explode, "THAT'S IT!" he jumped on top of Nazza giving him a left punch and a right punch. Nazza who was much smaller than the cheetah kicked Hunter off of himself, but Hunter ran back for some more. Bianca and Elora tried to stop it, but it was no use.

Spyro, who was trying to sooth the pain in his ankle and wing wasn't paying so much attention to their argument and fighting, " Owww, This hurt! I just hope it's not broken. I bet it wasn't broken before that idiotic Ripto made the platform crumble. When I get my claw on that reject he's going to be- what was that?" Spyro looked into the lava and he saw something jump from the corner of his right eye suddenly he saw it again only that it was on his left. He leaned closer to the edge of the raft he could see a small creature swimming in the lava, "Hey guys! I think you should come look at this!" but nobody came, he turned his head around and saw Hunter on top of Nazza trying to strangle him, while the girls try to stop them from pressing on. "Hey guys. Look. Listen! EVERYONE FREZZE!!" Spyro yelled.

The yell made everyone stop with Hunter still extending his arm for Nazza's throat and Nazza Kicking the cheetah. "Why do I always have to be stuck with you two? I want you guys to come and look at something in the lava." Hunter loosened his grip around Nazza's throat and Nazza loosened his fist from punching. Once everyone was calm they all went to see what Spyro wanted to show them, but the cheetah and the wolf just kept eyeing each other.

They all walked behind Spyro, "What? What's wrong?" Bianca said straining her eye to see what was inside of the lava. Suddenly, red frog like creatures started to jump in and out of the lava. "What are those?" Nazza said taking a step back. "Those are a breed of lava toads they live inside a Volcano and their skin are lava proof, just like this raft. I see them all the time in the Skeletos Badlands back in Avalar." Elora said. Hunter looked closer at the toads; "Maybe they know a way out? Wouldn't it be funny if we could communicate with them?" Suddenly Elora went and gave Hunter a big hug, "Hunter you're a genius!" Hunter gave a confused look, "I am? Oh... um... right, I am. Genius of what?" Nazza made a face, "Yeah right."

Elora reached into her bag and took out the blue rune, which she used to defeat the Phoenix. "The rune can let people talk to animals, remember? So Spyro could talk to the Lava toads, and they probably know the way out of this inferno. I would do it, but defeating a giant bird of fire and being proclaimed the red rune holder is enough for me for one day." Elora said tossing the stone to Spyro, but instead of catching it he let it drop in front of him, "Incase you haven't noticed, I have a injury on my right forearm and wing." he said. Everyone was so caught up with the task of getting out of the volcano and the incident with Hunter and Nazza that they forgot about Spyro's arm and wing, "Opps, sorry Spyro. Bianca, do you have a spell that will cure bone fractures?" Elora asked. Bianca looked through her bag and brought out the lotion she used earlier with him. "Here it is!" she walked up to Spyro and started to put the cream on his injuries, " Remember, this may hurt a little." At the instant she put the cream on Spyro's arm and wing a small shock of pain went through to his chest.

Spyro closed his eyes from the pain, but then the pain vanished. Spyro opened his eyes and moved his wrist and wing to find that they were all better, "Wow, thanks Bianca! Your stuff done it again!" Bianca blushed. Spyro picked up the fallen rune and looked at it. Once it was in his hand it started to glow brightly, "Okay then, lets do this." He closed his hands around the rune and closed his eyes. The stone started to glow brighter than ever, making Spyro's coat of purple scales into a shinny color of a smooth blue light. Suddenly about ten lava toads started to swim towards the completely focused dragon. Elora, Nazza, Bianca and Hunter gave Spyro some room to start talking, but nothing happened. Spyro was quiet and still like a statue, "When is the conversation going to get started?" Hunter whispered to Elora. "I think it already has. I think Spyro is talking to the toads... with the mind."

While the four was theorizing the conversation between the dragon and the toads, Spyro was trying to find a toad that knows a way to get out, " Um... Hello? Any Lava toads know haw to get out of this Volcano? Anybody?" Everything was quiet until Spyro heard a voice. " Wow, I never talked with your kind before." Spyro could tell by the voice that it sounded like a ten-year-old female lava toad. " Um... hi, my name is Spyro. My friends and I journeyed here from far away and to make a long story short well, we got stuck in this Volcano and we need to find a way out. So I was wondering... do you know one?" There was a period of silence then the same toad gave a response, " Wow, you must have been really brave to travel inside a Volcano, especially if you're not a lava toad. The only way out is through the hole on the top of the Volcano and the only way to get up there is for the Volcano to erupt. Sorry if this tip doesn't help you or your friends. Hope you get out safely. Bye."

"Bye." Spyro called out. After the conversation was over the bright blue light that covered his whole body died down and Spyro opened his eyes turning his head around seeing his friends still talking about how he could be talking to the toads. "Um...guys." He said. Elora looked at Spyro, "Well, did you speak with the toads?" Spyro nodded, "I spook to them with the mind. I don't know how they do it, but they can. Also, I have a good news and two bad news." Nazza rolled his eyes; "Here we go again. Tell us the good news first."

"Well, the good news is that we found a way out..." Everyone felt that there is hope in getting out, "The bad news is that it's up there." He said pointing up. Everyone followed his finger to discover a hole on the roof of the Volcano. Everyone's hope went away. "And the other bad news is that the only way up there is by the Volcano erupting." Everyone now knew that it was hopeless in getting out. "That's it we're done fore. If the Professor was here he'll know how to get out." Nazza said. By the inspiration that Nazza gave her, Bianca reached into Elora's bag, "What are you doing?" Elora said looking at her while she digs through her bag. "Looking for the talkie-pad to see if the Professor knows a way out." She looked some more then she felt something hard, she pulled it out and found out that it was the pad. Bianca turned the pad on and pressed the calling button, then Agents 9's face appeared on the screen. "Hey! What's cooking?"

"Apparently it's us. Where's the Professor?"

"The doc is working on an invention, but if you need any assistance I'm available." Bianca rolled her eyes at Agent 9 smooth talking, "Fine! Do you know anything about Volcanoes?" Agent 9 thought for a moment. "Of course I know! In third grade I made a Volcano science project out of clay and dynamites. I wanted to make the biggest explosion ever...hmmm I wonder if that's the reason why the judges went to the hospital and that I got suspended for blowing up the school? Well, anyway the-" Bianca interrupted him from saying anything else, "Agent 9 I'd love to here about your childhood tragedy, I really would, but I really need to know on how Volcanoes erupt."

"Oh why didn't you say so?"

"You know how Volcanoes erupt?"

"No! The only thing I know about Volcanoes is when it explodes run like heck or you'll be lava dust." Agent 9 was now getting on Bianca's nerves with the corny statement that he told. "You know what, why don't you let me talk with the Professor and I'll get my answer?"

"But-"

"Agent 9 please call the professor it's an emergency!" Agent 9 gave a look at Bianca and went to call the professor, "Picky, Picky, Picky."

"When will that monkey ever get mature?" she thought. Suddenly the Professor got on the screen with a wrench on his hand; "Oh hi Bianca, how's your quest? Did you get the red rune?" Bianca made a face, "Well...yes and no." The Professor was puzzled. "What do you mean yes and no?"

"Well you see Elora was the one who got the rune from the Phoenix."

"Well, where is it?"

"You see, that's the problem..." Bianca gave a deep breath and closed her eyes, "Ripto came and stole the rune and now we're stuck here in this raft floating on top of lava while inside of a volcano." Once she was finished talking she opened her eyes she saw the Professor staring at he in shock, "Oh dear, this is terrible news, just terrible!"

"I know! That's why I called you for you to help us."

"No, I'm not worried about you inside of the volcano... I'm worried about Ripto and him using the runes magic!" Bianca was confused, she thought that the only person that can use the magic of the rune is the person who got it or by permission from the owner. She knew that Elora would never give Ripto the privilege to use the red rune or any rune for that matter. "But you told us that only the owner could control the runes."

"I said that for the blue rune, the rules and the magic of the red rune is a little different. You see the rune can be used by anyone, with or without Elora's permission..." Elora was confused about the rule of the red rune, "What!" she said coming over to the talkie-pad. "That's not fair why didn't the person who invented the runes just make them with the same rules?" The Professor shrugged his shoulder; "I don't make the rules I just report them."

"It doesn't matter though, I mean, what type of power could the red rune have to make us become afraid if it falls into Ripto's hands... right?" Hunter said. The Professor widens his eyes, "A lot! The red rune's magic is different; the rune can shoot out fire and make the person who's holding it...invincible." Everyone gasped, "Invincible? What do you mean invincible?" Nazza said nervously. "What I mean about invincible is... well... this will sound better with an example... lets see... Ah! Here we go, imagine Spyro is back in Avalar in the Winter Tundra castle battling out Ripto again. Spyro gets enough red orbs to make his fire breath stronger. He has a good shot at Ripto; he takes a deep breath and fires a gigantic fireball at him. But since Ripto was holding the red rune an invisible force field surrounded him, if anything tries to hurt, injure or kill him it's going to reflect back to the source hurting, injuring or killing him just like that." The Professor said snapping his fingers.

Everyone slowly turned their heads to Spyro's direction; they could see his color draining for his body at the thought of Ripto doing that. "Do you think he knows the power within the rune?" Spyro asked. "Probably, remember, he also has the book, but I doubt that he read passed the first chapter about how to get Jezebel's necklace."

"Okay, lets get off the subject about Ripto and him being invincible, it's making me shiver. Do you know how to make a Volcano explode?" Hunter asked. The Professor gave a thoughtful frown, "Um... no, but I do have a book about Volcanoes. Just give me a few seconds." The Professor walked out from the screen and in a minute he came back with a white book with a picture of a Volcano. "Let's see... About Volcanoes... How to escape a volcanic eruption... How does the Volcano erupt... Where does the lava come-" Suddenly Elora interrupted him, "Wait. Read us the Chapter about how Volcanoes erupt."

"Okay, let's see what we've got here... Ah! Here it is:

Volcanoes erupt when the magma inside gets so

hot that it rises to the top and explodes.

It says here that the Volcano in Luau Island

erupted when a bunch of pigs on vacation on

top of the Volcano accidentally dropped a

small gas tank inside when putting it on their

grill last year. Also-"

"That's it!" Spyro yelled. Spyro looked back at the pad, "Thanks Professor talk to you later." With that, he signed off. "We'll explode our way out of here. It's simple." Nazza was a little uneasy about the idea; "Don't you think it's dangerous?" Hunter walked over to the blue wolf. " Is the canine scared?" Hunter said sarcastically, "No! I just don't want to get killed in this stupid idea!"

"Well do you have a better idea?" Bianca said putting her hands on her hips. Nazza put his head down, "No."

"Then help me out in trying to make my explosion potion." While working on the potion, Elora was isolated on the opposite side of the boat looking at a picture, "If only you were here. If only I could understand what Ripto said about you. If only you were still alive. If only I could tell my friends the truth about my past. I hate keeping secrets, I know I'll have to tell them one day, but not today-" Suddenly she felt a hand on her shoulder she quickly hid the picture away and looked behind her. "Oh, hi Spyro. What's up?" She said smiling innocently, secretly putting the picture back in her bag, "Why are you her all by yourself? Ever since you came back from being captive in the riptoc camp you started to act different. What's going on? You know you could tell me anything and I'll still treat you the same way." Elora was now acting nervous; what was she going to say to Spyro, Would she tell him her secret? "Maybe I should tell him. It would make me fell better."

"Well Spyro, you see-"suddenly she was cut of by Hunter running up to them, "Hey guys we're done the potion, Bianca is about to explain to us what to do. Come see." Spyro quickly got up and walked over to were the rest of the gang was. Elora was relieved that she didn't have to tell him what's bugging her, and went to join the others. "Okay, once I throw this bottle filled with the explosion potion into the lava, it will give us five seconds to brace ourselves, so get ready." Bianca said walking up to the edge with the potion in her hands.

Everyone took hold of the raft while Bianca quickly threw the bottle and quickly joined her friends. It felt as if it was the longest five seconds ever, then suddenly everyone felt the raft shake followed by a loud "BOOM" the Volcano started to explode, the lava started to rise with brutal force. The lava was creating waves and the raft was being slammed into the wall almost making Hunter lose his grip and falling into the lava. Then it started to rise faster and faster and then "KABOOOOOOM!!!" the Volcano erupted making the raft and everyone on it fly across the sky and land on top of a palm tree.

Once they were out, Bianca said some magic words that made the Volcano stop erupting. Everyone was in awe and was out of breath from the battle to stay on the raft. "Woooooweeee! That was fun, lets do it again." Hunter said with enthusiasm. Everyone just stared at Hunter from the dumb statement, "Hunter! You almost lost your grip back there and you want to go back?" Bianca said. Hunter slid down the palm tree; " Hey it's a free country!" Everyone started to follow Hunter and soon they were all on solid ground. "Okay, where should we start to look for Mr. Nothing can stand in my way and the red rune." Nazza said looking around. Elora strained to see if she could hear anything, suddenly Elora heard a faint noise of talking coming from her right. "Hey! I hear something! I think its Ripto." And she began to lead her friends through the bushes and trees.

Nazza was dragging his feet behind him from the tiredness with all the walking, "Ohhh, why can't we stop to rest? Elora! You said that we can rest when we get the red rune!" he complained. Elora continued to walk, "Well, do have the red rune?" Nazza put his head down, "Noooo." He said softly. "So we're not going to rest until we get it. Do you want Ripto to be invincible?"

"Hell no!"

"Then could you please stop complaining and help us look for the rune. The quicker we find it the longer you can rest." Suddenly she heard voices becoming louder. Elora and everyone behind stopped and started to quietly skim their way to see who it was. Everyone laid on their bellies and crawled under the bush to see who it was. And sure enough it was none other than Ripto and his army of riptocs. "Ha! Now that we got the red rune and gotten rid of those pests we can now go onward to the green rune in the Forbidden Forest." He said talking to Crush, Gulp, Nezzer, Ruben and Mell.

Bianca moved closer to her friends, "Once he puts the rune down and he's distracted we go and get it." Everyone agreed. Thirty minutes passed and Ripto didn't put the rune down not even once, he just kept bragging about killing the unbeatable five. Bianca was almost going crazy from his bragging about the Volcano incident over and over again. She slowly crept back out of her hiding place with the four following her, "If I hear that story one more time, I'll, I'll...I'll scream!" Bianca said pulling at her ears. Nazza smiled," Hey, you got my vote."

"What now? He's not going to put the rune down. Now he's going to guard the rune 24/7 since we stole the blue one." Elora said sitting down discouraged. Bianca smiled, looked back at Elora, ran up and grabbed her by the shoulders, startling her. "Say that again, Elora." Elora raised an eyebrow in confusion, "I said, he's not going to put the rune down since we stole the-"

"Blue rune!" she interrupted in a whispering tone. "If Spyro could talk with the lava toads he can talk with an animal that can pluck the rune right out of Ripto's hand, just like an apple from a tree. And I just happen to know how to do it." Bianca signaled for everyone to huddle around her, so she can tell her plan. Once she was finished everyone liked it, "Wow! I like it." Hunter said praising her. Bianca blushed and smiled. Nazza, who started to get impatient wanted to get his well-dissevered relaxation, he also had enough of all this mushy stuff, "Okay you love birds, can we get this show on the road, so my paws can rest?" Hunter rolled his eyes, "Come on, let's get to our places." And so everyone walked behind Hunter to put the master plan in to action.

Ripto was still talking about the story; "There I was, bravely fighting off the dragon, he was almost winning but then, BOOM! The platform started to collapse..." Mell was getting tiered of hearing this story for the hundredth time and started to dose off, but Ripto was right there to slap anyone who wasn't paying attention, "WAKE UP!" he yelled making Mell jump up. "What...What?" she said stunned and startled all at the same time. "You either stay awake or I'll force you to stay awake!" Mell gave a look to Ripto, "Don't you think we should just forget about the necklace and just..." Ripto's scepter started to glow blood red from his anger. " What did you say Mell? You said you thought about something. What was it?" He said sarcastically slowly pointing his scepter at her throat just like he did with Elora.

Mell gulped and she started to sweat all over, "Um... nothing I was going to say nothing." She said quickly. Ripto gave a smile of satisfaction and the red glow started to fade, " Next time don't think. You have no brain; you are nothing! So you can't think!" and he put the scepter down. Mell sat down on the sand, " If only I can show him what this 'nothing' is capable of doing to him. Sometimes I regret I joined his group. Maybe Elora had the right idea of joining the good instead of the bad..." Mell paused for a little bit realizing what she just said, "What am I saying? That goat doesn't know something good if walked up to her and bit her in the nose." She thought with disgust. Ripto backed away from the female riptoc, but before he can start his bragging again his focus went straight to a gray and white seagull resting comfortably on Gulp's head, "Gulp you buffoon! Don't let that stupid creature take control of you! Get him off of your head!" Gulp looked up and saw the bird to his head, he shook it, the bird flew, but came back.

Crush slowly walked over to Gulp, rose his club and hit Gulp across the head missing the bird. Gulp felt a large bump rise from his head where the bird was. "Oww! Why did you do that for, Crush?" Crush didn't pay attention to Gulp; instead he was trying to hit two more birds that were pecking him. Two more birds came, then another, and then another, finally a whole flock of seagull's came and started to peck the riptoc's including Ripto who started to swing his scepter back and forth. "Get away you stupid worthless creatures!" Suddenly, Ripto saw that the bird's beaks weren't injuring him, Then the red rune fell out of his hands and the invincibility that he had vanished and he started to feel the pain. As quick as a wink Ripto knew exactly what was the magic dwelling inside of the rune, "INVINSABILITY!" Ripto yelled.

Forgetting about his wounds, he made his way towards the stone, he didn't want to miss out a chance of becoming unbeatable, "Forget the necklace! I can rule this wretched world with this stone!" As he was about to pick it up, one of the birds flew between him, picked up the rune and flew away. Suddenly all the birds flew away as well. Ripto watched as the seagull flew with the rune comfortably resting inside of his beck. "Follow him!" Ripto yelled. Gulp came behind Ripto and put him on his back and began to pursuit after the seagull while Crush, Nezzer, Ruben and Mell followed."Ruben, I have a bad feeling about how this chase is going to end." Nezzer said running alongside Ruben. "Just shut-up and run!" Ruben said.

Spyro, Elora, Hunter, Bianca, and Nazza were all near the tree that they landed on, when they came out of the Volcano. Spyro once again was communicating to the birds on what to do. Once he heard a reply that one the seagulls has the red rune the conversation started again, "I have the rock in my mouth and I'm flying to you now." Said the seagull. Spyro, whose scales turned into blue light once more, responded, "Great! By the way, is there anyone following you?" The seagull looked behind him and he could see the six riptocs following him, " Yeah! A big green one on all four feet with a small orange guy riding on top of him, a big blue one on two feet with a big stick in his hand, a small blue, green and brown one, on two feet." Spyro thought for a moment and knew exactly who it was. He thanked the seagull, told him his location and lost his contact.

His scales turned to their shiny purple color and he began to tell his friends what happened, "The seagull is coming this way, but trouble is right behind him; Ripto, Gulp and Crush are following him. He also said that a small, green, blue and brown riptoc on two legs are following him too, which I have no idea who is." Elora and Nazza thought and knew exactly who it was, but as they were going to say it the seagull appeared out of the tree, dropped the red rune into Elora's hand and began to fly away into the trees. Right after the bird flew away the six riptocs appeared. They stopped in front of Spyro, Elora, Hunter, Bianca, and Nazza looking dead at them, stunned. All this time they thought that the heroes were dead, but now it felt that they rose from the dead. "You Again?! What does it take to kill you all?!" Ripto spat.

Spyro stood firm and put on his battle face, "A lot more then you can handle!" Mell glanced at the faun and saw the rune in the palm of her hand warmly glowing, "So, you're the official red rune holder, aren't you?" She said with disgust. Mell was always jealous of her from the start, Elora kept getting A's at school while she gets F's and that's because most of the teachers didn't like her, She's dating the worlds famous hero while Mell is stuck with Ripto, everything was good in her life. That's why Mell is so bitter towards her and now, that she knows that she's the red rune holder, she'll do anything to take it away from her and shatter her pride. "You either give me the red rune or you either have a death wish, brat!" Mell said taking a step towards her. Elora held the rune tighter, "In your dreams."Elora directed the rune to the sandy floor of the beach and shot a fireball making a line of fire that separated them from Ripto.Once they saw thier cahnce they began to run.

Once the fire settled down the riptocs saw the five already way ahead of them. "Come on we can't let them get away!" Ripto said signaling to run after the gang. A few minutes later the group of five was a long distance from the six riptocs. Hunter looked back and he couldn't the riptocs anymore, "Yahoo! We're way ahead of them!" Once his head was facing the right direction he saw that they were heading straight towards a cliff. "STOP!" he yelled. Everyone stopped right at the edge of the ledge. "Whoa! What a close one." Nazza said looking down in the ditch. Spyro looked ahead of him and saw another ledge not to far from the one they're on now, "Hey look!" he said pointing to the other side, "We can jump over this hole, easy!" Spyro took five steps back, began to run and glided to the other side without any problem.

He turned around and saw Hunter and Bianca leaping forward and making it a little bit closer to the edge of the ledge. Spyro rolled his eyes, "Do you two have to do everything together?" As Hunter was about to answer he felt something pinning him to the ground. Hunter turned around and saw that Nazza jumped over and landed on his back, "Why don't you watch where you're landing, Blueberry!?" Hunter said getting up and dusting his arm. Nazza raised his eyebrow, "Me? Why don't you move when I was landing? And I'm not a Blueberry!" Before the argument became brutal Bianca came in and stopped the two. "Why don't you two calm down? Don't forget that Elora has to get across and you know how freaked out she gets with heights." Everyone turned their heads to Elora and saw her panicking, "I can't do this!" she said. Spyro stepped closer to the edge, "C'mon Elora you can do this! You went across the one in the Volcano! And you were worthy enough to be pronounced the red rune holder!"

"But that was when you where right behind me! And being proclaimed the red rune holder has nothing to do with heights. Besides..." As Spyro listened to her long statement he saw that Mell was coming closer to Elora. "Elora! I'd love to here your speech, but you have to jump NOW! Mell is right behind you!" Elora looked back and saw her sprinting across to her just like an animal running after their prey. Without hesitating she began to run and jumped over landing on top of Hunter again, "Not again!" Hunter mumbled with his face buried in the ground. Spyro helped Elora and Hunter to their feet and began to run again.

While running, Mell was getting closer to the edge, as she was about to jump she stalled then jumped landing at the very edge of the ledge. Trying to keep her balance, she began to do circling motion with her arms and began to scream with terror. Elora heard the scream, looked back and saw her losing her balance and at any second fall off. With death almost around the corner for Mell, Elora had to make a difficult decision; rescue the person who kept teasing her in school, the person who almost ruined her reputation? Or would she let her die and live with the guilt all of her life?" Suddenly she heard Mell scream again, she looked up and saw her whole body leaning off of the cliff. Mell's entire life passed before her eyes, suddenly the floor under he started to giveaway.

As she was about to take her last breath of air she felt a hand holding her by the wrist. She looked up and saw Elora trying her best to pull Mell up. Once the riptoc was up, she just sat their bewildered, stunned and speechless all at the same time. Mell looked at Elora with her eyes widen and jaws open, "Y-You just saved me." Mell was so stunned and scared by the close encounter with death that it looked as if she just saw a ghost. With one look at her enemy, Elora began to run towards the direction that her friends ran.

A second later Ripto, Gulp, Crush, Nezzer and Ruben jumped over seeing everything that happened, " You're in trouble now." Nezzer said. Nezzer always liked to tease Mell and she would always beat the crap out of him, but she just sat there looking into space, "Mell! You idiot! You had that faun! Why did you let her go?" The riptoc just sat there not saying anything. "You think you're too good for me. Well, you can just walk back to camp! I'll deal with you later!" Ripto always treated her as if she was his child, giving her chores, grounding her and bossing her around which she most definitely hated.

Being like a good riptoc she got up and slowly walked back not saying a word. Ripto signaled everyone to proceed. Elora finally caught up with Spyro, Hunter, Bianca, and Nazza who stopped. Hunter looked and saw Elora running up to them, "Why did you help her, Elora?" Hunter said between pants. Elora pretend to ignore his question and looked at Spyro, "Why did you stop?" The tiered out dragon looked up at her and pointed down another cliff. Elora walked up to the edge and looked down she saw that the side of the cliff wasn't that steep and they could just climb down. Suddenly she heard Ripto and his stooges coming closer. "Climbing down one by one would be to slow; besides the side of the cliff was slippery." Elora thought looking around.

She then saw Bianca picking huge leaves off of a nearby bush, "What are those for, Bianca?" The rabbit's head turned around, "These are going to be our ticket out of here we just-" Before she had time to explain she saw Ripto and his gang closing in on them. Bianca quickly gave everyone the leaf, "Everyone do what I do!" And with that she put the leaf under her feet and began to slide down the side of the cliff. Hunter, Nazza, Elora and Spyro both followed Bianca. Crush, Nezzer and Ruben was running so fast that when they saw the ledge they almost didn't have time to stop.

The three stayed on the edge while looking at the five leaf boarding down the hill. Gulp and Ripto came up behind them... "Oh! For Pete's sake!" And Ripto pushed them over them over the edge. Ripto climbed off of Gulp and walked over to the edge and watched as they tumbled down after the five, which was kind of humorous to Ripto. A little while passed and Ripto felt a sinking feeling, he looked down and saw the ledge crumbling under his feet from his and Gulp's weight, "Gulp! You idiot! The ledge is crumbl-" but before he finished he fell and tumbled down creating a rockslide. Spyro who was trying to keep his balance on the leaf looked behind him and he could see Nezzer, Ruben, Crush, Gulp, Ripto and a pile of rocks gaining on them.

The site of the riptocs falling was actually hilarious, but he decided to wait for tomorrow to laugh about it. Spyro looked ahead of him and he could see a dead end just a few yards away if they didn't act fast they would be goners. Suddenly, Spyro saw a tree branch and idea struck him like lightning; "Everyone hold hands!" he called out. Once they were united Spyro reached for a tree branch above him, got a hold of the branch and swung himself and everybody else down a small tunnel on the grond on the side of the cliff not knowing where it leads.

Nezzer, Ruben, Crush all saw the dead end and started to brace themselves. Then "Boom" they all crashed one on top of the other. Ruben and Nezzer managed to dig themselves out, "Why do these things happen to us?" Nezzer said getting a grip of his head. "At least it can't get any worse." Said Ruben. Suddenly they heard a noise they both looked in front of them and saw Ripto, Gulp and a rockslide heading towards them, full speed. Ruben went pale and his heart sank,"I stand corrected." The rockslide came closer and ended it with a "Boom!" Once again Ruben and Nezzer had to dig themselves out, "What did you say about it can't get any worse, Ruben?" Nezzer said. Ruben gave a look at Nezzer, picked up a rock, "SHUT-UP!" and hit him on his face making him go unconscious.

Spyro, Bianca, Hunter, Nazza and Elora were all tumbling down the tunnel that felt like it had no end. Finally, everyone fell into a shallow pool of water. "Ohhh. My head! How many times did we almost killed ourselves?" Hunter asked putting his hands on his head. Spyro climbed out of the water shaking the excess water off like a dog, "I lost count." Spyro took the time to look around and he saw that they weren't in the island anymore instead they were in a humid, warm, tree filled forest, "This must be the Forbidden Forest." Spyro said. "Well, lets not lose anymore time lets go find the green rune." Elora said and everyone started to follow her, except for Nazza who wanted a break from all this traveling, so badly, "HOLD UP!" he yelled making everyone stop. "What is it Nazza?" Elora said. "You promised that when we get the red rune I going to get my well-deserved rest!" Elora smiled. "Fine, you win."

"Oh, thank God!" and everyone started to follow Nazza.

End of Chapter 6

Exciting? Isn't it? Well they finally got the rune from Ripto (again). What do you think is waiting for our hero's in the Forbidden Forest? And what 's with Elora and her past? Since Elora saved Mell from the cliff, will she finally give up her bad ways? You'll soon find out in the next chapter (I'm so excited!) The Truth Behind Elora's Past. That's right ladies and Gents you're going to finally find out what Elora's secret , so stay tunned. One more thing I need more people to vote in the Quote Finder contest, so if you please can help. I'll probably take out the old quote list and put the new one next. Anyway here is the poll

(The way I'm going to do this is, for example:

the first quote that you see under a name is going to be no. 1 and second is no. 2 and so on.)

Spyro

quote # 2

Elora

quote # 1

Hunter

quote # 3

Bianca

Didn't get a vote.

Don't ask why,

cuz I don't know.

Nazza

quote # 2

The Professor

quote # 1

Agent 9

quote # 1

Ripto

quote # 1

Crush

quote # 1

Gulp

quote # 1

Mell

quote # 1

Nezzer

quote # 2

Ruben

quote # 1

first voter Power of Wol