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! Please R&R.
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Quest For Jezebel's
Necklace.
Rating: PG
Chapter 8: The New Comer
Mell was doing everything she could to get away, just like Elora, Spyro, Hunter, Bianca, and Nazza was, she was also tied to the stake. "Let me go you crazy Indians! Do you know whom you're dealing with? Let me go!" Mell's scream was so loud that even the gang heard it, and they were on the other side of the tribe. Mell was scrumming all over trying to get out, but it was no use and finally she gave up. Mell closed her eyes in tiredness; "Maybe I do deserve this. Ripto was crazy to-"
"Mell is that you?" The riptoc heard a familiar voice and quickly opened her eyes and spotted Elora and her friends in front of her. "Elora! What are you doing here?" Elora put her hands on her hips, "I should be asking you the same, what are you doing here? Spying on us so you can tell Ripto?" Mell gave a frown, "For your information I'm here to help you." Mell stated. Elora glanced at her friends to see if they should believe her. Spyro walked up to the all tied up riptoc, "Why should we trust you?" he spat. Mell didn't like Spyro's tone of voice and just stared at him. "You just have to!" Mell gave a sigh, "I tired of Ripto's bossing, and after that incident from the cliff I wanted to...well I wanted to help you on your journey." Mell gave a small smile to see if they would buy her story. The group didn't know it, but Ripto actually forced sent her to try to get them to believe, so she can get away with the rune.
(FLASHBACK)
Mell was sitting in her tent still thinking of what Elora did at the cliff and also what Ripto was going to do to her when she came back. All of a sudden Ripto entered in the tent, he was covered in cuts and his purple cloak was all tattered with holes and rips from the rockslide. Mell looked at his face, but instead of seeing a face filled with anger she saw a cold smile come across his face, "I taught you well, Mell!" He said walking closer to her. Mell was speechless and just stared at him, "Huh?" she asked. "That was good faking of pretending that you were going to fall off that cliff and let that faun rescue you." Mell got up, "So...what's your point?"
"Right after you left and I was coming back I began to think of what you did. So, my point is...we're going to use that act that you did at the cliff to make the group believe that you've changed and that you became one of them. And after they trust you, your going with them to the temple of the green rune and when you do there's going to be a rock formation that looks kind of like a crescent shape of a moon. When you pass that rock the riptoc army will ambush them and lock them in cages. They won't know what hit them." Mell thought for a moment, putting all the pieces together of what he said. She was about to confess that she wasn't really faking when she almost fell of the cliff, but she just shook it off. Mell never saw Ripto so happy before and she didn't want her to make him lose his temper, "Okay, fine." She said. So the next day Mell went out, but she wasn't doing this for Ripto she was doing this for herself, she wanted to run away and join the group and help them on their quest.
(FLASHBACK END)
Elora saw her face and saw a smile trying to make its way out. Elora knew that Mell never liked to smile at something that's not related to embarrassment, heart braking or pain. She knew, since she had experience. Even if Ripto tells her told her to smile at something not related to negativity she would have never done it. Now she had the proof that she was telling the truth. Suddenly her thoughts were interrupted from Spyro's rough talking, "NO!" Spyro yelled at her. "Why should we let you in our quest after you bullied Elora when she was little, Almost ruined her reputation and almost destroyed my friendship with Bi-?"
"Wait!" Elora yelled stopping Spyro from talking. "I believe her." Spyro's eyes widen. "What! What do you mean you believe her?" Elora crossed her arms, "Just trust me on this!" Spyro thought for a moment he remembered what happened with him and Bianca when she said 'trust me on this' and she was right. Maybe Elora is right too. Spyro gave a big sigh, "Fine, but I still have my suspicions." Elora smiled and told the inhabitants to let Mell down. Once she was down Mell started to question her about the different language that she spook, but Elora decided to tell her later. The faun brought the riptoc towards her friends. Spyro saw Elora bringing the reptile over towards them and he made his way to Nazza, "Do you think it's a good idea to have someone who worked for Ripto join us?" Spyro whispered.
Nazza looked at him, "No. I think it's a terrible idea." Spyro smiled to know someone's agreed with him. Mell walked over to Hunter and Bianca, "So, what's your name again?" Hunter asked. Mell frowned, "My name is Mell, but my real name is Melinda, and don't ever call me by my real name, I hate that. I also don't like people forgetting my name a lot. I feel like I'm left out." Nazza's head perked up and ran over towards the riptoc, "You mean you also don't like people forgetting about you or leaving you out?" Mell nodded. "Yes, I hate it." Nazza gave a small smile, "Whoa! I can't believe it! I'm the same way to. My name is Nazza-" then the to started to start a conversation. Elora smiled at the two, with her thinking of another love match has been found, but on the other hand, Spyro was not a happy camper, " I can't believe that Nazza went with that riptoc, Mell!" He thought with disgust.
After Elora said good-bye to the Camabilians and got their stuff the gang went back into the forest. Spyro walked behind everyone while they got to know Mell better, especially Nazza who got a small crush on her. A little while after the journey into the forest Spyro walked over to Bianca out of earshot from everyone else. "Do you think Mell is still working for Ripto even though she said she doesn't" He questioned. Bianca looked at Spyro, " Well, if Elora doesn't think so then I don't think so."
"But if you have a suspicion, you don't go with what the people around you say, you go with your gut feeling. And don't forget she's the one who turned into Elora in the first place." Spyro said trying to get Bianca on her side. "I know Spyro, I was kind of suspicions of her too, but I know that she's telling the truth. Without anyone knowing I made myself a pair of x-ray glasses, I put them on and I didn't see any weapons or walkie- talkies or anything to communicate back with Ripto or something to harm us, she's all clean." Spyro gave a look at Mell talking with Nazza, "But I'm still not sure."
After that there was no more talking, only the conversation between Hunter and Bianca was spoken and everyone was quietly walking through the Forest, that's until Mell came over to Elora, "Um, Elora I have something to say." Elora looked at Mell, "Sure, what is it?" the riptoc looked around her so no one will listen in to her conversation, "Do you think Nazza likes me?" Elora nodded, "He spoke to me about how he likes you, earlier." Mell smiled, " Yeah, because I kind of like him too." Elora's eyes widen, she never thought to see the day that her biggest enemy in the world has a crush, there maybe some love in her heart after all. "Oh by the way." Mell said before she went away, "I don't think Spyro likes me to much...As a friend." Elora frowned. "You just have to give it some time, remember it was you how changed your image to look like me..."
"Sorry about that. "Mell said softly. Elora was surprised about Mell forgiving her like that she never in her life heard her say 'sorry' not even once. "Mell, are you getting soft or is it just me?" Mell gave a confused look, " Huh?"
"Before the incident at the cliff you were a tough tom-boy person, but now you're soft and forgiving. What happened? Why all of the sudden bad guy turn into good guy?" Mell lowered her head; "There's a lot about me you don't know especially my past."
"Well, tell me about your past?" Elora said. Mell gave a sigh and started to tell her story.
(FLASHBACK)
I wasn't an only child you know. I had an older brother named Tim. He was the best and only friend that I had. When I was four years old my parents had a car accident and they died in the Hospital. The last words were that my dad left my brother and me something, but I forgot what it was. My brother and me were both devastated. We were put in foster care with really mean people; we weren't aloud to call them mom or dad, so we called the ma'am or sir. They'd put us to work, make us clean with out stop and if we don't do something right they'd locked us in the closet for at lest two days without water and without food. The foster people enrolled me in school the following year. I wasn't mean when I first started I was actually nice to people, but it was the teachers and the students who were mean to me, throwing spit balls, paper air planes, you name it.
That's how I became bitter and living inside a home that doesn't even love you is worse. So the next day I told everyone for now on to call me Mell and I started to act mean to everyone, pulling the girls hair, throwing paste at everyone, you name it, I did it. The teachers all finally decided to put me in another classroom were I met you. I saw everyone was being nice to you and so I started to get jealous. That's why you were always my main target. When I got a little older the man of the house was enrolled to a new job, but since it was far away they had to move and according to Avalar's rule of foster care they couldn't take us. Instead of finding us another foster family they kicked us out like we're nothing and went away.
That's when we found Ripto and he took us in. We made friends in the troop and Tim made friends with Ruben. A few years later when I was thirteen, Ripto heard a rumor about a pond that if you drink it you will become powerful and immortal the only problem was that it was inside the most dangerous place on earth; The Jungle of No Return. Right away Ripto wanted to get the water without caring for the group that went inside, so he called a bunch of other riptocs including Tim, Ruben and Ruben's brother Nezzer in search of the pond. I pleaded with Ripto to not let them go, but he ignored me. After two weeks with not hearing from anybody. Nezzer and Ruben were the only ones who came out. They explained to Ripto that the rumor of the pond wasn't real and that most of the crew either died or got lost in the jungle.
I quickly ran to Ruben and asked about my brother, Ruben's head went down and he said that 'Tim got lost in the jungle.' Everyday since that moment I always regretted myself in joining Ripto. So I started to take Judo so I can try to get Ripto back, but I was always kind of scared of him, that's why I joined you guys. Since it finally clicked in my head, why fight against Ripto and with you, if I can join you and fight him together.
When Mell was done telling her story Elora was shocked at her sad childhood, no wonder she was all bitter inside, "Wow Mell, I'm so sorry-" but before she can finish Mell interrupted, "No! Don't be sorry about me I got over my past, except for the part about Ripto. I'm the one who has to say sorry about teasing you a lot." Elora patted her on the back; "I know how you feel." Mell gave a look at Elora, "What do you mean you know how I feel? Stop saying things to try to make me feel better. You don't even know how losing a loved one and being the last person in your family that's still alive." She snapped with her eyes all watery. Elora frowned. "Actually I do." Elora told her the whole story about her past and her family. When she was finished Mell was shocked, "Wow I didn't know, If you would have told me that you were a princess I would have stopped teasing you."
"Why? Would me being a princess made any different?" Mell lowered her head and softly said, "No. I guess not." Suddenly Spyro came up to the two females "Okay, can you two walk a little faster... I knew that we shouldn't of added another traveler with us especially if it's a riptoc and it's a female." Mell shot a look at Spyro, "What does that supposed to mean?" Spyro started at the reptile, "You know what I mean, females can't do anything!" Suddenly Spyro stopped not realizing what he said. Elora walked up and crossed her arms over her chest, "What do you mean that girls can't do anything." Spyro started to gag, "I...a...you see...It was...um." But before Spyro can stop Elora stomped away leaving Mell and Spyro together, "Arrugh! You see what your presence did!" Spyro hissed. "Want to run that by me again! Purple boy!" Spyro's nose started to puff out smoke, "With pleasure!"
Suddenly, Bianca, Nazza and Hunter came in running before they got into a fight. "Okay you two, we got a little trouble up front and if you stop arguing and help us we would appreciate it!" Bianca said with Spyro and Mell still eyeing each other. Once they got to where Elora was waiting they saw that they were in front of a lagoon. With a sign that read 'Mermaid lagoon', 'Enter at your own risk!' Beware-' then the sign was torn a part. "How are we going to get over this giant puddle?" Nazza complained. Mell looked around and saw a boat cleverly hidden behind shrubs on top of the water. "Hey look over there!" Mell pointed everyone except Spyro followed her finger at the boat. "A boat!" Elora said. She, Hunter, Nazza, Mell and finally Spyro went to see the boats condition.
Bianca stayed at the sign still worried about the Beware; "I wonder what the sign is trying to warn us about...Maybe the Professor can help." Bianca went through her bag and found the talkie-pad and pushed the calling button soon the screen came on and she saw The Professor's face, "Hi Bianca! Did you get the green-" suddenly he was cut off by Agent 9 in the background opening a box, "Hey doc! Look at what I got!" Agent 9 brought out a red unicycle with a black leather seat. "It's a unicycle from my aunt in Monkey Monastery!" Agent 9 got on top of the unicycle and began to ride it around the lab, "That's great Agent 9 just don't break anything!" The Professor then turned his attention towards Bianca, "Now were was I...Ah yes, did you get the green rune?"
"No, but we're really close. And we have a lagoon in front of us called Mermaid Lagoon and it has a beware sign posted in front of it, but the rest of it has disappeared and I was wondering what to be aware of, when we cross Mermaid Lagoon?" The Professor started to think, while he was thinking she saw Agent 9 doing tricks on his new bike in the background, "Waaaa whoooooo! This is great! Look at this Professor!" The monkey yelled. "Not now Agent 9, I'm busy. I'm trying to remember what makes Mermaid Lagoon so dangerous, I remember it's something to do with music."
"Music?" Bianca repeated. "I know the danger of Mermaid Lagoon!" Agent 9 shouted while peddling on the cycle. "Oh, you do! Then come here and tell us!" The Professor said. Agent 9 turned his cycle towards the Professor and started to peddle really fast. Then the Professor's smile went away when he saw Agent 9's speed. "Slow down... Slow down Agent 9!" The monkey tried to stop, but since he was going so fast that he did have time to stop, then all of a sudden, 'BOOM!!' Agent 9 crashed into The Professor and the talkie-pad making the screen go dark. "Professor, Professor! Can you hear me!" but it was to late, " That monkey probably destroyed the his talkie-pad, but at least he gave me a clue...hmmm what did he meant about the music?" Bianca strained to hear but didn't hear any music.
Suddenly Elora, Spyro, Nazza, Mell and Hunter came pushing the boat out of the shrubs, "Good news!" Hunter said trying to push the heavy boat. "This small ship is ready to sail. Mell patched up all the holes with mud, clay and other stuff!" Hunter said pointing to the riptoc. Mell blushed, "She was awesome, where did you learn that?" Nazza asked still pushing the vessel. "I learned it in the Girls Scouts of Avalar. It was easy." Everyone including Bianca was impressed, except for the grumpy dragon that sat in the corner watching everyone praise her, "Hump! I bet once we get on the boat she'll betray us like she did last time." Spyro thought. Bianca looked at the small boat in the water; it had a sail, lines, stirring wheel, and everything that a small ship should have.
Nazza step on the boat first he looked behind him and saw that Mell was right behind him, as she was about to get on board Nazza step off and took a bow, "After you." He said with a big grin on his face. Mell stared at him and smiled, "Thanks, but you don't have to be such a gentlemen. I like you just the way you are." And she walked on to the boat. After that everyone went inside the vessel with Hunter steering it towards the other side of the lagoon. Elora, Mell and Bianca stayed on one side while the boys stayed on the other after Elora told Bianca what Spyro said about girls, and they didn't take it so well, "I can't believe Spyro would say such a thing!" Bianca said throwing a small pebble into the water. "And the worse part about it is that when I told Hunter he completely agreed with him, he said that, 'Girls are to sensitive and can't do most stuff. That's why we have men to protect you ladies.'" Bianca said with a deeper voice trying to imitate him. Elora and Mell both agreed and laughed at Bianca trying to imitate his voice.
Suddenly, a gray mist started to come across the lagoon's face and tons of rocks started to pop up. Hunter tried his best to not crash into any. As Hunter looked ahead of him his eyes widen with the site that he saw. "Hey everyone, look!" he said pointing to the front of the ship. They could see that on the side of the lagoon there were sunken ships everywhere. Boat parts floated on the surface of the water and even old skeletons from the travelers floated by as they past. This site was like a ship graveyard that gave Bianca an uneasy felling. At the site of the old broken down ships, Bianca remembered what the Professor said about the music of Mermaid Lagoon, "Elora, remember that 'Beware' sign when we first came to Mermaid lagoon?" Elora nodded, "Yeah, why?" Elora said still staring at the half-sunken ships
"Well I talked with the Professor and he said that we have to look out for the music." Elora stared at Bianca in confusion, "The music? I don't hear any-" Suddenly Elora stopped and listened closely blocking out everything that surrounded her, she could her a faint song as if something or someone was singing it. The faun turned her head and out of the gray mist there was a rock with three mermaids sitting on top of a rock. " Hey, look at this!" she yelled. Spyro, Nazza and Hunter saw the three girls going to the front of the vessel. They stopped what they were doing and went to see what they were up to. Once they got there they could see the three mermaids singing a song that sounded like a lullaby. Bianca listen and thought for a moment, "Hmmm, the Professor said to beware of the music...or did he meant the singing..." Bianca looked at her arms, her legs and everywhere, "I don't feel any different, let me ask Mell and Elora." Bianca called the two.
Once they came, Bianca asked them, "The Professor said that to beware of the music, but for some reason I think he meant the singing. Do you two feel funny or different?" Elora and Mell looked all over their bodies, but they didn't feel anything, "Let me check with Spyro." Elora turned around and saw Spyro, Nazza and Hunter still staring at the Mermaids singing their song. "Hey Spyro!" Elora called out; "Do you feel funny or different?" Elora asked, but instead of Spyro turning around and answering her question that she gave, he just stood there, ignoring her with his back turned to the faun, still gazing at the Mermaids. Elora gave a sigh and rolled her eyes, "Look! I know you said the wrong thing about girls not doing anything, I forgive you, but can you just look at me?" Once again Spyro didn't do anything. By now Elora was getting ticked off and walked up to him, "For Pete's sake! Can't you
just-" Elora turned him around and let go of him at the same time. Spyro's eyes were a different color. Elora could see that Spyro's dark colored eyes turned into a hot pink. The stunned faun stepped back from the dragon. Bianca and Mell looked at each other and went over to Hunter and Nazza seeing that all of the boys had the same symptoms, but how? Mell looked at the singing Mermaids and then at Nazza, Spyro, and Hunter. "I know what's wrong with them!" Mell stated, "Spyro, Nazza, and Hunter are hypnotized by the mermaids singing, but the only thing that I don't get is why isn't the spell working on us?" Mell said rubbing her chin. "Maybe the spell doesn't work on females?" Bianca guessed. "Yeah, but why did they hypnotized them? They're not going to give us trouble." Elora said crossing her arms.
Bianca looked pass Elora and saw Spyro, Nazza, and Hunter about to climb off the ship towards the rock where the three hypnotists were siting. "Um...Elora, our trouble is about to go over board." Bianca said pointing, Elora followed her finger to where Spyro, Nazza and Hunter were "Huh!" she gasped. Elora looked at the rock on where the Mermaids were sitting on, and saw that these weren't ordinary Mermaids. They were sirens; mythological creatures that hypnotized the men and make them crash their boats on the rocks and drown them in the water with out them even knowing. No wonder there was so many ships that were sunken; they weren't the first victims to cross Mermaid Lagoon Elora remembered when she heard of theses species in school.
Starting to panic, Elora didn't know what to do, but finally got an idea, "Bianca, you rescue Hunter! Mell, you rescue Nazza! I'll rescue Spyro! Let's go!" Everyone scattered to their position. Elora saw that Spyro was trying to go to where a Caucasian, blue-eyed, blond haired, Blue fined siren was. "Spyro don't!" Elora shouted running up to him and grabbing him by the waist. Elora started to pull, but his claws were still attached to the side of the ship. Finally, with all her strength she managed to pull him off making the both of the fall on the floor. Elora shook her head and looked Spyro motionless on top of her with his eyes still wide open with the creepy hot pink color enabled in his pupils.
Elora rubbed her head and glanced at the siren. She saw that the Blond haired mermaid started to get angry for the faun stopping the dragon. With that the siren's blue-sharp eyes started to turn blood red from anger. "Whoa! What's her problem?" Elora thought crawling back from the edge of the ship. All of a sudden, Spyro started to shake. Elora crawled away from him, he then suddenly stopped ending with a yell as if someone screaming, bloody murder. By this time Elora was really scared, she never saw Spyro act this way. Spyro swung his head around and he eyed Elora. The faun could see that the hot pink colored eye was gone, now his eye color was red just like the hypnotist's, his mouth was filled with foam and his eye's gave chills down Elora's spine.
The dragon was slowly walking towards Elora, with Elora slowly backing up. "Spyro! Remember me? It's Elora, remember?" but Spyro just kept eyeing her and just kept moving closer. Just then Spyro took a deep breath and he shot a fireball towards Elora. Elora saw the big ball of fire heading straight towards her, and in the nick of time she rolled to the side. Elora looked at the raged dragon. Seeing that he missed he gave a loud roar. "Spyro! Did you get insane? You almost killed me!" suddenly Elora realized, "Oh, it isn't him who's doing it..." Elora glanced at the Mermaid like creatures who was still controlling Spyro, "It's the sirens who is making him do it." When she looked back to where Spyro was she saw that he disappeared, "Hey, where did he go?" All of a sudden she heard a noise above her, she looked up and saw the spellbound dragon flying up in the air sending another fireball at her.
Elora quickly dashed under the fireball to safety; "Hey, Spyro can't fly." Elora looked at the Dragon behind her who started to chase her. "I guess when your in control you can do anything." Elora said trying to get away from the mad dragon.
Once everyone scattered Bianca saw Hunter going after a copper skinned, light brown eyed, brown haired, green finned siren. The young sorceress saw the cheetah ready to jump on to the rock. "Oh, no you don't!" Bianca ran and grabbed Hunter right before he jumped. Bianca got up and saw Hunter shaking as if he was having a seizer. Bianca took a step back and glanced at the brown-headed siren, she saw that her eyes were turning red with the anger. Bianca then finally knew what was happening, "If the mermaids have Hunter under control, what emotion they're feeling Hunter in feeling the same... then that means." Bianca gazed at Hunter she saw the Hunter was standing up with his hot pink eyes turned into blood red, his fur was a twisted and was pointing different directions, his sharp claws grew longer and he was foaming at the mouth. Hunter began to walk closer to Bianca with her slowly walking back. Bianca took at deep breath,
"Okay Hunter, I'm sorry I got mad at you, you don't need to be this way." Bianca said trying to sooth the entranced Cheetah. Suddenly, Hunter launched froward trying to slice and dice Bianca with his sharp claws. Bianca quickly moved aside before Hunter had a chance to attack her. She turned around and saw that his sharp claws were so sharp that it sliced right through the bars at the side of the boat. Bianca gulped; "Um...Hunter this isn't like you..." Bianca looked back at the copper skinned mermaid filled with anger. "Of course this isn't like him, the brown-headed siren is controlling him." Quickly Bianca started to run away from the cheetah trying to keep her distance from the maniac.
Mell looked around, but didn't see Nazza anywhere. The riptoc then realized that one of the sirens left the rock. She cautiously looked around to see where it had gone. Suddenly, she noticed that an African American, black haired, Dark Brown eyed, purple finned siren was on the side of the boat still singing her hypnotizing song with Nazza right beside her. Mell didn't know what to do. Instantly, she saw the hypnotist plunge down into the water with Nazza trying to follow her. Mell quickly ran up and grabbed Nazza's tail right before he dove in and drowned. The riptoc began to pull hard; "This is like a nightmare! Whoa! This guy is heavy, what has he been eating?" Mell thought as she tried not to let go of the entranced wolf.
Finally, Mell put all her strength, soul and might into pulling the crazed wolf out. All of a sudden he came flying out of the water falling on top of Mell. "Get of me you spellbound canine!" Mell said pushing him off. The riptoc quickly got up and began to dust her arms from the fall. "You know Nazza, you have to quit eating fatty foods. I've almost lost you with-" Mell turned around and saw Nazza standing up on all fours with his hot pink colored eyes turned into Blood red, his fur was all twisted just like Hunter's and his teeth grew so huge that it was poking out of his mouth. The entranced wolf started to come closer to Mell and she started to walk back, "Nazza, I was only joking, and if it was something I said, I'm sorry. You can keep on eating fatty foods if you want, just don't take it out on me!" Mell said backing off from the raged wolf. Mell saw that Nazza wasn't backing off and was still after her.
Suddenly, she saw that the mermaid like creature who tried to drown him was hanging on the side of the boat with her beautiful Dark Brown eyes turned into an ugly shade of blood red from her anger of not getting what she wanted. The riptoc now knew that it wasn't Nazza who was trying to kill her it was actually the siren controlling him. Mell stared at the wolf; foam started to drip out of his mouth and he started to growl at her. "Okay blue boy, you want to play rough? Well, here I am!" The bewitched wolf took his position for pouncing and Mell had her Judo position for butt kicking, without warning Nazza leaped and was heading straight towards her. Mell grinned and kicked him in the chest sending him flying through the air and landing a few yards away from her. She smiled, turned around and began to walk away, "Ha! That was easier then I expect-" All of a sudden she felt something pin her down onto the hard wood floor of the boat.
Mell quickly got up, grab whomever that was on her shoulder and threw it over her head on to the ground exposing that it was Nazza and he was back for more. Mell was shocked, this was a new experience for her; she never had a person pin her down on the floor like that, and even if she was taken of guard no one ever pined her down. Nazza started to get up and began to grind teeth showing his gums. His sharp red eyes were eyeing her every move. Mell got into her judo position again, "You never quit, do you Nazza." Mell said with a steady smile. Nazza started to run with his jaws towards the riptoc's throat. His jaws were wide open letting the foam fly out. Mell stood her ground and let out a kick, but for some strange reason Nazza duck under the kick right before it hit him plus he head butted the riptoc sending her flying two yards away. Mell sat up and shook her head from the crash. She now started to wonder, "How did he do that? No one ever ducked one of my kicks or won me in a fight before! The move that he just did was pure Karate." Nazza started to walk closer to Mell.
Every time Mell would move Nazza would growl, she knew if she tried to stand up the wolf would attack her, so she just kept crawling back.
Bianca was trying her best to get away from Hunter and his sharp killer claws, and kept thinking if her beloved boyfriend is going to become a cold-blooded killer. Bianca looked behind her and saw that Hunter wasn't there. She slowly came to a stop and saw a shadow going above her head. She looked up to discover Hunter had leaped over her head and landed in front of the rabbit. Bianca slowly moved backwards while Hunter was slowly cornering her. "Oh what to do? What to do! I better crawl, just incase he jumps on me so I can kick him off." Bianca slowly got on her bottom and began to crawl backwards with the enchanted cheetah eyeing her every move.
Elora was running her heart out trying to avoid being hit by one of the dragon's fireballs. Spyro was flying above Elora still possessed by the mermaid. Spyro flew around the faun landing right in front of her, startling Elora making her fall on the floor. Spyro had his evil scarlet red eyes upon her, his nose was puffing out smoke with rage and he growled ferociously. Elora knew that if a dragon ever growls they're beyond angry. Elora began to crawl backwards, with each step that Spyro took Elora took two. Suddenly, the faun felt something on her back She turned around and saw that it was Mell and Bianca had slammed right into her trying to get away from their opponent. "Okay, what's plan B?" Mell whispered to Elora still watching Nazza. "Um... Lets slowly stand up." Bianca, Mell and Elora slowly stood with out the hypnotized creatures attacking them. "Okay, now what?" Mell said still looking at Nazza. Elora started to think, "Well, what's the plan?" Mell said impatiently. Elora looked at the riptoc, "I'm thinking! I'm thinking!"
"Well think harder, because we're only moments away in becoming ground meat!" Mell said. Elora looked into Spyro's deep red eyes and got the inspiration that she wanted. Inside her bag, Elora tried to find the perfect weapon in the time of crises. Just then she felt something small, smooth and round, Elora pulled it out from her bag seeing that it's the red rune. "I got it! I just use the red runes fire power to try to stop them from killing us." Mell stared at Elora in disbelief, " Oh! After we fry them you want us to bury too! Remember Elora, these are still your friend you don't want us to hurt them."
"You want to be sliced into ribbon!" Elora stated. Mell gave a look to Elora, "No, I just want to get them back to normal without hurting them."
"And how do you want us to do-"
"Look, someone has to think of something quick because death is right around the corner!" Bianca said firmly, finally stopping their argument. Elora looked at Spyro and saw that he was closer than before, "Okay, what's the other magic that has in this run has, fire power and...INVISABILITY!" Elora quickly tightened her grip on the rune that made it glow brighter. "Bianca, Mell stay silent!" Elora started to concentrate on the rune's power of invincibility. Suddenly, a clear red bubble came over them. Blocking Spyro's, Hunter's and Nazza's way of harming them right before they'd launched in attack. Mell saw that Hunter was viciously slashing the bubble trying to get in with no success, Nazza was repeatedly trying to pierce the bubble with his sharp teeth with no luck and Spyro was throw huge Fire balls but he also could not accomplish it.
Elora was trying her best to keep her concentration, but it was hard with the mesmerized people trying to pierce the bubble. "Bianca!" Elora called out still concentrating, "I...can't hold...on much... longer they're pushing the bubble in and it's to strong. You have to...help me with your magic." Bianca looked through her bag and brought out a spell bottle filled with turquoise blue powder. She yanked the corked, poured an amount on her hand and mumbled some magic word. Soon her hands began to shine the same color as the powder. "Okay here goes nothing!" She pointed her hands toward the red rune and a beam of turquoise magic shoot out to the rune making the bubble stronger. "Okay, we're safe from them know, but how can we turn them back to normal? We can't stay here forever!" Mell stated.
Bianca glanced at Mell standing with her arms crossed doing nothing. "Mell it's up to you to try to turn Nazza, Spyro, and Hunter back to normal. If I stop helping Elora the shield that's protecting us, will collapse." Mell was speechless; they want her to save the day! She has never been a hero before. And now this is her chance to show Spyro that she had a change of heart. "Okay, but how do I do that?" Mell questioned. Bianca, who was still powering the red rune, gazed at Mell, " Get Spyro's Blue rune and use it to try to get the mermaids to stop controlling them. It's in his bag around his shoulders." Mell looked at Spyro's flame of death, backing away a few steps; "You're kidding aren't you. If I go out there he'll barbecue me! Anyway didn't the book say that the holder of the blue rune have to give the person permission to use." she said putting her arms up. "No he won't!" Bianca disagreed, "They're only after the person who stopped them from getting near the mermaids. And the rule also said that a person can use it if you don't abuse its magic or use it for evil, and you wouldn't do that, would you?"
This could have been Mell's chance to steal the blue rune and give it back to Ripto, but now with Mell change of heart she didn't want any part of his group. Besides, she wanted to return the favor to Elora after bulling her for all these years, transforming into her image to deceive her friends, and for Elora rescuing her from the cliff incident. Mell glanced at Spyro with his red beaming eyes. Spyro eyes were so red with rage that it looked as if it were on fire. Mell gulped, "Okay, I'll do this for everyone! For Tim, and for myself. Tim always wanted me to become a big hero, but not only that, I have to gain their confidence in me. Okay, here goes nothing!" Mell raced out from the bubble into the raged territory, she did a forward roll and grabbed the rune right out of Spyro's bag.
Mell turned around and saw that Spyro didn't even pay attention to her, as if she wasn't even there. He was only after his target, Elora. Without warning she felt something digging its claws into her back. Mell Yowled in pain, but she didn't give in, she quickly grabbed it and threw it over her head, reviling that it was once again, Nazza. Nazza got up and began to close in on her. What to do?! What to do?! What to do?!" Suddenly she remembered why she's out there in the first place, and saw that the blue rune was comfortably glowing in the palm of her hand, "Duh! I can just use the rune!" She held the stone with both her hands and aimed it towards Nazza. The blue wolf stopped growling and just looked at the rock in front of her confused, then he started to growl again.
Mell concentrated in the power within the rune. Then all of a sudden the rune began to glow, making her body glow also. Finally a huge jet of gushing water came out with full force hitting the raged wolf and sending him flying in mid air. Mell dropped her concentration and saw the Nazza on the floor, drenched, weak, and breathing shallow and deep from the force of the water. She looked at the siren who was controlling him and saw that she was also looking kind of weak and taking in deep breaths, "So it's the same with both of you. If I tire out Nazza I will also tire out you and you'll lose your hold of him. Okay bring it on, Blue boy!" she said Nazza slowly got up and began to go after her again, "You never stop, do you?" she said smiling at him. Nazza took his position and began to run, full seed at her.
The riptoc held out the rune in front of her and the same jet stream came out. But for some strange Nazza kept dodging in the jets and successfully did a helicopter in mid air and hit Mell in the chin making her fall to the other side of the boat. She slowly sat up with the rune still in her grasp and put her hand on her chin to see if was all right. When she looked at her hand she saw that there was a small stain of blood. Mell had enough of this. All of a sudden she heard Bianca scream, she turned her head and saw that Elora and Bianca were both almost out of energy, "Okay, this is getting wired. You had to have taken karate classes! And I getting tiered of being trashed by a blue-furred wolf that's half my size!" Mell got up from her position, and whipped the blood from her chin.
She saw Nazza just staring at her with those red sharp eyes eyeing her and him still grinding his teeth. "No more Mr. Nice Guy!" Mell took her position, but instead of aiming the rune towards Nazza, she aimed it towards the siren that was controlling him. She started to concentrate for the last time. Once again the jet stream shot out hitting the mermaid and making her fall into the water. Once Mell dropped her concentration with the magic within the rune, she saw a figure charging up to her. She turned her head and saw Nazza with his mouth open and teeth hanging out heading straight towards her neck. Nazza was gaining closer letting her have no time to run. So she covered her face, but instead of him pinning down her down on the floor Nazza stopped and laid in front of her motionless. Mell opened her eyes and saw the stone-still wolf on the ground before her. She smiled, knowing that the control that the mermaid had of Nazza is gone.
Suddenly she remembered the other two. Mell turned her head and saw Hunter and Spyro both pushing in the bubble. She knew that in any second Elora is going to lose her concentration with the red rune and Spyro and Hunter would have access to their boundaries. Mell her rune to the two sirens controlling the two and shot the jet of water making them fall into the water and lose their ability in controlling the dragon and the cheetah. At the minute the mermaids fell into the water Spyro and Hunter lost their red eyes of rage and fell to the ground like Nazza. Bianca and Elora sealed their concentration with the magic that was protecting them and ran up to Mell who was full of scratches from the battle and was panting deeply. "Wow! You were awesome!" Bianca said. Elora took a minute to regain her strength. "Yeah, if it wasn't for you. We would have been goners." Elora said. Mell smiled, "Come on lets see if the guys are back to normal and if they're all right."
Mell and Elora went and grabbed Spyro and Nazza and put them next to Hunter. Bianca went and checked on each of them checking their eyes, feet, hands, heart rate, pulse, etc... Bianca smiled and stood up, "They'll be just fine. They're probably just tiered out from those barbarians taking control of them. They're going to awake when we get out of this lagoon." Bianca got up and walked towards the steering wheel and began to direct the vessel to the other side of the lagoon, while Elora and Mell stood on guard just incase the trio return. "I don't think I'll ever get on a boat again!" Elora said putting her hands on her head and closing her eyes. Mell stared at her, "Come on! We have to keep on guard you don't want the trio hypnotists coming back."
While rowing back to shore Ripto and his gang went around the lagoon and was going to the Temple of King Cobra; the green rune guardian. While riding on top of Gulp he began to twirl his scepter between his fingers from boredom, "Huh." He sighed, "Can't you gecko's walk a little bit faster?" Ripto slouched down on his seat attached to Gulp's back he wasn't in the mood for name calling after the embarrassment that he got with the rockslide. Suddenly Gulp abruptly stopped walking making Ripto launch forward falling on Gulp's face, "What's the meaning of this?! Why did you stop?!" he said getting on the ground.
Gulp strained his neck to see what's going on in the front of the line, "There's an old crippled female red dragon warring a blue cape that's stopping the army from going any further." Gulp said. Ripto began to march to the front of the line with Gulp following him. No one stops his army from proceeding, especially if it's an old female dragon. Once Ripto got to the front of the line he saw the dragon asking Nezzer and Crush something, "What in the world are you doing? You're stopping the whole army!" Ripto looked at the old reptile beside him, "Who's this?" he snarled. "I was just wondering if you can spare me some food for my travel." She said in a trembling voice.
This was the same old female dragon that confronted Spyro and his group. Nezzer, Crush and Gulp looked at Ripto to see what he was going to do. Ripto looked at the stranger with disgust; he would never give food or any thing to a stranger or any one for that matter, even if she were the only person in the whole universe. " I don't know how you found us or where in the world you came from, but I'll give you to the count of three to leave before you turn into a Roman candle!" Ripto said pointing his scepter at the dragon's chest. The old dragon just frowned at Ripto's selfishness and pride, "Okay." She said calmly, "But mark my word, For you will regret this day!" she said walking into the forest and disappearing behind a tree. Ripto just stood there, he couldn't believe his ears, someone just threatened him, and even more worse it was from an old crippled dragon! "How dare you threaten me you worthless piece of garbage!" he called out.
Ripto turned to Nezzer and Crush, "Seize, her and bring her back! She's going to regret that she said that!" he said tightening his grip around his scepter. Nezzer and Crush ran into the jungle after the strange old lady. After a minute of searching they came back empty handed, "We couldn't find her, your Excellency." Nezzer said showing his empty hands. "Yeah. She's probably old, but she can sure run." Crush said. Ripto rolled his eyes, "Come on, let's get this show on the road!" Ripto said heading back to his position. "What about the old dragon?" Gulp said following him. "Forget about her! She'll probably die in this forest anyway!" He said rather cold. As Gulp was to say something else Ruben came shouting after Ripto," Boss! Boss!" he shouted. Ripto and Gulp both turned their heads to see Ruben running after them. Once he stopped he began to pant and talk at the same time, "The...The...map...has..."
"Out with it!" Ripto shouted. Ruben took a deep breath and continued, "I found a short cut that leads quicker and faster to the Temple of King Cobra! All we have to do is follow this trail." He said pointing to a landmark on the map not so far away from the place that they were right now. Ripto yanked the map from Ruben's hold with ignorance and began to examine it, "Hmmm, you might have a point there. Okay, lets change courses and follow this new trail." So Ripto ordered the army to divert into a new direction and off they went.
The boat finally made it to the other side of the lagoon and everyone came out with Bianca holding Hunter, Elora holding Spyro and Mell holding Nazza. Once they were on land the guys slowly opened their eyes that returned to their natural state of color and saw that they were on dry land. "Oh, my head!" Spyro moaned putting his claws on his forehead. " I feel like an anvil hit my head!" Hunter said. "Why am I all wet?!" Nazza said examining himself. "They're back to normal." Elora whispered. Elora, Mell and Bianca went and help them to their feet. "So had a good sleep?" Bianca said. "Are you kidding?! I had the most terrible nightmare!" Hunter said. "I dreamt that Spyro, Nazza and me became monsters by these mermaids and we were sent out to destroy you three." Nazza and Spyro looked at each other and then at Hunter, "We had the same dream too." They both said.
The three all stared at the girls; "Do you three have something to tell us?" Spyro said sitting down and crossing his arms. Bianca, Elora and Mell all looked at each other as if saying 'should we tell them,' When Elora was about to say something she heard a beeping coming from her bag. She reached inside and saw that it was the talkie-pad. Bianca grabbed it and pushed the button and saw The Professor and Agent 9's face.
Everyone huddled around her to see what the two had to say," Okay Agent 9, what do you have to say to Bianca?" Agent 9 folded his arms and his lower lip poked out, "Sorry." He said quickly and ran off the screen. "Great." And he looked at the screen again, "I see you didn't pass the lagoon, well, good. Because what ever you do, don't! You see the sirens in the lagoon can control the male type to drown themselves with out them even knowing, but if you stop them, and if you're a female, the sirens will get jealous and will tell the male person that she's controlling to destroy who ever stopped him. But I knew that never happened, I see that you're all okay." Bianca scratched her head, "He, He, um... yep we're all okay. No problems here." She said with an innocent smile. She didn't want to tell him what really happened. "Great, good-luck finding the next rune!" and then signed off.
Bianca lifted her head and saw Hunter, Spyro, and Nazza all looking at them. "So, anything else you want to tell us?" Nazza said. Elora gave a cheesy smile, "He, he...um, funny you should ask...when we were going across the lagoon, these three mermaids who were actually sirens popped up and they started to take control over you guys and, well..."
"Oh just say it!" Mell interrupted, "They took control over you guys and you almost killed us! Spyro, you almost turned Elora into a crisp with your flame breath. Hunter, you almost turned Bianca into ribbons with those sharp claws and Nazza, you all most turned me into Swiss cheese with those teeth almost puncturing me!" Mell said not letting Elora finish. Hunter, Spyro and Nazza just stood there to let the things that just happened, sink in. "Wow." Hunter said softly. "Okay, but if we were hypnotized how did you stopped us?" Spyro questioned. Bianca smiled, "It was all Mell."
Spyro, Hunter and Nazza eyes both widen in amazement. "But...But how?" Spyro questioned. "Let's continue walking and we'll tell you everything." Elora said giving Bianca a little push. Once they were on the road again, Bianca and Elora told the guys how Mell turned out to be a real hero and how she used the blue rune. "So do you now think Mell is part of us, Spyro?" Elora asked. Spyro walked over to Mell who was hearing their conversation, but not saying anything. "I guess I owe you an apology." Spyro stretched out his hands toward Mell, "Welcome to the club." He said giving a smile.
Mell smiled back and shook his hand. Once they started walking again Nazza walked up to the riptoc, "So, I really did try to kill you?" Mell nodded. "Yep, you did. I have been meaning to ask you something, did you ever take Karate?" Nazza thought for a moment, "Yeah, I was a black belt when I was ten. I was the best in my group, not that I mean to brag, though. Why?"
"When you were hypnotized, I saw some karate moves that you pulled off on me. And you would of beat me if I haven't used the rune, which was a surprise to me since no one ever defeated me in a battle." Nazza smiled. "So I guess I'm better then you." Mell just looked at him and raised an eyebrow. "Are you kidding? I take Judo so I can beat you anytime, anywhere, anyplace. Heck, I even want a rematch!" She said with a steady smile. Nazza smiled at her, "Your on!" There was a moment of silence then Mell and Nazza just laughed with the way they talked. Then after that they just talked about all the adventure that waited ahead of them.
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"Um Nazza." Mell questioned breaking the conversation.
"Yeah?"
"Can I give you a little advice?"
"Sure."
"You have to stop eating fatty foods."
End of Chapter 8
Well, I guess Mell really had a change of heart, she became a hero! Man, Mell had a bad life, her parents died, she lost her brother, no one likes her, no wonder she's all bitter inside. Will they get the next rune, or will Ripto? Find out in the next chapter..... It's a surprise. I love leaving cliff hangers to leave other people guessing what's going to happen, don't you?
Here are the results for the Quest for Quotes compotition! So Far.
Ripto:
Quotes 1,1 (People really like quote # 1, for Ripto)
Nezzer:
Quotes 3,2
Elora:
Quotes 6,1
Agent 9:
Quotes 1,5
Professor:
Quotes 1,1
Bianca:
Quotes 1,1
Ruben:
Quotes 4,1
Mell:
Quotes 2,1
Nazza:
Quotes 3,2
Hunter:
Quotes 5,3
Crush:
Quotes 2,1
Spyro:
Quotes 5,2
Gulp:
Quotes 1,1
Voters: Power of Wol, Turquoise Phoenix
(Thanks, you two) Please keep the votes coming. If I put a new list and you like one of the new quotes under a name. You can vote for it, even if you already voted (See how generous I am)