(Ollie finally regains composure aftere being out for about oh....lets say for a long time. Ollie sits up with his pig-
like hand on his forehead)
Ollie: Oh, my head! I felt as if I was booted in the head so many times!
(If you didn't read TDFR then you wouldn't understand. Ollie stands up and looks at the audience)
Ollie: Well, its time to get on with the story! Okay go read it! I have a headache, so I don't want to talk about nothing. Just go!
(IN THE HAWAIIAN AIRPORT)
KT: If I knew that booting him in the head will make him talk less, I would have used it on him years ago!
Quest for Jezebel's Necklace
Rating: PG
Ollie: It'll probably get higher in the future in the next two chapters. 11 down 8 more chapters to go!
Chapter 12: The Prodigal Riptoc Returns.
It was almost dawn. The Sun was peeking over the horizon scaring all the stars away. As the Sun peeked over the trees and bushes of the oasis its beams stretched out touching Hunters body. Hunter opened his eyes and gave a big stretch (The spell is broken by the sun's rays). Hunter sat up, "Wow, I never slept so good in my life!" Hunter explained. "How about you Bianca?" Hunter waited for a response, but nothing came, "Bianca?" he turned his head and didn't see Bianca anywhere, only Spyro, Elora and Nazza who were in the trees shadow sleeping.
Hunter got up and began to search to oasis calling out, "Bianca!" A few minutes passed and the suns rays finally hit Spyro, Elora and Nazza's faces. The trio gave a yawn and stretched. Spyro stood on all four and stretched just like a cat, "I trusted you slept well." Spyro said. Nazza smiled, "Like a baby," Nazza looked around, but couldn't find Hunter and Bianca anywhere, "Um, where's the two love birds?" Elora looked around, "They probably woke up and watched the sunset, Bianca told me on how once in awhile they do that." Elora said.
Suddenly they saw a yellow figure coming their way; it was Hunter, but for some reason he had a worried expression on his face. "Hey Hunter," Spyro said, "Why the long face?" Hunter began to pace back and forth as if he was worried about something, "When I woke up I couldn't find Bianca. I looked all over the oasis and I still couldn't find her!" Hunter said.
Spyro, Elora and Nazza both looked at each other, "Are you sure you looked all over?" Spyro asked. Hunter nodded. "Maybe she just took a walk?" Nazza guessed. Hunter shook his head, "Nu, hu, Bianca doesn't like to take walks in the morning. Besides, if she did, she would have told me and I would have gone with her!"
"This is serious!" Elora said. "Come on, let's look for some clues." Everyone looked around to see anything suspicious but couldn't find anything.
As Hunter walked near where they were sleeping he felt something under his feet. He lifted his foot and saw a piece of paper half buried in the sand. "Hey look! I found something!" Hunter yelled. Spyro, Elora and Nazza went to see what Hunter has discovered.
As Hunter read the grim words his heart sank, his ears drooped and his bright yellowish color went pale. "What does it say?" Spyro asked. With out blinking, talking or moving his head he just handed it to Elora. Elora took it, and with out having no fear of what the mysterious note said, she read it out loud.
"Dear Spyro and his friends,
I have your precious rabbit friend.
If you don't bring back all four runes
The rabbit dies. We are located in the
Sorceress' old castle in the Forgotten Worlds.
With Hate,
Ripto
P.S. Don't even try to rescue her. The bars are Dragon proof and the lock that I locked it with can only be opened by me!
When Elora finished her heart stopped pounding, figuratively speaking. As she looked at her friends they had the same expression on their face as she did. "I can't believe this! I just can't believe this. We were so close!" Nazza said sitting down. "We can't just give the runes, we just can't!" Nazza said wrapping his hands around the green rune that hanged freely on his neck. "But what's more important? Us saving Bianca or us saving the world?" Elora questioned. Nazza shook his head and gave a cheep grin, "Isn't there a third option?" Nazza asked. Elora looked at him. Nazza put his head down, "I know, but we can't just give him the runes!"
"We can't just let Bianca die!" Spyro said. Nazza knew that if they gave the runes to Ripto he'll conquer the world faster then they could say 'We're done for!' but the life a friend is priceless, you can't get another one. Nazza put his head down, "Okay, lets go rescue Bianca." Spyro smiled, "Don't worry Nazza, Ripto never won and he never will! Once Bianca is free will some how get the runes back to get Jezebel's Necklace."
All of a sudden Hunter stood, "That's it!" He shouted, Hunter took his Bow and Arrow out from his bag that was on the sand, "Lets go rescue Bianca! Get water refills now, Cuz we're not going to stop for nothing! Pack your bags, Cuz we're moving out!" Hunter yelled walking away. The three stared at each other, "Wow, is he always like this?" Nazza asked. Elora smiled, "Only when wants to be." Elora said joining her feline friend.
Once Spyro and Nazza refilled their canteens and joined Elora and Hunter, they were on their way, but they didn't notice, with Hunter's eagerness he forgot his bag.
Mell finally got out of Desert Ruins territory and was now in Terra de Fuego. Since the time period of Terra de Fuego was in the late spring, temperatures got to as high as 110 degrees (F) so Mell was sweating all over and her canteen was almost empty. If she doesn't find some water soon she'll fry quicker that an egg on a skillet!
Mell took out the map from the pocket in the cloak that Bianca gave her and looked for a place that had water, "Now lets see, there has to be an oasis some where out here." Mell scanned the landmarks on the map and saw that there was an oasis that wasn't far from the place that she was now.
She put the map back in the pocket and began to search for an oasis. Mell wasn't that thirsty, one-day when she was in riptoc boot camp when she wanted to join Ripto's army, her group had to go into the wilderness without anything just a compass and a jacket. She survived without water for five days until she finally found an under ground spring, so she could with water far a long time. That was probably the only reason she was grateful that she joined Ripto's army, except for the part that He let her brother get lost in the Jungle of No Return.
After a long time walking with nothing but sand, old skeletons of other creatures that have gone in the past and a few tumble weeds she finally saw something green; it was the oasis. With not another thought, she sprinted across the hot sand for heaven was right around the corner for her.
As Mell came closer to the pond in the middle of the oasis she didn't bother to fill the canteen, she just submerged her head into the water and took in deep gulps of water. Since she ran towards the lake, she had got thirsty quickly.
Once she was satisfied, She started to fill her canteen. As she turned around to walk away she felt something puncture into her foot. "OWW!" she screamed. Mell quickly lifted her foot and saw a leather brown bag on the floor. Curious, she knelt beside the bag and opened it and pulled out an arrow and started to examine it, "This arrow looks familiar." She thought.
After much thinking she finally knew whose arrow and bag this was, "Its Hunter's bag!" she said smiling, "And if Hunter's bad was here, Hunter and everyone else was here too!" Mell looked at the sand and saw that there were tons of foot prints; one looked liked a reptiles foot, a large paw print next to a smaller one, and the final one was a hoof print. These were Spyro, Hunter, Nazza and Elora's prints!
Mell began to examine the impressions, "These tracks are fresh," Mell said feeling the grooves in the indentations, "That means they couldn't of gotten far!" Mell didn't go to The Girls Scouts of Avalar for nothing that's how she got good in observing things around her. She got the bag and put the map, canteen and rope that she was carrying inside the sack. Once she was all set she put the bag on her back and followed the tracks that was left by the gang.
Ripto was pacing back and forth in the thrown room waiting for the report of Mell's capture, "How can she do this?! She's been with me ever since she was five! I'm like a father to her!" Suddenly he heard a screech as if a door was opening. He looked over his shoulder and saw a group of Riptocs coming inside his room with worried expression.
Ripto turned completely around and gave a glare at all of them, "Well? Did you find her?" he asked. All of the riptocs shook their heads. "You see your Excellency," One of the smaller Riptocs said, "She just vanished! We checked the premises outside the castle and inside; she just disappeared! And-" The riptoc continued to talk about not finding Mell.
While talking, all of the riptocs except him saw Ripto getting angrier and angrier be the minute. They all tried to shut-up the smaller riptoc, but it was too late; Ripto's anger got the best of him.
Ripto got so angry that he sent a red beam from his scepter towards the riptoc, disintegrating him in an instant. All the riptocs slowly gazed at Ripto with his eyes red with rage.
Once he cooled down a bit he talked, "Now, anyone else has anything to tell me about Mell?" Ripto asked. Everyone shook their heads. "Good, if Mell returns by herself kill her, but if she returns with the dragon and his friends bring them in and once the runes are in my hands… kill them all!" Ripto said ending with a sinister laugh that echoed through out the castle.
Hunter was still in the lead after two hours and a half of non-stop walking. Hunter was so determined to rescue Bianca that he didn't even show any sign of tiredness, while the others were almost dying, figuratively speaking.
Nazza was so hot and with his fur, it didn't help. Nazza finally fell on the sand tired out, "Go without me!" he pleaded, "I can't go any further!" Spyro and Elora stopped and looked at the exhausted wolf. "Nazza, you have to! We can't go on without you." Elora said walking up to him and trying to pick him up.
Spyro looked at Hunter who was still walking, "Hunter! Can't we stop and rest? Nazza is exhausted and so are we!" Spyro said pointing to Elora who was trying to get Nazza on his feet with no success. Hunter didn't stop walking, but he answered his question, "No, Nazza can keep up. He's just being to sensitive!" Hunter replied with a cold harsh tone. When Nazza heard him, he began to feel angry about Hunter's comment.
In an instant Nazza stood up and began to walk towards Hunter, "Hunter don't you have a heart? You're worse then Ripto! We're tired and we're stopping!" Hunter stopped and looked at him walking up to his face, "Look blue boy, Bianca is in trouble and we're going to rescue her!" Nazza just looked at him, "I understand that we're going to rescue Bianca, but we're not, if you kill us first of over exhaustion!" Nazza said.
"Don't tell me your tired. You've only been here for a couple of minutes!" Hunter said.
"We've been here for over an hour! Our canteens are empty, we're thirsty, we want to rest before you kill us!" Nazza shouted shoving his face a little closer to Hunter's face, but Hunter didn't move an inch. "What are you talking about? I don't see Elora and Spyro whining about water and that they're tired." Hunter looked at the faun and the Dragon. Spyro and Elora walked up to them, "Well, to tell you the truth," Elora said, "you are kind of exaggerating, Hunter"
"Yeah, We've been walking so long that I'm getting blisters on my blisters!" Spyro added. Hunter was surprised, but then his face turned into anger, "Fine, have it your way! You can walk as slow as you want, but I'm still walking the same pace that I was." Hunter said turning around and walking away.
The three just stood there looking at him walk away, "I think the heat is getting to him." Nazza said. Elora and Spyro both agreed, "But he's right on one thing," Spyro said, "We still need to rescue Bianca." Soon they started to walk at the same pace as Hunter was walking, super fast.
While walking Nazza was just in his own world, "This place is so hot! Why couldn't they have chosen Winter Tundra, Frozen Alters or Icy Peck to have the yellow rune in? Nooooo, they had to pick this God forsaken Terra de Fuego Desert! I believe that this place is called Terra de fuego! Ha! Land of Fire! But I wont let the heat get to me! I won't lose my mind in this heat! That cheetah is going to kill us all...not if I kill hi first! Wait....I'm losing my mind!" Nazza was at the verge of almost going insane.
As he looked ahead of him he saw he saw an image form before his eyes; it was a pool filled with female wolfs. Nazza stopped smiled, "Look, it's a pool!" Nazza shouted. Spyro looked the way that he was pointing and didn't see anything.
"Nazza, I don't see anything. You're seeing things." Nazza walked in front of Elora and Spyro, "What do you mean I'm seeing things? Look," he said pointing to something that only he could see, "there's a pool of water filled with gorgeous babes and I'm going swimming, and if any of you stop me I'm going to do something I regret!" Nazza stated acting a little insane.
"Nazza," Elora said, "You're seeing a Mirage." Nazza shook his head nervously, "No I'm not, that's a pool and I'm going into it!" Nazza began to run towards the Mirage. "Make room, cuz here I come" Nazza shouted.
Elora and Spyro didn't bother to stop him, they decided for him to discover it by himself. Nazza leapt up into the air, as he was coming down he saw the pool and the everyone inside vanish making him land on top of sand. Nazza stood up bewildered and started to spit out sand. "But…they…the pool…it was here…it vanished." Spyro and Elora walked to Nazza," Nazza we tried to warn you." Elora said.
"Yeah but, I want water!" Nazza started to whine like a puppy would. Nazza looked at Hunter and saw him still walking not even paying attention to his cries. Nazza stood up and began to become furious with Hunter. Elora and Spyro looked at each other knowing what he was about to do, "The cat's going to pay!" he hissed. Elora went to hold him back, but he ran before she could get a hold of them. Elora fell face down.
As she lifted her head she saw that he was running towards Hunter as if something from a nature show, "I hope Nazza doesn't do anything he'll regret." Elora said. "I think he will! Come one we have to stop him!" Spyro said.
As Hunter was walking he could hear something running towards him. He turned around and saw Nazza mad dash across the sand towards him. He could tell that he was angry by the look on his face. As Nazza was a yard away from Hunter he pounced on him making him fall on the floor, but Hunter rolled off before he had a chance to do anything.
Hunter stood up and aimed his bow and arrow towards Nazza. "So this has to be the outcome, doesn't it?" Hunter snarled. Nazza saw the arrow but didn't move back; he just kept growling and grinding his teeth.
Elora and Spyro stopped when they saw Hunter pointing his bow and arrow towards Nazza; "Somebody has to stop them before they kill each other. The heat has made them insane!" Elora said. As Elora tried to proceed Spyro stopped her, "We can't, if we do they'll probably turn on us. We have to think of a way o cool them down." Their attention then turned to Hunter and Nazza who was still giving each other venomous glares.
All of a sudden Hunter let go of his bow arrow and it was heading straight towards Nazza's neck. Elora and Spyro gave a gasp. The arrow landed, but Nazza was no where to be seen. Suddenly Nazza showed up behind Hunter pinning him on the floor. Nazza has used the power of hyper speed; he was still wearing the green rune necklace. Hunter turned around and with his claws ripped the necklace of Nazza's neck giving him a small cut, "Cheetah beat's wolf", he hissed. Nazza gave a look at him, "Not for long!" Nazza went and bit him on his arm that was holding the bow and arrow, letting it falls on the ground. Hunter gave a yowl in pain and shook Nazza off him arm making him fall.
Hunter leapt on him and gave a scratch on him left foreleg. Nazza also gave a yowl in pain. Nazza gave Hunter a look and Hunter gave Nazza one. Nazza picked up his rune and Hunter picked up his bow and arrow.
As Nazza and Hunter were about to end each other's life and huge gush of water hit the two forcing them to go down.
When the water ceased Hunter and Nazza sat up. The two looked up and saw that it was Spyro who sent the gushing water from his blue rune. "Look at you two!" Elora shouted, "The heat has gone to your head and you were about to take each other lives! I hope that water cooled you off, because we're taking a break!" Hunter and Nazza put their heads down from shame. "Can't you two just get along, With you two fighting we're never going to rescue Bianca!" Spyro said. Hunter got up and shook the excess water off. When he was done he helped Nazza to his feet.
The two looked at each other and went to Spyro and Elora, "We're sorry," Nazza said, "I guess the heat was getting to us, It's this freakin' desert!" Spyro and Elora looked at each other, "So is the fighting finally over?" Spyro asked. The two nodded. "Great, I don't even know why you two were fighting. I mean, there's another oasis over there." Elora said pointing to her left. Hunter and Nazza looked and saw that she was telling the truth. Nazza and Hunter both looked at each other and smiled, "Last one there is a rotten dragon egg!" Hunter yelled out. Nazza then ran after him, "Hey, no fair!" he yelled.
Spyro looked at the two as they ran to the oasis, "Don't you think there's something wrong with them?" Spyro asked, "They were one minute killing each other and now they're racing to see who's going to get to the oasis first." Elora smiled and began to walk after them, "Come on Spyro, I'll race you too. We need a small vacation. So, are you ready?" Spyro smiled, "You bet!" They got to there position and once Elora said, "GO!" the two sprinted across the plains to the oasis.
Once Hunter got there he jumped into the pond that it had, and Nazza was right behind him, then it was Elora and Spyro. Once they cooled off they jumped out of the pool; "I was needing that!" Nazza said, "I'm sorry I bit you, Hunter." Nazza said trying to tie the string from the necklace that was holding the green rune together. "Yeah, I'm sorry I gave that nasty scratch." He said cleaning his bow.
As Hunter stood up he saw a figure in the distance that was wearing a purple cloak. Hunter rubbed his eyes just incase he wasn't seeing things, but the image was still there. "Do you see what I see?" Hunter asked. Everyone looked to where Hunter was pointing and saw a figure with a purple coat, "I sure do." Spyro said. "Hey," Nazza said, "Doesn't Bianca have a purple coat with a hood attached to it?" Everyone nodded, "That must be Bianca then!" Nazza shouted. Without thinking another thought, Hunter took his stuff and began to run towards where the figure was, with Spyro, Elora and Nazza following him.
When Hunter got closer to the figure he gave her a big hug. "I've missed you so much, Bianca. How did you escape?" Suddenly he felt himself being pushed off, "Get of off me you clumsy cheetah!" the stranger commanded. Hunter made a face; it was a female that didn't sound like Bianca. As he looked at the strangers' face he gasped, took a step back and pulled out his bow and arrow and was pointed at her; it was Mell.
Once Spyro, Nazza and Elora caught up with him they gasped, they thought that the person was Bianca, but instead it was Mell in Bianca's cloak. "What are doing here wearing Bianca's coat, Mell?" Hunter commanded still pointing his arrow at her heart. Mell gulped, and started to take a step back, but as she did she tripped over her cloak and fell. Mell looked up at the gang; "I came back so I can help you in your quest!"
"NO! I've heard you say that, and you deserted us!" Spyro shouted. Mell couldn't stand anymore of them calling her, deserter, betrayer and so on, "Look! For the last time I did not betray you. I even tried to rescue you, Nazza," Nazza looked at her, "I tried to rescue you from King Cobra, but Nezzer and Ruben held me back." Nazza smiled, but then Hunter cut him off, "I didn't see you near the temple." Hunter said stretching his bow a little more.
"That's because your eyes were just on Nazza. Come on, you have to believe me, Bianca sent me! She even gave me a map to come and find you!" She said showing them a map that was fold up. "And she even gave me her cloak, so I can secretively escape." Spyro and Hunter were still not sure about it, but Elora and Nazza was still thinking it over.
Mell saw that Hunter wasn't putting his bow and arrow down, "Look, if I really betrayed you would I have came back? When the sirens hypnotized you, Nazza and Spyro, I rescued you. If I was really going to betray you, would I have done that? Would we be having this conversation if I was going to betray you? If you believe me Hunter, put the arrow down, but if you don't…" Mell took a big gulp and gave the statement that she was about to say a long thought, "You just take my life now I won't stop you." Hunter had his arm steady, Nazza, Spyro and Elora stayed quiet, is Hunter going to do it? Or will he give her a second chance? It felt like eternity before they could see the anger in his face drain and his shoulders relax, "Okay," He finally said, "You have my trust."
As Hunter was about to put his bow and arrow away, his hands were sweating so much that the arrow actually slipped form his grasp and the arrow was heading straight toward Mell's heart. Nazza saw the arrow heading towards her with horror. He quickly went into hyper speed. Mell watched helplessly as the arrow came closer and closer. Mell closed her eyes then felt a push.
She opened her eyes and saw that Nazza pushed out of the way just before the arrow hit. Nazza stood up and helped the shocked riptoc to her feet, "I thought you didn't want to see me again?" she said still a little unstable from what just happened. Nazza shrugged, "Well, people do get second chances. Why don't we start all over? Hi, I'm Nazza." He said putting his paw out, "I'm Mell." She said smiling and shaking his paw.
After Hunter came back to life from the scare that he did he went to see if Mell was alright, "Mell, are you okay? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. It just slipped out." Hunter said trying to see if she would forgive him. "That's okay Hunter, accidents happen." Then Elora came to see Mell; "Do you think we can start over?" Elora questioned. "Sure, you mean from when I was bulling you in school or when we met in Camabila?" Elora smiled, "Don't push it Crocus."
"Well Mell," Mell heard a voice and turned around and saw that it was Spyro, "I guess I miss judged you. Your right, a person who had saved another persons life couldn't have betrayed them unless they have a black heart like Ripto, believe me I should know. Do you think you could forgive us?" Spyro asked, Mell smiled at Spyro, "Only under one condition." Mell said putting her hands on her hips. Spyro looked confused, "Which is?"
"That we all get the yellow rune, free Bianca and kick some riptoc butt!" Mell said throwing one of her punches." Spyro smiled, "Hey, you stole my line!" he said jokingly. After that, they were on the road again with the prodigal riptoc in their group. They now were heading towards to where the guardian and the yellow rune lies, in The Mountain of Illusions.
End Chapter 12
(Ollie was sleeping in his hammock and no one wanted to wake him up, so they just decided to skip him and go to KT and Ashley in the Hawaiian airport)
KT: Okay this is all set!
(KT and Ashley were trying to secretively climb into the big box and maybe someone will mail it. Ashley posted the address on the box)
Ashley: Okay here's what it says.
Site: ff. net
Subject: Games
Category: Spyro the Dragon
Story: QFJN
Yep, we're all set. Now just climb in the box and wait
(KT and Ashley climbed inn the box and taped it shut)
(5 HOURS PASTED...)
KT: When will they mail this?
(24 HOURS PASTED)
Ashley: I need to go the bathroom!
(3 DAYS)
(Playing goldfish)
KT: Got any 5's?
Ashley: No, Go Fish
(1 WEEK!)
KT: The walls! They're closing in! I can't....take it!
Ashley: Calm down! You're starting to scare me!
KT: I can't stay here any longer! AHAHAHAHA-what just happened?
(KT and Ashley felt someone lift the box up)
Ashley: YAY! They're mailing us!
KT: Finally! How long have we've been in here?
Ashley: About 10 minutes
KT: (OO) That can't be! The words on the screen said 1 Week!
Ashley: I think that's because that's how long it feels we were in here!
KT: It doesn't matter. All it counts is that we're finally getting out of this AIRPORT!!!
Ashley: One problem.
KT: What?
Ashley: I recently read that we have to travel to China, then Russia, then Australia, then Peru then finally to We're not the only ones here. There are other packages that need to go to other parts s of the world!
KT: You mean?
Ashley: Yes, we're going to get back to when QFJN ends, guarantee! We can't go straight to , it'll take us forever!
KT: NO! Not that! We get to travel around the world! YAY!!!!!
Ashley:The People that I have to deal with! First Ollie having a crush on me and now this? This is great, just great!
KT: While we're on this trip I brought this!
(KT showed tons of pretzel, potato chips, doritos and a gallon of juice and a laptop)
Ashley: What for?
KT: Not to get hungry, not to get thirsty and not tp get bored! I'm going to update the recent stories from here. It has wireless internet and email my parents and catch some of my favoprite movies!
(KT brought out a bag load of DVD's)
Ashley: All this time you had all of this and you never told me?!
KT: Hey, don't be jealous that I have the equipment and you don't!
Ashley: I can't belive this!
(Ashley turns to the audience)
Ashley: Just finish this story! Cuz I can't take it anymore!!! Read the next chapter of QFJN narrated by that flying pig. Also if you didn't read TDFR then go read it KT updated it a little while ago.
(Ashley whispers to the audience)
Ashley: She's been driving me crazy since no one lefty a review on the last chapter
KT: NO REVIEWS!!!!! What does these people think I am? (you know I'm just kidding)
Ashley: She what I mean? Ollie is probably going to update the chapter to TDFR later in the week. So to understand what happens in the new chapter you have to read the last chapter that's on TDFR. Hope to see you soon, I hope to get out of this box soon!