Ollie: Alright then! This is the 15th chapter in QFJN! YAY! Never thought It'll get this far. There are only...um...
(Counts on fingers)
Ollie: 1...2...3...4! 4 chapters left. I really, really like this part! I love excitement and everything to do with it! I wonder what's going to happen to Mell! Well, lets find out!
Quest for Jezebel's Necklace
Rating: PG
Chapter 15: Blast to the Past
The gang finally made in to the island and began to run towards the laboratory. Once they got to the door, Elora opened it letting everyone go in. Inside, they saw Agent 9 sitting on a chair fixing his laser blaster.
As Agent 9 looked up he didn't looked to surprised to see them back after two weeks out in the wilderness, "Hey." He slowly said. Without asking what's wrong, Bianca quickly asked for the Professor. "The Doc is in the back." He said pointing over his shoulder as the gang began to run through the door, Agent 9 noticed a body of a riptoc in Hunter's arms.
Burning with curiosity, he began to follow them. Once they entered in the room that Agent 9 told them, everyone saw the Professor fixing some equipment, "Professor!" Spyro called out.
The Professor looked and saw the gang running towards him, "What a surprise, your back already?" The Professor went and took a piece of cloth and wiped his hands.
"Professor," Elora said, "We need you to help a friend of ours!" Elora asked breathless from the run.
The Professor was confused, "Who's this mystery person?" he asked. Hunter walked in-between Elora, Spyro, Nazza, and Bianca. The Professor directed his attention from Hunter to the life-less body he was holding up. The Professor gasped, "Dear me, what happened to her?" he asked.
Nazza went up to the Professor and stood on his hind legs as he put his forearms on the Professor's shoulder, "Her name is Mell, she saved our lives. You have to revive her, Professor. You just have to!" The Professor just looked at Nazza who was in his face. "Um…okay let me have a look at her."
As Nazza came down and the gang put Mell on a bed, the Professor cleaned his hands and put gloves on. The Professor went and looked at her, pulse, heart rate, eyes, mouth, the burns on her scale and so one. After he was done examining the patient, he took off his gloves and turned to face Spyro, Nazza, Elora, Hunter, and Bianca. "What's the status?" Nazza asked.
"She's a real fighter. She has 3-degree burns that she has to live for the rest of her life if she survives. She has two broken legs and she lost a lot of blood." The Professor said attaching the ivy on her arm and other stuff. "What's the diagnosis? Will she survive?" Elora asked.
"That depends, she is a very good fighter for her life. Didn't you say that the building collapse on her? I'm surprised that she survived such a thing without breaking her neck. It's a 50.5 chance that she will survive and another 50.5 chance she won't make it. I think she will survive, like I said she's a good fighter. She just needs lots of attention and rest." The Professor explained.
As the gang went out of the room they went back outside and started to talk about what happened in the past two weeks. "So you actually went past Mermaid lagoon, huh?" everyone nodded, "I'm surprised that you survived that wretched lake. You have a lot of courage."
"Actually Mell saved us, she was the one with a lot of courage. That's why we don't want her to die." Bianca said.
The Professor smiled, "I see, so who got the yellow rune?" He asked. Everyone pointed to the room that Mell was in. "She said she wants me to have it. Is that legal?" Elora asked showing him the rune.
The Professor nodded, "If the owner of the yellow rune wants to give the yellow rune to someone else that is perfectly fine. Now enough talking you have to get the necklace before it's to late." The Professor said. Everyone was perplexed, What does he mean by to late?
"What do you mean?" Spyro asked. The Professor turned his head, "You mean I didn't tell you?" he asked. Everyone shook their heads, "There is only one time that you can get the necklace; when the planets align."
"When is that?" Hunter asked. The Professor looked at his watch around his wrist, "In about an hour." Everyone gasped, "How come we have to do it when the planets align?" Spyro asked.
"When the planets align there is a chain reaction that activates the door to Jezebel's Necklace. You need that activation to charge up the runes or it will never work. At the precise moment the planets align you jam the runes into the rightful spot." The Professor said leading Spyro, Elora, Hunter, Bianca and Nazza outside along with Agent 9 who was back to his jumpiness again
"When you get the necklace can I go back in time and keep teaching that ugly Komodo dragon dancing lessons again, if you know what I mean." Agent 9 smirked.
The Professor turned his head and saw Agent 9 following them, "Heavens no! If one small change happens in the past the outcome in the future can be disastrous! Besides didn't you say that you are never going to come outside without your laser gun?" The Professor asked.
"Awww, can I just stay here until they have to leave, please." Agent 9 begged. After much debating The Professor said 'yes'.
"Where are you taking us Professor?" Hunter questioned.
"You'll see, from the day you left to today, I've been working on a portal that is going to lead you to Jezebel's Necklace. The only problem is that I didn't get all the bugs out yet, so the portal can only be used two times, for you going and coming back." The Professor said.
Spyro looked over the Professor and saw a portal that was similar to any other portal except that it had three orbs around it and the portal wasn't on. "So, where is Jezebel's Necklace anyway?" Spyro questioned.
"I'm glad you asked that, Spyro. When Ripto turned his image to look like me, didn't he tell you that the necklace is in the heart of Avalar?" everyone nodded.
"Well, the ancient Avalonites used to think that Avalar was the only world in the universe, so the heart of Avalar is in the center of this place. That means the necklace is in the center of the whole world." The Professor explained as they reached the portal.
"So we have to go underground?" Nazza asked.
"Precisely, now I just need to put the code in and turn on the machine and you'll be all set." The Professor instructed.
"Can I put the code?" Hunter asked.
Elora, Spyro, Bianca, The Professor and Nazza all looked at him and all said, "NO!" making him take a step back.
"Hunter," Elora said, "Don't you remember the last time you added one of your codes to the Professor's portal?"
Hunter smiled remembering that fateful day, the day he by accident brought Ripto to Avalar. "Yeah, for now on leave the codes to the Professor, will you?" Spyro said while the Professor put in the new code. As he turned on the portal the inside changed color and golden letters on top read 'Heart of Avalar.'
"Amazing!" Bianca gasped.
"Well," Spyro said breaking the silence, "come on! We have a necklace to retrieve!"
As they were about to go into the portal The Professor stopped them,"Wait!" he called out, "You need to keep track on what time the planets will align." The Professor took off his watch and gave it to Bianca, "If you miss the alignment, you have to wait another 5000 years to have the planets do it again."
Bianca took the watch and put it around her wrist, "Thanks, what time will the alignment begin?"
"In 30 minutes, It's 3:00 now, when it gets 3:30 shove the runes in its rightful place. Don't forget that you can only use the portal two times; that's for going and for coming back." The Professor called out as Bianca, Elora, Hunter and Spyro entered into the portal.
Nazza looked at the portal then at the Professor, "Professor, please get Mell better." Nazza asked. The Professor smiled, "Nazza, the only thing I can do is give her medicine and care. She has to the rest by herself. Besides I said, I think she's going to survive, like I said, she's a fighter."
Nazza smiled, "You're right about that." With one look at the professor he ran into the portal to meet the others.
As the Professor walked back with Agent 9, Agent 9 stopped; he wanted to see the portal close. As he watched from a distance he saw that small figure with a purple torn up cloak and a golden rod with a red crystal in his hand jumped out from a bush and was heading to the slowly closing portal.
Agent 9 gasped, as the mysterious figure came out from its shadowy hideout; it was Ripto! He's alive! "So roach, you came out to play, huh? Well here's a fellow that wanted to play with you the whole day, say hello to- huh?"
As Agent 9 was to take his laser gun out from his belt he saw that it wasn't there. He then remembered that he was fixing it. "Shoot! I have to tell the Doc this!"
Agent 9 then ran towards the Professor who was almost at the door, "Hey Doc! Doc!" Agent 9 called out. The Professor turned around, "What's the meaning of this? What's going on?"
"It's Ripto, he's going to go inside the portal after the gang! I would have stopped him, but I didn't have my laser gun! That…" As Agent 9 continued to talk, The Professor quickly looked at the portal just in time to see a small creature jump in right before the portal totally closed up. "Oh, this is terrible! I have to warn them right away!"
The professor reached into his pocket and took out the talkie-pad and turned it on, "Spyro, can you hear me? Elora? Bianca? Hunter? Nazza? Anybody?" but there was no answer just static. "I was afraid of this, since everyone went under ground, the rock, dirt and everything that's separating us from them is getting in the way."
"Not to worry Professor," Agent 9 said, "We'll go and stop him, come on." The minute he began to run towards the portal he felt a hand hold him by the tail, "Hey, what's the deal?"
"Sorry Agent 9, you can't go after them. If we do, we'll be stuck underground since the portal can only be used two times." The Professor let go of Agent 9's tail and looked at the portal, "I just hope nothing wrong will happen."
Spyro, Elora, Hunter, Nazza and Bianca made it safe and sound to the heart of Avalar. They looked around when Hunter turned on his flashlight; they were in some sort of cave with another cave in front of them leading inside of a tunnel. "I wonder where that tunnel leads?" Elora asked.
"There's only on way to find out." Spyro said signaling his friends to follow him into the underground passage.
As they were walking along the tunnel they saw that the walls were covered in ancient Avalar hieroglyphics, and unlit torches hung on the wall, but as they walked further into the tunnel, Hunters flashlight went dim; the batteries were dead making everything fall in darkness.
"Great, how do we find out where this tunnel leads?" Nazza complained.
Elora sighed, "Nazza, stay patient."
Elora took her red rune from her pouch and made a small torch with her hand. Everyone looked in amazement as the rune made Elora's hand catch on fire.
"Elora, your hands on fire!" Bianca shouted.
Elora looked at her hand and saw that her hand was really burning, but there was no pain of any burn marks. "Maybe, since I'm the red rune holder I won't get hurt." Elora said smiling.
"COOL! How does it feel like?" Nazza questioned following Elora deeper into the tunnel.
As they walked on, they finally reached the end of the tunnel into a bigger cave under the ground. Everyone looked up and saw a huge door blocking their way of proceeding. The door was at least the height of a full-grown elephant.
As the five scanned the door they found four small holes on the bottom of the door for the runes. Elora went to the four holes and began to examine it. Each one had a different picture above the hole; the first on was a water droplet. The second a flame, the third a leaf, and the second a lighting bolt. These were the keys to tell which rune goes where.
Elora turned around and faced her friends, "How much time to we have left before the alignment begins?" She asked.
Bianca looked at the watch The Professor gave her, "About 10 minutes."
So the gang waited, Hunter and Nazza were playing gold fish, with the cards that Hunter brought along, Bianca and Spyro just kept talking about the necklace.
Elora didn't want to be disturbed, she just wanted to be by herself with the rune that Mell gave her. "The professor said that Mell would be alright, then that means that I can resurrect my father. Mell did save our lives more then once, but she's going to become better…I hope. I really want to see my dad and I don't want Mell to die. This is to frustrating, I can't think about this here. I have to much pressure on my head right now."
After they waited some more it was time for the big countdown. After more then two weeks in search for the runes they finally have it and now they're going to get the necklace and it will finally be over.
Elora, Nazza and Spyro took their position in front of the door, where the four holes are. Spyro was holding his blue rune, Nazza was holding his green rune and Elora was holding both the red and yellow rune. Bianca and Hunter stayed a few feet back from the door, while Bianca said the final seconds that will finally end their quest.
"10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1!" at the minute she said '1', everyone jammed in the runes into the holes and took a step back to where Hunter and Bianca were.
Three long agonizing seconds past until the runes showed signs of effect. The runes began to slowly change color, then it got fast and faster and faster until the color started to blend. When the changing of color ended they saw that the runes all were one color, white.
Finally, the door slowly opened sending out rays of the purist white light a person has ever seen. Elora, Spyro, Hunter, Nazza, and Bianca all shielded their faces from the blinding light.
When they could tell that the light had dimmed down they opened their eyes in amazement; there, after all these years, rotating in mid air on top of a column was the magical, time traveling, golden, thick, ancient necklace of Jezebel.
The four travelers all stood there in 'awe' as they saw the golden necklace rotate in mid air. The necklace was a thick and wide necklace; it was gold plated with a small hourglass as a charm.
Everyone was so amazed with the necklace that they didn't notice a strange figure run behind a rock. As they began to walk towards the necklace something fell in front of them. They all turned their attention to three small spherical balls rolling on the ground.
When the three stopped rolling it let out a gas of some sort making it impossible to see to the other side. Everyone started to cough uncontrollably.
"What's (cough) going (cough) on?" Elora questioned between coughs.
"Who (cough) done this?" Spyro yelled.
As the smoke settled down and the coughing grew less and less they saw that the necklace was gone from it's place.
"Who took the necklace?" Bianca asked, kind of stunned.
Spyro sniffed the air and his anger became great, his nose started to puff out smoke and he grinds his teeth, "The question is, who threw those gas balls and I think I know who did!"
Suddenly they heard a laugh echoing through the cave; everyone looked around, "HAHAHA! You little pest thought you have gotten rid of me by letting that pathetic Mell stay in the castle." The voice said.
"Ripto!" everyone shouted.
Suddenly a small shadow creep out from a rock behind them, "That's right, don't think that you can defeat me so easily!"
"What does it take to get rid of you?" Spyro snarled.
Ripto smiled, "A lot more then you can handle. Remember this phrase, Dragon? And now that I have the necklace I'll rename this place Riptonia!" He said holding up the necklace; "It's such a shame that you won't be here when I take over your precious world."
Both Elora and Spyro had enough of this; they all suffered along way to get to this point and no low-life is going to take what they have came for away.
"IN YOUR DREAMS, RIPTO!" Elora and Spyro said jumping on top of Ripto and getting a hold of the necklace.
Spyro and Elora began to pull the necklace towards them while Ripto did the same. "Give it up, Dragon, you'll never defeat me!" Ripto said pulling harder.
"You'll never win, we'll defeat you ever time." Spyro shouted
"You'll never going to return to our past!" Elora added.
Suddenly the necklace began to glow and shake. Ripto, Spyro and Elora let go of it, but instead of falling to the ground it floated up. Suddenly the necklace shot a beam of white light on the three. The light got brighter and brighter, but abruptly it stopped. When the cave returned to it's rightful state, Bianca, Nazza and Hunter saw that Ripto, Elora, Spyro and even the necklace were gone.
The three that were left ran to the spot where Ripto, Spyro and Elora was and began to examine it, "Where did they go?" Hunter questioned.
"They just disappeared." Nazza added.
"Uh, Oh!" Bianca said. Hunter and Nazza's heads both turned to Bianca,
"Uh, Oh, what?" the two asked.
"I think somehow the necklace got activated," Bianca explained.
Nazza widen his eyes, "Then that means," he gasped, "Spyro and Elora are in the past with Ripto!"
End of Chapter 15
Ollie: Wow! They are in the past! Cool! Well, it's not cool if you are in the past along with Ripto
Dark and DSI: Um...for us it is
Ollie: Okay, okay, maybe for Ripto fans it is, but not for me! Anyways, I keep wondering how KT and Ashley are doing? Hmmmmm, I wonder if they are alright...
(IN THE BUS TAKING KT AND ASHLEY TO FRANCE...)
Ashley: If this bus don't stop soon I'm going to hurl!
KT: Your telling me!
(Suddenly the bus stopped and it parked.)
KT: The bus stopped!
Ashley: (Sarcasm) Oh Really?
KT: Come on, lets get out of here before the people unload the bus!
(So KT and Ashley climbed out of the trunk and they saw that they were right in front of the Eiffel Tower)
KT: cool!
Ashley: Yeah...okay then. Where is the postman?
(Suddenly a postman on a bicycle rode past KT and Ashley and they saw the box in the carriage)
KT: There it is!
Ashley: After it!
(KT and Ashley then began to run after the bike. KT looks at the audience)
KT: Don't worry folks, we will get our box if it's the last thing we do! Ollie is going to get what's coming to him...once we stop going around the world and get our box back!