Chapter 17 is here. Thanks for the note on that Hay-lin/hay lin thing seras but I wish somebody would've mentioned this earlier since I have the entire fic nearly finished and now have to manually check over twenty chapters! >.
I would have updated sooner but this site has been going through some sort of screw up that was stopping me and probably everyone I'm guessing from logging in. anyway back to our story:
Chapter 17: The betrayer?
In the familiar alley way behind the Lin's family restaurant the silver dragon a small frog like creature was rummaging through the trash for its daily meal.
Blunk's head emerged from the garbage dumpster with a skinless fish held in his mouth. He continued sniffing searching for more leftover food oblivious to the looming silhouette casting over the wall behind him.
"Passsling," A low voice hissed. Blunk turned just in time to see a massive powerful hand grab hold of his torso forcing him hard against the wall. The small creature squealed and squirmed desperately trying to free himself.
"I have a job for you passsling," The voice hissed. Blunk squirmed and managed to squeeze his head out of the gap between the monsters finger and thumb. He stared up into the intimidating glare of the snake man lord Cedric.
"Blunk no help snake man! Snake man bad!" Blunk cried out defiantly.
"I don't recall giving you a choice in the matter." Cedric replied bluntly.
"The Guardians have in their possession a sword called the blade of infinity," Cedric explained staring deep into Blunk's bloodshot eyes has he 'spoke.
"You will steal this sword from the Guardians and bring it to me,"
"No! Blunk no help snake man!" the pasling squealed in defiance.
"You will do has I say! Otherwise you will die! Understand?" Cedric hissed tightening his grip on the paslings puny body. Blunk merely squealed in response trying to free 'himself enough to breathe comfortably.
"I'll take that has yes." Cedric added before slithering away has if he had been sucked into the shadows themselves.
Blunk looked about worried. Now he had two choices betray Caleb and the girls and most likely be kicked back to Metamoor on his back, side or betray the snake man and be killed.
Several hours later the girls came by the silver dragon.
"So are we gonna be doing more practice tomorrow after school? Will asked.
"More training we already trained every day for the past four days!" Irma complained.
"Yeah this type of stress could like ruin my fabulous hair!" Cornelia complained.
"Do you think such a style is easy to maintain?" she asked in a serious tone.
"What style?" Irma laughed.
When was the last time you even had your hair cut?"
"Oh puh-lease! I only have my hair done by professional stylists!" Cornelia explained waving her platinum blonde hair to emphasize her point.
The other passed a 'whatever' look at her has they proceeded down to the basement to talk to Caleb.
"Hey Caleb," Will greeted cheerily.
"Dammit!" Caleb yelled throwing the game boy in his hands onto the sofa he was sitting on.
"Like I said hi Caleb," Will repeated sarcastically.
"Wow I didn't even realise this old thing still worked," Hay lin said has she picked up the rather old toy which she used to play with when she was younger.
"Yeah I found it on the top of one those boxes," Caleb explained.
"It gets pretty boring down here all day and this little picture box looked like fun,"
"How long have you been playing this thing for? Taranee asked flipping the power switch back and forth with no result.
"Let see… about 6 hours give or take," Caleb guessed
"Six hours?" the Girls all said has one.
"Um yeah," Caleb shrugged.
"Anyway we're going to the movies are you coming?" Irma asked.
"You mean that giant picture screen that everyone stares at?"
"Yeah we're going to see the new star wars film," Hay lin answered.
"Star-'wars'…? Caleb repeated confused.
"Just c'mon you'll like it," Hay lin insisted has she and Irma each grabbed an arm pulling Caleb to his feet and guiding him out
Blunk watched from the window staring down at them he couldn't make out the words but he wasn't especially interested anyway. Instead he was staring at a sword wrapped in cloth that was on the other side of the room on top of some cardboard boxes.
"Blunk no betray girls!" Blunk declared determinedly has Cedric's words rang through his ears. The girls had treated him better than anybody and although he put up a tough front he could tell Caleb wasn't has irritated by him has he made out.
He watched has Caleb and the girls left together no doubt for Guardian related stuff leaving the sword alone and unguarded. Now was a perfect opportunity for him to steal it. Judging by how shiny it was blunk had no doubt it was probably worth a fortune on the metamoorian black market.
He reluctantly turned his back on the sword and went back to his scavenging. He stopped sniffing the air noting a familiar snake like scent.
Once again Cedric thrust the small scrawny creature hard against the wall. Blunk arms pinned down in the snake mans powerful grip.
"The Sssword," He hissed.
"Blunk no give snake man sword!" Blunk squealed.
"Listen to me carefully Passling. I will return tomorrow night and you WILL give me the sword or else you will die!" Cedric explained deadly serious. Once again he seemed to 'vanished into the shadows. If Blunk was a little brighter he might have wondered how such a massive creature could seemingly vanish into such a small space but he was just glad he was gone for now.
Blunk gulped. He couldn't betray the Guardians they would never forgive him. He climbed into his dumpster home has he tried to figure a way out of this mess he had gotten himself into…
Chapter 18 is on its way.