Beastfire: Hiya! Here it is, chapter 8!

Chapter 8- Further Developments

While all of this was going on, a certain neon blue dragon was flying through space when he met with another dragon. She had lavender scales and green eyes. He decided to start up a conversation.

"Hello. I'm Ygrene. Might I ask what your name is?"

"I'm Cherokagran, but Cheroka for short. What brings you out here, Ygrene?"

"I'm heading for Tserof-7."

"Tserof-7? What business would you have there?"

"A close friend of mine used to live there. I'm visiting his mother."

"What happened to your friend?"

"Well, he met a girl that he liked and went with her and her friends. She was such a cute little thing, too."

"What's your friend's name? And this girl's name?"

"His name is Frus, and hers is Ivy. They live in Shuggazoom. Have you heard of it?"

"I believe so. Isn't that where the Monkey Team lives?"

"Yes. In fact, they live with the-"

Ygrene was cut off by a sharp pain in his brain (heehee…that rhymed!)

"Are you okay?" asked Cheroka.

"I-I have to go," the blue dragon replied.

He flew out of her sight and decided to see if he could get a good sense of what the problem was. What he heard was a familiar voice.

"Yo! Look, I have no clue where the (bleep) I am. If there's anyone out there getting this message…I need your help. Just trace this message. AND HURRY UP! I have no idea how much longer I got. I'm tellin' ya, if you don't help me, a whole family's gonna be on your conscience. Got it? So please help!"

Ygrene realized there was something wrong. Usually, he knew Ivy would contact Frus if she were ever in a life threatening situation. 'Something must have happened to Frus too!' he thought. There was only one thing that he knew he had to do.

In Shuggazoom City, Nova and Otto looked downtown for any sign of Ivy, Frus, or their offspring. They weren't finding much.

"Hey, Nova?" Otto asked.

"Yeah, Otto?"

"Why didn't you and Sprx ever have kids?"

Nova stopped dead in her tracks.

"What?"

"I just wanted to know why you two never had kids!"

"Because!"

"Because why?"

"Because! That's why!"

"Is it, you know, 'that time'?"

"No! It's just that- hey, I think I found something!"

Meanwhile, Frus was lying on the floor of the cage, looking up at the ceiling and thinking. 'Why didn't I bring Gaia?' he asked himself. 'And why did I let myself get shot? If only I'd been able to protect them, none of us would b- no, I can't keep kicking myself like this! I just hope the boys and Ivy are okay.'

Lorena came over to him.

"Awww…what's wrong?" she asked as condescendingly as possible. "Are you hungry?"

The mutant hunter put some food on a stick, stuck it into the cage, and waved it in the mongoose's face. Just as he was about to make a grab for it, she yanked it away and ate it in front of him. His initial reaction was an intense death glare, but that soon changed.

"You know, Lorena, I can probably find a way out of here. Then, you're gonna wish that you never met me, or Ivy, for that matter," he said quite darkly.

"Oooooh…I'm shaking."

As Lorena was angering Frus, Mandarin was losing his own temper. Already Tyr had destroyed half of the orange monkey's stuff, cracked his helmet, and cut off his eyebrows (good thing, too; they were beginning to resemble the bushes in someone's yard). Mandarin was currently banging his head on the wall, cursing upon impact each time.

"Hey, Mrs. Pelican?" asked Tyr.

"That's Mr. Pelican! I mean Mandarin!"

"Do you have rabies?"

"No."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure."

"Can you answer a question I have?"

"Yes, I suppose."

"What's rabies?"

Mandarin, not wanting to deal with this infuriating child, took a tranquilizer and jammed it into…his own rear. The orange monkey peacefully fell into unconsciousness.

"Hey, mister?" Dylan asked meanwhile.

Bloodstone could barely face the child without fresh tears erupting. The kid was too annoying for him to bear!

"What?" he asked.

"I'm hungry."

"Well, TOO BAD! If I were to feed you, then it wouldn't help with getting my revenge!"

"Well, I wanna eat!"

And with that, Dylan took the dark green monkey's tail in his paws, sank his claws in, and took a big bite…trying to gum him. Bloodstone screamed in such pain, that nobody would have believed that it was just a baby.

At the same time, Naithair was experiencing some young troubles of his own. Seamus was taking the snake's tail and jamming it into one of its eyes.

"Stop that!" yelled Naithair.

"But there's something in your eye!"

"Yeah…MY TAIL!"

"No. It's something else."

"Like what?"

"Something skinny, scaly, and pointed-y."

"THAT'S MY TAIL!"

"How would you know? You don't even know what the IRS is!"

"Well, neither do you!"

"But I'm just a baby!"

"You're no baby. You're a little demon."

"No I'm not."

"Are too."

"Am not."

"Are too."

"Am too."

"Are not."

"Am too."

"Are not."

"Am too."

"NO! YOU'RE NOT A LITTLE DEMON!"

Seamus grinned as Naithair smacked himself.

Beastfire: There you have it! Next time, Ygrene retrieves Ivy, she gets the triplets, and we see what Otto and Nova found.

Dylan: Mommy, why is your boss so weird?

Ivy: Because she has no social life whatsoever.

Tyr: Why does she put you and daddy through all of this?

Frus: Because your mother's boss likes to tempt fate by torturing us.

Seamus: Why?

Beastfire: 'Cause I'm insane! Please review!