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Chapter 7: Fear of Bees
Tamao is wandering aimlessly around the island by herself. Maybe not by herself, since she has her guardian spirits with her. "Master Yoh! Miss Anna! Where are you?" she calls out. "Oh no… I'm lost…"

"We gave you directions and still got lost," says Ponchi.

"You're really bad at navigating, aren't you?" says Konchi.

"It's your fault! You gave me the wrong directions!" says Tamao.

"Then why must you get left behind in the first place?"

"Um… Let's just keep moving."

So they keep on moving. Eventually, they ran into someone familiar standing a few feet in front of them. "Hey, isn't that the Afro kid?" asks Ponchi.

"Chocolove!" Tamao immediately runs to him. "I'm glad to meet someone at last!"

"Tamao! What are you doing here?" Chocolove asks her.

"I got lost…"

"Be careful! There are giant bees around here! And boy, are they tough!"

"Bees…?" Tamao trembles in fear and backs off slowly. "I'm scare of bees…"

"Watch out!" Chocolove quickly pushes Tamao onto the ground just before some needles fly into her. They both fall to the ground with Chocolove lying on top of her.

"Ahhhh! Get off me!" Tamao pushes Chocolove off her body and slaps him rapidly.

"I was trying to help you…" mumbles Chocolove with a swollen face.

King Zing and Queen B. are hovering in the air above them. "Our target just increased by one," says B.

"This will give our children a better fill, wouldn't it?" says Zing.

Chocolove gets into fighting position. "I'll handle them! Tamao, you better hide for your own safety!"

Queen B. charges at Chocolove as he prepares to attack, but instead of going for him, Queen B. flies past him. "Uh? What?" wonders Chocolove. He turns around and sees Queen B. aiming for Tamao!

Tamao screams in fright. "AAAAHHHH! DON'T COME NEAR ME! I'M SCARE OF BEES!" And then she runs off into the woods with B. chasing after her.

"Oh no! I must help her!" Chocolove prepares to go after her, but is immediately stopped by a needle being shot into his right leg. "AH!"

"I will not let you go anywhere," says King Zing.

"Argh! I'll have to defeat you quick!" Chocolove dashes at Zing and swipes his claws at him, but the bee moves around swiftly to avoid the attacks.

"You're not fast enough." King Zing starts flying around Chocolove in circles very fast. He moves so fast that he creates an illusion of many bees.

"Darn! He's too fast for me to catch up!" says Chocolove. "Which is the real one?"

Several needles shoot out from the circle of bees. The needles came out in such a great number and so unpredictably that Chocolove could not avoid them. The needles hit him and pierce into his skin. "OUCH!"

"Do you have enough?" says the voice of King Zing from among the many bees. "Are you ready to be fed to our children?"

"I must not die here!" he says to himself. "Not until I become a great comedian!"

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Tamao is still running from Queen B. "Help me! I'm scared of bees!" she screams.

"This is no time for being scared!" Ponchi tells her. "You must fight the enemy, or else you will die!"

"But I'm scared! I was stung by a bee when I was younger and I have been scared of them ever since!"

"It's no use crying over the past! Running away won't do you any good!" Konchi tells her. "Look! She's catching up!"

Queen B. bashes into Tamao's back and pushes her onto the ground.

"AH!"

"You're mine!" says Queen B. She lunges forward and thrusts her stinger at Tamao, who quickly rolls aside to avoid the stab. Queen B. lifts up her stinger and goes for another attempt, but Tamao avoided it again by rolling aside.

This went on for a while until Tamao picked up a stone and hurls it at Queen B's face, and then she quickly gets up and runs off. "How dare you!" says Queen B. angrily.

Tamao kept on running and running until she ends up back at where Chocolove is fighting King Zing. Chocolove is lying on the ground, exhausted from the needle attacks. "Chocolove! Are you all right?" Tamao asks him in concern.

"What are you doing here…? I told you to run!"

Suddenly, Queen B. zooms out of the bushes and towards Tamao. She didn't have time to avoid the incoming attack and Queen B. stabs her needle right through Tamao's right shoulder and pins her to a tree. "YAAAAA!"

"Tamao! Nooo!" screams Chocolove.

"OH NO! SHE'S DEAD!" scream Konchi and Ponchi.

Queen B. pulls her stinger off Tamao and she falls to the ground. "I finally killed you," says Queen B.

But Tamao slowly gets up again and grunts painfully.

"Still not dead yet? Now for the final blow!" Queen B. readies her stinger again.

"No! Tamao! Run!" Chocolove quickly heads forward to rescue her, but King Zing drops on top of him and holds him to the ground.

Just before Queen B. thrusts her stinger forward for the fatal blow, Ponchi rushes into Tamao's shield-like thingamajig and oversouls. This creates a large shield that blocks her from the hit. Queen B. stinger breaks upon hitting the oversouled shield. "What!"

"Thanks… Ponchi…" says Tamao.

Konchi flies towards Tamao and says, "Quick! Oversoul me quick!"

"Okay!" Tamao oversouls Konchi into her weapon and it turns into a bow-like device. She aims it at Queen B. and fires.

This caught Queen B. by surprise and the arrow pierces into her head. She lets out a scream and falls back onto the ground and stops moving.

King Zing is shocked and enraged to see this. "How dare you kill Queen B! I will kill you!" Zing gets up and flies towards Tamao at a high speed.

"AHHHHH!" screams Tamao.

Just before King Zing hits Tamao, Chocolove rushes at him and slashes him with his claws. "I won't let you!" shouts Chocolove.

"AAAARRRRRGGGGHHH!" screams King Zing as he gets slashed into pieces.

Tamao drops onto her knees. "Phew… Saved at last…"

"The enemies are resting in peace now…" says Chocolove. "We won at last…"

"Thank you for rescuing me!"

"No problem! Now let's look for the switch."

"Are you hurt? You're bleeding all over!"

"Nah. They're no big deal. How about you? You got a big hole in your right shoulder."

"You're right! Ow! It hurts!"

"Man, you're slow to react!"

To make a long story short, they eventually found the switch hidden inside a small cave not far from where they are. They press the switch and a small rumbling follows. "What's happening?" asks Tamao.

"Perhaps it's taking effect on the crocodile mountain," says Chocolove. "Now that we're done. Let's go meet the others!"

So they head out the cave and went to where they should go.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Well, the shamans here didn't get such a painful experience as the other two. I figured that Chocolove should need a partner to help him in this battle, and I randomly picked Tamao for no apparent reason. I'm strange…

Anyway, I'm hoping to see reviews from my beloved fans!