Chapter 13: The real enemy unmasked.
Out of the garbage chute, Zatch and Ponygon fell onto the piles of garbage. "Come on, Ponygon, we have to find Brago."
Back with Brago.
"The sled, the gifts; they'll be destroyed, and I care. WHAT IS THE DEAL?"
Brago shouted and then dashed towards the super sled. "I can't. I won't. I'll never let this happen." the panicked as he continue to running after the super sled. He leaped towards it, but ended up falling flat on his face in the snow. His eyes widen after he lift his head out of the snow, so he crawled as fast as he could. He grabbed the bumper of the super sled and pulled as hard as he could, but the super sled continued to slide over the mountain's edge.
"Hey, how come I'm so weak? I should be able to pull this back up with my mamodo strength! Why won't it work?"
(Whistling while hiding a ray gun that says: the mamodo strength stealing ray gun, behind my back.)
"YOU DID SOMETHING, DIDN'T YOU?" Brago shouted at me.
I did no squat!
"Yes you did!"
Pay attention or you're gonna lose the sled!
Brago pulled harder and harder on the sled, but still nothing. He continued to pull for half a minute, until he stopped to catch his breath. "Oh well. It's just toys, right?" he asked himself. But then something caught his eye. Something moving.
"Hey, Brago." a familiar voice called out. Over the large sacks, both Zatch and Ponygon came into Brago's view. "What's up?" the blond boy asked.
"Zatch Bell?" Brago asked quietly. "What are you doing up there?" he shouted.
"I came to find you. No one should be alone on Christmas, cause you're my friend, Brago." Zatch's voice touched Brago deeply.
'A... friend?' the dark mamodo thought as a happy smirk crept on his face. But then he was napped out of his thoughts when he felt the super sled almost sliding off the mountain.
"Aahhhhhh! Hold on, Ponygon!" Zatch cried out as he and the horse thing hold onto each other for dear life. Brago pulled again to get the sled up, but still nothing.
(While no one was looking, I quickly zapped Brago his mamodo strength back into him with my ray gun.)
"GYAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!" Brago grunted out loudly as he felt strength returning to him (Thanks to my ray gun). He pulled again, this time giving everything he's got. And with one final grunt, he lifted the super sled right off the ground.
"I got you, Zatch Bell! Now get off! This thing is damn heavy!" Brago wheezed out loud enough for Zatch and Ponygon to hear. They both jumped off and Brago let the super sled crush down on him.
"Hey, Brago? You in there?" Zatch asked and then a pale arm shot out from under the super sled. Zatch and Ponygon pulled the arm really hard until they pulled Brago all the way out from under the super sled.
"You did it, Brago! You saved us! You're the hero of justice!" Zatch cried joyfully as he jumped up and down while clapping his hands like a little girl.
"Meru, meru, me!" agreed Ponygon. But Brago's left eye was twitching in anger. He thrust his arms forwards and grabbed hold of the blond kid and brought him up to his face.
"Don't you ever do that to me again! You almost got yourself killed! And I almost got crushed!" Brago shouted in Zatch's face. The blond lowered his head and cowered a bit, but what caught him by surprise this time was that Brago was laughing his head off. "Nah, I'm just kidding." the dark mamodo spoke after his laugh, and Zatch nervously laughed a bit as well, but he mentally sighed in relief.
"Well, what are we standing around for. We need to get back to Humanville. After, no one should be alone on Christmas, just like you said, Zatch." Brago smirked as he struggled to turn the super sled around. "Gofure, go get some more fuel. It's long way back to Humanville." Brago instructed and Gofure ran off to get more fuel from their home below. Unknowing what he was thinking, Ponygon followed Gofure to lend a hand.
A few seconds later.
The super sled's gas tank was full again and Brago was about to start it up, but as soon as the engine roared to life again, Zatch ran right in front of him.
"I want to drive, Brago. Let me drive." Zatch babbled real quickly.
"No way. You don't even have a drivers licence."
"I don't care I want to drive." Zatch argued back, but then Brago held out his fist. Zatch was puzzled for a moment. "Look, Brago. I don't want to fight you, and-"
"No Zatch. It's called scissors, rock, paper." Brago explained.
"I thought it was called rock, paper, scissors."
"Whatever." and so they did rock paper scissors. It was only one round, but Zatch won by rock, since Brago used scissors.
Zatch cheered out loud and then jumped into the drivers seat. Ponygon and Gofure hopped into the passenger seat, but in what we all like to call; SHOT GUN!
"But how am I suppose to come along if there's no more room up front?"
"You can use these." Zatch tosed him a pair of snow shoes and a long thick rope.
"You got to be shitting me." Braggy-o called out all shocked.
"No, Brago. I'm not shitting you." Zatch smiled as he placed his hands onto the control stick. "Hold on now, cause I have no idea what this thing is gonna do." Zatch stepped on the gas and the super sled zoomed straight down the mountain, with Brago holding on for dear life.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" the dark mamodo screamed as loud as he possibly could. "I'M GONNA DIE! I'M GONNA DIE! I'M GONNA THROW UP, THEN I'M GONNA DIE!"
"WWWWWHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Zatch squealed out in joy. The same with Ponygon going 'Meru. Meru, mmmmeeeeeee' and Gofure barking.
"So... I'm cheating death now. That's what I'm doing, I'm having fun at the same time. I can do this, just be careful." Brago said to himself to calm himself down. But then the super sled flew off a large ramp-shaped rock in the snow and they went flying into the air. Brago screamed again as the wind made him swung right into the giant bags filled with all the stuff he stole. Brago groaned in pain and fell into the front seats next to Zatch after the super sled landed back on the snow again.
"Brago, are you alright?" Zatch asked all freaked out.
"Are you kidding, Bell? The sun is bright and the powder is bitching. Now scoot over, Zatch. It's my turn to drive." Zatch, Gofure, and Ponygon were cramped together as Brago took the wheel. The path was getting bumpy, but as their view was clear from the trees, they saw Humanville just ahead.
"We're getting closer to Humanville. I better slow this contraption down." Brago suggested to himself as he pulled a lever. A boot came out from under the sled to stop, but it a rock snapped it off. "Well, that didn't work. Time for plan B." Brago pressed a button and a bunch of opened umbrellas came out from behind the super sled, but the wind blew them right off.
"We're gonna crash!" Zatch cried. Brago doesn't like Zatch's expression.
"Now you listen to me and you listen to me good, young man! Even though we're doomed and gonna be vaporized, there'll be no sad faces on Christmas." responded the dark mamodo with a happy smirk on his face. But then a tree was in front of them and both Zatch and Brago screamed. Brago turned the wheel and they dodged it. Humanville was now just half a mile away.
"This is gonna be tougher than I thought." Zatch spoke as he grabbed hold of Brago's furry cape.
"HEADS UP, HUMANVILLE!" Brago shout as loud as he possibly could. Every human heard his cry and they all began to panic.
"We got to help them, but how?" Hana Takamine asked in fear.
"I have an idea. Follow me!" Sherry responded. She and the Takamines except Kiyo grabbed long thick Christmas lights. "We'll try to slow down their sled with these."
"OUT OF THE WAY!" Brago shout out so that all the humans would jump out of the way. They saw Mr Takamine, Mrs. Takamine, and Sherry on opposite sides of the street with long thick Christmas lights in the way. But there was a tall black hair girl and a little pink haired girl standing in their way as well. Zatch recognized who these two girls were.
"KOLULU! LORI! MOVE!" Zatch shrieked out to get their attention.
"Pink head, dark head, move it!" Brago spoke out quickly in a fast but funny tone of voice.
Kolulu and Lori saw the sled and jumped out of the way in time. They grabbed hold of the lights, but by the heavy fast moving force of the super sled, Kolulu and Lori were being dragged from behind along with Sherry and the Takamine parents.
The super sled was heading straight for the big Christmas tree in the center of Humanville. But then they saw Kiyo standing in their way, like he wants to stop the sled from the front.
"KIYO MOVE!" Zatch shrieked out again.
"Takamine, move it." Brago spoke out in the same quick but funny tone of voice.
But Kiyo stood there. Brago pulled as hard as he could on the wheel and the brakes to stop the sled. It got closer and closer to Kiyo, but it beginning to slow down. Then Kiyo's hands felt the front of sled up close to him. Kiyo gave everything he got to stop the sled.
The sled resist Kiyo's strength but it finally came to a complete stop when Kiyo was cramped between the super sled and the giant Christmas tree.
"Thanks for the hand, Kiyo." Brago smirked and Zatch leaped off the sled into Kiyo's arms.
Bragi quickly pressed a button on the watch on his wrist and his suit turned red again. "Merry Christmas, one and all!" Brago announced happily. 'Note to self; never say that again.' he thought behind his big grin-like smile.
"Alright, what do we have here?" a woman with short brown hair and purple eyes walked up from the crowd of humans cheering.
"You got me, Ma'am! I admit!" Brago responded as he jumped off the super sled and in front of the woman. "Since it is I; Brago who stole Christmas. And I'm... sorry." Brago mumbled the last part under his breath, but the woman heard him. The dark then thrust his arms outward in front of the woman, who looked puzzled.
"What are you doing?" the browned haired, purple eye woman asked.
"Well? Aren't you gonna cuff me? Put me in a choke hold? Slap me senseless? Beat me till I lose conscious? Blind me with pepper spray?" Brago asked in weird tone of voice.
"You heard him, Koko. He admitted it! He's a thief! A criminal! He deserves to be cuffed! And personally, I'd go with the pepper spray." Mayor Z rushed through the crowd with an evil grin on his face.
"Yes, I heard him, Mayor. And he said he's sorry." the woman known as Koko smiled with that happy smile that I personally find a bit attractive.
"WHAT!" Mayor Z snapped out loud with his grin now turned into a shocked frown. "Help me out here people! Sherry, help me out here!" Mayor Z panicked.
"Actually, Mayor. I have something to give back to you." Sherry responded after she found what she was looking for in Brago's super sled and slid down. "Your ring, Mayor. I'm sorry, but my heart belongs to someone else." Sherry handed the wedding ring back to Mayor Z and smiled at Brago. Brago was puzzled at first because he doesn't know who this 'someone' is, but he quickly thought of someone. He looked at Sherry and pointed at himself, thinking that maybe it's him who Sherry was speaking of. Sherry gave a bigger smile and nodded yes.
"Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha! Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee! Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha!" Brago screeched out in a bit too much joy and he was dancing like an idiot in triumph as he made a bunch of laughing and humming noises with his mouth.
Brago then skipped merrily over to Sherry and Mayor Z, who looked pissed.
"No hard feelings?" Brago held out his hand for the Mayor to shake it.
"NO! THIS ISN'T HOW IT'S SUPPOSE TO HAPPEN! SHERRY'S SUPPOSE TO BE MINE AND MINE ONLY! YOU WILL NOT TAKE HER FROM ME! YOU'LL NOT TAKE THIS TOWN FROM ME!" the mayor yelled in Brago's face.
"What are you talking about?" Brago asked in confusion.
"What do I have to do to get to all of you people? I'll tell you the truth. I wanted you to leave Humanville those six years ago, cause I wanted you out of my way for my dastardly plan! My plan to turn this town into a kingdom, where I would rule as king with an iron fist! But you keep showing up and ruining my plans. I wanted Sherry to be my wife so that I may have an heir who would rule over my future kingdom when I die! But you've interfered for the last time, you mamodo scum!" Myaor Z yelled again.
"And that brat, Zatch Bell, is also a mamodo too if all of you humans are too stupid to realize it! I want both of you out of this place for good! Because you've interfered just as much as he did, Zatch Bell!" Mayor Z pointed an accusing finger at Zatch.
"If I can't have you Sherry, then no one can! I'll destroy all three of you right here right now! And then Humanville will be all mine forever! Hahahahahahahahahahaha!" Mayor Z bellowed the most retarded evil laugh ever.
Brago was a hundred percent freaked out by this weirdo. But something caught his full attention. The mayor's eyes; they weren't human eyes at all. But how can a human have eyes that never were human in the first place. Unless...
"MAYOR Z! You're not a human at all!" Brago point an accusing finger at the mayor. Everyone gasped around him.
"What are you talking about?"
"You're not a human, Z. I know who you really are. You're just like me and Zatch; YOU'RE A MAMODO!"
Everyone let out an even bigger gasp. "He's gone mad! Mad, I say!" Mayor Z shouted back.
"Oh? Then why don't your feet touch the ground?" Zatch smart mouthed at the mayor.
Everyone looked down to see the mayor was actually floating in midair. It's true, he really is a mamodo.
"And I know that's a disguise you're wearing! Let's see who you really are!" Brago pinned the mayor to the ground. On impact, the mayor's human colored hands came off like they were gloves. The real hands of the mayor were pale white with sharp red finger nails. Brago grabbed hold of the mayor's face and gave one really big pull. Something came off the mayor's face and Brago realized that he was holding a mask.
The mayor's real face was as white as his hands. There were big long red lines going down from his red-yellow eyes. And his lips were pale purple.
"See, Mayor? Brago told you so. You're a mamodo, Mayor Z." Zatch smart mouthed again!
"Will you all shut up and quit calling me that! My real name isn't Mayor Z; it's Zofis!" the real enemy known as Zofis levitated high into air, giving another evil laugh.
"This is where you all die!" Zofis cried out maniacally and he aimed his hand at Sherry, and then a shining glow of purple light was emitting in his palm.
To Be Continued...
Zero: Brago, Sherry, Zofis, Koko? I have a question to ask each of you.
Brago, Sherry, Zofis, and Koko: Okay.
Zero: Brago? Since when did you get your license?
Brago: In the mamodo world, just like I told your bookkeeper.
Zero: Sherry? Since when you were able to fly? ( I found that in a Japanese Zatch Bell ending on Youtube dot com.)
Sherry: It's a hidden super power.
Zero: Zofis? Why are you a cross-dressing transsexual freak?
Zofis: I'll tell you when the time is right.
Zero: And Koko? Will you be my girlfriend?
Koko: Yes, Zero.
Zero: OH, HAPPY DAY! (Jumps onto Koko and hugs her)
Zofis: HEY!