Hello! I'm back! Thanks to those who reviewed me you helped me a lot. Those who like
my story please stick with me it's going to get better from here on out. If I remember right
the three characters that you know all too well are headed to Darkice Mines to find the
first spellstone. About my friends that I told you guys about in the last chapter, they found
out about what I typed. Caleb thought that the name was funny but Dan took less lightheartedly.
He squeezed my shoulder really hard and chased me outside. I had no choice but to use some
tae kwon do on him. So I kicked him in the stomach and he hasn't bothered me since then about
the little name I gave him. Don't worry though, he's alright all he has is a bruised rib. Painful right?
He says it hurts a little bit but he's not looking for revenge. I guess I should tell you that another
friend that I have wants to be in the next story too. His name is Ben, I guess I don't have to worry
much about him. Overall he's better than Dan but worse than Caleb so I'll tell you about his reaction
when the next chapter comes out. Sorry, I guess you want me to get on with the story now. All right
here's chapter 12.
Fox and Clay squinted as the light of Solar appeared over Dinosaur Planet like a huge light bulb. The
warmth of the huge lava ring felt good on the two's fur keeping them warm during the cold trip to one
of the planet's four unnatural moons. As they exited the planet's atmosphere Fox and Clay noticed
the Great Fox floating in the planets orbit.
"Hey wave to the gang!" said Fox as they flew past the gigantic ship.
"What?" yelled Tricky from below.
Fox and Clay chuckled with laughter while the confused prince tried to figure out what was so funny.
When the Great Fox was almost out of view the radar in Clay's arwing started picking up something
very big just ahead of them. Clay saw this and switched the radar to a more detailed view of the object.
When he saw that the object was objects he got a horrified look on his striped face.
"Fox! This is Clay. I'm picking up a weird signal from huge objects just ahead of us."
"What? Clay, I can't hear you." Replied the vulpine.
Clay checked his radar again and this time he knew what the objects were so he radioed Fox immediately.
"Fox! The things are coming in closer at an amazing speed. We don't have much time."
"What?" Fox said again.
Now the objects were in view of Fox and Clay's sight. Clay didn't hesitate, this time he screamed.
"WERE HEADING INTO AN ASTEROID FIELD!"
At this Fox knew that Clay had been trying to tell him this and that his communicator had been
tampered with. Clay knew this too but was too preoccupied with the approaching asteroids to
do something about it. Just before the arwings entered the asteroid field Fox remembered Tricky
was still down in the cargo hold.
"Tricky. Things are going to get a little rough cause we're heading into an asteroid field." Fox yelled
down to the prince.
Though Tricky hadn't heard Fox before and besides the roar of the approaching monsters this message
got through and Tricky braced himself. Fox and Clay started using their piloting skills right away blasting
the huge rocks with their arwing's lasers.
"Well this is sure fun. All we need now are some fighter droids and everything will be perfect." Snarled Fox.
His wish came true. Out of the largest asteroid came about one dozen fighter planes that started firing immediately
when they saw the two arwings.
"PERFECT!" yelled Clay as his and Fox's blasts tore through the planes as they also fired at the imposing rocks
ahead of them.
The asteroids started to clear up when something went horribly wrong. A small meteor hit Fox's left wing and
took it out completely. At the same time one of the asteroids exploded and took out Clay's thrusters.
"OH GREAT!" yelled both Fox and Clay in unison.
The asteroid field was filled with dark, oily smoke that could have suffocated even Andross himself. Fox and
Clay knew that if they didn't do something soon both of them would die in a fiery explosion. One at a time
though they got a life saving idea. Fox knew that anytime now his arwing would start spinning wildly
so he flung his steering wheel to the left and sure enough he went upright as his arwing tried to spin
upside-down. Clay was starting to lose Fox and gain more asteroids due to his lack of thrusters. He
thought it might be the end of him when he remembered his very special gift he got at the start of
the mission. So he reached back and pulled out his legendary sword, and making a sacrifice of his
arwing's backside he stuck the sword through the leather and metal. When he felt the sword go all the
way through he put all his energy into the weapon and in a tremendous blast he rocketed off after Fox.
Fox was having a tough time getting through the asteroid field without Clay's help and didn't know
what to do.
"Where's Clay?" yelled Fox as an asteroid, much too big for him to blast, flew towards him.
The asteroid was almost to him when Clay came flying past and blew right through the
towering boulder. Fox's mouth dropped wide open as Clay cleared the rest of the asteroid field
simply by flying through it.
"Leave it to Clay to get the job done." Sighed a deeply relieved Fox.
When Clay had slowed down and Fox caught up to him Fox saw his sword sticking out the
back of his arwing still glowing from the little speed boost Clay got from it. Fox chuckled to
himself as he saw the sword get pulled back in by it's owner.
"So Fox, how did you like my little spring cleaning there?" joked Clay through the now working
communicators.
"Once again Clay you've saved me from a most certain death."
"Yeah, that's three times now right? First when you were in that fort, then when we were saving
the snowhorn gatekeeper, and then now." Clay joked again.
"Oh shut up Clay." Replied Fox who started to try control his ship from his lost left wing.
Fox was just getting over their little side quest when Tricky startled him without warning.
"Is it over?" asked the hopeful prince.
"It's ok Tricky we're out of the field." Assured Fox now getting over the startling prince.
"Thank goodness. I thought we were never going to get out of there." Said the relieved prince.
"Fox, I still can't understand why Peppy or Slippy didn't warn us about the asteroid field ahead
of time. Maybe we should contact them to see if they're ok." Asked Clay.
"Yeah that is weird. Ok, you contact them and I'll keep an eye out for the mines." Replied Fox.
"Gotcha." Said Clay who started to call the Great Fox at once.
Now Fox had told Clay to call the team because Clay was the communications officer of the
team. Just like Fox is the leader, Slippy is the weapons commander, and Peppy is the
navigation controller. While Clay was calling the team Fox started to think about the girl
again.
"Who is that mysterious girl? Whoever she is she must be pretty good at weapons to have
a staff like this. Hey, maybe if she joined the team we could finally get rid of Slippy! Well,
can't wait to meet her. She might be at Darkice Mines! Now I want to get there even more!
I hope she's pretty."
"FOX!"
"Huh, what?" Fox snapped out of his trance and turned on his communicator.
"Fox are you there?" asked Clay again over the communicator.
"Yeah what is it Clay?"
"I talked to the team. It seems that for the time that we were in the asteroid field all
the asteroids had cut off all communications. They were causing too much
interference to communicate. Bye the way, what were you thinking when I tried
to contact you?"
"What!?! What are you talking about?" yelled Fox almost falling over.
"Oh boy. I better tell you something. Fox, I just found out that I can read minds
with the sword. It's pretty cool but I'm not too good at it yet. So that made the
vision foggy, but I could make out some of the words that you were thinking.
Something about the girl?" said Clay.
"Yeah you're right." Grumbled Fox who not to happy to know that he wasn't safe even
inside his own head now.
"Cool! This could come in handy when we need to find out were a spellstone is or
something. It's pretty tricky actually."
"Are you talking about me up there?" asked Tricky who again Fox and Clay had totally
forgot about.
"No Tricky we're talking about grownup issues." Replied Fox.
"Oh, ok." Said Tricky who never liked it when others didn't include him in there conversation.
"You know Fox we really have to remember that Tricky is down there. One of these times we're
going to say something that he's not old enough to hear yet." Said Clay in a quieter voice.
"Yeah, lets be a little more careful with that." Agreed Fox.
Fox and Clay now knew that they had spent a lot of time in the asteroid field and needed to
hurry it up if they were to get to Darkice Mines on time. So with a quick little boost by Fox's thrusters
and Clay's sword the two blasted off to Darkice Mines.
Fox took out another sharpclaw, blood went flying everywhere. He saw Clay a few feet away fighting
another group of the deadly lizards killing them with ease. The battlefield was a deserted wasteland
with no water and horribly hot temperatures making both of them sweat like pigs. The field was also
surrounded with a huge stone ring that went in a total circle making the only exit a fairly big opening
that was covered with a strong metal gate. Fox stabbed another sharpclaw that had tried to attack
from behind through the head making it howl in pain and gush out blood before falling dead on the
rocky terrain. The sharpclaws were almost gone when Clay saw something that Fox didn't.
"FOX! LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!"
It was too late. A sharp pain went through Fox's middle as the vulpine's blood came spurting out
of his stomach. Fox felt dizzy as he turned around to see a huge sharpclaw with a long spear drenched
in his blood laugh at him before it fell over and died. He got a weak smile on his face when he saw Clay
was the one who had killed maybe his last enemy. Fox knew that this was going to be the end of him as
he fell over in the excruciating pain as Clay rushed over to him.
"Fox, please don't die. We've gotten too far to give up now. You can't leave me, please. You're too
young to die yet. Fight it, I can't do this alone, please Fox you have to stay alive." Whispered Clay
with tears streaming down his face.
"I can't, the pain is too much this is the end of me Clay. Please complete this mission, defeat scales,
and use that reward money to fix up the Great Fox like it was when our dads started the team. I hope
to see them again." Whispered Fox in his dying breathes.
"Fox, no. You have to remember everything that you still have here. The team, me, General Pepper,
Corneria, the Lylat System. Heck if it weren't for you Andross would have taken over the system and this
planet would be filled with more death and suffering than Scales could ever cause. Please Fox don't go and
leave me here alone with Tricky. Fox please, what about Krystal? You still have to save her from Krazoa
Palace. If you give up and die now she'll die too. Don't leave Fox."
All of a sudden Fox's strength returned to him.
"Krystal?" thought Fox, "I know that name from somewhere. Could she be the girl?"
Right when he thought this a bright light appeared above the battlefield. It got brighter and
brighter until everything in Fox's vision was engulfed in the light. He felt himself being lifted
up and into the light and then everything went dark.
Fox snapped awake, he was drenched in sweat. He was breathing extremely hard as he looked out the
window he saw the floating land of Darkice Mines.
"It was just a dream, or was it? That name, Krystal, it's somehow familiar to me. How can that be though?
I don't know anybody named Krystal. And that place Clay and me were at, that seemed familiar too. Could
that place be on Dinosaur Planet that we have yet to explore? And Krystal, could that be the girl I'm thinking
about all the time? Weird, very weird. I guess I'll just have to wait to find out."
"Hey Fox we're almost there." Clay's voice came over the monitor.
"Yeah I see it. Prepare for landing." Announced Fox as they neared the mines.
"Roger that." Replied Clay.
Many questions flooded Fox's head as they landed on the surface of the mines. He first thought that
he could tell Clay about his little dream, but then he thought that Clay would eventually read his
mind and get the answers there. Little did Fox know though that his partner had the exact same
dream at the exact same time.
Sweet! That was great! Did you recognize the details in Fox's (AKA Clay's) dream?
And the little war between Star Fox and the sharpclaws, remember a mistaken hint about that
in an earlier chapter? Well I think that's it for this chapter. I don't think there will be any
updating during the spring break so don't be mad please! R&R! SEE YA!