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Tales of Cuisinia

Chapter 2: The Batty Cook Off.

The Dark Chef started to cook his bat, and all Regal could see were him tossing ingredients and spices into his dish. He was placing things like… well fist of all he had cut off the bat's head and body and left just the wings. Regal was wondering how he obtained a bat if there were cave worms about, and he was also wondering what he would make for his dish. He assumed it would have to accommodate with the environment and then it hit him… Cave worms!

"Ah… This smells ni-i-i-i-i-ce; it's going to knock your socks off… HAHAHAHA… Huh? What are you doing?." Asked the Dark Chef.

Regal jumped up the ceiling and caught a Cave worm. He then killed it, with his triple kick. The Cave Worm was full of bacteria so he cooked it extra long and extra hot. So he could kill the bacteria. Now Worm wasn't what you would call something delectable, but that's what being the Wonder Chef is all about: trying to make the best of what you have.

"Wonder Chef… you must have a lot of guts to try to come here all by yourself? And… bringing the recipe too along with you… very foolish of you. Well I have been sent from the boss of this here base, and I… Ricktor of the Bats will cook something that will drive you batty. HAHAHA!"

"Look, I fought one of you goons a long time ago and I don't think you will prove to be any harder?"

"Ha… you mean Dan? He is small fry compared to us, he isn't nearly as a good chef. Dan was a trainee sent to test the Wonder Chefs powers… He met a pitiful end… or at least that's what I heard. You see Wrily, he is the leader of this Dark Chef Alliance Base, and he doesn't tolerate failure as do the other Dark Chef Leaders. And his motto for failure is: You either die a fast and swift death or you a slow and painful one, but either way you meet the end result of failure… I don't give shit for you. But why am I telling you this, you will never be able to see him anyway after I'm through with you."

Ricktor was cooking his bat wing dish like there was no tomorrow, but he was finished cooking, the spices and the ingredients were all added, what was it he was waiting for was what Regal was wondering. But he had his own dish to worry about, this was only the first obstacle after all.

"Hiyah! Yes I got one… now if only this bat was a mother bat… too bad. But I got her baby…"

"Huh? What, you are going to cook another bat?"

"You'll see…"

Minutes later, of what seemed like Ricktor was going batty, looking from ceiling to ceiling, wall to wall, floor to floor, looking what seemed like nothing. Or waiting, he was waiting for the right time to make his dish good. Regal was rather mesmerized by what he was doing, and almost forgot his own dish. He was wondering if he was waiting for something to improve his dish, then he had better think of some other way other than just adding spices and cooking. He stopped, and started to meditate. Besides he was already done, but he was still missing something, since he took a taste test every so often.

"Hmm… he's meditating; hmm… that's how I got to where I am standing here today… I wonder… he may have a chance to beating me… but he still haven't met my secret recipe yet…"

After a long time sitting for nothing, Ricktor saw something flash across his eye. It was his chance! Regal saw it in his mind, it was another bat, but what would he want to do with a mother bat anyway. Regal was waiting for the answer for his dish, his dish tasted sweet, he wanted it to taste crunchy. But what could help?

"Yes, come here little bat… don't be afraid… lookey right here I got your baby. Oh…he's right over here… or here… or here… or here… good perfect… … YES I got it!"

Ricktor grabbed the bats mouth as it was wide open, and he grabbed something out of is pocket, and it looked like something made of magitechnology, it was some kind of machine. It had a horn of an instrument, and some weird knobs and buttons on it. Ricktor grabbed the instrument and pressed a combination of buttons and… then he grabbed an empty shaker. The machine activated and it started to make a sucking sound and poof, the bat fell to the ground and looked like it died. Ricktor then let the baby bat go free.

"Oops… I guess I accidentally activated the ferment button on my Wave Vacuum. It sucked all his oxygen out by accident, plus since I have holding it by its throat he couldn't breath so it suffocated… too bad… it was probably a good mother too… oh well."

Ricktor's words and inconsiderate to animals didn't make Regal flinch at all… He was concentrating on the missing ingredient for his dish. He was thinking hard on something that would help him… He prayed that the Wonder Chef could help him… then a vision hit him… He saw the Wonder Chef picking up a sparkling rock, and pointing to it… then he said something to him… "Eat what the ingredients eat… don't let it suffocate… give it breath… give it life." And that taught Regal something, that's what was missing… breath. He woke up and saw the glittering rock on the ground…

"Well… you awakened… that was a long time… I'm done… what about you?"

"You're finished; I am going to make my dish breathe… Prepare to get your taste buds a knock out, Ricktor!"

At that, Regal grabbed the sparkling rock and grinded it to bits, then he place it in his shaker and started to sprinkle it all over his worm, he even stuffed the insides with it… he then realized what he would call his dish.

"Ricktor… my dish is called "Hinfuel Stuffed Worm!"."

"Okay… eat this… it's my signature dish, "Bat Sound Wave Curry."

Each presented their dishes… Regal's, Cave Worm stuffed with the sparkling rock called Hinfuel, and Ricktor's, two Bat Wings lying side by side and each were pulsing with red, and bulging colors.

After a while, they all tasted each other's dish and the dishes each were empty, since it was rude to not finish your opponent's dish. They then packed up their cooking utensils, and washed their plates, outside in the sunlight…

"Ricktor… your dish was…… it had something in it I couldn't place my finger on it… But it was wonderful… The bat wings were special… I didn't think cooking bat was still legal nowadays, but it tasted unbelievable, but then again I haven't tasted them before, and then again, I thought bat wings would taste awful, but you made them taste good… I think."

"Regal, your dish… I am sorry, you are my better… "

"… Hmm… I see… You are sorry because you didn't give your food the breath to help it live… you gave it something from it's own mouth, but that's how you suffocated it."

Tell me… what was in your dish?"

"I gave it what Cave Worms like to eat the most, Hinfuel Rocks… The Wonder Chef helped me on that one…"

"What do you mean, you are the Wonder Chef now, anyway, I have learned a valuable lesson from you Regal Bryant, we shall meet again…We Dark Chefs don't' give up that easily. Oh yeah and here take this…"

Ricktor handed Regal a card… shaped like a bat… in it was a code: 6073. Regal wondered what this was for.

"Wait… I have a question what did you use for your dish?"

"The bat's echolocation waves, but you were right I shouldn't feed it his own breath, I should give it what it eats. Thanks Regal, and if your wondering what that card does, it grants you access deeper into the tunnel, where you will fight someone stronger than me. Goodbye."

At that Ricktor walked away.

"… Ricktor where will you go now?"

"I will go in hiding…"

And after he had said that he had trailed off into the distance. And Regal walked back into the tunnel, deeper and deeper he went.

So what about that… Ricktor and Regal become a bit of friends and a bit of rivals. Regal still has more challengers before Wrily, the leader of the Base. Review, or I will haunt you.