Chapter 8

King of the combs

Charmy entered the hive, only to be greeted by an even perkier bee. Over the past few weeks, Charmy had felt youth escaping him. He was barley 10, and old age was already settling in. His whole body had aches and pains constantly. He tried to keep a smile on, but secretly he felt horrible.
"When I get out of here, I'm going to take a major vacation." Charmy promised himself. The bee looked him up, and down.

"Well something seems the matter. OH! The queen. You must have known her." The bee said.

"I was related to her." Charmy replied mournfully.

"Oh, so are you going to take over for a while?" The bee asked.

"Yes, but I don't know where everything is." Charmy replied.

"Well I'll give you the grand tour. Follow me." The bee said flying off.

"I'm Charmy , by the way. Charmy said to the bee after catching up.

"You can call me sugar, since I'm so hyper." Sugar said. He then twitched a little, stalling his flying. He flew super fast, his sugar high kicking in. He zipped quickly from corridor to corridor, Saying things in a high-pitched quick squeal. Charmy caught glimpses of worker bees doing several tasks. Some were excavating, some were building, and some were playing old maid. He passed a fork in the road, turning right, and flying over a pile of honey. He came upon Sugar, whose sugar high had worn off. He was hovering over the honey, panting.

"So what else is there to see here?" Charmy asked, still full of energy. Sugar was slurping all the honey up, getting a new sugar high.

"They say not to take any condensed honey, but who cares? I LOVE SUGAR!" Sugar said, getting ready to burst with a new sugar high. Charmy took a little sugar, so he could keep up. They blasted by a thick series of cavern with high ceilings.

"This is our mess hall, where we eat three square a day." Sugar said in his hyper voice. Charmy managed to understand his high-pitched squeals. Perhaps the sugar did that. Anyway, They passed kitchens, more caverns, living quarters, and finally they entered the throne room. It was the biggest room or all, with high columns reaching to the sky. In the center, there was an outstretched red carpet. The throne was studded with pieces of diamond and silver ore. It had gold, but it fit in with the rest of the comb. He walked slowly to the throne, and sat down. Sugar placed a crown atop Charmy's head. It was studded with sapphires, Emeralds, and topaz. The crown had 6 points, and fit perfectly on Charmy's head.

"The queen said you are from the future before she died." Sugar said.

"Yes, I am." Charmy replied sighing.

"Well then I guess you are the once and future king." Sugar said laughing. They both laughed slightly, but they still were mournfully upset. Charmy took off the crown, and entered the mess hall. On the way through Charmy saw two guards carrying a glob of the honey towards the prison. Charmy, with his short attention span, forgot about the mess hall and went towards the prison. He followed at a distance hiding behind pillars and columns. As he moved in closer, he noticed a figure inside the glob. The figure was black and red. (Just like that rash I had!) Tails noticed the figure had big quills. (Again, like my rash) Tails noticed the figure was Shadow.

"Whoa. Wait! I demand to know what is going on!" Charmy yelled.

"We have reason to believe that this trespasser was trying to steal the secrets of the honey pot." The guards replied.

"And what are the secrets of the honey pot?" Charmy mused.

"Can't tell you." Replied one of the guards.

"Why not?" Charmy asked.

"Because it's a secret." The guards said, cracking up. Charmy smacked one in the head, and hit the other across the stomach. While he was doubled over, Shadow chaos controlled out of the honey he was trapped in.

"Well, thanks." Shadow said, looking away.

"No problem." Charmy replied, his voice as high as usual.

"Whoa, did u get kicked in the bad place too many times? I've been dying to ask." Shadow said smirking.

"HEY!" Charmy yelped angrily. He tried to hit Shadow, but missed and wound up spinning around aimlessly.

"I know what will cheer you up!" Shadow said, cracking up at the thought.

"What is it?" Charmy asked.

"Watch this!" Shadow laughed. He took several more pictures of the guards in awkward positions which I care not to mention. He then put negatives in a circle around them, and ran off with Charmy in tow. They ran at full speed back to Bakin, who was waiting outside.

"I can't leave just yet," Charmy said looking back. "I promised the queen." With that, he returned to the hive. Shrugging, Shadow flew off.

On his way through the skies, he ran into another dragon. The rider wore black clothes, and had a smirk on his face. Realizing it was the enemy, Shadow pulled out his dual blasters. He aimed one at the dragon, and one at the rider. The dragon nose dived, the rider jumping off. Shadow blasted directly at the rider. The blasts found their target, yet the crazed man kept flying. He flew, and time slowed. 3 blasts just avoided the man, as he twisted in the air. His body did multiple twists that make my eyes hurt. The man back flipped onto Bakin's head, and held a knife to it.

"If you move, I will kill." The man said in a deep voice. His pupils had disappeared. His voice echoed and vibrated inside Shadow's mind.

"If you move, I will kill. If you move, I will kill.". The words had a feeling of surrealism. Normally, Shadow did not attach himself emotionally to anything, but this Dragon had impressed him. He wasn't going to let anything happen to it. In Matrix time again, he teleported in front of the dragon's eyes. He kicked the dragon on the bridge of the nose. Bakin, who reacted quickly, spun at super speed, sending the rider shooting to the ground below. The rider's dragon, a purple dragon with black spray paint on him, flew into the woods where the rider was falling. The rider ran through the air, and landed right where he had been before, except 100 feet below Shadow. Shadow jumped off Bakin's nose, and shot out towards the rider. The rider threw a ball of energy at him. Shadow flipped over the ball of energy. He saw the ball flying back at him, and jumped into the air. He rolled up into a ball, and shot forwards. The black dragon was miles ahead of him. Shadow landed atop the ball, but his rocket shoes prevented him from getting hurt. He hovered slightly ahead of the energy, thinking it was a heat seeker. It was, and it followed his heat as he flew ahead of it. He flew as fast as his shoes would fly him towards the black dragon. The blast followed him fast. At the last second, He pulled up. The blast hit The dragon square in the

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