Beastfire: Here's chapter 5! Glad you all enjoy it so far!

Back with Ygrene and Sprx…or should I say, just Ygrene, for Sprx ran off on his own to get away from the bubbles and the dragon's teasing involving the one with a monkey much like Sprx getting mauled, the dragon was searching for either Otto, Sprx, Ivy, Frus, or all four. His results? Absolutely nothing. To say that this was getting frustrating would be the understatement of the century.

Meanwhile, Ivy, Frus, and Vrust were walking through the area they were in. The full-Ethyal was asking Ivy all sorts of questions, out of curiosity.

"So, Ivy, where are you from?" he asked casually.

"Earth."

"Hmmm…I think I've heard of it…isn't that planet covered by mostly water?"

"Yeah…why? Didja meet with someone from there?"

"Why, yes, as a matter of fact. How is it you met my son?"

Ivy and Frus looked at each other and said, at the same time, "Accident."

What followed was an explanation of their first encounter, with Vrust interrupting at various points. He seemed highly interested. However, when they mentioned the whole "fixed" comment, Vrust had one thing to say…

"He wasn't broken, was he?"

"Well, no-" said Ivy, getting cut off.

"Then why would you say you'd fix him?"

The meerkat leaned in to him, whispering the procedure in his ear. He looked right at her.

"Don't even joke about that," he said seriously. "That nearly happened to me in battle once."

"I wasn't joking at the time," Ivy replied. "The dude was in my face about it!"

Before anyone could say anything else, another door appeared in front of them.

"Strange!" exclaimed Vrust. "I've never seen this door before!"

There was loud rock music emanating from behind this door, and the scent of alcohol could be detected. It was also in the way of any other areas in this realm. The door opened to reveal a wild party.

"Well, how do we get through this?" Frus asked.

Ivy studied the partiers inside and finally decided, "I can handle this."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah. These are my kinda people!"

The mutant sauntered into the chaos that was the wild party.

Sprx, in the meantime, was trying to find another sign of life. He saw some green and thought it to be Otto.

"OTTO?" he called. "IS THAT YOU?"

The green figure turned around to reveal that it was Otto, alright!

"Come here, Sprx," he said in his newly evil tone.

"What's wrong with you, Otto?"

"Oh, nothing," said the monkey, activating his saws.

"Yeah, right! You're nuts!"

As Otto began to charge, Sprx was too scared to move at first. When he got to the point of wetting himself, he decided to run for his life.

It'd been a few hours since Ivy went into the party. Frus and Vrust, who'd elected to stay outside, were getting worried.

"Maybe we should go in after her," said Vrust.

"I'm sure she's fine, Father," Frus told him. "Maybe…I hope…"

"I noticed that you gave her that amulet, son."

"Yeah. Usually, if something really bad happens to either of us, it happens to her. I'm not quite sure why…"

In just a few seconds, Ivy re-emerged, highly unstable.

"Are you drunk again?" asked Frus.

"The only way to get through there was to beat their local champ at a drinking game," she said drunkenly. "And guess what? I won!"

Of course, she ended up drinking so much, she collapsed right there. Frus just shook his head and smiled slightly.

"Way to take one for the team," he muttered, picking her up at the same time.

Beastfire: Well, that's all I can think of! Please review. And, Emec, write that new chapter soon!