Chapter 9

The Warrior Maidens didn't want to hurt Lion-O and Cheetara but they had to defend themselves. Willa nodded to her younger sister and Nada carried down the order.

"Fire!" The first line fired arrows with red rings on them. When they impacted the ground, red gas poured out. It was meant to put the ThunderCats to sleep. Cheetara quickly, ran around in circles causing the gas to dissipate before taking on its potency.

"Second row!" Willa commanded this time. The first row of archers dropped to their knees and the second row stepped forward. Their arrows held yellow rings.

"Fire!" Willa ordered. The arrows flew through the air and landed near the intended targets. The yellow rings emitted small explosions meant to shock the advancing ThunderCats. Again this failed as Lion-O and Cheetara dodged them. It was obvious that the Warrior Maidens were running out of options.

"Third Row!" Willa again took command. The second row ducked as the first row kept their heads low and ran behind the current firing line. This third row had blue rings on their arrows. These were their last option before having to resort to hand to hand combat.

"Fire!" Came the order. The arrows sailed through the air and landed in front of the intended targets. At first, nothing happened. Lion-O and Cheetara had momentarily halted, confused by this seemingly stupid arrows. Then ropes suddenly shot forth from the arrows, wrapping themselves around anything within a few feet.

The ThunderCats began to struggle and try to free themselves but they suddenly found that they were losing their strength. They growled at the Warrior Maidens and continued to fight until they couldn't move.

"Thundranium ropes!" Mumm-Ra shouted. He was about to unleash his evil on them when the sound of engines came over the group. Looking to the sky, he realized that the Feliner was coming in for a landing over at the black pyramid.

"You may have bested two of my slaves but you will stop be able to stop me!" The mummy crowed. Mumm-Ra took to the sky and headed back to the pyramid.

"We have to get the ropes off them." Willa told the Maidens.

"But they will attack again." One said.

"If we don't, it will kill them." Willa answered smartly as she was not used to having her command questioned. Quickly, they removed the ropes and threw them away. Lion-O and Cheetara remained motionless and Snarfer approached them.

"There has to be a way to break the spell they're under." He said.

"Why haven't you been under the spell?" Nada asked. Snarfer hadn't thought about that.

"I don't know, maybe because I'm not a Thunderian?" Then something occurred to him and he answered his own question.

"Pumyra is a Thunderian. Then why isn't she under the spell?"

"What are you thinking?" Willa asked.

"I'm thinking we need to get these two to the Tower of Omens as fast as possible until I can figure out why they are acting this way and I'm not." Snarfer said. Willa nodded and ordered for the ThunderCats to be lifted onto the cart they brought. Lion-O and Cheetara's wrists and ankles were bound in case they woke up before the group made it to the Tower of Omens.

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Snarf was sitting in the control room, waiting for Snarfer to return. He knew that his nephew would have headed to help the Berbils anyway that he could and the older snarf hoped he was ok. Suddenly, the video screen came alive.

"Snarfer, where are you?" Pumyra asked.

"He's isn't here. Where are you?" Snarf wondered.

"I'm on the reserves transport. We're coming to help." The puma told him.

"You have to recover from your ribs and fighting isn't the way to do it." Snarf scolded.

"What if there isn't a world to recover in?" Pumyra's voice didn't hide how angry she was. She had to help. Ben-Gali wouldn't let his ribs stop him, if she were in trouble. They only thing was she had to worry about their cub.

"All right. Land at the Tower and we'll go from there." Snarf accepted. The puma nodded and ended the communication. Snarf sighed and hoped that things would get better soon.

To Be Continued…