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Alright, now it's time to begin the saga of the Life Source! Let's go!
Moments after the Core had finished repairing itself, a strange plant grew out of the ground. Everyone jumped when it suddenly stretched and began to speak.
"Aaaaahhhhh! Sunlight feels so good on my leaves! And the water! So delicious! And the earth is just right." He gushed. "Thank you for reviving me! I am Arbo! Son of Barbo! Child of Larbo! Spawn of-"
"It talks! It talks!" Hugo panicked, only to notice that everyone else was staring at him. "Where are my manners? I am Hugo, these are Skylanders and that is Master Eon and his daughter, Sky. But…do you think you can help us?"
"I'm not sure. I'm only 8 seconds old after all, but I somehow seem to have memories of all this happening before," Arbo admitted as he began to rub his temples. "We need to recover the Eternal Life Source, but in order to find it we must first gather the Seeds of Life and plant them so their roots can point the way."
"That's correct!" Hugo marvaled. "How did you know that?"
"I can do something…like this!" Arbo declared as he walked over to a small stalk, before raising his arms and yelling something. Suddenly, a large vine began to grow, shooting into the sky. "...and I don't even know how I'm doing it! It's like a memory!"
"It looks like it leads to Treetop Terrace!" Hugo marvaled.
"Is that what you call it?" Arbo asked in confusion. "We green folk know it as the Tree of Life. That is where you will find the Life Seeds. I know the way. I think I have ALWAYS known the way. I can take you there if you wish."
"Hmm…Skylanders, do you think you can do this on your own?" Eon asked. "I'm not sure that Sky and I will be needed for this mission."
"I think we should be fine," Stump Smash declared. "The Life Skylanders know our way around the trees."
"I was actually born at the roots!" Camo piped up, eagerly grinning.
"Then what are we waiting for, mon?" Zook asked. "Let's get goin'!" At that, all the Skylanders, along with Arbo, rode a leaf up the vine.
"Hmmm, I was not expecting that," Eon admitted.
"So the only reason we didn't go was because you didn't want to climb?" Sky asked as she crossed her arms.
"Sky, I don't think you would be able to climb it either." Eon replied.
"I could use the hydra!" Sky protested as she crossed her arms and pouted.
"And…there!" Stealth Elf declared. Once the Skylanders had returned with the Life Seeds, the Life Skylanders had gotten right to work in planting the seeds, letting Sky help them when she showed interest (Eon was pretty sure she just wanted to get dirty). They were able to get them to grow extremely quickly, but this caused the sheep to come over to try and get a nibble at the plants.
"Shoo shoo shoo land creatures!" Arbo declared as he attempted to shoo away the fluffy creatures. "Have you no respect for the sacred life seeds!"
"See! I've been saying those sheep are evil!" Hugo proudly declared. "Evil I tell you!"
"The seeds we brought back have grown into these wonderful apple bushes!" Arbo happily declared in an attempt to change the subject from Hugo's paranoia. Of course, the sheep then tried to get another bite. "SHOOOO! But these sheep are eating all the apples! Could you please keep the sheep away long enough for the apples to grow? Then the roots of it will be strong enough to speak to me!"
"Well, Skylanders, you heard him," Eon said to the Skylanders, who all grinned. The Skylanders all began to attack the sheep who never stood a chance, giving Sky the chance to start picking the apples at her leisure. Once she had enough, Arbo stepped forward.
"Splendid! The Eternal Life Source is hidden inside of a giant ACORN within the Tree of Life!" Arbo revealed. "I know where to find it because the seeds tell me things….Woa. I feel strange now. The forest is in danger. We should go quickly. Are you ready to go quickly now?"
"Can we go this time?" Sky asked.
"Yes, Sky, we'll go this time," Eon agreed. "We have to collect the sources anyways." Everyone planning to go stood near Arbo, who summoned the leaf once again.
"An ACORN!?" Kaos exclaimed as he watched his viewing portal. "I knew it! Cursed, miserable, deceitful trees! They're hiding MY acorn!" Glumshanks merely gave his boss a look.
"You have acorns?" He asked, genuinely confused.
"Nonsense fool! It's simple! The Eternal Life Source is actually a giant acorn!" Kaos explained to his servant. "See! And it's being hidden in a filthy forest! By a band of despicable bark covered betrayers who are obviously out to get me!"
"The trees?" Glumshanks had to ask. He knew Kaos irrationally hated almost everything but trees? Really?
"OF COURSE THE TREES!" Kaos snapped at him. "What do you think I'm talking about!? Oooo, how I hate them! Standing there all day, looking so innocent, soaking up sunlight, plotting and scheming-just waiting to MEDDLE IN MY PLANS!...Well not this time Glumshanks. NOT! THIS! TIME! CALL OUT MY LUMBERJACK TROLLS!"
"For what?" Glumshanks asked. "To cut down a few trees?"
"No, not a few trees, you nerb. Cut them ALL down! I want that acorn!" Kaos ordered.
"This is a disgrace!" Stump Smash roared. Upon arrival, the Skylanders were quick to notice all the chainsaws tearing into the trees. The Life Skylanders looked equally angry.
"Those terrible trolls are attacking the Great Ancients with TEETH-MACHINES! Oh, this is the most horrible feeling I have ever had in my brief existence so far." Arbo chimed in as well. "We must stop from cutting any more down-OR discovering the Eternal Life Source!"
"Indeed," Eon agreed with the plant creature. "Skylanders! Find the source and make sure to destroy as many of the chainsaws as you can!"
"Oh, you don't have to tell us twice!" Camo snapped, with the other Life Skylanders nodding. With that, the Skylanders headed off.
"So…why are the Skylanders so angry?" Sky asked. "Beyond the fact you shouldn't cut all the trees down."
"You saw how Arbo could sense how plants felt, correct?" Eon asked. Once Sky nodded, Eon continued. "The Life Skylanders can as well. Stump Smash in particular used to be a magical tree before the trolls chopped most of him down."
"So he doesn't want to see any other trees suffer like he did?" Sky recapped. Eon just nodded. "I think I'd be mad too."
"That's why most of the Skylanders are angry as well," Eon nodded as they began to walk through the path of carnage that the Skylanders were carving through the trolls.
"Hey Sky!" Spyro called out. He was holding up rockets. "You wanna help us blow up that chainsaw tank?"
"Can I!?" Sky eagerly asked Eon.
"Just make sure you only hit the tank," Eon said with a sigh. Sky gave him a hug and rushed off to go fire the rockets.
"Fire in the hole!" The younger Portal Master yelled out as she fired the rockets. The troll didn't know what hit him.
"There's the acorn!" Bash pointed out. The large acorn was found in a large stump. Much to everyone's shock, the acorn broke open, revealing a much smaller acorn inside.
"Huh, it really is an acorn!" Sky marvaled. She raised her staff to collect the source, only for Kaos to beat her to the punch.
"You all again!? The old Portal Master and the baby Portal Master! Plus all their Skylosers! You are still doomed. DOOMED I TELL YOU!" Kaos taunted. "You will never possess the Eternal Life Source. NEVER!"
"Yeah right!" Spyro challenged the dark Portal Master, who paid him no mind.
"You face my powerful, evil LIFE minion. NOW-I will laugh while it both POWERFULLY and EVIL-Y ends yours! Mwhahahahahahaha! Go on-get on with it!" Kaos ordered as an evil Zook clone appeared on the field.
"Ay man! Don't clone the Zook!" Zook protested as he aimed his missile launcher at his clone, who did the same. With some help from Bash and Drobot, the clone went down rather quickly.
"OKAY!" Kaos snapped. "Forget the life minion! YOU won't beat this! BECAUSE I-KAOS-SUMMON MY 'UNBEATABLE DEADLY LIFE SPELL OF DEATH'!"
"Dodge!" Stealth Elf yelled out as several strange red things appeared. Most Skylanders, as well as both Portal Masters, did as told, but a few Skylanders kept the red things away via destroying them, causing a chain reaction. Most of the red things were leading harmful green orbs, but destroying the red things quickly got rid of them. Soon, most of the Skylanders had stopped dodging in favor of attacking the red things.
"So you can dodge a few things you can see. BIG DEAL!" Kaos scoffed. "What about things you CAN'T!?" A clone of Stealth Elf was then summoned.
"Turning invisible is not the only thing I can do," The ninja grumbled before getting into a fighting pose. Indeed, it turned out that the clone didn't have a strategy beyond 'turn invisible, then attempt to charge', making it rather easy to defeat.
"BAH!" Kaos snapped. "That's all right. I have something even MORE EVIL in mind! More evil and unbeatable than ever before! I SUMMON — MY 'TOTALLY UNBEATABLE DEADLY LIFE SPELL OF ULTIMATE DEATH'! HA!" Once again, all the Skylanders had to do was destroy the red things in order to ensure their survival and dodge the dots that lacked them. Kaos snarled.
"That all you got?!" Camo taunted.
"WHAT!?" The villain exclaimed. "You TOTALLY BEAT MY 'TOTALLY UNBEATABLE DEADLY LIFE SPELL OF ULTIMATE DEATH'! Er - I mean….Nevermind!" However, Kaos still couldn't hide his shock at what was happening. "What? Where? Huh? GRRRR! - How dare you use BLIND LUCK against me - KAOS!?"
"No rules other than victory for fighting you!" Gill Grunt declared, causing a couple of the Skylanders (as well as Sky) to chuckle.
"WELL, even if it can't see, your luck is about to run out!" Kaos declared. "MINION!" A clone of Stump Smash then appeared.
"Top to do some HAMMER DROPPING!" The tree declared as he rushed forward. For the most part, everyone hung back to let Stump Smash vent some rage. The fight was over quickly.
"Stupid, deceitful trees! I hate 'em!" Kaos snapped once he saw the clone fall. "I HATE 'EM! Even the EVIL ONES! ARGH! Obviously, I have SLIGHTLY underestimated you. It won't happen again….I call upon my most powerful and evil Life spell of all! So powerful I dare not speak its name! I SUMMON —- curious aren't you? TOO BAD! BEHOLD!"
"I was…" Sky sheepishly admitted as the Skylanders kept on dodging Kaos' attacks.
"I doubt you are the only one," Eon assured her.
"Oh you have GOT to be kidding me!" Kaos snapped once he realized that once again, he failed to kill the Skylanders. "LIFE MINIONS! All at once! Make these Skylameos sorry they ever heard the glorious name of KAOS! ATTACK!" The three clones all returned to the field, but they were still vastly outnumbered by the heroic Skylanders.
"Well done!" Eon declared to the Skylanders, who all cheered.
"GHAA!" Kaos roared. "Fine! Take the Eternal Life Source! You'll never get to use it! You'd just better watch your back. Cuz I'll be watching it too…..er - unless you're coming towards me, then I'll be watching your front. Either way! You'll be watched. -BY me!"
"That is creepy," Sky deadpanned as she and Eon raised their staffs to collect the source.
Sky had never seen the Life Skylanders look so relieved as two flowers bloomed within the mechanisms of the Core. The flowers then began to spray some sort of light pollen which began to circle around the Core.
"Wow! Those flowers are amazing!" Ghost Roaster marvaled.
"What a remarkable creation!" Hugo marveled as well as he watched the Core.
"We are all remarkable creations!" Arbo declared.
"Some are more remarkable than others. Like me. BOOM!" Flynn boasted. Sky just rolled her eyes, as did Eon and several other Skylanders.
"Four down, four to go!" Sky cheered once she was done rolling her eyes.
"We must find the remaining Eternal Sources before they fall into Kaos' hands," Hugo reminded the young Portal Master.
"Then let's get going!" Sky declared as she pointed her staff to the sky.
We're halfway there! See you all next time!
