Awakening the Chosen
Chapter 11.5
In this chapter, I will show you all which 15 characters have been revived and I will give you some new character interactions. Enjoy!
Meanwhile, somewhere in the Badlands of Cold Love…
Somewhere in the snow-covered bushes in the Badlands of Cold Love, 2 statues laid on the ground, the statue of an ice dragon and the statue of a cat that resembled half cat/half unicorn. The statues lay lifelessly on the snowy floor as critters crawled all over them. Suddenly, 2 beams of bright magic rained from the sky and directly hit the statues. The statues glowed with a bright light and two more fallen heroes were revived; Prince Winter and Princess Unikitty.
"Ugh, what happened?" Winter asked as he rubbed his head.
"Oof, that hurt." Unikitty said as she shook off the snow on her.
"Wait, who said that!?" Winter asked as he got up defensibly.
"Who's there!?" Unikitty asked as she looked around.
When Winter turned around and saw Unikitty, he was about to scream, but he quickly covered his mouth and kept still.
Who, what is that!? Winter thought to himself.
When Unikitty was about to turn around to face Winter, she spotted something that made her stop. Unikitty just stared as a snow-covered bush that was flourishing with… raisins.
"Are those… raisins? Grr, I hate RAISINS!" Unikitty roared as she fused into her Inner-Rage form.
Winter desperately kept his mouth shut, despite the fact that all he wanted to do was scream for his life. Unikitty roared again and with one furious swipe with her gigantic claws, she destroyed the raisin bush completely.
At this point, Winter couldn't help himself and he let out a full scream of terror.
"WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU!?" Winter screamed.
When Unikitty turned to look at the terrified Winter, she almost instantly shifted back to her happy-self as she politely introduced herself to him like nothing had just happened.
"Hello there, I am Princess Unikitty! And what is your name?" Unikitty asked.
"P-P-Prince Winter." Winter said as he shivered in fear.
I guess that's a fitting name for her as she literally IS a unicorn/cat. Winter thought to himself.
"Wait, Prince? (Gasp) You're a prince?! That's so cool!" Unikitty said excitedly.
"Yeah, I guess it is." Winter said.
"Sorry if I scared you, me and raisins don't have a good relationship, especially if you put raisins in cookies, which is absolutely UNNECESSARY!" Unikitty roared as she momentarily shifted into her rage form, but quickly shifted back to normal as to not scare this dragon anymore.
"Oops, I guess I slipped again (Giggle)." Unikitty said as she smiled happily at him.
"Yeah, I guess you did. How about you don't let it slip again please." Winter said.
"Don't you worry, I promise I wont fall into rage again." Unikitty said.
"Good." Winter said.
"Hey! Do you know where we are?" Unikitty asked as she looked around.
"Umm, in the middle of a snowy field?" Winter said.
"Facts, but I wonder why we are here." Unikitty said.
"Me too, wait! (Gasp) Moon, Qibli! Where are you guys!? Turtle?! Kinkajou!? Guys!?" Winter called.
"Are you calling for your friends? (Gasp) Wait, a minute, what about my friends!? Emmet, Wyldstyle, Batman, Benny, Metal Beard!?" Unikitty called.
"What happened!? Where is everyone!?" Winter cried.
"(Deep breath, deep breath) Stay positive (Deep breath) Stay positive… WHAT IS GOING ON!?" Unikitty roared as she shifted into her rage-form.
Winter, who was not in the mood to see this… unicorn and cat hybrid go into psycho-mode again, grabbed ahold of her, wrapping his arms around her neck, not choking her, just lightly holding on. This caused Unikitty to revert back to her normal-self again.
"STOP! STOP! STOP! DON'T DO THAT AGAIN UNLESS IT'S ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!" Winter yelled.
"(Sniff, sniff) I'm sorry." Unikitty said as she teared up.
"Oh, gosh, no. Please don't cry, don't cry. Look, I'm sorry, okay." Winter said as he tried to comfort Unikitty.
"(Sniff) It's okay, I forgive you." Unikitty said.
"Awesome, now look, let's get the facts straight: I have no clue where you came from, we don't know where we are, and I have a strange feeling that I have seen you before." Winter said.
"Hmm, now that you mention it, I also remembered seeing you somewhere. (Gasp) Wait a minute! That's it, I remember; we saw each other in some large valley and there were bunch of other people we didn't know." Unikitty said.
"Oh, yeah! And then one of my enemies, Soulnebula, used a powerful magic wing attack and then the next thing I remember is blacking out and I guess here we are." Winter said.
"I don't know about you, but do you feel like we have something to do, or a place we have to be?" Unikitty asked.
"You know what? Yeah, I do feel that. But I don't know where or what." Winter said.
"Well, I don't know about you, but something is telling me that we have to head that way." Unikitty said as she pointed down towards some ruins that were way off in the distance.
"I feel the same, but I also feel like we should do something first. Something like… oh! Maybe we should try and find any other people who need our help." Winter said.
"That's a great idea, let's go!" Unikitty said as she prepared to run.
"Erm, wait!" Winter called.
"Hmm, what's wrong? Do you have… COLD feet?" Unikitty asked as she smiled.
"…. Okay, first off, I did not appreciate that; second off, from here on out, you stay close to me and try and follow my lead." Winter said.
"Why?" Unikitty asked.
"Because I don't fully trust that you won't freak out again, and plus, I want to make sure you stay safe." Winter said.
"Aww, you are a kind dragon. I bet you have tons of friends back home." Unikitty said.
"Well, yeah I do, thank you. And well, I want to make sure you're safe because I don't to be held responsible if you die, but yeah, I guess so." Winter said,
"Well, at least you're being honest. Well, go ahead, Prince Winter, lead the way." Unikitty said.
"You can just call me Winter." Winter said.
"Okay, then you can just call me Unikitty." Unikitty said.
"Alright, Unikitty. Let's go then." Winter said as he began walking.
"I'll be right behind you." Unikitty said as she followed him.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the Forest of Laughter…
In the bushes and grassy rocks of the Forest of Laughter, there were 3 statutes lying within a few feet of each other: one a dragon, the other a piece of gum with arms and legs, and the last one, a banana with arms and legs.
As the forest creatures made their noises and sounds, a beam of magic struck the 3 statues and a few moments later, they glowed brightly and 3 more fallen heroes were revived: Deathbringer, Tobias, and Banana Joe.
"Wwaaah! Glory! Watch out for the-! Oh, huh? Where am I?" Deathbringer asked as he looked around. "Hmm, no way this is the Rainforest Kingdom, it's too dark and kind of creepy." Deathbringer said to himself.
"Ugh, what happened?" Tobias asked as he rubbed his head in pain.
"Oh, I feel like I got hit by a blender blade or something." Banana Joe said as he clutched his stomach.
"Huh? Banana Joe?" Tobias asked.
"Tobias?" Banana Joe asked.
"… What are you doing here!?" They both asked simultaneously.
Deathbringer, who somehow hadn't seen the two, responded to their questions as he began to turn around to face them.
"Funny you should say that, I was just asking myself that-!" Deathbringer froze as he laid eyes on the two things in front of him.
For a few moments, no one moved or said anything. Everyone was too shocked and confused to see each other.
"You're not a bad dragon, are you?" Banana Joe asked.
"(SCREAM!) Talking bananas with arms and legs! A-And are you supposed to be a piece of gum!?" Deathbringer screamed.
"Uh, yes?" Tobias answered.
"EW! I have no choice but to defend myself!" Deathbringer said as he pulled out a shotgun and aimed it at the two things.
"WAIT, STOP! DON'T SHOOT!" Banana Joe cried.
"WOAH MAN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Tobias asked.
"Both of you, shush! Just put your arms up!" Deathbringer ordered as they both put their arms up.
"Okay, we put our arms up, what do you want!?" Tobias asked.
"I want answers! Tell me, where is my family?" Deathbringer asked.
"How should WE know?" Banana Joe asked.
"Because if I remember correctly, before I was hit by some powerful magic, I recall seeing you two and my family was close by; along with a bunch of other strange creatures!" Deathbringer said.
"Look, we don't know anything about your family!" Banana Joe cried.
"We swear! We're telling the truth!" Tobias said.
"I'm not buying it! Where are my wife and kids!?" Deathbringer asked.
"Look crazy dragon, we already told you, we don't know!" Banana Joe said.
"So, you don't know where my family is?" Deathbringer asked.
"Correct! We don't know!" Tobias said.
"Well, that's too bad, good night, you, abominations!" Deathbringer said as he prepared to fire his gun.
"NO! PLEASE! DON'T KILL US!" Tobias begged.
"Are you seriously going to shoot two kids!?" Banana Joe asked right before Deathbringer fired his gun.
However, when Deathbringer heard Banana Joe say they were kids, he turned the gun towards the ground between them right before he fired.
"Wait, you two are kids?" Deathbringer asked.
"Do we LOOK like adults?" Tobias asked.
"No, you don't and you know, now that you mention it, you sound like kids. So, yeah, sorry about that." Deathbringer said.
"I believe I have every right to slap you in the face!" Tobias yelled as he slapped Deathbringer.
"Okay, I deserved that." Deathbringer said.
"Yes, you did." Banana Joe said. "Let me take your gun from you sir." Banana Joe said as he reached for Deathbringer's shotgun.
"Ah, ah. You touch my gun and I'll cut you up, dry you out, and you'll be a container of banana chips." Deathbringer said.
"Okay, sorry." Banana Joe said.
"Geez, if you're so rough and dangerous all the time, I wonder how you even GOT a wife." Tobias said.
"Well, I guess you could say I'm totally smooth and I'm an expert at impressing and winning the hearts of women." Deathbringer said as he gave them a smug smile.
"I doubt it." Tobias said.
"Well, that's not what's important. What's important, is that I am stuck with 2… kids, and none of us know where exactly we are." Deathbringer said.
"Well, that might be true, but I have a strange feeling that we have to go somewhere." Tobias said.
"Yeah, like there is a place we have to be at." Banana Joe said.
"Hmm, I feel that too." Deathbringer said.
"Maybe we can find the rest of our friends." Tobias said.
"Yeah, so let's go." Banana Joe said.
"Hey, hey, just you wait a minute kid. I appreciate your courage, but do you two even know which way you plan to go?" Deathbringer asked.
"Sure, that way." Banana Joe said as he pointed towards down a path.
"Hmm, pretty good. Well, let's put what happened behind us and let's take a moment to introduce ourselves, shall we?" Deathbringer asked.
"Sure." Tobias said.
"I guess we could do that." Banana Joe said.
"Good, I'll go first. My name is Deathbringer. I'm an assassin, bodyguard, ninja, and the king of the Nightwings and the Rainwings." Deathbringer said.
"That's cool, I am Tobias. And I-."
"I'm going to stop you right there and ask: Are you seriously a piece of bubble-gum?" Deathbringer interrupted.
"(Sigh) Yes, I am a piece of gum. Anyways, I am student at Elmore High." Tobias said.
"And my name is Banana Joe, and obviously I'm a banana. I go to school with him, so I also am a student at Elmore High." Banana Joe said.
"Well, nice to meet you, Toby and Banjo." Deathbringer said.
"Toby and Banjo?" Tobias asked in confusion.
"Yeah, I didn't feel like saying Banana Joe all the time so I shortened it to Banjo." Deathbringer said.
"I mean you could have just called me Joe." Banana Joe said.
"Eh, I guess I can go back and forth between Joe and Banjo." Deathbringer said.
"I guess I can let that slide." Banana Joe said.
"Wait a minute, I can understand shortening his name, but why my name too? Tobias is not a long name." Tobias said.
"Well, I just felt like giving you both nicknames." Deathbringer said.
"Whatever." Tobias said.
"Can we give you a nickname?" Banana Joe asked.
"Sure, let me hear a suggestion or two." Deathbringer said.
"Death!" they both said at the same time.
"Death? Did you kids even try? I mean at least with Joe's name I made the short version sound funny and cool. But, eh, I'll be fine. Anyways, now that that's done, we can head out." Deathbringer said.
"Sweet! Let's get moving." Tobias said.
"Okay, first off Tim, I'm in charge." Deathbringer said.
"Tim?" Tobias asked.
"Why are YOU in charge?" Banana Joe asked.
"Simple, I'm the adult here and I have a gun." Deathbringer said.
"Eh, good point." Banana Joe said.
"Exactly." Deathbringer said as he began to walk away.
However, after only a taking about 2 steps, Deathbringer stopped and turned to Tobias and Banana Joe.
"Also, because, well… I know you kids have a family to go back home to. I want to make sure you two return home safely." Deathbringer said as he dropped his smug attitude and shifted to a kinder attitude. One could even say a protective attitude as he gave Tobias and Banana Joe a warm smile.
"I did not expect to hear that from you; no offense." Banana Joe said.
"Heh, you're not the first person to say that so you're good." Deathbringer said.
"You know, maybe you aren't such a big jerk after all." Tobias said.
"(Chuckle) I guess not, well come on Joe and Ted." Deathbringer said as he continued walking away.
"Ted? You know what? Forget it, let's go." Tobias said as they made their way through the forest.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the City of the Brain…
In a back alley somewhere in the City of the Brain, four statues were lying in a dumpster; a statue of a lego blue astronaut, a statue of a large lego pirate, a statue of a male cheetah with police clothing, and a small female rabbit child. City rats crawling over the statues, luckily the dirty trash smell didn't carry over to the statues. Suddenly, 4 beams of magic struck the statues and they glowed with a bright light and 4 more fallen heroes were revived: Benny the 1980-something space-guy, Metal Beard, Anais Watterson and Officer Clawhauser.
"Ugh, that is going to leave a mark." Anais said as she rubbed her head in pain.
"Am I dead, no, I think I'm alive. Thank goodness I'm alive!" Clawhauser said.
"What the-? Who are you?" Anais asked as she saw this cheetah police officer.
"(Gasp) Oh my gosh, you look so adorable! Are you okay?" Clawhauser asked.
"Uh, yeah I'm okay." Anais said.
"What's your name? I'm Officer Clawhauser." Clawhauser said.
"My name is Anais Watterson." Anais said.
"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you." Clawhauser said.
Suddenly, the sound of trash bags being thrown around, caused the two to face a large lego pirate.
"Yar, who dare hurt me and me crew!" Metal Beard yelled as he stood up quickly and looked down on Anais and Clawhauser.
"Huh? Wah!? What is that!?" Anais cried as she saw Metal Beard looming over.
"Oh, my goodness! Hey, don't you dare hurt that child!" Clawhauser said as he stepped in front of Anais.
"Ye don't give me orders!" Metal Beard said as he aimed his cannon-gun at the two.
"Oh, my gosh." Clawhauser said as Metal Beard prepared to blast him.
"Metal Beard, stop!" the space-guy yelled as he flew right in front of Metal Beard.
"Benny, get out of me way! I've got some filthy scallywags to deal with!" Metal Beard said.
"No! They are not going to hurt us." Benny said.
"How can ye be so sure?" Metal Beard asked.
"Simple, because one of them is a child and the other is kind of… 'big' in a way." Benny whispered.
"Hmm, I see yer point Lad, very well I won't blast 'em." Metal Beard said as he lowered his cannon-gun.
"That's better." Benny said.
Benny then turned to face the two freaked out mammals.
"Hi there, you two. My name is Ben, although you can call me Benny!" Benny said as he landed in front of Anais and Clawhauser and shook their hands eagerly.
"Umm, hi… I'm Anais Watterson." Anais said as she shook Benny's… lego hand.
"And I'm Clawhauser; Officer Clawhauser." Clawhauser said as he shook Benny's hand.
"Nice to meet you two! Sorry about my friend here, he gets a little defensive sometimes." Benny said.
"Lad, if these two strangers try anything, I have every right to blast 'em." Metal Beard.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Anyways, this is my friend, Metal Beard." Benny said.
"Greetin's to ye, lad and lass." Metal Beard said as he tipped his pirate hat to them.
"So, uh, Metal Beard, what happened to the rest of your body?" Anais asked.
"No, don't ask him that!" Benny cried but it was too late.
"What happened to me body!? I'll tell ye what happened to me body!" Metal Beard yelled.
"Oh gosh, here we go again." Benny sighed.
"I arrived at the foot of the tower with me hearty master builder crew! Only to find that the Kragle was all the way up at the top of the infinitieth floor; guarded by a robot army! And security measure of every kind imaginable: lasers, sharks, laser-sharks, overbearing assistance, and strange dangerous relics that entrap, snap, and zap! And there be a mysterious room called, 'The Think Tank'! I barely made it out of that room with just me head… and me organs. I had to replace every part of my once-strapping ferial pirate body with this hunk of garbage ye see before ye! And that's what happened to me body!" Metal Beard said as he finished his story.
"Um, okay. Sorry about that?" Anais said as she didn't know how exactly to respond to Metal Beard's story.
"So, how exactly are you alive, Mr. Beard?" Clawhauser asked.
"Argh, I will not be giving that answer to ye, it gets too complicated for a lot of folks." Metal Beard said.
"Well, I mean he IS made of lego, so that's probably why." Anais said.
"I guess that works too, nice thinking lass." Metal Beard said.
"Thanks." Anais said.
"Well, now that we're done with that, I can properly ask this: what is going on!?" Benny cried as he started flying in circle until Metal Beard grabbed him and kept him from flying around.
"Stop flying around in circles like a seagull!" Metal Beard said.
"Well, I do remember seeing other people who look like you two, as in they were all lego figures." Anais said.
"Argh, and I recall seeing a bunch of little critters that looked like ye and ye." Metal Beard said as he pointed to Anais and Clawhauser.
"And I could have sworn that I saw people from Super Mario." Clawhauser said.
"Oh, and dragons too! I saw a lot of dragons!" Benny said.
"And wasn't there one actual human kid that was attacked by some demon looking creatures?" Anais asked.
"Yeah, there was!" Benny said.
"Argh, the last thing I remember from that incident, was some large looking dragon spread its wings and fire some energy wave-like things in our direction." Metal Beard said.
"We must have gotten hit and then we somehow ended up here." Clawhauser added.
"But, how did we get here?" Metal Beard asked.
"Who knows, but I think the real question is, where are the rest of our friends?" Anais asked.
"Well, no one else is in the dumpster area aside from us." Benny said.
"Hold on a minute there, lad, let me check the garbage bin." Metal Beard said as he started digging through the dumpster. "Nope, no one else be with us." Metal Beard concluded.
"Well, why don't we get out of this trash alley and see what is out there" Clawhauser suggested as he pointed to the exit of the alley.
"Great idea, lad. Come on crew, let's get out of this here dump." Metal Beard said as they made their way out of the trash alleyway.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the Beach of Drought…
Somewhere in the very large Beach of Drought, there were 6 statues half-buried in the sand that had blown over them. Tiny scorpions and sand-critters crawled over the statues and sand continued to bury the statues. The six statues all resembled dragons: 1 earth/sky female dragonet, 2 water dragonets (Male/Female), 2 night/grass dragonets (Male/Female), and 1-night female dragonet. Suddenly, 2 beams of magic struck 2 of the 6 statues and they glowed with magic. 2 more fallen heroes were revived: Phantom; the son of Glory and Deathbringer, and Wave; the son of Tsunami and Riptide.
"Ugh! (Spit) What the heck?" Phantom said as he spit sand out of his mouth.
"AH! My ears!" Wave cried as he shook his head vigorously, shaking the sand out of his ears.
"Huh? Wave? Is that you?" Phantom asked as he turned and saw his best friend.
"Phantom?" Wave asked as he saw him.
"Well, it sure is great to see you again, best buddy." Phantom said as he helped pull Wave out of the sand.
"Yeah, it's great to see you too, but where are we?" Wave asked.
"I don't know. But considering the fact that I see some cactuses over there and we are standing in the middle of a sandy terrain; my guess is that we are in the Sand Kingdom." Phantom said.
"Wait a second, (Sniff, sniff). I recognize that smell." Wave said excitedly.
"Well, how about you tell me what you smell?" Phantom asked.
"Dude, just smell the air, don't you smell anything?" Wave asked.
"No, Wave, I can't smell anything because I have sand in my snout." Phantom said.
"Oh, I guess that makes sense, anyway I smell the ocean, so we must be on some beach." Wave said.
"Well, then this is one BIG beach. Also do those statues look familiar to you?" Phantom asked.
"What statues?" Wave asked as he looked around. As Wave turned around, he saw the statue of the rest of his friends and his sister. "Oh my gosh! Quickly Phantom, we have to revive them!" Wave cried.
"Duh, duh, DUUUH, DUH Wave! Of course, we have to revive them." Phantom said sarcastically.
As Wave was about to run to his sister's statue, Phantom grabbed him by the wrist and yanked him back.
"Ow, hey! What are you doing!? We have to revive them!" Wave said.
"Oh, I know, and we will. But I would personally prefer if I revived your sister and you can deal with everybody else." Phantom said.
"….. Are you serious!? For crying out loud! You know what, fine! Go ahead, revive River! But I swear on my mother's grave, if you revive her and start doing things to her, I will personally take one of my spears and shove it up your-!"
"Now, now, there are probably children reading this story." Phantom said as he smiled.
"Whatever! But you have been warned! Don't you dare take advantage of my big sister!" Wave said as he ran over to the statues.
"Oh, don't worry buddy, I won't do anything bad to River." Phantom said smugly.
Wave ran over to Aurora and touched the golden pedestal of her statue, reviving the daughter of Starflight and Fatespeaker.
"Wah! What the-? Where am I?" Aurora asked.
"Don't worry, you're okay." Wave said.
"Wave? What's going on?" Aurora asked.
"No time to explain, you go revive Raindrop." Wave said as he ran over to the earth/sky dragonet statue.
"Uh, okay!" Aurora said as he ran over to Raindrop's statue and revived her.
"What's happened!?" Raindrop cried as she tried slashing blindly at Aurora.
"Raindrop, it's me, Aurora!" Aurora cried as she shook Raindrop back into reality.
"What? Aurora? Aurora, you're alright!" Raindrop said as she hugged her friend.
"I'm glad to see you're okay." Aurora said.
"Same here, what happened?" Raindrop asked.
"I'm not sure, just wait until we revive everyone else." Aroura said.
"Everyone else?" Raindrop asked as she turned and saw Wave and Phantom reviving their remaining friends.
Phantom pulled River's stature out of the sand and he touched the golden pedestal, reviving Wave's big sister.
"Ugh, everything hurts… huh? Phantom!?" River asked as she came back into reality.
"Yeah, it's me." Phantom said.
"Oh, thank goodness!" River said as she hugged Phantom.
"Yeah, it's nice to see you too, babe." Phantom said as he tried to kiss her.
"Now, now, as sweet as that is, we have to figure out what the heck just happened." River said as she stopped him.
"But, River… come on." Phantom said, jokingly.
River shook her head as she smiled to herself.
Wave carried the final statue to the rest of the group and he touched the golden pedestal, reviving Firefly; the daughter of Clay and Peril.
"Daddy! Mommy! NO, DON'T LET IT HIT ME!" Firefly screamed as she was revived.
"Firefly! Firefly! It's okay, it's okay! It's me, Wave!" Wave said as he tried to calm her down.
"HELP! Huh? Wave!?" Firefly asked as she looked up to him.
"Yeah, it's me, Wave." Wave said.
"Oh, Wave!" Firefly cried as she hugged Wave tightly and started crying.
"Hey, it's okay, it's okay. Don't worry, I've got you." Wave said as he calmed her.
"What happened?" Firefly asked.
"That is what I will explain." Phantom said.
"Oh, thank goodness you are all okay, too." Firefly said as she saw her best friends.
"Don't you worry about us, we're all safe, Firefly." River said.
"I'm so glad you're okay, big sis." Wave said as he hugged River.
"Same here, little bro." River said.
"Well, if it isn't my big brother, Phandope." Raindrop said.
"Yeah, I'm happy to see you alive too, little sister." Phantom said as he hugged her.
"Are you feeling better now, Firefly?" Aurora asked.
"Yeah, I'm doing better now I think." Firefly said.
"Well, aren't you going to tell us what happened?" Raindrop asked.
"Yeah, yeah, don't rush me. Here's what I think happened: we get summoned into a strange world where creatures from other worlds join together along with our world, we all scream and yell at each other, then Soulnebula does that wing-thing and then we get hit and I guess we turn into statues and somehow me and Wave are revived, we revive the rest of you, my kiss gets rejected by my girlfriend, and now I am explaining what happened." Phantom said.
"Well, that was very long, but sure." Raindrop said.
"So, where are we now?" Aurora asked.
"Sea-Horse here said that we are in a beach or something." Phantom said.
"Well, this sure isn't the Sea Kingdom." River said.
"Yeah, and this world isn't Pyrrhia." Raindrop said.
"So, what are we going to do now?" Wave asked.
"Um, I have something to say." Firefly said shyly.
"Go ahead." River said.
"Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I have this strong feeling that we should go that way." Firefly said as she pointed towards the direction of the Ruins of Directions.
"I agree with her, I feel it too." River said.
"Same." Aurora said.
"Me too." Raindrop said.
"Me three." Wave said.
"Then it's settled; we go that way." Phantom said.
"Great, let's go." River said as she started walking.
"River, hold on. I need to establish something first." Phantom said.
"Like what?" River asked.
"Well, since our Wings of Fire: World of Light story was cancelled, I never got much of a chance to be the leader of our little group. So, I'm going to reassign myself as the leader, so you guys follow my lead." Phantom said.
"Well, I suspect that you are going to get us killed." Raindrop said.
"Ah, come on sis, I'm a great leader." Phantom said.
"Okay, but if anyone gets hurt, you are being replaced." Raindrop said.
"Whatever sis. Now, come on guys, let's get moving." Phantom said as he led the way towards the Ruins.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the Land of Ashes…
Down in the Land of Ashes, there were 4 statues in a pile of ash: the statue of a green dinosaur-like creature, a Nightwing dragon, a lego space invader-like person, and a green balloon with a face on it. As the ash blew over the statues, 4 beams of magic struck the statues and they glowed with bright light and 4 more fallen heroes were revived: Yoshi, Fatespeaker, General Sweet Mayhem, and Alan.
"Uwah!" Fatespeaker cried out as she shook a large amount of ashes and soot off of her snout.
"Gah! Someone, help! My string is stuck under a big rock!" Alan cried as he tried to yank himself free from the rock.
"Wha? (Gasp) Hold still!" Sweet Mayhem said as she blew the rock to pieces with her gun.
"Oh, thank you very much. Wait, what are you?" Alan asked.
"My name is-." Sweet Mayhem started before she was cut off.
"(Gasp) What the heck! Is that a balloon with a face on it!?" Fatespeaker cried.
"Uh… yes?" Alan said.
"What kind of reality am I in!?" Fatespeaker cried as she tried to crawl backwards away from Alan, only to bump into Yoshi.
"Hey, watch where you're going!" Yoshi said.
"Huh? Oh my gosh, are you supposed to be Yoshi from Super Mario!?" Fatespeaker asked.
"Yes, I am. Wait a minute, you're a big scary-looking dragon!" Yoshi cried as he tried to run away, but he crashed into a big rock.
"Everyone, settle down!" Mayhem shouted as she fired her gun into the air.
This seemed to catch everyone attention, as everyone fell silent.
"Listen here, I know none of us know each other, but I am positive that none of us are bad guys, so everyone just, chill out. Seriously, me and the balloon guy are the only sane ones here." Mayhem said.
"Okay, first off, I have a name and it's, Alan. Second, how do we know YOU aren't a bad guy, sir?" Alan asked.
"Are you assuming my gender?" Mayhem asked as she pointed her gun at Alan.
"Wait, what!? N-No! What are you talking about, sir!?" Alan asked.
"I'm not a, SIR," Mayhem said as she pressed a button on her helmet, removing the visor, and revealing her face. "I am a woman!" Mayhem said.
"Okay, I'm sorry! I didn't know, it's just the voice gives off a different vibe!" Alan said.
"Apology accepted, Alan." Mayhem said as she reset her visor on her helmet.
"Thank goodness." Alan said.
Mayhem turned back to Fatespeaker and Yoshi as she started scanning them.
"According to my scanners, you both seem to be in a state of shock and terror." Mayhem said.
"Well of course we are terrified!" Yoshi cried.
"Out of all the visions I've had in my life, none of them predicted this." Fatespeaker said.
"Wait, you can see visions of the future!?" Alan asked.
"Why yes I can." Fatespeaker said as she gave a confident, yet smug smile.
"Wow, that's so cool! Oo, what do you see in my future!?" Alan asked.
Mayhem, who had sensed that Fatespeaker was seemingly lying, spoke up.
"Now, wait just a minute! Who exactly do you think you are, missus fortune teller?" Mayhem asked.
"Well, if you must know, my name is Fatespeaker. I am a dragon belonging to the Nightwing tribe. I am specialized in emotion sensing and foretelling the future." Fatespeaker said.
"Hmm, yeah, I don't believe it." Mayhem said.
"What!?" Fatespeaker cried.
"Moving on; I take it you're Yoshi?" Mayhem asked.
"Well, yes I am." Yoshi said.
"Since when could YOU speak English?" Fatespeaker asked.
"Oh, for quite a long time now. I guess now everyone can understand me somehow." Yoshi said.
"I see." Mayhem said.
"Hey, why don't you tell us who YOU are?" Fatespeaker said.
"Very well, I am General Sweet Mayhem, Intergalactic Naval Commander of the Systar System." Mayhem said as she gave everyone a small wave.
"Oh, that sounds pretty cool." Alan said.
"I'm going to guess that this, 'Systar System' is in space?" Fatespeaker asked.
"That is correct. You might not understand very well, as I'm sure none of you have experience with outer space." Mayhem said.
"Actually, I do have experience with outer space." Yoshi said.
"You do? When?" Mayhem asked.
"Um, Super Mario Galaxy 2." Yoshi said.
"Oh, yeah I remember that." Mayhem said.
"Well, anyway, I just realized something." Alan said.
"What?" Yoshi asked.
"Why are we standing in ashes at the foot of a GIANT VOLCANO!?" Alan asked as everyone looked up at the massive volcano.
"Oh, oh yeah, I forgot about that." Yoshi said. "Come to think of it, I could have sworn that all of us were gathered in some large open valley, along with a bunch of other people like us. So, how did we end up here?" Yoshi asked.
"Hey, Fatekeeper." Alan called.
"It's FateSPEAKER." Fatespeaker corrected.
"Fatespeaker, can you see the past?" Alan asked.
"No, I can only foretell the future." Fatespeaker said.
"Darn. I was hoping to see if you could find out what happened to us." Alan said.
"Luckily for you all, when I was transported from my home to this strange new place, I started recording everything. Therefore, I should have that recording saved in my helmet's data base." Mayhem said as she searched her helmet's recording files.
"When did your helmet have THAT ability?" Yoshi asked.
"Oh, it always had that ability, I just don't use it that much. Ah, here we go, found it." Mayhem said.
"Sweet!" Fatespeaker said.
"Huh, yes?" Mayhem asked.
"What?" Fatespeaker asked.
"You said my name, didn't you?" Mayhem asked.
"Huh? Oh! Oh no, I meant like sweet as in awesome, not sweet as in your name, sorry about that." Fatespeaker said.
"Ah I see, it's fine." Mayhem said.
"So, how is this going to work, are you going to just tell us what happened, or are you going to show us what happened?" Yoshi asked.
"How is she going to show us what happened?" Alan asked.
"Like this." Mayhem said as she projected a holographic recording of the previous events in front of everyone.
The 4 sat there in shock and dread as they watched the terrible events that took place in that strange valley. Everyone was horrified as they watched all of their friends and families get struck by Soulnebula's Off Waves attack and turned into statues before the recording was cut off. Most likely because that was when Mayhem turned into a statue.
"So… we all died." Fatespeaker said.
"Correction, we all turned into statues." Alan said.
"Well, whatever, you get the point." Fatespeaker said.
"Well, this doesn't tell us how we got here specifically, but I guess we can all conclude that we must have been moved here." Mayhem concluded.
"So, what do we do now?" Yoshi asked.
Before anyone could say anything, a loud growling sound could be heard from behind them. Everyone slowly and dramatically turned around to face a terrifying looking creature, staring at them dead in the face.
This creature was about 10 feet tall and 15 feet long. The creature had the body of a dog, the tail of a stegosaurus, the face of a tiger, webbed feet like a duck, tusks of an elephant, the claws of a velociraptor, and it was as armored as a crocodile. Also, the creature had many spikes on its back and a large gem stone on its chest.
Everyone stood still as the creature growled loudly at them, baring its teeth.
"Nobody, move a single muscle." Mayhem whispered.
"What's the point, the thing clearly sees us." Yoshi said.
"Maybe if we don't move, it won't identify us as life." Mayhem suggested.
"So, we're ripping off Jurassic Park's rule of the T-Rex, now?" Alan asked.
"Shut up!" Fatespeaker whispered.
"I think it's working." Mayhem said.
"Oh, good." Alan said.
As the creature examined the heroes, Yoshi looked down and saw a large spider crawling towards his foot. As the spider crawled on Yoshi' foot, Yoshi initially felt no concern of the spider would bite him, as he was wearing shoes. But, when the spider raised its body upwards and bared its large dagger-like fangs at him, Yoshi felt a bit worried. Then, to Yoshi's shock and terror, the spider's fangs lit up with fire and the spider prepared to bite down.
"Oh, no." Yoshi said.
Then, the spider gave out a hiss and with great speed and force for a spider, bit Yoshi's foot. Yoshi screamed in pure agony as the burning hot fangs went through his shoe and penetrated his foot. Yoshi jumped up and violently tried to shake the spider off of him, but the spider's fangs were so hard and large, that no matter how hard or vigorously Yoshi shook his foot, the spider wasn't coming off.
With this sudden outburst and movement, the creature roared loudly and was about to slash Yoshi with its claws, before Mayhem fired a bunch of stickers at its face. The creature started trying to slash the stickers off of its face.
"Dang it, Yoshi!" Mayhem said.
"GAH! THE SPIDER IS STUCK ON MY FOOT! GET IT OFF!" Yoshi screamed as he started running away.
"Ugh, everybody, run!" Mayhem said as she flew off using her jet pack.
As the creature was ripping the final few stickers off of its face, Fatespeaker grabbed Alan by his string.
"Ow, hey what are you doing!?" Alan asked.
"Shut up and wrap your string around my wrist!" Fatespeaker said.
"What? Why!?" Alan asked.
"Just do it, or I'll pop you with my teeth!" Fatespeaker yelled.
"Fine!" Alan said as he wrapped his string on Fatespeaker's wrist.
Right as Alan did this, the creature ripped the last sticker off of its face and roared at them. Thinking on her feet, Fatespeaker was about to breathe fire at its face, when a sudden thought came to her.
"I doubt fire will hurt you, but I bet THIS WILL!" Fatespeaker yelled as she picked up a sharp-looking rock and threw it right at the creature's face, and stabbed it in its right eye.
"Hang on tight and don't let yourself get unraveled!" Fatespeaker called.
"Okay, sure! (Scream!)" Alan yelled as Fatespeaker suddenly took off, following Mayhem and Yoshi as the creature roared in agony.
The creature then stopped and glared angrily at the fleeing heroes as it watched them run towards the borders of the Land of Ashes.
Looks like we have come to the end of this fun chapter. How did you all enjoy it?
Tell me down in the comments which group of these new characters did you like the most and/or which group you hope to see more of in the futre?
Sorry for being gone for a while, I had family issues and school keeps getting more and more stressful each day. The next chapter will pick back up with our Original Heroes. Look forward to that, and I'll see you all next time ?