AN: Hello, and welcome back to ROTLON! I hope you guys were okay with the break and...well, enough talking - let's just get on with the fic!

I am sitting on one of the lounge chairs in the garden, having decided to enjoy a bit of relaxation in the sun after getting home from school.

Suddenly I feel a tap on my shoulder and I look up only to scream as I see Lucas standing in front of me, a spade in one of his hands. "Dude, seriously, don't do that!" I exclaim. "I nearly had a heart attack!"

"Sorry," he says. "But come on, get your spade - we've gotta get going!"

I'm confused. "Going? Going where?" I ask him.

He rolls his eyes at me. "Don't tell me you've forgotten! Today is the day I arranged for volunteers to plant saplings in the forest and you agreed to help out too, you know!"

I rack my brain as I try to recall the conversation before saying, "Oh yeah, I did, didn't I?" I walk over to the shed and open the door, looking for a spade. When I find it, I close the door and we start to walk alongside one another towards the forest.

As we walk, Lucas starts to rant about plants and trees and stuff. I inwardly sigh. This is going to be a long walk.

"Dude, what's the rush?" I exclaim as we reach the forest path.

Lucas looks at me as if I've grown an extra head. "Only the dwindling forest!" he says. "In Grand Valley National Park alone, thousands of-"

"Okay, okay!" I say, holding my hand up to stop him before he really starts ranting. " I already said I'd help plant trees, didn't I?"

Lucas grins. "This is gonna be awesome!" he tells me. "I sent out hundreds of invites and posted flyers everywhere!"

"I know!" I remind him. He had started posting them at the start of the week!

"I just hope we don't run out of saplings for all the volunteers! That would be embarrassing!" he says as we reach the clearing.

The only people there are...Nick and Jessica who, like us, are holding spades. So much for all the volunteers! "Though, of course, not as embarrassing as this!" I point out.

"Where is everybody?" Lucas asks, his expectations cruelly shattered.

"I know what you're thinking," Nick says as we walk over, "it's a less than stellar turnout! But no worries, we're here!" He turns and digs his spade into the ground which is apparently very hard. To our amusement, he tries repeatedly, even jumping onto the handle of the spade and bouncing up and down as though he thinks he's on a pogo stick.

"All my posters and invites..." Lucas laments. "I even texted until my fingers were numb!"

"Maybe they're allergic to trees!" Jessica suggests as we, too start digging, though with more success than Nick who still seems to think his spade is a pogo stick. "It can happen!"

I stop digging for a moment. "More like allergic to work!" I correct her. A thud and a cry sounds and I turn around to see Nick and his spade on the floor. I guess his pogo spade days are over.

"Don't they realize what's at stake?" Lucas asks. "This is the only planet we've got!"

"Actually," Nick says as he gets up and dusts himself off, "it's only a matter of time before the colonisation of Mars." Lucas and I blink at him. Where does he get all this information from? He frowns. "Would it kill you guys to pick up a book once in a while?"

Lucas looks down and says sadly, "I'm just tired of trying to make people care!"

None of us seem to know what to say to this. Suddenly we gasp as we hear rustling in the bushes and then strange cries. "Volunteers!" Lucas exclaims happily, picking up a couple of saplings and running forwards.

What happens next is nothing short of hilarious. A man and woman burst out of the bushes and scream as they collide with Lucas, all three of them sitting rather dazed on the ground.

"Dude!" I exclaim. "Camera, anyone?"

"Sorry about that!" the man says as he helps the woman - probably his girlfriend - to her feet. "But you kids should really get out of here!"

"What's going on?" Nick asks, confused.

"We need to get help!" the man exclaims. "The river was all bl-lb-bl-lb-bl-lb-bl and then it started to ssssssshh which lead to this huge whooosh! And, before you knew it - boiling fish!" The woman nods as though to confirm that he is telling the truth.

I frown as I say, "I think I saw that movie!" As one, the three of us turn to Lucas who looks utterly traumatized. He recovers when the couple leaves and looks at us.

"I think we should go and see what's going on for ourselves!" he suggests. We nod in agreement and run in the direction the couple had come from. When we get to the river, the water is bubbling and steam is rising. "It's probably more fallout from all the environmental abuse!" Lucas exclaims. "And what do people do? Run away from the problem!"

What problem?"

We turn to see Razzle perched on a nearby rock. "Let me guess," Nick says. "Trouble in Gorm?"

Razzle folds his arms and replies rather huffily, "Can't a lizard just drop by to say hi?" At once, the four of us start greeting him and he quickly exclaims, "There's no time for hi's! There's trouble in Gorm!"

"And I'll just bet it has something to do with the boiling water in the river!" Lucas says. "Come on, guys. Let's hurry and get to the Primal Pad!"

At once we start running back the way we came. We run through the clearing where we met up and eventually come out of the forest onto the street. Turning right, we head down towards our house and, as soon as we reach the door, make a beeline for the pantry when we're inside.

Razzle jumps onto the control panel as soon as we've all arrived in the Primal Pad. He begins his explanation as the four of us gather in front of the screen. "It seems that an ocean-based Air Gormiti tribe is suffering from a devastating climate change!" The image on the screen shows one of the floating citadels surrounded by what looks like dark red smoke. Even the sky itself looks red. "Temperatures are spiking into unbearable highs making their citadel barely inhabitable!"

"No doubt that's what's behind the-" Nick says before doing an impression of the noises the guy we had met earlier had made, "in the Grand Valley Park river!"

I turn to Lucas and tell him, "Might want to upgrade 'global warming' on your planetary to 'global hotting'!"

"Whatever!" Lucas responds. "I'd rather go to Gorm where at least I'd make a difference!"

"That's what I like to hear!" Razzle says, nodding his head approvingly. "You need to find the cause of this heat and resolve it a.s.a.p! Lives are at stake!" Aren't lives always at stake when we have to go to Gorm?

The four of us run to stand around the Gorm Gate. "Elementals!" we cry out.

"Air!" Jessica begins.

"Water!" I yell.

"Forest!" Lucas shouts.

"Earth!" Nick finishes.

"Reveal to us the Keeper and give to them your chair!" we say together.

"And the Keeper is..." Razzle announces. To my surprise, I notice Nick walking past me. Gee, he's a bit eager, isn't he? We don't even who the Keeper is yet!

Finally the chair stops spinning to reveal a dark blue icon with the Water symbol on its back, "...Water!"

Nick stops in his tracks completely, looking rather like he was playing a game of statues. Razzle jumps down onto the edge of the Gorm Gate. "That's you, kid!" he says, pointing at me.

I turn to look at Nick who seems to have somewhat recovered. "Dude, me too!" I tell him before I start to walk away towards the control panel. "I totally thought it was gonna be you this time!"

As I jump into the chair, which raises so I am level with the control panel, I hear Nick let out a disappointed sigh. Hey, bro, I can't help that you didn't get chosen as the Keeper this time!

"Have fun storming the citadel!" I call out before manipulating the crystals in order to activate the Gorm Gate. I turn and watch as, one by one, the others jump into the portal, leaving me alone in the Primal Pad with only Razzle for company.

"And...touchdown!" I exclaim as they land. I open up the Travel Tome and announce, "Okay, guys. Travel Tome says you should be right on target!"

"Judging by the heat, I'd say the Travel Tome is right!" Jessica says as she, Nick and Lucas look around.

Suddenly I remember a can of soda I have in my pocket. I'll bet the others are dying for something to drink right now. I open it up, chuckling at the crack and fizz, before saying, "I feel your pain!" and taking a long sip.

I turn my attention back to the screen as I hear bird-like shrieks. The others have apparently noticed too as they gasp and look around to see three Air Gormiti in the sky above them.

"I don't suppose that's their happy to see you look!" Jessica says nervously.

"Don't worry!" Nick responds. "There's nothing a little communication can't fix!" Okay, is he actually crazy? When has attempting to communicate with Gormiti who think we're the bad guys ever gone well? This is not going to be good! He walks forward and waves at them. "Hi! We're-"

"Capture the intruders!" The huge bird-like Air Gormiti commands.

See! What did I tell you?

His two companions begin to dive down at a frightening speed. "Hit the rocks!" Lucas exclaims before they all run in separate directions. I start to focus on getting the orbs fully charged - it looks like they're gonna need it.

Lucas dives to the ground, narrowly avoiding one of them. Nick, on the other hand, is busy trying to outrun the other one. "Toby!" Jessica yells, looking panicked.

I glance back at the orbs. To my frustration, they're nowhere near fully charged. "Not even close!" I tell her, answering her unasked question.

Suddenly, to my horror, the Air Gormiti chasing Nick hits him in the back, causing him to fall off the citadel, screaming as he does so.

"I think I can...I think I can!" Jessica mutters before she jumps off the citadel and yells, "Power up!"

I stare in horror at the screen watching as she and Nick fall before glancing at the orbs. Seriously, how long do these things take to charge?

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" I yell. "You're not at full glow yet!"

Her expression morphs into one of horror. "What!?" she shrieks.

Razzle covers his eyes. "Maybe we should try it at half glow?" I suggest.

I alternate between keeping an eye on the screen and checking the screen. After a few moments, the orbs are finally ready. It's about time!

"Okay, go!" I yell as I slide some crystals into their slots. "Power up now! Now!"

"Elemental powers flow," the three of them yell together. "Super Gormiti, go, go, go!"

By some stroke of luck, Jessica is the first to transform. As soon as she's transformed, she swoops down and grabs Nick by his hood. At least they're both safe now but, wait...uh oh... I whimper and close my eyes, not wanting to look at the screen.

I have a bad feeling I know what's going to happen. And sure enough, when I open my eyes, I see them both hurtling down to the ground, Nick having also transformed.

Razzle uncovers his eyes as onscreen the dust clears to reveal Nick and Jessica sprawled on the ground which had actually cracked from the impact.

Jessica pulls herself up to a kneeling position. "I always forget!" she exclaims, rubbing her head. "You're as heavy as you look!" Nick stands up a couple of seconds after she does. At least they don't seem to have been hurt!

"It's all muscle! Oh yeah!" Nick brags, flexing his arms before turning serious as they focus their attention on the citadel. "I guess we solved the mystery of the climate change, huh?"

I look at the screen to see what he means and see that the citadel is floating in red smoke coming from a volcano directly below it. Well, that explains a lot...I think.

Meanwhile, on said citadel, Lucas is standing in place looking horrified as one of the Air Gormiti swoops towards him.

A glow surrounds him as he finally transforms too. "Sleep Spores!" he yells as he releases green powder from his mouth at the attacking Air Gormiti who lets out a cry before being hit and crashing to the ground.

Jessica and Nick arrive back on the citadel to rejoin Lucas. The second Air Gormiti flies towards them when suddenly, to everyone's surprise, the leader holds up his hand, shouting, "No! Wait!"

Nick holds out his hand and yells, "Rock Storm!" Several small and sharp rocks shoot out of his hand at the approaching Air Gormiti who swerves to avoid them.

Unluckily for him, Jessica flies up behind him, crying, "Wind Attack!" as she hits him with a blast of blue energy which he is unable to avoid.

The Air Gormiti crashes heavily to the ground joining his companion as they both stand up. Everyone glares at one another before the leader flies over, landing between them. "Hold the attack!" he commands. He then addresses the others in a calmer tone. "Welcome, Lords of Nature."

He and his two companions then get down on one knee, their heads bowed. "That's more like it!" Nick says, obviously relieved that they were no longer being seen as a threat.

Clearly bemused, Lucas hesitantly admits, "Okay, I'm comfortable now," before suggesting, "Maybe we should bow back or at least knight them?"

"Um," Jessica begins uncertainly. The three Air Gormiti look up. "R-Rise?"

Immediately the Air Gormiti get to their feet. I wonder if that would have worked if Nick or Lucas had tried it. Eh, probably not.

"We feared you would never arrive!" the bird-like Air Gormiti says.

"You feared," his companion, an insect-like Gormiti points out. "I had faith in the prophecy!"

"Yeah..." Lucas says awkwardly. "Don't know anything about a prophecy. We just heard you were in trouble."

"According to prophecy," the leader explains, "our citadel has aligned over an active volcano. It is a natural occurrence every three thousand years. But something is different this time."

The insect-like Gormiti takes over the explanation. "The strain on our environment is unbearable. Generations before us have prevailed but we may not!"

"Serious..." Jessica says before lamenting, "A super slushy brain freeze would actually be welcomed right now!"

"Worse," the leader continues. "The Lava Gormiti are taking advantage of our misfortune. In fact, we mistook you for their agents, here to hasten our demise." He bows. "My apologies."

"Hey, no worries!" Nick says, holding his hands up. "No harm, no foul! Now that we're all on the same page, we can-"

His sentence is cut off abruptly by a loud rumble as the citadel seems to lurch in mid-air. Everybody cries out as they wobble around, trying to keep their balance.

"The stones!" the leader cries out. With a bird-like screech, he flies over to a room along with his companions. The others rush over to join them and peer down a hole where several bird-shaped stones are being stored. They are all glowing green and I'm not sure if they're meant to do that.

"The Falcon Stones!" Nick exclaims. "The sulfur from the volcano is draining their power!"

"So not good! Without these babies, this citadel is going down...right into the volcano!" Jessica says.

"Yep, the volcano doing its thing on the citadel is what's causing the rift alright!" I confirm as I use the crystals to check for rift activity. "That's why the river's boiling up! And it's spreading like peanut butter on hot toast! Meaning chop chop while Earth's entire water supply is going down with the citadel!"

I take another drink from my soda can while Razzle points out, "Well, up, actually! But I think they got the idea!"

"Time for these Lords to start a'leaping!" Nick declares.

"There's far too much at stake for play!" The leader disagrees, obviously misunderstanding what Nick meant. "I will show you." The others walk forward as he gestures to a piece of parchment on the wall behind him. "This document was only recently discovered. It prophecied a catastrophic alignment over the volcano but it also foretold of the Lords of Nature who would save us."

"Weird!" Jessica frowns. "Even we didn't know we were coming until this morning!"

"Are you catching this, Toby?" Lucas asks.

"Loud and clear!" I respond. "We'll get to translating it." I frown as I look at the parchment that has appeared onscreen. "Okay, I knew English was too much to hope for but some sort of alphabet would have been nice!"

"This might take a while..." Razzle mutters.

I jump down from the chair and run over to the bookshelves. There should be a tome for different Gormiti runes and languages, right? "Hey, Razzle?" I ask. "Where do you think we should start?"

Razzle climbs up onto my shoulder and replies, "Well, the first thing to do is ascertain what language the prophecy is written in. That way, we know what tome we'll have to look for."

I look back at the screen but I have no clue what I'm supposed to do. The language this prophecy is written in makes no sense to me. Nick would be so much better at this than me.

"Hold on a moment, kid!" Razzle says before asking if we could go back over to the control panel. I oblige and the lizard leaps down, scrutinizing the document onscreen before muttering, "We could have a problem here!"

"What do you mean?" I ask him in confusion.

He gestures to the screen as he responds, "I mean the problem is that translating this prophecy isn't going to be easy! It appears it's been written in more than just the one language!"

"M-more than one?" I stutter and he nods. "We're going to be here all day!"

"Nonsense, kid!" Razzle disagrees. "All we have to do is work out which language occurs most frequently and work our way from there! It shouldn't be too difficult!"

I grab the can of soda and head back over to the bookshelves while Razzle remains near the control panel in order to tell me what tomes to look for.

Climbing up the ladder, I scan the shelves as Razzle informs me what I should search for. I take another gulp of soda before setting the can down on the shelf. Hey, searching for tomes is thirsty work!

I listen to what is going on in Gorm. !Apparently the others are being taken by the Air Gormiti to be honoured at some kind of celebration. But, while Nick is excited at the prospect, Lucas and Jessica don't seem all that enthusiastic.

"Tobe, any way we can skip this thing without ruffling any feathers?" Jessica asks.

I open up a tome and look through the pages. "These dudes take tradition way seriously!" I respond. "Like life and death seriously!" I then add as an afterthought, "On the plus side, maybe you'll play Pin the Tail on the Fire Dragon!"

"So, Toby," Lucas says, "um, you know, not that it matters or anything but anyone call about the flyers?"

I am stretching to try and reach for the can of soda as he asks this, one foot on the ladder and the other on a shelf. However I end up overstretching myself and, though my efforts are successful, I let out a cry as I fall off the ladder while the entire contents of that shelf land on top of me.

"Toby?" Lucas questions and I remember I haven't actually answered him. Well, I hope he's prepared to be disappointed.

"Nope! Nobody! Nada! Zilch!" I say before managing to break free of the pile of tomes I was under. Then, to add insult to injury, the can falls and bounces off of my head. "Ow!" I cry out.

"I think he gets it!" Razzle tells me.

"Oh...right." I say sheepishly as I stand up and dust myself off.

Lucas groans. "Guess it's hopeless!" he complains.

"Yeah. Sorry, man!" I say before spotting the can on the floor and leaning down to pick it up. "Hey, Lucas!" I tell him. "It's not hopeless! Now I totally recycle!"

As I walk over to the chair, Nick and Jessica begin joking about how Lucas managed to make me do something responsible.

"I gotta think - one person making a difference is better than none, right?" I say to them.

Jessica catches on as she adds, "And four are better than one!" while putting her arms around Nick and Lucas.

I feel Razzle's unimpressed gaze on me as he calls, "Uh, hello?" I turn my head to look at him.

"Oh, sorry." I shrug before adding, "Four and a half are better than one!"

Razzle turns his head away in a huff. Not sure he agrees with the half part! I decide to go back to trying to translate the prophecy.

After we find the right tome, we set to work. It's not easy, considering I don't understand Gormiti language to begin with. But, after a few trial and errors, we finally start to get somewhere.

I frown at the piece of paper in my hands. On it I had written what should be the translated version of the prophecy but...something about it doesn't look right.

"Hey, Razzle!" I call and he scurries over to me, climbing up onto my shoulder. "Are you sure you translated that last part right?"

He peeks at the paper and lets out a startled cry. "That can't be right! That rune is difficult to translate, though."

We both fall silent as we try to think of what the word or words could actually be. Then it hits me. "Lava!" I exclaim.

Razzle gasps. "Of course!" he cries before looking at me strangely and asking, "But how did you know it could translate to that, kid?"

"I didn't," I admit, "but if the prophecy is linked to the citadel aligning with the volcano, then we know who's gonna be involved, don't we?" Razzle nods his head, gulping. "Plus it makes more sense than what we had originally!"

"You know, kid, you're just full of surprises!" Razzle tells me and I grin at him.

"Well, better tell the others!" I say. I can't wait to see the looks on their faces when they see I actually worked it out. And when I say I, I mean Razzle and I. I project my image and exclaim, "Dudes, score! The prophecy was in a bunch of different languages but I totally worked it out! Get this: 'At the end, the Lords of Nature are handed over to the Lava Gormiti in exchange for peace!'"

"Really..." Nick begins, rolling his eyes.

"Fascinating!" Jessica finishes for him in a sarcastic fashion.

Well, geez, could they sound any more grateful? They're lucky I didn't give them the original translation of the prophecy! But what Lucas says next explains their lack of gratitude. "You might want to work on your timing there, Tobe!" he tells me, folding his arms.

What does he mean by that? I look around at their surroundings and gasp when I notice, for the first time, that the exit is blocked by rocky bars running vertically from top to bottom. Oh, now I get it! "How'd we get in here?" I ask nervously.

"The question is: how do we get out?" Lucas exclaims as I make my image disappear.

Meanwhile Jessica wanders over to the exit, examining it closely. "I might be able to break down the mechanics for the gates..." she says. "Maybe figure out a way to reverse the axis of pressure..."

Evidently Nick has an idea of his own as he transforms one of his hands into a rocky drill and starts to drill into one of the walls.

"Nick!" Jessica cries out. "There could be booby-traps or... structural instability!"

Nick turns his head to look at her while his drill continues drilling. "Structural what?" he asks. You mean, my little brother doesn't know something? Then again, I don't know what structural insta-whatever is either!

As a result of the drilling, rocks begin to crumble down from the ceiling and Nick lets out a small, "Oh," as he spots the spike-shaped rocks pointing downwards that break apart and fall towards them.

Immediately they all cry out and shield themselves: Nick with his arms, Lucas transforming his arm into a shield made of brown vines and Jessica using her wings.

More of the ceiling begins to cave in, leaving a huge hole. "The light!" Lucas exclaims. "Dig to the light!"

Nick does as he's told and eventually the hole is big enough for all three of them to escape.

"Hey!" Nick says happily once they're all out, raising his arms in triumph. "We're free, aren't we?"

"Free?" The others look around as someone begins laughing mockingly. Eventually I see onscreen that the culprit is none other than Lavion with Bombos by his side. "You are free indeed! Your destruction didn't cost me a thing!"

The others glare at them before Nick lets out a gasp. Upon looking around, they all realize that they are standing right on the edge of a cliff. And it's a really long way down into the waters below.

Lucas lets out a cry and Lavion, still laughing, says, "Go ahead. Jump."

Bombos joins in. "Yeah, do it!" he shouts.

"Jump!" His left mouth yells.

"Dare ya!" His right mouth cries.

Lavion apparently doesn't like not being the centre of attention as he snaps, "What did I say about upstaging me? We talked about this!"

"Sorry!" Bombos says, quivering. "I got swept up in the moment!"

Jessica glances at Nick and Lucas, frowning. "I don't have enough glow left to carry us all!" she exclaims.

Nick nervously replies, "Yeah... Hey, here's an idea - let's come up with a Plan B sometime!"

Everyone glances up at the citadel. "All we have to do is convince the Air Gormiti to help us! Strength in numbers, right?" Lucas says after a while.

But, before they can do anything, they notice that Bombos has his arm pointed towards them. "I'm focused now, Lavion!" he calls. "Got my eye on the prize-"

While Bombos is talking to Lavion, the others move away unseen from the edge of the cliff and away from that danger.

Lavion eventually gets fed up of Bombos' rambling and yells, "Just open fire, will you?" Their faces morph into looks of confusion when Bombos goes to attack, only to realize he has no one to aim at.

Suddenly Jessica flies towards them from behind while Nick runs in from the other side. Bombos turns in Nick's direction and fires a blast out of his hollowed out right arm which Nick avoids by dropping to the ground and doing a forward roll. He then retaliates by shooting several sharp rocks out of his right hand.

Bombos manages to avoid the impact but overbalances, crashing to the ground. Then he notices Jessica flying overhead and fires another blast, causing her to cry out as she swerves to avoid being hit. He then fires out multiple blasts of fire from his arm while Jessica does her best to dodge them.

Meanwhile Lucas, who is hiding behind a rock, notices the Air Gormiti above him. "Hawk Silent!" he calls out. "We need your help! Together we can all stop Lavion!"

"Our fate has been determined by the prophecy!" Hawk Silent disagrees. "Interfering now would only endanger our future!" Yeesh, I'm beginning to wonder if stubborness is a genetic trait for Air Gormiti. As in, they're all just born plain stubborn!

Lucas looks incredulous as he asks, "You really think Lavion can be trusted to give you peace?"

This apparently gives the Air Gormiti food for thought because, after engaging in a silent discussion, the bird-like one says, "The Lord of Nature is right!"

Hawk Silent apparently doesn't think so as he turns around. "I must do what is best for my people!" he tells Lucas. "We cannot risk our entire citadel!"

Before Lucas can do or say anything else to convince them, Hawk Silent flies away, his two companions following after a couple of moments. "Don't you know what's at stake here?" he calls after them, watching them leave, before muttering, "Seriously... I need to come up with a new line! This gets me nowhere!"

Just then, Lavion picks up a boulder in his claw arm and hurls at Lucas who lets out a cry as he turns around to see it speeding towards him. Luckily he reacts quickly, breaking the rock apart by transforming one of his arms into strong, brown vines and hitting them against it.

Bombos attacks next, firing a blast at Lucas who runs to avoid it before jumping down to the lower ledges, making a beeline for a large rock nearby.

Once he gets behind it, though, he is surprised to find Nick and Jessica there as well - the two of them having hidden there just a few moments earlier. "Oh, hey, how's it going?" he asks them.

"Put it this way - without the Air Gormiti helping us, it's like trying to get tickets to a Quicksand Ferret concert!" Jessica exclaims. For a moment, Nick and Lucas stare at her blankly and she stares back before clarifying. "Hopeless!"

"Totally!" Nick agrees. "Getting them to pitch in is harder than signing people up for Lucas' tree-planting crew!" He then seems to realize what he just said and how it might sound to Lucas and adds awkwardly, "Uh... I mean..."

"No, you're right!" Lucas exclaims, looking happy for some reason before turning to face the others. "And you were right before too! When you said that one person making a difference is better than none!"

Despite wanting to point out that I was the one who said that, I join in as the four of us exclaim, "And four are better than one!"

I gasp as Razzle pokes me on the shoulder. "Hey!" he says indignantly.

"Four and a half!" I add, petting his head.

Lucas looks determined as he says, "So let's make a difference!"

Suddenly Lavion jumps down from above. He must have either spied them from up on the cliff or heard them talking. Either way, he's approaching the rock they're hidden behind and raising his claw arm before breaking it apart, only to find once more that there is no one there.

The others, having anticipated that Lavion and Bombos would find them if they stayed hiding in the same place, had moved out from behind the rock in order to battle once more.

"Bombos! Explain why this was your fault!" Lavion yells before thick, brown vines - courtesy of Lucas - wrap around his ankle. Lucas gives his vines a mighty tug, sending Lavion flying.

Bombos notices Lucas as he retracts his vines and fires several blasts from his cannon-like arm. Lucas runs from them, avoiding each one.

"Wind Attack!" Jessica cries, releasing a funnel of wind from her hands and hitting Bombos from behind. Bombos turns in her direction and gives her what is apparently supposed to be an intimidating look, complete with an angry cry. Jessica, however, isn't intimidated in the slightest as she calls out: "Is that all you got, Bombos? Fire?" before laughing.

Bombos apparently doesn't like being taunted as he starts firing blast after blast of fire at Jessica who dodges them before flying towards Lavion. Unable to stop himself from firing in time, Bombos has a look of horror on his face as his blasts hit Lavion.

The impact from the attack sends him crashing into the cliff behind him. Once he gets down, he glares threateningly at Bombos. "We need to talk!" he seethes.

Suddenly Razzle taps me on the shoulder. "What is it, Razz?" I ask, a little disappointed that I have to miss Bombos being yelled at.

The little lizard frowns as he replies, "I want to take another look at that document, if you don't mind."

"But why?" I question, confused. "We already translated it! Are you hoping to find something else - maybe a footnote at the bottom saying that the Air Gormiti will help us after all?"

"I don't know!" he says. With that response, I wave my hands over the crystals and the image of what is happening in Gorm is replaced with an image of the document. Razzle peers at it for several moments before finally muttering, "Hmmm, that's peculiar!"

I look at him blankly and he explains. "This prophecy was written in ancient Glockonian, right? But the parchment itself is Lordinadian!"

I still don't get it. "English, please?"

"This kind of paper didn't exist when this prophecy was supposedly written!" Razzle tells me.

Oh... Now I get it! "It's a fake!" we exclaim together.

I quickly project my image beside the others. "Guys, the prophecy's a fake!" I tell them excitedly.

They stare at me, puzzled, Nick saying, "Come again?"

"It's fake!" Lucas cries.

Jessica flies off into the air. Her glow signature indicates that she is heading towards the citadel. Meanwhile Nick and Lucas approach Lavion and Bombos.

"You should never fool, spindle or mutilate your master under any circumstance-" Lavion appears to still be yelling at Bombos, his claw around the latter's neck.

Lucas steps forward, getting their attention. "He's right, Bombos!" he says, much to my surprise. "It's become clear that Lavion must be revered!"

Bombos lets out a cry as Lavion releases him. "Go on..." the vain Lava Gormiti says interestedly.

Okay, is thisPraise the Bad Guys day and I'm the only one who didn't get a memo? I don't see how swelling Lavion's already swollen ego is going to help. Suddenly the crystals indicate the presence of four Gormiti in the area - all of them Air Gormiti.

What their plan must be is now clear to me. Jessica had gone to get the Air Gormiti so they could hear for themselves the confession from Lavion that Nick and Lucas are going to trick him into giving. It would only be then that they'd agree to help out.

"We knew you were awesome!" Nick tells him. "But forging such a believable document is beyond amazing!"

"Oh, you noticed?" Lavion says, looking and sounding surprised. "Yes, knowing the citadel was going to align with the volcano gave me the perfect opportunity to eliminate you, Lords of Nature, with some brilliant artistic handiwork!"

"What did I tell you?" Jessica says to the Air Gormiti, none of them looking too happy.

Lavion continues. "Not only am I handsome and powerful, I also fake a mean prophecy!"

"I bet you can create one for what's about to happen next!" Lucas challenges him.

"I bet you're right!" Lavion exclaims. He continues talking as Bombos brings him some parchment. "It was so easy to fool the Air Gormiti into betraying their allies!" He writes something on the parchment. "This time I'll cut out the middle man and prophecise that they should destroy themselves!" He turns to Bombos. "Bombos! Authenticate this!"

All three of Bombos' mouths shoot fire at the parchment, leaving it with holes and burn marks. Lavion laughs menacingly, raising the parchment in the air with his claw arm.

"Let us create a little prophecy of our own!" Hawk Silent declares. The insectoid and bird-like Air Gormiti fly down, much to the surprise of Lavion and Bombos.

Bombos fires a blast from his cannon arm which hits the first Air Gormiti and sends him crashing into the second.

Hawk Silent hovers overhead for a few moments before swooping down and knocking the two Lava Gormiti over like bowling pins.

"Enough already!" Lavion yells before turning to Bombos. "Bombos, bring the citadel down...now!" He emphasises his last word by punching the ground with his fist.

Bombos obediently scrambles to his feet and runs, while crying out, towards the edge. He fires a blast at the space between Nick and Lucas who run off in either direction. Reaching the edge, he fires another blast directly into the lava.

Immediately the ground above it starts to break apart. Chunks of rock crumble into the waters below. The citadel, to everyone's horror, starts to fall even further while the cloud of red smoke surrounding it grows even thicker.

Lavion, busy laughing at the destruction he is no doubt causing, almost fails to notice that Lucas has dug his creepers into the ground before it's too late. Unfortunately he spots them just in time, grabbing them in his hand as they rise above the surface. "Really...again?" he says disdainfully. "How foolish do you think I am?"

One tug on the vines is all it takes to bring Lucas tumbling down from the ledge he had been perched on. He crashes heavily to the ground and lays there for a few moments. Lavion lets go of the vines and laughs again while Lucas gets to his feet.

"Now say goodbye!" he demands after jumping high into the air.

Lucas smirks. "Goodbye!" he calls before yelling, "Jungle Attack!" He transforms both of his arms into strong, brown vines and stretches them up into the air. They are grabbed by Jessica and one of the Air Gormiti who pull him up into the air just as Lavion slams into where he had been standing with his claw arm, causing the rock to break apart slightly.

Nick, standing on another ledge, leaps down, his heavy weight finishing the job and causing Lavion to wobble around for a few moments before he regains his balance.

His job done, Nick stands up and yells, "Taxi!" He starts running and jumps into the air, Hawk Silent and the other Air Gormiti grabbing his arms and flying him to safety.

As the rock breaks apart, Lavion and Bombos cry out as they fall. Razzle suddenly lets out a happy cry as the red smoke around the citadel starts to fade away.

"Well, now that the citadel's not being barbecued any more, those falcon stones will finally be able to do their job!" I say cheerfully as we watch the falcon stones reactivate onscreen, their power no longer being drained.

While everyone steps onto the elevator, the citadel starts to rise until it is back in the sky where it belongs. The Air Gormiti check on the falcon stones to make sure everything is in working order before gesturing for the others to follow them inside. The room they are in is the same room the prophecy was in.

"We deeply regret putting you in danger!" Hawk Silent says. "Without you, we would have perished!" He bows slightly before continuing. "In your honor, we have created a statue so we shall never forget!" Upon saying this, he moves aside to reveal a statue of Jessica. When did they make that? And where are Nick and Lucas? I guess they ran out of rock or something. "Lord of Air, we thank you for all that you have done for us!" All three of them bow their heads in respect.

"Awesome!" Jessica cries, admiring the statue before frowning slightly and asking, "Do you think you could make the hair a little more-"

Nick and Lucas gasp while she asks this and the Air Gormiti look up, stunned. "Nah, never mind!" she finishes sheepishly.

I decide that now might be a good time to gate them back home. After that whole debacle with Lavion and Bombos, their orbs are almost empty.

"Guys, you ready to come back home?" I ask as I project my image beside them. Then I add teasingly, "Unless Jessica's not done admiring herself yet!"

Nick and Lucas roar with laughter at this. Jessica, meanwhile, smirks and says calmly, "If you weren't a holographic image right now, I'd have you on the receiving end of my feather attack!"

I can practically feel the color draining out of my skin as I recall that Jessica's feathers are as sharp and deadly as knives. I squeak fearfully, "I'm sorry - I didn't mean anything by it! Please don't hurt me!" It comes out all in a jumble of words and I'm pretty sure it sounds less like English and more like some undiscovered language.

This time, all three of them start laughing. Eventually Nick calms down enough to say, "Yeah, you can gate us back now, bro!"

I wave my hands over the crystals, creating a portal that brings them back to the Primal Pad.

"You know if I'd been here, I'd have translated the prophecy a lot faster!" Nick tells me as he and the others run over. I lower the chair down and jump down onto the ground.

"Yeah, yeah." I say lightly. "You guys ought to consider yourselves lucky I didn't give the prophecy as we'd originally translated it!"

"Which was?" Lucas questions curiously, Nick and Jessica also looking interested.

I clear my throat. "It was: at the end, the Lords of Nature will be handed over to the ducks in exchange for peace!"

There was an awkward moment of silence before all four of us started to laugh. "The ducks!" Jessica cried out. "Does it mean real ones or rubber ones?" This causes us to laugh even harder.

I'm not sure what mental image the others are picturing but, right now, I'm imagining a house-sized rubber duck commanding its army of normal-sized rubber duck underlings. Yeah, it's a weird image...

As we head up the stairs, still laughing, I notice Lucas looking like he's trying to remember something. Once we get into the kitchen, he suddenly speaks.

"Hey, guys, I know you probably have other things planned for tomorrow but I was wondering if you'd come to the fored with me and help plant the saplings we meant to plant today."

I exchange glances with Nick and Jessica and I know they're thinking the same thing as me. Even though the four of us are as different as can be, there is one thing we all agree on - friends have each other's backs no matter what.

"Of course we will!" we say together, grinning at him. He grins too, looking positively overjoyed.

"Thanks, guys!" he says. "This is gonna be great!"

Well, I guess completing that video game I got last weekend is going to have to wait!

The next day, as planned, the four of us meet up in the forest, armed with spades and ready to plant some saplings.

While the others have their backs turned, I make a tiny adjustment to one of the ropes set up around a patch of soil for the saplings to be planted in before turning and joining the others in digging.

"Maybe we're taking this whole 'one person can make a difference' thing too far!" I say after a while as I use my foot to push my spade into the ground. I wipe my forehead with one hand. It feels like we've been doing this for hours.

"Every sapling helps!" Lucas points out happily.

Just then, we hear voices and gasp as we turn to see a crowd of people carrying spades. What's going on?

We all stand, confused, while Lucas' face lights up as though it's his birthday or something.

"The flyers have today's date on them!" Jessica exclaims, pulling one out of her pocket. "Not yesterday's!"

Lucas sounds shocked as he says, "I don't believe it!" He then turns to me and asks, "Toby, is this one of your practical jokes?"

That would actually have been a pretty funny joke, to be fair. But I hadn't made it. "No," I tell him honestly. For once, the date mix-up wasn't my fault.

Lucas starts racing towards the crowd of people, only to get tripped up by one of the ropes. He cries out as he lands on the ground in front of them. "But that is!" I declare as I start laughing, along with Nick and Jessica.

As we walk over to help out with the saplings, I can't help but think that I may never understand Lucas' plant obsession but one thing I do understand is how good it is to help out a friend.

Even if it's by planting saplings!

AN: I am so, so sorry, guys! I know I have taken way too long to get this chapter written but, like I've said, I have a very busy life and I don't always have as much time to write as I'd like! Therefore I'd like to thank you all for your patience.

I hope you enjoyed the chapter - apologies if it sucked - and I'll see you next time!