Chapter 3- More clues, Parades, hot air balloons, teleportation and other names!
The episodes 'Beat the drum, Catboy', 'Catboy's flying fiasco' and 'Supersonic Owlette' are partly covered in this chapter. The plot lines of those episodes belong to the writers. I'm just borrowing it.
About two hours later, the children and their parents went to the library to look for books on the past heroes and the Night Den.
When they were in the legends and history section, They came across a book on Arsene Lupin by Maurice Lebanc which had been returned recently and another book that was part of a series to do with mountains.
As they kept looking, they eventually found a book titled 'The Secret of totems'.
Connor got his library card to take out the book with the help of the librarian as Connor's dad Cyrus got a phone call.
After a few minutes, he covered the phone with his hand.
"Children, the school is going to have a parade on Friday and they need a leader" Cyrus said.
"Can I help?" Conor volunteered.
Then Cyrus smiled before finishing his conversation on the phone.
"Well, children, you get start practising tomorrow. Let's take the book home, you can share it when you have your next sleepover" Cyrus suggested.
"Yeah!" The children agreed.
As they all headed home, Patch was waiting for them outside on the opposite side of their street where their colour co-ordinated houses were.
"Patch, great news! We found a book on the totems and the past heroes" Amaya exclaimed, happily.
"That's brilliant. Maybe you can share it with me tonight?" Patch suggested.
"Sure" Greg replied with a smile.
"Dad, is it ok if I look after this cat for a little while?" Connor asked.
"Is he…safe?" Cyrus asked, warily.
"He's harmless" Greg reassured him.
"Ok but just for a couple of night before we look for the owners ok?" Cyrus stated.
Connor nodded before hugging Patch.
He gave Amaya and Greg a thumbs up before they all went inside their houses.
Later that night…
Connor was in his bedroom surrounded by cat and Master Fang posters in his blue-centred room beside Patch who was on his duvet.
'The Secrets of the Totems' book was on his wooden bedside.
He got out his walkie talkie.
"Connor to the PJ Mask, come in" he said.
"We hear you" Amaya responded.
"Loud and clear" Greg added.
"Should we have a sleepover on Saturday after the parade to go over the book together?" Connor suggested.
"That's a brilliant idea" Amaya stated.
"I just hope this parade goes well" Greg said, worriedly.
"We better get some sleep, so we can practise more marching band moves tomorrow" Connor said before they all said goodnight to each other and went to bed.
After turning off the light, Connor looked at the ceiling as he attempted to sleep.
"Hey Patch? When do you think you'll get to go home?" He asked.
"Hopefully soon, since your parents said I could stay until my owner is found but she's not here" Patch mumbled, sleepily.
"I hope we can help you get home once we figure all of this out" Connor promised.
With his eyes closed, Patch smiled.
"Goodnight, little one" he said, softly.
"Goodnight, Patch" Connor said with a small yawn before drifting to sleep.
Meanwhile…..
Inside the blue ninja bus, one of the Ninjalinos called Marvin reported to Night Ninja about the parade.
"This is exactly what we need. Instead of making our own from scratch, we'll steal the parade from the daytime and make it a ninja parade. Marvin, write that down so I don't forget. We'll strike tomorrow night" Night Ninja stated as he then did a menacing laugh.
-Two days later-
When Connor and company were practising, one of the other children noticed one of the floats had purple paint on it which led to the shed.
The decorations had been painted partly blue as well.
However, it was gone when he looked and every time he tried to do directions without the drum, it was out of sync.
He went to get his drum from shed but it was gone and the footprints were suspicious enough for the trio.
"PJ masks, we're on our way" Connor began.
"Because in the night we save the day" they all finished.
Later that night, they transformed and arrived in HQ to activated the cat symbol to bring out the cat car.
They hopped in and drove to the parade area to investigate.
Night Ninja was having fun drumming as the Ninjalinos did different acrobatic tricks in time with the beat and painting the parade items in time with the beat.
He began to show off his skills by drumming more and then jumping in the air before stopping.
"Why don't you parade with us?" Gekko suggested.
"With You? With the bright colours and happy music? No way!" Night inja retorted.
"I bet you can't lead a parade as well as Catboy" Owlette stated.
"Stomp out a beat, Catboy" Gekko encouraged him.
While Catboy had to face Night Ninja and his ability to leading a parade without his drum, the Mascoundrel faced Lilifée head on.
"What do you know about the past, the heroes here and these totems?" Tera stated.
"I only know so much but alright. I'll do what I can to help. When I was sent to observe Earth with Magitress a long time ago, I witnessed masked heroes fighting at night. I have been told that the spirit animals come from a place known as the 'Island of imagination' or 'realm of dreams'. When it is necessary, a spirit animal will allow their chosen child to learn how to fight if any villians appear to the scene. In your case, you were lucky enough to get one. I have noticed you haven't tried to talk to the trio of heroes in the city yet or that snow leopard hero. Why is that?" Lilifée asked.
"We don't have a plan yet and observing seems like the right strategy at the moment" Night crawler pointed out.
"Hmmm…." Lilifée began before her eyes flashed yellow.
"Do you wish to be part of a team?" she added.
"We need a purpose" Packrat pointed out.
She gave him a card with 'Masque Ombre' on it.
"This person can help you contact a shadowy figure. That why you will gain a purpose" she explained before her eyes changed back to blue.
She held her head in pain.
"Ooooh…dear. It felt like…there was another person talking as me just now" Lilifée winced.
The Mascoundrels all looked at the card.
"This is progress" Tera grinned.
Meanwhile…
Bella heard drumming from outside and tried to leave to see the heroes in action again.
She began to tiptoe in her room but accidently stepped on a toy that caught her mother's attention.
"Bella, were you trying to sneak out?" her mother asked.
"No, just wanted a glass of milk" Bella replied, hurriedly.
She quickly went downstairs to get said glass and raced back upstairs to show it as proof.
Once her mother went back to bed, she sighed with relief.
One day I'll see them in action she thought.
It was at this point that Catboy and Night Ninja had a leader face-off: Drumming vs Clapping and stomping.
Each one was trying to get the Ninjalinos to follow them until all of the Ninjalinos were following Catboy.
In a last effort to claim his win, Night Ninja tried to destroy the drum but Catboy managed to retrieve it and caused Night Ninja to land on a paint bucket.
"You may have won this time, PJ masks but next time it won't be so easy!" He stated before calling the Ninjalinos to make a retreat.
Before the trio began to fix the parade, they get their usual night time catchphrase at the end of a successful mission.
The next day, Connor had a blast leading the class for the parade with the floats behind them and everyone was amazed by the colours and routine.
After the parade, Connor persuaded their parents to let him have a sleepover in order to celebrate.
-That night-
Connor helped his friend set up their sleeping bags in his room to help them get comfortable after changing into their PJs.
Patch had been watching them set up the sleeping bags patiently before jumping onto Connor's blue bed.
Connor chuckled.
"Goodnight, children!" Connor's parents called out.
"Goodnight!" The children yelled back.
Patch smiled.
"Shall we start reading?" he asked.
Connor nodded.
He opened the book.
"Chapter 1- Beginnings and difficulties.
Rainbow Dreamer had selected a group of people long ago from different tribes and locations including Native Americans and Japanese with the help of spirit animals they believed it.
Rainbow Dream was a white sloth who had to stay asleep to keep the forest and jungle alive while hanging from a rainbow.
With their help, those people created totems that looked like each animal that guided them on their journey.
In those times, there were totems for day and nights animals as even Aztec and Maya people had their own variation on 'totems'.
They were known as Naguals, people who were able to transform physically or spiritually into animals like a jaguar, puma, wolf, different types of dogs, birds etc.
Among them was a shaman who appeared to be made of wood with a green and white mask-like face and staff.
His staff had a pear-like orb that had seeds inside it that could create vines.
His name was Utupë, Spirit of the Forest.
His job was to look after the jungle and forest Rainbow Dreamer created where the other spirit animals live if they are not used.
He would help the Naguals protect nature with the totem holders as to begin with there were a lot of them: There were Tonal people (from the Aztec culture) who were linked to the animals through the day they were born (It's similar to the totems link to people) the animals included for them were dog, lizard, snake, deer, rabbit, monkey, jaguar, eagle, vulture and crocodile according to the Aztec and Maya calendars, Day totems for animals like an alligator, bear, butterfly, camel, chicken, dolphin, dove, ferret, kolas, kangaroos, jackal, flamingo etc and night totems other than snow leopard, blue tiger, red owl, pink salamander etc (reflected on the Selene's strikers) included Badgers, bats, hedgehog, African hunting dogs, skunk, swan, squrriel etc.
There were once a whole variety of ways to contact a spirit animal even if you were Nagual, Tonal or someone with different forms of totems around the world.
They would work together in the night AND Day to protect everyone from different threats which included Clan Takeshi, thieves who preceded Lupin, Firefly mages and in rare cases: Each other.
The butterfly totem users would help anyone in the day to protect alert civilians while their counterpart, the moth would take care of the night with the nocturnal animals and Nagal.
At some point, Utupë travelled to different worlds with Rainbow Dreamer's assistance when the Nagual and Tonal people were confident enough to protect the world along with the forest and jungle without him.
During this brief break, he met a wise Chinese mage who found a way to create special jewels know as 'Miraculous' to allow abstract thought and emotion of different kinds that formed into beings known as 'Kwamis' to be visible to humans.
The Mage had grey hair, a grey moustache, and dark grey eyes. Wearing a type of red garment for the upper body, brown shorts and two brown bracelets on his left wrist.
Utupë was curious by the concept and promised to return someday to see if the jewels would benefit humankind in a positive manner.
He unfortunately didn't return.
However, when the moon items were created, Silver Sorceline's ancestor named Star Sorceline created the moon wheel with the cat-like statues to torture people of her choosing for fun as in the cleverly crafted trap, moving makes the wheel spin faster.
The Luna Magnet was forged on the moon where the sorcelines lived along with the moon cat statues that form the 'Moon wheel'.
However, when the moon items were created, Silver Sorceline's ancestor Star Sorceline created the moon wheel with the cat-like statues to torture people of her choosing for fun as in the cleverly crafted trap, moving makes the wheel spin faster.
Her accomplice Selene Sorceline, who had created the Luna Magnet, helped with experiments for the moon wheel when Star did some investigating on the moon through digging and found the first known moon crystal.
The moths that were allies of the soreceline, knew details that weren't written down in books like a detail about crystals, moths and negative energy.
It wasn't until after Star was banished by Rainbow Dreamer after using the moon crystal with the magnet on the spirit animals when they were in physical form from the moon, that Selene got an idea.
The young magic user suggested capturing some of the animals as the world slowly progressed and evolved to have zoos for wild animals.
Now Rainbow Dreamer was a magic white sloth who had to stay asleep to keep the forest alive so in a way Utupë was his eyes.
In this time period, there were dragons in the world as well, but they too decreased over time.
As the world began to change, some of the Nagal, Tonal and other totem users began to disappear as the countries began to change and what had occurred were written down as 'stories' or 'legends'.
Day-themed villians began to emerge as there were only a small amount of people left in France, Africa, America and Japan with totems.
Star suggested to taget the totem animals in their physical forms for a special zoo to the villians which she helped to enact while Utupë got lost in the city.
In Japan, a special blacksmith helped to forge the shadow amulet in Japan for the Ninjalino clan before they moved location back to a city on the outskirts that had not been discovered by the west yet.
One of the last remaining nagal got help from a loyal Clan Chou ninja in red clothing helped create the portal for Mystery Mountain and recorded it in a mystical scroll along with the 'Ring of ninjability' as they then helped the Ninjalinos settle in Mystery Mountain, their new training ground.
Red monkey moon-absorbing statues were used in temples like the one in Mystery Mountain where a member of Clan Chou and Takeshi recorded the ingredients needed to make a glue-like substance using the statue to direct the moonlight, an enchanted glowing lotus petal and the zest of a dragon egg. These items were recorded in a book that was a series about Mystery mountain and sticky splat combinations. These items were in volume 2, the book with dance moves for the red 'Mountain Splat' with a ninja on the front with a blue flame behind them and a golden ribbon with a blue star above it was called 'Mysteries of the Ninja'.
The Dragon masters were once friends with the Ninjalino clan until the last guardian was imprisoned in the Dragon Gong for next 1000 years...
Some time after, the Ninjalinos were discovered by Night Warrior's grandfather on an expedition.
Totems that had been known decades ago were lost to time and fell into legend as well until only four people were left who knew about them" Connor read.
He turned a few pages as he went into chapter 2 which told the story of the past PJ Masks up to Selene strikers.
The four friends were intrigued by the rich history of the past and grateful in knowing more about the Night Den indirectly as well.
"So, what do we do with this information?" Greg asked.
"We will need to contact someone I know in order to figure that out. Until then, stay sharp PJ Masks" Patch advised.
"It's clear that there's other groups of ninjas we have not encountered yet" Amaya pondered.
"True. We'll need to make a lost of these 'lost totems' as well just to be sure" Connor added.
"Do you remember what the spirit animals said sometime after our first encounter with the night time villians regarding the future?" Greg asked.
"'Someday, a brave cat hero, blue or not, will uncover the secrets of totems and dreams.
Will the knowledge be used for good or evil, silver moon is quite clear,
Orphan and alone brings a tear,
Guard the totems for the future or foreshadowing will be their doom'" Amaya recalled.
Connor and Greg thought hard.
"We've discovered the secrets, but we have to guard the totems right?" Patch inquired.
"I believe so" Greg responded, curiously.
"I'll get to work on contacting my source tomorrow night. What you said, Amaya sound like some form of prophecy. I'll see if I can find any meaning to it as well. Goodnight" Patch yawned.
"Goodnight" the children said as they got into bed.
Connor turned off the main light in his room to allow everyone else to sleep as Patch curled up beside him on his duvet.
He then turned off his lamp, deciding to read more of the book another night.
-Saturday late morning-
It was the day of the Hot Air Balloon ride that Greg and Amaya's parents had gotten free tickets for when Connor was outside playing with his helicopter.
"I can't wait to fly over the city!" Connor exclaimed after Patch came outside to greet them.
His bike was outside as well.
"Good morning, are you ready for your flight children?" he asked.
They all nodded but Connor walked right into a giant blue box that had a blue scooter in it.
However, the bottom part looked eerily familiar to Owlette and Greg…
"It says it's from my 'Great-aunt Cynthia'" Connor said while reading the note.
He then got on the scooter with his helmet and drove towards the place the balloon was.
The balloon had disappeared because someone had cut the rope.
When night came, Catboy took his scooter while Owlette and Gekko took the Owl glider to find the balloon.
However, Catboy got a little bit overconfident with his flying even though he kept crashing into things.
They eventually came across Luna Girl giving the hot air balloon a moon-coloured makeover dubbing it the 'Moony balloon' on one of the roof-tops.
Patch watched in disappointment as Catboy tried to get the Hot air balloon but Luna girl used her magnet to control the movements and crashed into Owlette.
So as the heroes tried to come up with a plan to stop Luna Girl, Gekko noticed that Luna Girl was controlling the scooter and tried to get the magnet.
In response, Patch went to find the snow leopard figure once more.
This time, Léopard des neiges appeared outside the HQ in the park while the hot air balloon and Luna girl flew past in the sky.
"Young cat, we meet again. Did you find the book?" Léopard des neiges asked.
"Yes but once we have read it, what do we do with this knowledge and how come you won't help them?" Patch asked.
"I have a different place to protect but I am an observer here. I only intervene in this city if things get dire. I must warn you though, there are worst beings than the night time villians your friends face. Beware of the danger of shadows is coming" Léopard des neiges said, forebodingly.
"I don't understand" Patch said, worriedly.
"You'll know once you've read the book but be careful. Once you help them with obtaining the knowledge and learning about missing things, they'll have to fend for themselves. Be prepared for that day" Léopard des neiges added.
"Thank you for the advice. I really hope they get to meet you one day" Patch said, gratefully.
"Me too, Patch. Me too" the snow leopard hero whispered.
Patch gasped when he said his name as Léopard des neiges used his camouflage with his motorcycle and drove away just as Gekko and Catboy had rescued the hot air balloon.
After Luna Girl managed to get her moths to calm down and retrieve her luna magnet back, she returned to the Luna Lair.
She sighed.
"I must be doing something wrong here. I need to tip the scales" She said in a low voice.
"Luna Girl, it's time I was honest with you. I am Masque Ombre. I will help you find out more about your family and increase your planning skills. Renard rusé will be your side-line assistant if you need extra help and I will help with motivation, deal?" Masque Ombre offered.
"So, YOU were 'Shadow' then? Alright, but only because I need help aside from my moths" Luna girl admitted.
Once the PJ Masks returned home, Cyrus had a small talk with Connor.
"Your friends will be returning home tomorrow because Amaya's parents have a surprise for her. So you can continue this sleepover another night ok?" Cyrus said, gently.
"Ok" Connor sighed.
-The next day, Sunday-
The children finally got to go on the hot air balloon with an adult.
When Amaya and Greg returned home, she got a gift from her parents: a tablet!
-On Tuesday- (About two weeks have past since Patch arrived)
The children met outside to have a friendly game of football (soccer) but Amaya was engrossed in her tablet.
"Hey guys, I have something important to tell you" Patch stated.
Amaya was demonstrating what her tablet could do to her friends and didn't acknowledge Patch in that moment.
"Guys, I'm still here" Patch meowed loudly.
"I'm sorry. I was having so much fun with my tablet" Amaya confessed.
"That's great and all but don't go overboard please" Patch warned.
"As I was saying, I spoke to my contact last night and they said that we have to be very careful after we've read more of the book" Patch continued.
"Don't worry, I plan to read more tonight" Connor reassured him before getting back to his football (soccer) game with Greg.
Later that night…
The children's bracelets blinked as an alert for the HQ.
Amaya contacted the others with her tablet and relayed her suspicions.
"PJ Masks, we're on our way! Into the night to save the day!" They cried.
"Connor, can I help this time too?" Patch asked.
"Maybe…next time, buddy" Connor replied, politely.
Patch then sighed as he watched Connor transform into Catboy and teleport to the HQ in a stream of light.
When the heroes arrived, they were greeted by ROMEO!
Robot was busy playing Catboy's Master Fang video game in the corner as Romeo tried to figure out how to activate the PJ Picture player.
Using his latest gadget the teleporter, he teleported the heroes away every time Owlette tried to use her tablet to save the day until she accidently activated the rocket mode.
Patch went back to check on Gris at the Night Den while the heroes were dealing with Romeo.
"Are you getting closer to your goal that will allow you to go home?" Gris asked.
"I think so but I'm worried that the children will be hurt badly if I leave" Patch confessed, worriedly.
"They're brave children, Patch. The blue one saved me from a hose and being stuck in a tree once. Plus they're used to fighting those villians for a while now" Gris pointed out.
"Yeah, that is true. How have you been coping with guarding the fort?" Patch asked.
"A snow leopard person appeared one night to check on something. I think it was a type of glass or crystal and then it shrunk for a brief moment" Gris explained.
"That was helpful info, Gris. Thank you. I'll try to find more help for you with guard duty, ok?" Patch promised.
"Ok" Gris replied as Patch raced back to Connor's house just as the HQ landed safely to the ground.
With their latest victory, they went back inside the HQ for a last minute catch-up.
"I'll see you at the playground tomorrow. I'll be reading more of the book before bed" Catboy revealed.
"And I'll be heading to bed" Gekko yawned.
Once the children returned to their room, Connor kept his lamp on and got comfortable as he sat up in bed
He continued to go through the book for a little while but staying with in chapter 2.
The page that interested him the most was titled 'Sorceline and the shadow'.
"'Sorceline and the shadow
In this chapter, I, Silver Sorceline, am going to share with you what I have found out about the Shadow being that has given me help for a few years.
Her name is Masque Ombre and is from a different city.
She got her ability to traverse through shadow with an artificial totem bracelet created by her dad and is the reason why you only see red eyes when talking to her.
She told me, she was helping Theo and I unlock the secrets of the totems for a reason but I'm not really sure what to believe.
I returned from meeting Rainbow Dreamer and he warned me about meddling with elements I don't understand especially shadow.
I told him that I was very careful with Theo's incredible mind at work and promised to return someday for more answers.
-Time skip-
I witnessed a new group of masked animal figures today. I think they were just practising their powers outside now. I swear I saw a flying squirrel in there too, I wonder if Theo is aware of this…..
-Time skip-
My best lookout Cynthia is missing and I'm getting worried.
In small writing underneath it said this: 'To my sweet little angel, I am sorry I gave you up. It was for your own safety due to the allure of the moon, be smart little one. I hope we can meet again someday in a place of safety, your dad keeps an eye on you on occasion. Silver Sorceline'.
"Guys, I think I found something about Luna Girl's parentage" Connor reported.
"But I wanna sleep" Greg said, sleepily.
"Luna Girl? But it's 11 pm…" Amaya said while being half-awake.
"You know what? I'll tell you in the morning. Good night" Connor realised as he turned off his lamp and quickly went to sleep.
-Dream-
Connor was running through the city with Patch in his PJs when he saw Greg, Amaya and Cameron captured in cadges.
Connor was breathing heavily as he tried to activate his bracelet to transform only nothing happened.
"Wha..?!" he cried.
"Your bracelet is mine now" an unfamiliar female voice stated.
"Wha- what are you?" Connor asked, fearfully.
"I'm your worst nightmare, Catboy" The voice said as all he saw were red eyes like the one described in the book.
"You're…" He began.
"Yes and your little routine of saving the day won't last long. Enjoy your freedom while you can" She said in a playful voice before sending bats to attack the captives.
"Help!" the captives cried.
"I'll get you out, I promise!" Connor said, desperately.
"You can't save everyone, Connor. Not even yourself" Mr Shawn's voice said, sternly.
More bats flew in until his vision was black and his body was enveloped in suffocating shadow….
He woke up in a cold sweat while gasping and then looked around.
His friends were still safe and after a few minutes, he calmed down a little bit.
It felt… so real. But…. What if doing this investigating puts everyone I know in danger and this Masque follows through with the threat? He thought, worriedly.
Masque Ombre smiled as she used a shadow portal to leave.
Enjoy your fun while it lasts, PJ Masks. My biggest test for you all is coming soon she thought as she ended up back at her hideout and laughed.
-To be continued-
I hope you enjoyed this super long chapter.
I will have a few dark themes but I don't really do super dark stuff minus death, fighting and the occasional wound. But my rule is not gore. I never describe things in gory detail so just to let you know. Anyway! I have a little challenge for you all: For those who both have and haven't read my origins story, what do you think this means:
"'Someday, a brave cat hero, blue or not, will uncover the secrets of totems and dreams.
Will the knowledge be used for good or evil, silver moon is quite clear,
Orphan and alone brings a tear,
Guard the totems for the future or foreshadowing will be their doom'.
Leave your guesses at the end of your reviews ok?
You'll get the answer (hopefully) at the end of this story.
I shall do my best to show Patch's personality, maybe have him assistant in at least one battle and show Firefly and Renard Rusé more as well.
I don't have a long glossary this time but here's what we have this time:
Glossary:
CHOU- Butterfly in Japanese
In a different story, I might show what's left of the Chou ninja clan too.
See ya next time! Grace out!