Family
Chapter 188 Statue
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, expect the OCs. This is just a story for fun.
(Author's Note: Sorry it's been a while since I last updated. Went on a small trip to see some relatives and when I got back home my schedule was incredibly busy and I came down with a cold. Special shoutout to The Cowardly Christina, for his character request. In this chapter will being introducing a character from the Adventure Time comic universe. The character is called Gata and she appears in issues 46 through 49. I changed her background a little bit to help fit her in the story. I hope you enjoy the chapter.)
Back on Earth, Rain was walking out of the ocean with a backpack strapped to his back. Rain had told his father that, he wanted to see more of the surface world and study magic. President Porpoise was pleased by this and asked Sea Sorceress to give his son a letter of recommendation to study in Wizard City and a map of Ooo. The Sea Sorceress agreed and gave Rain a letter of recommendation, a map of Ooo, and the password to enter Wizard City. Rain packed a bag and set out for Wizard City, where he was told by Crimson that's where he would find the people he needed to spy on.
"Will be reunited soon mother." Whispered Rain as he glanced at the red ring on his right hand as he continued on.
At Wizard City, a little meeting was going on in the Capitol. Grand Master Wizard was sitting at the head of a large table with Simon and Huntress Wizard.
"So I have heard that you have both taken on apprentices and they both happen to be human." Said GMW.
"Yes recently there was a large group of humans discovered in a virtual world inside an old abandoned military base. A few of the humans were taken out of the virtual world to explore Ooo and find a place to build a settlement for the other humans. The group is currently residing in my kingdom." Said Simon.
"I see. Tell me about your students." Said GMW.
"Well my student is a young boy named Mason, though he goes by the nickname Dipper, because of a birthmark he has that resembles the Big Dipper. This birthmark lead me to find out that Dipper can use star magic." Said Simon.
"I see. It's been a long time since I've heard about anyone with that kind of magic." Said GMW.
"My student is a girl named Pacifica. I'm teaching her archery and she's catching on quit quickly. Pacifica also has the ability to summon Celestial Spirits. She has two gold keys that summon a spirit named Aquarius and a spirit named Taurus. Pacifica also recently found and purchased two sliver Celestial Spirit keys. One summons a clock like being called Horologium and a bear like being called Polaris." Said Huntress Wizard.
"Very interesting. We have two young unique humans with great magic abilities and potential. It's not everyday you hear about someone, who can summon Celestial Spirits. There was a young lady who could summon Celestial Spirits, but I believe she was killed by a rogue wizard and her keys were stolen. Come to think of it there's a member on the council who has a couple of Celestial Spirits." Said GMW.
"Whose that?" Asked Huntress Wizard.
"Gentleman Wizard." Said GMW.
"I really don't think a wizard like him should be on the council, his very arrogant and is always trying to sway others to his views. Gentleman Wizard is almost as bad as Laser Wizard and Maja." Said Huntress Wizard.
"I suppose he can be a bit of a snob, but I doubt he would do anything to endanger Wizard City. If he steps out of line I'll see that his removed of his position." Said GMW.
"Thank you grandfather." Said Huntress Wizard.
"Anyhow, I think the council should meet to discuss security for the trail and peace seminar with the Candy Kingdom and Fire Kingdom, we should also discuss worst case scenarios. Tensions are high between the Candy Kingdom and Fire Kingdom and a war could breakout between them and it could drag all of Ooo into it. We need to work together with the Peace Protectors to make sure that doesn't happen." Said Simon.
"I agree. You and I are serving as the committee that will decide what punishment needs to be given to Queen Bubblegum and try to make peace between the two kingdoms. What is the current status of the Fire Kingdom?'
"They're almost done taking a body count and they're finished calculating the damage done to their buildings. They'll be ready soon to begin to hold a trial and conference." Said Simon.
"Good to hear. The sooner this matter is settled the better. The council will meet in a few days to discuss about security and what actions we should take encase of war." Said GMW.
The meeting ended and Simon and Huntress Wizard left the office.
In another part of Ooo laid the remains of an old modern city from the prewar days. A good precent of the buildings were intake and served as homes for several people in Ooo. One of the buildings had served as the home of Jake's parents Joshua and Margaret. The building was now serving as the home of Finn and Jake's brother Jermaine. Jermaine had once lived in his parents house in the country, but that home had felt more like a prison ever since Joshua and Margaret had passed away. Joshua had collected a vast collection of magical items over the years and unfortunately some of that stuff belonged to some shadow demons. Once Joshua had died the demons had come for their stuff. Jermaine had put a ring of salt around the house to keep the demons away and was forced to guard the house and his father's belongings. This lead to a few years of isolation and Jermaine began to resent his brothers. Then one day Finn and Jake suddenly came for a surprise visit. During the visit Jake used some salt from the salt circle to cook some fried rice, which allowed one of the demons to break into the house. Jermaine became furious with Jake and attacked him, accusing his brother of being Joshua's favorite child. Jake declared Joshua loved them both equally. During the fight Jermaine unleashed a flame hand and Finn sliced it in half causing it to start a fire. Finn and Jake tried to put the fire out, but Jermaine told them to let it burn the house. To Jermaine the house had served as a prison that he had created for himself. The magical items would be destroyed preventing them from falling in the demons' hands. The house burned down and Jermaine made up with his brothers before walking off with a large blue demon named Bryce, who had originally been imprisoned in the basement. Jermaine had befriended the demon and the two hung out for a while, before going their separate ways. Sometime later Jermaine had moved into his parents old home in the city and called it his new home. Jermaine kept in touch with his brothers more and had last seen them, after Finn's right arm had been broken. Some time later Jermaine had learned from Jake that Finn was going out into space to see his biological mom.
In the present Jermaine was doing a little house cleaning. Jermaine was going through an old shoe coolest where he stumbled upon a holo-message player and a stack of cartridges. Jermaine began to sort through cartridges and saw that some had labels. One was labeled Important Task, Explanation, and G Explanation. The dog put in the Important Task cartridge. A hologram of Joshua appeared before Jermaine. Joshua looked a bit haggard and sad about something.
"To my sons Finn, Jake, Jermaine. I have an Important Task for you, it may not seem important, but trust me it is. There is a large lake in the south side of the grasslands with a temple at the bottom. In the temple, there's a statue inside. Every now and then I want one of you to go check on the statue to make sure nothing has happened to it. It's very important that this statue doesn't shatter it or break it and can you every now and then bring some periwinkle colored flowers to the temple...to help spruce the place up a bit." Said Joshua.
"What's the big deal about this statue?" Thought Jermaine.
"Your probably asking yourselves what the big deal about this statue is. Well this statue is a personal reminder of a great failure of mine. I was in a tough situation and forced into a corner, where I had to do something drastic to keep a bunch of people I care about safe. I know what I did was right, yet not everyone I cared about got off ok. The statue is of the person I failed. I hope none of you are ever put into a situation like the one I was in. Just please look after the statue for me." Said Joshua before the message ended.
Jermaine was interested in this. Never before had he'd seen his father so sad about anything before in his life. Whatever this statue was, must be important. Jermaine grabbed the holo-message player and cartilages and decided to go see Jake and show him the message. Then the two of them can go on a little adventure and see what the statue was. It nearly took Jermaine a full day of walking to reach the tree fort, but he made it. Jake was surprised and delighted to see his brother. Jermaine showed Jake the message and he became interested in the statue. The two brothers decided to sleep for the night and head towards the lake tomorrow. Jake knew where the lake was. The dogs fell asleep wondering about the statue. The next day they set out for the lake.
In another part of the grasslands three people were wondering around. The first was a huge hulking humanoid wearing a brown suit of armor that resembled an old diving suit. The figure was called Treasure Knight and he was a member of The Order of no Quarter. Treasure Knight wore a large helmet with a tiny yellow glass visor with a metal mesh around it, a large metal air tank on his back, and instead of a normal left hand he had a cannon with a anchor and chain. Behind Treasure Knight were two puppets who served as members of the Puppet Kingdom's newly created Twelve Generals. The first was General Pig. General Pig was a pig in a pirate's hat that resembled a pirate ship mast and sail, with a picture of a pig skull with tusk and topped with a tiny gold crown and tiny black black. He had tusks, with a gold ring in his right one, a lip town beard, and a peg leg for his right leg. General Pig also wore red and white stripped pants, a brown belt across his chest, a pearl necklace, two white wristbands, and a gold ring with a green gemstone on his left hand and carried a large curved sword. The other puppet was General Sheep. General Sheep wore a red pirate-esque hat with a yellow Capricorn symbol on the front, a purple vest, with gold buttons, and gold trim, a red sash around his waist, and black boots with gold buckles. His body was covered in fluffy white wool, but his overall figure is slim and tall. General Sheep had the curved horns of a Merino ram, with a gold ring in his left horn and he had a long purple beard and mustache. He was armed with a pair of blunderbusses.
(Author's Note: The Twelve Generals are from the PlayStation game Puppeteer.)
Treasure Knight, General Pig, and General Sheep shared one big thing in common and that was greed. The three of them served their masters to obtain large amounts of treasure, rather then serve with honor or loyalty. Treasure Knight and his two companions normally stuck close to the sea on board a couple of whale like submersible ships, but had heard tales of great treasures located inland and decided that they would help themselves to it. It was by chance that the three treasure seekers came across a large lake in the grasslands. Treasure Knight decided to check it out and dove into the lake. The big knight sank to the bottom and found a strange Greek style temple with a strange octopus symbol on it. Treasure Knight went up to the surface to tell his companions what he found.
"There's a temple at the bottom." Said Treasure Knight.
"A temple you say?" Asked General Sheep.
"Aye. A big one." Said Treasure Knight.
"Yo ho hoink! You know what that's means don't you lads! That there temple must be filled with treasure or artifacts just waiting to be plundered! Will be swimming in swag! Declared General Pig.
"Before we get to plundering, let's discuss how we split the treasure. I think I should get half and you two should get half." Said Treasure Knight.
"Arrr! How dare ye you try to pull that on us, you scallywag! We split the booty three ways!" Said General Sheep.
"Fine, will split it three ways. Now let's get to plundering it." Said Treasure Knight before he dove back into the lake.
General Sheep and General Pig followed. The two pirate puppets didn't really need to breath, so they were fine going underwater. The three treasure seekers entered the temple and saw that it wasn't flooded on the inside. They got out of the water and traveled down a hallway, until they reached a large chamber. Inside the chamber was a small platform with a statue on it. The statue was of an average size humanoid figure dressed in a hooded robe that had a head that resembled a cephalopod. It appeared to be a female with six freckles on it's cheeks, a pair of fins on either side of her face, as well as numerous tentacles pulled back and styled like hair. The statue had a friendly smile on it's face and had a bunch of dead flowers in vases laying on the ground around it. Treasure Knight and his pirate friends stared at the statue. It looked very life like.
"Son of a biscuit eater! The only thing in here is a blasted statue! What a waste of time!" Grumbled General Pig.
"Now hold it my piggy partner. We can still make a prophet off of this statue." Said General Sheep.
"His right. This statue is an artifact and a piece of art. All we have to do is find a aristocrat who has a lot of money and loves art and sell it to him." Said Treasure Knight.
"I guess ye be right about that. Come on lads let's haul us a statue!" Said General Pig.
The three of them marched towards the statue. General Pig's peg leg stepped on a hidden switch that activated a silent alarm.
Back on the surface of the lake, Finn and Jermaine were fixing to dive in with the holo-message player, when a hologram of Joshua popped up with a concerned look on it's face.
"Boys an alarm I had in the temple went off! You need to get in there pronto and make sure nothing happens to that statue. It's very important that nothing happens to that statue!"
The message ended and Jake and Jermaine exchanged nods before they dove into the lake and swam down to the temple. The two brothers got into the temple and got out of the water. Up a head they could hear voices.
"Put your backs into you slugs!" Yelled General Sheep.
"This would go a lot faster if you helped carry this thing, you blasted barnacle!" Yelled General Pig.
"I'm delegating and guarding. Besides you two are better at lifting and carrying heavy things." Said General Sheep.
"Will be taking a big parter of the treasure then, for our manual labor." Said Treasure Knight.
Jake and Jermaine headed down the hallway and entered the large chamber. The canines saw Treasure Knight and General Pig carrying a statue between them, with General Sheep standing nearby.
"Hey unhand the statue you thieves!" Yelled Jake as he pointed a finger at the thieves.
"Arrr! We've been spotted!" Yelled General Sheep as he pulled out his guns.
"Yo ho hoink! I'll run these scurvy dogs through with me sword and make them sleep with the fishes!" Yelled General Pig as he and Treasure Knight set the statue down and he pulled out his sword.
"This statue belongs to us." Said Treasure Knight as he pointed his cannon hand at the two dogs.
Treasure Knight fired his anchor at Jake and Jermaine, while General Sheep fired his guns at them. Jake quickly grabbed Jermaine and used his powers to stretch his free arm up to grab the celling to pull him and his brother out of the anchor and bullets. Treasure Knight quickly reeled in his anchor and pointed it up at the celling and fired at Jake and Jermaine. Jake dodged out of the way and the anchor slammed into the celling becoming imbedded in it.
"You missed!" Laughed Jake.
"Oh did I?" Asked Treasure Knight as he began reeling himself up towards the celling and at Jake and Jermaine.
Jake realized that Treasure Knight was coming in to fast for him and Jermaine to dodge, so he decided to save his brother, by dropping him and taking the full blow of Treasure Knight's body slamming him into the celling. Jermaine fell to the flow and ended up landing on General Sheep, who had run underneath the two canines to get a better shot at him. General Sheep only had time to let out a startled cry as Jermaine crash landed on top of him. Jermaine moaned as he got off the stunned form of General Sheep.
"Ya done it now dog!" Yelled General Pig as he charged at Jermaine swinging, his sword.
Jermaine let out a panicked yelp as he scrambled backwards to avoid the swine's sword. The dog tripped on a rock and fell backwards landing on his back. General Pig sensed an easy kill and leaped into the air ready to bring his sword crashing down on Jermaine. Jermaine cried out ad shot both his legs into the air, catching General Pig in the gut, and sent him flying over him. General Pig flew over Jermaine and ended up crashing into the statue! The statue tipped over and hit the ground as General Pig crashed to the ground a few feet away. Jermaine watched in horror as the statue shattered to bits unleashing a dust cloud that obscured his vision. Treasure Knight threw Jake to the ground and landed next to him to stare at the dust cloud. There was a female voice coughing from the cloud and as it cleared it revealed a new being in the statues place. It appeared that the person that the statue was modeled off of had just suddenly appeared. The newcomer was wearing a grey hooded robe, which she threw back to reveal she had periwinkle colored skin. The girl appeared to be a teenage wearing a blue long sleeved shirt, long brown pants, and dark brown boots with a small fuzzy white trimming, beneath her open robe.
"Man that's the last time I wear this thing, when I get into a fight." Said the girl as she took off the robe.
"Um...what just happened?" Asked Jermaine looking at the girl in confusion.
The girl looked at Jermaine and her eyes went wide as she saw General Sheep stumble to his feet, behind Jermaine and point one of his guns at the back of the dog's head.
"Jermaine get down!" Yelled the girl as she quickly reached down to grab a fist size rock.
Jermaine had no idea how the newcomer knew his name, but he quickly did as she said and dropped to the floor. The girl shot to her feet and expertly threw the rock at General Sheep, clunking him in the head, and knocked him to the ground. Jermaine stared at the girl in amazement as she ran over to General Sheep and picked up his guns.
"Take this and cover the pig, I'll go help Jake." Said the girl as she handed one of the guns to Jermaine and went off to face Treasure Knight.
Jermaine pointed the gun at General Pig as he stumbled to his feet. The swine stared at Jermaine and dropped his sword as he raised his hands in the air. Treasure Knight stared at the girl before him as he stood over the groaning form of Jake.
"Who are you?" Demanded Treasure Knight.
"The names Gata."
"Well Gata, you just cost me and my compatriots a good deal of money. That was a big mistake." Said Treasure Knight.
"Well you made two bigger mistakes pal. You bust into my dad's temple and then you hurt my brothers. Now I'm about to make you leave this place in a painful matter." Said Gata.
"Dad?" Thought Jermaine in confusion.
"Brothers?" Thought Jake in equally confusion.
"As if you have an chance of hurting me. My armor is far stronger then the weapon your using." Said Treasure Knight.
"Will just see about that." Said Gata.
Treasure Knight fired his anchor at Gata, but she jumped to the side to avoid it as she fired the gun. The bullets pinged against the armor on Treasure Knight's head and chest, but didn't seem to harm him at all. Treasure Knight reeled his anchor back in and fired at Gata, who jumped and rolled out of the way again. Gata ran and ended up getting behind Treasure Knight and fired a few shots at the air tank on his back punching a few holes into it. The air began to flow out of the holes propelling Treasure Knight forward and into the ground. Treasure Knight yelled as the air tank rocketed him forward across the ground and down the hallway. The big knight crashed into a wall with a thunderous crash, before he fell into the water below. Gata smirked as all the others stared at her with awe.
"You two pirates get out of here and don't come back." Said Gata as she looked at General Sheep and General Pig.
The two pirates quickly ran out of the temple and hopped into the lake. They managed to regroup with Treasure Knight who been rocketed to the surface of the lake and had crashed into a large tree, when all the air from his tanks had run out. The trio then ran from the lake as fast as their battered bodies could go.
Back at the temple Gata had tossed the gun away and was helping Jake to his feet.
"You ok Jake?" Asked Gata.
"Yeah...I'm fine. Just who are you exactly?" Said Jake as he rubbed his head.
"That big guy must have hit you a lot harder then I thought, if your having a problem remembering me. I'm Gata, you know your sister. I was raised along with you guys and Finn since we were all babies." Said Gata.
"Our sister?!" Thought Jake and Jermaine at the same time in utter confusion.
To be continued.