Fractured Hills

Slick closed his eyes after what felt like an hour of trying to escape from chains. Nothing was working for The Felinian.

Maybe he'll try his water powers. But everytime he tried to use them, nothing worked.

'I gotta concentrate.'

Slick kept his eyes closed as he begin to concentrate on using the powers.

After a couple of seconds. His body transformed into a puddle of water, flowing down to the ground.

The water move to the door, flowing through the bottom section of it. He flow in between the feet of a Rocnoc guarding the hut.

The puddle kept on moving, passing more rock monster, climbing steps till he was away from the quarry, back on the land him and Alex was on.

When the coast was clear, Slick liquefied body was back to normal. "Awesome. Now, I gotta find Alex."

Slick begin to running, hiding behind the huts. He felt a familiar aura and followed it.

-A-

On the other side of the hut, a determined Alex walking his way to the quarry.

He stopped and saw bodies of Satyrs piled up. The yeti saw this before with Pinstripe and the dinosaurs he controlled.

He closed his eyes for respect of those whose lives were taken by Darla and her army of earthshapers.

'I'm coming for you, bitch.'

-BD-

Darla meditated at the quarry, smiling at the carnage she did at Fractured Hills. All for a talisman.

She didn't have to kill those Satyrs. It was Alex and Slick's fault. They're the heroes and heroes can't save them all.

"How could you?"

Darla's eyes rolled as she felt her mother's presence like at Ocean Speedway. "What are you on about?"

"All those creatures you killed. The homes you destroyed. Don't you have no heart?" Bianca said in Darla's head.

"I have my reasons. Plus what do you want from me? I'm evil! Evil!"

"You're not evil, Cassio. You're an creation formed from Malacore. But in that body of dark magic is my little daughter.

"I can feel your aura. You're scared. No...you're afraid."

Darla open her eyes and saw Bianca in front of her in a meditation pose.

"I'm being torn apart. I want to be free of this pain. I know what I have to do but I don't know if I have the strength to do it. Will you help me?"

"Yes, anything" Bianca told Darla, extending her arm out to her.

The witch slowly extend her hand to her mother, shaking and hesitant if she wants her help.

As their hands almost meet, a blast went through Bianca and hit Darla in the chest, making her roll on the ground.

"No!" said Bianca as her spirit disappeared

In her place was Alex with his Moth Breaker in cannon mode.

"Ugh, you."

"Those men you killed, Lila and Mr. Finnegan. I'll have you did to them!" Alex growled, putting his weapon in axe mode.

"Rocnocs, attack!" Darla called at as she ran away.

The rock monsters surround the yeti. He grinned as he felt like he's old self around. Back when he was apart of The Axem Rangers. "You can run, but you can't hide!"

-D-

The witch made back to her rock made hut. "I gotta tell you. Your best friend has a fire lit up ever since I kill some nobody."

Darla turn to see Slick. But he wasn't there chained to the wall. She open the door to her Rocnoc guard. "Please tell how our prisoner is gone?"

Rocnoc went in the room to see the prisoner gone. The monster snugged it's shoulders, shaking it's head.

"You telling me that he disappeared out of nowhere? Like somehow he can turned into water and, ohhh, that's right. He has my powers. Either way, go deal with the yeti. I have a group of Rocnocs heading to get rid of the other creatures that were saved."

The rocnoc walked out to the room as Darla smiled as if she gets to kill everyone in one sitting.

-SB-

Slick follow the aura to a group of fauns and satyrs surrounded by fire. He jumps through the wall of fire. "Whats going on?"

"Becky is fighting the rock monsters" a resident explained.

"Becky is here! Hell yeah!" The Felinian said running toward the fire wall and jumping through it.

Becky fought the rock monster with her hands on fire, blowing up another one up. It felt like the 30th rocnoc she exploded. She was having fun, but it was tiring, especially for her magic.

"I wish I had my sisters with me. But I would love some help."

Suddenly, the ground was erupted and something spit out striking the rocnocs back. After attacking group of monsters, the figure leap next to the witch. "Hey Becky."

"S-Slick? Is that you?"

Slick's body was made of ice, his hands shaped like curved ice blades. "Of course. Where's Alex?"

"He's dealing with Darla."

"Oh no, we gotta help him after we deal with these things" Slick said.

The two ex students of Azrael's School geared up to fight the army of rocnocs who threaten to hurt the citizens of Fractured Hills.

-A-

Alex finished the last rocnoc with his Moth Breaker. His eyes were red, looking around the area for Darla.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are."

The ground begins to shake, causing the irate yeti to stumble on his feet. The ground erupt as a structure pulled out of the ground. A large half body of Darla made of rocks with four arms. "I'm right here."

Alex laughed manically at the sight of Darla's body. "Ohh yeah!"

Darla's eyes glowed red as her arms slam down, creating rocnocs. The yeti ran towards the monsters, hack and slash them till they crumble into bits. The blade of his axe glowed when one of the witch's arm fell. He sends out a phantasm slash at the grounded limb.

The arm explode, causing a growl to escape Darla's mouth. A glowing circle appear in a couple spots. The spots erupt with lava spewing out. After the eruptions, another arm falls down and Alex destroys it.

The yeti roars at the night sky as he was beyond loving this battle. Darla on the other hand was pissed.

After breaking the last two arms, The Witch was down to her head. Her eyes glowed, sending rock spikes at the yeti. He dodge them as a he jump on a rock that bounced him up in the air. Descending down to the Darla's rock face, he slam his Moth Breaker into her left eye.

Alex fell off her as lava spewed out of the eye. The yeti did the same thing, bouncing in the air and taking out the right eye.

Alex hanged on to his weapon as Darla shook her head in pain. The yeti was flipped up in the air with his Moth Breaker, position to strike her head. "Moth Breaker, Mammoth Slam!"

The axe of the weapon glowed as he slam the blade through the the rock head. Cracks formed down on the body as it explodes, sending Alex and Darla down to the rocky ground. The yeti land on his feet.

But Darla fell in a lava pit, sinking down into it. Alex smiled as The Witch was gone, melted like Lila. "Serves you right."

The yeti collapse on the ground, unconscious from the battle.

-SB-

Slick and Becky took down another rocnoc till the army crumbled. The Felinians were confused at the sight of what just happened. Becky use her spell to remove the fire wall and the residents and they walk out of the burnt circle, looking around their land.

Becky was glad that the monster were dead. But the troll of her home was massive. Homes destroyed, lives loss and her father was still missing. "My home..."

Slick wrapped his arms around his friend. "Don't worry, Becky. Everything will be okay. Let's go find Alex, before he gets hurt."

The Fauns and Satyrs thanked the two heroes as they made their way to the quarry.

The two Felinians made it to the quarry following Alex's aura. They found the yeti on the ground, Slick running over to his best friend. "Alex? Alex? Please be okay..."

"He's okay."

Slick turn around to see Bianca walking up to him and his unconscious best friend. "I'm taking ya'll to The Castle. I'm sending Hunter and some of the builders of Idol Springs will come here to fix up the place."

Becky, Slick, Bianca, and Alex teleports out of Fractured Hills, heading to Midnight Mountain of The Forgotten World.

Sorceress Castle, Midnight Mountain, The Forgotten World

Slick and Becky walked over to The Sorceress as she watch Alex sleep in the hospital bed of the lab.

"How is he, Bianca?" Slick asked.

"He's doing better as he's back to himself."

Slick furrow his eyebrows at what she said. "What do you mean?"

"Alex went ballistic when Lila and somehow Mr. Finnegan was killed by Darla. He totally lost it as he went after her."

"To explain this, Yetis go through an tantrum called Yeti Rage. It's common with Alex's species and something in his brain when he saw Lila's death that he was enraged."

"We saw Lila die when Darla put her arm through her chest. How did Mr. Finnegan die?"

Bianca looked down to the floor. "He tried to stop my daughter, but she toss to the lava. I'm sorry, Rebecca."

"Do you know about my father?" the witch asked.

"Yes, he's in Shady Beach. He is alright. But I don't think he'll like the fact that his home is gone."

Slick smiled as his best friend was okay. He should've been there for him. He wouldn't gone through Yeti Rage if he wasn't taken away.

Becky smiled at Slick as she was glad Alex and her father is okay."Okay, I gotta go. Sasha hasn't been herself lately. She stays in her room ever since we came back from Earth. Tell Alex that I said bye and get well."

Becky teleports out of the lab and back to home to Felina. Slick waved goodbye as he look back to his best friend, checking out the tattoo on his left arm. A rock. "I'm guessing Darla left when she was beat."

"I can't feel her aura because she fell into the lava pit she made to get Alex into. I-I..."

Slick hugged The Sorceress. "I don't think she's gone, Bianca. She can manipulate her magic energy. She's somewhere."

"Thank you Ricky. Since she's gone for a bit, you and Alex get to have a break. I heard Neo Angeles is throwing a parade for what you two have done in saving the city and putting Pinstripe in prison."

"We're having a parade!?"

Bianca and Slick jump as Alex was at the glass with the wire wrapped around his body.

"Yeah...Alex. Yes, you two do. But I gotta talk to you first before you do" Bianca told the yeti, walking inside the room.

'Finally, a break. I can be with Princess Sal and watch over Alex. Whats the worse that can happen?'

Oh Slick, you know you should never say such things.

-D-

Darla waked up in the meadow of Sunrise Spring. She slowly sat up, leaving her eyes closed from the sun beaming down on her. Getting up from the ground, The Witch walked around the area, trying to figure out why she was there.

There was a cottage that looked familiar to her. Like it was her...

"Home? Why am I here?" she asked.

Darla walked into the house, seeing if somebody was there. She wasn't suppose to be here. But she was going to get an explanation sooner or later.

-B-

A week later

Becky stood there, fearing for her life as tears rolled down her eyes. The extreme cold air start to freeze her skin. Holding her best friend she calls sister was stabbed and slowly dying.

The person who caused all of this was walking away. Becky was scared at what happened at their home. "What happen to you, Sasha?"

Will continue in Frostbite, Act I