#3 – The Thunderous Heroine
Four creatures were seen talking in this familiar lair. Three of them were identified as Makutal, Skane and Wolfia. But the fourth one was unknown. Closing in, it was identified as Pytula. This female creature was a horrible combination between a python and a tarantula. She was one of the most cunning creatures in Wolfia's army.
"Yes my queen…" With that, Makutal and Skane vanished leaving the females with their conversation.
"Well Pytula… I got the perfect task for you…" Wolfia hissed.
Back in Ramster Town, Eddy mumbled to himself while dressing himself. He ran into the living room towards the shoes cabinet.
"Oh great, I can't afford to be late!" He dragged himself along the wall trying to find his keys while slipping on his left shoe.
"And before I forget…" He ran back into his bedroom and came out with his pendant.
Meanwhile at Ramster High, Falcon just arrived at his school compound when he saw some kids leaving a patch of once beautiful flowers that seemed to have just been hit by a stampede. He walked towards the dead flowers and bent down to pick one up. Just at that moment, Principal Cornell walked past and saw him with the lifeless flower in his hand.
"Well well… it seems like luck is with me, Mr. Spears!" Miss Cornell smiled.
"Oh hey Principal Cornell, I was about…" Falcon was interrupted before he could continue.
"About to inform me about the ruined flowers huh?!" She took out a notebook and jotted 'Falcon Spears' on the detention list.
Eddy ran into the school compound at one-minute past nine. He thought no one noticed so he hurried for the laboratories building. He did not realize that Miss Cornell was stalking for latecomers. Miss Cornell saw Eddy sneaking around corners of buildings and wrote another name on the detention list of her notebook. She then grinned and walked towards Eddy.
Eddy tiptoed behind a tall statuette of Ramster High's first principal. It was made by Ramster's students to honour the great Burreal Huggs; he was a really caring and patient person who taught the virtue of education to students. Unfortunately he was killed in an accident, which the mysterious car disappeared after hitting him and was never found. He stood there and pondered for a second and then quickly snapped out of it as he remembered he was already late. He scanned the area. Just when he thought the coast was clear, someone patted him on the shoulder. He turned around and saw Miss Cornell.
"Well Mr Fernandez, looks like you're going to be with Mr. Spears me the whole afternoon!" Miss Cornell said as she showed him their names on a page of her notebook.
"Wait… do you mean FALCON… Spears?" Eddy asked curiously.
"Why… yes!" She answered sarcastically.
"Oh no…" Eddy mumbled worriedly.
During break time, the teens gathered at their school's cafeteria.
"Guys, I've bad news. I was late for school by a mere minute today so and. Falcon and I have detention after school today! I'm worried…" Eddy said sadly.
"Worried? About what?" Yuna asked.
"Out of the six of us, only Falcon and I have powers. If Wolfia attacks again, you guys won't be able to defend Sheepersia against her menacing army!" Eddy replied and then sipped his smoothie.
"No worries, we'll figure it out somehow!" Yuna said with a smile on her face.
"I sure hope Wolfia don't try anything funny today…" Falcon added.
"Don't tell me you were late too, Falcon. I saw you an hour before school started this morning. What happened exactly?" Yuna asked.
"I don't want to talk about it..." Falcon sighed.
"Oh yeah… Silent, Yuna and I have tennis after school today. Kit seems to be the only one free…" Koyo said.
"Me? What me?!" Kit asked nervously.
"Kit, you gotta be careful if any creatures creep up on you while you're in Sheepersia!" Eddy told Kit.
"Oh… err… I will!" Kit replied shyly.
"So Kit, what plans do you have after school today?" Falcon asked.
"I'm meeting my best friend, Michelle, at the library to discuss our project." Kit replied.
"Oh I see." Falcon said. Kit smiled.
"Take care guys, Falcon and I have economics class to attend!" Eddy stood up and tapped Kit's shoulder.
"Later guys!" Falcon waved at him and went with Eddy. The others waved back except for Silent, who was studying with his hands crossed on his chests.
"Looks like someone is blushing…" Yuna teased Kit whose face was a bit pinkish.
"And someone is so engrossed in his study…" Koyo pokes Silent.
"WHAT?" Silent shouted. The people in the cafeteria turned to look at Silent for a second and then continued with what they were doing.
"Relax man! Anyway you're almost late for your test Silent!" Koyo said.
"Oh now you tell me!" Silent closed his orange coloured history book. He waved good-bye to his friends and ran for his class.
"Guess we better head for our lessons too." Koyo told the girls.
"Sure!" The girls replied.
Back at the lair, Pytula stood beside Wolfia's cauldron chanting some spells. A skull-head bottle materialized on her grisly mutated hands.
"Yes… hiss… I did it!" Pytula exclaimed.
"The Bottle Of Nel' Peo huh?!" Wolfia asked.
"Yes my queen…" Pytula laughed evilly.
The final bell of the day chimed. Eddy and Falcon went to the detention room. Koyo, Silent and Yuna went to the cafeteria to grab a bite before heading off to Ramster Tennis Centre for their tennis lesson while Kit went to the library. Kit reached the library and saw Michelle and they went in to find a place to discuss their project.
"Run you pathetic sheeps!!!" Pytula shouted. The villagers ran as fast as they can into the forest. Pytula shot her destructive arrows from her brown bow at the trees. The trees fell and trapped them. Pytula then sucked them into a skull-head bottle and embedded it to her waist.
"More… I need more!!! Muahahaha!!!" Pytula laughed horrifyingly.
Eddy and Falcon were chatting when they noticed their amulets glowed. They could sense that Sheepersia was under attack again. They looked at each other.
"Eddy, we have to go now." Falcon whispered.
"But you know we can't, Ms Cornell is very particular about detentions. We've to complete it, anyway there's still half an hour left." Eddy whispered back.
"Let's try to talk to her, okay?" Falcon whispered. They stood up and paced towards Principal Cornell.
At the tennis center, the trio felt very weird and went to the side for a rest.
"Okay… is it just me or you guys felt it too?" Yuna asked.
"I felt weird, it must be the smoothie I drank just now!" Koyo said.
"No… I don't think so… Could it be Sheepersia?" Silent questioned curiously.
"Oh no, I've a feeling it is under attack!" Yuna answered worriedly.
"Should we go now?" Koyo asked.
"Where to?" Silent asked.
"To find Eddy and Falcon. Kit should be on her way." Yuna replied.
At the library, Kit heard someone calling her name. The voice was shallow yet she could feel it was asking for help. Kit looked around but could not find that person.
"Kit, what's wrong?" Michelle asked.
"Michelle… did you hear someone calling my name?" Kit asked.
"No… you must be hearing things." Michelle replied.
Yeah, I think so!" Kit said and they continued on their project. The voice got louder and Kit recognized it as Tasukoi's voice.
"Michelle, I'm going off for a while. I'll be back as soon as possible." Kit told Michelle and she rushed to Ramster High to find Eddy and Falcon.
She reached the detention room and peeked inside. She saw Eddy and Falcon talking to Principal Cornell. Just then she remember what Tasukoi told them before.
"…it is all about your concentration. If you wanna come here, you could from anywhere."
Kit ran to a corner and concentrated on getting to Sheepersia. A slight yellowish glow was sighted at the sheep shrine in Sheepersia. After a few minutes, she finally got teleported to Sheepersia through determination. She saw fire in the distance and ran towards it. Kit got freaked out when she saw the ugly-looking Pytula. Despite that, she confronted Pytula.
"Oh what is this… a wannabe warrior… how interesting!" Pytula said
"I'm Kit for your information." Kit bent down and picked up a fist-sized stone and threw it with all her might at Pytula. Pytula got angry and shot beams from her eyes at Kit. Although Kit managed to dodge, she got hurt due to the explosion.
"And I'm Pytula, now prepare to die!" Pytula commanded. Kit closed her eyes and blocked her face with her hands. Pytula was about to shoot her destructive arrow at Kit when Tasukoi arrived in the nick of time to make her drop her weapon with a blast from his staff. Kit opened her eyes and ran to Tasukoi. Pytula picked up her weapon and used the bottle that she used to suck the villagers to suck Tasukoi inside.
"NOOOOOO…!!!" Kit screamed.
"Haaa too bad, what are you going to do? Throw more stones at me?" Pytula teased Kit.
"You want a piece of me? You get it!" Kit closed her eyes. In her mind, words flashed past.
"I… have… the… determination… Now… give… me… the… power!
Kit glowed in yellow. A yellowish glow flew from the shrine and descended onto Kit's neck. She felt revitalized. A thick black thread materialized around her neck with a yellow pendant. She open her eyes and touched the pendant then closed her eyes again. She then held the pendant close to her heart. For moments she stood there, suddenly her eyes opened. Then she took the pendant and shouted, "Thunder Kit Power!"
Her feet lifted off the ground. In the mid air, she glowed yellow. A yellow breast plate materialized first on her chest, with a white circular net attached to the back. Amidst the transformation, a pair of weightless, white iron skirt formed where her skirt was. A white helmet, shaped like a star, materialized on her head. Kit then landed on the ground. She was astonished but nevertheless, she was ready for battle.
"Lightning Trident!" Kit summoned her weapon her the clouds. A white trident with three yellow zigzag-shaped prongs shot from the clouds onto Kit's hands.
"Very interesting!" Pytula laughed.
"If you think you can defeat me with your toy, think again!" Pytula said. Pytula fired her arrows at Kit but Kit managed to destroy them with her trident.
Pytula fired beams from her eyes on the ground and triggered cracks on the ground. Kit somersaulted onto the unaffected ground and shot lightning bolts at Pytula's bottle. The bottle broke. Essences drifted onto the ground and materialized into the villagers and Tasukoi.
"Why you!!!" Now Pytula was pissed. She rampaged towards Kit and slammed her with her strong tail. Kit took a lot of damage and flew unintentionally into one of the large crack on the ground.
"Nooo! She can't be gone!" Tasukoi shouted.
"Yes she can!!! Now time for you sheeps to come back to me!" Pytula said.
"No they won't be doing that!" Eddy exclaimed. Eddy, Falcon, Koyo, Silent and Yuna ran towards Tasukoi. They helped him up and to the side to rest.
"Where is Kit?!" Eddy asked Tasukoi.
"She… She is gone!" Tasukoi replied restlessly and sadly.
"No she can't be…" Eddy said sadly. "Kit!!!" He yelled.
"Let's transform, Falcon!" Eddy told Falcon.
They were about to transform when a very bright yellow glow floated from a large crack on the ground onto the ground in front of Pytula. The teens were delighted.
"You think you can get rid of me so easily? Think again Pytula!" Kit told her. Kit was angry now. With the bright yellow glow still around her, she took her lightning and shot massive thunder bolts at Pytula. They went right through her with devastating results.
"How… did… you…" Pytula said her last words before vanishing into thin air.
Kit materialized back to her usual form and Eddy transformed to help extinguish the fire on the huts. All the teens gathered around Tasukoi.
"Kit, I'm very proud of you." Tasukoi said with a smile.
"Well heh… thanks!" Kit blushed and laughed. She turned to Eddy.
"Thanks Eddy, if it wasn't for your shouting… I would not have wake up." Kit said and she looked down as she was blushing.
"It was nothing…" Eddy looked down too. The rest laughed.
"With three amulets in our possessions, I hope we can fend off Wolfia and her army long enough for the remaining three of you to find the power within you." Tasukoi said.
The teens looked over the land of Sheepersia from the top of a mountain.
"We can do it guys… if all of us stick together!" Falcon said. They put their hands together and cheered. Falcon and Silent stared at each other.
Suddenly Kit realized something.
"OH NO!" she yelled. The others were stunned.
"What happened?" Koyo asked curiously.
"I... forgot about my friend!" Kit explained, embarrassed, as she ran off. The others laughed.
Back at the lair, Wolfia cursed in anger.
"This isn't over yet, warriors…" Wolfia hissed.
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Three monsters takes three warriors to defeat.
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