Yo guys and dolls, it's me! I'm back with another fun filled chapter, ok maybe not fun filled buuuuttttt… close enough. So without any further ado, I give you
CHAPTER 6!
YO!
Chapter 6: Hundred magic yorbels!
The lift to the tree village was not that far off. Tak put the charm into a hole in the side of the tree and the lift took him to the tree shaman's hut.
"Hello? Anybody here?" asked Tak as he pushed open the door.
As Tak looked around he could tell that no one was there; the place was a wreck. Potions were everywhere, shrines were broken, and everything else was turned over.
"What happened in here?" asked Tak walking in further.
Unknown to him, Tak was being watched by Tlaloc with his voodoo dolls, Pins and Needles, next to him.
"So Jibolba's errand boy thinks he can just walk in and take the Spirit Rattle. It's pathetic." said Tlaloc.
"Let me show him how wrong he is Tlaloc." said Pins, throwing punches in the air.
"Mh mh m mhmh mhh."
"Needles says he could take him on all by himself."
"My mhh mhm mh m mh mmh."
"Needles says he could take me on too. …Well come at it little man!" Needles shot at Pins and they started fight in midair.
"Pins, Needles, you will both stop him together!"
"Don't you know who that is?"
"I know he's a pain, like you two. Why, is he someone we should worry about.?"
"I don't know. But I think his name is Tak and you keep talking about him, so I just…"
"What did you say his name was?"
"It's Tak."
"Really, irony and it's in my favor."
"You know this kid?" asked Pins, holding Needles back.
"Yes, but I'm not taking the time to tell you. Now go down there and stop Tak. Afterwards, you may fight as much as you like."
Tlaloc waved his hand; Pins and Needles dropped out of the air and landed on the ground with a crash.
"Hello. Who's there?" asked Tak.
He looked around as his heart raced. He turned the corner and came face-to-face with Pins and Needles.
"You two! What are you doing here?"
"We're here to stop you from getting the Spirit Rattle." said Pins.
"We'll see about that!" said Tak taking out his staff.
"Come on Needles, let's get him!"
Pins and Needles ran towards him. Tak took a swing and hit Pins and Needles, sending them flying. They hit the ground and disappeared behind an avalanche of boxes.
"Ha! That was to easy." said Tak.
Tlaloc sighed angrily as he watched Pins and Needles fall to the ground.
"Why do I even bother with them?" Tlaloc asked himself.
Tak placed the staff in his carrier and continued his search.
"There you are." said Tak. He had spotted the Spirit Rattle underneath some boxes. He shoved them aside, placed the Spirit Rattle next to the staff, and ran out the door before anything else happened.
Tlaloc watched Tak leave and floated down while Pins and Needles started to wake up.
"That boy," said Tlaloc turning to Pins and Needles, "is a bigger pain than his parents put together."
Tak ran back to Jibolba's hut, waving the Spirit Rattle in the air.
"I've got the Spirit Rattle," said Tak running in, "it was really hard, I had to- oh gross! Is that… is that Lok?"
"The mighty warrior himself," said Jibolba with a grave look, "he's a quarter of an inch thick. He's a Pupanunu People's Pancake."
"Is he going to be ok?"
"No, he is going to be the opposite of ok! Lok has moved on to the Spirit World."
"What?" asked Sydney in disbelief.
"But that's not in the prophecy." said Tak.
"I know, I'm very confused. The prophecy warned us that a great evil would come. I also said a mighty warrior would come and save us. But when he tried to calm the villagers down, they crushed him like a bug!" said Jibolba walking outside, Tak and Sydney at his heels.
"Well, can we uncrush him or something?" asked Tak.
"Bring Lok back from the dead? It would be very tricky, someone would need to get Lok's spirit back."
"Well… I'll do it." Jibolba turned to face Tak.
"Only a mighty warrior can do that!"
"Last time I checked, our 'warrior' was the new interior decoration in your hut." said Sydney.
"In other words, we don't have a mighty warrior." said Tak.
Jibolba looked back and forth from Sydney to Tak, then shook his head in frustration.
"The Spirit Rattle will grant you juju vision. I will allow you to see the tikis through out our world. With them you can summon juju spirits that can help you. Also you must collect one hundred magic yorbels to do the resurrection spell."
"Hundred magic yorbels!" said Tak and Sydney in shock.
"Yes don't complain. In my day in took ten thousand magic yorbels to do a resurrection spell."
"Lucky us, now if only we knew what a yorbel was." said Tak.
"Yeah, that would be really nice." said Sydney, crossing her arms and walking off.
"That's any easy one." said a familiar green ball.
"It is? Since when is looking for something you don't even know what it looks like easy?" asked Sydney.
"As easy as looking over at that tree root and finding your first yorbel." said Flora, pointing. Tak and Sydney followed Flora's outstretched arm to see an egg shaped gem floating off the ground. The gem was a dark purple with blue markings around it.
"Go on, take it. It's not going to hurt you." laughed Flora.
"Yeah Tak, go get it." said Sydney shoving him forward. Flora shot Sydney a dirty look, with which Sydney returned with a smile making Flora fume more.
Tak turned his attention back to the floating yorbel. He slowly reached out with both hands. The moment his fingertips touched it, the yorbel disappeared.
"Ah, wasn't expecting that. Flora what happened to the yorbel?" asked Tak turning back around.
"Wha-? Oh, the yorbel. You just have to touch it a it's instantly transported to Jibolba." said Flora.
"Really? Sweet." said Sydney running next to Tak, waving her hands where the yorbel was to see if it was really gone.
"Are you done?" asked Flora.
"Yep." said Sydney standing up strait.
"So are the yorbels just placed in random places of our world?" asked Tak.
"Yes, not only are they placed here, they're in the Tree Village, Dryrock Canyon, Burial Ground, Chicken Island, Mountain Top, everywhere." said Flora while Sydney ticked off the places with her fingers.
"That's a whole lot of places. We'd better get started." said Sydney running off towards the village. Tak followed Sydney while a floating green ball glided next to him. They soon found Sydney climbing onto a giant mushroom that was sticking out from the side of the trees.
"Sydney, what are you doing?" asked Tak.
"There's a whole bunch of yorbels up here, come on!" said Sydney continuing her job.
"Hold on I'm coming." said Tak starting to climb up.
"Be careful you two." said Flora floating up.
"I didn't know you cared about us." said Sydney.
"Just keep climbing."
Tak shook his head and continued his climb until he heard a soft thud above him.
"Sydney, you okay?"
"Yea, these mushrooms are just really slippery."
"I told you to be careful."
"Yes but you didn't tell us why we had to be careful."
Tak looked at his hands and feet to see that they were covered with a slimy residue.
"Ugh, gross." He tried to wipe the slime off his hands, instead his hands just stuck together.
"Great, just what I didn't need to happen." said Tak, attempting to pull them apart.
"Tak, how ya holding up?" asked Flora floating next to him.
"I've been better. Um could you…" Tak showed his glued together hands to Flora.
"Whoa, hold on."
A light green mist formed around Tak's hands and feet. He could feel the residue from the mushrooms start to slide off. Soon enough, Tak's hands and feet were free from the slimy substance.
"Thanks."
"No problem. You might want to hurry up, Sydney's almost at the top." said Flora starting to float back up to Sydney.
Tak, deciding that climbing would take to long, took out his staff. He remembered Flora telling him the staff would allow him to jump higher. Placing the staff deep into the mushroom, Tak bent it back and flung himself forward. He landed three mushrooms up with a loud splat and slide to a stop.
"That was weird." Said Tak sitting up, slime covering him.
"That was so cool; do it again, do it again!" yelled Sydney jumping up and down from the mushroom above Tak, allowing the slime to make her slip and hit the mushroom with a loud splat as well.
Tak carefully stood so he wouldn't stick to anything. He placed the staff into the mushroom, bent it back, and shot forward landing on the same mushroom as Sydney and Flora.
"If you two keep this up, I'll be reduced to a cleaning service." said Flora cleaning the slime off of Sydney.
"Look at it this way, we do feel clean after you done." Said Tak while a green mist formed around him, dissolving the slime.
"Wow, guys come look at this." said Sydney climbing into a cave. Tak and Flora looked at each other and followed Sydney.
"Geez, I expected one or two but not this many." said Tak. The cave was covered from top to bottom with yorbels, making purple and blue light dance on the walls of the cave.
"Hey Tak, you a competition kind of man?" asked Sydney.
"Kind of, why?"
"Let's turn this into a game. Let's see who can collect the most yorbels."
"Fine by me."
"But you guys have a job to do and it's not to play games." mothered Flora.
"You wanna be score keeper?" asked Sydney slyly. Flora stood as still as a statue, then she unfolded her arms and smiled.
"Ok fine, I'm sure one game won't hurt."
"You have to count off or else we will never move." said Sydney.
"Fine. Three… two… one go!" said Flora using her arm as a flag.
They shot forward, each transporting on yorbel in their wake. Tak used the staff to swipe yorbels in high places, to jump farter, and to use as a third arm. Sydney back flipped, front flipped, twist, turned, bounced off walls and rocks, she was everywhere at once.
"Ok… STOP! That's all of them." said Flora.
"Who won?" asked Sydney bouncing off a wall and landing in front of Flora.
"Tak beat you by one." said Flora.
"How many do we have all together?" asked Tak.
"Counting the on you transported earlier, twenty-seven."
"Booya!" said Sydney hopping up and down, then slipping and falling on another mushroom.
"I don't know why you're so happy, we barely scratched the surface of it." said Tak while Flora, yet again, cleaned Sydney.
"I agree with Tak." said Flora.
"You only agree with him because you have to clean me off again. Just look at it this way, we have more yorbels than we started with." said Sydney dusting off some green mist. Flora sighed and turned her attention to the slowly setting sun.
"Guys, I have to go and you need to get back to Jibolba's hut." Said Flora sounding panicked.
"Why?" asked Tak.
"Well for one, it's been a long day for all of us; two, I don't think it's a good idea to be out when it's dark when Tlaloc's at large."
"Good idea. Bye Flora, come on Tak." Said Sydney jumping from mushroom to mushroom.
"Bye." Said Tak closely following Sydney.
"Be careful." said Flora, she turned into her green ball and floated off.
Tak ran as fast as he could behind Sydney the sun quickly sank beneath the horizon as if it were teasing them.
"Pick it up Tak!" yelled Sydney.
Tak was already running as fast as he could, his legs felt like they ere on fire. They sun was completely down now, allowing Jibolba's hut to standout against the darkness. Sydney being the first to reach the hut, opened the door and ran inside with Tak at her heels. They fell on the first stable thing they could find, panting.
"What happened to you two?" asked Jibolba.
"F-Flora said… that we had t-to run so Tlaloc wouldn't get us… or something like that." panted Sydney.
"I agree with her. Now, you two need to get some rest. Tomorrow's another beg day and we need more yorbels quickly. Follow me Sydney, I'll draw up a bed in the other room." said Jibolba. Sydney got off her chair and followed Jibolba into the next room.
Tak sat there a few moments more to catch his breath, then stood up and walked to his room. He leaned his carrier against the side of the wall and climbed into bed, pulling the cover up to his chin, and fell asleep instantly.
Hey sorry it took so long to update, but I've been playing the first Tak game. I'm finally at the part where he faces Tlaloc… it's not going to well. But I'll try to update soon, the swimming season's almost over so that will clear up a lot of time for me. Till next time… see ya! Oh, and don't forget to R&R!