Cheetahs Aren't The Only Endangered Species
Chapter Four: THE MOUNTAINTOP LIBRARY! First El Dorado, then Atlantis, and now THIS!?
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the OC's
AN: Here's Chapter four. Also, as some of you may have noticed, even though Chris is technically my main character, I also focus a lot on the other characters as well. Later on, either in this story or another one, my writing will focus more on one character, with references to other characters being slightly less frequent. However, in the original series, the focus on characters jumps back and forth so the you can always know what's going on with everyone. I like this style of storytelling, and as probably won't change it too much. It keeps things interesting, since it skips over the scenes where nothing is happening, and focuses on everything you need to know.
"Hello" speech.
'What the...' thoughts/flashbacks/Other
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Normal POV
In the last chapter, Gryphon released a terrible monster called Armageddon in order to destroy all his enemies and take over the world. Unfortunately, when the monster was released Gina and Chris were teleported to places unknown when Mesha attempted to save them. As of now, the group still at Atlantis are now attempting to find a way to destroy Armageddon, and find their friends.
As the group stands around the Pool of Legends, Tyr opens a gate to a place within Armageddon, in order to destroy it from the inside out. As it was the only way that they would be able to finish it off, since the outside was both in the water, and impenetrable.
"There, I've opened a gate to the inside of Armageddon, after you go through you'll have to make your way to its energy source, and destroy it." Tyr said as she focused on holding the gateway open. "Tanis, Garen, good luck!"
"Now hold on here. You gotta be crazy if you think I'm not comin' too!" Said Ace as he adjusted his goggles before entering the pool.
"I shall come as well Ace!" Stripe said, before he looked back at Cheetah. "Aren't you coming also, Cheetah?"
Cheetah shook her head. "Sorry muffin! Your favorite seven-foot were-cheetah's gonna have to take a rain check. Me and the elves gotta look for Gina!"
"I see. Then until we return, Cheetah." Said Stripe as he went into the pool.
Penny then spoke up. "I guess I'll go too! Afterall, all brawn and no brains, certainly won't get the job done!"
"Stuff it Penny. You just want to save the world like the rest of the superheroes!" Cheetah called out as the group going into Armageddon disappeared under the surface of the pool. "How about you Tyr. Don't you want to help?"
"I do Cheetah, but if the portal closes I am the one that needs to make a new one." Tyr explained. "And I can't make one unless I am here."
"I see... well then how about you help us find Chris and my sister. That pool can find them no problem, right?" Said Cheetah, as she looked at Tyr expectantly.
"Unfortunately, I'm not certain Cheetah." Tyr responded meekly. "I need to know exactly what happened to them, if we want to have any hope of finding them... Mesha?"
All eyes turned to Mesha at that point.
"Well... when Gina was about to get caught in the explosion Chris jumped on her in order to protect her from the blast, this allowed me to 'lock on' to his aura with a teleportation spell to get them out of there. It also made the spell a bit stronger than it should have been." Mesha explained, as she was looking down at her feet, feeling small. "Unfortunately, due to the explosion disrupting the magic of the spell, the destination could anywhere in the world. They are alive... but I have no idea where they are."
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Meanwhile, at the location of Gina and Chris.
'Cold! I... I remember the cold... freezing... painful, icy, deadly cold... what happened... it's soft... comfy, warm, nice... wait... where am I!?" Gina's previously sleepy thought process jumps into overdrive as she remembers what happened. 'Oh my god. It's dark. I can barely see. Wait!... I'm not cold... but aren't I on a mountain. Chris was... CHRIS! Where, WAIT! Why am I naked.'
"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"
'Holy shit! someone's hugging me! and... and... HE'S NAKED TOO!' -EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKK- Gina screamed as she looked over her shoulder to see a naked bald man, with a tattoo over his left eye, and pushed him away as hard as she could before grabbing the blanket that had previously covered the both of them as they slept. The man, who was now awake, sat back, looking confused, as he watched Gina scramble away.
"You fiend! How dare you take advantage of me!" Gina yelled at the man she had previously been sleeping with. "You could have at least waited for me to wake up, and then asked me before you did anything!"
The man, hearing her accusations, looked highly insulted.
"Are you insinuating that I... wait, you speak Nathish!" Said the man.
"Huh!?" Came Gina's intelligent reply.
"The ancient language of the codex. You speak it!" He said.
"Waht! No! I speak english! Wait, nevermind that! Explain yourself mister!" Gina demanded. "Why the heck were we both under that thing naked! And where's Chris. If you did anything to him I swear I'll..."
The man looks at her amused.
"I found both you and your companion in the snow alongside the mountain. The two of you were in shock, but while the man that was with you had more injuries than you, you were the one that was nearly dead. I had to find a way to warm you up from the cold. I had several people who work for me bring your friend to my home, since he would be able to make it there. But I had to take more drastic measures to save you. So I brought you to this cave to warm up, since it was closer by." The man explained to Gina, though it didn't look like she believed him that much.
"Yeah right! you probably just wanted me for yourself, while you gave Chris to someone else for them to lock him up!" She said indignantly.
"I speak the truth miss. I had to remove our clothes since they were wet due to the snow. Wet clothes equal cold clothes, and the reason we were both under my cloak was because it wasn't warm enough to heat you up fast enough. I was using my body heat to... um... what are you staring at?" He asked as he tried to explain what he had done, and why. Only to see that Gina was staring at... a certain appendage.
"Huh? OH! I'm sorry... do you think you could cover up, perhaps." Gina asked embarrassedly. Trying her best to not stare.
"Why? Is something wrong." The man questioned. Clearly oblivious to what might be the problem.
"No! uh... nevermind..." Gina said, in an effort to cover up her embarrassment.
"Then I shall continue to explain." He said. "As I was saying. The reason we were both under my cloak, was because the fastest way for me to warm you up, and save you, was to share my body heat with you, since my cloak wasn't warm enough."
"I see... so you really were trying to... I apologize for my previous assumptions. I'm Gina Diggers, archeologist and scientist extraordinaire." Gina said as she held out her hand in greeting.
"I am Kahn. The sage of the Library of Time. My cities greatest treasure." Kahn said as he introduced himself, and shook Gina's hand.
It was at this point that Gina's boy craziness decided to kick in.
"You know Kahn. You're very humble, regarding the fact that you saved my life." She said as she began to crawl towards him. "And you know... we are in a nice, cozy, and private area right now. Do you think we could... get to know each other a bit better? If you don't mind me being friendly that is." (And they say guys are the ones that want sex. AN: Please note that Gina is fully in character, and I did not make her a genius bimbo. Just saying.)
Kahn just smiled, but not eagerly. It was more like a smile you get when you see something entertaining, and you can't help but be amused.
"You don't waste any time, do you?" He said as he leaned into her.
"That a yes or no?"
"Oh why not. You are beautiful, and being a scientist only makes you more appealing."
"You got a thing for smart gals, huh? God for me then." She said as they slowly embraced. "Hope you don't tire to easily big guy!"
"A sense of humor as well! Beauty, wit, and intelligence. You are truly a valuable gem, Gina!" Said Kahn as he slowly lowered himself onto of Gina, going for a kiss...
"OH JEEZUS CHRIST-Y! I DID NOT NEED TO SEE THIS! GOD!"
... Only for the moment to be ruined as Chris walked through the entrance of the cave, looking for Gina and Kahn. Since he had fully healed by this point, he wanted to make sure they were okay, and thank Kahn for his help, along with bring Gina some better clothes to walk back to the city in.
"CHRIS! Oh my god! What are you doing here!?" Gina screamed, in both frustration and embarrassment, as she covered herself more with Kahn's cloak. Kahn just sat back calmly.
"I'm looking for you of course. Kahn may be a nice guy, with him saving us and everything. But I'm supposed to be keeping you safe, and checking up on you is apart of that!" Chris replied as he tried to look anywhere but at Gina, He was in no way a pervert after all. "Besides, if you want to get your freak on with the the librarian over there that's fine. But the least you could do is wait until you get to somewhere more comfortable... and private."
"You know Gina, I have to agree with Chris here." Kahn suddenly spoke up. "As much as I wish to enjoy my time with you, doing so in a private environment in which we can't be disturbed would most definitely be preferable."
Gina grumbled a bit, unhappy that both her friend, and hopeful key to no longer being a virgin, were teaming up on her. Especially since it was Chris who was interrupting. Regardless, with Kahn getting dressed, and Chris waiting near the entrance to the cave, she stood up, got dressed, and wrapped herself up in a few of the clothes that Chris had brought with him.
"Come on people, let's get going already." Chris said impatiently.
"Cool your jets spotty. Not all of us have fur coats that allow us to walk around half naked on a mountaintop!" Gina said, angrily.
"Hey, you're the ones who're wearing that nifty insulating gel. Neither of you should be feeling the cold right now." Chris replied. "By the smell you both have, you should both have enough for at least a day."
"That is true Chris, I covered both myself and Gina with enough gel for a full twenty-four hours. Enough to feel like it's a warm spring day." Kahn said.
"So that's why I'm not feeling cold right now." Said Gina in surprise. "I was just about to ask you about that."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Let's get moving already. The cold's starting to get through my fur!" Said Chris as he began to shiver slightly. Gina and Kahn, who were now fully dressed, followed him to the entrance of the cave.
"By the way Kahn, where is it that you live exactly?" Gina asked curiously.
"Why, Shangri-la of course!"
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Meanwhile, the group inside Armageddon.
"Be careful everyone! We're under attack!" Stripe yelled out to his friends.
"No really! Geez man, ya think. This place is crawlin with beasties." Ace said said as he dodged a swipe from one of the several hundred metallic colored monsters, with glowing marks on their heads, that were currently trying to make their way through the strange luminescent slime covered tunnels that he, and the rest of the group trying to take out Gryphon had found themselves in. "Seriously! How the heck could an army of freaky- LOOK OUT, TANIS!"
"AARRGH" Tanis screamed in pain as he was knocked backwards by one of the monsters.
"Tanis!" Stripe and Garen rushed towards their fallen comrade, and pushed back the monster he had been fighting.
"This is getting us nowhere!" Penny said angrily, as she attempted to hide behind her friends as they fought. "These things are almost endless, and they're clearly meant to protect Armageddon from internal intruders like us. We need to find a way around them. Not through them!"
"Then that is your job Penny. You find the way, while the rest of us, -grunt-, keep these creatures distracted" Stripe said as he choke slammed one of the creatures that had gotten a bit too close, before immediately performing a spin kick aimed at a creature that had come from behind.
""Strike three! You're out!" Screamed Ace as he threw one of the creatures over his shoulder and into two more oncoming enemies. "Yeah baby! That's how it's done!"
"You know, acting like a cheerleader really isn't helping the situation right now Ace." Penny deadpanned from her position behind one of the creatures, as she grabbed its legs. " Now some hit this guy before -SMACK-... thank you Tanis."
Tanis, who had just finished recovering from his previous hit, landed a flying kick to the creatures face, toppling it over as Penny once again ran to relative safety.
"You know, it's a good thing that these things are incredibly weak, else we might be having more problems." Tanis said as he went to strike at another enemy. "I mean really, these things have absolutely no skills, other than running, punching, and slashing. They aren't even really that reinforced, they just have a large amount of reinforcements, but even that doesn't matter, since there's not enough room for them to truly swarm us."
"That doesn't make this easy Tanis. Eventually we will tire, whilst they shall continue to come." Garen pointed out, as he elbow slammed the back of one of the creatures Ace had tripped.
POW "ARRGH" Came Stripes yell from behind. "Lucky shot!"
"Case in point! We need to end this quickly, before we all get hit by a lucky shot!" Garen yelled as he went to help Stripe with the creature that had hit him. "Are you alright Stripe!?" He yelled out.
Stripe grunted in pain before answering "I will be after some rest, but we must first finish off these creatures." He said in slight pain.
"Aw, what's the rush guys? This ain't too hard." Came Ace's cocky reply to their worrying. "This is actually some good exercise, if you ask- WHOA! Where'd you come from!?"
As he said this, one of the creatures jumped out of the water, and came flying directly at him, clearly intent on cutting him into bits.
"Sorry Ace!" Penny screamed from near the wall. "That one got away from me!"
"Heh, probably heard how bossy you were and couldn't get away fast enough." He said jokingly, as he dodged out of the way. Only for it to turn around and prepare to make another leap.
"Just for that, you can take care of it yourself!" Penny screamed in anger. Even if it was just a joke.
As soon as she said that the creature leaped, but before it could reach Ace it was grabbed in mid air, as Garen, who had finished off several of the creatures he had been fighting, got between it and Ace.
"Sorry Ace, I need to borrow this one!" He said as he began swinging the creature like a bat towards more of the oncoming enemies
"No problem man!" Ace said as he gave a relieved sigh.
While this was happening, Penny, who had gotten a break from the rush of creatures, began to search the surroundings, that weren't over run by monster, in order to find something that might be useful.
'Come on, come on! There has got to be a way to shut these things down.' Penny thought as she began to feel around the walls trying to look for a panel or something, that would get them out of there if they couldn't shut down the creatures. ' These things are endless, if we don't find a way to- wait a second!' Her thoughts cut off as she came to a realization as she looked at the walls. 'These walls appear to be the same material as the creatures. I that likely means that they aren't really creatures, but robots, and the walls are the wood works they come out of... Wait! what's this?... Some sort of cable integrated into the wall.' As she felt around the wall some more, she realized that the strange cable she was feeling was pulsing, at the same rate that the glowing marks on the monsters was.
"HEY TANIS!" She called out. "Bring those razor blades of yours over here, will ya!"
Tanis glanced at Penny before looking back towards their friends. Deciding that he could risk a few moments, he rushed over to where Penny stood.
"What is it Penny? Our friends need my help!" He asked when he had gotten closer.
"This'll be quick, I promise. Now just use your razors to cut this cable on the wall. Something good should happen!" She explained.
"Very well, but please do not call my cortal fins razors!"
"Well they're sharp aren't they."
"They're supposed to be attractive. Mine are only sharp because I'm a guard!"
As Tanis voiced his complaint about Penny's choice of words, he slashed his arm straight through the cable Penny had indicated. After doing so, the creatures surrounding the group all collapsed onto the floor in a dead heap.
"Jackpot!" Screamed Penny.
"The creatures... how... they're dropping like flies!" Stripe said in amazement.
"Don't ask Stripe. Don't ask!" Ace said as he made his way over to where everyone else was standing. "She's just waitin' to tell us what she did, and I don't want to hear it."
"I believe we don't have a choice in the matter." Tanis said sullenly. "She seems like she's going to tell us anyway."
"Ya damn right I am!" Penny said, excitedly. "Ya see, Armageddon is a construct, a robot. As such it should only have one brain, thus the little guys are linked to that brain. Rather than having their own brains. This means that if we cut the thing that's sending the signal then the little guys all shut down." She paused here for effect. "As such, when I got Tanis to cut the cable in the wall it disrupted the signal, and thus, dead robots. Like I've said before, brains beat brawn, every time."
The rest of the group just looked a Penny, who had a proud smile on her face, before Ace voiced his opinion.
"You know, Ya still couldn't have done this without the brawn here to help you out. So there."
Penny stopped smiling.
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Back with Mesha and Cheetahs group. (An: This section is from the comic, and isn't too important. But it gives backstory to some of the characters. So you still might want to pay attention.)
"Hey Mesha, what gives? You not thinking of giving up are you?!" Cheetah asked.
"No, friend Cheetah. I wouldn't even consider giving up, and we are still looking for Gina and Chris as best we can with the Pool of Legends, but it takes energy; energy that I have been using all day to cast spells." Said Mesha as she explained why she was sitting on the side instead of looking for their friends. "I want to keep looking; I really do, but I'm simply too exhausted."
"Oh, well that's okay I guess. Bench-warmers like me need company sometimes too." Cheetah said as she sat with Mesha. "Though I'm still worried about them. Even if I know full well that they can both take care of themselves. I just hope that nothing too strange is going on with them."
The two friends sat in silence for a bit as they watched Tyr and Tark take a shot at finding Gina and Chris. After a short time however, Mesha decided that this would be a good time to get to know her friend a bit better.
"So Cheetah." She said to get Cheetahs attention.
"Yes?" Cheetah responded.
"I've often wondered, but never really thought to ask, is Cheetah your real name?" Mesha asked with curiosity.
"Ah yes, I've never told you or Tark my real name before, have I" Cheetah said with a hint of embarrassment. "Cheetah's just a nickname I got in middle school. My real names Brittany. But when I hit puberty and gained the ability to shift at will, not as well as Chris unfortunately, I spent most of my time in hybrid form. The strength and speed I gained allowed me to play superhero. I was known as 'The Cheetah'!"
"Really! I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, what with you being a bodyguard for your sister and all." Mesha said with a hint of ' ah hah'.
"Yeah... Me and a friend went around the school taking on everybody that could be classified as a bully. We even tried to get Gina to join in... but she was always reading books, and didn't really want to help us out much." Cheetah said with excitement.
"I see. So you and your friend eventually grew out of the whole superhero phase, huh" Mesha stated.
"Yeah, but the name stuck, and I've always enjoyed it anyway." Said a happy Cheetah.
They sat in silence for a few more seconds before Cheetah came to a startling realization.
"You know... now that I think about it... I've never told Stripe my real name either!" Said Cheetah, startled at her own forgetfulness. "Ah well, I'll just let him guess a few time when we see him again. Though he must think I'm a weirdo. Oh well."
"You know.. I really enjoy watching your courtship with Stripe. It reminds me of Myself and Tark. Though that was eons ago." Mesha said with amusement entering her voice.
"Hmm. You and Tark have been together for a very long time, haven't you." Cheetah said. "The thick and thin you two must have been through must be a lot. What's your secret."
Mesha grinned before replying.
"Respect, empathy, compassion, communication, and a healthy amount of perpetual lust for each other! -hehehe-" Mesha finished her statement off with a giggle, and Cheetah couldn't blame her.
"Mesha!" Came Princess Tyrs call from the pool. "I'll need you to take over for me soon. I'm running out of energy. This search for Gina and Chris is extremely tiring."
"Very well, Princess Tyr. I will be ready to take over when you are ready to pass the task on to me." Mesha called back.
"Hey Mesha." Cheetah said suddenly. "If you've been with Tark for so long, why don't you have any kids?"
"Well that's because we grey elves don't become fertile until we enter what would be roughly middle age for us. It's an elf thing, don't put too much thought into it."
"Oh, Okay."
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Returning to Gina and Chris. Just outside Shangri-La.
Gina, Chris, and Kahn, were all walking up a steep staircase that led to the great city of Shangri-La. As they reached the top of the hill, they came to a stop and stood there, enjoying the few of the huge city built into the mountain.
"So this is your place, eh Kahn!" Gina said, impressed at the sheer size of the hidden city, and seeing as how it was too tall to measure with just you eyes, it was pretty damn big. "Will there be any problems getting in? Cause I don't really have any Id on me right now..."
Kahn just laughed a little at her, while Chris gave her a look that said 'are you serious'. Gina ignored him.
"No Gina. There will be no problems getting in. For those that can find this place, which as you can see that number is actually quite large, all are welcome, regardless of who they are. It is only after you enter, that you may lose the right to stay or enter again." Kahn explained as Gina took a look at the people entering and exiting, to see if there really were a lot of people that knew about this place.
Kahn's statement about a large number of people knowing about this place were most certainly true. Seeing as how there were several hundred, if not thousand, people coming and going, as if it really was just a library. All in all, in a global sense, there weren't many that knew about this place. But in a slightly smaller scale, it was enough people that Gina wondered why no one knew made it public already. She made the assumption that there were magics that protected it from being truly abused by the world as a whole. But then again it could really just be really well hidden from the outside. Much like El Dorado, and Atlantis. Both of which had nothing but the elements to hide them.
Chris had already been in and out once before, so he had already gotten his nerdgasm, at seeing such a spectacular sight and marvel, done with, and got it out of the way.
"You know... This place reminds me more of a science fiction movie than a city!" Gina said. "Why is that, this place must be ancient afterall."
"Well it is a little sci-fi like, I guess. But that comes from it having been built around the library of time." Kahn explained. "The library of time has a copy of every book, or written work, that exists or ever will exist. The library itself rest on the gateway of eternity, and Shangri-La benifits from having access to the library, allowing it to have a more futuristic appearance. The city can gain even more than that, though only if the librarian can find the knowledge in the ever-changing maze that it is. I just so happen to be that librarian!"
"Jinkies, Kahn. You're certainly my kind of dude. I love libraries. When does it open."
At this point in time the group had reached the entrance of the library.
"It's always open, right Kahn?" Chris spoke up, having gotten tired of being ignored. "Except the back area, cause there's all kinds of nasty safeguards."
Glancing back at Chris, Gina looked at him with a curious eye, while Kahn just looked surprised that he would have that knowledge, without having been told.
"That is indeed correct Christopher! How did you know that." Kahn asked curiously.
Gina was also curious as to how he knew this.
"Meh, when I woke up I tried to explore this place a bit before coming to find you guys, but there were a few places I wandered to that were being guarded by something or other. So when I was almost swept up into that tornado dude, I figured that some places must be off limits." Chris explained. "Next, I just asked another one of the people in here when the opening hours are. They just looked at me confused, before they explained that the library never closes."
Kahn got a worried look on his face when he heard about the tornado guardian, but since Chris was okay he figured that there wasn't anything to worry about. Gina on the other hand, was a bit upset that he was more curious about finding out the places in the library than finding her, even if he did interrupt her possible nookie time with Kahn.
"Well I do hope you won't go anywhere near those area with guardians again. Those areas are beyond the forward section, and the dangers in there are well beyond anything that exists anywhere else, that I know of." Kahn told both Chris and Gina. "However everything in the front section is open for you to read. It is all information I have deemed safe for public knowledge. Ah, here we are."
Since they had not stopped walking during their conversation, they had wandered into the library and towards what appeared to be a front desk of sorts. Only it looked like a large, golden, crescent moon statue that seemed to have a glowing portal suspended within it.
"Hey Kahn? What's this thing?" Gina asked, once she had seen that Kahn had stopped moving.
"This is our Codex Gina. It's one of four found within the library. This one in particular hold the books on science." Kahn explained. "This is where you can go to find the books you need, if you are looking for something specific. Otherwise looking through the aisles also works."
Gina wasn't all that impressed...Yet.
"Oh!? And how does it work, exactly?" Gina asked with a hint of disbelief. "And who put it here anyway."
-beep beep-
"That information is only accessible by the ones who made this unit." Gina and Chris looked around in surprise, before looking towards the codex.
"It talks!?" Exclaimed both Gina and Chris.
"Indeed Chris, Gina." The codex said.
-whistle noise- "That's impressive. Never thought I'd see a machine-" Chris was cut off.
"That could read minds!" Interrupted the codex.
"...Or one that liked to interrupt people."
"Regardless. What literary subjects would you like to read?" Asked the codex.
Gina stood in thought for a moment before speaking. "Okay I've got it. I want-"
"Receiving books now." Said the codex.
"What!? But I haven't..." Gina trailed off in her complaints, as the books she had wanted were all slowly coming out of the conveyer belt from beneath the codex.
SQUUEEEEEEE! "It's not even my birthday! Oh my gosh this is so awesome!" Gina was literally drooling over the knowledge she would find in these books. The books in question, being of obscure topics, such as 'Six Easy Steps to Immortality', 'Creating Your Own Lifeforms', 'The Answer to the Secrets of Life', 'Time and Space (Made Easy)', 'The UNcensored Karma Sutra', and 'The Untold Secrets of the Universe TOLD'. Five science texts, and a naughty book. That is so like her.
"Hey Chris, aren't you going to get anything!?" Gina suddenly asked Chris, seeing that he wasn't trying to get any books.
"Oh don't worry about me Gina. I'll be getting some books,you can count on that! I just need to go to another section to find the books that I want, that's all." Chris said to Gina, before turning to Kahn. "So Kahn, Where would I find books on advanced martial arts, and magic use, specifically ki manipulation."
Kahn thought for a moment before answering. -hmmm- "I believe they would be over in that section over there. In the historical, and mystical sections, respectively." Kahn answered, as he pointed to the left of where they were facing the codex, and several aisles down. "It's quite a bit of a walk, but I'm sure you can find what you are looking for. Unfortunately the subjects you are looking for are not tuned to any particular codex... so..."
"So I'll have to look for them. That's fine, I enjoy browsing. Though I'm have to ask. Why is the 'Karma Sutra' in-"
"HEY!" Gina's sudden cry interrupted Chris and Kahn. "What's the big idea Kahn. Why'd an evil guy like Gryphon get access to a book like this." She stormed over to Kahn and Chris, holding a checkout card in her clenched hand. "Huh! Explain buster. Why'd an evil wizard like Gryphon get permission to get his fin on a book like this. 'Horrible Forces of the Universe (and how to use them)' is just the book he needed to take over Atlantis, and make his giant WMD." Chris was also surprised, but he was willing to wait for an answer, unlike Gina who was getting in Kahn's face.
Kahn looked away from Gina and Chris' piercing stares before manning up and facing them. "I can't tell a good borrower from a bad one Gina, Chris. I truly didn't know that Gryphon was evil until he returned that book!" Kahn said as he explained what had happened. "You see... about four years ago, Gryphon tried to take over the library. At the time I was working on translating a new book from the library when it all started."
Narrative Flashback! (Kahn's narrative parts are in normal font.)
The Maid-Empress Lynn was watching me work, as she often does, showing quite clearly that she simply loved literature.
As Kahn sat as his desk working, Empress Lynn stared lovingly at his focused gazed, not even paying the slightest attention to the books laid out along the desk. Gryphon was walking up to the desk in the background.
"Is something on your mind, Empress Lynn?" Kahn asked as he looked up from his work.
The Empress just stuttered in response, not actually answering his question.
"Let me guess, you want me to teach you the language of the codex, don't you. It would be no problem you know, we can start right now if you wish." Kahn said excitedly as he prepared some material to teach with.
"Oh...yes...that'd be great..." The Empress trailed off disappointedly at Kahns obliviousness.
As the Empress sat patiently while watching Kahn, Gryphon had reached the desk, and placed the book he had with him on the table. Hello there. I am here to return the book I borrowed not long ago from your library."
"Looking up towards Gryphon, Kahn was confused as to why he had come to his desk. "That's nice of you, but the codex can handle book returns just fine. Is there a problem of some sort?"
Gryphon chuckled darkly before giving his reply. "Yes there is, and it's yours! I'm banishing you to oblivion and taking over. This library will now be mine!"
Gryphon was unaware at the time, that the wards around the library prevent me from receiving harm. Unfortunately... so did Empress Lynn. As such, she attacked Gryphon without any regard for her safety. She was skilled in unarmed combat, but she was still just a novice.
"NO" Lynn cried as she struck Gryphon with her fist.
"Foolish girl! I'll banish you first then. Followed by that worthless sage." Gryphon yelled as he cast a spell to banish Lynn to the depths of oblivion.
I was too late to save Lynn. Gryphon had cast his spell too fast for me to respond in time. All I could do was activate a lightgate to open a portal that would banish him from the library. But Empress Lynn was lost...forever.
Flashback over!
Gina and Chris were listening to Kahn's story intensely as they continued to copy the books Gina had gotten.
"That's too bad about Lynn." Gina said comfortingly to Kahn.
"Indeed." Chris agreed. "Hey wait! That lightgate you mentioned. Can you decide where the destination is. Cause we kinda have to return to our friends pretty soon. We don't want them thinking we're dead after all!"
"I could, yes and if you have to leave I understand. Though I do wish that I could finish that... discussion I was having earlier with Gina in the cave. Perhaps we could finish it in my private quarters?"
Gina looked up quickly from her book with a silly grin on her face. Chris on the other had, facepalmed and sighed before wandering off in the direction that Kahn had said the martial arts and ki books were in.
"TMI Kahn, TMI. And regardless of what you call it sex is sex, discussing ain't usually involved."
"Oh go read your fight books you big hairball." Gina said as she and Kahn began walking towards his quarters.
Chris ignored the insult as he kept walking to the section he was looking for.
Arriving at the the section titled 'Wars of Ancient Times' He turned down the aisle and began to look for books that might be interesting. Glancing from title to title on the shelves, he noticed that several of the books covered times that he knew came far before the modern historic era. The books covered wars from an age known as the age of magic. Noting where these books were, he moved on to another aisle, this one labeled 'The Ancient Arts of War' through 'Modern Arts of War'. Walking down this aisle, he noticed that all the shelves had some sort of 'how to' martial arts style written in them. Grabbing a handful of books that sounded useful, 'Anything Goes by Ranma Saotome', 'Ki Manipulation for the Chinese Amazon by Ku Logne', "What You Can Do With Chi', 'What Element are YOU!', 'Shun-Leep's Predicting your Opponent', 'Hidden Weapons for the Aspiring Ninja/Fighter by Mu Tsu', 'Ninjutsu for Beginners' by Sarutobi Hiruzen, 'Making a Martial Art by Various Authors', and 'Six-Hundred and Sixty-Six ways to fight like a beast'. Those last two books were ones that he really wanted to read, since he had always felt that most martial arts were too rigid in their ways, and that he would be much better suited to making his own, more wild way of fighting. Afterall, just because he was cultured, and held a degree in literature, didn't mean that there couldn't be a beast just waiting to get out. Though he was disappointed that he couldn't find any books on being a war mage. But he figured that he could just ask Kahn where those books might be later on. It's not like he couldn't come back later after all.
Walking over to one of the many photocopiers located around the library, he put each book into the machine to make a copy of the books for his own library. They wouldn't be as fancy as the original, but he really wanted to have his own copies of the books he had grabbed. That and he knew that if he didn't make copies, he would likely forget to return the original. Though he would be taking the original too. A test for himself, to see if he could remember.
But as he waited for the machine to copy his books, he couldn't help but wonder how his other friends were doing. 'I hope they're alright. I would hate for them to be in trouble when I could be helping. Though they are all very dependable, so I guess I really shouldn't worry.'
...
In the depths of Armageddon, with Penny, Stripe, Tanis, Garen, and Ace.
The group had just found the tunnel, inside Armageddon, leading to the artifacts that powered it. It was here that they had decided to take a break so that they could figure out how to get down to the artifacts without falling to their deaths.
"So that's Armageddons power source, eh? Certainly a long way down, ain't it!" Penny said as she peered over the edge. "Certainly don't want to fall down here, now do we."
"No, we do not, so perhaps you should come away from the edge before that happens." Said Stripe as he sat back with the others, away from the edge.
"Alright, alright, no need to get your fur all ruffled, I didn't come here just to get scolded." Penny grumbled as she walked back to the group.
"You know, now that you've mentioned it, why did you come along Penny? According to Gina, and Cheetah, you're Gina's arch-rival. I fail to see why you would want to help her." Stripe said,questioningly.
"Arch-rivals, HA! Is that all she said." Ace said with a laugh as he heard Stripes question. "Those two are just short of being archenemies, Stripe. Every time they meet, they're on each other like cats and dogs. Always trying to screw the other one over, and come away with the most loot. F'instance... The Temple of Fear, in Ankara, where Penny got stranded on a ledge surrounded by shark infested water, and Gina would only throw her the shark repellent if Penny threw her the idol they were lookin' for."
As Ace kept speaking, Penny began grinding her teeth in frustration.
"Then another time, only it was Penny who would only give Gina the key to the cell she got stuck in if she gave her the location of a tomb, and the time Gina slowly cut Penny loose from a trap, but only if Penny gave her the code to enter the crypt, and when Penny poured a big gulp down Gina's shirt when she got tied up once, and then in the Dread Caves of-"
Finally, Penny had enough. "ACE! Shut Up! You're embarrassing me!" Penny screamed in frustration and embarrassment.
"It's still all true Penny."
After hearing about the relationship between Penny and Gina, Stripe was fairly confused. "If your relationship with Gina is so horrible... I can't understand why she would have invited you on her expedition." He said.
"Yeah, well, she knew I would try to find a way here anyway, and by having us all in a group she not only gets to keep an eye on me herself, but she can get one of you guys to watch me if she can't. Myself on the other hand, well, let's just say that if I was here by myself I would be the only target if I was attacked. Safety in numbers and all." Penny told Stripe, explaining her reasoning for being invited. "Gina and I are both too smart to let our rivalry over come our needs to win."
Suddenly Tanis called out to everyone. "Hey guys, something strange is happening to the power source, It's starting to glow, and it feels like it's heating up as well! Almost like a blast furnace!"
Looking over the edge, they could all see that Armageddons power source had indeed begun to power up.
"Well... least we can see everything that's happening due to the light coming from the power source, the walls, and everything else, all seem to be made of gold from El Dorado." Penny said in a matter-of-fact tone. 'When I finally get to take this baby home, I'm gonna be rich...(-er)' She thought after a few seconds.
Ace, having noticed a familiar look in Penny's eye, called out to her. "Stop thinking about money, Penny, and start thinking about what we should do next. Armageddon's waking up, and I don't think it'll be much fun to be in here much longer!"
Penny just glared at him.
"What do you make of this Stripe? It's power does come from your city after all." Garen asked, with worry entering his voice.
Stripe had a look of fear on his face as he answered. "Unfortunately it is about to move, and in the process it is likely going to go and destroy the rest of Atlantis; much like it did the citadel. After that, it will no longer need my people artifacts to power it, and it will become truly unstoppable!"
After hearing it told to them, they all got looks of panic on their faces. "Well then I guess we'd best get down there and-"
CREEEEEEEEEEEK
Tanis was cut off as the area they were all standing on suddenly tilted to the side. "OOF- Everyone, hold on to something! If it shift the other way you'll go splat right in the blast furnace." Ace yelled as he held tight to one of the crevices in the wall.
As everyone held on to something Tanis decided it was time to leave. "This is getting too dangerous! I'm calling the Princess!"
"Wait, you brought a communicator!" Penny asked.
"Not exactly..."
...
In the cavern holding the Pool of Legends Princess Tyr gets Tanis' message.
-GASP- "A sonar message! Tanis and the others are in trouble, we need to get them back here." Tyr called out in a panic as she rushed over to the pool from where she was resting.
"Everyone look, I've found Gina and Chris!" Mesha yelled happily as she looked into the pool. Cheetah and Tark rushing over to see. "Just give me a moment to clear the image... voila!"
As Cheetah, Tark, Mesha, and Princess Tyr looked into the image presented by the pool their faces all turned redder than a fire hydrant. This was because Gina was currently attempting to start a fairly... private activity with a certain librarian. Luckily they had not found her any later, else they might have interrupted during the actual act, rather than the heavy and still mostly clothed seduction that was currently happening.
"Oh my..." Mesha trailed off as she looked on. "Look at where her hands are... oh my."
"Right. Well she's okay... how about Chris. Since they clearly aren't together." Cheetah said, as she tried not to feel jealous that her sister was getting more than she was. "Hopefully he's not doing something quite as... private as my sister is."
"Right. Here he is." Tark said as he waved his hands and changed the image to show Chris. "Luckily they are not far away from each other, within walking distance, though still far enough away to be private. At least he seems to be doing something useful however."
And indeed, Chris was doing something very useful, in that he was going over some of the books that Gina had gotten before. Since he had already finished skim reading over the books that he wanted, he figured that he could make an attempt to look up what they would need to defeat Gryphon and his giant WMD. What made this interesting however, was the fact that he was reading this book, while it floated in front of him, and he fought a copy of himself, while balancing what looked to be a metal ball on his head.
"Right. They both seem to be okay for the moment. Let's get Tanis and everyone else out of Armageddon. We can get these two later." Cheetah said as Tyr took control of the pool.
"Did Tanis' sonar message tell you where to get them?" Tark asked.
"It did, but it was cut off part way through. I fear that means that we were too late." Tyr said in worry. "I'm also going to send out a message to the rest of the city to evacuate the upper areas. I pray that Armageddon can't reach the lower areas."
"But what about Stripe and the others?" Cheetah asked.
"The portal has been opened, but no one has come through yet!" Tark said as he watched the pool with Mesha.
"Wait! Look, someone's coming through." Mesha yelled.
As the figure slowly reached the surface of the pool, they realized that it was Stripe with Tanis on his shoulder. "Quickly, get them out of there" Cheetah cried out. "What happened, are you hurt muffin!?"
A bit disgruntled at the pet name, Stripe called back. "We're fine, but please give me some help. Tanis was knocked unconscious."
Bending over to help, Cheetah pulled Tanis out of the pool. "How hurt is he muffin?"
"You just won't quit with that, will you." Stripe muttered quietly. "He'll be okay. Nothing damaged; just banged up."
As Stripe climbed out of the pool, Penny, Ace, and Garen, all came through the portal before it was closed by Tark and Mesha. Though unlike Stripe, they were all screaming at each other about how useless it was to even try to stop Armageddon. With Penny and Ace being the loudest, and Garen just questioning why upper-worlders fought so much.
"Well it's nice to know that you are all alright."Tyr said as she began checking over Tanis. "Now, why don't we go get Gina and Chris, Preferably Chris, since I don't think we want to be interrupting Gina at this time."
...
Unfortunately for Gina, an interruption was exactly what she needed, as she was currently fighting for her life against an irate empress . You see, before She and Kahn could go much further than they already had, Gina decided that she needed to go and freshen up a bit more. (read: go to the bathroom.) At the same time, Kahn had decided to go and lock the entrance to his home from the library. Thus giving them a bit more privacy, and making sure that nothing like what happened in the cave happened here. But as the saying goes, 'the best laid plans of mice and men / often go awry', and in this case it most certainly did.
For Empress Lynn had returned, and the place she appeared in was Kahn's bedroom, and her crush on Kahn had only Grown in the four year she had been gone. As such, after arriving home, and having developed quite a bit, she stripped herself down, and tucked herself under the covers of Kahn's bed. Right before Gina returned from the bathroom.
Of course Gina, who was feeling quite frisky, jumped into the bed and under the covers, and began to play with the body that she had thought was Kahn's. Of course Kahn then walked in not a moment later, and seeing that Gina seemed to be busy with someone, voiced his confusion. Which in turn alerted the two bimbos of the fact that they were not feeling up Kahn. (you'd think the d-cups would be a good enough clue for either one of them.)
Needless to say a verbal argument ensued, a challenge was made, and now Gina was standing on the roof of the library, attempting to fight for the right to court Kahn, and not get her face pounded in at the same time. Unfortunately she was a hot and sexy brains, while Lynn was a hot and sexy brawns. Can you say one sided.
"What's wrong blondie, getting tired already? It's barely been ten minutes." Lynn taunted as she dodged another of Gina's wild swings, before knocking her over with a light push.
-huf-hah-hoo- Panting in exhaustion, Gina was drenched in sweat as she stood up to try and hit Lynn again. "What the hell! KAhn said you were a beginner!" She screamed in frustration.
"And I was. But when you fight for you life for four years against horrifying monster, you begin to get better." Lynn replied. "Now let us continue. This is most amusing. And your minute of free hits I gave you is up, so I guess it's my turn now."
Still panting from how tired she was, Gina responded in gasping breaths. "Wait, wait, I give you win!" She cried out, not wanting to get her face smashed in by the crazy lady in front of her.
"Too bad. It don't work that way missy. I'm doing this for satisfaction. And I'll be satisfied when I smash you into a pile of weeping mush!" Screaming that last part, Lynn threw a glowing, chi enhanced punch, right at Gina's face.
Raising her arms in an attempt to block, Gina braced herself for what would be an incredibly painful hit. But as she closed her eyes and waited, she waited some more, before she realized that nothing was happening. She then opened her eyes to see a familiar fur coat standing in front of her. A fur coat that had its own glowing, chi enhanced fists. Each of which looked more refined that the last time she saw them. Needless to say she was extremely happy.
"Chris! What are you doing here?" Gina asked happily, but still confused. "I thought you were still down in the library practicing those chi techniques you found in your books."
Glancing back at the woman he had protected, he tensed his muscles, before throwing the Empress away from the two of them, using the same arm he had used to block her punch. Gina just watched in awe. "To answer your question, Gina. While you were trying to get some nookie, I had already finished looking over my books, and decided to look over some of your. Though I admit I didn't get most of it. Anyway, Kahn came looking for me and he told me what had happened. So I climbed up here to help."
Lynn, who had recovered from being tossed like a rag doll, came rushing over in response to his claims. "That is against the rules. No one can interfere-"
"Unless they are a champion not from Shangri-La. Which I am now naming Chris to be." Gina said smugly.
Chris cracked his knuckles in anticipation for the fight. He had been practicing a few techniques that he really wanted to try in a real battle. "You know I don't usually like hitting girls, and right now I'm not too happy with Gina. But when a person tries to treat the feelings of others as something insignificant. Well that just pisses me off. Especially when they treat a person like an object. In my opinion, guy or girl, if you try to do that you deserve to be beaten."
As he said this, Chris' chi began to flare up and take shape around his body in the form of translucent skin, that seemed to act as armor, but there seemed to be more of it centered around his limbs. All in all, it was quite cool, and looked quite heroic. Though the look on his face screamed crazy, psycho killer, to anyone that looked at him right now.
Seeing both his aura and the look on his face made Lynn gulp in fear, but she did not back down. Kahn would be hers. "Impressive technique but I've fought against the most terrifying beasts the astral rift has to offer. You don't stand a chance." She said cockily as she charged forward.
As she got closer to Chris, she jumped into the air and flipped to deliver a strong overhead kick to Chris' head, only for him to lean to the side and deflect it before delivering a powerful punch that landed with a sickening CRACK to Lynn's ribs.
"Aaggh!" Lynn screamed in pain as she held her ribs. Chris just retook his stance and gave a 'come at me' gesture.
This made Lynn go into a rage, and she rushed forward once again. "I've bested beasts twice your stature and twice you power. Observe my speed as I-" As Lynn threw several punches at speeds high enough to create afterimages, Chris simply grabbed her hand before backhanding her across the the while looking both disinterested, and enraged at the same time. He was starting to cause Gina some worry.
'What's going on with Chris, he's usually such a nice, if slightly goofy, guy. What could've happened to him to cause him to be so angry at Lynn.' She wondered as she saw Chris stalk towards the fallen Empress, barely taking notice of the portal that had opened behind her.
As he got closer to her, Chris decided to explain as to why he was so much better than her. "You know Lynn, the reason you're having so much trouble right now, is likely because you fought terrible beasts for four years straight. Because beasts like the ones you seem to have fought, don't have tactics techniques, or skills. They have power, they have speed, but they don't have the ability to change the way they fight to adapt to their enemies. As such, you grew used to how the beasts you fought before fight, and now, when you fight someone with the skills to fight back, you cannot adapt to how I fight, and thus you can't-AAGH!"
As he prepared to deliver the finishing blow to the fallen Empress, he, unfortunately didn't realize that she had only been pretending to be nearly defeated, and because of his cockiness(talk about irony) Lynn was able to throw a strange powder into his eyes. "Hah! Shadow dust stings doesn't it now you stand no chance against-hurk!"
As Lynn ducked aroud Chris to try and attack from behind, she suddenly found herself held by the throat in Chris' hand. "Alright you! I may be blind now, but the techniques I learned from the scrolls I found in the library allow me to feel your life force. I don't need to see to beat you, now admit defeat before I SNAP YOUR NECK LIKE A TWIG!"
Terrified, and barely breathing, Lynn was barely able to stutter out a weak, "O-o-okay. I-I g-give up."
After hearing her surrender, and seeing her tears, he let her drop to the ground before turning away and walking towards Gina. Only to see that Cheetah was also standing next to her. "When'd you get here Cheetah?" He asked.
"Just after you knocked her away before getting that powder in your eyes... Chris... what happened to make you so angry. You're usually such a nice guy." Cheetah explained as she asked what was on both her and her sisters mind.
Sighing in frustration at the fact that he knew they wouldn't let up on this, he begrudgingly explained why he was so angry. "It has to do with my ex-girlfriend. You see, it started out nice, but she was trying to get her music career started, and I was still in school for my degree program, when she finally got the attention of a pretty famous agent. We had only been together for a few months, and I had managed to hold a good relationship, even though I didn't really tell her about the whole were-leopard thing until about two months before we broke up. Unfortunately I didn't really realize how she really thought of me. She only thought of me as a trophy, and when she got a contract to go on tour she demanded that I give up my schooling, my writing, my martial art, and never change into my were forms ever again, all so I could stay with her. I said no, and at that moment it was over. No ,we can still be friends, no talking about it, she just went 'fine, we're through' and walked away. I didn't try to reconcile with her because I realized, from the look in her eyes, that she didn't really care for me. So that was that." Chris explained tiredly. He didn't like talking about his past much. "It was nice in the beginning, but I guess we both changed. That, and I don't like being tied down, and treated like an object. Much like Lynn was treating Kahn when she challenged you. I she really cared for Kahn, she wouldn't had fought for his favor, she would have explained her feelings, with him, and done something else. Like let him decide who he should be with."
Both Gina and Cheetah looked at Chris with pity in their eyes. Not the mocking type of pity either. They were truly sorry for him. "I guess that's why you didn't really want to date either of us when we first met. huh." Cheetah said.
"Yeah, you two are nice girls. But I'm not really ready to start dating again right now. That and neither of you are really my type. No offense, but Gina's just a bit too smart for me, not that, that's a bad thing Gina, but I just want to talk to be able to talk to someone without feeling like I'm too simple for them, or have them talk about things too complicated for me. And Cheetah, you're with Stripe now, and I don't want to get between the two of you. So...yeah..." Chris looked towards the ground nervously as he explained several things about himself that he hadn't really told anyone before.
"Well then... I guess we should go downstairs and get ready to go back to our friends,huh." Gina said.
As they walked back down to the library, leaving a crying Lynn on the roof top, as she swore to gain vengeance for her defeat, they all chose not to speak for a while, to go over the things that they had just learned.
Gina was upset that Chris had been going through so much, and he hoped that things would get better for him soon. Cheetah was happy that Chris was happy for her being with Stripe, but she was wondering what it would have been like if he had been more... whole, happy, or something else that he just didn't seem to be. Chris on the other hand was feeling quite relaxed, like the world had been lifted from his shoulders.
He'd been wanting to tell the sisters a bit more about why they didn't really interest him, and now he had. Though he did hope that he would find a girl soon. One that he could enjoy his time with. Maybe there he would find a girl when he eventually went to the Jade realm, maybe.
Having reached the library, Gina held up her books as Kahn handed Chris a remote control that he then used to open a strange wormhole like opening made out of light. "Alright Gina, got your books ready?" He asked his friend as he threw his own books through the light-gate.
"Yes I do Chris. The light-gate's set to the library at my dads, right?" Gina asked, and seeing him nod she threw her books into the portal. "Good thing this is here. If they weren't then they'd get wet if we took them to Atlantis."
As the light-gate to Dr. Diggers library closed, the two sisters and Chris turned towards the portal left open by the Pool of Legends. "Okay people, let's move. We got a city to save!" Chris said enthusiastically. Gina stole a quick kiss from Kahn, before rushing through the portal, followed by Chris and Cheetah. "See ya Kahn, thanks for the books."
...
Within the chamber where the rest of the group was, Stripe was having a rushed and whispered conversation with Princess Tyr.
"Look around you Princess. You yourself have said that the defenses around Atlantis are not enough to hold back the might of Armageddon. The only way for us to defeat it is from on the inside." He whispered furiously to Tyr.
"I know that Stripe, but what you are suggesting is suicide. Going in there now would incinerate you. I cannot allow you to die like that. No matter what." Tyr whispered in reply.
""Millions will suffer and die if I do not. Possibly billions if that thing reaches the surface. If I need to die to prevent that then so be it. It is a small price to-" Stripe was cut off due to the sudden arrival of Chris, Gina, and Cheetah.
"Well... it certainly got crowded in this place, huh." Was the first thing out of Chris' mouth when the trio arrived back from Shangri-La. "And Cheetah, your boy friend-"
"I heard Chris, these ears can hear whispers of suicidal sacrifice just as well as yours can... well, nearly."Cheetah replied.
Noticing that they were back, their friends all voiced their happiness at seeing the trio return. "Hey look, Gina, Cheetah, and Chris are back everyone." Was the call from Mesha.
"Hold on Mesha, I need to speak with Stripe for a moment. The very idea that he should go into Armageddon only to die is totally unacceptable, and-"
WHSSSSSSSSS
Cheetah was cut off as the chamber they were in was filled with a strange noise.
"Guys! Somethings happening to the pool!" Ace yelled from the background.
Es everybody looked towards the pool, they saw the floating and disfigured face of someone they all thought to be dead. The face of their current enemy, Gryphon.
"Ah ha ha ha ha, Greetings, doomed ones... especially you, dear sister." The people watching the pools all began to talk furiously with each other as he continued to speak.
"SHUT IT, ALL OF YOU. It looks like he's saying something important." Chris screamed in order to hear what Gryphon was saying.
"I am now more powerful than ever, due to being absorbed into Armageddon rather than being destroyed. Now I AM Armageddon, and if you do not wish to be destroyed, and wish for the safety of your precious city. You, your allies, and everyone else must all surrender to me by tomorrow night. If you don't, the crystal blue seas of Atlantis will become crimson red! AH HA HA HA HA HA HA"
As usual Chris was the first to speak. "Well... that's not good!"
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AN: If any of you noticed, the style of writing changed at some point in the story, from almost only dialogue, to only mostly dialogue. Anyway, Starting the next chapter I plan to begin focusing more on Chris, and what he's doing. The reason being that eventually I'm going to get into the main storyline, and when I do I will not be having Chris go on all the same adventures as Gina and Cheetah. But that doesn't mean he won't be doing nothing, oh no. He'll still have his own adventures, but they'll be his own, not Gina's.
Okay, That was all. Please review if you feel like it. Unless you're going to flame it. Then please go use said flames to burn in a horrible agonizing death. Thank you.
PS: I'll try to find some pictures for reference to some of Chris' techniques later. If I can find any. Toodles.