Hey everyone! Last time we left of I believe Stella and her friends were attacked by a dark creature. Are they okay? Let's look! Read and review! please.
As the smoke cleared the creature looked confused. All the stuff that the birds had brought with them was destroyed but the animals themselves were not there.
"Huh? That's strange…" he said to himself as he looked around while rubbing his chin. "I don't see any bodies… not even of those little bug things." He eventually spotted them at the edge of the clearing with stella panting from running.
"well I'm quite impressed. Normally the target would not have moved out of the way in time and been completely obliterated." Stella looked at Willow.
"Willow, take Luca and the critters and go hide! Me, Dahlia, and Poppy will take care of this guy!" She ordered. Willow looked at her concerned .
"Are you sure? He looks powerful… you might get hurt."
"Don't worry, we'll be fine." She smiled. Willow then nodded and picked up Luca then Poppy quickly slid in between them and stella. And she seemed to be sweating a lot. She smiled nervously.
"A-a-actually! I was thinking that I could go protect Luca and the critters while you, Dahlia, and Willow fight that guy!" everyone just looked at her with looks that said Yeah… not buying it.
"VERY FUNNY!" Dahlia groaned loudly while rolling her eyes. Then Poppy was shoved from behind by Peter and gus and flew two feet ahead of Stella and Dahlia. Also she got her beak stuck in the ground. Willow then ran into the forest with Luca and the critters in tow. Then Luca shouted out "Good Luck!" before they disappeared from the clearing. Stella and Dahlia looked at their opponent but then sweatdropped when they saw Poppy trying to pull her beak out of the ground. And she did. The dark creature shook his head in disbelief of what had occurred.
"It's ironic. The girl in the hat appears to be younger then that yellow blob. And she's more mature." He said to himself but Poppy heard the part where he called her a 'Yellow blob '
"Okay buddy, you want a piece of me!?" Poppy asked him angrily. The creature seemed unfazed by her threat though.
"I really shouldn't be wasting my time here. I have more important business to attend to."
"Who are you even? What are you?" Stella demanded
"I have no reason to explain myself to the likes of you!" he suddenly shouted " If you leave now when you have the chance I may spare your lives." Stella glared at the creature.
"Like we will." Stella responded sarcastically while rolling her eyes.
"Well then, if it's a death wish you want… so be it…" then before the girls could do anything they were thrown back by a dark blue forcefeild. That the creature had created. Stella jumped back up and growled.
"Poppy! Use your Tornado dive attack!" Stella ordered
"Awwwww, why do I have to attack him first?" Poppy whined
"He called you a 'Yellow blob.'" Stella reminded. That did it.
"REVENGE!" Poppy shouted as she charged at the creature and jumped above it prepared to use her attack. But the creature suddenly poofed into black mist and Poppy went right through it.
"What the?" she asked confused then the creature the recarnated it's self right behind her!
"How sloppy…" he said then Poppy turned around just in time to see him shoot some sort of gel substance from his hand and Poppy was stuck to one of the small trees. Leaving two more birds left to fight. Dahlia then charged at the creature. He smirked and his claw was about to intercept her when she suddenly vanished. Then reappeared behind his head. Dahlia then used he science fu attack and kicked his head causing him to bow it down. Dahlia smiled proudly but he looked up and turned around to look at her as if nothing had ever happened.
"That was a kick? Ha! That felt more like a finger tap. I only bowed my head to give you false victory." He mocked. Then lifted his hand and the ground under Dahlia pulled her in halfway. Then the ground turned to stone.
"Wha? But… t-that's not possible! Ra! I can't get out!" Dahlia cried out. Stella was the only one left to fight "this is NOT going well…" Stella thought as she saw two of her best friends trapped. Then she had an idea. "Let's see if that freak can handle two attacks." She thought with glee then pulled out her trusty bubble wand. Then used her pink flash and jumped off the surrounding trees then kicked the creature in the chest which actually sent him back a few feet. Stella then put herself in a bubble. Which was going to be a mistake very soon. And the creature shot his dark balls at her only to be deflected by the bubble. Stella smirked and gave him a raspberry. But unlike any other enemies stella fought this one didn't get angry or frustrated. In fact he walked calmly up to the bubble Stella was in and stopped right infront of her. Then raised his hand and gently placed it on the bubble.
"What are you doing?" Stella asked confused. And a little sacred.
Then starting from his hand the bubble started to turn a blackish purple. When stella pecked at the dark parts of the bubble they were hard. VERY hard. She then realized what was happening! The creature was trapping her inside her own bubble! Stella quickly tried to pop what was left, but it was too late the entire bubble was now blackish purple. Then the creature he removed his hand.
"Well, you and your friends are confident. I'll give you that much. But still…" he paused.
"Very foolish and naïve." He smirked
Stella was not taking this well at all. Fighting pigs was one thing, but this guy was a whole other story. She tried to break out of the bubble by pecking, using her pink flash, even jumped up and down real hard. But nothing was working.
"You are messed up man! MESSED UP!" Poppy yelled at him. The creature said looked at her annoyed.
"Maybe I should have also gelled your beak shut too…" he pondered out loud. Then looked back to the entrance of the treasure room. He wrapped himself in his cape and walked over to it he was going to go down again. Until…
"Well thank goodness Willow and Luca hid when they did. At least they didn't have to go through this." Poppy sighed out loud
"Willow and Luca?"
They three birds turned to see the creature look at them. He stopped when heard the names.
"so those are the names of the two blue birds you sent away…" then smiled " I had completely forgotten about them. Thanks for the reminder." Stella and Dahlia both took deep breaths glared at Poppy and yelled simultaneously
"POPPY!" Poppy then sweatdropped.
"Uh… whoops…" she said nervously. Stella groaned "maybe that guy SHOULD of gelled her beak shut." She thought
"Don't hurt them!" Stella begged "Luca is just a toddler. Willow is timid and doesn't want to get into fights. And they're both innocent!"
"Really?" He asked "Then that changes things quite a bit…" he smiled and his body turned back into black mist and floated into the shadows of the trees. However the dark clouds were still above them. But stella and the others didn't care. They figured that the monster had left. Willow and Luca had seen everything from inside a bush.
"Is… is that meanie gone?" Luca asked
"Looks like it…" Willow responded "C'mon we need to go help stella and the others!" she, Luca, and the four critters jumped out of the bush and ran into the clearing.
"Stella! Dahlia! Poppy! Are you guys alright?!" Willow asked as she and the others approached.
"Well apart from me being stuck in the ground, Poppy being glued to a tree, and Stella trapped in a bubble prison we're great!" Dahlia remarked sarcastically
"Oh! Okay" Luca smiled clearly not understanding dahlia's sarcasm.
"We'll try to get you out. Only how did-" before Willow could even finish. A dark red vine had wrapped around luca's supposed "throat" and pulled him of of the ground.
"LUCA!" everyone cried. Willow was about to use her vortex spin at the vine but then another red vine appeared, wrapped around her and held her to the ground. Autumn and the other critters sensing the distress attempted to attack the vines but a light blue ball of light hit them imprisoning them in a ice cube.
"Wha-? Hey!" Stella growled angrily and spun around, and sure enough she saw the dark monster holding up one of his claws and a dark red glow was coming from it.
"What do you think your doing!? You said you wouldn't hurt them!" stella shouted. The creature only smiled and shook his head.
"Now, you jump to assumptions much to quickly my dear. When you told me more about your friends, I said ' that changes things quite a bit.' But I didn't say I wouldn't harm them." He paused and continued.
"*sigh* I don't even know why I'm wasting my time with the five of you anyway. I might as well just get rid of you! Starting with him!" he yelled pointing at luca, who's pupils shrunk to the size of blueberries when he heard that.
"WHAT!?" The others shouted.
"No! Wait!" Stella began but the monster made a fist and slowly squeezed it causing the vines to slowly tighten. Causing luca to choke. Then started to cry and a few tears fell from Stella's eyes too. She and the others could do nothing but watch their youngest friend about to be killed.
In the treasure chamber
The ruby ring was lying on the floor when a spark of light emerged from it floated in air as it began to grow and take form. And a green hooded bird with a cape and staff fell on the floor. (She was wearing the hood on her head and only half her face was visable) as she regained consciousness she looked up and checked her surroundings. "okay… now that I had had time to think about it… using the ruby imprisonment spell might not have been my greatest idea. Then again nether was going after Mertaclede by myself in the first place… Wait! how much time was I inside that ring? And… where am I?!" she then realised she wasn't any where familiar.
"hmm. The ring must have some how been brought here… Oh! Wait! Where's the ring!?" she looked around frantically and her eyes fell on it lying on top of one of the small stacks of treasure. She took a sigh of relief and picked it up.
"Well I can worry about the details later… thankfully Mertaclede forgot to take the ring when he escaped…" then she heard a familiar vocie from above the chamber and out side.
"*sigh* I don't even know why I'm wasting my time with the five of you anyway. I might as well just get rid of you! Starting with him!" the girl instantly recognized the voice. And picked up her staff.
"WHAT!?" she heard some unfamiliar voices shout. The girl realized that some people where in grave danger. She quickly yet stealthily went up the stairs just as she heard
"No! Wait!" she reached the top of the stairs and apparently due to the situation no one noticed her. but she couldn't belive what she was seeing.
She saw five birds trapped in dark spells. But what really caught her attention was that a blue bird that looked at least two was being strangled by vines. But she knew that these were not regular vines. The girl saw the culprit behind all of this standing six feet ahead of her. The bird gritted her teeth. She knew she had to help those poor people and she had to help the little one first. Then she had an idea!
…
Luca was really starting to panic. he didn't want to die like this! Actually he didn't want to die period. All of them couldn't believe how cruel this creature was! Stella and the others were scared to! This was supposed to be a relaxing picnic! And they thought Gale and her minion pigs were the worst of it. But turns out not.
"say good bye, child." The monster growled and squeezed his fist once more…
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*SLASH!* A light pinkish greenish blur cut through the vines holding Luca. he fell back on the ground free of the vines and began coughing heavily. the blur hit the tree behind her and it was revealed that it was some sort of dagger.
"What!?" the creature shouted both shocked and angry.
"Huh?" Poppy asked
"eh…?" Dahlia asked
"Hold on…" Stella responded
" wha…!" Willow was almost speechless. The creature spun around and his frustration intensified at who he saw.
"You…" he growled
"Of COURSE you would show up! I swear your just as much as an annoyance as your parents!" stella looked over and she saw what appeared to be another bird (she could tell because she could see the beak. ) But she couldn't really make out the rest of it because their hood was casting a shadow on the bird's face.
"Well, Mertaclede I'm shocked at you… attacking innocent bystanders for your own amusement." Stella could tell just by that vocie that the bird was a girl.
"Really? Your shocked that I would attack ones who would in my eyes be a 'waste of space' and not caring if there innocent or not?" the girl was silent for a few moments…
"Your… right I completely believe that…. But that pleasure of yours has put you at a disadvantage." She said smugly
"Oh is that so?" Mertaclede asked in a not believing tone while his left hand began to spark. "Well it's going to take more than that staff of yours to protect you!" then shot a dark lightning bolt at her. But somehow it was blocked. And the girl didn't even move.
"How-" then the bird held up the ruby ring.
"you dropped this back In that chamber. Who's helpless now?"
Mertaclede then growled.
"No! I should have taken that ring when I had the chance!" Then he formed back into black mist and started floating high above the bird very fast. She began shooting balls of light from her staff but they were all dodged. Frustrated she jumped up and tried to fire a light ball directly at him but then Mertaclede quickly teleported behind her and shot a dark ball at her back causing her to scream and fall down dropping her staff in the process. He then dropped down infront of her. The girl looked up and saw Mertaclede's hand glow red and the ruby ring began to float towards him. But then…
"Gah!" he shouted and the ring dropped. The bird quickly snatched it and looked back at Mertaclede. His eyes were flashing from red to blue. Then he gave her a glare.
"You got lucky! I need to be somewhere else! I've wasted too much time here!" then tuned back into black mist an began to leave (for real this time)
"Get back here!" the girl shouted and attempted to chase after him when she remembered the birds. Turning back to look at them. Luca was trying to break the critters out of the ice with a stick but it was doing little effect. Stella turned and looked at the girl silently asking for help. The girl looked at them and back to where Mertaclede had fled and back to them. She then sighed and walked over.
"That won't work on that kind of ice young one." She said while walking past luca. She then jumped up and pulled her dagger out of the tree. Luckily the spells Mertaclede used are basic she added mentally. First she walked over to Willow and cut the vines holding her with her dagger. Then went over to the block of ice. She shook her staff twice and the crystal on top turned a reddish orange, then tapped the ice cube with it and it shattered freeing the critters. Then she went over to Poppy. She spun her staff and blue sparks began to appear from it. The sparks landed on the gel and the gel melted.
"ooooo!" Poppy awed amazed as she slid down the tree. Then the girl went to Dahlia. She put the bottom of her staff on the stone chanted silently and the ground the owl was trapped in returned to normal freeing her.
"Fascinating…" Dahlia remarked as she stepped away. Then she went over to Stella and Looked at the bubble she was trapped in. At first she didn't really know what to do. But then she had an idea!
"Okay I'm going to get you out… but you might want to step back a little." She instructed. Stella then raised an eyebrow.
"Why?"
"Please, just do it." She answered gently yet a bit firmly too. Stella sighed she didn't really like being told what to do, but she also didn't like being trapped like a caged bird ethier. So she obeyed. Then the bird's staff began to glow and she pulled out her dagger. With tremendous force she stabbed it into the bubble with it and surprisingly the bubble was greatly cracked. Then jumped up swung her staff at the bubble and the second it made contact the bubble vanished into sparks causing both Stella and the dagger to fall. Now that she was finally out of that stupid bubble Stella got a good look at that dagger.
It's blade was pink and lime green (kinda like a tide dye shirt) and had a bit of a curve to it, and the handle part was bronze with a small layer of crystal on the border of where the blade meets the handle. And the bottom of the handle had a small white diamond on it. The mysterious girl picked up the dagger and opened her cape. Apparently the was a strongly sewn scabbard in side her cape. She put the dagger back inside and turned away from Stella and the others. Stella was about to thank her when…
" What were you thinking!?" the girl scolded
" huh?"
"it was foolish of you to be taking on that monster by yourselves! You nearly got killed! I mean you would have to live under a rock to not know how dangerous-" the girl was cut off by Stella.
"now whoa whoa whoa… listen here, we have no idea who that guy was and you're talking like we do. We didn't know he was THAT strong or cruel. And as a matter of fact we have no idea who you are." The girl spun around at her, Stella and her friends still couldn't see her face. They thought she was going to yell but, the girl didn't…
"What do you mean have no idea who that was?" she asked surprisingly calm. Then looked them over." And… well to be fair… I haven't seen any of you before… and I don't even know where I am."
"You're joking!" Poppy suddenly blurted out " Golden Island is where tons of birds come to relax and beat up pigs!"
"Beat up pigs!?" she asked shocked "Why, in the world would you want to do that!?"
"…" Well that left Stella and her friends speechless and there beaks were hanging wide open. It was like this bird didn't know ANYTHING about it! The girl then saw their shocked looks. I don't know what time I'm in. but things definitely have changed. I'll ask more about that later but right now I'd better get on to more important questions… she thought
"*Cough* anyways, I've never heard of golden Island before…""
"Well.. err… perhaps you can maybe tell us where your from…" Dahlia asked after getting over her shock
"well, if you must know… I'm from Crystal Island."
"Crystal Island?" Stella and the others asked simultaneously.
"Well, we have the crystal caves here on golden island. But we've never heard of a crystal island." Willow explained.
"You haven't?" the girl asked, then mentally slapped herself.
"No, of COURSE you haven't…" then sighed.
"Look, this might sound odd… but…" then took a deep breath.
"what year is it?" and just like she expected the whole group looked her like she had lost it.
"2016. Why?" Stella answered
"The 20th century!?" she muttered under her breath shocked the her thoughts began racing. but what of Crystal island? I know it sunk into the ocean thanks to Mertaclede… but will it rise up again? Or will it remain at the bottom? Only very few people survived but maybe my friends survived? No they were still on the island and I do remember the island took five minutes to sink! So there's no possible way they could have gotten off and, my mother… maybe she escaped, oh who am kidding!? Even if they did get off they would all be dead by now! And I…
"Hey you okay? Your swaying around on awful lot… like your about to pass out…" Poppy asked while interrupting her thoughts.
"yes, I'm fine…" she answered weakly.
"Hey since your not from here would you like to come over at our place? You know so we can get to know each other and all that." Stella asked
"Um.. well I suppose so, now really what's the harm?"
"Yay! We're having someone over!" Luca cheered
"Okay, now if you don't mind Luca and I have to salvage something from the pile of broken pieces that USED to be all of our stuff." Poppy said then walked over the pile with luca following her And started rummaging through it.
"Speaking of, who was that guy that attacked us?" Dahlia asked
"That was Mertaclede. He's the demon of darkness…" the girl explained "He's responsible of so much destruction and as you saw has no heart, he's smart, he's cruel, he's powerful, and he barely even has a face…"
"I'll say… I've never seen anyone like that! The face bit too! And your basically saying he popped out of ring?" stella asked
"Well, in a way… he was imprisoned inside it. In order to keep him from harming anyone else. But that didn't seem work very well."
"Which brings me to question I forgot to ask." Stella began. "When this Mertaclede was about to finish us you came out of nowhere! I mean it was obvious you came up from the treasure room, but you weren't there when we came down. Neither was mertacl- what's his face. So, just how did you get here?" the girl sighed softly. Then answered….
"because… because I was the one who imprisoned him. It was a last resort to stop him from harming anyone else but he pulled me inside with him. "
"SAY WHAT!?" Everyone in the area shouted even Poppy and luca looked up from the pile they were digging in.
"I'll explain more later. Right now I'd say it's best to get back to your 'place'. Knowing Mertaclede he might come back to attack again. Even though I'm sure he's left the island."
"She's right Stella. I don't want to bump into that guy again!" Willow shivered.
"Well if that's the case, you'd better bring your critter friends with us Willow." Stella instructed
"Luca…" Poppy whimpered as she pulled out a destroyed pastry of peanut butter and chocolate.
"I'm sorry but the pie didn't make it…"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Luca cried "I-I never even got a slice…" he sobbed. While luca was crying something caught Poppy's eye. So she walked closer to the pile and dug around in it a bit then pulled out the i-pod which miraculously survived the blast.
"Well at least one of our things made it…" Poppy sighed. Then picked up Luca (who stopped crying) and started walking out of the clearing as everyone followed. Stella then looked to the mysterious girl.
"Anyway, I don't think we had a proper introduction yet… I'm Stella!" she said with a smile
"my name is Dahlia." Dahlia introduced as well.
"My name is Willow…" Willow said shyly "the critters here are named Peter Gus Emily and Autumn." And pointed to each one in that order.
"My name is POPPY!" Poppy greeted rather loudly scaring Willow yet again. Then she gave the yellow bird a dirty look.
"Hi I'm luca!" luca said innocently.
"so, now that you know our names what's yours?" Stella asked. The girl then stopped walking and everyone looked at her. Then she looked up at them and her hood went up a bit revealing most of her face (except the top of her head and forehead) they saw she had two beautiful deep sapphire blue eyes. And her feathers were minty green. And Stella swore she saw a slight light misty aura around her but paid no mind to it. The girl smiled then answered
"My name… is Calypso."
And done! Hey everybody! Sorry I took so long! Again… arghhhhhhh! Sorry I get distracted an awful lot… anyway I really hope you like this chapter and this story and it's just getting started. I'm REALLY excited to write further into this story. Oh by the way I know I aid earlier that Gale and her pigs weren't going to have a big role but the're not going to be minor characters and I'm giving them like a supporting role or something like that… But if you don't like that please don't hate this story! Just read a little bit and see how you like it. Anyway this chapter wasn't dark… was it? I hope not…
Anyways see you next time! Glowing gem
Update: yeah I noticed some confusion when Calypso thought it was the 20th century but I can explain! Before Calypso was imprisoned she had saw her home sink into the ocean along with everyone on it! And was realeased from the ring many years later. And unlike Mertaclede, she didn't know how long she was actually in there when she was freed. So how shocked was Calypso when Stella told her the year? Shocked enough to get the 21st century wrong! So basically she had just gone through a a traumatic time. (There's actually more to it but you'll find out later) and she was freed in a place she did not recognize, had to save a bunch of stangers from Mertaclede, and she was told it was 2016! So after everything that had happened and the information she is being told now, was a little much for her brain to handle. So can you really blame her for getting wrong!?
Whew! Had to get that off my chest! Why I didn't say that earlier? I don't know. Sorry about the misunderstanding, but now that's done we can move on! Thank you!