Chun-Nan and Section13
The heroes had all slept in the village and were well rested by time morning arrived. The dragon elders had opted to sleeping outside the hotel since they were too big to fit inside the walls while everyone else slept in the penthouse given to them by the owner which was covered by the elder himself. Jade and Sonic had returned to their regular forms of a girl and a hedgehog respectively though Jade was still sporting the black fingerless gloves. Sasami was the first one to wake up along with Spyro and Crash so they decided to play a little joke to get everyone else up. Thinking quickly the trio bought some loud speakers and a bugle horn like the one used in the military and wired everything together.
"Guys wake up." Sasami and Spyro said gently but everyone didn't notice so Crash simply turned the speakers on and played the military revile which instantly woke everyone up.
"SPYRO, SASAMI, CRASH!!" Everyone yelled in annoyance at the trio for waking them up so suddenly. Crash, Spyro and Sasami tried to look innocent but they failed as they started laughing
"Oh come on you guys didn't complain about Cyril and the fact that he snores." The aqua haired teen responded as soon as she calmed down only to find an annoyed ice guardian staring at her with contempt.
"Sasami let me tell you that I do not snore one bit." Cyril explained but Volteer was clearly not convinced.
"I abhor offending you Cyril but you do undeniably snore incredibly at full volume." The lightning guardian replied.
"Nonsense I do not snore." Cyril once again tried to defend himself looking to Ignitus and Terrador for help. Ignitus had already headed for the kitchen to help the staff prepare breakfast while Terrador replied as best he could.
"You sound like an avalanche." The earth guardian muttered to the ice guardian. Cyril just dropped the conversation for even he was wise enough to quit while he was ahead.
"Now that we're done with that little prank can someone tell us where the hell we're supped to go?" Sparx replied not knowing that he used foul language in the presence of the elders only to hear something rumble loud. Everyone turned to the source only to find Sasami rubbing her stomach.
"I'm hungry." The aqua-haired girl simply said.
"Well in that case we should head to the dining room at once. I'm sure breakfast is probably ready by now." Jackie suggested and with that everyone headed to the dining room to find that pancakes, eggs, pastrami, bacon and all kinds of bread and bagels were placed on the table. Even New York Strip Steaks were placed out in an all you can eat buffet style on the table.
"Wow whomever did this must have some very good culinary knowledge." Coco commented and everyone else voiced their compliments with Volteer, Cyril, and Terrador remaining silent knowing full well that Ignitus was the best chef among the guardians. Sure enough said dragon elder appeared wearing a chef's hat on his head much to the shock of everyone especially Jackie and Jade.
"Ignitus I didn't know that dragons could cook." Jackie yelled in surprise.
"Yeah the ones I've met in the past usually cook or eat human flesh." Jade added for she could well remember the time that Po Kong the Mountain Demon almost ate her uncle for lunch.
"It is as I said last night." The fire guardian explained "None of us would even think about eating humans to survive."
"Enough of the idle chit chat. Let's eat before this food starts going cold." Sparx interrupted as usual and with that everyone started eating the food that Ignitus and the chefs had prepared. Once everyone had finished their meal they all took time to rest for a little bit then after that the heroes all headed outside only to find a large volume of water that nearly washed them away.
"Great Scott what was that?" Cyril asked.
"Why don't you try asking the giant fish stick" Sparx commented and sure enough Drago was back only this time he looked a lot like his aunt Bai Tsa, the Water Demon only he was sporting his trademark black wristbands in his usual outfit.
"Drago what do you want this time?" Spyro asked of the demon.
"I'm going to make this as simple as possible." Drago began "Return the Earth Demon chi or I'll bury this village in a flood."
"Right and we're supposed to be afraid of that idiot." The yellow dragonfly once again commented to the group, Sasami meanwhile had already started to prepare the removal spell to take the water demon chi from Drago.
"Actually yes." Drago responded simply and was about to begin to start flooding the village when he saw that a green beam hit him. Everyone instantly noticed Sasami holding the Chi-O-Matic and was trying to remove the water demon chi from him.
"Sasami wait I forgot to tell you that the Chi-O-Matic can only hold one demon power at a time and it's already occupied!" Jackie yelled but it was too late as the demon chi was drained from Drago and into the device which caused it to break and release the 2 demon powers allowing Drago to reabsorb the water demon chi and sending the earth demon chi somewhere along the great wall of china.
"Well I'd torch you but in this case now that the earth demon chi is free it's all mine to steal. If anyone asks I'm having leap across the wall." Drago laughed and with that he left in a pool of water.
"Sasami what were you thinking?" Coco asked after seeing the failed attempt made by the aqua-haired girl to remove the demon chi powers.
"Calm down Coco she didn't know about the downside of the Chi-O-Matic," Sonic advised "At least Drago doesn't have the earth demon chi yet."
"That is true but I can sense the power still along the Great Wall of China." Sasami responded to the bandicoot and the hedgehog heroes.
"Then that is where the chi must be." Terrador piped up then turning to Jade, Crash, Spyro, Sonic, Sasami and Sparx he added "Listen up. The earth demon chi must be somewhere along the path of the Great Wall of China. The entrance is along the sun path in the entrance we took to reach the temple."
"Terrador is right, you'll have to hurry if you want to stop Drago but one of you must become the living vessel for the demon chi until Coco fixes the Chi-O-Matic." Ignitus explained to the young heroes whom nodded and with that they left for the entrance stage which would take them to the sun path.
When Sasami, Crash, Jade, Sonic, Spyro, and Sparx reached the entrance the instantly took the sun teleport path and found themselves standing on a section of the Great Wall of China.
"Well I did always want to visit the great wall one day." Sonic joked.
"Sonic now is not the time for jokes we've got work to do." Spyro noted with that the heroes were prepared to start running as soon as Jade finished the countdown.
(Sonic Unleashed OST Dragon Road Day Begins to Play.)
"Here…We…GO!!!" Jade shouted and with that the heroes started racing along the great wall to the location of the earth demon chi hoping to obtain it before Drago.
"Guys I'm having so much fun here." Sasami yelled to the group.
"Well get ready to earn your wings kid." Sparx noted as the group was about to head to a spring. The heroes managed to jump the spring and gain some incredible hang time allowing them to reach the next section of the wall and keep racing.
"Hey Spyro I didn't know dragons could fly so fast." Jade noted.
"You'd be surprised at what the purple dragon could do." The purple dragon replied back.
"Hey guys less chatting more running." Sparx said everyone would've sent him a glare but there wasn't time as the group was about to run into some Spikes. Crash easily did his trademark spin attack and knocked them into mojo orbs which he and Jade absorbed to increase their natural fighting skills while Sonic boosted into some robots reducing them into yellow crystals allowing him to absorb them to increase his speed. Jade also smashed into some of the robots allowing her to absorb some of the energy crystals they left. Sasami meanwhile made mincemeat out of the ape soldiers that appeared to try and slow them down but she along with Spyro and Jade roasted and electrocuted them allowing them to absorb the sprit gems left behind to power up their magic and energy. The group started to feel the real test before them as they leapt across massive gaps in the Great Wall of China and to a large dragon statue. The heroes used their quick thinking to propel themselves onto the dragon and race along its back landing on yet another section of the Great Wall of China where they could see the goal ring, another key fragment and the earth demon chi waiting for them.
"Guys the Demon chi's here." Sparx noticed "let's get it before Drago shows up."
Everyone else instantly rushed to get to the goal ring before Drago showed up and strangely enough when they got there they didn't find him.
(Song ends followed by Sonic Unleashed OST Stage Clear Music)
"Guys, why exactly has Drago not shown up yet?" Sparx asked once the group stopped to catch their breaths.
"Probably laying a trap so that if one of us tries to touch the demon chi he might drain it from whoever touches it." Sasami mentioned recalling all the tales Jade told her about the demon chi powers she dealt with so far.
"Well in any case let's get it before we lose it." Jade started to say only to be interrupted by a dark chuckle.
"Hello gorgeous, what's cooking." The voice of Drago said in a mockingly flirtatious manner. He rode in on Malefor's back when he said that and the Shendu look-a-like shook his head in complete embarrassment.
"Okay that was pathetic." The Dark Master just said annoyed at that pathetic display. "I could think of something better while unconscious."
Spyro was standing next to the chi and he just placed his paw next to said power and felt it disappear within him.
"Well that was a tingly feeling." Spyro noted to the gang hoping Drago didn't notice. Unfortunately for him the demon son of Shendu did notice and charged in to try and retake the power only to be knocked back by Crash Bandicoot and his flurry of punches and kicks.
"Go Crash get him." Sparx cheered while Jade was going head to head with Malefor.
"Alright I'll admit, you're stronger than I thought to defeat the Gaia Phoenix." The dark dragon admitted to Jade.
"Well at least I'll kick your tail just like I helped Jackie kick Shendu's sorry butt." Jade scoffed to Malefor.
"You have much to learn about the power of a dragon for I'm more formidable than Shendu or his siblings." Malefor responded and he used a flame breath on Jade but she dodged and countered with a flying kick that Crunch taught her. Then using the powers of the snake and ox talismans which caused her tattoos on her arms to once again take the form of a snake on her left arm and an ox head on the right arm, she crept behind and pulled on his tail until she spun him around and threw him into Drago who was currently involved with a battle against the wild bandicoot and sent both of them crashing into a mountain.
"Guys, Let's get Spyro, the demon chi and this key fragment back to Section 13 right away." Sasami noted finding another half of a Gaia key on the ground and they stepped onto the teleport pad and warped away from their present location.
When the teleport sequence was over the heroes found themselves back at section 13 where this time Volteer was the dragon elder waiting for them along with Professor Pickle, Captain Black, Jackie, Uncle, Tohru, Aku-Aku, Crunch and Coco.
"Hey Guys how did we end up back here?" Sasami questioned.
"Well I had the teleport pad programmed to teleport you to section 13 if you found one of the demon chi powers and by the look of Spyro I'd say you found one." The female bandicoot explained.
"Is the containment Unit fixed yet?" Spyro asked.
"Uncle just finished the chi containment unit just now. Let us hurry and get the earth demon chi out of you at once." Jackie explained and with that everyone raced to the vault room where Uncle had just finished repairs to the containment unit.
"Uncle we've got 2 problems." Volteer explained. "One Spyro absorbed the earth demon chi to keep it from Drago and now he's about to be corrupted by the demon chi."
"So why didn't you try to remove it from him then and there?" Tohru asked only for Volteer to respond to him again.
"Well that's our second problem" the electricity guardian explained to the sumo apprentice wizard. "Sasami tried to remove the water demon chi from Drago but unfortunately there was already one power in there and it damaged the Chi-O-Matic in the process which lead us to our previous problem."
"AIYAA!" Uncle Screamed loudly. "Chi-O-Matic can only hold one demon power at a time and it will take time to repair."
"This means that the longer Spyro has the demon chi within him." Jackie Summarized for everyone who didn't know about the full effects of the demon chi, "It will be harder for Uncle to remove it."
"Then permit me to save you the trouble of doing so." Said a dark voice and there was Dr Neo Cortex standing with his Giant Yuktopus and a pair of blue gorillas with scorpion tails and the blue ghoul like creatures that attacked section 13 last time they were called Scorporillas and Grimlys respectively. This time he brought the spikes and some rat/chihuahua wearing lab coats that looked upright and nerdy. They were the ratnicians and he also brought along some Rhinorollers and Spikes which were upright light brown beavers with lots of spikes on their backs.
"Cortex! What are you doing here?" Tohru shouted at the scientist.
"Well I'm just cruising along and I figure I might pay a visit to take a certain dragon with demon chi power and bring him to Drago." Neo explained.
"Well if you want me come and get me." Spyro taunted ready to defend the vault only to be stopped by Volteer.
"Spyro I think it would be best if you sit this one out. Because in theory the more you use the earth demon chi the more you will turn into the earth demon himself." The electricity guardian explained. Spyro just sighed and decided to do what Terrador did and went into a meditative state. Cortex meanwhile noticed this and ordered the mutant army to attack.
"Jade, Crash, Coco, Crunch, you must hold off the mutants with Volteer's help while uncle fixes the Chi-O-Matic. I will help as best as I can." The benevolent mask spoke to Jade and the bandicoots.
(Crash Mind Over Mutant OST Big Fight #1 begins to play)
"Enough of this mutants attack!" Neo Cortex yelled and the mutant army charged in. Jade and the bandicoots used their martial skills to easily beat down the ratnicians. Jade took on the Grimly mutants by using the powers of the monkey and pig talismans which turned the tattoos on her arms into the shape of a monkey and a pig head on her left and right arm correspondingly and caused her to take her bandicoot form and fire laser beams out of her eyes which stunned some and for a moment it seemed to be easy but she decided to jack one to use it against Cortex later. Coco was fighting against the Spikes by jacking one after stunning it and used it to defeat the others by summoning a row of spikes to turn them into mojo orbs while leaving one alive to fight off the Yuktopus. Crash had his hands full with the Rhinorollers since they had the strength of rhinos and the armor of pangolins making regular attacks difficult to do any real damage to them so the wild bandicoot had opted for using Aku-Aku as a board to slam them leaving Crunch to try and deal with the Scorporillas. The muscle of the bandicoot family tried a head on approach and used his strength to attack the Scorporilla on his right which caused said monster to swat Crunch away with her tail leaving him unconscious. Jade used the Grimly's special ability to freeze time which provided the perfect diversion to for her to use the horse talisman powers on Crunch and get him back on his feet.
"Crunch you okay?" Jade asked the muscular bandicoot.
"I've taken worse hits then this kid." Crunch noted "I'm alright now time to kick some butt."
Meanwhile Crash was already dealing with the second Scorporilla using the Rhinoroller's special ability by rolling into the gorilla at high speed and stunning it long enough for crash to take control of the Scorporilla and then used the first Scorporilla to defeat the second. Cortex had just witness the 4 bandicoots kick his mutants down to dust.
(Song ends)
"That was only the warm up." The scientist proclaimed "Now for the real test, Yuktopus attack!"
(Crash of the Titans OST Boss Fight Music Begins to play)
"Bring it on Cortex!!" Jade snarled in her Bandicoot Form. The Yuktopus simply reacted to this taunt by slapping its tentacle for a left arm at the heroes. The heroes nimbly dodged it and prepared for a counter attack. Jade went of the offensive with the Grimly by using its special ability and slowing down time but the Yuktopus countered with a powerful cannon blast that knocked her off her titan and would've killed her if it weren't for the horse and dog talisman powers of healing and immortality. Uncle meanwhile was doing his best to extract the demon chi from Spyro so that the purple dragon could provide some assistance. He was still chanting the removal spell when at last he managed to extract the demon chi which looked like a flower and that in turn allowed Spyro to return to the waking world.
"What happened while I was out?" were the purple dragon's first words since going into meditation only to get wacked by Uncle's fingers.
"AIYAA! You absorbed the demon chi of Dai Gui the Earth Demon which I just removed from you and placed in the Chi Containment Unit." The chi wizard informed.
"Well that was refreshing now what can I do to help?" Spyro asked only to hear the sound of fighting right in the main base. There he found Jade and the bandicoots all worn down from fight what looked to be Cortex's Yuktopus Robot. Jade had returned to human form and was healing Crash and Coco after they suffered massive injuries.
"I take it things aren't going well?" Sparx asked as he suddenly appeared by Spyro's side.
"IF things WERE going well do you think Jade would be healing the bandicoots this soon in the battle?" Spyro shot back to his adoptive brother.
"Fools you are no match for Dr Neo Cortex!" the scientist exclaimed.
"Dude you're pathetic and your robot sucks." Sparx commented. Enraged by that last remark Neo ordered his massive robot to attack Spyro but the purple dodged every attack the Yuktopus threw at him but he couldn't use an elemental fury due to his need to focus and dodging attacks constantly only made it much more difficult. Jade saw that the purple dragon was dodging attacks continually, which was starting to take its toll on him so she took action and drew it away using her combustion powers causing the tattoos on her hands to turn into Chinese dragons.
"Hey fish breath. You couldn't hit the side of a barn if it was staring you in the face!!" Jackie's tomboy niece yelled. The Yuktopus upon hearing this decided to launch a powerful mojo shockwave which Jade dodged by using the levitation and speed talismans so she could fly above it and levitate the bandicoots out of danger. Aku-Aku hand used his powers to protect everyone with a 3 yard radius of him from the oncoming blast which surprisingly caused an explosion and covered the place in smoke. When the smoke cleared Cortex could see that most of the heroes were still standing completely unharmed.
"Well I'll say this you were tough but you'll fall before the might of…" Cortex began but when he looked he didn't see Jade or the bandicoots anywhere.
"Alright, where'd those bandicoots go?" the scientist proclaimed only to find that his robot got blasted with a stream of flames. Cortex found Jade back in her dragon form again with the bandicoot family riding on her back.
"Hey Shorty did you miss me?" Jade teased after letting the bandicoots off her back.
"That's it Yucktopus destroy her!!" Cortex yelled. The robot once again fired its cannon but Jade simply dodged and fired another torrent of fire at the monster which didn't seem to damage it so she tried using an electric orb on the beast and this time it did the trick and managed to stun it for awhile. Following up on that attack, the dragon began to spin on her tail as electricity started to build up around her.
"Volteer what is that?" Jackie asked the lightning guardian only to get wacked in the head this time by the electricity guardian's tail.
"Guardian dragons have trained in the ways of various elemental abilities and each one is a master of a different element." Uncle explained. "There are some abilities that they have not taught to Spyro yet due to his training."
"So we're supposed to let one dragon take on a giant bagpipe playing squid?" Captain Black asked.
"Let me field this one baldy. YES!" Sparx yelled right in the captain's face.
Back on the battle field Jade had just charged enough electricity to perform the deadly electric spin attach which she immediately unleashed on both Cortex and his robot not only destroying it but sending him back through the gate to his base.
(Song ends followed by Sonic Unleashed OST Boss Stage Clear)
"Fried Calamari anyone?" Jade asked once she returned back to her human form.
"Jade a wise warrior must know never to lower his guard." Jackie lectured his niece.
"Jackie is absolutely right." Professor Pickle added as he appeared from his room in the base with Sasami in tow.
"Where the heck were you all this time genius?" Sparx asked in his usual sarcastic manner once again getting a glare from everyone in the base except from Crash, Sasami and Spyro who just simply ignored that last comment.
"I was deciphering the Manuscripts and I have discovered the location of the next Gaia Temple. It is in the City of Spagonia itself right next to the city of Paris France." The professor explained.
"So let's hit the road and go!" Sasami yelled in her usually bubbly personality only to be stopped by Tohru.
"I'm afraid that will have to wait as Jade will need rest for the flight ahead and the sun is almost down." The Sumo apprentice replied pointing to the clock which read to be about time for sundown which meant Jade and Sonic went through their Werehog Transformations again only this time it seemed to go so smoothly that they didn't feel any pain.
"Okay that last transformation should've hurt but what happened?" Sonic asked one he regained his senses.
"My Guess is that the constant transformation Jade goes through with the monkey talisman might have had something to do with it combined with the fact that some of the healing power of the horse talisman might have clung to Sonic making him immune to the pain as well." Volteer theorized.
"Well in any case it is getting late and we all should be preparing for tomorrow's events." Jackie noted and with that everyone headed off for some well earned rest.
Next time
The Heroes head to Spagonia only to find one of the temples is guarded. please read and review.