Greetings once again
Here's the first chapter of the story
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[0:00] Sonic Colours - Reach for the Stars
A GalaxyTrail Game presents
~ Take off at the speed of sound
~ Bright lights, colors all around
~ I'm running wild, living fast, and free
~ Got no regrets inside of me
A story made by Negaboss2000
~ Not looking back
~ Not giving up
~ Not letting go
~ I'll keep on running!
Freedom Planet
The First adventure
~ I'm gonna reach for the stars
~ Although they look pretty far
Staring
Dawn M. Bennett as 'Sash' Lilac Dawnheart
~ I'm gonna find my own way
~ And take a chance on today
Amanda Lott as Carol Tea
~ The sky with stars so bright
~ The colors feel so right
Aimee Smith as Milla Basset
~ I never felt like this
~ I'll keep on running!
Patrick Seymour as Commander Torque
~ The sky with stars so bright
~ The colors feel so right
Jay Baruchel as Fival Rascal
~ Just take my hand
~ We're gonna reach for the stars
~ Tonight...
~ Tonight...
Michelle Creber as Ginny Hiphop
Hannah Tointon as Iris Echo
~ Wake up, living day by day.
~ Do what I want, and I'll do it my way
Sean Chiplock as Spade and Prince Dail
~ The world is flying right below my feet
~ Got no regrets inside of me.
Edwin Tiong as the Royal Magister
~ Not looking back (Not looking back)
~ Not giving up (Not giving up)
Alejandro Saab as Mayor Zao
~ Not letting go
~ I'll keep on running!
Jason Lord as General Gong, Serpentine and King of Shuigang
~ I'm gonna reach for the stars
~ Although they look pretty far
Ashlyn Selich as Neera Li
~ I'm gonna find my own way
~ And take a chance on today
Edwin Tiong as the Royal Magister
~ The sky with stars so bright
~ The colors feel so right
~ I never felt like this
~ I'll keep on running!
Alejandro Saab as Mayor Zao
~ The sky with stars so bright
~ The colors feel so right
Jason Lord as General Gong, Serpentine and King of Shuigang
~ Just take my hand
~ We're gonna reach for the stars
~ Tonight...
~ Tonight...
Xander Barriga as Lord Arktivus Brevon
~ I've got it in my sight.
~ The colors feel so right.
~ Got my feet off the ground
~ I'll keep on running!
Nicole Oliver as Professor Anya Vulpis
~ Oh, I can feel it now.
~ The colors all around
~ Just take my hand we're gonna reach for the stars...
~ Just take a chance (Just take a chance)
And
Victoria Vitti as Syntax and Pangu
~ We'll do it right again
~ (We're gonna reach for the stars)
~ Just take my hand (Just take my hand)
~ We'll take a chance tonight...
~ Reach for the stars...
~ Tonight!
~ Tonight...
Chapter 1 - The Power of the Kingdom Stone.
10 years later.
In the early school hours of the day
Driving through the City of Shang Tu, was a couple of school buses filled with students from one of the best school on Avalice known as Shang Tu Elementary. With their teacher, all the students were currently going on a field trip which would beat all other field trips in a race.
The students that were going on the field trip were all chatting to each other and doing whatever they loved doing so much. While most of them talked, most of them were occupied with videogames or books. Sitting on the middle section of the bus, was one of the most well known students of Shang Tu Elementary called, Cleo Vulpis. He was a half-breed son of a famous scientist called Professor Anya Vulpis.
''So Cleo, whacha doin this weekend?'' One of the students asked Cleo. ''Well, I'm thinkin' bout' tryin' out that new running machine that my mom's been working on.'' Cleo replied while chilling out. ''Come on dude, I thought you said your mom was lame?'' An Elephant student said in response to Cleo's words. ''Yeah, but she does let me use stuff way before it comes out into the stores.'' He said in his defence, this made his gang shrug off the idea of his mom being lame before they relaxed.
Cleo then scratched his head with his claws. He was actually born half bird and this is why he was the coolest kid, he took Karate lessons and was actually at the top of his game.
''Ya know, in my opinion, you should really keep some distance from that crazy mom of yours. She actually has a hatred for...'' A warthog student began. Suddenly, a hand banged multiple times on the window of the bus. One of the students looked out the window before he laughed upon what he saw. Outside the bus, another student from Shang Tu Elementary was trying to get on the bus. The student was a 9 year old female hybrid panda with fish fins wearing the same uniform as the other students and dark purple rimmed glasses.
This girl was none other than young Lilac Dawnheart. ''HEY! STOP THE BUS! PLEASE!'' Lilac cried out as she was trying to catch up. All the students laughed at this and not only that but even the bus driver laughed too, all except for a few students. ''COME ON PLEASE, STOP THE BUS I WANNA GET ON!'' Lilac continued to cry out in desperation. Her legs were about to give in when one of the students got up out of his seat and stormed over to the bus driver.
''Hey sir, stop thuh bus. Look, she's bee-yn chasin' us since this mornin' so let her awn.'' A 9 year-old female farm bunny student said firmly, the bus driver eventually agreed in annoyance and stopped the bus for Lilac. The young female hybrid managed to get on and catch her breath before finding her usual seat. ''Thank you very much.'' Lilac said happily to the driver. She then felt something hit her head before hearing a tone of laughs from on the bus.
The young hybrid panda then went to find her seat as the bus started off again. None of the other students were allowing her to sit down with them. Lilac was then about to sit on a seat, but apparently a posh hamster student put her stuff on the seat and prevented her from sitting. ''Don't you dare sit on this seat filthy half-breed.'' She warned Lilac with anger. The young girl then moved on to find another seat, she was then steps away from passing her own childhood crush Cleo Vulpis. The half-breed fox then looked her way as she sheepishly carried on trying to find a seat.
Just when she felt scared about getting hurt by everyone's opinions about her, another voice called her. ''Hey Lilac, over here.'' The voice said to her, it belonged to a simian student who was about 12 years old. ''Alright, just pause that.'' He said as he paused his video game right before Lilac sat beside him. ''So, you woke up late again today?'' The simian asked his half-breed friend. ''No Fival, I just couldn't sleep last night because of a dream I kept having.'' Lilac responded, revealing that she was so tired judging from her eyes and her yawn.
''You seem to be having those same dreams occasionally. But why?'' Fival asked Lilac, she just said it was like she was with her family for as long as she wanted...until she wakes up for school every time. ''If that's all true, the-yn ya should try this stuff! it works with me all thuh taahm.'' The same bunny student spoke, handing Lilac a bottle of orange and pumpkin squash.
''Thanks Ginny, I guess this stuff really does help.'' Lilac thanked her friend after she drank some of the squash and placed it in her bag for lunch. ''Wow, I'm surprised that you weren't clumsy this time Ginny.'' An 8 year old blind Chiropteran spoke up. She then got up on her seat to face Fival and Lilac whilst clicking her tongue a couple of times. ''I syhaw hope so Iris. Because ah've gawn a whole week without bein' culumsy.'' The bunny known as Ginny said with pride. During the past nine years, Lilac Dawnheart had made friends with the three anthropomorphic students.
Fival Rascal, a genius monkey. Lilac became friends with the little monkey in the same orphanage where they grew up together. Fival always had this enhanced mind which helped him a lot. Their caretaker Chrisy had always been there to watch over them and play with them. Ginny Hiphop, a young clumsy bunny who grew up on a farm. Lilac met her at a festival in Shang Tu where she had allowed Lilac to participate in a competition of Cops and Robbers for a year's supply of food for her orphanage. After losing to Lilac, Ginny admired her thoughts for her orphanage and afterwards became a good friend since that very day.
And lastly, Iris Echo, a blind little fruit bat. Lilac and Fival met her when she was trying to cross the street. The little bat would have gotten hurt if Lilac hadn't have grabbed her out of the way. Since then, Lilac helped Iris with her sight and eventually, she learned how to see with her Echolocation ability by clicking her tongue multiple times. Annoyed by the noise, the students' abusive teacher stormed over to Iris, dragged her out of her seat and told her to pipe down or else. Ginny tried to defend the little strawberry coloured bat, but ended up tripping over her bag clumsily.
All of the students apart from Cleo, Lilac, Fival, Iris and a couple of half-breed students then laughed at Ginny. ''That's right. I suggest you think twice before taking action you clumsy rabbit. Now get back to your seat with your blind friend and stay there!'' He yelled, the young bunny then sat back on her seat in fear before the teacher went back to sit on his seat. ''Don't listen to him Ginny, you're not that clumsy.'' Lilac reassured her farm friend, this made Ginny feel better. ''Thanks lilac, ah done needed that. Besides, 'e'll git what's comin' ta 'im eventually.'' She said, hoping for the best in the future. Fival and Iris agreed with him before going back to important matters.
''So...we're about to see one of the most historical places in all of Avalice. The ancient temple which holds the Kingdom Stone itself! The resting place of the very source of power which the dragons gave us long ago!'' Fival rambled on about with excitement. While he continued speaking to the girls, Lilac was distracted by Cleo. She was dazzled by his appearance as always. Ever since she first saw him, Lilac had actually fallen in love with the half-breed fox. She was too shy to even say anything to him sometimes.
Fival then took noticed to Lilac's distraction before snapping her out of it. ''Oh, interested in him?'' Fival joked, Lilac then blushed in embarrassment. ''Relax, I was joking. But in all seriousness, I don't think it's gonna work out between you two.'' The girls then turned towards the simian in confusion before he explained. ''He's part of the cool kid club, nobody messes with them if they know what's good for them.'' He said with a serious attitude.
''Come awn Fival, that culub stuff idn that daisy. Besides, neither awf us kay-yun git into one or thuh same culub.'' Ginny complained. ''Of course the club is good, even in High School. There are plenty of choices, you've got the Cooking, Drama, Art, Martial Arts, Science, Photography, Gaming...I could go on for a while.'' Fival explained to the girls, Lilac then looked around at all the club members and she saw that he was right. ''Yeah, but even if we don't get into a club, we've got our own club, Me, Lilac, Ginny and you Fival.'' Iris said, giving her three friends a group hug.
Fival smiled sheepishly when this happened. ''Is it kind of weird that I'm the only boy in the group?'' He asked, afraid to know the answer ''It isn't weird at all when you understand friendship more.'' Iris said, making the simian student feel a lot better. ''Sheesh, how'd that purple panda come to our school again?'' One of the students in front muttered as the bus continued to it's destination.
At the Ancient Temple.
The school buses pulled up outside before their doors opened. All the students walked out with their teachers inside them, this even included Lilac, Fival, Ginny and Iris. The four friends looked around the temple in awe and to Fival, this was a sight to behold. ''Wow, this is syhaw some ancient temple. Ah kay-yun't eve-yn imagaahn hooaah such a power source would still eve-yn be in this puh-lace.'' Ginny remarked in amazement.
''I've gotta hand it to you Fival, this is really amazing.'' Iris said. ''I know right Iri...wait! I thought you couldn't see?'' Fival complained, he then realised that Iris used echolocation to see. He realised it after hearing a couple of clicks from her tongue. ''Oh er...never mind.'' He apologised sheepishly. ''It's fine Fival, nothing could ruin this field trip. In fact, I think we'll be happy enough learning about the origins of the magical stone.'' Lilac reminded.
All of a sudden, the gang looked ahead and saw the something that could ruin their day. ''Aw no. It's Caroline and the Mean Girls. Our rivalry continues.'' Lilac groaned in annoyance. In front was a group of five young female students from Shang Tu Elementary who gave Lilac and her friends a hard time in the past. There was a skunk with a ring tail, a tall brown bear with a dark pink streak over her left eye, an orange gecko who was athletic and a blue peacock showing off her feathers.
But it wasn't just the girls that Lilac was worried about, it was the one in charge. Amongst the mean girls, was (1)a female wildcat around the age of 7 and nearly 8. He eyes were green and so was her fur. What's more was that she had a tomboyish attitude which was threatening to Lilac and the gang. It was then that the female skunk looked over to Lilac before grinning viciously. ''Hey girls look at this, lil' Lilac and her happy troop are here.'' She said, alerting the girls.
''Well looky what we got here. A half-breed panda, a nerdy monkey, a clumsy farm bunny and a blind bat.'' The bear mocked cruelly. Those words sort of embarrassed the gang slightly. ''Hey Caroline, get a load of these chumps.'' The peacock told her wildcat leader called Caroline. Once the wildcat called Caroline turned around, she took one look at the group...but somewhat didn't even care what they were doing. ''Let's go girls, we've gotta catch up with the group.'' She said firmly before walking onward. The girls the groaned before ran after their leader which was a total relief for Lilac and her friends.
''Well, that was short. Looks like Caroline has other things on her mind today.'' Fival said before wiping his forehead in relief. ''I'd take it back, maybe they might ruin the field trip.'' Lilac said doubtfully. All of a sudden their teacher then called upon the kids irritably. When Lilac and the gang heard that call, they immediately panicked and rushed all the way over to the group of students before they even reached the Temple's entrance and neither of them even realised that a silver car with a couple of agents were behind them. '
'Right, get out, get into that temple, take a portion of the stone's power and then get the heck out of there before Cleo notices you.'' The Kangaroo agent said to the Rooster agent. ''Can I borrow your disguise kit?'' The rooster asked his fellow agent with a hint of doubt. Looking towards him with annoyance, the kangaroo then handed the rooster a teacher's disguise. ''Careful when you activate it.'' The kangaroo said, but it was too late. The rooster hand pressed the wrong switch and caused the kit to explode in his face.
Further into the ancient Temple
The students of Shang Tu Elementary were viewing all the historical artefacts which had once been used by the ancient beings of the past, including the dragons. ''As you can see, this temple is nearly 2000 years old. It was once an ancient kingdom that would defend all their treasures, but nowadays, it's just the remains of it all.'' The tour guide said, explaining the history about the relic temple. He might have been one elderly turtle, but he sure knew his history.
''These relics also proved to us, that our great ancestors were prepared for threats and else could have come their way.'' Being quite keen on taking the photos for her school's paper, Lilac then picked up her camera that she carried around her neck. ''Please can I take a picture for our school's newspaper?'' She asked gently. The old turtle then nodded and gave Lilac her permission to take as many photos.
She managed to get a perfect shot...but then Caroline's peacock friend ruined it by jumping in the way and posing. ''How'd I look half-breed?'' She giggled mockingly. Lilac merely rolled her eyes and decided to move on to another photo. In the past, Caroline's gang had always bullied Lilac and her friends, and the worst thing was that Caroline didn't do anything to stop any of it. The tour guide then continued showing the students around the ancient temple. All the while, Iris was still clicking her tongue to see all the sights, but some of the other students made fun of her by pushing her around.
Whimpering in fear, the little fruit bat started to panic. ''Look, you better leave Iris alone, I'm telling you guys.'' Fival said crossly to the students bothering Iris. ''Or what?'' The warthog student said threateningly. ''Or little Lilac's orphanage headmistress will come to protect them whittle butts.'' Another student mocked before he and the warthog laughed. Their fun however, was interrupted when their teacher appeared beside them. ''What is going on? The next one to interrupt will fail the whole class entirely.'' He said firmly.
After that, the teacher allowed the tour guide to continue while keeping an eye on the students. This in turn, also cut Fival and Iris a break from all the bullying. ''Are you ok?'' Lilac asked gently. Iris merely whimpered silently, she felt weak being blind. ''Hey iris, don't y'all wawry about those there bullies. Soonuurr aw later, ever'one on Avalice will start a-treatin' us like equals.'' Ginny comforted her with confidence. The gang then caught up with the rest of the students as the tour through the ancient ruins continued.
From behind, the rooster agent crept across the floor when trying to find the stone. He made a couple of noises and nearly got stuck in a hole in the wall. ''Ugh, why does the professor always send us on these stupid missions?'' He cursed as he then flew out of the hole and onto the floor, he then spotted the Kingdom Stone. ''On second thoughts, maybe this mightn't be so bad.'' But before he could even reach the stone, he heard the voice of the tour guide. ''...and that being said, here we are little ones. The chamber of the Kingdom Stone, the source of all our energy.'' The old turtle said.
The kids gazed in amazement at the stone. On the ancient pedestal, was an opal and sapphire coloured sparkling crystal orb. ''It's even said in history that Avalice was given the stone by the legendary dragons themselves. Nobody knows why they even came to Avalice in the first place, all we know is that they helped us out. And that's what matters.'' As the turtle continued, something giant then appeared out from behind the stone.
Because of this sudden appearance, the students screamed or gasped in horror at the creature. It was a gigantic praying mantis like robot that had only two legs and yellow eyes. ''What the heck?!'' The teacher yelled in horror. ''Oh it's alright little ones, it's just Mantalith. He's harmless towards children.'' The turtle reassured the kids, the Mantalith responded by waving his arm at them.
Most of the children then waved back after relief. ''Wow. Now that's one big bug.'' Fival said with approval. ''Yuck, I didn't know little monkeys like you loved to eat bugs. Did you Urszala?'' Caroline's Skunk friend asked the bear known as Urszala. ''No...I didn't Stinkerbelle, but I'll bet they would, especially it's a loser like this one, ha ha ha.'' She laughed mockingly. Fival felt like really hurting those bullies, but Ginny then insisted that she'd handle this.
''Ugh, y'all know what, Stinkerbelle, y'all're name mighty suits y'all, because y'all absolutely reak av absolute garbage, fluffy, ay always done wondered how y'all was able ta brush y'all's hair without a-showin' y'all's hawns. Oh wait. y'all don't have any hair, Urszala, just like laheet travels fastuurr than sownd, y'all seem like the toughest av them all...until y'all speak, ayn' rhea, ay may be clumsey, but ay'll always be myself ayn' y'all'll just be ayy snobby ayn' quite possibly ugly little brat.'' Ginny said with pride, insulting the four girls in the process.
Stinkerbelle, Urszala, Rhea and Fluffy were absolutely insulted by the little bunny's outburst. ''Wha...wha...what did you just call me?!'' Rhea said with fury. ''You heard her, do you need to hear it again?'' Lilac barked back towards the peacock. Urszala then shoved her friends aside to fight Ginny with her bear hands literally. ''Grr, you think I'm not as tough as I look?!'' The brown bear growled at the redneck bunny. ''Keep a-talkin' ayn' faand out Urszala.'' She threatened, rearing her face up to the Bear's face and preparing to fight her. But before Urszala could even lay a paw on Ginny, a voice cut through their argument.
''Stop wasting time Urszala, we've got a competition to win!'' Caroline yelled before grabbing the paw of Urszala's and dragging her away. ''Grr, you're lucky I'm busy! But I swear to get you next time.'' She growled before going back to her group. After being warned by the brown bear, there was something the gang heard something from Caroline. ''Competition?'' Lilac wondered. It was then that a certain hybrid came over and explained it. ''Yeah, the tour guide's given us a challenge to find an ancient coin. Whoever finds it first will earn a free one of a kind and special type of Yo-Yo.'' Cleo said to her, upon seeing him this close, Lilac blushed.
''Um...Hi...'' Lilac squeaked. Cleo kinda chuckled shyly at this point too. Fival and the girls then slightly giggled teasingly before Carol's gang came over. ''Oh hey Cleo, how's life on your end?'' Caroline asked Cleo. ''Good thanks, and I can see that you've been getting along quite well too.'' He replied while rubbing the back of his head. ''Yep. Oh, by the way, I forgot to thank you for that sapphire to complete our school project this year.'' Caroline said with her appreciation. This also surprised Lilac and the others in a way. ''Wait ayy minute, Cleo...y'all done helped these bullies?'' Ginny said in disbelief. ''If it's possible, I can give anyone the help that they need.'' Cleo explained.
The fox hybrid had always helped out his entire school whenever it was possible at times, but he mostly gave good advice to do. He'd usually do this behind his own mother's back to make sure she didn't find out about anything. ''Anyways, I'm gonna go look for the coin, if anyone needs help at school, you'll have to ask for permission from my mom.'' Cleo told everyone before walking off to find the coin. ''But...I heard that your mom never does give permission to anyone...'' Iris realised. ''Yep, my point being.'' Cleo said with annoyance and realisation.
Once he was out of sight, Lilac sighed happily. ''No hard feelings you guys.'' Caroline's voice snapped Lilac back to reality before the young panda hybrid turned to face her. ''I mean, if you guys are cool with Cleo, you're cool with us too. So how about we put out stupid differences aside, and make this how good we all work as separate teams?'' Fival was on the verge of saying that Caroline needed new friends, but Lilac told him to let it go for now. ''May the best team win then.'' Lilac said with a smirk. ''Be careful what you wish for.'' Caroline replied back, smirking herself too. ''Oh we'll just see about that.'' Iris butted in.
As soon as the competition started, the students searched all around the room for the ancient coin. Throughout the room, they searched high, and they searched low, but they weren't able to find anything. Some of the groups fought over other groups to find the coin, which amused their teacher. Meanwhile, the rooster agent kept trying to harness the energy from the Kingdom Stone, but had no luck so far...even with Mantalith chasing him. Everyone was curious on what the giant bug was chasing, but the teacher just said to ignore it.
After trying to find the item whilst blind, Iris suddenly spotted something with her echolocation. It was cold, but had a gemstone feeling on it. The little fruit bat then realised that she had found the golden coin before anyone else had. ''Guys over here! I've found something.'' Iris called to her friends, Lilac and the gang then went over to her. ''That's it Iris, you've found it.'' Fival claimed with pride. ''We won't be losers any longer once we hand the coin in.'' Lilac said, if ever there was a moment to shine, it was this moment.
Everyone then looked over and saw what Iris was able to find. When that happened, everyone complemented them, even Cleo did without any second thoughts. ''Nice one girl.'' The warthog students said. All of that went away when a certain claw took the coin from Iris' grasp. ''Aw, too bad for you. It's ours now.'' Rhea said before walking over to Urszala, Stinkerbelle and Fluffy. ''Hey, give that back. We found it first!'' Fival yelled. ''Aw...the wittle monkey has a bad temper because he and his loser friends don't have the coin.'' Stinkerbelle mocked.
''But...you don't even need a Yo-Yo. So just give back the coin.'' Iris said, sniffling a little. ''Well too bad little bat, because we do things like this anyways to show everyone that we're the special group.'' Fluffy said, finally getting her chance to speak up. ''Besides, nobody likes a sore loser, especially your ape friend.'' Urszala said before starting to walk away with the coin, laughing all the way. But calling Fival an ape...was the worst mistake she could ever make. Once he heard the word 'Ape', something inside of the little monkey snapped completely(2).
As if he was possessed, Fival ran right up to Urszala screeching in rage and pounced on her. Everyone then turned towards Fival to see the scene. Even the rooster agent and Mantalith turned towards the noise...which also made the rooster run for the Kingdom Stone. All the while, Fival tried getting the coin off of Urszala despite her resistance. ''Nobody calls me an ape! You hear me?! NOBODY!'' Fival screeched, Urszala screamed meanwhile as the coin was snatched from her hand by the little monkey.
''Stinky, quick get the coin!'' The bear yelled to her skunk friend. Stinkerbelle then used her tail to knock the coin out of Fival's hand and causing it to fall into her's. ''No y'all don't y'all little stinkuurr. '' Ginny said, using her two legs to kick Stinkerbelle into Fluffy and causing the coin to slip out of her hand. Ginny then bounced up into the air and grabbed the coin. ''Ey done got it!'' Most of the kids cheered the bunny when she caught the coin. But they were celebrating too soon, Rhea then flew up into the air and grabbed the coin in Ginny's hand. Unfortunately, the young bunny pulled Rhea downwards and caused her to crash on the floor with no serious injuries.
After they crashed, the pair had to wrestle each other to get the coin. All of the students were encouraging this fight, even the teacher. All but Cleo cheered this fight, the half breed fox knew that it wasn't good and tried to break the fight up. However, his voice was drowned out by the chants for the fight. ''Aren't you going to stop this fight?'' The tour guide asked the teacher. ''Nope.'' He replied with a devilish smirk. ''What kind of teacher are you?'' The tour guide then asked, the teacher then ignored the question and continued to watch the fight. Everyone knew that he'd expel any students who were useless or half-breed.
''Sheesh, Kids these days.'' The rooster agent said to himself, using a container to channel some of the stone's energy into it. Ginny was then able to reach the coin before Rhea could. ''Heads up Iris!'' She yelled as she threw the coin to the her little bat friend. Unfortunately, Iris wasn't able to catch the coin as it slipped out of her hand and rolled along the floor before Rhea quickly snatched it and ran off with it. Lilac and Caroline then saw this happening before looking at each other and running after the peacock.
Lilac didn't give in, and neither would Caroline. The pair of them continued to race after ancient coin was flying away in Rhea's talons. They even had to wrestled each other in order to get it. Meanwhile, the rooster agent had managed to shut down Mantalith temporarily, unfortunately, he got his hand stuck between the Kingdom Stone and the pedestal it was on. It took him a lot of tries, but he finally managed to get it free. But he also sent the Kingdom Stone flying.
Back with the fight for the coin, Lilac was suddenly thrown up into the air by Caroline who kicked her onto Rhea. The young panda hybrid then saw this as an opportunity to get the coin. So she jumped on Rhea's back, causing the coin to fly from her talons and then jumped to catch the coin, she fell to the floor laughing. But she didn't see what was happening and before she knew it... she was hit by the Kingdom Stone head first and landed on the floor unconscious.
Everyone gasped in horror at when Lilac didn't get to her feet. ''LILAC!'' Fival and the girls screamed, even Caroline was frightened at this. Fival was the first to reach Lilac before Ginny and Iris, Caroline on the other hand ended up lashing out at Rhea for taking things too far. ''What the heck is wrong with you Rhea?!'' Caroline yelled, Rhea merely cowered in fear and said it was only meant to be a harmless prank. ''You suck, Rhea.'' One of the students yelled towards the peacock. The peacock was then dragged out of the temple by her teacher along with the rest of Caroline's friends. The rooster agent then snuck out of the temple too without anyone noticing him.
All the while, Fival was trying desperately to wake up Lilac. ''Come on Lila, please be ok.'' He said frantically. The tour guide then came over to them before checking Lilac's pulse. He then sighed in relief before speaking. ''You're lucky it wasn't a serious injury, otherwise your friend mightn't have made it.'' After he spoke, he had knew that he had to cancel the tour and bring Lilac outside. He then did so after putting the Kingdom Stone back onto it's pedestal. When everyone was out of the room, the Kingdom Stone then began emitting some kind of energy, it was then flown outside the temple without anyone noticing it.
After the tour guide brought Lilac out into the open, he then told one of the other teachers what had happened before laying the young panda hybrid onto the ground. The nice teacher then got some medical equipment for Lilac and tended to the wound on Lilac's head. Ginny meanwhile, went over to him with her ears drooped and on the verge of tears.
''Mr tour guide, I'm so sawry faw causing thay ...uhh faheet. Ay wasn't a-tryin' ta get Lilay hurt, ay just done wanted ta help my friends win thay ...err yo-yo.'' Ginny apologised. That was when the turtle then smiled at the bunny before ruffling her hair. ''It's alright little bunny, besides, you were really the ones who found the coin, and those girls had no right to take it from you. So I believe, you deserve the Yo-Yo, for being loyal to your friends.'' After speaking, he handed Ginny the yo-yo that the gang was about to win.
The yo-yo was a gold metallic coloured one with an orange sting attached to it. ''Well, goo'ness gracious...th...thank y'all...mighty.'' Ginny said before hugging the elder turtle. ''It's alright dear.'' He replied to Ginny with a merry voice. Over by the school buses however, Stinkerbelle and her goons didn't get the same treatment as Ginny did. ''...And I say you're all worthless. So I'm giving you each three weeks of detention...that'll keep your minds occupied.'' The abusive teacher yelled at the bullies. The girls then groaned before they were dragged onto the bus.
As Lilac slowly began to wake up, the gang were absolutely relieved that she was ok, even Ginny and Caroline. ''Lilac, oh thank goodness you're ok.'' Iris said, hugging her friend. ''We thought you were a goner.'' Fival admitted, when Lilac got hurt, he was worried sick about her. And it wasn't the first time, during their time in the orphanage, Fival was always looking out for Lilac, like she was family to him. Whenever Lilac got hurt, Fival was always panicky about these things as fatal injuries always resulted in worse case scenarios.
''It's ok Fiv, I'm fine. It was just a bump on the head, nothing too serious.'' Lilac reassured her monkey friend. After apologising for the bullies ruining everything, the teacher then ordered the school bus to drive back to Shang Tu Elementary school to drop the kids of to their homes. Lilac's nice teacher then suggested that she get some rest before she lay against the bus windows and fell asleep. The hybrid panda took no notice of the blue energy mist following her from the ancient temple. The energy then flew in through the open window and into Lilac who then felt like she had a fever when she twitched a little. Lilac never knew that by hitting her head on the stone, she had awoken something...but what?
Meanwhile
The Rooster and Kangaroo agents drove back to a large building with a good number of refineries. The building was Cleo's Mother's very company for most of Avalice. It was known as Vulpis Industries. The main job of the industries was all about creating new energy techniques and cures for certain wounds.
''I wonder how the professor is doing? From what I heard, the King of Shuigang and his son were looking around today.'' The Rooster agent said curiously. The Kangaroo merely rolled his eyes in annoyance before speaking. ''Chuck, you don't know how important this is to the professor, she needs this as an opportunity.'' The rooster called Chuck then pulled out the portion of the Kingdom Stone's energy and showed it to his Kangaroo partner. ''You were even lucky to get the stone's energy, what took you so long anyway?'' Chuck chose to ignore the question after going through who knows what. The duo then entered the building to find their superior.
On one of the testing floors, a few scientists were testing a couple of prototypes for Avalice to witness for themselves. All the while, an adult panda and his two younger panda cubs were witnessing one the cures created for all Avalicians and a new invention. One of the scientists who demonstrated the new items, was an anthropomorphic arctic fox with a white lab coat and sapphire eyes. She was actually Cleo's mother, Professor Anya Vulpis.
''..So, this cure will show all of Avalice that Half-breeds can become just one species again. This will mean that there will be no more Half-breeds bothering us. And this invention that we've created is a species mech mark 4, it's able to know the user's species and give them either prosthetic body parts or give them whatever they want.'' Anya explained to the Panda. ''So my king, what do you think of the two items?'' One of the other scientists asked the panda who was revealed to be the King of Shuigang.
The king then considered what Anya was trying to accomplish with this so called 'cure' and thought that it was probably bad, especially if Anya was trying to get rid of the Half-breeds. Anya Vulpis was one to really loathe half-breeds, she thought that they were disgusting, freaky and a threat to Avalice. While she did get a few to follow her, there were others who thought that Half-breeds were good in a way.
''Professor, we both know that this idea of curing half-breeds is bad enough, but actually trying to get rid of them? I thought better of you.'' The king said with a hint of disappointment in Anya. ''But my King, please consider. It proves to be a good advantage to most of Avalice and...'' Anya was then cut off once the King dismissed her vision. ''In my honest opinion, sometimes half-breeds are a good thing. You can't judge that.'' After hearing this, Anya was shocked. She tried insisting to take this chance, but alas, the king did not do anything of the sort.
He then gave Anya at least 5 years to find a new cure to replace the half-breed extinguishing one or else he'd shut down her company. ''I might consider having Avalice use that species mech though, anyways I'll let you get back to work on finding a new cure for Avalice. Dail, Spade, come along.'' And with that, the King left the building which stung Anya in the heart.
Chuck and his kangaroo partner then came in cheering on their own success on finally gaining a portion of the Kingdom Stone's energy but at the same time, they were completely oblivious to what had happened. When everyone looked directly at the duo, that's when they knew they called the wrong cards. ''Er...what'd we miss?'' Chuck asked awkwardly.
''Ugh, which idiot hired those two idiots?'' Anya asked with annoyance. ''Err...I dunno...'' One of the scientists replied. Anya then said to fire someone for no reason before walking to her office. ''Winston, Maddie, Travis, I need you to meet me back here tonight.'' She said to the other scientists before walking through her office door. ''...And don't question why. Just be there.'' The arctic fox then shut her office door in their faces.
Anya then walked over to her office window to look out over her empire she created. She had been running her corporation for generations from her mother and grandmother and her mother before her. Few generations had gone by, now it would all be taken away from her. ''Those Half-breeds, ruining everything perfect on Avalice. They've got to go, disgusting creatures.''(3) She said to herself before pouring a glass of cider. ''I will not let my own son become like 'them', not even...'' The phone rang just as she spoke, Anya then picked it up to hear the voice on the other end. ''Hello, Vulpis Industries?''
''Professor Vulpis, your son has just arrived in the building, shall I send him up to you?'' The receptionist told Anya.
''No need, I'll be leaving with him as soon as I come downstairs. Just tell him to wait until I come get him.''
''Yes Ma'am. Oh, good day professor.''
''Good day, Janice.''
After hanging up on her receptionist, Anya then collected her bag before leaving work for the day. When the King of Shuigang told her that she was absolutely delusional, she couldn't bare to even stay to work for the rest of the evening. But like before, she wouldn't even bare to rest until she finally got what she wanted. It was mainly the reason why she was returning to the testing labs tonight.
Meanwhile at the Shang Tu orphanage
Miss Vira and her faithful assistant Chrissy were working on a new playground for the children to enjoy. ''Oh my, at this rate of the price to have it built in our gardens, it'll most likely be too much to pay for.'' Chrissy said with a little hint of worry. ''Don't worry Chrissy, we'll manage.'' Miss Vira reassured. The red panda was now in her 50s after 10 years going by.
Not only that, but she was also planning something special for Lilac tomorrow night, it was her birthday, or rather the anniversary of the day that the young panda hybrid was first brought to the orphanage. ''Have you got the decorations, party food and everything else also?'' Once Chrissy heard that, she said that she barely managed to collect everything else and had also gotten some of the children in the orphanage to buy Lilac some gifts. ''Oooh, this is going to be her best birthday. It'll also mean that I can tell her a couple of things about who her family is.'' The old panda said with excitement. Lilac really meant a lot to her, she even treated the young panda hybrid as if she was her own daughter...even though she wasn't.
Just then, the front door of the orphanage opened. Miss Vera and Chrissy then turned to see Fival and Lilac walk in from school. ''Ah, hello little ones. How was your field trip today?'' Vira asked, but she then noticed that something was oddly off about Lilac though, she was looking a little pale. ''Oh my, are you alright my dear?'' She asked with worry. Lilac groaned in pain, barely managing to keep her balance.
''Lilac had an accident today, but she was alright afterwards. It was when we were walking home that I noticed that she was pale.'' Fival explained. Miss Vira then had to put the young hybrid to bed immediately. ''Is Lilac gonna be ok Chrissy?'' Fival asked the young deer with panic. ''I'm sure it's just a temporary fever. Nothing too painful I just hope.'' Chrissy responded positively. She then had Fival help her out with a few things for Lilac's birthday in secret.
Later that night, Miss Vira read Lilac a quick bedtime story before tucking her in and leaving the room to prepare for the young panda's birthday. As soon as she was alone in her room, she was struggling to get some sleep as her fever had gotten the best of her, she then fell out of her own bed while not being aware of it. However, something inside her caused her fever to heat up, she tossed and turned in her bed trying to cool down, but nothing worked.
She whimpered because of the sickness, unable to bear any of it. In fact, Lilac was actually starting to hallucinate, she thought saw a scarier version of her abusive teacher come to hurt her and Fival, she also felt like she fell through a vortex before spotting what appeared to be (4) a gigantic monster with a huge army fighting a lone figure who stood in it's way. The warrior looked familiar, almost as if it was someone she had known her whole life.
Now she knew that she was going crazy and tried to sleep it off, but she couldn't no matter how hard she tried. Deep within the young panda, the blue energy from the Kingdom Stone spread throughout her body and managed to had reawakened a long lost power that channelled through her and merging with her very own DNA.
It was as if the very energy of the Kingdom Stone was with her. Lilac started glowing a bright blue colour in her room, but she wasn't able to stop it. Eventually it stopped...once she fell on the floor sleeping. Although, something seemed a little different about the young panda hybrid. Something which didn't make her look like half fish any longer...
There we have it
(1) This goes to show you that Lilac and Carol didn't start out as friends at first.
(2) Fival has this special ability which I'll explain later.
(3) If you think Anya's bad now, just wait until more chapters come
(4) Strange thing for a hallucination...or is it?
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the chapter.
Let me know in the comments what you think of it and Until next time, Negaboss2000 out.