Hi! This is the second chapter to my story. Enjoy it.

2: How Are We Supposed To Get Out?

"Wait," said Elora. "Do you have more than one phone in the house so we can call for help?" she asked Ripto.

"First of all, why does more than one matter? And second of all, I used to have three, until Gulp ate one and decided that he liked the taste, and ate my other one. Now I only have one left. It's the one in the kitchen. You guys probably saw it in there, but one's better than none, right!"

"UH OH" Elora said.

"What's wrong?" Ripto asked in a suspicious tone.

"Well…" said Spyro.

"When me and Elora were in the kitchen, I jumped up on the counter so I could have a better look at the um, sandwich machine, and I um, landed with my back facing the machine, see. So I turned around, except that I turned around a little too fast, and you know how the phone is right next to the machine, well, my um, tail hit the phone and it, um, sorta knocked the phone off of the counter and, um, hit the floor and um it… kind of …exploded. Sorry." Spyro said, looking at the floor. He all of a sudden, seemed very interested in the spikes on the end of his tail.

"But it's okay though, right Ripto, because you still have your Scepter-y thingy and you could teleport us all out of here to safety, and we can all live happily ever after, right Ripto? Elora said.

"No, I can't" said Ripto with rising fury.

"I can't because mmblmmblahmvblyit." Ripto said the last couple of words to the floor, and he spoke very quietly.

"Excuse me". said Spyro, with a shadow of a grin on his face. He turned his head so that his ear (or at least the spot where his ear would be if he actually had one) was pointing to the Riptoc.

"I can't because I haven't learned how to do the spell yet! You know, the teleportation spell!" Ripto yelled.

Spyro an Elora started laughing their heads off!

"A sorcerer… who tried to take over the world… more than once… doesn't even know how to do… a simple… teleportation spell!" Elora managed to choke out through her laughter.

"Well do you know how to do a spell to get us outa here?" said Ripto sarcastically.

"Well, No. But I'm not an evil sorcerer!" cried Elora.

Ripto started walking away. Spyro and Elora started to follow him because they didn't know what else they were going to do until someone either thought of something, or someone came and rescued them.

All of a sudden, Ripto whipped around to look at the two friends.

"You! This is all your fault!" Ripto roared. "If you two wouldn't have come asking me about stupid sandwiches, this never would have happened!"

"Oh! So now we caused the earthquake too, huh!" Spyro said.

"No, but at least it would only be us three and not us five here!" yelled Ripto.

"Shorty? Did you flunk math when you were in school, because there's only three of us here right now?" asked Elora.

"No, Crush and Gulp are around here somewhere, probably eating and smashing other valuable house hold objects."

"Ya know what?" Spyro whispered to Elora. "I'd bet my left horn he wasn't teacher's pet."

"Oh, yeah"! Spyro then said loud enough so that Ripto could hear. "Well who tried to take over Avalar four years ago, huh, HUH? If you never came around here, we wouldn't have come over, asked to use your sandwich maker, which is very nice by the way, and got stuck here with YOU!"

"I never tried to take over Avalar." Ripto said in a huffy voice and rolling his eyes.

"Well I know somebody did!" yelled Spyro.

"Well, It wasn't me!"

"Then who was it? Barbie?" Elora added in, feeling a little left out. Ripto had a fleeting glimpse of a doll laughing maniacally and holding his Scepter.

"Well it's getting late (which is almost impossible because not even an hour ago Elora and Spyro came to the Chateau, but oh well…) I'm going to bed, now" said Ripto. "And since apparently you two will be staying the night, you'll find blankets and pillows in the Guest bedroom. You can fight over the bed in there."

They had a bit of a hard time trying to find the Guest bedroom seeing that Ripto didn't exactly give them a "tour of his house".

They walked through the living room and dining room, finally coming to a door. They opened it just a crack to see if this was the room they were looking for. Nope. This, they assumed must have been Crush's and Gulp's room, seeing as Crush and Gulp were sitting in it. They were trying to play poker except that Gulp kept eating all the cards and chips. Crush was yelling at him.

"Gulp, Boss is gonna be real mad at us! These are his cards!"

Feeling that they better get a move on in case one of the dinosaurs saw them, they tried a bunch of different doors instead. One was the bathroom; one was the door to the attic and another one that led to the basement.

They finally found the Guest bedroom. They opened the door and walked in. They grabbed pillows and blankets that just happened to be there from a pile in the corner of the room.

Then they looked at the bed. The ONE bed.

"Dibs on the bed"! yelled Spyro.

"Hey!" said Elora "That's not fair"!

"Uh huh!"

"Nu uh!"

"Uh huh!"

"Nu uh! I want the bed!"

"Okay, you can have it. I…didn't really…want it anyways (sniff).

"On second thought Spyro, you can have it."

"Okay!"

"Hey! You're supposed to offer it back to me!"

"Well, okay. Do you want it?" asked Spyro, not wanting to sleep with a guilty conscience.

"No, you can have it."

"No, you take it."

"Take it, Spyro!"

"NO YOU!"

Eleven minutes later…

By the time they both fell asleep, there were brown fur over almost everything, and several things were singed including the bed, and all of the pillows. Elora was sleeping on the floor on top of the pile of blankets, and using Spyro as a pillow. Spyro was using Elora's head as a temporary blanket.

The next morning Spyro woke up at about quarter to nine. He woke up Elora and they both agreed that they were hungry. They went to the kitchen thinking that they would just have to eat peanut-butter-and-jelly for breakfast. They found Crush and Gulp sitting on the couch, watching cartoons, and eating (of course). They noticed Spyro and Elora, and Crush said,

"Hi guys."

"What happened to Ripto?" Spyro asked.

"He locked himself in his room and won't come out." Gulp answered.

"Oh." said Spyro, not really caring in the least why or where Ripto was. "Well…moving on. What are we gonna do today?"

"There are board games, and a mini gulf arena in the second door to the right. And a library – with books!" said Gulp.

"Gulp! Our library doesn't have books! Boss said it only had things like in-cy-clo-peed-er-as. No picture books, which are the only ones we can understand."

"Gasp! I love incyclopeederas!" cried Spyro.

Elora dragged her boyfriend away.

And with that, Crush and Gulp left to go do something stupid no doubt.

Spyro and Elora decided to go play mini golf.

"What room did Crush and Gulp say was the room where we should play?"

They had found a mini golf set that was portable, and they had already forgotten what room to set it up in.

"Ummm…" said Elora, "I think it was the fourth door to the left."

"Okay!"

So Elora and Spyro went to the fourth door on the left.

"The sign on the door says "Breakable Object" room." read Spyro.

"And the sign on that door says "Mini Golf Arena." said Elora, pointing to the door on the other side of the hallway.

"Elora, are you sure that it was the fourth door on the left?"

"Yes."

"Ok, then. Let's go!"

The two walked into the room and saw on numerous glass tables, glass, china, glass, and other breakable things including glass.

"Ok! Let's set up!" said Spyro.

Spyro and Elora started to set up the mini golf set. When they were done setting it up, they each grabbed a club and a golf ball. Elora went first. She hit her golf ball and it went about halfway to the hole. Next, it was Spyro's turn. Spyro stepped up, and focused his concentration completely on the tiny white ball, imagining it to be Ripto's head, but the problem was, Spyro imagined it a little too hard and he swung the golf club with such force, that the ball went zooming around the room, just barely making it around, up down, left and right through all of the glass objects. It lay to rest upon the very edge of a shelf, which happened to be conveniently located right over a tiny glass model of a Rhynoc and a Dragon dueling.

"That's a relief!" cried Spyro. He dropped his golf club and as it hit the floor with a loud "Thunk" instantly realized that he shouldn't have done so. The vibrations that the club made on the floor were just enough to move the golf ball a tiny bit further and made it fall off of its position on the shelf, where it fell and hit the model of the Rhynoc and Dragon, demolishing it. It caused a chain reaction and all of a sudden, everything in the room burst into pieces for some strange reason.

"Oops". said Spyro in a small voice. "Elora, you pack up the mini golf set, and I'll handle the mess."

"Pssst! Hey you!" said a voice from in the shadows. Spyro was trying to talk a servant into cleaning up the now destroyed glass objects. The servant heard Spyro talking to him and pointed to himself.

"Me?" said the servant.

"Yeah." said the "unknown" voice.

"How about you and me make a deal?" Spyro said.

"You clean up the "breakable objects" room, don't tell the Riptoc, and I give you this. Spyro held out a magenta colored gem.

"You got a deal!" said the servant, his eyes glittering maliciously.

Spyro went back to the breakable objects room and said

"Taken care of!" to Elora.

"Hey, ya know what?" said Elora. "I was just thinkin' about last night about when we were talking about Ripto being in school an' stuff. I wonder what he was like when he was a kid. I mean, like, was he nice? Was he evil like nowadays, I mean, did he have fun causing small children pain?"

"I don't know." Spyro answered.

"There's got to be somewhere in the place we can go to find out about Ripto's childhood! That would be so fun!"

They thought for a second.

"I know!" said Elora after a few minutes.

"The attic! My parents always used to keep stuff of mine up there like old drawings, and old report cards.

"And embarrassing baby pictures!" said Spyro, more to himself than to Elora…

Spyro and Elora decided to go up in the attic and shuffle around through the boxes, even though they knew they weren't supposed to. Just as Spyro was pawing through a box of Ripto's old picture albums, (everything in the attic was Ripto's. Crush and Gulp had their own section) Elora started laughing her head off. Elora walked up to him and showed Spyro, an old book that looked like it was about fifteen years old, if not more. When Spyro saw the title on the book, he too started laughing like a maniac. It said: My Diary…

So, this brings us to an end of chapter two. Did you like it? So…

Will Spyro and Elora ever get out of Chateau Ripto? Will Ripto ever get working phones, and if so, will he be able to find an electrician to hook them up? You don't care about the last part do you? Well…you'll find out, in the next posting.