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The plants shifted as Garin slashed them with his sword.
"Careful, it gets thicker from here." He said.
The ones behind him nodded. The entire crew had followed him into the dense jungle at the risk of losing their, own lives.
"Maybe I should just use my drums to clear a path." Manic said.
"That would tell them that we're coming." Sonia said.
"She's right." Shelby agreed. "Is the decoy in place?"
"Yep." Eddy said.
There was a sudden cry from just head of them.
"HOWDY, HOWDY, HOWDY! IF YOU CATCH ME I'LL GIVE YOU ME POT OF GOLD!"
"Johnny's really good at acting like a boggin." Topaz said.
"What's a boggin?" Eddy asked.
"A boggin is a mythical creature that' suppose to have a treasure crest and if you catch it, it's supposed to give you the treasure chest." Topaz explained.
"Sounds like a leprechaun." Double D said.
"A what?" Topaz asked.
"A mythical creature on our world. It's supposed to have this pot of gold and if you catch it, it's supposed to give you it's gold." Nazz explained.
"So that's why Johnny's in that weird get up." Topaz said.
"Yep, and he's paid in granola." Eddy said.
"I'm, surprised he even agreed to this." Double D said.
"Well, his fist nearly twice as big now and I promised him a handful of the stuff." Eddy said.
"Well that explains it." Double D said.
The plants behind them moved a bit and Johnny poked his head out.
"I did my part, now pay up!" He told Eddy, holding his hand out.
"CHOA!" Plank agreed.
"You'll get your pay once we're off the island." Shelby told him.
"What? Why?"
"Cause we're not done here yet." She said. "Look."
They looked through the dense leafs to see a, stonewall.
"That's the entrance, if we can blow the door open without being seen, we might actually be able to pull this off." Shelby said. "That is, if we can get past all the traps, ghosts, flesh eating plants, monsters, tripwires, the list goes on."
"Right." Garin said. "Get that powder ready."
"Yes sir!" Two of the crewmembers said, picked up two barrels, and headed to the, stonewall.
"When that powder is lit, head for cover, with all of that powder we're putting in it, it's bound to be big!" Shelby said.
"If I'm right, we should be safe enough over here." Double D said.
"Hopefully." Topaz said.
The two crewmates soon returned, they barrels nowhere in sight.
"Nova?" Garin asked.
She nodded and held her hands up in the direction of the barrels. She aimed carefully and cast the spell!
"FIRE!"
The second she cast the spell, Double D pulled her back. The blast of fire hit it's mark head on.
BANG!
Smoke was everywhere now, and bits of rock that had been thrown into the air landed. The crew slowly raised their heads to see that the, stonewall was gone.
"Let's move." Garin said.
They ran into the hole, unaware that they were being watched…sort of.
Within the cave…
The crew WOULD have been watched if a figure was staring into his orb of magical energies.
"Those fools! They cannot even find a simple camp!"
"Captain Scar Blade, sir, please calm down." Benny the Blade said.
The green wolf looked sharply at his right hand man.
"CALM DOWN?!" He roared. "THAT BLASTED GARIN AND HIS LITTLE FRIENDS ARE HERE AND THOSE FOOLS CAN'T FIND THEM!"
"Yes, yes, I know but-"
"YOU BETTER LET US OUT OF HERE!"
Scar Blade growled. The little brat hadn't stopped yelling since she and her friend got there.
"Sarah, please calm down." Jimmy begged, trying to calm his friend down.
Scar Blade looked sharply as the foxes in the cage hanging from the ceiling. The one called Sarah was getting to be a serious pain.
"You better let us out of here before I get REALLY angry!" She spat.
"Not like you're angry enough already." Benny grumbled.
"WHAT YOU SAY?!" Sarah roared.
Sarah was now a fox, a small thin one, but a fox all the same. Her clothes were the same as well. Jimmy was also now a fox as well. He was the same color he was before, and he still had his clothes minus the retainer, which had vanished when they arrived, in his arms was a chao with rabbit ears, it was Mr. Yumyum.
"Shut up lassie, or I'll have you're head!" Benny barked while Scar Blade went on.
"Once those fools find out where we be hiding, why they're libel to-"
"CAPTAIN! THE DOOR'S BEEN BLOWN OPEN!" A voice cried. "THEY'RE HERE SOMEWHERE!"
"WHAT?!!" Scar Blade roared.
"But we're looking for them right now, they won't get away!" The voice said again.
"Very good, I want it done by noon! YE UNDERSTAND? NOON!" Scar Blade yelled.
"Sir, yes sir!" The voice said and took off running.
"Don't let them escape! I want every one of them fed to the sharks, especially Garin!" Scar Blade snarled.
"AYE, AYE CAPTAIN!" Benny said and took off running.
"Whoever this Garin guy is, I hope he woops your-"
"SILENCE!" Scar Blade roared and hit the birdcage Sarah and Jimmy were in, cutting the little girl off.
"WHOA!" They both cried.
"Man, what's he so mad about?" Sarah asked.
"Maybe it was you saying such unkind things." Jimmy said.
"Choa!"
"Whatever." Sarah said.
"Psst."
"Sarah? Did you hear that?" Jimmy asked.
"Hear what?"
"Psst!"
"That! Didn't you hear it?" Jimmy asked.
"PSST!"
"That time I did. Where's it coming from?" Sarah asked.
"Up there!" Jimmy whispered.
They looked up to see a figure looking down a hole in the ceiling.
"I'll get you out of here." The figure said in a female's voice.
They watched in amazement as the figure held onto the edge of the hole and began to swing her body and then releasing, allowing her to come close enough to the chain that held them to the ceiling. She grabbed on, not so much as making a single sound. She slowly slid down the chain until she was right over the cage. She seemed to be wearing a dark red cloak of some sorts so they couldn't make out who she was. She hushed them and she began working at the bolts near the top of the cage.
"Who are you?" Sarah asked.
The figure hushed her again and pointed to Scar Blade, who hadn't even noticed the figure. That was when they got the message: she was trying to get them out of there without being seen or heard. After a minute she finally managed to make a hole big enough for the two foxes and one choa to climb out. They looked down when Scar Blade yelled when he looked into the orb of magical energies. He had just seen the blast and boy was he ticked! The figure shook her head in disgust.
"Hang on to me." The she said.
The three did as they were told and held on. The figure climbed up the chain, up to the ceiling, where ropes hung from. The woman carefully grabbed a rope and began to use the ropes like monkey bars to get closer to the hole. After a minute, they finally made it. She pulled them all out of the hole and into the sunshine.
"Thanks for saving us." Sarah said.
"It was nothing." She said, putting Jimmy down.
"Please, who are you?" Jimmy asked.
The figure reached up and removed the hood of her cloak.
"My name is Queen Aleena. I believe my children and their friends are looking for you."
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Okay, now things are getting good. Queen Aleena just saved Sarah and Jimmy, and Garin and his crew made it inside. But now things are getting dangerous. Scar Blade is onto the crew ands they're being hunted down. And what dangers are the queen and the youngest members of the Peach Creek kids? How are they gonna get out of this one? R&R to find out.