Walking. I hate wealking. Especially when I'm walking along a dark path in a creepy gorge with thingstrying to eat us. Okay, well Stork was leading us through the Black Gorge, and we had an unfortunate encounter with some giant meat-eating plants. We all managed to cross the bog...all of us except Finn that is. He did manage to get across, but there were some 'dificulties'. One of the plants woke up and decided to take a bite out of my blonde friend, and a chain reaction was started. The mighty plants reared their large heads; Finn, whose head was half-way down the beast's throat, was being snapped at from all sides.
"Finn!" Junko had yelled. "I'll save 'ya buddy!" His knckles were glowing green, and he went to save his best friend. The large plant let go of Finn, allowing the half-eaten Storm Hawk to escape with Junko. As we got away, Mister Cheepers walked up to us unscathed.
"Hey look guys!" It's Mister Cheepers!" Junko exclaimed as he took the fuzzball into his arms. "How'd you make it over here without getting hurt?" The furry creature pointed toward a large hole in the wall behind us.
"Hey Stork! Mister Cheepers made it to the other side safely by his little short cut! Maybe we could..."
"No!" Stork said. "Taking a short cut could have chatostrofic results! The best way to go is to stick to the map!" Mister Cheepers made adorable purring noises while trying to get us to go into the short cut.
"Sorry Mister Cheepers. Stork knows what he's doing." Junko said to the furball and continued on his way with the rest of us.
The group of Storm Hawks marched through the Black Gorge under the lead of the green merb. They ran into large beasts. Each time, Finn managed to let the monsters get a good bit out of him.
"It's my flavor! They can't resist me!" He kept chanting. "I'm delicious!" Mister Cheepers somehow figured out a way around the horrible creatures.
"Ya know Stork," Aerrow started. "I think that Junko may have made a good point with the whole 'short cut' thing."
"No!" Stork spazzed. "Taking a short cut could lead to our untimely demise!"
"But Stork! Mister Cheepers has strayed off teh map already, and he's fine." Kira said. She locked eyes with the merb, and a sigh emitted from Stork's lips.
"Fine." He said with a tone of exasperation, and the Storm Hawks followed Mister Cheepers through the dark crevaces of the Black Gorge.
The Storm Hawks team were about to round the corner to the canyon when Stork came out in front.
"Don't go any further!" He gasped. "Who knows what devastatingly evil thing could be beyond this point. Shield you eyes." His hands covered his tightly shut eyes.
Junko carefully moved Stork, and everyone walked on. Beyond the canyon bend was a sight to behold.
"Oh," Stork said. "I guess I was wrong." There was a small heard of creatures just like Mister Cheepers. The group was in awe by their cuteness.
"Okay," Piper suddenly said as she stood. "we have a limited amount of time before the sun stops shining, so I'm going to charge up." Piper went running towards the beam of light to charge up the solar crystal. Everyone crowded around the small fuzzballs while Piper left. Something in Mister Chepper's eyes made Radaar freak out. Aerrow's eyebrows raised.
"What's wrong with you buddy?" he asked, but his question was answered when the rays of sunlight struch Mister Cheepers and his commrades. Their bodies grew and shifted into that of the giant poison-toothed spiny gorge sloth.
"Uh, Piper?" Aerrow said. "I think it's time to go." Him and the others were slowly backing away.
"Hold on! I don't have a full charge!" Piper called as she turned to face her teammates. The gorge sloths were making their way towards her. "On second thought, I think that's good enough." She ammended and tried to get out of their. She managed to hop on the heads of the giant gorge sloths and got to her tam. Everyone ran; the sloths were right on the tails of the Storm Hawks.
"We have to follow the map!" Stork yelled to everyone. "It's the only sure way to get out of here!" The others nodded, adn they continued through the giant eels, living tar and the giant meat-eating plants. The whole way back, the sloths used the short cuts to avoid teh bigger beasts.
"That's why they use the short cuts!" Aerrow said. "They don't like it here either!" Just as everyone got out of the bog with the giant meat-eating plants, one last sloth stood in front of the Storm Hawks.
"Wait!" Junko called out to the monster. "Mister Cheepers it's me, your friend." For a split second, the giant gorge sloth portrayed a look that would have been cute had it still looked like the former Mister Cheepers; however, that moment didn't last long. Luckily, a giant meat-eating plant took 'Mister Cheepers' into his mouth, allowing the Storm Hawks to make it back to the Condor.
Inside the Condor was chaos as we desperately tried to escape the Black Gorge.
"Hurry up Piper!" Finn yelled as some of the vulka-bats started to poke through. The solar crystal was placed with the fuel crystals, and the Condor roared to life.
"Let's get out of here!" I yelled. Stork, after flinching at my yell, jumped for the controls and brought the Condor up. Higher and higher we climbed, and once we were in the sun did the vulka-bats leave. Everyone was safe, and everything was normal again...well, as normal as things could ever get.
"They wanted to eat Finn! But you wouldn't let them, would you Condor?" Finn said as he coddled one of the navigation instruments. I rolled my eyes before walking over to Stork. I gently placed my hand on his shoulder. He jumped a little and whirrled around to look at me. A nervous twitch tugged at the corner of his eye.
"Hey, I just wanted to say...thanks. If we had listened to you about Mister Cheepers and the whole Black Gorge deal, we wouldn't have had to run for our lives." I said. "You really saved us."
Stork stared at me a while longer before saying "Okay." and turned away. A smile had my lips turned upwards.