Chapter Nine: Ignition of the Firefox

It has been (yet another!) fifteen days since Lina met her chao. Today is her first day with the morpher and I'll be with her every step of the way. We were helping some chao fix up the field, planting grass and flowers. I checked my swatch and (in nano-time) it was around one o'clock. I called for Lina

"Lina, it is time to go!" she sped over to me and we headed off. A little ways away Nika was talking to Talia

"Yeah, it doesn't hurt at all, it only feels warm,"

"Ok! I gotcha!" Talia, being a flying chao, hopped up into the air, took Nika by the hand and flew off to catch up to us. We met at the door of H.Q. I looked at Talia to observe the changes that she went through, like Nika. Her main color was now yellow with orange accents. Her dot was blue. The chao fell into our arms. We proceeded to make our way to the basement lab. (I'll skip to when we get there!) I stayed in the room with Lina. Miles instructed her on how to use the morpher and then flew back into the adjoining room. Lina looked at me with concern,

"Don't worry, me and Nika will show you." Lina nodded and stepped backward as I pressed the center button and yelled "Chaos Soul: Dive Deep!" as the familiar light surrounded me with warmth. And out stepped Krystal. Lina was awestruck, she just looked at me. She spoke

"THAT IS SO COOL!" I thought she was going to have a coronary! "Ok! Lets do this!" Lina said energetically as she pressed the center button. "Chaos Soul: Ignite!" she was engulfed in the light and she came out a very different mobian. She looked like a...a...fox to me. She had bright yellow fur and bright orange hair instead of quills, a big bushy tail and cute little ears. She was wearing a red sleeveless top, red gloves, white pants with a flame design and red shoes. I could see her wide eyes filled with astonishment as she listened to Talia speaking inside her head and as she looked herself over. She was doing the happy dance as she ran over to me.

"This is amazing! I am so ready to test it out!" I looked through the window too see Swift and Miles nod of approval and we dashed out the door. We stood out in the field as I addressed what we decided to call

Fiona, what we were going to start with

"We are going to test your elemental powers, and from the looks of it I'd say you have pyrokenesis." she looked at me confused and then the light bulb went on

"You mean I have fire powers! Cool!" I waited while she spoke to Talia and then she started focusing. And then...her hands caught fire! I knew it didn't harm her because she was smiling.

"Are you ready?" I inquired challengingly.

"For sure!" she had an eager glint in her eye as we charged. We were starting our practice battle (p.s. I am carrying a canteen full of water that hangs around my shoulders so I don't have to go search for any!). I fired my ice darts and Fiona blocked them with her hands, we were still about twenty five feet away from each other, so she decided to charge and make a close range attack. She went for my head with some of those flaming punches, but I managed either to dodge or deflect them with my water. I tried to get in a couple of circle kicks to try to get her on the defensive, but she just kept coming.

"You're not going to catch me cutting any slack!" I yelled. I tripped her and took out some water and froze it into a spear, I had her pinned, but then I heard a noise in the distance. Fiona was getting ready to melt my spear when I yelled "STOP!" she looked at me with a confused face "listen!" I whispered. Our ears perked up as we saw two glowing red eyes appear in the jungle behind us. We stood up and stared at the eyes. I re-iced my spear and Fiona lit up. We stared at the eyes for a long time before anyone made a move

"Well are you gonna come fight, or were you just trying to scare us?" Fiona called mockingly. I asked Nika

"Now will you show me chaos sense?"

'Yes. Close your eyes and focus on what you hear, take slow breaths and I'll do the rest.' I did as she directed as I felt for Fiona's hand. I knew she didn't know what was going on, but she would soon. Suddenly, even though my eyes were closed, I could see! It was amazing! I looked at the eyes and saw the outline of the creature that was staring at us. His chaos energy was slightly erratic and looked different than all the other energies I saw. I heard Nika

'This is not good!' I also felt a jolt of excitement, but those weren't my feelings.

"Lina?" I thought

"Yes!" she thought back "I can see the chaos sense. There is something wrong with the creature." we broke the chaos sense and rushed into the forest.

'Just as I feared, he's been paralyzed!' Nika cringed.

"Nika says he was paralyzed, we should bring him back to H.Q." we picked up the creature and carried him back to H.Q.