Chapter 21:
Three weeks have past on Earth for the Guardians and Summer was coming to an end. Which meant school was going to start soon. And the girls knew that sooner or later, questions were going to be asked about where Cassidy, Joel, Micheal, Alchemy, and Angelo were. So, the girls decided to meet at Will's place to discuss what they should do about the whole thing.
"I've got nothing.", Irma said as she sat on the couch with Hay Lin and Taranee.
"Well, we have to think of something.", Cornelia said as she was sitting in a chair. "School's going to start in a week!"
"We could always say that they're attending a school out of the country.", Hay Lin suggested.
"But then we'll have to get their parents to go along with it.", Taranee replied.
"Then let's tell them.", Hay Lin said. "I mean, they may not like us right now, but they may still go along with all of this."
"Hay Lin has a point.", Will said. "We have to tell their parents whatever idea we have. And right now, Hay Lin's plan sounds like the best one."
"We just have to convince them to go along with it.", Irma said.
"That'll be fun.", Cornelia said dully.
"Well, I'll call Uncle John and tell him about our plan.", Will said as she picked up the phone and began to dial John Vander's phone number. "I just hope it all works out."
"Knowing our luck, they'll yell at us before agreeing to anything.", Irma replied with a tired sigh.
Now for the three weeks that past on Earth, three years have past on Vrogen. Which made the six Hybrids thriteen. They, of course, were stronger, faster, and more powerful than before. This also meant that they could venture out further and see what was around the area.
"Okay, young ones. You may venture out today.", Draganos said to the Hybrids. "But be careful out there. There are dangers out there that not even you can handle with your current powers."
"We'll be careful, Draganos.", Nerissa said as she was ready to go exploring. "Come on guys!"
"I'm ready!", Angelo said as he walked up to Nerissa.
"Same here!", Micheal said. "I wonder what we'll find out there?"
"Only one way to find out.", Nerissa said smiling.
"Well, I'm ready to go!", Cassidy said.
"Me too!", said Joel smiling.
"Then let's get going!", Alchemy said as she extended her wings along with the others.
The six hybrids then took to the air and flew off through the forest. Watching them fly off was Draganos who had a smile on his face.
"Have fun, young ones.", he said as curled up in his twenty foot form. "As for me, I'll be taking a quick rest."
As Draganos was relaxing, the Hybrids were flying around the forest enjoying their free time.
"So, how far do we go today?", Alchemy asked as they flew through the forest.
"I say we check out that valley Draganos showed us that day he had us flying with him!", Cassidy suggested.
"Let's go for it!", Nerissa said happily.
"It does sound fun.", Angelo said.
"I'm okay with it.", Micheal said.
"Me, too.", Alchemy said.
"Then let's go!", Joel said as they all picked up speed.
So, the young Hybrids made their way to a valley to go exploring. What they didn't know was that they were being watched.
"So, they're venturing further out today.", Skrag said as he watched the Hybrids fly away from where he was hiding. "Dragas will like to hear this!"
'Master Dragas!', Skrag called out to Dragas telepathiclly. 'Can you hear me, master?'
'Yes, Skrag.', Dragas replied telepathiclly. 'What is it?'
'I've been spying on the Hybrid lately and now they're heading towards the outer valley!', Skrag reported.
'Nice work, Skrag!', Dragas said. 'This is the chance I need to get what is mine! I'm sending Terros and Aquos to you now! And something extra.'
'Yes, master.', Skrag replied before Dragas cut their telepathic link.
Suddenly, a portal opened near Skrag. Out of the portal walked Terros and Aquos.
"So, where's the special something?", Skrag asked.
Terros then held out his right claw to show a dark violet crystal.
"Dragas said to use it when we find those brats.", Terros said. "But we are to be hidden when we use this."
"Then let us hurry!", Skrag said as he took to the air. "The sooner we find them, the sooner Dragas will have what he wants!"
The three dragons then flew to where the Hybrids were going. Back at the Dark Mountains, Dragas was in his cave waiting for the moment his three loyal servants would activate the crystal he gave Terros to use.
"If this works out the way it should, Nerissa shall join me by the end of the day.!", Dragas sad with a smirk. "And by now, my dear brother is getting his present. All is going well."
Dragas let out an evil laugh knowing his plan was going well. Back at the den of the Hybrids and Draganos, Draganos was laying back, and enjoying the peace and quite.
"Aaaaah.", Draganos said in a lazy tone as he leaned back against a tree. "Every once in a while a dragon needs to kick back and enjoy life."
High in the air, above Draganos a female air dragon, named Tarka, that joined up with Dragas was flying in a circle waiting for the right moment to do what she was sent there to do. In one of her claws was a pineapple that Dragas had the female air dragon take and put among the pineapples Draganos had with him. Lucky for her, Dragas gave her a gem that would protect her from Draganos sensing her.
"One good dive should do it.", Tarka said as she looked down at Draganos. "And then Master Dragas shall what he wants!"
Seeing her moment, Tarka turned invisable and dove down at Draganos! Once close enough, Tarka droppd the pineapple on top of the pile of pineapples. Tarka then flew into the forest and hid behind some bushes and watched to see what would happen. Tarka watched as Draganos, who was in his ten foot Chinese dragin form, grabbed the pineapple, she dropped there, and ate it. A smile grew as she knew what was going to happen next. Once Draganos ate the pineapple, he grabbed a deer leg and was about to bite into it when he suddenly felt funny.
"What the...", Draganos said as he dropped the deer leg. "Something's wrong!"
He then looked at his claw and saw that his vision began to blur.
"What's happening to me?", Draganos said as he slowly fell to the ground unconscious.
Seeing this, Tarka smiled before taking to the air and flew after Skrag and the others.
"With Draganos out of the way, for a while, Dragas shall hopefully have the time he needs to turn Nerissa to his side!", Tarka said as she flew faster.
Meanwhile, the Hybrids had arrived in the valley and were amazed at the many animals they saw. And by animals, I mean dinosaurs!
"Look at all these animals!", Joel said excited at what he was seeing. "Let's see! From, what Draganos taught us, there's a herd of triceratops!"
"And there's a thing of Geosaurus!", Cassidy said as she pointed to the beach area the water dinos were swimming.
"And some ankylosaurs!", Nerissa said looking towards the club tailed beast. "Wow!"
"Check out the pterodactylus in the sky!", Micheal said as he looked up at the flying dinos.
"I'm more interested in the stegosauruses over there!", Alchemy said as she pointed towards the spiked tailed animals.
"I like the brontosauruses over there!", Angelo said as he looked at the long necked beast as they were eating from the really tall trees. "This is so amazing!"
"Where did they all come from?", Cassidy questioned.
"From what Draganos said, they among other dinos are from a world called Earth.", Alchemy said remembering what Draganos taught them. "Millions of years ago, Draganos along with our Grand Dragon parents brought some of them from Earth to live here."
"Wow!", Cassidy said. "There must be a lot of them around here!"
"Yeah.", Joel said. "The mountains keep them from roaming to where we live."
"And I think that's a good thing!", Micheal said. "Look!"
The Hybrids then looked to see two T-Rexs running at the herd of triceratops roaring it's mighty roar scaring the Hybrids a little.!
"What is that thing?", Cassidy said as they ducked behind some bushes.
"That would be a tyranasarus rex!", Alchemy said as the six of them peeked from behind the bushes to see what was happening. "It's a meat-eater."
"Oh yeah!", Micheal said. "I remember Draganos telling us about them. Wow, is it huge!"
"But it has such little arms.", Nerissa said. "How's he going to eat his food?"
They then watched as the T-Rex bit down on a triceratops' soft back, tearing into it's flesh making the other triceratops run off in fear!
"That's how.", Angelo said as they watched the triceratops tried to fight it's way from the T-Rex's grip.
But it was no use. Soon the triceratops was dead and the T-Rex began to eat it's meal. This kind of frazzled they Hybrids a bit, even though they were thriteen, as they ducked back behind the bushes they were in. They never seen something like that.
"That was so horrible!", Cassidy said as they sat there.
"Is that what Draganos has to do when he catches our meal?", Nerissa questioned sadly.
"I think so.", Alchemy said. "I never thought it was like that."
"And to think, we'll have to do something like that when we're older!", Micheal said.
"Well, it's like Draganos told us.", Joel said. "It's the circle of life. We can't change it."
"I now.", Nerissa said. "But, it's kind of scary thinking that can happen to any of us. I don't want to lose you guys like that!"
"Don't worry to much about it , sis.", Joel said with a kind smile.
"Yeah!", Micheal said as he wrapped an arm around Nerissa while smiling at her. "Besides. It'll take more that some T-Rex to take us out!"
Nerissa looked at Micheal and smiled at him before resting her head on his shoulder. Micheal couldn't help but smile. Every since that night, three years ago, those two have been pretty close. At first, Joel didn't know what was going on between the two, but Draganos explained to him that Nerissa and Micheal were doing what a maie and female do at their age and that it was normal.
'I still don't get it.', Joel thought to himself. 'But if it's normal, like Draganos says, then I'm okay with it.'
After about thirty minutes, Angelo took a peek through the bushes to see if the T-Rex was gone. Thankfully, he was.
"Okay, guys!", Angelo said. "He's gone!"
"Good!", Cassidy said as they walked out from behind the bushes. "Now we can go back to having some fun looking at the other dinos."
But as the six Hybrids were enjoying their free time again, they were being watched by Skrag, Terros, and Aquos who were spyong on them from a great distance.
"Well, there they are.", Aquos said. "When are we going to do this?"
"Right now!", Skrag said. "Give me the shard, Terros!"
"Here you...", Terros said as he handed Skrag the crystal shard, Dragas gave him, only to see a purple blur sweep by and take the shard. "... go?"
"What the...?", Skrag questioned s he watched the shard vanish.
"Now what's this for?", came a familiar voice getting the attention of Skrag, Aquos, and Terros as they turned towards the source of the voice.
The trio looked to see Tarka landing in front of them holding the dark violet crystal in her right claw.
"What are you doing here, Tarka?", Skrag snapped at the air dragon.
"Maling sure yiu don't screw up the master's plan.", Tarka said as she walked by the trio as they glarred at her. "Why Dragas truthed you with somehing like this I'll never know. I should be the one to do this mission! Not you!"
"Then let's see you try.", Skrag said.
"Oh, I will!", Taraka said as she held up the crystal shard. "Shard! Obey me and unleash your power!"
After a few seconds, nothing happened. Tarka tried it again and again, but nothing happened. Skrag, Terros, and Aquos stood there and snickered at Tarka as she tried to get the shard to work.
"Trouble?", Aquos asked with a smirk.
"Blasted crystal!", Tarka snapped. "It won't worn!"
"Tarka, Tarka, Tarka.", Skrag said as he snatched the crystal from Tarka. "It's not that it won't work for you."
Tarka then looked at Skrag with a raise eyebrow.
"It's the fact that it'll only work for Skrag.", Terros replied with a smirk.
"What?", Tarka questioned in shock.
"You see, dear Tarka, Dragas trust me, Aquos, and Terros to do the dangerous missions.", Skrag replied.
"What he had you do, before you came after us, was mere child's play.", Terros said as he, Skrag, and Terros circled her.
"We were the ones that were trusted with this mission.", Aquos said proudly.
"So, know your place!", Skrag said as he got in Tarkar's face.
Skrag, Terros, and Aquos then walked away from Tarka to do what they were sent to do. Tarka glared at the three dragons as walked away from them.
"Watch yourselves, boys!", Tarka said to herself. "You won't be on top forever! And when you fall, I'll rise to the top!"
Tarka then followed behind the trio to see what was going to happen. Once she caught up with them, she saw the crystal shard glowing in Skrag's claws as he held it up.
"Okay shard! Do your thing!", Skrag demanded of the shard as the glow got bigger.
Suddenly, eight orbs of light shot out from the crystal and began to take shape. The four dragons looked at the balls of light as they took their shape. Once they light faded, Skrag saw what stood before him and his friends and smirked.
"Now I see your plan, Dragas.", Skrag said. "And it is brilliant!"
"It is?", Tarka questioned as she looked at the beings in front of her.
"Yes. Yes it is.", Skrag said before walking up to the eight beings in front of him. "Do you all know your mission?"
"Yes, we do.", the eight figures said together.
"Then go!", Skrag said in a demanding voice. "Do as you were made to do!"
The eight figures nodded before leaving to do their mission.
'It is done, master!', Skrag said to Draga telepathiclly.
'Very good Skrag!', Dragas said. 'I knew I could count on you, Aquos, and Terros. Be ready to make your appearnce."
'We will, Dragas.', Terros said.
'And Tarka?'
'Yes, master?', Taraka questioned thinking she was going to get some praise.
'If you ever try and do what you did, when you took the shard from Terros, again I'll make sure you will pay for it dearly!', Dragas snapped. 'Get back to Dark Mountain! NOW!'
'Y-Y-Yes, master!', Tarka said as she quickly took to the sky and flew back to Dark Mountain.
"That takes care of that.", Terros said.
"Now let's see what happens with the Hybrids.", Skrag said.
"This should be fun.", Aquos said as the three of them went to spy on the Hybrids.
Meanwhile, Tarka was flying towards the Dark Mountains.
"I can't believe that just happened!", Taraka said as she flew through the sky. "This is far from over, Skrag! You here me! Far from over!"
As Tarka was flying towards the Dark Mountains, Dragas had walked out of the cave he was stayung in. He then extended his wings and took to the sky and flew to the valley where the Hybrids were.
"Time to go make my appearance.", Dragas said as he flew through the sky slowly. "Can't be to early."
As for the Hybrids, they were walking around, on their hind legs, looking at the sites of the valley.
"This place is so amazing.", Cassidy said.
"Yeah!", Micheal said. "If not for the meat-eaters here, I wouldn't mind living here."
"There's also the giant dinos that live here.", Joel said.
"Oh yeah!", Micheal said. "Well, let's just enjoy our time here."
"I don't think anything can ruin this day.", Cassidy said.
Suddenly, a fire shot up infront of the Hybrids. Once they jumped back, the five of them looked at Alchemy.
"I didn't do it!", Alchemy said.
Soon they heard laughter. They turned around to see eight figures they knew all to well.
"It can't be!", Cassidy said.
"I thought they were gone!", Joel said,
"Guess they're not.", Angelp said as he took a fighting stance with the other Hybrids.
In front of the Hybrids were the Guardians, Matt, Caleb, and Blunk. Each was looking like they wanted to fight. And the Hybriids were going to give them one.
A/N: Well, with the Guardins and their allies causing trouble for the Hybris, Dragas may get what he want and turn Nerissa to the dark side. Hopefully she'll be able to fight off Dragas.
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