Isiah: What up?! Isiah and Tom here.
Tom: What's going on, fellow readers?!
Isiah: And welcome back to Avalor's Continued Nightmare. Things started to really heat up in the last chapter.
Tom: Yep, something happened to Elena. But what was it?
Isiah: Let's take a look at that right now.
After leading Gabe out of the factory and into a portal created by Zuzo, Mateo found himself transported to the palace. Without thinking twice, he charged for the entrance and checked his surroundings. Dead bodies over by certain areas of the halls.
Mateo didn't care about the bodies on the floor. He just wanted to make sure Elena was alive. He made his way to the Grand Council courtroom and kicked the door open only to see that nobody was in the room. There was only a note on the table and Mateo picked it up and read it.
I heard you've been a busy boy. Well I've been a busy man. I've finally gotten my hands on your beautiful Princess Elena. Now you and every other sinner in Avalor will watch as I use her soul to destroy this kingdom and this time, there will be no escape.
"Goddamn it," Mateo said slamming the note on the table. As he was going to sulk in depression, someone caught his eye from the window. Looking at it, Mateo saw an airship flying away from the city. But who he saw in it really caught his attention.
He saw Darkness looking down at the city.
"I swear to Alacazar, I'm gonna kill you if you hurt her," Mateo said turning around to see someone unexpectedly.
"So your spirit demon has Elena, but you've done us quite the favor Mateo," he saw Fiero, Victor, and Carla in the courtroom entrance. But Victor and Carla wasn't in their malvago robes.
Mateo walked up to Fiero and asked, "Fiero? What are you talking about I've done you a favor?"
Victor stepped up and answered Mateo's question. "It appears you're not the only one who has a score to settle with Darkness."
"His little inventing worm reset the timeline and stripped us of our malvago magic," Carla stepped in as well.
"His inventing worm," Mateo gasped knowing exactly who they were talking about. "Isabel?!"
"Correct! We saw her time machine down in the basement," Carla reported. "We're going to hunt down and kill all those spirits of hell!"
Mateo thought it wouldn't be a problem if they helped out and said, "Oh well. If Darkness is out to kill sinners, you guys are bound to be confronted by him sooner or later."
"Good. You guys better search the rest of the palace to seek out any form of defense we can use against Darkness," Fiero said to the Delgados before turning to Mateo. "You, meet up with your friends. I'm sure they won't be safe for long without your presence."
"With pleasure," Mateo said going towards the palace exit.
"And don't get killed on the way to them," Carla shouted as a reminder.
"No promises," Mateo said leaving the palace.
Regrouping in Valleyestrella
Naomi and Gabe found themselves in a huge tree house in Valleyestrella. They took a moment to look at their surroundings and Naomi quickly caught something at the corner of her eye. She then walked towards it to see that it was a huge diamond shaped emerald in the middle of the room.
While the two were looking at the emerald, they didn't notice Mateo and a few fellow jaquins walking in on them. "Like what you're looking at," he asked.
"What is it," Gabe asked.
"It's the Emerald of Valleyestrella," one of the jaquins known as Skylar answered. "Us jaquins use it to vision anything inside or outside the realm."
"Cool! You think you guys can vision where Darkness is taking Princess Elena to," Mateo asked.
"Thought you would never ask. Step aside," Skylar said and Mateo got out of his way. Skylar then asked the Emerald about Darkness and Princess Elena's departure from Avalor and it glowed brightly showing an image of a lava powerhouse.
Mateo was the first to reaction to this and said, "What is this?"
Skylar looked at more images of the lava house and most of them having Elena using the lava with her Scepter of Light. Then the emerald showed images of Elena and Darkness using the lava to burn down Avalor. It was a really horrifying thing to look at and Skylar ended up shouting, "This is just terrible!"
"What is it," Mateo asked again.
"According to the Emerald, Darkness is taking the Princesa to some lava powerhouse and it's saying that he wants to drown her in the lava that's there," Skylar said.
"A lava powerhouse," Naomi said in shock. "Drowning Elena in its lava?!"
"Yeah. And when the lava in there is done absorbing Princess Elena and her Scepter-" Skylar was cut off by a certain malvago walking in on them.
"That will be the true resurrection of Nightmare," Fiero finished watching as Mateo and his friends kept looking at the images.
"True...resurrection...of Nightmare," Mateo said in disbelief.
"I'm afraid so Mateo," Fiero said. "And the lava she's taken control of she will use to destroy and remake not only Avalor...but the whole entire world in her own image."
Gabe took another look at the images and said, "What the fuck?!"
Naomi was in worry for what she was hearing and said, "The entire world? Only God alone knows what kingdom havoc Nightmare will cause next if she manages to destroy Avalor."
Everyone looked at the images for a few more moments until someone came into the tree house saying, "The kingdom of Enchantia."
Mateo was the first to see Victor and Carla Delgado walk in and said, "Enchantia? But...that's...Princess Sofia's kingdom!"
"Mhm. I did some research on Darkness and it appears that if he or any of his goons were to kill any of you, his chances of beginning to bring hell to Enchantia will increase," Victor explained. "He's already killed what was left of Princess Elena's family, so that's more than likely a huge disadvantage right there."
"Well I'm not waiting for those chances to keep going up," Gabe stated. "Nor am I waiting for Darkness to drown the Crown Princess in some lava pit!"
"You said it Gabe," Mateo agreed. "Where is this lava powerhouse Skylar?"
Skylar let out a chuckle and said, "You won't believe this, but it's all the way in the kingdom of Maru."
Mateo sighed at hearing this and said, "Looks like another long flight."
"You could use us...or you can use the Emerald to teleport you there faster," Skylar stated out.
"Hmm. That may get us there a lot faster," Mateo said. "Let's try it."
As everyone stood back, Skylar looked at the Emerald and said, "Emerald of Valleyestrella, teleport us to the Maru lava powerhouse!" A huge beam of light then shined on the whole tree house quickly pulling everyone inside.
Approaching the Lava Shelter
Mateo and his friends were teleported to the lava shelter in Maru. Not so long after they arrived, Fiero and the Delgados appeared next to them.
As everyone was taking a good look at how huge the lava shelter was, Naomi was the first to break the silence. "So this is it, huh?"
"Sure is. The Maru Lava Shelter," Fiero said.
"Funny. I pictured it being away from the temples and pyramids and stuff," Gabe said noticing that it was in between two huge pyramids.
After another moment of silence, Carla had a question come to mind and decided to ask it. "Now, um, how are we suppose to stop Darkness from turning Princess Elena into Nightmare?"
"Well if I'm correct, they haven't showed up yet," Mateo said. "But I was thinking maybe three of us jump them from one end and the other three jump them from another."
"Alright! Sounds like a plan," Carla said with excitement.
Victor calmed his daughter down and said, "Actually, there are some of Darkness's goons inside the shelter. If me and Carla can find the computer room, we can pinpoint the other goons and stop them from messing up the attack."
"Okay then. Fiero, you're with me," Mateo said pointing to Fiero as he took out his tamborita in agreement.
"Guess it's you and me, Gabe," Naomi smiled.
"Never a bad time," Gabe said walking inside the lava shelter with everyone else.
To be continued...
Isiah: Ooh snap! Now we know of Darkness's true intension with Elena and where it's taking place.
Tom: And we know how Mateo and the others are gonna stop him.
Isiah: Yep. Well we hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. We're gonna get more into it soon. If there's by any chance you haven't seen our latest Mateo/Elena story called Third Round's a Charm, please check that out. You'll love it.
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Isiah: As always, until the next time.