Okay new chapter. I've changed Iris's, the purple lion's, catch phrase from "It's roaring fun" to "It's all in the roar"so are you all happy with that now? First one with a Elder and a Guardian. Now for all you Undead/Air Skylander fans out there you are going to love this chapter. It has all of them in it and Drobot and Gadgit. And go back and read all the new Skylander descriptions in Chapter 2: Training Time because I've updated them. And Shadow looks like my avatar with a diamond leaf-shaped tail blade. Again, sorry for the long author's note. Don't forget to R&R kay? Here we go...
"Welcome to Shadowkrystal Crypt!" exclaimed T-Bone, throwing his arms wide.
"Hol-" breathed Gadgit, before being shushed by Cynder. "We don't use those kinds of words in the Underworld."
"And you guys can go on ahead, because I heard a rumor that the place is not only full of spiders, but it's Guardian is a giant spider," T-Bone shivered. "It's okay T-Bone, just meet us back here later. Got it?" T-Bone nodded and faded away.
"What are those crystals?" asked Skylar, ruffling her feathers nervously as she pointed a wing at the glowing dark magenta and purple crystals filled with black and dark gray mist.
"Shadow krystals. They hold the souls of all the Undead who where Banished. Do not touch them, as the souls inside will try to possess you so they can be free. They are the reason that even the Undead fear to tread here, and the source of this place's name." answered Hex grimly, no trace of emotion in her voice whatsoever.
"How did you find that out?" asked Skylar, shrinking away from the Shadow krystals and staring at Hex, who replied "I was traveling through this area and I met a ghost who warned me not to walk through the gate into here. I did not listen, thinking he was trying to trick me into becoming lost, as I was living. I did not know that his warning was true, until I walked inside.
A Shadow knight attacked and I foolishly ran in deeper, hoping it would not follow. It did, however and then I tripped over a loose stone and went flying. I landed right in front of a large Shadow krystal and the Knight approached. I threw myself aside and fired a energy beam at it. It fell onto the Shadow krystal and screamed, the most horrible sound I've ever heard. It jittered and collapsed, like it had been defeated. But then it got back up and started glowing black, and then it raced towards me, faster than any normal Shadow Knight could ever run. I blasted it several times, and still it charged. I dodged and used my magic to levitate a boulder and then I threw the boulder at the Knight. It broke into many small pieces, which flew in all directions. One sliced my shoulder, and the scar never faded. A evilly grinning ghost emerged from the biggest piece of what remained of the Knight and launched itself at me. I threw up an energy wall, and it bounced off, straight into the same Shadow krystal the Knight had fallen on. It screeched as it was sucked back in. I ran out of here as fast as my legs could carry me. I did not look back."
Quickstorm let out a long whistle and muttered "What a tale. Wish I had one as cool as that too."
"We should get going now we know of all the dangers this place has" said Drobot. They all nodded and kept going down a stony, winding path.
Soon they stopped in front of a chasm.
Chop Chop kicked a stone in and waited. The stone kept bouncing of the walls, until they could not hear it any more.
"We should send two people ahead to scout out the path." Chop Chop announced.
"I'll go." volunteered Ghost Roaster and Lightning Rod at the same time.
"Okay," Sonic Boom said "But-" she continued until Lightning Rod interjected "Be careful. I know, I know. Careful is my middle name."
Ghost Roaster and Lightning Rod floated over the chasm and down the path in a passage on the other side.
Two Rhu-babies, a Rhu-barb and a Undead Spell Punk attacked them. Lightning Rod blasted the Rhu-babies with Lightning Bolts while Ghost Roaster used Skull Charge on the Rhu-barb.
The Rhu-barb slashed at Ghost Roaster, who entered Ectoplasm mode and then he used Chain Whip to defeat it while Lightning Rod used Grand Lightning on the Undead Spell Punk.
The two Skylanders absorbed the XP orbs and collected the treasure that the enemies dropped. The treasure was portaled away by Sariah, who was watching them in her Comcrystal tablet.
They kept on walking until they came to a dead end and a chest.
"Lightning Rod, go tell the others about the chest please." asked Ghost Roaster.
"I'll tell them it's a dead end too." Lightning Rod replied, floating off back down the path.
"What do we do with all this treasure?" asked Kairn as he, Cynder, Sonic Boom, Whirlwind, Shadow and Drobot gathered around the treasure that had come from the chest.
"Sariah will portal it away, and then you new Skylanders can give it to Persephone at the Core of Light, and she will turn it into upgrades for you guys. Us old Skylanders don't need it because we have already upgraded everything we can." answered Whirlwind, as the treasure disappeared into a portal.
"Yep and it gives us really fresh breath too." added Ghost Roaster.
"Is that weird or what?" Quickstorm asked Kairn, who nodded.
A loud roar filled the air around them, shaking the passage and and causing some rocks to fall.
"Let's get outta here!" yelled Ghost Roaster, rushing away.
Everyone followed him and flew or floated over the chasm just before the passage closed up behind them.
"I don't think we were meant to go that way, do you?" said Quickstorm. "Shush, I'm trying to-" Cynder began, only to be interrupted by another loud roar.
"Chop Chop, how big was that stone you kicked down there?" asked Shadow quickly.
Before he could reply, something grabbed Gadgit, who had been standing near the edge of the pit.
"Help!" Gadgit shouted, throwing up a his two-tailed whip to catch the edge of the pit walls in an effort to stop himself being dragged down.
Shadow launched forwards and breathed black fire into the abyss. Something gave a roar of pain as the flames struck it full on.
The creature pulled Gadgit down into the chasm roaring the whole time, while the a smell of burning flesh filled the area.
Cynder and Drobot flew down the hole, with Sonic Boom and Shadow hot on their heels.
Gadgit's whip was still attached to the cliff wall so Chop Chop grabbed it and slid down into the darkness.
Hex, Ghost Roaster, Lightning Rod and Warnado floated down the dark hole in the ground while Skylar, Kairn and Whirlwind swooped down, rushing to help their fellow Skylanders.
Shadow and Sonic Boom landed to see Cynder and Drobot rush the biggest spider ever, shooting lightning and lasers at it. The spider had burns all over its face, and three of its eight eyes where closed.
"What is that?" asked Skylar, swooping down and landing next to Shadow and Sonic Boom.
Shadow charged the spider and called back over her shoulder "It's a Black Widow, giant-sized spiders with monstrous fangs!", before she dodged through a hole in the massive web that the Black Widow had spat at them.
Sonic Boom used her Roar attack on the Black Widow's left back leg, snapping it, and Chop Chop Shield Bashed the other back leg, causing the spider to fall backwards.
Skylar whipped her wings and shot a blast of wind at it, slicing into its body, causing it to scream and launch itself forward revealing Gadgit trussed up in a web, and bleeding badly.
"Gadgit!" yelled Quickstorm, running over so fast that his body was a blur.
There was a long cut down Gadgit's side, right where he had no armor, and it was bleeding heavily.
Skylar flew over and as Quickstorm sliced open the web cocoon, Skylar breathed out a fine mist, covering Gadgit, Quickstorm and herself, before she blew more mist around the spider confusing it.
Skylar floated up, and used her talons to weave... "Bandages made out of mist? Good thinking Skylar. Can you keep breathing mist?!" shouted Sonic Boom, ducking to avoid the Black Widow's leg as it stabbed right where her head had been a few moments before.
Skylar kept weaving, passing down the bandages to Quickstorm, who began wrapping them around Gadgit's side.
"Everyone, we need to confuse the Black Widow so we can beat it!" yelled Shadow said, darting past Cynder, who Shadow Dashed the opposite direction.
Kairn ran over to stand next to Hex as she summoned a Wall of Bones and then called down a Rain of Skulls and each skull of the four skulls hit the Black Widow squarely on the head.
Kairn leapt on to the top of the Bone Wall and shot dark purple energy at the spider, before ducking down as it shot a thick web strand at him.
Lightning Rod used his Grand Lightning Avatar from the right while Warnado used his Spin attack to spin around and around the spider's legs, cutting into them with his sharp shell.
"Why don't we use one of the silk strands from the Black widow and get Warnado to spin around the spider holding the strand and tying its legs together?" thundered Drobot, firing his Blade Gears from the left, confusing the spider even more than it already was, as it tried to find a target to attack.
"Warnado, there's a thread back here!" hollered Kairn as Hex's Wall of Bones went down and the thread came off and stuck to the ground.
Warnado spun back, grabbed the silk strand and began to spin around the spider, while it was bombarded by Lightning Bolts, Phantom Orbs, Spectral Lightning, Black Fire, Lasers and Rainbows and attacked with Sonic Boom's Roar, Chop Chop's Shield Bash, Kairn's Dark Horn Ram and Ghost Roaster's Chain Whip.
Finally the Black Widow succumbed to all their attacks and exploded into a pile of XP orbs, which were absorbed by everyone, and a pile of treasure which was sucked into a portal created by Sariah.
Seconds later her worried voice sounded in their Comcrsytals " Skylanders, how is Gadgit?".
Chop Chop reappeared, holding Gadgit's coiled up whip, though no-one had noticed he had gone, even for a second.
Skylar answered Sariah "Gadgit needs proper healing, but I've done my best. It won't last though, and I need to stay with him to keep the bandages from dissolving."
"I have your whip Gadgit," droned Chop Chop, handing it back.
Gadgit weakly nodded his thanks, as Sariah teleported him and Skylar back to the Core of Light.
"And Hugo says that you'll find various challenges, and a Guardian who will awaken once you cross a certain threshold and fight you. They will help you find the Elder once you make them submit, as you will have to fight them."
"Was the Black Widow-?" asked Whirlwind.
"No, because all Guardians are sentient, can talk, and will tell you their name and that they are, in fact, the true Guardian. The Black Widow was a small deterrent some people who weren't serious about finding the Elder would flee rather than fight it." Shadow said, answering her unfinished question.
"I will inform the other Skylanders of that so they know who to kill and who not to kill. Thanks"
Cynder sighed and began walking down the next passageway, which had been hidden by the black Widow.
"One down, two to go," whispered Shadow quietly, following her.
Finished. I posted a chapter today because today Giants launches in Australia, or at least where I live it does. The chapter was going to be longer, but I've decided to cut it down. Also, if you want an OC in my story tell me in a review or PM me, I still have spots for OCs to be the Water, Earth, Air and Tech Guardians and every Element except Undead needs a Giant and Elder and any other OCs if you tell what they look/behave like I will put them in and give them a role too. Hope you liked this chapter. Review please.
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