Chapter 7

At Madame Amberley's Academy of Evil, Madame Amberley walks into the classroom, making all the students stand up at her presence. One of the students is an eighteen year old Neo Cortex who looks bored with the routine and just wants to get to his evolvo ray plans he has in front of him.

"May we bring darkness upon this school, Madame Amberley?" the students say in unison.

"You may." answered Madame Amberley,

"Sit down everyone." the students follow orders which Neo is very happy to do so he can continue with his plans. He looks down at all the different designs of his evolvo ray. I figured out the design he just doesn't know how to make animals become mutants, something he needs to experiment later after class.

"Before I start ze lesson, we have a new student who is going to be joining us." This caught Neo's attention, wondering why there is a new student in the last year of school. He looks up to see the most beautiful girl he has ever seen. She has long black hair down to her waist, petite figure, light blue skin and amythest eyes that holds no emotion.

"Everyone meet Nadia May. She will join us in class from now until the end of the year." Neo can feel his heart beating rapidly, he hasn't felt like this before.

"Now, vhere to put you?"she looks around to see an empty chair next to Cortex.

"Ah, there you are my dear, right next to Cry Baby Cortex." she said mockingly making Neo going red with embarrassment. He sees Nadia coming towards him to sit next to him, set her bag down and taking her books out. Neo is not payng attention to the lesson as he continuously stares at Nadia, feeling like a creep for doing it, however Nadia can feel someone watching her and turns towards Neo, causing him to go red again and quickly turns back to his plans as a distraction, hoping she didn't see him blush. He slowly turns back towards her to see her still staring at him with her piercing eyes, then she looks down to see his designs of the evolvo ray. She takes a closer look at it making Neo embarrassed by his work but he just sit there not doing anything or speaking any words. He watches her take her pen out and start drawing something on his design. He suddenly become curious and look closer to see what she is drawing. She stopped to show her a drawing of a power crystal with an arrow towards the evolvo ray. Neo gives her a confused look but she just smiled back at him, making him melt on the spot. He was about to ask what it is when the school bell rang, signalling the class has ended, bring him back to reality to see Nadia getting up immediately and ran out the door. He looks down at his plans, looking at the crystal that is drawn with a purple ink, weirdly reminds him of her eyes. When he looks at it closely, he sees there is something written underneath the crystal.

'Meet me at the courtyard at 3pm.' - NM

Everything goes white to the present day with Neo still chained up to the wall in the dungeon, his shirt ripped in half and have scars and bruises all over his face and body. He suddenly been kicked awake followed by a snarky voice,

"Having a lovely dream, Sleeping Beauty?" he looks up to see Dr N. Tropy smirking down at him, clearly enjoying seeing how pathetic Neo is. Neo is too tired to deal with Tropy and slowly closes his eyes till he has been kicked again.

"I don't think so Doctor, as I have a present I want to show you that I think you will be very interested in. Tiny!" Tiny rushes through the door the minute he heard his name called out.

"Unlock his chains from the walls." he throw the keys at Tiny, "and if he tries to escape, don't hesitate to pin him down or knock him down." Tiny whimpers but continues to follow his orders when Tropy leans down and sinisterly whispers,

"We are going to go on a little trip."

Aku aku is still weak fron the even in Coco's mind, lying on the sofa trying to rest and regain his power with Crunch pacing back and forth in front of him, having no idea what to do in this situation.

"Don't worry Crunch. I will be fine. All I need is rest." Aku aku said weakly.

"If you are sure Aku aku but what about Coco?" He joins Crash and Nina looking at 'Coco' who is looking around the house in complete awe.

"Wow, it has been so long since I have been in this house. So many memories." As she looks around she can see everyone staring at her causing her to blush,

"I am so sorry. I am being incredibly rude. My name is Nadia, I used to live here with my family." she said as Crunch is still looking at her suspiciously.

"So it is you." Aku aku whisperes,

"What is she talking about?" Crunch asks but Aku aku just ignores him and flies straight to Nadia.

"But what happened to you? We all thought you were dead." Nadia looks shocked by this revelation,

"You all thought I died? Who told you?"

"Someone told Neo and then the news spread around. We even arranged a funeral for you." Aku aku answered.

"And where is Neo now?" she asks looking around frantically, hoping to see him.

"He is not here. He left Nina here for safety and then left." Nadia started to breath rapidly as she is still looking around, then her eyes fall onto Nina, her tears are welling up in tears.

"Nina," she whisperes,

"My dear, look how much you've grown." she walks towards her but is stopped by Crash who is stading between them, clearly doesn't trust the person who is possessing his little sister.

"Now look here little lady. You came here, possessed our little sister and you think an apology is going to make us trust you from the start? You better give us a good explanation for all of this." Crunch says sternly, crossing his arms to show he is serious. She looks to Aku aku for help but she can see she also wants an explanation.

"Well...you see-" she got cut off when they hear crash right outide the front door. Everyone run outsde to see something they remember vividly from their last adventure. It's MegaBandicoot, lying on its front with smoke coming out of it. They run up to it to see N. Gin wobbling out of the machine, clearly effected by the crash.

"N. Gin!" Nina shouted, "Ginny!" shouted Nadia, as they ran up to N. Gin, both of them giving him a massive hug.

"Ginny? No one calls me by that name except-" N. Gin says looking suspiciously at Coco.

"Yes Ginny. It's me." Nadia says as Nina slowly backs away from her, still unsure about this person.

"And what are you doing here? Coming to attack us with that thing again? You two stay away from him, he is dangerous!" Crunch shouted as him and Crash are ready to attack N. Gin. N. Gin just put his hands up to show he is unarmed and means no harm.

"What are you talking about? He is my friend!" she shouted as Aku aku flies inbetween everyone before the conflict goes any further.

"Alright everyone, calm down. Obviously lots of things has happened that needs some explaining before we jump to any conclusions. N. Gin, I can see you are unarmed, so why did you come all the way here?" N. Gin lets out a big sigh before he speaks,

"It's Dr Cortex. Somehow N. Tropy found him and now him and Uka uka held him hostage and torturing him." he looks to Nina who has fear in her eyes,

"They are looking for you, Nina."

I am so sorry it took so long as a lot of things has happened thanks to Christmas, work and dealing with my anxiety, however I do hope you enjoyed the christmas one shot so there will be christmas air into the Crash Bandicoot Fanfiction Community. I hope this chapter isn't too fast pace but I will try to slow it down with the future chapters as I have a few ideas for them. Also, on my profile I have a Short story blog that I started this year. I already put a first story on it so do check it out. I hope you enjoy reading the story as much as I enjoy writing it.

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