Hi All! So here is a preview of what I am working on. Each section is a piece of a chapter of the story. Hope it gets everyone excited! Let me know what everyone thinks about it.
Arnold, Gerald, Helga, Phoebe and Rodrigo made their way into the boarding house. Once inside, they heard talking in the kitchen. Curiously, all five pre-teens made their way there and as soon as they stepped inside,
"Eduardo!" Arnold exclaimed in complete surprise.
Eduardo, along with his parents, Stella and Miles were sitting on the kitchen chairs. The serious look on their faces demonstrated that this was not a happy reunion, causing Arnold to tense up.
"What are you doing here?" Arnold bluntly asked.
"I bring dire news, Arnold." Eduardo said. "It's Lasombra. He's alive!"
Everyone then gasped in utter shock.
"You pest!" Lasombra angrily yelled at him. "Just like your parents! I'm going to throw you over the cliff! Go get it!"
But before he could make good on his threat, the poison finally began to take a toll on his body and mind. He began to wheeze and feeling hazy and starting to tumble, he tried to grab hold of something to maintain his balance. But he only managed to grab onto the amulet that was around Arnold's neck, which broke, making him lose his balance and tumbled down the cliff, disappearing into the mist.
"He died the way he lived," Eduardo said with a sigh. "Full of poison."
After being swept and splashed and thrown around for more than 20 Kilometres, the river finally began to quiet down, until its roaring currents became nothing more than an a sleepy tide. Eventually, the waters push the log that Lasombra by some miracle was still holding onto toward a small sandy shore. He had by this time almost passed out, but the sudden feeling of sand on his arms and hands made him realize that he now ashore.
Just as his eyelids were about to completely shut, he saw what looked like to be shadows approaching right on top of him. Despite the thick jungle, there was still enough light coming through that allowed him to see these 'shadows' that were right in front of him. He could also hear them talk, but he couldn't make out what they were saying.
"What? No!" Arnold exclaimed in utter despair. "But how?!"
Suddenly, nightmarish memories of their last dreadful encounter with Lasombra came flowing back in, causing everyone, except for Rodrigo, to tense up and become utterly scared.
"He was saved by another long lost tribe known as the Blue-eyed People." Eduardo explained.
"The Blue-eyed People are the Green-eyed People's sworn enemy." Miles then interjected. "They fought for centuries as the Blue-eyed people tried to take Green-eyed People's lands and city away from them. But they ended up losing the war and were banished into the thick jungle. It was believed they became extinct not long after the Spanish came and bring infectious diseases that wiped them out."
"But it was not so." Stella then continued. "They somehow survived in the jungle for centuries, biding their time when they regained their strength to attack them again."
"And now that they have saved Lasombra, they formed an alliance with him and are attacking the Green-eyed People with modern weapons." Eduardo continued.
"I have some very powerful connections with people." Lasombra explained. "I can supply you with some modern weapons. No clubs, spears or arrow. Guns. Powerful, guns."
"Trust me," He continued. "They will not know what hit them."
"yuumtsilo'ob ti' leti'ob u mayaj. Bejla'a' ti' táanil, serás u general in ejército. K guerreros seguirán a órdenes!" Pakal exclaimed to him.
"He said thanks you for your service. He is making you general of his army. All of our warriors will follow your command." Izamna explained
"Excellent.."Lasombra could not have been happier and he let out an evil smile..."Tell your King I gave him my thanks for this promotion."
While Izamna translated Lasombra's thanks to Pakal, Lasombra turned around to face HIS army and began to plot.
"With a dedicated army that is hell bent on destroying the Green-eyed people, all I need to do is give them some modern weapons and unleash them against those backward, savage people. While they are fighting each other, I will sneak past them and rob them blind! I'll take back what is owed to me! But the best prize is yet to come...he he he. Once Arnold realizes his little group of followers are in trouble, he will come back to help. And when he does...muah ha ha ha ha...ha ha ha ha!"
"The Green-eyed People have no defense against guns and rocket launchers and are now being besieged in their fortress city." Eduardo explained. "But they won't last long. They will soon run out of food. That is why I am here. To enlist your parents to help me save the Gren-eyed People once again."
"NO!" Arnold quickly replied with despair and ran up to his parents and hugged them. "They've already dedicated more than ten years of their lives helping them. For most of my life, I grew up thinking they were dead. But now that I have them again, you are asking me to give them up again? No! I don't want to lose them again!"
Helga witnessed Arnold's desperate desire to keep his parents and heavily felt for him...
Eduardo was in mid-air heading back to San Lorenzo on his own. He then heard a commotion coming from a large crate with a covering on top of it. Putting the plane on autopilot, he went toward it and removed the covering.
"What are you two doing here?!" He shockingly exclaimed on seeing Helga and Rodrigo stowing away inside the crate.
"It was his/her idea!" Both pre-teens blamed and pointed fingers at each other.
"What are you doing here, Latino boy?" Helga angrily asked him when they collided with each other inside Eduardo's plane before it took off.
"Are you crazy?" She continued to berate him. "Don't you realize how dangerous this mission is? What will your parents think? Or Rhonda?"
"Rhonda and I…." Rodrigo tearfully said, "I broke up with her." He confessed, much to Helga's shock.
"Where is he?!" A furious Rhonda barged inside the boarding house. "Where is that no-good, selfish son of a &*)$%!"
Arnold, Gerald and Phoebe, Miles and Stella were stunned at Rhonda's swearing and sudden, loud entrance.
"If that rotten little weasel thinks he can just break up with me and dump me on the side of the road," Rhonda continued to angrily shout, "he's gonna rue the day he ever set foot in this town!"
"Rodrigo and Helga stowed away on Eduardo's plane and are heading back to San Lorenzo with him." Arnold explained. "Lasombra is back, Rhonda! He is still alive!"
Rhonda said nothing and at the moment of hearing that name, she momentarily forgot about Rodrigo and her eyes widen and all of the repressed memories of that frightful week came flushing back.
"I wish was standing on a carpet." She softly said before she fainted and collapsed right onto the floor.
"Why are you here?" Rodrigo asked Helga as they continued on their journey to San Lorenzo with Eduardo.
"I just want to do something right for once in my life." Helga emotionally confessed. "Something that I can be proud of doing. So I can finally show Arnold who I really am, as he sees me…" As she opened her locket of his picture.
"We have to go back to San Lorenzo and save them and the Green-eyed People!" Arnold declared!
"AAHHHHHH" Arnold, Gerald, Phoebe, Rhonda, Miles and Stella screamed as the plane they were on fell out of the sky and crash landed back into the jungles of San Lorenzo.
"So what do we do now?" Gerald asked.
"If you want peace, prepare for war." Rodrigo declared.
"This is your city!" Rodrigo addressed the assembled troops of the Green-eyed People's best warriors. "This is your land. These are your family and future! Will you fight for them?!"
"HO!" All the troops cheered with their obsidian swords and spears.
Arnold made his way through the caves along with Eduardo, Stella and Miles that were filled with the Green-eyed People's hieroglyph, their history. Upon looking at some of them, he discovered a horrific truth.
"No." He said in complete shock. "It can't be…"
"So, how do I look?" Rhonda asked her friends after making a dress for herself made out of dried banana leaves for the blouse, coconut-like shells to cover her emerging breasts, flowers and a bushy crown on her head for decoration and sandals made out of dried plants.
Arnold, Phoebe, Gerald, Helga and especially Rodrigo remained quiet and just glanced at Rhonda in awe as they were mesmerized by her beauty.
"Damn." Helga commented.
"C'mon!" Arnold frantically exclaimed. "Helga's been kidnapped and we need to save her!"
"Okay, any minute now, Arnold will come and save the day, as he always does." Helga every nervously said as the Blue-eyed People pushed the log she was tied on toward the lava pit.
"Just any minute now."
He's gotta be strong
and he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight…
Helga was able to take a peek below and to her horror, saw that she was right on top of the lava pit.
I need a hero!
"ARNOLD, WHERE ARE YOU FOOTBALL HEAD?!" Helga frantically screamed for him.
Hey Arnold! The Return of Lasombra
Oye Arnold! El Retorno de Lasombra
