Upon Gor'Castle Summit, the CM gang stood looking out beyond the castle.
"Do you see anything?" Charlie asked.
"Not yet. It's too dark to see anything right now," Kelly replied.
"It's still night. We just need the sun to rise a bit and it should be easier to see," Violet said, whiling sitting on the edge.
"Hey, be careful on there. You might fall," Tommy said to Violet, and then she swung around and planted her feet on the floor.
"How long until the sun comes up?" Rex asked.
"About twenty minutes, probably," Lester replied.
While the guys were waiting, Kelly decided to take this time to talk a little more with Violet.
"Hey Vi, can you help me out for a minute?" Kelly asked, and Violet nodded.
Both ladies were walking out of what used to be the room with the throne.
"So Violet, I wanted to ask you a few things," Kelly said.
"Sure thing," Violet said.
"I was wondering about your cousin, Vito. What's he like?" Kelly asked.
Violet thought about it, and then she replied, "Vito's a good guy at heart, even though he's a bit of a doofus sometimes. He's always willing to help other people, especially kids because he says he remembers being a kid once. He would always look on the bright side, and do his best in everything, even if it's sweeping a floor. He's pretty hyper and always ready to do something 'adventurous' as he calls it. We would always either go out and look for something to do or just kick back and play video games in the house. But no matter what we were doing, we always had fun, him and I. Laughing, playing, goofing around... it's always fun with Vito..." Violet looked down, as if a sudden tug at her heart had made her sad.
Kelly noticed and she asked, "Violet, are you okay?"
Violet didn't look up, but she replied, "I just thought about when I lost him... I was thinking about how we wouldn't be able to hang around together or laugh and be best friends... I just don't know what I would have done without him, and my mother too. We've always been together... but now Vito may be crippled and he won't be able to play sports or do the things he always wanted to do... and now that my mom has been taken... I don't know what's going to happen to us. It won't be the same..."
Kelly looked down and thought, 'Whoa... she almost lost her only family, and pretty cool ones at that. The only way she's ever lived was with them... No wonder she was so set on revenge before.'
Then Violet stopped walking, which made Kelly stop.
"Wait a minute, where are we going? Didn't you need my help with something?" Violet asked Kelly.
"Oh. Um. You already helped me," Kelly replied, and Violet looked at her in confusion.
"Hey, Kelly, Violet! Take a look at this!" Charlie called out from the other room.
Kelly and Violet looked at one another and nodded, as they walked back to where the guys were.
"What's going on?" Kelly asked.
"See for yourselves," Charlie said, looking at something beyond the castle.
Kelly and Violet looked, and they saw a large glowing structure, surrounded by a mist of darkness.
"You think that's where he is?" Violet asked, as she examined the structure the best she could from that distance.
"Well it's a start, but judging by how flashy and dark it is, I'd say that's our best guess," Charlie said.
"It wasn't there a minute ago, and those monsters look like they're guarding it," Paul said, looking through some binoculars at the mysterious place.
"Wait! You mean that black mist is actually MONSTERS?" Rex asked.
"Yeah, and a lot of them," Paul said calmly.
"Dang," Lester said.
"Could our bikes break through them?" Charlie asked.
"I don't think our bikes will be able to cover the whole distance between here and there," Tommy said.
"And even if they could, those monsters won't let us pass easily," Lester said, crossing his arms.
"There has to be a way," Kelly said.
Silence followed, as everyone was trying to think of an idea or plan to get into the mysterious structure without dying.
"Uh guys, what's that?" Violet asked, pointing to something heading their way.
They squinted their eyes to get a better look, but then Paul said,
"Oh my..."
"What is it?" Charlie asked.
"Get ready for the chariots of hell," Paul said, as he put away his binoculars and took out a shotgun.
The others got their weapons together, which was an assortment of shotguns, handguns, and machine guns. They heard the sound of faint galloping, and then it became louder as they saw seven flying beasts coming their way. They were a group of horse-like creatures with black legs like velvet, golden bodies of armor with only the bones of their neck and head visible, with orange and black fire as the mane on their head and tails.
They came galloping in the air towards the CM gang, with glowing yellow eyes of fury, and three long white feathers on each side of the horses' bodies, which could explain how they were flying. The CM gang took a couple of steps back, readying their weapons as the group of horse beasts approached them. Violet was quickly skimming her little black book, when the horses landed on the ground in front of the CM gang. They stood still, looking at the CM gang, as if they were waiting for orders to attack from an unseen leader.
"Here," Violet whispered when she found the page that showed the horse-like creatures.
"They're called Soaring Rapids, horse-like incendiaries and... they're like horses..." Violet said.
"Yeah? What else?" Tommy asked.
"That's it. It just says 'they're like horses,'" Violet said.
No one moved, as the CM gang stared at the horses and they stared back. Each side was waiting for the other to make their first move. During that time, Violet thought,
'Horses. 'They're like horses.' I can see that, but how is that helping-'
Suddenly, Violet realized the significance to that one sentence, and shouted out loud,
"We can tame them like horses!"
Her sudden out burst of realization had startled the others, as well as the fiery horses, who neighed and scrapped their front hooves on the ground.
"They're gonna charge!" Tommy warned, as he took a couple of steps back.
"Wait-" Rex tried to stop Tommy from moving, but the horses rose up on two legs, and then they slammed their front hooves down and charged forward.
"You moved back! You can't show that your afraid of them!" Rex said, and then they all started running since the Soaring Rapids were coming.
"Then what do we do now?" Tommy asked Rex, and the others listened in as well.
"Grab a snack and/or face them head on," Rex replied, as he took out a carrot from his pocket.
"Why you had a carrot in your pocket?" Charlie asked.
"One of my kittens likes them. But he likes playing with them more than eating them," Rex said, as he rubbed the back of his head.
"You got anymore," Violet asked, and Rex shook his head.
-Neigh!-
"Then let's split up and grab something to give these beasts," Lester said, as he saw that the horses were catching up.
"Let's go," Paul said, as the whole team dispersed, while Rex stopped running and turned around.
He saw that the horses also dispersed to follow each person, while one of them stood a few feet away from him. The horse looked at him with shuttered eyes, while Rex firmly held onto the carrot and looked at him with a stern expression.
"Bring it on Horse-bro!" Rex yelled out, as he charged at the horse, and horse charged at him dramatically.