Defenders of Jamaa ~ Loafie

## Contents

* Defenders of Jamaa ~ Loafie
	+ Contents
	+ **CH 1 ~ Audrey's POV**edit | edit source
	+ **CH 2 ~ Audrey's POV**edit | edit source
	+ **CH 3 ~ Haylee's POV**edit | edit source
	+ **CH 4 ~ Cakepop's POV**edit | edit source
	+ **CH 5 ~ Marlenka`s POV**edit | edit source
	+ **CH 6 ~ Marlenka's POV**edit | edit source
	+ **CH 8 ~ Audrey's POV**edit | edit source
	+ **CH 9 ~ Raimu's POV ~ Coral Canyons**edit | edit source
	+ **CH 10 ~ The Orbs ~ Vatra's POV**edit | edit source
	+ **Chapter 11 ~ Not the last crossroad ~ Peri's POV**edit | edit source
	+ **Chapter 12 ~ Halo's Return ~ Raimu's POV**edit | edit source
	+ **Chapter 13 ~ A Familiar Face ~ Haylee's POV**edit | edit source
	+ **Chapter 14 ~ Under the Sea ~ Vatra's POV**edit | edit source
	+ **Chapter 15 ~ A decision ~ Haylee's POV**edit | edit source
	+ **Chapter 16 ~ Impostor ~ Haylee’s POV**edit | edit source
	+ **Chapter 17~To the End~Vatra's POV**edit | edit source
	+ ***Part Two ~ Storming the Fortress ~ Greely & Sir Gilbert's Stones***edit | edit source
	+ **Chapter 1 ~ Banana’s POV ~ A Strange Night**edit | edit source
	+ **Chapter 2 ~ The Poison Pool ~Bella’s POV**edit | edit source
	+ **Chapter 3 ~ The Chasm Between Us ~ Goldy’s POV**edit | edit source

# Defenders of Jamaa ~ Loafie

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Defenders of Jamaa ~ Written by Loafie ~ October 14, 2020

Check out UniYuni's fanfic on Wattpad! \*May make volume 2!\*

And there may be a branchoff written by Panda (Pandamaniarocks9)

## Contents

* **CH 1 ~ Audrey's POV**
* **CH 2 ~ Audrey's POV**
* **CH 3 ~ Haylee's POV**
* **CH 4 ~ Cakepop's POV**
* **CH 5 ~ Marlenka`s POV**
* **CH 6 ~ Marlenka's POV**
* **CH 8 ~ Audrey's POV**
* **CH 9 ~ Raimu's POV ~ Coral Canyons**
* **CH 10 ~ The Orbs ~ Vatra's POV**
* **Chapter 11 ~ Not the last crossroad ~ Peri's POV**
* **Chapter 12 ~ Halo's Return ~ Raimu's POV**
* **Chapter 13 ~ A Familiar Face ~ Haylee's POV**
* **Chapter 14 ~ Under the Sea ~ Vatra's POV**
* **Chapter 15 ~ A decision ~ Haylee's POV**
* **Chapter 16 ~ Impostor ~ Haylee’s POV**
* **Chapter 17~To the End~Vatra's POV**
* ***Part Two ~ Storming the Fortress ~ Greely & Sir Gilbert's Stones***
* **Chapter 1 ~ Banana’s POV ~ A Strange Night**
* **Chapter 2 ~ The Poison Pool ~Bella’s POV**
* **Chapter 3 ~ The Chasm Between Us ~ Goldy’s POV**

## **CH 1 ~ Audrey's POV**edit | edit source

Audrey almost broke one of her legs due to the fact there were to many sharp rocks and crystals on the ground.

"Ugh!" She groaned in frustration.

"Audrey, calm down. Were safe here, and were lucky we aren't being turned into phantoms or in a jail." A teal and cream lizard smiled.

"Halo, always the optimist." Audrey huffed as they kept walking.

Halo was a max leveled lizard with red x-eyes. Don't let them fool you, he was as sweet as a Starbucks drink and as curious as a little wolf. Audrey had a crush on him since- well- when they met, which was only about a year ago. Speaking of her, she was motherly. A bad thing, usually. But it wasn't always a bad thing, was it?

The two finally reached the main rendezvous point for the lizards who had recently escaped the phantom invasion. It was the most lit up room of all, which made Audrey think of the warm sun. She hoped she would someday see it again. *Oh no,* she thought. *I'm entering a flashback-*

3 DAYS AGO

The phantoms gave a pretty stupidly obvious warning, unless you were at a celebration where the main theme was purple. While Audrey and Halo were practicing karate, the flecks started falling. The green field immediately turned gray and so did the sky. The only fun thing remaining was the warm smell of their owner, Loafie's bread.

"What's happening?" Halo sniffed the black ash. He stuck his tongue out and ate one. "Ew!" He made a puking sound with his throat and spit it out.

"Don't eat that! Cmon, let's get inside." Audrey said worriedly as the ground became darker. The two ran inside the house to their owner, Loafie stuffing their travel bags with baked items and warm clothing.

"I need to get you to safety!" She muttered as the two strapped their bags on. "The phantoms are coming, just like they did when you were younger. Come on. " Her tone wasn't at all Loafie's tone. It was dead serious. She choked and fell. "In the tunnels!" The fennec pointed her paws to a clump of fallen trees in the yard.

No time for a proper goodbye. The two leaped down into the hole just before-

FLASHBACK ENDS

"Audrey!!" Halo yelled in her ear. "You were unconscious, are you okay?"

"Just fine." She stumbled. A pink and blue lizard caught her.

"Are you sure? Kaylee and I got worried." The non-leveled little lizard asked.

A green and purple lizard nodded in the back. That was Kaylee. "Yeah, what Haylee said."

"I'm fine.' Audrey repeated a bit annoyed. "But thank you."

The twin sisters, (they claimed they were twins but they had different colors) stepped back. "It's dinner, time to think about plans." Haylee said as a red and yellow lizard walked in.

"Could I uh- borrow these two for a moment twins?" She asked quickly.

"Uhm- sure." Haylee agreed. "Everyone is arriving for dinner. Don't miss it."

The three ran out of the room. The lizard named Marlenka stopped in front of a door. "We have a problem. There's an imposter in the group."

"Wait- what?" Halo whispered.

"Yes. remember Toxic?" Marlenka asked, her eyes filled with worry.

"Yes. What about him?" Audrey asked.

"Well, while the group was escaping, a silhouette approached. He took Ice Cream and attacked Toxic! " Marlenka showed them a video. Sure enough, she was right.

"I scanned them. Non-leveled, from a major person. You know that wiki which has all our worths? Anyone famous on there- Panda, Kenzie- one of their lizards is a fake." Marlenka stopped as Audrey heard footsteps. "out of all of us 16 of us- one is an imposter. We have to discuss this later. I have a feeling dinner will be interesting. don't trust anyone. Don't tell anyone about this. Us three only." She opened the door and they entered the rendezvous room.

Audrey couldn't help thinking- where is Toxic? What is Toxic? Why is Toxic? Wait- forget the "why" part. She looked at the fifteen faces at the dining table.

"Please, don't take any of us." She whispered as Haylee rung the dinner bell.

## **CH 2 ~ Audrey's POV**edit | edit source

Dinner began with Big Bird humming the Pokemon theme song. He obviously got slapped by Banana, but then continued on by humming The Star Spangled Banner.

"We have something to discuss." Haylee began.

"Discuss how were going to get Misty to stop wearing makeup?" A green lizard piped up and got slapped by a teal and white lizard.

"Shut up, Sprite!" She hissed. Yep, that was Misty.

"Uh, no. We need to assign roles, come up with scavenger groups and enhance security." Haylee shot back. "This is serious."

"Our security is already pretty good," Marlenka scowled. "Toxic is at the bunker entrance."

"Toxic- he's alive?!" Big Bird cried in astonishment. "Lemme see!"

"HEY! No touching." Marlenka shooed him away.

'Oh right. Sorry." Bird Bird said meekly.

Marlenka held up her golden pocket watch and in the reflection, three lizards looked left and right. One was black and neon green. The nest was brown and the palest green Audrey had ever seen- and was covered in the green blood of a lizard. The last was a brown and pink girl with a cake pop.

"That's Toxic, Wooyoung and Cake Pop!" Halo cheered. "They made it! But Little Woo is a bit.. ehh..."

"Marlenka, can you open the door?" Audrey asked.

"Easy as pie." she pressed a button on the side and a whole touchscreen thing made of light appeared. Like one of those high tech things you would see in Marvel Movies. "Door is opened." She confirmed.

"That's high tech." Haylee muttered.

Marlenka nodded. "Wooyoung is in need of help. He's as green as Toxic."

Big Bird started humming some theme song to a show. Was that... Avatar the Last Airbender? Banana, being a big fan of the show himself calmed himself down and just poked Big Birds face. "What are you doing?!"

"Guiding them here, duh." Big Bird poked Banana in his face.

"Ohh!" Toxic came into the lit room. "I thought I heard Avatar." The lizard was covered in scars, all bleeding with the neon green- uhm, nevermind.

"We kind of fought phantoms." Wooyoung coughed. "Help."

"DUDE?!: a purple and pink x-eyed level five lizard gasped.

"Hey Apollo. What's up?" He huffed. "Got any medicine? Where's Audrey?"

"I'm here. You guys talk- Toxic, Halo, come with me. Cake Pop, get Whirlpool to help you clean up." Audrey kept calm. This was a normal situation, and Little Woo would be fine... right? She got the little guy on her back. He was almost on top of the bag, which Audrey hoped none of his... goop would end up on it. She silently wondered how the lizard was still breathing.

As she entered the room, (the medicine den, at least that's what Ace wanted to call it-) there was a desk with a blanket on it, and Audrey set Wooyoung on there. Halo followed with Toxic quietly sniffing on his back. Woo was fully unconscious, and this gave them time to talk about the impostor.

"Toxic, did you get a good look of the lizard who took Ice Cream?" Audrey asked him. "Oh and, don't tell anybody- we swore to Marlenka it would be between us."

"Unfortunately not, but I know the eyes- they were happy eyes, angry eyes or normal eyes. Definitely not X- and no eyelashes." Toxic said, deep in thought. "But I cant remember their face color. Sorry. But I still can believe that Wooyoung survived the phantom attack! He's my best bud and he's just so strong- " He started to cry.

"You're gonna be okay." Halo smiled. "Let's get you cleaned. We'll find this impostor and get them. " The two headed out of the room.

With every lizard gone, and one unconscious Audrey could finally think. But down the hall, she could hear Big Bird singing, "You'll be back" from Hamilton. She hoped Banana would slap him.

\*AT THIS POINT IM JUST SPINNING IN MY CHAIR SCREAMING YOU'LL BE BACK HHH-\*

Audrey peeked in her bag. Inside were 2 books and a file. Loafie was right- and who could she share this with? She couldn't remember.

She pulled up a book. It's title was strange. It might be mirror writing... she put the book back in her bag. The next one was titled, The History of AJ Exotics. Was this a secret history? Perhaps an old file? Who was this from? How did Loafie get it? She flipped to the "Table of Contents" page.

One of the titles read- *The Secret Talentz of the Lizardz*

She flipped to the page. She read the header over a picture. *The Armadillo Lizard has a talent no other exoticz can have. Not only can this pet summon wingz or mermaid tailz, but it can master the elementz and control the alpha gemz.*

Audrey doubled over. She hadn't realized she had stood up in shock. They could fly? Swim and could create tails? Control elements and Alpha Gems? What were those?

The last book read, "Alpha History". She couldn't wait to read it.

"Hey Audrey, we got a visitor. Wanna see if your a half fish or half bird? See what you and Halo and Toxic and I can do?" Marlenka smirked.

"So... you're a magic and tech genius? Why not?" Audrey grinned and followed her friends out the door.

## **CH 3 ~ Haylee's POV**edit | edit source

Then, for the fourth time that hour, Marlenka disappeared with Toxic and Halo behind her. "Be right back! We're gonna check on Little Woo!" Halo grinned as they disappeared down the tunnel."What's up with them?" Apollo asked as they disappeared.

"Don't ask me. I'm not a cold and solo person." Ace gulped down a loaf of bread.

"I don't know." Bubba shrugged. "Hey man, pass me the chicken!" \*I'M SORRY HAPPYMISTAKESS EEE\*

"So uhm, on the topic of defending Jamaa, what's our plan?" Cake Pop asked.

"I dunno." A gray and black male lizard shrugged. "Maybe we can just live down here the rest of our lives."

"Charcoal, were not staying here for the rest of our lives." Haylee rolled her eyes. "did anyone get in touch with Bumble before the invasion?"

"Nope. That dark blue and yellow lizard, always playing his guitar? Haven't seen him. But we need a map of Jamaa and the Phantom Dimension." Sprite sipped some Coca-Cola.

"Like any one of us would have those." Misty huffed.

Cake Pop was devouring her Cake Pop. With a full mouth she said; "Youf rellf the jenis Misty!"

"Thanks Cake Pop."

"Nop probleth!"

"So, none of us have a map?" Haylee asked.

"Nope." Bird Bird gulped down a huge serving of chicken.

"Actually, I was poking around the place and found this." Banana held up a scroll and rolled it open. There was a huge map of Jamaa and the Phantom Dimension. Big Bird started humming a Marvel Avengers song and Cake Pop stuffed a hot sauce jar in his mouth. That didn't help to much, because he screamed for ages.

"Hmm, the Decayed Rise? Everlasting Summit? Infinity Gorge?" Haylee read the titles. ""Sounds pretty edgy."

"Sounds like Greely's place. look, there's even lava lakes and ice passes!" Kaylee gasped quietly.

SUddenly, Marlenka, Toxic, Halo, Audrey and Wooyoung rushed in. Wooyoung was on Audrey's back with a little scroll in his mouth. They all had grim expressions on their faces, which really worried Haylee. But why was the scroll here? What did it say?

"Sweet! Woo's okay!" Apollo grinned despite the sadness in the air.

"The Alphas need us," Marlenka said immediately, "The penguins and pygmies were just captures, along with the bees. Were the last of Jamaa besides them and Tavie."

"I've always hated pygmies but- that's just sad." Big Bird hummed a gloomy tune,

Haylee let out a little sniff. Was Marley okay? "What can we do? The penguins technically had the most secure spaces."

"I dunno- become nomads?" Misty sighed. "or maybe depressed genius can help us."

"Hey I'm not- whatever. But Misty DOES have a point. But, I think the phantoms could find the bunker entrances easily. We have a- a lot of entryways." The way Marlenka paused made Haylee shiver.

"If the Alphas need us, we don't even have to think about this. We just travel to them or they find us and were good." Audrey said.

"But uhm, that's the problem. How are we going to find them or they find us? We don't know where they live!" Bubba cried. "Were doomed!"

"Should we burn the paper?" Big Bird suggested with a stupid grin. "It could be one of those things with a secret message!"

"Nope, absolutely not. Something tells me that's not what we have to do." Marlenka shook her head.

While the others threw out crazy suggestions on what to do with the paper, Kaylee and Haylee though. It was kind of a sister thing, but they could transfer thoughts. Talk to each other silently. Give each other messages b y just staring at each other. Yep, I know what your thinking. W E I R D !

"It as something to do with what's ON the paper. We don't really have to do anything with it." Kaylee said while Haylee was in the middle of trying to speak.

"Kaylee's right." Big Bird panting. The hot sauce was still making him hurt, poor guy. But of course, he was still singing a Beyonce song. Banana slapped him like it was no big deal.

"MAYBE, if you had cued at the right time, you wouldn't have been slapped!" Misty yelled in his face.

"Hey! That's harsh!" Audrey stood in the way of Misty.

"I'M SORRY! I'M ALONE HERE, AND YOU ALL KEEP TORTURING ME! CAN'T I BE MYSELF?!" He hissed.

"Hey, calm down!" Haylee patted his shoulder. "You were just being you, and there's nothing wrong with that. Besides, what's the paper made of?"

"Let's see..." Toxic sniffed. "Not Bamboo... not pencil- it's kinda... Minty? And to much wilderness scent- "

"Cosmo!" Haylee grinned. "Maybe if we head to the Eucalyptus grove outside, we'll find something."

"You can pick two lizards to go with you, Haylee." Sprite said. "We'll discuss some more."

"I'll do Cake Pop and Kaylee." She shrugged. "we are pretty quiet."

"Let's hope we don't get killed." Cake Pop's eyes shimmered. "I can't wait to see daylight again."

The trio walked to door 257- southeastern entrance, (geez, the place did have a lot of entrances and exits) where Marlenka quickly opened the door and they dashed to a Eucalyptus grove. The trees covered the bunker door behind them, leaving the three alone. They looked at the ground and the branches- no sign of an all-powerful alpha here.

"COSMO!!" Cake Pop screamed only to be hit down by Kaylee.

"Sorry but your going to attract phantoms!" She whisper-screamed.

"She's not!" A voice came from above. (If your wondering, Cosmo's voice is based off that Guru from Avatar!) "Wow, Graham's invention actually worked! But sometimes, this is unfair! Jammers, always picking Peck, Liza or Greely! They call them legends!"

"Uhh... you sure that's Cosmo?" Kaylee whispered to Haylee. "This guy is NUTS!"

A koala jumped down from a tree. He was wearing a leaf skirt, and had a staff with a green conch shell in his paw. "It's Master Cosmo, at your service!" Then two lizards followed him- both with wings. One was a solid, faded brown with x-eyes and the other was wearing a red bowtie and was dark blue and pastel yellow.

"Master, aren't you going to introduce us?" The dark blue one asked. he had an accent, a British one - and his voice sounded like a girl.

"Oh, yes! This is Bumble, my student! And this is Mudpie - my assistant! And student, of course." The blue one waved and the brown one made a smile.

"Hi Bumble! I've never met Mudpie before!" Haylee greeted them warmly.

"Sup, Cake Pop?" Bumble high pawed/fived her. Mudpie stayed quiet.

"Hi." Kaylee waved to him.

"Hi, fellow introvert." Shaking," he said. (revisor note, Kaylee is not a introvert based on what the onwer said.)

"Master Cosmo, did you send us this letter?" asked Cake Pop.

"Ahh, yes! Perfect, I'll just call the other Alphas! I hope Tavie has some way to go!" Master Cosmo blew the conch horn. Nothing happened.

"Uhm, is it broken?" Kaylee asked.

"Nope, he's just calling the other Alphas and it will take them 45 minutes to get here. Were probably going to end up doing something insane or he's going to make me play guitar." Bumble sighed, patting his bowtie. "good times."

"So... while they take their time to arrive, want to find out how you might die?" Master Cosmo asked them like it was no big deal.

Everyone stepped back, even his loyal assistants. This guy was insane. "You'll find your owners!" he pointed out. "come on, let's go!" He waved his staff which sent everyone tumbling round and round.

## **CH 4 ~ Cakepop's POV**edit | edit source

There's nothing better than spinning around and around. Cake Pop was dizzy as she squeezed her staff filled with cakepops as the spinning became slower... slower. And it came to a stop. Where were they?

"You're insane." Haylee sighed.

"Yeah! I am!" Cosmo grinned. "Were in the Phantom Dimension, but the phantoms can’t hear or see us. Now, look at the marvelous tail, Haylee! Nice wings eh - staff person."

"It's Cakepop." Cakepop corrected him. "So... what exactly are we standing on? I can't feel anything!"

"Look below you, around you. We're in the phantom dimension, correct?" Cosmo hinted.

CakePop wished she hadn't looked down. They were on a CAGE. And what was inside it? Her friend, Ice Cream- and her owner, Panda. Beside him was a pink penguin and another animal- Kenzie.

"Did we have to spawn on this cage?" Haylee sighed. "Out of ALL of them?!"

"Unfortunately, yes." Bumble sighed. "It's sad for Mudpie and I. Seafoamii and SomeonesSpare are right there - "The two teared up and Bumble took his guitar out. He started playing a sad tune - probably When I See You Again by... who was it? Cakepop didn't dwell on that. She wondered where they were- it was a mountain above the clouds. Could this be the Everlasting Summit?

"We're at the Everlasting Summit. The main city and the phantom fortress are just above us! It's hard to breathe, that's why your owners are wearing those masks. Oh look, were here!" Master Cosmo jumped. Beside him, an explosion of pink appeared. A pink rabbit with a bell in her ear and a lizard on her back screamed.

"MASTER COSMO?! WHY ARE WE HERE?!" She squealed in her high pitched voice.

"Too loud, Miss." The purple and tan lizard on her back whimpered.

An alarm sounded and the phantoms were let into the city. The prisoners were let out of their cages and they walked through a gate. Through two others and then they arrived in a dark, gloomy and wilted garden. Kaylee's eyes flickered with excitement. She muttered, "This looks so cool! and stuff like that.

"Pie?" Mudpie meekly asked Cakepop. "This place is depressing." Cakepop nibbled at the chocolate pie. It was topped with oreos - this guy really knew how to cook!

In the middle of the garden of the castle, a wilted garden and a phantom goop fountain poured. Occasionally, red or green would pop up in small lines. Cakepop couldn't bear to think of that. These guys were worse than Fire Nation. To the left was the south tower and to the right was a north tower. And so on, and in the middle was a big building- probably the marvelous King's Chamber.

The phantoms marched right to the middle with the prisoners following. *Oh, good. We're about to meet his dark majesty!* Cakepop sighed out loud. They headed through the great doors that stood at the entrance. They stepped in and there was a great throne room. "Great" was a good word, for the front. There was a chandelier with fires of all colors and scones that lined the walls. The bloody red carpet flowed into the darkness, and Cakepop could only make out a little bit of the spiky throne. The king was so dark, she couldn't see him.

(The phantom king's voice is Long Feng's from Avatar, Book 2 episodes/chapters 14-the end of the season or the warden's from Ep.13 book 3 three three)

"Your majesty." The lead phantom bowed. Panda and Oceanivy wrinkle their noses. She could tell they were thinking and *were not bowing anytime soon.*

"Send all the others away. I just want the main troublemakers." He said in a voice so smooth and deep, Haylee looked like she was going to fall asleep.

Seven animals were left in the throne room. "Line 'em up!" The phantom yelled and they were shoved in a line.

"Now, you will all do as I say... or you will pay the price." He commanded. "Admiral Lido, continue."

That phantom nodded. "You may have heard and seen we are violent." He said. "But I assure you, you follow our ways you won't have to pay. You will be locked in a secret area here. But first, let me tell you about demise. Your own pet's demise will be done by you. Over these few weeks we will take control of you, slowly, but not painfully. Painfully and swiftly... it wouldn't be as... fun." He looked a gray fox in the eye. Her teal beret was still bright.

"You." He pointed to her. "What's your name?"

"Loafie." She said confidently.

"Now... tell me where you live." Admiral Lido grabbed his whip from behind his back.

Loafie shook her head. She got painfully whipped, and the carpet became redder.

"Hey." A wolf spoke up. "Do you ever do fights around here?"

"Yes. You are strong, just like this one. How about I fight you? Would you rather die for me than kill Marlenka? She is the strongest of the resistance, I know. I need to know her location. And of course, our impostor is doing well. She's quite quick. Ice Cream, he fought. (Panda if ur reading this don't kill me- ) And since he fought..." He pointed to the green spewing out of the fountain.

"I- " Panda stuttered. "WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

"Calm down!" Oceanivy pawed him.

"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE CALM?! HOW DO I KNOW IF TOXIC, LITTLE WOO AND CAKEPOP ARE OKAY?!" He wailed.

Another fox sighed. "If i know them, they're strong. They made it." She smiled. "Seashell's with Peck. They'll save Jamaa. I know it."

"Will they?" The King began. "Our imposter- " He got caught off by Cosmo yelling, "THE INVISIBILITY WORE OFF! PECK! WERE STUCK!"

They were in the light. Bumble screamed and grasped to Cakepop. She was alarmed she could feel him.

"Hold on!" Seashell yelled and blew her horn. Peck grabbed a paintbrush and it extended into a sword.

"Cakepop!" Panda cried.

"Haylee! Kaylee!" Kenzie laughed.

"Seashell!" Seafoamii yelled.

Cakepop still had her wings. Could she fly? Was it needed?"

"Get out of here!" Loafie and Azu yelled. Loafie yanked a book out of nowhere and Azu threw it. The group was sent tumbling once again - and they landed in the Eucalyptus grove, where the Alphas were waiting.

## **CH 5 ~ Marlenka`s POV**edit | edit source

Marlenka though Cosmo was an idiot. She was wrong. She also though Graham was weird. Yeah, she was half right. It was late night, and she had learned how to control lightning. Thanks to her owner, Azu and that stupid book, she was also now cursed. Well, kind of. Some secret alpha and lizard history, blah blah. But somehow Audrey had ended up with the same book only a few nights later! Then what happens? Phantoms are breaking through, and of course, someone had to be captured.

Poor Halo. Marlenka thought. Poor him, sacrificing himself to save Audrey and us. Marlenka thought repeatedly. Her paws zapped with blue lightning again. She glanced at her pocket watch again; oh no, three hours past midnight. Where were Haylee, Kaylee and Cakepop? Did they even find Cosmo?

I can't sleep! Marlenka groaned and stood up. She opened her small bag and took out her book that said magic guide. She flipped through the pages and found an interesting one- Alpha Magic- complete history.

“Hmph.” She pouted and sighed loudly; the curiosity came over her. The page read, *Alphas are born with special powers and abilities, as well as responsibilities and their own destinies. Take Liza for instance, she’s the protector of Animals and all life, and can control, or bend any element. Most jammers think of her as outgoing, adventurous and a bit bossy, but mostly a kind panda. Some say the alpha born after her will control life and death their self.*

I’ve learned like, nothing! Marlenka groaned once more and pounded her head on the dirt and stone floor. She held her book to her chest and rolled on her back. She continued reading the rather annoying paragraph. *Greely is the Alpha of the Storms and Phantoms, the seventh wheeler of the group. Cosmo is the alpha of Nature, sometimes his powers are confused with Liza’s. Graham is the Alpha of Machinery and Engineering, while Peck is the Alpha of Harmony, Music, the arts and creativity. Tavie is the alpha of water and Healing, but also music, tying into Peck’s powers.*

“This is pointless!” Marlenka sighed. “This tells me nothing about Magic!”

She threw the book into her bag and headed out of the sleeping chamber.

There were only three chambers in the bunker; a sleeping chamber, which Is where everyone was sleeping, the dining chamber/mess hall, where everyone ate and the weapons and storage chamber, well, obviously, for storage and Marlenka only. And Halo, Audrey and Toxic, but...

-flashback begins-

The four had just left the dining hall and were headed to door 1,086, aka the border of Jamaa. Marlenka had always suspected there was more to Jamaa than just Jamaa township.

She remembered the stories of her old owl and turtle friends would tell her. “Marlenka, there’s land past Jamaa township! I’ll try to collect a map, but there it is. An ice land, which the Jammers there refer to as Mt. Shiveer. Then there’s the Lost Temple of Zios, Sarephia Forest, and even a beach!”

“Sounds like great times.” Marlenka sighed and an oven alarm rang. She ran to the turtles and owls and she asked, “Care for some tea and cakes?”

At that time, and still now she didn’t know why she thought that. When you have a flashback, you’d think you would see it from your point of view. In your flashbacks, you watch yourself do all your things.

They dashed out the entrance and entered just a bit past the border, and they all screamed.

“WHERE ARE WE?!” Halo panicked. “IS THIS A PART OF JAMAA?”

“I... “Marlenka couldn’t speak. There was a huge tree, a giant jewel building off to the side and they were on a rock in the middle of a mud puddle. This was Appondale, one of the many places near Jamaa. “Were in Appondale!” Malenka cried.

“Appa- what now? This a place from Avatar?” Audrey looked at the almost full moon, lighting everything up so they could see.

“No, App-on-dale.” Marlenka corrected her. “It’s the only civilization directly west of Jamaa.”

“How do you know?” Toxic whimpered.

“Swamp days.” Malenka sighed. “Owls told me about this place.”

They jumped over the mud and landed on the sandy ground. “Let’s go into the building.” Marlenka suggested, stupidly.

“Uhm... but we don’t know what’s in there.” Audrey objected.

“There’s a high chance we do.  There's a bridge over there, and another. One leads to Jamaa, and the other leads to Kimbara Outback. So, this must be a welcome center or something.” She shrugged.

“Icecream.” Toxic whimpered. “She just went... you know. I can feel it.”

“What?!” Halo laughed, although he probably shouldn’t have. “There’s no way!”

“Yes, there is. We were born together... and I guess our energies are mixed.” Toxic seemed like he was guessing.

“Sure are.” a voice agreed behind them. Wooyoung emerged from the mud hole. He looked like he had just woken up. “That pain woke me up... to great.” Was he crying?

The two huddled together silently. They made their way to the building, and Marlenka opened the glass door. Inside it looked comfy, with hardwood floors and carpets covering it, and a nice fountain pouring in. There was sure enough, a help desk and a phantom slept on it.

“Uhm... “Audrey backed up. “Maybe we should get outta here.”

The phantom popped her head up. “Hello fellow jammers! I’m Joo-dee. Welcome to Appondale!”

“WHAT IN THE JAM IS JOO-DEE DOING HERE? IS THIS AVATAR?!” Audrey touched the door slightly.

“You're all safe here.” She grinned and about twenty phantoms surrounded the five.  “These are my assistants, protectors of Appondale. Unfortunately, only phantoms are allowed here now, so you might have to be killed.” She frowned sympathetically.

“To open your wings or tail you have to extend your spikes like when you roll into a ball!” Marlenka yelled as the phantoms crawled in.

“Why?” Wooyoung cried.

“Do it!” Toxic hissed and raised- dragon wings. Oh heck, those were rare.

Halo formed a whale tail. “Maybe I can use it like Appa- like a tail slap.” he thought out loud.

Marlenka felt something on her back. There weren’t wings, not a tail. Then she realized her wings were made of swirling colored air. Well, that was rare - what was happening? Halo was the only one with a common tail. Why did it even matter?!

Wooyoung spread his wings- rainbows. His wings were made of- clouds, rainbows, they continuously shifted from one to another form.

Then the phantoms attacked. Audrey somehow seemed to pass on a secret message to all of them - lead them outside? Was that it? Halo thumped his tail on a phantom's head and sent out a huge air current. About five phantoms hit the walls hard.  Sadly, they got back up. They zoomed back to Halo but Wooyoung knocked them over with a combination of water and earth. Then he burned it.

Then they were pushed through the door, where Audrey sprouted Angel wings. Halo was the only lizard without a rare form. Then, the mud exploded and the clean water from the building destroyed them all, leaving little piles of purple goop everywhere.

Joo-dee sat at the desk. “Cosmo wanted you to have this. What a shame. We’ll get you sometime.” She sighed and handed them a scroll. Then Halo took it, and Joo-dee seized him. The was thrown into a dark, cold pit.

“Halo!” Audrey wailed.

-end of flashback-

Marlenka snapped awake, and she had somehow ended up at Sir Gilbert’s side, where a yellow and teal lizard and another yellow lizard were. They stared at her like something strange had just happened.

“Hi! You must be Marlenka!” The teal lizard grinned. “I’m Alon, that’s Ray!”

“Hi.” She said coldly.

The alphas all sat in a circle around a river, where a dolphin and a little brown and blue lizard stayed. Graham twisted some gears off to the side and Peck happily played with a purple and tan lizard and white and brown lizard.

“Good evening or, morning everyone.” Sir Gilbert bowed his head. It wasn’t until that moment that Marlenka realized all the alphas were wearing pendants- what for? “As you know, the phantoms plot to take over all of Jamaa’s lands.”

“Duh.” Graham tossed a gear. “I’m pretty sure all those flashbacks and visions and whatnot were bad enough.”

Marlenka wanted to scream. Her pocket watch. Her crazy pocket watch that showed her visions of future possibilities. And she had flashbacks and occurring visions now and then.

“Wait, lands beyond Jamaa?” Haylee asked. “Don’t you mean the phantom dimension?”

“No. I mean these lands, all where the animals live.” Sir Gilbert whipped out a map rather dramatically and there were fourteen different islands, all surrounded by rivers and in the middle was Jamaa.

“Wow. I wonder where Halo is.” Audrey had a hint of sadness in her voice. Nobody responded - wait - what had Marlenka missed?

“Seashell, Eira and I were at Mt.Shiveer the other day.” Peck patted the lizard with a conch horn on his paws. “Attacked some phantoms. I heard a plan to find something. Like- the Lost Temple of Zios?”

“Hey. You alphas have existed since the beginning of time. How would you not know about that?” Banana asked. Beside him was Big Bird and another solid yellow girl.

Suddenly, a growl came from the bushes. The alphas all stood up. “You should go!” The hot orange lizard near Liza yelled.  “We’ll meet up in the morning, or something. We won’t be far.”

“That was- rather quick. We didn’t even have a plan.” Kaylee slumped.

“We do. Halloween is a blue moon, a window of opportunity to stop or at least slow down the phantoms for a while.” Liza pointed her staff at the bushes.

“Just go!” Bumble yelled and everyone followed Ace and Charcoal inside.

“We can’t leave them.” Audrey grabbed Marlenka by the paw. “Stay with me, okay? I’m not losing another person.”

Eira, Bumble, the blue lizard and Alon were the only ones remaining with the two. It was too late to turn back now. Cosmo chunked a bit of earth up and moved aside the bush. Hundreds of phantoms casually circled the alphas like they did to the lizards in Appondale. But they weren't regular, some were the biggest, heaviest things and they could bounce and move earth. Then there were spiky ones, who caused devastating fires and threw their spikes.

“We got this.” Liza’s eyes glowed, along with the rest of the alphas.

“Can’t we do anything soon?” Mudpie peeked out of Cosmo’s hat.

“I don’t know... teach these lizards some battle skills?” Cosmo shrugged as Sir Gilbert yelled some roman battle commands.

“The first move is simple- if you have wings. If you didn’t know, lizards- “

Audrey and Marlenka herself sprouted wings. They each shrugged and looked at Eira and Bumble and Alon, who stared cluelessly at them.

The phantoms were circling faster, but so were the alphas. They circled the lizards in the middle. Alon demonstrated a move- a move to control lightning.

“I can do that!” Audrey zapped lightning at the first row of approaching phantoms and grinned. Marlenka had some potions in her pocket. Maybe if she just... she threw a splash potion at a heavy phantom, which exploded into bits.

“You’re ready. I’m Rain, by the way. Raimu! Come over here!” The brown lizard introduced himself and another green lizard.

“I thought we told you to go in.” Liza yelled.

“Charge in front of them on my count. One, two, three!” Raimu sprawled under Greely’s legs and there was chaos in that entire moment. Audrey made the water in the stream rise and sprayed the phantoms back, and then she and Rain both threw lightning at the water. Tavie helped them out.

Marlenka, Bumble, Mudpie and Alon worked with fire. That was heir element. On the other hand, Marlenka blasted spiked phantoms with air, including potions, and skillfully dodged their throws and blows.

The alphas stood in complete shock. Eira yelled, “Come on now, you’re missing out on all the fun!” and poked a heavy phantom in the eye. Peck’s paintbrush turned into a sword and she leaped into battle. Sir Gilbert pounced at the nearest set of puny phantoms and Liza manipulated them. When Marlenka meant manipulated, she meant controlled them. She drove them into the river and Tavie drowned them. Graham activated his crazy inventions and grabbed his giant hammer. He laughed as he slaughtered phantoms.

Soon enough, the battle was done. The alphas gasped for breath, but the lizards stood still. Marlenka wasn’t tired at all.

“Zios- Mira- they've chosen the new alphas.” Cosmo gasped.

“What?” Bumble gasped.

“A great battle has happened inside as well. Eight of you are now the Defenders of Jamaa. We still have our powers, but only in danger. We aren’t immortal anymore.” Cosmo explained. We’ll make a tent. Go to your place!”

Mudpie almost cried. Did this mean death? What were the alphas talking about?

“Sun, Moon, Life, Phantoms, Magic, Nature, Storm, Mechanics.” Graham breathed more steadily. “That is the lizard’s powers. Now go!” He sounded angry and confused.

The lizards rushed inside, just as another growl came from the sky.

## **CH 6 ~ Marlenka's POV**edit | edit source

Marlenka woke up in the dining hall - wait, what? Had she sleepwalked? What had happened? All the exotics surrounded her and were laughing. Big Bird's face was a bright red.

"Marlenka!" Audrey yelled. "Earth to Marlenka, who do you think the Sun alpha is?"

"the- w- what?" She stuttered.

"Uh-oh. She zoned out again!" Alon groaned. "I'm going to guess she missed the plan too."

"Alright. Who would like to inform her?" Vatra, an orange lizard asked the table. Wait, Marlenka had never seen this lizard. Who was- was she the one with Liza?

"We will." Goldy, another solid who Marlenka somewhat knew, volunteered. "Only if Big Bird and Banana help."

The two reluctantly nodded and Goldy began. "Since the alphas' pain last night, it seems Zios and Mira had chosen a new team of Alphas. This only happens once in thousands or millions of years, this is a milestone!"

"The alpha powers you hear - sun, moon, life, magic, storms, nature, phantoms, mechanics are well, the chosen alpha's powers." Big Bird added some dramatic, theatre sound effects, and Banana ended up slapping him. (obviously) "Us lizards are planning to find the alphas and set them free and we can help them. That's what we were doing tonight- Halloween night."

Marlenka tried to show no emotion. It was the morning of Halloween. What did she miss?

"What's happening tonight?" Marlenka yawned and started taking some water from her bowl.

"Tonight, it's Halloween. Where the phantoms are most powerful. But, there's either a blue or red moon tonight, as well as a lunar eclipse." Banana ate his banana.

"What's special about that? How's there gonna be a lunar eclipse if there's a red or blue moon?" Marlenka suddenly blurted, a bit rude.

"Every so often, the moon disappears because Mira is weakest on Halloween. But there's also a red or blue moon happening, because it's time. Calendars, blah blah. And Bam! the only problem is, we don't know what is happening. If it's a red moon, we get power. If it's a blue moon, we'll go blind." Goldy said darkly as Haylee and Kaylee muttered something.

"We're going to get the phantoms over here." Kaylee nodded. They won't expect us, Alpha students taught us some tricks, and were super strong, even without magic or wings or tails!"

There it was. They didn't know magic- but to fight, they would need it, wouldn't they?

"Our only job today is to rest. We don't know what is going to happen, and we need to rest. I just said it- ugh. The alphas are outside. Some of us will train with them and call you back at sundown." Raimu stood up. "None of you do anything, especially you, Apollo. The fight that happened last night left you scarred. Someone tell Marlenka about that. Eria, Alon, Vatra, Bumble, come along." Lunch - who was that guy? UGH! Marlenka pounded her head on her pancakes.

"You should come with us." Audrey, Toxic and Wooyoung were on Marlenka`s sides.

Marlenka stood and they went down the hallway. They ended up in that secret chamber - had Marlenka shown it to them? already?

They all sat in a circle. They stayed without Halo, and Marlenka pulled out her pocketwatch. She sighed and began to speak. "My pocketwatch has shown me visions. Lots of them, like for future possibilities and past events. Shall we activate it?"

"Sure!" Wooyoung grinned.

"I just want to warn you, the visions aren't exactly... pleasant." Marlenka tapped the glass screen and the watch glowed. She took a shaky breath as a scene in the phantom chamber appeared. They watched Azuii and Loafie zap them out.

The king growled as his three lizard assistants, (all with name tags) Frost, a dark green and blue lizard, Skip, a purple and yellow lizard and Dragon, a yellow and green lizard ran up to him.

"You're majesty." Frost bowed. "Ice Cream's demise is over. Shall we move onto Marley?" Kenzie squeezed her penguin friend and Panda opened his mouth- then shut it.

"General Lido, tell them about their demise, and their pets' demise." Skip cheered as if that was a good thing. Marlenka almost cried. She knew all three of those lizards, all evil. Their eyes - pure dark purple - were purely possessed by phantoms.

"Your demise is simple. We will keep you in cells deep underground, and you will never see the light of day. Then, somewhere between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve you will be controlled by us, and battle your own pets. Either you or they die. Zios and Mira have chosen new alphas, yes. Zios- I mean, my lord of the phantoms and moon, know who they are?" Lido bowed.

"Yes. The Moon Alpha is Audrey, easy enough. If she survives her own owners' spells and tricks, she will battle us." The whole room erupted in flames. Then, it was normal again. Loafie gasped. "Good news- my lizard is a Moon Alpha! Also good news- I taught her magic already. She will bring me back."

"So confident. How about you, Azurii? Any thoughts on Marlenka?" The king asked.

"What?" She asked.

"The Magic alpha, obviously. One of the strongest, third, I think. It would go to the moon as the most powerful, magic as the second most powerful and life as the third. Would any of you like to guess?"

"I dunno." Azurii shrugged. "Lemme guess... Haylee?"

"No, although she was chosen, as well as our... impostor. Alas, she is not, but her best friend is." The king grinned. "Wooyoung can manipulate any of you, yes? Fun! Panda's demise will be painful!"

"Lemme get this straight before I die, Wooyoung can kill me, and YOU'RE ZIOS? I thought you represented the sun?" Panda asked.

"Yes, and love. An evil, darkness." He laughed evily. "Eh, Jamma, would you care to switch places with Oliver?"

The two groaned, and Katara snorted. "What about Alon? Skip, Dragon, what do you know? I know, my lizards, there is good in you."

"Well, Panda has the ability to charmspeak, speak french and have intense flirting sessions with whoever he pleases." Skip shrugged. "And Alon ifs safe with Sir Gilber- "

"Shut up!" Dragon hissed. Skip laughed meekly.

The lizards let out a joyful cry. Maybe there was hope.

The scene changed. Ollie, Panda, Loafie and Azurii were in the same jail cell.

"I'm stuck with the person I want to kill 24/7. Fun" Ollie rolled his eyes.

"We're gonna get outta here. Let's see, Panda can charmspeak, I have magic, Azurii has magic, your skilled in uh- i dunno." Loafie sighed.

"I know! Panda flirts with the guards, and were home free!" Ollie grinned.

"Uhh- none of the guards are female." Loafie sighed.

"Oh." They all slumped.

Then the scene changed for the third time. This was crazy. Two silhouettes bowed to the phantom king. They each took off their hoods and spoke.

"The lizards have several entrances to their bunker, so it shouldn't be hard to track an entrance. Haylle trusts me, therefore, I can go. Nature against Phantom- a duel. dark shall win." A girl lizard grinned.

another girl took her hood off. "I know how to control lightning." She said in an auto tuned voice. "I have the trust of the new alphas. We have a plan, and I can confirm there will be a blue moon."

The pocket watch faded to a regular watch, and everyone stared at each other.

"They know!" Toxic screamed.

"They know! I'M AN ALPHA! TOXIC'S AN ALPHA! WE'RE GONNA DIE!" Wooyoung grinned like a maniac and fainted.

Audrey sat in silence. A faint mark appeared on three of their heads. A moon for Audrey, a key for Toxic and a gem for Wooyoung. Marlenka looked at her reflection in her pocket watch. She had a swirl on her head. Magic Alpha.

Then, Ace yelled something above them. "TAVIE JUST DISAPPEARED! IT'S NIGHT!" As soon as the footsteps were gone, the four crept out of the burrow.

"Should we tell them?" Audrey asked. "Maybe I can control the moon... "

"No. We have to do this ourselves. Time to call the known alphas." Marlenka grabbed Haylee's tail and tapped her paws in a pattern. She made them teleport. Outside.

"What- where?!" Haylee shrieked.

"Mt. Shiveer. You are the natural alpha." Audrey panted as a mark formed on Kaylee's head, It was a paw, and a leaf. She probably had some visions, because she gasped. "Impostor... " She breathed. "Kaylee. Cakepop. It's one of them."

"How do you- what?" Wooyoung asked.

"Visions! It's one of them! I saw one... one of my best friends... Kimberly... ugh!" She pounded her head on the snow, making a white flower appear.

"Were all shocked and scared." Toxic gasped for air. "Marlenka, teleport us to where everyone else is. Something's gonna happen to them."

Marlenka did just that. They ended behind the alphas, who all cried with Rain.

"Tavie has lost her immortality. She flies with Mira. Or swims...," Cosmo cried.

"It's happening!" Kaylee screamed at the moon. The alphas yelled, "NO! DON'T LOOK!"

But it was too late. Kaylee, Vatra, and Seashell (who was that?) looked up, and a light flashed in their faces.

"ARGH!" They screamed in unison and fell.

"Kaylee!" Haylee ran to her sister.

Cosmo touched their heads. "They will go blind... for a long, long time. Maybe forever."

Seashell screamed. "I'm blind!" He cried, and Eira and Peck hugged him. "We're here. Sense the vibrations in the ground like Toph. You're strong." Peck comforted him.

Vatra wailed and Eira and Raimu ran over.

"You guys are the last thing I'll ever see," she smiled. Then, her eyes became happy. Marlenka doubted she would see those fiery red pupils again.

Haylee cried. Kaylee sat up. "I'm almost blind. The world is fading." She cried.

Haylee made a blossom grow. "I'm the nature alpha... shh. Please enjoy, she hugged her sister until her purple eyes closed for now - or forever.

P u r p l e e y e s .

"We have to hide!" Graham yelled. Liza, teleport us! I hear them!"

Gigantic, flaming phantoms spewed out of nowhere and everyone screamed.

"Nooo!" Ace, Charcoal, Bubba and Apollo screamed, only to be seized by them.

They all spun, and landed in a volcano- Greely's home. A lizard with a sign by him that read Sharku gasped. "Liza... Greely... " He gasped.

"We lost." Kaylee cried. "What now?"

**CH 7 ~ Sprite's POV**

Im sorry, I got so busy and couldn't upload!

Sprite was in the middle of arguing with Misty on the state of Jamaa when one of the alphas had completely spun them off. That was rough, and not only that, He had burned the very tip of his tail in hot lava.

“Ouch!”  He cried and swept his tail in front of him. The top looked more like a swampy green than a neon green.

Misty gasped. “Are we in Greely’s volcano?”

“Yes.” Greely nodded. He seemed quite unsure, despite the fact that it looked a lot like his home. Most Jamaa history books described the volcano as- well, a volcano. There were pipes that served as bridges and secret rooms everywhere.

Sprite tried not to move his tail as Peck hopped over. She made a gesture to Liza like she was saying, “Come on! What’s the big deal?” Liza walked over.

“Just a lava burn.” She shrugged like it was nothing. “Even though my powers are fading, I can still heal it.” She mumbled something under her breath and Sprite instantly felt better.

“Where- where are the others?” Misty asked.

“I don’t know. We must have left Sir Gilbert with them!”  Cosmo gasped.

“Out of all the alphas you had to leave behind, it had to be Sir Gilbert! He’s our alpha of War and Peace!” Graham scolded her. He smacked Peck, almost hitting Seashell.

“Ouch!” Peck rubbed her back.

*So, these are the alphas?*A voice in Spite’s head asked.

“Yeah.” He replied out loud, and nobody heard him.

*You always thought they would be more serious. Just give in, and join us.* The voice encouraged him. For a moment, Sprite felt dizzy- then he didn’t. He stumbled near Big Bird, who caught him with his- tail?

“You okay?” He asked. Misty giggled.

*Best friends laugh. You good friends ask if you are okay. Are you okay? Do you need us? We’re always here!* The voice comforted him again. *What the heck!* The real Sprite thought.

“I’m fine, man. Thanks.” he stumbled up. He almost leaned back again, and Misty caught him.

“Uhm... Liza? Did you do something to him?” Vatra sighed. “Like you always do nowadays?”

“No, I didn’t.” She retorted. “I healed him, just like I did in the old, old days.” She sat down on the nearest patched rug.

“Were missing more lizards!” Banana groaned. “Where are Ace, Charcoal, Bubba and Apollo?”

This time, Graham slapped Cosmo. slapped Cosmo this time. “They got captured!” He shrieked and put his hands up. “The phantoms got in the lair! How could you- “

“ENOUGH!” Greely howled, making the cave shake.

The alphas stopped. Two lizards waltzed into the room like nothing had happened. One was tan and pink, and the other was a mix of grays. The carried books on their back, and the pink one had wings, and the other had a shark fin and tail.

“HELLO GREELY!” They yelled cheerfully, catching his attention.

“Yes?’ He responded with a scowl on his face.

“here are the books sir.” The shark-type lizard set the books down on the stone floor.

“Thank You, Sharku.” He gratefully bowed his head.

“Why are they here?” Asked the pink one.

“Strawberry Cream.” He began. “It’s quite rude to point a wing.”

“Sorry, Master.” He put down his Lava wings.

Sprite, Misty, Banana, Goldy and Big Bird waved to the two new lizards. Goldy, one of Greely’s apprentices high fived them, and Vatra giggled in the corner.

“Something funny, Vatra?’ Liza asked.

“No, Ma`am!” She patted her flower crown. Then, just like Sprite, she stumbled and got back up.  Had she heard the weird voice? Her fiery red eyes glanced at Sharku. They looked down a moment later. This time her eyes were an ocean blue, just like the river near Jamaa.

“Is I normal for he to change eye color?’ Sprite asked.

“Yes, it’s normal!” Liza smiled. “Most lizards with special genes end up with the talent.”

“Cool.” Sharku pulled a juice box out of thin air and popped it open. “So...  what’s up with her?”  he pointed to Misty.

“What?!” Her voice was a high-pitched squeal. “ONE DAY, YOU’RE GONNA REGRET SAYING THAT, YOU LITTLE... “

“Misty!” Goldy scolded her, just like Graham.

“Heh.” She slumped and sat down.

“Those lizards know the secrets!” Cosmo appeared to be quietly arguing with Peck.

“They don’t. I’m sure they just think our students have wings.” She assured him. “And tails.”

“Didn’t you see during the battle?” Cosmo groaned.

“Which one?”

“Both.”

“Yeah, why?”

Cosmo rolled his eyes like it was supposed to be obvious. “The eight alphas are crystal clear!”

“What does that have to do with them knowing our secrets?” She crossed her paws.

“The one who is meant to be my replacement has figured herself out!” He sighed. “I faded once, definitely fine.”

“I fade all the time.” Graham played with a golden stick. “I have no students. No lizard ever picks me.”

“Or Juno. Tavie too.” Greely was going through his books.

“Alphas?” Big Bird stepped forward with his golden squad. “Who is Juno?”

Liza smacked her forehead. The student-apprentice-assistant lizards shuffled their feet nervously.

*Graham has joined us.* The new male voice said in Sprite’s head. *He is the alpha of creation, mechanics, and nobody picks him. Doesn’t that happen to you?*

“Shut up.” Sprite told the voice.

The alphas all played with their necklaces, each with a brown pendant. They all opened them, and nothing was inside.

“They might as well learn.” Liza said reluctantly. “We have to teach them before we... fade.”

The alphas nodded in agreement. Vatra, Eira and Raimu each took a conch shell from THIN AIR and blew them. There was mist surrounding everyone, which almost covered up Sprite’s head. An image popped up, but at the same time didn’t. Then, Zios, Jamaa’s creator appeared.

“Wait, how did he just...?” Misty started.

“He just appeared.” Greely explained. “Quiet now.”

Suddenly, the mask flashed with bright light and an elegant gray/grey heron sprouted from his head. They started talking. Sprite wasn’t sure how he understood what they were saying, but they were saying something.

Apparently, the two fell in love. Classic and disgusting. Then, they both created Jamaa and the animals; but Sprite saw no lizards.

*We are now the guardian spirits of Jamaa. Protectors of the Sky, rulers of the Earth. Mira said.*

Suddenly, there were noises. A giraffe and a pink rabbit, who looked oddly familiar appeared.

“This is mine!” The female rabbit squeaked, hugging the rainbow painting close to her.

“No, it’s MINE!” The giraffe stretched his neck and plucked it away from the rabbit.

The rabbit grabbed a paint brush and it turned into a sword, and she made a mark across the giraffe’s body.

They fought. The animals split into two groups, cheering on and on. They sprouted wings, tails, and threw fire around. Mira and Zios frowned, and took their own stones and held them close. Suddenly, something appeared out of nowhere. A purple sludge, just like phantoms splatted behind the bunny.

“Peck!” The blue wolf yelled and threw her aside. Suddenly, monsters sprawled out of the bushes. *Phantoms.*

Seven animals, including the rabbit and wolf hid in a shelter and the others all stood up.

“I’ll face you myself.” Mira jumped in front of the monsters.

The one in the lead laughed. “You can’t.” He kept laughing. His assistant had boes, and they glowed. Zios was tied up in a string, this time his eyes purple.

Mira unleashed a wave of fire, but the phantom blocked it.

“We have all the heart stones, and we are in alliance with the sun!” They all cheered, and the animals, and all disappeared.

Then, there was an image near the temple. Juno was inside, and he was fighting phantoms, and whoever touched him froze to stone. Then, he stood victoriously at the top of the podium, but then his paws turned gray.

“You know, it’s best not to show them this part.” Liza had problems standing still; she patted her foot on the floor. “It’s a bit... nasty.”

Liza was right. Juno was crying and gasping for air. There was practically nothing he could do.

“Don’t look now.” Greely looked away from the mist.

But then the mist disappeared, leaving the shape of a wolf in the room. His fur was white and skin red. He had yellow markings all over his face and eyes lit.

“You can barely tell he's a man.” Misty squinted. “Is he like- “

An awkward pause. Liza sighed. “You know what, Juno is a boy. We’ll go with that.”

The wolf smoke laughed. “I am a male, yes. But a young one is really me. In fact, she is in the tunnels. You should go out and search.” Then he dissapeared.

Vatra gasped and so did Sprite. “They’re safe! Maybe we didn’t leave them behind!

“Any volunteers?” Greely stood up. “And Sharku, please, do the thing later... “

## **CH 8 ~ Audrey's POV**edit | edit source

Sir Gilbert said they had landed in the Mokuahi volcano, but Raimu argued it was Greely’s home. He was clearly right, there weren’t any waterslides or any creepy ladies around there. Audey thought being the alpha of war meant whoever it was- was wise and brave, He was quieter and more acted like a noob. She huddled closer to Toxic as the purple pipes got thinner. She feared falling into the lava; she felt bad for those Minecraft pixels burning in other pixels.

“I’m so hot!” Kaylee complained. “Whichever volcano this is, it’s definitely the hottest.”

“Were like, three feet from the lava! Use your eyes!” Haylee hissed.

“I’m blind.” She murmured.

“Has anyone seen Cakepop or Halo?” Wooyoung asked. “I don’t recall seeing both since we teleported.

“Who’s Halo?” Haylee asked.

“Oh. Sorry, that was my stuffed animal!” he clenched his teeth and smiled, but it was more like a desperate call of, “HELP!”

“Have you guys ever heard of Juno?” Asked Marlenka.

“Juno?” Ray questioned.

“Who’s that?” Audrey asked.

“Tell me more.” Sir Gilbert said. “I haven’t heard that name for a millennium!” He wasn’t exaggerating.

“Back then, he was the first artic wolf, highest ranking animal in Jamaa and was the alpha of Magic. Most say he was clever, creative and occasionally suffered from... ah, never mind.” Marlenka paused, then kept going. “He was also the host of Jamaa`s first wedding. After the battle between the animals and phantoms and they lost their heartstones, the alphas we know today all hid in a temple. Once the door was shut, they realized the only way to get out was if someone held the lever. Juno decided to hold it but got trapped inside the temple. He later became a statue because the temple was so powerful, even for the alpha of magic.”

“Did the book say anything after?” Alon asked.

“Yes. It’s related to the Alphas, and somewhat to Juno.” Marlenka replied.

“Tell me everything.” Sir Gilbert urged on. Marlenka took a deep breath and continued the great history of the alphas.

“The six animals formed a family. Mira and Zios had chosen well, and one day came down to them. They gave the new leaders alpha stones, focusing their power on the alpha it was for and the abilities of the alpha’s animal. And they defeated the phantoms.” She finished, followed by a short round of applause from everyone.

“So... did you miss anything else from this book?” Audrey asked. She held up *The History of the Alphas* and Sir Gilbert quickly took it out of Audrey's hands. He threw it into the boiling lava, and it burnt before it could even sink.

“Why did you throw it in there?” Nugget gasped.

“Some things are better hidden or forgotten.” Sir Gilbert answered.

They reached the end of the pipes and there was a tunnel ahead of them, and they heard voices.

“Do you hear something?” Greely’s voice echoed to their side of the tunnels.

“Yeah. It sounded like Sir Gilbert.” Vatra’s voice followed.

“Vatra?” Mudpie squealed.

“Yes! You guys can finally meet Sharku and Strawberry Cream!” Raimu yelled.

“Raimu?” Eira’s voice echoed.

They reunited, and there were awkward hugs between Vatra, Raimu and Eira. Well, it was more like Vatra was forcing the two to hug, poor lizards. Audrey stifled a giggle.

“Greely! Where are the others?” Sir Gilbert asked.

“Down here! We thought we left you with the phantoms. I told Sharku to do the thing with Graham again!” He laughed mischeviously.

“They act like brothers.” Marlenka whispered in Audrey’s ear.

“Yep. Don't be surprised if you are scared to death.” She responded.

“What about you?!” She slapped her playfully and Audrey rolled her eyes. “We’ll see. Moon versus... undetermined.”

“How’d you find us?” Ray asked when they joined everyone in the room.

“Strawberry’s pocketwatch!” Sharku gaped delightfully.

“OOF!” Mudpie and Bumble were smashed by a bunch of pies.

“Yum!” Mudpie grinned excitedly.

“Oh geez, I’m getting somewhat sick of this stench...” It was at that moment they discovered one of Bumble’s powers was super speed.

“Mira has called upon us.”Peck began without warning. “We have to venture into the unknown to find our sacred stones and to save Jamaa!”

“INTO THE UNKNOWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!” Big Bird and Banana sang.  That was definitely getting annoying.

There were a few snickers. Peck shook her head and laughed but then continued. “We need to discuss where we're going to go and divide into groups, I think my stone would be in a rocky mountain place with rivers and streams!” Peck said.

“Coral Canyons?” Eira thought. “Maybe we’ll find clues there. “

“Does the place have grass?” Seashell asked.

“Nope.” She shook her head.

“I’ll come with you!” Eira bravely volunteered.

“Not alone.” Raimu followed. “I’m coming with you. So is Seashell.”

“I want to come! That is, if it’s okay with Liza.” Vatra turned to her master.

“I’m okay with it.” Liza approved. “Nobody knows what to expect, or what lizards are still alive. Lunch and Rain, would you like to come?”

“Yes!” they nodded and ran by the alpha’s side.

Graham sighed. “I have no students or assistants. I might as well go alone.”

“No, you won’t. Misty and I will come with you!” Sprite raised his paw.

“Okay.” Misty agreed with uncertainty. “Whatever you say bro.” (BY THE WAY, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO THINK KAYLEE IS THE IMPOSTOR.... HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED MISTY’S COLORS?)

“I’ll come. Only if Wooyoung and Cakepop do.” Toxic inched backwards, towards Cakepop.

“I hate to separate from Haylee and Kaylee, but YES!” Cakepop grabbed her friend’s paw.

“I’m coming to!” Wooyoung agreed. He went by his sister and best friend and the five went to Graham, who was smiling like he never had before. “It’s settled. I’ll tell you where we begin as soon as time permits!”

“What about the three impostors?” Marlenka blurted.

“Impostor?” Sprite asked.

Oh no! Audrey thought and shot a horrid look at the four. Haylee doubled back and Misty moved unsteadily. Raimu stepped in front of Eira as a defense.

“Hasn’t Strawberry shown it to you?” She asked.

“Nope.” Everyone disagreed. Strawberry tapped (uhm I forgot gender-) `s pocket watch.

“I think Marlenka misunderstood her own pocket watch.” Audrey ad-libbed. “I mean, how could phantoms randomly possess us?”

Everyone nodded in agreement, but the golden solid trio shuffled back. Audrey wondered what that meant. And she thought there had only been one!

“Well, who wants to come to a dark temple and poisonous jungle?” Cosmo yelled smiled. “Okay- no it’s not fun... anyone want to come?”

“We’ll go.” Bumble and Mudpie agreed. “Maybe we’ll see Captain Buoy on the way!”

“We'll come.” Said Kaylee. Haylee nodded.

“Very well. What about you, Greely?” He turned to his friend.

“We’ll have to infiltrate the phantom fortress. When I was a... a different jammer, I gave my stone to the phantoms. We must get it back, and I need as big of a group as possible.” He explained.

“On its Sir!” Sharku and Strawberry said in unison.

“Count the dream team in!” Banana burst between his golden buddies. “They’ll regret messing with us, little...”

Big Bird slapped him this time.

“My mission will be the riskiest and... hey, where's Alon?” he looked left and right.

Everyone looked. But nobody spotted him.

“He just... dissapeared.” Strawberry held up (ughhh I forgot genderrr) pocket watch and showed a before and after.

Toxic looked at Marlenka, and Marlenka looked at Haylee. Haylee looked at Audrey, and she looked at Wooyoung. They didn’t even seem to notice.

“We must infiltrate Juno’s temple.”He said uncertainly.

Silence. Nobody volunteered.

“I’ll go.” Audrey said.

“I know a thing or two about magic.” Marlenka fiddled with her watch. “Why not?”

Ray agreed. The three had volunteered for the most dangerous mission. Juno had been so overwhelmed; he couldn’t even survive. And he was the alpha of MAGIC! How were they supposed to break in? One of them would certainly die!

“Take this, Marlenka.” Liza handed her a red bowtie. “This provides no drawback. When you use power, you won't take drawback in any strike you make.”

“Take my key!” Graham handed Ray a key on a necklace. “It can open any door that stands in your way!!”

“Thank you.” Ray said. He put the necklace on him. It shimmered.

“This white scarf was made by Mira.” Cosmo said. He wrapped it around Audrey’s neck.

“Made by Mira?” She gasped.

“Yes. It’s older than the feather we found. But also, dangerous. If one thread gets pulled off, Jamaa will wilt. You have the power of the world and sky in your hands. Every strike you make will make you think darker, though. Be careful. We all trust you.” Cosmo stepped away.

Audrey gulped. Great. She thought. I now can kill Jamaa at any moment I would like.

“Did Zios have any stuff?” Asked Haylee.

“No. At least, he never gave Jamaa anything.” he shrugged.

Bags appeared right out of thin air. Each alpha carried one small bag, probably with all the survival needs anyone could ever want. Greely led them outside, and they all followed. They overlooked Bahari Bay, and saw dolphins playing. The area had not been found yet.  They all gathered in a small circle, and Audrey scooted close to the center.

“These lizards are all so brave. Thank you for your sacrifice. We will find the stones and destroy the phantoms!” Liza and Sir Gilbert cheered, and they cheered with them.

Audrey’s scarf seemed to disagree. She ignored it. (oooh, theories anyone?)

“Bye everyone!” Peck waved. Greely accepted the noisy rabbit’s hug for once.

Audrey had made good friends with Rain, and they stood together. “Does water communication actually work?” She asked.

“We’re about to find out!” He said mischievously and faced north. "A friend named Goldfish taught me it. I haven't tried it yet."

“See you all in the battlefield, or possibly the wilderness.” Liza winked.

“For Jamaa!” Marlenka yelled like she never had before. Audrey could have sworn she saw Juno howling with her. This lifted everyone’s spirits, especially the alphas.

“Farewell, friends.” Bumble waved. The lizards with tails levitated and the ones with wings sprouted them. Wow, tail levitation is neat! Do they fly like Appa? Audrey thought.

Then they took off. She figured she would have a lot of time to think about that, because they headed towards the rising sun.

## **CH 9 ~ Raimu's POV ~ Coral Canyons**edit | edit source

He was travelling with Eira

Three of the four jammers he was travelling with were girls.

There wasn’t anything wrong with the girls, Raimu just got nervous around them. Maybe he was just like that. Marlenka was insane- and paranoid. Who knew some depressed female would suddenly summon Juno?

“Surprisingly, all of us have been to Coral Canyons.” Raimu said out loud.

“Yeah. The lizards from the bunker didn’t even know what it was! I mean, isn’t that insane! Have they ever crossed those Jamaa bridges?” Seashell spread his arms. “I mean, I’m pretty sure they would have the guts to!”

“Yeah.” Vatra nodded. “I’ve talked with Misty lately; she and her brother are the toughest and uhm- somewhat sassiest lizards I ever met.”

Eira groaned. “Seashell, you never answered my question.”

“What?”

“What happened inside? While everyone else was fighting outside?”

“OH- yeah. I’ll tell you sometime. We were fighting about the uhm... impostor. Someone brought it up and we kept accusing each other.” he shrugged. “Then, the alphas were chosen. I think it was Haylee or Kaylee who screamed and the ground shook! It was insane!”

“Everyone’s been forgetting so much lately. Even I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night.” Raimu thought. “Did we even have dinner? Did I argue with Greely or something?”

“The alpha of magic has figured themselves out. I’m sure they are a boy, but it could be a girl. And so, has the alpha of storms. I can't really sense what gender though.” Peck flew her on the back and put her paws under her head. She glanced at hawks flying in the sky. “who do you guys think it is?”

“Rain. It would make sense.” Seashell suggested.

“Misty. She’s mist and- well yeah.” Raimu argued.

“Rain is grumpy. But also, gentle and quiet. It would make sense.” Eira flipped in the air.

“Are you kidding me? Have you guys forgotten about Haylee and Kaylee?” Vatra made explosion noises.

“It was an earthquake.”

“But it was still a natural disaster- “

They started to argue. Raimu was tired. He thought about lizard levitation. Levitation only happened when lizards had tails. They would flap them up and down to control air currents. Like Appa, Aang’s bison from Avatar. Personally, he thought it looked weird when the lizards did that.

“I’m kind of tired. We should rest. We’ve been flapping for hours.” Eira complained.

Seashell nodded, even though he had a tail like Raimu. They didn’t get as tired as easily, Raimu was tired and hungry. He hadn’t felt this tired since his days training with Greely. They flew over the baren landscape and landed on the nearest waterfall.

“Hey, look! It’s downtown Coral Canyons!” Eira pointed to the bustling village beyond the spikes. “Let’s go into town!”

“Lotus lives there!” Vatra yelled. “Ooh, come on we HAVE to go!”

“Let’s do it! And- well, I hope we don’t get drowned in a crowd because of me.” Peck laughed. They proceeded down the carved-out stairs and into the village.

Raimu lived with Rose, one of Lotus’ best friends. He knew his way around this place.  They entered on Wiki Road \*oh gosh- why- whyy- \* and there were people trading. The houses were made from wood and stone, and they were all comfy cabins. The only hotel in the city, Mulberry lodge was already decorated with string lights and stars.

“Wow. They celebrate early. I hear Christmas music in that direction, it ought to be fun there.” Seashell’s ears twitched.

“How does it feel being blind?” Peck asked.

“Horrible.  I’m so glad I watched Avatar and trained like Toph! Peck, you’re definitely the best!” He looked at Vatra, who casually turned his head in the other direction.

“Raimu, is that you?” An animal rushed out from the alley.

“Yeet! Oh, thank GOSH!” He hugged his echidna friend.

“Yeet?” Seashell laughed.

“I know, people always laugh.” The yellow echidna shrugged. He had a lavender beak and cheery red eyes. He wore a red bowtie and stretched is purple wings. “Oh, hello Peck! It’s a great honor to meet you!”

“Hey, Yeet.” Peck tried not to laugh.

“You can call him George! He also has two other friends, Dream, Halo, and Sap.” Raimu patted his friends back.

Eira laughed. “Hm. How's it going with Dream?”

“She’s doing well- “ George/Yeet stammered. “Lotus is on break now. She’s at the café, if you want to see her.”

They followed George to the Café, which was in town square. A brown arctic wolf with black fur and teal marking appeared at the window. She was pounding at a laptop, and paused to drink her beverage, Then she tappped away.

“She’s been in a bad mood recently.” George explained. “She can’t find a way to protect Coral Canyons. And there are plenty of volunteers, unfortunately unexperienced. Julie warned us plenty of times they were coming in. They said it may be today, that’s why Lotus stole a stone.”

“wait- what?!” Peck gasped.

“Yes. Pocket watches. I have one myself, that’s how I know. Unfortunately, Julie has stolen Liza’s and I doubt our side will win.” George opened the glass door.

*Three pocket watches in the world!* Raimu thought. *Marlenka, Strawberry and George must have to do with the alphas! Ooh- Maybe George is an alpha! Wait- he's an echidna though. Hmm... what about Strawberry? She knows quite a lot. But there’s nobody stranger than Marlenka.*

Vatra and Eira quickly ran to their owner and they were wrapped in a big hug. \*Ooh- Eira got traded 😫 I’d offer my pure white and adds for her- but he’s currently in some offers soooooo\* Raimu looked at the glowing screen. There was a simulator for battle, and possible outcomes.

“Peck! I’m so glad you’re here!” Everyone in the room cheered. “Our home might be saved!”

“Yes... “Lotus quickly slipped a pink stone onto Peck’s paintbrush handle- it's original holding spot. “Everyone here are the high-rank people from Crystal Sands, the Canyons Pathway and of course here. We’ve been trying to plan out battle, but it hasn’t worked very well.”

Peck held up her paintbrush. “Well... “She wasn’t the best at public speaking. “What’s the plan?”

“Were just going to attack them. Ten jammers and thirty pets per team.” Said a seal.

“How many teams do you have?” Asked Seashell.

Five paws went up. “I’m blind. What the heck.” Seashell sighed.

“5 teams.” Lotus told him.

“Are you crazy?! Your defense is TOO THIN!” Seashell shouted in disbelief. “What area are you covering?!”

“All of Coral Canyons. Everyone from every village is here, mostly at the hotel resting.” Levelofconcxrn, the mayor of Crystal Sands \*dies- oh this is cringe- wow- I-\* and Big Bird’s owner said. “The jammers of Crystal Sands should be arriving in a few minutes, and we’ll do a head count.”

As they discussed battle strategies, Raimu chilled on the side and sipped some hot cocoa. He blinked, and was standing at a cave entrance with Vatra, Peri and- wait – PERI?! How did he get here? What- what happened?

Raimu immediately thought of Marlenka. *Is this what happens to her? What’s happening to me?* He wondered. He realized Eira was looking at him. He straightened up and tried not to make eye contact. He thought this was weird.

“You okay?” She asked.

“Yeah. Where are we?” He asked, but quickly realized is mistake.

Everyone stared at him.  “Since when did he have short term memory loss?” asked Peri. He had light blue top and a dark blue face. His gray eyes looked at Raimu with uncertainty.  He also has a slight british accent, just like Marlenka had a slight Portugese one.

“Hmm. Everyone’s been losing memory. It’s so weird... I’m going to guess it has to do with Liza.” Said Vatra.

Everyone looked at her. “Liza is the alpha of life, meaning she can control- or we can just say in charge of the animals. She’s in charge of the animals’ feelings and thoughts as well. But Greely, is like storm and phantom. Storm has something to do with peace and mind.” She explained.

“You know a lot. Your most likely smarter than Greely.” Peri complimented. She scooted away from him.

Ouch.

“Were near a cave.” Raimu said. “Obviously. Are we going in or what?”

“Something tells me we should. I have a great feeling about secret caves to-day.” Peri said cheerfully and waltzed towards the rocks.

As they got closer, water roared. There was a waterfall in front of the cave. They waded into the pool of water and the girls huddled closer together, both muttering something about the boys themselves. They all paused and looked up. The water most likely came off a ledge or from and underground stream that blocked the cave. They stepped inside.

Eira brought out a pai- wait- paintbrush? Why in the name of Zios did she have that?!

“Eira, what have you got there?” Raimu asked.

“Peck’s paintbrush. She handed it to me. I don’t know where she got it” She shrugged. “I thought we were supposed to be looking for the stone. It found us instead and led us here.”

“What the heck is that?!” Peri froze in horror, and Vatra crashed into him.

“Watch it- whoa!” Vatra looked up at the sky.

Eira and Raimu looked up as well. The top, there were glowing crystals, and light coming from there. To their left was a staircase that made a wide turn up. They could have followed it but hesitated.

“Wow. What’s this?” Peri approached a blue orb. It was floating on a stand surrounded by glowing water. “It’s marvelous! I might as well touch it.”

Peri was dumb. Vatra yelled and heaved him off to the side. “Don’t touch it!” She pounced at him.

Peri, being Tavie’s student called up a big wave of the glowing water. Raimu defended Eira but she pushed him away and grabbed Peck’s brush. She drew and umbrella in midair and grabbed it. An umbrella appeared and she held it over their heads, ready for the water to come down.

Vatra, being unprotected slumped. “You win. Just don’t touch it.” She squinted at him.

Eira dragged him to the side. She held the wall. “I feel something here!” She cried, and everyone huddled by her. By the light of the alpha gem, they saw a bookshelf, covered with cobwebs, but no spiders in sight.

“I can touch that, right?” asked Peri.

“why not.” Vatra nodded and he took a dusty book from the shelf. Raimu blinked. Then Peri had already flipped a few pages of the book. What had he missed?

“Wow, this is amazing! This cave is a thumb!” He grinned.

“Thumb?” Raimu coughed. “Uhm, I think you read wrong.”

“he did. It doesn’t say thumb. It says tomb.”

## **CH 10 ~ The Orbs ~ Vatra's POV**edit | edit source

I'm sorry it's a bit short! lets get onto the story.

A tomb sounded fun. Yeah, fun!

“You know what? I’m creeped out let’s get out of here!” Eira suggested.

“The tale of the Orbs.” Peri already read.

“I’m with Eira.” Raimu agreed with his friend.

Nobody responded. Eira and Raimu became close. “It was a dark and stormy night.” Peri began. “I doubt this is a Wrinkle in Time but- “

“Peri, just keep reading!” Vatra urged him.

“The first fox, named Emilio was alone in Mt. Shiveer, and he spotted a light. He was so glad and went over to the light. It was a lamp post. He looked further and saw a small ice b=village, and there lived the first arctic animals of Jamaa, including Juno. He didn’t know this, but he headed into the village.

They thought he was cursed, due to his colors being dark as night and the moon on his head. I don’t know about the moon thing though. I like the moon.” Peri said cheerfully and read on.

“The arctic animals hated the moon, therefore didn’t trust Emilio. But their leader, Amelia a beautiful arctic fox gave him a chance to prove his loyalty. He told them they were not the only animals in the world but lived somewhere cold and dark. He told them about the light of Jamaa, the other animals they did not see.

They trusted him, and the foxes fell in love. They decided to get married, and this was a sight. It was the first wedding of Jamaa! Zios hated the animals. So, he formed a plan to secretly poison the rings and imprison the two foxes in the orbs.”

“That’s horrible!” Eira cried and held onto Raimu. “Why would the creator of us do such a horrid thing?”

“I don’t know.” Vatra said sadly.

“He sucks. Keep reading.” Raimu told Peri.

“he successfully did so, and nobody saw the two ever again.  They say the only way to free them is by using Peck’s alpha stone and think wonderful thoughts. Nobody in the cave has done it, and they have all been turned to crystals or little seashells.”

“Seashell!” Raimu yelled. “where is he?”

“He is helping the animals prepare for battle. They need him, they don’t know what the heck a spear is.” Eira sighed. “I'm sure they were smarter than that. I'm sure my own owner was as well.”

“So, want to check out their staircase?” Vatra asked. She pointed to the stairs in the back. She just wanted to check that out that and get out of the cave.

This seemed to lighten the mood, and everyone proceeded upstairs. Raimu was in the lead and Peri last. The stopped at a swirling green orb. It was on a stand but surrounded by shells and crystals.

“I do want to try to free them.” Peri wished and clutched his beret. “but I could die in the process.”

“They could already be dead.” Eira shivered. “Look. You can barely see it, but there’s an arctic wolf in there. She's frozen in the ball.”

They paused. “We can’t tell if she’s dead.” Raimu said.

“It’s been thousands of years!” Vatra yelled. “She’s the first arctic fox, immortal, but can fade- She clearly hasn’t faded!”

“Raise your hand if you want to leave her behind.” Vatra said.

Only Eira did, and they decided to try.

“This is stupid.” She muttered. “Ugh.”

“So, what exactly do we think of?” Asked Peri.

“Anything good. Eira, Raimu, head downstairs and think by that orb. Vatra instructed them, and Eira grumbled the whole way down.

The two stared awkwardly at each other. Vatra had always had a small crush on Peri, she didn’t know about him though. His accent was adorable, and when he pouted, he was adorable. He was just the tiniest teddy-bear.

“Ready?” He asked.

“Ready as I’ll ever be.” Vatra nodded.

\*READY AS ILL EVER BEEEEEE—ok sorry\*

She concentrated on the orb. She thought of Peri, Lotus, her friends and family. It wasn't much, but it was something. She remembered the beaches of Crystal Sands and Liza’s comfy home. She thought of milkshakes, swimming, mountain climbing, and much more.

Then, she stopped. She looked up at Peri, who was looking at her. Oh geez.

The orb glowed. It glowed brighter. It was either the end or a new beginning. Peri wrapped his paw around her. Normally, she would have rejected but she understood. They could have died at that very moment, but they didn’t. The orb was there, but an arctic fox made of stars and moonlight came into view.

“Thank you.” She said, and the two gasped. “I can’t thank you enough.” She spoke.

\*the arctic fox, Amelia has the voice of Yue from Avatar\*

“Wait- we freed you! Where’s your body?!” Peri asked.

“I don’t have a physical body. Zios cursed me of that as well. But if there’s one thing I know- I know you will save Jamaa. Together, and only you, will find Tavie’s stone and bring it back.” She told them. “I can tell you anything or do anything for you with this necklace.”

Vatra has handed a necklace, so light it felt like air. It had a star charm on it, and she put it on. It seemed to fade into her, because the star shimmered on her chest. It happened with Peri to, and he breathed in deeply.

“What’s ahead?” he asked.

“A battle. A battle which someone will be taken in.” Amelia cried. “It’s so sad. They won’t die, but they will be taken over. Your friend Raimu, may be the one.”

“What?!” Vatra gasped.

“Yes. Lots of your friends have been having blank outs. The phantoms are somehow controlling them, and that I do know, but cannot say. Every time, the blank outs gets worse and worse, until the lizard can no longer control their actions. They watch themselves do horrible things until they are set free from the phantoms. I don’t know how or why, but it happens.” She sighed.

“We’re going to fail, aren’t we.” Peri said. “Reading the story, I blanked out. Then came back at the end. I can’t save Jamaa.”

“No, you can’t.” Amelia laughed. “Never think you have to do anything alone. There are barely any things you can do. You won’t fail. You’ll have help from your friend.”

Vatra smiled.

“The battle is starting now.” she created a water bubble. “I’ll send you over. Emilio is sending your friends over too.” She waved. “if you ever need me, you know what to do.” She waved her tail and the two floated into rainbows and landed in the middle of battle.

The chaos was insane. Seashell and a group of New Jammers were shooting boom boom- err... paintseeds at the phantoms. They had terrible aim, and the phantoms moved left and right. They occasionally got them.

“Look out!” Vatra yelled and shot fire over Peri's head. She caught a phantom and it disappeared in a pile of goop.

They leaped into battle, throwing everything they had at them. Peri shot water from his pouch at them while Vatra flew around and burned them down, which definitely sounded better in her head. Julie, the leader of the phantoms was shooting poison and purple fire at Raimu and Eira, she complimented each other with great aim and flexibility.

At last, it was just the jammers versus Julie and her two others. She clapped her tentacles(or hands) and her two assistants opened their eyes. One turned into Seashell. The other turned into a shadow. Vatra didn’t know what that meant.

*“Take them out.”*  Phantom- Seashell demanded. The shadow leaped forward and so did Julie. “One of them is an impostor already, leave them.”

They caused a great storm, which burned part of the Canyons Pathway. This wasn't good, no it wasn’t.

“SEASHELL!” Eira wailed and ran to the phantom. She was quickly knocked back.

*You need to go!* The voice of Amelia repeated in her head.

She panted, dragged Peri, Raimu and eira off to the side and peered at the town.

“We have to go!” Raimu cried. “Emilio said so! Peck, come on!” But Peck wasn’t there. Her stone glowed brightly. She had used it to go somewhere. They were on their own.

“We can’t turn our backs on them!” Eira refused.

“We’ll be fine!” Someone, probably Level yelled. “Just finish the mission!”

They didn’t have a choice. Julie was already heading after them. If they left the town, the could lead them away. It might work, and they took flight.

“We need to go faster!” Raimu yelled and a moon on his forehead glowed, and they got an extra burst of speed.

“I hated leaving them behind.” Vatra cried. A storm brewed overhead as all the lizards cried together.

But she couldn’t stop thinking. One of them was an impostor. She didn’t think it was true. Was it?”

Peri and Raimu flew quickly together as the somewhat- Seashell attacked from below. Eira and Vatra flew together as well, yelling for help.

“NOBODY’S COMING! IT’S JUST ME AND YOU NOW!” Seashell laughed evily.

“It's not him.” Eira cried. “I feel like he was lying about the impostor.”

The flew as fast as they could, and finally lost their old friend, who was taken over completely.

## **Chapter 11 ~ Not the last crossroad ~ Peri's POV**edit | edit source

The moon and the stars, alphas, Peri’s head was going insane. He didn't know how much more he could take. Now Seashell had been completely taken over. He phantom or thing controlling him said there was one more spy in their group, and he didn’t believe a single word.

“Emilio told us some things.” Raimu began. The snow was gently falling for the first time after their week and a half non-stop travel. “Every time someone is impersonating an animal, they have the blank out. Soon, they have so many they aren’t even themselves. And then... you know.”

“We should land for the night. It looks like a storm will be coming and things won’t be very clear.” Eira suggested and dipped lower. “Plus, in two weeks we’ve only gotten like, three hours of sleep.”

“Julie and her group might come to chase us.” Vatra said, “They are more accustomed to night and storms, and are more in alliance with the moon, aka Mira.”

“I still don’t believe Mira could ally with the phantoms. I would believe Zios, he hates all his children. Plus, he could be a phantom. Nobody knows what is behind his mask.” Peri observed.

“yeah. Half the time I don’t believe any of the magic mist the alphas show us.” Raimu sighed.

“Neither do I, and I even live-in magic waters!” Peri remarked.

“We should land by this lake.” Raimu said as they all flew down.

As soon as they reached the ground, Eira decided to draw some blankets into existence, while Vatra searched for firewood. Peri dove underwater, asking the fish questions. Raimu, who was basically the leader of the group searched for nuts and berries.

They regrouped about an hour later, where nobody else could see in the dark except Vatra. They ate the few things that they found, which wasn’t very filling, and all huddled up beside each other. Vatra was in the middle and Peri and Eira were on the sides. Vatra tried to heat everyone up as Eira and Peri, who were accustomed to the cold, tried to keep it out.

“Oh, that looks horrible!” Eira suddenly yelped, and everyone sat straight up.

Peck was trapped in her own stone. Her eyes were open and produced bright light like when she was in that powerful state. But the thing was, her whole form was black. She was just a sillouhete.

“Do make it go away!” Peri urged.

“What is she doing in there? How?!” Raimu gasped.

“She faded like Tavie. We never saw her again, and we didn’t see her stone.” Peri thought.

“We’ll discuss this tomorrow.” Eira rolled over, her head away from Raimu.

They were arguing, but he didn’t hear the rest. It was if Eira’s soft words had put him to sleep.

💙 Peri’s Dream 💙

He stood in the water, floating in one of his air bubbles. He pushed forward and reached Tavie’s home, where he lived and trained. Suddenly, Tavie’s form appeared in the water.

“Peri, listen up.” she said quicker than the gears turning on her mechanical tail. We don’t have much time. Seashell was taken over, but he never had blank outs.”

“Huh?” Peri was confused.

“The phantoms are becoming stronger. They take more lizards and remaining pets every day. They’ve ben controlling things, taking them all at once. If you lose a SINGLE alpha, you may be done for.” Then, she faded. “Our time is up! Go to my room and follow the compass.” her voice drifted towards him, and a whirlpool took away his air bubble. He heard Amelia's voice.

“Peck, the phantoms are controlling almost every lizard.”

“Yes. They need my power; that's why I came into my stone.”

“They need you.”

💙Peri'sDream Ends💙

Before he drowned, he woke up.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHH!” He screamed and blinked. Vatra and Raimu were at his side.

“Where’s Eira?’ She shook him. “Tell me you had some information from the alphas. WE DON’T KNOW WHERE EIRA IS! I’M FREAKING OUT!”

“PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVE INFORMATION!” Raimu shook him. “I NEED- I MISS- OH FORGET IT! WHERE’S EIRA?!”

“What- “Peri plopped on the ground. Vatra’s big pleading eyes gave him the strength to pop back up again. “What happened?”

“Okay, quick summary. Peck told me to tell you guys that we all need to split up and find the other stones. Apparently, my owner is suspicious. How’d she get that stone? I DON’T KNOW! Then the stupid dream ended.” Vatra exploded in flames.

“Quick summary 2.0 Greely’s group is working as hard as possible and they don’t have a single clue on where the stone is. He told me they had all turned into phantoms and are going to “take prisoners” onto the fortress. Guess what? They just sacrificed some of their already large teams. How was this helpful? I don’t know! Then Kyoshi came up to me and yelled in my face, only justice will bring peace!” and he flopped. “I'm going insane.”

“Oh boy.” Peri sighed. “I got some information. So, I’m supposed to go to Kani Cove and go to my home with Tavie and we were going to find her compass and do stuff. I think it’s to find her stone. But before my dream ended, I heard Amelia and Peck talking. The news sucked.” He paused. He didn't want them to freak out. “One, almost every lizard has been taken over. Two, the phantoms are becoming more powerful and that’s how they took Seashell all at once, and why he’s an idiot bad guy. Three, Peck went into her own stone to give us power.”

“Uhm, so if we break the stone is it gonna kill her?” Vara sighed.

“I don’t know. If we are splitting up, Vatra, you can come with me. Raimu, you can travel on land to find Liza. Or, Vatra can go with Raimu. I’m going underwater either way.”

“Hmm. I might stick with you. There are small villages all around Jamaa, and Raimu could thrive. You have survival classes with Greely and Cosmo, right?” Vatra asked.

“Yeah, and Graham. They trolled me in the hunt...” He sighed.

“We’ll let you have the stone since you're going alone.” Peri easily handed over the stone, and Raimu took it. “W- we have a problem. Uh- why am I holding this stone?”

“Uh oh.” Vatra gasped. ‘Is this even a good idea? How long have you been blanked out?”

“Uhh.... were we in battle a day ago?” He asked.

*OH NO!* Peri thought and stood protectively in front of Raimu. “We have to part now! The phantoms could be on their way! You've been out for TWO WEEKS!”

“Hey, question. Did Eira say anything about impersonation?” Vatra scratched her head.

“Uhh...” Peri tried to remember things, and he couldn’t. He couldn’t remember when he last saw Eira. A week ago? Or did she JUST disappear?

“I think peri’s the impostor.” Raimu sighed. “He can’t remember a thing!” He then grabbed a hunting knife and held it to Peri’s neck.

“Easy there Raimu. If it’s anyone, It’s you! The alpha stone! How you took it? I don’ think so.” She grabbed a piece of jagged rock. It levitated, she used her eyes to turn it over.

“You’re kind of sus Vatra.”Raimu made a point. “Maybe you're just defending him, and after you get the stone, he’s yours. Then, you take him down, leave his body wherever you go, and claim your prize.”

“What are you going to do with the stone?" Peri shot back at him.

"I'm going to find Liza, and we're going to find her stone, and go to the phantom fortress." He paused. "Without Eira."

\*I'm so bad at making ***high quality romance*** stuff so uh- cOUgHhHH\*

"Can we trust him?" Vatra asked.

"I don't know. What would the phantoms' plan be?" Peri wondered.

"I dunno." A female voice came from the back. "The king can be quite mysterious."

A female phantom and two lizards stepped up from behind her.

"Julie?!" Vatra opened her wings. She wrapped a few strands of fire around rocks and lifted them.

Raimu got into fighting position and Peri did to. The lizards laughed.

"That's an odd stance, isn't it Dragon?" The purple lizard laughed at Peri's footing.

"I don't see anything wrong about it Skip." Dragon growled and opened his wings.

"Shut up you two." Julie told the boys, supposedly her assistants. "Do you want me to reveal my lizard form?"

"What?" Vatra gasped. For a split second, Julie was a blob of green. Or was it mint?

"Who am I?" She asked.

"Uhh..." Peri thought. "How exactly do you transform?"

"Well, I think eye color comes first. Or, body color? I'm not exactly sure." She muttered. "I might as well ask her. Is your name Raimu?" She pointed to Raimu, who loosened up.

"Yes?" He responded.

"Eira said she loved you. Oh, by the way, she's at the fortress now." Dragon giggled. "Uhh- were we supposed to say that?"

"His stance is unsteady." Julie rolled her eyes. Do you know what that means?"

"oh right." Skip charged. He let out a yell, and the snow came crashing down.

\*The thing I don't like about writing books is that you never get the same feel. Reading about battle isn't the same as seeing it.\*

Vatra unleashed fire, and they all screamed. "we have to go, NOW!"

"Well, are we going to end out by flying again?" Peri cried.

Raimu let out a smoky cover, and the three were together one last time. "I'll go underground" He said. "Good luck, remember there's a lake near you."

He disappeared in his own dirt, and Vatra coughed. Peri covered for her, and sharp stones aimed for Peri's heart. He dodged them and Julie surrounded them with a ring of purple fire.

"Wow. That's a lot of smoke." Vatra gasped.

"It's also a lot of mist, and water." Peri added, and made a big wave form from the lake. He formed it into a bubble and threw it down on the phantoms (and evil lizards) who coughed and screamed. Dragon aimed more daggers at Peri, but the two were quick. They ran as fast as they could into the woods.

"To the air!" Julie yelled, and they took off. Peri and Vatra kept running in the opposite direction, and collapsed together on a hard rock. They made one last move to cover their tracks and Vatra spotted a tunnel.

"Come on, that HAS to be the bunker!" She dragged him inside and lit a fire. The covered the hole with the rock.

They sat in silence until the ground started rumbling.

**Bonus ~ Julie's POV**

"We have to go after them!" Skip yelled and flipped in the direction Vatra and Peri had run in.

I hesitated. "No, they're to quick. Why does it matter though? They'll be back."

I formed into one of my lizard forms, perhaps Eira? That would do. It was a bad idea as pain flowed through my body as I transformed into the white lizard. Her voice in my head screamed, *"What are you doing?!"* I didn't respond, and instead sighed. "I'm one step closer to regaining my hono- I mean, throne."

The boys grinned. "Uh, one question- have you ever tried to fight General Lido and his armies?" Skip asked. "I'm gonna get worried."

"You shouldn't be." I told him. "There's a reason why I've been teaching phantoms pet origin and magic. They're going to gain the powers of whatever lizard they choose, and take them over mentally. But their phantom side will still show. Then, we will fight against Lido's supporters and win."

Dragon fiddled with his daggers as we teleported to the Fortress gardens. We reversed back into phantom form and headed down to the North Tower, where the jail cells were. They were beautiful, but the animals called them dark and sad. I don't really know why, but have they ever studied their history? I don't think so.

"You know, I really enjoy Marley's company!" Skip admitted as we headed into the locked door. "She's so funny, even in jail!"

"Yeah. I like chatting with Panda. Not really with Loafie. We made up stories once." Dragon looked longingly at the tower. "why is it never sunny here?"

"I don't know." I wondered. The stone floors with skeletons and cobwebs led the way to the cells. This room was for the main and strongest enemies, including jambassadors. AJHQ sat in the same cell as Leamonpuppy, who was sleeping beside Galaxymintz. Galaxy sighed and tried to move the big ball that held her chains, but it didn't budge.

"Hello prisoners!" Skip said merrily, and jumped up to a cell. Three jammers, Seafoamii, Zuko and Littlebois all turned to him. They seemed to be good friends, and started to chat. I always wondered why they did tat. Making friends with the bad guys wasn't exactly the best option, it could lead to betrayal.

Fear was my key to control. The two boys knew the consequences if they betrayed me. It was perfect. The prisoners obeyed because of fear. It was all they had. Fear was a wonderful weapon. It took down anything in it's path. For example, we had blood (our main drink, but of course it was decoration) and balloons all over the prison one day, and the jammers did everything we asked for. We let them out to roam in the yard, but nobody escaped. Of course, there was this one New Jammer with a princess necklace who tried to bounce by the guards. It ended wonderfully, the crimson stain is one of the guard's favorite spots!

"Julie!' General Lido rushed in and Skip's face turned mad. He was scared that he would be caught making friends. I wondered why I didn't scold him earlier.

"Yes sir?" I asked.

"The lizard, she's very strong. Nobody here knows whos controlling her now!" He was panicking.

"Oh really? She has the phantom motive, right?" I asked.

"Yes." He nodded. "But nobody is controlling her!"

"Oh. We'll discuss this later, I'm kind of busy scolding them right now." I pointed to Galaxy, who's eyes were red from crying.

He left. I smiled. "A traitor. And on our side! How wonderful! We're presented with a wonderful opportunity boys."

They looked at me, eyes wide.

"We finally have an alpha under our control."

## **Chapter 12 ~ Halo's Return ~ Raimu's POV**edit | edit source

He thought he saw Vatra and Peri hide in the bunker down the hall, but he decided not to check it out. He went the other way which was-North he guessed, and went up the dark tunnel. He was blind, the place was so deep and dark, just like the labyrinth. but the bunker's entrances were a maze, always changing, never the same.

He didn't think most animals knew it because they travelled underground, but the dirt paths were always changing, full of secret rooms and traps. Raimu was sure there was treasure in the caves, the ground glittered in the direction he was in. This meant more fertile soil, and he was getting closer to somewhere.

He had only walked about 30 feet ever since he saw "Vatra and Peri". He saw a light ahead, and he dashed to it. He jumped out of the hole and was in the bamboo forest. He had visited the place many times. he could have sworn he saw a group of mantises jumping by, followed by a group of glider. He decided not to check it out.

He stopped. His feet ached- it really did feel like he walks thousands of miles, even though he had walked thirty feet. He rested and took out Peck's stone, which glowed brightly. He felt light all of a sudden, and stood- no- he was floating- spectating- like a ghost. Where was he? He thought for a minute. High in the trees, the surrounding area was covered in oak planks and green vines. There was railing made of leaves and strings, which was somehow steady in the breeze. There was only one place like this in the world.

🔶 Raimu and the Stone 🔶

Graham opened a door and lizards dashed through. Five lizards excitedly ran onto the planks and they all had wings. Toxic summoned a green flame and opened his dragon wings. Wooyoung with his wings made of griffin feathers lifted a rock easily off the ground. Cakepop loosened up her angel wings, but nothing happened. A blast of air spread Toxic's fire and made Wooyoung drop his stone. Misty, seeing this moved her Seashell decorated tail and water from her pouch smashed onto the fire. She had green airplane wings, made by Graham himself, and they looked light and shimmered like new.

Lastly, Sprite opened his green bird wings and flew. the wind blew in raimu's ears as he soared by. He didn't see anything happening, but it snowed lightly in the area. Graham took his remote control and a big wrecking ball was lowered to the ground- they were training!

"okay everyone!" he grinned and they swung down to the ground with vines. "Rule one, don't kill each other! Rule two, try not to hurt each other, we don't have much medicine! Rule three, have fun!" He pressed a button and the ball swung around. he sat on a wheelchair made of gold and headed towards the group, who started to fire at each other.

Their moves were good, but weren't quick. Misty always froze Toxic in ice before he dodged it, and usually it took a long time for him to unfreeze himself.

The scene changed.

A group of praying mantises ran across the grassy fields, an army of gliders following them.

"Kevin! Speed up or I'll kick your but!" Ethan yelled.

"Kevin?! I'm not Kevin!" A teal mantis yelled. "I'm Henry!"

"Will you two quick bickering!" Cyro complained.

They didn't stop. The mantises ket yelling at each other until they came to a river.

"I hate getting wet!" Stormy's eyes widened as the fast-flowing river lay ahead of them. It was hundreds of meters long, and they couldn't see the other side.

"Are you sure this is a river?" Amethyst dipped her staff in the water. "It's really deep to!"

"Of course it is! It says the Crystal River is right here on the map! It's the widest river in the world!" Benjamin shook a map swiftly as Dusty groaned.

Raimu wondered how they got along, as he snapped back to reality, still holding the stone. But another lizard was with him. He had a brown top and blue face, with Pacific Blue eyes that changed different colors. His claws were gray, and his feet shuffled back. "Raimu?!" Rain gasped.

"Rain?!" he smiled. "Oh my gosh, THANK GOODNESS YOU'RE HERE! How long have you been standing here?" He asked.

"Since the armies went by." he confirmed, and Liza ran over to him. There was a blue solid in her paws, who played with his white sailor hat. He gasped and jumped down from her paws. Raimu held out the brush, and waved it to Liza.

"Take this please! Before I blank out!" He said.

*Hmm, shouldn't you keep it? Liza tends to lose things.* A voice in his head repeated. It was calming and deep, and Raimu wanted to keep it for himself.

To late. Liza already had the brush, and put it on her belt. It was strapped tight against the leather straps. They were a shiny green, ad Raimu couldn't help but stare. But the sun shone bright, and Raimu blinked a few times. He suddenly felt dizzy, and shook his head. *You should have kept it.* the voice told him, and the world went dark.

*He woke* up on a stone which was near a river. He couldn't see the other side, and he knew he had crossed it. He checked around him. There was no stone- good. Rain and the solid lizard were just waking up, and Liza had some rice bowls by her side, and passed them out. She took out the stone, and made a face. It was sour, and she put the stone back.

"Captain Buoy, this is Raimu. Raimu, this is Captain Buoy, aka Captain. He's one of Tavie's newer students. or- was..." Liza introduced the blue solid to him.

"Sup." He nodded, and the four sat in silence and ate. They continued North, and they stopped at the edge of a dark oak forest.

"Wh- where's your stone? Did you find anyone at the bunker?" Raimu asked.

"No, there was no bunker. We went inside the hole in the grove, but we just went along tunnels. We couldn't find the way out, and we found Captain Buoy." Liza explained.

*Sounds boring.* Raimu thought. *what did you expect?* the voice said.

They proceeded into the forest, ad they found a stone. It was right there, Liza's purple stone, and she took out her staff.

"So uh... was it supposed to be this easy?" Rain muttered.

"I- i don't think so." Liza said. "I thought we lost them in the battle."

"What battle?" Captain Buoy asked. "You haven't had a major battle since the phantoms went quiet!"

"Yes, we've had a lot." Liza protested.

"Uhh... Greely hasn't been fighting. He's only snuck into the phantom fortress, otherwise he hasn't done anything!" Raimu supported Captain Buoy.

"the last time you did something was when you helped Cosmo invent the wheel. Otherwise, you've trained Vatra to thing negatively." Rain muttered.

I frowned. This wasn't happening, was it? He couldn't think of the last time Cosmo ever did something. He destroyed Club Geoz, but otherwise, that was it. thanks, Cosmo. You destroyed the only party place in Jamaa. What about Graham? He spent his time sitting alone in the dark, creating pointless machines like the pogo stick and the wheel. Peck had done the most, welcoming New Jammers. Unfortunately, she always forgot to give them the speech about common sense and... they got hit with high quality frying pans. Speaking of frying pans, the only thing Sir Gilbert did was invent one. Yep! The great almighty war and fire alpha invented frying pans! If that isn't great, what did Tavie do? They made her an alpha because she played guitar.

"What did you really do with the stones?" Raimu yelled, and Captain Buoy fled to the woods. Rain instantly backed up and emptied his pouch, and he spread his wings. Liza held her staff and defended the stone.

"Show me the real Raimu!" A voice yelled from behind. Julie and her assistants had caught up, and they moved quickly.

"What?!" Raimu squeaked. He was a totally brave lizard. "Are enemies and traitors working together?"

Julie and Liza were side by side. "Well... yeah and no." Julie shrugged and changed her form. She was a white lizard with a dark brown face, and her blue eyes flickered from one color to another.

"Uhh..." Raimu was speechless. Dragon held his daggers. "Why is there a ghost fox beside him?" He asked.

He turned. Emilio stood at his side, and he had a sword to his side. He moved it as if the wind had harnessed it, just like all things.

"Okay fine, I admit it, us girls didn't actually hide the stones. We kind of gave them to families... " Liza shrugged with uncertainty.

"What?" Julie questioned her. "So, apparently all the stones have been family treasures?"

"Not all, just ours." She explained.

"The alphas are stupid." Rain rushed off into the darkness.

"So that's how Lotus had Peck's brush? But I thought- what? I'm so confused, why did you even hide the stones?" Skip asked. "We always thought they were with you, impossible to get, so we never even went after them!"

"We don't know why we hid them. i don't- you know what, my memory is fading and the phantoms suck. At this point I'm just insane, who the HECK is that fox, why does Raimu have marks all over him and why is Eira here?" Liza yelled.

Raimu felt the ground moving under his paws. He looked at them, and just as Liza had said, a few glittery spots (ew, glitter) covered to bottom of his legs. He was scared. What would happen? Why were his legs glowing? Had he read something about a dark oak forest? Where should he go? he decided to dhoot rocks in Liza's way and jumped for the stone.

"Where's Peck's brush?" he demanded as soon as he took the stone.

"I- it's not on my belt!" Liza cried. She tried to control him, but it didn't work. Liza's powers were gone for some reason, and Raimu didn't care. he quicky took the stone and took flight, and Julie attacked Liza. Their fight was epic for sure. Julie surrounded her with fire, but Liza jumped high and spread her wings. And Raimu thought it was only Peck who had them, but he was wrong. They dissapeared as soon as she reached the ground, and Julie turned into a panda herself. Sweet power! They were in a constant fistfight, and Raimu took the glowing stone.

The ground glowed. Emilio floated, and voice echoed in Raimu's head. Wat was up with, the voice in the head thing? *Get out of here.* He told him, and Raimu's tail curled around the stones. He set off in the direction of Captain Buoy and Rain, but saw Dragon chasing after him.

"Actually a couple of weeks, but the thing is, I don't like how dark the phantom world is." He replied.

"Oh yeah? I've only been there once." He said.

"Did they capture you?" Dragon asked.

Raimu was about to say something about Greely's secret missions, but he decided to lie. "Yes, they captured me."

"Did Julie's former assistants ever talk to you?" he continued to throw daggers and teleport in front of him, trying to throw him off.

"She had former assistants?" Raimu asked.

"Yeah, actually." Dragon chilled.

The two didn't attack each other in that moment. "Sometimes, I wish I could join you. My friend ran off to join you all once. her name was Phantom, and she was really sweet but mysterious." He shrugged. "Skip and I like talking to prisoners, just like we did when we were... you know..."

"Does it feel right to be a phantom?" He asked.

"I really don't know." They were slower now, and a glowing creek was in the clearing. They both stopped. "Julie is coming after us, if that's one think I know." Dragon said bitterly.

"I expect it now." Raimu said and stood up. "Uhh... well, if you ever want to talk you can just- teleport to me."

"Yeah..." He said quietly. "And- you can take Peck's stone." He handed the glowing paintbrush over to him.

"What?!" He questioned it.

"I stole it." He said simply. "us lizards have a strange history, you know. The phantoms wrote three books about it."

Raimu immediately flashed back to the three books Audrey and Marlenka would talk about. He wondered what was in them.

"Dragon? Dragon, come back here right now!" Julie yelled, and Dragon ran in her direction. "cya later dude."

Raimu dove under the earth and Made a small hole where he protected two stones. Emilio popped beside him. He took them in his paws and they disappeared.

"Your going to have many blankouts." he told Raimu. "I know one will be in this cave, I'll take the stones. You know, you aren't ever alone."

"Emilio, what did Dragon mean about the three books? I thought one was Juno's diary." He completely ignored is statement.

""I don't know." He looked him in the eye. "Go sleep now."

Raimu cuddled up in the burrow, and Emilio hummed a song. It was sad and sincere. "Little soldier boy." He sang quietly. Raimu fell asleep. This times, his dreams were filled with sadness. He hung out with Eira at Club Geoz. He wished this wasn't so confusing, and he wish there would be humor in his journey. He doubted it, and thought about Dragon's friend, Phantom. A phantom named Phantom, that sounded fun. But if she really was out there, could she help him? He thought about finding her in the morning. He wanted to do just that.

## **Chapter 13 ~ A Familiar Face ~ Haylee's POV**edit | edit source

Cosmo's home was quite cozy. It was a little cottage made of light woods but mainly cedar, and had nothing but natural and calming feel. The door opened smoothly that morning, and Haylee stepped outside. It was getting cold, and she had a flower headband on, just to hide her alpha mark. She wondered if anyone would ever notice.

Kaylee yelled from the inside. "Kaylee! Where are you?!"

She stopped sniffing the tulips and headed to her blind sister.

"You know, I can't feel where water is... this place is made of wood. I can't feel much at all!" She complained.

"Kaylee, calm down." Haylee poured out all of her patience.

Kaylee was now whiny and sad indoors. She never smiled, always frowned and stayed quiet. Haylee felt the warm, shaggy carpet under her feet. It was a little burnt, and she knew Kaylee was probably a fire lizard.

Cosmo, Bumble and Mudpie walked into the room, all smiling. Haylee looked up and Kaylee huffed quietly. Cosmo was wearing a warm coat and had his staff with him, and instead of wearing his hat, he was wearing a fluffy green hat.

"Good Morning!" He said cheerfully. "this should be the last day of training before... possibly dying."

*Wow. Definitely makes me feel better.* Haylee thought. They headed to the kitchen where Cosmo had already made warm hot cocoa (with extra whipped cream!) and berry muffins. They ate quietly and Cosmo prepared a bag. Haylee wondered how all the food fit in the bag, since it was a small one but enough to survive about three months. He also somehow had a whole tent and blankets for everyone, as well as a jukebox. She suspected it was highly enchanted, and she decided to check it out later.

The went to the rocky circle which in the middle, had a fire pit. Haylee stood her ground and pulled up some rocks as Bumble took a deep stance. Kaylee was definitely in a better mood now that she could sense everything better, but instead she lifed a rock, just like Haylee. Wait, didn't Kaylee burn the floor? What was up with that? Mudpie was across from Haylee, and he had a piece of blueberry pie in his paws. He nibbled on it and Cosmo had his horn near his paws.

"Now uh, where are the- drapes?" He scratched his head. "Uhh, the purple things."

"Grapes?" Kaylee said as if she had heard the word for the first time.

"Oh yes! Grapes! I put a basket of them outside this morning, eh, where are they?" He thought.

"Uh oh." Kaylee muttered. "I feel something."

Haylee turned around, as well as everyone else. "Is someone there?" Haylee called out to the trees. "Were friendly! We even have the nature alpha!" *It should be alphas though.* She stated in her head.

The bushes moved, and a solid blue lizard popped his head out. He looked at each lizard one by one, and finally Cosmo.

"Cosmo? I didn't even recognize you!" He grinned.

*Who? What?* Haylee thought. The lizard ran over followed by Rain and Raimu. She thought they had gone with Peck. Where were Eira, Seashell and Vatra?!

"Everyone, this is Captain Buoy, aka Buoy! Buoy, this is Haylee and Kaylee!" Cosmo introduced the solid. His eyes widened.

"Uhh yeah- hi!" He grinned and his eyes widened until Haylee was sure they would pop.

"Well then..." Cosmo muttered quietly and munched on some jasmine leaves. "I think I'll go in the house and feed these ones. I suppose you ate my grapes, didn't you?"

Raimu looked down, obviously guilty. "Yeah. My idea"

Cosmo sighed and they proceeded inside. The three stood at each other while Kaylee pawed the ground. A gentle yet cold wind blew on Haylee's face and Bumble laughed. It was coming from him and he blew harder. "Come on! It's training time!'

"Oh, your so on!" Kaylee grinned and shot rocks at him. He weaved through her blows as Mudpie shot Haylee with fire. Now, it was Haylee versus Mudpie and Bumble versus Kaylee.

Haylee grew some vines and tied them around Mudpie's feet, but Mudpie burned them back. "Sorry vines!" He yelled.

The mini battles continued. The two paused for a moment to watch Bumble and Kaylee's battle, which was almost like Aang and Toph's. Sometimes, Kaylee couldn't sense where Bumble was and Bumble striked. But then Kaylee shot back, and it didn't always end well.

Mudpie attacked Bumble and the two sisters suddenly faced off. Now this was a disadvantage for Haylee, since she had heavy steps and Kaylee knew her moves. she decided to try and get her tail, which was Kaylee's one weakness. She hated being touched at the tail and Haylee launched rocks from underground to it. Sadly, Kaylee was quick to detect the move and jumped out of the way. Suddenly, Cosmo waltzed outside of the house and his clothing almost set ablaze. We stopped for a minute to observe Bumble and Mudpie, spreading sparks and leaves everywhere.

"Alright boys, I think that's enough." He shook his paws in the air.

"How are you here?" Haylee approached Raimu. "I thought you went off with Peck."

"I did go off with Peck." He said.

"Raimu told me everything!" Cosmo interrupted. "It confuses me. The ladies aren`t exactly smart."

"I believe in Tavie." Kaylee said confidently. "You do to, right Buoy?"

He wheezed. "Yeah."

Suddenly, lightning flashed across the sky. Everyone's eyes widened, and huddled in a circle. "Should we go inside?" Bumble whimpered.

"Rain's the expert on storms. Right R- Rain?" Captain Buoy gasped. "Where's Rain?!"

Everyone ran around anxiously, calling Rain's name. Haylee ran into the forest and had a chat with birds, who hadn't seen anything. When she was heading back, a little noise came from the back. A gray and white fennec fox was scared, and Haylee slowly approached.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

"N-no! A green blur came by and stole a lizard and my friends! Not to mention my family!" He cried. Haylee patted him on the back. She figured she would grow him some flowers. She did just that, and the little guy was smiling. "Thank you."

"Haylee nodded and ran back as fast as she could. A blur of green? That could be Kaylee or Raimu! What was happening? And why?

"Everyone, where were you just now?" She yelled. Everyone whipped in her direction.

"Cosmo's cottage!" Kaylee responded.

"Out in the woods!" Raimu said.

"By the lake!"

"Searching from above!"

Everyone responded differently. Mudpie didn't and Haylee looked at him. "I- I was eating pie." He admitted. "Sorry."

Haylee didn't sau anything about the fennec, but was suspicious of Raimu. He was out in the woods to, wasn't he. And if not that, HE WAS GREEN! RED FLAG, STAY AWAY FROM HIM! She thought.

Cosmo finally returned from inside. "Nobody there." He sighed.

But wasn't Kaylee searching in the house? One of them was lying. Mudpie wrapped his **BRIGHT GREEN, SO GREEN IT LOOKED LIKE A BLUR** around his neck. Haylee was suspicious, but decided to brush it off at the moment. Cosmo said goodbye to his cottage and Haylee began to levitate. They looked at a map, a map of the outsides of Jamaa.

"Poison jungle. Not anywhere here..." He read, and handed the map to Bumble. Bumble dropped it into the pack and took out another map. "Ahh, ok. Jamaa. Let's see, Poison Jungle at the Lost Temple of Zios. Where there... isn't even a lost temple."

"Find anything yet?" Kaylee tapped her foot impatiently.

"Yes! Mudpie, do you have the compass?" Cosmo asked his assistant.

"Yes sir!" He handed the compass to him.

Haylee sat quietly at the side while they searched for the compass. Kaylee dragged her aside.

"You KNOW that it's gonna take a while." She said.

"Most likely." Haylee shrugged.

"You know, I think Wooyoung is the impostor, he's to hot and trustworthy." She started.

*What the actual-* Haylee thought in her head. "Your right about trust though."

"Yeah. But lots of people love Toxic and his sister Toxicity, so they could be the impostors." She shrugged.

"Yeah. And they are green." Haylee agreed quietly.

Cosmo called them over and they took to the sky. The group started heading south, and the breeze got warmer. Haylee flew steadily beside Bumble.

"So uhh... how did you meet Cosmo?" She asked.

"Oh, my owner just got me and... well she worked for Cosmo. So we kind of met up, and Cosmo wanted to teach me." He shrugged. "Simple. Mudpie was lost in the woods once, and we found him. He was adopted by Seafoamii, one of the Crystal Sands people but was later traded for Captain Buoy. Thing is, we don't know who is owner is, and he hasn't really opened up to us about how their online chat went. "Bumble's voice was distant. "Of course, I got traded."

"Aww." Haylee sighed.

"Yeah. I haven't seen Twig in a while." He sighed.

"Why does everyone like talking about who they love?" Haylee make a puke sound. "Earlier, Kaylee kept telling me about how hot Wooyoung was."

"Zios almighty- geez, where did that come from?" Bumble mused. "Not exactly... normal."

"I don't know." Haylee sighed. "She's a different lizard now that she's gone blind." She sighed.

They continued to talk. Haylee, Mudpie and Raimu were yelling at each other, and Raimu was screaming in Japanese. Kaylee was yelling something about the phantoms, and Mudpie nibbled on pie while insulting both of them. They drifted below the clouds. Buoy sniffed sadly and looked at the shimmering lake below. "Man, I really do miss Tavie."

"She was sweet. I loved her- As a friend of course. She was noisy, and loved ice cream." He said.

"Icecream." Haylee muttered. "Why did she have to die?"

"Uhh... do you want to go back to the phantom dimension?" Cosmo asked. "I'd gladly- "

"Nope. No way, not happening AGAIN!" Haylee talked quickly, and couldn't think of anything except the horrid phantom palace. The bloody fountains, skeletons, black fire, the king. It scared her to death. She often had nightmares about the palace. Suddenly, the three possible impostor raced abover the clouds.

"Julie!" Raimu yelled. "She's back! There's a shadown, Seashell, Dragon and Skip! Come on, we have to go!"

"I have no idea- who is Julie?" Kaylee asked.

"Oh, some crazy phantom who chased Peri, Vatra and I everywhere." Raimu shrugged. "Oh no, I'm dizzy! I'm blanking out! Cosmo, keep those stones away from me?!" He yelled.

"What's he talking about?" Bumble asked. "What's a blankout?"

*Oh, I know you want to know what a blankout is.* A voice that was calming and charming took over Haylee. It sounded like Panda. She knew he had charmspeak and- wait, Panda? What had happened? What was going on? She blinked once again and suddenly reappeared in the middle of battle.

***Okay everyone! I know you've been dying to know, but the new DOJ branchoff will cover the daily life of the Jamaa prisoners, who are imprisoned at the phantom fortress! This will be written by Panda (Pandamaniarocks9) and will run until the end of the series!***

And here is a picture of Dragon , so you know what he looks like! 💚

## **Chapter 14 ~ Under the Sea ~ Vatra's POV**edit | edit source

The hot, hard rocks rolled down the slope when Vatra stepped on them. She was exhausted, and not sure how much farter the sea was. Peri on her side struggled to climb with her as they neared the summit. It was windier, and the two reached the top. It was always warm at Crystal Sands, even in the Jamaalidays-but today it was definitely colder.

"Peri! Look! We made it!" Vatra cheered as soon as she heard the roar of the ocean.

Peri blinked the sand out of his eyes. "Your right! Come on, lets fly!"

They flew as fast as they could to the sea. Peri immediately jumped in, and all his scars disappeared. The advantage of being a water lizard is that you could jump or touch any water an be healed, and heal others as well. Vatra slowly followed him in, and swam when it got to deep. The water was so clear and refreshing, she thought this was paradise.

"Vatra, the reef is below us!" Peri grinned. The water was a deeper blue and she looked ahead. They hopped onto the random, small island that floated above the reef.

Vatra may have been blinded by all the colors. The reef was more beautiful than she had imagined, and Peri rung a bell. Immediately, a white otter popped out of the water. She had shimmering blue eyes and a lei around her neck. Her paws had golden bands around them, and dizzy yellow stars circled her head.

"Hello Peri!" She smiled.

"Hi Mika!" Peri waved. "Is Rain or Buoy here by any chance?" He asked.

"No, they left after you did." She shrugged. "I have a potion of waterbreathing if your friend needs it!" She held up a blue vial.

"Thanks!" Vatra happily took the vial. "So... I drink it right?"

"No, you splash it on yourself." Mika laughed.

"Wha- " Vatra muttered, confused She threw the postion on the ground, and it exploded with bubbles. They floated on her, and popped. Peri gently pushed her into the water, and she kept breathing. She expected the water to go up her nose, but no. Insead, she took a normal breath, just like she would above water. Peri and Mika dove in and swam beside her.

"Wow!" She gasped. It was truly amazing.

Rocks had colorful, seashell houses on top of them, glittering just like everything at Crystal Sands. In the middle was a quartz palace, decorated with jewels and shells. There were markets and bustling squares anywhere Vatra looked.

"Come on! The quartz building is Tavie's palace, we'll need to go in there! And... I would introduce you to my training pals but they aren't here." Peri paused. "Mika, do you know where they went?"

"Buoy left to help Liza." Mika said. "So, you seen Tavie yet?"

Vatra felt like she was punched in the stomach.

forget ch 14, ill update it later

15 is the REAL story!

## **Chapter 15 ~ A decision ~ Haylee's POV**edit | edit source

She ran through the woods as fast as she could, Bumble at her side. Mudpie was gone, and they were still searching for the stone. Cosmo and Buoy ran off to one direction, the two in the other. Kaylee and Raimu ran opposite of them.

“Come on, the entrance to the poison jungle should be somewhere around here!” Bumble groaned.

“I could try to sense it!” Haylee suggested.

Bumble didn’t seem to hear her. “We need to find this place! Come on!”

They ran into Kaylee and Raimu. They were both panting, and Kaylee was levitating.

“Kaylee! Thank goodness!” Bumble gasped and shook her. “Did you see the jungle? Any monsters! Did you see what happened to Kaylee’s headband?!”

Kaylee groaned. “You idiot, I’m blind!” She hit him.

“Ouch!” He squeaked. “Sorry.”

“Hmph.” She crossed her paws. “Why- wait... “She stuttered.

“What?” Everyone gathered around her.

“The jungle! Cosmo found it! Let’s go!” She sensed it so quicky Haylee doubted it was real.

They sped through the woods once more, Bumble in the lead. Haylee followed with everyone behind her. Kaylee screamed the directions, “left, right- keep going!” It was getting quite chaotic. Raimu would occasionally gasp and grin, so Haylee let Kaylee lead. She ran beside him and looked in his direction.

In the shadows, a dark shape moved. It was a speedy green creature...Mudpie??? Haylee then blanked out, and the world stopped. She had paused time, and nothing moved. Neither could she.

Suddenly, Liza, Peck, Tavie, and two foxes appeared in front of her, all glowing a different color. The arctic fox had a moon on her head and the boy had a star. A smaller shape appeared beside Haylee. A small blue and yellow lizard smiled.

“Haylee.” She spoke. Her loud but raw voice caught her attention.

“Who- who are you?” She asked.

“We don’t have any time.” The moon fox said quickly. “do you remember the night you picked your groups?”

Her voice was gentle. It had a light accent, and Haylee quickly obeyed. Were these random people charming her? “Yes.” She spoke.

“And the voice rang through your head? "Liza added.

“Yes...” Haylee said slowly.” I- I remember him. A dark, but still soothing voice. He said there was an impostor in our group. The second most powerful.”

“Yes.” Peck said quickly. “You will be tricked tomorrow night. Tomorrow night, you must find the stone, and keep it with anyone else BUT YOU!”

“Why? Isn’t the impostor among us?” She CoUghEd.

“Yes. You make the decision for the fate of Jamaa. There will be two left with you. You must choose wisely.” The fox said. The star on his head glimmered. He looked like a praying mantis for a minute- what-

“Our time is ending.” Tavie’s bubbly voice seemed to fill with dirt and poison.

“Haylee. Remember, you are an alpha. You have only blanked out once. You’re a lucky lizard.” The moon fox told her.

“Why?” She asked again.

“The phantoms can’t take every lizard under their control. The reason- it's in your DNA, your blood! But it’s also the reason why some are quickly falling. The blank outs are when phantoms take over a lizard. What you must do is stop them.” The blue and yellow lizard demanded.

“How?” She asked. ” Why-”

“Find out the true history of Jamaa.” The yellow and blue lizard told her.

They all faded, and Haylee was back to running, but the shadow was no longer there. Only Cosmo was, running. No sign of Captain Buoy. He shouted something, and daggers went flying. Several lizards, who were most likely evil and phantoms gathered around the group. What was happening?

Mudpie wasn’t there, so Haylee and Kaylee tried to block the flames with rocks.

“Why are they attacking now?” Kaylee muttered.

“Exactly. They won’t know where the stone is!” Raimu shot fiery rocks at the phantoms, who disappeared before he could hit them.

Julie seemed to take this into consideration, but the phantoms continued fighting. Haylee was a good fighter- sadly, no endurance. Endurance was CRITICAL in a battle. Battles usually took a long time, and this was going to be a long one.

Soon, all the phantoms were gone, and it left Seashell, Frost, who Haylee hadn’t seen for about a month, a pink lizard, Skip, Dragon and Julie. But she was in the form of Eira, this really threw Raimu off. Haylee had to admit that it was a smart move.

“They’re gonna shoot me!” the pink and red lizard screamed. He hid behind a tree. “I don’t want to fight.”

“Pierre, man up!” Frost hissed. He was bigger now, most likely max level.

Haylee could just imagine Big Bird singing “I'll make a man out of you-” and she couldn’t help but laugh.

“What’s so funny?” Kaylee asked.

“Can’t you see Pierre?!” Haylee laughed.

“No!” Kaylee groaned.

She just forgot that her own sister was blind. She stopped laughing and took a deep breath. Skip had a new red bowtie today, and he was fiddling with it. Dragon kept staring into the distance, as if he was missing something. Raimu looked at him as if he knew something.

They stared at each other for a full-on minute. Julie didn’t even fight for a moment. She was thinking.

“The phantom promised me a reward if I catch you.” She said quietly.” But... the reward may destroy our home.”

“Nonsense!” Frost shook it off.

“Shouldn't I be doing what’s best for my people?” She asked. “Ugh. Why... Phantom...”

Everyone’s eyes widened. Julie and the boys all turned to her. Raimu looked like he was punched in the stomach. The impostor- obviously! He wanted the reward, and if Julie was going to back off- BAM! IT’S HIS!

“We’ll meet again.” Julie, who looked like Alon turned her back on the lizards.

Everyone's jaw dropped. Frost complained and Pierre whimpered, as Skip, Dragon and the taken over Seashell shadow thing followed. Raimu’s face was disappointed. Kaylee sat there, emotionless. Cap- CAP?

“Buoy?!” Haylee called. “Oh no! Not Buoy!”

“What happened?” Kaylee screamed right after.

“He- he’s gone! Cosmo, where the heck is he?!” Raimu demanded an answer.

“I don’t know! While we were in the woods, he was there. Then he wasn’t!” Cosmo threw his hands in the air. “We need sleep. Bumble, please help me unpack the food. Girls set up the tents. Raimu, gather some firewood.”

They moved into the clearing, arguing.

“Cosmo, if we split up, I’m sure someone else will get stolen!” Bumble objected.

“Exactly.” Haylee agreed.

“Yeah. Remember what happened to Mudpie?” Raimu remembered. “I-I can’t deal with it.”

“Yeah.” Kaylee agreed.

Cosmo grumbled. He grew a glowing plant and Bumble handed out some food. Cosmo didn’t go into one area of the clearing.

“Cosmo, is that the jungle?” Haylee shivered.

“Yes.” He said. “Almost everything in there we can’t touch.”

“What can we touch?” Bumble asked.

“The ground. But the path is unclear, so basically everything is poison.  Nobody has ever been in the jungle except me, so we’ll need to be careful.” Cosmo said.

“Cosmo, you remember the alpha thingy?” Asked Kaylee.

He nodded “Do you think there is an alpha in our group?”

“Yes.” Kaylee huffed. “I can sense it. And... there’s an impostor here as well.”

Bumble rolled his eyes. “Impostor and alphas poisonous things. Come on, can’t we chill for once?”

“No!” Kaylee said. “There’s an impostor in our group!”

“You know what? Ever since this you’ve become louder.” Haylee observed.

“Whatever.” She said. “Go to sleep.”

Everyone lays in their wooden stick tents. Of course, Kaylee slept behind Haylee and Bumble next to her. Cosmo slept closest to the sour smelling jungle. They all slept, except Hayle, who glanced up at the stars. A sweet, warm but strange breeze blew, and a growing red figure appeared.

“Guys! It’s a monster!” Haylee yelled.

“Haylee, I’m TRYING to sleep.” Raimu rolled over.

“Let him sleep.” the red coyote said. She had a mischievous and high-pitched voice. She had a green olive ring ad er ear, and her green eyes changed from red to green occasionally.

“Is this a thing where random magic alpha guardian animals come and scream at me?” Haylee asked.

“We’re trying to help you!” The coyote laughed. “I’m Mica! The first coyote, aka the coyote alpha.”

Haylee sighed. “I’m never going to get any sleep, am I?”

“You will feel rested once this ends.” Mica told her. “Come along, into the jungle. You're in a vision now, it won’t hurt you.”

“H- oh never mind.” She sighed and followed Mica into the woods.

## **Chapter 16 ~ Impostor ~ Haylee’s POV**edit | edit source

They went through the jungle, white plants growing wherever Haylee stepped. They reached a stream, and the coyote whistled. A lemur, cougar and a toucan came to her aid. They were all a shining green.

“Hello Mica!” The cougar smiled.

“Who- more of them?!” Haylee’s mouth made weird, *what the heck is this?!* noises.

“okay. This is Dakota, the cougar alpha.” Mica introduced them. “Jamal the toucan and Jarvis the lemur.”

“Sup.” Jarvis waved.

“Why are you all here?” Haylee asked. “Why am I here?”

“Crossing the jungle is actually easy.” Jarvis said. “Well, with alpha help.”

“And... I’m an alpha?”

“Yes.” Mica said. “Nature. But we are jungle animals, and you need our help. Cosmo is having dreams about where his stone is. He thinks it's in the ancient temple in the middle of the jungle.”

“And is it?” She asked.

“Yes, he’s right.” Dakota nodded. “But the temple is dangerous. Every single step is a trap. You need to fly over the floor. If you even touch it- don't. Just, don’t.” Jamal shivered.

“Haylee, you will bet the one to get the stone.” Jamal said.

“Yeah. I’ve known that.” Haylee sighed.

“And have you been told how you will determine the fate of Jamaa?” Dakota asked.

“yep.”

“And the fate of your sister?”

Silence. Haylee’s heart raced, it skipped, and she couldn’t help but shiver and try not to scream. Kaylee was not the impo- was she? It was either her or Raimu, an equal chance. Both earth, both quiet, usually nervous- Kaylee had changed most.

Could she possibly be...?

No. It had to be Raimu. Haylee refused to believe her sister was the impostor, for one, she was just grumpy because she was blind. Two, she was the closest to her. If she was completely taken over, Haylee would have sensed it. And she did!

“It’s dawn now.” Jarvis said. “You will have our protection until the moment of truth.”

“See you soon.” She spoke.

Haylee instantly thought of her dying in the jungle, and she took more deep breaths. Would she stay here for a while? What about the others?

She padded along the sour smelling, deep green grass. She followed her glowing plant trail, and realized the grass was lighter. The warm wind blew on her head and over her, and she ran back to camp and laid down where she did.

“What now?” She muttered. “Maybe I’ll close my eyes...”

A second later, she woke up. Kaylee groaned beside her. Bumble sleepily yawned, and Cosmo was the first to stand. They all quickly stood after that, and Haylee doubted what had happened was true. Was it? She stared at the jungle, and a trail of glowing plants led into it.

“It wasn't a dream, was it?” She wondered quietly.

“If we do go into the jungle, will the phantom follow us?” Asked Bumble.

“I’m not sure.” Cosmo said. “I don’t think they can, the jungle is poisonous.”

“But they float.” Kaylee said plainly. “Right? I think I saw them do it...”

“Yes, they do. And the air isn’t poison.” Cosmo sniffed. “They could possibly follow us.”

“So, Pierre... “Bumble started. “That’s Pierre?”

“What abo-oh.” Haylee frowned. “So... is that who you were traded for?”

“Yeah.” he said. “Pierre- I heard he’s lazy but fancy, graceful fighter.”

“Can we not talk about becoming not for trade them becoming for trade?” Kaylee muttered. ” It absolutely hurts and sucks.”

“How bad does it feel?” Cosmo asked.

“Bad.” Bumble sighed. “And... whoever had pierce traded me for a raccoon tail!”

“So like, the raccoon’s tail was cut off or- “ Cosmo wondered. “What?”

“I was traded for dragon wings.” Bumble said.

“So... wait... I’m confused.” He muttered as he handed out waffles.

“Same here. There are also animal hats, googly eyeglasses, feather stuff, cat ears...” Kaylee counted.

“NO DETAILS!” Cosmo panicked. “Absolutely NOT!”

They packed up, shaking. They were about to enter a poison jungle, not knowing what was ahead. Kaylee huddled closer to her sister; who’s heart beat fast. Cosmo and Bumble took note of the weird glowing flowers.

“I suppose whoever said there was an alpha in our group was right.” Cosmo announced proudly. “The nature one! But... also the phantom one. An impostor.”

They debated how they were going to walk in. Cosmo took the first risky step. The grass where Haylee’s flowers were was clean. Raimu followed, and Haylee was second. Bumble and Kaylee were behind her. But then Raimu drifted behind, and she saw nobody but Cosmo.

*It’s Raimu.* She thought. *Or Mudpie is secretly following us and stealing people from behind.* She cautiously looked back as they continued to the river.

She thought she had stopped at the river, but a path of red flowers cleaned the grass.

“How are we gonna cross the river?” Asked Kaylee.

“Hmm. You all control earth or air. No water?” Cosmo asked.

“No. I thought you could just move a tree by asking it Cosmo.” Raimu said rudely.  “Move the water.” he added quietly, “The alphas never do ANYTHING.”

“It’s him!” Kaylee yelled. “I swear, he is the impostor!”

Cosmo nodded. “Raimu, we heard you.”

“WHAT?!” He screamed. “It’s not me!”

“It is you!” Haylee jumped in. “You said you went in the forest! A baby fennec told me Rain was captured by a green blur in the forest!”

“I wa- “He began, but Bumble stopped this. He pushed Raimu to the river bend, his claws and feet being poisoned. He screamed.

“Give us ONE reason we shouldn’t push you into the river.” Bumble said. The river gurgled.

“uhhh...” He muttered.

“Exactly.” Haylee smiled sourly. “Have fun dying. One last check- all in favor of pushing him into the river?”

Everyone raised something.

“I’m not the impostor.” He cried. Kaylee quickly shoved him into the river, and it splashed and rushed unhappily. It was as I it was saying, *Raimu was not the impostor.*

“I can’t ask the river to move.” He spoke. “It’s poison.”

Bumble thought. “I wouldn’t anyways. I wouldn’t want to see uhm- “

Haylee swore she could have heard his screaming.

“Wait a split second.” Kaylee said. “How is he alive?!”

“He’s the phantom alpha.” Cosmo confirmed. Immune to poison- speaking of them, they could be behind us. Bumble, could you carry us over?”

He nodded with teary eyes. “he was Greely’s best student...” and he gently carried them over the river.

He cried as the sisters and Cosmo walked in silence. They followed the red path which turned into a green and blue path. It led to a stone building- an ancient temple. By this time, night was falling. There was a glowing green that came from the middle.

“Wow.” Haylee gasped. “It looked so ancient...mysterious... I like it!”

“It’s green like Raimu.” Bumble cried.

“This temple is looted with traps. Every step is.” Haylee recalled the alphas’ worlds. “We’ll split up.”

“Split up?” Kaylee asked. “What if Bumble takes Cosmo? What if he’s acting innocent?”

“I’m not!” He wailed.

“I have the stones...” Cosmo muttered. “Haylee and Kaylee, take them.” he said. “Go in the temple. Bumble and I will be outside.”

Haylee gasped. This may have been her moment of truth. She had to decide what to do. She could go inside... or they could go as a group... she took Kaylee with her and they floated over the stones. She wondered why Kaylee didn’t have a tail and could still float.

A path of colorful rainbow flowers and sounds of the wilderness surrounded the middle. They floated over the stone and Haylee gently took it. She held the two other stones tightly. Bumble and Cosmo tried to run in, but they failed. They dropped into a pit... who knows where that led.

Kaylee looked back. She laughed as purple fire surrounded them as Dragon, Skip and Julie followed.

“Kaylee...” Haylee whimpered.

“WHERE’S RAIMU?!” Dragon demanded. “WHERE IS HE?”

“The impostor?” Kaylee asked.

“No.” Julie said. “You were off on that- but we’ve co-”

“We were?” Hayle asked. ‘Who- who is it then?” She let the stones drop. They had killed an innocent lizard. But then...

Kaylee laughed. She picked up all the stones and keep floating She changed from frost to her own original form. She dumped off her hat and revealed a phantom mark, which changed colors constantly. Julie, Skip and Dragon ran, screaming.

Wait, weren’t the the bag guys?

Kaylee laughed. “Things are not always what they seem to be.” The voice of Kaylee said. “You chose wrong.”

She gasped; Haylee took off her headband. She revealed her alpha mark. It seemed as if everyone was watching, because faint forms appeared. Liza, Peck... they all watched.

Kaylee kept on laughing. “Cosmo faded when you touched the stone.” She said. “And Bumble fell into a pit of lava!”

“What?!” Haylee screamed. She wondered if this had to do with the fate of her sister. She wondered if Raimu knew something. “I don’t have a choice, do I?” Haylee asked.

“No, you don’t”

And the sisters began to fight.

**AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HE IMPOSTOR WAS KAYLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-**

**Wow.**

**In chapter... one- right there.**

**THE WHOLE TIME!**

**PANDA AND KENZIE- RIGHT THERE- Bumble, Raimu, Mudpie and Buoy and Rain were never Panda or Kenzie's lizards, only Haylee and Kaylee were. We have Haylee’s POV, ch3 and this left two options, Cakepop and Kaylee. Cakepop and her POV, and Kaylee was the impostor all along.**

OKAY HERE YA GO

## **Chapter 17~To the End~Vatra's POV**edit | edit source

I.FORGOT.CHAPTER.14. oh well ill just add it in... right- ee- maybe?

They swam quickly into the cave, dodging the ice spikes coming from every which way. They screamed as one almost hit Peri’s hat. “VATRA!” He yelled. “THIS CAVE IS IT!”

“WHAT?”

“YEAH!” Peri yelled. “I’LL TELL YOU WHEN WE GET OUT OF THE OPEN!”

*He’s crazy!  If we go in the corner, there won’t be anywhere to run.* She swam to the corner. She peaked through a hole, and a white seal looked left and right. She had icy blue rings in her ear, and icy blue eyes. Her skin was sleek and shiny, and she had a soft voice.

“I saw someone.” She looked around wildly. This convinced Peri to come out at the seal, but Vatra pulled him out.

“they're lost. Perfect.” She grinned and swam into the deep, dark caves.

“Who... who was that?!” Vatra asked.

“N... no. She should be DEAD.” Peri gasped.

“Is- is there something I missed out on?” Vatra asked.

“I thought I told you the tale of Harper.” Peri said.

“Y- n... when?” Vatra asked. “I only heard the tale of the undersea monsters.”

“It’s the same thing.” Peri said. “I’ll just... tell you it again.”

“We shouldn’t be wasting time.” Vatra said disagreeing. “I’ll run out of water breathing IN THE DEEPEST PART OF THE OCEAN! You know I don’t want to die!”

“It’s short.” Peri lied. Vatra rolled her eyes.

“It’s obvious you’re lying, but fine.”

“It was at the time of the alphas.” Peri began. “Or that’s what Tavie said. But there was the prettiest alpha, and she was a seal. Her name was Harper, and EVERYONE loved her. However, she was vain. Always in the mirror, admiring herself. You know Emilio?”

“The fox we never talked to. Barely.”  Vatra’s heart hurt for a second. She swore there was poison and screaming.

“Yeah, so Harper liked him. She asked him out one day, and he said no because he wanted to go north. This made Harper mad, and she decided to stalk him on the way to the North Pole. When he reached the arctic settlement and met Amelia, she got so mad she splashed water at him. The water froze, creating ice. She aimed bad, and the only landed outside the camp.”

“Uh huh.” Vatra nodded. “She’s a heartbroken soul.”

Peri ignored. “Later she disguised herself as one of the villagers, and charmed Emilio into trying to kill Amelia. And she created charm speak, and anyone who has it is related to her.”

“Then how is he a fox- you know what? Jammers are messed up. Where are we going?” Vatra asked.

“Follow the map.” Peri said. “Does it say anything about how to get through the tunnels?”

“Wait... it only gets things overground.” Vatra groaned.

Peri cursed. “So, we either go above ground and fail or go into the tunnels and die. Either way, WERE DYING!”

“Shut up!” Vatra said. “You’re not dying, we’re going to get out of here!” She dragged him into the tunnels.

“Vatra, it’s not the way out!” Peri argued.

“We’re getting the stone and getting out.” Vatra huffed. “I wish I was less grumpy. Come on, before that seal comes back.”

“And Drake.” Peri added.

“Who’s Drake?” Vatra asked.

“The shark alpha.” Peri said darkly. He... he’s said to have the stone in his head and that’s what makes him most powerful.”

“Got a question. So, if the first animals were called alphas, so does that mean they have their own stone?” Vatra wondered.

“How do people make those pickup lines though?” Peri wondered. “How do people fall in love?”

“Why are you like this?”

“I don't know. Where are we?”

(yes, I did that because my brother wanted that cringe 😌👌)

They stopped. They were in a dark cave without light. It was cold, bittersweet and hard to breathe for Vara. Or was she running out of water breathing? Either way, it hurt. She had probably dropped the map, but she couldn’t feel anything under her paws.

“Uhm... Peri?” She called.

“I’m beside you.” He muttered. “You hear me, right?”

*I’m beginning to hate blue. Blue evil seal ladies, blue alpha stone, glowing eerie blue cave, Peri’s blue... Maybe not that because the blue is pretty.* Vatra sighed. She was tired, and it was getting harder to breathe.

“Welcome, Peri. I Never thought I’d find the student pf the sea alpha here.” A seal welcomed them... warmly? Or cold? Vatra couldn’t tell. “Now, is it too dark?”

“It’s dark.” Vatra said. “Are there any... lights?”

“Of course!” Harper smiled. “There’s a yellow and blue one! Which one?”

“Yellow.” Vatra said.

“Why not blue?” Peri sighed as the warm yellow lights illuminated the cave. The cave was instantly warmer, like Vatra was in a nice, warm bath. The floor was covered in spikes, and if someone was thrown on them... Vatra didn’t think about it. There was a dark spiky chair, as well as phantoms, with little bubble hats.

“Aww, they actually look cute in those!” Peri cooed.

“I’m not adorable.” The first said. He had teal soulless eyes and was a yellow and black phantom.

“Bumble!” The pink and brown one gasped. “Don’t speak that way! They were being nice!”

“Melody, Bumble, quiet.” Harper demanded. “Also, you don't have to stay in phantom form, you can be lizards.”

Melody squealed and jumped. She was a lizard with a light brown top, pink face and happy eyes. They opened and were a pretty sky blue. She had a feather-like tail, and a pink bow and a bright smile.  Did Ice Cream have nicknames or siblings? The other was a yellow on gray lizard with teal soulless eyes. He had bee wings and kept his hat on.

“Okay Melody’s pretty.” Peri whispered quickly.

“Yep.” Vatra agreed. *And now I’m beginning to crush on Peri again!* She immediately put up her red jamalliday bow.

“Nice bow.” Melody smiled.

“Thanks!” Vatra said. “You know, you aren’t too bad for a phantom.”

“she’s the sweetest lizard around.” Bumble said. “Sweeter than Skip.”

“Oh.” Vatra shivered.

“So, what lizard should I form into?” Harper asked. “Eira? Alon? Seashell? Maybe Buoy or Rain. The last four are boys, I’m not sure I want to take that form.”

*She’s making us feel comfy... is she charming us? I wish I heard the rest of the tale. I haven’t listened to Peri much since he arrived in Coral Canyons. Maybe I should...*

“None, thank you.” Peri said. “Now where’s the stone? You know we aren't leaving till’ we have it.”

“Oh of course it’s with Drake!” She told them. “Now, where are the other three you found?”

“Three?” Vatra asked.

“Yes! You have Peck’s, Liza’s and Cosmo’s, don’t you? Cosmo’s in being found this very moment.” She whisked up an ice mirror and muttered something. There was a scene of Kaylee, but a glowing phantom mark on her head. Haylee had a flower mark. They stared at each other, yelling things.

“Give me the stones!” Haylee demanded.

“You have to work for them sis!” Kaylee said.

She scowled and trapped her is a climbing plant. Kaylee burst out and blasted her to the back of the temple. Haylee ran back, making the ground fall. The sisters fought. Kaylee held out Peck’s brush and drew a circle. She threw it down and Haylee was knocked into a tree.

“You see?” Harper smiled. “A fight. Sister versus sister, isn’t it splendid? Oh look, they’re at the river!”

Peri and Vatra closed in on the three as they watched the scene. Haylee tried to throw stones at her sister, but being taken over by a phantom, she could see. She dodged it like it was no bog deal, and drained the goopy water, leaving a hat and star shaped thing on the riverbed.

Peri looked up. “No... is that?”

“Raimu? Yeah.” Bumble said.

“Wasn’t there another Bumble travelling with them?” Vatra asked.

“He’s dead.” Melody said, her sad voice pouring over them. “Burned. Tortured.”

Peri took this in, and Vatra remembered all the fun times they had with him. Whether it was training or hanging out, it was fun. Bumble, Raimu and Peri were close. He cried loud and sent a blast of water to harper, who froe the water around her.

“So... five years of training versus thousands? You're on. HEY DRAKE!” Melody yelled. “GET OVER HERE!”

The cave shook, and some of the crystals and spikes from above fell. A shark with a golden chest plate and red shining eyes burst out of the cave walls, shooting Vatra and Peri back. He laughe, with sharp, shiny teeth.

“No mercy!” He cried.

Bumble grinned. “Okay Drake. Operation Kill mode.”

“You- “Melody shivered. Drake launched for Vatra, and Peri grabbed her. They left the warm room and went into the tunnels.

“What are we supposed to do?” Vatra asked, worried. “I can’t use fire underwater!”

“Split up or watch each other's backs?” Peri asked.

“Split up! Goodluck!” Harper shot an ice spike at the two, and vatra didn’t realize the were holding hands/paws.

“OUCH!” She screamed and the spike stuck into her paw. Peri rushed through the other tunnel, an Vatra couldn't swim. She decided to try and teleport. She could either spawn in the darkness or suffocate. She tried teleporting above... like... what did she want... 100 feet?

She imagined herself above water. Immediately, the warm sun fell on her face. She stared down into the blue water that swirled beneath her. There was shore. She paddled as fast as she could to it. But she realized she would leave Peri.

“Oh Peri...” She muttered.

She thought about him and her side by side. Bad choice, she was underwater again. But she was filled with warmth and lit a fire, which charred a bit of Drake’s face. The shark yelled and advanced for the lizards.

“Vatra? What the- “Melody dragged him aside, into a smaller cave. Vatra was alone with Harper and Drake.

“We’ll tell you the end of the tale.” Harper said, changing her form into Eira. Vatra jerked.

“When Amelia and Emilio prepared to have their ceremony, I formed a plan with the underwater creatures, penguins and Zios. We poisoned the wedding rings with the same poison of the jungle. We created that jungle where the sisters endlessly battle.

“Endless?” Vatra asked.

“Endless. Oh, Haylee’s losing her strength. I’m excited.” She squealed and Bumble held another ice mirror.

The mirror showed the sisters fighting on a slim tree. It was bent over a deep cliff, and the bottom seemed to pull whoever looked in it down.

“Look down!” Kaylee suggested. “I'm sure it won’t hurt!”

“No!” Haylee refused. She bent the tree, and the two tumbled off. They fought in the air. Kaylee used Liza’s stone and Haylee turned upside down. She almost looked at the bottomless pit. She soared back at Kaylee and flipped her over.

Her eyes stared at her sister’s. Kaylee blinked, and a green and blue lizard appeared beside her.

“Kaylee, I don’t think I need to control you now.” He told her.

“Listen to me sis. Don’t do this.” Haylee barely had time to say it because Haylee disappeared from underneath her. She stared into the darkness. She screamed as she fell into the dark pit. She couldn’t move as it sucked her up.

Bumble laughed and Drake broke the mirror. Harper froze the water around Vatra.

“I don’t think you’ll survive very long.” Harper told her.

Vatra took a deep breath to yell at the three, but she choked on the salty water.

“She’s drowning, SHE’S DROWNING!” Melody’s voice appeared.

Water flooded Vatra’s eyes, and she closed them tight. She tried to shoot fire at Drake, which missed by a meter. She began choking, barely able to tell where she was. What could she do? Teleport? She couldn`t imagine herself above the waves, and she heard screaming and crying.

*Is this the end?* She wondered. *It must be, I can’t do anything at all.* Preparing for her death, she huddled into a tight ball. She felt the ice touching her paws, and she couldn’t move.

Even with her eyes closed, she felt the water pulsing around her, and bright lights from outside. The ice was on her face now and circling her neck. She was able to sniff a bit of air. She opened her eyes and realized some of the ice had melted around her face.

Outside, Peri and Melody tugged at Drake’s head, and Vatra saw they were pulling the stone out. They must have taken out Harper, because Bumble snuck up from behind. She swore she could still hear her voice, telling the lizards to stop and rest, only to be killed by her.

*Why did she leave me like this?* Vatra thought. She had no idea how she would get out. Turn into a fire-breathing dragon? No. But it could work, if she tried heating her body, maybe the ice would unfreeze.

“MISTY LOOK OUT!” There was screaming behind her, and she turned. One of the ice visions had Sprite and Misty running from the three phantoms. She could tell two were lizards, and she didn’t know which ones.

In front of her, there was a scene of Kaylee pushing Raimu into a poisonous river.

The next was Dragon, talking to some purple lizard near a wall... in the phantom fortress?

"Dragon, I'm getting out of here." She told him.

"Phantom, you're going to get caught! You'll be killed!"

"I won't be killled." She said. '"This is for everyone. Even the phantoms! If Julie and the King get what they want, the world could be destroyed!"

"Since when did you know that?" Dragon wondered and looked back. He turned to see the lizard again, but she was already gone.

She was already in the woods. "I'm Bella now." She said. "No longer a phantom. My name is no longer Phantom."

Next were a few armies running along mountains and crossing streams.

And Baloosh, Marlenka and Audrey were alone. They yelled, “RAY!” repeatedly.

She flashed back to the scene at Greely’s volcano. Marlenka yelled, “FOR JAMAA!” and everyone cheered along. Fun times.

Last scene: several lizards she didn’t know were outside a jammer’s house. One put her paw down and whispered, “For Happy. For us.” Before they dived into the bushes. (credit to @Happymistakess)

She wasn't sure what to think of the images. They all played around her, like they already happened or were happening. She felt a tingling suddenly. Her feet were unfreezing. Her back was out of the water, and she began to open her wings, hopefully not a big mistake.

She burst out of the ice ball, and she was back into the water. She jumped onto Drake’s head. He screamed something about hot things and how he hated them before the giant blue stone popped out of his head.

“Soooo...” Peri stared at the red, horrified.

“I hate you all.” He muttered before lunging at Vatra, who was making a swim for the entrance.

*I’m not going to make it, am I?* She thought before she was pulled back with another ice rope. She was drained of her air once again. But she had the stone. Peri was close by, but still a risky throw. But didn’t the stone let you breathe underwater? Tavie was the dolphin alpha, but she needed to retreat to the surface for air.

She decided to pass it a second before the ice was once again surrounding everywhere but her face. Harper laughed as she said, “Don't worry, your friends are safe, so is your owner.”

Lotus. In that moment, Vatra lost it. Peri made a lunge screaming something, and Melody whisked Bumble away from Drake. She couldn’t tell what was happening, but she knew Peri was trying to get the stone to her. He was probably also worn out.

Melody, who was a bit smaller stole a piece of the stone. No longer did one giant, glowing gem glow. It was half chipped now, and everyone ran for Peri.

“I took it from the middle.” Melody said quickly. She tried pounding at the ice. She successfully made it in, but the hole she made refroze.

Vatra didn’t know how to take the stone. The only other option was to take it in her mouth. Melody made an air bubble. An air lizard, she pushed all the water out. Peri tumbled in as well, leaving Bumble hiding in the corner.

“We're gonna get out of here together.” Vatra muttered.

“No.” Peri said.

“What?!” She turned around and stared at him is disbelief.

“You won’t have enough air.” He said. “Not even Melody has enough strength to take everyone up!”

“No. You aren’t dying. You are SO not dying!” She shook him.

“Yes, I am. In Bahari Bay I knew we wouldn’t make it to the end together.”

“We’re going to make it.” Vatra told him.

“This is quite fun.” Melody laughed. “You know, this happened to Skip and I once- “

Vatra ignored. “Peri, get us out. Try to take Bumble 2.0 thing-.”

Vatra blanked out for a second. She regained her vision when Peri was trying to break the ice. He had the stone. Harper took him. She held him in her paws and held an ice spike. She grabbed him tightly before pushing the spike into him.

“She’s distracted.” Melody said and summoned and air bubble that surrounded Vatra.

Peri looked over and broke the ice and swam from Harper. “you’ve been close to death to many times.” Peri told her. They made a swim, Vatra first being shot above the waves.

Vatra held the glowing stone in her paws. She staggered along the dark beach, near a dark oak forest, where there was screaming and a glowing light. She paused and decided to enjoy the moment.

“Peri, we did I- Peri?” She looked around wildly. A blue beret floated in the water, surrounded by green blobs. He water was ice cold, and the gentle waves and seafoam were no longer comforting. They seemed to slow down.

“NO!” She wailed; her cry echoed in the cold night sky.

Peri had sacrificed himself. Where was Melody, and Bumble? Where were they?

They weren’t there. And it meant one thing. Vatra was alone, and Peri was gone.

**Bonus Chapter 2 ~ The Escape**

They were both together in the prison cell, and Skip looked over Loafie’s cell. She saw bored, playing with a piece of dust that moved along the cold floor. Azurii, who was in the back talked about a recent trade with Marlenka. She was traded. Kenzie talked with her, saying something about trading Marley, who was no longer in the cell.

Panda, Saber, Ollie and Para (wHaT a gReaT cOmBo) sat in separate corners of the next, listening to Mochi who said something about Penguins and Pandas. She was beside Lotus, Rose and Crimson, and the next one Skip couldn’t see.

Never mind, it was filled with rats, anime and K-pop guys.  There was music coming from it- where was that from?

“Hey guys.” Loafie said. “So, how is it?”

“Good and not good.” Melody answered. “We’re going to escape the fortress.”

Someone from the cage with a rat held her paws on the bars. “Like the lizard that said she was the other day?”

“Yeah, Phantom.” Skip said.

“Can we please separate cages?” The rat asked. “I need a box as well.”

“No Sage.” Saber brushed it off.

“I don’t know if I’d rather be stabbed twice or be teased by my jail friends about Para.” Panda faced the wall.

Para, who was across from him, snorted. She turned in the other direction.

“Sunset.” Lotus tapped the fox who skip didn’t see in her cell. “Wall drawing?”

“We might have to wait. There not enough dust and I’m not very fond of writing in green... goop.”

“Could you maybe smear some goop over this hideous drawing?” Panda asked. “And why do I NOT look handsome?!”

Someone from a cell across the hall laughed. “ITS VERY WHOLESOME!”

Mochi giggled. “No. I think the Panda and Para drawing stays.”

Ollie sniffed. “I’m staring at that for the rest of my life right?”

*Jammers are weird.* Skip thought. “Forget that, we learned something. Night Angel and Kaguri are slowly taking over you.”

Panda’s eyes widened. “Couldn't I just-”

“I can always pass the frying pan to the side.” Loafie said.

“No. You can’t charmspeak them out.” Melody said. “If Marlenka wasn;t traded and is still in touch with Azurii, she could free you at any moment. The siblings HATE magic. They’re mysterious but they hate it.”

“Uhm...” Azurii’s face turned pale. “About that...”

Melody scoffed. “How could you?!”

“Another thing, Melody.” Lotus said. “I traded you, you live with Skip and Loaf now. Also in the same family as the moon alpha. Fun stuff, isn’t it?”

Skip read her thoughts. She just wanted to get rid of Melody because she kept talking with... wait. Peri?!

Skip tried not to think of him. “Back to the takeover thing. You know the chop-chop takeover fight your own children destroy Jamaa thing?”

Loafie tilted her head. “I guess.”

“Azurii, you have to get Marlenka back.” Melody told her. “If you don’t, the world is gone.”

“Thanks. Anyways, we didn’t agree on tradebacks.” She said.

“And without Ju- Marlenka, there's nothing stopping or pushing the phantoms back. You’ll all be driven insane!”

“So like...  we’ll start being more emotional?” Kenzie asked.

“I'm not sure. I overhead or something like that. Anyways, J- Marlenka was more than just the alpha of magic. She controlled the balance and feeling of Jamaa.” Melody said.

“Since when? I thought the early alphas froze into stone?” Sunset said.

Footsteps came from the back, and the two had no time to say goodbye. Two lizards, a grayish purple and pink faced lizard and a purple over pink lizard appeared. They scanned the room.

“Two new lizards today. This is Ray, prisoners. And this is Yunho!”

The two were thrown into a cell across from Panda’s cell.

“Sup kids.” He said.

“I thought I was your child.” Alan, aka Crimson sniffed.

***Escaping the fortress...***

Skip’s heart beat fast. He and Melody ran through the snow swiftly and silently. His feet were getting cold as he jumped over onto the bridge below. He expected to land softly like he always did, but instead he landed with a thud and slipped on the snow.

“You okay?” Melody asked.

“I’m fine.” Skip said and they continued towards the south gate.

I had no motivation ;-; IM SORRY SHOIKJUHNMFVKJHNSDKZOIUJHNASKDZJI-

**Bonus Chapter 3 ~ Uh**

AHAHAHAHAAAAAAA- IM SO DEAD- SAGE DONT KILL ME- PANJAM HHHHH-

Sage threw a knife at Panda, only to be whacked by Loafie’s frying pan. Saber punt-kicked Sage as Panda slithered under the doorway.

“Well, this is intense.” Sunset backed away.

“Just saying, my friend is coming to murder everyone specifically Rat! WERE ALL DEAD!” Saber cheered.

“You said that three weeks ago!” Loafie said.

“I’ll end her existence! FORGET ABOUT BEING FRIE- “Sage screamed and ran into a wall.

“Ouch.” Sunset winced.

Panda continued to slither down the arena hallway.

“She’s gonna start a war- “ Saber stole Loafie’s frying pan and ran behind Sage.

Panda walked out the window.

“PANDJAMS, IF YOU WISH TO BE SPARED, STAY HERE!” Rat aka Sage the Murderer followed him to the window.

Panda stood on the window.

Sage threw a box causing him to fall.

He crawled into the box and fell. Saber wheezed as the frying pan accidentally fell on her head.

“And... there they go.” Sunset sighed as the two screamed on the ground.

They were later brought up by the phantoms, and Rat was crying. “Come on... I just wanted to kill him!”

They rested back in the cells.

“I have been doing pilates!” Panda jumped and bonked his head on the ceiling.

“Well, that’s... fun.” Para shivered.

“Your arena day sounded interesting.” Kenzie said. “And by the way, were doing a cell switch tonight.”

“W-we are?” Ollie asked.

“Yep. I don’t think you’d approve of Panda, Rat, Saber in Loaf in the same cell would you?” Azurii asked.

“I hate the phantoms.” Loafie muttered. “We’re acting like young children now. I think the lizards are kicking in.”

“Agreed.” Lotus nodded. “And since when did Panda do Pilates?”

The fox was having a- dance session.... Breakdown? Panda danced around like a maniac.

“It’s test time.” Sunset sighed. “No rest for you Rat. Do your exams on level three. Someone get Panda to calm down- bring him back to reality.”

“Maybe Para should kiss him!” Saber clapped. “That would bring back something, right Mochi?”

“I hate this.” Loafie sighed. “Come on lizards... where are you?”

## **Chapter 1 ~ Banana’s POV ~ A Strange Night**edit | edit source

Banana lay on the wet, damp smelling grass. Big Bird was on his left and Goldy on his right. For once, Banana didn’t slap him because he hummed *Leaves from the Vine,* but also because he was tired. The song either helped a lot or didn’t, because all Banana could think of was his owner being taken over and controlled.

She lost his siblings, Earthwhistle and Bubblegum and a great friend, Blueberry Cream. And Level was scammed. Goldy didn’t know this, but he had been scammed in a trade, and was going to live with a person named Dragon. (Yes, 3 days ago on aj I saw a level 4 solid with those soulless eyes, I could say the user but I won't for now)

He also thought about losing Goldy. Was she next? He shook his head. Big Bird was at the line with the little soldier boy part. Immediately, Toxic and his family popped in his head. It didn’t help, because he remembered his dream from the night before.

“Banana.” The yellow and blue lizard told him. “You have no alphas in your group.”

“Fun stuff.” he said.

“It is.” Baylee smiled. “You aren’t hunted, and your group won’t be targeted. But there is a problem, you are weaker, my vulnerable.”

“Good point.” Banana rubbed his football helmet. It had a grass stain, and he hated it. They faced up at the stars, looking at the clear skies.

“You know, were both gone now.”

“Gone?”

“Yes.” Baylee nodded.

“So I’m like... dead?”

“Kinda.” She said. “But I have always been here. Listen, every year we have the same conversation. Don’t you know who I am?”

“I don’t. I just know you as Baylee.” He said.

“Hm.” A red bow appeared on her head. “We’ll talk again.”

And that’s how Banana’s fun dream ended. He debated what to do next. If he went to sleep, he could have nightmares and wake up in a cold sweat or if he didn’t, be tired. He didn’t want to be grumpy, and he decided to go to sleep.

💛Banana has a Vision💛

He woke up in some wilted gardens, surrounded by purple stone brick. Obviously, the phantom gardens. He wandered around like a ghost. Something pulled him towards an outer wall, and he saw two lizards hopping up a pair of stairs. In the sky, a scene of two foxes talking and they finally handed over pieces of paper. Melody AND Skip yelled, and fell into the phantom army, who guarded the wall.

“Traitors!” One rang a bell as the two ran through the gang. The two stopped at a blockade and turned, only to be blocked by another.

Banana couldn’t say anything. What had happened? What was the switching paper thing? Wait a second... another scene.

This time it was an elephant talking, clearly AJHQ. H was in the middle of saying, “Dear Jammers, we must keep the Jamaa economy and culture alive!” And there was a bit of cheering. Someone raised their hand.

“Yes, Fluffy unicorns?” AJHQ asked.

“Free stuff?”

AJHQ shook his head.

“What if the lizards are in battle and we trade at the wrong time?” Someone asked.

“Impossible.” AJHQ said. “What hurts with a small trade?”

“Actually, it hurts their head. They get this pain realizing the- “Someone popped in to explain but HQ stopped and called someone else.

“Will the alphas come?”

“Unrelated.” HQ sat back down.

One last scene. A brown and blue lizard darted through the forest, looking for water. He moved his head around as the snowflakes and wind got harsher. He kept running. At last, he reached an almost frozen lake and filled a can with water. He controlled it upwards, and Audrey and Misty appeared on the surface.

“Guys, any luck finding Juno’s stone?” He asked.

“No.” Audrey said. “We do know Ray could be an alpha but Marlenka isn’t even herself anymore!”

“Marlenka?” Misty asked.

“Yes.” Audrey nodded. “She’s paranoid like she always is but she just... I don’t know. It’s not like the Marlenka I know.”

“I haven’t found anything.” Misty said. “We made our way along a village once, there was a pure white family. They said they knew a bit about Juno, but I had to go without the information.”

“Grammar Misty. Did you go with lizards or were you by yourself?” Rain sniffed and corrected her.

“You nerd.” She scoffed. “And of course, I went alone! I trust nobody but Cakepop in the treehouse.”

“Yes... but I had visions. There’s this lizard, says her name is Baylee. Yall know Melody, Skip, Bumble, Dragon, all those lizards?”

“Nope.” They shook their heads.

“Well, let me tell you something. One of them will join our side, but two will perish in doing it.”

*Two.* Skip thought. *Skip and Melody.* He couldn’t say anything as their conversation continued.

“I heard one may help us, or someone on our side. There’s this lizard-phantom... I think her name is Phantom? Or Bella?” Rain thought.

“Seriously? That’s like the fourth one in... a week.” Audrey had an unreadable expression.

“Are you mad about it? That’s great!” Misty grinned.

💛Banana’s Vision ends💛

He woke up. It wasn’t too bad, was it? How long had it been? The moon was the same height as it was before he slept. BigBird and Goldy slept silently on the ground. Suddenly, a warm wind blew. A teal on brownish yellow who was half-visible appeared on the grass. Banana’s form seemed to fade to. What was happening? WHO was this?

“Hello Banana.” She said, her soft yet raw voice matching her appearance in a strange way. “I’m Baylee, I’ve visited every hero lizard there will be and has ever been. I’m the protector of lizards, and heir to the throne of Jamaa.”

“Uh... did you say hero?” he asked. “That’s a mistake, I’m NO hero.”

“I said WILL BE.” She sighed. “I visited Haylee in the final battle, trained with Marlenka and have spoken with Sprite.”

“Cool.” Banana said. “So, like... where we going?”

“We’re going to visit Phantom, or Bella. You should call her Bella, she prefers it.” Baylee flew down the slope and Banana followed. “She’s not too far from where you are.”

A purple-on-purple lizard slept quietly on a stone in the withered forest. She had a princess hat and a pocketwatch on her side. It looked just like Strawberry’s. At her side was a tiny crystal ball that flickered with light and a lizard that was gray over yellow. She had a flower headband and snored loudly.

“So... what was the point of this?” Banana asked.

“Well one, so you don’t walk or trust the wrong lizards and two because you're going to save Jamaa.”

“Wait did like... Mira assign you to just talk to lizards that save Jamaa and stuff?”

“Yeah...” She muttered. “I don’t like it sometimes but sometimes it’s fun. Time moves faster when your in the weird state like this. It’s morning now, you really cant see it in the phantom lands but it is morning. Lay down where you were and you will feel as you slept. Cross the Decayed Rise, I’ll be with you if you need me.”

“Thanks?” Banana ran back up the hill and got in sleeping position. Suddenly, he felt hot air on his skin and he woke, feeling refreshed. Suddenly, two lizards headed up the hill. Bella and Mille proceeded towards the camp.

“It’s Millie!” Goldy cried. “And Phantom! Oh, this is HORRIBLE! A nightmare, oh my goodness Millie what have you done?!”

“Uh Goldy...” `Millie` opened her eyes. “NOT PURPLE!” oh and Phantom’s are a green now. Were on your side!”

Phantom’s green eyes made her appearance scarier. She looked like a glowing monster, but gentle in some way.

“Baylee.” She muttered. “Ice Cream, they are here, watching us aren’t they?”

“Wha- uh, you okay?” Millie asked.

“And you had two other lizards, here didn’t you? I found a pocketwatch that may have belonged to Strawberry and Sharku but I’m not sure.” Phantom’s eyes darted around wildly. “Oh and, I’m Bella.”

“She changed her name.” Millie whispered to BigBird and Banana.

“We’re going across the Decayed Rise.” Greely pushed the yellow solids aside. “Take us through.”

“Greely, why are you so harsh?” Mille groaned.  “You’re so demanding and- “

“He’s been through a lot. Let’s head west, the easy path is this way. Have your solids trained?” Phantom pushed pass and started to the direction that the lizards had come through. “Oh and you know Greely has had a hard and dark past. I don’t think we should talk about it and instead talk about each other. I’m socially awkward so that’s fun. What about you?”

They all stared at Bella as they walked. She was mysterious and seemed to know everything. The group had one dramatic and kind lizard, a loud singer, someone who understood nothing, a nerd, a sad old wolf and... just Millie.

*You’re just a bunch of nobodies.* A voice repeated in banana’s head. *But we are somebodies. Come to me, young lizard. You will be given and you will feel everything you have ever wanted.*

*No.* He thought to himself. *I am somebody, right?*

**Bonus: Yall wanted to know about the Coral Canyons battle, so I decided to make a bonus chapter about it!**

4 WEEKS AGO...

George (aka Beep or Yeet) ran down the street. Everything had been torn. And that lizard had done enough damage. Echidnas couldn’t do anything, could they? They didn't have anything! He kept running, where was Dream?? Surely, he had the TNT but was he even... alive?

An explosion came from his left as Lotus busted out of the cafe. She carried her laptop and ran beside him. "You good?" She yelled.

"I'm fine!" He said as another explosion of goop landed between them.

Another echidna followed, and Goldfish, one of George's friends came over. "Hey!" He yelled.

"And why is everyone so cheerful?!" George groaned and they dashed for the corner.

A corner. Everyone at Coral Canyons and Crystals Sands was there. All the pets and all the animals huddled in a big group as the phantoms circled in. A giant airship flew from above and a ray appeared. George had seen this before, they were being captured.

He saw the lizards escaping and Peck disappearing, and wondered where she went. A giant blast of lightning took over the ship, but the ship stayed in one piece. This was NOT helpful, and the group was sucked up. They were pulled higher into the sky and above the clouds. The lightning and various flying objects kept going back and forth outside, but whatever it was-Peck couldn't stop or destroy the ship.

"Stay close." Lotus told them. "Holiday and Joy are out... we're gonna be okay."

"You're a genius, but are you sure?" George asked and huddled against the fox. She wasn't even his owner but he stayed with her anyways.

"No." She responded. "We just have to hope now. Hope is all we have."

sorry it wasn't much ToT

love yall <3

Note:I reread chapter 6- I FORGOT VATRA WENT BLIND AHH! Well I really cant fix that now ;-;

**Bonus Chapter~Where I am~Kaylee’s POV**

*A few days ago…*

Finally accepted by beings, got my vision back but betrayed my sister. Win or loss?- I wondered this as I emerged from the darkness of the prison cell. I had decided to ally with the phantoms, and Frost could keep control of someone very critical. Where I was when he controlled me? I sat in the cell far left. Nobody was there and I occasionally heard the jammers and pets on the other side.

Kaguri and Night Angel (aka Night or Angel) met me at the top of the stairs. We decided to go to the newest group of prisoners from Coral Canyons- a good bunch. As soon as we reached the area, the prisoners were led in cuffs and a jammer with two echidnas kept whispering.

“What’s this about? Who are Holiday and Joy?” Kaguri demanded, and he held a knife to the wolf’s neck.

“Just two other prisoners!” The wolf shot back.

“I don’t believe it.” Night Angel muttered. “She’s lying, we should take her to the cells.”

“No, we go to the king or the general first!” Kaguri stomped. “Kaylee, which one do we go to?”

“We have to go to the general.” I said. “If we go to the cells, we’ll never find out who these animals are.”

*In General Bumble’s Office…*

Yep, Bumble was a general, the only loyal lizard left. Well, there was also Dragon, but Bumble was a better leader. He dismissed the group and invited us in, and the wolf refused to make eye contact with him.

“Lotus?” he asked.

“How- oh. Hello there Bumble.” She said plainly, but her eyes flickered.

“Do you know each other?” I asked.

“Yes, this is my friend’s old lizard.” Lotus said.

Bumble nodded. “What’s up Kaylee?”

“This wolf will not tell us about two animals named Holiday and Joy.” I explained. “She also would not spill about Moon, a suspected jammer who escaped the battle. She also didn’t mention anything about Saber, but she is a prisoner now.  She did tell us she was here but won’t say anymore.”

“Right…” Bumble thought. “Lotus, you will face torture at least 10 hours a day until you tell us about these jammers. Unless… you would like to tell us now.”

She backed away from his face but took a deep breath, about to speak. “I will NEVER reveal their location or who they are.”

“Very well. Make sure she gets 12 hours of torture a day. Make it Stage 10. Every week will get harder until you tell us.”

“And it will be that way.” She shot back.

“Then it will. Dismissed!” Bumble waved the group off.

And Lotus was escorted to the cells.

Kaylee smiled. She loved the fire, torture and things in the phantom lands. She felt accepted,and was ready to do anything for them.

Yall ever wonder what happened to Halo?

## **Chapter 2 ~ The Poison Pool ~Bella’s POV**edit | edit source

Bella and Millie led the lizards and Greely into a ravine. The ravine was deep and dark, but they were safer… for now. But were they safer from the phantoms? They were better fighting in smaller groups, rather than groups with more phantoms. There weren’t very many of them, and the ravine was the best area. They would always focus on others, staring and forgetting jobs. While it was “daytime” (when the sun was up in Jamaa and the mist up in the Phantom Lands) no other monsters would try to hurt them.

But there were still some threats. There was a river (fresh water, hooray!) but it connected to the sea. It only meant one thing, it was Harper and Drake’s way to freedom. You would wonder how a shark would come on land- Harper was excellent at brewing potions. She could easily make a shapeshifting, invisibility or illusion potion and come to the dark lands.

She realized she walked different than the lizards. They had a wider walking position, and she tried to mimic them.

“Uh… Bella?” Mille asked.

“Yeah?” She looked at her.

“What the heck are you doing?” She asked. “You look like a duck!”

“Uh…” She trailed off. *Darn.* She thought. She stuck to her old way of walking.

They reached a slope that led up. Bella started up the slope, and everyone else followed. The ground was weird, green and mushy, hopefully it was safe.  Bella was optimistic because she had seen this before- But it wasn’t mushy.

The phantoms were strange. They would be happy drinking blood- she wondered how she liked it when she was little. She shook her head, trying not to think of the old days and took another step. She fell into green goop- and screamed.

“Bella!” Goldy yelled.

Millie observed the goop. “Poison!” She screamed. “We have to get her out quick!”

Bella was not enjoying the goop. Her head felt dizzy, and she wanted to faint. If she did, would she be alright? Or would these be her final moments? Since she was secretly half-phantom she decided she would pass out. She hoped she could tolerate to poison. But where was she now?

She was flashing back- yes. It was her third birthday, and she was still a little lizard. She was all alone in her tower when strange, shimmering lizards appeared around her. She grabbed her tiny stuffed animal and yelled, “Who goes there?”

*I sound cute-* Bella thought as a teal on brown lizard appeared. Wait- was it yellow or brown? Did it even matter?

“Phantom?” The lizard peered at the little lizard.

“How do you know my name?!” She screamed it whacked her toy at the translucent animal. It passed right through and Phantom/Bella tripped.

“I’m the creator of lizards, heiress to the throne of Jamaa- “ She began and this time Phantom tried to claw her.

“Jamaa is bad! We learned it at preschool!” she fell to the floor and rolled up again.

“Well Phanto- Bella- or Phantom I mean, you can’t just listen to the phantoms, following everything they do.” The ghost-lizard told her.

“Right.” Phantom tilted her head. “And what’s the point of the… whatever and pointless visit?”

“You can’t always listen to everyone around you. Do what you think is best Phantom, or should I say, Bella.”

*And I did just that.* Bella thought. Suddenly, pain overwhelmed her and her nose was almost in the poison.

“AAAAAAAAAAH!” She screamed as Greely and Goldy worked to pull her out.

“It’s like this river wants her!” Big Bird groaned and heaved Greely’s tail.

“I said don’t touch my tail!” Greely yelled and Big Bird let go.

Bella stopped moving. She just sunk faster, and she started moving; it didn’t help.

“How’s your body? What do you feel?” Millie yelled.

“It’s burning and I feel absolutely- “ Goop got into her mouth.

She tried to observe what her friends were doing- in their last effort to save her. Greely and Goldy pulled with all their might as Millie kept yelling tuff Bella couldn’t hear. Big Bird stared into the goopy river, horrified and- where was Banana?

She turned around. He was pacing back and forth, looking for something.

Yeah, helpful. Bella looked at the goop, that looked just like the ones she had when she was \*gulp\* evil- but poison. She couldn’t do anything about that. But she remembered her crystal ball- near Banana. She turned around and stared at it, just like she had a thousand times. In the reflection, she saw a tan and green lizard drowning in the river. The lizards around were yelling,

“Raimu!” and some were crying. It was night suddenly, and Raimu moved out of the river- scared badly, but *alive.* He collapsed on the sand. He muttered something and got up.

*He’s strong and courageous.* Bella thought.

*And so are you.* A voice like the lizard that visited when she was young whispered. *You’re clever too, you’ll find a way out of this mess, and help Jamaa.*

Bella observed Greely and Goldy’s pulling- they pulled from her back, and the rope was burning. She turned, holding her breath, keeping her eyes above the river water- or goop. She new her paws would burn; but she would live another day. She grabbed the rope tightly so that she could breathe again.

“So… she finally heard me?” Millie asked Goldy.

“Nah.” Goldy shook her head. “Why are you standing? Pull!”

Big Bird joined in and they all pulled.

“You’re gonna break the rope!” Bella yelled. “Try to grab my paw-claw-arm- OH WHATEVER!”

The flames burned her arm as she reached out, crying. The pain travelled up her body, she could have sworn she herself was on fire. She felt the tears running down her cheeks and her hat on her head. She wouldn’t let that burn- it meant a lot to her.

Finally, Millie grabbed her arm. They pulled as the rope snapped and they were sent flying back.

“Thank Zios!” Big Bird started singing a relief song, and Banana slapped him. *Is that normal behavior? It’s just… strange. Seems like phantom behavior but would the citizens of Jamaa really act like that?* Bella wondered.

“Thank goodness your safe!” Greely exhaled. “If we lost you- I doubt we would even make it across the rise! There’s many more pools like these ahead. And if you didn’t fall- we wouldn’t know  what those pools were!”

“Are you… happy that I fell?” Bella groaned. “That absolutely- OW!” She jumped and fell on the hard ground again. *It hurts… everything. I just want to give up…* She thought.

“She’s gonna faint!” Millie grabbed some flowers and went to work.

Banana and Goldy hovered over her as Bella closed her eyes.

## **Chapter 3 ~ The Chasm Between Us ~ Goldy’s POV**edit | edit source

Phan- Bella fainted. Millie ran over with roses and withered roses and groaned.

“DANGIT!” She- she proceeded to say \*horrifying\* things as she walked off to the pool.

“Have you ever met Millie?” Asked Banana.

“Yeah, I have. I’ve never met Bella, but she was a key to the phantom’s greatness and smarts. She’s joined us now, and we have an advantage. But she knows more about us… she could easily tell our weaknesses to the phantoms, I’m not sure if I can trust her.” Goldy looked at the lizard on the ground, breathing quickly but seemed okay. “But Millie… if she trusts her, I might as well.”

“You’ve met Millie?” Banana looked at her.

“Uhh, I have experience with phantoms- I train with Greely- duh.” She looked at him.

“Right… Banana. Fetch me to deers fur.” Goldy pointed to Greely.

“Uh… you killed deers?”

It didn’t sound right, so Goldy tried it again. “Fetch me two deer fur.”

“It sounds wrong!” Banana groaned. “If Misty or Panda were here, they’d cut your head off or break your neck!”

“Fetch me the fur of a deer and while you’re at me get me another one!” Goldy was annoyed, and she threw down her blanket.

Banana ran off, and Goldy sat down, and looked at Bella. She looked cold, and she stood up again. Bella shivered, muttering something so quiet Goldy couldn’t hear. She could easily shift to a dog- and elephant- and hear exactly what, but instead she did something she never thought she would.

She carefully covered Bella with the blanket and cuddled near her. She was cold, so she was sure her warmth would help. Banana came to her, and he held the fur to his nose. “This stuff stinks.”

“It’s a great blanket!” Goldy laughed. “Just rest.”

“Well, rest out of the way please.” Millie held some bottles and plants. “I’m going to do some healing, and I need space.”

“Sorry Millie!” Banana hopped over to Big Bird and hit him. And this time, Big bird wasn’t even singing!

“What was that for?” Big Bird stomped away.

Goldy stared at Banana in horror. He slapped him… every five minutes? TEN?

Banana sighed. “I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.”

“You’re NOT SURE?!” Goldy threw her hat down. “YOU- “

Greely stepped in. “Time to sleep! Goldy’s fi- oh. Sorry, I guess I’ll just rest with Big Bird.”

“I’ll be with P- Bella.” Millie stopped herself and moved her paws around like a tornado.

Banana and Goldy were the farthest from the center of the group and looked towards the black grass. They sat together, facing towards goopy waterfalls, withered trees and listened to the sad song of the night animals.

“What’s wrong with me?” Banana asked himself. “I’m being my best!”

“It’s how you’re treating your friend. It’s way to harsh, way to hard, AND WAY TO- “

“I get it!” Banana told her. “Everyone tells me that!”

“Then why aren’t you softening your appearance, and your approach? If someone were to whack you and you were just being yourself, how would you react?!” Goldy put him in Big Bird’s shoes- or perspective- did lizards even wear shoes?!

“Uh… I’d be fine.” He said, unsure. He was shaking. “Would Big Bird be okay?”

“He’s a chonky- or tall- guy, but I’m sure he wouldn’t be. You don’t know what he’s been through.” She looked him in the eye. “But I do.”

“HE told YOU and not me?!” Banana stood up. “Why wouldn’t he trust me?!”

“You’ve been hitting him- you know he’s like Toxic- a softie. And you know h- ” Goldy was interrupted.

“And you’re just like Misty! Sassy this sassy that- getting your way, all the attention, SO RARE, oh my gosh I’d trade my soul for that lizard! Blah Blah Oh my gosh so cute!” Banana stomped away, mad.

Goldy had tears in her eyes. She remembered the old days- she missed them. *Jamaa is broken. I'll be thinking about the two tonight. They were such great friends... and broke promises...* Goldy thought as the group went to sleep and Millie helped Bella. She wished she had never broke her promise. She promised she would never break the one BAYLEE made her.

***Note: I suck at adding humor to this story, and it needs to be enjoyable, if anyone could help me make it funner I would REALLY appreciate it!***

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68 comments

V3nomize·3d

Have you added in blitz? Eep I’mjust excited

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Xotterpotatox·1/2/2021

This is way too long hhhh

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Hannahpenguin08·1/2/2021

Hey I'm writing a story also! Alot shorter, I'm not done

Also SUPER fast paced

If ya wanna read

Urs as amazing I'm a huge fan of Doj

Loafie·1/2/2021

Ty!

And I will definitely read it!

Hannahpenguin08·1/2/2021

It's on my bio

Hannahpenguin08·1/2/2021

Suggestion: make chapters in bold? So that its divided and easier to read?

Loafie·5d

Oh I'll do that! xp thanks

Im also figuring out how to code it so you dont have to scroll to every chapter twt

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1m0nlyHuman AJPW·12/31/2020

Phantom (Bella) says hi!

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Onfirekitten·12/27/2020

Wow! I haven’t read it yet (haven’t had time) but I had to scroll past a lot to get to the comments xd. I’m curious if you ended up putting in my arctic fox army or not lol? I doubt it, but if so, what chapters r they in?

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1m0nlyHuman AJPW·12/15/2020

Wowwww! That was soooo amazing to read! And omg yay Phantom has been introduced!

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Cremecherry·12/10/2020

hotttt

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Gina Linetti the 100 emoji·12/10/2020

When is Euphoria "Millie" going to be in the story?

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LilLoafie·12/10/2020

The next chapters :3

Gina Linetti the 100 emoji·12/10/2020

Ee yayy

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1m0nlyHuman AJPW·12/9/2020

When are the new chapters coming out? I’m sooo excited to see Phantom in it!!

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Quirkyfish·12/8/2020

I am now officially addicted to doj

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1m0nlyHuman AJPW·12/3/2020

Hi! Do you know when Phantom will appear in the story?

LilLoafie·12/3/2020

Soon

She was hinted but she'll be featured soon :3

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Wølfie Pláyz·12/3/2020

Really Good! I Love It!

Could Kaguri And Night Angel Be In It? Kaguri v

Night Angel ^

LilLoafie·12/10/2020

Yes! What are their personalities?

Wølfie Pláyz·12/10/2020

Kaguri: Crybaby But Really Strong

Night Angel: Royal, Mysterious

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Ssrlismyusername·11/29/2020

@Loafie do you mind if I fix the little mistakes?

(like you called Haylee Kaylee once, Kaylee Haylee, some typos, that sorta stuff xd)

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Loafie·11/29/2020

Yep!!

Ssrlismyusername·11/29/2020

Okiiii! Ty! Xd

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~azunyann~·11/29/2020

I

NEED

BLIND

JOKES

AAAAAAAA

Loafie·11/29/2020

O k

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V3nomize·11/29/2020

Hey, was goldfish mention just that one time or did I miss it again? Oop-

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Cremecherry·11/28/2020

How much would it cost me to add two pets in doj, or are you not looking for new cast members.

Loafie·11/29/2020

Im always looking for new cast members, it doesnt cost anything!

Cremecherry·11/30/2020

Okay! Can you add in

Casanova, Pixie, and Peaches? (If that’s not too much hh)

Checkers likes to step on butterflies, and has a great sense of smell. But.. she is aloof. Pixie is humorous but uh, so energetic that she can run around Jamaa’s biggest shop 3 times.

Peaches loves to swim and hide in dark and moist places

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LilLoafie·12/3/2020

Yesssssssss

Cremecherry·12/3/2020

Ssey

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Blackoutxlotus·11/28/2020

Aww u added my art!

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~azunyann~·11/28/2020

9.9/10 needs blind jokes

Loafie·11/28/2020

Y e p

H e l p -

~azunyann~·11/29/2020

I wAnT tO sPeAk To YoUr MaNaGeR fOr ThE lAcK oF bLiNd JoKeS

Loafie·11/29/2020

OkAy wElL sHoUld i AdF thEM iNlAtE

~azunyann~·11/29/2020

AdD tHeM oR iLl CaLl My lAwYeEtS

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1m0nlyHuman AJPW·11/27/2020

**This is not a prank or joke**

So I was trading with someone a little while ago, and suddenly, you know the place where the avatar stands in that little square in the corner, both squares went black and a picture of Kosmo smiling appeared in its place. The person I was trading with saw it too. We both hoped it was a glitch, but we were not sure.

Loafie·11/27/2020

Oh thats kinda creepy ngl-

~azunyann~·11/29/2020

Cosmo is always watching us👁

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Blackoutxlotus·11/27/2020

I made some fan art of vatra peri raimu and eira

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