Chronicles of Sarcania: Iron Fort Castle

This is one of the chronicles of Sarcania, beyond Kyra and Eric.

## Plot

Chp. 1: The Trip,

In a
place known as Aces Hollow, Michigan, a field trip was planned by Professor
Eustace Proteus of Orion University, where a group of college students was
going to a newly discovered castle called "Iron Fort Castle", led by
Professor Eustace Proteus himself, who is
an expert on castle history, culture, and their owners, this time he is
taking his students to help him solve the mystery of the castle. He brought
with him, his eight students one of them
is a student-teacher named Preston Pryce, who often helps the students
understand what Professor Proteus expects on their reports, the other Seven
students are Otis Wilkinson an obese student of German descent is the one who
uses a compass to study the way around the castle, Malcolm Jonas an African
American Geology student who wanted to come along on the trip to study
minerals that make up the castle. While the others who just wanted the
credits are Maxine Ferris, an Athlete who wanted to achieve her goals to become
a Gym Teacher. Truman Rex a photographer from a Hispanic descent who seems to
have a reputation of Sorority pranks on a rival college. Crystal Van Banning,
an exchange student from Scandinavia who sees that the trip was pointless.
Ramon Trask, a jock who is seen hitting on Crystal and Maxine, Paul Leslie, a
stoner who often sneaks tobacco behind the teachers back, and Fiona Bryce an
energetic girl who often make remarks about Maxine and Crystal for having a
bubble butt.

When they
arrive at the castle The Professor asks the bus driver Quinton Rex who is also
Truman's father, to park close to the stables. When they parked, Professor
Proteus came out first to see if there was anyone around to give them a tour,
but something was wrong the people that were to meet them were dead on the
other side of barn, Professor Proteus shouted, "Quinton, Preston, come
here at once!" Quinton tells Truman in a calm voice, "cover them and
wait for us in the castle!" Truman does as his father tells him and takes
the others into the castle, Preston asks"Professor Proteus are these the
tour guides?" Professor Proteus answers, sighing, "no, I don't think
so, I believe the guides were much younger!"

Professor
Proteus then gasps "The Bus! the tires are flat!" Quinton began to
curse when he has seen his tires were flat, Preston called the police, but the phone was staticy and no
one responded.

As the
students were walking up the steps that led to the main gate of the castle,
Otis spied a Riddle engraved on the gate post, then he read  it out loud to the other students "*What*
runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?*" Crystal then*
answered with a sarcastic tone "Fiona's loud mouth!" Fiona then
sheepishly answered "Ok.......Mare butt!", Malcolm gets irritated
with them, "Enough you two have been at each other's throat since we left
home, enough is, enough the answer is *River*". The gate opened, they
arrived at the castle, as they entered the door, they cautiously entered the
hall, following it to the end and finding another door, they discovered a
chamber which had an underground river, which contained a monolith that had
been engraved with ancient writings and various gold statues, Otis was in awe,
"This must have been from a culture brought from African!" Maxine
then touched a statue made of gold and said, "talk about a real payload!" about the same time, a mysterious man came into the hall.  announced, " I am Orthos Plasmius the
caretaker of the household, I see your professor has answered my call, but who
might you be?" Ramon barges in front of Malcolm an interrupts "Ramon
Trask the captain of the White Cobra Football Team!", Paul also introduces
himself "Names Paul, Orthos? is that Greek or Roman?" Orthos ignores
the question. "so you are the students from Orion University?,  your professor was making a phone call, we will
meet him in the Dinning room!" Otis was delighted "Food, I'm
starving!"

Chp. 2:
Mogulite History

They
meet the Professor in the dining room where they all get to know the
Caretaker. Professor Proteus then asks "forgive me Orthos, who were the
dead bodies we discovered by the barn, and what happened to them?" Orthos
then replied sorrowfully, "they were Sir Ramsey and Sir Wendel, our
greatest knights !" Quinton then asks "I see you met my son
Truman!" Orthos then responds "so the lad that led the students to
the castle is your son?" Quinton then responds "well, yes, he may
cause mischief, but he is always there for family and friends!". Orthos
the Caretaker then exclaimed, "A trait of a fine knight, unlike Ramon
Trask, that arrogant Jock!" Ramon felt sheepish after his performance,
Crystal then states " Crystal Van Banning of Scandinavia, and I have to
ask, did any of my ancestors built this castle, because it reminded me of a
castle at home?" Orthos the caretaker then responded "The Van
Bannings made a contribution to our castle thousands of years ago, during the
Stone Age!" Malcolm asks "what mineral is this made from?"
Orthos then replies proudfy " Malcolm, this mineral is a rare metal
unlike any mineral, sure we have gold and silver as part of our treasury, but
this is an alien rock known to builders as Oraculite!" Malcolm was
astonished "Oraculite?" Otis enjoying the meal "this food is
sure good." Otis then after he finishes, then asks " and how do you
find your way in this castle?"
Orthos then introduces another member of the castle "may I
introduce Lady Colbolta, also known as *The Lady Azure*, owner of Iron
Fort Castle!" Lady Colbolta sees the Professor and walks up to him
"Well you seem to be a regal man almost knightly, don't worry about your bus,
it will be fixed.  We will be taking a
trip to the sky!" the castle then lifts off into the sky, leaving the
foundations shaking and revealing propellers under the castle. Ramon looks
out the window  showing aear of heights
" by bBuebeard's beard, it's a flying castle!" Professor Proteus then
responds "Leonardo DiVinci's secret notes!" Lady Colbolta then
answered ,"DiVinci's notes did find a way to make this castle
fly,......with  help from Einstein in
World War II, Issac Newton, and ancient technology from Roswell from the 6'60,
you and I were from the 7'70, The Title Azure has been passed down generation
to generation, I have helped overlook the perfection of the castle!"
Preston then asks "you must have brought us here for a reason, right, what
would it be?" Colbolta then answers "The knights were killed by an
unnatural force, you see in the 3rd century when the Oraculite was mined in
Poland, we did not realizedwhat we released,
creatures from outer space known as *the Mogulites,* Humans  in the dark ages believed them to be demons,
vampires, and phantoms, but my family knows the truth, over the years we've
fought them off, but they keep coming back and
you are here, if you agree and accept this challenge to make sure that
the world knows of their threat!", Professor Proteus then in agreement
reassures her "I think we all want to get to the bottom of it!"

Chp.3: The
Curse

That
night Lady Colbolta then gave them rooms there were only Six rooms within a
guest tower, Otis and Malcolm share the first room, Paul and Ramon shared the
second room, Professor and Preston shared the third room, Quinton and Truman
shared the fourth room, the fifth room was shared by Maxine and Crystal, and
leaving Fiona a room of her own. Later that night a mysterious creature enters
the hall and scratches the doors, Paul opens the door and shuts it again, he
walks down the hallway. The creature follows him, Paul then lights a cigerette
the creature is driven back by the smoke. The creature with his mental powers
brings out a stone from its bag and places it in Paul's pack that holds his
illegal drugs. The stone then turns the drugs into a firey Spectre that burns
his bag, then grabs Paul by the throat burning him as well, and throws his
burning corpse out of the window and causes him to plunge to the earth.

That morning when Ramon found out about
Paul's death he felt responsible, Maxine was freaking out when she was told the
news by Lady Cobolta's, Crystal then looks at the secrurity scanners and na
alien Mogulite was responsible. Truman couldn't believe that Paul was caryring
drugs, even Professor Proteus couldn't believe Paul ignored his warnings on drugs. Lady Colbolta then
cries " They killed again, I feel responsible for this, that's what killed
our knights, these aliens uss these
Stones to create abominations out of our personal effects, we must
destroy the specere and find the stones that gave it life!"

Ramon wanted
revenge on the Spectre and took Otis with him to help him hunt it down, both
were accompanied by the caretaker Orthos who has weapons from the armory that
can combat the Mogulites and their creations. They encounter the Spectre when
they were in the Wine cellar, Otis used a Light Spear on the Spectre, while
Ramon crushed the stone, which destroyed the drug made abomination. Meanwhile
Maxine and Fiona were exploring the Library reading old manuscripts from a
nunknown culture. Fiona  smirks "*Hog*
of Donwul *(giggles),* Enchanted Towers of Hungalore?*" Maxine*
then sighs "not like othe legends of our worldsuch as *King Arthur,* I miss
normal literature!" Fiona then speaks out "You and me both, what'srethis *Knights of Chilalry?"* The creature hidden was watching them,
Maxine was curious and opens the door to the tapaetries she then notices that
the tapaetries were all on the floor scrambled and tried to fix them. The
Mogulite then creeps up behind Maxine and
places one of it's remaining stones on her back. Then Dissppears as if
it was never there, while Fiona was still reading in the Library.

Chp. 4:
Beast Within

That night
Maxine went to take a shower, she took off her
sneakers, then removed her socks, then removes her  joggers, showing her bubble butt has a Black
Snake Tattoo on it. She then went inside the shower she rubs the soap on her
tanned body, and then shampoos her long black hai , she then feels a rush in
her body and then aches, she was becoming a wer-wolf with silver fur. She
howls scaring Fiona, Fiona rushes from her room and the Silver Wolf followed
her, Ramon comes out of his room at the sound of her screams. They see Orthos
the Caretaker use a Metallic Lasso made
of Brass and Oraculite on Silver Wolf, and it was taken to the dungeons by
Truman, Otis and Ramon then Orthos the Caretaker diapapears.  Malcolm then starts to get suspicious of
Caretaker Orthos's intensions, Professor Proteus then tells the students to
keep the suspicoans quite. Professor Proteus went to the Taeastries room and
found a secret door leading to the sleeping quarters of Lady Colbolta,  she was suspicious as well as to how the Mogulite
got into the castle.The nNext morning they check up on Maxine and could not find
her, in searching for her, they also searched the dungeon and found  Maxine was the wolf that chased Fiona. They
found out that she had died having not changed compleetly back to her human
form. Ramon then comse to the conclusion that Orthos the Caretaker killed her,
and he was right. Ramon confronted Orthos the Caretaker "It wasn't her
fault, you killed an innocent woman, just to hide the fact you failed to kill
that Mogulite", Lady Colbolta screams "Orthos my trusted Caretaker,
you murdered an innocent woman!". Orthos then angrier in na unnatural tone
as if the Mogulite possessed hi ,"I served this castle for years, the
Mogulite wants the Oraculite back from those thieves that took it in Polland,
your foolish father allowed this thievery to occur for his greed!"
Professor Proteus notices the stone on the neck of Orthos the Caretaker as he pins him down.

chp. 5:
Enchanted Dungeons

Orthos was
placed in the Dungeon. In the meantime Otis then looks up the curse in the
library and finds a book called *Secrets of Iron Fort* as he reads chapter
fourteen he finds that the Dungeon has an antidote for The Stones power, Otis
then relates his findings to the others and states "it's time for us to go
into the dungeons  lower part and find
the secret cure!" Professor Proteus then demands "Ramon and Quinton
will stand guard, while the rest of us go inside and investigate!" as they
search the dungeons, they see remains of prisoners of war, from WWI  and WWII who were also taken throughout the
ages. Crystal  runs her fingers eagerly
through her short red hair and wonders "Will we ever get out of this
alive?", Preston reassures her "We will!" Malcolm, proceeds
ahead and translates  a message on a Mooalith
like the one in the river chamber"*Dungeons of Iron Fort Castle contains*
many faults, but if you travel around the spiked walls, you may find
results!" *Fiona asks "what Spiked Walls!?" Malcolm answers*
"indeed, those ones in the left corner!" Otis shrinking in fear
"I'll check back with Ramon and Quinton!" Professor Proteus then
responds "alright, keep us i ntouch!" as Preston insists on going
first he followed the patteen and went around the walls, he was safe, Fiona
followed closely, Malcolm was next, Crystal followed by Truman, but Professor
Proteus was grabbed by the Mogulite, and both ram into the spiked wall,
Professor Proteus survived but the mysterious Mogulite did not. Upon examining
The Mogulite, they found it had features of a hardened amphibian, a mouth full
of steel tusks ,Fiona remarke:d" i'sa body is almost as fat as Otis's".
Otis returned from the enerance and agreed with Fiona, Otis then observes
"the Mogulites design is like a Crocodile/alien hybrid!" Malcolm spits
at the alien "all this just for some stones?" the creatur'es bag
splits and three last stones hit Professor Proteus, Preston, and Fiona.
Professor Proteus became like a Crystalized Golem, Preston became the new
Mogulite, who confesses it was him that had Paul and Maxine kille ,Fiona
became a Humanoid Cat based off a Leopard, Preston (the new Mogulite) leaves
the group while Crystal, Otis, and Truman have to handle their former comrades.

Ramon gets
anxious and leaves his post, Quinton stays at his post. Ramon jumps on Golem's
(Professors) back and lands him on the spiked wall causing him to shatter into
pieces, Otis then finds the vial of anitidote at the end of the dungeon. Otis
then retrieves the antidote ,and goes to
find Maxine's cell to test it on Maxine, but Fiona follows him. Truman and
Crystal escape back to the entrance. Otis places the cure on the fallen
SilverWolf and it brought it back to life, it then fights the Golden Leopard,
pinning it down giving her the cure. Quinton hugs his son and was horrified
when he was told by Truman, that Preston and Orthos the Caretaker were
possessed by the Mogulites to commit the crimes.

Chp. 6 Last
Resort

Truman, and
the others rushed towards Lady Colbolta's room, she was in tears when Professor
Proteus died as the Golem, but was glad Maxine was revived with Fiona, Lady
Colbolta then responde:d "Preston has become a monster, I should've known
that he and Orthos Caretaker were in on the plot to steal the Oraculite through
the Mogulites stone!" Quinton then appears "so it was Preston who
deflated my tires?" Quinton was
stabbed by Orthos the Caretaker. Orthos the Caretaker then reveale,d
"No  I killed the knights and
deflated your tires, I see you revived my second victim after I killed her, and
so much for saving that foolish professor!" Preston with a deep voice
"well sorry Truman about yoru father, but I couln'nt let you ruin our plans
to steal the Oraculite!" Maxine snarled "Your just a coward and a
traitor working with the Mogulites using possession as a cover?, Professor
Proteus trusted you, WE trusted you, because of you Paul died, Quinton
died!" Fiona hissed "So if that was just a Mogulite then who was
actually doing these this!" Prestons gurgled an answer "it was a
Mogulite Bounty Hunter, we've hired, Orthos Ex-Caretaker take them out!"

As Orthos
was going to kill the group, Ramon jumps in an battles Orthos. While Otis jumps
on Preston, Truman grabs the stolen Oraculite and plunges them down the River
opening. Preston jumps down to grab them only to fall to his utter and painful
death on the Cathedral of Notre Dame, revealing that they were flying over
France for the whole night. Back in Iron
Fort Castle, an enraged Orthos then decides to blow up the propellers that have
kept the Castle in balance for the entire time, Orthos then tries to kill Lady
Colbolta only to be pushed into an opening into the explosion of the
propellers.

Chp.7: A
Dire Situation

After the
defeat of Preston and Orthos, Lady Colbolta tries to get the prepellers working
again that they may return home. Lady
Colbolta and the others strain to fix the propeller. Lady Cobolta apologizes
"I'm sorry that I got you into this peril, I'm sorry about trusting
Orthos, I don't think we are going to make it", Ramon being a jock uses
all his strength to press the propeller to its original position, but needs
time to adapt with the change. Crystal then goes to the control room to help
with the maintenance with the help from Truman.

Ramon and
Otis then runs the propeller into overdrive, Malcolm who was lost during the crisis
finally turns up and understands the only way to reduce the mass is as he
states "we need to remove the dungeon, it's the only thing weighing us
down". Otis then answers "then le'ts do it, how?, Malcolm confused
"I don't know!". Maxine and Fiona realized that the only way to
remove the weight is to cut the bolts off and they do ueg old swords from the
dungeon entrance to do it. The Old dungeon lands in the Atlantic Ocean.

The load has
been lighten, the propeller can now be operated and they could return home
safely. The Police then apprehend the box that contains evidence of Orthos's
and Preston's plans for the Oraculite, the parents of Paul mourned their sons
d'eath. Truman mourned with his mother Evylin Rex over the death of his father
Quinton. Maxine's parents accept her new form, as does Fiona's. Malcolm at the
Orion University made a memorial for Professor Eustace Proteus in the Oraculite
stone, Ramon and Fiona develope a love relationship, and  Crystal and Truman fall in love as well. Otis
gets a job in Z.I.N.C. (Zephyr International Nature Control). Maxine now known
as Silver Wolf with her partner Golden Leopard/ Fiona both make a sdifference in
the whole world.

so ends one of the Chronicles of Sarcania, a secret kept
by Lady Colbolta, who records this story.