Chapter 6: Sky Over Diamondus, Part 2 v2.0



The five warriors pressed on through the rocky Diamondian terrain. It had been about

six hours since they left the crash site, and dusk was in it's final throes.

"Urgh, how long 'till we reach Birdland?" Calie asked. Grath then looked at a watch-like apparatus that gave a green glow.

"Let's see, six miles an hour, fifty miles, about nine hours."

"Agh!" Calie grumbled, but they all felt the need to grumble.

"Hm, it's already getting dark, why don't we set up camp, I'm sure we'll all feel better tomarrow." Blacksheep suggested, already unpacking.

"Good call." Kazooie replied, doing similairly. In no time at all they had a working camp, and a working fire, though I

don't know how you could have a fire that

doesn't work.*

"Sooooooo, what is this...uhm..." Kaz wondered, pondering at the writhing green slug thing on the end of his stick.

"Ground Worm, indeginous to Diamondus and Fanolint." Ducky, the resident Diamondus expert, awnsered.

"Oh...that's nice." Kaz cautiously poked the worm with another stick.

"It's high in protien and vitamins, and theres a wive's tale that if you soak the

brain in saltwater and drink it, you will

learn what the worm knew."

"*Gulp* Okay...and uh, why is it still

-alive-?"

"Well, if you cook it, all it juices evaporate and it turns into nothing but a crispy rock. If you kill it quickly, a enzym

(sp?) in it's blood causes it to explode in a ball of methane."

"It explodes into a giant fart...okay I think I just lost my appetite." Kaz retreated to the tent. Ducky pulled out two forks.

"Dig in!" She said zealously, chopping up the worm, leaving the others with blank stares.

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"And then the valiant warrior stood to the dragon and said, "Ura, kowu zul tek nosen!"

Which, in rabbit, means "My courage shines deeply and I will destory you!" Then there was the slashing and the bashing and crushing

and mashing and destruction, carnage..." Tanpopo's story drawled into the background.

"Okay, I assume you have a good story?" Grath questioned Kaz.

"Well, okay, so there was this guy, then he woke up,and created a sub space particle

emmiter, and jumped through a tank, and

made a pork, and went back to sleep!"

".................What?" Grath was genuinley confused.

"Bwaha! You should see the look on you're

face, haha!" Kaz chortled.

"................What? I'm still confused..." Grath's face twisted in perplexion.

"Grr, the story was a bunch of nonsensical gibberish to confuse you!" Kaz explained.

"................What? I still don't understand, it was too confusing."

"I understood it." BlackSheep said.

"You would." Kaz returned.

"Hey!" BlackSheep kicked Kaz into the leftoverworm parts.

"Ahhhh! Worm on my face! Worm on my face!"

"I remain victorious!" BlackSheep walked away, striding.

"Oh no you don't!" Kaz jumped up and tackled BlackSheep, his body covered in worm organs.

"I'm leaving..." Ducky pulled a book out of her pack and walked away.

"I'll go check on the radar." Calie suggested, and walked torward a strange, spinning device that served as a portable

radar.

"...And the jabbing and the kicking and the throwing and Glavin!" Tanpopo continued her discription of the battle.

"Lets see..." Calie pressed in a series of keys and a holographic radar image appeared.

"What the? Starship, on the Dark Side? It's approaching directly and fast, I have to

warn someone!" She returned to the camp...

"And the slapping and the wedgies and the slamming, and the..."

"Not her..."Calie decided.

"Ahh! Stop this, I've got worm feet in my hair!"

"Not them..."

"..........What? I really don't get it!"

"Arg! Don't you understand?"

"Definetly not them..." Then she saw the

dark figure of Ducky inside the tent.

"Ducky!" Calie broke off running.

Ducky sat in the tent, her eyes wide, reading a book clearly marked 'Scary Stories.' Calie came running in and shook her to get her attention

"AHHHHHH! Calie! Don't shake me like that, if you want my attention, just tap me on the shoulder.

"Okay, sorry." As Calie was walking away, she got a celver idea. A devilish idea. A devilishly clever idea.

Doning a grotesque monster mask, she walked up to Ducky and tapped her on her shoulder.

"Yes, wha-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Five minutes and lots of rope later:

"C'mon, please untie me, blood rushing to my head gives me a bad hair day!" Calie pleaded, totally tied up and dangling unside down from a branch.

"I'll untie you in the marrow, until then, g'night, mwahaha!" Ducky laughed and returned

to the camp.

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It was late into the night. The fire was embers, and the Diamondain moons hung

perilously large in the sky. Suddenly, from

the tent, came a series of muffled screams,

and Calie awoke just in time to witness a

dark figure scurry off with a squirming bag.

"Hey, you! Stop!" Calie swung around, to no avail.

"Grr, he got away, but don't worry my friends," She then mustered her best Dudley

Doright, "I'll save you...as soon as I get

down from here..."

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Duh duhh daa daaa!





*Kaz: Have you lit the fire?

Tanpopo: I'm trying...

Kaz:You did use a plasm lighter, right?

Tanpopo: I'm not a idiot.

Kaz:...well, did you put it close enough to the wood?

Tanpopo: Yes...

Kaz: Is the wood wet?

Tanpopo: No.

Kaz: Did you...put dried leaves near the wood?

Tanpop: Yes, but it still doesn't work!

Kaz: How can a fire not work!

(Ten minutes later)

Ducky: Hey Tanpopo, you got the fire ready?

Kaz: I'm doing it.

Ducky: Oh, why isn't ready?

Kaz: 'Cause the fire doesn't work!

(Ten more minutes later)

BlkSheep: Hey Tanpopo, why isn't the fire ready?

Tanpopo: IT'S NOT MY FAULT OK!

BlkSheep: Sheesh...

Ducky: I'm doing it, Black.

BlkSheep: Why isn't the fire ready, then?

Ducky: It doesn't work!*sob*

(Ten MORE minutes later)

BlkSheep: That log is cursed!

Okay, so maybe that was a pointless section merely for my bemusment, but hey...free laugh.



Darkness...

Chapter 7: Castle Alzarem



BlackSheep woke slowly, due to light streaming in through a strange window.

"Huh, wha? Where am I?" As her vision cleared, she found herself in a heavily decorated Victorian room. She tried to stand, but found that she was tied down to a bed.

"What the?" As if summoned, a strange orb-shaped robot with a single red eye hovered over her.

"Unit Specimen #103 Equals Condition Concious, Preparing Sedative..."

"What's going on?!" BlackSheep struggled, but the robot injected her wiht a bluish liquid.

"I'll get you, you stuppiiid..."

"Specimen Sedated."

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Tanpopo woke to the scent of tea.

"Huh? What's going on?" She was in a ornatley decorated room, similair to the

one BlackSheep found herself in.

"Wierd, the last thing I remember...was going to Nemmihs... where am I?" As she moved to get out of the bed she was lying on,

several manicals slivered off her ankles and

wrists just as she noticed them.

"Must be my eyes..." As she exited the room, she entered a long hallway, paved with a red rug. On each side of a door, (of which

there were many) there were busts of the likes of Shakespeare, Plato, Einstein, Newton, Dethman, et cetera. At one end of the hall was a window, from which a warm light cascaded. And from the other end was

a staircase, and the source of the scent of

tea. As she walked torward the smell, she

couldn't help but feel as though a presence

haunted her, dodging out of the way just when she turned around to look at it.

At the end of the hall, she found a large dining room, Victorian in design, with a

mahogony table in the center. Around it

was Ducky, Kazooie, and Grath, and another unknown rabbit, all drinking tea.

"Ah, the Empress, how good of you to join us." The unfamiliar told her.

"She says she saved us, that we were all badly injured and have been unconsious for three days." Grath said, his eyes like daggers on the unfamiliar rabbit.

"Please sit down, have some tea." The rabbit had yellow fur, and was probably in her mid to late fifties.

"She won't tell us who she is." Ducky said.

"Now, to tell you that would spoil all the fun." The yellow rabbit giggled.

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BlackSheep awoke again.

"Ugh...what's going on? Where is this place?" She reached for her blaster and found that it was gone.

"My Jello-Blaster!" She rummaged through the various chest and drawers in the absurdly

prestine room, and the best she came up with

was a old eighteenth century flint-lock gun.

"Who keeps a gun that's over a thousand years, old? Oh well, when in Zenshar." She fired at the wall, opening up a passage way.

"I'm not sticking around to find out what's here..." She creeped into the hole and then

painfully manevered through the crevices and

ducts throught the house.

"Once I get out of this mess, I'm going on a diet." Then it occured to her the last thing that she remembered.

She remembered embarking to Katalym with Calie, on a mission for the Senate.

"Calie, I wonder if she was captured too?" As she creeped deeper into the maze she found a strange, large cap. Picking up the

dish sized hunk of steel, she examined the

hunk of steel.

"Hmm, cap to a compressed fusion cell, vintage 2750, hmm, whats a antiquane house

like this doing with a fusion cell?"

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Calie spent most of the morning escaping from the branch, but she cut a deal with

a chipmunk to gnaw her loose.

"Yup, this is the place, all of there energy signatures are in that castle!" And

what a castle it was, atleast two acres in length, with towers and courtyards. As she got closer, she noticed something odd,

the grass in a concentric ring around the

castle was much older than the grass near it,

infact the change in the dead grass was to a fraction.

"I've heard of people not caring for there yards, but un-caring for it? That's strange..."

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Ducky looked out one of the few windows in the castle.

"What the...hey that's Calie! She's come to save us!" The yellow rabbit looked out the window.

"Oh dear Lord, don't!"

"What, afraid your door anti-opening device has been tharted, mwaha!" Kazooie chortled.

"Oh no!" The yellow rabbit opened the door

hastily, and ran out to Calie, the others coming with her.

"What's going on?" Grath asked. Then, just as Calie crossed the line where the grass

deteriorated, she fell smack down into the dirt.

"Calie!" The others shouted in unison and ran to her.

"Calie! What's up?!" Kazooie asked as she got within speaking distance of Calie. Calie raised her head to look at him. But it wasn't

the Calie they knew. Here eyes where dull, her hair scraggly and white, and her face craved with wrinkles.

"What's happened to me?" She asked...

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Duh duhh daaa! I'm sure most of you have solved a good percent of the mystery, but

for those who haven't, oh well...



thanks all , and Calie, you were stuck in a tree because you scared the heck out of

Ducky with that mask. As to the gragly stuff, it will be explained...now.

Chapter 8: Teross Nike Awakens*



"Quickly, get her inside the house, Grath, fetch me some salt water." The yellow rabbit commanded. They hauled the fainted Calie onto the couch in the main room and Grath quickly returned with the salt water.

"Excellent, use a sponge and knead her face and hands with it."

"Righto."

"What happened?" Ducky asked.

"In order for you to know that, I must tell you who I am." The yellow rabbit said solemnly.

"THEN WHO ARE YOU!?"

"My name is Kayle." Silence.

"W-what?" Ducky, Grath and Kazooie where in shock, the others didn't know who this Kayle was."

"Kayle? What happened to you?" Ducky asked.

"We all are in a dome of energy that accelerates time by a enormus ratio. It was created by the Zygot during the Terra War.**

However, Teross currently controls it."

"But...howcome that," Kazooie pointed to Calie,"Didn't happen to us?"

"Due to the frequency of the time disruptor, it's affects can be negated by

shavings of Sparif crystal."

"Wait, hold on, who are you?" Tanpopo asked.

"About twenty years ago, a terrible rabbit by the name of Zygot gained control of the holy clan Ontranaught, and sought a crystal called Sparif, which not only granted emmense power, but we now learn also gives extraodinary health and long life to anyone

in it's proximity. A mighty warrior named Aldan, trained by Dethman, captured Sparif

and defeated Zygot, but he only returned a month later. Using a dimensional vortex created by the spirit that inhabited the Sparif, he gained a army of Terrans, which,

too, where defeated by Aldan's army. I was alongside Aldan throught all of this."

Kayle explained.

"But if this place is controled by Zygot..." Grath lead off.

"See this?" Kayle pointed to a absurd object attached to her temple."

"I am under Teross' control, if I disobey him, I am killed by this."

"But...why does Teross need a time field?" Ducky asked.

"Kallis, the warrior from the other world, is indeed stronger than Teross, so before

Kallis passed through the mini-vortex created by Aldan, Teross got a sample of his cells, combined them with his own to grow

a super-psyhic, capable of defeating Kallis. The only drawback is that it would take fifty years to grow the beast, so..."

"So he used something that would speed up time for him, he's evil, but he's also clever." Kazooie pondered.

"But wait a second, that means this thing must almost be complete!" Ducky concluded.

"I should know, as caretaker of this place, that the cells of Kallis and Teross aren't exactly compatable, most of the fetal creatures died, some made it to larger sized, but all are dead, we only have one

subject remaining. I'm afraid that, once it completes soon, this one may be healthy enough to extend it's psyhic powers and become

the terrible thing Teross invisoned."

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BlackSheep walked up to a large metal door.

"Ha! Jackpot! This should explain things.

She pushed to open the door, but it did not buge.

"Gah! This thing is huge!" She tried again, and this time it finally opened enough for

her to get inside.

"Brr! This whole room is freezing!" She looked around and saw a series of fusion cells.

"I feel like I just followed the human down the elevator*." Turning to the right, she noticed a large terminal with three large cylindars underneath.

"Kallis Cells. Teross Cells. Frozen Embryos." She read the lables on the cylindars. Then she looked up at the terminal.

"Combining production halted, improper amounts of bio-matter, Frozen embryos will

deteriorate in minus 32 days. Total: 136 failures." This begged more questions than it awnsered.

"What is this? A cloning lab?" She walked deeper down the corridor, and to her right

found a room marked 'Inhabitation Area.' This door opened much more easily, infact

it was automatic. What she saw in there both horrified and intrigued.

Littered across the floor where bodies of insect like creatures, all aparently dead.

"A hundred and thirty six failures." Now that made sense.

"Kuuur." She heard a low, strange purr from a large metal box directly beside her.

Turning quickly, she saw a very small version of one of thease beings, it's limbs

thing and wet, it's step unsure. It had two,

large(for it's total size) hind legs, and a fat, medium length tail. It's arms where short and thin, with long, surgeon like fingers, with a thick, long neck, it's

slightly translucent eyes were closed, and it had a jagged mouth.

"Kuuur." It purred again.

"Oh no." She thought and picked up the fragile thing, petting it lightly on it's head. Why, the creature fit in her hand.

"Kraow." The insect had the mannerisms of a kitten, and let out something similair to a 'meow.'

"It's so small." Blacksheep smiled, "Maybe I'll take you home with me..." The creature

reached out to her with it's tiny forearms, obviously sensing by sound since it's eyes

were closed tightly. It's fingers suddenly collapsed, and it abruptly fell over.

"W-what?!"

"One Hundred And Thirty Seven Failures." The computer called.

"It...it's dead." A single tear slid down her face, then froze due to the temperature.

She gently lay the insect in a curled up position on the metal box.

"...life isn't something to experiment with." Disrupting her prayer, a loud crash

could be heard from the room across her.

"Growth room?" She cautiously left the first room and went to the other across the

hall. There where several clear cylinders, but most of them where shattered, and the ground was moist.

But one of the remaining tubes was cracked, and from it fell a stream of a blue-green liquid with golden specks swimming around in it.

Then came the crash again, and she could see a brownish fist crash into the dent in the tube.

"What in the world?" Then the crash came again, louder than ever, and the threshold of

glass shattered, and out stepped a much larger version of the being that just died.

All along it's body where tubes. And this creature did not seem happy. BlackSheep

fumbled about with the flintlock gun she had stolen and fired it at the creature, but the

bullet hole, mearly healed a moment later.

"KKKKRAAAAAAOOOOOOOWWWW!" The creature screamed and ripped the tubes off it's body.

"One Hundred and Thirty Seven Failures, One Sucess." The computer spoke.

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"Teross designated me caretaker of this place, we have never had a sucess."

"What are thease things called, anyway?" Kazooie asked.

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"I AM..." The creature screamed.

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"Teross Nike."

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"AND I WILL LAY WASTE TO THIS UNIVERSE!" The creature flew straight at BlackSheep, kicking her into unconciousness.



Well, the reason it took so many tries is because they were trying to fuse the cells

of two seperate beings, not simply incubate one. Kayle isn't a servant of Zygot, she's under the power of Teross, Zygot is dead,

remember?

And Nike Teross thingy isn't a cat, it's a bug-like thing, but you already

know that, right? Anywho...

Chapter 8: Nike Teross Awakens, Part 2



"What was that?" Kazooie asked, after hearing a loud crash.

"Oh no, that's Nike Teross...it survived!" Kayle got up and pointed down a dark corridor right of the intial hall.

"Go down that hall and use the elevator to get to level B5, the Growth Area is there, I'll be no good in a fight, so I'll stay

with Calie." With a silent nod Ducky, Kazooie, Grath and Tanpopo ran down the hall.

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Aldan, hero of the battle at Skops, sat on a regal platform hovering precariously over

the gardens of his clans estate, the New Cathrine clan.

"My, my, I have been in many a clan, first Ontranaught, then Cathrine, then New Ontranaught, now New Cathrine, the pattern

dictates I'll be going somewhere new soon enough." He walked to the edge of the platform.

"Erecu, what's the status of our force?" Aldan spoke into a comm. placed on his wrist.

"We have ten thousand troops and fivethousand ships positoned on and around Carrotous, three thousand ships in orbit,

seven mineral bases on Matak and a airbase housing ten thousand ships on Muar. On Tubereic we have one thousand ships and five thousand troops, on Medivo we have fiveteen thousand ships and ten thousand troops, on

Diamondus we have five thousand ships and one thousand troops, is there anything else

you need, my Kiryie??"

"Yes, prepare my shuttle to leave for Medivo, I want to depart in three hours."

"Yes, my Kiryie."

"Oh, and Erecu?"

"Yes, my Kiryie?"

"What is of the status of our...acquiring, of clan New Ontranaught?"

"Process nearly complete, my Kiryie, many of our forces are in there bases and Eo2 treatments nearly complete."

"Excellent."

Aldan turned and sat in the lofty, floating throne.

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Okay, so it's a short update...