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Posted September 15th, 2009 08:01 PM IP

Welcome, one and all. In case you had forgotten, I'm Wanopio. I'm back, and I got something to show all of you: it's the prologue to my latest and greatest story, Endobia. It's about a boy who's half human, half snake-like creature who wants to see the world, however, the very world he wishes to see is in grave danger... but I'm not that far in the story yet. No, all I have so far is this prologue where he begins his journey. Read on and let me know what you think.

Prologue - The Copperhead Scouts Academy
Scene 1/8
It was a bright and sunny day. The sun was shining down through the leaves, casting a yellowish-greenish glow on the forest below them. Five 13-year-old boys were marching through these woods, each with nightsticks at their sides, apparently on the lookout for someone or something.

The five young men in question were named Jimmy, Kyle, Spike, Seth, and Eddy. All five of them were wearing the same thing: combat boots, dark blue shorts, a short-sleeved dress shirt of a lighter blue, a sash with a number of badges sewn onto it, and a black scarf. Other than that, all the members of the quintet looked pretty different. Jimmy had a hunch, long brown hair, and a ski hat drawn over his eyes (how he could still see was anyone's guess). Kyle had pointy ears and very short, orange-ish hair, but he hid it beneath a baseball cap he wore sideways. Spike's hair was short and mahogany, and he kept it parted on one side. And Seth had long, wily, fluffy, pale blonde hair and a pair of sunglasses with oval-shaped lenses.

Eddy was the most different of the five, for while the others had five-fingered hands and five-toed feet, Eddy's fingers and toes only came in sets of three, which made him look kind of like a lizard. Also, the skin between his wrists and his elbows as well as between his ankles and his knees was scaly, not to mention striped black and green. All that, and his skin was pale, his nails were black, the circles beneath his grey eyes were black, and his long, greasy hair was black (he wore it in a ponytail). In other news, the boy also had a gap in his teeth and a forked tongue behind those black lips. Undoubtedly, the kid looked more like a snake than a human being. However, he and the other four had much scarier things to deal with...

"Maaan," said Kyle, who was more or less Jimmy's right-hand man. "I don't wanna do this. Why can't we just spend our Friday afternoon in bed, sleeping the day away? That'd be fun. You know it would."

"Because, Kyle, it's the annual 'Blas Heart Hunt Festival', and we're a part of it!!" Jimmy explained. He was easily the loudest and most authoritative member of the group. "You should be proud!!"

"I hope we'll be able to land a bigger catch than we did LAST year," Seth commented.

"Look! There it is!!" Spike blurted and pointed. Indeed, coming out of the cave a ways ahead of the crew was in fact what they had been looking for: a creature like a humongous ape with green fur and the goatee, ears, and horns of a goat. This creature was a Blasmonkey, and it was snarling and aching for a fight!

"Alright, monkey-man," Jimmy taunted. "Let's dance!!"

And just like that, the five boys brandished their nightsticks and began their beat-down on the Blasmonkey. They circled the monster, confusing it and allowing more openings for their attacks. When the beast had its head turned to the left for one second, BAM!! The wave began. Jimmy started it by slamming his club into the thing's right shoulder. Kyle followed this up by striking it in its right shin. Seth and Eddy kicked it in the butt, and Spike latched onto its left arm by biting into it like a dog. The abomination howled in pain for more than one reason and commenced trying to shake Spike off. WHAM!! He did it. Spike was flung off. He flew through the air, hit a tree, and fell to the ground. Now the kids were mad.

Jimmy ran up from behind the beast and whacked it on the back of its head. The thing toppled forward, and Seth and Eddy finished the job by striking it in the legs from up front. Kyle jumped out of the way before it could land on him. Then the four boys started beating it with their nightsticks as though they were trying to make Blasmonkey jelly out of it. Once the behemoth was black and blue enough, Spike ran up to the quartet and joined them on their finishing touches to the job.

"Esper powers, guys!!" Jimmy called out. The other four nodded and held out their hands, aiming at the beast below them. Then magically, five different things started shooting out of the palms of their hands and assailing the monster. From Jimmy to Eddy, they magically attacked this monstrosity with beams of water, ice, fire, sound waves, and green, sticky slime. BWWEEEEEEMM!!! Once the assault was over, all that was left of the enemy was an oversized blob of goo with parts that were either burnt, frozen, or just shattered to pieces. It was quite the work of art.

"YEAHHH!!!" the five boys cheered. "Now it's time to cut out its heart!!" Jimmy crowed as he flipped open his razor sharp Swiss army knife. In response, Kyle gave another, "YEAHHH!!!" and the two got started on cutting out the thing's vital organ. Spike, Seth, and Eddy just stood back and watched.

"Another day, another monster, eh, Eddy?" Seth began.

Eddy scoffed. "More like another day of mundane redundancy."

"Come on. You gotta admit taking that Blasmonkey down was pretty fun."

"Well, maybe a little. But seriously, at this rate, I could do this sort of thing in my sleep, or even completely wasted.

"HA!! Care to put a wager on that?" Spike laughed.

"No. You can just take my word for it and leave it at that."

"WE GOT IT!!!" Jimmy screeched as he and Kyle held up the disembodied, bloody organ. Now their mission was officially complete.

"Alright. Now let's head back and give it to Officer N," Seth stated. Jimmy, Kyle, and Spike agreed. Soon, the four boys had turned around and begun to hike their ways out of this cursed forest. Eddy wasn't coming yet. He stayed behind and looked at the corpse of the Blasmonkey they had just made.

"Lucky," he said. And he, too, began walking out of the woods...

Scene 2/8
"Good job, boys. Now, GET BACK TO WORK!!!..."

As expected, the middle-aged cop with the pink skin, the pointy ears, the wrinkly face, the short, dark grey hair, the blue eye in his right socket, and the red in the left didn't seem too impressed with the work of Eddy and his friends. Like all the other kids in this class, they were only to deposit the heart in the ice box on his desk, sit down, and start sewing some wallets.

How ungrateful that Mr. NcShkanksi was, Eddy thought to himself as he picked up a needle and a piece of fabric. He thought about all the things the teachers would always make them do here at this academy and how pointless they all seemed to be in the long run. Sure, the boy was getting straight A's and none of the instructors were out to kill him, but the repetitiveness of this place was starting to drive him crazy.

"At least I still had my book. Whenever I'd think about how much I despised this so-called Copperhead Scouts Academy, I'd just think about the book and all the wonderful things I learned from it: that life is just a game. That we're all just chess pieces who are neither black nor white. And that it's only when we die when we find out whether or not we won.

"Like all the other orphans here, I had been stuck here since I was about seven years old. Why? Because in this country, Galilei, this is where all orphans age seven are to be shipped off to, no questions asked. The place is built inside of a volcano on a very small, circular island. From there, we are raised and trained by cops so that we ourselves can become cops like them in the future. I guess being forced to work for the law is the price you pay for having no parents. < Sigh... >

"They taught us everything, from the many uses of the Swiss army knife, to the geography and history of Galilei. They even made us go through all kinds of harsh regimes where we run through obstacle courses and work out until our limbs fall off. If it'd make us smarter, they'd do it. If it'd make us stronger, they'd do it. We were pieces of putty, and they were the artists.

"Age twelve is when the training starts to get REALLY scary. From that point on, we are now 'Mid-Level Scouts' and have to learn how to venture into dangerous places and take down monsters. In all honesty, it wasn't TOO bad, and I say that because I'm still haunted by that fateful day when it all began. When me and my friends became... ESPERS..."

Eddy was twelve years old again. It was a dark September evening when the kids were to enter their new bedroom of the year in a single file line. Before entering, each one had to stick his hand into a tank of these strange-looking white snakes. They all looked like cobras with rattlers at the ends of their tales. On the backs of their pads were these strange symbols, and the rest of their bodies were striped bright, pretty colors (like red, green, and purple).

These magical snakes were called Esps. Disturbingly enough, all of the students were to be bitten by them. Then they were to pass out on their beds from the Espoison and sleep it off... or so they were told.

When it was Eddy's turn, he had just watched Jimmy, Kyle, Spike, and Seth get bitten before him. There was a typically dressed cop standing beside the tank, looking intimidating and whatnot. He was wearing the same black shoes, black trench coat, black gloves, badge, and hat that all the cops did, including Officer NcShkanski (the badge looked like a star within a circle). Eddy looked up at him helplessly. "Do I," he stammered. "Do I... have to?"

"Yes, kid, now stick your right hand in there and get it over with. You're holding up the line!!"

Eddy gulped. He reached a trembling right hand into the pit. His eyes fell on an Esp with teal stripes that was starting to get dangerously close. Cold sweat was sliding down the boy's face. The snake opened its mouth and SHICK!! The wicked thing struck and landed two long fangs into the back of the kid's hand. Eddy yelped in pain. Then the Esp pulled its teeth out, hissed, rattled, and returned to the pit.

"Alright, now go to sleep, you little runt!!" the guard ordered. Sleep, Eddy did. Except it wasn't an ordinary sleep. No, instead, it was a very deep sleep in which not even the loudest noise or the most powerful earthquake could awake him. It was a sleep in which he didn't move or breathe. He didn't even twitch. In fact, the boy remained in the exact same position for three days straight. For three days straight, he was dead... and so were a few dozen other kids...

"By the time we woke up, we were good as new. We didn't even have any holes from where the snakes bit us. However, we DO now have marks where those holes would be, and they look just like the symbols on the Esps. Whenever we start to use our abilities too much in one day, the marks start to burn, almost as though the Espoison had returned. Also, if we were to get bitten a second time, we'd die again, but this time, we wouldn't come back.

"I've never died permanently before, but I did die once. Why? Because the country mandated it. The country mandated my death. However, they also mandated my resurrection... which is weird..."

Scene 3/8
"And what was it like on the other side?" Officer Eternivus asked. Eternivus wore a leather jacket. He also had long white hair and a pair of stylin' sunglasses, way cooler than the ones Seth had. He and Eddy were in their office sometime after the Esp incident.

"Well," Eddy started, "I couldn't move. I just lied there and couldn't really feel anything, hear anything, see anything... You name it. I may as well have just spent three days in a dark hole with no food or water. And yet... it didn't hurt."

"Yeah, that's what it was like for me," Eternivus commented.

Eddy's eyes went wide. "You're an Esper, too??" he asked.

"Oh yeah. Check it out." Eternivus held out his left hand as though he were holding an invisible snow globe. Then SHING!! A hologram made out of a shiny, golden light materialized above his hand. Eddy looked at it in amazement. It was shaped like a star within a circle.

"It's Galilei!" Eddy pointed out.

"Actually, it's..." His eyes fluttered at the badge on his chest. Then he rolled them. "Never mind." Shoof! He made the hologram disappear. "So, Eddy, have you found an answer to the question yet?"

"'Why would they make it illegal for a book like this to exist?'?" Eddy repeated.

"Yup. That's the one."

Eddy scratched the back of his head. "Actually, I'm still working on it. I keep wondering why when I lie awake at night, but then my mind starts getting filled up with all these what-if questions, and I get all confused."

Eternivus shrugged. "Don't you have a hunch, or something?"

"Well," Eddy started, "there is one possibility my mind keeps coming back to: that not everyone tells the truth. That adults lie. That some of the rules really don't make sense and ought to be broken."

"Is that your answer?" Eternivus asked.

"Uhhh... No. I think I'll think about it some more."

"Think away. But do tell me once you've figured out an answer."

"I will, Mr. E..."

"So far, I've read the book only once. Eternivus gave it to me when I first came to this godforsaken place, and was a very bitter, angry child to say the least. He gave it to me 'cause he said he read it once, and it changed his life. Therefore, there was the chance it was going to change mine, too, which I guess it did. For one, I don't like picking fights with random people anymore. Now I'm a good little boy who always does as the adults tell him... but for the record, I always remained just a little bit cautious...

"Eternivus also once told me that the funny thing about books is that, the second time you read them, you tend to notice things about it you're surprised you hadn't before. It's almost like reading a whole new book entirely. That was why I was reading it again. It taught me so much. What could it teach me now that life was starting to change drastically?..."

Scene 4/8
Later that day, after the students were finally done sewing all those wallets, lunchtime came. At this point in time, if the kids weren't eating, they were tossing the old pigskin around, or goofing off in general. In Eddy's case, this meant sitting underneath a tree on top of a hill somewhere outside. This had always been the perfect place for him to read his book. From a distance, he looked so innocent, and no one would suspect the book he was reading was a banned one. Right now, Eddy was on the sixteenth chapter. This was the passage he was reading:

"And then I looked up, and what did I see? I saw a strange, foreign object shaped very much like a saucer flying around in the sky. I had no idea what it was, but something told me people had been inside it. They saw me, and they saw me see them. Whatever that unidentified object was, surely it and its people had come from someplace far, far away..."

"Afternoon, Eddy Constrictor. And what's THAT you're reading?" Eddy jolted and looked up. Much to his surprise, for the first time, someone had actually approached him while he was on this hill. It was none other than Officer NcShkanski, and he didn't look very happy (then again, he never did).

"Uhhh," the boy replied unwittingly. He was slowly trying to fold the book up and put it away as though it were nothing, but the cop snatched it out of his hands in the nick of time. "Hey!!"

The cop looked at the cover and he seemed to turn just as pale as Eddy. "Where did you get this?!" he demanded.

"Uhhh..."

"It doesn't matter." The cop then stowed the book away in his pockets in spite of Eddy's protests. "I'll have the book burned by tomorrow morning. And Eddy, you would do well to forget you ever read this."

"But- But-"

"FORGET IT!!" the policeman bellowed. Then he turned around and walked away. Eddy stood, frozen in a position where his hand was reaching out longingly. Then his fingers curled back into his hand and he slumped to the ground in defeat.

"'Burned by tomorrow morning'?!" he lamented. "AAAUUURRRGGHH!!!..."

Scene 5/8
That night, all the 13-year-old boys were in their bedroom, getting ready for some shut-eye. Jimmy, Kyle, and Spike were already beneath the covers, but Eddy and Seth were staring out the window together. The sky was turning purple and the three moons were fading into view. "So you're leaving, eh?" Seth summarized.

"Yes," Eddy clarified. "I'm tired of this place, Seth. I'm tired of being treated like a piece of putty. I'm tired of all the rules and all the crap we gotta put up with here. If I don't get out of here and back into the real world, I'll go crazy."

"Well," Seth said as he stared distantly out the window, "it's your life, I guess..."

"Hey, if you wanna come with me, be my guest!"

Seth shook his head. "No, Eddy, I'm NOT sick of this place. In fact, I kind of like it. It's like a home to me. Heck, it IS my home. I'd never be able to leave it... not yet, anyway. Not at least until I find out what makes being a 'High-Level Scout' so great."

"I see. I'm on my own then..."

"Well," Seth interjected, "not entirely..." The plumy-haired boy reached underneath his bed, pulled something out, and handed it to his friend. It looked like a little black leather purse.

"What is it?"

"It's a magic bag," Seth explained. "It can hold TONS of stuff, and yet, it'll never get any bigger. Also, it'll keep your book from getting wet."

Eddy smiled and gave the bespectacled boy a good slap on the shoulder. "You're a good man, Seth."

"Hey, you just make sure you get out of here alive, find a nice girl, and say hi to her for me, alright?"

"You got it..."

Scene 6/8
Now everyone was asleep. All living creatures were motionless throughout the Copperhead Scouts Academy. All the cadets and all the cops were fast asleep. Only one person was up, and that was the kid dressed in an all black outfit stepping out of Mr. N's office, and stuffing a book into his magic bag. Then suddenly, a flashlight was shining on him, revealing him to be Eddy Constrictor! "And what do you think YOU'RE doing out this late, snake boy?" the guard asked.

Eddy flipped. Without saying a word, he ran past the guard and made a break for it. He rounded corners, skidded across stone floors, and ran full-tilt down hallways. Anything to find the front door, burst out of it, and get into the woods. After a good few more dizzying maneuvers, Eddy finally found it!! Unfortunately, standing in his way were the reinforcements: a whole slew of cops waiting to give Eddy the beating of his life. Now he knew he had no choice. He pulled his nightstick out of his magic bag and leapt into the fray.

Eddy blocked the swing of a nightstick coming for his head. He kicked one cop in the chest, and then another. He bashed one's skull in, then fell to the floor, rolled, and came up whacking another cop in the kneecap. He turned around and faced all the other cops that were trying to charge towards him. The boy put his weapon away and held out his right palm. "Not today, fellas," he said coldly, and SHA-BBLLOOOORRPP!! All twelve of them fell to the ground, completely and hopelessly covered in warm, sticky slime. Eddy smiled at his handiwork. Now no one was on his tail.

"So you think you can just leave, do you?!" Eddy's head cocked in the direction of the voice. Lo and behold, the red Officer N had come! "You think you can just waltz into my office, grab what isn't yours, then defeat your superiors and take off?! How low are you willing to sink, Eddy Constrictor?!"

"As low as it takes to get me far away from you guys," Eddy replied. N growled and fired a gun. Eddy jumped to the side to dodge the projectile: a net. Then the policeman started firing ninja stars at the boy, but Eddy ran and dodged all of them expertly. Then he jumped up and readied his nightstick, seconds away from smashing his skull to pieces.

WHACK!! The officer blocked the attack with a nightstick of his own. Eddy landed on the ground and the two tried to out-push each other with their clubs. "You'll never escape, Eddy Constrictor," N snarled. "And you'll never get to see your book again either!!"

"YESSS..." Eddy shoved the police officer off of him reared his weapon way back. "III..." He swung with all his might as he shouted the last word. "WIIILLL!!!" WHAM!! Eddy's club connected with the man's side like a grenade and sent him flying. BAM!! His head hit a wall far away and left a dent. Then he slumped to the ground, too hurt to go on.

"It's not over yet," he rasped, pushing a button on a device on his wrist before blacking out. BREEP!! BREEP!! BREEP!! The alarm was sounding. Now Eddy knew there was only one option he could take: run for it and don't look back.

Which he did. As soon as those sirens started wailing, he instantly turned tail and fled. He burst through those doors, ran across the field, then entered the woods. Now he was gone and there was little the cops back at the academy could do about it.

Inside, more reinforcements had arrived to help take care of the misbehaving Eddy, but they had been just a second too late. One of the many that showed up was the chief himself. He was a stocky man with innumerable badges on his uniform, a poofy, scraggly white beard, and red eyes. He approached the downed Officer N and gave him a kick. N grunted, and in seconds, was back on his feet, saluting his superior. "Would you mind telling me what happened here, NcShkanski?" the chief said in his deep, intimidating voice. N told him everything, including the part where he got his butt kicked, but he also offered to devote the rest of his life to tracking down the evil Eddy Constrictor as penance. But the chief said, "No. Let him go. If the Blasmonkeys won't kill him, the sea will..."

As it turned out, the Blasmonkeys really were out for Eddy's blood. He was just a few yards into the place, and suddenly he was surrounded. The hulking demons came out of nowhere, growling at him, and eying him like a new victim. "No way," the kid breathed to himself. "Forget this..." And he ran towards the nearest tree, jumped onto it, kicked himself off, and started swinging from the trees to get away from the mob of Blasmonkeys. As soon as he was far enough away, he dropped to the ground and continued his escape on foot, but the Blasmonkeys were now chasing after him. This was NOT going to be easy.

Eddy ran. He ran, and ran, and ran. He jumped over rocks, ducked beneath branches, slid down crevices, and swung from trees. It was the most extensive workout the boy had ever undergone. He felt as though anything he had ever gone through at the academy was nothing compared to this. All he had to do was never stop moving, constantly ignore the pain in his legs and his hands, and never lose sight of the goal: freedom...

Ten or twenty minutes later, Eddy was finally out of the woods and onto the beach. His boots skipped across the gritty sand, then the shallow tide. Then Eddy dove right in and started swimming like his life depended on it. He knew where he was going. It was that island in the distance; that big one shaped like a giant star...

Real world, Eddy thought to himself, I'm coming!!!...

Scene 7/8
Everything was quiet back in the bedroom. The only thing that could be heard were the sounds of all the little students breathing and snoring. However, Spike was wide awake. Spike had overheard the conversation between Seth and Eddy. Now he couldn't sleep. Was Eddy really leaving the academy for good? What for? Was the place really that bad to him? And why did no one stop him? Why didn't HE stop him? Why didn't he ask to go with? And what was life going to be like now that he was gone?

The young Spike pondered these things over and over again for hours on end. He knew he'd wake up the next day completely sleep deprived, but he was just too anxious. Then...

He heard it. Actually, EVERYONE heard it. It sounded like someone screaming... in joy. It sounded like he was yelling something about being free, free at last. One by one, the students were starting to wake up, talking about what that noise was. Spike knew what it was, and so did Seth. Seth smiled and Spike closed his eyes; what they were hearing was none other than Eddy's victory screech. At last, he got his wish...

Scene 8/8
"I reached that island. I must have been seven years old the last time I was here. It felt great. I couldn't help but start screaming about it. I knew that life was going to be good for me from that point on. I knew that I would never again make a decision that I regretted.

"But I still had so many questions. Who were my parents? Which of them was the snake? Where were they now? And how would I be able to get there? Not to mention, there was a ton more questions I got just from reading the book. Like, what's an Evil Eye? What's a Triclopse? And who or what is the ABYSZAR??!

"I had no idea what the answers to any of these questions were. I figured the least I could have done was find a good tree to sit under and continue reading..."

(Edited by Wanopio)

For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
All you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be

Stories by me
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EndObiA - My latest and greatest project.

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Posted September 16th, 2009 05:56 PM IP

Holy crap Batman (not the most Robin thing to say but...)! Wanopio's back!

Welcome back old friend (if I may address you as such). I'm glad to see you haven't dropped off the face of the Earth as I thought you have.

Unfortunately, I don't have time to read anything right this instant but I'll devote a little time in the coming days to do so. I'll probably only read one scene at a time but I'll be sure to leave a comment after each session.

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Posted September 17th, 2009 01:27 PM IP

Thank you for the welcoming back, NB my friend. It's great to be back. I'm sorry I keep disappearing and reappearing like this, but I have been busy (sort of).

Anyway, I appreciate your willingness to read the prologue and commentate. Getting feedback is always good.

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Posted September 20th, 2009 10:49 PM IP

I know the majority of you probably aren't even done with the prologue yet, but here's another chapter anyway. Enjoy!

Chapter 1 - Three Years Later
Scene 1/5
Another day had come, and again, the weather was beautiful. The sun was shining high in the sky, the birds were chirping, the squirrels clicking, and the frogs, croaking. One other noise that was sounding through this forest was that of wheels on a dirt road, as well as some very heavy footsteps. It was a cart being pulled by two gigantic creatures like overgrown, woolly guinea pigs with tusks and gargoyle wings. These were Garguinea Pigs, and the two people in the cart were both Elves, like Kyle. One was a grown man with long, wavy black hair and a small mustache. The other was a small girl with long purple hair. She seemed to be very happy.

"She was the most amazing person I ever met, daddy!" she explained. "She was so smart, so nice, and she could do magic!"

"She was a swindler, dear," the father chided. "You don't need a crystal ball to be able to tell you'll grow up to be a beautiful young woman with a wonderful head on her shoulders."

"But, daddy, she did it with a crystal ball! You can't beat that!"

"You can do it with nothing at all. That's even more amazing."

"No, that's boring!!"

"Someday, you'll understand Tessa."

"You always say that."

Suddenly, five men jumped down from the trees, surrounding the cart and the Garguinea Pigs. The group came to a screeching halt. They could go no further.

The five men were all dressed in red hoods and armed with machetes. Their leader, the bandit with the beaky nose and the thick mustache, said to the family, "Give us all your money, or else."

"Yeah, or else!!" the other bandits chimed.

Tessa was scared now. She started clinging to her father for dear life. He held her hand and said to the bandits, "And if I give you my money, will you leave in peace?"

"Sure, pops, whatever you want," one of the bandits said insincerely. The others snickered. A bead of sweat formed on the father's face as he reached for his wallet.

"NOT SO FAST!!!"

All nine of the people and the guinea pigs looked up. There, in the branches with the sun shining behind it was the silhouette of a 16-year-old boy with a ponytail. He seemed to be carrying something on his shoulder.

"Old man, don't even think of giving these guys a single halo," the boy said. "I'LL take care of 'em..."

"Oh, yeah?! You and what army?!" yelled one of the louder, more obnoxious bandits.

The teenager scoffed and jumped down from the branches just as the bandits had done and WHAM!! The bandit who had just spoken now had a broken nose bleeding badly. He made some choking sounds, then fell backwards.

The boy landed and struck a pose with his nightstick. He was wearing a black jacket with the Rod of Asclepius on the back, a dark grey t-shirt, blue jean shorts, and two gold chains around his neck. He was also wearing sandals so his three-toed feet were in plain view.

"I don't need an army," he remarked arrogantly.

"GET HIM!!" the leader shrieked, and all three of the other bandits were running from their positions just to home in on the snake boy, but he was ready. They were about to start swinging their machetes, but their opponent was too fast for them. He ducked and rolled out of the way in the nick of time, then fired some slime at their feet. The bandits slipped on the gunk and fell to the ground in a pile. One of them even accidentally got his blade stuck in his arm in the process.

Through all this, the father and his daughter were just watching in awe and a little fear. Who was this boy that had come out of nowhere to save them? And how in the world was he able to deal with three goons so quickly?

Now only one bandit was left. The snake boy eyed him and beckoned him with a quick jerk of his head. The head bandit scowled, growled, and came bolting towards the young Esper with his machete in hand. CHING!! The two weapons clashed. The snake blocked the blade with his nightstick and threw the man off him. The head tried coming at the boy again with his weapon, but the snake was charging at him, too. When the two were close enough, the boy suddenly dropped, swung one leg out, and knocked him off his feet. The leader landed on his back. He was about to pick himself up when OOMPH! The teenager placed his foot on his chest, keeping him pinned.

"Are you sorry you did this?" the boy asked, pointing his nightstick at the man's face.

The bandit didn't say anything. He just glared contemptuously into the boy's grey eyes as his face began to shake and turn red. Finally, "MEN!!" he screamed. "Retreat!! We're in over our heads!!" With that and much difficulty, the three underlings that were beaten earlier forced themselves back onto their feet. They grabbed the first comrade that was taken down and commenced running off into the woods. After that, the boy lifted his foot from the bandit's chest. He got up off the ground, breathing through his teeth. "Don't think I'll forget this, kid!!" he threatened and pointed. "The next time I see you, you're DEAD!!"

"Heh," the kid scoffed. Then the bandit turned around and ran off as well. The hero watched him go in satisfaction. Then he was suddenly attacked. He looked down and noticed small arms were now wrapped around him. Tessa was giving him a hug.

"I was wrong about that Madame Shleo," she said. "YOU'RE the most amazing person I've ever met!"

"You saved our lives," said the father as he approached the boy and his daughter. "I am Christopher Hyrg, and this is my daughter, Tessa." Tessa pulled away from her savior and beamed at him. Christopher held out his hand. "How can we ever repay you, Mister..."

"Eddy," the boy replied as he took Christopher's hand and shook it. "Eddy Constrictor..."

Scene 2/5
"Well, it sure was nice of that guy to give me a sandwich," Eddy said to himself as he walked along the dirt road the other way, munching on a BLT. "I haven't eaten anything all day. I was starting to think I was gonna have to hunt something... not that I'd be incapable of doing such a thing..."

By the time he was finished with the sandwich, he had reached that stretch of the woods he had been looking for. "Alright, lunchtime's over," he said. "Now back to the mushroom-picking..." The boy ventured into the woods and started looking for the fungi in question. In particular, he'd pick mushrooms with green caps and purple spots on them. He had no idea what they were good for, but then again, he himself was not the person who would ultimately be using them. Any one that he found, he'd wrap his three fingers around it, pluck it, and stow it away in his magic bag.

"Heh. This reminds me of that time back at the Academy when they took us camping and made us look for pine cones. Me, Jimmy, Kyle, and the others found a nest full of these huge eggs. The next thing we knew, we were trying to outrun this huge, pink bird, chasing us and squawking at us. Good times..." Eddy picked another mushroom, stared off into space, and sighed.

An hour or two later, the boy had gotten all the mushrooms he was gonna need. Now it was time to head back into town. Jimmy, Kyle, Seth, Spike, he thought, I still think about you guys. You must all be High-Level Scouts by now. They're probably making you walk on beds of hot coals, or something. It wouldn't surprise me. The forest was starting to get less dense as the boy drew closer to the town. If you guys are happy, then so am I, he continued, even though we've been treading completely different paths these past three years...

Scene 3/5
It was a lively little town. The brick roads were swarming with people, carts, and Garguinea Pigs. Not a store was closed and all the Elves, young and old, were busy. Everyone was either working or playing. As for Eddy, he was walking into a shop with a sign in the window that read, "Herb's Herbs". Inside, he walked past all the aisles of natural medicines and up to the old Elf behind the counter. His hair was short, white, and mushroom-shaped. "Eddy!" he said once the snake boy approached. "Did you get the Smushrooms?"

"'Smushrooms'?" Eddy repeated as he pulled a whole basket full of them out of his bag and onto the wooden counter. "Is that what these things are called? What are they good for, anyway?"

"Why, you make smoothies out of them, of course!" Herb replied. "Shall I make one for you? For all your hard work?"

"Sure, why not?"

"Excellent!" And the old man grabbed the basket of Smushrooms, entered a room behind him, and got to work. Eddy heard the sound of some ice being cracked, some Smushrooms tumbling into a large container of some sort, and then WHIRRRRRR. Moments later, Herb came back out with two glasses of some foamy green stuff with what looked like purple spots floating around in it. He handed one to the boy and said, "Cheers!" Their glasses clinked and they began drinking. The smoothies tasted just like kiwis and grapes. "So, Eddy," the elder said after taking a good swig, "what have you been up to these days?"

"Not much," Eddy clarified. "I've just been going around, taking whatever job I can find. It's an easy life."

"That's it, son? Don't you have any dreams or ambitions?"

"Well," Eddy paused, "there is ONE thing I've always wanted to do..."

"What is it?"

"I've always wanted to find the legendary Tree of Life."

The old man raised his fuzzy eyebrows at the kid. "The Tree of Life??" he said. "But that's nothing but a myth, boy!"

"Well, how do you know?" Eddy asked.

"What?"

"How do you know it really is just a myth? How do you know it's not secretly out there somewhere, waiting to be discovered? People discovered electricity, didn't they?"

"Well," the aged man started, "I don't know for sure. But it's a well documented fact that it's a myth."

Eddy smiled. "'It's a well documented fact,' huh? You know it used to be a 'well documented fact' that the world was flat? Then they found out the place always forms a circle-shaped shadow on the three moons."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean facts change. Someday, I'm gonna change the 'fact' that the Tree of Life does not exist. I'll find it and prove it to everyone. You'll see."

Herb laughed. "Well, good luck with that, son." The two drank some more. "But do you have any idea where to look?"

"First, I'll check the entire island. Then I'll see what lies beyond it."

"PFFF!!" The elderly man spewed out a whole ton of smoothie all over his counter. "Now I know you're talking crazy! There's NOTHING beyond Galilei! NOTHING!!"

"How do you know that?"

"Because anytime anyone ever tried to leave this place on a boat, they'd never return! No one would ever hear from them again. Whatever's out there, it's either a sea monster, or absolutely nothing. Either way, it's not worth it just to look. You'll be dead!"

"I'm not afraid of dying."

The old man stared blankly for a few seconds. "So you believe in the Tree of Life..."

"Yup."

"You believe there's something beyond Galilei..."

"Yup."

"You're not afraid of dying..."

"Yup."

"And you have three fingers on each hand and a forked tongue?"

"You got it."

The white-haired man shook his head. "You're completely unlike anyone I've ever met."

Eddy grinned, showing off the gap in his teeth. "Thank you, sir."

"Who are you?"

Eddy smirked and strummed his fingers on his glass of Smushroom. "Me?" he said ominously. "I'm Eddy Constrictor..."

Scene 4/5
Later that night, Eddy checked into a tavern. Now he was lying in a bed in a room of his own and sound asleep. Beneath those black eyelids, the boy's grey eyes were darting back and forth. Wherever he was, he wasn't in this world...

BAM!! Eddy whacked a guy in the head with his nightstick so hard, his head came off. There would have been a great deal of blood involved had it not have been for the fact the man's head had been nothing but a machete on top of a neck. Thus his head clambered lifelessly to the ground and the snake boy was surrounded by numerous others, all of them with weapons for heads, like guns, knives, and even nightsticks. They didn't scare Eddy, though. He just punched, kicked, chopped, and whacked until all eight of them were down.

Eddy stood in the center of the ring of wounded fighters and heard what sounded like clapping. The teenager looked up, but only saw darkness. "Who's there?" he called out. Then a man in a leather jacket and a pair of shades walked out of the darkness and into where Eddy could see him. "Eternivus!!" he breathed.

"Yes, Eddy, it's me," Eternivus replied. "Have you found an answer to the question yet?"

"Yes, I have," Eddy exclaimed.

Eternivus nodded in satisfaction. "I should like to hear it someday."

Eddy looked confused. "But, Eternivus, why not right now? You're here, aren't you?"

"No, I'm not, Eddy," the police officer corrected, "and neither are you."

"Huh?..."

Eddy looked around. He saw that he wasn't in the darkness anymore; he was in someone's house, late at night. Exactly whose house it was, he couldn't guess, but when he listened closely, he swore he could hear the voice of the narrator of none other than the book he read reading out loud one of its many passages.

"Indeed, the two tales were similar to one another. Perhaps there was some sort of connection between the two, but if either one were true, it would mean a great man is coming and someway, somehow, he will single handedly change the entire world. But the question remains: who is he? When will he come? And how will we know it's him?..."

"Mr. Constrictor! Mr. Constrictor!!" a little girl's voice sounded. Eddy saw that the young Tessa was bounding towards him through the hallway.

"Please, just call me Eddy," the young warrior heeded.

"Eddy, you've got to help me! There's a monster underneath my bed!!"

"A monster, huh?"

"Yes, now come kill him!!" The girl took the boy by the hand and began leading him down the hall. She led him to a room filled with dolls and stuffed animals. She pointed underneath the bed. "He's under there. Just reach in, grab him, and kill him."

Eddy shrugged his shoulders. "Alright," and he knelt down and reached underneath the bed. His three-fingered hand caught something cool and smooth. He wrapped his fingers around it and pulled it out. It was a mirror. Puzzled, he turned it around in his hand and watched carefully for any eyes or mouths on the thing, but he found none. "It's just a mirror!" he remarked.

"Look inside it," Tessa instructed. When Eddy turned to look at her, though, she was no longer there. Now it was just him and this mirror inside this child's room. Slowly, he turned the mirror around so he could see his reflection. And he saw it. He only had one eye like a Cyclops and his tongue was hanging out. His tongue split into eight individual parts... and each one had a one-eyed head of its own...

Eddy woke up. He pulled his head away from the pillow and noticed how cold and damp it had become with a puddle of sweat. The boy groaned, turned the pillow over, then flopped his head back onto it. For as long as I can remember, he thought, it's always been a dream about a creature with nine heads. What does it mean? Why won't this dream leave me alone? He wondered this for a few seconds more. Then his mind caved back into unconsciousness and he was asleep again...

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The sun was rising. Eddy could see it as he walked alongside all the other people in the brick roads of the small town. He was looking to leave the place and head off to another, but he suddenly heard a voice calling out to him. "Psst!!" it said. "You there! Young man! Don't you want your fortune told?"

Eddy looked to his right. There on the side of a building was a stand with a woman inside it clad in purple robes. In front of her was a crystal ball on a cushion. He approached her cautiously.

"Tell me, boy," she said, "do you believe in fate?"

"Yes," Eddy answered.

"And why is that?"

"Because fate is nothing more than what you're destined to do, and I think EVERYONE'S destined for something."

"Hee hee! That's very insightful of you. Now let's see what your future holds..." The strange woman started waving her delicate hands around the crystal ball. Clouds of blue and green were starting to form inside it. They swirled around, seemingly in rhythm with the way the woman's hands were moving. Then she stopped the dance, closed her eyes, and placed one finger on the orb. The clouds were still spinning. "I see... a great battle between you and one other..."

Eddy rolled his eyes. "That always happens."

"I see much praise and glory being showered upon you..."

"That also always happens."

"And you shall be rewarded with EGGS."

Eddy's eyes brightened up. "Eggs? Really?"

"Yes... LOTS of them..."

Eddy rubbed his hands and licked his lips. Then he was stricken with curiosity. "Hey," he asked, "does it say anything about... me leaving the island?"

The woman concentrated hard. "No," she finally said. "You will never leave the island. No one ever does." Eddy rolled his eyes and began to walk away. "WAIT!!" He turned back around. "That'll be twenty halos..." Eddy reached into his bag, pulled out a number of little metal hoops, placed it on the counter, and walked away...

Later, Eddy was back on another dirt path, this one leading away from the town and towards another one. He could only imagine what it would be like and what jobs were waiting for him there. I don't care what anyone says, he thought. Someday, I will find a way off this island, and I will see every little thing Max did in that book...

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Chapter 2 - Redcaps and Space Aliens
Scene 1/5
At last, Eddy found it: the next town at the end of the dirt road. Reading the sign posted just before it, he could tell the place was called "Nova". But on the sign, he could also see some graffiti. In a loopy scribble of black paint, it read, "Don Guarana was here."

"Who is this 'Don Guarana'?" Eddy asked himself. "And why should I care that he was at Nova?" He had to admit, though, he had become more interested in the town now that he had seen the graffiti. Now it was time to venture into it and see how his day would play out...

It was similar to the last town in a lot of ways. It seemed to be just as busy and vibrant, but the buildings were a little bigger, many of them being made of red bricks or plain old wood (he remembered seeing more white earlier). Not to mention, in THIS town, the people were generally taller and they didn't have those pointy ears. In other words, they were humans.

Exploring the place a bit, he headed down one of the more quiet, desolate corners of the town. It was when he was walking past an alleyway when he caught a glimpse of it: five punk teenagers kicking an elderly hobo lying on the ground. Eddy could feel the old blood boiling again. He immediately forgot everything else and ran down the alley. He skidded to a halt and yelled out to the bullies. "HEY, NUTJOBS!!"

The bullies stopped kicking their victim and turned to face the snake boy. All five of them were wearing red bandannas. What looked like the leader of the bunch strode up to this new enemy of theirs. "And what do YOU want, lizard face? You got a problem with what we're doing?"

"Any reason why you're kicking that guy, pray tell?" Eddy said, looking the thug in the eye without blinking.

"Heh. Do we really need one?!" At this, the other thugs started laughing. The bearded hobo was sidling away from the scene in the background.

Eddy held his hands out. "All I'm asking is that you kick me instead. I won't fight back..."

"Heh!! Awesome!!" Now the five punks were running towards the young Esper, ready to deal some pain. What their leader wasn't ready for, though, was the receiving of a very sudden, very sharp pain between his legs. The snake kid had punted him right where it hurt. Now he was slumping to the ground in agony. When the other four hooligans saw this, they were angered. They each pulled out a knife, a screwdriver, an icepick, and a letter opener, and they rushed the grey-eyed boy, but Eddy saw this coming. He pulled out his nightstick, summoned a surge of his strength, and swung. WHAM!!! The one on the far right got it in the side. He went flying to the left and crashed into all three of the other hoodlums. The four went sprawling on the ground in a messy heap. The five had been defeated.

"Let that be a lesson to you punks," Eddy snorted, and he began walking down the alley towards the shivering hobo. Suddenly, someone had his arm wrapped tightly around the boy and a sharp knife was being pressed against his neck. He heard the leader's voice snarling next to his ear.

"I'm gonna make you pay for that stunt you pulled earlier, lizard breath!!" WHUMP!! Eddy struck the teenager in the stomach with his right elbow. Almost instantly, the knife fell to the ground, and so did the assailant. Eddy watched him go down in pity. Then he saw two of his cohorts running up to him, picking him up off the ground and running off with him on their shoulders. As the other two followed, Eddy heard the leader call out in a hoarse voice, "This isn't over yet, you freak!! We'll be back!!..." And they were gone.

Eddy was finally able to reach the hobo, who had backed up against the wall and was still shaking with fear. He looked at Eddy in terror and flinched when he saw him throw something. SHING! But the next thing he knew, a whole bunch of halos had just landed in his lap. He was astonished. "Just take it. I don't need it."

The hobo then got on his hands and knees and bowed to the snake boy. "God bless you, sir," he rasped.

Eddy smirked as he turned and walked away. "Yeah. God bless me..."

Scene 2/5
After walking around in the sun for a bit, the lizard boy finally found something that caught his interest: a tavern called "The Rusty Wheel". Feeling hungry after a long afternoon of wandering, the boy walked in through the double-doors. The place was somewhat busy with some customers sitting, eating, and drinking at tables here and there. Eddy walked straight up to the bald, glass-cleaning bartender behind the counter (a few eyeballs followed him closely as he did this). He reached the counter, hopped up onto a stool, and sat down.

"What'll it be?" the man said.

"I'll just have a plate of raw eggs, please," Eddy ordered.

The bald bartender stopped rubbing the glass in his hand with a rag for a second. His eyes darted back and forth, as though he were looking for anyone else who had heard this kid's ridiculous order. "A plate of eggs, huh?"

"Yes, please."

"Alright then..." He put the glass down, wrote something down on a notepad, ripped off the piece of paper, then hung it on a clothesline in front of the window to the kitchen. "PLATE OF RAW EGGS!!" he called. Eddy was pleased with the service of the place; within minutes, he had a heaping plate full of the pointy, white, smooth, ovular things he loved so much. One by one, he began picking them off, holding them to his mouth, then coiling his forked tongue around them and snatching them into his mouth. Then he'd swallow them whole and do the same with another. Some eyeballs watching this were accompanied by some mouths, twisted and contorted in disgust. Not even the bartender could avoid making such expressions.

In time, Eddy had all the eggs off his plate and in his stomach. He was satisfied. "My compliments to the chef, barkeep," he said.

"Right, I'll... let him know." Eddy saluted the man and hopped off his stool. He was about to start walking out the door when the bartender stopped him. "Hold it there, sir."

Eddy smiled very subtly and turned around. "Yes?"

"That'll be thirty halos..."

"Oh," Eddy put his hands on his face in a gesture of mock embarrassment. "I'm afraid I don't have even a single halo on me, sir. I gave it all away to a homeless person." Some people in the restaurant exchanged some weird looks upon hearing this. Eddy heard one of them say, "Good man."

The bartender looked annoyed. "Well then, get in the back and start doing some dishes. I'll tell ya when you can stop."

Eddy smiled. "Thank you, sir..."

Scene 3/5
In the back, Eddy was standing in front of a metal counter with a sink in it. He had on an apron, but no rubber gloves (the ones they had had too many fingers). Over and over again, he'd grab a dish from the dirty pile, scrub it down in the foamy sink, dry it off with a rag, then place it in the clean pile. Behind him, a young man with dark brown hair down to his shoulders, rectangular glasses, and a thin mustache was mopping the floor. When he sauntered up to Eddy, he said, "Couldn't pay for those eggs, huh?"

"Nope," the snake replied. "What about you? What are you in for?"

"Me? I work here. The name's Ryan. I'm 22 and I've been working here since I was 15."

Eddy stopped scrubbing the dish he had in his hands for a second. "So you've been trapped here for seven years straight?" he asked.

"You could say that. But the place isn't THAT bad. It pays nice, plus I get two weeks vacation." Eddy burst out laughing. Ryan was taken aback. "What's so funny??"

"You know, I was trapped somewhere once," he began. "Granted, not as long as you were, and the vacations were even longer, but still, it was brutal. They'd wake us up each morning at six and make us do all kinds of crazy work-outs from dawn 'til dusk. Sometimes, they'd even make us kill some monsters and tear out their hearts."

"Ew," Ryan shuttered. Then a light bulb brightened. "Wait a minute... You were a Copperhead Scout??"

"Yes, I was," Eddy replied, "but not anymore."

"Wow... Wait a minute, you're too young to have graduated!!"

"I know," Eddy explained. "I busted out."

"'Busted out'? You're lying, aren't you?"

"No, I'm afraid I'm not." For one or two minutes, there was a silence. All that either boy did was clean dishes and mop. Then Eddy said something else. "You got any hopes or ambitions? I mean, you don't intend on staying here forever, do you?"

"Well..." Ryan stopped mopping for a second and started leaning on the cleaning instrument. "I do have one dream... but it's silly."

"Come on. Let's hear it."

"Well, alright," Ryan said, and there was a pause. "I've always wanted... to see a space alien. Just a nice, real, live space alien. I wouldn't even care if he zapped my head off with a laser gun, or whatever. As long as I just got to see one of those, I'd be able to die a happy man."

"Really?" Eddy elicited. "I've always wanted to find the Tree of Life."

"The Tree of Life?" Ryan repeated. "And what would you do with something like that?"

"I'd eat its fruit. Then I'd become immortal and I'd have all the time in the world to see it and how it evolves over time."

"What? The world?"

"Yup."

"Heh. That's a pretty crazy dream," Ryan remarked.

"Right back at you, space boy." Ryan smirked bemusedly and the two boys continued cleaning...

Scene 4/5
Several hours later, Eddy was finally done cleaning dishes and doing other chores for the barkeep. He had earned a little extra money in the process and it was starting to get dark out, so he figured he'd find a good inn to stay at for the night. He was walking down the street, minding his own business, when five punk teenagers walked out of an alleyway and blocked his path. Eddy looked bored. "You guys again?"

"No," said the leader, looking much better than he did when he was dealt with earlier. "This time... we brought the WHOLE family. Heh heh heh..."

Eddy looked around. He noticed other thugs in red bandannas were walking out of nowhere. There must have been about forty of them in all. Each of them were carrying dangerous weapons, like knives, baseball bats, and sickles. They also had a certain look in their eyes. Eddy was reminded of wolves.

"Meet the Redcaps, lizard boy," the leader laughed as Eddy became completely surrounded. "We run these streets. Anytime, anywhere, we do whatever we want to whoever we want. Anyone who's got a problem with that has got US to answer to. And guess what, lizard pants?! YOU'RE NEXT!!"

There was a loud cheer from the Redcaps. It sounded very psychotic and inhuman. Already, Eddy's heart was starting to beat faster. The Redcaps were dying to tear him apart. All they needed was the order...

"GET HIM!!!" And the fight was on. The ones closest to the snake kid all jumped through the air, intending to smash his skull open as they came down, but Eddy ducked and charged through a bunch of Redcaps further away, smacking them left and right with his club. Once he was on the other side of the mob, they all turned around and started charging towards him. Eddy tucked his weapon underneath one of his arms, held out both hands, and BLOOORRP!! A bunch of slime spilled forth. As usual, some of the enemies got stuck in it and started tripping and falling, but there were still plenty more where that came from. Eddy held his nightstick up, preparing himself for the worst.

BAM!! Someone had gotten close enough to Eddy and punched him in the cheek. Angered, the boy spun around to punch the guy back, but then someone grabbed him by the ponytail and yanked him back. Then two arms grabbed him and two guys started punching him in the stomach repeatedly. Eddy flailed his arms and legs, but it was useless. He was completely at these criminals' mercy. Then he saw the leader wading his way through the crowd, knife in hand. When he was close enough, the two that had been punching him backed away from Eddy.

"This is it, lizard butt," he boasted. "I'm gonna take one of those ugly little fingers of yours. And then I'll make a keychain out of it!! And when people ask me what it is, I'll say it's my lucky lizard's finger!!!"

"I'm a snake, you diluted pinhead," Eddy growled.

"Whatever. Heh heh heh!!" He grabbed his left pinky finger and raised his knife as though he were about to cut a nice piece of steak. Then...

CLINK!! The gang looked. They noticed how an object like a little metal cylinder had just landed in the middle of them. Then FWISSSSSHH!! It started spewing a gas. As the Redcaps breathed it in, they all started coughing like crazy and choking. Tears were also streaming from their eyes. When the smoke reached Eddy, he too started coughing and crying, and so did the leader and the guy that was holding him. Before he knew it, he had been dropped to the ground. His finger and his nightstick were safe, but it was becoming dangerously difficult to breathe in this fog...

Then it happened: someone took Eddy by the hand, and pulled him onto his feet and away from the mob of thugs. Whoever had saved him, he was running like mad and dragging Eddy with him. The snake didn't dare to look behind him. Deep down, he knew that all he'd see would be a cloud of teargas and a bunch of teenagers in it, coughing their heads off, and swearing revenge. The boy very quickly decided it'd be a very boring sight. He continued running alongside his enigmatic savior...

Scene 5/5
The two men finally stopped running. Now they were in a different alley, far away from the Redcaps. Eddy's savior let go of his hand. The snake boy then bent over, placed his hands on his knees, and started panting dramatically. "Thanks a lot," he breathed, "whoever you are."

"Eddy, don't you recognize me?"

Eddy looked up and saw that the man was wearing a gasmask. The Esper was perplexed. "Huh?!" he asked. Then the man snapped his gasmask off, revealing his identity. "Ryan!!" Eddy blurted, standing upright again. "You of all people! How are you doing?"

"I'm fine, but you're lucky I know how to make teargas bombs, otherwise you'd have been dead meat. Those Redcaps are nasty people. They're serious when they say who they want revenge on and how."

"I see. I owe you my life, then."

"So, you guys seem pretty tough..."

The two boys looked up. There, on top of the building, was a man, not much older than Eddy, only he was donned almost entirely in leather. His boots, his pants, his belt, his jacket, his gloves... All of it was black leather. Underneath all that was a black t-shirt with a picture of an atom on the front and grey skin. The man's head was kind of skinny. On his forehead were a bunch of splotch-like birthmarks. On top was a long mane of black hair, parted from the left side. In front was a long lock of it that was silver. Lastly, he had black lips and a pair of sunglasses with pointy edges.

"Who are you?!" Eddy asked.

"Me?" the mysterious person said. Then, of all things, he leapt from the top of the building landed right in front of the duo. He was surprisingly unscathed. Then he stood up to his full height. Eddy and Ryan could see two of the moons reflected in his shades. "The name's Don," he said. "Don Guarana. And I've got a job offer for the two of you..."

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Chapter 3 - Monet's Mansion
Scene 1/5
"You?" Eddy said, pointing to the guy who had just introduced himself. "You're the guy who was 'here'?"

"I've been everywhere," Don replied. "I go places. It's what I do."

"Really?" Eddy asked, a bit sarcastically.

"Actually, I'm a bounty-hunter. I hunt bounties. It pays well."

"Are you asking us to go on a bounty-hunt with you?" Ryan inquired.

"No. It's more of a treasure-hunt, really." Don turned around and looked beyond the building way on the other side of the alley. Eddy and Ryan looked as well. "You see that mansion up there?"

"Yeah," the other two guys replied. Indeed, in the distance, on a big, black hill was a humongous house, illuminated by the moons. It looked kind of ominous and foreboding.

Don continued. "That's Monet's Mansion. Legend has it, it once belonged to an artist named Clay Monet. He loved to make paintings and sculptures, but he hated people, so he just spent the rest of his days, locked up inside, making all the works of art he wanted until he'd collapse. Then he'd rise again and continue his work, as though it controlled him...

"One day, a meteorite crash-landed in the woods near Nova. Monet was the first to find it. He chained it up and hauled it all the way back to his mansion. They say he spent the rest of his life trying to turn it into the ultimate masterpiece, but he never finished. He eventually exhausted himself so badly in his work, he simply collapsed and died. They also say his ghost now haunts the place, working and collapsing, just as he always did in life..."

Eddy and Ryan nodded as Don explained all this. There was more. "But then there are those who wonder what it was that Monet really found that day. Was it really just a meteorite, or something else that was so out of this world, he couldn't help but keep it for himself?

"Long story short, something's in there. It could even be treasure. I'd like to go in there and get it myself, but it could be dangerous. That's why I'm recruiting allies to back me up. If you two joined me, there would be a total of seven people going on this mission."

"And if we helped you find this treasure, would you split it between us?" Ryan asked, a little suspiciously.

"Of course I would. I'm an honest man."

"Hmm..."

"Wait a second," Eddy interjected. "It's just a haunted house, and you're a bounty-hunter. Why would you need 'backup' for something like THIS? I figured you'd be used to doing this sort of thing on your own..."

"Well," Don began, "of course, there's a REAL reason I'd need 'backup' for something like this. I'll tell you what it is, but you'll probably change your minds after hearing it."

"Try us," Eddy stated.

"Alright. Here it is..."

Scene 2/5
So Monet's Mansion is really the hideout of an escaped convict, Eddy thought as he lied in another bed, now in a room at an inn he found in town. Johnny Chains, 100,000 halos. That'd be a nice 14,000 for me. I'd be able to eat for months!!

I've beaten up all kinds of people before, but can I really handle a guy like THIS? Not to mention he's got those four friends of his. Maybe Don was right when he said it could be dangerous... Eddy turned onto his side and closed his eyes. Oh well, he thought. Dangerous is what I do best...

Scene 3/5
The next day, Eddy ate breakfast, left the inn, and got started on his usual routine. He wandered around town and took whatever job he could find. He ended up sweeping a flower store for one old lady, picking up lunch for a security guard, and washing dishes at another restaurant.

At one point during the day, he walked all the way up the hill on the other side of town. He stopped as soon as he reached a large metal gate. Now he could see the mansion close up. From here, it almost looked completely different. Instead of ominous, it just seemed old and beat up. Maybe the place really was haunted...

Looking at the spooky place and letting all kinds of crazy thoughts float through his head, Eddy was reminded of one particular passage in his book:

"Some don't go to either place when they die. Sometimes, there'll just be too much for them to leave unfinished, and so they'll become ghosts, doing what they can to wrap up the loose ends. Most of the time, though, they can't do it alone. They need someone to help them. The problem lies in getting them to understand. For a ghost, this is extremely difficult.. especially since they're not even aware of the fact they're dead..."

"Clay Monet," Eddy wondered out loud, "is tonight the night you'll finally be able to finish your work? Or are we just going to take it before then? You'd be mad forever, I'm sure. Mad Monet, they'd call you, man. Man, who'm I talking to?" And so he turned around and began to head back down the hill into town. Later, he'd return to that very spot...

Scene 4/5
When the time came, the sky above Nova was dark again and the three moons were out. Of the seven, five had arrived at the spot, including Eddy. The other four consisted of Ryan and three others the snake had never met before. Ryan was talking to the one with the silver skin, messy white hair, unassuming red eyes, and buck teeth. All these traits along with the two antennae protruding from his forehead signified that he was a Sylph. His name was Greg Wrench.

"I'm telling you, I saw it," he was saying. "That silver cigar-shaped thing in the sky? There's nothing else it could have been; it was a UFO!!"

"What did it do?" Ryan asked.

"It was flying towards the island, when suddenly, the whole thing just exploded!! Then its debris fell into the ocean, and that was it."

"That's pretty intense. But why would it suddenly explode like that?"

"I have no idea..."

Eddy listened in on the conversation between the other two. One of them was a pretty human girl with orangeish-brownish hair down to her shoulders and big blue eyes. In her right hand, she held a big metal pipe that was just as tall as she was. The person she was talking to had oddly colored skin, just like NcShkanski, except it was sky blue instead of pink. He also had the same long, pointy ears shaped like sideways apostrophes. This meant he was a Pixie. He also had purple hair and purple eyes.

"So, what are YOU here for?" the blue boy asked.

"Nothing," the girl elicited. "I just like to be part of the action every once in a while."

"That's cool. I'm just here for the money. A bounty AND a treasure? We'll be RICH!!"

"Yeah, probably..."

The four continued talking like this until the last two members finally showed up: Don and a boy that was only ever so slightly younger than Eddy. He had long, mahogany hair, spiked cuffs around his wrists and his neck, and a t-shirt with flames on it. When Eddy saw him, he couldn't help but stare. Something about that freckled face and those wide, blue eyes seemed to ring a bell for him.

"Alright, everyone's here," Don stated, grabbing everyone's attention. "We've got Eddy, Ryan, Greg, Sarah, Dryzma, and now me and Spike. Everything's in order."

"SPIKE?!?" Eddy blurted. As soon as he did this, the boy turned and looked at him back. Then HE recognized him, too.

"EDDY!!" he said. "You son of a gun!! How've you been??" The two reached forward and shook hands.

"Not too bad. I spent three years in the wilderness, but other than that, I've been doing fine."

"The wilderness?? Man, you're crazy, you know that?!"

"Yeah, I know that."

"Okay, so you guys know each other. We get it," Don interrupted. The two boys stopped talking after that. Now the floor was Don's again. "Alright, just to reiterate, we're gonna sneak into this mansion, find Johnny Chains, and beat up him and his cronies. Then the mansion will be ours to search. Just be sure to be on the lookout for anything weird-looking that's about the size of a Garguinea Pig. Everyone got that?" The other six group members all said yes in their own way. "Good," Don exclaimed, and he pulled out a rope with a grappling hook tied to one end. He swung the thing around, then hurled it and let it latch onto the top of the gate. The seven kids then proceeded in climbing this rope and jumping into the courtyard on the other side. After that, they waltzed up to the front door and marched on in.

Now they were inside the mansion. As expected, it was a huge place with countless paintings on all the walls, not to mention it was blanketed with dust, spider webs, and cobwebs. Even the air felt dead.

"This is a pretty big place," Dryzma commented. "How are we gonna do this?"

"We'll split up into three groups," Don said. "Ryan and Greg, you take the basement. Eddy and Spike, you go upstairs. Me, Sarah, and Dryzma will take the main floor."

"Right," the group said, and they split up accordingly. Little did they realize they were being watched by four shadowy figures from the top of the stairs...

Ryan and Greg, for the moment, were still on the main floor. They had yet to find the door to the basement. Thus, they walked through a number of other rooms first. They walked past all kinds of dusty shelves, tables, and pieces of furniture. In the process, though, they also noticed some footprints and even some hand prints all over. Someone had definitely been here.

"What do you suppose this Johnny Chains is like?" Ryan asked.

"No idea," Greg replied. "All I know is that I heard he was an Esper."

"What's an Esper?"

"Someone with the ability to cast spells using nothing but his own mental power. They can do things like hurl fireballs, or even freeze the air around you. I heard Don's one, too, for that matter."

"Whoa. I wonder what HE can do?..."

At that moment, Don, Sarah, and Dryzma were checking out the abandoned kitchen. It was one of the biggest kitchens they had ever seen, but the only treasure they could find in it were plates, silverware, glasses, and pots. Don was disappointed.

"Shuh. There aren't even any of Chains' minions in here," he griped.

"So, let's just-" Sarah began, but then THUNK!! A knife had suddenly flown out of nowhere and landed in the wall behind her. It had just barely missed her ear.

"Who's there?!" Dryzma demanded as he brandished a pair of nunchucks.

"Well," a slithery voice said, "if you must know..."

Elsewhere, Eddy and Spike were walking up the stairs to the second floor. The walk was very long. "So what's the deal, Spike?" Eddy said. "How come you're out so early?"

"I wanted to be let out early," Spike explained. "You know, when you left, it got me thinking about whether or not I was happy being a Copperhead Scout. When I thought about it, I came to the conclusion that I wasn't. I, too, was sick of all the rules and being told what to do all the time. I wanted a life of my own.

"However, I wasn't about to bust out like you. No, I just started studying and working harder than I ever did in my life. I became an even better student than you!"

Eddy scoffed. "Yeah, right."

"No, it's true! They let me out as soon I turned 16!"

"Hmm. That's a pretty sweet deal." Then Eddy laughed. "You know, you and I should have a fight sometime, just to see who's stronger. You may have skipped a few grades, but I was the one who busted out and lived in the wilderness for three years straight. I'm a tough man, if I do say so myself."

"HA!! You're on."

"Ooh, so we got a couple of tough guys here. I just LOVE tough guys. Heh heh heh heh," said a creepy, sinister voice as soon as the two boys reached the second floor.

"Duhhh, me, too!!" said another voice.

"Who are you?!" Eddy sounded as he pulled out his nightstick. Similarly, Spike pulled out a three-headed flail.

"You wanna know who we are, huh?! Alright, we'll tell you..."

"Zack Knife," the guy in the kitchen said, revealing himself to Don, Sarah, and Dryzma. He had silver skin, antennae, long, matted, white hair, a black hat, and a black cloak to match. In one hand, he had four knives. In the other, just three. "Perhaps you've heard of me..."

"I have," Don stated. "They locked you up for causing that blackout in Nebula and stealing a million halos worth of stuff."

"That's me!!" the convict laughed. Then he got serious again, pointing three knives at the trio. "Now, tell me: what are you punks doing here in Chains' Mansion?"

"Looking for that very man," Don said, as he pulled out a clove cigarette, put it in his mouth, and lit it.

Zack looked at the man inquisitively. "I know you. You're that Don Guarana, aren't you? The bounty-hunter?!"

"The very same."

The criminal grit his teeth. "Well, then let's see you deal with this..."

"My name's Brett Sickle, and this is my younger brother, Boon," the criminal facing Eddy and Spike explained. Both brothers were wearing the same thing Zack was, except Boon didn't have the hat. The elder of the two brothers was a tall human with an upturned, snout-like nose and long blonde hair. His younger brother was a hunchback with one lopsided eye that wasn't level with the other one. He also had very bad teeth and the same nose as his sibling. He was snickering and patting his hand with a wooden club with numerous spikes sticking out of the end. Each time the club hit his hand, it made it start bleeding, but he didn't seem to notice or care.

"So, you guys know where Chains is?" Eddy guessed.

"Yeah, we do. But what's it to a little brat like you?" Brett sneered.

"Nothing. We're just a little bit interested in that price on his head," Eddy answered, twirling his nightstick around in one hand like a baton.

"HA!! I knew you were tough!!" Brett laughed and pulled out two sickles. Now all five of Eddy, Spike, Don, Sarah, and Dryzma were fighting three of Chains' goons...

CHING!! Zack lunged at Don, swiping at him with his four knives. Don just jumped back and pulled out a cattleprod. He turned it on and a blue bolt of electricity fizzled between its teeth. Dryzma came charging towards the enemy with his nunchucks flying. He swung them at his face, but the criminal dodged and fired one of the other three knives at the blue boy. Dryzma jumped out of the way very quickly. Then Sarah stepped forward and took a swing at the man's head with her pipe. CLANG!! The convict blocked it with his four knives. Then BZZZTT!! The villain got electrocuted in the stomach by Don's cattleprod. He shook with voltage for a second, then recovered, and very angrily swung at the boy with his four knives.

RRIIPP!! The blades went straight through the right sleeve of Don's jacket... and his arm came off. Sleeve and all, the limb fell to the floor. Now Don had nothing but a stump where his arm had been... and yet there was no blood. Don didn't even seem to be in any pain. He just stood there and puffed his cigarette some more. Zack was perplexed and spooked by this. "What's wrong with you?!" he asked. "I just cut your freaking arm off!!" Don just smiled. Then a hand grabbed the enemy very tightly by his ankle. The man looked down and saw that Don's severed arm was the one grabbing him. Now he looked repulsed.

"I'm a Ghoul," Don clarified as he placed his shades on his forehead with his left thumb, revealing he had deep-set yellow eyes. "My limbs come off all the time..."

"RRRAUGH!!" Dryzma roared as he ran towards Zack, swinging his nunchucks again. The black-clad man just gave a roar of his own, spun on his free foot, and used it to kick the boy hard in the stomach. Dryzma dropped his weapon, flew back, and hit the stove. Then he fell to the ground, arms spread out, and didn't get back up. Sarah was alarmed, then angry. So was Don.

The criminal then grabbed the severed arm, pried it off his ankle, and threw it behind him. "Come on," he beckoned, and the remaining two fighters went straight for him...

On the second floor, Eddy was engaged in a fight with Brett, and Spike with Boon. Eddy was swinging repeatedly at Brett with his club, but the man kept blocking and retaliating with his sickles. Eddy tried tripping him with a good kick, but the tall man saw this and jumped just in time. Then the two's weapons started dancing again, and so the fight went...

Spike was swinging his flails around and running towards the hunchback, Boon. Boon just punched him in the stomach when he got close enough. Winded, Spike dropped his three-headed tool and fell on his back. Then the oafish criminal stomped one foot on him and prepared to swing down with his club. Thinking fast, Spike felt for his weapon, grabbed it, and blocked. CHING!! Then Spike took a risky swing and BAM!! The hunchback had gotten it in the knee. Now Spike was free and the enemy was hopping on one foot. Spike smiled mischievously. In one or two more blows, he could finish this...

Zack fired two more knives. Don and Sarah dodged them both. Then Don pulled out a switchblade knife and swung it at the fiend's chest. Zack deliberately smacked the knife out of his hand and thrust with the four of his own. Don jumped back and Sarah leapt out from behind. Her pipe was raised high over her head. Zack wasn't quick enough...

BLLOOOORRRPP!! In a moment of frustration, Eddy had just fired a gigantic wave of slime at his enemy. Now the entire front half of him was completely covered in green gunk, and so were his sickles. He dropped them to the floor so he could reach up and wipe the stuff out of his eyes. Then BAM!! Eddy jumped up and whacked the guy on the head with his nightstick. The tall crony crumpled to the ground and was out like a light. Eddy landed and looked at the fallen man in satisfaction...

FWOOOOSH!! Eddy heard the roar of a flame nearby. He looked and saw that smoke was coming out of Spike's right hand, and Boon's messy blonde hair was on fire. The ugly hunchback ran around the hallway like crazy and screamed his head off. Then he fell to the ground and started rolling in a desperate attempt to extinguish the flames. That, he did, but he continued to roll. Now he was rolling and thumping down the stairs, giving himself even more injuries. Eddy and Spike looked over the railing and watched as he rolled onto the first floor, now unconscious and with two broken arms. The two boys turned and high-fived each other.

"Alright," Eddy said. "Let's get going. Chains has gotta be around here somewhere..."

BAAANG!! Sarah's pipe landed squarely on the top of Zack's skull. The hat served as little protection. The girl landed and the man dropped all four of his knives. He stood on wobbly legs for a few seconds and watched the stars fly around his head. Then he slumped to the ground in a pile of black, just like Brett had done. Don saw this and smiled. "You're pretty good, sweetheart," he said.

Sarah rolled her eyes. "Don't call me that, please."

"Your call." The don kicked their unconscious nemesis and made him roll onto his back. Then he picked up his knife and walked to the other side of the kitchen to grab his arm and reattach it to his stump. When he came back, he found Sarah on the floor with Dryzma's head in her lap. She looked a little bit worried. "He'll be okay," the don said. "I'm heading upstairs now. I gotta feeling Johnny Chains might be up there. Just keep on the lookout for any of his other cronies."

"Alright, I'll do that," Sarah responded, and Don walked off, continuing the hunt alone...

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Meanwhile, in an office somewhere on the second floor, a man dressed in a black cape and a black and white striped suit was sitting at the desk. He also had long, scraggly, brown hair, and an eyepatch over his right eye. The office was illuminated by dozens of little candles, lined up here, there, and everywhere. They were on the desk, on the shelves, on the window sill, and even up against the walls on the floor, but each one was lit with a blue flame. At the center of this creepy, azure glow was the convict himself, Johnny Chains. He was just sitting there at that desk, playing with some small chains. He was making patterns out of them on his fingers as though they were a string.

"I know you're here," he said to himself in a low, raspy voice. "All seven of you. I know you want the price on my head, and I know you want that thing in the basement. Well, you're not gonna have either. Everything in this mansion belongs to me. And if any of you have a problem with that..." He closed his hands up, encasing the chains inside them. Then he pulled his fingers apart, revealing a chain formation that kind of looked like a sideways guillotine. "I will kill you myself..."

(Edited by Wanopio)

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Posted September 26th, 2009 06:39 PM IP

I utterly promise you I will get around to this.

Although I do have to ponder why you post it here, when this Forum is now the proverbial corpse...

There are three ways of dealing with time travel in Doctor Who (you might want to print this out for future use.)

1. Look, it's just a story, time travel is completely impossible, the whole thing's a farrago of lies, ooh, look at those monsters.

2. Time can only sometimes be rewritten, and the Doctor has a vast and terrible Time Brain that allows him to see when events can be altered and when they are fixed, but for us mere mortals, such insight would turn our brains to soup, ooh, look at those monsters.

3. Ooh, look at those monsters!

I like 3. It's quicker.

Steven Moffat

Yes, he's taking over Doctor Who in 2010. YEEESSSS!

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Posted September 26th, 2009 08:50 PM IP

Thank you very much, Twig.

As for why I keep coming back here, I have no idea. Maybe it's because it's practically the only forum I ever joined. I'd join others, but I have no idea where to look, besides Lemmy's Land and onemanga.com.

Besides, this place isn't dead; it's guys like us who keep coming back to it that keep it alive.

Oh yeah. I also like how the white letters look on the dark grey background.

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Posted September 26th, 2009 08:54 PM IP

Chapter 4 - The Descension
Scene 1/5
Eddy and Spike burst into the room. They saw a vast deal of eerie blue embers dancing on candles lying around, and a shadowy figure sitting hunched over behind a desk. Whoever he was, he was definitely a force to be reckoned with. The two boys swore they could feel a dark energy emanating from him.

"You Johnny Chains?" Eddy asked, mustering up some courage.

"What if I am?" the figure asked back enigmatically.

"You got a bounty on your head of 100,000 halos."

"That, I do."

"Just one question," Eddy added. "What did you do to get it?"

"I'll tell you if you can beat me..."

Suddenly, all the blue flames vanished into thin air, leaving trails of white smoke in their wake. For a second or two, the entire room was encased in pitch black. The only light came from the three moons outside the window.

Then something truly unexpected happened: on their own, all the electric lights in the mansion came on. It was as though night had become day instantly. Everyone in the abode noticed this, including Sarah, Don, Ryan, and Greg. They sensed something strange was happening, but they didn't know what.

Back in the office, Eddy and Spike were staring at Johnny Chains very wearily. Then Spike Spoke up. "Wait a minute... You're not an Esper, are you??"

In response to this, the man pulled his right hand from his chains, reached up, and pulled back his eye patch, revealing a perpetually closed eye. On that eye was the same strange symbol as the one on the backs of Eddy and Spike's hands. He put his eye patch back on and somehow made the chains in his right hand slink up into his sleeve. "'Blackout'," Johnny Chains said. "That's the name of my ability. I can make lights disappear and reappear at will. That..." The man reached into both sleeves and pulled out two very long chains. They clattered on the ground, and Eddy and Spike could see them starting to glow blue, just like the candle's flames. "And I can turn the light into my own weapon..."

The boys just stared determinedly at the convict. Eddy held out his left hand and Spike held out his right. Out of Eddy's hand came a small fountain of green slime. Out of Spikes' popped three fireballs that began to whirl around in the air above his palm. One was orange, one green, and one blue. "'Slimeball'," Eddy established.

"'Triple Cherry,'" Spike stated.

"Alright then," Chains rasped. "Shall we?"

Eddy fired a jetstream of slime at the criminal and Spike hurled the orange fireball. Johnny just jumped over the spells and onto his desk, squashing a few candles as he did so. Eddy's slime splattered on the window and Spike's fireball landed on the leather chair and made it become ablaze. When Johnny saw this, he opened up his left hand, pointed its palm at the fire, and it magically disappeared, turning into grey smoke. Chains looked at Spike and gave him a toothy grin.

"Sorry, kid, but if it's got a light of its own, it has no effect on me..."

Spike scowled, made his remaining two fireballs vanish, and pulled out his flail. Chains laughed and swung his left chain at him. Spike ducked and rolled out of the way, but Eddy was whipped in the right arm with that flaming hot thing. "YEEOOWWCHH!!" he howled.

"Oh my gosh, Eddy, are you okay?!" Spike asked once he got up.

"Rrg, yeah, I'm fine. It just HURTS," Eddy said as he rubbed at his new injury.

"HEADS UP!!" Spike yelled. SHING!! Chains swatted the floor between the boys with his long weapon, but they were able to jump out of the way just in time. Eddy landed and started firing pellets of slime at the villain. They all splattered against his arms, chest, and shoulders, but did little more than annoy him. Spike was about to swing his flail at the guy's head when WHAM!! The enemy back-knuckled him in the temple. Spike fell to the floor in pain. Then Eddy got mad and he fired a big wad of gunk right at the fiend's eyes.

Splat!! It was a direct hit, but then the evil man just chucked both his chains at the boy. Eddy made a sliding movement to dodge them. Then the weapons clattered against the shelf of books behind him. The shelf and the floor immediately began to catch fire from the immense heat, but then the flames disappeared just as quickly. Johnny had the slop out of his eyes and his Esper powers slinging about once more. However, without any chains, he just had his fists. He held both up, and Eddy saw how they were glowing blue, just like his chains. Eddy just pulled out his nightstick. Chains smiled at his opponent and sped towards him.

Being smart about it, Eddy blocked each punch the man threw with his nightstick, but they came one after another with no end in sight. When the chance came, Eddy threw a kick and tripped the man, but when he came down, he just grabbed Eddy by the left arm. Again, the snake could feel that intense burning going through his clothes and his skin. "RRRRGGGG!!" Eddy moaned and he desperately tore his arm out of his grasp. Now he was standing back, panting and staring at the convict very cautiously. He was very aware of the fact he could get a third injury after this. Chains just stared back with another toothy grin...

Then, BZZZZZTTTT!!! The man was suddenly electrocuted. He flew back, hit the desk, and fell on his butt. When he shook his head and looked up, he saw that a young man with grey skin and a lot of leather had just walked in through the door. It was Don. He made a movement with his right hand as though he were grabbing onto a handle of some sort, and then something long, lightning bolt-shaped, and glowing yellow materialized in his hand. Small bolts of white electricity were flying off it here and there. "'Wunderbolt'," Don said. "The perfect ability for taking down bounties..."

Chains growled. He got up and made claw formations out of his glowing blue hands. The last thing he wanted was a third punk trying to take him down, yet here he was. He decided someone was going to have to die right then and there...

Then BOOM!!! Both Eddy and Spike had leapt forward and given the man a solid punch in the stomach. The man's hands stopped glowing and he fell face forward with the wind knocked out of him. Once he landed on the floor, both of the boys started kicking the man repeatedly. A sweatdrop rolled down Don's face as he watched this abuse. He made his lightning bolt disappear and he approached the boys so he could pull them off the perpetrator. The villain was panting and coughing.

"You wanna know what I did?" he asked. Eddy nodded, even though the man couldn't see him do it. "I killed seven different people. That's what I did. And it felt good..."

Eddy raised his eyebrow at him. "That's it? You killed some people?"

"No, that's not it," Chains continued and then coughed. "The last person I killed was a cop. That was when they finally started to come after me. I did it all out of self-defense, you see. But there was something interesting about what he said when he died..."

"What did he say?" Spike asked.

"He said that we're all doomed. He said the Abyszar would come, he'd take over the world, and it would all be over for everyone, including the people of Galilei..." The wicked man gave a hoarse laugh. "But that would mean that there are countries out there other than Galilei!! Preposterous, right?! GYA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!"

There was a bit of a pause. Then Eddy spoke. "I don't think so."

"Neither do I," said Spike.

"I don't either, to be honest," Don added. The criminal laughed once more.

"I don't need your pity," he spat. "If you're gonna arrest me, go ahead and do it. And if you want the spaceship, go ahead and take it. It's in the basement. Maybe I wasn't meant to use it. Maybe I was never meant to leave this godforsaken place. Maybe I really do deserve to just rot away in some cell..."

There was another pause. Then Don produced a long rope and he used it to tie up the evil man. Chains didn't put up a fight.

"So the treasure's actually a spaceship, huh?" Eddy mused. Then someone came running into the room. It was a little man in a black coat and a hat. He skidded to a halt and started babbling something to Chains.

"Boss, you gotta see this!!" he said, not realizing his superior was tied up and had company. "The Southwest Volcano just blew up and-- Wait, who are YOU people?? What did you do to the boss?!"

"Never mind about that," Eddy interjected. He walked up to the nervous underling and grabbed him by the shirt. "What were you saying about the Southwest Volcano?"

"I-It blew up," the crook stammered. "It was like a bomb went off inside it. Now the entire top half is gone and... I think I saw a UFO flying past it!!"

"A UFO, huh?" Eddy repeated.

"How did you see it?" Spike asked.

"Through the telescope in the observatory. I'll take you to it if you just don't hurt me!!"

Eddy took his hands off the man. "Done. Now lead the way!"

"Right," the little man said. Then he ran out of the room and Eddy and Spike followed. Don stayed behind with Johnny Chains.

"So you think there's something beyond Galilei, huh?" Don asked.

"What of it?" Johnny replied coldly.

"Just so you know, you're not alone. I think the planet's too big to just be one ocean and one little star-shaped island. There's gotta be other people out there. They gotta know we're here."

"Heh. I guess you and I aren't too different..."

"You could say that..."

Scene 2/5
Meanwhile, Ryan and Greg were finally in the basement. Even though the lights were on down here as well, the place still creeped the boys out. For one, it was like a maze; a maze that had statues standing around everywhere instead of walls. All of the statues were very strange-looking. Some of them looked more like humans and Elves than others. One was of a man with a lion for a head, one of a giant six-fingered hand, and one of an Esp with a tail that split into eight octopus-like tentacles. And that wasn't even the half of it.

"Sheesh," Ryan remarked. "What goes on inside the head of the guy who makes THIS stuff?"

"Nightmares, probably," Greg suggested, and the two continued to navigate their ways around all the statues. Eventually, they were finally in front of that thing way in the back that was about the size of a Garguinea Pig, but a little bigger. From the looks of it, it was some sort of device like a big, old rocket with four mechanical legs standing it up and a cockpit. However, the single strangest thing about the device was its paintjob, not to mention it had a skeleton lying down next to it with a paintbrush in its hand. With the paintjob Monet had done, this ship looked like a portrait of that very skeleton lying down next to the machine. Even the pattern on the floor was worked in as well as the machine itself. It was truly a bizarre work of art.

"Why would this guy paint a picture of himself long after he died painting?" Ryan wondered.

"Who cares?" Greg replied. He walked up to the device and banged his hand on it. "Do you know what this thing is?"

"A giant metal spider?"

"No, of course not," Greg corrected. There was a big, shiny look in his red eyes. "Don't you see, Ryan? It's a UFO!!!..."

Scene 3/5
Eddy was looking out the window through a telescope in another room. This way, he saw a circle, and inside that circle was a smoldering half volcano. There was a painful, tugging feeling deep inside the young Esper's chest. Had anyone been hurt? Anyone he cared about?

"Bad news, Spike," Eddy said gravely. "The Academy's been hit."

"GAHH!! Lemme see!!" Spike practically shoved Eddy out of the way and saw the sight for himself. He was horrified. "Dear God, no!!"

"Forget about the volcano, look at the UFO!!" Chains' underling urged. He adjusted the telescope's position without Spike's permission and then he saw it: a giant, silver object flying around in the sky like a disk with a dome formation at the top. It even had windows and blinking lights.

"What the," Spike blurted. "What is that thing?!?"

Now Eddy pushed Spike aside and saw for himself. "Yup. It's a flying saucer."

"But what's it doing? Where's it going?" Spike asked.

Eddy followed where the thing was going with the telescope. He said aloud what it did. "It looks as though it's landing in the woods East of here."

"Whoa," Spike said. "Should we check it out?"

"Well, I know ONE guy who's going to want to..." The duo was about to leave the room, but their path was blocked by the little underling. He had a gun pointed at Eddy.

"I got you right where I want you, you little brats!!" he said, trying to sound brave. "Now you're gonna pay for-"

"-Oh, shut up," Eddy interrupted, and he splattered some goo in the diminutive man's face. He dropped the gun and started panicking.

"GAAAAHH!! I'M BLIND!!"

Crash!! Spike finished the job by slamming the telescope down on the guy's head. Now there were broken pieces lying on the ground, but so was the criminal. "Right," Eddy said. "Now let's go tell Don what we're doing..."

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Don was walking out of the office that Chains was in. He walked down the hallway a bit and was greeted by the two of Sarah and Dryzma running towards him. Sarah, of course, was fine, but Dryzma was rubbing at a sore spot on the back of his head. "What are you guys doing?" Don asked once they stopped before him.

"As soon as Dryzma woke up, we had to go and see if you were okay," Sarah explained.

"Yeah," Dryzma agreed. "So what'd I miss?"

"Not much," Don responded. "Me, Eddy, and Spike just beat up Chains. Now they're in the observatory, checking out a volcano and a UFO, or something."

"WHAT?" Sarah and Dryzma said together. Then Eddy and Spike ran up to the group from behind.

"Don!!" Spike called, grabbing the man's attention.

"Yeah?"

"The UFO just landed in the woods. Me and Eddy are gonna go check it out."

"Why?" Don inquired.

"There's a chance the people inside it were behind the volcano blowing up," Eddy elaborated. "If anything happened to Seth or the others... then this is personal..."

Don shrugged his shoulders. "Do what you want," he said. "Just make sure you come back in one piece so we can split up the bounty."

"Right. Thanks, Don!!" Eddy said, and he and Spike were bolting down the stairs. Sarah and Dryzma looked confused.

"What do we do now?" Sarah asked.

"Round up all of the guys we took down," Don stated, glancing at the unconscious body of Brett. "There's a chance THEIR heads are worth something, too..."

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Eddy and Spike ran like crazy. They burst out of the mansion, hopped the fence, and began descending the hill. Then they ran through the streets of Nova, looking for its outskirts. In time, they had finally reached the city limits and were running on a dirt road towards the forest. They didn't stop until they were amongst the trees and other vegetation. Now they had to carefully walk and poke their ways through. In anything they did, they kept their eyes on the light coming from the center of these woods. When they got close enough, they found it belonged to, of all things, a campfire.

Sitting around it were about thirty different men. They would have looked like Pixies, but all of them had green skin, exaggerated facial features, and pointy ears shaped like boomerangs. Not to mention all of them were wearing suits like silver pajamas, if not some variation. The biggest and most muscular of them all was wearing black pants, black boots, and a poncho that was of a sky blue camouflage design. He had a white beard, a big, pointy nose, squinty, red eyes, and a half bald head with the rest of his white hair in a ponytail that stood up proudly in the back. He also had a hoop in his left ear and a gold tooth. At one point, he stood up and spread his arms, which seemed to be clad in some type of shiny armor.

"Members of the Zonnic Gang," he said in a strong, gruff voice. "We have arrived at Galilei. Many of you thought it was impossible, but we did it. If the rumors are true, then this is the place where the third and final Evil Eye can be found. Tomorrow morning, we'll begin our search. We'll tear all the villages apart on this cursed island looking for it! And we won't stop until we find it!!"

The other extra terrestrials were starting to cheer, getting excited by their leader's speech. Spike just looked confused. "What's an 'Evil Eye'??" he asked.

"It's something that gives you godlike powers in exchange for your soul," Eddy explained. Then he added more quietly, "So not only aliens, but Evil Eyes are real, too, eh? This has been quite the interesting day..."

"And then I'll become a Triclopse, the likes of which, this world has never seen before!!" the leader went on. "And then we will RULE THE WORLD!!!"

At this, the other aliens gave out a really big cheer, all of them intoxicated with the idea of world domination. They even started hooting and making noises like wolves howling at the moons.

Spike was starting to get nervous now. Cold sweat was rolling down his face. "Eddy," he asked, "is it me, or are all these guys about a million times worse than Johnny Chains and his gang?" No answer came. "Eddy?!" Then he looked and saw that the snake had left their hiding spot. Now he was out in the open with the aliens who hadn't noticed him yet. Spike slapped his forehead and Eddy stuck two fingers in his mouth.

"TWWEEEEEEEET!!!" The aliens immediately stopped cheering and hooting after hearing this loud, tinny sound. They turned around and faced the source, Eddy Constrictor. "So, you guys wanna take over the world, huh?" he said. "Well, that's too bad, because I happen to be the defender of this planet! If you guys want it, you're gonna have to go through me first!!"

The aliens all exchanged weird looks. A few of them laughed. The leader cocked an eyebrow at the snake boy. "And who in blazes are you, kid?" he demanded.

"Eddy Constrictor," Eddy introduced. "I'm your worst nightmare..."

Even more of the aliens laughed this time. "Are you declaring war on us, boy?" the leader asked.

"Yeah, I'm declaring war on you!! You wanna make the first move?!"

"Very well then. MEN!! TAKE AIM!!" Suddenly, all thirty of the Zonnic's were pointing some hi-tech-looking guns at the boy. They each shined red dots of light on the boy. He looked like he had a bad case of the space chicken pox. Eddy's pupils grew very small, his hands fell to his side like dead weights, and his brow became completely covered in cold sweat. Then he lifted his hands up as though these were the cops from the Academy he was dealing with. "Still want to continue with this war, boy?"

"Uhhh..."

"We're going to take over this sniveling little planet," the leader growled, "whether you like it or not..."

Then CLINK!! Eddy saw a familiar metal cylinder land right between himself and the gaggle of goons in front of him. Everyone stared at it for one second until FWISSSSSHH!! The gas started pouring out again. Both Eddy and the aliens were coughing as the cloud enveloped them. Then Eddy felt someone grab him by the arm again, just like that time. Now they were running through the woods together, desperate to escape.

"GET THEM!!" the leader roared. The minions obeyed and proceeded in hunting down the two boys. Now they had a chase scene on their hands.

"Ryan, am I glad to see you!!" Eddy panted as the two ran through the forest.

"You can thank me later. Now what's this about you heading off to see some space aliens WITHOUT TELLING ME?!?"

"Hey, you'd've done the same thing in my position."

Suddenly, WHACK!! Someone smacked Eddy on the back of the head. He yelped and uttered some profanity. Now Spike was running alongside him and Ryan. "You're a freaking idiot, you know that?!" he fumed. "Who do you think you are, single handedly declaring war on those guys?! Hercules?!!"

"They're trying to take over the world, you twit!! What else was I supposed to do?!" Then, in the blink of an eye, Spike was suddenly trapped inside a net made out of a blue light. He fell to the ground, writhing in it. "SPIKE!!!" Then Eddy was trapped in the same kind of net. When Ryan saw this, he turned pale. "RYAN!!!" Eddy called out. "DON'T WORRY ABOUT US!! SAVE YOURSELF!!!" Ryan gave a quick nod to his old friend and continued running. At that moment, Eddy swore he could see tears in his eyes...

In a matter of time, the aliens had the two boys surrounded. The leader approached them. With them lying on the ground, trapped like roaches, the man seemed like a towering mass of blue, green, and silver. "I'll ask you again," he snarled. "Do you still want to continue with this war?"

Spike said nothing. Both their throats had gone dry. "Bet on it," Eddy said.

"I see..." Then the leader made a sudden movement with one of his silver arms. "BANG!!!" Eddy and Spike flinched. The aliens all burst out laughing when they saw this. All their captain had done was make a gun out of his finger and yell "bang". Even he couldn't help but chuckle sadistically. "You Galileos are truly a pathetic race, just as I imagined," he laughed, shaking his head. "No, I won't kill you. That'd be too easy. No, I'm going to make things a little more interesting. SYKES!!"

A squat alien with big hands stepped forward. He had a really big mouth with lots of vicious-looking fangs sticking out of it. Strapped to his back, he had what looked like a pair of oversized bazookas. "Yes, sir?" he asked.

"Send them someplace far away from here."

"Yes, sir." The squat alien used his jumbo-sized hands to pick up both Eddy and Spike and load them into the bazookas he had. The boys soon found themselves trapped and cramped at the bottoms of two deep, dark wells. Their stomachs sank as they dreaded the inevitable.

"NOW, FIRE!!!"

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! The human projectiles had been fired. In an instant, they flew right out of the forest and high into the sky. Then they became too far away to see, and thus they disappeared. As far as the Zonnic Gang was concerned, the two nuisances were now gone. Victory was theirs.

"Tomorrow morning, we strike," the leader said again, curling his right hand into an iron fist. "THE WORLD IS OURS!! NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO STOP US!! NO ONE!!! GWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAHHH!!!..."

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Holy crap, you've been busy! Unfortunately, I haven't read anything yet. Schoolwork's being an uppity beyotch and I have yet to clear up a significant amount of time to get started on it. It'll probably take a while but I will definately get around to this.

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Take your time, there's no rush. Right now, though, I'm kind of in a slump. I can't really figure out what's going to happen in Chapter 5. Either way, I'm having a LOT of fun writing this thing.

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Chapter 5 - The White Rabbit Circus
Scene 1/5
Don, Sarah, Dryzma, and Greg looked at their work: a pile of five different criminals lying down in the middle of the foyer. Having arrived late, Greg only knew so much about this group of five before them. "The one with the eye patch is Johnny Chains," he said, "but who are the other four?"

"Zack Knife, Brett Sickle, Boon Sickle, and Mike Pistol," Don explained. "All of them are ever so slightly infamous for their crimes. Now we can take'em to jail and reap the rewards..."

Just then, the door burst open. Ryan ran into the room and skidded to a halt. He put his hands on his knees and started to pant heavily. The other four looked a little worried about him. "You guys," he rasped between two of his breaths.

"Spit it out, Ryan," Don stated bluntly.

"The aliens have landed," Ryan continued, forcing himself to catch his breath. "They're called the Zonnic Gang, or something, and they're trying to take over the world. They said something about finding the Evil Eye and becoming a Triclopse. Then they spotted me, Eddy, and Spike, and we ran, but..."

Sarah looked intently at their bespectacled partner. "What happened?" she asked.

"They got them," Ryan resumed. "They got Eddy and Spike. They stuffed them into two bazookas and fired. Now they could be anywhere in the country!!"

The kids all exchanged nervous looks with each other. Only Don was able to break the silence. "So, Evil Eyes are real, too, eh?" he said. The others looked at him.

"You know about all this?" Dryzma asked, very confusedly.

"I know a little bit," the Ghoul elaborated as he lit another clove cigarette. "I know that something fishy's been going on on this island, and I know it was inevitable that something like this was going to happen eventually."

"Like what?" Greg asked.

Don blew out a long stream of smoke. Then he put his shades on his forehead again, revealing his yellow eyes to the team. "Something that would put the people of Galilei to the ultimate test," he said. "I can't say what this will unfold into, but one thing's for sure: once this is all over, Galilei will never be the same again..."

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"There are only two kinds of people in this world: those who are and aren't Triclopses. The difference lies in that a Triclopse has a third eye. However, this is not something he's had since birth. The only way anyone can get an eye like this is if they first seek out what is called an 'Evil Eye'.

"An Evil Eye is a small crystal ball-like object, made of a material so hard, not even diamond can cut it. Only three of these Eyes have and ever existed. Those who sought them always had the darkest of hearts and intentions. This is because those with corrupt hearts are the only ones the Eyes will accept.

"The exact mechanisms behind the powers of the Evil Eyes are unknown, but they seem to have minds of their own. They can tell just how good or how perverted a person is simply by being close to them. If the person touching one is evil enough in its 'eyes', it will 'accept' him. The Eye will disappear and permanently become a part of that person... at least until he dies.

"Now the person is a Triclopse. He can do all kinds of impossible things now, like create tsunamis or make entire buildings crumble to dust, all with just a flick of his wrist. This sounds awesome, but being a Triclopse comes with one major drawback: you won't get older, but you WILL start to look more and more like a monster as the years go by. Also, while you CAN live forever, you can still be killed. Only then will the Eye leave you..."

"PSST!! Eddy," said an ominous, echoing voice. Eddy looked up from the book he was reading. He was sitting beneath a tree on a hill on a sunny day, but then the sky turned black and the tree's leaves all turned brown and fell off. Then nine of its branches sprouted brown, Cyclops-like heads with sticks for hair. Each of them had long, sturdy branches for necks, which moved around like snakes. All nine heads glared at the boy and smiled with their forked tongues hanging out. "Whatcha readin'?" the heads asked.

"None of your business," Eddy said resentfully.

"You were reading the part about Triclopses, weren't you?"

"Yeah, what about it?"

"Eddy Constrictor, have I ever told you that... I'M a Triclopse??"

Eddy blinked, and in the next second, all nine of the Cyclops heads had sprouted second and third eyes. Now 27 different eyes were glaring at him, and the sky was red...

And then Eddy woke up. When he looked around, he noticed he had been lying inside of a sleeping bag inside of a tent. He also noticed he had no shirt, no jacket, and no chains on, leaving his pale body exposed. Even the bellybutton ring he had could be seen. However, he also had bandages where Johnny Chains had burned him.

Eddy sunk his face into his hands. What had happened? How had he gotten here? What was this place? Then it all came back to the boy, pouring into his head like a waterfall. He snapped his face out of his hands and stared fiercely. He remembered meeting Ryan, Don, Spike, and three others. He remembered the seven of them venturing into a haunted house and beating up a bunch of criminals. Then the Southwest Volcano blew up, aliens landed, and...

"Oh, you're awake now?" Eddy turned and looked. Poking his head inside the tent was a chubby man with a single Cyclops-type eye in the middle of his face.

"AAAUUUGGGHHH!!!" Eddy screamed.

"Oh, there's no need to be frightened. I'm not a monster; I'm a freak, just like you!"

Eddy immediately stopped looking fearful and started looking offended. "Excuse me?" he elicited.

"Now, there's no shame in being a freak. It doesn't matter if you're a Cyclops, or a wolf man, or a frog boy..."

"I'm a snake," Eddy said defensively.

"All that matters is that, in Master Hare's eyes, ALL of us are freaks. We're all equally hideous and disgusting in our own beautiful ways!"

"What are you talking about?!"

"Come, let me show you..."

Eddy and the Cyclops walked out of the tent together. Now Eddy could see that they were in a vast cave somewhere. The underground room was illuminated by a big fire blazing in the center. Eddy could see other tents along the walls, all of them striped red, yellow, and blue. And dancing and performing tricks around the fire was a number of very strange-looking people wearing leotards, just like the Cyclops. There was a two-headed man eating fire, a four-armed woman making four different magic rings connect and disconnect in different ways, and a man covered entirely in fur gnawing on a bone. Eddy had never seen so many human oddities in one place before. He felt as though he was living in a dream.

"This is Corona Cave," the Cyclops explained. "Here, all the members of the White Rabbit Circus are taking refuge."

"Why here?" Eddy asked.

"We're hiding."

"Hiding?"

"Yes. Approximately three days ago, the town we were touring, Quasar, was attacked by... space aliens..."

Eddy's face grew very dark all of a sudden. "You don't say..."

"I know it sounds crazy, but they HAD to be aliens. That green skin, those fancy suits, those hi-tech weapons... We were powerless!! All we could do was grab our things and run. Now we're hiding out here, waiting for the cops to handle it."

"The COPS?!" Eddy blurted. "You can't count on the cops for anything!! They act like they're the cure for the cancer of this nation, but really they're just trained pigs wearing uniforms. They couldn't catch a single snake, and there's so many spots they missed in this country, it's not even funny. Have you ever heard of a group called the Redcaps?!"

The Cyclops looked at the boy with a single, squinty eye. "Did you have a traumatic experience with cops, or something?"

"I just don't like them, that's all," Eddy sighed.

"Well, you'll like it here," the Cyclops said. "The pay is good, and you get to see the country, see all the people in it, and see all them seeing you and how much nature cursed you!"

"I'm not a freak!!" Eddy declared. "Just because I have three-fingered hands and a forked tongue and stuff doesn't mean I'm a freak!! Who decides this stuff, anyway?!"

"Master Hare, of course."

"Which one's he?"

The Cyclops pointed him out. Out of all the people here, he was the one sitting in a chair away from the others who were dancing around the fire. He was wearing a type of fancy-looking red tuxedo, complete with a can sitting on his lap. "If you don't wanna be in the White Rabbit Circus, talk to him about it," the Cyclops explained. "He says you'd do well here..."

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A man with legs for arms and arms for legs was walking on all fours, balancing a spinning plate on a stick on his nose. A man with no eyes was sawing a woman in half and two clowns with no arms were playing leapfrog with each other. Eddy and the ringmaster watched all this as they talked to each other.

"I'm telling you, kid, you're perfect," Master Hare said. Up close, Eddy could see that he, too, was deformed. His face looked as though it had the nose, whiskers, and buckteeth of a rabbit. He was also puffing on a cigar. "You're half human, half snake, you're an Esper... You're perfect."

"First off, I'm not half snake; I'm half Lamia."

"I have no idea what that is."

"Secondly, I don't belong here. I have dreams. I can't see them get fulfilled if I'm wandering around with some circus."

"And what ARE your dreams, kid?" the hare asked.

"I wanna leave this island and find the Tree of Life."

"PWA HA HA HA HA HA!!' the ringmaster laughed, blowing a whole ton of smoke out of his mouth as he did so. "You're kidding, right?!"

"No, I'm not."

"Well, that's all the more reason for you to join us. Both your dreams are impossible."

"Oh, yeah? Then how do you explain the aliens that showed up?" Hare didn't say anything to this. He just looked at Eddy, knocked some ashes off the end of his cigar, and took another drag as he watched his performers. The eyeless man was now sticking a bunch of swords into a box. "What town was it you were touring again?"

"Quasar. It's East of here." The rabbit took another drag of his cigar. "But I'd stay away from there if I were you. There's no guarantee the cops haven't gotten rid of the aliens yet."

"I'll get rid of those aliens..."

Hare was about to put the cigar to his mouth again, but then he put it down and looked at the boy with raised eyebrows. "You? Handle the aliens?"

"That's what I said."

Hare laughed and shook his head. "I'll believe that when I see it."

"Well, you won't have to see it. You can just stay here, hide, and wait until someone else handles it... and that's me."

Hare let out another hearty laugh. "Your strength isn't your three-fingered hands; it's your impudence!!"

"Call it what you will. I'm gonna do it."

The ringmaster gave the kid a good long stare. "You're serious, aren't you?"

"Deadly."

"Alright, I'll tell you what," the ringmaster said. "I'll let you out of this cave and on your way to Quasar. Don't come back until you got proof you did away with those aliens. Then I'll give you 100,000 halos, and we'll call it even."

"And if I can't prove it?" Eddy asked.

"What do you mean, 'And if you can't,'? If you can't, you'll be dead!!"

Eddy smirked. "Fair enough..."

After that, the freaks let Eddy have his clothes and things back. A few of them led him to the entrance of the cave and saw him off as he ventured into the forest of pine trees. They wished him luck on his journey to find Quasar and save it from the space aliens, even though it sounded undoable. Not all of them were so supportive, though. One of the members of the circus watched Eddy go with a contemptuous look on his face. He had a black goatee and a red cloak with yellow spots all over it. It also came with a hood that cast a deep shadow over his eyes.

"So you think you can take on the aliens, huh? Well, we'll just see about that..."

Scene 4/5
So I was out for three days straight, Eddy summarized to himself as he hiked through the woods. On the first day, those freaks found me hanging from a tree, which was the same day the aliens struck. Who knows what other felonies they've committed since then? And where in blazes is Spike?!

Then Eddy saw four individual figures walking towards him. As they drew closer, the teenager could see it was a family of Pixies. There was a tall male with teal skin, and his wife and two young sons were orange. Eddy waved to them.

"Hi!" said the teal man. "Where are you headed?"

"Quasar," Eddy answered as the five of them gathered.

"Ooh, don't go there," the wife said. "There's a big battle going on over there. It's just not safe anymore!"

"Is it between the cops and a bunch of aliens?" Eddy guessed.

"Well, yes, it is," said the man. "How did you know?"

"A little birdie told me," Eddy shrugged.

"Well, it's still best if you stay away. That's why we're heading over to my sister's," the wife explained.

"Well, you guys have fun with that. I'm still headed for Quasar."

"Alright. Be careful!" said the husband, and the two parties were on their separate ways again.

"Mommy, was that a lizard or a frog?" Eddy heard one of the little boys say.

"Now, honey, that's not very nice."

"He was a salamander. That's both."

"Dear!!"

Eddy smirked and rolled his eyes as he walked away. It's good to be a freak...

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Don and the others have probably already long since gotten the reward for Johnny Chains. They left me out, those jerks!! Eddy thought to himself as he continued his journey through the woods. At first, he felt a little irritated, but then he realized something and began to relax a little. No, I shouldn't say that, he thought. I don't even know what they've been doing these past three days. All I know is that it feels good to beat up bad guys and get paid for it, too... just like how I'm about to right now...

Eventually, Eddy wandered into an opening among all the pine trees. Once he did, BANG!!! On the other side, he saw a huge flash of light and the materialization of a big cloud of blue smoke. He stood and stared, waiting for the smoke to clear away. As it did this, he could see a silhouette in the fog. It belonged to that of a hooded man dressed in red. Once he was revealed, he looked up and glared at Eddy with big blue eyes. All Eddy knew about him was that he was from the circus.

"Who are you?" the snake boy asked.

"I am Merluke the Magician, and I have a bone to pick with you," the goateed man said. He pulled down his hood and unveiled that he had a completely bald head, as well as a third eye.

Eddy flinched at the sight. "Y-You're a Triclopse??" he stammered.

"I'm a freak, Eddy Constrictor, just like you, now listen to me. You may like talking big and saying you'll defeat the aliens once and for all, but I'm not falling for it. I can tell you're nothing but a paper tiger just by looking at you. You can try challenging those evil space aliens, but you'll be fried within seconds. I'm here to prove that..."

Eddy glared at the three-eyed man. "So you wanna stop me, eh?"

The magician held out his two hands and made two hoops of fire materialize above them. "You're a good freak, Eddy Constrictor. Join us. Don't throw your life away..."

Eddy pulled out his nightstick. "If you're gonna fight me, then fight me. But I'm not backing down from the aliens."

Merluke scowled bitterly. "So be it," he growled, and he launched the two fire hoops. The snake jumped through both when they overlapped, but then they sailed off, hit the trees from behind, and made them catch fire. In a panic, Eddy pointed his palms at the fires and shot a bunch of blobs of slime at them. In this manner, the flames were extinguished.

Then BAM!! Merluke had gotten Eddy in the side with a swing of his staff. Eddy rolled, then got back on his feet. He ran towards the wizard swinging his club, but the enemy blocked every blow with his staff. Then Eddy placed one foot behind one of his opponent's and yanked. The mage fell to his back. Eddy jumped up with his nightstick above his head, ready to send it crashing down on the man's skull. Merluke just pointed his staff at his chest. The crystal ball at the end of it glowed white, and then ZING!! A ball of some sparkling energy flew out of it and hit the Constrictor in the stomach. It felt just like a really hard punch. The energy vanished and Eddy fell to the ground. Then the magician got up, stomped his foot on the kid's chest, and pointed his staff at his face.

"Face it, kid," the magician said. "You're not even man enough to defeat ME!! How can you expect to take on some aliens, huh?!"

Eddy opened up his palms and BLOOORP!! Now Merluke's feet were stuck to the ground thanks to the puddle of green glue he was now standing in. Confused, he tried pulling his legs out, but the substance was too sticky. Then WHAM!! Eddy knocked the wind out of him using a powerful strike with his nightstick. The man dropped his staff and fell to his knees, clutching at his stomach. Eddy put his sandaled foot on his bald head. "I'm gonna go after those aliens whether you like it or not," he stated. "Still wanna stop me?"

Merluke growled and attempted to grab at Eddy's leg with his arms. The snake jumped back just in time and fired another big round of slime. BLLLOOORRRPPP!! Now the entire man's body was covered in this thick, green slime, except for his head. He looked shocked and appalled. "How dare you!!" he roared.

"Don't sweat it," Eddy said calmly, putting his nightstick away. "If you still wanna stop me, just wait three hours. That's how long it takes for the slime to disappear on its own." And the halfling began to walk away.

"Three hours?! I can't wait that long!! Wait, get back here!! I'm not through with you!! You can't just walk away from me!!! AAUURRGGHH!!!"

The last thing Eddy heard coming out of that guy's mouth was a long string of curses and threats. They faded away in his ears as he walked deeper and deeper into the woods. Eventually, all he could hear was the sound of the bugs buzzing and the birds chirping. All was peaceful again... at least, for now.

The Zonnic Gang, the young Esper thought. I'm gonna take you out, just like how I took out our friend Merluke here. Like I said, I'm Eddy Constrictor, your worst nightmare... But then the boy felt a stinging pain on the back of his right hand. He winced and clutched at his Esper mark. I'm still just a human, though...

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Chapter 6 - The Eodists
Scene 1/4
After walking for a few hours in the woods, Eddy was finally able to arrive at the small town of Quasar. Looking at it from atop a hill, he could see the place was surrounded by a big fence made out of giant, wooden stakes. All he had to do was find the gate and ask the guards for permission to enter.

The entrance he did find, but there was something a might dubious about its two guards. Both were big, burly men, but they were wearing some very strange robes. The robes were green and they came with very tall, pointy hoods. The only openings on the hoods were three individual eyeholes for the men to see out of, even though they only had two eyes. They also had amulets around their necks. Each amulet had a picture of a triangle surrounded by three ominous, almond-shaped eyes. All that, and the robes these men were wearing had no sleeves. Eddy could plainly see their ripped arms. The one on the left had blue arms, and the other, green.

"And who are you, punk?" the blue one said when the boy approached.

"Eddy Constrictor," the Lamia replied. "And shouldn't you guys be sacrificing a bunny to your god somewhere, or something?"

"We'll decide what our god needs and when," said the one on the right. "Now state your business."

Eddy smacked his left palm by punching it with his fist. "I'm gonna go in there and take out those space aliens."

The guard on the left laughed. "Good luck with that, buddy."

"Wait a minute," the other guard said. He pointed a finger at the young snake. "'Eddy Constrictor,' you said?"

"Yeah, that's right."

"Well then, maybe we can let you in after all..."

Eddy looked surprised and a little confused. "What? Really?"

"Yeah. Of course we can..." The two guards withdrew two guns and pointed them at Eddy. The Esper recognized what kind they were, especially since they were shining two red dots on his neck.

"Uhhh..."

ZZIPP!! Suddenly, two black darts were now stuck in the kid's neck. He glanced down at the bristles on the ends of them, then began to feel very faint. In seconds, the boy slumped to the ground in a state of unconsciousness. The two guards laughed.

"Eddy Constrictor," the right one said. "Boy, will the master be pleased..."

Scene 2/4
A little while later, Eddy awoke to find he had been lying on a cold, concrete floor for some time. Clutching at his head with one hand, he slowly stood up. Once he was back on his feet, he saw someone sitting in a big chair like a throne. He was wearing the exact same green robe and amulet the guards had been, only the robe was of a darker tone. Confused, the boy looked around. He saw he was in someone's basement, and behind him was a whole slew of guys in green hoods. All of them were staring at him.

"Look, he's awake!"

"Man, look at those hands."

"Shush! The master speaks!!"

"So, Eddy Constrictor," said the man in the throne, "we meet again..."

"That voice," Eddy mused. "You're..."

"That's right..." The man then pulled down his hood, revealing his pink skin and his red and blue eyes. With this, Eddy's suspicions had been confirmed. "Officer Richard NcShkanski, at your service..."

"YOU!!" Eddy blurted and pointed. "You freakin' wallet Nazi!! What do you want with me?!"

"Now, what kind of way is that to greet an old friend?"

"Don't talk that way with me. You tried to burn my book and now you're an Eodist!! Don't you ever try to do anything that ISN'T evil?!"

"I'm not the evil one, Eddy Constrictor; you are. I may be an Eodist now, but I've been doing some research on you. You're a wild, ornery, out of control little boy who likes to pick fights with bandits and thugs. Violence is your means to every end. And now you plan on attacking the aliens? Preposterous..."

"Hey, at least I haven't given up on fighting for justice, unlike you."

"I'm still a police officer, you little brat, which is more than you'll ever be."

Eddy gave a cynical laugh and folded his arms. "Oh yeah? And I suppose you're any better at fighting space aliens than I am?"

A very dark look fell over NcShkanski's wrinkled face. "That," he began, "is the very thing, Eddy Constrictor. The aliens are NOT to be fought. Not by you, not by the police, not by anyone."

Eddy gave the N a very quizzical look. "What do you mean?"

"When you left the academy, I looked into that book of yours and why someone like you would want to protect it so dearly. I found out it's a book that suggests many different things, including that there may be islands in this godforsaken ocean other than Galilei. Then again, it also suggests that everything happens for a reason and that there may be a force out there that is beyond our understanding as human beings...

"You're not the only one who's seen the light, Eddy Constrictor. After much careful thought and consideration, it's now clear to me exactly what justice is and why it must always win no matter what. Now I'm not just fighting for the world; I'm fighting for that ancient, mystical force that has been watching over us since the beginning of time. I'm fighting for the almighty Eodi!!"

"HAIL THE EODI!!" the other Eodists all yelled simultaneously.

Eddy slowly raised one eyebrow at his former teacher. "The Eodi, huh?" he said. "That's the god you're willing to sacrifice everything for?"

"The Eodi is no ordinary deity, Eddy. The Eodi is the dark secret that lies at the end of the tunnel. It's the darkness in all our hearts, beckoning us from the day we're born. It's our own desires to defy authority and wreak havoc in every way possible. It's a force that we can't silence, even with all the concentration in the world. It's all powerful and we are like ants in its presence..."

"Aaand," Eddy drawled, "this has WHAT to do with not challenging the aliens?

"Don't you get it, Eddy Constrictor?" the N asked. "The Eodi isn't just a god; it's a being with a mind of its own. It doesn't just watch over the world and see everything that goes on in it; it thinks and it makes decisions. It decides what's best for the world and it sends servants to carry out those decisions.

"But now the time has come for a very special servant to appear. This servant is a man from the heavens with the strength of a thousand men. He's a man with plans to dominate the world and set our inferior race right once and for all. And he's a man who will seek the Three Evil Eyes in his quest to finally give the Eodi a body of flesh and blood so it can walk the earth and rule it from our standpoint...

"Zeke Zonnic, the leader of the aliens, is that servant, Eddy Constrictor. Therefore, in everything that he does, we must not defy him. If he wants to take over a town, we must let him. If he wants to find the Evil Eye hidden on this island, we must help him. He is the one, Eddy Constrictor. He is the fabled ABYSZAR..."

Eddy laughed disbelievingly. "You gotta be kidding me," he said. "That loud, obnoxious butt hole? The Abyzsar?? Come on!! If I were an all-knowing evil force, I sure as heck would be a lot more creative than THAT in selecting who my ultimate servant would be. Maybe someone who DOESN'T have a brain the size of a walnut."

NcShkanski breathed through his teeth. "You dare insult the fabled Abyszar?!"

Eddy gave another laugh. He looked NcShkanski in the eye with pity. "Trust me. He ain't the Abyszar. And I'll prove it by tearing him a new one."

There was a very hate-filled look in N's mismatching eyes. "Even though I told you he must not be challenged?!"

"If YOU told me not to do it, isn't that just an even bigger indication that I should?"

"YOU INSOLENT LITTLE MONSTER!! JUST DIE!!!" N leapt from his seat, pulled out his nightstick, and started fighting Eddy with it. The man was fueled by his fury (and how), and yet he couldn't land a single blow on the kid he loathed so much. Eddy skillfully blocked each blow and even retaliated with some of his own. However, the opposing cop was equally good. The two enemies just kept dancing around on the basement floor, filling the air with the whacking sounds of their sticks.

Then BAM!! Eddy blocked an attack and side-kicked the man right in the stomach. N flew back and landed on the floor. Then Eddy turned and faced the crowd of green hoods behind him. "Who else wants some?!" he snarled.

Then Eddy saw a very familiar sight: all thirty of these guys, more or less, pointing guns at him. The kid was once again completely covered in glowing red dots. He laughed nervously.

"EVERYONE, PUT THE GUNS DOWN NOW!!!"

Surprisingly, all the hooded men did just this, but they also turned around and faced the stairs leading into this basement. That was where they heard the voice, but no one was there. Then POOF!! There was a flash of light and a cloud of blue smoke. When the gas cleared away, a man in a red hood with yellow polka dots all over it emerged. He stood on the stairs and looked all the Eodists in the eye.

"That young boy is not to be harmed. You are all to stand down this instant!!"

One of the Eodists scoffed. "And who are YOU to boss US around, weirdo?!"

"I am..." The magician pulled down his hood, revealing his bald head and his three eyes. "The real Abyszar..."

There was a loud gasp from all the hooded figures. In the next second, all of them had dropped their weapons, gotten on their knees, and begun bowing to Merluke. When N saw this, he got up off the floor and started stamping his feet. "What are you doing, you idiots?! That's not the real Abyszar; Zeke is!!"

"But he's got three eyes!" one of the Eodists said.

"YEAH!!" said a few others. N frustratedly wiped his hand on his face. Merluke glared evilly at him.

"Why aren't you bowing to me, you heathen?" he growled. N yipped and started doing just as the other Eodists were. Now the entire room was bowing to Merluke, except for Eddy. All he could do was stare at all the weird people he was surrounded by, especially Merluke. For a few seconds, the two locked eyes as though they were reading each other's minds, although Eddy had no idea what the other was thinking. Then Merluke spoke again.

"Listen up," he said. The hooded men immediately stopped bowing and stood up so they could listen. "This Zeke Zonnic is nothing more than a false prophet. The real Abyszar commands you to oppose him and all his minions. In fact, you are to help this boy in his quest to defeat them. Do I make myself clear?"

"SIR, YES, SIR!!"

"Now then," Merluke continued. "Tomorrow morning, I want all of you to meet back here, and bring all the weapons you can, for afterwards, we will storm the Quasar Prison where those aliens are lying in wait. We will rip their heads off and emerge victorious!! We will put an end to their reign of terror, and the Eodi will rule forever!! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?!?"

"SIR, YES, SIRRRRRRR!!!" the Eodists roared. Now they were jumping up and down, bumping chests, and hooting excitedly. Watching all this, Eddy was reminded of that fateful night when he and Spike were sent flying.

"Now then," Merluke went on. The partying died down and the magician walked onto the floor from the stairs. From there, he began striding towards the snake kid. The Eodists cleared a path for him. "Before I go, I would like to perform a magic trick for you all... just to prove that I am the one." When he was right next to the nervous Eddy, he grabbed a hold of his cape. All the Eodists watched carefully, including NcShkanski. "Now you see us..." He tossed the cape so that both he and Eddy were completely covered by it. At this point, all anyone saw was a red blanket with two big lumps beneath it. "And now you don't!"

Suddenly, both the lumps deflated and the cape fell limply to the floor. The Eodists all gasped. They scrambled to where the two had disappeared. They picked up the cape and found nothing underneath it. They even checked the area for trapdoors, strings, or mirrors, but they found nothing. It seemed the two really had just vanished into thin air. Maybe the three-eyed man really was the Abyszar...

Scene 3/4
Later, both Eddy and Merluke were out of that house and in a different building somewhere in Quasar. More specifically, they were at a tavern completely populated by Pixies. The unlikely duo was enjoying a pair of frothy mugs of root beer. There seemed to be a great deal less amount of tension between the two. "Well, thanks for saving me back there," Eddy said.

"Think nothing of it," Merluke replied.

"But... Why the change of heart? I thought you hated me."

"I didn't hate you, Eddy Constrictor. Rather, I was jealous. We were putting on a show in this town when those aliens came. I was the first to try and fight back, but the others wouldn't let me. When I insisted on staying and fighting, they knocked me unconscious and carried me off. When I came to, we were already in that cave. I tried telling the ringmaster we had to go back, but... unfortunately, I can't defy my own boss."

"Are you defying him now?"

"Yes, actually, but if there's anything you showed me in our fight, it's that this isn't about one little town; it's about the entire island, and I had to be stronger if I wanted to help it."

"Ah. So you're a GOOD guy, then."

"You could say that..."

"Yeah, but now we've got a bunch of Eodists following us around, and sooner or later, you're gonna have to tell them YOU'RE a false prophet, too."

"Yes, I will. But for now, we're going to need all the help we can get."

"Yeah, they should definitely be helpful, especially since they have the same weapons the aliens do." Eddy took another sip of his tonic. "What's the deal with that, anyway?"

"The Eodists were the first to tell the aliens they wanted to join them. Ever since, the two have been sharing weapons." Merluke took a long swig of his pop and put his mug down. He stared into it deeply. "They've taken over this town, Eddy Constrictor," he said. "Both the cops and the mayor have given up on fighting them. That's how strong they are. Now they run things here and have already stolen one million halos from the people."

"Those dirt bags..." Eddy was about to take another sip, but then he quickly slammed his mug back down. He looked at Merluke seriously. "Wait a minute," he said. "What would aliens want with money?!"

"I don't know. Maybe they can exchange it for money back on their home planet..."

"Hmm..." Eddy drank some more of his root beer and another question dawned on him. "Hey," he said to Merluke. "How did you do that thing where you tossed the blanket over us and we disappeared?"

Merluke smiled mischievously. "I'm sorry, but a magician never reveals his secrets..."

"Heh. I see..."

The two continued talking after that. It didn't take long for Eddy to realize he had made a new ally (or a few). Eventually, they got the bill and they decided to bed down somewhere for the night. They got two rooms at this one inn. When the sky turned a very dark shade of blue, the young Lamia turned out the lights and got beneath the covers. He thought about the long day he had, from waking up in the cave to waking up in that Eodist house. He thought about all the things he and everyone he talked to discussed, but nothing more thoroughly than the topic of the Abyszar. Again, he heard that voice in his head, citing a certain passage from the book:

"A great man is coming and someway, somehow, he will single handedly change the entire world. But the question remains: who is he? When will he come? And how will we know it's him?..."

That's an easy one, Eddy thought as he closed his eyes. He's the evilest man who will ever live...

Scene 4/4
The next day, the group was gathered. Eddy, Merluke, NcShkanski, and all the Eodists were standing in front of the Quasar Prison with all their weapons. It was only a matter of time until they entered this place and started to tear it apart.

"Are all of you ready?" Merluke asked.

"SIR, YES, SIR!!" the troops sounded.

"Good. Now CHHAAAAARRRGGE!!!" And the stampede begun. The group ran up the stone steps, burst through the doors, and past the first room. Now they were running down a hallway lined with cells, all of them filled with prisoners donned in black and white stripes. They were all surprised, but also delighted by the sudden explosion of excitement in this place.

In the middle of this hallway was one of those green-skinned aliens. When he heard footsteps running behind him, he turned around and his eyes bugged out. He tried reaching for his pistol, but then Merluke knocked him down with his staff and the rest of the army trampled him underfoot. Now he was lying on the floor with a few broken bones and a lot of footprints all over him. He lifted his left hand up to his mouth and started talking to his wristwatch.

"Yaeger to Dorrg, Yaeger to Dorrg," he said in a charred voice. "It's an emergency. We're under attack by the Eodists. I repeat, the Eodists have defected and are now attacking the prison!! Over!!"

Dorrg was a tall space alien with a sleek, muscular body. He was wearing the warden's hat and sitting in his office when he received the message on a wristwatch of his own. "Copy that. Immediately sending backup, over." Then the alien stood up from his chair and addressed the three aliens standing in front of his desk. "You heard the man. Get out there and face those intruders! Don't spare a single one!!"

The aliens saluted Dorrg and yelled in unison. "AYE AYE, SIR!!" Then they ran out of the room and Dorrg sat back down, folding his hands.

"So you think you can wrest Quasar from our control, eh? Now this I gotta see..."

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Chapter 7 - The Quasar Prison
Scene 1/6
Eddy and the others continued running down the halls and past all the inmates. Some of them were screaming to be let out. Others were just telling the group to kick some butt. They were about to round another corner when three aliens skidded right in front of them. One of them had a big nose, long, black, wavy hair, and a spiked whip. One had a vicious underbite, squinty eyes, and a massive spiked club. The other had droopy eyes, long, grey hair and a pair of alien guns. When these three enemies appeared, the two groups just looked each other in the eye for about two seconds. Then they started attacking each other relentlessly.

The grey-haired alien fired a few rounds and some of the Eodists suddenly found themselves trapped inside the nets of blue light. Some tried firing a few nets of their own, but when the projectiles hit their targets, they just bounced off the air in front of them. When Eddy squinted, he could see they had bounced off what looked like these transparent green bubbles surrounding the aliens.

"Force fields," N spoke up. "There's only one way to handle THESE types..." The pink Pixie held out the palm of his right hand, pointed it at the grey-haired alien, and fired a laser beam of white water. The spell went straight past the man's defenses and pierced right through his shoulder. The evildoer moaned in pain, dropped his guns, and started clutching at his new wound. Catching on, Eddy and Merluke started firing blobs of slime and fire hoops at the other two, but they were fast, and so they just dodged and started attacking with their whip and club. Several Eodists were starting to get hit. It seemed only Eddy, Merluke, and NcShkanski were careful enough.

The alien with the club swung down at Eddy. The Lamia rolled out of the way and fired a blast of slime at his face. SPLAT!! Now the green man was covered in green muck and he couldn't see. He started blindly swinging his weapon left and right. At least two different Eodists took the hit. Eddy then started firing more blobs at the man. He kept doing this until both his club and his entire body were covered in the gunk and he could barely move. Eddy smirked.

Then CRACK!! The alien with the whip had struck him. Eddy flew to the side, wincing in agony. Then a red dot was on his forehead. He looked up and saw the gray-haired one pointing one of his guns at him while still clutching at his injury. Then about three different Eodists leapt out of nowhere and whacked the man's force field with baseball bats. The man was unharmed, but he still went flying backwards. Then N ran up to him and pointed both palms at his legs.

"Stay down," he growled. Then PSSSHHTT!! He fired two more water lasers at his ankles. Now he had two bloody holes in his feet and he couldn't stand up. The only alien left at this point was the one with the whip. Merluke and a few other Eodists were dealing with him.

Merluke fired a blast of energy from his staff at the enemy, but the extra terrestrial was quickly able to smash the spell to pieces with a crack of his whip. Merluke was conjuring up a fire hoop in his right hand when the whip-wielder struck again. CRACK!! Merluke and four others took it in the chest and flew back. One Eodist with a sword ran past the group and started slicing at the whip man, but all of his attacks bounced off the force field. Then the alien flicked his weapon once more. It coiled around the sword and yanked it out of the Eodist's grasp. The alien then grabbed the sword and tossed it behind him.

Suddenly, BLLOOORRPP!! The miscreant found his feet were stuck to the ground thanks to some slimy goop. Eddy smiled deviously at the man. The alien scowled back, but only for a second. The next thing he saw was the two of Merluke and NcShkanski pointing their palms at him. Then he had a bleeding hole in his right shoulder and he was on fire. The man had dropped everything, including his whip, and commenced flailing his arms, screaming. Eddy was sure to put him out by giving him a coating of slime, just like his cohort. With this, the deed was done. No more aliens had to be beaten up in this area.

Merluke waltzed up to the one with the holes in his feet. He grabbed him by the scruff of his silver shirt. "Alright, you menace," he said. "Who's in charge here? Where is he?!"

"Dorrg is in charge," the alien moaned. "He's in the warden's office. If you want to free Quasar, you'll have to defeat him..."

"Good. That's all we needed to know..." Merluke put the alien down and motioned for Eddy and the others to follow him, which they did. Now once again, they were rushing through the prison, looking for some more butts to kick...

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"Aaron to Dorrg, Aaron to Dorrg," said a voice like the gray-haired alien's coming from the watch on Dorrg's wrist. He held it up to his face so he could hear the message better. "The intruders have beaten us!! It's up to you now. I repeat, you're on your own. Good luck, sir. Over."

"Over?!" Dorrg fumed. Then he pushed a certain button on his watch and scowled. "It's not over until it's over..."

BOOOOOOOOOM!!! Suddenly, something came crashing down through the ceiling. Whatever it was, it was huge, it was metal, and it had landed right in front of the fake warden's desk. Dorrg looked at this strange visitor of his and rubbed his hands mischievously.

"We'll see how these intruders can handle the Mechalossus..."

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Meanwhile, some of the inmates were just stewing in their cells, wondering what was going on. They had seen Dorrg's three best men run past them a second ago. They had also heard something of a struggle a ways off. Undoubtedly, they had just had a big fight with some enemies, but the outcome of this battle was as of yet unclear. Now the prisoners were just sitting around, waiting for whatever was going to happen next.

"I hope someone's coming to save us," one of the inmates said, who was actually a girl. "I hate being locked up like this..."

"All this just because we tried fighting back," another one said, this one being a cop. "Where did those aliens come from, anyway? And how come they're so freaking strong?!"

"I just want my town back!!" said a yellow Pixie with a curly mustache. "I swear, as soon as we're out of here, I'll find a way to get back those one million halos they stole from us. They'll pay for this, I swear!!"

One of the prisoners was a young boy with long, mahogany-colored hair. He was in the same cell as the mayor, wearing his normal clothes just like him and the others. At the moment, he was sitting on the bottom bunk with his chin resting on his knees. It was nice of that one family to rescue me after they found me floating in the river, he thought, but now things have gone down the pit. I tried fighting them. Them and that giant robot of theirs, but it was useless. Now me and all these other innocent people are imprisoned and the town's under their control. Only a miracle can save us now...

Then the imprisoned folk heard the sound of a hundred footsteps rushing towards them. Knowing it sounded like a lot more than just three people, the prisoners all excitedly got up from their seats to have a look at what was coming.

"Who are they?"

"It's the Eodists!! They're going to kill us!!"

"Whoa!! Is that a third eye that guy's got??"

"Forget that. Look at that kid's hands!!"

Spike's eyes and ears suddenly lit up. In his life, he could only name one person whose hands were that noticeable. Soon, he, too, was on his feet and staring through the bars. Then his suspicions were confirmed: Eddy Constrictor had returned.

"EEEEEDDYYYYY!!!" he screamed and waved. "EDDY CONSTRICTOR, REMEMBER ME?!? IT'S ME, SPIKE PITT!! YOU GOTTA GET ME OUT OF HERE!!"

At first, Eddy was just running with the rest of the herd, but when he heard Spike screaming all those things to him, he immediately changed his course and ran up to the boy's cell. He slammed into it, latching onto its bars with his three-fingered hands. "SPIKE!!" he yelled. "God, am I glad to see you!! How've you been?!"

"I've seen better days. Now you gotta get me out of here!!"

"INTRUDERS, HALT!!!"

Merluke and his band of Eodists skidded to a stop. They looked on and saw something truly menacing had entered the scene. It was a humungous, humanoid machine over twelve feet tall with a cockpit for its main body. Inside that cockpit was the alien running Quasar in the mayor's place: Dorrg...

"This is as far as you go, cretins," Dorrg said, talking to the group using some type of speaker. "If you think you can free all these lowlives who opposed us and liberate this town, then you're barking up the wrong tree. We are the Zonnic Gang! We are unbeatable!! This dismal planet is ours to conquer, and there's nothing you little insects can do about it!! Now feel the wrath of Mechalossus and DIIIIEEEE!!!"

The robot pointed its right index finger at the group and fired. "HIT THE DECK!!" Merluke yelled, and he and the rest jumped out of the way the best they could. BOOOM!! Something crash-landed in the middle of them and exploded. Then the robot made another gun out of its left index finger and started firing rounds like a machine gun. Now the opposing forces were running around in zigzag formations, but a few of the Eodists were hit in the arms and legs. They went down, but Eddy, Merluke, and N still had it in them. They each got into a formation and fired their spells at the metal beast. Eddy's slime splattered on the cockpit and N's water made a dent in the metal, but Merluke's fire appeared to just melt the slime off. The magician seemed frustrated with this.

Angered, Dorrg hit the windshield wipers and fired another bomb at Eddy. Eddy ran out of the way for his life and BANG!!! One of the cells was hit. After that, the bars were obliterated, and both Spike and the mayor were free. The mayor stayed cowering in the cell, but Spike couldn't have been more quick about jumping out of there and joining the fight. He and Eddy clasped hands heartily, and the two drew their weapons and started charging towards the iron behemoth. Dorrg fired at them both using his machine gun hand, but the boys were able to dodge all the bullets. Eddy raised his nightstick and Spike, his flail. Spike also cast a spell on his weapon so that all three of its spiked balls started to glow. One was orange, one green, and one blue.

"I got the idea from fighting Chains," he quickly explained to Eddy. Eddy just nodded and the two dove for the robot's legs. BAM!!! Eddy nailed the left one and Spike got the right. Between the two, Spike's attack did more damage. A whole ton of nuts and bolts went flying off that thing's leg. It also seemed some of the metal was starting to melt. Now Dorrg was mad.

PUNT!! Spike got it in the chest with the robot's right leg. He went flying, but one of the Eodists caught him. Then Merluke and NcShkanski stepped forward and started launching some more attacks. The mage did this with his staff and the cop with his water spells. More dents started to form on the robot and more bolts started to come off. Dorrg just fired another bomb at them. BOOOM!!

Suddenly, a whole bunch of the Eodists started jumping onto the Mechalossus and climbing all over it. Dorrg tried shaking them off, but several of them were clinging very tightly. Then Eddy and Spike ran up to the thing and started beating the living stuffing out of its legs again. Finally, SHA-BOOOM!!! The legs blew off and flew behind the robot. The rest of it, torso and all, came crashing down to the ground. Now Dorrg was absolutely furious. He started firing bombs AND bullets at all his adversaries.

At one point, Eddy aran up, put one foot on the cockpit, raised his eyebrows at the glaring Dorrg, and SMASSHH!! He blasted the window into a million pieces with a single strike of his nightstick. Now the alien was exposed. While he was still blindly firing at all the Eodists and prisoners, Eddy grabbed him by his shirt and started repeatedly punching him in the face. "You like wreaking havoc, punk?!" the Lamia snarled. "You like causing trouble and ruining people's lives?! HUH?!"

"STOP PUNCHING ME, YOU INFIDEL!!!" the alien shouted and he fired at the kid with his pistol. The bullet grazed his side, but he was bleeding all the same. Eddy tried grabbing for his shirt again, but the enemy was faster. He swatted the boy's hand out of the way, pressed a button on the control panel, then tackled the young snake, jumping out of his robot. The two rolled around on the ground until the alien had his opponent pinned. Eddy squirmed for a bit, then saw the Eodists hopping off the legless Mechalossus. His eyes widened horrifically when it dawned on him they weren't running fast enough.

"GUYS, GET AWAY FROM THAT THING!!" he yelled. Then KA-BOOOOOM!!! The entire robot exploded, sending a number of the green hoods airborn. A few of them along with Spike, Merluke, and N approached the two of Eddy and Dorrg. Dorrg had his hands wrapped around the kid's neck.

"Stay back!!" he spat. "Or else I'll choke the life out of him!!"

"Abyszar, what do we do??" one of the Eodists asked Merluke.

Merluke smirked, raised his staff, and swung it. CRASHHH!! The crystal ball at the end was smashed on the alien's cranium. His eyes rolled back into his head and he passed out, lying down on top of Eddy. The Eodists and the prisoners all started cheering and chanting, "Galilei!! Galilei!! Galilei!! Galilei!!" Victory belonged to every last one of them, and they were ready to explode just because of it. However, Eddy just said, "Could someone get this thing off me, please?!" Spike helped him with that. He pushed the alien's body off of him and helped him onto his feet. "Thanks, Spike."

"No problem."

Luckily, Dorrg also had the keys on him. It was with these NcShkanski was able to successfully free all the unjustly imprisoned citizens of Quasar. Now the party was even louder. The former prisoners all ran out of their cells and started dancing. Some of them were even hugging the Eodists. Merluke looked at all this, smiled, and shook his head. Everyone was so glad all of this was over...

Scene 4/6
Later, the four of Eddy, Spike, Merluke, and NcShkanski were in the mayor's office. For this one meeting, the rest of the Eodists were absent. All of them had gone home, along with the citizens and the cops. Indeed, order had finally been restored to Quasar, and the mayor had these four brave souls to thank for it. He had awarded each of them medals. They stood proudly with these accessories around their necks.

"If you ever want to come back to Quasar, by all means, do so," the mayor said. "Our home is your home."

"We appreciate that, sir," said Merluke.

"But what about the other Eodists?" Spike asked. "They helped, too, didn't they?"

The mayor sighed and shook his head. "I'm sorry, Spike, but I couldn't award those men anything even if they discovered the cure for cancer. The thing is, they're Eodists. They hold secret meetings, they sacrifice animals, and they drink their blood. Perhaps I can't judge them for worshipping a different god from me, but the fact remains they're not accepted by most people around here, or anywhere for that matter. I may as well have been awarding murderers or kidnappers.

"Besides, when the aliens attacked, they abandoned us and joined the other side. By changing their minds, they practically balanced it out, so let's just call it even."

"Fair enough," Spike said.

"Now then," said the mayor, "now that you've saved the town, what do you brave men plan on doing?"

"I'm going to go back to the Corona Cave and tell the rest of the White Rabbit Circus the good news," Merluke explained, "but first, there's something else I'm gonna have to do..."

"I'm going to go back to being a regular cop," said NcShkanski, "AND an Eodist, mind you. I don't care what mainstream society thinks of us."

"I admire your spirit then," the mayor said. Then he turned to Eddy and Spike. "And what about you young boys? What will you be doing?"

"I'm going to find that accursed Zeke Zonnic and kick his butt," Eddy stated. "He and I have a score to settle."

"Me, too," Spike added. "I can't sleep at night knowing that maniac is out there somewhere."

"Really?" the mayor asked. "That man must at least be seven times stronger than Dorrg was. Are you sure you want to go through with this?"

"Oh yeah," said Eddy.

"Positive," said Spike.

The mayor smiled. "Alright. In that case, I wish you the best of luck..."

Eddy and Spike nodded. "Thank you, sir," said the snake, and the meeting soon came to a close...

Scene 5/6
A while after the meeting, night had fallen and both Eddy and Spike were in a room at an inn together. The boys were sitting on their respective beds, talking to one another about the events of the last three days.

"So, we're gonna go after Zeke and the rest of his gang next," Spike summarized.

"Yup," Eddy clarified.

Spike held out his hands. "But how are we gonna do it? Where are we gonna go?"

"Hmm. That, I don't know..."

"Well, what DO we know?"

"Well," Eddy started, "I know they're after the Evil Eye. I know they keep raiding villages because they wanna find it so badly."

"So all WE gotta do is find the Eye first!" Spike suggested.

"Yeah, then we wouldn't have to look for them; they'd be looking for us."

"Yeah."

"The problem is, where are WE gonna find it?" Eddy asked. "Who would know?"

"Well," Spike said, "I've got a hunch. Nothing more, though."

"What is it?"

"I'm willing to bet that, if nothing else, the Three Ministers know where it is."

"Hm, that makes sense. If they're the three oldest, wisest, and most powerful men in the country, there should be nothing they don't know."

"Yeah, they probably know all kinds of dark secrets."

"They probably even know whether or not Galilei is alone..."

"Yeah..."

"Alright, then it's settled," Eddy declared. "Our next stop is the capital, Blue Moon. All we gotta do is hope the aliens aren't heading there already..." Spike agreed. Soon afterwards, the lights were out, and both boys were underneath the covers, patiently waiting for sleep and the next day to come...

Scene 6/6
When morning came, Eddy and Spike were outside in the dirt streets, walking towards the gates, which were now open and devoid of any guards. This went well with the sunny day it was and all the Pixies in the town walking around, going about their business as though no aliens had attacked them four days ago. Things were looking good.

"So, how long do you suppose it'll take for us to get to blue moon?" Spike asked.

"About two days if we go on foot," Eddy replied.

"Huh. We'd better hurry then."

"Yup."

"OUT OF MY WAY!!"

Eddy and Spike looked behind them. There, running towards them and the gate was none other than Merluke the magician. A ways behind him was an entire horde of angry men in green hoods chasing after him, all of them carrying baseball bats. All of the members seemed to be present, sans NcShkanski. Regardless, the two boys got out of the way so Merluke could have a clear path. He ran past the boys and straight through the gate. Shortly afterwards, the angry mob of Eodists did the same. Now both parties had escaped the town.

"Whoa, what was THAT all about?" Spike asked.

"Oh, Merluke probably just told them he wasn't really the Abyszar," Eddy answered.

"Oh. Should we help him?"

Eddy shrugged his shoulders. "Sure, why not?"

Spike smiled. "Alright then. Let's do it!!" And thus the two boys ran out of Quasar and began chasing the Eodists. Mere moments later, the forest was filled with the sounds of screams. Some were yelling, "IT BURNS!!" and others, "IT'S STICKY!!" Without a doubt, the Eodists were being subdued and Merluke could make his getaway safely. He had Eddy Constrictor and Spike Pitt to thank, just as the town did...

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Chapter 8 - The Triad of Doom
Scene 1/4
Somewhere in Galilei, there was a large town surrounded by a gigantic wooden fence, just like Quasar. All of its inhabitants were going about their peaceful, uneventful lives, all the while being completely unaware that they were being watched. Standing atop a hill overlooking this town was a certain group of green-skinned people. There were 26 in all. "This is it, Colonel," one of the aliens said. "Comet. If our research serves us correctly, this place is even more loaded than Quasar. We might even be able to find someone who knows where the Eye is here."

"Gwa ha ha!! Excellent," Zeke laughed. Then he raised up one of his metallic fists dramatically. "Alright, men!!" he called out. "LET'S DO THIS!!!"

"YEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!" And the army of green monsters began stampeding down the hill...

Meanwhile, all was going well at the town's local carnival. Everyone was stuffing their faces with corn dogs and cotton candy. If not that, they were enjoying the many rides, from the carousel, to the roller coasters, to the whirling teacups. Even now, a bunch of people were getting off the Ferris wheel so that another crowd could pile onto it. Elsewhere at this fun-filled place, two young boys with orange skin were trying to knock some bottles down, or at least one of them was. The younger brother had an oversized stuffed purple monkey in his arms. The elder kept throwing and throwing, but all the balls were hitting was the wall. The green Pixie running the stand was just yawning and fanning his mouth.

"ARGH!! Why aren't I hitting any of them?!" he fumed.

"Because you're a lousy shot?" the younger brother suggested. The older gave him a very surly look. The younger just smiled toothily. Then his brother closed one eye, reared back the arm with the last ball in it, focused, and fired. BAM!! He got the wall again. The boy sunk to his knees in anguish.

"GAH!! I couldn't get a single one of them!!"

"I told you you were a lousy shot..."

Before the elder sibling could respond to this in any way, an extremely loud noise like a gigantic gunshot sounded, followed by the sound of groaning metal and a ton of people screaming at the top of their lungs. Then WHAAAMMM!! The Ferris wheel had fallen to the ground. Now it was black, demolished, and on fire. When the boys saw this, their skin completely went from orange to white. Then their teal father and orange mother ran up to them, both of them looking very disheveled. In relief, the mother knelt down and hugged her sons.

"Thank God, you're safe," she breathed.

"What's going on?" said the older brother.

"We gotta get out of here," the father quickly explained. "It's the aliens. They're back!!" The boys' eyes widened so far, they nearly popped right out of their skulls...

Zeke guffawed heartily as he strode into the town, watching in satisfaction how all his minions were firing bombs, blowing up buildings, and kicking people in the faces. The aliens would even knock people to the ground and demand all their money. If any of them refused, they'd blow their legs off with their guns. Zeke got a high just from looking at it all. The smile plastered on his face was very broad and demonic-looking.

"Yes, yes!!" he elicited. "Tear them all apart!! Take everything they've got!!" Then a red Pixie tried running past the towering alien, but he was suddenly grabbed by him. Now the two were looking each other in the eye, forcefully. "You," the colonel snarled. "Tell me where the Evil Eye is!!"

"I-I have no idea what that is! Honest!!" the man stammered.

"Fool!! Then gimme all your money!!!" Hurriedly, the man dove his hand into his pocket, tore out his wallet, and held it up so the overgrown alien could snatch it away from him. The colonel guffawed again. "I like you, you worm. Now get out of my sight!!" Zeke then threw the man to the ground and kicked him in the ribs. He would have gotten up and run away, but some of those ribs had just been broken...

Another man attempted to dash past the head alien, but he, too, was grabbed. "YOU!! Tell me where the Evil Eye is!! NOW!!"

"I don't know what that is!!"

"Then gimme all your money!!..."

At this time, the family from before were back inside the house of the mother's sister, a pink-skinned Pixie. The five of them were sitting huddled in the basement, totally stricken with fear. They could hear explosions and people screaming outside, but all they could do was hide here and hope for the best. The youngest of the group was in tears, however.

"Why?!" he moaned. "Why do they keep doing this?! What do they want?!"

"It's okay, dear," the mother said, keeping her son wrapped tightly in her arms. "Just remember, no matter what, the stars are watching over us..."

Outside, the cops were starting to run into the fray, armed with their nightsticks, guns, and shields. One of them was unable to get his feet to move, though. His partner was yelling at him.

"What are you doing?! Come on!! The town's in trouble!! We gotta do this!!"

"I can't," said the petrified cop. "Just look at them; they're too strong!!"

The other cop looked. When he did this, he saw an entire three-story building had just exploded, and several others were on fire. He saw aliens chasing people down and attacking anything they saw with weapons the cops had never seen before. What kind of bullets could make things explode like that? And how was it that the same guns could also fire those nets or those waves of fire? With this, the one cop could see how his partner was starting to have second thoughts. Sweat was pouring down his face, but he just took a big gulp and said, "I know it looks bad, but we HAVE to do this. We're cops. We're the defenders of justice on this island. If we don't fight those goons, we're nothing. Now are you with me or not?!"

The other cop's body shook violently. Then he started swinging his head left and right drastically. "NO!! I can't do it!! I got a family!! They can't live without me!!!" And he turned tail and fled.

"ANDREW, GET BACK HERE!!!" the braver cop yelled, but it was too late. His comrade was bolting off at an incredible speed and not looking back. Now the one was alone. He made a sad scoffing sound and ran off to join the battle. It was now or never...

"Really?" Zeke purred. "You might know someone who might know where it is? Did I hear that correctly??"

"Y-Yes," said the blue Pixie in the green man's clutches. "The Three Ministers. They're the leaders of this island. Just ask them!!"

"I see. We must head for your capital then..."

"Yeah!!" the man squealed. "Go there! Just, please, leave our town alone!!"

Zeke grinned malevolently. He stared right through the man with those glaring red eyes of his. "Leave your town alone?" he said. "Tell me, why should we do that? We're just getting started..." The colonel threw the man down and looked on. He saw a whole ton of cops heading his way, all of them waving their nightsticks menacingly. Zeke just laughed, spread his legs apart, and beckoned the police force with his hands. "COME AT ME!!!" he roared. "SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!!!..."

Scene 2/4
Master Hare rubbed his eyes and looked again. This time, what he saw had not changed a bit. It was three medals in the hands of three very special individuals: Eddy, Spike, and Merluke.

"So," the ringmaster started, "you're not lying. You really got those from saving the town from those aliens."

"Yup," Eddy stated.

"That's what happened," Spike added.

"You can trust them, Master Hare," Merluke voiced.

"Well, as long as Merluke says it's true," the ringmaster grumbled. He reached behind himself, pulled out a bag with a halo sign on it (like an O with a very skinny H going through it diagonally), and tossed it to Eddy. "There ya go, kid," he said. "One-hundred thousand halos. Don't spend it all in one place, now."

"I won't," Eddy said as he put the money in his magic bag.

"So, what are you gonna do now?" Hare asked.

"We're going to head on over to Blue Moon and have a little chat with the Three Ministers," Eddy replied.

"The Three Ministers, eh?" Hare repeated as he lit up another cigar. "What business do you have with them?"

"They might know where the Evil Eye is," Spike elaborated. "It's imperative that we find it before those aliens do."

"Hm, good thinking," Hare commented. "There's just one problem..."

"What's that?" Spike asked.

"The Three Ministers probably aren't going to tell you. If they know where it is, then they also know why it's there. And why would it be there? So no one can find it. And I do mean, no one."

Eddy shrugged. "Then we'll just beat it out of them."

"Eddy!!" Spike blurted.

"Another bad idea," Hare expressed, puffing on his cigar. "You'd be branded a criminal for the rest of your life. You're better off just talking to them."

"Fine, I'll do that," Eddy agreed. "But if push comes to shove..."

"Eddy!!..."

A while after that, the conversation was over and it was time for Eddy and Spike to leave. They said goodbye to all the members of the White Rabbit Circus and exited the cave together. Now they were back in the woods and continuing their journey to Blue Moon. Whether or not the Three Ministers would be able to help them there, it didn't matter to the boys. All they knew was that they had an island to save...

Scene 3/4
"One-hundred thousand halos," Spike worded while he and Eddy were traversing the forest. "What are you gonna spend it on?"

"Oh, you know. Food and shelter."

"That's it? You don't want anything fancy?"

"What would I need that's fancy?" Eddy questioned. "Jewelry? Solid gold underwear? Whatever it is, I don't need it."

"Huh. I guess you got a point there."

"You know, there's something I've been meaning to ask you," Eddy said.

"What's that?"

"What did you do after you graduated?"

"The first thing I did was visit my parents' graves."

"Ah," Eddy nodded. "Of course."

"I told them how I was doing and I made a promise to them. I promised them that, no matter what, I'd go out there and see the world they always suspected was there. I don't know how I'm gonna do it, but I'm going to."

Eddy smiled. "So, you think there's something beyond Galilei, too?"

"Well, yeah. So does Don. Remember when we took down Johnny Chains? All three of us agreed there's gotta be countries out there other than Galilei."

"Oh yeah, we did."

"We can't be alone, Eddy," Spike reiterated. "We just can't be..." The two boys found a tremendous tree that had fallen over and was now blocking their path. When faced with this, the two simply climbed over it together. When they landed on the soft grass on the other side, they looked up and saw something that made their jaws drop. It was none other than that gigantic, silver, disk-like spaceship of the space aliens. The town of Nova must have been nearby.

"Boy, this brings back memories," Eddy commented.

"What are you talking about? This brings back nightmares," Spike retorted. The spaceship in question was standing on four metallic legs with humongous wheels for feet. There was also a big, metal ramp leading to a hole in the bottom of it. There was something ominous about the sight.

"So this is the aliens' spaceship," Eddy remarked, walking around the thing and looking at it from different angles. "You think we could fly this thing?"

"Are you suggesting we steal it?"

"Yeah. Come on, it'll be funny."

"Ehhh, I don't know," Spike hesitated. "It seems kind of dangerous..."

"Dangerous is what we do."

Spike scratched the back of his head and looked around with his eyes. "Well..."

"Come on, don't you at least wanna see what it's like inside?"

"Well... Maybe a little..."

"Attaboy, Spike. Now let's go." And Eddy began walking up the ramp, leaving Spike behind. Spike watched him go for a few seconds. Then the boy reluctantly gathered his courage and chased after him. Now both of them were walking up to that hole. Once they entered it, they found themselves inside the dome of the ship. In addition to a round ceiling, they found this room was lined with monitors, control panels, and metal seats bolted to the floor. There were also five different futuristic-looking doors in this place. "This is some control room," Eddy stated. "I wonder which one of these buttons makes it fly?"

"Don't you dare touch a single thing, sirs..."

Eddy and Spike turned around. Out of one of the doors had walked a very familiar face. It was that of a squat alien with two bazookas and two really big hands. "Sykes!!" Spike yelled.

The alien nodded. "I see you remember me. Most impressive for I was sure the two of you would have landed on your heads..."

"What do you want with us?" Eddy asked defensively. "You wanna fight us?!"

"I just want to know whether or not you're still thinking of doing war with us."

"Well, of course we are!!" Eddy answered. "What makes you think we wouldn't?!"

"Nothing," the alien replied as he unfastened his two bazookas and held them in his huge hands. "I suppose I was only hoping to find the least bit of sense in you...

"LOGAN! TAN!! GET OUT HERE!!" the alien suddenly yelled. Then two more doors slid open and two more aliens walked out. One of them was wearing a lab coat. He was also hunched over and had a face with one small eye and a really big one on the right. Strapped to his back, he had what looked like a machine consisting of two gigantic tubes filled with a strange, blue liquid. The other alien was almost as big and muscular as Zeke himself. His distinguishing features were his tank top, his ugly face, and his light brownish skin color.

"Yes, Sykes?" said the one in the lab coat.

"What do you want, small fry?!" said the larger one.

"We have two intruders. You may recognize them," Sykes spoke. The two new aliens looked at Eddy and Spike. The one with the machine nodded.

"Yes, it's those two again," he noted. "Shall I use them for some of my, uh-heh heh, experiments?!"

"No way. Let's tear these little maggots apart!!" said the ogre.

"Absolutely not, sirs," Sykes interjected. "This time, we must simply subdue them, like the other one."

"I see. Uh-heh heh heh."

"No problem, Sykes!!" The powerful man punched his palm with his fist a few times and strode toward Spike. Spike edged away from him. Then BAM!! The behemoth punched the floor where Spike had just jumped from. Spike pulled out his flail and Eddy pulled out his nightstick. Then the two started charging towards Tan and Logan respectively.

WHACK!! Eddy attempted to strike the scientist, but the attack was blocked by a long, metal tube he was holding that seemed to be hooked up to his machine. The scientist snickered and pulled a trigger on the tube. ZZRRKK!! A bolt of electricity flew out of the tube and shocked Eddy. The snake flew back and landed on the floor. He got up rubbing his head. "Geez!! What is that thing?!" he demanded.

"My latest invention: the Life Drainer," Logan explained. "It has the power to turn the life force of two different people into pure electricity. Have a look for yourself!!" The scientist turned around and showed the Lamia the two tubes on his back. Eddy's eyes widened at the sight. He recognized the two unconscious people trapped inside them, appearing to be on life support: Sarah and Dryzma. Now Eddy was mad.

"You're using them as fuel?!" Eddy glared. "That's sick!!"

"If you want to try and free them, go ahead!!" the scientist taunted, and he and Eddy continued fighting...

Spike tried numerous times to hit Tan with his flail, but the man kept nimbly jumping out of the way. "Ha ha ha!! That all you got?!" Spike scowled and made his flail balls start glowing different colors. When Tan saw this, he just laughed and continued jumping out of the way. The two were going in circles. Then the bigger man swung out a leg and BAM!! Spike had been punted in the chest and sent flying up into the air. He hit the ceiling, then came spiraling down. Eddy was too busy crossing weapons with Logan to notice. Then WHAM!! Spike fell right on top of him. Now the two were in a heap on the ground, moaning in agony. Then the three aliens surrounded the duo, pointing their weapons at them and folding their arms. Again, the boys began to feel very helpless.

"You're finished, sirs," Sykes said. "You will now be joining a new friend in a cage. We'll let you out when we feel like it. Now, Tan, if you will..."

"Right!!" The tan space alien pulled his gun off his belt and fired at the boys' necks, one after the other. Now the two had tranquilizer darts stuck in them, robbing them of their consciousness. The two became knocked out, and Logan and Tan laughed maliciously. Then a single voice started sounding from the watches of them both.

"Logan!! Tan!! Do you read me?! Over." It was Zeke. The two aliens stated that they read him loud and clear. "Good. I'm just about done with Comet and am about to head on over to Elliptical. I'm inviting you two to come with. Word has it the people there have skin like steel!! Should be interesting, eh?! Over."

"Sylphs!! Oh, the experiments I could perform on them," Logan snickered.

"I'll pound every last one of'em!!" Tan declared.

"GWA HA HA!! Sounds good. Now get your butts over here!! Over." And the transaction ended. Logan and Tan took their watches away from their faces and chortled mischievously. Sykes rolled his eyes.

"Well, you two better get going, then," he said, grabbing their attention once more. "Don't worry about me, sirs. I can handle the ship and three prisoners by myself."

"But of course," Logan replied. "And now, our leave we'll take."

"Yeah!! Let's kill those Sylphs!!" With that, the two powerful aliens began to descend the ramp. Now it was just Sykes and the two boys lying on the floor. He looked at them and smirked.

"Silly boys," he said. "You should know better than to declare war on the most dangerous force your little island has ever seen..."

Scene 4/4
The aliens had finally left. In their wake, they had left dozens of hurt people lying in the streets, citizens and policemen alike. The fire department was dousing a number of houses with their hoses, and cops were helping people get back on their feet. Even the doctors of the town had come out to help all these unfortunate souls. If only the aliens hadn't shown up, none of this would've happened.

The cop that was yelling at Andrew earlier was helping a blue Pixie get up off the ground. "Don't worry, buddy. You're gonna be okay," he said.

"It's all my fault," the blue man lamented.

"What? What's your fault?"

"Those aliens know now. The next place they're headed is Blue Moon. We're all doomed!!"

A grim scowl fell upon the face of the cop. He thought back to the research he had done on the aliens as well as the testimonies he got from their victims. He was certain he had a good grasp of what kind of twisted minds those extra terrestrials possessed. "No, that's not their next target," he reassured. "They're saving that one for last..."

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Chapter 9 - The Big Escape
Scene 1/5
The sky was turning orange outside. By now, all the workers in Blue Moon were heading home and crowding the streets. Things always got so hectic around this time. In one particular building, though, the work was never done. It was the Crescent Building and all three of the elderly Ministers were having an important meeting with someone inside it. It was a police officer in a fancy blue uniform that made him look as though he was ready to conduct a parade. The man was kneeling. The other three were wearing blue cloaks and sitting at a table before him.

"Are you sure about this?" said the hooded Minister with the biggest, longest nose. He also had a bushy beard and mustache combo, grey skin, yellow eyes, and a hunch. His voice was deep-pitched, powerful, and godlike.

"Yes, sir," replied the cop. "We don't know exactly what this 'Evil Eye' is. All that we know is that the aliens have come for it. We also know that they may eventually target the three of you, wanting to know where it is."

"I see..."

"Station some cops around the perimeter of the city," said the one with the long, white hair. His skin was grey, his right eye was yellow, and the other, pure white. He also had what appeared to be stitches going across his forehead. That, and he wore a pair of rectangular glasses. "We must make sure none of these so-called aliens get in."

"Yes, sir," the cop saluted. "Just one question."

"Ask away," said the green Pixie Minister. This man was completely bald and had a white, frilly beard growing out of his chin.

"What IS the Evil Eye? I've never heard of it before..."

"Neither have we," the one with the nose said sternly. The other two glanced at him out of the corners of their eyes. "Will that be all, Officer Rhines?"

"Ah. Yes, my lord. I'll be on my way, then." The officer saluted the Three Ministers and walked out the door. Once the sound of his footsteps faded away, the green Minister spoke up.

"You do realize we're only delaying the inevitable, don't you?" he said. "Someday, we will have to tell the people the truth..."

"When that day comes, it will come," said the one with the nose. "Until then, the game continues..."

"You're both talking nonsense," said the long-haired one. "The day will NEVER come... and it's not a game; it's reality..."

"It's a false reality that we can't keep perpetuating forever," said the green one. "It gets harder to do each day. The people already know about the aliens. It's only a matter of time until they know about Evil Eyes, too..."

The long-haired one scoffed. "You speak as though you can see into the future..."

"You both do," said the one with the nose. "Perhaps they will, perhaps they won't. Until either happens, it's not an issue. Now be silent. Another one approaches..." Indeed, a few seconds later, another person walked in through the doors and knelt before the Three Ministers. This time, it was a female cop in blue. "Arise, Officer Evans," said the Minister. "What news do you bring us?"

"We've located the aliens' spaceship, sirs," she said. "It's in the Nova Forest South of here."

"Blow it up," said the Minister with the long hair. "Whatever happens on this island, stays on this island."

"Y-Yes, sir," the lady cop saluted, and she, too, was off.

I see it in all of their eyes, the green one thought. They can tell we're hiding something from them...

Scene 2/5
Spike found himself walking through a pitch black forest. For how long he had been there, he didn't know. When he finally walked out of it, he saw a hill stretching out before him underneath the night sky. On top of this hill were two shadowy figures. Spike ran up this hill to meet them.

"Well done, son," said the taller one. "You've made your mother and I proud."

"Mom? Dad?? You're alive??" Spike uttered.

"No, Spike, we're not," his mother said. "But you are. See the world, Spike. Prove that we are not alone in this ocean. Make your dream come true..."

"But," Spike began. "It was YOUR dream! I'm just fulfilling it on your behalf!"

"No, son," said the father. "It's your dream. It's always been your dream. Always been..."

Spike could see that the shadowy figures were starting to fade away. The young Esper attempted to run after them. "WAIT!!..."

"GET US OUT OF HERE!!!" Now there was a voice Spike always recognized. It was Eddy's, and he was banging on the bars and screaming his lungs out. "YOU STUPID, BIG-HANDED, POINTY-EARED TROLL!! GET BACK HERE AND LET US OUT!! GAAHHH!!"

Now that he was awake again, Spike could get a good look at their surroundings. He and Eddy were in a gigantic cage being suspended from the ceiling by four chains. The room they were in was lined with shelves full of all kinds of alien weaponry. Apparently, this was both the arsenal and the torture chamber. Wherever it was, the two boys were the only ones in it, and between the two, Eddy was the one making the biggest ruckus.

"I'LL RIP THOSE EARS RIGHT OFF YOUR SKULL AND SHOVE THEM DOWN YOUR THROAT!! I'LL RIP'EM OUT OF YOUR STOMACH BEFORE YOU'RE EVEN DONE DIGESTING THEM!! I'LL HANG'EM ON MY WALL AND CALL'EM MY LUCKY ALIEN'S EARS!!"

"Eddy, come on," Spike said. "Everyone knows you don't have a wall."

"Yeah, you really ought to get your threats straight, Eddy..."

Both Eddy and Spike turned and looked. There, sitting down in the corner of the cage, was the third prisoner the aliens had captured: Don Guarana.

"DON!!!" both boys yelled. "You of all people!!" Eddy said excitedly. "How've you been?!"

"How did you get here??" Spike asked.

"I'm fine, and it's a long story," Don stated.

"Well, come on then, tell us," Eddy urged.

"Alright," the don said and he began his story. "When Ryan came running back to us, he told us everything. About how the two of you went up against the space aliens alone and how they blasted you into the sky. After that, me, Sarah, and Dryzma ventured into the forest ourselves. Ryan and Greg were to stay behind in case we couldn't return. Eventually, we found those aliens and we challenged them to a fight. They laughed and only sent three of them to fight us."

"Sykes, Logan, and Tan," Spike guessed.

"Those were the ones," Don clarified. "Now that Logan and I have a score to settle. Long story short, we lost the fight. Then they captured us and did as they pleased. Sarah and Dryzma are part of that madman's machine now and I'm still here. So, what are YOUR stories?"

Eddy and Spike told him. They told him about landing in a tree and a river and rescuing Quasar from five aliens and a bunch of Eodists. They also told him about the White Rabbit Circus and the money they got from them. Don laughed.

"Eddy, you didn't need to come with me on that mission after all," he remarked.

"Had I not have, I never would have met Master Hare," the Lamia replied.

"That's true."

"So, how are we gonna get out of this cage?" Eddy asked. "Esper powers?"

"Not even," said Don. "I've tried it. Unfortunately, this is the kind of cage Espers like us can't escape from. If you try to use your powers, the cage'll just shock you."

"There's no way that's true," Eddy objected.

"Try it."

"Okay, I will!" Eddy held out his left hand with the palm facing upwards. For a split-second, he made a small globule of slime fly out. Then BZZZTT!! Eddy felt pure pain coursing through his veins and his bones. The attack ruptured the boy for about three seconds. He groaned painfully and fell to the floor when it finished.

"See, I told you," Don said.

"Nngguuhh," Eddy moaned. "So you did..."

"Well, NOW what are we supposed to do?" Spike asked. "If Esper powers are out, what else can we do?"

"Not much," Don answered. "They took our weapons."

Eddy got off the floor and looked outside the cage. As it turned out, his nightstick really was out there, hanging up on the wall. Spike's three-headed flail was there, too. Eddy kicked the ground and uttered a curse. "They've got us cornered!!" he lamented. "What the heck are we supposed to do?!"

"Well, there is ONE thing they haven't taken from us," Don hinted.

Eddy and Spike's eyes lit up. "What?" Eddy asked.

Don then wrapped one hand around his left leg and pulled it off, pant leg and all. He grabbed something that had been taped to the top of it, and then he put his leg back. The don held up the object so his fellow Espers could see what it was: a bobby pin. They seemed a little confused.

"What are you gonna do with that?" Eddy said.

"I'm gonna try and pick the lock with it," the don replied.

Spike wrapped his thumb and forefinger around his chin. Eddy just threw his arms up. "Alright then," he said. "Pick the lock."

"I will." And he stuck the thing in the lock outside the cage and commenced picking it. In this, all Eddy and Spike could do was sit and wait...

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Outside the ship in the woods were five blue-clad police officers straight from Blue Moon. The one in the lead was the female cop that had spoken with the Ministers earlier. The rest were men and one of them was carrying a device like a bunch of sticks of dynamite taped together with an alarm clock attached to it. They were headed for the spaceship and they were going to blow it to smithereens.

"So, uh," said the Elven cop with the bomb, "why do we have to do this?"

"Minister Calvec said that 'whatever happens on this island, stays on this island,'" the girl explained. "If we blow up these aliens' ship, they're as good as trapped here."

"But isn't it kind of a waste?" said one of the other cops, a grey-skinned Ghoul. "We could just take the ship, have it for ourselves. It sure would make transportation a whole lot easier."

"Yeah, it would," another cop agreed, rubbing his silver chin in speculation.

"Well, orders are orders," said the woman. The other four cops shrugged their shoulders and continued to march...

Scene 4/5
Inside the ship, Sykes was sitting in one of the chairs in the main room, enjoying a club sandwich and mumbling some song to himself between bites:

"We are the Zonnic Gang
Please gaze upon us in awe
No one can touch us, no one can break us
We are above the law."

Then something caught his eye. He looked up and saw on the screen before him a white line spinning around in front of a white circle. The screen was also beeping and each time it made the noise, the line passed through five dots that seemed to be getting closer and closer to the center of the circle. Sykes swallowed another bite and thought of the one thing this could mean: enemies approaching.

"Not on my watch, sirs," the squat alien said. He stuffed the rest of the sandwich into his mouth, chewed, swallowed, then went over and grabbed the two bazookas he set down. Then he began walking down the ramp...

"All I'm saying," said the Pixie cop with the purple skin, "is that maybe just this once we can get away with not following orders."

"No," the female cop said sternly.

"But we could be passing up a golden opportunity!" the Sylph cop agreed. "This ship could be the first of its kind on Galilei! If everyone flew these things, think of how much more efficient things would be!"

"The answer's still no."

"You're a cold one, Jamie," said the purple one, shaking his head.

"I know."

At last, the five cops were out of the trees and inside the opening in the forest. Here, they could see the giant piece of metal everyone called a spaceship. The five stood back and got a good look at it. The Ghoul cop whistled. "It's a shame we're gonna have to blow this thing up," he remarked.

"And just WHAT do you plan on blowing up, pray tell?"

The policemen looked. They saw a squat alien with really big hands and two bazookas strapped to his back walking down the ramp and towards them. Threatened, the four cops without the bomb pulled out their guns and aimed at the green creature. Sykes smirked.

"So, you want to fight, do you? Very well then. I will let you have the first move. You may fire when ready..."

The cops all just exchanged cautious looks with one another. "It could be a trap," the silver one whispered.

"So, you're not going to make the first move?" Sykes taunted. "Then I will." The alien pulled out both bazookas and pointed them at the group of police officers. Now they were alarmed.

"FIRE!!" Jamie yelled, and all four cops pulled their triggers. The bullets flew out of their pistols, but all four went ricocheting off the extra terrestrial's force field. The other three went sailing off in different directions, but one of them bounced back and went right into the Pixie cop's left shoulder. He dropped his gun and started clutching at the new wound. The alien smirked and pulled the triggers on his bazookas. "HIT THE DIRT!!" Jamie screamed. All five cops jumped out of the way and BOOOM!! Two trees were hit dead-on. They exploded in two and the top halves started falling. The cops had to get out of the way of this one, too.

BAM!! The two trees landed with Sykes right between them unscathed. Then the Sylph cop jumped onto one of the trees and started firing at the alien with his pistol. Three bullets he fired and three bullets bounced off that force field. Two of them went straight into the cop's right arm. He dropped his weapon between the trees and became wide-eyed once he saw the green man pointing his bazookas at him.

FWOOOSH!! Two more bombs went flying out of the man's weapons, but they didn't hit anyone. The Pixie cop had grabbed the Sylph just in time. Now both were hiding behind one of the fallen trees. "Bullets won't work as long as he's in that bubble," said the Pixie. "We'll have to use our nightsticks."

"But how can we get close to him?!" the Sylph asked. "He's got those bazookas!!"

"Don't worry, I've got a plan..."

Sykes hopped onto one of the trees and saw the girl and the Ghoul running in opposite directions. The alien just sneered, aimed his weapons at both, then fired. KA-BOOOM!! The ends of the tree he was standing on were blown to pieces and now it was raining woodchips and leaves. The alien turned around and saw his two targets running towards each other. He aimed and fired. KA-BOOOM!! More trees were hit. Then the green man saw a flash of purple in front of his eyes and WHAM!! Both of the bazookas were kicked out of the assailant's hands. Then the Sylph ran up with his nightstick and whacked the enemy's force field in the side like a giant baseball. The shield took the blow, but at the same time, Sykes went flying into the crevice between the two fallen trees. Then the Pixie and the Sylph jumped down there as well with their nightsticks at the ready. Sykes just looked at them and scowled.

The alien rushed forward like a rhino and BAM!! His giant fist went right into the stomach of the Sylph. The Sylph flew back as though he had been fired out of a cannon. The only thing that broke his flight was his own partner. He collided into the purple Pixie and the two went sprawling across the ground. When their rolling stopped, they didn't get back up. Jamie and the Ghoul had arrived just in time to see this. Now they were mad, too.

Sykes beckoned the two with his oversized hands. The Ghoul ran forward with his nightstick, ready to beat his brains out. When the two were close enough, the Ghoul attempted a bashing in of his skull, but the alien simply caught the club in his left hand, then crushed it between his strong fingers. The Ghoul was baffled and horrified. Then BAM!! He got it in the stomach from the enemy's right fist. It was like being hit with a giant sledgehammer. The Ghoul clutched at his gut, fell to his knees, and placed his forehead on the grass. Now only Jamie was left standing.

"I don't know what bone you have to pick with us," Sykes said, "but if you continue fighting, I can't guarantee your lives..."

"You're the worst criminals Galilei has ever seen," Jamie stated. "That's reason enough for us to fight you..."

"I see." The alien cracked his knuckles loudly. "You must be out of your mind then." Jamie grimaced hatefully at the man. Then...

"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!!" Both the cop and the alien looked up. Standing on top of one of the trees was three young boys. The one with the three-fingered hands was the one who had just yelled.

Sykes was flabbergasted and infuriated. "YOU!!" he yelled to the three boys. "How did you get out of the cage?!"

"Are you kidding?" Eddy replied. "We just picked the lock!"

"So much for your superior technology," Don commented, and he threw the bobby pin at the alien. It bounced off his forehead and landed in the grass. Sykes narrowed his eyes at the trio in a newly found deeper hatred. "Now then," Don said as he materialized a Wunderbolt in his right hand. Eddy made a fountain of slime and Spike, a three-some of floating, rotating fireballs. "Are you going to leave that vision of beauty alone, or are we going to have to wail on you?"

Sykes growled and did a backflip over the other tree. He was gone for one second. Then he hopped onto the tree with both bazookas back in his hands. The twisted look on his face was of pure malignance. "On behalf of the colonel," he said, "I will kill you..."

"Bring it on, hot stuff," Don taunted.

Sykes pulled the triggers. Both Don and Spike had to jump out of the way of them, but Eddy held his ground. The bombs hit more trees and exploded. Eddy fired a blob of slime at the enemy. It splattered on his shoulder and irritated him. Eddy waved at him nervously. Sykes pointed his left bazooka at him and fired. Eddy dodged the bomb. Then FWOOSH!! Sykes' shirt caught on fire. In a panic, he jumped to the ground behind him and started rolling around on the grass to extinguish the flames. Then he saw Spike standing above him with his flail poised to attack. BAM!! The boy struck, but the spiked spheres just bounced off the shield. Sykes aimed both bazookas and fired once more. Spike ducked.

Then BDZZZZTT!! The alien had suddenly received an electric shock, just as Johnny Chains did. He turned around and saw Don standing there with a lit clove cigarette in his mouth. The extra terrestrial aimed his bazookas at him. Don just ran up to him and ripped a small device with a blinking green light on it off his belt. Sykes gasped. Don tossed the device to Spike who swung his flail at it while it was still flying. CRASSHH!! The weapon smashed the thing to bits. Sykes' jaw dropped when he saw this. Then he started to shake with pure anger.

"That was my force field generator, you vile worms!!" he growled.

"You make it sound like you're gonna lose," Don pointed out.

Sykes snarled and pointed his weapons at the don, but then WHAM!! Eddy had landed a clean blow on the back of his head with his nightstick. Now his bazookas were out of his grasp and the man had fallen face first to the ground. All three of Eddy, Don, and Spike ran up to the green monster and started repeatedly kicking him and striking him with their weapons. This carried on until the man was nothing more than an unconscious pile of black and blue. And just like that, the dreaded Sykes was defeated. Eddy, Don, and Spike were all very proud of themselves.

"Wow," Jamie said once she walked out into the open and saw what had happened. "You guys did it!!"

"That, we did!" Eddy boasted, putting his nightstick on his shoulder.

"Man, I wanted to teach that guy a lesson or two," the Ghoul cop complained once he was back on his feet. The Pixie and the Sylph were starting to recover, too. The Pixie cop was happy, but the Sylph was looking around as though he had lost something.

"Where's Flint?" he asked. Then suddenly, all seven people jumped to the ground with their hands behind their heads. KA-BLLLOOOIIIEEE!!! The entire spaceship erupted in a gigantic explosion of fire and debris. Shards of metal fell from the sky and lodged themselves in trees, both the ones that had fallen and the ones that were still standing. Some even landed in the ground surrounding the group of seven. It was a lucky coincidence no one was hurt.

Then the Elf of the group ran up to them and saluted. "Mission accomplished, everyone," he stated. "Now let's all head back to Blue Moon..."

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Colonel Zeke watched with a toothy grin of sadistic satisfaction on his face as his minions tromped through the streets of Elliptical, set people on fire, and stole all their money and valuables. It was so much fun watching all those silver-skinned citizens going up in flames, running around, screaming, and moaning in despair as aliens kicked them and broke their bones. Exactly how much mayhem the man had to witness until he had his fill, no one knew.

"Yesss," he purred deviously. "Take everything they have. Don't even leave a single halo behind!!"

Then the colonel heard a distinct, high-pitched BEEP BEEP! He looked at his watch and his face slowly melted into a look of absolute contempt and disdain. He began to inhale and exhale fiercely like a bull that could only see red.

Then CLICK!! A line of police officers had positioned themselves behind the colonel, all with their guns aimed straight at him. "Colonel Zeke Zonnic of the Zonnic Gang," one of the officers said, "you're under arrest."

The lumbering green man snarled, spun around, and made a very swift sweeping movement with his left arm. In one second, a number of compartments opened up in the metallic arm and little silver ninja stars flew out. Each one hit a police officer somewhere. They all screamed painfully and dropped their weapons. Zeke strode up to the one that had called out to him. He knelt down and picked him up by the front side of his shirt. "I'm under arrest, am I?" he growled in a deep voice. "Let me tell you something. You can wave your guns all you want at us, but we're still going to defeat you. We've only raided about three towns now, and I must say I find you Galileos truly pathetic.

"How many dozens of you have come at us and failed? How many have fallen to our power? ALL OF THEM!! If you want to bring us down, then quit stalling. Hurry up and hit us with that secret weapon of yours. I know you have one..." The colonel used his free hand to grab the police officer's right arm. With a quick twist and a loud crunching sound, he had broken it. The man screamed in agony. Then Zeke got really close to his face and whispered, "Because one of you miserable little vermin BLEW UP MY SHIP!!!..."

BDDZZTT!! Another innocent Sylph was electrocuted by Logan's Life Drainer. He snickered and knelt down to mine his new victim's pockets. He stopped suddenly when he felt an ominous shudder vibrate throughout his entire body. Tan saw this while he was in the middle of punching a man and sending him flying down the chaos-filled street. "What's up, Logan?! Why'd you shudder like that?!"

"It's the colonel," Logan explained, very seriously. "He's mad, and when he gets mad, no living thing is safe within a thousand mile radius. He's going to do something and it's going to be huge..."

Even Tan started to look fearful. One of his trembling hands slowly reached up to his quivering lips. "What?! You serious, Logan?! What're we supposed to do?!"

"Nothing," Logan answered. "We just keep doing our jobs and hope for the best..."

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Chapter 10 - Under the Stars
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It had been some time since their encounter with Sykes. Now the sky was dark blue and dotted with billions of little shining lights. The three white moons were out, too. Eddy, Don, Spike, and the cops were in another opening in the woods at this time. The eight of them were seated on logs, surrounding a blazing fire. Behind them were three individual tents.

"Beautiful, aren't they?" Don asked, looking up to the sky.

"What, the stars?" asked the Elven cop.

"No, the moons."

"Ah."

"You got a favorite one?" asked the purple Pixie.

"Atropos," Don answered. "I like that one since it's the biggest."

"Clotho and Lachesis are too small, eh?" asked the Ghoul.

"Clotho's the small one," Don replied. "Lachesis is just somewhere in between."

"That, they are."

"Have any of you ever heard about how the world will come to an end?" the Sylph inquired.

"Aliens will come down from above and kill us all?" Spike guessed.

"No. They say the three moons'll turn green, just like slime."

"Just like slime, eh?" Eddy repeated.

"Yeah. They also say a man called the Abyszar will destroy the world."

"Now that, I gotta see," the Ghoul commented.

The Elf stared at the three moons with a very distant look in his eyes. "You guys don't suppose... that Zeke is the Abyszar, do you?"

"Well, he could be," the Pixie replied.

"HA!! I'll eat a bug if that loud, obnoxious doofus turns out to be it," Eddy laughed.

"But what if he IS it?" the Elf asked.

"Then saving the world will be easier than I thought..."

Jamie looked long and hard at the three of Eddy, Don, and Spike. It surprised and puzzled her that they knew so little about these young boys, and yet the lot of them were camping out together. "Who exactly are you?" she asked.

"Who, me?" Eddy responded.

"All three of you. The thought didn't even occur to us that anyone would be inside that ship, and yet, here you are, and you say you're going to save the world. Who are you?"

Eddy and Spike looked a little bit nervous. Their eyes moved from left to right as they wondered what to say. Don said it for them. "We're just three boys who are very concerned about the safety of Galilei."

"Oh, are you? And why do YOU have a nightstick?" she said, directing her attention towards Eddy. "Where did you get something like that?"

"It was... a gift?" Eddy guessed.

"A gift from who?"

"Uhh... Robert Eternivus?"

"Eternivus..." The girl rubbed her chin in speculation. "I see... So you're that Eddy Constrictor he keeps talking about."

Eddy's eyes bugged out. "You know him??"

"I work with him at Blue Moon. He's one of the finest police officers I've ever seen."

"No kidding!! How's he doing?"

"He's doing well, although he's a little distraught over the Southwest Volcano blowing up."

"Yeah, I don't blame him."

"So, how exactly do you know Eternivus?"

Eddy looked around. He saw seven different pairs of eyes watching him and waiting. The sight made him feel a sinking sensation in his gut. The Lamia swallowed heavily and took a deep breath. "He was... one of my teachers..."

Jamie stared at him with her face leaning on one of her fists. "So you really did bust out of the Copperhead Scouts Academy." Eddy paused, then nodded slowly. "I see..."

"You're not gonna arrest me, are you?"

Jamie smiled. "No. I owe you for saving my life back there." Eddy breathed a sigh of relief and wiped some sweat off his brow. "But watch out. One of these days, a cop WILL catch you for what you did at the academy."

"Yeah. I'm aware of that..."

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Later, the group extinguished the fire and retired to their respective tents. Eddy, Don, and Spike were in one and Jamie alone was in another. All four of the other cops had to share the third tent, cramped as it was. Maybe the others were asleep by now, but the three youngest ones were still lying awake.

"So, Don, what's your story?" Eddy asked.

"Hn?" the young Ghoul grunted.

"You know, what's your life been like? Where have you been? Where are you going?"

"Well, if you must know," the don began, "I'm the son of a millionaire: Gary Guarana. His company, Electrico, is what provides this entire island with power and energy. Every time someone turns on a light, that's another thousand halos in his pocket."

"Wow," Spike breathed.

"I know," Don continued. "He always wanted me to inherit the company someday, but I had other plans..."

"What plans?" Eddy asked.

"Being a millionaire, the man couldn't help but spoil me. Even when it wasn't my birthday, he was always buying me expensive toys and gadgets. Everyday, my collection expanded. I had everything any kid could ever want... and then some...

"He even got me tutors. Those guys taught me everything, including how to use a sword and a gun, so it wasn't just my brain that had to be super strong. I was in the library one day, studying the geography of Galilei, when I happened upon a very interesting book. It was by a man named Maxwell Universe and it showed a picture of a planet with nine different gigantic islands on it. The two on the top and the bottom were pure white, and the others were green and brown..."

Eddy's eyes became huge upon hearing this.

"Reading this book, at first, I thought it was mere science fiction, but something about the way it was written just... gripped me, unlike anything I had ever read before..."

"What was it about?" Spike inquired.

"It was about the many travels of Max and all the things he found out about the world." Eddy was the one who said this. Don just looked at him and nodded.

"Yeah, exactly. How did you know?"

"I read that exact same book."

"Yeah? What was your favorite part?"

"The part at the beginning where he explains what the Tree of Life is."

"I liked the part at the end where he explains his theory of how the world will come to an end. The most dark and brutal thing I've ever read..."

"Argh!! What book are you guys talking about??" Spike blurted. "What's it called??"

Eddy and Don simultaneously looked at the mahogany-haired boy and said it in unison: "Endobia."

"There's a book named after the planet?" Spike elicited. "How come I've never heard of it?"

"No one's ever heard of it," Eddy explained. "Eternivus told me all the copies of it were supposedly burned over 300 years ago."

Spike looked appalled. "Why would someone do that?"

"To keep a secret, probably," Don responded. "The book after all does suggest a lot of things..."

"Like what?"

"Like that there are countries out there beyond Galilei and that there are some things that are simply beyond human comprehension," Eddy stated.

"Wow," Spike said again.

"But don't take OUR word for it." Eddy reached into his magic bag and pulled out the book in question. He handed it to Spike. "Read it yourself. You've got nothing to lose."

"Wow, thanks," Spike obliged. "But what about your plans, Don?"

"Oh, right," the don said. "Well, the book got me thinking about a lot of things, especially since it was about a man who eventually got tired of the small town he had always lived in. He left his home, saw the world, and with it, a whole ton of things. He saw people of races I'd never heard of. He saw buildings and structures that were bigger than you could possibly imagine. He even saw machines and devices that defied all logic... like force field generators and spaceships..."

"Whoa. Really?"

"Really." Don took a moment to lie down on his back in the tent with his hands folded behind his head. He looked as though he were watching the stars through the tent's ceiling. "That man saw everything. Everything you could ever imagine or dream of. For all intents and purposes, he led a full life... and all he had to do was pack his bags and walk out the door...

"My dad could buy me anything, but there was one thing I always wanted that he could never buy; actually, three things: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, the three moons. I always wanted to fly all the way up to those things, explore them, and put my flags on them. I just never had any idea how it could be done until I read that book..."

"How are you going to do it?" Spike asked.

"By building the ultimate spaceship. One that doesn't just go from island to island, like in the book. I've already got the blueprints for one. All it needs is a certain crystal for the core and it'll be set."

"What crystal?"

"The legendary Sun Stone." There was a pause. No one in the tent spoke for about three seconds. "Yup. Someday, I'm gonna find that stone, build that spaceship, and fly to the three moons. Just you wait."

"Okay, I will."

Don turned and looked at Eddy who had been sitting there with his chin in his hand for quite some time now. "You've been quiet, Eddy," he said. "Anything on your mind?"

"Well," the snake began, "I've been thinking. Spike wants to see the world. YOU want to turn it upside-down in search of the Sun Stone."

"Yup."

"And I want to do it in search of the Tree of Life."

"That's right."

"All three of us want to get off this island."

"Yeah, you could say that," Spike replied.

"But how are we gonna do it? Flint blew up the only spaceship in town!!"

"Not quite," Don interjected. "There's one in the basement of Monet's Mansion, remember?"

Eddy smacked his palm with his fist like a hammer. "Of course!!"

"Yeah. So after we get rid of the space aliens, we should head back to that mansion, hop in that spaceship, and take off."

"Agreed." And soon after that, all three of the boys were lying down and catching some Z's. Tomorrow was the big day when they'd arrive at Blue Moon and talk to the Three Ministers about the Evil Eye. They could hardly wait...

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Chapter 11 - Blue Moon
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"I lived the first 22 years of my life on a farm. Everyday, me and my family would do dozens of chores from dawn 'til dusk. It felt good when the day ended and my entire body would be caked in sweat and dirt, but I could never shake the feeling it was a life that only led to and came from itself. Each day was more like the one that preceded it than the one that preceded it was. I didn't want to be trapped in that loop forever. I wanted to go out there and see the world..."

Eddy, Don, Spike, and the cops had awoken from their good night's rest. They collapsed their tents, put them in their magic bags, and set off for Blue Moon once more. Presently, the group was walking along a dirt path. It was a clear day with blue skies and a light breeze. Everyone was enjoying the weather, but Spike seemed to be deep in speculation.

"Penny for your thoughts, Spike?" Eddy asked.

"Yeah, I've been thinking," he began. "Isn't it strange how the only spaceship we've seen other than the one the aliens had is the one in Monet's Mansion? How did it get there?"

"What do you mean?" Eddy said. "It fell from the sky, Clay Monet found it, and he took it back to his mansion."

"That's not what I mean," Spike clarified. "I mean, how could it have fallen from the sky in the first place? Last I checked, anytime anyone saw a UFO heading towards this island, the thing would blow up into a million pieces."

"So only twice has a UFO ever been able to land here safely," Eddy noted.

"Exactly. So the question is, why do they keep blowing up? And why didn't the other two blow up as well?"

"Yeah, and you know what else is weird?" Eddy added. "When the aliens came, the academy was what got blown up, and not the UFO. What's up with that?"

"That's a good question."

"I still say that's not as suspicious as the fact that they burned all the copies of Endobia over 300 years ago," Don spoke up.

"Yeah, good point," Eddy said. "It's almost as though one person's trying to keep people from ever entering or leaving the island, and the other's trying to keep people from getting the idea it's possible."

"Exactly."

"You guys are looking too deeply into things," Jamie interjected. "No one in their right mind would want to go to such lengths just to blow up a bunch of spaceships, or whatever."

"Ha. Sounds like YOU'RE not looking deep enough," Eddy remarked. "We all know by now that UFO's exist. At this rate, ANYTHING could be possible. Even conspiracies..."

"Hmph," Jamie grunted. She had nothing further to add to the discussion.

After walking and talking for a bit longer, the clique had finally arrived at the place of designation: Blue Moon. It was a gigantic city full of tall, white buildings. The streets were far busier than any Eddy had ever seen. There must have been thousands of people wandering around here, carrying merchandise and riding around on Garguinea Pigs. It didn't seem even a speck of this place had no life in it.

However, the group couldn't enter this place just yet. At the spot where the dirt road ended and the brick one began were two big, ugly monsters the size of Garguinea Pigs. They looked like overgrown black wolves with two heads. One head with blue eyes, and the other with red. Riding on top of these creatures were two blue-clad police officers. One of them had a face hardened with lines, and the other had long, white hair and sunglasses. The group approached them.

"Jamie!!" said the one in the sunglasses. "How'd the mission go?"

"Well, one of the aliens tried to kill us, but thanks to these three young boys, we were able to defeat him and blow up their spaceship," the female officer summarized.

"Wow. Kids these days, huh?"

"Wait a minute," Eddy started after squinting at the white-haired one's face for a while. "I know you... You're... Eternivus!!"

Eternivus put his shades on his forehead revealing pale blue eyes. "Eddy!!" he called. "And Spike, too!! How've you guys been?"

"Oh, this and that," Eddy responded.

"I'm sure you guys have thousands of stories to tell me. Shall we talk it over with some coffee?"

"Yeah, that'd be nice."

"Fantastic. Jamie, cover for me."

"You're just going to dump your duty on ME right this instant?" Jamie questioned.

"Jamie, come on. They're old friends of mine. I haven't seen them in years!"

Jamie's eyes glanced to the left for a second. "Alright, fine," she conceded.

"Perfect! I love you, Jamie," the white-haired officer stated as he jumped off the two-headed wolf.

"Don't mention it," the girl grumbled as she climbed on. Then Eternivus began walking with the three of Eddy, Don, and Spike into the city. The other four police officers soon followed their example.

"Bye, Jamie," said the purple Pixie. "Have fun filling in for Eternivus!" Jamie just grumbled something inaudibly. The other four guys shrugged their shoulders and headed off...

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Later, Eddy, Don, Spike, and Eternivus were at a coffee shop. Inside this building, the four had been sharing a booth and talking, all the while enjoying cappuccinos and biskottis. At this time, the three teenagers had more or less explained everything to the police officer, from Eddy's escape from the academy all the way to their adventure against Sykes the space alien. The cop nodded after hearing all of their storires.

"Wow," he said. "You guys get into a LOT of fights." Eddy and Spike laughed. Don just shrugged and sipped some more of his coffee. "So, you're pretty serious when you say you're going to take down Zeke Zonnic..."

"You bet we are," Eddy replied.

"Even though some people say he might be the Abyszar?"

"Especially if some people say he might be the Abyszar," Eddy repeated. "'Cause he's NOT the Abyszar. He just can't be."

Eternivus raised his eyebrows at his former student. "And what makes you say that?"

"Well, the book says the Abyszar is the evilest man who will ever live. Zeke doesn't seem that evil to me. Granted, he keeps going around, raiding villages, and burning them to the ground, but think about it: is that REALLY the evilest you can be?"

"What would YOU consider 'that evil'?"

"Well... I always thought the evilest person in the world would have to be a guy who's so evil, he appears to be a good guy. Everywhere he goes, he's got everyone on his side. No one suspects him or his evil plans of conquering the world... or destroying it."

"Yeah. That's pretty evil alright," Eternivus agreed.

"Hm," Don grunted. "I always thought the evilest person would have to be a guy who never kills his victims under any circumstance. Instead, he captures them and tortures them everyday until they wished they'd just die."

"I always thought he'd have to be a person who never tells the truth to anyone, not even his most trusted minions," Spike shared. "No matter what, he'd always have that one deep, dark secret stowed away in his mind."

"Doesn't EVERYONE have one of those?" Eternivus asked. "Also, I'm pretty sure you're all forgetting something..."

"What?" Eddy asked.

"At this rate, he still is the single greatest threat Galilei has ever known. And if he succeeds in finding the Evil Eye, then that just makes him an even bigger threat, and that's not just to us..." The cop leaned forward and looked at the trio over his shades. "It's to all the other people on this planet we haven't met yet..."

Eddy and Spike's eyes widened. "So," Eddy began, "there really is something beyond Galilei??"

Eternivus leaned back and shrugged. "Well, maybe there is and maybe there isn't," he said. Then he gave a big, toothy grin. "But there definitely is..."

Eddy raised his fist and gave out a hearty crow. "YEAH!!..."

Scene 3/6
Meanwhile, back in the town of Nova, two friends, Ryan and Greg, were out for a walk. Presently, Ryan was staring at the ground and shaking his head. "My whole life, I've always wanted to see a space alien," he said. "Then some land, and what's the first thing they do? They start wreaking havoc."

"I know," Greg sounded.

"That Zonnic Gang's been nothing but trouble since they got here. Something tells me it's only a matter of time until they find that Evil Eye they're looking for. Then we'll REALLY have to start saying our prayers."

"I know," Greg said again.

Ryan scrunched his eyes shut and his lips quivered. "We never should have ventured into that mansion that fateful night. Then maybe none of this would have happened."

"Hey, I don't know about that," Greg replied. "Had we not have gone on that mission, we never would have caught those criminals and got the reward. Plus, how cool is it that we found a spaceship down there?"

"Yeah, but what about the others? Eddy, Don, Spike, Sarah, and Dryzma?"

"Well, all five of them are tough people. Wherever they are right now, I'm sure they're doing fine and that they're doing everything in their power to fight those aliens."

"Such friends we have," Ryan commented, a bit in admiration, a bit in sadness. He turned and looked at his silver friend. "Are WE doing everything in our power?"

"Hmm..."

Scene 4/6
Eddy, Don, Spike, and Eternivus stood before the designated area: the famed Crescent Building. From where they stood, it was a huge architecture completely painted white and, fittingly enough, in the shape of a crescent moon. "Well, here it is, boys," Eternivus announced. "The Crescent Building. Here, the Three Ministers do all their work, telling the island what to do one cop, banker, or politician at a time."

"Great," Eddy remarked. "Now let's see if they can handle four guys at a time." The other three nodded. Then the quartet began ascending the steps leading to the front doors of the place. Then suddenly...

KA-BOOOOOM!!! The quartet turned around and saw that one of the many tall buildings of this glorious city had its top half blown to kingdom come. The sound of the loud bang was instantly followed by that of screaming and panicking. People were now running for their lives and trying desperately to get as far away as possible from whatever new threat it was that had just descended upon this metropolis. Eddy and friends knew what it was. The threat needed no introduction.

"They're here," Eddy said solemnly.

"Why at a time like this??" Spike lamented.

"Maybe because we blew up their ship," Don suggested.

"It doesn't matter," Eternivus voiced. "I'll head in there and tell the Three Ministers what's going on. You three stay out here and make sure none of those aliens come near this place."

"Easier said than done," Eddy quipped.

"I know, but we don't have a choice here." Then the man turned back around and began to run full-tilt up the stairs. "GIVE'EM ALL YOU GOT!!" he called out.

"NO PROBLEM!!!" Eddy yelled back. The trio watched in dead seriousness as the mayhem escalated. They saw the aliens firing their deadly weapons at anything and everything. Buildings, signs, carts, stands, and lamp posts were all being torn apart and blown to pieces. Even fires were starting to spread.

Then came the blue-clad enforcers of the law. They came riding on their giant, two-headed wolves and firing their pistols. However, the aliens had their shields up, so some of the bullets just bounced off and hit other things, like signs and people. Some of the cops were trying to go at it with the aliens using nothing but their nightsticks, but these, too, had no effect. The aliens just fired more explosives at their assailants and moved closer to the Crescent Building...

"Argh, screw this," Eddy cursed. "Let's get in there and fight those guys!!"

"YEAH!!" Don and Spike yelled. With this, the trio began running down the steps and towards the fray. In seconds, they had jumped right into the pit of battling cops and aliens. Now they, too, were a part of it. The boys flung their powers left and right, trying to nail as many different aliens as possible. Eddy splashed slime in their faces, Don struck them with his Wunderbolts, and Spike torched their butts with his flame. After a few seconds of this, the enemies started to become increasingly aware of these boys.

"Hey, it's Eddy, Don, and what's-his-face!!" one them yelled. "They're back!!"

"Well, what are we waiting for?! Let's kill'em!!" shouted another.

"YEAH!!!" the others replied. Now the green men were turning away from the cops and towards the three boys. This was going to be tough. The extra terrestrials were charging towards the kids, even leaping through the air to get to them. Eddy, Don, and Spike watched carefully as these assailants drew their hi-tech pistols. The boys' eyes glimmered omenously. Then they swung out the palms of their hands and fired with all their might. SHA-BLLOOORRZZTT!! The boys' rangez were incredible. They had gotten ten of these aliens using fire, slime, and electricity all at once. Regardless, more aliens were coming. They, too, were charging and leaping towards the teenagers. Then...

"ZONNIC GANG, HALT!!!"

All the mayhem stopped. Even the cops were frozen in their tracks. A good number of the people in the scene recognized that voice, and those who didn't could guess who it belonged to. The aliens in the streets furthest away from the Crescent Building cleared a path for him. Then the man himself walked into view: Colonel Zeke Zonnic...

"It's been a while, Eddy Constrictor," the colonel said as he walked closer to the trio. "Did you enjoy your trip?"

"As a matter of fact, I did, thank you very much," the snake voiced bitterly.

"GWA HA HA!! Did you now?!" the head alien guffawed. At this point, he was but a few feet away from the boys. He stood in place and gave the Lamia of the three a good, solid glare. "In any case, Eddy Constrictor, I still have one question for you..."

"I already know what you're going to ask," the Lamia responded. "And the answer is yes; I'm STILL going to fight this war with you."

Zeke narrowed his eyes and growled. "So be it..." BAM!! Zeke punted Eddy right in the chest. The snake went flying backwards and he crashed into the steps of the Crescent Building. When Don and Spike saw this, they held up a Wunderbolt and a flail and went charging towards the towering man. WHAM!! Zeke socked them both in the chins with his metal fists. "Back off," he snarled, taking a few steps towards Eddy. "This one's mine..."

By now, the cops and the rest of the aliens were back to fighting each other. Chaos reigned in the streets once more. Zeke was advancing on a downed Eddy, meaning to cause him every bit of pain imaginable. Don and Spike had little else to think about. "YOU LEAVE HIM ALONE, YOU JERK!!" Spike screamed and he hurled a green fireball at the green ogre.

PING!! Without even looking at it, Zeke blocked the fireball, bouncing it off the back of his right hand and letting it explode on the ground. Zeke turned his head, looked at Eddy's two friends, and bore his sharp, jagged teeth. "So, you want to die, too, eh?!"

"Please, sir, allow us. Uh-heh heh heh!!"

"Yeah!! Lemme at'em!!"

Two aliens who had just defeated a few dozen cops along with their two-headed wolves stepped forward. It was none other than the devious duo, Logan and Tan.

"Back for more, eh?" Don said, addressing Logan.

"I could say the same about you!!" Logan replied.

"Bwa ha!! You're gonna die, you little punk!!" Tan crowed. Spike just looked up at him and gulped. Eddy and Don stared at their opponents for a second or two. They looked deep into cold, merciless eyes, preparing themselves for what was to come. Then the six men grabbed their weapons, and the fighting began...

Tan threw a punch, aiming for the top of Spike's skull. Spike jumped out of the way and the tan behemoth punched a crater in the ground instead. Spike went running towards the man with his mace balls whirling. He swung at the alien, but he jumped away and threw a kick. Spike dodged and swung his weapon at the man's foot. CHING!! Spike was able to nick the side. Now it was bleeding, but Tan just recoiled his leg and started standing on it as though the injury wasn't even there. Spike looked creeped out and disgusted.

"You're gonna have to do better than that, punk!!" Tan taunted. Spike just scoffed and set his three spiked orbs ablaze...

Don was swinging his Wunderbolt around like a sword, but Logan was blocking each strike with the gun-part of his elaborate weapon. When he got the chance, Logan fired a bolt of electricity at the don, but he got out of the way just in time. The bolt sailed past him and BDZZT!! It got one of the cops in the background. He fell off of his wolf and landed in the streets. Don scowled at the scientist alien.

"Watch what you're doing with that thing," he growled.

"You shouldn't have dodged it, smart one!!" the extra terrestrial retorted.

Zeke had made some blades appear on the backs of his iron knuckles. Now he was using them to try and slash at Eddy like a cat. Luckily, Eddy was nimble and crafty enough to dodge or block each strike. Eddy tried tripping the overgrown man, but in the middle of doing so, he had to jump back in less than a second, otherwise his face would have gotten ripped off by those claws. Then Zeke started chasing after the boy, slashing wildly at him with his weapons. The two were getting further and further up the stairs.

At one point, Eddy pointed the palm of his left hand at the behemoth's chest and fired. SHA-BLORRRRP!! Now the front side of the colonel was covered in sticky, green slime. He snarled viciously at Eddy, then pointed his right index finger at him. Eddy only had a split-second to react. FWOOOOSH!! A wave of fire burst forth from the man's finger. Eddy had nearly been engulfed in flames. It was a good thing he had jumped out of the way in time.

"Just keep fighting me, boy," the green man growled. "Soon you'll have seen EVERYTHING these arms are capable of..."

Spike swung his flail continuously at Tan, but the big, tan-colored alien kept jumping out of the way. Then the beast thew an upward kick and PING!! Spike's weapon had been knocked out of his hands. Its flames disappeared as it fell and clattered to the ground. Spike looked for one second and BAM!! Tan threw a punch at the boy's left cheek, sending him sprawling across the brick street. Painfully, he rolled onto his stomach and reached for his flail. SHING!! Tan had stomped one foot down on the weapon, keeping it locked in place.

"What are you gonna do now, you little runt?!" the tan man gloated. "What are you gonna do?! Bwa ha ha ha!!"

Spike thrust out his right palm and let it rip. FWOOOOSH!! Tan's shirt caught fire from the green flames. He yelped, jumped off the flail, and started hopping around in a frantic effort to pull his shirt off, throw it to the ground, and stomp it black. What happened next he had been completely unprepared for. WHAM!! Spike had gotten him in the left side with his flail. Tan howled in pain. Then the boy started kicking him in the knees and punching him in the stomach. Tan took this until he swatted the kid away from him with the back of his hand. Again, Spike was sent sprawling. He got on his hands and knees, spit out some blood, and glared at the brown alien, who just beckoned him with his hand. Spike picked up his flail and went charging straight at the enemy once more...

Don threw his Wunderbolt at Logan. The scientist ducked and the bolt exploded in the ground behind him. Then the scientist pointed his weapon once more and fired. BDZZT!! This time two cops went down at the same time. Don got mad. He pulled out two switchblade knives and went charging towards his enemy. Logan just fired more lightning bolts. Don dodged each one expertly. Then SHICK!! He got close enough and stabbed the scientist in both shoulders with his knives. The scientist shrieked and threw a kick at the don. The young Ghoul jumped away, taking his bloody knives with him. The scientific alien started firing more lightning bolts. Don avoided these by running circles around the man, but each one he dodged meant more damage to the city. Don didn't care.

I have to do something about Sarah and Dryzma, he thought. All I have to do is free those two, and then this man will be powerless...

Eddy swung his nightstick. Zeke blocked it with his left arm. Then Zeke pointed and blasted another wave of fire at the boy. Eddy cart wheeled out of the way. Then the snake fired a stream of sticky slime at the colonel's feet. The overgrown man slipped on the substance and began tumbling down the steps. Eddy pumped his fist victoriously.

Then the gigantic alien stopped himself by grabbing onto one of the steps so hard, his metal fingers were going right through the concrete as though it were putty. Then he jumped back onto his feet and started making ninja stars fly out of his arms. Now Eddy had a barrage of whirling blades to dodge and outrun. He ran up and down the steps to accomplish this. Then he started running towards the beastly man, nightstick at the ready. Zeke got ready for him by holding his metallic fists up. Eddy leapt through the air with his weapon held high. Zeke could tell he was aiming for his head.

Then something truly unexpected happened: slime started shooting out of the bottoms of Eddy's sandals! The slime splattered onto the colonel's feet, causing him to slip and fall flat on his face. Eddy landed beside him and kicked him in the ribs. Zeke shot out his left arm and grabbed the kid by the left leg. He stood up, keeping the flailing Eddy dangling in front of him. The alien colonel held him really close to his face.

"Do you really think you have a chance in this, boy?" he growled. "Do you really think you can defeat the Zonnic Gang?! Well, dream on!!!"

With that, the giant alien threw Eddy up into the air and made his iron fist connect with his stomach in the blink of an eye. Eddy was sent flying through the air like a cannonball. He landed somewhere in the middle of all the fighting between the cops and the other aliens. When Don and Spike saw this, they were mortified. Zeke just gave out a loud, hearty guffaw.

"Now it's time for me to go and see the Three Ministers," he noted, and he turned around and started running up the steps of the Crescent Building.

"Oh man, we gotta stop him!!" Spike said.

"There's no telling what those Ministers'll spill," Don said. The two boys were about to run from their respective battles and chase after Zeke, but Tan and Logan stood in their ways.

"Not so fast, you little runt!!" Tan intoned.

"You're not going to get to the colonel THAT easily," Logan snarled, and he fired another lightning bolt at his opponent.

"Oh, that just does it," Don growled, and he kicked the scientist square in the jaw. Then he grabbed him by a scruff of his lab coat and threw him onto his back with all his might. CRASSHH!!! The oversized tubes on the man's back had been shattered. Now the scientist was in a daze. He tried helping himself up, but Don just grabbed him again and gave him a solid punch in the stomach. The alien groaned in pain, clutched at his stomach, and fell to his knees. "Perfect," Don remarked. "Now stay like that..."

Spike was madly hacking away at Tan with swing after swing of his whirling orbs, but the ogre was able to dodge each one. Then Spike took a break from fighting with the weapon and formed a blue fireball in his right hand. Then he hurled the sphere at his opponent's visage. KA-FWOOOSHH!! Now his face was on fire. The demonic man yelled, screamed, and patted at his face desperately. Meanwhile, Spike had lit his three mace balls on fire once more. Now it was time to let the man have it right in the gut...

BAMMM!! The blow was delivered. Tan felt three kinds of heat plow into his stomach, incinerating and penetrating his skin. The man fell onto his back, clutching his stomach. Once he landed, Spike pointed his right palm at him and cast another spell. FWOOOSHH!! Now his pants were on fire. He rolled around on the street like crazy, trying tirelessly to put out the flames. When the deed was done, he rested on his hands and knees. Then something very sudden happened. BAM!! Spike had kicked him in the temple as hard as he could. The overgrown alien's eyes rolled back into his head. He fell onto his back again and passed out. Spike looked at his handiwork and wiped some sweat off his brow.

"Well, that takes care of that," he said to himself, and he turned around and began running up the steps. He decided he had to reach Zeke and fast, even though doing so could very well result in his death...

By now, Don had succeeded in helping the two of Sarah and Dryzma out of their smashed up tubes. Unfortunately, the two were still unconscious. Don had them lying on their backs in the road. He watched over them, shaking his head. "That evil man sucked all the life out of you," he said quietly. "But don't worry; you're safe now..."

"GYAAHHH!! DIE, YOU GALILEO SCUM!!"

Don looked up and saw one of the aliens had gotten away from the mob and was now running towards the young Ghoul with a bloody nightstick he had gotten from a cop. The don was a split-second away from drawing his knife when BAM!! Someone had flown out of nowhere and kicked the extra terrestrial in the stomach. He fell onto the ground, gripping his new injury tightly. The person who had kicked him landed. It was Eddy.

"You gotta pay attention better than that, Don," the snake remarked. "He was about to kill you!"

"I know," the don replied. "Just hurry up and go after Zeke. We don't have much time."

"Alright. You just watch yourself out here, alright?"

"I got it." With that, Eddy headed off, leaving Don alone with their two unconscious friends. Then three more aliens walked up to him, each with their guns pointed at him.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't Don Guarana," said the one in the middle. "You ready to die, maggot?!" Don growled and materialized two Wunderbolts. Once again, he was forced to fight for his life and the fate of the city...

Scene 5/6
Eternivus stared at the Three Ministers with a bead of cold sweat rolling down his face. They had just told him something and it was still taking the man some time for the words to sink in. He felt as though he had been hit by a train and was still trying to pick the dismembered pieces of his own body off the ground, hard as it was.

"Are... Are you sure about this?" the man stammered.

"Yes, Eternivus," said the Minister with the biggest nose, Zelm. "We've thought it over and we've determined that of all the cops in Galilei, you are the one most fit for this job."

"I... I see," Eternivus said.

"There's a chance the people will go berserk," said the green one, Leon. "Do take caution."

"I will," Eternivus promised.

Suddenly, BAMM!! The doors suffered a powerful blow and both were blown straight off their hinges. The rectangular pieces of wood fell to the stone floor and it was revealed a huge man with green skin and iron-clad arms was standing where the doors once were. All four of Eternivus and the Ministers were staring at him very seriously.

Zeke Zonnic let out a low growl. "The Three Ministers, I presume?..."

Scene 6/6
Spike was running full-tilt through the halls of the Crescent Building. The Three Ministers' room was around here somewhere and he was determined to find it. All he had to do was keep running and keep searching...

"SPIKE!!"

Spike turned his head around to see who was coming up from behind. It was Eddy. "Eddy, you're okay!!" Spike said as his Lamia companion drew closer.

"Of course, I'm okay. Did you really think a little nick like that was going to be enough to take ME down?"

"No, but we gotta hurry," Spike elaborated. "For all I know, Zeke could already be in the Three Ministers' presence, demanding to know where the Evil Eye is."

"Man, this is bad," Eddy grumbled. "Somehow, I don't get the feeling this is something we can just talk our ways out of."

"Me, neither," Spike agreed, "but if it's for the sake of Galilei, I'm more than ready to lay my life on the line."

"Heh. Well put. Now let's hurry up and take that madman down!!"

"Right!!" And the two continued running, their sights dead set on the future of the star-shaped island they had always known as their home. Was its end on the cusp of fruition? The heroic young boys were about to find out...

For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
All you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be

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Posted December 12th, 2009 03:57 PM IP

True to my word, I've started reading your story, Wan. Thanks again for giving me statistics to use in my paper (my teacher says it was good).

I've only read the prologue right now but that alone was very interesting. I'll skip the obvious questions like how do the Espoison give super powers, etc as I'm sure those will be big plot developments. What I will ask, however, are these questions:

1) Is "the book" based on a real one or one of your own creation. The way it sounds right now, it seems like Eddy is reading a fictional book that was written in real life but was banned in Galilei (spelling?). Kind of like how the Nazis banned and burned thousands of books in the 30's. If this book isn't a parallel to a real world fictional story, however, it seems like the Necronomicon then, a book containing untold numbers of dangerous secrets that seems better off destroyed than intact.

2) Why does Galilei have such an emphasis on law enforcement? I can imagine that this country is like Sparta, in which military service was the most important job in country. Does Galilei have an overabundance of slaves that they need to keep in line, too many criminals and no Batman to clean up their mess, or is it not like Sparta at all and is actually a totalitarian nation?

3) How did Eddy manage to beat off so many cops? I know he went through very rigorous training but wouldn't the cops he fought in scene 6 have also gone through the same training? Or are they people who CHOSE to be cops and weren't forced to go through Copperhead Academy and thusly didn't receive as much training? And do all Galilei officers have Esper powers or just the Copperheads?

Besides my questions, I'd like to say that the story was very good. It was a little weird at first, not quite as comparable to your "Xoshi's Story." But after the scene with the first Blasmonkey, things became very interesting. A lot of mysteries and secrets going on here that I want to see answered. What's more, I like the narration style. I like how you go from omniscient narrator to cover fight scenes (which were VERY detailed by the way) to first person accounts from Eddy himself, some time in the future. Adds yet another layer of mystery to this story that makes me want to read it all the more badly.

I'll see if I can get the next chapter read tomorrow, or at least part of it.

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Posted December 12th, 2009 04:46 PM IP

Glad to hear your teacher liked your paper. It makes me feel special knowing I had a part in it.

1) The book is actually a non-fiction book of my own creation (I reveal what it's called in Chapter 10). Really, there's nothing special about it other than the fact it was banned, and yes, that IS somewhat based on what the Nazis did in the 30's. As to why it's banned, that, too, is something I reveal later. Also, if I had a choice, I'd say the book is actually based on the Bible.

2) Galilei has a number of dangerous criminals running around in it, so I guess that would necessitate the number of cops. Also, there really is no Batman, so there's that, too. As for what type of government Galilei is under, I don't know what it's called, but it's ruled by three wise, elderly men known as the Three Ministers. If nothing else, they're like an extremely exclusive club with only three members and it's near impossible to get in. Rumor has it, they know something about the island the ordinary citizens don't... or is that spoiling it?

3) Some of the cops are there by choice, some of them aren't. Also, notice how none of the cops Eddy fought had Esper powers like him.

I'm glad to hear that you like the story so far. I will continue to write and update it. And look! Another chapter!!

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Posted December 12th, 2009 04:54 PM IP

Chapter 12 - The End of the War
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"I went to all sorts of different places during my travels. I went to poor countries and rich countries, big ones and small ones, hot ones and cold ones. I even went to ones that were at peace and others that were at war.

"War is something I never quite understood. In my eyes, I'd see two or more countries that had some problem with each other and for whatever reason, they couldn't talk it out like civilized human beings. No, instead, they had to fight it out like animals.

"I once asked someone why their country was at war with one another. He said it was because the one country had recently acquired a huge chunk of an incredibly rare type of crystal called Brain Stone. Theoretically, this chunk fell from outer space and landed in the one country. As soon as this happened, the king proclaimed it his and started using it for his own selfish purposes. Thanks to their special powers, Brain Stones can be used to generate a wide variety of different things, including force fields or even healing magic. However, they are also capable of creating things like fire, ice, or bursts of pure energy. In other words, the jewel can ALSO be used to make extremely deadly weapons, and this was exactly what the king wanted...

"This king was a greedy man and wanted everything for himself, including the entire continent his country was a part of. When he asked the other countries if they'd kneel before him, they refused. Thus the war began...

"That was what that person told me. When I asked him why the war was worth fighting, he said it was because there was something they had that no king had the right to take away--no matter how deadly his army or how big his guns--and that was their freedom..."

Eternivus, Calvec, Zelm, and Leon stared at Zeke. All four of them knew perfectly well that this was hardly an ordinary meeting. They knew that the big, ugly, green behemoth standing before them was none other than the infamous Colonel Zeke Zonnic himself. Whatever it was he wanted, it was most definitely something that could forever determine the fate of the peaceful Galilei.

"Well?" Zeke elicited. "Where is it? Where have you got the legendary Evil Eye hiding?!"

"We don't know what you're talking about," Zelm insisted.

"Come now!!" Zeke raged. "I know your secret. I know that you've been keeping the Eye hidden for the past 300 years. Now tell me where it is or face the dire consequences!!"

Eternivus stepped in front of the beefy man and materialized a sword of golden light in his left hand. "Lay off, Zeke Zonnic," the officer stated. "If you wanna hurt these old geezers, you're gonna have to go through ME first..."

Zeke snarled viciously. "Very well then..."

Zeke sprouted claws on the backs of his hands once more and came at Eternivus swinging. Eternivus blocked Zeke's attacks with his light sword. Then he swiped at him with it, but Zeke jumped away. Then the alien pointed his right index finger at the man and fired. FWOOOSH!! Flames engulfed the air that the skilled police officer had momentarily occupied. He had jumped to the side and swung his magical weapon at the man's left arm. KSH!! Eternivus and the Three Ministers looked curiously at where the scratch had been made for it was now spewing electric sparks.

"What are you imbeciles gawking at?!" the colonel growled and he threw another punch at Eternivus. Eternivus dodged and swung once more with his sword. Thinking quickly, Zeke jumped back and swatted the sword out of the officer's hands. The blade whirled through the air for about two seconds, and then it faded into thin air. Eternivus scoffed and made another one materialize. Zeke snorted contemptuously at the sight. "You Espers are always so troublesome," he said, and he flicked his right arm, sending five individual ninja stars flying.

SHUNK!! Eternivus howled in agony. His left shoulder and left leg had both gotten hit with the stars. Then Zeke strode up to him, grabbed him by the hair on the back of his head, and WHAM!! He smashed the man's nose with a knee strike. Eternivus' shades broke and he fell back, clutching at a bloody nose. Zeke turned towards the Three Ministers.

"Anyone else wanna try me?" he asked.

"FREEZE!!!" Zeke and the Three Ministers turned and looked. As it turned out, about twenty different blue-clad police officers had shown up at the doorway. "Zeke Zonnic of the Zonnic Gang, you're under arrest!!" one of them said, pointing his gun at the man like all the others. Zeke gave a toothy grin and he pushed a button on the back of his left hand. VWUMP!! Now his green force field was activated. The malicious man cracked his knuckles, which sounded like a series of metallic clicks.

"I'm under arrest," he repeated. "Now, where have I heard that one before? Oh, yes!! It was back in Elliptical. One of you pigs tried arresting me and... Well, it didn't work. Now I have YOU vermin telling me the exact same thing. When will you Galileos learn?"

Then he pointed the main finger of his right hand at the group and let loose a gigantic wave of flames. The cops started screaming and howling. One of them who had Esper powers rolled out of the way of the flames, materialized an axe made out of ice, and tried hacking at Zeke with it, but Zeke dodged and karate chopped the man in the back of the head. As soon as some of the others were done rolling to extinguish the flames, they, too, were up with magically manifested weapons, like clubs of rock, swords of fire, or spears of shadows. Zeke beckoned them with his hands.

"Come at me," he snarled. "Show me what you got..."

Scene 2/7
Meanwhile, Don was still outside trying his best to singlehandedly take on all the aliens coming at him. He slashed at them with his knives, punched them in the faces, and fired many a Wunderbolt at them. With each passing second, the fighting was starting to wear him out more and more, especially since the Esper mark on his left ankle was starting to burn like crazy. All he could do was bite his tongue, ignore the pain, and continue fighting.

"Man," he rasped to himself after slashing at another alien with the two Wunderbolts in his hands. "When is it gonna end?!"

Suddenly, one of the space aliens came up from behind and locked his arms around the don's neck. Then he began to squeeze very tightly, depriving the young Ghoul of air. Don tried elbowing the man, but each blow did little more than make him laugh and continue to squeeze the breath out of him. Don's lungs were screaming for oxygen. Then things in his vision began to fade into a hazy gray color. His eyes were rolling back into his head.

Then CRASH!! Someone had just smashed a broken street lamp over the alien's head, releasing his grip on Don and knocking him out. Don turned around to see who had saved him. Much to his surprise, it was none other than Dryzma, back on his feet and with the lovely young Sarah right behind him. "You've recovered!" Don stated.

"I know," Dryzma said. "I was hoping to wake up on a morning where I knew I could just sit and veg out all day, but right now it looks like we've got more serious business to take care of."

"You got that right," Don concurred.

"DON, LOOK OUT!!" a voice yelled.

Don turned around and saw that two more aliens were running towards him, intending to punch his lights out. Then BAM!! The duo of extra terrestrials suffered some blows to their heads with two baseball bats. When Don, Sarah, and Dryzma looked again, they saw that the two bats were in actuality being held by two very familiar old friends. "Ryan! Greg!!" Sarah called out.

"Yup, it's us!" Greg said.

"Sorry, Don, but we can't let YOU have all the fun when the island's in trouble," Ryan intoned.

Don smirked. "Then let's all five of us show these goons what we're really made of..."

"YEAH!!" the other four yelled, and the quintet commenced fighting the aliens plaguing the streets. They punched, kicked, and ripped off all kinds of force field generators. They swung their weapons, dodged bullets, and even stole some guns. Now Sarah had two alien pistols and she was using them to fire at anyone who wasn't protected by a force field. Things were looking pretty good for the kids.

Then BDZZZTT!! Someone blasted Sarah with a lightning bolt. The girl fell backwards and the pistols flew from her hands. Luckily, Dryzma was quick enough to catch her. When Don and the others looked, they saw that one old enemy was back on his feet and with a very unique weapon attached to, of all things, himself. It was Logan the mad scientist and he wasn't looking very happy.

"I thought I told you to stay down, you circus freak," Don sneered.

"I can't stay down," the scientist retorted. "Not when an old enemy of the Zonnic Gang still has some life in him!!"

"Alright, so you wanna kill us," Don said. "That's fine by me. We'll just kill you first."

BZZT!! BZZT!! BZZT!! Logan was firing lightning bolts like crazy. Don and the other four were just barely able to dodge each one. In the process, the five were also spreading out, preparing to take the guy down from a number of angles. Sarah fired two explosive bullets at him, but he bounced the two off of the weapon in his hands. The bullets then sailed off and exploded in midair. Don was hurling Wunderbolts at the man and the three of Ryan, Greg, and Dryzma were running towards him with their blunt objects. When Logan saw the three approaching, he nailed both Ryan and Greg with some of his lightning bolts. Only Dryzma was able to dodge. Once he was close enough, he swung his lamppost sideways, but Logan ducked just in time. When he came up, he kicked the boy in the shin, sending him staggering.

Then Don pounced on the mad scientist with his knives out like claws. He slashed at his arms and kicked him in the stomach. Logan reeled back a bit, but almost immediately retaliated with a blast of electricity. Don wasn't quick enough. BDDZZTT!! Volts of agony shook the teenager's body. When the shock ended, he instantly knelt down and began panting. Logan walked up to him and held the boy's chin in one hand. "Did you like that?" he asked. "I hope so, 'cause there's plenty more where that came from!!"

Then BAMM!! Someone had knocked the man on the head with a baseball bat. When Logan's eyes rolled back into his head and when he fell face down to the ground, Don could see who it was: Ryan.

"Good work, Ryan," Don complimented.

"Just doing my job," Ryan shrugged.

"Hey, those punk kids took down Logan!!" one of the aliens yelled.

"He was the colonel's right-hand man!!" yelled another.

"LET'S GET'EM!!!" yelled another. Then they all let out an ear-splitting battle cry and began charging towards the five kids. In spite of the stampede that was headed towards them, the youths stood their ground.

Suddenly, five of the two-headed wolves skidded in front of the teenagers with their backs turned towards them. Don recognized the cop on the one in the lead. "Jamie!!" he yelled.

"Let us handle this one, Don," she said. "You guys just go ahead and chase down Zeke!!"

Don nodded and saluted to the police officer. Then he turned around and faced his four friends. "Well, you heard the woman," he said. "Let's go after Zeke!!"

"YEAH!!" the four teenagers yelled. Then the lot of them began running up the stairs of the Crescent Building, leaving Jamie and the others to deal with the aliens themselves...

Scene 3/7
Eddy and Spike were still running down the halls of the Crescent Building. Their sights were set on Zeke and the Three Ministers, something unwavering in them. All they had to do was keep running and looking. It was when they rounded one corner in particular when they skidded to a halt, bearing witness to a truly disturbing sight. It was the infamous Colonel Zeke Zonnic standing right in front of them, his entire body covered in splotches of a very distinct red liquid. A very big smile was on the alien's face.

"Zeke!!" Eddy breathed. "What did you...?"

"I beat them all to kingdom come," the colonel answered. "Every last one of them. Even two of the Ministers tried their hand at beating me, but to no avail. I was about to do the same to the green one, but you know what he did?" Eddy and Spike just stared at the man with unblinking eyes. Zeke's smile spread further into a toothy grin. "He confessed. He told me where the Evil Eye is. It's in the Spiral Cave North of here. All I have to do is head there and it'll be mine..."

"In your dreams, you flaming cretin," Eddy snarled. Zeke just guffawed.

"Your hatred of me amuses me to no end," the lumbering man mused. "Frankly, I don't care what you say. I'm going to retrieve that Evil Eye, and then I will use it to RULE THE WORLD!! GWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!"

BANG!! Eddy struck the evil man in the left knee with his nightstick. Zeke moaned and started clutching at the injury. Then Eddy went for a downward strike aiming for his bald head. PING!! The man caught the weapon in his right hand just in time. He looked the young Lamia in the eye and growled maliciously.

"There's nothing you can do," he rasped. Then he got up and delivered a very powerful kick to Eddy's side. The boy went flying and crashed into the wall on the far right. Spike lit his mace balls on fire and began swinging them around. Zeke just scoffed and threw an iron punch. BAM!! He got the young boy right on the top of his head. His eyes rolled back and he slumped to the ground, unconscious. Zeke gave out another loud guffaw. "Well, I'll see you later, boys!!" he said. "I've got a date with the Evil Eye. GWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!" And he ran off.

"Curse him," Eddy growled as he slowly got back onto his feet.

Meanwhile, Don and the others were racing through the Crescent Building just as Eddy and Spike had been earlier. The five of them were determined to put their lives on the line for the sake of the island. They didn't care that their enemy was powerful enough to take down thirty cops by himself. "Look, there he is!!" Greg yelled out. Indeed, the man himself was charging towards them like a lunatic. It didn't matter to them where he was headed or why. They knew they had a corpse to make. The kids pulled out their weapons and got ready for the upcoming fight...

"OUT OF MY WAY!!!" the colonel bellowed. He shoved Sarah and Dryzma out of the way and deliberately trampled the two of Ryan and Greg. Only Don was left standing when the man sped off.

"That lowdown, good for nothing," he growled. Then Eddy showed up running up to the group with a very serious look on his face. "Eddy!! What's going on?"

"Zeke knows where the Evil Eye is now," the boy summarized. "It's in the Spiral Cave. We gotta stop him before he gets there!!"

"I see..."

"Just one thing."

"What?"

"Someone's gotta check up on the Three Ministers. Zeke says he got all but one of them."

"I'll do it," Sarah said as she got back on her feet. "The rest of you just chase that madman down."

"Right!!" said the other five kids, and with that, they went their separate ways...

Scene 4/7
"Ugh," Eternivus groaned painfully. He, the other cops, and even the two of Calvec and Zelm had given it their all against that malignant colonel, and yet it was all for naught. The whole lot of them were all lying on the ground, covered in too many wounds to count. Blood was splattered everywhere.

This is bad, Eternivus lamented. He knows where the Evil Eye is now!! Heaven knows it's only a matter of time until he finds it. Then we'll all be doomed...

"Holy Christmas!!" Sarah yelled when she entered the room. She was carrying an unconscious Spike and had a truly horrified look on her face. This was the first time she had ever got to see exactly what Zeke was capable of for herself.

"Ugh... Who's there?!" Eternivus called out. Sarah trotted up to him, still carrying the downed Spike. She knelt down beside Eternivus so he could see and hear her.

"Sir, my name is Sarah Nightly," the girl explained. "Just what on Endobia happened here??"

"That wicked Zeke got us," Eternivus groaned. "And on top of that, he knows where the Evil Eye is!! God help us all..."

"I know. Eddy and the others are already on it."

"Ah... So you're a friend of Eddy's?"

"Yes, I am."

"Well then... I guess I can tell you..."

Leon had been hiding in the far corner of the room this whole time. He had watched the entire fight between Zeke and his opponents and was mortified. When the colonel approached him, fearing for his life, he unhesitatingly told him where the Evil Eye could be found. Now he wasn't sure if he had done the right thing or not. All he could do was wait and see what was going to happen.

Go ahead and tell her, Eternivus, he thought. What difference does it make? We're all going to die anyway...

Scene 5/7
The chase was turning out to be a very long and arduous one. Eddy and the other four had run outside the building, down the steps, and through the alien-infested streets. In time, they were out of the city and in the woods surrounding them. They ran across fields of leaves and sticks, jumped over fallen trees, and ducked beneath branches. The kids' legs ached with fatigue and their foreheads were damp with sweat, but still, they ran.

Eventually, the six people running finally exited the woods and entered a vast opening. Here, they could see that the sky was turning orange from the setting sun. Zeke kept running until he skidded to a halt. The five kids stopped, too. Zeke would have gone further, but he was at the edge of a cliff overlooking a tremendous valley. He could see perfectly well the point of the star that it formed. He could also see the designated cave he had been tracking down. He turned around with his teeth clenched and gave the teenagers a very resentful look. They just looked at him back with dead seriousness.

"The Spiral Cave is just ahead," he said. "Do you little brats still want me killed?"

"You bet we do," Eddy responded.

"So be it," the colonel snarled. Then he fired a bunch of ninja stars at the group. The kids all evaded these by either ducking or blocking with their weapons. Then they began charging towards the wicked man. Zeke just activated his flamethrower. The teens all rolled out of the way of this wave of flames. Ryan was the first to get close enough to the fiend. WHAM!! His baseball bat connected with something, but it was nothing more than the man's force field. The boy looked shocked. Zeke just grinned and gave him a heavy punch in the stomach. Ryan went flying. Luckily enough, Greg was the one who caught him.

"It's useless," Don stated. "Only us Espers can hurt this man."

"Don't worry," Eddy reassured. "We'll have him dead before the sun goes down."

Zeke grinned maliciously. "You make me laugh," he said cockily. Then he went charging towards Eddy and Don intending to punch their lights out, but the boys got away just in time. Don materialized a Wunderbolt and hurled it at Zeke. The thing landed in his left shoulder and sparks started flying out of the new wound. Eddy looked at this in perplexion.

"What is with your arms?!" he asked.

"They're bionic," Zeke replied as he ripped the bolt out with his other hand. It faded into thin air seconds after he did this. "I had my real ones ripped off by an opponent that was much stronger than either of you, but I still managed to beat him with my feet. That's how strong I am."

"You talk too much, Zeke," Eddy quipped. Then he fired a stream of slime from his left palm, spilling it onto the ground beneath the alien's feet. Zeke just snarled and fired another wave of incineration at his two enemies. Don jumped out of the way and Eddy took a dive onto the puddle of slime he created. He slid across the slimy grass and latched onto Zeke's left leg. Then he bit it. Zeke moaned and started shaking Eddy off. In the process, he slipped on the puddle of gunk and fell onto his back. Then Don jumped on top of him and started slashing away at his chest and arms with two Wunderbolts. Zeke made some claws appear on the back of his left hand. He punched Don in the stomach with it, sending him flying. Then he got up and gave a very serious look to his two adversaries.

"You can't beat me," he said.

"Oh, yeah?" Eddy retorted. Then he pointed both palms at the enemy and fired what looked like two long snakes of green slime. The snakes coiled around the alien's arms and torso, binding him tightly, just like a pair of ropes. "Now, Don!!" the Lamia yelled. Don nodded and ran towards the evil man with two Wunderbolts in hand. He jumped up into the air, intending to lop his head off. Zeke just opened his mouth and TSEW!! A laser beam came right out of his throat and nailed the young Ghoul right in the chest. Don was sent sprawling. Then Zeke flexed his bionic muscles and ripped apart the slimy snakes binding him. Eddy winced, beginning to feel the pain of his Esper mark. Zeke began striding towards him menacingly. Then...

"EEEEEDDDDDYYYYY!!!" a male voice screamed.

Two people ran out of the woods and into the open. It was none other than Sarah and Spike, both of them conscious and ready to fight. "Guys!!" Eddy called. "You showed up!!"

"I know his weakness, Eddy!" Spike stated. "It's his left hand. That's where his force field generator is!"

"Eternivus told us," Sarah explained. "Among other things..."

"Good job, guys!" Eddy said. "Now let's take this oaf down!!" All three of Eddy, Don, and Spike went charging towards the malevolent Zeke. Eddy cast a spell to coat both his right hand and the nightstick it was holding in slime. Don materialized two Wunderbolts and Spike lit his mace balls on fire. Zeke let loose another blast from his flamethrower finger. The three boys all dodged the flames. When they got close enough, Eddy whacked Zeke in the right knee while Spike got his left. Don jumped up and slashed at the man's left arm. CHING!! Sparks flew. Don had succeeded in making the scratches on his arm even deeper. Unfortunately for the alien, he couldn't retaliate. He had fallen to his knees in pain.

Spike took his turn at attacking the enemy's left arm. BAM!! Thousands of more sparks flew for this time, his entire arm had come off. Now his force field was down and he was completely vulnerable. "GET HIM, GUYS!!" Eddy yelled. With that, all four of Ryan, Greg, Sarah, and Dryzma leapt into the fray. They beat the man over the head with their clubs and shot at him with their guns until he was completely black, blue, and red all over. Zeke was in a daze at this point. He had almost forgotten where he was and what was going on. "Alright, now stand back!!"

This can't be happening, the wicked ogre thought. The Evil Eye is so close!! I can't lose this fight! I CAN'T!!!

Eddy got a good running start. He jumped and landed on the ground, making it slippery with slime as he did so. This sped up the rate at which the boy was sliding towards the enemy by a significant amount. With his nightstick at the ready, he swung right into the man's gut. For once, Zeke was the one who had been sent flying. He was sent careening and plummeting down the cliff. The seven kids gathered and watched as he took the fall, screaming all the way.

"AAAAAUUUUUggggghhhhh..."

BOOM...

The teenagers stood staring for a moment. The evil man that had arrived on their peaceful island in a spaceship was now far below on the ground and not getting back up. It was only a matter of time until the rest of his minions found this out.

"I can't believe it," Ryan stated. "It's finally over."

"Actually, it's not," Don corrected.

"What do you mean?" Ryan asked.

"There are still aliens back at Blue Moon," Eddy elaborated. "You guys should head back and check it out. Me, Don, and Spike will go into the Spiral Cave and get that Evil Eye."

"What'll you do once you find it?" Sarah asked.

"We'll destroy it," Eddy answered, "and make sure none of this ever happens again."

"But the Eye CAN'T be destroyed," Don pointed out.

"We have to try."

"Alright then," Sarah said. "We're heading back to Blue Moon now. Good luck finding the Eye!"

"Thanks," Eddy replied, and the other four kids turned around and started running back into the woods. Now the three of Eddy, Don, and Spike were alone again. "Well, guys," Eddy said, "let's get this show on the road."

"Right," Don and Spike said at the same time. Thus, the three commenced trying to find a safe way down the cliff and into the Spiral Cave ahead...

Scene 6/7
Back in the city, things were looking up. The cops had all fought harshly and bravely against the incongruous aliens. Now only about five of them were still standing, each without a force field. The five looked nervously up at Jamie and her four cohorts. They silently prayed for a miracle, but it wasn't looking as though one was coming their way. Their time was up and they knew it.

"Rill," one of the aliens said, shaking in his boots, "I don't think we can do this! I mean, just look at those wolves they're riding!!"

"Who cares?!" the one named Rill declared. "We're the Zonnic Gang!! We'll never fall even if the odds are stacked against us!! Now, who's with me?!"

Unfortunately, none of them were with him. Three of the remaining aliens had just been snatched up into the mouths of three of the wolves. Only Jamie and Flint's wolves still had vacant mandibles. Now Rill and the other one knew for sure they were in trouble.

"I'm sorry, sir!!" said the more cowardly one as he began to turn to run. "I just can't do this anymore!!"

"WAIT, YOU SNIVELING-"

It was too late. Jamie and Flint had made their moves. Now all five of the aliens were trapped inside wolf mouths, only able to writhe and utter profanities. With this, there were no aliens left. All of them had been captured and/or defeated.

A huge roar uprose from the people of the city. Cops and ordinary citizens alike were jumping up and down and cheering. At last, at long last, the infamous Zonnic Gang had been defeated...

Scene 7/7
Inside the Crescent Building, Ministers Calvec and Zelm along with many of the downed cops in the room finally began to stand on their feet again. In spite of their injuries, the group seemed to be in good shape for some reason. Perhaps they could tell that Zeke and the rest of the Zonnic's had finally been defeated and it was this fact that rejuvenated them. Either way, a cop covered in blood came running and skidding into the room. The good news came screaming out of his mouth.

"Ministers!!" he yelled. "We did it!! We finally beat the Zonnic Gang!! They're all being arrested and thrown into prison as we speak!! We're finally free!!!"

The other cops in the room started gasping and talking amongst themselves about this news. None of them could believe it was true. Eternivus just smiled. The Three Ministers looked at one another and exchanged nods. "Eternivus," Leon said, grabbing the cop's attention. "It's time..."

Eternivus nodded. He got up off the floor, brushed himself off, and began to walk out the door. Some stood and watched in wonder as he went. Where was he going and for what purpose? This, the cops didn't know, and when they turned around, they noticed something else that was strange: all three of the Ministers were now gone as though they had vanished into thin air. With these new developments in light, all of the cops in the room were now deeply confused. Just what exactly was going on?...

It's time, Eternivus thought as he calmly walked through the halls. Time to wake the people up to the truth about this island...

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Posted December 13th, 2009 08:19 PM IP

In reply to the Three Ministers system, I've heard of a system like that before. I can't remember what it was called or when it was used but an ancient Hebrew ruling system would have three wise elders preside over important decisions. Nice little factual bonus to your story.

Unfortunately, I spent all day cleaning so I didn't get to read the chapter after the prologue (chapter 1 I guess?). Hopefully I can do that tomorrow...but I might be doing cleaning part 2 by then.

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Chapter 13 - The Truth
Scene 1/3
Eddy, Don, and Spike had arrived. Right in front of them was the entrance to none other than the infamous Spiral Cave. Supposedly, the fabled Evil Eye could be found somewhere inside. All the boys had to do was venture inside and find out for themselves.

"Well, here we are," Eddy said. "You guys ready?"

"Ready as we'll ever be," Don replied.

"Good," said Eddy. "Now let's do this..."

The three entered the cave. Almost immediately, they could tell why this place was called the Spiral Cave. Here and there, the boys could see stalactites and stalagmites shaped like spirals. Not to mention the cave itself was shaped in such a way so that it was spiraling further and further down into the earth. It was like walking down a giant spiral seashell that was sticking out of the ground. It almost made them dizzy.

"So, the Eye should be somewhere at the bottom of this cave, right?" Spike asked, keeping a little orange fireball floating above his right hand so the group could see.

"Seems that way," Eddy answered.

"And how are we going to destroy it once we find it?"

"We'll do whatever it takes," Eddy said. "We'll place it between two rocks, we'll huck it at the wall... Anything until the thing's been smashed to pieces."

"But what if it can't be destroyed?" Don asked.

"Well... Then I guess we'll just have to keep it away from everyone for the rest of eternity."

"Sounds like a plan."

Suddenly, the boys stopped in their tracks. They could feel a rumbling throughout the cave as though there were an earthquake. As soon as the shaking started, it stopped. "What was that?" Spike asked.

"No idea," Eddy said.

"There's something down here," Don stated.

"What?!" Spike spazzed. "What do you mean something's down here??"

"Something like a giant monster," Don elaborated. "We'd better be careful, otherwise we'll end up its food."

"Oh, geez..."

Regardless, the boys kept going, walking deeper and deeper into the Spiral Cave. Eventually, after walking past numerous twisted spikes and whatnot, they reached the bottom of the cave... or so it seemed. What they found was a hole in the ground. Where it led, they didn't know.

"The Eye's gotta be down there," Eddy said.

"But how are we gonna get down there?" Spike asked. "There's no way back up!"

"I'll handle that," Don said. He reached into his jacket and pulled out a very long extension cord. He tied one end of it around a stalagmite and threw the other down the hole. "And now we climb..."

"I'm scared," Spike said.

"No time for that," Eddy replied, and he began climbing down the cord and into the hole. Don just looked at Spike, shrugged his shoulders, and followed Eddy's example. Spike watched them go a bit nervously. Then he swallowed a big lump in his throat and began to shimmy down the cord as well.

The three climbed down the long wire and one by one, they jumped off and landed on the floor of this new chamber they entered. Spike looked around it, lighting it up with the flame in his hand. The group could see stone walls and more spikes, but no Evil Eye. "Where is that thing?" Don asked. Then Spike's light stopped on something that was on a platform of rock on one end of the chamber: a treasure chest. All three boys became very excited by this new development.

"Alright! We found it!!" Eddy crowed. Then it happened again: that rumbling! The three boys forced themselves to hold their ground and not fall over from the shaking. Whatever it was that was causing this, it was close. "Dang it, what is that?!"

"Um, I think it's THAT," Spike stated. Now his light was shining on two gigantic eyes with slit-shaped pupils and a humungous pair of fangs sticking out of a tremendous maw. The light also revealed a long, white, tube-shaped body covered in teal stripes. To Eddy, this snake was a reminder of a very familiar one that once bit him. To all three of them, it was pure danger looking them in the face.

"An Esp," Don said.

"And a big one at that," Eddy added.

"If that thing bites any one of us, we're done for."

"You got that right," Eddy agreed.

Then BAM!! The snake struck. It lashed out at the boys and bit the ground with its venomous fangs. Luckily, the three had scattered just in time. Don materialized two Wunderbolts and started charging towards its neck. Eddy saw this and Spike's heading for its tail with a fireball in hand, and he suddenly became a bit jealous. I wish I had an Esper ability that glowed in the dark. BAM!! Eddy snapped out of it. In the last split-second, the snake had just gone for another bite. Again, the Lamia was able to jump away in time. Now it was time to get serious. He brandished a nightstick and began charging towards this colossal monster.

Spike blasted the thing's tail with fire and Don slashed at its body with Wunderbolts. The monster groaned in pain. Eddy started hacking away at its front side with his club. Then WA-TSSHH!! The Lamia had been smacked aside with the giant Esp's tail. Eddy flew to the side and hit the wall, but he was fine. He got up and started charging towards the enemy once more. Don and Spike were still damaging it with their powers. Irritated by this, the Esp started chasing Spike with its fangs. Now Spike was on the run. Then SHING!! The behemoth let out a bloodcurdling roar for Don had just stabbed and electrocuted it with his two Wunderbolts. Then the Esp forgot about Spike and started chasing after the Ghoul instead.

Eddy hopped onto the thing's head and whacked it in the eyes. The monster let out a shriek and commenced shaking the boy off. Eddy held on tight with his hands and Don and Spike continued attacking it. They burned it and shocked it as though their lives depended on it. Then the beast finally shook Eddy off and began going after both Don and Spike. "Oh no you don't," Eddy growled, and he fired two long, slime snakes at the enemy. They coiled around the thing's neck and the boy began to tug with all his might. Now the beast was choking, but it was still inching forward. "Guys!! Get over here and gimme a hand!!"

The other two did so. They ran around the snake and got behind Eddy. Don grabbed Eddy's hips while Spike grabbed his. Now all three of the kids were pulling, trying their hardest to choke this gargantuan snake. The thing hissed, rasped, and shook violently until it was all over. In time, all the air had been squeezed out of it. The snake finally fell to the ground, dead as a doornail. Eddy made the slime snakes disappear and he clutched at his Esper mark, feeling it burn now more than ever. Don and Spike were rubbing at their marks, too.

"Let's hope there's not another one of those lurking around," Eddy remarked.

"Enough talk. Let's just get that Eye now," Don stated.

"Right," Spike said.

The three boys slowly approached the treasure chest. The three hopped onto its upraised platform and gathered around it. Eddy was the one who knelt down and flipped the thing open. Now was the moment of truth. Inside this chest they had risked their lives for was...

...Absolutely nothing.

"What the-" Eddy uttered. "There's nothing here!!"

"Someone must have already gotten it," Don suggested.

"But who?!"

"Um, I think I might know who has it," Spike said.

"Who?" Eddy and Don said in unison as they turned towards their third party-member.

"One of the Three Ministers."

"What?" Eddy said. "What makes you say that?"

"Well, Eternivus told me and Sarah something while you guys were out fighting Zeke."

"What? What did he say?"

Spike took a deep breath. "He said..."

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Ryan, Greg, Sarah, and Dryzma finally arrived at the town. What they saw surprised them a great deal: all the people here were partying! They were all singing, dancing, and jumping for joy. Seeing such celebration going on, the group could only assume one thing: the aliens had been defeated.

"Well, I guess they didn't need our help after all," said Ryan.

"So that's it, then?" Dryzma asked. "It's all over?"

"Looks like it," Sarah said.

Meanwhile, Eternivus was walking out of the Crescent Building with a megaphone in his right hand. He walked out onto the steps of the building and stopped somewhere. Then he turned the megaphone on and began speaking into it. "Everyone, may I have your attention, please," he said. A few seconds later, the people calmed down a little and indeed began directing their attention towards Eternivus. Once this was done, the man went on. "I have something to tell all of you. It's about this island and how it's the only one in this entire ocean. The Ministers themselves just told me this and I must warn you, it's rather shocking, but please, hear me out...

"Simply put, the truth is this: we aren't alone in this ocean; just isolated. For quite some time now, there have been other islands just like ours in this ocean, some of them even being huge ones called continents. The reason why none of you ever knew this was because you were never told, and you were never told for your own protection...

"It all began 300 years ago. The nations of the world were at war with each other. This epic battle was called Demigeddon II because it was the second ever of its magnitude. It was the second time the world ever came under attack by a number of monsters called Triclopses. You may have heard of them. Well, they're real and so is their power.

"The Ministers 300 years ago knew that, whatever the outcome of this battle, the world would never be the same again. They wanted desperately to make sure nothing would change Galilei or its way of life. Thus they set up bases in each of the five volcanoes surrounding the island. In each of these bases are cops working for the Three Ministers. They are armed with laser cannons which they use to shoot down any aircraft that starts to get too close to the island. This is why when any of you would ever see a UFO, shortly afterwards, you'd also see it explode into bits."

"I knew it!!" Greg hissed. "I knew they were hiding something!!"

"Greg, shush," said Sarah, and Eternivus went on.

"The Ministers also ordered the burning of thousands of different books and maps," he said. "All of this was necessary in order to discourage anyone from ever wondering about the outside world. The Ministers wanted this to be a place where anything that happened on it stayed on it.

"But you must understand, all of this was done for your protection. For the past 300 years, all of Endobia has been an extremely dangerous place. For one, there are no cops in it; only vigilantes and rogues, and it's only a matter of time until one of them succeeds in his dire quest to conquer this world. That's right; the Abyszar, too, is very real and in approximately seven years, we predict the world will fall under his control. Know that when this happens, we will still be safe. We will still be the same Galilei that's been around these past 300 years... unless, of course, you, the people, demand a change..."

The people all took this news in different ways. Some were excited to hear theirs was not the only island in existence. Others were outraged. Most, though, were just confused and fearful. "How do we know we can trust what you say?!" one of them yelled. "How do we know you're not just feeding us lies?!"

"You don't know," Eternivus replied. "All you can do is trust me."

"We've been lied to for 300 years!!" one woman yelled.

"Those Ministers have been shooting down innocent people this whole time!!" one person yelled.

"They're not much better than the aliens!!" yelled another.

"We should march right into that building and give those guys a piece of our mind!!" yelled another.

"YEAH!!!" a whole bunch of them bellowed. Now an angry mob was forming. A whole ton of enraged Galileos were banding together and marching up the steps. Sweat was starting to form on Eternivus' forehead. He had anticipated this reaction. Now the Three Ministers' lives were in danger and there was little he could do about it.

Suddenly, all the people stopped dead in their tracks. They could feel the ground beneath them shaking as though a giant Esp was nearby. Then three hatches opened up on the top of the Crescent Building and FWOOSH!! Three flying machines like missiles flew out of them. The aircrafts soared off into three separate directions. The people watched awestricken as these things passed the volcanoes without being shot down. It didn't take long for them to figure out that the Three Ministers had made their getaway.

"They... They're gone," one person said.

"Those cowards," said another. "They knew we were going to kill them."

"We have to go after them!!" said one more.

"But how?" another one said.

The people began muttering amongst themselves about these new turns of events. Eternivus saw the fear, confusion, and anger in all of them and knew what he had to do. He raised the megaphone to his lips and began speaking once more. "Everyone, please," he said, grabbing their attention. "I know the Three Ministers are gone now, but we cops are still here. We promise we'll continue to serve and protect you during these difficult times. A new Galilei is just around the corner. Soon, we'll have new leaders; ones that won't keep us as prisoners on this island. From this day forward, we're free..."

Now the people were starting to get excited. Some of them were even starting to completely forget about the Three Ministers and all they had done. Eternivus could see smiles broadening on all their faces. He went on. "Above all else, we must never give up hope. We must work together to rebuild this nation, and it'll be better than it ever was before. We'll have spaceships and books that no one will be forbidden to read. We'll interact with other countries and compete in a global economy. From here on out, things will only get better. After all, as I said before, from this day forward, WE'RE FREE!!!"

"YYYEEEAAAHHH!!!" the people screamed. Now they were partying once more, just as they had been when the aliens were defeated. Ryan, Greg, Sarah, and Dryzma watched all this in pure amazement.

"Man, can that guy talk," Dryzma commented.

"He knows how to handle huge crowds," said Sarah.

"Something tells me HE'S going to be our new leader," said Greg.

"I wouldn't mind that," said Ryan. The quartet watched a bit more as the people went nuts, popping bottles of champagne and throwing up handfuls of confetti. They were satisfied by the sight. Earlier, an angry mob was seconds away from tearing the country's three leaders limb from limb, but now their fury had subsided and it was time for a celebration. As Eternivus said, they were finally free.

One thing was on Ryan's mind, though. He asked the others about it. "I wonder what Eddy, Don, and Spike are doing?..."

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Eddy, Don, and Spike were out of the cave by now. They watched somberly as the Three Ministers' spaceships fled the island. Spike had told the other two everything Eternivus had just told the people. When Eddy and Don heard it, they reasoned the people would get angry and try to kill the Three Ministers. This was how they knew who was in those ships.

"We have to go after them," Eddy stated.

"There's no way we're going to let them get away with all that they've done," said Don. Spike just nodded.

"Guys," Eddy said turning towards his two friends. "Let's swear that no matter what, we find the Abyszar, kick his rear-end, and save this world from his control."

"Count me in," Don said, placing a fist between himself and the other two.

"Me, too," said Spike as he placed a second fist next to Don's. Then Eddy did this, completing the triad.

"Alright," he said. "The first thing tomorrow morning, we're getting inside that ship we found and we're taking off. We're going to track down those Three Ministers and get the Evil Eye back from them no matter what the cost."

"Right!" said Don and Spike.

"Guys," said Eddy, "this is the beginning of what may be the biggest thing to ever happen to us. From this day forth, we are officially the defenders of this planet..."

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Chapter 14 - The New Era
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The sun was shining high in the sky with hardly any clouds in it to block its rays. All the people of Galilei were enjoying this sunny day to the best of their abilities. The day was especially good given that there were now no aliens on the loose, let alone any corrupt Ministers. Some people had even excitedly seen some UFO's flying around in the sky that weren't shot down. Things were changing for the better and they could feel it.

Eddy, Don, and Spike were in Nova at this time. With a little help from Sarah, Dryzma, Ryan, and Greg, they were able to carry the one spaceship out of Monet's Mansion and into the backyard. Don had been working on the thing all afternoon, using his engineering skills to fix it and make sure it'd be able to fly when the big moment came. While he was fastening parts on with a wrench in his hand and grease all over his body, Eddy and the other five kids were sitting on the ground in a circle, talking about everything that had happened to them these past few days.

"I can't believe it," Ryan was saying, shaking his head. "After all this time, it turns out they weren't really aliens to begin with; they were just visitors from another island."

"Hey, come on," Spike said. "This means there really is an entire world for us to explore! Aren't you excited?"

"All I wanted was to see an alien," Ryan lamented. "I never thought I'd be ripped off like this."

"Oh, cheer up, you big baby," said Sarah. "You helped save the island! You should be proud."

"Hm. Yeah, I guess I did..."

"So you guys are really leaving then?" Greg asked, turning to Eddy.

"Yup," Eddy replied. "There's nothing left for us to do on this island. If we wanna save this world, we're gonna have to go out there, find the Abyszar, and give him a beating he won't ever forget."

"How are you going to find him?" Greg asked.

"I don't know. We just will. That's all I know."

Greg rolled his eyes. "Sounds like a plan."

"Well, what about you? What'll YOU be doing?"

"I'm going to stay here and see how this island evolves without the Three Ministers."

"Me, too," Sarah agreed. "I'm excited now that they're gone. This place is really going to start turning around!"

The six kids talked like this for another hour or so. In time, Don was finally finished fixing the ship. He wiped some sweat off his brow and approached the group. "Well, that's everything," he said. "You guys ready to go, or what?"

"Yeah, we're ready," Eddy responded.

"Good." Eddy and Spike got up off the ground and stood behind Don. Don looked at the other four and spoke with them directly. "Well, guys," he said. "I guess this is it. It was fun going on all these adventures with you, but now we gotta go." Here, the two parties began saying goodbye to one another. They knew it'd be a while until they saw each other again, but they weren't sad; they were joyous and hopeful. When all was said and done, Eddy, Don, and Spike waved to their friends and began boarding the ship. Then something truly unexpected happened.

"STOP RIGHT THERE, EDDY CONSTRICTOR!!!"

All seven kids looked. They saw an angry mob was approaching them. Eddy recognized all of them. It was the bandits from the woods, the Redcaps from Nova, and the Eodists from Quasar. None of them looked too happy.

"You're gonna pay for what you did to us, you snake!!" said the Eodist at the front of the group. "You and your little friend, too!!"

"Me?" Spike asked.

"Yeah, you, you little shrimp!! Now are you ready to taste the pain, or what?!"

"Let's just get out of here," Don suggested. Eddy and Spike nodded. Then the three quickly piled into the ship, closed the door behind them, and started the engines. The angry mob blew past Sarah, Dryzma, Ryan, and Greg and began banging on the flying machine with sticks and fists, but the device was hovering off the ground within seconds, getting further and further out of their reach. Then it started flying away and the mob was chasing after it. The four kids that were left behind watched all this in confusion.

"I don't get it," said Dryzma. "What did he do to them?"

"Well, knowing Eddy, he probably beat them all up," Ryan suggested.

"He must lead an exciting life," Dryzma speculated.

"Yup. In fact, with Don and Spike's help, he just might be able to hunt down the Abyszar and defeat him..."

Meanwhile, inside the ship, Eddy and Spike were having a ball looking out the window and watching the island slowly disappear as Don steered. "I'm gonna miss this place," Spike said solemnly. "But at least now I can finally live out the dream I always wanted. Endobia, here we come!!" Eddy was laughing. "What's so funny?"

"Well, I remember before this all began, I met a fortuneteller," he explained. "She told me I'd never be able to leave the island and that no one ever does. Well, look who's laughing now!"

Spike smiled. Don nodded. By now, the ship was past the volcanoes and flying above the vast ocean. The entire world was waiting for them. If they listened closely, they could almost hear it beckoning them. Well, they were coming and they were doing so with a great purpose: to save humanity. The three brave young boys had now ventured into a new era. Only time would tell how they'd leave it...

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