Once Upon an Adventure - UPDATED CHAPTER 10, Join in on the adventures in Ranch Storia! Options

[Oscar]

I keep missing the stories when they're put up!

I loved the part when we were climbing up the stairs and all of a sudden we hear the elevator turn back on. XDXD And then you say "Why!?" with tear filled eyes. Ha! And then Twi punches that lady, lolz.

Zen is gone? :O I wonder if we'll see her again. But at least we've saved Jason.
Keep it up, ZBoy!

[Christopher]

I keep missing the stories when they're put up!

I loved the part when we were climbing up the stairs and all of a sudden we hear the elevator turn back on. XDXD And then you say "Why!?" with tear filled eyes. Ha! And then Twi punches that lady, lolz.

Zen is gone? :O I wonder if we'll see her again. But at least we've saved Jason.
Keep it up, ZBoy!

Zen's constant babbling over Jason ruined the story for me.

Like I said, I await my awesome plot within the story!
Maybe I can become the 4th member of the party?
You know, like in every old Final Fantasy game.
It'd be sick nasty to have the Cid character! :)

[Oscar]

We need a member to die as well. Like any dangerous adventure! :O I saw Poseidon last night and I didn't want one of the characters to die, but it made the story better, I guess.

[Christopher]

We need a member to die as well. Like any dangerous adventure! :O I saw Poseidon last night and I didn't want one of the characters to die, but it made the story better, I guess.

I'm pretty sure the Cid character dies a lot in the games.
Not every time, just a lot.

[Oscar]

Are you saying you want to have an emotional death, Chris?

[Christopher]

Are you saying you want to have an emotional death, Chris?

As long as I die in the arms as my arch-rival Hasfusel and he eventually joins your team. Then, yes.

[Oscar]

Do you want to have an epic battle to the death with HMR? You both are...critters....

[Christopher]

Do you want to have an epic battle to the death with HMR? You both are...critters....

Vermin, not critters.
And we vermin tend to stick together.

Besides, I'm human in this story!

[Zen Clarke]

For now, anyway....(IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif)

[Christopher]

What's gonna happen?
Katie going to turn me into an ACTUAL gopher?
Yeah, and I'm the Prince of Ranch Story.

[ZBoy]

This will be one of the last few large chapters. I realized I didn't write often because of how lazy I would become thinknig about how long my chapters were. The only other times chapters will be as long is if they either all stick to one big topic, or if thye are really important, like big finales. ;)

Chapter 7: Off to the Kingdom in the Woods

After eating and resting up for a bit, the group decided that it was time to begin heading for Wild Thing Forest, the southern wooded area run by King Saffy. After a lot of arguing, Captain Christopher finally agreed with Jason to move his airship to the front courtyard. When they were all ready, the group of three made their way downstairs to the front courtyard. Chicken and Jason met with them. The courtyard was somewhat still a mess, but it was much cleaner than the night before. The morning sun had begun to rise at this time, lighting up the ground.

“Well thank you for allowing us to stay,” said Oscar. “Tell the chefs they make some pretty darn good tacos.” He smirked at Jason while rubbing his stomach.
Twi looked at Oscar and smirked while rolling her eyes. “You should come with us Chicken,” she began. “It would be nice to have another girl around.”
“I would love to join you all, but Jason and I have a lot to do to fix up the mess that Katie the Witch made of our kingdom.”
Jason, standing next to Chicken gave her a disgusted look and said “I’m not doing squat!”
Chicken smacked his arm. She redirected the attention be to Twi. “I’m sure we’ll meet again once everything is cleared up. Please be careful.” The beautiful girl went up to Oscar, Twi, and ZBoy and hugged each of them.
After Jason finished rubbing the part of his arm Chicken hit, he looked up at the adventurers. He snapped his fingers. On each of their upper clothing, a small golden medal appeared. It was a bright golden. Engraved into it were the letters “RS”. It sparkled in the sunlight.
“This medal should get you into wherever you need. It shows you are in true trust with the kings of the land. It should make things a lot easier.” Jason smirked at each of them nodding.

“Excuse me!” exclaimed Christopher. He had been standing by the doors of the airship the entire time. He pointed to his wrist. “We don’t have time to dilly dally. We need to go now!”
The group made their last goodbyes to Jason and Chicken. They then turned around and walked towards the ship. Christopher nodded as both ZBoy and Oscar entered the ship. He stopped Twi.
“Don’t try doing anything funny on my ship. You hear me?” Christopher said with a stern look on his face. “I don’t normally let people like you onto here.”
“What do you mean?” Twi asked. You could tell she was ticked off.
“Well, you’re not my type.” Christopher then leaned back folding his arms and smirking.
Twi, disgusted and angry, clutched her fist and threw it at Christopher. He caught her by the wrist tightly.
“I’m serious,” he said. “Don’t even try anything.”
He let go of her wrist. Twi quickly pulled back. With her opposite hand, she grabbed her wrist and began to rub it. Christopher’s reflexes were quick, even quicker than Twi’s. For the first time in a while, nervousness crept into her. Christopher turned around and walked into the ship. Twi followed, very cautious. Everyone ended up staying in the control room except for Twi who had went up to her room.

“The Godly Gopher” was the name of the airship. It was a fresh and modern airship. It had three floors. The bottom floor contained the entrance. Branching off from the main entrance foyer/room were many doors that led to storage and cargo. The group was strictly told by Christopher that the cargo holds were strictly forbidden to be accessed. A flight of metal stairs led up to the second floor: the control room. The control room took up the entire floor. A vast amount of windows lined the walls. On the front side of a room was a wall sized window. Sitting in front f it was a large control table with a gazillion buttons and levers and wheels. The third floor contained the many bedrooms where the crew and guests stayed. The crew of the ship consisted of a young boy and a large black bear. Their names were Lenyo and Noviwan.

“This is an amazing ship!” Zboy said to Christopher, standing in the middle of the control room. His eyes wandered around looking at all the many switches.
“The Godly Gopher sure is something, isn’t she?” Christopher said. “Off to the Wild Thing Kingdom we go.” He walked up to the control station. He hit a few buttons and pulled a few levers. You could hear a few sputters and cricks as the many gears of the ship begun to run. The ship slowly flew up into the air, and began to move straight on.

“Hey Christopher?” ZBoy asked.
“Hm?” Christopher asked. He hit a few more buttons and then turned around. “Lenyo take control.”
The young boy, who was chilling in a chair in the corner playing with his fingers, got up from the chair, nodded, and then walked to the front control area.
“What do you need ZBoy?” Christopher asked.
“I was wondering how you had found us. I mean, how did you know we needed an airship?”
“I had overheard you all talking in The DerfSlerf. I knew immediately you would need an awesomely sick person in your group, so I thought ‘Eh, why not?’ You all talked about how you were going to head to Cool Guy Kingdom, so I knew where I had to find you. I’m an adventurer you know.”
“Are they adventurers?” ZBoy pointed at Lenyo, who was beginning to have bad news bears controlling the ship, and Noviwan who was lying in a corner sleeping.
Christopher looked at them. He laughed. “They may be adventurers, but they aren’t as cool as us.” He patted ZBoy on the shoulder while smiling. He then walked on over to the front of the ship, pushed over Lenyo, and retook control.

“You ok here ZBoy?” Oscar asked. “I’m going to go check up on Twi.”
“Yeah, yeah go ahead. I’m alright here.”
Oscar nodded. He walked over to the metal staircase the lead up to the small balcony that descended over the control room. After walking on the balcony, he walked across the catwalk that lead to the small hallway of bedrooms. Oscar walked up to the third door on the right and knocked.
“You ok Twi? You haven’t talked since we got on the ship.”
A voice from inside called out. “Yeah, everything is ok. You can come in.”
Oscar put his hand on the handle, and slowly turned it. The bedroom was really dark. The only light crept in from the sides of the curtains that currently covered the one window in the room. From what Oscar could tell, Twi was sitting on her bed. In her left hand she held a candle. With her pointer finger on her right hand, she continually pointed at the candle wick. Her eyes never looked away from the tip of the wick. Every time she pointed at it, she would let out a frustrated moan as if she was expecting something.
“Are you sure there is nothing wrong?” Oscar asked.
“I feel weak. People can take me down.”
“We all have our weaknesses. You saw how you took ZBoy and I down in the forest. I mean, you’re a descendant of Ignis!” Oscar looked flustered.
“Well, you and ZBoy are just weak.” At the thought of insulting Oscar, she quickly added on “No offence.”
Oscar smirked, even though he was still a little insulted. “What do you mean though?”
“All descendants are supposed to be able to control the power of the mighty being they descend from: Ignis or Sephia. There is one descendant every generation that is known to protect the land. Ignis holds the power of strength and fire, while Sephia holds the power of serenity and life.”
“And you know you’re the descendent? Who told you?”
“This is where I am going to sound crazy. Nobody ever told me, but as a small child I always knew it. It was one of those things that I just always felt so positive about. Please believe me.”
Oscar looked at her. You could tell he didn’t look to positive. He sat down next to her on the bed.
“So you were trying to light that candle?”
“Yes. I just wish there was someone who knew the truth, someone who knew the answers I need.”
Oscar looked over at Twi and smiled. “Well, we can look while we save the kings.”
“Thanks Osc-“ Twi was cut off as the entire ship shook. She and Oscar fell onto the floor. Oscar got up, bracing himself against the wall.
“Are you alright!?” With his free hand, Oscar grabbed Twi’s hand and pulled her up. He still pushed himself against the wall as the ship shook again. Holding on to Twi’s hand, Oscar pulled open her door and ran out. They ran out of the small hallway and onto the catwalk. Everyone was clutching on to a wall or chair. Christopher stood handling the controls.
“Is it her?” yelled Oscar down to everyone. It was hard to hear him as the ship shook yet another time.
“I’m ready to kick some witch butt!” Twi yelled. She pulled her wrist out of Oscar’s clutch.

Without taking a look away from the front window and controls, Christopher replied back. “He is nothing compared to Katie. He is much, much worse.”
“He can do more than making the kings lose their minds?” ZBoy said with true confusion back.
“Well, uh, no, but he is still really evil!”
“Captain has been trying to defeat this guy for quite a few years!” Lenyo yelled to ZBoy.
“He floats around the land doing cruel things to people,” Noviwan the large bear turned and nodded at ZBoy with wide eyes.
Christopher turned away from the controls to look his crew in the eyes. Fury crept into his face. “Whose arch nemesis is his?”
The boy and the bear looked at each other. The boy Lenyo spoke up. “He is you-“ He was cut off.
“Yes, he is mine! So how about when people ask questions about him, I answer them?” Christopher’s face began to turn red.
“But, I thought tha-“
“Yes, you thought. You should have left it at that and not done. Go to your room; you’re not needed.”
“But we are under attack!”
“I have new friends to help me.”
“You’re ridiculous Chris!” Lenyo stormed off to the stairs and across the catwalk to his room.

Oscar and Twi had made their wat down below to meet up with everyone. After awkwardness cleared out, Oscar spoke up. “What evil things does he do?”
“He refers to him as The Hatter. Anyone who ‘dares wear a better hat than him’ gets punished.”
“What’s his name?” ZBoy asked.

There was another loud crash as the ship shook. Then all went silent. One of the buttons on the control panel began to flash. Christopher walked up to it and clicked it. A thin dark screen fell down from the ceiling covering up the front window. It flashed and buzzed. As the picture cleared out a close up of an eye appeared on the screen.
“Is this, is this working?” said the European voice from the screen. The person backed away from the camera revealing his full face. It was a young boy. He wore fine clothing. The thing that attracted the most attention was the large top hat that sat on his head.
“Way to mess up with the camera Hasfusel!” Christopher yelled at the boy on screen.
“Way to mess up with the camera Hasfusel!” The boy mocked what Christopher had said. It sounded nothing like Christopher.
“What do you want?” Christopher asked. “I thought we cleared everything up the other day.”
“No, we didn’t. My robot army and I have come to seek revenge.”
“Well that’s too bad because you aren’t getting any!”
“Very well, we will begin to attack you then.” Hasfusel did a double take as he noticed ZBoy, Oscar, and Twi. “I see you have captured beings.”
“They are my teammates.”
“Aww, that is too bad. That means I have to kill them along with you.” With this statement Hasfusel looked down and away from the camera. The sound of a clicking button went off. More than a dozen robots shot down through the ceiling. At least two robots stood by each person in the ship. The robots were basically giant top hats with metal arms and legs coming out of them.
“Farewell lovelies!” The top of Hasfusel’s hat popped open. A small claw popped out holding a cup of tea. Hasfusel grabbed it and began to sip it as the metal claw retracted into his hat. “Now how do I turn this blasted thing off?” The screen that had once shown Hasfusel’s face quickly turned into static.
Although the robots looked stupid, the adventurers and the crew of The Godly Gopher were in for a true battle.

How tough are these robots? Will Lenyo and Christopher ever get along? Is Twi truly a descendent?

[Oscar]

:O They're back!

I liked this one, ZBoy! And I think it's a good idea to go with shorter chapters, too. Though this one wasn't too long.

So, Hasfusel's stupid robots think they're gonna kill us? I'm gonna throw that little taco in their faces!

[Christopher]

Dude, I'm a regular badass!!!

Best. Chapter. EVER.

The Hatter. I lawled (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif)

[Charmy]

Awesome! I'm glad to see another chapter. I'm sad to hear that they aren't going to all be as long as this, but still~ Yay~

[ZBoy]

Chapter 8: The Battle with The Hatter

The giant Noviwan pounced up into the air. He smashed himself down into the ground shaking and breaking the many robots around him. With his claws he slashed at the robots. The wires of the robots would come out of the claw marks. They would spark while the robot would yell in agony before making a small eruption and falling over.

The robots continued to fall through the holes they were making in The Godly Gopher’s ceiling. ZBoy and Oscar were back to back fighting off with their fists, Christopher used a combination of his fists and pistol, Noviwan would jump and claw the robots, and Twi was hopping from robot to robot stabbing them on the top and pulling their wired chips out. Lenyo soon realized what had been going on so he was fighting the many robots up on the catwalk.
“They keep coming! We won’t be able to last!” ZBoy yelled over to Christopher.
Christopher pulled out his duel pistols and shot two robots. He spun them in his hands and put them in the holders connected to his waist. “Think you can hold them for a bit longer!?”
“We’ll try!” yelled Oscar. He pulled out a taco he had been saving for later, throwing it into one of the robots faces.
Christopher nodded back. He ran up the staircase and onto the catwalk. He jumped up onto the railings balancing himself momentarily. A robot lunged at him. Christopher hopped onto the top of the robot. The robot sprang up, flinging Christopher into the air towards the ceiling. Christopher grabbed onto the edge of one of the holes. He pulled himself up and out onto the room of the ship. He kept himself low as the wind blew. Robots continued to jump from the opening near the back of The Hatter’s giant ship.

Christopher pulled out a grenade that had been hanging from his belt. He clicked a small button on the top of it. A red light began to blink slowly. It began to blink faster and faster as it got closer to detonating. Right as it was about to go off, Christopher through it down at his feet. He jumped up right as it went off. The explosion of the grenade threw Christopher up into the air. He grabbed the edge of the opening that the robots had been jumping out of.

Christopher pulled himself up into the ship. The robots didn’t even notice Christopher as he stood in between them. They stood lined up, and every few seconds each row would move out as the robots near the front would turn on and then jump out.
“You programmed these cans the wrong way Hasfusel,” Christopher said to himself. He walked towards the back of the room where a large lever was planted. Christopher pulled the lever down. All the robots in the giant room feel over like dominos. He brushed his hands.
“Too easy.”

Christopher pushed open the double doors next to the lever. A long hallway lead all the way down to the other end of the ship: the control room. The hallway was carpeted. Candles hung from the walls to give light to the long hallway. Doors aligned the walls all the way to the double set at the other end of the hallway. There were statues and paintings of Hasfusel decorating the space.
“Creepy.”

Christopher ran down the long hallway all the way to the other end. He pushed open the double doors into the giant control room. Hasfusel turned away from the giant front window to look at Christopher.
“I knew you were coming,” he said with his accent.
“I’m going to end this now,” Christopher yelled.
He pulled out his duel pistols. Hasfusel’s face didn’t change in emotion.
“Those can’t kill me,” Has said. He began to laugh.
“Oh and why not!?” Christopher boomed back, getting ready to pull the triggers.
“Because you’re out of ammo lovely!” The Hatter opened up his hand as a bunch of bullets fell out of it.
Christopher gasped. He pulled the triggers, nothing happened. He pulled them rapidly hoping something would happen. He put his pistols back and formed his faced into a scowl.

Christopher yelled as he ran across the control room towards Hasfusel. Hasfusel didn’t move. Christopher lunged at him. Hasfusel jumped up. He was about to come down onto Christopher, when Christopher rolled immediately out of the way. Christopher spun his legs around knocking over The Hatter. Hasfusel flipped up off of the ground. He threw a punch with his right hand, but Chris grabbed it. He threw another punch but Chris grabbed it too. The small claw flew up from Hasfusel’s hat. It flicked Christopher in the nose. Christopher fell back grabbing his nose from the agony that the claw had made. Hasfusel began to rapidly laugh.
“You will always keep trying, but I will always win!”
Christopher yelled as loud as he could. He sprang up and lunged at Hasfusel. He grabbed him by the head. He threw him to the ground. Holding both sides of his head, Christopher began to smash the back of it into the ground. Christopher lifted up his fist, just about to nail him in the face. Hasfusel’s head fell sideways. A robotic voice came from Hasfusel.
“PLEASE INSERT TWO DOUBLE A BATTERIES.”
Christopher looked down in confusion.
“Hahaha! Did you really think it would be that easy?”
Christopher looked up at the front window. Hasfusel was on the other side, sitting on a a miny flying device. He held a cup of tea in his hand.
“As I said, I always win,” he lifted up his glass and then took a sip of it. The vehicle zoomed off.
“God darn it!” Christopher yelled in pure fury. He shoved his fist down into the robotic Hasfusel below him. The face cracked inwards as a bunch of cords fell out from behind.

Will Christopher ever catch Hasfusel? will the group ever get to Wild Thing Forest? Will the holes in the ship ever be fixed? Will Oscar eer get over killing a robot with his left over taco?

[Oscar]

No way! I love killing robots with my tacos! :D The hot sauce burns their metal off.

The double A battery part made me laugh. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif) It's funny how are stories sort of relate. Chris is on the good side on this one, and Hasfusel isn't, but Chris is still going to beat up Hasfusel.

[Christopher]

The Hatter strikes again!

Mark my words, bubeleh, I will vanquish you.
Believe it!

Word to ZBoy: You should make me have and awesomely cool Megazord-like deal called the Gophersaurus.

But yeah, awesome battle.

[ZBoy]

Chapter 9: The One Who Knows All

The Godly Gopher’s crew and the Adventurers Three all occupied the control room. After taking all the valuables from The Hatter’s ship and cleaning up, everyone thought it would be nice to sit down, relax, and have a good meal. Everyone was sitting or standing around a large metal table that was placed near the back of the control room. Lenyo climbed down from a ladder that was standing under one of the now boarded up holes the robots had created.

“That should be the last of them,” he said as he wiped his hands against one another. He looked over at Christopher who had his face planted in his hands. “You did everything you could Captain.” He walked over to pat him on the back
Chris glared up. Lenyo immediately took a step back, and then sat down at his seat. Noviwan the bear walked over from a small kitchen on the back wall holding a tray of dishes. He walked around the table placing a dish in front of each person. He placed the biggest platter in front of his own seat. Everyone began to dig in to their lunches.

Oscar looked at the large pile of collectibles the crew had taken from The Hatter’s ship before destroying it.
“Do you guys collect a lot of things on your adventures?” Oscar asked as he picked up another taco from his dish.
“Well sure,” Christopher finally spoke up after the long hour of silence. “We find furniture, gold, artifacts…”
“And people,” Lenyo cut Christopher off. Christopher shot another glare at Lenyo, this time looking even more serious.
“Well sure,” ZBoy said. “I’m sure you would meet a lot of people while exploring Ranch Storia.”
“Well sure we meet them, but we also collect them like treasure.”

The Adventurers Three’s eyes widened. They all shot a look at one another, and braced themselves as if they were going to get up and run.
“You mean, you guys kidnap people?” Zboy asked for the group.
Christopher let out a deep breath as he looked away from Lenyo and at the group members.
“We don’t kidnap people,” he assured them.
Noviwan looked up from his dish with a mouth full of food. “Then why do we have someone locked up in storage?”
The trio grabbed the table, ready to jump from their seats.
“Would you all calm down please?” Christopher asked. “If we wanted to capture you all, we would have done it already. We are all friends here, so please relax.”
“Then please explain why there is someone locked up in your storage,” said Oscar calmly.
Christopher let out another long breath. “Alright,” he began. “As you know, we explore all the nooks and crannies of this land. You would be shocked by the things you could find. Well this uh thing we found was really special.”
“Is it human?” Twi asked quietly. She had a mixture of nervousness and concern on her tongue.
“We think so,” Christopher said. “He’s a petite little thing. Definitely not from around here, because he really doesn’t speak our language well.”
“So he is a foreigner. Why wouldn’t you just leave him?” ZBoy asked.
“Like Christopher said, this thing is special. From what we can understand, he claims to ‘Know everything’,” Lenyo said with excitement. “He’s a cute little thing.”

Twilight Wanderer and Oscar shared a glance with one another. They were both thinking the same thing. If Twi could meet with this fellow, she could learn the things she wished to know.
“Remember though everyone!” Chris said holding his pointer finger up. “Storage is out of bounds. Sorry.”
Twi let out a low groan that no one seemed to notice.
“And with that last statement, I am going to go rest. We should be approaching Wild Thing Forest within an hour.” With this final statement Christopher got up from the table, and then walked towards the stairs that would lead him to the bedrooms.
“I’m going to go rest for a bit too if you don’t mind,” Lenyo said as he saluted the group and got up from his chair. “Chris is going to make me move all this stuff to the storage area.” He referred to the pile from The Hatter’s ship.

Twi knew what she had to do. She had to go into storage to find this thing that claimed to know everything. With Chris and Lenyo disappearing, she knew this would be a perfect chance too.

Who is this know-it-all? Will Twi be able to talk to it? Will the group make it safely to Wild Thing forest?

[Oscar]

I bet it's...well, I don't know. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif)

Nice chapter, Z. Glad they're back!

[Katie]

Hahahaha, I can guess who it is. Very well played, ZBoy. Very good.

Keep it up~