Prologue
Night of
the knife
The
dark dreary night seemed to go on forever. The blue and cold moon glittered coldy in the sky as if it were made out of ice. 4 Blobbies held the satchel with the
knife of life they had just stolen. One Blobbie laughed. “The fading Blobbies
have such terrible security. Besides, cold nights like these are perfect to just slip in and just... you know, do the thing you love! Night won’t spare the ones
who don’t obey him” a dark Blobbie said. All the other Blobbies laughed and
threw cheese. “Let’s see the knife of life,” one Blobbie said. Out of the bag
slipped a glowing silver knife. It glowed with such power the Blobbies couldn’t
look at it. “Pity it would be if someone were to steal such a… powerful item,”
a Blobbie sneered. “Shut up Nightspin, I think someone’s coming or someone
might have caught us,” another Blobbie whispered.
None
of the Blobbies except that one heard anything besides the eerie howl of wind
in the night. “Well, that was a shame that nothing is there besides the stupid
wind!” A Blobbie hissed. Nightspin turned around and said, “You guys go to
sleep, I’ll take watch, just in case.” The other Blobbies grabbed their comfy
little beds and went to sleep. Nightspin pricked his hearing cords and tried to
sense something. Nothing was there. Foolish Crystfog, he thought. Always being
so paranoid. Nightspin pricked his cords again. No, wait, there was something!
Nightspin growled as the bounce steps came closer. “Stay away, the knife isn’t
yours,” Nightspin snarled. The other Blobbies woke up. “What is it?” Crystfog
asked. Crystfog grabbed Nightspin’s dagger and Nightspin grabbed the glowing
knife.
Nightspin
wailled as he grabbed the knife. His paw was burning at the rate that must be hotter than
fire. His paw was starting to turn purple and dark red. “HELP!” Nightspin
screeched. The pain was incredible and unpredictable. Imagine your hand or paw
being on fire and someone pouring boiling acid on it. Now imagine the fire
being 1,000,000 degrees except for you won’t die. “Let go of the knife! Even I thought you would have more sense than to touch that,” Crystfog said. Nightspin let go of the dagger and the pain
faded immediately. Nightspin sighed in relief. Another Blobbie stepped out and
said, “Oh come on! If we can’t touch the knife, how can we use it to defend
ourselves?” the other Blobbie asked. “You know that only Night can touch it.
Only someone extremely powerful such as Sun, Night or the fading Blobbies can
touch it Niamaclaw” another Blobbie chided.
“Be
careful with your names,” Crystfog warned. The air around them became colder.
“You need to know what is dangerous or not. Names have power and I think you
know that. Just be careful or one day you might cease to exist.” Niamaclaw
rolled her eyes and said, “Well everyone knows those 3 names are sacred and we
aren’t allowed to say them!” Crystfog snarled and hissed, “Well! That’s nice to
know! You know the old legends on how Berrycake and Silverice used the sacred
names too much and Silverice was killed and sent to eternal punishment! Then,
everyone around him had bad luck and it was always night until, the other
sacred special name that I can’t say, came around and reunited everyone.”
The
air became as cold as ice. A quiet splashing sound was heard in the distance. Niamaclaw shuddered and the other Blobbie put on a
jacket. Nightspin stared at them with his warm eyes. “Are you sure this is the
right thing to do? I mean if we give the knife to you know who, he said he
would give us amazing positions in a new world but remember in the old days
they say that you know who would destroy the world with the knife of life and
turn everyone dark.” Niamaclaw mewed, “Mistriver, do you think” Niamaclaw
stopped.
Crystfog
cried out, “The knife is gone! The knife is gone!” 2 shapes moved in the
distance with fog but all 4 Blobbies could still see them clearly. “They took
the knife of life!” Nightspin snarled. “Go kill them! They will destroy the
world if they know how to use it!” Mistriver slowly made a ball of water and
shot blasts of water at them using waterspit. Crystfog hurled blasts of skyfire
and destroyed anything in the path. “Give us back the knife!” Mistriver and
Niamaclaw pounced on the Blobbies and crashed into them leaving them on the
floor.
“What
knife?” One of the two unknown Blobbies asked and studied Niamaclaw with
curious eyes. “Give us back the knife you stole!” Mistriver said softly but
coldly. “We don’t have any knife? Right, do we Numy?” One of the Blobbies said.
“Yeah! Stop falsely accusing me and Cocotail,” Numy meeped. “Search their
bags,” Crystfog ordered. “There’s nothing inside them except an old pie, 2 pens
and a waternumi” Niamaclaw said and tilted her body. Mistriver said quietly,
“They don’t have the knife, I searched for any special power around them but
there isn’t any.” “So can we go now because we don’t have your whatsoever
knife?” the one called Numy asked. “Watch your words,” Mistriver warned. “That
was no ordinary knife. That was the knife of life.”
Numy
and Cocotail gasped. “The, the, the knife of life? How did you get the knife of
life?” Cocotail asked and did this weird pink pleading eyes thing. “Bah, err,
the Star Blobbies wanted us to bring this or something to a volcano or something
to restore peace or something and yeah or something” Nightspin lied. “You say
or something too much,” Numy grumbled. Nightspin tried to shrug which was hard
to do considering he had no shoulders. “Well, that’s just what happened OR
SOMETHING. Now that we spared your lives get on with your stuff or something.
Also be sure to return the knife of life by a week alright?” Nightspin said.
The
2 Blobbies scrambled off quickly but Mistriver didn’t let them off so easy. She
threw a horrible smelling like cheese potion at Numy and he fell. Mistriver
sneered and all of them went back to the campfire. The cold night continued to go on.
The First Quest
Numy woke up not knowing anything. He shook his body
and looked around. There was another Blobbie next to him. “What the heck is the
puff of that?” Numy asked as the Blobbie made some soup. “It’s your favorite
food, cherrito you fat head,” the other Blobbie answered. Food? Numy tried to
remember when he said this was his favorite food and if he knew this Blobbie
but nothing came up in his mind. “Who are you?” Numy asked. The other Blobbie
asked, “Are you trying to get me back for dumping you into the jello bowl
yesterday?” the other Blobbie asked.
Numy stared at the Blobbie
blankly. He was dumped into a jello bowl yesterday? For some reason, Numy
couldn’t remember anything. It felt like he just plopped down in the world
without being born in an egg. “Come on! Ok then, let me do this. I’m not your
best friend Cocotail, I’m his evil clone!” Numy thought he must have had a very
strange life if this were his friend. Cocotail stared at him and said, “We have
to go and find the hidden knife remember you fat head?” Numy squeaked, “I can’t
remember anything! What hidden knives are you talking about and why am I here?”
Cocotail farted and answered, “Well, it’s possible you lost your memory.
Yesterday these weirdo Blobbies told us we stole there celestial spiarial knife
and we had to return it by tomorrow. Then we said fine but one of them threw
this potion that smelled like cheese at you and you passed out.” Numy banged
his head on the ground and said, “He threw cheese at me? I lost my memory
because he threw cheese at me?” Cocotail rolled his eyes and said, “Let’s just
go find that knife just so those Blobbies won’t throw cheese at you again.”
Numy looked and saw a leather book in the corner. He
bounced over and flipped over the fragile pages. The book said, “In order to
find the knife of life you must learn to master the 6 elements.” Numy didn’t
realize Cocotail was behind him until Cocotail screamed, “CHEESE!” Numy turned
around and shouted, “What’s with the cheese
today?” Cocotail mewed, “We need to master the 4 elements. The reason they
were mad at us was because that was the knife of life! It could have serious
power to kill!” Numy understood. If the Blobbies that threw cheese at him
thought they stole something so powerful, they definitely had the right to
throw cheese at them. “What are the 6 elements?” Numy asked. Now it was
Cocotail’s turn to stare at Numy as if he dropped from outer space. “You
already know how to use one element you dummy. The elements are Dionyus, Fire,
Wind, Water, Ground, and…” “Aren’t those all the elements? There are no other
elements!” Numy interrupted. “There’s one more. It’s more powerful than all the
other elements. It will take much practice to control this element.” Cocotail
whispered. “It is… PIE!” Cocotail screamed. Numy wasn’t sure he heard the
weirdo correctly. He knew for one fact that Cocotail was a weirdo but pie?
“Pie?” “YES PIE!” Cocotail bounced around in circles? “Did you just say the
hardest element to control was pie?” Numy asked. “Let’s just get on with our
quest to get the thing,” Cocotail bounded away with Numy following him.
Soon it was night and Numy was looking at the map.
“If this trail goes there to the Palace of night, then this road leads to the
world of pie, and then this road leads to the fat village, then this road leads
to-“ WE GET IT!” Cocotail yelled. The knife was stolen by someone extremely
powerful, probably in that fat volcano. Numy hadn’t noticed there was a 100,000
feet tall volcano over him that was about to erupt. Cocotail grabbed his wing
bid and soon he was soaring up into the sky with Numy on him. “What is this
place?” Numy asked. “You, you don’t even know your favorite place?” Cocotail
shook his head and asked. Numy yelled, “I lost my memory fat head, ok?”
Cocotail didn’t respond as they flew higher into the wind where the volcano was
about to erupt.
“Wait, Cocotail you said that I already knew how to
use one element. What element was that?” Numy asked. “You know how to use wind,
ok? And recently you started learning how to use pie” Cocotail answered. “But
you only knew a tiny, tiny, tiny bit of how to use pie. You see, you learned to
splat other Blobbies in the face with pie and send them flying away with pie
bombs.” Numy tilted his body and asked, “Erg, I could send them flying with pie
bombs? Isn’t that already pretty powerful?” Cocotail almost fell out of the sky
and answered, “OF COURSE NOT! That’s too small. Pie masters learn how to make
it rain pies and pie bombs, summon super powerful pies to attack others and
make a pie grow 1,000 feet wide to smash someone.” Numy fell silent.
All the sudden blasts of fire and ice came out of
the volcano. “Fire and ice is not a good combination because when you combine
them, you get flaming ice bombs! Daren’t! Why didn’t I realize this was an ice
and fire volcano?” Cocotail yelled up in the sky with his wings spread. Numy
who was still on top of him asked, “Silicons?” For some reason, Numy could
remember there was an animal called the silicon. Cocotail growled as more shots
of fire and ice zoomed out from the castle on the volcano. “Get ready!”
Cocotail said.
A giant explosion happened. Numy was pretty sure he
remembered the biggest explosion he seen was a lightning bomb that exploded 5
square miles, which was pretty big for a Blobbie and this was probably 100
times bigger. Numy fell winded on the floor. 2 giant animals came out of
nowhere. A voice said, “Now, now we can treat ourselves nicely, can’t we?
Alright you may eat your dinner now.” Laugher echoed through the chamber. Numy
didn’t have the strength to get up. The
2 animals looked extremely ferocious and lean and probably hungry too. Numy
definitely didn’t have the strength to fight such lean animals. He sidestepped,
ready for death when suddenly, a bunch of pies started flying out of nowhere
and hitting the animals, and now Numy remembered, they were called Pinchtail
scorpions.
Numy remembered his training with Cocotail and how
he could control wind. Numy summoned a giant tornado, slashed and hacked with
wind and finally blew the 2 monsters down with such force the Pinchtail
scorpions disenagrated, leaving a scroll that read, “If you are to find the
knife you seek meet me at the portal of night at dawn.”
Silver
stars
Numy
looked closer at the note written. Meet me by the portal of night at dawn? Numy
shuffled over to Cocotail. “Cocotail, you know where the portal of night is?”
Cocotail almost recovered immediately. “No Blobbie can find out where it exactly
is. Every week it changes to a different place in the world. If we can track it
down by tomorrow, the next day most likely it will be gone. We have to track
its next location.” Numy bit back a response of frustration.
“So,
how do we find it exactly? Or how do we find the location?” Numy offered.
Cocotail sighed and squished around saying, “You have to master the 6 elements?
Remember? And besides, you know that the Blobbies that threw cheese at you and
you grumbled that they said or something too much? I don’t trust them. If I
were you, I wouldn’t return it. I don’t think the star Blobbies gave them the
job to restore balance against _-----.”
Numy
had a hurricane of thoughts swirling in his head. Should he trust the Blobbies
that thought he stole the knife of life? “The exact location where you can
completely learn waterspitting is under the place of silver stars. That place
is closest to the Star Blobbies so they can show us how to master
waterspitting. Besides, you can only master ground puffs if you go to the place
of canyons. That place is best for mastering ground puffs is because the rock
is very hard there and makes it better to try going through the rock.”
“What
do you do when you’re using the element ground?” Numy asked not remembered.
Cocotail replied annoyance beginning to stir inside, “You probably forgot again
Mr. Fat head! Well, to begin with, mastering the element ground is just going
through rocks without having to move them. You can go straight through them and
then, the best part if your enemy is throwing stuff at you, just go into a rock
and stay there. Water is basically just as easy as fire. Just spit water
extremely fast and make jays of water. Fire, well you already know and wind,
I’ll assume you probably know.”
Numy
began to remember more things. “Alright, open your wing bid” Cocotail ordered.
Numy realized his wing bid, for some reason, was much different than
Cocotail’s. Cocotail had a smiley face for his wing bid and Numy, somehow had a
streak of fire for his wing bid. Numy clipped on the wing bid and much to his
giant surprise, and gasped. There were dark, orange flaming wings attached to
his back like they were always there and they flowed magnificently in the sky.
Cocotail seemed to act like this was normal and clipped on his wing bid, where
fluffy yellow puff wings came out.
Numy
grinned and changed into second form for no reason. It felt right for some
reason. He put one paw in front of another and took a deep breath. “Here goes
nothing!” Numy said and soared into the sky. Flying felt amazing. The cool
breeze rushed all over Numy’s body and for a second, he forgot all his worries.
Then, it all came back when Cocotail flew past him, probably faster than the
speed of sound and sent a cold wind rushing toward him.
“There’s
the palace of Silver stars!” Cocotail gasped. At first Numy couldn’t see
anything but when Numy squinted and looked closer, there was a beautiful
mountain with a rushing quiet waterfall below. The mountain was gigantic and
taller than the clouds. On the top of the mountain, there were many rushing
waterfalls that were pouring down and also, there were many bright silver stars
and the sun was also there. Then, the clouds covered the place again and Numy
knew he would have to fly closer to see the amazing sight.
As
they got closer, they saw strange spirits floating around them and realized
they were star Blobbies. “It’s, it’s a star Blobbie,” Cocotail stammered.
“Well, of course!” One shimmering bright Blobbie laughed and exclaimed.
“Welcome to the place of Silver stars, Cocotail and Numy.” Numy wasn’t even
looking at the shining clouds he was too busy wondering how this shining
Blobbie knew their names.
Now,
they were close enough to see the amazing waterfall and the glowing spirits
around them. The floating, glowing and shining Blobbie lead them to a grassy
nature bench and said, “Sit.” Cocotail laughed quietly which wasn’t like
Cocotail since he was always noisy and asked, “Are those the other Star
Blobbies?” The shining Blobbie ignored that and welcomed them warmly saying,
“I’m Sunmoon, guardian of silver stars. Please make yourselves comfortable and
we will see if you pass the test.” “What test?” Numy demanded instantly feeling
a prickle of suspicion. “Well, of course you came here to learn how to control
water but we can only teach you if you are powerful enough.”
Cocotail
had and worried look on his face and suddenly asked again, “Are those star
Blobbies?!” The smile drifted off Sunmoon’s face and she paled even though she
was already very misty. “No, NO! This cannot be true after a thousand years of
peace!” “What are those? What are they?” Cocotail demanded. “The minions of,
well show more respect!” Sunmoon stuttered. “The shadows haven’t come here for
a thousand! Why have the strength to come now. You two, stay here while I go
off and destroy them, but be careful and don’t
move.”
Numy
didn’t need to be told twice that he shouldn’t move. Numy was scared out of his
fur. The creatures which were about 2 of them it seemed had scarred terrible
faces, glowing red eyes and bared fangs. They had a circular shape with long
talons and dreadful, beautiful and horror struck wings. Numy knew at once these
were Shadow Blobbies.
Sunmoon
drew a protective circle which probably meant that they were protected inside
and a small bubble appeared around them which Sunmoon instantly jumped out of. The
creatures emerged and shot blasts of dark fire at her and she instantly turned
around and hacked the air. She flowed and jumped spinning and leaping to dodge
the huge flaming blasts of fire. One blast of fire hit the bubble, and the
bubble stayed there but seemed to dim. Numy turned extremely warm inside and
felt some pain but it slowly went away.
Sunmoon
leapt in the air with such grace and spun around throwing a giant blast of
light at the creatures and all Numy could do was watch in amazement, awestruck
with his mouth open. A dimmed sword appeared in Sunmoon’s head and she charged
toward the creatures. She brought the glowing dim sword down on the creature’s
head and it screamed in pain and disintegrated. The other Shadow creatures
morphed out a shadow mist sword and started striking. Sunmoon unleashed her
fiery gold wings and dodged with shocking speed. All Numy could do was stare in
amazement and awe.
Finally,
the rest of the Star Blobbies came, which weren’t many when Numy realized there
was 6 other Shadow creatures attacking the other side. One of the shadow
creatures turned and sliced out on Sunmoon. Sunmoon gave a cry of agony and
fell. “Help her!” Cocotail screamed but all Numy could do was stare and stop
Cocotail from leaping outside the circle. “Why,” Cocotail said as Numy watched
the endless fight continue.
Finding life
Numy
almost couldn’t stand it. He grabbed Cocotail with his head and plunged out of
the protection bubble glaring down at the battle. His flaming wings stretched
out in the dark sky and he flew down into a sheltered log house. The log house
didn’t seem too fancy or too poor. In fact, it felt extremely comfortable and
cozy and fitting. There was a spiarial sword nearby and Numy grabbed it. With
his last force he flew into the battle.
Soon,
another Blobbie came in front of them. She seemed to be a normal Blobbie, not a
star Blobbie but she demanded, “What are you doing here? Since you are mortal
you cannot stay.” Numy replied, “We’re coming here to train when this war
started.” Numy explained the whole story head to bottom about the Blobbies throwing
cheese, trying to find the knife of life and more. Numy knew he shouldn’t talk
to strangers but in this case he had no choice. “Well, another hostage.
Recently the place of Silver stars has been having terrible attacks. You’ll
have to come with me,” the other Blobbie stared at them with her gold eyes.
“Why should we trust a stranger?” Cocotail demanded and grabbed the sword. The
Blobbie sighed and with one flick, sent the sword flying away. “Don’t embarrass
yourselves,” she said sternly.
Numy
snarled and decided it was better to follow this stranger than to get caught in
the middle of an all-out war. Cocotail reached for the sword again and pointed
it at the stranger. Full credit to Cocotail for trying to act strong, Numy
thought. The stranger somehow with extremely force and intelligence, opened her
eyes and spoke a single very powerful word. “Ba’nit.” The bubble burst and
Cocotail’s eyes widened. “What, what was that?” Numy asked. If this Blobbie had
enough power to break Sunmoon’s protection bubble, she seriously must’ve been
powerful.
She
had beautiful dark green eyes that were narrowed, a flowing gold tail, and
flaming wings very close to Numy’s wings and finally, the scariest part was she
had a 3 foot long staff and at the top of the staff was Silicon, the symbol of
death.
“Who
are you and what do you want from us?” Numy hissed. The other Blobbie flicked
her wings and said, “Come on, it’s either you follow me, or perish in this place.” She said the word place as if it
were a major insult. “I’m Kiris, trained to fight shadows, shadars and other
different types of evil. Now if you say one more insult, I will cut your tongue
out.” Numy stared at Kiris wondering if that were her real name, if she would
actually cut somebody’s big tongue out and a bunch of other fat questions.
Kiris
spun her staff around making a trail of light guiding toward the sky. “Follow
the path,” she ordered. Cocotail seemed so eager to please this Kiris Blobbie
whatsoever so he eagerly jumped onto the path and bounded toward the exit to
the war. Numy jumped the same way to following Cocotail but hesitated. “Well,
what are you waiting for? Go!” Kiris directed. Numy decided from her green no
friendliness in her eyes, he didn’t like Kiris a single bit unlike Cocotail who
was trying his best to please her by nudging Numy saying, “Let’s go!”
Numy
turn around and bounded through the path and began to wonder if this were a
trap or just a direction. Cocotail bounded ahead pushing and shoving at Numy to
keep moving, probably just to please this Kiris. Numy sighed in exasperation
and asked, “Where in Blobbieworld are we going anyways?” Cocotail continued to
bounce ahead and replied, “Most likely to the World of day. It’s the place
where you are trained to the elements and other types of power such as fighting
with swords and archery. It’s my best guess.” Numy started to remember what the
House of Day was.
The
place of the House of Day was close enough to be seen clearly. There was a
magnificent palace, and also a waterfall and the place seemed almost, almost as glorious and glamorous as the
place of Silver stars. The palace was white, gray and black but even the black
parts were still sparkling. The outside of the House of Day stood 2 guards
heavily armed with weapons and spiarial swords. They stood and glared at Numy
and Cocotail. They weren’t Blobbies and they certainly weren’t anything Numy
had ever seen before. They had a head of a Blobbie with sharp pointed ears of a
spinerling, a body of a snake that was standing up, and a pair of sharp wings.
Kiris
came bouncing behind them and replied, “Great serpents of the House of Day, let
me in for I have invited these, whatsoever.” She flicked her head toward Numy
and Cocotail. Kiris, Numy and Cocotail entered to find that the inside of the
palace was even greater than the outside. Kiris flicked her head and a single
blue line appeared in the air. Cocotail gasped, being amazed and Numy rolled
his eyes. A door opened at Kiris’s command and she jumped into it.
Kiris
said in a muffled voice, “Welcome to the House of Day where you learn not to be
stupid and learn how to fight.” Numy replied harshly, “Well you’re the one to
talk, I guess they taught you how to not be stupid since you always were!”
Cocotail glared at Numy and shushed him up. Kiris kicked him and he just
stared. “This is the hall of memories,” Kiris told them, “Where the place that
is first shown to newcomers. And in order to be able to stay here and train,
you must find life.” Numy rolled his eyes and said, “How the Kimo do we find
life? I mean we are alive if you didn’t notice.” “Well, I’ll tell you how to do
that once you pass the test.”
“Drink
it,” Kiris ordered. She had just placed a white and brown drink in front of
Cocotail and Numy and Cocotail immediately drank it. “Wow,” Cocotail said
shocked and speechless. Numy wondered what the wow how the drink tasted and the
answer to that question was, it tasted brilliant and all of the sudden Numy
felt like he could do anything. Swim in the deepest lakes and do more. Cocotail
started choking and yelled, “I’m dying help me I’m dying!” Kiris rolled her
eyes and said, “No you aren’t.” “Oh,” Cocotail muttered. “I thought I was
dying.”
Numy
laughed and nummed, “Can we find our “life” now?” To answer that again, Kiris
lead them to a tall fountain and said “Climb to the top and we’ll see.” “Well
that’s easy for you because you can summon some magical spell to make yourself
fly there and there is no way we can!” Numy argued. Kiris sighed and took a
deep breath. “Fei-kuai,” Kiris chanted. A doorway sprouted and she entered with
Cocotail and Numy behind her. “What the heck does Fei-Kuai mean?” Numy asked. A
rumble echoed in the distance. “Be careful with your words. It means to summon
a gate and fly through it you dummy. Now you just summoned a flying gate right
up there,” Kiris spat.
Finally,
they reached the top of the fountain and on top there was a gladiator warrior
Blobbie battling stand that was giant. “Now you two may battle,” Kiris nummed. “Wait,
wait come on Kiris! We might kill each
other,” Cocotail exclaimed sounding a bit annoyed. Kiris hummed and said,
“That’s the point. Whoever survives longest can stay alive and train here.”
Anger
boiled inside Numy and he yelled, “Then we won’t stay here! We came here to the
silver stars not to you! Cocotail and I will be leaving NOW.” Numy and Cocotail
just started bouncing away when another unknown Blobbie came bursting out of
the fountain and yowled, “Zhai-nar!” Numy stopped in his tracks. He tried so
hard to move. He pushed and pushed nonstop but somehow or something made him
unable to move. Finally he was able to shuffle one millimeter but it was as
hard as pushing 10 houses. “Give up,” Kiris said. “Stopping spells are almost
impossible to break even for the greatest Blobbies. You haven’t even trained
yet.”
Numy
felt extremely angered and suddenly saw Cocotail chanting. “Bi-ra!” he
exclaimed and suddenly Numy and Cocotail could move again. They screamed and
jumped off the fountain. Kiris rolled her eyes and ordered, “Get them.” Flying
Blobbies and animals came out of everywhere, at least 10 to be exact. “How did
you know that spell?” Numy asked Cocotail. “It-it was on the-the well” Cocotail
stammered sleepily. Suddenly Cocotail’s eyelids closed and he was fast asleep.
Numy
knew instantly that Cocotail had used almost all his energy to cast that spell.
It was a very, very simple spell but Cocotail was very, very new to this. It
could take months of training to learn not to drain the Blobbie’s energy out
when saying a spell. “Wake up Cocotail!” Numy murmured. “Wake up, wake up!”
Cocotail stirred in his sleep. I know! Numy thought. “Cocotail, I HAVE PIE!”
Cocotail instantly woke up. “Pie, pie, pie? Where’s the pie? Oh wait we’re
escaping now I remember.” Both of them continued to fly away with their wings
zipping in the sky but the other Blobbies were closing in behind them.
They
flew out the window and silence. “Cocotail?” Numy asked. “COCOTAIL!” Nobody
answered. Numy looked behind him and what he saw terrified him. Cocotail was
screaming for help while another Blobbie used a stickygun on him. Numy flew
back instantly and said, “Let. Go. Of. Cocotail. Now.” The other Blobbie stared
and suddenly a wave of wind slammed into him. Kiris wasn’t so easy to beat
though. She had years of training and raised her eye. “You can’t escape.”
A
giant gust of water slammed into Numy. Numy groaned at the pain but just as he
got up, a giant ball of pie slammed into him. The pie wasn’t so effective
because Numy ended up eating most of it. When he was done eating pie Numy saw
that it was too late. 2 large knives were above him and they seemed to be made
out of the rarest item, spiarial. 2 streams of skyfire danced and floated above
him. Soon, Numy knew that he was going to be a cooked Blobbie. A voice boomed
overhead, “Spare the Blobbie!”
Cold
fire
“Why keep him alive?” Kiris demanded. “He betrayed us all and has
proved to be helping the Shadow Blobbies! AGAIN!” “What!” Numy hissed. “Stop it
with your lies we never helped the Shadow Blobbies! We came to the place of
silver
stars
to master the element of water so we could find the knife of life and return it
to the Blobbies that threw cheese at me just so they don’t kill us but we
aren’t exactly doing it for that, we were doing it for-“Cocotail moaned and got
up.
“Show
respect Kiris,” The other Blobbie that told Kiris not to kill them nummed.
“They seem innocent to me and they might not even know that they are helping
the Shadow Blobbies. I’m Cold Fire and I am master of the House of Day.” The
old Blobbie explained to Numy and Cocotail. Numy couldn’t think of anything to
say. He could have said all sorts of lame things like, you are big! Or do you
like waffles? But the only thing Numy could say was, “You’re extremely old. Why
aren’t you sitting on a throne and blabbing on about something?” Kiris’s eyes
flared with anger. Numy was about sure Kiris would blast him to cinders but
Cold Fire held out a paw and said “It’s fine Kiris. They are young and they
haven’t learned yet how to be a spell-maker.
Cocotail
blabbed on and coughed and spluttered random things on how he hated cheese and
liked pancakes. All Kiris did was stare and say, “I like pancakes too…” Cold
Fire laughed a warm hearted laugh which was strange considering Kiris was
giving them a cruel look like; I wish I
tore you to pieces. I’ll do that later. Numy rolled his eyes and continued on,
telling Cold Fire the story of what they did and what their travels were about.
Cold
Fire finally said, “You have either two choices. You can stay here with us and
train but you must battle Cocotail, or you will not train and be known to be
helping the Shadow Blobbies and we will be your enemies and hunt you down. We
have many powerful spell-maker Blobbies here you know that.” Numy considered
the choices and they both seemed pretty horrible but which one was worse?
Getting a warm bed every day, having food that definitely tasted good, having
servants to serve them, if getting hurt taking medicine, and having free
lessons on how to kill your enemies easily or being chased nonstop, meeting
monsters ever minute and being tracked down by many Blobbies to be killed? Yeah
probably having a warm bed and that other stuff was better.
“You
only have to battle Cocotail” Cold Fire insisted. “But I can’t kill him; we’ve
been friends for 4 years!” Cold Fire laughed another warm hearted laugh and
said, “You won’t kill him, you just will have a friendly fight and if anyone
gets hurt we’ll put you in the River of Healing.” “What’s the River of
Healing-“Numy asked. He was interrupted by a churning splash of waves and he looked
over to see a very bright river.
“Come
and we will see our rooms,” Cocotail nummed quietly and Cocotail and Numy
followed him.
The
room was amazing. The walls were lightly streaked with light and were blonde,
the color of a cream Blobbie. On the walls were painted many spells. In the
corner of the room there was a small bookshelf with a headbo (that reading
thing) and connected to it was a laced golden book that had many ribbons tied
to it. There were two windows and
outside shone a waterfall, the place of Silver Stars from a distance. A small
chair stood nearby the windows and next to the cozy chair was a large table
that looked like it was for studying. There were 2 small Blobbie beds that fit
Numy and Cocotail perfectly. Numy was just about to curl up and go to sleep
when he realized there was one thing missing. There were no lights.
“Where
do you get the lights?” Cocotail asked what Numy was thinking. “Well, to begin
with, we make our own lights with a spell,” Kiris said. “Whoa, where did Cold
Fire go?” Numy asked. Kiris doubled over laughing and said, “Well it seems like
since Cold Fire wasn’t interested he left me here to be your well, guidance.”
She shrugged like guidance was a bad word.
“You
make your own lights dummy.”
“Oh.
How do we make our own lights?”
Kiris
closed her eyes and chanted, “Lir-ies!” Immediately, even though it was night
time, the room turned into day. Everything around the room lit up near until
the next 2 rooms. Cocotail opened his mouth in complete shock. Numy sighed and
said, “Can we get to the stupid battle already?” Kiris grinned and said, “This
is where it gets fun.” Right after she said that they flashed once and they
were on a giant battlefield. Numy had full biancris armor and Cocotail seemed
to have happy faces all over him. “The heck, this isn’t armor, this is a bunch
of happy face on my hat!” Cocotail complained. Kiris laughed a clear happy
sound and for the first time Numy thought she might not have been so bad after
all.
She
pointed her flowing tail to the 4rth room next to hers and said, “My crazy
cousins are the prank masters of the House of Day. They prank somebody at least
twice a day. Guess some spell took back your armor. She said another word that
Numy couldn’t identify and this time Cocotail had a huge stack of hats on his head. “The weight is too much, I have
probably a thousand hats on me!” Cocotail groaned. Kiris laughed and said,
“Take my armor, I have hundreds of sets of them. I won’t care that much if it’s
ruined. But be careful since my cousins love this set of armor so, make one
hole and you will never hear the end of you getting pranked.”
Cocotail
laughed and Kiris’s expression turned serious. “Ready, set START THE BATTLE!”
Numy
leaped on top of Cocotail but instead of feeling his soft fur, Numy hit the
ground. Cocotail flew right above him and tackled him right on the back. It
didn’t hurt much but Numy groaned, “Ouch.” And Cocotail turned him over and
threw him on the wall. Numy just had a second to open his wing bid and stop
himself from smacking straight on the wall. He blew a cover of fire at Cocotail
with his mouth but Cocotail dove into the water nearby. Very nice strategy,
someone blasts fire and you jump into water, wow. Apparently Cocotail didn’t
know about Numy’s sarcasm and threw some water at his face. Kiris laughed as
she watched the all-powerful Numy with fire blasting and some sword skills be
beaten by the jumping in water and bouncing around weirdo Cocotail.
Apparently
Cocotail wasn’t actually so bad at fighting because he grabbed a sword out of
thin air and sliced some of Numy’s fur off. Numy growled at the pain and
thought he was about to lose when a giant ball of pie sent Cocotail flying
backwards. The pie chased Cocotail around while Cocotail yelled, “Why is there
a giant pie chasing me?” The pie finally stopped chasing Cocotail but at this
time Cocotail was exhausted but Numy didn’t want to hurt him so he sent a ball
of pie crashing into Cocotail. It seemed to effect Cocotail because the next
hour instead of cleaning and getting healed he was eating pie. Numy stepped out
of the battle arena and demanded Kiris, “Well! Did I do ok and pass the test?”
Kiris was speechless and slowly said, “I guess we have a newcomer. Cold Fire
will accept you permanently unless you do something horrible and betray us.”
Cocotail
gasped as his belly bulged out. Numy laughed at seeing how full Cocotail
seemed. “Too…full…need… one more… bite.”
Cocotail
used the bathroom and became not so full and Numy settled down to enjoy the new
room. It seemed cozy and fine and just fitting. Not too fancy and not too poor
just like the room at the place of Silver Stars.
Path of ice
Kiris stared down; annoyed that she
couldn’t get the spell right. Frustrated, she said out loud, “The Muffin Blob
mastered this spell when he was only 3!
I’m already 8 and having trouble with this STUPID spell when the Muffin Blob
mastered it in a matter of only a couple minutes!” She didn’t notice Cold Fire
beside her until he murmured, “Those times were from the ancient days. The
Muffin Blob was The Great Kimo’s Blob and was the world’s greatest spell maker.
But one day you might even create your own spell just like Muffin did and
become almost as great as him!” Kiris sighed and said, “The Muffin Blob took
only a couple minutes to get this spell mastered and I’ve been doing this for
years!” Cold Fire sighed and stepped away leaving Kiris hissing in anger.
The new Blobbies, Numy and Cocotail
stepped out. Numy yawned and said, “Well, aren’t we going to learn any spells
today?” Cocotail nudged Numy and nummed, “Kiris told me we’re going to learn
the si-kres! Spell today. It was
actually made by The Great Kimolet herself!” Kiris shuffled uncomfortably and
retorted, “The Great Kimo does not like being called Kimolet and prefers to be
called Kimo. Now if you would, show some respect to your creator.” Numy glared
at her angrily but unexpectedly Kiris shot back another fiery glare. Kiris
hated it when people judged her but she learned to take it well so they
stopped. She wondered what day she would earn all the Blobbie’s from the House
of Day’s respect.
Kiris stepped back and grabbed
Cocotail’s sword that she had given him. “Hey!” Cocotail protested and jumped
up and down. Kiris said, “Here’s a demonstration. In order to get a spell
right, you must say it with all your will. The slightest bit without all your
will might destroy you on spot. You must be calm inside and draw energy from
yourself-but be careful because if you draw too much energy, it will make you
very tired.” Numy whispered, “Like we didn’t know that,” but Kiris had extremely great hearing. “Like you wouldn’t
talk so much if I hadn’t told you to shut up so shut up already!” she mimicked.
Kiris took another step back and
nummed, breathing deeply and taking energy to deal with. She let out the energy
through her tongue by saying, “Si-kres!” Cocotail’s sword lifted into the air
and slammed into the ceiling, broken.” Cocotail yelped in anger but quickly,
Kiris nummed, “A-cis!” The blade dropped down, unbroken and as good as new.
Numy said quietly, “So A-cis means to repair and Si-kres means to fly?” That
was the first thing in the whole entire day Numy had said that wasn’t offensive
to Kiris. “Nynynymewmewmewmewnumboingnumnumnumnumboingnyanlumnumnumnum,”
Cocotail added randomly.
A window shattered for no reason.
Another window shattered and Kiris realized, all the windows were shattering. 4
dark creatures came hurling at her. Numy screamed and pulled out his blade. The
edge was sharp and shiny which no doubt could kill a monster. He slammed
himself into the dark creatures and dug his blade into them. The creature
seemed not even fazed by that attack and spun around, knocking Numy off of him.
Numy landed on the wall and fell to the ground, looking hurt. Kiris looked
over, knowing it was her responsibility to keep these creatures away from them.
Cocotail yelped wildly as Kiris
began chanting in an ancient language. “Ikri-si da nr cry-dis! Ml kana kur,
sree cis dwe!” A creature leaped at her face but right before it ripped her to
shreds, it disintegrated thanks to her spell. Cocotail cried out loud as
another monster tore out his fur. He fought so viciously and hard even Kiris
was surprised. Kiris had thought of Cocotail as a silly, weird and funny
Blobbie that knew nothing about spells but turns out, he could be a ferocious
fighter when he wanted too. Cocotail grappled at his blade and tore out the
monster’s lungs and sliced its leg off making a scene so horrible Kiris
would’ve hid if she could. Numy was doing nearly as well taking spells from the
walls that Kiris had said. He screamed, “Si-kres!” and one monster went flying
away. The last monster was for Kiris to kill and she hissed bringing the knife
she had down on its neck and it yelped and disintegrated.
Cocotail gasped as blood trickled
down his forehead. Kiris immediately went to panic mode because she had no
supplies at all for healing. She was also more of a defense Blobbie and didn’t
know so much about healing. Cocotail was bleeding horribly now and blood oozed
out of his body. Numy grabbed some cloths and stuck it where it was bleeding.
Kiris rushed over to Cocotail and yelled in her most calm voice which wasn’t
very calm, “Make the Blobbie still!” It sounded like a command but actually it
was a spell.
Numy bounced over to his friend and
supportively raised him upward, dabbing the blood and solar out of his face.
Cocotail looked around wildly. “Not this again,” Kiris muttered just before
Cocotail jumped into a wall and banged his head. “What’s it?” Numy asked. “Mental
ness venom. It’s a special creature that has venom dabbed on its claws so when
it scratches you, the venom makes you mental.” “Jelly Blobbies with cheese for
a fluffy evil unicorn since Jonathan died,” Cocotail spluttered. (By the way
Jonathan is this person from my school and I hate him since he’s annoying so
yeah XD.” Numy sighed as Kiris continued to dab small healing herbs on
Cocotail. “I think that spinerlings are walking,” Cocotail said sleepily.
“Here, help me get Cocotail to the
healing rooms,” Kiris nummed. Instantly, a hostility wild look in Numy’s eyes
was seen. Was it that he thought he could heal Cocotail without her? Or was it
because he was too proud to want someone to heal him. Soon, that hostility was
changed to doubt. Was he afraid that we might hurt him? After all this time,
Kiris still couldn’t believe that Numy didn’t trust her, as much as she hated
him.
Even though that hostility and doubt
in Numy’s eyes lasted less than a second, Kiris was still affected by it. She
knew she wasn’t a good spell-maker compared to many Blobbies in the House of
Day. Also, many times when a Blobbie heard her name, confusion would flash
across their eyes. Almost all Blobbies knew the second greatest fighter and
spell-maker besides Silverice and The Great Kimo. Kiris was The Great Kimo’s
grandblob, Blob of Milkysky. Her mother had named her Kiris, so everyone would
honor her and remember her name as the second best fighter, though she really
wasn’t a fighter; more of a spell-maker.
As she was thinking about Kimo’s
grandblob Kiris she heard another Blobbie shuffling Cocotail toward the healing
rooms. It was their only healer, a Fruit berry Blobbie named Spring. Spring was
a beautiful Blobbie, Kiris’s best friend, always so kind and helpful and Kiris
could understand why she liked healing. “Hi Kiris! Is this your friend I heard?”
Spring asked in a warm voice.
“Hi Spring, and no, these Blobbies
are the new testants and we had a minor attack with some Silicons. 4 to be
around exact.” Kiris replied. “Oh, sorry! Here, have seats while I get some
herbs,” Spring exclaimed. Numy turned and looked at Spring. For a moment
nothing happened until Spring said, “Oh, ok I better get going.” Numy looked
away in disappointment and bounced out of the room.
The amulet’s
shadow
Numy yawned and stretched his butt. He
stared at the paintings on the wall. Somehow, they seemed to draw him into a
coma. The amulets on the wall made movements sound and recorded all the
destructions in past history. Suddenly, quite literally, the pictures drew him
in. A deep dark voice said, through the
ancients you shall fail, to find the quest which you shall sail. For an ally
helps you on your quest, raze or preserve in your rest, shall so you are
betrayed, by this one that has been layed. Numy fell over, shocked and
angry by the voice. For an ally helps you
on your quest, Numy thought.
A voice from behind him spoke, “Umm,
he’s all healed. Do you want me to help you bring back your friend?” It was
Spring and she was blushing. “Umm, it’s fine,” Numy replied. Certainly after
Spring was so kind to heal Cocotail and all, maybe she could be the ally on the
quest? Shall so you are betrayed, Numy
thought the line nonstop worried sick about it. He knew that many Blobbies
didn’t like them. Could it possibly be the Blobbies that threw cheese at him
who would betray him? Suddenly, a thought dawned on him. He knew this was
horrible and unloyal to think of but he couldn’t help thinking, could Kiris
possibly be the Blobbie that betrayed him? Even though they had come this far,
he couldn’t help wondering that Kiris was the Blobbie that betrayed him.
Spring layed a blanket on Cocotail
which jolted Numy back to reality. Cocotail slept soundly singing, “Oh, waffle
pancake, waffle pancake!” Numy purred in delight as he saw his friend sleeping
so soundly and happily. “Wake up!” Numy rubbed his paws on Cocotail. Cocotail
stirred and jumped back up. “Oh, hi Numy. You just woke me up from the best
dream ever! I was dreaming that this Blobbie gave me a spiarial which another
Blobbie traded me 4 waffles and 2,000 pancakes for! Then, Kiris gave me 600
extra pancakes which I used to buy 400 waffles and syrup!”
“Well,” said Numy. “Here, have a B
and B.” Cocotail ate the B’B and went to sleep soundly again. “You didn’t say
he would be so lazy all day,” Numy joked to Spring. Spring shifted
uncomfortably and said, “Oh, umm I have to go! Bye numling!” Numy rolled his
eyes and said, “Bragger fur ball! I can speak ancient Blobbish too! Bop num!”
Spring laughed and replied, “Bo bop num bo soccer!” Numy gasped and replied,
“You just called me a soccer ball! Grr, bo is a dog face!” Spring huffed and
retorted, “Unicorn face!”
“Wrinkle face!”
“Dog poop!”
“Wrinkled dog poo!”
“Smelly, wrinkled orange dog poo!”
“Ok, ok you win. But that proves
you’re a wrinkled dog poo.” Spring laughed and nummed. Numy was now laughing so
hard he rolled right over to his room. Once Spring was out of sight he closed
the door and said, “Si-kres! Lir-ies!” A small light flickered on and a lamp
floated upwards. Cocotail ate some pie while Numy went to the studying table,
and carefully examined the text book. First, he looked through the table of
contents. He gasped as he saw the chapters.
Chapter 1- The spells of The Muffin
Blob Chapter 5- The techniques of
The greatest
Chapter 2- The spells of Ferncookie Chapter 6- The abilities of The
Great Kimo
Chapter 3-The potions of The Muffin
Blob Chapter 7-The Greatest fighters
in all history
Chapter 4-The spells of The Great
Silverice Chapter 8- The techniques of the
Shadows
He looked and saw that the last
chapter, had many spells written over it and were crossed out twice. Maybe pie
would help clear his mind. He stuffed his mouth full of pie made from the
greatest cooks in the House of Day. Mm, the House of Day cookers were really
good! The pie tasted amazing but he flipped to the first page; spells of the
Muffin Blob. The first spell already had tons of ingredients needed to make the
spell. He scrolled through the list that said Fire bark, water bark, water
berry, night berry, ice and sweetstem.
After a long time of gathering, he
had all the plants and grabbed them, shoving them into a small pile. The first
step was to grind them together. The last step was to spit on them, creating a
giant smoke powder that would blind his enemies for 2 minutes. He spit on the
leaves and a powder came out. “Ugh!” Cocotail spluttered and coughed, his eyes
watering. Smoke circled around Numy and he was blinded for a couple of minutes.
His eyes stung with water and felt like acid was poured on them. “Why’d you do
that?” Cocotail spluttered when the fog cleared from their eyes.
“This was probably the spell Muffin
used when they were escaping from the Shadow Blobbies. I remember the story how
they were surrounded. Kimo had protested she could kill all them, which they
could but Muffin realized she wouldn’t have the time. Everyone except Kimo
would’ve been dead by the time all the Shadow Blobbies were dead. So he used
this spell!” Cocotail sighed and replied, “For the last great time. Stop
calling Kimo, Kimo. It’s The Great Kimo and The Muffin Blob. She likes that
better than Lorm Kimo.” Cocotail joked about the Lorm Kimo thing. (In Blobbish
Lorm basically means Lord.)
They joked for a while giving
strange accents and saying, “why is it dangerous to do math in the land?”
“Because if you do 4+4 you get ate
by a grinder!
Kiris came entering the room,
splattered with paint, leather, and B’b’s, Duddies and Amber berries. Numy
snickered and caught himself. Kiris sighed and said, “The stupid spell. How do
you know that the Muffin Blob can do it in a minute while I’ve been training to
do this for 5 years?” Numy couldn’t
stop himself from laughing and finally nummed, “You, you can’t even get this
spell right? What spell is it!”
Kiris sighed and said, “Stop
laughing alright. I can bet 10 spiarials that you will be clueless on how to
even do it. And once you find out, most likely you’re going to do exactly the
opposite of the spell is like.” Numy heaved a breath and said, “Tell me the
stinking spell so I can do it.” Kiris jumped quietly on to a bookshelf. “Smoke
powder spell. 10 minutes of blinding powder at your enemy.” Numy now couldn’t
stop laughing. He had completed the spell in less than 2 minutes!
“I could finish that spell in a
total of 2 minutes!” Numy exclaimed, laughing and glancing at Kiris. Kiris was
furious now. Numy gave her a demonstration by gathering the resources and
spitting. Immediately Kiris started choking and her eyes watered. After a
couple minutes she turned and glared at Numy. “This is impossible! I have been
training for years as you mere blob!” Numy resisted laughing again. He was
impressed by himself that he had actually beaten a well-trained Blobbling at a
spell.
He didn’t think it was funny when
Kiris turned over and nummed. “Wait a minute… you cheater!” Numy was too confused to speak. “Cheater?” “Yes! I was
talking about making that powdered spell, without
the fire bark and not spitting! You don’t spit, you chew.” Suddenly, all
Numy’s pride and triumph that he had beaten her faded. She was doing it the
hard way, chewing instead of spitting.
Kiris stared triumphantly at Numy
and said comfortingly, “It’s fine; I’ve been practicing this stupid spell for
about, 5 years? Numy relaxed and said to Cocotail, “Hey, I’m going to go look
at the pictures on the wall again. You can speak with,” He pointed at Kiris and
she glared at him.
Numy shooed Kiris out of his room
and soon found he staring at the amulet on the wall. It seemed deep and dark,
almost like a shadow. The amulet started to draw him deep in and suddenly,
something rose from the amulet. A shadow came and roared. Numy backed away,
shocked and surprised by this. In a raspy voice, the amulet’s shadow hissed, “Finally! Free from my prison and you shall
pay for this!”
The amulet’s
shadow pt. 2
Numy screeched in shock and the amulet’s shadow
lunged after him. Cracks appeared in the walls and Cocotail instantly sat up,
shocked by the commotion. Spring and Kiris ran over and gasped. Kiris
immediately flipped over a page on a book and started reading it. Cocotail
charged straight ahead, a stream of comet behind him. Numy launched his whole
body at the shadow and the shadow disappeared. “I killed it,” Numy said
proudly.
Kiris stared at the commotion in shock and
shouted, “You just let the amulet’s shadow go! We imprisoned it for so many years! This took so many years to
imprison, and now it’s gone, probably gone off to warn the shadows of this
prison and tell them to attack again. We have to bring this back by sunset or
the whole world is dead.” Numy’s mouth fell open. Kiris didn’t even respond.
She jumped right out of a window, and Cocotail yelled, “What are you doing!”
Kiris’s wings spread and she landed safely on
the ground and charged straight toward the snaking destruction. The amulet
slithered and spat randomly until a column of fire erupted right in Kiris’s
face. Cocotail gasped and Numy jumped right off to help Kiris. His wings spread
and a whoosh splattered on his face.
He landed right next to Kiris who was groaning and was getting up.
Spring and Cocotail appeared right beside him
and Spring folded her wings tightly. “I’m fine, what’re you looking at,” Kiris
rasped and snorted on the worried look on Cocotail’s face. Spring shook her
head and replied, “I could see you dying Kiris. I know when Blobbies die, and I
could see your life fading. Don’t go after the amulet, please?” Kiris closed
her eyes and sighed a deep breath. “No, Spring, if you aren’t going and if none
of you are going, I am.”
Kiris tried to sit up but a small crack in her
fur blocked her. She smelled like smoke and she was burnt all over. Numy knew
she had taken on too much. “No Kiris, let us go get the amulet,” Cocotail
protested. Kiris shook her head and laughed, then croaked, “You haven’t even
learned a single spell yet. Stay here and guard the place.” Numy snorted and
replied, “No Kiris, all 4 of us are going. I have this book.” Numy gestured
toward his golden wrapped scroll.
Kiris seemed to lighten up by that. Spring
exclaimed, “You have the golden scroll! That’s amazing! We’ll be able to
capture the shadow in no time.” Numy banged his head hard. Maybe he still had
that losing memory cheese inside of him since he couldn’t remember what the
burnt map or golden scroll was. “The Fading Blobbies and The Great Kimo need us
to return this by sunset,” Kiris nodded and coughed.
She got up and traced her tail at Cocotail.
“It’s fine. Since it’s just us four, we have the advantage of surprise. Here, I
have a, well broken sword thanks to,” Cocotail purred and nudged Kiris. Kiris
laughed and stopped to glance pointedly at Numy.
“First thing I need to ask you Kiris. Where did
the amulet’s shadow go anyways?” Kiris turned wide eyed again and looked around
wildly. “Oh Shad! Ugh, how could I forget that?” Kiris stomped her tail in
frustration. “I have no idea where the shadow went. There isn’t any possible
way we can find that big worm.” Cocotail shrugged and Kiris continued to go all
crazy.
“We really need that shadow. It’s probably
already reached the entrance and gates of the Shadows. This amulet… not many
Blobbies like to say this…” Kiris muttered. “What is the shadow of the amulet
anyways?” Cocotail said and slammed a paw down. Kiris glanced at Cocotail and
nummed, “I was just about to say that… it’s the spirit of… the, the evil path
of… Silverice.”
The name Silverice silenced everyone except
Numy. “Umm, Blobs I think I just found the path of the amulet’s shadow? It’s
right there. That giant chunk of destruction.” Sure enough wherever the
amulet’s shadow went, behind it followed giant craters and pieces of chipped
off rock. “Ok… hello there?” Numy asked. After a moment of silence, Kiris said,
“You’re right. We should start the quest now.” “No!” shouted Spring. “Eh, why
not?” Cocotail asked, agreeing with Kiris again. “This quest is more dangerous
than you think. It’s already extremely horrible looking for this screaming
shadow, but Silverice’s past Shadow? That’s gone way too far. “
Kiris didn’t hear her least bit. She bounced off
toward the snaking destruction and Cocotail followed. Numy glanced at Spring
and to his surprise she was looking at him. “Err, we better follow them,” Numy
said quickly. They followed the other Blobbies for a long way until a sunrise
began. “We should all find some food,” Kiris nummed. “Yes, food would be good,”
Cocotail agreed. The rest of the Blobbies including Numy also agreed and they
scourged on.
“Kiris, where will we get the food anyway?” Numy
asked. Kiris slammed her tail again and replied, “Should I know?” Cocotail
rummaged through their pack and ended up, there was no food. “Let’s go get some
food from those Blobbies,” Kiris nummed as she flicked her tail toward a group
of 6 Blobbies eating some Bianumies and floodles. Cocotail licked his mouth and
it watered. He stared longingly at the floodles and Bianumies. “Yeah, the last
time I ate was a day ago. Let’s go get the food.”
Spring stopped him right before the next bounce.
“Guys, we shouldn’t be here. First of all, this is illegal since Cold Fire
never allowed us to go on a quest. Second of all, if Cold Fire discovered us,
he would exile us from the House of Day and third it’s way too dangerous!”
Kiris spat back, “I couldn’t care less!” and bounced on.
“We’re going to either starve or be killed by
this amulet’s shadow,” Spring muttered but Kiris and Cocotail both ignored her.
Numy glanced at her and said, “We have to do this for the House of Day. And
besides, I want to stay here in the House of Day, since a month ago, these
Blobbies wanted be to find the knife of life. I’m still searching and maybe
this prophecy and amulet will give me a clue.”
All the Blobbies turned and stared at him. “What
prophecy?” Cocotail asked. Numy shifted uncomfortably and replied, “Well, the
amulet’s shadow told me this prophecy. Through the ancients you shall fail, to
find the quest which you shall sail. For an ally helps you on your quest,
preserve or raze on this rest. Shall so you are betrayed, by this one that has
been layed.”
All the Blobbies stared at him and they looked
so confused and uncomfortably Numy doubted they would have the strength to
breathe. Kiris began to nod slowly. “If you are betrayed by one that has been
layed, that must mean one of us would betray you…” Numy removed the flash of
doubt on his eyes. He had thought that Kiris might betray him but that doubt
was slowly retreating and he trusted her more. “I think this prophecy is
ridiculous. The amulet’s shadow might be trying to throw us into confusion.
None of you would betray me, would you?” Numy said, trying to sound confident.
Spring looked so queasy and looked like she was
about to throw up. “Nobody will betray anyone today,” she squeaked. A loud thud
came from a distance. Kiris sighed and turned to Cocotail. “It’s probably just
a grinder. Let’s go kill it.” The 4 of them raced off. Numy felt wind in his
face and he brushed past Spring and brought a sword out. “Bob!” Cocotail
yelled. Kiris looked so weird but she shouted, “The House of Day!” and grabbed
a sword, jumping on the grinder.
The grinder staggered a bit with all the weight
of four Blobbies on him and thrashed around wildly. Numy put all his strength
into a comet charge and burst out. He let the streaks of anger in his body
dance out and charged at the grinder. Streaks of yellow and gold sprinted from
behind him and he flew like the wind towards the grinder. The grinder yelped as
the impact hit him and fell to the ground angrily. Though the grinder was very
rough the comet charge had left a small dent is its shell. It leapt up and
growled as Spring and Kiris, side by side changed to second form.
Kiris slowly mended and paws grew out from her
head. Flattened ears sprang out from her head and her tail blew threw her body.
Compared to the grinder, she was still undersized but the force when she
slammed into it was enough to knock it off its spikes. Kiris slashed out with
her hind claws and grappled, sinking her teeth deep into the grinder until it
was motionless. “That’s a fine relief,” Kiris panted and Cocotail stared in
awe.
As Kiris slowly changed back to first form, her
tail grew gnomish and Spring let out a sigh of relief. “What are you looking at?”
Kiris demanded as she shrunk back to normal size. “We better get moving. There
isn’t any time to waste; we have to find this amulet’s shadow?”
“Yes mother,” Numy said mockingly and let out a
purr of laughter to see the expression on Kiris’s face. He felt even more satisfied when Kiris didn’t
protest. “We still have to find this stupid knife of life, remember?” Numy said
to Cocotail. Cocotail turned to Numy and said, “Sure, we’ll do that but right
now if you don’t want to world to end, we will, and we can go find the amulet’s
shadow.” Numy let out a snort and replied scathingly, “Ok, then when are we going
to find the knife of life?” Cocotail didn’t answer.
Numy was still planning ahead on the track when
Spring said, “Let’s rest. It’s been a whole day-almost. I packed a few
leafettters and if anyone would want to share them, please, we need to rest.”
They all agreed-even Kiris though she made a few complaints saying, “We only
have till any sunset!” but they ignored it. Numy didn’t think he was hungry at
all but once he smelled the aroma and fragrance of the leafetter, he changed
his mind. He took a bite and sunk his teeth into the fruit and the taste made
his mouth water. Nothing had tasted so good so Numy felt like he hadn’t ate in
days.
The leafetter was delicious, and everyone in the
little group had to agree. Cocotail gobbled his leafetter up in a matter of
seconds. Spring closed her eyes and went to a deep sleep after eating her
complete share of the tasty fruit. Kiris was the only one that didn’t eat. Numy
bounced up to her and asked, “What’s up?” Kiris closed her eyes and after a
moment responded, “We should have never gone on this quest. The House of Day
will either execute us or send us off, punished. I never got permission to be
assigned on a quest even! When we come back, if we succeed or not, we will be
killed or punished by Cold Fire…” Numy’s mouth fell open in shock.
This whole idea… to find this amulet’s shadow
was Kiris’s idea. Who knew she would regret it in less than a whole day. “Well,”
Numy responded firmly. “If you aren’t going, I am. I didn’t come here for
nothing and this quest will give me clues to find the knife of life. No matter
what you say, I’m continuing.” Numy couldn’t stop himself from going on.
“I came here to find this amulet’s shadow and I
am going to. If this amulet can destroy the world, I’m going to stop it. Now,
you can either come with us or go back to your precious little house!” He spat.
Kiris was shocked by his harsh tone and Numy was
a little shocked by him too. Without a word, they crossed tails and went off to
find their own friends. Numy found Cocotail chewing up leaves and grasping them
onto a piece of bark. He watched as Cocotail carefully took the tree branches
and laced them on, connecting them together with stringy bits of vine and
leather.
“What in the shad… are you doing Cocotail?” Numy
asked and removed a confused look on his face. Cocotail responded immediately, “Making
a little house. You probably don’t remember because of that cheese they threw
at you. We used to make little leaf and vine branched houses all the time…” Cocotail
stopped his words and continued sticking the branches through a vine and
wrapping them with leaves.
“Cocotail, we’re going to stay here for one
night and that’s it. Are you coming to scout ahead and find this stupid amulet
or let the world be destroyed?” Numy demanded. Cocotail barely looked up and
said, “You don’t need to scout ahead. The prophecy said we’ll fail.” Numy
hardly could stand his anger. “You’re just a big fat coward! You let some
stupid old cowardly prophecy frighten you and now you don’t want to do this
quest! You want to world to end just because a picture said that we would fail?
You’re pathetic!” and with that Numy stalked out of the room, head smoldering.
All his friends were cutting him off. The amulet’s
shadow seemed to go on forever and Numy could never track it. Was everyone
giving up on him? Or was it just this cold sky that made him shiver…
Four goodbyes. Four
nights. visions.
Numy still couldn’t believe how his friends
ditched him like this. If they were going to play dirty, he would give them a
small pain to think about! Eyes narrowed, he waddled his way back into the den.
No, he wasn’t going to sleep soundly and obviously there was no way he could
sleep without nightmares after all he had just gone through. He had watched
many different bloody movies but he knew the blood was just Blobbies squeezes
the berry Cia on themselves to make it look like blood.
He
grabbed the supplies and lugged the weapons in the bag up. He was just about to
go when he heard some gentle lift of breathing. It was Spring. “Spring! Wake
up. We’re going.” Spring lifted her head and shook the fur out of it. “Whaa?
Waz going on here? Oh it’s you Numy.” She lifted her blonde eyes toward the tent.
“I just had the weirdest dream that all these weird movies came to life and
Dora attacked us! What the star does that mean?” Numy snorted and nudged her by
the head. “It means don’t use that word star
too often! Those guys don’t want to continue the journey.”
Springs eyes shot up faster than the speed of
shadow. The blue moon glowed in the sky like a volcano that had just burst except
it was silver. Numy stared at her and finally found the courage to speak. “Well?
Are we going to continue or not.” After what seemed like forever Spring replied
evenly, “Wherever you go, I’ll go. I don’t care if the others aren’t coming.” A
warm feeling rose in Numy’s chest, all the way up to his eyes, warming his whole
body from the cold sky.
Numy began to bounce out the door when Spring
blocked him. “You aren’t going to leave without saying goodbye, are you?” Numy
shook his head and stopped himself from snarling at the anger of the loss of
Cocotail and Kiris. The anger was like a storm. It was churning and boiling
inside him, about to spout out. Spring took the anger that was in his eyes as
an answer.
As they slowly shuffled out of the den, into the
desert, into the place that nobody had ever been before, the sun began to rise.
Spring looked sleepier than she ever had and also worried about Kiris and
Cocotail. Worry for his friends if they were all right rose in Numy’s chest but
he quickly stomped it down. Stop worrying
about Blobbies that are so selfish, they would let the world die for
themselves. Stop worrying about Blobbies that are so cowardly, they are afraid
to walk a few miles he told himself. Numy felt more than grateful that at
least Spring was beside him, half sleeping, and half bouncing across the dust
road.
Suddenly another vision shocked Numy to his
core. A flash of darkness appeared in the sun. Then a flash of blood splattered
across the sky. After this, waving howls of agony and pain danced across his
mind. A laughing sneer was heard in the distance. Agony that could only belong
to victims that were torn to pieces kept appearing to him. A Creature with eyes
appeared. It was giant. It had vicious claws and snapping jaws. But the only
thing that stopped Numy from running in terror was the black chains behind the
creature. It seemed to radiate power so much, everything that came near it,
except for the chains dissolved.
Spring was talking but Numy had no idea and was
not aware of anything that was going on. The sun was shining brightly and
burning into his fur but he had no idea that it was being burned. The dust
splattered in his fur and eyes with clouds but still, he wasn’t conscious to
anything that was going on in the real world.
The huge, no-doubt deadly thing slashed back and
forward. That seemed to be what it had been doing for a lifetime. Screeches
were in the distance though they didn’t seem to be coming from anyone being
killed. They were coming from the past Blobbies that this creature had destroyed.
No Blobbies were in this scene of death and hollow blood.
The black
whirlpool of darkness washed over him. Complete terror was already in him. “Who are you?” Numy whispered but there
was no answer from the universe. Everything was cold. Why didn’t Ferncookie or
The Great Kimo help him now? He was silently begging and calling them desperately
to remove this vision from his mind. It was too dreadful to stand.
Laughter echoed through the walls of chains.
Complete darkness kept swirling through the night though it was bright and it
was day. But Numy wasn’t in Blobbieworld right now. He was in a total new
universe.
This universe was cruel. It was where the
glorious Fading ones lived. It was where they walked around in pride. This was
also where the shadows lived. It was where they snarled and practiced to kill.
It was where they destroyed innocent lives. This was where the imprisoned
monsters and dark spirits lived. This was where Skyice was imprisoned.
Four goodbyes stung in Numy’s eyes. Cocotail was
searching already, and the wind ruffled against his pelt. Kiris was thumping in
frustration of losing him. Spring was along with him, happily singing and
jumping on the trail, not aware that Numy wasn’t conscious. The dream
continued.
Four lifetimes seemed to pass as he continued to
watch the dark creature thrashing in his black chains. The lifetimes echoed
farther away slowly as blood poured out of the chains.
Clouds swirled around the sky. In the trails of
mist, Numy could still see the golden happy ages of The Fading ones. He could
see the satisfaction in the eyes of the shadows as they killed a victim. He
could even see the desperation and suffering of the imprisoned ones that were
left behind because of their cruel acts. He could see everything just because
of one dark spirit that held memories of everything.
The chains seemed to be the only thing holding
the giant creature back. It seemed to
duplicate and try to free it from the chains. The black chains were splattered
with golden blood. It was the blood of this giant, living killer. As it was
deadly for Numy could tell, it was imprisoned. This killer was imprisoned and
wanted to break free. It wanted to go and swim in the world of darkness like it
did before. It wanted to kill millions, all the living creatures that lived in
Blobbieworld. This wasn’t any ordinary creature.
It was the one and only Night.
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