Serenay Moon
Part 38: Future Fire!
©2001 Kitty Ocean
Edited by: Cat

 

The flying rocks kept on coming, until Zach and his friends were caught in the centre. Suddenly, those flying rocks landed and were shaped into more Stone Soldiers.

Zach laughed. "Hah, we now know what to do! Scream guys!" The screaming filled the air.

"Oh no!" Courage tried to yell while she covered her ears. She took her magical necklace and tossed it at the ground. A blinding light appeared and then... it was silent.

"Nothing happened?" Moka asked. "Weird. What's the use?"

Mika looked at the coming stone soldiers. "Doesn't matter, just scream!"

Mika and Moka screamed until their voices began to disappear. Coughing, they sighed, but were relieved that the stone soldiers were destroyed.

Moka and Mika did a little dance, but Zach suddenly pointed at the pebbles. "Look!" He exclaimed.

Mika and Moka looked at it and saw that some pebbles started to grown into new stone soldiers! After a while, there was no pebble left, only a new huge army of rock warriors!

Mika and Moka jumped into each others arms and wanted to scream, but Zach demanded them to shut up. "You want to create an even bigger army?" He growled.

Courage laughed. "Awesome power my necklace has, right?"

"What can we do?" Mika cried.

Kitt smacked herself upside the head. "Don't worry, we have a secret weapon!"

"We do?" All asked.

"You have?" Courage asked.

Kitt nodded. "Well…Derak has…"

"Me?" Derak asked.

"Yes you!" Kitt turned to Mika. "Only a mature person notices that." She whispered teasing.

"Of course!" Zach yelled. "Derak's flute! Lyric's Flute!"

"Of course!" Derak smiled and took his flute. "She wanted this flute so badly, this must be the thing that beats her!"

"Oh no!" Courage screamed.

"Oh yes!" Zach smiled. "Do it Derak!"

Derak put the flute at his lips and played the highest and longest tone he ever created. All covered their ears, including Courage. The agony lasted for only 1 minute, but it was long enough to crumble Courage's army for good!

"Can't... play... any... more." Derak sighed and tried to catch his breath.

On the roof, Courage jumped up and down. "It's not fair! Magical Necklace, help me!" The necklace created a rock monster, half dragon, half wolf.

Zach was full with despair, seeing that Derak was out of breath and he was the only one who could play the flute right. They had tried it, but each time someone else played on the flute, no music came out of it. So their only hope now was sitting on the ground, trying to get himself together again. Zach looked aside. Suddenly he spotted a little girl, waving her arm; telling him to come. It was Liz!

"What?" Zach asked astounded, but then saw Liz was walking away. He started running at her. "Hey you, wait up!"

"Zach!" Kitt yelled and followed Zach.

"Wait for me!" Mika squealed and followed Kitt.

Moka helped Derak. "Mika, not so fast!"

Courage looked at the running kids. "Hey! Wait! We are not finished yet!" But they were out of reach. "What the freak is going on? Where is everybody going?"

The stone monster also glazed at the disappearing kids. It started to cry, not having a chance to prove how strong it actually was.

Courage jumped up and down of anger. "Courage...." She suddenly heard with a dark threatening voice.

"Tempus... It was that Liz girl, she wasn't supposed to be here!" Courage apologized. "It was not MY fault!"

"Finish them off, time is running out for you!"

Courage folded her arms. "Jeez, for someone who has all the time of the world, he is really impatient!"

 

In the mean while, Zach stopped running. He suddenly saw he was out of the damned village, but he kept on looking around. Kitt joined him. "Hey Zach." She started. "What was that all about? Why did you suddenly run away?"

Zach kept on looking around. "Weird."

"What is weird?" Moka asked. "The only weird thing is that you ran away from the most important battle in our life and now we are still alive while we were supposed to be dead.... wait...now that sounded weird."

"I saw someone, a girl..." Zach mumbled. "She helped me before."

Kitt looked around. "I don't see anybody. You must have dreamed it."

"Guess so...." Zach mumbled. "At least we are safe now. I think we should think of a plan, before we try and defeat Courage."

Mika nodded. "I know, I can't say we were about to win back there. I'm glad we are safe. Let's go to the NightWing Castle. If we can free Chibi Kim, we shouldn't have to battle any more."

"True." Derak managed to say. "Let's go through the woods; they feel safe to me."

All followed Derak into the woods, knowing they had no other choice. Zach thought very deep.

"What's troubling you?" Kitt asked.

Zach shook his head. "Nothing that you can't guess."

"Courage?" She asked.

He nodded. "It really bothers me that we can't use our powers. In what other way can we defeat the rock warriors ? High pinched tones won't do the trick any more."

"She lets other creatures fight for her, so in fact she doesn't dare to fight us herself." Kitt concluded. "Although it’s her name, she has no courage at all!"

"Yes, true." Zach answered.

Derak pointed at the woods. "Look, we are already out of it!"

Moka smiled. "This is the first time we are not get lost!"

Mika giggled and whispered. "This is also the first time that Derak took the lead and Zach and Kitt don't argue about which way to go."

"What's so funny?" Zach asked Mika and Moka, but they only walked further laughing. "I think we should cross that mountain over there. Courage won't find us there."

 

While Zach and his friends left the forest, at the other side a woman with brown hair and reddish eyes flew towards the forest, flying a monster that was half wolf, half dragon. "Fly on, stupid thing!" Courage cursed. "Tempus will kill me if I fail... and I mean literally!"  The creature landed before the woods. "Ewh, I don't have to go into that, do I?" The creature nodded. "Are you really sure they went this way?" The creature nodded again. "I'm not going into those freaking woods." She took her necklace. "Warriors, arise!" She yelled.  Another army of stone men was created. "Go," Courage ordered. "Find me those freaking twerps!" The stone men slowly walked into the woods. "Come out, come out, wherever you are." Courage giggled. "Don't fear, stupid brats, the agony will soon be over." Courage climbed on her creature again. "Thank God I don't have to pay these stupid warriors, those brats have ruined almost my entire army!"

 

After a few hours, Zach and his friends were already halfway the mountains. There was snow everywhere and Mika, Moka and Derak complained more then ever. "I'm so cold!" Mika whined.

"Let's go to the mountains." Moka said sarcastically, imitating Zach. "Courage won't find us there. No of course not! We'll be frozen to death, so the mountains will finish the job for her!"

Kitt turned around. "I don't see what's wrong with this place." She remarked. "I like it here."

"No wonder!" Derak sighed. "Snow is nothing more than frozen water!"

"I'm so co-o-o-old!" Mika whined even louder.

Zach smiled. "I shall warm you up!" He smiled mean. "Courage is not here any more and I feel the power in my hands."

"Are you gonna blast them?" Kitt asked eagerly.

"Fear the power of fire!" Zach laughed.

Mika jumped into Moka's arms. "He's gonna kill us!" She cried.

"He became insane!" Derak hid behind Moka. "Do something!"

Zach laughed even louder. "Go, do it Zach!" Kitt cheered.

"Future Fire!" Zach yelled. Rings of fire appeared around his arms and went down to his hand, where they shaped a large ball. The ball blasted itself to the ground.

"That's it?" Kitt asked disappointed, when she saw there was a small ball of fire in the centre. Mika, Moka and Derak sighed relieved. "It's not even enough to light a candle!" She walked at the tiny fire ball and kneeled at it. "Though it is kinda cute...."

"Kitt... NO!!! Zach yelled.

"What?" Kitt asked, when suddenly the small fireball exploded in front of her.

 

Courage growled, sitting on her half wolf, half dragon-creature. "You said they were here!" She yelled at it. "We've spend hours here looking, but they were already gone!"

Suddenly she saw a blinding light coming from the mountains. "What was that?" She asked. She smacked her rock creature. "Hey, you! Fly to that mountain!" The stone creature flew up. "I wanna know what's out there."

 

The area around Zach and his friends was now clear with snow. "I now like it here." Mika smiled. "It's so nice and warm now."

Zach walked at Kitt, who had become completely black. "Very... cute..." She mumbled.

Zach sweated. "Ehm... I tried to warn you."

Kitt glazed at him. A soft growl escaped from her mouth. Zach stepped back. "Kitt... everything okay?" He asked.

"Do I look okay?" She suddenly exclaimed. "You idiot! You with your stupid attack! I'll kill you!!"

Kitt ran at Zach, but suddenly Derak pointed up. "No!" He yelled.

"What?" Kitt asked angry. Then she heard a soft rumble, which became louder each second.

Derak pointed up again. "Avalanche!!!"

 

End of episode 38

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