Chapter #5 - The Eggsplotion

Chapter #5 - The Eggsplotion

Our heroes are headed this time to the monumental city of Aeven, capital city of Vultia, searching for the knowledge of the Wiseman and the Witch. Along the road, Jellirox seems to be in a good mood as she skips along. Rettan, however, just keeps walking, obviously bothered by something on his mind.

"Whats wrong brother? Why are you always in a strange mood?" asked Jellirox.

"Well... you see--" Rettan started to answer, but they were quickly interrupted by the attack of a Blob slime.

The creature was green, no form at all, just a puddle of slime.

"What the hell is that?!" asked Rettan.

The blob quickly began to form itself, soon becoming as tall as Rettan. Jellirox was shocked to see such a strange creature, so she quickly threw a rock, thought it just went through the creature´s slimy body. Jellirox was dumbfounded, so she demanded that they begin to run. Just as they started to run, it quickly jumped into Jellirox´s bag and attempted to eat the egg.

"RET, HE´S TRYING TO EAT THE EGG!!" screamed Jellirox.

Suddenly a light flashed from the egg and the blob was sent flying off to hit the ground, making it become a puddle of slime once more. Jellirox walked to the blob remains, and collected some slime in a little test-tube. While collecting the slime, Jellirox notices her bag shining; she quickly opened her bag and notices the egg was glowing. Rettan runs to see it too, and they begin to wonder what was going on.

Meanwhile, the shadow of someone is seen behind a tree spying on Rettan and Jellirox while they wonder whats going on with the egg. The shadow smiles and decides to attack. All of a sudden, while Rettan and Jellirox were watching the egg, a quick shadow steals the shining egg and begins to run off before either of them can react.
"Egg is now property of Cj because the egg shines and Cj likes shiny things!!" said the running shadow.

"Bro we must get him!!" demanded Jellirox while running.

"Sis!! This kid is too fast!" whined Rettan while chasing the running shadow.

Suddenly the shadow falls into a pit trap in the middle of the road.

"Who in the--" asked Rettan as he was interrupted by a laugh of a girl.

A girl walked to the pit and jumped down, she tried to get something from the running shadow who happened to be a catlike boy with a kitty hat. The catboy scratched the girl and jumped up the pit.

"CJ LOVES SHINY THINGS AND IS TOO SMART FOR YOU FOOLS!" said the catlike boy while running away again.

"A little help here...," said the girl in the pit.

Rettan helped the girl get back up and Jellirox healed her. The girl seemed to be furious about something and looked in the horizon.

"Thanks by the way, but I have business with that thief, so I have to go," said the girl as she took out her twinblade.

"We could help you catch him.. he has our egg," said Jellirox.

"I guess Jelli is right, by the way, what´s your name?" asked Rettan.

"My name is Hantsuki, from Estaq," answered the girl.

"If we work together we could think of a great plan," said Rettan.

"Well I guess it's cool, let's set to work!" demanded Hantsuki smiling.

The trio began to act as a team, instantly becoming good friends, as they idealized a plan where they tried to gather shiny things and put them as lure for a trap. Unfortunately, they didnt have enough shiny things.

"WHERE CAN WE GET MORE SHINY THINGS?!" screamed Hantsuki.

"I dont know but I want my egg back...," whined Jellirox.

"I HAVE THE ANSWER AND SOLUTION FOR EVERYTHING!!!" screamed Hantsuki again.

"AND THAT IS?!" asked Rettan and Jellirox.

An excited Hantuski is seen taking something out of her bag; Rettan and Jellirox were thinking of a magical wand that would create shiny things, or a miracle, or many shiny things to come out of Hantsuki´s bag.

"LADIES AND GENTLEMAN!!! IT'S... STEEL POLISH CREAM!!!" said Hantsuki while laughing insanely.

Rettan looked at Hantsuki´s twinblade which was shining and asked how she had managed to make it shine so much, thinking that maybe they could get stones and make them shiny the way the twinblade was.

"IT'S THE POLISH RET! THE POLISH!!!" exclaimed Hantsuki.

"Okay okay, I get the idea," answered Rettan.

"Hant... so, why do you search for that thief so much? Tell us about him," questioned Jellirox.

"You see, long ago, my grandfather Hitaru gave me a guardian charm, and said that it would protect me even in the worst occasions. But one day, while walking around the outskirts of Estaq, that strange cat-like boy appeared, and he demanded my shiny charm. I refused, so he quickly hit me and stole the charm... His name is Cjrej... everything is unknown about him, all I know is that he thinks life is a game, and he lives in his game, stealing shiny things from people, no matter if it's valuable or not," said Hantsuki.

"He seems... a little insane," said Rettan, freaked out.

"Well, we have to catch him! C'mon guys! Start polishing rocks!" demanded Jellirox.

The three polished stones and put shiny things in the middle of a road as lure for the net trap they'd set up. Once finished, they hid in the bushes to wait for the cat-boy to fall into their little trap.

Cjrej was running quickly along, and excitement filled his eyes as he saw the shiny things. Moving forward, he reached out a hand to poke at them.

"Such temptation for Cj, its paradise... It could be a trap, but Cj says, no pain no gain, Cj must risk himself to pick such treasure up..." thought Cjrej.

He got closer and closer and quickly nabbed the stuff, but got pulled upwards towards the tree branch that the net was hanging on as the trap worked.

"Let Cj go!!" screamed and demanded Cjrej.

Rettan and Jellirox laughed as Hantsuki climbed the branch where Cjrej was trapped and stole the guardian charm he stole from her. Cjrej got mad and slashed the net and Hantsuki making the shiny egg fall down as Cjrej and Hantsuki were hanging from the net fighting. The egg was falling to be crushed on the ground, but Rettan quickly ran to grab it, though it didn't seem he would catch it. All of a sudden, Jellirox runs and jumps, kicking off on Rettan´s head to jump high and finally catch the egg safe.

"Cj has game over for now...," said Cjrej in a faint voice watching the group run away.

In that moment. Hantsuki kicks Cjrej´s chin and sends him down as he jumps down safely again. Cjrej was knocked out by falling on top of the shiny things that were the lure as the trio runs off with the egg and the charm in direction of Aeven. As they ran, Jellirox was holding the egg and it kept shining nonstop, making her feel rather scared and worried about the egg. Night was falling and the egg kept shining stronger and stronger, and the trio agreed to spend the night in the forest, so Ret began to try to light a campfire to rest for the night.

"I CAN'T LIGHT THIS THING!!" whined Rettan while holding two sticks.

"Ahaha, let me help Ret, I have a potion of fire, my grandpa makes them," claimed Hantsuki as she threw a bottle to the ground.

"And then there was light!!" said Hantsuki.

A fire started all of a sudden, leaving Rettan shocked.

"Ho-.. how did you do that?!" asked Rettan.

"My grandfather is the master of illusion and magic! He knows a lot about potions and alchemy," explained Hantsuki.

Jellirox was sitting by a tree hugging the egg and worried about what would happen to it since the shine got worse and worse.

"Jelli...," complained Rettan.

"She will be okay, and so will the egg, just you wait!" Hantsuki chimed in optimistically.

"Hant... all three of us make a pretty cool team you know, maybe you could--" was saying Rettan as was interrupted by a scream from Jellirox.
Hantsuki and Rettan quickly ran to see what was going on, and they found her watching the slowly cracking egg with a look of morbid fascination.

"It's cracking brother!! Oh no!" cried Jellirox.

"Things will be fine! It's hatching!!" assured Hantsuki.

The light got way stronger, blinding the group, as finally a small round dragon-like creature came out. It was white with a round head, a baby dragon face, with small wings, little paws, and a small tail. The little creature opened is eyes and made a soothing cry that began to alterate the colors of the forest, making lights shine all over. A new mystic creature was born and, Jellirox being the first thing it saw, it clung to what it thought it was it's mother. The creature kept crying, creating rainbow lights and auroras in the night sky.

Jellirox cried of emotion watching such a beautiful creature be born, Hantsuki kept screaming it was so cute, as Rettan was shocked just mumbling "Ba... Ba... baaa..."

"Since you produced all these beautiful colors with your cry, the perfect name for you is... Calipso!"

"Awww it's such a cute name!!" said Hantsuki.

The creature was happy and cuddled into Jellirox, seemingly liking his new name.

"Girls... Calipso is the legendary... uh nevermnind. Hi little guy! Welcome to this world!" said Rettan while tickling the little creature.

After some time with the baby dragon, the trio went off to sleep and call it a day.

The next morning Rettan wakes up with a soothing smell that makes his stomach ache in his half-awake state. Unfortunately, his minor daydream is quickly interrupted by the sound of a pot and a stick.

"BREAKFAST IS SERVED GUYS!! WAKE UP SLEEPY HEADS!!" screamed Hantsuki.

"What the hell...?" mumbled Rettan.

Jellirox and Calipso wake up too as Hantsuki seemed to be in a great mood.
"Alright guys we better eat fast if we wanna be on the road to Aeven right? C'mon chopchop!" said Hantsuki.

"What do you mean, Hant?" asked Jellirox.

"Well, you guys helped me recover the Guardian charm, and we lived such an amazing day yesterday full of adventures and fun, that I think I should totally go with you guys on the journey! Besides, I am strong, smart, pretty, a good cook, and always helpful! So you should thank me for making this choice!" answered Hantsuki.

"HOLY CRACK THIS FOOD IS AMAZING!" Rettan squealed, having obviously gotten ahold of breakfast while Hant and Jelli were conversing.

"Alright then I don't see why not!" answered Jellirox smiling.

"We will find Laoni! And who knows! Maybe something even bigger is waiting for us during this long road!" said the motivated Hantsuki, pointing to the horizon.

"Welcome then!" said Rettan and Jellirox.

With a new friend, and a new life, our heroes set off to Aeven city, looking optimistic, and now with a new responsibility - the care of a little baby dragon, Calipso.

To be continued...