War. A terrible thing. Though it is needed, sadly, to bring joy back again. We fought. Hard. I had to face Grease. Alone.
"You puny plushes! You just fight for simple things, like peace and happiness. You never realize how complicated the world is. You need power. That is why we have arisen. For power!" I unsheathed my claws and growled. "Very scary!" Grease said sarcastically. I lunged. Grease snarled and rolled me over, pinning me down with his newly sharpened claws. "There is no point in fighting me! Join us, and you will not be harmed!" I looked at the evil, black, arctic wolf, not believing he was a son of Mr. Fluffy, or that Mr. Fluffy was dark. I looked over Grease's shoulder at the mob of phantoms crowding the area and sighed.
Strangely, that simple sigh made me feel like a ghost of haunt had finally stopped, like a worrisome part of me had escaped. I knew we would win. I pushed over Grease and pinned him down. I let go, and purposely flung him down the canyon, not hearing the sound of him falling on ground yet. Though I still felt I knew something. I knew he would return, they would, evil would yet grow again. After seeing the possible death of his son, Mr. Fluffy whispered something to the rest of his army, and then turned to the army of phantoms. "Retreat!" he bellowed. The phantoms dissolved as if going back to to their evil domain, and Mr. Fluffy dived after his son, into the canyon. The rest ran, retreated. We had won.
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Finally, after walking a long ways, we got to familiar territory. The school. "Ugh not this place again." Lime muttered. "Lost from your patrol?" a deep voice rumbled nearby. "W-who's there?" Rufus barked. A red lion and ginger kangaroo came out from the brush. "I'm Flame and this is Hope." The lion said. Finally. Helpers, and luck.
Oh, I'm so glad you came around Mrs. Sage, custodians are too weak for anybody. I knew you were stronger than you seemed.
Always, Sir Grease. They were too weak for me, way, way too weak.
Agreed, Miss, very much agreed.
Those two kids, the cheetah and the raccoon, almost caught me installing the portal behind the creek to get here.
Weaklings. Like they could stop us.
What can I do, Sir?
I would not mind if you installed a portal in Jamaa to our phantom cage, July. Then we could send through phantoms..
Yes sir, anything Sir Grease.
The statue had been moved, so we appeared outside of a restaurant. "We have to find the others." I said. "THE WORLD!" Rufus said, rolling in the grass. "We may have to find their scent then follow it." Lime said, looking around. After Rufus had realized we had work to do, we started off to find any trace of the patrols. "Found a scent like Sunrise!" Lime said. Even though Sunrise wasn't the head of our patrol, it was better than nothing.
Listen up, Listen up! I got rid of Lemon and Lime!
Hey, I helped too!
Quiet Flick! So now that we have rid the two best warriors, we will move on to the rest.
What do you say?
Yes Sir
Very well.
As Lime grabbed Rufus by his scruff, I reached up with both paws and pulled them down. "Thank you..." The dog said. Finally, I realized something. "How do we get out of here?" I said. Lime turned to the dog. "Ahem? Rufus shrugged. "If I knew, I would have taken the chances!" He said. "You were behind a lava river, Rufus. Yeesh. Of course you couldn't get out." Lime said. I remembered practically falling from the sky into here. I looked at the ceiling, and sure enough, a portal was on it, back up. "Hand me the balloons." I said.
"What about these?" Lime said, waving ballons in her paw. "Don't ask." She added quickly. "Lime you are a genius!" I yelled suddenly. I explained how we could tie her to the ballons and send her over to get the dog, Rufus. Then I guess I would try to pull them down. We attached the ballons to Lime and floated her over. Now I hope this works.
