The Moonlings: The Ancient Fortress

Chapter 10

Misty woke up the next morning with a small stomach ache. She stood up and almost immediately fell over. The boat was rocking back and forth. She heard yelling up above on the deck. She decided to let her friends sleep and she went to explore. She walked through sniffing various crates. Some smelled like fruit and others smelled like chemicals. As she was walking she heard more voices. These were talking in Moonling, not in human. She hid behind a crate and peeked her head around so she could see where the voices were coming from. She saw Titania and a red and black Moonling. "I got the weapons Dad," said Titania. The red and black Moonling hissed happily. "Good!. Now I can finally..." The boat lurched wildly sideways and a stack of boxes fell on Misty. She yelped in surprise and the evil Moonling shouted, "Who is there?" Misty jumped into the air and tried to fly through the boat with crates falling everywhere. She managed to get back to her friends and saw that they were awake. "Titania...evil Moonling..." she panted. "Here...now. Need...to move..." All of a sudden a red lightning bolt flashed through the cargo hold. Then Misty fainted.

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"Wake up Misty!" yelped Crater. Misty's eyes fluttered open. "She's OK" called Ember. "Yeah, I"m fine...a little seasick but fine," mumbled Misty. "We thought the lightning bolt thing hit you. What were you talking about before you fainted?" She jumped to her feet with a sense of urgency. "Titania and her father, that evil Moonling, are on the boat, too. They have the weapons!" "Maybe we can get them back" suggested Aqua. "I will get my revengeance!" "Um, Aqua, that is not a word," said Crater. Aqua quickly retorted, "Well, it is now!" "Maybe we can find something close enough to the weapons to trick them in these boxes." said Maple. They quickly looked through the boxes until they found a large black plastic bottle shaped like a gem and some toy weapons. They stuck them together. "Come on, I will show you where I found them," said Misty. They rushed over to the spot Misty described. Titania and her father were not there. "They must be around here somewhere," said Misty. "There aren't many places they could go." Sunny spotted a red glow. "I think I found them," she whispered. "Let's wait until dark when they are asleep to switch them out!" They went back to the place where they had set up their things to wait. When it was dark they crept over to the red glow. They spotted the weapons and quickly switched them out. "Let's get back to our crate cave," whispered Ember. Aqua giggled. "You're calling it the crate cave?" "Whatever we are calling it we need to get back now," said Maple herding her siblings toward their camp with the real weapons. The next morning the boat docked on the shore. The humans were unloading crates so they packed themselves and let themselves be unloaded. Once they were on dry land they scampered out of the boxes. They hurried away from the humans into the jungle. They walked until they found a good place to rest.