The Hunt for the Power Stones

Chapter 61 - Ruby stone Retrieval

Following the massive day, our heroes had, Amelia stands up and says we know how we can get the ruby stone out, Malik and the others turned to face her in surprise. " What, How? ", Prometheus decided he'd stay in his bird form to prevent panic in the town, Amelia explains to our heroes it is probably a good idea to do the removal before it digs in too deep. Amelia explains to them in great detail exactly how this would be done, James volunteered to be the one to extract such a gem. Once out heroes left their belongings at the village inn, they all headed to a massive lake James's father told them about. James was nervous about performing such a feat, Once they arrived at the lake Prometheus jumped off Amelia's shoulder and leaped up into the air. Malik, James, Nathaniel, Gabriel, and Amelia saw how he flew up into the air. Prometheus flew in a circle and boom, he dived headfirst into the lake, Moments later the water levels had begun to rise, Out emerged a massive killer whale, black, white, and Majestic. Morpheus had shapeshifted into one of the most predatorial ocean creatures. The whale made a loud squeaky sound and Amelia said out loud " he's ready ".

James took off his armor and clothes and put on the teleportation amulet. James slowly walked into the water a little intimidated by the massive ocean creature. he took a deep breath and put on his gloves and dived right in. James began swimming down under the water at a rapid pace. " Wow, I didn't know he was such a fast swimmer" mentioned Gabriel, " Yeah, that's why he volunteered" When James got low enough he saw Prometheus swimming straight towards James, he was starting to struggle to breathe, James quickly pulled his knees to his chest and Prometheus opened wide and completely swallowed James whole. James had seriously begun struggling to breathe, he quickly began looking for the ruby stone but it was very easy to spot as it glowed red and was stuck to the wall of the stomach. James placed his hand on it and pulled, but it wouldn't come off, James pulled and pulled and after 20 more seconds, Prometheus leaps into the air and forces a burp, causing his stomach to vibrate, James was turning blue and he had 1 final pull and just like that it ripped off and almost slipping out of his hand as he fell back into all the stomach juices.

James quickly grabbed the amulet around his neck and thought about Malik and poof!!!, James teleported right on top of Malik completely slobbering all over him, " UGHH " yelled Malik, James took a massive breath of fresh air and just started huffing and puffing, " I, am, never, swimming ... AGAIN" he said out of breath. " Here take this," said James, while handing over the beautiful glowing red ruby stone to Nathaniel, He quickly handed over the Amulet to Malik also. Prometheus quickly retook his Dragon form and Amelia jumped on his back and said Sorry boys, we gotta get going"

"What?, where", we have to go back to Zorka, I need my spellbook and with Prometheus's help we can do it, Keep the Amulet, I'm sure it'll help you, we got a spell cooking up that I know will help you defeat Servic and Morpheus" "Okay, fly safe Mother," said Gabriel, " Thank you for all your help " replied Nathaniel, James just waved still shook from his near-death experience, " See you soon " replied Malik as he gave her a Nod, Our 4 heroes watched as the greatest sorcerer flies away with the oldest Dragon Alive.