Darkness In Downunda
                fanfic by Daniel Wheeler


Chapter 1)  Nightrose Makes Herself Known

        Three of the Downunda Freedom Fighters were looking around their
home one day, tearing down any of CrocBot's old fortresses, when this
mysterious woman appeared before them.  "Who are you?," asked Walt
Wallabee, the leader of the DFF.  With an evil look in her eye, the woman
said "I am Nightrose, Necromancer of Downunda.  I shall soon unleash my
Undead Armies and conquer this land for the Shadows of Dark Mobius!  None
shall stand in my way and live!  If you even try, you will join the dead
that do not rest!  Ha, ha, ha..."

        At saying that, a ghost appears and scares the daylights out of
Barby Koala.  Wombat Stu tries to snap her out of it, but both he and
Barby were taken hostage by a company of skeletons.  "Now, my friends,"
said Nightrose, "Back to the Fortress of the Dead!"


Chapter 2)  Duck "Bill" Is Up To His Bill In Zombies

        Walt tries to rouse up his two other friends Duck "Bill" Platypus
and Guru Emu to counter Nightrose's threat.  He then noticed some zombies
ganging up on poor Bill.  Walt uses a Bomberang, but the zombies
eventually pulled themselves together, but not before Bill made it out of
the jam.  Athair appears to them and tells them that to counter Undead,
one must use a sacred weapon.

        "What IS this 'sacred weapon'?," Walt asked.  "It is the sacred
Sunblade," replied the old echidna.  "I have a map that will lead you to
the cavern in which it is hid.  Come with me to the Crater."  They
followed the shaman to the hole and receive the map.  But Athair gives a
warning:  "Nightrose may already know of this, and she may send her
forces to attack you!"


Chapter 3)  Guru Emu Needs Help

        As Walt and Bill left the Crater, they noticed that Guru Emu was
assaulted by a pack of skeletons.  Guru tried to "talk peace" with them,
but they didn't seem to want peace, only war.  With one Bomberang, the
whole group of bone warriors were crumbled to the ground.  By the time
they got themselves together, they would be half way to their
destination.

        The three were traveling to the cavern when they were ambushed by
more skeletons.  They took down many and KO'd the 2nd in command to get
to the leader, a red skeleton.  "So, you wish to challenge my mistress
Nightrose," said the leader, "Well, you will not live long enough to
approach the cave when I am through with you!"  Guru returns Walt's favor
by giving a good kick into the red skeleton's rib cage.  They ran off
before they could reconstruct and pursue them.


Chapter 4)  The Cavern of the Sunblade

        Once inside, Walt, Bill and Guru entered the glowing, crystalline
chambers of the cavern.  So far, there were no Undead to battle here,
only a few bats to shoo off.  They found a mine cart and used it to speed
up the search.  Once inside, they dodged columns and stalagmite, ducked
stalactites, and jumped chasms.  The glowing crystals in the cave lit the
way.  Once halfway through the ordeal, they found a shaft that leads
further into the cavern.  They got out of the cart and went down the
elevator.

        Walt was the first to exit, with Guru and Bill following.  Once
there, they found the Sunblade-- just a few feet away!  But as the three
approached the sword, a Mummy came out of nowhere and attacked them. 
Walt gave his buddies Bomberangs to keep the wrapped-up rascal busy while
he would get the Sunblade.  Just when they ran out of Bomberangs did Walt
sneak up behind the mummer and sliced it down the middle, destroying it. 
Now they had the one thing needed to destroy the enemy Nightrose and her
Undead cohorts.


Chapter 5)  Trek to the Fort

        Sunblade in tow, the Downunda Freedom Fighters traveled to the
Fortress of the Dead.  They were ambushed by hordes of skeleton knights. 
But with the Sunblade in hand, Walt saw to it that the skeletons returned
to their rest and that they would stay dead.  Guru used it to take down
zombie ninjas (that's right-- zombie ninjas!).  While Bill used it to
return some mummies to their royal rest.  They shared the Sunblade in
varying battles as they made their way to the fortress.

        Using a Bomberang, Walt provided the "key" to the bolted gates. 
They made their way inside, only to be confronted by ghost guards.  These
spectral footsoldiers had pikes that can do real damage to a living
thing.  But Guru used the sacred weapon to decimate the forces and went
right up the stairs.


Chapter 6)  Barby and Stu are Freed.

        As Walt used the Sunblade to fight the undead warriors, Bill,
carrying a bomberang, went into the prison tower and found Barby and Stu,
chained to the wall.  Using the Bomberang, Bill broke the door open and
approached the captives.  Unfortunately, the explosion awakened a
skeletal guard.  He managed to trip it up and grab his keys, which he
used to free Stu and Barby.

        However, the skeleton started to pursue his prisoners.  So Bill,
Barby, and Stu ran for it and caught up with Walt.  Sunblade in hand,
Walt reduced the skeleton to dust.  "Rest in pieces, skeletal scum!,"
said Walt.  The team was back together, but Nightrose is still at large.


Chapter 7)  Closing in on Nightrose

        Nightrose hears from a raven that the prisoners are free and that
one of them has the Sunblade.  "Curses!," snapped the nasty necromancer. 
"Now I must hurry to the tower to bring about my most powerful undead
yet!"  As soon as she finished speaking, the Downunda Freedom Fighters
burst into the tower she was in.  Nightrose made a run up the stairs, and
the heroes were swift to follow.  But Nightrose was not without
resources:  She cast a fire spell that made a wall of fire in the middle
of the stairway.  Athair appeared and gave Barby some sacred water, which
she used to extinguish the flames.

        Walt used his sacred weapon to fight his way past much undead to
make it to the top of the tower.  Barby remembered what her 'most
powerful undead monster' was.  "Guys!," she cried, "Her most powerful
undead is a Bone Dragon!  If we don't hurry, she'll use its aura of fear
to conquer any land!"  "An aura of fear?!  Whoa!," said Guru Emu, "That's
a bigtime bogus maximus.  Let's boogie up there!"


Epilog)  Defeat of Nightrose

        The Downunda Freedom Fighters made it to the top, but they were
too late to stop Nightrose from constructing the Bone Dragon.  "Now, my
friends," sneered the necromancer.  "Prepare to know the true meaning of
fear!"  The dragon came forward and, with a glance of its eye, scared off
all except Walt, since the Sunblade protected him from its aura.  He
slashed the beast in the eye, which caused the others to recover their
courage.

        "So, you have decimated its aura," growled Nightrose, "But you
will never survive when it attacks you!  Ha ha ha..."  As she was
laughing, she didn't look to see what Walt was going to do.  You see,
while she pays attention, she can make the Bone Dragon virtually
invincible.  But her pride will prove to be her downfall, as Walt slashes
the Bone Dragon with the sacred Sunblade, causing it to crumble.

        "Nooo!," shouted Nightrose.  "My Bone Dragon-- Destroyed!  You
will pay for this!"  She was gathering up all her energy to conjourn up a
Death Wave spell, but Walt charged at her and destroyed her with the
Sunblade.  With the Sunblade's sacred energy, Nightrose wouldn't be
coming back for a long while.  The Downunda Freedom Fighters left the
fortress and celebrated in the forests of Downunda.


                                The End
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