Downunda Freedom Fighters:  Wrath of Cobranar
                fanfic by Daniel Wheeler

Prolog:  Cobranar's Awakening

        A badly damaged CrocBot wanders the land of Downunda seeking a
way to rebuild himself stronger than ever.  One day he found a maroon
Chaos Emerald and touched it, hoping it would rebuild him.  However, the
Emerald absorbed him and out popped a powerful being that looks like
Scaleshadow (see "Bunnie:  Curse of the Emerald Serpent") but had a green
glow.  CrocBot, as he was about to be sent into the Dark World, said "Who
are you?"  The Shadow replied "I am Cobranar, One of the Dark Downunda
Shadows!  You should be honored to be sent into the Dark World... for you
shall soon be like me!"  At saying that, Cobranar warps the robot into
the shadowy dimension.


Chapter 1:  Duck Bill In a Quake

        Duck "Bill" Platypus was travelling in the rocky lands one day
when he felt a slight tremor.  The tremor felt fiercer as he continued. 
Suddenly, the ground gave way and started to collapse under the rumble! 
Bill had to run.  Soon, a group of Giant Locusts pop out of the ground,
and Cobranar was with them.  "Destroy him!," shouted the serpentine
Shadow, "Destroy the platypus!  Do not let him reach his friends and
thwart my plans like their ancestors did!"  There wasn't a moment to
lose!  Bill had to fight his way out of this mess!

        Jumping across sinking columns, Bill found a loose stalagmite. 
He uses it as a stone "locust swatter" and swats the Locust Force before
he could be killed by their acid spit.  He then makes it back to solid
ground and decides to hurry to the Crater to ask Athair for advice.


Chapter 2:  Things Heat Up For Barby Koala

        Barby Koala was taking a swim in the sea when the water started
to heat up.  She decided to get out before she would be boiled alive! 
She gets out just seconds before the water reached boiling.  Barby looked
back and saw boiling Water Elementals trying to scald her with balls of
super hot water.  Cobranar appears and shouted "AFTER HER!"

        The koala climbs up the cliffs and onto the solid ground.  The
Elementals followed her, but seeing that they were still water, they were
absorbed into the ground.  Barby Koala makes her way back to the Crater
to get insight from the wise echinda Athair.


Chapter 3:  Guru Emu Nearly Gets Roasted!

        Guru Emu was listening to music on his headphones in the forests
of Downunda when the woodlands suddenly are awashed in flames!  Cobranar
appears from the flames and summoms some Fire Elementals to roast the
Emu.  But he ran for it and found some cool river water as he exited the
forest.  The Elementals pursued but were extinguished by Guru's arsenal
and Cobranar roared in fury.

        Cobranar tries to swallow him whole with an opening crevasse, but
Guru Emu jumps and barely makes it to the other ledge.  As you can guess,
he makes his way to the Crater and tries to find Athair.


Chapter 4:  Wombat Stu Barely Escapes Getting Blown Away

        As Wombat Stu wanders the cliffs near the sea, a Wind Elemental
assaults him with powerful winds.  Cobranar appears in his right eye (on
Stu's left) and says "Destroy him, Wind Elemental!  I command you!" 
Wombat tries to run, but travel was diffucult with the winds trying to
pull him into the vortex.  "I guess this is it!," cried Stu as he is
pulled into the Elemental's wake.

        But just at the last moment, Walt Wallabee throws dirt into the
Elemental's funnel and snatches Stu out of danger.  Putting him in his
pouch, Walt carries Stu to the Crater, where the other Downunda Freedom
Fighters were.  Athair awaited them to prepare them for the challenge
ahead!


Chapter 5:  Cobranar's Legend

        As Walt arrives with Stu, Athair appears to heal any injuries
that they had during their escape.  "Hey, old wise echidna," said Walt,
"Who IS this Cobranar anyway?"  Athair clears his throat and begins:

        "In the past, long before Floating Island first touched the sky,
and before the Great White Comet first came to mind, Cobranar attacked
the land of Downunda.  The land would have been laid to waist, if it were
not for your ancestors, whose 'Team Spirit' spell trapped Cobranar into
the Chaos Emerald he was imprisoned in.  But CrocBot has released this
vile creature, and it is up to you to send it back into the Dark World!"

        Barby Koala asks "But how?  He is so powerful!  I was nearly
boiled alive by his hot Water Elementals!"  Athair tells of the Team
Scroll, the scroll used to cast the "Team Spirit" spell.  "Where is this
scroll?," asked Wombat Stu.  The wise echidna shaman replied "In the
caves northeast of this Crater.  Hurry-- Cobranar already knows of this
knowledge and wishes to stop you!"


Chapter 6:  Quest in the Caves

        So the Downunda Freedom Fighters left the Crater to find the
caves that Athair mentioned.  Walt sees some cliffs in the distance and
said to his friends "Those must be where the caves are!"  But as they
could trek further, a Fire Elemental attacks them with fireballs.  Still
carrying some water, Duck Bill splashed some water on him to extinguish
him.  They continued toward the cliffs.

        Once toward the cliffs, Walt says to his friends "We'd better
split up if there's any chance at finding that scroll!  Barby, you go to
the West Caves.  Bill, search the East Caves, Guru, climb up those steps
into the North Caves.  Stu, check out the South Caves.  I'll climb down
into the Central Caves."  So each one went into a separate series of
caverns to find the scroll.

        Barby searched the West Caves for the scroll.  The rock walls
glowed with the phospherous fungi growing there.  As she wandered the
glowing maze, she was ambushed by a Moss Monster.  The glowing beast
tried to pin the koala down with the deadly poison moss.  She ran for her
life toward a green door.  Barby reached her hand toward the door and not
only did it open, but the monster vanished.  She takes a chance and
entered.  At first it was pitch black, but then, on each side of her, a
torch lit up.


Chapter 7:  Bill In the East Caves

        Duck "Bill" Platypus searched the fiery, magma-filled East Caves.
 He jumped from island to column-like island as he crossed the sea of
lava to find the scroll.  But he was suddenly assaulted by a Lava
Serpent.  The serpent tried to bite him with his flaming jaws.  But Bill
made a run for a series of stairs that led deeper into the maze.

        As he ran for his dear life, a strange red door lay ahead for the
platypus.  He did not know where the door would lead, but when the
serpent was closing in on him, he decided to take a chance at the door. 
He reached out his hand and it opened before him.  He raced into it just
before the serpent could have a duck-billed snack!  He saw a dim light
once inside and a silouette strangly similar to Barby Koala.  Soon,
torches lit near him as well.


Chapter 8:  Guru Emu In The North Caves

        Guru wandered the icy North Caves, with magic gems with in the
ice to light the way.  As he wandered through the frozen maze, a company
of Ice Warriors ambush the emu.  He wanted to talk "peace and love" with
them, but they were NOT interested, so he makes a run for an elevator
that led down into another portion of the caverns.

        Once he made it into a lower level of the caves, he was ambushed
by a Frost Dragon.  He runs for his life as he finds a way to hide from
him.  But the dragon smashed stalagmite after stalagmite, column after
column, in search of raw emu.  Then, Guru saw a blue door near the end of
the tunnel.  Since he did not think that being dragon food was a cool
idea, he touches the door and enters.  As soon as the doors shut on the
serpentine beast, torches lit beside Guru as he notices shadows that look
like Barby and Bill.


Chapter 9:  Stu in the South Caves

        Wombat Stu wanders the South Caves, which was full of wind
tunnels, so there was losts of wind blowing here and there.  He holds on
to several columns and outgrowths to prevent being blown off into the
many abysses of the maze.  As he neared a white door, he was face to
cloudy face with a cloud monster.

        The cloud monster wanted to shock Stu to death with his lightning
bolts.  But Stu outwitted the beast and made one of those bolts open the
door for him.  He races into those doors and shut them on the monster. 
Soon he saw the shadows of three of his friends, and torches lit near him
as well.


Chapter 10:  Walt Completes The Enlightening

        Walt delves deeper and deeper into the mysterious Central Caves. 
As he went down step by stony step, ghosts came out of the pit, chanting
"Go back!  Stay away!  Go back!  Stay away!..."  But he knew that doing
so would cause Cobranar to win.  So he went further until he found a
statue of Cobranar.  By striking the statue did a trap door open beneath
him.  As he passed through, the dim illumination from the torches
stopped, and a bright light lit the room.  At last the DFF could see each
other... and the Team Scroll.

        As Walt picked up the parchment, each Freedom Fighter gained a
crystal bracelet on his or her right wrist.  The parchment read that the
bracelets were used to imprison Cobranar.  It is also said that they
would use them to send the spirit back to his dimension.  The DFF hoped
that it spoke the truth, because Cobranar appeared in the chamber!


Epilog:  Fall of Cobranar

        Cobranar said "Ah, so you have passed the guardians and made it
to the scroll that your ancestors used to imprison me!  Ha!  It will do
you little good... except to decorate your gravesite!"  Reading the
scroll as fast as possible, he learned that the five must join hands and
combine their thoughts, therefore creating an aura that opens the portal.
 After the portal is opened, they are to hold their hand out toward
Cobranar and shout out the word "Plasmara!"  This would create a combined
laser blast to send the monster into the portal.

        Walt calls out "Guys!  We must join hands!"  So the DFF joined
their hands and combined their thoughts, which he told them to do as they
got together.  A red portal opened right above them.  Cobranar got in the
middle of their circle and gloated "Ha!  What'll you do now?," because as
soon as the door was opened, he burned the scroll.  But Walt memorized
the scroll and told his friends to hold their hands out to the beast. 
And they shouted the word they were to say:  "Plasmara!"  The energy
beams surrounded the creature and sent him into the Dark World.  As soon
as the portal closed after Cobranar went inside, the Downunda Freedom
Fighters made it back to the surface.  Once more they have triumbphed
over evil and darkness!


                                        The End
                                        ;)