This is Day Fifteen of the Promptly Potter challenge. It's another SpaceWizards mystery. |
SpaceWizards (Another SpaceWizards Action/Adventure Mystery) There are several hundred thousand planets where a cat is called a cat, a rat a rat, and a dog is a dog. And there are even a few thousand planets where two of the three are called that. But there is only one planet where all three live. Gantha is one of those planets that a cat is a cat. Kuddom is a planet where a rat is called a rat. And ReaCa is a planet where a dog a dog. This is a story about all three of those planets. âCat, Rat, and Dogâ A Short Story Remembered By Angoria Horrald was ten times bigger than he normally was. So were the Fire Balls that he was firing one after another at the SpaceWizardâs spaceship. Every one of those balls made that spaceship shake when it exploded against in. And those within were shaken up by it too. Mairon and the other six SpaceWizards were in the Control Chamber. He was at the controls while the others were in the chairs behind them. They were all strapped in their chairs. So they werenât thrown to the floor after every Fire Ball exploded. But they were shaken up by it. âI knew that the death of Tonnie would make Horrald a million times worse than he was before. But it didnât expect it to be this bad so quickly.â Mairon had both Horrald and their spaceship on the view screen in front of them. âWhat are we going to do. Horrald already stopped us from getting away from him. Itâs only a matter of time before one of those Fire Balls penetrates our Protective Shield spell. When that happens, he will destroy the spaceship, and us too.â A few seconds later she continued. âThis is all my fault. I knew it was wrong to kill Tonnie. But I did it anyway. And now we are all going to die because of it.â Everyone looked at her. âIf he wanted to destroy us he would have already done it by now. But he hasnât, why?â Stavon asked. âThereâs only one way to find that out. We have to confront him.â Mairon looked over at Angoria. âI know that you donât like to be treated like a child. But Iâm not treating you like one. You have been hurt by this attack. And you need time to heal yourself. I think you should stay behind while we find out what Horrald really wants from us.â A few minutes later Mairon and the other five SpaceWizards disappeared from their spaceship. Angoria now sat behind the controls. She watched as they disappeared and a few seconds later they re-appeared in Space in front of their spaceship. Horrald shrank back down to his normal size in front of them. âOkay, we are you. You got our attention. What do you want?â Mairon floated in front of the other five. âWhat I want is which one of you that killed Tonnie? Give me that individual and I will let the rest of you live just this once. I know I had said that before and lied about it. But this time Iâm telling you the truth. All I want is who took Tonnie away from me forever.â No one said anything for several minutes. They just stared at Horrald. And he stared back at each one of them, one after another. âI am the leader of this team. Iâm the one responsible for the death of Tonnie.â Jacci floated up next to Mairon. âNo, he isnât. Iâm the one who did it.â Pacill floated up on the other side of Mairon. âNeither one of them did it. I did.â âLet me guess. All of you are about to admit that you did it.â A few seconds later Horrald continued. âWait a second. Thereâs one of you not here. one, two, three, four, five, and six. Who is missing? Oh yes, itâs the child. So, that is who you are protecting.â Horrald mumbled something, and a few seconds later a skin-tight bubble appeared around two pairs of the six SpaceWizards out there. Pacill and Yena got one clear enclosure. Stavon and Jacci got another one. And Mairon and Borrele got the third one. Each could move as they struggle within their enclosures. But they couldnât break free of them. âWe arenât protecting Angoria. Angoria got hurt during your attack. She needs time to heal. Thatâs why she isnât here with us.â Maironâs voice was a little muffled as he spoke. Horrald started laughing. âI donât believe you. You would do or say anything to protect the child.â Horrald mumbled something, and a few seconds later all three enclosures disappeared. âWhere did they go? What happened to them? Did you kill them because of what you think I did to Tonnie?â âI didnât kill them.â Horrald appeared in the Control Chamber. But it was obvious it was just him image the way it was flickering in and out constantly. âBut you will if you donât admit to me that you killed Tonnie.â âYou heard Mairon. I didnât kill her. The one who did you sent somewhere. Where did you send them?â âThat is for me to know and for you to try to find out. I will give you a hint as to where they are at, âCat, Rat, and Dog.â But you had better hurry to find them. You only have a few days at the most before you kill them too. Of course, if you admit to killing Tonnie I will bring them back to you right now.â =====-=====-=====-=====-=====-===== Angoria hovered a couple of inches above the floor as she paced around the Control Chamber. Her face wrinkled up in pain every few seconds. âMairon and the others werenât lying. I was hurt during your attack.â âWhat am I going to do? How am I going to find them?â The entrance into the Control Chamber slid open as Angoria got near it. It closed again after she went through it. She was now hovering down one of their corridors. âMaybe I could do a spell to find them. But Iâm not very good with spells. Thatâs why I keep messing them up probably.â Angoria hovered around the corridors for several minutes. Then she stopped at an entrance that slid open as she approached it allowing her to enter the Communications Chamber. âI think the first thing I need to do is figure out what he meant from that stupid hint that he gave me. What does âCat, Rat, and Dogâ mean?â =====-=====-=====-=====-=====-===== Pacill got off the ground. Then he helped Yena up too. âWhere are we? How did we get here? The last thing I remember is us being enclosed in that artificial enclosure. At least we are out of that. And the next we are here. Wherever here is.â A few seconds later Pacill continued. âI donât think I have ever been here before. Does this place look familiar to you?â Yena slowly looked around her. They were at the edge of a Wooded Area. In front of them was a Wooded Area. And looking behind them Yena saw a small water hole. âSomehow I think it does look familiar to me. I think I have been here before. But I canât remember where here is.â Pacill and Yena started looking at their surroundings. But there wasnât very much to look at but the Wooded Area and the water hole. There wasnât anything else there to look at. They did that for about ten minutes. Then they heard some rustling sounds and some mumbled voices. I think we should hide until we know where we are at. I agree with you, Pacill. We also need to figure out how we are going to get out of here. Yena and Pacill quickly moved just inside the Wooded Area. A few minutes later two cat looking individuals came walking through the Wooded Area talking to each other. They sat down next to the water hole and continued talking. Those are Ganthaians. We are on the planet of Gantha. We are in a lot of danger because of me again. A long time ago, about a hundred years I think, I chased two SpaceWizards here. Several Ganthaians got killed while I was trying to catch them. The Ganthaians couldnât verify that I killed anyone. So, they throw me off their planet, almost literally. And they said if I ever returned I would be executed for those deaths. One of them was a Horrald Follower. =====-=====-=====-=====-=====-===== âHow am I going to find them, especially in only a few days. They could be anywhere in the universe. In fact, they could be anywhere in time too.â Angoria sat down in front of one of the Data Monitors in the Communications Chamber aka the Information Chamber. She started tapping away on the control panel in front of that monitor. After about a minute she stopped. âI need information on any connection between âCat, Rat, and Dogâ beside the obvious one.â A few seconds later Angoria leaned in closer to that monitor, and she started mumbling softly to herself. She did that for about fifteen minutes then leaned back in her chair and sighed. âThere are a lot of planets out there where they could be. It narrows down the search for them considerably. But there are still several hundred thousand possible planets where they could be.â âI also need information on any connection between âCat, Rat and Dogâ regarding the other six SpaceWizards.â A few seconds later Angoria started mumbling again. =====-=====-=====-=====-=====-===== Jacci opened her eyes, and she started screaming. She mumbled something. A few second later began thrashing around, her hands and legs were flying everywhere. Two hands reached down and grabbed her clothing. She was pulled out of a squared metal hole she was lying in a few seconds later by Stavon. Stavon helped Jacci into a seated position on a flat metal surface next to that hole. âYou tried to use wizardry, didnât you? But it didnât work, did it? Mine didnât either. Thatâs why I had to pull you out of that hole personally.â âWhy couldnât I do any wizardry?â Jacci asked after she calmed down a lot a few minutes later. She was still shaking. So, was her voice. But he looked a lot better. âI donât know why we couldnât do it. But itâs probably because of the planet we are on. They are blocking it somehow.â Stavon sat down beside Jacci. âI donât recognize this planet. Do you?â Jacci slowly scanned the large metal room they were on. She stopped scanning a second time as she saw the large hole in the center of it. âI donât even know where we are.â âItâs some of a watercraft. I didnât appear here when Horrald sent us here. Horrald sent me to a room like this one four rooms from it. While I was looking for you, I noticed we were on a watercraft.â Slowly, Jacci got up and walked over to the hole in that room and peeked into it. âI was lying in a hole full of rats. And I hate rats.â âI had a hole full of rats too. In fact, every room in the watercraft has a hole full of rats. At least they do in the rooms Iâve looked in so far.â Jacci suddenly had a shocked look on her face. âI know where we are. Weâre on the planet of Kuddom. Before I joined this team of SpaceWizards, I came to this planet to stop Horrald from turning this population into rats. I donât know why he was doing it. But Horrald had started doing it a few planets before this one.â Stavon looked confused. âIf he had done it to other planets how do you know this one is Kuddom.â âBecause I couldnât do any of my wizardry on this planet. But I could use it on the others. I just wasnât fast enough to stop him.â Jacci continued a few seconds later. âThis is all my fault, again. There havenât been any rats on this planet for over thirty thousand years. Does that mean Horrald has sent us back in time to this planet?â =====-=====-=====-=====-=====-===== Angoria sat back in her chair in shock. âThat new search reduced the number of possible planets a lot. But there are still several thousand they could be on.â âHow am I going to break that down even more so that I can find them in time?â Angoria didnât say anything for several minutes. She just stared at that Data Monitor. âThe answer to that question is that thereâs no way Iâm going to find them before they die.â A few minutes later Angoria continued. âThere has got to be a way to find them before that happens. I just have to figure out a way to do it.â Angoria got up and started pacing around. Every few seconds she would stop and look at that monitor. After a few minutes of doing that Angoria smiled. âMaybe there is another way to break them down even more.â âHorrald paired them into couples before he sent them wherever he sent them. Maybe there was a reason why he paired them together like that.â Angoria returned to her monitor. âInformation, give me a planet list for âCat, Rat, and Dogâ that are connected to Pacill and Yena, Stavon and Jacci, and Mairon and Borrele.â A few minutes later Angoria smiled again. =====-=====-=====-=====-=====-===== Mairon and Borrele were running through a Wooded Area. They looked back behind them every few seconds. But they kept running. And they didnât do it at the same time. Mairon did it first. Then Borrele did it. They continued doing that for several minutes. Multiple howling sounds could be heard behind Mairon and Borrele. Why are they chasing us? Mairon asked. I donât know. We donât even know who is chasing us or where we are at. Mairon glance behind them. One second we were in Space confronting Horrald about Tonnie. And the next we appeared in this Wooded Area. Borrele looked at Mairon. The second we got here they started throwing pointed Poison Pointers at us. We have been running ever since then. We tried to use our wizardry against them. But itâs not working here for some reason. Several Poison Pointers sailed past them. Mairon ducked, and the Pointers flew past him only an inch or two above him. Borrele stepped aside to let her Pointers sail past her. Those Pointers struck the trees in front of them. Those trees melted away to show holes in those trees. Mairon and Borrele turned and continued running in another direction. They looked back at where they were. Borrele looked at the holes the Poison Pointers just created. Mairon looked at the trees to the side of them. A lot of them had holes in them too. In fact, Mairon saw at least a hundred holes. Why are they trying to kill us? What did we do to make them so mad at us? Borrele asked. What I think is that when we know who they know are we will why they want us dead. I also think we are about to find out who they are. They are getting closer and closer to us. We should be seeing them any time now. Just then four dog-looking ReaCans appeared among the trees behind Mairon and Borrele. We are on a dog planet. Borrele looked behind her. I know what planet we are on. Itâs ReaCa. How do you know what planet they are on? Mairon asked. I used to live here about four thousand years ago. And I was protecting them from wizards, especially SpaceWizards like Horrald. In fact, it was Horrald that is the reason why they are now trying to kill us. A few seconds later Borrele continued. It was a bunch of Horraldâs Followers who were trying to kill the Ruler of ReaCa. I did stop them. But it wasnât fast enough. They killed the Ruler. They ReaCans blame me for her dead. Iâm the reason why they are trying to kill us, again. =====-=====-=====-=====-=====-===== âI have found them. What I mean is, I know which planets that they are on. They are on Gantha, Kuddom, and ReaCa.â Angoria stared at the three names of these planets on her monitor. âWhat I donât know is which planet who is on. I also donât know what time they are in. They could be in our time, or they could be in that planetâs past.â âInformation, can you show me which planet Pacill and Yena, Stavon and Jacci, and Mairon and Borrele are likely to be on.â A few seconds later Angoria. âI have never heard of these planets. Information, can you show me where these planets are at compared to where I am at?â A few seconds later an image of Gantha, Kuddom, and ReaCa appeared on her monitor along with their spaceship. âThey donât look too far from here.â âInformation, can I get to these planets within the next few days?â A few seconds later Angoria smile turned into a frown. Angoria didnât say anything for several minutes. She just stared at her monitor. âInformation, are we close enough to scan for these six SpaceWizards.â A few seconds later Angoriaâs frown remained. Angoria mumbled something. âInformation, can you detect the other SpaceWizards now.â âPacill and Yena are on Gantha. Mairon and Borrele are on ReaCa. But where are Stavon and Jacci?â Angoria didnât say anything for several minutes. She just stared at her monitor. Then suddenly she mumbled something. âInformation, can you show me where Stavon and Jacci are on Kuddom now?â A few seconds later Angoria smiled again. âSo, thatâs where you are at. You are a part of Kuddomâs past.â âNow that I know where you are at, how am I going to bring them back to me?â After a few minutes, Angoria mumbled something. And a few seconds later the other six SpaceWizards appear in the Information Chamber. =====-=====-=====-=====-=====-===== Angoria suddenly woke up in her Sleeper. âIt was all a very bad dream. Iâm not surprised I had this similar dream again. After all, Iâm the one who killed Tonnie.â Word Count = 2,944 , |