Episode 8 (Rescue Me)

WARNING: EPISODE CONTAINS MILD VIOLENCE, INJURIES, AND BULLYING.

I jumped in the portal, hoping with all my might the alphas and my other two friends were safe. I landed in the dark corridor with the room at the end where Foxy and Peck had been. But I looked into the door and no one was in there. I recognized the same phantom sunflower where I had hidden. Suddenly, I remembered Mr. Blizzard locking up the alphas in one of the doors on the right side. But which one was it? I looked through the first one and saw den betas, spiked collars, alpha swords, headdresses, and lots of black long wristbands. I also saw the Princess Necklace I'd thrown to the phantoms to protect Foxy! The next room was kind of creepy. There was blood everywhere, empty cages, and lots of phantom goop. I shuddered and moved to the next one.

I looked in and saw Liza! She wasn't bleeding, but she was in a cage and she didn't see me. Suddenly I heard a monkey screech. Graham! I ran to the first door and peeked in. The King was holding him down and scarring him with his spiked wristband like he had done to me. I didn't want Graham to end up like Foxy and Peck! I heard Mira's voice again. "Scarlet. I believe in you. Do what YOU can do. Now." With Mira's voice in my heart, I kicked the door open. "What the-?" The king said. "I thought Mr. Blizzard had captured you!" Graham looked relieved. For a second, I didn't know what to do. Then I had an idea. I put on a terrified expression and looked like I was about to run out the door. As the king charged toward me, I suddenly showed my fangs and sunk my teeth into one of his tentacles. I grabbed one of his spikes and took it off, then I flung it at his heart. He yelped in pain but still could grab me around the neck. "Why, you-" he slammed me face first on the concrete floor. OW! I felt like I had broken my nose, but I couldn't give up!! I got back up and kicked him directly in the center of his heart.

He yowled and fell to the ground."Hurry, Graham! Help me save Liza!" I ran to the room Liza was in and tugged on the door. Dang, it was locked! "I can pick this," Graham smiled as he took out a screwdriver that was in his hair. "Wow!" I marveled as in a matter of seconds the door swung open. "Graham! Scarlet!" Liza said. "Liza! Are you okay?" I asked. "Oh, I'm fine," Liza said. "Good," I said.  "Peck and Foxy are at the medical center and we still need to save Sir Gilbert, Greely, Cosmo, Tavie, Coconut, and Seashell," I said quickly. "Hurry! Let's look through every door until we find everyone," Graham said, rubbing his sore back. Graham freed Liza then we quietly crept out. I peeked inside the doorway where Graham was and saw the king was still knocked out. Relieved, I went back through the long corridor with the two alphas by my side.

We went down another dirty hallway. We rounded a corner and I saw a door with two large guard phantoms with spears. "Something important must be in there," I whispered. "And those 'somethings' might be our friends!" Liza said."How are we going to divert them from us?" I asked. "I have an idea," said Graham. He unclipped a small tube from his belt. "I stole this when we were here last month," he said. "It has phantom liquid in it- it can turn you into a phantom! So, I'll pretend to show the guards something really important, then you two hurry and rescue whoever is in there! "


"Graham, you're a genius," Liza swooned. "Thanks," Graham blushed. "Here, help me pour this all over me," Quickly, we dumped the goop on Graham.  He gave us a screwdriver to unlock the door. Before he turned into a phantom, he said "Hide until we are both out of sight," Suddenly, Graham was a phantom- a black, slimy, disgusting, smelly phantom! He winked and rushed over to the guard. We hid behind a pile of cages in a corner. We heard Graham communicating the way phantoms do (that "gyaa" noise) and finally the footsteps were gone. We quickly tiptoed to the door. It took Liza and me 28 seconds to unlock the door, but who's counting? We swung it open, and luckily, Sir Gilbert, Coconut, Greely, Cosmo, and Tavie were all in cages, with no blood. They seemed relieved. "Guys! Peck and Foxy almost died, but Scarlet saved them." Liza said proudly. I could see a look of approval in all of the alphas' eyes.


"I..need..to..get..home...to..water.." Tavie gasped. Oh no! I had forgotten she was a dolphin! "I'll take her to the oceans as quick as I can," Cosmo said. "Be careful. Do you know where the portal is?" Coconut asked, but he had already disappeared, lugging Tavie's cage. "Where is Graham?" Sir Gilbert asked. "He turned into a phantom to distract the guards. Hopefully, he will make it back safely," I said. "Everyone, hurry to the portal! And stay hidden!" Greely said, after Graham had freed everyone. Luckily, we reached the portal without any trouble. One by one, the alphas jumped in. "Nice job, Scarlet." Coconut said, as she was the last one. "You saved everyone." Everyone. I let that word sink in. "OH NO! I FORGOT ABOUT SEASHELL!" I said, trying not to scream. "Dang, Scarlet, calm down. Let's go, quickly. The alphas might worry about us," Coconut said.


We ran (yes, ran) through all the hallways, peering through each door, dodging phantoms by hiding. Soon, we saw a large phantom carrying a cage. Seashell! She looked hurt, but not too bad. Seashell caught my eye and made a "help!" motion. "OK, let's-" I whispered, but Coconut had already dashed and had tripped the phantom! Surprised, it dropped Seashell, which busted the lock open. Unfortunately, the guard had grabbed Coconut! Before I could do anything, he hurled Coconut against a wall. I don't think he had seen me or remembered Seashell, because he hobbled away, cursing.


We ran over to Coconut. "ARE YOU OKAY?!" I asked. What a stupid question. Coconut looked like she had broken every bone in her body. She couldn't even say anything except groan in pain. She looked like worse than Foxy and Peck had been! Luckily, we made it back to the portal safely, carrying Coconut. Unluckily, I didn't know if she would survive...

Episode 7 (Scars)

WARNING: EPISODE CONTAINS VIOLENCE, MILD LANGUAGE, BULLYING, AND EMOTIONAL SCENES.

"You coming, Scarlet?" Greely asked. I hadn't realized everyone except the two of us hadn't jumped in the portal. "Oh. Yeah." My voice cracked drily and another depression hormone was released. "I know this is hard, Scarlet, but we are going to try to save her, I promise you!" he smiled. "Whatever." His smile disappeared. "Oh My Zios! I JUST SAID WHATEVER TO AN ALPHA!" one of my thoughts said. "Let's go," He gruffly said and jumped in. We landed in the same place where we had left, but all the phantoms were gone. Mr. Blizzard and Snaps were nowhere to be seen. "Hmm, I wonder where they went," Cosmo said. "HELP!" A very quiet scream that sounded like Peck came from one of the corridors near us, followed by a "SHUT UP!' and Peck screaming in pain. "Come on!" We ran to dark room with a door where a lot of noise was coming from. We peeked in the door's window and were shocked. The King was clenching Peck in one hand, Foxy in another. For the first time in my life I swore as another depression hormone was released in my brain. Peck was dripping in blood and crying and Foxy was bleeding horribly too. "There has got to be at least a hundred phantoms in there!" Seashell whispered. I heard a whip crack and Foxy screaming. I swore again and clenched my fists.



Suddenly, we heard footsteps. "Hide!" Greely said. I ran behind  a phantom sunflower. "Well, well well. It looks like the alphas came back for dessert!" It was Mr. Blizzard! I heard some chains being thrown on everyone-but Mr. Blizzard forgot about me! "The king will be coming in to torture you in a few minutes. Have a nice day." I heard a door slam. I trembled for at least 10 minutes after the King left the room Foxy and Peck were in once I was sure all of the phantoms were gone. I came out from my hiding spot and threw open the door. Foxy and Peck lay unconscious on the floor. "FOXY!!!" I whispered. "PECK!" Foxy's eyelids fluttered open. "Scarlet. Save the others. Don't worry about me. I don't matter. I don't protect Jamaa. They do. Focus on Peck. Not me. I love you, Scarlet." "No! I can't let you go!" I picked her up, blood flowing from huge open wounds.


"Foxy?" Her breathing had slowed. "Wwwaat." "I'm taking you and Peck to Gabby's animal hospital.. I'll get the other alphas later." "And if I don't make it remember me," Foxy said. I scooped up Peck and after seeing her wounds too my heart felt like it shattered into a million pieces. Suddenly, I heard a voice. "Scarlet. Get them to safety. I know you can do it. Zios and I are proud of you. The others are okay for now. Just focus on saving them first." It was Mira! I thanked her and without running into any phantoms, jumped into the Kimbara Outback portal. I left Foxy and Peck inside without saying anything except "Please keep them safe and help them," before dashing out. I ran a few miles to Jamaa Township, and luckily the phantom portal was still on the ground by Mira.

Episode 6 (Tavie to the Rescue)

WARNING: EPISODE CONTAINS MILD VIOLENCE AND BULLYING.
"First, we are going to drink Sir Gilbert's power." Shadow cackled. A team of phantoms threw Sir Gilbert into a pod. "NO!!!" Peck tried to run but a mean phantom hit her on the head. "This will only take 5 minutes," Mr. Blizzard appeared, and attached some tubes to the poor tiger's heart. He sighed and closed his eyes. Mr. Blizzard pressed a button and he let out a roar of pain. All of the alphas, and Foxy, Cinnamon, Seashell, and me had tears in our eyes. The phantoms that were holding us were so strong there was no way we could escape their grasp. There was a depressing timer that said "Time until Dead" and  it now read 4 minutes. I cursed the phantoms as Snaps cackled on the sideline.


Suddenly, the padlocked door to the arena burst open! IT WAS TAVIE THE DOLPHIN ALPHA! "Seems like while I was running Tiki Trouble you forgot to capture me!" The King looked surprised. "GET HER!!" He screeched at the guard phantoms. They charged at her but she started playing a song on her seashell ukulele! It produced a sound wave that knocked the phantoms, even the King, into a large heap near Sir Gilbert! Tavie hopped on her tail, pressed the "Release" button and helped Sir Gilbert out. "Oh my goodness, are you okay?" I squealed. "I think so, Scarlet..." he flexed his feet and sighed. "Tavie, thank you so much!" "It's nothing," she said. "The phantoms forgot to steal your necklace that showed me where you were. That poor bunny in tiki trouble won't get to give me her pearls today." She threw back her head and laughed. "How can she laugh when we are still in the phantom fortress!" I wondered. "How do we get out of here?" Foxy asked. "Oh, we've been in the fortress tons of times before. Just go to the portals leading into the lands and we'll be home soon." Liza said.



We had forgotten Mr. Blizzard and Snaps were not knocked out! "THIS ISN'T OVER!" Mr. Blizzard yelled. "HURRY!" Cosmo hustled us all into the portal. I prayed all of us were safe as I fell in the portal before I heard a bloodcurdling scream. "REMEMBER ME SCARLLLLEEEEETTTTT!" We all landed in Jamaa Township, trampled by some arctic wolfs screaming "TRADE ME!!!" We ran into the deserted area by Mira. Sir Gilbert nervously said, "Cosmo, Liza, Graham, Tavie, Greely, Scarlet, Seashell, Coconut, WHERE ARE PECK AND FOXY?!" My heart stopped. "F-fox-y?" "We need to go back there!" Peck is one of us!" Cosmo said. "What about my sister?" I asked. "Oh Scarlet, we'll try our best." Greely said. Graham ran to his den to get  a teleportal to the phantom fortress that he had stolen from a phantom. For the first time in my life, a depression hormone was released in my normally happy brain. I cried and curled up into a ball.

Scarlet and Foxy: Episode 5 (Hopeless)

 WARNING: EPISODE CONTAINS MILD LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE, AND BULLYING.

We landed with a thud on a hard purple floor. "OHMYMIRATHISISTHEPHANTOMFORTRESS," I squealed. "Let's try to stay low and escape before any phantoms notice us, especially the king." a terrified Foxy said. We crept down a ladder smeared with smelly phantom goop. I saw a few guard phantoms a few yards away from us and turned to warn Foxy, but my tail accidentally hit her head and she toppled off the ladder, bringing Seashell down with her with a very loud CRASH. "Hahaha, I know you three couldn't stay hidden for long," A round circular phantom with small tentacles threw us into a dark underground dungeon. "Well, so much for staying hidden," I sighed. "Hey! Someone else to accompany me, while we wait for our power drinking. I'm Coconut, who are you?" a cute lynx asked. "I-I'm Scarlet-this is Foxxxxxy and S-seashell-ll." I said. "How do you speak so confidently when we might be dead in a few minutes?" Seashell questioned. "Oh, I'm a level 3 alpha in training, and I live on the streets. I've been in a lot worse than this. Hey, it will give me a chance to add some phantoms toward my next level!" We were amazed by her courage. Suddenly the padlocked door burst open and Shadow slithered in. "Hey FAMILY." The horrible king swiped his black long spiked wristband on my back, hurting terribly. "Your powers will be ours in a few hours. We need to set the machine up. Stay out of trouble."

 He dumped a huge can of phantom goop on the floor and before leaving he said: "And don't think those stupids the ALPHAS will come to save you because we've got them locked up too," He slammed the door after spitting some phantom goop all over Foxy and Coconut. "He's such a stupid #@$"Coconut said as I covered Foxy's ears. "How do we get out of here?" I struggled to free my feet and tail from the sticky, gloppy gloop. "I don't think there really is a way right now-there are two phantom guards right outside this door," Coconut said. "Mom is going to be worried sick about us, and we are going to have to make up a lie again," I said, rubbing my sore back. "And she'll be wondering what THIS is from." A few drops of blood mixed with my tears on the hard ground. I freed my tail and tried to wipe up the blood on my back. After a little bit more of trying to hopelessly get unstuck, Shadow bust the door open. "Hey nimrods, come with me," He threw us all into smelly purple cages. He brought us into a room where tons of phantoms were jeering behind a huge machine that looked scary. Now, I saw a look of pure fear on Coconut's face, but it was less terrified then the rest of us. I saw phantoms hustling the alphas too and for a minute, I thought everything was hopeless.

Scarlet and Foxy: Episode 4 (Captured)

 WARNING: EPISODE CONTAINS MILD VIOLENCE AND BULLYING.

"Why in heck is that here?" Seashell pointed to the baby CAGED PHANTOM on Mr. Blizzard's desk, hidden behind lots of papers. "Oh my Mira, he is up to no good," Foxy said. "We can't use our powers if he has a phantom right there!" "Oh no, we will need to keep our eye on him," I said. At the end of the school day everyone had filed out except for the three of us. He was typing away at his SpikeBook, which was a very expensive laptop. "Excuse me," I said. "Yes Scarlet?" he smiled. "Why  do you have a phantom on your desk?" His smiled disapeared. "Um, it's the class pet!" "You hve our enemey as a class pet. Wow." Seashell said rudely. "Girls, I have some important work to do. Move along now!" He shooed us out the door. Before he closed it, I noticed he had picked up his iPaw phone. "Hey guys! Let's eavesdrop." We  put our ears against the door.

"I think they're on to me..asked about Poison..Snaps tried to hurt Foxy to stop her powers...snaps...fail..Mr. King, I'll try my best..." "OH MY GOSH DID HE JUST SAY MR. KING?!" I whispered. We ran out of the building and started to walk home. "I think-Poison is the pet phantom." Foxy said. "Yeah." I thought and created a notepad, then wrote down all the things we had heard. "I wish we could tell Mrs. McFox about it, but we can't talk about our powers, and she wouldn't believe us anyway," Seashell said. "Now that we know Mr. Blizzard is working for the Phantom King, I'm too scared to go to school..." I trailed off as we reached our street. "And this is illegal! Mr. Blizzard MADE Snaps try to hurt me. We have to be really careful tomorrow." Foxy said as we reached our doorstep.


"Hi girls! How was your first day of school? My mom asked gleefully. "It was great," I plastered on a very fake smile. "Yeah! Our teacher was awesome!" Seashell said. "Great."We had shellfish and salmon for dinner, then all of us went to sleep, pretty scared.


The next day school was fine. Nothing out of the ordinary happened, and Snaps left us alone. But whenever I glanced at him, he had a thin, ugly smile on. The next day, almost everyone had cleared out at the end of the day except for the three of us. Foxy's zipper on her backpack was stuck and I was trying to help her. But that's when Snaps came up to us. He threw the backpack far and then something terrifying happened. SNAPS TRANSFORMED INTO A PHANTOM!! "RUN!" I screamed. "Not so fast,"  Snaps cackled. He poured goop all over us, sticking us onto his back. We kicked and punched him, but it was no use! My device the alphas had given me to contact them was in my locker! He threw open our classroom door, Mr. Blizzard grinning evilly.


. "Did the phantom goop I used to stick Foxy's zipper work? GOOD!" Mr. Blizzard cackled. "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US?" I said. "Someone here will hear  us!" "Oh? I don't think so, everyone else has already left, and you know why. I'm here to destroy you stupid stupid stupid selves and drink your power for the phantoms- so we can invade Jamaa and steal spikes and den betas to get rich!!" Mr Blizzard cackled. "But I won't kill you myself. How naive. Instead, you are going to the Phantom Fortress- they will take care of you there!" He pulled off the top of his watch, revealing a teleportal! He pulled us off Snap's back, and before we could do anything, he threw us in.

Scarlet and Foxy: Episode 3 (Scarlet's Tale)

Warning: Episode contains a mild sad scene and mild violence.

We found an old waterbed that used to be my dad's in the closet and dragged it to our room. "Ugh, tomorrow we have to go to school when we could be fighting phantoms?" Seashell said. "SHHH!" Foxy and I said at the same time. "Remember, we can't tell Mom ANY of this!" "Okay.." "Lights out, my little puppies." my mom said, appearing at the doorway. "Tomorrow is a school day, and I'll need to pack lunches for all of you." "Okay, Mom," I said. "What happened to your dad?" Foxy whispered after my mom disappeared. "Yeah!" Seashell nodded. "Well.." I sighed.

 "It was about two years after I was born. My mom and dad were fighting over something, I think it was about what preschool I should go to. They had been fighting for weeks before, too. I went into the room they were fighting in, with tears in  my eyes, and I said, "Stop fighting, Daddy." My dad exploded and said "OF COURSE, I'M THE ONE WHO CAUSES ALL THE FIGHTING!" That's when he hit me, leaving a scar. He grabbed my mom's and his wallet, the car keys, and that was the last we ever saw of him."

    "Oh my Zios, Scarlet, I'm so sorry..." Foxy said. "Me too, that was so horrible of him." Seashell said. "And so vain and selfish," I exhaled. "My mom's wallet had all of her credit cards and over $300 in it." I said. I showed them a small claw mark next to my nose. "I can't believe he hit you. If he didn't escape, he could have been charged with child abuse." Foxy said. "We should get some sleep, guys."  I yawned. "Yeah, Goodnight." I still felt a little sad. "I love you, Scarlet," Foxy whispered. I smiled. "I love you, too."

We all arrived at the Sarepia School the next day. Since Foxy and Seashell were only two years younger then me, we were in the same schoolroom together. We quickly found seats and waited for our teacher to come in. A polar bear figure walked into the room. "Hello, my name is Mr. Blizzard, and I am delighted to have you all as students this year. Let's go around the room. Say your name and something about yourself. When it came to me, I wanted to give a good first impression, so I said "I'm Scarlet, and I love learning and reading," "Wonderful, Scarlet!" Mr. Blizzard smiled. Next was Foxy. "I'm Foxy, and I hate phantoms." For a minute I thought I saw Mr. Blizzard's face flush. "Oh? Hate is a pretty strong word, how about 'dislike'? He nervously laughed, getting weird glances from everyone.

    Next was Seashell. "I'm Seashell and I love kelp," she smiled. "Sounds good," Mr Blizzard said. I wasn't too concentrated until it came to smelly, dark black crocodile. "I"m Snaps and I love torturing my sister's toys," he said broadly. Everyone else gasped. "Um." Mr. Blizzard said, "Anyway...today we will learn how to fight phantoms."

   During the lesson Seashell passed me a note. "This is wrong. He's saying to aim for the arms-you're supposed to aim for the heart," I write back, "S, we're supposed to be taking notes right now, and I don't really want to be caught on the first day." She gives me a sad look. She hasn't wrote any notes! "Um," I whisper, sliding my paper. "You're the best, Scarlet!" The bell rings. "I'll grade your notes during recess," Mr. Blizzard said. Everyone flocked to the playground while I found my lunch. When I went out, I was shocked at what I saw.


   Snaps the ugly alligator had cornered Foxy! He was holding her lunchbox above her head. "Give it back!" she squealed. "Yeah, give it back," he mocked. Then he smacked her hard with it! I ran as fast as I could and stood in between them. "HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO MY SISTER?" It took all of myself to not punch Snaps. I snatched Foxy's lunchbox and lead her inside. We told Mr. Blizzard, and he said we could eat inside alone with Seashell. "Hey, look at that!" Seashell pointed.



                                                     WHAT DID SEASHELL SEE? STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT EPISODE OF SCARLET AND FOXY!!

Scarlet and Foxy: Episode Two (The Story)

"Sir Gilbert said the other alphas agreed I should be put in a shelter so I would be "as normal as possible." He said that once I was adopted to find the other 8 people with powers so we could join forces, but I got lucky that one of them is right here," Foxy finished, smiling. "Wow! I had no idea! So...what's my power?" I asked eagerly. "Yours may be the most powerful out of the ten. It is mind creation! Think of anything and it is created in front of your eyes. When you used that this evening it helped to save me and Foxy!" Seashell said. "Oh yeahhh." I said. "We probably should get home. But first, let me ask why Mira  (and Zios) always stays hidden like that? They created Jamaa, why aren't they helping to fight phantoms?

   "Did you read in school that Mira created phantoms?" Foxy asked. "No! How..would she do that??" I asked. "Zios and Mira were having a fight. Afterwards Mira was so mad and upset that she cried very hard. Her tears anger mixed with the elements of Jamaa and created the wretched phantoms. She quiclkly realized her horrible mistake, but there was no way to undo it. So she quickly called some very important people to help fight the phantoms. She felt so bad for what she had done, so she decided to stay hidden. Forever."

     "Aw, that's sad. I'm so glad I got to meet her," I said. "So, Foxy, are you basically an alpha-in-training?" "It's more complicated than that." she said. "I have defeated an amount of twenty phantoms, and am still on level one. You must make it to Level 10 to be just considered to be an alpha. To graduate from level one, I must defeat thirty phantoms, save at least 5 animals, and  do 12 hours total being kind and helping people in Jamaa. Peck is helping me keep track of my requirements. I didn't realize it was that much work to become an Alpha. If I'm lucky it will take 2 years!"

    I felt admiration for my new sister. I wanted to support her as much as I could. I wanted to use my powers up to my fullest potential. I decided that I would start the training to become an alpha too. "Lets get home," I smiled to my sister and Seashell.

   When we got there we were greeted by my mom-in tears. "FOXY! SCARLET!!! WHERE IN JAMAA HAVE YOU TWO BEEN?! IT HAS BEEN AN HOUR! I WAS ABOUT TO CALL THE POLICE!!!" Foxy mouthed to me, "Remember-you can't tell her anything." "Mom, we were playing hide and seek in the house, you just couldn't find us. We didn't want to say anything so our hiding spots would be revealed! We went outside for the final round and met this otter, Seashell. Her parents unfortunately died. So can she stay with us?" She gave Mom puppy eyes. "I JUST TOOK YOU IN TO MY CARE AND YOU EXPECT ME TO-" She stopped as she saw tears streaming out of Seashell's eyes. "Oh, fine! I'm such a loser," I saw a hint of a smile on her face.