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Chapter 1: golem and thunder
The ground shakes and the buildings rumble, a villain has awoken and is now terrorizing the citizens of thunder city. Things begin to turn around for the citizens as its three famous heroes arrive on the scene before trouble could really start. We have Ghosty the ghost kid, a purple ghost kid sporting a dark purple shirt with a giant 'G' on it. The second member of the team is Vadius the crocodile, an anthropomorphic crocodile with a black vest and golden sleeves, the vest sports a giant red 'V' on it. Last but not least is the team leader, Captain Thunder. He wears a pink shirt with a lightning bolt on it, green shorts, a red cape and pig poofy hair facing diagonally up. These 3 are the super team known as 'The Ultra Buddies'. The team arrives on the scene to stop the villainous being who decided to show up. A giant golem made out of rock walks towards the trio, leaking out an eerie feeling. Captain Thunder stands triumphantly, flicking his hair and letting his cape flow in the wind, staring intensely at the golem as an attempt of intimidation, hoping to scare it away but instead the golem was just confused. The golem began shaping its hand into a cannon shape and began blasting massive boulders at the team but they easily dodged it and now focused their attention on the crowd that was forming around them. Their current priority was to move the crowd away and so each of them dashed to the crowd moving them away. Once the crowd had been moved Captain thunder blasted a lightning attack right at the golem, blasting its side off completely, exposing a red crystal of sorts. This immediately caught the attention of the team and they began to aim their respective attacks at it, only for the crystal to be covered up by more rocks and the golem to launch more boulders, countering the team's attacks.
" Vadius! I'll open a hole to expose the crystal, use your strength to break it!" shouted Captain Thunder. That wasn't a smart move since the Golem heard it very clearly, in response it was now more on its guard than before. Clearly, Captain Thunder wasn't thinking things through. Vadius mocked him for this before breaking another boulder that was tossed his way. Captain thunder began to charge up a vast lightning attack, preparing to blast a hole through the Golem in order to expose the red gem. The sound of little sparks could be heard. The golem wasn't just going to stand around doing nothing however, it tore off its hands and chucked them beside it, the hands began to form into smaller golems. Captain thunder had finished charging up and had launched the devastating thunder strike right at the centre of the golem, wiping it out completely. The golem had been blasted in half, crumbling into a pile of regular rocks. Surprisingly the red crystal that was in the centre of the golem was completely unscathed. The two mini golems were charging at captain thunder, who was now kneeling on the ground recovering after such a large attack. Ghosty however was available and out of his hands appeared one large blade on each, popping out wolverine style. Ghosty easily took care of the two golems. With the golems defeated it may seem like the day was saved, but it wasn't done quite yet. The corpse of the Golem surrounding the Crystal began to float and cover it, signalling the golem was regenerating, so without a second thought, Vadius struck the crystal, cracking it.
The result of this caused the crystal to glow, and the boulders of the golem fell to the ground, showing no signs of it coming back. The Ultra Buddies had one and the day was saved. All they needed to do was see what the Red Crystal really was so maybe they could use it themselves. Vadius went to go pick it up only to drop it as when he touched it, it was burning hot. The crystal was still glowing a bright red, heating up the surfaces around it.
As the team was figuring out how to handle the crystal, what appeared to be an elongated bird with fangs snatched the crystal, despite it being well over 120°C, before the team could react, it was already gone. Vadius, being the one who was closest to the crystal, didn't think that was a bird but a snake with wings. While Ghosty thought it was an incredibly long bird. But it didn't matter what it was, they needed to go after it. Ghosty being a ghost, was the only one who had enough energy to chase after the winged creature because Captain Thunder was still recharging and Vadius couldn't fly. The problem was because they had spent around 10 seconds trying to figure it what it was, it was long gone. The people around them began to think that these guys weren't s capable as they thought. This was fair to assume since they were still teenagers. The team decided to head back to their base for now and think of a new plan. So far they've dealt with a golem that contained a mysterious crystal and some sort of bird-snake creature. Their top priority was to find that crystal and discover what it can do. For this, they needed to locate the bird-snake thing. Captain Thunder came up with a plan, Ghosty would fly around the city looking for clues, Vadius would look online while Captain Thunder would ask around the city.
At 3:00 pm, they all split off across the city, Vadius staying at base, Ghosty went high above the buildings looking down to see if he found anything, he often found himself at the zoo looking in the bird enclosures. Captain Thunder was asking around but with no luck. At 5:00 pm everyone met back up at the base to share what they learnt. Ghosty went first, "While i was looking across the city I found a bunch of feathers and green stones", "that's not evidence, that's just random junk!" Vadius claimed, "why would you think that feathers and miscoloured rocks will lead us to the flying creature?". Ghosty felt embarrassed. "While I was asking around, this lady told me she thought she saw some humanoid bear creature walking around at night. Maybe that bear could be related to the flying creature?" said Captain Thunder. "That might work but she did see it at night so that's not a very trustworthy source," Vadius said with a hint of doubt in his voice. Because this was coming from a humanoid crocodile Ghosty and Captain Thunder gave him weird looks. "Anyway, you guys explained your evidence so now it's my turn!" vadius said triumphantly. "I managed to find a few videos but they're really low quality and blurry.". Vadius showed a video of what appeared to be some elongated creature flying past, it barely appeared on screen and it was practically impossible to tell what it was. The video was posted 1 hour ago, while the team was on patrol. They managed to contact the person who uploaded the video, they told them where they saw this creature and the team headed there quickly.
When they were in the area they looked around, it was beginning to become dark because at this point it was around 6:30 pm. As they were looking around they hear a crashing noise and turn to see 5 Golems identical to the ones earlier. The ground shakes, and out of it appears a man that was standing on top of a floating boulder, holding the Red Crystal in hand. "So you finally found us? I thought it would take longer. Around 2 days or more, so I'm impressed!" the floating man said. Out of the hole the man came out of flew out that some creature they were looking for. It wrapped around the man while staring intensely at the trio. It was a long green snake with massive white wings and it was somehow wearing a suit, this confused everyone, Ghosty specifically. The snake lunged towards Vadius, him just narrowly avoiding it. The two of them were now locked in an intense fight, keeping them occupied at the same time. The man on top of the boulder ordered the 5 golems to attack. These golems weren't as strong as the one they faced earlier, so with a few hits, they managed to take out three, two remaining. Vadius and the snake were evenly matched, both of them being noticeably tired. Captain Thunder lunged upwards, wrapping his hand with electricity, preparing to stop the man in one strike. The man simply moved out of the way. Ghosty was now taking on two golems at once, while Captain thunder was taking on the supposed ring leader of all this. Vadius and the snake were still evenly matched, about to pass out at any second. The snake flew up out of Vadius's site and bit him on the leg. Vadius, without a second thought, grabbed the end of the snake and bit him, both of them passing out. Everyone had their hands full, Ghosty was taking on two golems, Captain Thunder was taking on the leader and Vadius's condition was unknown. The man on the boulder was giggling to himself as captain thunder missed shot after shot as he was slowly heating up. The man on the boulder began to freeze, becoming illuminated by a pink glow. Ghosty just finished taking care of the two golems and was confused about what was happening. A hooded figure leapt down from a nearby building falling like a feather being illuminated by the same pink glow in the progress. Ghosty and Captain Thunder had their guards up but the hooded figure ignored them. Instead, the figure pointed their finger toward the frozen man on the boulder and waved it to the right, the man went flying to the right, the Red Crystal staying in place. The hood of the figure went off revealing a fury figure, it looked to be a humanoid bear, the same one the lady had previously described. The bear pulled the crystal towards her and held it firmly. She walked toward Captain Thunder and Ghosty and asked, " are you guys ok? You all look pretty beat up". they nodded in awe. "Good", the bear instantly flew out of sight , taking the Red Crystal with her. The police arrested the man and the snake while The Ultra Buddies went home.
End of One-Shot