Phantoms of Night ~ Happy

Intro
It all began on the dreaded night that Zios fell. By this time, phantoms were all gone, easily defeated and now Jammers didn’t worry a bit about them. But oh, this was different. These weren’t phantoms emerging into the world of Jamma, but what could these monsters be?

The scattered rocks and stone lay across the cobblestone and grass in The Lost Temple of Zios. Jammers stood shocked staring at this sight, “How? Why?” They all asked themselves.

But this mystery was no where near as horrid as what was beginning to come to there home, oh they had no clue.. But who was to protect their home from these beasts?

Chapter One: Aria’s POV
“We defeat the phantoms, woohoo victory for all, then Leilani goes missing, Arthur disappears as well..” I said trying to think of what led up to this point. I tapped my large hat against my purple and magenta face trying to think.

“And then these new monsters came crawling in to Jamma after Zios broke.” Tempest finished, his big blue and grey scales plopped next to Rose’s pink and grey scales.

“Exactly, the Alphas have been missing for quite some time and s-“ Ren started talking louder than me, “We have gone over this TONS of times, we never get to the bottom of it. We just protect Jamma, come here at the end of the day, and repeat what we did at the beginning of the day.” His big feathered Musketeer hat lay over his green and tan face, covering his usually happy, but now looking tired, eyes.

“But don’t you think we have to do something..?” Toasty Bear, a brown and pale yellow lizard, quietly said. All Ren did was glance tiredly in his direction, not wanting to be apart of it.

I couldn’t stand Ren, he was our ‘Team Leader’ and he didn’t even give a care about why the monsters are even here! If anything I’m just a sidekick, loyal to my master but doing most the work.

“What I think is that you need to shut up and actually care!” Did I just say that out loud?

By the looks I got from all around the room, yes, I did.

I saw Tibbles pull his green and yellow foot up to his mouth, holding in a snicker. I guess I’m the only one who has the courage to stand up to Ren, it’s not that hard, just waiting for what he says to know if to do this more often.

Ren was standing up, slowly making his way to me, Oh Mother of Mira what was he going to do?

“Maybe I do, but in the meantime I don’t want to waste time thinking when we have Jammers to protect out there. We have already lost enough, Aria.” His owner. She didn’t last the first day, taken to the world underneath the broken Zios platform.

“Sorry-“ I said, trying to sound annoyed but sincere. Maybe I was sorry but we don’t need to be silent the whole time, I think we should actually be getting stuff done when the monsters didn’t prowl.

I looked over to Rose, her nose was in a book but I could tell her mind was somewhere else. “Rose, whatcha thinking over there?” She looked over to me, trying her best not to lose her train of thought.

“I don’t know.. All these things were happening right before the monsters... Leading up to it, correct?” She didn’t ask that as a question, just thinking out loud, so I kept my gaze on her. “Soo.. We have seen Jammers be taken away by them, but what do they do with them? Probably take them down to that lair of their’s. If the Jammers are there, what if Leilani, Arthur, or even the Alphas are there, too?”

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Ren’s tired face turn into more of a hopeful look, something we didn’t see often. “We just have to figure out for ourselves then.” Tempest said confidently, no matter what Rose said, he went on with it and supported it.

“That area is always crawling with monsters, floating in and out.” Ren said thinking his hardest. “But we are lizards! But..” I realized something in the moment. “These creatures are like.. Evolved phantoms of a sort. We got to the Phantoms without a big crack in Jamma.. We had a portal.”

Everyone looked at me again, but this time it wasn’t shock, it was hope. “How will we get a portal for this monster dimension?” Toasty Bear said, urning for his owner. “We already have one.”