TylerAladdin Ch.7

CHAPTER SEVEN

The dungeons of the palace was not as nice as you think it was. Despite the beautiful palace, the dungeons below is not. The place was infested with rats of shapes and sizes. The only light comes from the bars of the window. Deep in one of the dungeons, Tyler was chained to the wall. The dragon tries to struggle free, but it was no use. The shackles were too tough. He gives up and sighs.

“She was the princess. I don't believe it. I must have sounded so stupid to her”, Tyler sighed to himself.

“Yoohoo!”.

Tyler looked to whoever shouted at him, and sees Spike as the barred window.

“Miss me?” smiled Spike.

“Spike! Down here!” smiled Tyler. Spike manages to squeeze through the bars and jumps down to where he is.

“Hey, c'mon—help me out of these” said Tyler.

“FIRST. You gotta promise to never fall in love with a girl WHO HAPPENS TO BE THE PRINCESS OF AGRABRAH!!!” said Spike, a little furious about eariler.

“Hey, how was I supposed to know she was the princess? Besides she was in trouble” said Tyler. Then he smiles dreamily. “Ah, she was worth it...”.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah...”, Spike rolled his eyes as he pulled out a lockpick from under his fez. He starts picking the shackles' locks.

“Don't worry, Spike. I'll never see her again. I'm a street rat, remember? And there's a law. She's gotta marry a prince” said Tyler. Spike finally frees Tyler's hands.

“Ta-da!” said Spike. Tyler gets up, rubbing his wrists.

“I'm a—I'm a fool” said Tyler.

“You're only a fool if you give up, boy”.

Tyler and Spike turned to whoever spoke, and they see an old pony in the darkness. He was elderly, wearing a dark cloth, with sinister looking eyes.

“Who are you?” asked Tyler.

“A lowly prisoner, like yourself. But together, perhaps we can be more”, the old pony smiled as he approached him from the shadows. Tyler raises in eyebrow. What is he getting at here?

“I'm listening...”, Tyler said.

“There is a cave, boy. A cave of wonders. Filled with riches beyond your wildest dreams” said the old pony, pulling out a ruby from his cloak, showing it to them. Tyler looked at it in awe, as Spike looked at it with hungry.

Spike licked his lips in hunger and was about to bite it until the old pony took it away.

“Treasure enough to impress your princess, I'd wager” said the old pony, walking away from them for a moment. While his back is turned to them, Meowth peeks out from under his cloak, sweating. The old pony is actually Sombra under a spell of disguise. This is his only way to get Tyler to the cave of wonders.

“Sombra, can ya hurry it up? I'm dyin' in here!” whispered Meowth. “Sombra” whacked him back into his cloth.

“But the law said that only a prince can marry--” said Tyler.

“You've heard of the golden rule, haven't you, boy? Whoever has the gold, makes the rules” said the old pony or “Sombra”. He grins, showing a hideously bad mouth.

“So why would you share all of this wonderful treasure with me?” asked Tyler.

“I need a young man with strong legs and a strong back to go in after it” said the old pony.

“Uh, one problem. It's out THERE, we're in HERE?”, Tyler reminded him.

“Mmm, mmm, mmm. Things aren't always what they seem”, the old pony smiled. He approaches a wall and pushes open a hidden exit.

“So, do we have a deal?” said the old pony. Tyler looks at Spike, who shrugs his shoulders.



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After traveling through the storm of sands in the Arabian desert, they made it to the Cave of Wonders. Tyler stands before the open jaws of the cavern, his friend Spike hides behind him in fear. But being brave, Tyler approaches the cave. The cave spoke to him.

“WHO DISTURBS MY SLUMBER?” asked the cave.

“It is I, Tyler the Dragon”, Tyler replied. The cave raises an eyebrow, examining him. Then it spoke.

“PROCEED. TOUCH NOTHING BUT THE LAMP” said the cave. The cave opened its jaws wider with a roar, allowing Tyler entrance to the cavern below.

“Remember boy! Fetch me the lamp, and the rest of the treasure shall be yours!” said the old pony. Tyler turns to Spike.

“You ready, buddy?”, he asked.

“N-No...”, Spike shivered in fear.

“We're going anyways” said Tyler. Then he and Spike slowly starts descending the staircase.

After going down deeper into the cavernous pit, he reaches a gigantic doorway, with a golden light shining out from inside. He and Spike enters through, and turned to awe at their discovery. Before them lies a treasure chamber, filled with vast gold and jewels. There are even those that came from other cultures around the world.

“Would ya look at that?” said Tyler in awe.

“WOW!” exclaimed Spike.

“Just a handful of this stuff would make me richer than the Queens of Agrabrah!” said Tyler. Spike spots a pile of jewels and goes hungry real fast. He dashes towards them, hungry for a bite.

“Spike, no!” yelled Tyler. Spike stops in mid-run. Tyler approaches him.

“Don't...touch...anything! We gotta find that lamp” said Tyler. He continues forward. Spike pouts, but follows him.

A pokemon pokes her head out from under a pile of coins. She examines them curiously, then gets out and follows them. She is Latias, a legendary Eon Pokemon. She is red and white dragon-like bird pokemon, with a blue triangle at her chest. She follows behind them quietly.

While sneaking up behind Spike, Spike gets the feeling that they're being followed and stops. He turns, and Latias hovers above him. He turns around, and Latias follows again. Again, Spike turns back, but Latias hovers up once more. Getting a little nervous, Spike runs up to Tyler and tugs his pant leg.

“Uh, Tyler, I think there's something here” said Spike.

“Spike, will ya knock it off? There's no one here” said Tyler, and continues. Spike gets a little frustrated, and follows him. Again, Latias follows, but this time, when Spike turns, Latias hovers over to the other side. It reaches down with her hand and pulls Spike's tail. Spike yelps in surprise. When he jumps around, Latias again goes to the other side. This time, Spike lands in a karate stance.

“Okay, who's there?” asked Spike to whoever it was that pulled his tail. Latias reaches down and plucks Spike's fez off, and puts it on her head. Spike scratches his head, thinking for a second, until Latias waves a hand in front of his face.

“AHHHHH!” shrieked Spike, jumping in fright. Latias shrieks in fright as well. They both ran away in different directions, and Spike tackles Tyler.

“There's something back there!”, Spike said, trying to turn Tyler's head to look at Latias.

“Spike, what are you....crazy?”, Tyler said, before seeing Latias. She peeks out from behind a pile of treasure.

“A Latias!”, Tyler said in awe. He gets up from the ground.

“C'mon. C'mon out. I'm not gonna hurt you”, Tyler assured the pokemon. Latias comes out, shyly, then picks up Spike's hat and dusts it off. She flies over to Tyler and hands the fez to Spike. Spike yelps and smacks her hand away, after he grabbed his hat back.

“Get away from me, you!” yelled Spike.

“Take it easy, Spike. She's not gonna bite” said Tyler. Latias starts hovering away sadly.

“Hey, wait a minute. Don't go. Maybe you can help us” said Tyler. Latias looks back, excited. She lets out a cry of happiness, then she flies over and hugs the pair tightly.

“Hey, whoa! You see, we're trying to find this lamp...” said Tyler. Latias flies ahead and points forward the direction of the lamp.

“What is she doing?” wondered Spike.

“I think she knows where it is. Let's follow her” said Tyler. The duo began to follow with Latias leading them to their goal.

They pass through a long cavernous tunnel, until they emerge into a large cavern. In the center of the room is a tall pillar, with a staircase going up to it. It is surrounded by water with unevenly placed stones forming a bridge. At the top of the pillar is a beam of light.

“Think the lamp is up there?”, Spike asked Tyler.

“Only one way to find out” said Tyler. He begins crossing the bridge. But looks back at Spike with a serious look, saying “Wait here. Don't touch anything!”.

As Tyler hops along the stones to reach the stairs, Spike looks around, and sees a shrine with a golden alicorn. On its hooves, holds the most largest ruby you have never seen before. Spike's eyes turned to hunger, licking his lips.

“So juicy....”, Spike said, his eyes turned to rubies hungrily. He walks over, hypnotically drawn to it.

Tyler starts climbing the stairs, beginning his climb to the top of the pillar.

Latias soon realizes Spike is missing and looks for him. She sees him approaching the giant ruby and gets horrified. She dashes over and grabs him, trying in vain to hold him back. But Spike struggles hungrily to reach the ruby.

Tyler reaches the top. Sitting in the beam of light, was the magic lamp itself. Tyler approaches it and takes it. He examines it closely.

“This is it? This is what we came all the way down here to--”, Tyler said as he looked back down to Spike and Latias. He sees Spike breaks free from Latias's hold and lunges towards the jewel.

“Spike! NOOO!” yelled Tyler.

But it was too late.

Spike grabs the jewel, and was about to chomp down on it, until he heard the booming voice of the cave.

“INFIDELS!!!” yelled the cave's voice.

“Ooops...”, Spike said, realizing what he did.

“YOU HAVE TOUCHED THE FORBIDDEN TREASURE!!!” yelled the cave's voice. Spike sheepishly puts the jewel back, but the jewel and the shrine melts into lava.

“NOW YOU WILL NEVER AGAIN SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY!!!!!!” boomed the cave's voice. The place where the lamp was sitting erupts into a column of fire. Rocks began to fall from the ceiling as the whole cavern shakes violently. The water in the cavern all turned into bubbling hot lava. Tyler races down the stairs with the lamp, but they flatten into a ramp, and he slides down until he flies up in the air. He screams as he falls towards the lava, when all the sudden, Latias flew by and catches him.

“Tyler! HELP!” yelled Spike. Tyler sees him trapped, standing on one of the rocks. Spike looks left and right, and sees rocks exploding into lava. Riding on Latias, he flies towards him.

“I'm running out of rocks here!” yelled Spike. Tyler grabs him before the rock he stood on exploded. Tyler looks back, and a tidal wave of lava forms and comes after them.

“Whoa! Latias, let's move!” yelled Tyler to her. They quickly flew out of the cavern and into the long tunnel. The lava flow comes after them. Tyler and Spike saw debris coming down at them and they ducked. The rocks exploded into the lava flow behind them. Spike was so scared, he clings onto Tyler's face, blocking his sight.

“Spike, this is no time to panic!” said Tyler, as he strugges to pull him off. He does it, and sees they're about to fly into a wall.

“Can we panic NOW?!?!” screamed Spike in panic. Latias goes into a dive, with Tyler and Spike yelling. Then through another cave. Finally, they emerge back into the treasure chamber. The lava flows in, resulting in an explosion. The treasure went flying through the air. They swerved side to side, dodging erupting columns of fire. Some fire took form as a pair of hands. But they avoid being hit by them.

Outside, the cave roars in agony and starts closing. But they made to the exit. Before they reached it, however, a rock drops on Latias, sending Tyler and Spike flying. Latias falls to the floor, pinned by the boulder.

Tyler and Spike managed to grab onto the entrance's edge. The old pony looks down at them, within reach.

“Help us out!” yelled Tyler.

“Throw me the lamp!”, he said.

“I can't hold on! Give me your hoof!” said Tyler, losing his grip.

“First give me the lamp!” said the old pony. Tyler reaches into his chest with one hand and pulls out the lamp. He hands it up, and the old pony takes it. He raises it above his head in joy.

“Ha ha ha ha! YES! It's MINE!” cheered the old pony. Spike manages to climb out and tries to pull Tyler up. But the old pony kicks him aside and grabs Tyler's hand with his hoof.

“What are you doing?!”, Tyler said.

“Giving you your reward!” said the old pony. Then “Sombra” returns to his normal voice, making his horn magically appear on his head. It began to glow with dark magic.

“Your ETERNAL reward!” said “Sombra”. Tyler looks up at him in shock. But before Sombra can kill him with his magic, Spike chomps down on his leg. Sombra screams in pain, and lets go of Tyler. Tyler falls down to the cavern. Sombra shakes Spike off his leg, tossing him down with Tyler. Tyler and Spike scream as they fall to their deaths.

Latias sees this, still pinned by the boulder. She struggles to break free. She does and flies up to them. She catches them, but Tyler was already unconscious after hitting the walls several times.

On the surface, the cave gives one final roar before sinking back into the sands. Thinking he succeeded, Sombra removes his disguise spell, returning him back to what he was before. He laughs hideously.

“Heh heh heh. It's mine. It's all mine!” laughed Sombra. He reaches into his bag, but finds it all empty. He can't seem to find it anywhere else.

“What? Where is it?”, Sombra wondered, searching for it. That's when he realized what has happened.

“NOOOOOOO!!!” yelled Sombra in anger. He has lost the lamp.



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Back at the palace, in Lexi's bedroom, Lexi was sitting on her bed next to Infernios, her pokemon. She rubs his cheek sadly. Her Typhlosion is also sad too. Lexi hears a knock at her doors.

“Dearest?” asked the voice. The doors opened and Queen Celestia walks in.

“I was hoping we can talk about the incident I heard about today--”, Celestia said as she approaches her. But she finds her sad.

“What is wrong, my daughter?” asked Celestia, concerned. Lexi turns to her mother, tears still falling from her eyes.

“Mother, Sombra...has...done something...terrible”, Lexi sniffed tearfully. Celestia wraps her in her arms, rocking her back and forth in comfort.

“There, there, there, my young one—we'll set it right. Now, tell me everything” said Celestia.