BOOK 2: Frogger and the Mystic Egg of Firefly Swamp
Frogger; in his white shirt, brown vest, and denim shorts, sat in his house in Firefly Swamp, thinking. His friend Lumpy, a forest green toad with a yellow shit and red overalls, walked in and said, "Are you thinkin' again, Frogger? Y'gotta stop doin' this to yourself!"
"I know, I know." Frogger replied, sadly. "I'm just bored. There's nothing to do here any more. Ever since I found the magic ring, everything seems to have dimmed down."
"Frogger! Frogger!" Frogger Jr. called. The Fairy Frogmother is back, and she's got something in her hand!"
"What?!" Frogger and Lumpy exclaimed. "Where is she?"
"She's right outside!" Frogger Jr. said. They all ran outside. The Fairy Frogmother was standing, waiting.
"Frogmother?" Frogger asked. She turned around.
"Oh! Oh! Oh!" She exclaimed. "Oh! My boys!" She came up to Frogger and Lumpy and gave them each a kiss on the cheek. "Hello, boys. It's been a long time since I've seen you two."
"Well, it's been a while since we've seen you, Frogmother." Lumpy said. "Your presence usually means something. What do you have for us?"
"Let's go inside and I'll tell you." She replied. "If we stay out here, they might here us..." They walked inside.
"So," Frogger Jr. began. "What do you want to tell us? Did you discover another legendary treasure?"
"Not exactly." The Fairy Frogmother said. "The egg of the Mystic Bird has been stolen!"
"Mystic Bird?" Frogger said.
"Egg?" Said Lumpy.
"Stolen?!" said Frogger Jr.
"uh..." The Fairy Frogmother began. "Don't you know about the Mystic Bird?"
"No," explained Frogger.
"Never heard of it!" Lumpy agreed.
"Are you kidding me?!" Frogger Jr. shouted. "I can't believe you've never heard of the Mystic Bird! I've been learning about the Mystic Bird in school."
"Oh, really?" Frogger asked.
"Please do tell us!" Lumpy asked.
"Yes, the story is too complicated for me to tell," The Fairy Frogmother said.
"Alright," Frogger Jr. acknowledged. "The legend – I think – goes like this:
* * *
"Once there was a bird. This bird was the greatest bird. The greatest bird that ever lived. This...uh, bird...he, uh...flew... to a lake. Where he met a man – "
"A MAN?!" Frogger and Lumpy exclaimed.
"Yes, but this was thousands of years ago," The Fairy Frogmother explained.
"Okay! Let me get back to the story! So anyway, this man put a charm on the lake. He told the great bird that the charm excelled knowledge, and gave magical powers to the greatest being –or, body – or, whatever – who drinks from it. So the bird drank and the man said this: When you give to the world an egg, from which side the egg opens, light or darkness will fill this world, And so the Great Bird, who had seized mystic powers, gave birth to an egg thousands of years later, and waited for it to hatch."
* * *
Frogger yawned. "That was long," he said. "But I get it."
"Me too!" Lumpy agreed.
"Now do you see why it's so important?" The Fairy Frogmother asked.
"Yes, but, why hasn't the egg hatched?" Frogger asked.
"Because it's about to hatch an if it is in evil's hands, the being inside will destroy the world!" Frogger Jr. spoke up. "...I was, uh...exaggerating."
"So where do we start looking for the egg?" Lumpy asked.
"Ah, yes!" The Fairy Frogmother's mind was jogged. "This belongs to a person who is searching for the egg as well," she said as she handed them a crystal circus baton. "They are not your enemy, but they will help you in your search."
"Where is this person?" Frogger asked.
"They are circling themselves in Crocodile Swamp, just south of the Old Goblin Woods. But be careful, goblins are close on her tail." The Frogmother explained.
"Alright!" Exclaimed Frogger Jr. "Let's go!" And so Frogger Jr. Frogger, and Lumpy set out to the Old Goblin Woods.
"It's been a while since we've been here, "Lumpy said.
"I know!" Frogger Jr. said. "I didn't think there were any more goblins!"
"Well," Frogger said, "You were wrong."
They kept walking for about another few minutes until Frogger found the Marsh. "Aww, yuck!" he said. I stepped right in the bog!"
"Hee-hee!" giggled Lumpy and Frogger Jr. "It looks good on your feet and makes you look like you're wearing shoes!"
"Hey look! A boardwalk!" Frogger exclaimed.
"Really?!" Lumpy asked, looking around.
"No," said Frogger as he shoved Lumpy into the bog. "Actually there was, I just felt like pushing you in!"
"Fooey!" spat Lumpy. He got up and wiped off his clothes. He walked over to the boardwalk. "Come on! What are you waiting for?"
They followed the boardwalk for many miles. They came across evil crocodiles and friendly rabbits and many other creatures. Then they saw bubbles in the bog.
"Hey, what's that?!" Frogger Jr. asked.
"I...don't...know..." Frogger said as he backed away.
A blue head popped out of the bog with a hand holding a stick. "I found it!" It said. "Oh darn, just another stick. Aggh! Travelers!"
"Hi," Lumpy said, "I'm Lumpy."
"I'm Frogger," said Frogger.
"And I'm Junior!" said Frogger Jr.
"Hello," said the blue frog. "I'm Berry. I'm a baton twirler in my caravan that's far west of Lake Moon. I lost my baton and have looked all over the land for it."
"You mean like this?" Frogger whipped out the baton.
"Yes! Yes! That's my baton! Thank you!" Berry said. "Oh, wherever did you find it?"
"Actually, the Fairy Frogmother gave it to us to give it to you – or someone else?" Lumpy said.
"Interesting," Berry remarked. "How did she get it? Oh well. So why are you tromping out here in the dangerous Crocodile Swamp?"
"We're trying to find out who stole the Mystic Bird's egg!" Frogger Jr. said. "Fairy Frogmother said the owner of the baton would help us find it."
"Really?!" Berry said. "Ha! That's easy! I know where it is and who took it, too!"
"Who?!" They all shouted.
"Well, beyond the swamp, there's the Goblin Fortress, where the goblins create terrible schemes," Berry said. "That's where the Goblin King lives."
"Ooh, I remember him..." Frogger said. "I once battled him to get the Fire Element to defeat Mr. D."
"That's when you met me!" Lumpy said.
"Yes, he's gotten much more rotten than ever. He's going to hatch the egg and bring destruction to this earth!" Berry exclaimed.
"Well, we better get going!" Frogger Jr. said.
Close behind, two goblins were catching up to them... "We better catch up to them, or they're going to find the fortress!" The first one said. "The Goblin King is there by himself, defenseless!"
"Yeah, but at least we're trying to stop them!" The second one said. "If the boss sees the baton, we're dead meat!"
* * *
"Look! There it is!" Frogger said. "The Goblin's Fortress!" The dark castle loomed over the Marsh. They entered the Fortress to find nothing. No sounds, no noise...nothing.
"Hello!?" Frogger Jr. asked loudly. "Is anyone there?!"
"Shh!" The rest quieted him. "Be quiet!"
A sound came from thin air. "AHAHAHA!!" Then there was a small farting noise.
"What the..." Lumpy began. A giant goblin fell from the ceiling.
"AHAHAHA!!!" It laughed. It was the Goblin King. "WELCOM TO MY DOMAIN!! YOU SHALL NOT LEAVE NOW!"
"Great. Just wonderful." Berry said with sarcasm.
"PREPARE TO BE DEFEATED!!" The Goblin King shouted. He slammed his giant foot onto the ground and created a shock that knocked everyone down.
Frogger and Lumpy attacked back by getting on each other's shoulders and spat their tongues at the Goblin King's head, which knocked him over. He was down for the count.
"Urgggh," mumbled the Goblin King. "BoogaBooga."
"Where is the Mystic Egg? Give it to us!" Berry snapped.
"Oh? You want Big Egg?" The King laughed. "Me sold it to crocodile gang for big money money!"
"Okay, something has gone really wack here." Berry said. "Let's try this." She held up her baton. It glowed in the dim light. The King's body glowed bright white. It formed into a giant bird, who looked very majestic.
"The Mystic Bird!" Frogger Jr. shouted. "How amazed of you we are! Oh, however did you manage to complete such a task?"
"Pssst!" whispered Frogger. "Why are you talking like that?"
"You must be polite to Royalty." Frogger Jr. replied back.
"That magical man," the bird began. "He tricked me! Right before my egg began hatching, he stole my egg and ran off with it, turning me into that horrible figure!"
"So is what your goblin form said true?" Lumpy asked.
"No. The man has my egg. He put a curse on me to turn into a goblin that lies until a crystal baton came to my eyes; and you have rescued me!" The bird said. "We must find that man!"
The two goblins walked in. "Oh, shucks! The first one shouted. "We're too late! Looks like he saw the baton!"
The Mystic Bird flew over to the first goblin and picked him up with her prongs. "You know the man who took my egg!"
"Yes. Yes I do," he said.
"Tell me where he is or I'll crush your bones!" The Mystic Bird threatened.
"Okay! Okay!" The goblin whined. "He's at the shrine, with your egg! That's all I know!"
"You've done well. You may go." The bird set the goblin down and turned to the frogs. "Hop on! It's a long way to the shrine!"
It was beautiful at Firefly Swamp's shrine. There were flowers all around, the sun was shining, and the trees around them were dancing. In the corner of the meadow, there was a large broken stone tablet.
"What does it say?" Frogger Jr. asked.
"MR. D: MAY HE NE'ER RISE AGAIN." Read Lumpy.
"Beware," The Mystic Bird warned. "He may be anywhere..."
"Congratulations." A dark voice said. There was a man over by a patch of dark flowers. He turned around. It was a skeleton in a black robe. "You've found me, O great Mystic Bird."
Frogger perked up. "Mr. D!!" HE shouted. "You swore not to return!"
"Ah, Frogger..." Mr. D stuttered. "My favorite protagonist. What a pleasant surprise. Looks like I'm having frog legs for dinner –
again! AHAHAHA!"
"Very funny." Frogger remarked. Now where is the Mystic Bird's egg?"
"Well I don't know." He lied. "Why don't you ask her? It's mommy's instinct to know where her children are!"
Frogger and Lumpy became angry. They prepared their tongues for launch.
"Fools!" Mr. D shouted. "You can't beat me like that!"
"Listen to him," the Mystic Bird said. You must detach his head to send him back into the depths from which he came!"
"This should be easy," said Berry. "Let's use that stone tablet!"
So, the three oldest frogs used their tongues to pick up the broken tablet and chuck it at Mr. D. It knocked his head off the rest of his skeletal body and crushed his legs and torso.
"No!" cried Mr. D. "You disabled me!"
"Yes, we have." The Mystic Bird said. "Now, where is my baby?"
"Yer darned ol' egg is up there." A finger of Mr. D's popped out from under the broken tablet and pointed at a large tower in the distance. There was a small round shape at the top of the tower. "It's guarded by goblins, and you can't fly to the top. Good luck..." he said, evilly.
The Mystic Bird looked at Frogger, Lumpy, and Berry. "It appears that I can only take you to the tower, and not up it. Hop on we'll go."
"Okay!" Frogger Jr. shouted.
They got onto the giant bird and flew to the dark tower. As they flew off, the heard, "Ill get you next time, Frogger!"
Once there, goblins were pacing on each side of the tower. "I heard screaming over the shrine." Reported the North-side goblin. "Y'think da master's okay?"
"Yeah," answered the west-side goblin. "He's probably fine!"
Tongues came out of nowhere.
WHACK!"What-what happened?"
* * *
"Ha! That so cool how you took out those goblins!" Frogger Jr. said to Lumpy, Berry, and Frogger.
"Yeah, but there's no doors anywhere!" Lumpy shouted. "How are we gonna get up there?"
Something inside Berry's mind clicked. "Heyyy...." She thought out loud. "My hands can stick to walls! I can tow you guys up to the top so we can get the egg!"
"Really?!" Frogger Jr. questioned.
"Yeah! Just grab onto my feet and away we'll go!" Berry exclaimed. She climbed up the tower. Lumpy, Frogger, and Jr. grabbed onto Berry's feet and she pulled them up the tower. At the top of the tower, there was a large net with a humongous egg in it.
"Let's grab the egg and get out of here!" Frogger exclaimed. Lumpy grabbed the egg with his tongue and pulled it into his large belly.
Mr. D's head appeared in the corner of the tower. "Taking the egg off of the pedestal begins the tower's self-destruct mode, you know...WAHAHAHA!!" He laughed.
"Oh, shoot!" Berry cried. They began panicking. "We have to get off of the tower!"
"Everybody jump!" Frogger shouted. The four Frogs joined hands and jumped off of the tower. As the rumbling sound of the collapsing tower was loud as could be, the four could clearly hear Mr. D's evil laugh: "WAHAHAHA!!! WAHAHAHA!!!"
All four frogs screamed as they fell down to the bottom of the tower. Before they hit the ground, the Mystic Bird flew up and caught them all on her back and flew them all back to Frogger's house. "This is where I leave you," she said. "Thank you, for all your help."
"No problem!" Frogger replied, "but where will you go?"
"Yeah, where will you go?" Frogger Jr. asked.
"I will go to my nest near Lake Moon, where I first met this so-called Mr. D," she replied.
"What?!" The four shouted. "Lake Moon?!"
"Yes," The Mystic Bird announced, "Lake Moon is charmed."
"Well, I guess we know where to go now!" Frogger explained.
"Hold on!" Lumpy pointed out. He burped and the egg came out. "Here's your egg back."
"Yes," The Mystic Bird took the shaking egg in her mouth and took off. "Goodbye! I hope to see you again! Godbye!"
"Well," began Lumpy, "Welcome to the crowd, Berry!"
"Thank you," Berry replied, "it's a pleasure."
The four frogs happily stayed at Frogger's house, until new adventure came knocking on their door...
"Knock, knock!"
"Hello?"
To Be Continued...
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Here's my thought process as to how this series would go: 5 stories the occur consecutively, and then some sort of break, as marked by the lines labeled "6 months later" and "2 years later." Each installment would introduce a new named companion or partner creature/animal, and a boss or enemy, marked by an 'X'.
The titles are as follows:
1. The Magic Ring - Capt. Gill; Alligator
2. The mystic Egg - Berry; Frog X Mr. D, King Ijit
3. The Beast of Lake Moon - Herald; Shark X Stripe; Tigershark
4. The Castle in the Sky - Nicky; Dragon
(The Sharks of Lake Moon - Herald; Shark)
5. The Cave of Nicky the Dragon - Jeffery; Warthog
(6. The Frogmother Attack) - NOTE: For a while I had debated the possibility of having the Fairy Frogmother be a bit more sinister than she actually was, but I decided that wouldn't be the best idea...
6 MONTHS LATER...
6. The Special Scroll of Mt. Tremble - Brother; Yeti
7. The Spell of the Sandy Sea - Ferbert; Starfish
8. The Curse of King Jimmy's Beach Ball - King Jimmy; Ghost Frog X Rattle Snake
9. The Lost 25¢ Unicorn - Nay Nay; Unicorn NOTE: I must have let one of my friends come up with the title for this one...that isn't my handwriting.
10. The Revenge of Dr. Wani - Benny; Rabbit X Dr. Wani, Ronm(??); Alligators
2 YEARS LATER...
11.The Buzzard's Boomerang - Vicky; Kangaroo, Dribb; Buzzard
12. The Chimes of Flame -
13. The Legend of the 27 Pillows - Poof; Cloud
14. The
15. The
...And that's all she wrote, I guess. Or, I wrote. You know what I mean.