Beastfire: Hi, everyone! I'm back with some new stuff! This is another collaboration, this time between me and Emec, and done in the same way as the one between me and Lmann, but with a different plotline. Also, I own Ivy. Emec owns Frus, Ygrene, and Vrust. Neither of us own the Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce-

Otto: GO!

Beastfire: Erm…right…So, none of us own them; they belong to Ciro Nieli. BUT I WISH I OWNED THEM! (grabs onto Ivy and Frus and shakes them vigorously)

Frus: Get a grip!

Ivy: She's GOT one…on us!

Beastfire: Enjoy!

Frus walked around the Super Robot with a strange feeling inside of him, the strange feeling most people get with the realization that they're another year older. That's right, it was his birthday. He wondered if anyone remembered and went to Antauri, who was, as usual, deep in meditation. 'I wonder what Ivy's doing,' he thought, heading for her room…which he now shared with her.

Speaking of Ivy, she was, indeed, in her room. She had in front of her an old, leather-bound book. On it was written, "Ye Olde Booke of Witchcraft for Village Idiots". Flipping to a random page, she found a spell that interested her. She had a model of a snake and hoped to use it for a voodoo type spell. However, she read the wrong one.

"Otamina!" she yelled.

The model ceased to be a model, as she accidentally brought life to it.

"MALEDIZIONE!"

The snake came at her as she picked up the book, hovered toward the ceiling, and frantically searched for another spell to counteract the previous.

"Ednarg!"

The snake just grew. Now Ivy was getting desperate. If not for the intensity of her fear, she could easily have destroyed the thing. But that thought never occurred to her as she screamed at the top of her lungs.

"AIUTO!"

Frus broke into a dead sprint at this point, wondering what was wrong. When he reached the room, he say Ivy speed out, slam the door behind her, and lean against it, very much out of breath. He put an arm around her and asked what the problem was. She told him in detail what happened. Unfortunately for Frus, this explanation came in rapid, fluent Italian.

"Okay, Ivy…IVY! You need to calm down a little."

"THERE'SA(bleeo)IN'SNAKEINTHERE!"

That time, he actually understood her and entered the room. It didn't take very long for him to defeat the snake. All it took was a slash in just the right place and the snake reverted to its inanimate form. Frus picked up the fake snake, brought it out, and showed it to Ivy.

"Is this what you're so afraid of?" he asked jokingly.

He was answered by a sarcastic smirk.

"Oh yeah, Frus," said Ivy. "Hilarious. Y'know, you should really become a comedian." She seemed to lighten up a little and gave him a kiss. "Thanks. So, whassup?"

"Guess what day it is."

Ivy honestlyhad no idea what he was talking about, but took a wild stab at it.

"Uh…Tuesday?"

"Yes, but more specific."

"Oh, crap, I forgot our anniversary! Wait…would we even be considered married on your home planet?"

"It's not that, it's something else."

"Your birthday?"

"No, it's- actually, yes it is!"

"Dude! I actually guessed right? COOL! So, how old are ya?"

"Eighteen."

"Really? Well, if my birthday's not until August, and yours is in January, then you'd be…uh…let's see…eight months older?"

Frus nodded, and Ivy jumped up in joy, having actually gotten the right number. Sprx and Otto walked in. The red monkey noticed the small leather-bound book and picked it up.

"What the heck is this?" he asked.

Ivy tried to take her book back, but Sprx held it above his head. She hovered to where he had it, but he held her back with his other hand. He thought it was her diary and opened it, reading the contents. The primate's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

"YOU'RE STUDYING WITCHCRAFT?" he shouted.

While Sprx was distracted with yelling at Ivy, Frus was able to take the book away from him and read it for himself.

"I always knew there was something wrong with you!" Sprx continued, holding Ivy to his face while doing so.

"Dude, I can exp-" began the mutant.

"SILENCE!"

"Dude, breath mints."

Sprx checked his breath, almost hurled from the smell, and popped a few Tic-Tacs. Ivy just smirked as he did so and dropped her. Otto was reading over Frus' shoulder and found something.

"It says here that witchcraft is a misunderstood art," read the green monkey.

Sprx just snorted and looked away.

"Where're the others, anyway?" asked Frus. "I know where Antauri is, but not Chiro, Gibson, and Nova."

"Chiro had a test to take for school," Otto explained, "Nova's out with Renegade (see Purifying Wind's stories), and Gibson had some, uh, sciency stuff to do."

"Does anyone know what today is?" was the half-Ethyal's next question.

"Yeah. Happy birthday!" Otto grinned and handed Frus a gift.

Ivy came up to Otto and leaned in toward his ear.

"This isn't that thing that pre-chews your food, is it?" she whispered.

"No," he replied.

Frus opened it and it turned out to be a book called "101 Fun Things to Do With Snake Carcasses". He grinned at the title.

"I told Jet how you hate snakes and she picked it out," Otto said.

"Thank you," Frus replied.

Sprx also handed him a gift.

"Here ya go, kid," he said.

Frus opened it to find a box of…

Earplugs?" he asked, puzzled. "What the heck do I need earplugs for?"

"To drown Ivy out."

Ivy flew quietly from the room, returned with a frying pan, and hit Sprx across the head before putting it back.

"Well, thanks anyway," said Frus.

A sound was heard outside. All of them rushed to see what it was. There was Ygrene with two gifts on his back.

"Happy birthday, Frus!" he said happily. "How are you doing? Feel any older?"

"No, and I'm just fine, thanks."

"Glad to hear it. And you, Ivy?"

"Not too bad. I've been studying witchcraft lately."

"Really? Interesting."

Ivy hovered up to the dragon's back and asked if he wanted her to give the two presents to Frus.

"Of course," he said with a smile. "Go ahead."

She sent both down telekinetically and then hovered back down herself. Frus opened the first gift and it was a jar full of a metal polishing solution from Tserof-7.

"I had a feeling that you missed having that stuff around," Ygrene told him.

"Thank you," Frus replied, looking at the jar and smiling.

"The other box is from your mother."

Frus opened the box and looked at the contents. Inside was a small amulet, with a black and turquoise stone set in the center, on a silvery chain. With it was a note. The note read:

"Dear son,

Now that you have turned eighteen, you now possess this amulet. It has been passed down to to each first-born male in my lineage ever since its creation. It was designed to protect the wearer against evil. What you so with it is your choice. Be sure, however, that you do not disgrace yourself and your family by desecrating this amulet. Hopefully, I shall see you receive this piece of your heritage. If not, then know that I love you, my son."

The note was signed by Frus' father Vrust. Frus had read the note to himself and there was a different note too, unbeknownst to him. Ivy picked it up and read it. This one read:

"My dear son,

If Vrust had survived, he would be here on this day to present this to you. But his final wish was for me to do so. When he left for his final battle, he knew that we might not survive if he were to take the amulet with him. He gave it to us to keep us safe as he went into battle and sacrificed himself to protect his family for the future. I hope that you also know shat to so with the amulet."

This one was signed by his mother Aria. There was more, though.

"P.S.: I hope you and Ivy are doing well, and that you come visit sometime."

Ivy had to laugh. 'Spoken like a true mom,' she thought. She handed Frus his mother's note and he read that one, giving Ivy the one he'd just read. She didn't get a good look at the amulet, so she was a little confused.

"Dude, what's this amulet they keep talkin' about?" she asked.

Frus showed Ivy the box. He took out the amulet on its chain. He then stood right in front of her and hooked it around her neck. Ivy just looked at him in confusion.

"My father and mother told me to do what I felt was right, and I just have," he explained. "Since it protects the wearer from evil, I felt that I should give it to you."

"Thanks, but I'm not sure it works."

"Why's that?"

"Sprx is still here."

Frus, Ygrene and Otto laughed, but Sprx advanced on Ivy and tried to punch her. His fist was stopped by some invisible force and he fell backwards.

"Well, whaddya know?" smirked Ivy. "It really DOES work!"

"So, Ivy, how are you with your witchcraft?" asked Ygrene.

The mutant froze on the spot.

"Erm…uh…well…it's funny you should mention that…and…oh, crap…kinda sorta okay?"

"Can we see you try it? Just something small?"

Feeling her pride get the better of her, Ivy flipped to a random page and read the spell, eyes glowing aqua rather than blue.

"Isranottobs otirips elatrop!" she shouted.

A swirling vortex appeared and began to pull at them all.

"IVY, WHAT DID YOU DO?" yelled Sprx.

"HOW SHOULD I KNOW?" she replied.

"YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SAID THAT SPELL!"

Otto decided to intervene.

"HEY! QUIT ARGUING UNTIL AFTER THIS SWIRLY THINGY IS GONE!"

The red monkey and the meerkat looked around at everyone else. Otto soon got sucked into the vortex…and Ygrene, despite his high mass, was next. Sprx and Ivy were hanging onto his tail, but Frus had anchored himself to the ground with some metal and was able to grab Ivy and pull her over to him. They held onto each other in what can only be described as a death grip. However, even that wasn't enough, for both were the final two to be sucked through. Once they wore through it, the vortex closed.

Otto was the first to land, and when he landed, the spellbook did too…right on his head. For fun, he decided to read a spell.

"Ovittac," he read, unaware that he'd just read the 'evil' spell.

His eyes became an evil, harsh blood-red, features twisting to those of your basic serial killer. He had transformed from dumb yet lovable Otto to cruel, sadistic, Sanguinario (Italian for "murderous") Otto.

Ygrene and Sprx landed elsewhere.

"Where the heck are we?" asked Sprx.

"I don't know," said Ygrene.

"You just HAD to ask her to show off, didn't you?"

"I was curious!"

"Hey, curiosity killed the cat!"

"But satisfaction brought him back!"

Meanwhile, Ivy and Frus landed in a pitch black area. Frus wasn't able to see where he was going and crashed into someone. That someone, of course, was Ivy. She let out a small scream when they both fell to the ground. Her eyes began to glow as she looked for what she crashed into.

"Sorry," Frus apologized. "Are you okay?

"Yeah, I think so."

Both got up.

"So, where are we?" Frus asked casually.

"I believe the correct question is 'when are we'?"

"You mean we've travelled through time?"

"No, I've just always wanted to say that."

Ivy created a fireball in her hand and they looked around. Just then, some strange music seemed to come in from out of nowhere. This gave her the creeps and she jumped into Frus' arms Scooby-Doo style, accidentally extinguishing the flame she'd created.

Beastfire: That's chapter 1! What will happen next time? I don't know! Please review, and Emec, write the second chapter soon!