Ren:  The Wraith is becoming more rocky.  Hoist the sails and stablize the bough.  We must keep this ship afloat!

(Ioz and Tam Tam did what Ren said.  The two tightened the knots of the sails and manages to stablize the bough.  Unfortunately, it doesn't last too long.)

Tam Tam:  Ren, the winds are too strong!

Ioz:  Fissures are growing within the mast.

Ren:  Keep it steady, crew!  The end of the storm is almost ahead of us.

(Meanwhile, Cham Cham blows her chunks over board, joining Niddler, who also blows his chunks.  The two regurgitates partially digested minga melons and bananas into the sea.)

Cham Cham:  Cham Cham no feel good!  @_@!

Niddler:  *SQUAWK*  I should've have eaten all those minga melons at once before the storm!  Ugh!

(But the worst has finally come.  The ship's mast breaks from the pressure!  Nothing can stop the ship from sailing wildly!)

Ioz:  The mast has shattered!

Ren:  Noy-Jitat!  Why is Kunda cursing us this day?!

(Without the Wraith's mast, it cannot maintain maneuverability.  The ship beaches itself on a deserted island, making a noticable hole in the ship's hull.  The group is saved from the storm, but they are stranded on the island, unable to get back to shore.  Still, with the storm brewing, it would be foolhardy to sail through the stormy seas.  Unanimously, the group decided to weather the storm inside the ship's rooms, waiting for the storm to end.)

(Three hours pass, and the storm finally lightened up its wrath.  The heavy rains have weakened to very light rain.  The thunderbolts that strike the seas have ceased.  The crew boards the deck to check the damage.  The mass has broken and needs to be repaired.  Worse yet, there is a gaping hole in the ship's hull that needs to be plugged.)

Ren:  We're saved.  Thank Kunda!  ~_~...

Tula:  Looks like Kunda hasn't cursed us, Ren.

Cham Cham:  Cham Cham feel dizzy.  Can Cham Cham get off ride now?  @_@!  *FEELS SICK*

Ioz:  Well... at least my 100 pieces of gold are still safe and sound.  Once I get to the nearest game house, I'm gonna gamble like there's no tomorrow!

Tam Tam:  Well, we're safe.  What should we do now?

Ren:  Well, the ship needs to be repaired.  We should find some supplies and materials to patch the ship right away.

(Just then, Ren's magic compass begin to emit another beam of light.  This time, the beam focuses on a mountain top, surrounded by an unusual smog.  As luck would have it, the crew have discovered the location for the 10th Treasure of Rule!)

Ren:  Chongo-Longo!  The compass is reacting!

Tam Tam:  Looks like our luck has gone from good to better.

Cham Cham:  We go find treasure?  Find way back to home of Cham Cham and Big Brother?

Ren:  We do need to retrieve the treasure, but we need to repair the ship.  I will need someone to repair the Wraith while someone comes with me to get the treasure.

Tula:  If you want, Ren, I can come with you.  Ioz would love to repair the ship, wouldn't he?  >:]

Ioz:  Scapongo, woman!  You have all the fun while I do the repairs?

Tula:  Revenge is sweet, isn't it?

Ioz:  Chongo-Scapongo!  >:|

Ren:  Great, it's settled.  Who else is coming with me.

Cham Cham:  Cham Cham go with Blond Boy and Pink Woman.  Big Brother no mind, do you?

Tam Tam:  Chammy, isn't that a bit dangerous?

Ioz:  Well, if I have to be stuck repairing a jitatan ship, I might as well do with with a strong one like you.  It's better than that daba monkey bird. *pats Tam Tam on the back*

Ren:  You'll need Niddler's help, Ioz.

Ioz:  Why do I always get stuck with that monkey bird?!  >:|!

Tam Tam:  Oh... uhh... thanks.  :\

(With that said, The group broke company.  While Ioz, Tam Tam, and Niddler try their best to repair the Wraith, Ren, Tula, and Cham Cham left to the mountain to attain the 10th Treasure of Rule.)

(Meanwhile, under the deck of the Maelstrom, Konk is having a hell of a time outrunning the Constrictus for the 75th time.)

Konk:  *GASP*  This get harder every time!  Why Bloth always throw Konk in pit of Constrictus?!  :(

(The constrictus's cries grow louder as it draws near to Konk.)

Konk:  Scapongo!  It's getting closer!  O_O!

(Konk regains his speed to escape from the den of the Constrictus.)

(We see Ren, Tula, and Cham Cham walking along the mountain ridge, careful so that they wouldn't fall off the cliff.  They shimmy along the surface until they reach a big cliff where they can stand on securely to take a breather.)

Tula:  How high is this mountain anyway?

Cham Cham:  Cham Cham hungry again... ~_~...

Tula:  Didn't you eat all those minga melons not too long ago?

Cham Cham:  Yeah, but Cham Cham blew chunks.  Melons eaten came out, now stomach of Cham Cham empty!

Ren:  Maybe you're brother is right about your appetite... maybe it knows no boundries.

(Ren's magic compass begins reacting once more.  A beam of light strikes toward a small cave nearby the mountain's summit.  Right now, the three are closer to their target than they were an hour before.)

Ren:  Only a few more meters until we reach the treasure.  *sigh*

Cham Cham:  Look up there!

(From the small cave, some thick gasses begin to bellow out.  As they tried to scale the side of the mountain, the clouds begin to bellow out faster, growing thicker.  Soon, they are stopped halfway to the top because of the gas.  Every time they try to cross the fog, they feel as if they're burning, like acid.)

Ren:  >_< ACK!  This stuff is hot!

Tula:  This gas is familliar.

(Tula holds out a small leaf into the fog.  Almost instantly, the leaf spontaneously combusts in the fog.  Tula makes her assumption.)

Tula:  I knew it... It's stekka fog!

Cham Cham:  Cham Cham no touch burning gas clouds!

Ren:  Stekka fog?  Noy-Jitat!  Can this quest become any more difficult?!

(Cham Cham tries something.  She throws her boomerang into the stekka fog as it turns into a crescent of fire.  Quickly, the stekka fog burns up to floating flames.  This scares the trio, thinking that they might end up being roasted by stekka flames!)

Ren:  What did you do, Cham Cham?!

Cham Cham:  Cham Cham thought burn up burning gas cloud so burning gas cloud burn up by itself.  Cham Cham thought it happen.  Cham Cham no thought it burn us up!

Tula:  Cham Cham, I know you're head's in the right place, but I don't know where your brain is!  :|

Cham Cham:  That not nice, Pink Woman.

Ren:  How are we going to get our jitatan butts out of this?!

Tula:  Maybe I can do something about this stekka flames...

(With that said, Tula kneels and holds her arms up as if in position of prayer.  In that position, she focuses her ecomancer energy to gather up wind and water particles in the air.  Cham Cham is a bit confused about this, but Ren knows this seem familiar.)

Cham Cham:  What Pink Woman do?

Ren:  Tula is using her ecomancer energy to creat a wind blast.  I've seen her do this before.

(Tula continues her chanting and focusing for another thirty seconds.  Finally, in one sharp updraft rises from Tula to flow away the stekka flames, clearing a path toward the summit.)

Ren:  >_<.... I've created a pathway, not climb up fast.  I can't maintai this for too long!

(Ren & Cham Cham takes advantage of this and quickly climbs up the side of the mountain, avoiding the stekka flames.  Three-fourths the way, Ren & Cham Cham are safe and sound on another cliff.  Tula follows aftewards, barely avoiding the waning stekka flames.)

Ren:  That was close.  Thanks Tula.

Tula:  It was nothing.

Cham Cham:  Look at floating flames.  They burning out!

(Cham Cham is right.  The stekka flames that Cham Cham accidentally created has finally burned out.  Cham Cham's enflamed boomerang, the thing that started the "floating flames", turned back to normal and returned to Cham Cham's hand.  She picks it up in mid-air easily.)

Cham Cham:  Now, we go to summit!

(And that's what they did.  Slowly and carefully, the trio climbed higher to the summit, avoiding any existing stekka fog and stekka flames.  The tree are now at another cliff.  This time, the three are right at the cliff that the stekka fog originated.  Once again, Ren's magic compass reacts one more time, shooting another beam of light in the cave.)

Ren:  The 10th Treasure of Rule... it's in here!

Cham Cham:  Cool!  Now Cham Cham get treasure.  Go back to world of Cham Cham and Big Brother.  Fight to defend Belt of Gold at Green Hell in Cell!  ^_^!

Ren:  What in all of Mer are you talking about?

Tula:  I'll explain later about this when we get back to the Wraith.

Cham Cham:  So where is little treasure.

Ren:  It must be around here, somewhere.  The compass pointed to this cave!

(The three looks around the cave.  The cave, however, doesn't look hospitable because of the skeletons that litter the floor of the cave.)

Cham Cham:  Place look icky!  Give Cham Cham the creeps.

Ren:  I don't like how this looks either, Cham Cham.  Something is in here, but what?

(That question is about to be answered, Ren.  From another part of the cave, that damn stekka fog begins bellowing out, scaring the hell out of the three.)

Cham Cham:  Look!  More burning gas cloud!  What that come from?

(Just then, from that part of the cave comes this huge ass monster, looking like a 25-foot ferret.  It snorts that accursed stekka mist, which makes fighting the monster that much more difficult.)

Tula:  Scapongo!  What is this thing?!

Ren:  It must be another Ferrex... only it has no wings.

Cham Cham:  Ooh!  It look like big mouse!  ^_^!

(Cham Cham runs to the ferrex to jump on its back.  Tula & Ren cry to Cham Cham not to draw too close to the monster, but Cham Cham is too absorbed in playing with the monster than to listen to their warnings.)

Cham Cham:  Wheeeee!  This is fun!

(The ferrex isn't too pleased.  It shakes wildly, trying to knock Cham Cham off its back.  Cham Cham holds onto it, thinking that it was all one big game.  Finally, she does get knocked off, and she hits a side of the cave.  As she hits the surface, a small blue gemstone, shaped like a pearl falls on the cave floor.)

Ren:  Tula, look!

Tula:  Could that be the 10th Treasure of Rule?

Ren:  I hope so!

(Ren is right.  One more time, Ren's magic compass fires a light beam toward the blue pearl.  Finally, the group has found the next treasure.  Cham Cham quickly regains lucidity after being thrown from the cave wall.  She sees the blue pearl and pockets it so that it woudl be save and secure.  Ren & Tula tries to fend off the wingless ferrex with their weapons, but with a quick exhale of stekka mist, Tula's dagger and Ren's half-sword becomes too hot to hold.)

Tula:  Noy-Jitat!  It's too hot!

Ren:  This is not good, Tula!

Cham Cham:  Cham Cham think this no fun no more!  Cham Cham fight big mouse!  >:|

(Cham Cham performs the supercharge at the Ferrex's broadside, drawing its attention away from Ren & Tula.  Cham Cham throws her boomerang toward the ferrex's face, making the monster angrier.  The ferrex attacks Cham Cham head on and strikes the limber lightweight.  Cham Cham dodges and quickly hits the monster's head with a quick brain thrust.)

Cham Cham:  Big Mouse go bye-bye now!

(Cham Cham uses her supercharge attack at monster several more times until it moves to the cliff.  Now that it is in a vunerable state, Cham Cham can finish off the beast.  The ferrex opens its big mouth to emit another puff of stekka mist; however, Cham Cham capitalizes by throwing her boomerang, which turns into a fire crescent.  The ferrex's is now enveloped in its own stekka flames and falls off the cliff, descended at least 10,000 feet to the ground, where it makes huge thud and spills itself on the ground.)

Cham Cham:  Cham Cham winner!  YAO!  YAO!  YAO!

Ren:  Cham Cham, you finished off the wingless ferrex!

Tula:  Thank Kunda we brought Cham Cham with us.

Cham Cham:  Can Pink Woman or Blond Guy tell Cham Cham what this is?  *holds out the pearl*

Ren:  Another one... Cham Cham, you found the 10th Treasure of Rule!  There's only three more to find in Mer, and the Dark Water will be contained indefinately!

Cham Cham:  Hopefully, have time to go through "dark water" so Cham Cham & Big Brother use "dark water" to go back to world of Cham Cham and Big Brother.

Tula:  Ren, maybe we should see Teron about this.  He must have some idea about this.

Ren:  Good idea, Tula.  Let's get off this mountain and return to the Wraith.  I think Tam Tam, Ioz, and Niddler has repaired the Wraith by now.

(Tula, Ren, and Cham Cham climbs down the mountain as safe as they did climbing up, their mission a success.  They now have the 10th Treasure of Rule.  Now, there's only three more left to discover.)

(About two hours later, Ren, Tula, and Cham Cham return to the Wraith.  Ioz, Tam Tam, and Niddler are almost finished with the repairs on the Wraith.  All they need is a few more planks and some borca paste.)

Ren:  Guys, hows the repairs coming along?

Ioz:  Just a couple more planks and a few slaps of borca paste and the wraith will be seaworthy in no time!

Ren:  Good work Ioz.

Ioz:  I couldn't have done with without Tam Tam.  That guy is strong.  He'd make an excellent pirate.

Tam Tam:  Aww... you really think so?

Ren:  And where is Niddler?  Didn't he help out?

Ioz:  That jitatan monkey bird left when we were half-way finished and is now looking for more of those minga melons he seems obsessed so much.

Ren:  Again?!  Chongo-longo... doesn't Niddler ever stop stuffing his face?

Cham Cham:  Ape Bird comes with fruit?!  O_O!  *DROOLS*

Ren, Tula & Ioz:  APE BIRD?!?!  o_O!!??

(Speak of the devil, Niddler has arrived with his net full of minga melons.  Niddler struggles with his batch, for he brought even more than the last time.)

Niddler:  *SQUAWK*  Sorry I took so long.  I wanted to make sure I have enough for the voyage.  Man, you can never have enough of that...

Cham Cham:  O_O!  FRUIT!  *DROOLS*

Niddler:  Oh no... not again!  ~_~.... *SQUAWK*

(Now that the Wraith is repaired and seaworthy, Ren, Tula, Ioz, Niddler, Tam Tam & Cham Cham set sail to the sees to find the remaining treasures of rule.)

Ioz:  Where is our next destination?

Ren:  Well, the nearest port town is Janda Town.  We should get some supplies before we set our course for the next treasure.

Niddler:  *SQUAWK*  More minga melons!  ^_^

Tula:  More herbs and spices!  ^_^!

Ioz:  More gambling!  I hope Zoolie will be there too!  I can't wait to leave that darba pig broke!

(Ren takes to the wheel, setting a course toward Janda Town.  Now, it's a time for rest, relaxation, and purchases.  As this chapter ends, we see Cham Cham arguing with Niddler over one mere minga melon.)