A Boy's Dazzling Girls

Early Saturday morning, Spike and the Cryptid Club had boarded the bus to take them up to the mountain trail in hope of finding their mysterious wendigo. When they reached the bus stop, they got off and looked up the mountain trail.

"Alright, everyone, this is it." Lyra told them.

"Somewhere in there lies our wendigo." Sonata said.

"We need photographic evidence of it, and then we take it down." Spike added.

"I'm getting goosebumps at the thought of it." Ocellus trembled.

"Don't worry, Ocellus," Sandbar began, "As long as we stick together, we'll be fine."

"Sandbar's correct," Adagio confirmed, "There are safety in numbers."

"So what're we waiting for?" Smolder asked rhetorically.

"Yeah, let's go!" Yona cheered.

"Everyone have their supplies?" Bonbon asked, as everyone showed their backpacks filled with the essential equipment.

"Then we're all set." Moondancer confirmed.

"Come on, team. Let's move." Aria ordered, as they headed up the mountain.

As they reached the starting point of the trail, they saw it was taped off by the cops, "Looks like the fuzz have already marked this off." Gallus noted.

"Well, that's not stopping us." Lyra said, as they stepped over the taped off area, and continued onward up the trail.

As they followed the trail, Ocellus spoke, "You know this isn't so bad. I'm enjoying this nice hike."

"Just remember to keep your eyes peeled and your ears opened." Adagio warned her.

"Adagio's right," Lyra agreed, "A wendigo is fast and strong. It can come from anywhere at anytime."

"If it really exists." Gallus replied still keeping up his skeptical attitude.

The girls didn't bother getting into an argument, as they had to focus on the matter at hand. Spike however looked around the forest area surrounding the mountain in case he did see something. His last encounter with the Hidebehind and Gumberoo taught him about keeping a very close eye on your surroundings.

They kept walking until they stopped upon a spot that looked like a camp site was previously set up, "Looks like the scene of the crime." Spike noted.

"What do we look for now?" Yona asked.

"Any possible clues that can help with our investigation." Lyra instructed, as the club members looked around the campsite.

"I hope we don't find feces samples." Sandbar told Gallus.

"If we do, you're handling it." Gallus replied.

"Guys! Over here!" Silverstream cried.

Everyone raced over to where Silverstream was standing by a tree, "What is it, Silverstream?" Bonbon asked.

"Look what I found!" she motioned to the ground.

They looked down seeing a foot print in the ground that looked too big to be human, "That's not a human footprint." Sonata said in worry.

"Think it belongs to our wendigo?" Sandbar asked.

"Without a doubt." Moondancer answered, while looking through one of her books on wendigo to match the foot shape and size.

"Well, it's a lead." Lyra took a selfie of the footprint with her phone.

"There's more here." Ocellus called, as she went further to reveal tracks belonging to whatever made the footprint.

"If we follow these it should lead us right to it." Adagio said.

"Do we really wanna do that?" Ocellus asked nervously.

"We've come this far. So we have to see it through." Lyra answered.

"Otherwise our coming here would've been pointless." Aria added.

Spike answered, "They're right. Besides this is the focus of the club. And as much as a pain in the ass it sounds we should see it through."

The newbies seeing how right the others were stayed on board, "So we going or what?" Gallus asked.

"Let's go." Lyra instructed, as they followed the trail.

They walked through the forest while following the tracks, "Do we remember what we discussed about how to deal with a wendigo in the club room?" Lyra asked the members.

"Blades and bullets have no affect on it." Gallus answered.

"So we have to set it on fire." Sandbar added.

"Correct." Bonbon confirmed.

"Good thing we brought the essentials." Aria revealed the bottles of fluid in her back pack.

"And we also have to be quick about it." Moondancer added.

"Because wendigo strong and fast." Yona noted.

"That's right." Lyra nodded in confirmation.

"Well with all of us here, it can't grab us all at once," Sonata began, "So if it tries to go after one of us the rest can distract it so the others can douse it and light it up."

"Logical." Spike agreed.

"Hold up." Lyra stopped them as they stopped in place.

"Why're we stopping?" Moondancer asked.

"We're here." Lyra answered.

"Here where?" Gallus asked, as Lyra motioned to a cave up ahead.

"Looks like we found the wendigo's bachelor pad." Spike said.

"Are we going on?" Ocellus asked, while hiding behind Yona.

"We have to." Adagio reminded her.

"I was afraid of that." Ocellus trembled.

Yona feeling bad for Ocellus, spoke up, "Yona will stay outside with Ocellus."

"Very well, but be prepared for anything," Lyra warned them, before turning to the others, "Grab your torches." they each pulled out a flashlight and entered the cave.

As the club walked through the damp dark cave, Spike couldn't help but plug his nose, "Oh, what reeks?"

"I really don't wanna say it." Lyra warned them.

"Then don't." Gallus replied.

"Rotting bodies." Lyra finished, making the others looks sick.

"Smells like it's getting worse." Moondancer gagged, as she shined her light in a corner of the cave to reveal a skeleton with torn clothes and flies buzzing around it.

Sonata screamed in fright, as the others jumped at how loud she was, "Man, she can scream." Smolder told the others.

"Sonata!" Adagio and Aria scolded her.

"What?"

"You wanna keep it down?" Bonbon whispered.

"Yeah. We don't wanna attract any unwanted attention." Lyra added.

Spike looked ahead as a look of shock grew on his face, "Uh-gu-gu-gu..."

The group looked at Spike, "What's up with you, Spike?" Moondancer asked.

"I think we just got our unwanted attention!" Spike cried as he pointed behind them.

The group looked back, as Sandbar shined his light on a tall humanoid creature that looked like the depiction of the thing they were on the look out for. The wendigo growled at them, as Silverstream screamed, "Wendigo!"

The wendigo roared, and tried to slice at them with its long nails, but luckily they ducked the strike, "Out of the cave!" Spike screamed, as they ran back the way they came with the wendigo following them.

As they ran for the exit, Lyra spoke to Gallus, "Is that proof enough for you?!"

"Ok, I believe!" Gallus cried.

Outside, Ocellus and Yona were waiting, until they heard their friends screams, "It's them." Yona gasped.

"What're they screaming for?" Ocellus asked.

They saw the group emerge from the cave in fright, "The wendigo's right behind us!" Smolder cried.

"The what?" Ocellus and Yona asked, until they saw the creature step out of the cave.

The two looked at the creature in shock, as Yona asked Ocellus, "We should run, right?"

"Right." Ocellus agreed, and the two followed their friend while screaming.

They ran through the woods, as the wendigo was smashing trees that stood in its way from reaching its targets. Spike spoke to Lyra and Bonbon, "If we're going to stop that thing, we need to act now."

"Agreed. Everyone, split up!" Lyra ordered.

"What?" Ocellus gasped.

"Are you crazy?!" Gallus asked in shock.

"Just do it!" Bonbon ordered, and they split up into groups.

The wendigo stopped and looked around before following the trail of Ocellus and Yona. The girls ran until a big log was thrown at them, "Hit dirt! Yona tackled Ocellus to the ground before the log crashed into a tree.

The two looked up and saw the wendigo standing above them and raised it's right claw. The two feared the inevitable strike, until Gallus called out, "Hey, no brain!" he chucked a rock at the wendigo's head getting his attention. Gallus laughed a bit at the monster who roared and started pursuing Gallus. The former skeptic ran for it, while Spike, Sandbar, and Smolder stood behind one bush while holding onto a vine, while on the opposite side were the Dazzlings holding the other end.

"Get ready to pull, girls." Spike called to the Dazzlings.

"You got it." Aria called back.

As Gallus ran over the vine, Smolder shouted, "Now!" they each tugged on their ends of the vine making the wendigo trip over it. As it hit the ground, the group tried tying it's legs together with the vine, but the creature's legs were strong enough to break out of the bindings.

"Run-run!" Sandbar shouted, as they ran from the wendigo who got back on it's feet. As Spike, Smolder, and Sandbar ran, the Dazzlings stayed behind, "We'll distract it!" Adagio told them, as the three ran further.

As the wendigo closed in on the sisters, they stood together and vocalized which emitted sound waves. Their voices hypnotic ability hit the wendigo who began straining in pain from the sound the three undercover mermaids were making with their voices. As the Dazzlings had the wendigo in pain, Sonata quickly took a selfie of it as evidence.

Adagio motioned her sisters to follow her, and they ceased their singing and made a run for it. As they ran, Aria spoke, "That should keep him dazed for awhile."

"And hopefully long enough for us to torch it." Sonata added.

"It will." Adagio confirmed, as they met up with the others.

"Hey, where's the wendigo?" Lyra asked.

"It's right behind us." Adagio answered.

"We better get someplace else." Moondancer suggested.

"Not yet," Aria said, "We have to coat it with the fluid and light it up now while we can."

"What if we're not fast enough?" Ocellus asked.

"Trust us, we will be." Sonata assured them.

The group was concerned, but trusted their fellow club members and got ready for an ambush. As they waited, Spike whispered to the Dazzlings, "What'd you do?"

"We sang it a very ear splitting lullaby to distort its senses." Adagio explained.

"It won't be snapping back to normal for awhile." Aria added.

"Well, let's hope this works." Spike said, as they hid in the bushes.

Up in the tree was Sandbar, Ocellus, Yona, Gallus, Silverstream, and Smolder each holding cans of lighter fuel. They all heard stomping, and saw the wendigo stumbling around trying to regain its senses. Sandbar whispered to his friends, "Steady... Almost..." the wendigo finally was right under them, "Pour it on."

The six poured fuel from their cans down onto the wendigo coating it with the substance. The wendigo felt the fluid drip all over his body, and was unprepared for what was coming next. Spike, the Dazzlings, Moondancer, Lyra, and Bonbon popped out of two bushes each holding a lit match, "Let's cook." Lyra said, as they flicked their matches at the wendigo. As each flame came into contact with the fluid coated monster, its whole body was engulfed in fire.

The monster screamed in pain as it stumbled and ran around the clearing before falling flat and burned to death. As the members climbed down from the tree and watched the monster burn with the others, Spike spoke to Gallus, "So skeptic now?"

"That... was... wicked!" Gallus cheered, "I mean I was scared as hell, but in the good way now."

"Yeah. We stopped a monster!" Silverstream cheered, as she danced with Smolder.

"Yona loves this club!" Yona cheered.

Lyra spoke with pride, "You all did well."

"But we didn't get any evidence of it." Moondancer reminded them.

"Oh, yes we did," Sonata said, as she showed the selfie, "Before it chased us I managed to snatch a shot."

Bonbon looked at the wendigo's painful look in the picture, "Did it's vision get distorted from the camera's flash?"

The sisters looked worried knowing it was their singing that distorted it, but Adagio answered, "Actually, yes. Guess it couldn't handle flash photography."

"This one's going in the log book." Lyra said, while marveling at the picture.

Moondancer spoke to the newbie members, "Well, you survived a wendigo hunt. Now that you know what we're dealing with do you still wanna be members?"

"You bet!" Silverstream.

"Now that we know cryptid creatures really do exist, I wanna prove their existence to the world." Sandbar added.

"Yona wants to help too!"

"I've already been proven their existence, so I may as well see how many more exist." Gallus added.

"Should be interesting." Smolder put in.

"I'll stay too." Ocellus finished.

"Wise choices." Lyra smiled.

"We better go back to the cave and see if there are any survivors." Bonbon suggested.

"Agreed." Lyra confirmed, as they went back to the cave.

They entered and went further into it seeing more skeletons littered around that looked long since dead, "Doesn't look like that wendigo wanted to save any for a late night snack." Spike looked around.

"So we were unable to save the recent disappearances?" Sandbar asked in worry.

"I'm afraid so." Moondancer confirmed feeling equally dismal.

"Still, with the wendigo dead we'll have saved a lot more people from ever being eaten by it again." Lyra noted.

"So are we going to tell the press about this or what?" Smolder asked.

"Not yet." Bonbon answered.

"What?" Gallus asked in confusion, "After all this we're not going to tell anyone?"

"Not at the moment," Lyra explained, "We wanna fill our log book with undeniable proof of more creatures, that way we have more sources."

"Lyra's right," Spike agreed, "If we show just on wendigo picture to the cops or media they'll just laugh at us."

The six new members exchanged looks and knew how right Spike was, "So we just gotta wait and gather more evidence form other creatures?" Smolder asked.

"Exactly." Moondancer confirmed.

The six sighed, as Adagio spoke, "Don't feel glum. Think of this as undercover work. Like we're the FBI or something."

"Well, that does make it sound more exciting." Sandbar admitted.

"And when the time comes we'll let the world know what's out there." Lyra promised them.

"But for now let's savor today's victory." Spike said.

"Yeah!" the six agreed.

"This calls for a celebration!" Aria cheered.

"Party at Spike's place!" Sonata called.

"What?" Spike asked in confusion, as they paraded back. Spike sighed, and spoke to himself, "Never a dull moment with this crowd." he chuckled to himself before following them.

Later on back at Spike's house, Twilight was in the living room reading, until the door opened, and Spike stepped inside, "I'm back."

"Hey, Spike, I didn't hear ya leave this morning." Twilight greeted.

"Yeah. Had to do some early work with the club."

"What kind of work?" she asked.

Silverstream popped in, "We stopped a monster!" the rest of the club piled in much to Twilight's shock.

"Wait, you what?" Twilight asked in confusion.

"Just as she said, Twi." Spike answered.

"I didn't believe it at first, but it was real." Gallus added.

"We're gonna be in Spike's room celebrating." Aria said, as the group went for Spike's room.

Before Spike could follow, Twilight pulled him back, "What is going on here?"

"What? Just club activity partying." Spike answered, while trying to brush it off.

"Are they serious about you guys stopping a monster?"

"What if they are?" Spike questioned her.

"Spike, if you're doing dangerous work I don't want you getting hurt from it." she warned him.

"I'm more than capable of handling myself, Twilight. Besides, the club and I are more prepared than you think." he went to his room leaving Twilight more confused.

Soon enough everyone was in Spike's room, taking a seat on the bed or the floor. Each one had a root beer bottle and held them high, "A toast to our latest discovery!" Lyra declared.

"Cheers!" they clinked their bottles together and took a swig.

"I wonder what creature we'll be investigating next time?" Smolder wondered.

"It all depends on what presents itself." Bonbon answered.

"Let's hope the next thing we investigate isn't so savage." Ocellus said.

"I hear ya." Sonata agreed.

Spike looked around at everyone enjoying themselves, and thought, 'With new members in this club taking on any dangerous monster or creature are better odds. Though I wonder if Twilight's gonna keep getting on my case about this?'