@Mina - Ok, thanks!

@Rose bud - YESSSSSSSSSSS you should totally do that!!! I can bring Thimble back too! Would Capto Abolere return?!

Part Three - Power of Claw

So. Here's what's happening at the beginning of the Power of Claw chapter:

Claaws and Cealani are traveling together with Icy and possibly Eliyana Fur. (It is revealed that Claaws freed Cealani from the cage.) I think the Powers are at this point in their 'disguised forms' (Claaws is a panther and Cealani is a crow) and are hiding their true identities. They hang out at FaFA base a lot of the time.

Most of the characters congeal into two main groups at this point. During the Power of Wing, things were fairly spread out and loose; now, in the second chapter, character arrangement begins to take on more pattern and form:

~There are those of BIG. They are seeking out the other Powers.

~Then there are those of FaFA. Granted, not all of these characters are members of FaFA, but they are pretty much the 'good guys' right now. During the Power of Claw segment they spend a lot of time working/traveling together.

Okay! With that settled, here's the summary:

-Following Zephyra's warning that BIG will be seeking out the Power of Claw, FaFA & Co. attempt to find the instrument and its guardian--a badger--before it's too late. They recieve a code that tells them to 'dig underneath the stone tree', which they go on a mission and do.

-I think BIG is having a meeting at the tree or something when FaFA arrives. I couldn't find the thread on which this particular event took place, though, so I'm not sure. Just know that BIG had something to do with the stone tree.

-Those on the mission then manage to make their way into a cave beneath the stone tree. There they find the instrument of the Power of Claw as well as a badger (the guardian), who ends up having rabies and is crazy. FaFA & Co. use sleep darts to get it under control.

-Icy is on this mission and she suddenly feels the urge to summon Ecio. However, when she attempts to play Ecio's xylophone, nothing happens. BIG has already taken the instrument and this one is fake.

-(BIG rebuilt their lab after the first disaster with Cealani. They now take the instrument there.)

-FaFA immediately organizes a mission to retrieve the Power of Claw as well as rescue the animals BIG is experimenting on. They tunnel through BIG's base, but just before they can reach the instrument, one of BIG's ex-employees summons Ecio.

-As I'm sure you could've guessed, this does not end well! Ecio bursts out of the xylophone and starts destroying BIG's newly-restored laboratory!

-During the chaos, Claaws and Cealani fly in and greet their brother Ecio. They also help him destroy BIG's base.

-Cornelia Hornshaw (BIG's CEO) comes out armed with Brazen Goo in an attempt to save her building. She shoots Claaws with it.

-Claaws is now on the brink of death, but all is not lost for her. It turns out that Icy has a half (or maybe full?) sister named Anwen, who also carries the blood of the PowerFriend. Both of them own one half of a locket that is revealed to have belonged to Celesti herself. Just as Claaws is about to die/go back to her instrument, Icy and Anwen, who (luckily enough) are both present at this time of need, put their lockets together, and Claaws is healed by the resulting magic.

-The Powers are now VERY angry. They continue destroying the building and BIG flees the scene. (Excellent idea, BIG. Shoulda done that sooner.)

-After BIG leaves...Catastrophe shows up. You can imagine the shock the Powers feel. I think FaFA & Co. witnesses his arrival, too.

-Another epic battle. Catastrophe and the Powers fight.

-Catastrophe leaves amid the confusion.

-FaFA & Co. leave.

-The Powers disappear for a while to talk about recent events, especially Catastrophe's sudden appearance.

-At this point there are three very angry Powers roaming around Kyngdom. As you can imagine, everyone--even BIG--wants to know more information about Ecio and how to potentially stop him. FaFA/crew also want to learn more general info about Ecio, since his guardian was rabid and thus couldn't talk to them.

-A new fragment of the map of Kyngdom is discovered, and southeastern Kyngdom is revealed. It's a rocky, mountainous place with many plateaus. A particular cluster of plateaus is labeled the 'labrynth lands'.

-Charlie W, Little Crow, and some others discover a door at the base of the largest plateau in the 'labrynth lands'. It has a code on it as well as a lock which requires a word to be opened. Charlie and the others also meet a badger while poking around the entrance. The badger gives them a piece of bark with the alphabet scrawled across it and sends them on their way.

-Charlie and Little Crow call for an expedition team to explore what's behind the door. FaFA & Co. take up his invitation and a very large exploration team consisting of both animals and humans begins to gather. They prepare to plunge into the maze of tunnels behind that magically locked door.

-Remember Jaaws? As the Powers progressively fell into their instruments, she fell into a deep sleep. Her resting place happened to be within the very same labrynth FaFA is trying to get into. Just before Charlie, Little Crow, members FaFA, and everyone else enters this maze, Catastrophe does. Since more Powers had awoken, Jaaws is nearing consciousness. Catastrophe wakes her up.

-Now, while Charlie/Little Crow/all the people attempt to get into the heart of the labrynth by walking, BIG is on top of the plateau drilling into the center. It now becomes a race to whatever secrets lie within the labrynth.

-There is Cypher code etched all around the 1st door. The code forms a clue, which the expedition team solves, and the labrynth is opened.

-The badger Charlie and Little Crow met appears and decides to go with everyone.

-The team delves deeper and deeper into the labrynth. Prior to entering, however, a cryptic message had been sent to them: Who is the spy? ('The spy' referring to the double agent who's been spilling all of FaFA's secrets to BIG.) As the team solves more riddles to pass through more doors, unsettlement arises. A FaFA agent who just so happens to be an owl named Who is exploring the labrynth with them. People begin to believe HE is the spy. The team begins to grow on edge.

-Someone (I believe it is either an owl named Storm Windwhisperer or an owl named Windswift) wanders down a side tunnel and discovers Jaaws, but does not get a good look at her. Jaaws attacks. They now know that something bad is in the tunnels.

-The team must solve more clues to get through the many doors barring the way deeper. As they explore, flying animals such as Little Crow, Storm Windwhisperer, Windswift, and Who make trips out of the caves to retrieve supplies for everyone. (The badger who is traveling with the team often requests for these carriers to gather green stones for him. Nobody knows why.)

-A vampire named Elliot enters the labrynth with his army of bats. He finds Jaaws and then a battle between him, some others, and Jaaws ensues.

-Either after or during that, Jaaws hypnotizes Little Crow, Icy, and Eliyana Fur.

-Who, the owl, (who is indeed a spy) is carrying info to BIG as he travels to and from the labrynth for supplies.

-Little Crow is unhypnotized.

-Eliyana Fur and Icy somehow make it back to FaFA's HQ, where Claaws is waiting. Jaaws speaks to Claaws through her hypnotized minions and promises to destroy Claaws. Jaaws is looking for Brazen Goo with which she can kill the Powers.

-The team finally reaches the center of the labrynth and they can hear BIG tunneling above. However, where they thought they would find information they can only see smooth stone walls that make up a vast, empty chamber.

-Jaaws follows everyone to the center of the labrynth, invisible.

-The badger has been marking letters off the bark he gave to Charlie during the whole adventure. Now there are only nine letters left on it. It is presumed these letters make up the final clue, but no one can unscramble them.

-Jaaws attacks by breathing fire on everyone from the roof of the cavern. 

-As the team ponders on their dillema, the badger eats one of his green stones. It is revealed that these green stones grant him the ability to speak the human language, which he does. Everyone learns that this badger was the old Power of Claw guardian. He explains that he helped create these tunnels (but not the locks and doors), possibly to store the Power of Claw in. However it is obvious that the Power of Claw's instrument did not remain within the labrynth.

-BIG breaks through into the cavern. It is revealed to FaFA & Co. that Who really is the spy. BIG and FaFA trade insults for a minute before suddenly someone solves the clue--the letters unscramble to form the word 'megatherium'. (Megatherium is the scientific name for the giant ground sloth.)

-Suddenly the floor of the cavern breaks open and the megatherium emerges! This creature is Grondor, Ecio's sideaffected power! The badger apparently knows/knew this beast, and he leaps to embrace his old friend, but the megatherium, still groggy/angry from being awoken, doesn't see the poor badger, and he falls to his death. :(

-Chaos ensues. Water rushes up from the newly made hole in the cavern floor, and suddenly, those within the labrynth find themselves being flooded out through a different tunnel. They wind up floating in the ocean of southwestern Kyngdom.

-A new map fragment is discovered and Southwestern Kyngdom is then revealed. It's known for its waterways and oceans.

-All through that time it is presumed that Catastrophe has been working on growing an army. If the Resistance hasn't formed yet, it will soon.

But I'm getting ahead of myself...I think that's it for the Power of Claw! Stay tuned for the Power of Fin chapter! 

Okie...next part. Just so you know there were two different stories going on at the same time towards the end of the Power of Claw. I only included one part. Here's what else was going on. (It includes info on how Eli, Claaws, Icy, and Cealani get to FaFA's base.)

Just a detail I found while thread diving: Icy, Eli, and Little Crow get hypnotized BEFORE the battle with Elliot and everyone else.

Sorry if this summary's a little bit confusing. The thread this part takes place on is jumbled and confusing as well. This summary represents a sort of like a minisode in the plotline.

  What happens at FaFA towards the end of the Power of Claw

-So, Icy, Little Crow, and Eliyana Fur get hypnotized about halfway through the labryinth tunnels.

-Shortly thereafter, Claaws and Cealani--in their disguised forms (black panther and gold/white crow)--enter the maze and begin to make their way to the group.

-Claaws can sense Jaaws's evil in the tunnels, but she does NOT know Jaaws exists yet. Thus, she mistakenly believes that Jaaws's aura belongs to a seventh Power no one has ever seen before.

-Jaaws sends Little Crow back to the group and he continues along with them. Nobody knows that he's actually hypnotized. 

-The tunnel adventure continues...and THEN comes the battle between Jaaws and everyone else. MoonRacer, an Icewater dragon, and some others decide to try and rescue Icy and Eli. They try to fight Jaaws, but fail. Jaaws retreats farther down the tunnel.

-Claaws and Cealani hunt Jaaws down. Claaws is mainly looking for her apprentice, Eliyana, and will do anything to rescue her.

-Little Crow and the other birds pass by Jaaws's cave on their way out for more supplies. Jaaws steers Little Crow towards her and frees him from hypnosis, sending him off with a message for the main group. The message does not arrive successfully.

-Claaws and Cealani finally catch up with Jaaws and Claaws sees her Sideaffected Power for the first time. She realizes that Jaaws is her own doing, and she and Cealani are afraid--Whist, Sideaffected Power of the most gentle Power of all (Sylvia) was hard enough to kill. How much harder to defeat would the Sideaffected Power of Claaws be?

-Claaws and Jaaws fight for a little bit until Claaws finally snatches Icy and Eli out from underneath Jaaws's wings. Claaws and Cealani fly out of the tunnels. Ecio digs out of the ground as they are exiting the labryinth and explains that Lunee, once the Power of Light, would be able to cure Icy and Eli from Jaaws's hypnosis.

-While the rest of the group is going through the final labryinth tunnels, the Powers and the hypnotized people are heading towards FaFA's base, which seems like a safe enough place to plan their next move. While they are there, some beavers have build cages to contain Icy and Eli.

-The cages somehow explode and Icy and Eli escape. A giant battle occurs, in which lots of other people are hypnotized.

-During the battle, Catastrophe shows up. Jaaws controls Icy and makes her stand in front of Catastrophe, hoping the boy king will kill Celesti's descendant.

-But Icy, thanks to her PowerFriend powers, frees her mind from the hypnosis and grows wings, which she uses to escape from Catastrophe.

-Note: Ronan is also present during the battle. He does not realize, however, that Catastrophe is his father.

-The Powers reveal their true forms to try and defeat Catastrophe. Catastrophe threatens to kill Eliyana if Icy and Ronan don't obey him. He wants to convince Kyngdom to let him take the throne without a fight. However, Eli frees herself from Jaaws's hypnosis, surprises Catastrophe by biting him, and the battle continues.

-Jaaws still wants Catastrophe to kill Icy, but Catastrophe does not wish to do so. So he only pretends to strike Icy down. Here it is revealed to readers that Catastrophe did not actually kill Celesti all those years ago--It turns out that Jaaws controlled him and made him do it.

-Jaaws discovers that Catastrophe has tricked her and is angry with him. Conversations between Jaaws, Catastrophe, and Icy occur. 

-Catastrophe leaves.

-Jaaws's presence receeds from the scene. Though she had been in the labryinth caves the entire time, she had been present during the battle by peering through her hypnotized minions' eyes.

-Everyone tends to the wounded. Claaws requests a box of medicine to treat the wounded.

-While they wait for the medicine, Claaws and Cealani find a newspaper in a back cave of FaFA's HQ. It talks about an underwater ball, where a new guardian of the Power of Fin will be elected.

-Claaws and Cealani are angry to see this kind of information in a newspaper. Catastrophe--or any enemy for that matter--would now know exactly where and when to find the Power of Fin. They could sneak into the underwater ball and steal it with no problems. So the Powers resolve to suspend their search for Lunee in order to attend the ball and protect/possibly take the Power of Fin.

-A group of beavers bring Claaws a box of medical supplies. However, these beavers are not the same beavers who helped build the cages for Icy and Eli. They are actually creations of BIG--GMOed animals with fangs and garbled voices. The fact that they are mutants goes unnoticed.

-When Claaws opens the box vials of Brazen Goo shoot out! One splashes onto her tail.

-Thanks to her lightning fast reflexes, Claaws dodges the rest of the vials. She snatches Eliyana Fur and races out of the cave, heading to find a river in which she can rinse her tail. Cealani follows.

-Catastrophe, BIG, and Jaaws had teamed up briefly to acheive this trap. Jaaws now believes Claaws is dead.

-The story continues. The characters remaining at FaFA's base clean up, thinking over the events. Then they set off in the Powers' footsteps, preparing for the upcoming underwater ball.

And that truly concludes the Power of Claw! This part was sort of the link between the Power of Claw and the Power of Fin. Remember, those in the labryinth tunnels were dealing with the Megatherium and being flooded away while all this was happening.

Thanks for your advice guys, i've rejoined with a charrie called Hidar, go to the Kyngdom thread "who's here?" to see his sheet, including a very interesting backstory.