Retracing Sabre: Part 1

Savior landed in Crystal Sands, near Sir Gilbert's cave. It would've been cool, except he wasn't there. Instead, she viewed squealing kits play in the water, older Jamaasians sip pina coladas on the beach while tanning themselves, and the occasional sea Jamaasian poking their head out of the water.
A serene day in a time of crisis.
She looked around for any clues, and saw a panther dressed in Coraxese prince clothing wade through the water and vanish into Coral Pathways.
"Sabre!" cried Savior.
She bolted after him.

Savior followed Sabre through Coral Pathways, ignoring the dust clouds clouding her face. He walked ever so slowly through Jamaa, yet she couldn't catch up.
"Sabre! SABRE!" she cried.
Sabre turned around at last, but his expression was stern and serious.
"Savior, my dear. My name is Sabre, but it has little meaning anymore. My native land has been lost, and now foreigners fight over it. Firetail and Cithara never let up, destroying my precious homeland. My name has been erased from history, and it is hard for me to rejoin Marco." he growled. Black bags were under his eyes, and some fur clumps were missing. Overall, he had a great melancholy to him.
"Sabre! Just follow me to to Marco, I promise I'll get you to him!" cried Savior.
The eyes of Sabre darkened.
"No... Not until I show you my long journey through Jamaa..."
Savior blacked out.

Savior awoke in a forest glen, flanked by trees. Elvis whimpered in her fur, as if something were wrong.
In front of her, Sabre glared at her, as if she were going slowly despite her recent arrival.
"You will see soon, salvatore. The spettacolo you worship... The miracolo she is..."
Sabre was cut off by a sudden wave of bright light, and now they were in the clearing of Cosmo's home. Crops grew in fields around them, spectators of the sun's daily cycle. A well filled to the brim with water was in the middle of the yard, a water pail on its edge. A pipe spewing frigid, vile sewage into the river embracing Cosmo's home was placed there, but Cosmo seemed to embrace that irremovable pipe's (unless he could conjure a cork, which were hard to make) presence by wrapping it with vines of honeysuckle. Trees full of fauna and flora were sparsely populating the perimeter, bees buzzing around them.
And last but not least...
"Cosmo!" cried Savior. Elvis squeaked with glee at the sight of the nature Alpha.
Apparently, Cosmo was oblivious to their presence, despite his godly might, because he just smiled and looked at Sabre.
"I'm sorry, Sabre, but Marco is currently planning out a new trade route for Jamaasian ships to reach Ook-"
As Cosmo spoke, Sabre glared at Savior, then cut him off. (No, Sabre didn't slice and dice Cosmo. And Savior isn't a he, much less attached to anything! Sigh.)
"Ook... The prison I was trapped in for so long.."
Cosmo seemed to not noticed most of Sabre's actions, because he smiled gently and sighed with pity.
"Well, there is something you could do for me, Sabre. I sent some scouts out to make sure the koalas living around me are safe, and they haven't returned yet! Could you please look for them? But I need you to run an errand for me first." he said.
Sabre grimly nodded, ignoring Savior bathing Elvis in the well. Apparently, he'd contracted the "ignorsalvatitis" that Cosmo was carrying
"Fine. I haven't gotten many adventures to do after I was captured by monkeys-"
Cosmo shifted uncomfortably, since Ook monkeys were out of Graham's, his friend, domain.
"-and since, I've been on a continuous quest - to find Marco."
Cosmo sighed.
"As I said, Marco is away. We'll reunite him with you ASAP."
Sabre ignored Cosmo.
"Well, Cosmo, what is this errand you need me to run?" he hoarsely rasped.
Cosmo waved a paw, and vanished, then reappeared near a big boulder with phantom energy streaming through its crevices. He set down a clay bowl on a stump, then started to stir it with a fat root.
"I need you to get me some strawberries, radishes, corn and carrots, along with nectar, chomper seeds and honey, Sabre. This is a recipe for altering the DNA of any tree to make it a Boomseed tree (after all, its a mutation of any species of tree that cannot otherwise live), but I need you to get the ingredients because I can't stop stirring - otherwise I just destroy the tree with my concoction. What for, I'll tell you later."
Sabre grunted, then started to walk around to get the ingredients from the gardens and Cosmo's home. Savior thought that Ledra could make the Boomseed recipe much, much easier, then remembered that Ledra was somewhere in the Duat, recovering from her not-so-long slumber.
After Sabre was done getting everything to Cosmo and sprinkling them in (after quite a few shattered nectar vials, honeybee stings and ingredients dropped in the river), Cosmo dipped the bowl's contents (now in the sickly purple shade) into the ground around the tree next to him. At first, smoke rose from the ground and the soil dissolved as if it were in acid, then boomseeds popped onto the branches of the tree. The smoke and dissolving matter ceased.
Other than that, nothing major had happened.
Cosmo smiled, and cracked a knuckle. The bowl cleaned itself, and sat aptly on the stump.
"Well, there are a copious amount of boomseed trees I've already made around my home, but I do need these explosive seeds for protection from phantoms, once my energy is spent and no Chompers are in sight."
He took a Boomseed off of the tree. Immediately it split into three, and hid in the Duat - except for one.
"These are genetically engineered and enchanted to respond to your will for basic things. For example, as demonstrated here, they are magical enough to be convenient."
Cosmo placed the shuddering seed into a specially placed alcove on the front of the boulder. It jittered even more after being released from a paw, and started to exhume green-yet-minty gas.
Then...
BOOM!
The short-lived prickly seed exploded, and both it and the boulder ceased to exist except for some stinky scraps of the boomseed flesh.
Cosmo picked a scrap up... and ate it.
"Five-second rule." he said.
Savior grimaced, although Sabre's face was nonchalant, poker, and oddly serene.
"You see, these are good for making things go BOOM, as their name proudly says. They have no noxious gases, but they are very harmful to the enemy. They can't hurt most organic material, though.
Cosmo waved a paw, and a sickly machine with tubes poking into the ground, sucking out natural energy from the earth appeared in a puff of smoke. Even larger cylindrical  funnels poked out of the ground, and poisoned grass surrounded it. A Phantom body was squirted out of a funnel (ew), and floated above the ground... then yelped as it saw Sabre and went for him in a helicopter pose.
FWWWWWWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM,..pff!
The sickening sound of time material being blown to smithereens floated in the air as Sabre's claw glistened with dark energies fresh from the phantom. Savior finally exhaled when the phantom was destroyed, but she could feel the energy the machine was taking out of the ground being condensed and used to produce.. another phantom.
Before this one could react, though, Cosmo chucked one of his Boomseeds down the funnel of the machine, and both creator and creation went PFF as it exploded.
"That, Sabre, is a Phantom Sprouter. They are the Number One way Apophis spreads phantoms across Jamaa, especially to easily make sentries of his claimed Jamaasian soil." said Cosmo.
Savior exhaled again as she felt the energies taken flowing into her. Maybe something good would come out of Sprouters - as long as every one of them was destroyed.
Sabre and Cosmo finally glanced at the pathway exposed by the Boomseed explosion. Tall weeds covered the pathway beyond, and phantom noises played, as if generated by some hi-quality speakers.
"I'll restore the boulder ASAP, but not until you, Sabre, find my scouts and foil the plans of the phantoms." said Cosmo.
Sabre waded into the weeds, and Savior followed.

The Adventures that are planned to be adapted in this series:
Meet Cosmo
The Hive
The Phantom Portal
 Return of the Phantoms
Greely's Inferno
The Adventures that are going to be in independent stories:
The Great Escape
Greely's Inferno