Dark Cloud 2 Fanfic
By The Several
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PROLOGUE
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"Hyaaaah!" shouted Monica as she swung her sword towards their gigantic foe, the demonic Dark Genie.
Along with Max, they ventured deep into the recesses of the Zelmite Mines in search of Zelmite ore. They found a room filled with the fuel, only to find that it was guarded by the fearsome giant.
The Dark Genie keels over, taken aback. It sneers angrily at Monica as it tried to hit her back. To its dismay, Monica evades, and shoots several fire bolts at its eye.
It screams in pain, and disappears to retreat. In its place was replaced with hundreds of its mini-clones, Mini Dark Genies. They all charge at the surprised girl with their sharp claws, only to be blown away by several hundred bullets from a lone gun.
Max, in a distant position, targeted the mini Dark Genies with precise accuracy from his customizable gun, Reguel (only one of the things Max named it). Desperado, its machinegun form, was the one Max was currently using. With it, Max shot hundreds of bullets at the numerous foes the Dark Genie had summoned in its place.
As all the demons were depleted, the Dark Genie reappeared. Once it did, Monica prepares to attack again. She readies the Holy Deadalus Blade, her kingdom's legendary sword, for her special move.
"!Deadalus! – Scoppio!" she dictates, her hands doing hand gestures for a special spell. As she creates the final symbol, she throws her sword at the unsuspecting Dark Genie. As her sword made contact with the demon's body, a tremendous amount of energy was suddenly unleashed and a giant flame explosion emitted, hitting the giant demon with such tremendous force that he was sent crashing to the cave wall. The cave roof quakes, crashing rocks into the creature below.
The two heroes of time congratulate themselves at their victory, which was cut short as the demon rose up again from underneath the pile of rubble. As it does, Max and Monica notice that something was wrong. Their foe, although standing, was emitting some sort of strange black lightning. It cackled mercilessly, as it drew nearer into our two heroes.
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You may have defeated me, but you won't survive either! Now that my demonic energy is uncontained, I will unleash it from the dark world and send it into this plane, destroying the mines... and the whole town as well!"
"Damn!" cursed Monica. "What do we do now?" She looks at Max to see if he had an idea.
Max examined the situation. 'Hmmm... If the energy was contained by the Dark Genie's body from the dark world, then that would mean that if another body would contain it, the explosion could be prevented!' Max then stopped himself as he thought again. 'No! It's not gonna work! There's no body big enough to contain that much energy! Unless…'
Max looks at Monica, and to her surprise, Max's face was filled with regret and sorrow. Although it was, he tried his best to smile.
"Max?" Monica said, looking at him with that worried face -an ill omen of things to come.
As she uttered those words, she was taken by surprise as Max ran towards the Dark Genie.
"Max? What are you doing?" Monica yells at him, as she tried to follow him.
Max noticed Monica following him, and tries to run faster. Monica realized then what he wanted to do.
"Max, no! Don't!" she shouted as she sprinted up to catch him.
Max jumps towards the energy, his movement as if in slow motion. Monica caught up to him and tried to grab the back of his shirt to pull him away. She was going to make it…
With a quick swing, Max knocks her back and into the ground with his wrench, taking Monica by surprise. Monica slams into the ground.
As she looks up, there was Max, energy flowing throughout his body, the Dark Genie connected to him.
"Fool! What are you doing?" the Dark Genie said in a state of shock as it tried to take Max off of itself.
Max held on to the energy tightly, not letting go. "What else? I'm going to use my own body as a container for the energy, preventing you from resurrecting even after the explosion!"
"No! Get away!" screamed the Dark Genie desperately. But it was too late; it disappeared, leaving Max's lone floating body with enough energy to blow Palm Brinks sky-high.
Monica tried to run towards him, but Max gave warning shots with his gun to Monica.
"Don't come any closer, Monica! Even if I am able to contain this energy, there would still be enough strength outside of my body to destroy the mines!"
Monica was shocked. "B-But that means…"
Max nodded. "Yes, that means I need to take this energy with me."
"MAX, NO! DON'T!" Monica screamed desperately at him.
"Get out of these mines, Monica, or else my sacrifice will be in vain! Go!"
Monica hesitatingly ran away to the exit. As she does, she reluctantly looks back at Max. Tears flowed out of his eyes, as well as hers.
Max looked at her. "Monica... Monica, I…" He looks away. Monica does too, and runs towards the exit.
As she gets out, the mines exploded from behind her. The people outside watched as the pillars at the entrance of the Zelmite Mines collapsed, burying the only way in piles of rubble.
As she saw the entrance collapse, she fell to her knees.
A small dry tear dropped from her eye as she murmured weakly. "M-Max?"
As they heard the final collapsing pillars and explosions from inside the mines, the whole town fell silent.
Monica murmured again. "M-Max?" she says weakly, her eyes as if in a coma. She then looked up at the sky and screamed.
"MMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!"The sky then began to open up and heavy rain fell on to the silent town.
It fell on top of Monica's head, her tears dampening the ground, her rain of tears mixing with the cloud water.
It was the worst storm that had ever hit Palm Brinks.
To be continued…