Reaper Fortress! Go! *points*
Pit: No way! I'm never going to deal with unkillable Reapers again!
Dark Pit: For once, I agree with Pit. If I could shoot them, maybe. But ghost Reapers? Never.
You have to. *points* Over there! I'll give you cookies.
Pit: Still no.
Then I'll hijack Palutena and Viridi's power of flight. *snaps fingers and Pit and Dark Pit's wings glow* Now get going!
Pit and Dark Pit: *get dragged out window by wings*
Perdix: Those locks are working really well. I don't think anyone will be getting in here soon. *hears muffled explosion* Bombs won't work!
Palutena: My all-seeing eye shows me that they're trying to break it with- wait, how did they get a Daybreak?
*glues a cage of cuccos on door* That should work.
Viridi: You must be desperate. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised.
Disclaimer: I wish I owned Kid Icarus. But I don't. *cries*
Pit and Dark Pit were thrown into the middle of the sky. The flight was unsteady, maybe because Palutena and Viridi weren't in control.
"We don't have control over your flight path, so we actually don't know how this will work out." Palutena said nervously.
"Can't you take it back from the author?" Pit asked. He received a headache. "OOWW!" Dark Pit tried to adjust himself and failed miserably. Pit noticed he was empty-handed, even though Dark Pit had his Silver Bow. "Wait, I don't have a weapon!"
"Pit, take this Lancer Staff." The staff spawned in Pit's hand. He grinned, seeing the four stars on range. "Also, don't do that."
"Do what?"
"Good boy. And you know I can't take back the power of flight. Whoever took control over your flight path, I doubt they would crash you into a brick wall." Palutena said.
"Don't give them ideas." Dark Pit grumbled. The angels began to fly awkwardly, taking sharp turns about every three seconds.
Pit pointed down. "The ravine's over there."(Thanks, angel boy) He plummeted down the ravine in the most awkward way possible. Dark Pit was not spared from the awkwardness. They began to navigate their way through the ravine. The angels did their best to avoid the stone "branches"(I have no idea what you call those things, but you know what I'm talking about), but either the 'unknown person' was trying to do the same, or trying to help, or just trying to smack them as much as possible. It was actually impossible to tell.
(about two minutes later)
"Are you trying to kill us?" Dark Pit yelled at the air as he swerved away from the, umm... thing. Again.
Palutena said, "I don't remember the way to the Reaper Fortress. I got lost, remember? So I can't exactly give you directions."
"How exactly are you supposed to be helpful?" Viridi asked.
"Lady Palutena is very helpful, it's just this one time, and Pandora's Labyrinth of Deceit, and with the Aurum- wait..." Pit decided that is was best for Palutena if he stopped talking. He stopped talking.
The air was getting full of Underworld monsters and ghosts. Pit and Dark Pit obliged to shoot the Underworld Army into hearts. The ghosts, they just did their best to dodge. They could be very good at dodging, but right now, they had a handicap of being pulled around by their wings in the most unnatural way possible. You can guess what happened.
"Stop doing that!" Dark Pit yelled after getting hit in the face with the ghost of a Reapette. A normal Keron joined the game of hit-the-angel. The Keron lost the game and was turned into a pile of red hearts.
Pit continued to miss his shots due to the fact that he was flying in circles, getting dragged around by his wings. Once in a while his shots would make contact, but that was about one shot in fifty.
"Pit! I have control over your flight!" Palutena's voice sounded relived. Somebody must have gotten frustrated.
"Sorry to say this, but I'm disappointed. It was funny watching you two floundering around." Viridi might have been joking, but she really sounded disappointed.
"I must agree." Kronos's deep voice echoed through the ravine. "Now, I believe you have a friend who wants to reunite with the dark angel." Dark Pit raised his bow, and the hideous eel-like Soul-Eating Monster flew out of the darkness, glowing the white color of ghosts.
"WHAT IS THAT THING?!" Pit screamed at the top of his lungs. He had been half-dead when Dark Pit had killed the Soul-Eating Monster, so he didn't know it.
"Pit, that's the Soul-Eating Monster." Palutena told him. "I don't like it, but our only option is to fly away."
"I didn't like big ugly before, but now I absolutely hate him." Dark Pit growled. Viridi agreed with him.
As the goddesses took the twin angels away at top speed, with big ugly hot on their heels, Pit noticed that there were less normal monsters and more ghosts than before.
"THERE ARE MORE GHOSTS HERE!" He yelled over the sound of the wind. "WE MUST BE GOING THE RIGHT WAY!"
"Viridi! Let's follow the ghosts!" Palutena didn't have to yell at the top of her voice, because she was talking via telepathy. Must be good to be a goddess. The Soul-Eating Monster tried to chomp down on them, but the angels were fast and swerved away. The hideous devourer of souls changed his tile to the hideous devourer of dust.
"WHY DOESN'T IT GO AWAY?!" Dark Pit demanded. The reason for the volume was either his anger or the wind, possibly both.
"Ghosts last as long as they did in life." Kronos informed them. "Your friend here lived a long and happy one. He'll be gone in, maybe a few years."
"We don't even have a few minutes!" Palutena sounded very worried.
"I see the Reaper Fortress! In you go, Pittoo!" Viridi said.
"Don't call me thaaaaaat!" Pittoo went straight into the fortress, without being spotted by Reapers. Lucky guy.
"Pit! I don't have control!" Pit smashed through the front gate with his face, just like the first time.
He still managed to say, "No don't do it!" The hideous devourer of dust tried to follow his example, but hit the walls.
"Ouch..." Dark Pit helped his counterpart up.
"At least you didn't break anything." Palutena said with all the cheerfulness she could muster. Pit looked up to see a guillotine slam down in front of his face. At least nobody got hit.
"Thanks, Pittoo!" He said in his usual cheerful tone. Then he remembered where he was and what was there. His face fell.
"Look who arrived. I was hoping to feed you to the eel, but since you're here, I'll prepare a more painful death for you." Kronos said. "Why don't you come to the Great Reaper's chamber?"
"No way!" Pit said.
"Then I wonder where my troops are coming from..." Kronos hinted.
"Why would you tell us where you are summoning your troops? You must be lying." Palutena said.
"Follow my army and see where you find yourself. Also, watch out for Reapers, angels."
Pit looked confused. "Why would you tell us to watch out for Reapers?"
Kronos gave his signature low chuckle. "It would be rude not to. Especially when you can't kill them."
Dark Pit questioned Kronos, "And why would you care about being polite?"
"Basics."
"No, wait." Pit whispered to his twin. "There was a Reaper here, and I killed it. If it's patrolling the same path-"
"I get it." Dark Pit checked both ways and saw a glowing white Reaper. He waited till it passed, and then the two of them dashed forward into another hallway. This time, Pit didn't remember the presence of a Reaper, and they dashed into it's line of sight. For some reason, a ghost Reaper didn't always summon ghost Reapettes. The Reapettes were completely random. Pit was glad that his Lancer Staff could be put to good use. Then the Reaper decided that it should put it's scythe to good use as well. Neither angel hesitated to leave as soon as possible. They spotted a line of ghostly Monoeyes and snuck around them onto the next door. All the ghosts were coming from one place, and they headed to that unknown place.
"I don't like this." Palutena said. Following the spirits had led them to the place she had least wanted to see.
The door to the boss room had hot springs on both sides. Pit and Dark Pit both soaked up in one of them. Dark Pit checked the other and instantly left. The Reaper enjoying itself and the weird, purple color was a good enough warning for anyone. Not to mention the steam. That stuff was probably poisonous. After the angels were all healed up, they entered the boss room.
Kronos laughed. "The mouse made it to the cheese."
"Perdix?" Pit couldn't believe his eyes. The human girl he had met was in front of him, holding a large book, standing in front of the bones of the Great Reaper.
"Hecate's book of spells." Palutena confirmed what Pit was having trouble believing. "But, how?"
"A perfect copy." Kronos explained. Perdix didn't react to hearing his voice. "She was only curious, and would have contained herself if not for one spell."
"Raising the dead with a mortal? That's how you've been getting your ghosts?" Perdix didn't react to Dark Pit's voice, either. She was in a trance-like state, reading the book.
"Yes, it is. Perdix here has proven to be very useful. She desired to see her family so much, all she needed was a little encouragement. Raising the dead is random, you don't know what you'll find. She's been trying for days." Kronos seemed to find the situation funny.
"You manipulated her. Just like Cragalanche." Dark Pit said.
"No, she's been acting out of free will. I'm just altering her sight and hearing. But the golem was my doing. And I might have pushed her into helping." So that's why Perdix hasn't reacted to anything.
Pit ran up to Perdix as she began to glow with white light. "Perdix! What are you doing?" The brown pigtails fluttered slightly as she jerked her head up. The white light died down as she snapped the book shut with her hand on the cover.
"Pit?" Kronos must have allowed her to see him. That couldn't be good. "I'm doing magic."
"Do you even know where you are?"
"Of course I do. This is the Reaper Fortress. I needed to be alone, and it was empty."
"There are Underworld Monsters everywhere! What are you seeing?" Dark Pit joined the conversation.
"You again. I heard that the Forces of Nature stopped attacking us. Got more important business?"
"Yeah. Kronos. We can't waste time fighting humanity. And the ghosts you're summoning are supplying his army!"
Perdix laughed like this was a joke. "Like Kronos would use human ghosts in his army. That's hilarious. The idea of the titan lord being back is pretty far-fetched, too. The gods killed him for good!"
"Perdix, you have to stop summoning the dead! There are more than just humans, there are monsters, too!" Pit was nearly pleading now. "Come on, please don't make us force you!"
"No!" Pit looked surprised at her sudden outburst. "I have to see my family again. And I'm not summoning any monsters!"
Dark Pit was getting very angry. "Kronos has been altering your sight and hearing. You're being his servant!"
Perdix hadn't heard his first comment, but she had heard his second. "I am not anyone's servant! And there's no way you're stopping me from raising the dead! I have to keep trying!"
Palutena sighed. "You can't reason with her. Not when she can't even properly hear you."
"Those humans! They're never helpful!" Viridi said angrily.
Perdix either ignored the goddesses or couldn't hear them. "If you want me to stop summoning ghosts, you'll have to force me!" She opened the book, and the skeleton behind her started to tremble. It stood up, holding a massive scythe. She pointed at Pit and Dark Pit with her staff. "Attack them! Just... don't kill them." The bones of the Great Reaper raised it's scythe. Pedix glared at Pit and Dark Pit one last time. A green light flew out of her staff and circled her like a ribbon would circle a ribbon dancer. The green ribbon of light flew away, and Perdix was no longer standing in her spot.
"This is really bad."
"Don't state the obvious!"
Pit took the upper floor while Dark Pit took the ground floor. Pit sniped the Great Reaper's skull, and Dark Pit slashed up it's toes.
"Pit, Pittoo, the weak point is the blue heart." Palutena told them.
"Can you even call that pulsating light a heart?" Viridi asked.
Pit aimed his Lancer Staff at the Great Reaper's blue pulsating light/heart. He dashed forward, and fired a charged shot, but he only managed to crack the ribcage. Dark Pit used a jump pad to reach the upper floor.
"Got any ideas on what to do about that ribcage?"
"Not really. Just shoot a lot and don't get-" the Great Reaper's skeleton swung it's scythe, "sliced."
"Thanks a lot, Mr. Helpful."
"That's what a lot of our plans boil down to anyway."
Viridi snorted. "Since when did you have plans?"
"Maybe you could get inside?" Palutena suggested.
Dark Pit jumped back down to the ground floor and started prying the jump pad off the ground. "Distract that big pile of bones!" Pit fired another charged shot and broke one of the ribs. He now had a clear shot. Unfortunately, the big pile of bones focused on Dark Pit, who was still prying the jump pad off. He covered his weak point with his hand, and started to swing his scythe at the ground.
"Hey, bonehead!" Pit dashed off the upper floor and fired a charged shot in midair through the ribcage. The Great Reaper staggered, and turned around to face Pit. He also managed to kick Dark Pit, who had pried the jump pad off. Dark Pit limped over, pulling the pad while Pit used his Lancer Staff and small size to utterly annoy the Reaper.
Dark Pit set the jump pad on the ground, and jumped off it. He had good aim, but the skeleton had started to walk, and he ended up dangling from the very bottom rib. Dark Pit climbed inside the ribcage with great difficulty, and pulled back the bowstring.
"Stay dead this time."
The Great Reaper fell over, once again a lifeless pile of bones. The only difference was that a few were broken.
"I did not see that coming." Palutena admitted. "Kronos using a mortal to get his troops... and she doesn't even know it. We need a new plan."
"Take the book. Without it, she can't summon the dead." Viridi suggested.
Pit shook his head. "She'd just make a new one."
"Then take the book and the staff. All we have to do is find her." Dark Pit said. He looked pretty happy about having finished the Great Reaper.
"Finding her is easy. But Kronos's ghosts are a problem as well. We need to be able to do something about them." Palutena frowned.
"Ghosts? Arlon managed to persuade Dyntos into helping, and if anyone can make a weapon to deal with ghosts, it's him." Viridi said proudly. "I already asked him, and he said he's up to the challenge, as long as he's got the materials."
Palutena smiled. "Pit, seems like your next mission will be finding materials for Dyntos."
"Got it, lady Palutena!"
Perdix: I'm back!
Longest chapter I've done so far. That was fun. Ok, gotta check Divinipedia for what Dyntos could want...
Pit: What would hit a ghost anyway?
I'm trying to see if water would do the trick. I need something... I don't want a plot hole. It's gotta make sense.
Dark Pit: Water might work. But it's everywhere, and I don't think that you could put it into a weapon.
Palutena: Salt? Salt rocks aren't the most common thing in the world. It should work.
Maybe. I'll consider it. Now what were ghosts weak to in Greek mythology... this is hard.
