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Phin-salvania: Shattered Mentally

She saw that Phineas was already at a table as she walked down the stairs the next morning. It surprised her to see him without a map or tool out tinkering on something. He was just sitting there, drinking a glass of milk. It was a sight that took her few moments to register, it was just odd to see him not doing anything. It's not like him at all. What's the matter with him?

He looked up and waved her over. She smiled and sat down beside him. The nod he gave someone out of sight didn't look like something she was supposed to catch, but she had. With a cheerful demeanor, he welcomed her, "How are you this morning, my dear?"

"I'm fine. Just didn't sleep well."

"Are you alright? Do you need some more rest? We could delay the trip another day, ...Or you could stay here while we tackle this node. Or ..."

"I'm fine, really. Just have a lot on my mind."

"Care to share?"

...

The question took her by surprise, the sudden wide eyes told him that much. I recall that talk we had a few years ago. I know I fail to catch a lot of your hints, but I'm trying.

"It's nothing."

"You didn't sleep because of it, I don't call that nothing. Now you do realize your talking to your best friend, not to mention your boyfriend. I know you sleep soundly most nights."

She looked at him with narrowed eyes, "How would you know that? Do you have camera's watching me?"

No, but that's not a bad idea. "I'll never admit to that. But I have my ways. Now don't change the subject, what's wrong?"

The server came out with two plates filled to the brim with food. She looked at Phineas, who nodded with a smile, the lady bowed slightly and disappeared. Isabella had noticed the sever seemed to be waiting for his approval before leaving.

"You have something going on with her?" He caught the slight growl in her voice. Funny, I never pegged you for the jealous type. But I guess I never thought any of my actions would be interpreted in such a manner. I really need that dang book.

"No, all I did was fix a stove for them last night after you left. And four tables ...and eight chairs...I think that's all." I really need to stop working on things to clear my head. But her leaving me last night hurt and I didn't know what else to do.

"So they owe you one? I see."

"I'm sorry. I just needed to do something. I didn't plan on having that free time." The angry sigh she gave was obviously one of those hints. Stuffing his mouth full of food, he waited for her to say something. It was several bites later before she finally said anything.

"So you had plans last night?"

"Sorta." Play this carefully, Flynn.

"What plans were they?"

"I ...planed on spending some time with you."

"What stopped you?"

Something about this doesn't seem right. It seems like I am being lead into a trap. Do I answer honestly? Tell her that I didn't chase after her because I feel she has the right to choose what she wants? No, I don't think that will go over well. But I think anything I say at this point will not go over well. What am I doing wrong? I don't see anything I did as questionable. Did she really expect me to follow her to room? ... Would she really expect that? ... I ...I...just don't know.

He looked up at her with a sad look on his face. Meeting her eye to eye wasn't what he expected, especially not with her eyes filled with a challenging glare.

"What stopped you, Phineas?"

"I ... didn't think you wanted to be disturbed."

"I see, so you just did nothing? Fixing stuff for everyone else and not coming after me?"

"What am I doing wrong?" The question slipped out and he bit both lips as soon as the words left his mouth.

"Nothing...nothing at all. When are we leaving?"

I feel like I just got ran over by a semi truck. I know there is something wrong, but she is not telling me. Ug. "As soon as Buford gets back and Blajeet comes down."

"Buford is already out?"

"He wanted to test his hammer."

They ate in silence. Even though they where just a foot apart, Phineas felt like those inches were miles.

Baljeet appeared a little while later with book in hand. He sat down to start telling them about some of the creatures in the areas around them as he wolfed down his food. Thankfully, Phineas had already ordered for him before he came down. Just like he had for Isabella. Hope this goes over better.

Buford came in a few minutes later and sat at the last chair the table, letting his hammer hit the floor in front of him as he sat his arms and chin on the but of the handle. "Pointy, you have really out done yourself. This hammer is awesome. It feels as light as a feather, but hits like a Mack Truck. I've never said this, but I think I'm in love."

"Buford, you have said that several time. In fact, I have stopped counting the number times you have said it."

"Who asked you, nerd? You better hope this guy has something for me to bash, or we might be testing just how much punishment that barrier of yours can take."

"We'll leave as soon as we're done eating."

"I'm done." She pushed her plate away and stood up.

He sighed. "Then I guess we'll leave now."

...

A purple hue formed near the outer wall of the city, creating a purple ring as time passed. A moment later, two men walked out of it.

"Such a wonderful day do today, wouldn't you say?"

"Yes sir, wonderful."

"You do not seem to be enjoying yourself?"

"I fail to see why I came along, sir. I could be of greater use to you back there."

"Nonsense. Your presence here is invaluable to me. There is plenty for you to do."

"Sir, you do know my skills?"

"Yes. And it is those skills I am in need of here. I had hoped to settle into our rooms before giving you your assignments, but I see that you will not be happy till I do." He put his hand in his cloak and pulled out a piece of rolled parchment. "You're to take this to the Captain of the guard, wait for him to give you a package. Then you are to head South toward the temple, seeing it you can catch up to our little friends. Cause as much trouble for them as possible without engaging them yourself. When they return, it is vital that the brute and mage be kept busy. Anything you can come up with will do, so long as they are not there for most of the evening. That is you priority over everything else, so plan accordingly. After that, we will be leaving."

The other man nodded while in deep thought, he could tell that all that pleased him. It was easy to please such an active worker as Seph.

"May I ask what you will be doing sir?"

"I'll be shopping. Just like we discussed yesterday. There is also a cafe here that serves a turducob I want to try. It's famous the world over."

"Very good sir. Where might I take our bags?"

They started forward before he answered, "There is a house a few minutes walk inside the gates. Such a nice house when I looked at it this morning. There will be some issues though, it seems that it's occupied at the moment."

Seph smiled, "I will look into that sir."

"Thank you, Seph"

...

"BUFORD LOVES THIS!" He brought his hammer down on a round, bug eyed creature, reducing it to dust. He now had a larger hammer that had four spikes on each corner of one side of the hammer head. It's creator had told him that there was a reason for spikes to only be on one side, but he wanted him to figure it out. Like I'm good at discovering the purpose of a device. I'm not a nerd!. Slamming it into the side of another creature, he pressed on toward the temple that was coming into view.

It had been three hours since they had sat at the inn. There was something odd he had noticed about the couple in the group. They don't seem to be acting like a couple. She seems to be royally pissed off about something. I have my guesses why. He just seems fed up. Could be the reason he's pummeling those things. I swear I have not seen anyone pull a trigger that fast.

Phineas was taking on several creatures at once, shooting some and bombing others. What some might not see was he wasn't doing a great job at keeping things away from his girlfriend, who had out two of her pets. That's not like him. I know he thinks she can take care of herself, but it looks like he's not even trying to keep them off her. He's just striking in a straight line.

A crack of lightning in front of him drew his attention to the other guy in the group who was doing all kinds of things. Currently he had his right hand out holding a transparent yellow barrier up while the left had his wand dancing from place to place, causing all kinds of things to happen. Lighting, rocks falling, fireballs, twisters, and anything else the boy could think of lashed out at the swarms that came at him.

He turned to face the next wave, that's when he noticed them running away. "COWARDS! COME BACK AND FACE ME!"

"That was the heaviest wave yet. I thought you said it was quiet all the way to the temple." Baljeet said as his wand caused a gust of wind to pick up all the stuff left over from the fallen creatures.

"Maybe it was related to the quest he took. His power was high enough to not cause many random encounters. However, we are on no such quest. So we are just facing things at random." Phineas said as he finished throwing the last of his stuff into his back pack.

"Lets just get to this temple. I would like to be done with this before lunch." Isabella walked past them all and headed off in the direction of the temple. A cat and pony following in her wake.

"Wow, what did you do dude?" He said looking at the triangle headed boy.

"Would you believe I have no idea?"

"No, no I wouldn't." He turned and walked in the direction of the girl with the rest right behind him.

Twenty minutes later, they stood at the entrance. It was a massive stone structure with a circular slab coming out thirty feet from the door. The slab was only a few feet from being level with the ground, but it was obvious by all the colorful stones in the masonry that is was a place of importance.

"This must be where the villages of old came to offer up sacrifices to Ultamacia." Baljeet was walking around it taking note of all the slightest details.

"Woopie. So are we going in or not?"

"Yes, lets." Phineas took the lead and walked through the doors without waiting on anyone else. Buford followed a second later.

"HEY! Wait for me!" Baljeet yelled as he ran in after them. The bully took note that there was one more that should be coming through the door, but she failed to do so. He let the Indian boy pass him as he waited a second, but did not turn to face the door, just looked over his shoulder. A moment later, he saw a figure sit down on the walkway out to the slab, a cat like silhouette coming into view right after she did. Not asking. She can walk.

As the boys walked down a dark hallway, Baljeet's ward produced fire to light the way. Soon, they walked into a large room covered in white stone. There was a staircase along the wall that lead up to an upper room. Statues of several figures and creatures stood just outside the stairway ring. Other then that, the room was void of anything interesting. He turned to see that Phineas had already started up the stairs.

When they reached the next level, they found another room with a high domed ceiling. Light poured in from from windows near the top. There was no statues here, just vases with ageless flowers in them. They sat on pedestals along the wall. A stone chair sat near a wall. The center of the room had a carver design in it.

"This must be Ultamcia's audience chamber."

"Why is it that we didn't run into any guards or beast?"

"She has nor been here for hundreds of years. Several of the villages she protected are gone. But the legends say that she did not die. They say she was sealed away somewhere. How and why remain a mystery."

"Well, I found the node. I'll be done in few. So look around."

He didn't want to look around, he wanted to smash something. But the chamber did feel different, like the very air was laced with power. Walking up to the flowers, sniffing them, he noticed they smelled good.

"Hey, how do these flowers smell. Does someone come here to replace them?"

"I have a hypothesis. I think there is some kind of power in this room that maintains the flowers. It is very possible that we are looking at flowers hundreds of years old."

"Impressive. Are you finding anything, Dinnerbell?"

"Not really. Oh, wait. I did manage to retrieve a world map this time. Access to the system is still blocked. I am starting to see a pattern in the errors. But I'll need to find a few more before I know anything definite. I'm updating your PDA's with the world map I just got. Huh? What is this?" The two guys moved over to where was as he tapped at the hologram.

"What?"

"It seems that there is a quest in this very room. It's a hidden quest, I only found it by looking at the code for this area. When I try to access it, it tells me that the quest is auto activated."

"English please."

Phineas shrugged, "It means that the quest is given to you when you touch something, open a door, or find something. So there is no telling what will trigger it." He closed the node down and stood up. Walking to the center of the room, he looked down and pulled something out of floor. "Hey look a Magiorb. A green and white one, cool. Hey, where's Isabella?"

A massive screech stopped any of them from answering as the room grew dark. The room started swirling with wind wiping around them.

Baljeet spoke up, "I think you triggered it. Did it have a title?"

"Not one I could read." The wind slowed as they started hearing a foreboding tune coming from the wind. "That can't be good."

They all were suddenly pushed back to the wall opposite of the chair. A flash later and they saw a women sitting in the chair. Her face was an ageless white, hair as dark as night and pinned back with silver pins. Her gown was black silk that flowed around her as well as hugging her. Buford had to admit that the while she commanded power, she was very beautiful.

"You have trespassed on hallowed ground."

"Great, this is going to delay us finding Isabella." Phineas didn't look happy as he pulled two tripods out of his back pack and sat them in front of him.

"What are you talking about, we can just run away." Baljeet said.

"No we can't. This is the quest. Defeat her." He pointed at the women who had now stood up and was slowly walking forward.

"She's a chick, how hard can this be?" He ran forward and swung the hammer at her, the dong it causes was deafening. Buford slowly looked up to look her in the eye.

"YOU DARE STRIKE ME!" She pulled him off the ground a second later, "I AM ULTAMCIA!" She threw him back against the wall between the other two.

"OK, so that didn't work. What now?"

"I think reasoning with her is out." Phineas was pulling a few things out of his PDA, he threw them up and they settled over each one of them, including the women. Numbers appeared over her head and on the ground in front of them. "Those are our health points. We need to get her's to zero and keep ours as high as we can. From the look of things, this may take a while."

Buford looked up at the number hovering over the lady that was now that the center of the room. 499994000 health. And I have 5000 health. I don't like these odds.

Phineas stepped back behind the other two and kept his voice as low as he could with the wind blowing, "Keep moving and strike at her as much as you can, but watch your health. The bigger turret over there is a health generator, it will heal you over time, but you have to stay near it. Baljeet knows healing magic, yell if your health gets dangerously low. Buford, try catching some of her energy attacks with the claw side of your hammer and throwing them back at her. I hope Baljeet knows a few Revive spells. …... You do? Good. Just keep yourself alive. Alright, good luck." He ran right and started firing at her, drawing her attention and chipping away are her health.

Buford leaped in and hammered her again, but this time he jumped back after he did. Then started moving around her. This is going to take forever. Noticing her health had only dropped a thousand points.

…...

Gosh, it looks like the sun is almost setting and nothing. I knew he would not notice me gone. So caught up with his plans that he forgets to even look back to make sure I'm there. GAH! I wonder what all that noise was? It went on forever. Isabella was pacing around the slab, her cat Bob resting on the walkway. He peeked out her every so often before returning to his sleep.

Then, all of a sudden he jumped up and faced the door of the temple. "What is it, Bob? You hear something?" She looked to see three figures walking out of the temple. Her anger was lost when she saw all three of them had ripped armor or burn marks all over them. All three were breathing hard, like they had just ran a marathon.

Phineas looked over at Baljeet. "Can you do it now?"

He nodded, "We are outside the barrier that was stopping me. Lets all stand on the slab."

"Wait, what's going on? What happened to you?" Her questions were directed at Phineas, who looked like he was about to collapse.

"Later. Do it, Baljeet."

He pointed his wand at the sky and yelled, "WARP!" A bright white light burned at the tip, growing bigger and bigger until the small company was jerked upward. A breeze blew by kicking up leaves on the empty slab where they just stood.

…...

An hour later, at the inn. Phineas and Isabella where once again sitting at the table they had occupied that very morning. Buford and Baljeet were out getting their armor repaired and had not returned yet. Phineas had to do the same, but was in no hurry for the moment. He had other things on his mind.

"So you where outside the entire time?"

"Nice of YOU to notice I was gone. What took you so long?"

"We got into a boss fight with Ultamacia and couldn't escape."

"You expect me to buy you fighting a two hundred year old which that took you all day to defeat?"

"We are in a game! It makes the rules. She was like a dang Demi God. All we could do was chip away at her health while she could down any one of us with two blows. Which she did, several times."

"Down? What does that mean?"

"She killed us. We had no health left. Thankfully, death in games is manageable if your prepared. Baljeet knew enough healing spells to revive us when it happened."

"So I guess your going to blame me for not being there with you?"

"It would have been nice to have . . ."

"ARE YOU SERIOUS!?"

"What did I do? I have been trying to get you tell me . . ."

"NO PHINEAS FLYNN, IF YOU CAN'T TELL AFTER SIX YEARS, THEN WE ARE DONE!"

"Wait, what?"

"Let me be absolutely clear." She got right up in his face and looked him directly in the eye, "I ….. am...breaking up... with you." With that, she turn around and walked out of the inn. Phineas' mouth hung open, with a black stare, not moving, unable to think, unable to process what just happened to him.

…...

What have I done? She was walking down the road with the fading light behind her, crying. There was no where for her to go, no where to turn to, she had to stay near him if she wanted to get home. Curse you, why does it have to be this way?

"Excuse me, miss. But I can't help but notice your crying."

She looked up to see a handsome man standing next to her. He was just about her height and looked close to her age. His coat has a simple tanned leather, with a black silk under shirt. The pants looked like a thin wool what had been darkened to almost be navy blue. His belt was a silver strap with a small gold buckle. But what interested her most was his eyes, they had honest concern in them.

"I'm …... fine. I just want to go home."

"I might be able to help you with that. I am a man of many talents."

"I'm sorry, but I doubt you could help me."

"Phineas Flynn is not the only one who can help you get home."

She froze in her tracks. No one in the game world had ever spoken their full names. This caused her to face him again.

"How do you know that name?"

"He told you that he was the only one who could get you home. I'm here to tell you that he is not. I understand we just met, but your tears pierced my heart. I just had to say something and offer my aid to you."

"You really know how to get me home?"

"I will do everything in my power to get you there myself. You will have all that I have working on it. If that is what you wish? You would have to come with me, for once we achieve such a feat, it will not last long."

"I can't wait to tell my friends, they will be so happy!"

"Will they?"

"What do you mean?"

"Phineas knows everything I do, he just lacks the resources to do it. But he has you traveling all over the place. For what? Are you gathering materials? No. Are you setting up some magical network? No. They are all having fun. They are enjoying this place. Tell me, has he told you how he plans to get you home?"

With a sad, defeated sob she answered, "No."

"My offer goes out to you. For you are the one truly in need. If you wish to get home, I will pave the way for you."

She nodded and followed beside him. Phineas, why did you not tell me? A shimmering purple hue appeared in front of them. Another man fell into step right behind her.

"I'm Isabella."

"You may call me Avonej."

There you have it. Review and Have fun. No, I'm not saying a word at this point. Later.

Word of the wise, never proofread exhausted and tired.