Me: Well, I'm back. Sorry I left you guys hangin' back there but I couldn't resist. *hehehe* Anyway, I-
Viridi: We get the picture, there's no need to repeat it.
Me: What the? *ugh* Why not?
Viridi: Like I said. And besides, you've said it for the past 7 chapters.
Me: And?
Viridi: ...Just saying.
Me: Whatever, it's my story anyway. *ahem* As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted...
Viridi: Hmph.
Me:...I own nothing from Rosario + Vampire or Kid Icarus, it's all copyrighted. Enjoy.
Chapter 10: The Battle of Witch Hill
The full moon shone brightly in the night sky. There was a slight breeze as a young girl with black hair and a red dress was sitting in a sunflower field. She was crying, crying over the loss of her family; she felt alone because of it.
"Ruby…" came a soft, elderly voice. Ruby looked behind her to see a woman in a brown, thick, hooded dress standing a couple feet from her. "Don't cry," she then said in a comforting tone, "I will always be with you." She then told her as she offered her hand. Ruby wiped her tears away and ran to the woman, hugging her. The woman sighed as she placed a hand on Ruby's back. "Ruby…" Her voice trailed off as the scene changed into a pitch black environment, nothing was there. Nothing, except for an older Ruby.
She lay there; her eyes were closed as she was off in a deep slumber. But she could hear something in the empty void around her: voices.
"Go away pain, go away. Go away pain, go away." That voice, it was Yukari.
"Um, are you sure that's gonna work?" That sounded like the blue haired girl, was she being sarcastic towards Yukari?
"Of course; we witches are experts at healing."
"When you say that, don't you mean adult witches?"
"Why you…"
"Will you two just calm down? Geez." Wasn't that, the blonde girl? "By the way Pit, you never told me that your friend here was a vampire." Pit…?
"Would you have believed me if I told you?" That must be him.
"…Touché."
"But Moka, how were you able to change if the Rosario wasn't taken off?"
"I don't know, I guess the both of us were upset that you were hurt." That must be the vampire they were talking about.
"Wait, there's two of you? Are you like Pit's friend Zelda?"
"Not exactly, most of the time her true self will only appear when the cross around her neck is taken off. Guess getting three cuts on my back was enough to let her make an exception."
In the real world, Ruby was unconscious and in a sleeping bag with a wet cloth on her forehead and the group was sitting in the tent with her. Pit's back was bandaged up and Yukari fixed the hole in his shirt that the vines left.
"Don't worry Pit; I'll have those wounds fixed up in no time." Yukari chimed.
"Pit's suffered a lot worse," Viridi stated, "he'll live."
"What could be worse than getting cuts in your back that are able to knock you out?" Kurumu wondered out loud?
"Try getting your wings burned off while trying to save a clone." The Goddess of Nature replied.
"WHAT?!" The Yokai girls exclaimed in shock while looking to Pit who felt sweat drop and had a sheepish grin.
"Guess I forgot to mention that didn't I?" He chuckled awkwardly.
"Your ladyship…" Came Ruby's voice. The group turned to the unconscious witch who was stirring slightly. She opened her eyes a little and then blinked a few times. "Where am I?" She wondered. A look of realization appeared on her face as she remembered what happened last night, starting with her subduing Pit. She abruptly got up but Pit held a can in front of her face, surprising, and stopping her.
"Here, it's tea." Pit assured. "Everyone else has one. Well, almost everyone." He turned his attention to Viridi who had her arms crossed while Ruby had accepted the can out of reluctance.
"It's not herbal tea. So why would I drink it?" the blonde huffed.
"You're pretty green for your age aren't you?" Kurumu wondered, taking a drink.
"Two things. One: it's part of the job. Two: I'm older than I look." Viridi retorted.
"Ahem." The group turned their attention back to Ruby who was still holding an unopened can of tea. "If you think you can buy me off with tea then you've got another thing coming." She stated.
"We're not." Pit replied, surprising Ruby slightly. "We just want to hear your side of the story."
"And start from the beginning." Viridi replied.
Ruby bent her head slightly and sighed. "A long time ago, I was involved in a car accident with my mother and father. I was the only one that survived, and thus became an orphan." The group listened to Ruby's story and all of them, even Viridi and especially Yukari, felt sympathetic for her. She told them how she wound up on the streets and every human she met treated her like trash because she was a witch. Moka was feeling even more sympathy for her and was almost brought to tears because she knew what she was going through. Ruby then told them about how a witch that she only knew by "her ladyship" took her in and brought her to live on the hill they saw before.
"And I'm guessing that people who got lost there didn't just disappear, didn't they?" Pit asked her.
"They wanted to destroy our home. That hill is a sanctuary for all witches." Ruby replied. Starting to clench the can she was holding. "So her ladyship came up with a plan: she decided to locate and recruit more witches so that someday, we would launch an attack on the humans, and wipe them all off the face of the Earth." Pit's eyebrows furrowed at this. He could understand holding a grudge for being treated badly throughout her childhood but he knew better that wiping them out wasn't the answer. Viridi thought it was pathetic at first because she had tried something like that before but Pit and Palutena intervened and stopped her from doing so.
"Isn't there another way though? Some kind of democracy?" Moka asked.
"NO!" Ruby shouted, throwing the can she had and making Pit hit the dirt. "There's no other way! We have to destroy them! Who cares about stupid humans?!"
"I do." Pit stated; surprising Ruby, but she brushed it off.
"The only reason why you would is because-" Ruby couldn't finish because two lights erupted from Pit's back that formed white, feathered wings seconds afterwards. This took her breath away. "You…you're a…" she breathed as she stared, wide-eyed, at Pit's wings as they disappeared.
"I've protected humans for years," the angel started, "and I've seen a good side to them. I know that there's another way for you and her ladyship to solve this; one that doesn't involve genocide. Maybe if you weren't so stubborn you'd see that." Ruby didn't say anything, she was still shocked at the fact that Pit was an angel and that he was a guardian to the humans.
"Didn't you say that Yokai Academy was a school where monsters learned to coexist with humans?" Viridi spoke up.
"Hey yeah." Yukari replied. "She could go to school with us!" Ruby was surprised to hear this.
"That's right. Yokai Academy has a lot to offer for a girl like you." Moka spoke up.
"To be honest that's not a bad idea." Pit said.
"She could even join the Newspaper Club if she wanted." Yukari told the group.
"Wait, so we'll have two witches?" Kurumu asked. Yukari then pressed her chest against Kurumu's which irritated the succubus a bit; something that Yukari was aiming for.
"Oh yes we will." The witchling told her with a smug sneer.
"Come on Yukari, cut it out." Pit piped up.
"Seriously, no need to be that close." Viridi replied. Ruby just sat there, silently, as the group before her started talking and having a good time.
Ruby couldn't believe it. She tried to kill Pit, an angel of all things, and tried to take Yukari with her. The fact that she told them that she and her ladyship wanted to eliminate the humans would have wanted them to treat her like an enemy, yet they wanted her to go with them to this Yokai Academy place.
After about an hour or so, everyone went to sleep and Ruby was still thinking about what was happening. She got out of the sleeping bag she was in and carefully made her way out of the tent, taking the can of tea she had before with her. As she reached the tent entrance she spared one last look to the group, especially Pit. He seemed like the type of person who saw the good in people. "I'm sorry," she whispered, "but it's too late for me." With that she exited the tent, not zipping it shut afterwards. She took a few steps away from the tent in the night-time atmosphere and reached her hand out; a raven flew towards Ruby with her wand in its grasp. After she took it she muttered something under her breath. Six, black wings appeared on her back and she flew off, heading for the sunflower field known as Witch Hill.
After a few minutes Pit felt a chill in the air and slowly woke up. He sat up and looked at the tent entrance and saw that it was open. That's odd. He thought to himself. He then looked to the sleeping bag Ruby was in and saw that it was empty. Since he was still tired he shrugged it off and went back to sleep.
…Wait a minute. Pit bolted upward and carefully made his way to the sleeping bag and uncovered it. He was surprised to see that Ruby really was gone. He made his way to the tent entrance and looked into the night sky. His eyes made their way to the sunflower field on the cliff and had a feeling where Ruby went. "Ruby…" he whispered.
[Time Skip]
Pit and the others were on their way to the sunflower field to find Ruby, and make sure that she was alright. "Honestly Pit, I don't get why you woke us up to find her in the middle of the night." Viridi complained. "She was probably feeling alright and went back to the house."
"Maybe," Pit started, "but I've got a bad feeling about this."
After a little while, the hill top that over looked the field was in plain sight. Once they arrived Pit heard Yukari scream and looked over to her. His eyes widened when he saw the witch held up in mid-air by vines. Pit then turned his attention toward the field with the others doing so shortly afterward to see Ruby standing a few feet from them.
"Let go of her!" Kurumu demanded.
"Leave this place." Ruby shot back. "All of you! You will not interfere with her ladyship!"
"Not without her!" Pit stated.
"Ruby, please, there has to be another way!" Yukari pleaded.
"I've heard enough!" Ruby shouted as she held her wand up. The gem within it began to resonate and a large group of mid-sized plant monsters appeared all around her and the group. Ruby then began to laugh menacingly. "Behold," she started, "her ladyship's work: an army of plant monsters bred to defend Witch Hill."
"You call this an army?" Viridi asked. Pit knew a fight was about to begin and invoked his transformation by becoming cloaked in a white light. After the light faded he now stood in his angel form and formed a type of large, Rosario themed gauntlet on his arm. Ruby was unfazed by Pit's transformation as she knew what she had to do.
"Whether or not you're an angel doesn't matter." She said coldly. "There's only one thing I care about, and that's the destruction of all mankind!" she declared as she pointed her wand forward; signaling the plant monsters to charge at the group.
"Not while I'm still breathing!" Pit told her as he charged at the incoming group of plant monsters. He loaded a punch with his Rosario Arm and tore through several monsters before sending one into a few more. Pit then wheeled around and sent a silver fist that spun in the air with a crimson trail following it at another group; knocking them over like bowling pins.
"PIT!" The angel looked back to see plant monsters surrounding Moka, and fast. His eyes then widened with realization.
"Moka, hang on!" He called out to her has he ran for the vampire. Pit didn't notice a plant monster trying to jump him and Mizore slicing it with claws of ice before it reached him since he was focused on Moka at the moment.
Mizore then freed Yukari from the vines that held her and went to kill more of the opposing monsters while Yukari pulled out her wand and summoned the flying cards she used before and joined the fight. Kurumu had her claws out and hacked away at a couple while Viridi was surrounded by some more but she summoned her scythe and disposed of them quickly. "You fight pretty good for a young goddess." Kurumu complimented.
"You're not so bad for a succubus either." Viridi returned. Several more plant monsters appeared but twice as many kunai made of ice flew past the duo and into the monsters' eyes before being cut down by the girls. Kurumu and Viridi went to fight more monsters as Pit was still making his way to Moka who was screaming for help. After he had fed a punch to one that was powerful enough to tear it in half he activated the Power of Flight and took off into the air. He then dove and blasted one that was about to take a bite out of Moka. As he reached her he managed to grab hold of the Rosario.
"Show time." Pit said under his breath as he removed the silver cross. A pillar of crimson light appeared shortly afterward and then disappeared as quickly as it appeared; tearing the plant monsters apart in the process. The group and Ruby (who was watching what happened) turned their attention toward Inner Moka who was now standing on a pile of dead plant monsters. Pit was in the air a few feet away from her with the Rosario tucked safely in is belt. Viridi was impressed with Moka's silver haired form and noticed the crimson colored glow that covered Pit's wings, and that alone became proof enough for her to believe that Pandora truly was at the school. Because if he was telling the truth about his new powers, then there was no way that everything else he told her was a lie.
Moka opened her eyes and looked at her surroundings briefly before looking to Pit. "You could have done that sooner you know." She told him in a stern voice, making a large sweat drop appear on his head. "Still," she continued "you saved my ass."
Ruby was standing in disbelief at the sight of the vampire, and knew full well what she was dealing with. "Are you…" she started but Moka fed her a round-house kick to the side of her head and thrust the witch into a pile of dead plant monsters.
"I'll take blood over peace." Moka stated. Pit fist-pumped and believed it was over but Ruby abruptly emerged from the top of the pile, her wings now on her back.
"Ruby! Please stop this! We'll leave right now and not come back ever again!" Yukari begged.
"No. I need to do this. I'm going to defend Witch Hill, because it is my wish." Ruby responded. "Also, because her ladyship DEMANDS IT!" She shouted as she held up her wand with the gem shining afterward. The entire group looked around to see the eyes of the dead monsters reacting and watched in surprise and shock as they began to reform, and getting twice as tall in the process.
"Th-They're even bigger than before!" Kurumu observed.
"I swear these guys are as persistent as my mudrones!" Viridi stated.
"I would ask what you're talking about but that'll have to wait." Mizore replied.
Pit let out a low growl; it seemed like things would keep going if her ladyship was still around. That was when Pit realized what he had to do. With a goal in mind and determination burning in his eyes he flew towards the house in the center of the field. Kurumu saw what he was doing after she dealt with one of the plant minions. "Where are you going?" She called after him.
Pit stopped in the air and turned to Kurumu. "I'm going to go have a little 'heart-to-heart' conversation with her ladyship." He told her. He then resumed his course to the house but Ruby overheard what he was up to.
"Stay away from her!" She shouted angrily, pointing her wand at him. Moka appeared in front of Ruby before she could do anything and delivered a powerful blow to Ruby's stomach; launching her into one of her lackeys.
Pit, please hurry. Moka thought to herself.
Pit landed in front of the house entrance. It wasn't an expert landing though; being the first time he ever flew a long distance on his own he slid on his feet into the doors of the house. He took a couple steps back and shook his head to get his wits about. After he banished his Rosario Arm he opened the doors and looked around. Vines covered the walls and floor of the room he entered. He saw more and more vines as he walked up a flight of stairs and deeper into the dark house. "I'm starting to get the feeling it's not just her ladyship pulling the strings." He said under his breath as he made his way through the second floor. He walked some more before he saw vines protruding from the bottom of a door he saw. "This must be it." He observed as he made his way to the door. Pit opened the door to reveal a dimly lit room with a figure in a thick coat sitting in a rocking chair behind a very thin curtain in front of a mirror. "Excuse me," Pit started as he made his way to her, "but are you the one Ruby's been talking about, her ladyship? Listen I want to talk to you about this thing you have against the humans." He said as he stopped in front of the curtain.
There was no response, so he moved the curtain and stepped closer to the figure. Pit touched the chair she was sitting on, making move back and forth slightly, still nothing. Deciding to take a risk he gingerly pulled down the hood of the coat to reveal a very old woman with white hair. He touched two fingers to the side of her neck trying to feel for a pulse…nothing, absolutely nothing. Pit's eyes widened as he put two and two together. "Ruby…" he muttered as he ran out of the room.
Outside the house the group was still facing off against Ruby and her plant monster army. Moka was fighting Ruby and several plant monsters while the rest of the group were fighting the rest of Ruby's forces, but they were starting to get exhausted. "How long…do we have to keep… hacking away at these things?" Kurumu panted.
"Until…we kill…them all." Mizore responded.
"Compared to us and what we can do…these guys are nothing." Yukari told them.
"You call this nothing?" Kurumu replied.
"Just trying to keep a positive attitude." Viridi spoke up.
Yukari looked to her left and gasped. "Guys look!" She told the group. The others looked over to see Moka restrained by a bunch of vines, completely immobile as Ruby floated in the air a few feet from her. "Ruby! Please, let her go!" Yukari begged.
"It's no use." Moka responded irritably. "Just look at her, there's no getting to her in that state." Ruby held her wand in the air and several vines grabbed the other girls with Yukari dropping her wand in the process. Soon enough they were all trapped on the outside of a ball of vines as Ruby began laughing menacingly.
"This is what happens to those who defile Witch Hill!" Ruby declared "Now laugh it-"
"RUBY!" Came a familiar voice as Pit stepped into view.
"Pit! You're back!" Kurumu cheered.
"Ruby, listen to me," Pit started, "you have to stop this. There's no point in doing what her ladyship says anymore!"
"Shut up!" Ruby shouted. "Her ladyship wants it so it must be done!"
"That's just it; her ladyship's not around anymore so you don't have to do what she says now!" Pit argued but this made Ruby laugh.
"What are you talking about? She's inside the hou-"
"LISTEN!" Pit shouted as his eyes started turning crimson. "I WAS JUST AT THE HOUSE AND SHE'S DEAD! SHE'S BEEN DEAD THE WHOLE TIME!" Everyone else listening was shocked to hear this, especially Ruby.
"Wh-what?" She breathed in disbelief.
"Don't you get it?" the angel said, staring to calm down. "After she passed on you couldn't stand being alone. So your emotions created a false image of her ladyship and you've been listening to a delusion ever since." Viridi listened to every word that Pit used and was impressed; guess all that time hanging around Palutena was starting to pay off. Ruby however was looking to the ground clutching her wand tightly as she thought about what Pit said, and started to believe it, but what came next wasn't what Pit hoped would happen.
"No…" she said softly as a tear escaped her eye. "NO!" she then shouted as she held her wand in the air, making the gem in it shine brightly. Ruby and the plant monsters around them became cloaked in a bright light and started to move closer together, and Yukari caught on to what was happening.
"RUBY, NO!" she cried as she saw the scene before her.
"What's going on? What's happening to her!?" Viridi exclaimed as she got a bad feeling.
"If she uses that forbidden spell she'll never be her old self again!" Yukari explained.
"Forbidden spell?" Viridi repeated, her hunch getting worse. She turned her attention back to the light as it faded. Standing before the group was a massive plant monster as tall as a building with red glowing eyes and a total of five heads: four smaller ones under a massive one. Ruby was in the mouth of the largest head: her arms and lower half were a part of the beast and her wand was standing a couple feet in front of her. Once she became aware she started laughing like a maniac and the monstrosity she had become went on a rampage, and it seemed she wasn't in full control of her power yet.
"DIE, ALL OF YOU!" Ruby shouted, enjoying her newfound power a little too much. "TIME FOR YOU TO DIE!" She continued laughing like a maniac with the whole group watching her as a tear escaped Yukari's eye.
"Do you know you just went off the deep end, Ruby?" She whimpered. Pit looked at Ruby's current form with an exasperated and shocked expression, his eyes back to being blue. Yukari had said she may not be able to be herself and it looked as though she was right. Remembering that his friends were trapped he conjured two orbs that were as big as his hands. They floated next to Pit's head and had red and black swirling smoke in them as well as a Rosario imprinted on both of them.
"Hang on guys!" He called to the girls as he descended towards Kurumu. He stopped in front of her and shot the vines with his new Orbitars and Kurumu took flight shortly after he did. Once she was steady she wasted no time and helped to free the others. Moka and Viridi landed gracefully while Kurumu landed holding Yukari and Pit shortly followed while he held Mizore bridal style. When he set his friend on the ground they looked at Ruby who looked as though she was gaining control over her new form.
"What do we do?" Kurumu asked.
"Her wand." Yukari spoke up with the group looking to her. "If we destroy her wand we can put a stop to this." She explained.
"And you think that can work?" Viridi replied.
Yukari nodded. "Without our wands witches are completely useless. We can't even preform magic." She explained further.
"Right, just leave it to me." Pit said, banishing his Orbitars for his Rosario Claws. He then took off and Yukari took a couple steps forward.
"Please Pit," she called after him, "it may be too late for her now but please just do what you can!" Pit spared a look behind him and gave Yukari a thumbs-up. He then turned his attention back to Ruby and accelerated. Ruby saw him coming but didn't stop to think.
"FILTHY SCUM! DIE!" She shouted as several vines lashed out at the angel. Pit dodged and cut down the vines that came after him but one of them managed to grab him around his middle and several lashed at him shortly afterwards. He managed to slice and or blast the ones that came at him but one of them had cut his cheek, drawing a bit of blood as he shouted in pain. The others watched and became shocked but Moka's expression changed from that to anger in an instant.
"Damn you, you little bitch!" She said as she launched herself into the air. As she came down she landed a kick that managed to tear through the vine that was holding Pit. Once he collected himself he continued towards his target with Moka clearing the way for him while heading for Ruby at the same time, bouncing from vine to vine as she did. But while she was doing so a vine had managed to grab her wrist followed by three others either grabbing her wrist or her ankles. Another vine came up to her and stabbed itself close to Moka's neck when it did. Pit saw what happened.
"Moka!" He shouted while Ruby laughed.
"That's right, DIE!" She exclaimed while Moka was struggling to get free.
"Foolish girl!" The vampire started. "Do you really think this can hold me?!"
"Oh, there's more to this form than just magic!" Ruby told her. "In this form, I can absorb the abilities of other creatures!" The vine that penetrated Moka's skin was slowly creeping up her skin as it pulsed, sucking out Moka's blood. "In other words: since you're a vampire, I have vampire powers as well!" Pit's anger rose and his eyes turned crimson once again when he saw the life being drained from his friend.
"Let her go!" He shouted as he flew to Moka with incredible speed. When he reached the vampire he cut the vines holding her, banished his claws and caught Moka's hand as he flew a circle around Ruby. "Feel like taking a page out of an old book?" He asked Moka.
"Anything to put a stop to this." She replied as Pit flew higher. Ruby saw what they were doing and before she could put the pieces together a bunch of winged cards had covered her face. Yukari had her wand out and had just cast the spell and Viridi looked to Pit.
"Whatever you're doing you better do it now, Pit!" She called to the angel.
"Right, thanks guys!" He replied as he started spinning. On the third spin he launched Moka at Ruby and the vampire readied a kick as she accelerated towards the behemoth. Ruby managed to clear the cards away from her face and saw Moka heading right for her.
"ALL OF YOU! DIE!" She shouted as she had vines lash out at the incoming vampire but Moka sped right past them.
"I'll take blood over PEACE!" She declared as she neared Ruby's wand. Once her foot made contact things briefly paused. When the gem in the wand cracked there was an enormous pillar of light that completely engulfed the plant monster. Ruby screamed as the monster she was a part of was torn to pieces, with each piece disappearing in the light until there was nothing left.
[Time Skip]
The sun was barely rising over the horizon as the group stood next to the bus stop in the forest. They were in their human forms and were a little depressed, even Viridi. Not because school was starting again but because they had looked all night for any sign of Ruby, which proved to be unfruitful. "I'm sorry Pit," Viridi started, "but there was nothing we could do for her." Pit just sighed and Outer Moka placed a hand on his arm to try and comfort him. Viridi sighed and decided to change the topic. Before she could though, they could hear someone coming.
"I'm back guys," Ms. Nekenome called out, "look at all the yummy fish I found!" Everyone turned to see the teacher with a massive basket of fish on her back; she stopped in her tracks when she saw the group standing next to the bus stop. "Is it time to go already?" she said, mildly disappointed. Suddenly they heard the bus coming and looked over to see it stopping next to them. When the doors opened a familiar figure stepped out.
"Hey guys." Gin greeted, surprising everyone.
"Gin?" the members of the Newspaper Club chorused.
"Whoa, what's with you guys?" he replied. "Your club president just escaped from Summer School hell so try to act surprised would ya?" Nobody else responded at Gin's comment. "Guys?" he checked but again got no response; they were too busy looking at a familiar witch that was unconscious in Gin's arms.
"It's Ruby!" the girls chorused.
"Oh. Do you guys know her?" Gin asked.
"Long story." Pit responded, still looking at the unconscious Ruby. Her clothes were a bit tattered and her eyes were closed, but for some reason she had a peaceful smile on her face. "Where did you find her?" He asked his club leader.
"Well long story short I found her floating in the ocean. Just floating around like something was keeping her safe from harm." Gin explained.
"I guess that's good to know, seeing how peaceful she looks." Viridi spoke up. Gin noticed her and saw that she was in a red dress with purple and pink detail.
"Um." He said in an awkward voice.
"That's Viridi, don't ask." Pit said, snapping Gin out of it.
"Okay then." Gin replied, still a bit awkward. With that he got on the bus followed by the girls. Moka noticed Pit wasn't following and looked back to him.
"Are you coming Pit?" She asked.
"Give us a minute." Viridi told her. Moka nodded and boarded the bus. Pit then looked back to the goddess. "Listen Pit," she started, "I talked with Palutena while we were looking for Ruby, and she and I came to the decision to leave you at the school for the time being." She finished.
Pit was surprised to hear this. "Really?" He asked.
"Seeing as how Pandora's at the school and still poses a bit of a threat you think we wouldn't?" She responded.
"Guess that's one way of looking at it." Pit said, still a bit surprised to be staying.
"Besides I think I know the real reason for you wanting to stay." Viridi told him. "It's the vampire isn't it?" She asked, catching him off guard.
Pit blushed slightly and looked to the ground. "Well…" he started but Viridi cut him off.
"I knew it!" she declared, making Pit lift his head. Viridi calmed down a bit. "Don't worry, your secret's safe with me." She told him. Pit could only smile and shake his head.
"Hey kid, ya coming?" the bus driver called out.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, I'll be right there!" Pit responded. He looked back to Viridi. "Guess this is good-bye for now." He told her.
"One more thing." Viridi said as she held up her hand. Making a leaf with the emblem of the Smashers appear in it. She then handed it to Pit, who took it with curiosity. "When you're done with the school year, rub the emblem off of that leaf." She explained. "It'll open a path to Skyworld and you'll be home before you know it."
Pit continued to look at the leaf and then looked to the goddess. "But how did you-" Viridi had cut him off by lifting a finger.
"I'm gonna hang myself for doing this, but Nintendo talked to this group called FUNimation and worked something out. Beings such as goddesses can open a portal to anywhere in this world if the author permits it." She explained with a sigh.
[Out of Story]
Me: Relax, it won't be for nothing.
[Back to Story]
Pit managed to hold back a laugh but calmed down before Viridi noticed anything.
"Well, guess I'll be seeing ya." He said as he headed for the bus. Viridi turned around and prepared to open a portal. "And just so you know." Pit spoke up, making Viridi look to the angel that was at the bus door. "It's not just because of Moka that I want to stay." He told her, surprising the goddess a bit. Pit went through the doors and took a seat next to Moka. The doors on the bus closed and the bus itself took off. Viridi smirked as she watched the bus leave.
"Now this is getting interesting." She said to herself as she held a hand forward. A blue spark erupted from it followed by a blue oval that was a few feet taller than she was. When she walked through it she was gone. The portal closed as she made her way back to the Kid Icarus Universe.
Back to Pit; he was looking through the window at the walls of the tunnel that served as a portal between the human and supernatural worlds. This was one adventure worth remembering. He thought to himself. But now I'm back to the real problem, he continued as his face got serious, and that's Pandora.
Me: All's well that ends well for the Newspaper Club, but Pit has to refocus his attention on Pandora. Will he succeed? And what new challenges await him? Stay tuned for the next exciting episode of Drag-
The Newspaper Club: WRONG SHOW!
Me (sheepishly): ...Sorry. Anyway, please review, and until next time, see ya!