''Kill or be killed!'' spat out wriggle, along with all the saliva accumulated in her mouth. Gross.
She jumped at Cirno in an attempt at biting off her jugular. The ice fairy swiftly dodged it and hit her with a short-range spreading icicle shot.
She fell flat on her face again, and she had just as much trouble as before getting back on her feet. She changed targets, opting to attack Orin next. She didn't really try anything different from doing another charge, so she got knocked back down just as easy as before.
This time, she didn't try getting up instantly. She actually stood there, inmobile and silent. The seconds she spent there felt like minutes of awkard silence, nobody moved an inch or blinked, expecting her to attack a fourth time, yet nothing of the sort happened. Instead, she started laughing, a weak and sad laugh muffled by Wriggle's face being pressed against the dirt.
Her sorrow slowly turned into anger, and eventually she stopped laughing altogether and started punching the ground as she mustered all of her determination to get back up.
She staggered all the way to reach Okuu and punched her as she screamed in rage. Her punches did nothing, and it wasn't a matter of Utsuho being resilient, she just couldn't do any damage, on the way to the gate her body lost most of its energy, if it weren't for her hate for the Purple Stormbringer, she wouldn't have been able to get up the first time.
That's when she suddenly stopped, as if she had come to a horrible realisation. Still twitching but with her eyes actually looking at what surrounded her, she started backing away until she was against the giant door. She fell down on her knees and futitely tried to get further away from the other girls, as if she wasn't completely aware that she was against the gate.
''What am I doing?! Get away from me!''
''What's wrong with you?'' Asked Rin, not meaning to sound rude even if it might look like it.
''Why?'' Wriggle asked, she clearly sounded distraught.
Okuu tried talking to her, asking her what she was talking about, but the noise of a certain kaiju got the attention of everyone.
From beneath the ground rose Megalon,despite its barely expressive face, its murderous intent was very obvious.
''Megalon! It's you!'' Wriggle started getting up again by using the gate as support. Her spirits were lifted a bit by the appearance of a fellow insect. ''I thought that disgusting woman had killed you after she separated us.''
Megalon gave Wriggle a quick glance. It looked like she was smiling at it, but it wasn't easy to make out her expression for Megalon, not that it cared.
The giant bug just shot a napalm bomb at her. She fell down on the ground, where Megalon just blasted her with several lasers. The sound of the explosions masked her final screams.
Megalon then stomped hard on the ground and let its characteristic scream as it revealed a purple aura before diving into the earth again with its drill arms.
The three girls looked around them as usual, and soon enough they felt the rumble.
''Damnit, fly away!'' Said Utsuho. Of course, they did just that, barely avoiding the giant bug. Megalon tried stopping them by spinning as it came out of the ground, managing to strike Okuu.
She fell down on the ground where Megalon attempted to stomp on her much like one would do with a spider (so there's no irony here, we all know spiders aren't bugs), Utsuho shot a stream of nuclear energy at the sole of Megalon's foot, knocking it back. It would of had fallen on its back, but it stopped its fall by piercing the ground with the drill arms.
Megalon was far from finished, and it proved that by harrasing Utsuho with napalm bombs, forcing her to retreat. Then it got back up and, feeling someone was sneaking on its rear, turned around, foiling Orin's surprise attack. The giant bug tried to pierce her with its giant drills, Orin managed to back away just in time, barely dodging the drills that went through the earth. Megalon then mustered its strength by lifting the ground below Rin's feet, sending her flying along with all the rubble that fell on top of her right after.
While the kasha struggled to get out of that big pile of rubble, Megalon turned around again. Okuu was there, flying all the way to the humongous beast; she kicked it in the belly with her elephant foot,making it cringe in pain. She followed by shooting a big energy ball at its face; the explosion sent both of them several feet back.
Megalon, not one to stop at anything short of death, blew a hole in the ground and jumped up, digging through the ''ceiling''. Right after, it barged right in, knocking her down the pit which the giant creature filled in with rubble formed by all the digging, of course.
The two girls would eventually manage to get out of there, no doubt, but in the meantime Megalon would take out the ice fairy, but she was motivated to do the same to it. Megalon kept Cirno from closing in by spamming lasers and bombs from a distance, the kaiju knew that she couldn't really die, so the strategy was to wear her down and make her lose any will to fight.
Cirno being Cirno, she managed to dodge most of the stuff thrown at her, with the times she was hitting only managing to slow her down briefly. All that mindless shooting came to a halt when she froze a bomb in mid air and grabbed it, carrying it on her way to Megalon's face.
Megalon wasn't okay with that, so it started shooting lasers at Cirno, in an attempt at hitting her or atleast breaking the ice to make the bomb explode. Cirno achieved dodging everything, despite some close calls, and as she threw the thing at its face, the big bug put its arms in front of its face to shield it. It stopped the napalm bomb from blowing its face up, but the impact and explosion made it flinch, uncovering its face in the proccess. This was Cirno's chance.
She covered herself in ice and jumped into Megalon's belly by going through its mouth. Upon realizing what had happened, the giant monster groaned in the same way somebody does when they have to go to bed early for the first day of class before it started spasming with each explosion caused by the bombs inside of it. Of course, it all finished with a big kaboom, the kind of big kaboom that should be written all in bold and caps, but that's not happening because it's considered bad writing.
When the smoke cleared out, the only one standing there was Cirno. She had achieved revenge as she claimed she would do.
The other two ended up getting out of the rubble. Cirno didn't help them...okay, she did help a bit, not that she said anything about it. Either way, the girls were out and the monster dead.
When they got to the door, they took a moment to look at the crater where once stood Wriggle Nightbug. She got slowly prived of her personality, of what made her herself, and when she seemed to start regaining a bit of her mind, she got killed without any dignity; a fate that not even the lowest of youkai deserve, if I may give my opinion.
Utsuho and company didn't have any time for mourning her, in fact, they wouldn't have mourned her loss even if they had the time. For them, her death was kind of a shock (Even for Orin, since she couldn't carry a body that had been sublimated...in the chemistry sense of the word, of course), but they weren't even that close as to cry her loss or anything(the closest one was Cirno, and even she was just an acquaintance at most).
Their eyes were not set in the past that now were Wriggle and Megalon, but in the very close future that hid behind the giant gate.
''Let's open this door!'' Said Utsuho before doing just that with a kick.
Nothing but darkness loomed inside. Orin tried to create fire to dissipate the dark, but no matter how many flames she set ablaze, it was impossible to see.
''Well, we've come too far. Some silly darkness isn't going to stop us!'' stated Cirno.
And with no more words, they made their way towards the unknown. The Purple Stormbringer awaited their arrival, the time for the final battle was almost there.
Sorry everyone(and with everyone, I mean the few who read this. Don't worry, I'm not delusional or anything), I know this episode was especially late, but I lost my connection to the internet for a long time, so I didn't get the chance to upload anything or to warn about it. Hopefully the next one won't take so long.