SBS Time!
Specter24: What is Fawful up to?
Game2002: He is having chortles.
Looks like reviews are declining, but thinking on the bright side, I'm sure everyone is just busy with his or her daily life and will eventually come to read this story again. Always hope for the best!
And also, I can't believe I missed out the preview title for the previous chapter even though it's not the last chapter of the arc yet… It's added now, even though there's probably no point now that this chapter is already out.
Chapter 11
World of Monsters
"Black Jewel? I remember that you mentioned about a black diamond being a monster and taking over your castle in the past," Youmu brought up.
"Right, but I destroyed that thing a long time ago!" Wario said. "How on earth can my castle transform again?"
"Maybe it's not quite dead yet-ze?" Marisa asked.
"Something tells me this is related to that dastardly Captain Syrup!" Wario growled. "She better pray that she has nothing to do with this or else I'll give her a hundred times more severe punishment!" He then took a step forward and shouted at the top of his voice, "WHOEVER IS BEHIND THIS, SHOW YOURSELF AT ONCE! I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A ROTTEN DAY FOR MESSING WITH MY CASTLE!"
Almost as if the environment was responding to him, bursts of smoke appeared before their eyes and monsters of various kinds were materialized from the smokes. "Good! Looks like you guys have the brains to heed to my voice!" Wario said. "But that won't save you! I have already decided to give you all a piece of my mind! Ready or not, here I come!"
With a loud war cry, Wario charged at the group of enemies. One of the enemies, a triceratops armed with a club, stepped forward and raised his weapon to bring it down on Wario. Wario raised his arms and caught the club as it came down on him and forcefully pulled it out of the triceratops hands. He then threw a punch across the triceratops's face to knock him out silly before proceeding to lift him over his head with both hands.
A group of dinosaur-like creatures with round, bulgy eyes lunged at Wario, but he quickly leaped into the air and jumped rather high despite the heavyweight triceratops carried over his head. The dinosaurs piled on top each other instead and then Wario performed a piledriver using the triceratops onto them. The powerful impact made the dinosaurs cry in pain, and all them exploded in a colorful display of light and coins flew in every direction.
Reimu caught one of the coins when it flew to her and said, "Coins?"
"Hiya!" Wario continued to throw punches at the monsters as they attempt to crowd in on him and overwhelm him. Even though there were a lot of monsters coming at once, none of them were a match for Wario's mighty strength. Catching another triceratops by his tail, Wario spun him in multiple circles and cleared away the monsters around him before finally letting go of his grip and sent the triceratops flying into a lone wall.
CRASH!
"Wow! That guy is strong!" Nitori said in awe.
A pterodactyl swooped down from behind Wario and was about to thrust his beak through his head when suddenly Wario caught him by the beak without turning around. He then slammed the pterodactyl against the floor like a bludgeon over and over until the flying reptile exploded into coins and gemstones. "But why are all these monsters turning into jewelries after being defeated?" Sanae wondered.
"Who cares? They're all going straight into my donation box!" Reimu said happily while gathering together any treasure that fell near her and her eyes were once again yen signs.
"Didn't he say that the Black Jewel also turned his treasure into monsters?" Remilia reminded them. "That would explain why these monsters are changing into jewelries after being defeated. They are returning to their original forms."
With a powerful punch right into the face, the monster dressed like a magician fell back and exploded into coins. Wario rubbed his fist and said, "Well, how do you like that? This is what you get for messing with the great…"
Before he even finished talking, there was an explosion behind him and he turned around to see that another monster had appeared. It was a green reptilian monster with large muscles and metallic fists—Greenfist. "Tsk! It's you again!" Wario said, sounding annoyed. "Do you want me to knock some common senses into your brain again?"
Greenfist beat his chest like a gorilla and let out a loud roar before running at Wario. Wario ran at him too and the both of them locked arms and started wrestling to topple down each other. It was a showcase of strength as both sides were equally matched, but sometimes it looked like Wario was winning but then the tables would turn to Greenfist.
"Wow… They both are equally strong…" Reisen thought.
"Grrrr! I'm not going to lose to the likes of you!" Wario growled angrily. "Take this!" He pulled back his head and then rammed it into Greenfist's head, making the monster cry in pain and pull back. Wario then threw a right jab across his face and immediately followed up with a left jab, knocking the monster silly two times.
Wario then threw a straight punch into his abdomen and this was followed up with an uppercut to the chin. Wario did not stop there however; he proceeded to throw a series of rapid punches into Greenfist, buffeting him mercilessly nonstop.
POW WHACK POW SMASH WHACK SLAM BONK!
"Have a rotten day!" Wario shouted. He lifted the wobbly Greenfist over his head and jumped up high into the air, heading in the direction of the girls while spinning vertically.
"He's falling in our direction!" Meiling shouted.
The girls quickly got out of the way as Wario slammed Greenfist headfirst into the center of the floor.
SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!
The impact was so powerful that large cracks spread all across the floor, and no longer able to hold up together, the whole place broke apart and everyone fell down. "AAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
Aya, Remilia, and Cirno managed to stay in air using their wings, but they couldn't just stay there and watch their comrades who have yet regain their flying abilities fall down the empty air. "We have to help them!" Aya said, and she quickly swooped down to her friends, trying to reach out to as many of them as possible.
Remilia swooped down and caught Meiling by an arm. "Thanks, Mistress Remilia…" Meiling said.
Cirno managed to catch Marisa underneath her shoulders, but the ice fairy didn't have enough strength to hold her up and was dragged down too.
Suddenly, a large amount of light shined down from below. Wario and the girls who were not rescued (Greenfist had already been reduced to coins) continued falling downwards until they disappeared into the light, and the others who were airborne were slowly being engulfed by the light as well. "What's happening?" Aya cried, trying to shield her eyes, but couldn't do so because she was busy holding up Reimu and Alice with each of her hands.
And the light engulfed everything…
"Ow!" Meiling tumbled onto the floor and hit her head. She sat back up and rubbed the back of her head and looked around the place, "Ow… Where am I?"
"Are you all right, Meiling?" Remilia asked as she descended next to her.
Meiling turned to her and said, "Mistress Remilia, you're here!"
Remilia looked around the place and noticed that they were standing on a square-shaped arena that was surrounded by lava. There were also unidentifiable statues placed on the four corners of the arena. "Looks like some sort of a fighting arena…" she thought. "And that would make this guy our opponent."
Meiling had a shocked expression on her face when she saw the person that was behind Remilia. The vampire slowly turned around to look at the opponent which she knew was behind her all along, and she watched with an expressionless face at the gigantic, green dinosaur wearing a red maillot—Dino Mighty.
BGM: Dino Mighty (Wario World)
"What is that?" Meiling said in shock.
Dino Mighty raised her head and roared loudly, and then she jumped into the air and attempted to land on top of them with her bottom. Meiling and Remilia moved out of the way and the dinosaur hit the floor with a powerful slam. "I'll take down this monster!" Meiling said after landing from her jump.
"Do your best," Remilia said as she landed on the far side of the arena to watch them fight.
Meiling ran at the dinosaur and hit her in the belly with a flying kick, but the dinosaur's belly was like a cushion that it bounced her backwards. Meiling landed but then ran up to DM again and started punching and kicking her in the body. The dinosaur simply giggled as the punches and kicks tickled her more than it hurt her. She moved back a bit and then raised a foot to bring it down on top of Meiling, but the gatekeeper jumped out of the way before she got crushed.
Meiling ran around to the side of DM, hoping to find any possible weak spots. DM suddenly swung her tail into Meiling and knocked her back through the air. "Ah!"
She flew into one of the statues placed in the corner and came to stop, and sat up rubbing the back of her head. "Ow…" She looked up and saw DM running in her direction and the dinosaur suddenly jumped at her with limbs sprawled out.
Meiling quickly got out of the way and the dinosaur hit empty floor instead. She turned to face the dinosaur and then raised both her arms diagonally upwards. A red energy sphere was formed on her palms and Meiling launched the energy sphere at DM, aiming for her head. "Red Cannon!"
The energy ball hit Dino Mighty's face, resulting in an explosion large enough to cover up the dinosaur's head. The dinosaur cried in pain but stepped out from the smoke and glared at Meiling with a rather goofy expression, though the dinosaur is in fact angry.
The dinosaur ran as fast as she could towards Meiling and the gatekeeper quickly jumped aside. The moment Meiling jumped aside, DM swung her tail at her, but Meiling performed a back flip into the air and jumped over the tail. She raised her arms and once again launched a red energy sphere into the dinosaur's face. "Red Cannon!"
BANG!
DM was starting to get annoyed. With another roar, the dinosaur approached Meiling and raised one foot to stomp her.
"Heart Break!" A spear made of crimson energy was suddenly hurled through the air, striking DM in the leg that was on the floor. A red blood-like explosion caused the dinosaur to put down her raised leg but lift up the one that was hit and jump up and down, yelping in pain.
Taking advantage of this, Meiling ran up to the dinosaur with one fist pulled back. The fist glowed with bright rainbow-colored light and then she slammed it into the dinosaur's leg. "Spiral Light Step!"
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!
Even though the fist was really small compared to Dino Mighty, the punch was still powerful enough to make the dinosaur lose her balance and fall over the side of the arena and into the lava.
SPLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!
Meiling quickly moved back to avoid some of the lava drops falling from the air and watched as the dinosaur surfaced again and panicked to escape the scorching lava. As Dino Mighty cried in agony and struggled to escape, her body glowed with bright light and all of a sudden, she exploded in a huge flash of colors.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
A shower of coins rained down from the air upon Dino Mighty's death. Meiling let out a sigh and then turned to Remilia, bowing down in her presence. "Thank you for your help, Mistress Remilia!"
"That was nothing," the vampire said. "I didn't want to miss out the fun, so I tried to contribute something. Plus, it doesn't look like you can take out something the size of that yourself anyway."
"You may be right about that…"
Aya and Alice opened their eyes and looked around the place. They were standing on a rocky platform that was surrounded by water. "Where are we?" Aya wondered.
"A better question is where the others are," Alice told her. She looked all over the place but there were nobody else asides from them.
Then they heard the water bubbling and all of a sudden, a large serpentine dragon came out from the water on the right side and slammed his mace-tipped tail onto the floor very hard. Another identical-looking dragon also came out from the water on the left and slammed his tail onto the left side of the arena.
BGM: Dual Dragons (Wario World)
With round, bulgy eyes and goofy smile, the Dual Dragons looked at the two girls and opened their mouths to roar. "What are these abominations?" Alice asked, not looking fazed at all.
"Whatever they are, they don't look so friendly," Aya said. "Sure, they are smiling, but I don't like the look of the smiles…"
The left dragon opened his mouth and breathed out a stream of fire in the direction of the girls. Aya quickly took off into the air while Alice leaped out of the fire's way. When Alice landed from her jump, a shadow loomed over her head and she looked up to see that the tail of the right dragon was above her. Acting quickly, she moved her fingers and a shield appeared in Shanghai's hand and the doll quickly used the shield to protect her master from the tail slamming attack. Alice then moved back and pointed at the right dragon. Shanghai replaced her shield with a rifle and fired a piercing laser beam at the dragon's face.
Aya flew to the dragon on the left and landed a drop kick onto his face. The dragon shook himself back to sense and opened his mouth to breathe fire at Aya, but the tengu swerved out of the way. "Aya! You didn't get me!" Aya taunted. "Take this! Domination Dash!" She swooped down at the dragon and went past him at a very fast speed, hitting him in the face with her wings. The dragon turned to face her, only to get hit in the face the second time.
She then whipped out her fan and slashed the air multiple times with to shoot out wind blades, hitting the dragon in the face. "Breeze Fan!
Meanwhile, Alice swung a card across the air and summoned an army of dolls. Each of them were armed with rifles and under their master's command, the dolls fired lasers and energy bullets at the right dragon. The dragon withstood the shots and opened his mouth to breath fire. Alice herself quickly moved aside before commanding the dolls to get out of the way. Some of them managed to do so, but some were burned down.
"Tsk!" Alice created another set of dolls to replace the destroyed ones. Armed with sharp weapons, the dolls charged at the dragon and pummeled him as hard as they could. The dragon wasn't harmed by such attacks however. He shook around to get the dolls off him and then released a stream of fire, sweeping it left to right to burn down the dolls.
Alice held out her hand and one of the dolls flew to her. "I don't like using this that much," she said. "But anyway… Volatile Puppet!" The doll glowed with an orange light and she hurled the doll at the dragon like hurling a piece of rock, and the doll exploded upon hitting the dragon in the face
KABOOM!
The dragon emerged from the explosion, shaking his head and roaring. Alice reached for another doll and flung it at the dragon again. The dragon caught the doll in his mouth this time, but it wasn't a good idea as the doll exploded inside his mouth and left the dragon stunned.
Alice created more dolls and under her command, the dolls flew at the knocked out dragon and latched all over his face. "Artful Sacrifice," she said as she snapped her finger, and then the dolls glowed with bright orange light and exploded all at the same time.
KAAAAAABOOOOOOOOM! BAAAAAAAAAAANG!
The dragon roared in pain from the powerful explosions and then fell forward onto the floor unconsciously, though one wouldn't be able to tell the difference because he was still smiling goofily with open eyes.
Meanwhile, Aya was having no problems dealing with the other dragon. "Breeze Fan!" she shouted as she hit the dragon several times with wind blades. Annoyed, the dragon breathed out a stream of fire at her and Aya quickly flew away, but the dragon breathed continuously and moved the fire after her. "Haha! Try to catch me if you can!" she taunted.
Alice walked up to the dragon on the right side to make sure if he was still alive. "Alice! Watch out!" Aya shouted to her. Alice turned to see that the dragon on the left was swinging the fire in her direction. Aya quickly swooped at Alice and lifted her into the air and the fire breath ended up hitting the right dragon. The right dragon got up and cried painfully before falling back into the water.
SPLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!
Moments later, there was a colorful explosion coming out from the water and coins shot up into the air and back down onto the arena.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
"Are you all right?" Aya asked Alice while putting her back onto the floor.
"I didn't get hit at all," the magician told her.
Aya turned to look at the remaining dragon and said to him, "All right, let's put an end to this!"
The dragon opened his mouth, but instead of fire coming out, light brown spheres came out instead.
"Eh?" Aya quickly moved out of the way upon seeing this odd attack. Alice also jumped out of the way, but her leg was hit by one of the spheres and, strangely enough, got pulled away by it and towards the water. "Alice!"
"Ya!" The spheres fell into the water one by one and Alice was forced to take a dip as well. Down in the water, she realized that her leg was glued to the sphere. To make matter worse, the sphere sank to the bottom of the water and she was in danger of drowning.
Aya dived down into the water to help Alice. She grabbed her leg and pulled as hard as she could and managed to get the magician's leg off the sphere before taking her into the surface for air. "Are you all right?" Aya asked her as she put her onto the floor.
"Yeah… Almost ran out of air back there…" Alice replied. "What were those things anyway?"
The dragon opened his mouth and churned fire, and Aya turned to face him with her fan gripped tightly in her hand and said to him, "Don't think you're going to get away with this alive after almost drowning my friend!"
The dragon shot out a large stream of fire and Aya quickly swung her fan against the air so hard that a horizontal tornado was released. "Wind of the Tengu Path!"
When the wind came in contact with the fire, the fire was forcefully carried back to the dragon, burning him from head to toe. The dragon roared in agony and then fell back into the water where he exploded in a bright, colorful flash and released lots of coins into the air.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Aya placed her hand over her shoulder and said with a smile, "Well! Hope you enjoyed your own barbeque!"
"Um… What is this place…?" Reisen asked.
"Lava everywhere…" Sanae thought. The two girls looked around the place and saw that they were standing on top of an arena made of steel gratings and it was floating on a river of lava.
"We better not fall down…" Reisen said. "This isn't like falling into hot water where you can swim back up again and only suffer from slight burns."
Sanae nodded in agreement. She then looked up and thought she saw someone standing on the cliff up there. "Hey, there's someone up there!"
The girls stepped back a bit to get a better look. There was indeed a person up there, and that person suddenly jumped off from the cliff and landed onto the arena with a powerful stomp that caused it to sink into the lava slightly. The girls almost fell off, but they grabbed onto the gratings and managed to keep their footing as the arena floated up again. They looked up and saw a muscular bull wearing nothing but a red brief—Red-Brief J.
BGM: Red-Brief J (Wario World)
The bull started flexing his muscles to show off to the girls, but the girls had a disgusted look on their faces instead. "What's with this guy…?" Reisen asked.
"Looks like a pervert to me…" Sanae said in disgust. She then held up her gohei. "Whoever this is, this demon seems to be our enemy. We'll have to defeat him!"
"Wait… I don't think we should jump to conclusions so fast," Reisen said. "He might be…"
Before she could finish speaking though, Red-Brief glowed with a pink aura and started spinning like a ballerina while moving in their direction.
"Whoa!" The girls quickly moved out of the way as the bull spun in their direction. Sanae turned to face him and then threw out a couple of purple paper amulets. The bull was still spinning when the amulets hit him, so they were shredded into pieces.
Red-Brief stopped spinning and pointed his right hoof at them. Purple energy gathered at the hoof and then the bull shot a fireball at them. Sanae and Reisen managed to avoid the fireball with ease and then Reisen fired energy bullets from her fingers at him. Red-Brief did not get out of the way when he saw the bullets approaching. Instead, he stood up tall with his arms placed on his waists and the bullets bounced off him upon impact. "What?" Reisen said.
"Sky Serpent!" Sanae raised a card that flashed and sent out snake-like missiles. The snakes latched their jaws onto the bull's skin and exploded, but the smoke cleared to reveal Red-Brief perfectly unharmed.
"Does this guy have iron skin or what?" Reisen said in disbelief.
"Such a powerful demon!" Sanae thought. "I cannot allow something like him to exist in this world!" Taking out another card, she raised it into the air and shouted, "Falling Stars!" The card glowed with whitish-blue light and floated into the air, and then trails of energy shot out from all around it and rained down onto Red-Brief like shooting stars.
Much to her surprise, the bull was not only unharmed by the attack, but he even walked towards them as if he wasn't getting hit at all. Red-Brief suddenly leaped into the air and spun vertically while glowing with light blue energy, and then he shot forward like a cannonball in their direction.
"Run!" Reisen shouted. The girls got out of the way fast as Red-Brief flew in their direction and landed onto the arena very hard, causing it to shake.
The tip of Sanae's gohei glowed with red light and she used it to draw a star in the air. "Lost Ritual!" She gave the star a nudge from behind and it shot through the air, spinning and growing in size as it did. Red-Brief stood up tall and took the projectile to his body like a man and was totally unharmed by the attack. "What?"
"Ripple Vision!" Reisen eyes glowed brightly with red light and fired a ripple beam which grew in size as it traveled through the air and eventually hitting the bull. Once again, the attack proved useless against Red-Brief. "This guy really is invincible! None of our attacks are hurting him!"
Red-Brief glowed with purple light, and then he pushed his feet against the floor very hard and shot himself high up into the air, falling in the direction of the girls. "He's falling towards us!" Reisen gasped. The girls quickly ran to the center of the arena when Red-Brief fell down, causing the whole place to submerge partially into the lava. Luckily, the girls didn't tumble off to the side as they held on tightly onto the center of the arena.
Red-Brief turned to the girls and glowed with red light, and then he charged at them really fast, leaving behind a trail of fire as he moved. The girls once again moved out of the way in time, but Red-Brief stopped just at the edge and took only a second to turn around and charge at them the second time. Reisen was unable to get out of the way this time and was sent flying off the arena when the bull landed his shoulder bash into her body. "YAAAAAA!"
"REISEN!" Sanae gasped. She ran up to the edge and reached out her hand, but Reisen had already flown too far to be caught. "NOOOOOOOO!"
"I'm going to die! I'm going to die!" Reisen cried in her head as she fell closer and closer to the lava, and she could even feel the heat burning against her back. "If only I can fly now! If only I can fly, then this wouldn't be the end of me! I don't want to die a cruel death like this!" She closed her eyes and tears began to run down from the corners. Biting her lips, she prepared to be met with the worst when suddenly, she stopped moving in air. "Uh?" She looked around the place and realized that she was floating in air just above the lava. "What...?"
Sanae let out a sigh of relief and said, "Looks like our flight abilities returned in the nick of time… This is without doubt a miracle!"
Reisen positioned herself upright and flew higher into the air and sighed with relief as well. "Phew… Thanks goodness… I'm saved…"
"Wait, if Reisen can fly…" Sanae thought, "Then I can also…" Upon thinking of the word 'fly' in her head, her feet lifted itself off the floor and she was able to float into the air. "Yes! I can fly again!"
Reisen pointed her finger at Red-Brief J. "Psycho Missile!" A ball of silver energy formed at her finger and slowly shaped itself into a missile before soaring through the air, hitting the bull in the body.
KABOOM!
With her gohei glowing at the tip with various colors, Sanae used it to draw vertical and horizontal lines in the air and eventually created a rainbow-colored grid. "Nine Syllable Stabs!" She gave the colorful grid a push to the back and it fell onto Red-Brief and covered him up like a net.
Red-Brief J tried to get the colored net off his body and the net was also giving off electric sparks which stung his skin. As he struggled with the seemingly indestructible net, he failed to take notice of his step and accidentally fell off the edge of the arena and into the lava.
SPLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!
Sanae and Reisen watched with silence at the bubbling lava, and to their surprise, Red-Brief J suddenly leaped out of the lava and landed onto the middle of the arena and struck a pose. A few seconds later, he fell on his back and his body glowed with bright light before exploding in a burst of colors.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
As coins rained down from the sky, Sanae threw a punch into the air and exclaimed, "Yes! We did it!"
"Well, that guy sure is resilient," Reisen thought. "But I guess nothing can really survive in lava."
KABOOOOOOOOOOM!
"Weeeeeee!" Cirno flew into the air as an explosion occurred on the pirate ship that she was on. Meanwhile, Nitori jumped off the deck and dived into the water below to escape the explosion.
When the smoke cleared, a skeletal pirate—Captain Skull—stepped up to the edge of the ship and looked down at the spot of the water where Nitori dived into. He then looked into the air and saw Cirno making a face at him from there. "Nyanya! You cannot catch me!" she taunted.
BGM: Captain Skull (Wario World)
The skeletal pirate aimed his arm cannon at her and fired a cannonball, but Cirno easily swerved away from it. "Your aim is lame!" she taunted. "Let me show you how it's done! Icicle Shoot!" She aimed one hand at Captain Skull and fired a barrage of icicles.
Seeing the incoming projectiles, Captain Skull quickly launched his grappling claw at the mast on the other side of the ship and pulled himself to safety. He aimed at Cirno again and fired a cannonball which the ice fairy dodged with ease.
Suddenly, Nitori leaped out of the water and while she was still in air, she swung her hand and threw out a handful of water bullets. "Kappa's Pororoca!" Though small in size, the water bullets managed to hit Skull hard enough to knock him off balance.
Skull retained his balance and fired his cannonball at the kappa, but Nitori rolled out of the way and then fell onto all four limbs, taking the stance similar to a turtle. "Monster Cucumber!" The top of her backpack opened and two turrets stuck out of it, each of them firing green laser beams rapidly.
Skull was pushed back with each shot to his body. As he was taking the blows, he quickly fired his grappling claw at the crow's nest on the other side of the ship and pulled himself onto it. From there, he took aim with his arm cannon and was about to fire at Nitori when suddenly an ice ball bonked him in the back of the head, and he turned around to see Cirno laughing at him.
"Haha! Do you have enough of me yet?" Cirno asked. "I'm going to show you why I am the strongest!" She held up one arm into the air and icy wind circled around her palm, eventually forming a block of ice that grew in size until it was half her body size. "Little Iceberg!" And she hurled it at Skull.
Skull took aim and fired a cannonball and the projectiles exploded upon hitting each other. Acting quick, Skull shot his grappling claw through the explosion and because Cirno didn't see it coming, she was caught in her waist by the claw. "Yikes!" she cried.
As the ice fairy tried to pry open the claw, Skull took aim again with his arm cannon. "Oh no you don't! Nitori shouted. She was standing on the crow's nest on the other side of the ship and her mechanical arms were holding up a barrel. The barrel was flung with a great velocity across the air and struck Skull in the back of his body, knocking him over on his face.
Cirno gripped her hands tightly against the rope that the claw was attached too and caused the rope to freeze in the direction of Skull. When Skull realized this, he desperately fired a cannonball at the freezing rope and destroyed it before the freezing process reached him. He glared angrily at Cirno who flew to the same level as him. She froze the claw that was around her waist and easily shattered it afterwards, and then said, "All right! Now it's my turn!" She held up one hand and cold air gathered together in a circular motion, eventually creating an ice ball that gradually grew in size.
Captain Skull growled angrily and was going to fire his arm cannon.
"Kappa's Great Illusionary Waterfall!" shouted the voice of Nitori. She shot out from the water and the water was carried along with her in the form of a pillar that encased her. The pillar of water went ahead of her and crashed down on top of Skull like a waterfall.
SPLAAAAAAAASH!
As the water flowed off the crow's nest, Captain Skull shook his head and spit out water, and when he looked at Cirno, the ice fairy had already formed a large ice ball in front of herself. "White Rose Cluster!" she shouted, and the ice ball was fired at him.
Captain Skull didn't have time to do anything as the ice ball collided into him and pushed him across the air and over the sea, eventually crashing into a large rock which was sticking out of the water surface
CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!
The ice ball remained embedded into the rock, but suddenly there was a bright and colorful explosion that not only shattered the ice ball and the rock, but also made coins fly out into the sky.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
As the coins rained down from all over the place, Cirno threw her arms into the air and exclaimed, "Yes! I did it! I'm the strongest after all!"
"Good work, Cirno!" Nitori said, giving her a thumb up.
TO BE CONTINUED
This chapter is a bit rushed, but I still think it's pretty well done nonetheless. Hope you enjoy what you read!
Also, I have seriously no idea if the Dual Dragon is supposed to be a two-headed dragon or simply two separate dragons and I don't know if those are their tails or arms. The lack of official artwork really doesn't do justice, so I'm going to pretend that it is two separate dragons with mace-tipped tails since judging by their on-screen appearance, I don't see how it is possible for that thing to be a two-headed dragon. Just search for a video or the play the game and be the judge yourself.
Next chapter: Kicking Out the Uninvited
