Songs of Fire and Ice
Chapter 11
Week 2
Day 2, Part 2: Are you kidding me??
Max was cursing and using profanities left and right as the heavily clothed Chris rested upon his shoulder, the black hoodie drawing in so much heat that the firey-guitarist, for one time in his life, complained about the heat. "...I'm about to drop his right now... Dumbass, hoodie' wearin' son of a bi-," was all he could say as the earth shook beneath his feet, causing him to lose balance and fall to the ground; in doing so, however, he dropped Chris, which woke the critical teen from his sleep, and Max quickly shot right back up. He couldn't believe his eyes, though.
A giant, pink elephant was rushing the duo at high speed. It roared so loud that Max held his ears in pain, and just narrowly avoided its path. It seemed to be honing its attacks toward the heavy metal guitarist, despite the fact that his partner had gone on the offensive now and began to send tons of pages in an attempt to carve the elephant into mince meat. The attacks from behind were rather effective, despite the fact that Max was throwing fireballs into the gargantuan noise's face.
Eventually, Max was injured enough by the Elephant's constant thrashing about that he was slammed quite hard into a wall, to the point where he held his head in pain. Chris snickered at this. "What's wrong Metal-Head, ain't got the skull for headbangin' anymore?"
"I'll kill YOU AND this elephant, jackass." He said, and slammed his fist into the ground, where fire shot up from below the elephant. The geyser of flames rocketed the beast into the air, and stopped suddenly, letting the elephant crash into the ground with massive force. The monster wailed before it appeared to give up. Once Max noticed it wasn't erased, he went over for further inspection. The elephant wrapped his trunk around him and tried to squeeze him to death.
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Christoph and Rachael, meanwhile, were already in the Udagawa District, searching the area for the afformentioned "boss."
"Find anything yet, devil-worshipper?" Rachael said, pressing her hand up against the CAT graffiti painting on the wall. After moving her hand from one spot to the other, she noticed a kind of high pitched squeek, and turned around, and there was a little black ball. Out of curiousity, she picked it up, and began to bounce it a little.
Once it hit the ground for the third time, it unrolled into its natural form; that of a black Noise Mink, at which Rachael shrieked loud enough for just about all of Shibuya to hear.
Before Rachael could even react, Christoph had already gone on the offensive, and began to try and make swiss chees out of the the small, furry mammal. However, being a Black Noise, it wasn't exactly vunerable to normal attack; infact, it barely appeared to damage the beast at all.
"Damnit, this thing isn't going down unless we have a nuke." Christoph growled, and finally, Rachael joined the fight. She began to blast her punk rock at the Mink at the same time when Christoph's ice needles appeared to hit, and it make a noticable amount of damage.
"I figured it out, on my mark!" He said, and they released another combined attack consisting of a sonic boom and ice needles. However, as they did this, the mink summoned a mighty whirlwind in an attempt to reflect the attack back at the two teens, It worked, making them both jump out of the way. "Okay, new plan. We keep attacking until it bloody DIES!" Rachael said, and blasted it with more soundwaves, which just merely knocked it around.
Christoph facepalmed himself and growled, and created an ice sword with which he tried to stab the mink; it manuevered out of the way, and bit Christoph on arm, which gave Rachael the chance to blast it again. After this, Christoph got his stab in, which finally caused the Noise to be erased.
"Bloody hell, that thing came out of NOWHERE mate." She said, breathing heavily. "...You're bleeding, here." She said, and ripped off a piece of her shirt, and wrapped it tightly around Christoph's arm.
"Didn't know you cared." He said with a slight grin.
"Piss off." She said, scowling and walking away. "Let's just find your wanker of a friend and whoever he's been partnered up wit'."
"See? You ARE getting the hang of this!" Christoph said as he followed Rachael out of Udagawa.
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Meanwhile, Max had managed to break free of the elephant's trunk, and was proceeding to completely beat the crap out of the poor thing with guitar, which finally knocked it unconscious.
Once this had happened, Max began to play an epic guitar solo from the Pale Horse song Dawn of a New Era, which summoned a burst of fireworks to erase the gigantic Noise.
"Impressive. Your headbanger guitar solo appears to have vanquished our African friend there." Chris said, causing Max to growl and grunt as they tried to find their friends.
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However, before either party moved, the four Players blacked out. They were all moved to different parts of Shibuya, Max and Chris to the spot farthest from anywhere, Cat Street, while Christoph and Rachael were taken to the area around the Hachiko statue.
"Man, why are we on Player patrol today?" a Wall Reaper asked his partner for the day. They were giving the task of moving Christoph and Rachael, the former of which was heavier than he looked. The bass guitar on his back might have added to his weight. Just a little though.
"Dunno, man, but I'd like to not have English coming outta my mouth when I'm around these two. It feels weirder than Japanese, y'know?" the second Wall Reaper said.
The two Wall Reapers chatted animatedly as they carried the two Players to the Hachiko area, laying them on the statue's base.