Chapter 21: The Plant Mamodo
It took them about twenty minutes to get back to Rachel's house. They were in bad shape when they finally arrived. Chris was holding up Ray, Len was supporting Rachel, but Lumoss, Tobias, and Dijon were all still standing. Len and Rachel led the way into the living room and everyone collapsed onto the furniture.
"Okay then," Chris began. "Ray, maybe you should tell us what Sachiriku was doing. The last time I checked, she wanted to kill us."
Ray shook his head. "No, Sachi never really wanted to kill anyone. Those times that she was violent were not her fault!" He took a deep breath. "I guess I should start from the beginning. Back when I first met Sachi, she was nice. Sometimes she would go crazy in battle, but she was generally kind to everyone we met. Over time, we made lots of friends with the other Mamodo. We started a team, but that was when it all changed. Sachi began to be cruel to the other Mamodo. She forced them to fight for her and when they refused…" he drifted off. "I don't want to talk about that. I didn't know what was going on! I just did what she told me. That was when you guys arrived. That spell that Eylan used to defeat us would have taken out our book, but Raxus, he's one of our friends, created an illusion of us to intercept the blow. After that, we left our base in ruins and Sachi changed again. She became moody and kept wandering off. It took a couple weeks but Sachi was back to normal again. She told me that she hadn't been feeling well lately and she wasn't sure what had happened to her in the last few months. We told her what she did but she didn't remember any of it. Raxus guessed it was some kind of mind control. We never did figure it out." They sat there in silence for about a minute.
"Who is Raxus anyways?" Chris asked.
"Raxus is an illusion Mamodo," Rachel explained for Ray. She frowned. "Wait, where is Raxus?"
"I'm not sure," Ray replied. "He left early this morning and I haven't seen him since. He said there was someone he was supposed to meet."
"That's about it then," Tobias said. "If there are not any more questions then I think we should all head home. Well?" No one raised their hands. "I guess that means that's it. Goodbye." Tobias stood up and Lumoss followed him out the door. Chris, Ray, and Dijon soon followed.
Far Away
A boy sat in a tree while holding a laptop. He was muttering to himself and tapping away on the laptop. He was so focused; that he even ignored the small raccoon that climbed onto his shoulder.
"Reuben," the raccoon said very calmly. "I want to know why we're still here." The boy didn't respond so the raccoon sighed, jumped on his head, and curled up in his hair. "My spot," the raccoon muttered. Reuben reached up, absentmindedly, to stroke the raccoon's back but the tiny creature hissed at the fingers as they came near him. "My spot! Stay away!"
"Stop it Raspel," Reuben said. He grabbed the raccoon and sat it on a nearby branch. "Go find something to do. Stop bothering me."
Raspel crossed his arms and pouted. "We're not doing anything! Nobody is coming to this meeting Reuben! I can tell you that right now.
"They will come," Reuben replied. "The e-mail said they would come and no Mamodo is going to ignore a battle invitation."
Raspel glared at him for a moment, and then he sighed. "Well, I wish you would stop hacking into other people's e-mail. If you didn't have that annoying habit, we wouldn't be in this mess!"
"Hey, I only hack into the e-mail of known Mamodo," Reuben replied as he closed his computer.
"Are you sure?" Raspel asked.
Reuben bit his lip. "Well, I guess I did hack into a regular person's e-mail once…"
"Or twice, or thrice, or…" Raspel said while counting on his fingers.
Reuben winced. "Okay you got me. But that was just for fun! I didn't read anything; I just wanted to see how hard it would be to crack some better security systems!"
Raspel opened his mouth to argue, then froze. "I sense them. They're here."
Reuben sat up and looked around. "Where…oh, I see them."
A girl walked out from behind some nearby trees. Behind her came a very tall boy who was obviously a Mamodo. The boy was about seven feet tall. He wore a green shirt and brown pants with leather armor around his legs. He also had dark green hair and gold eyes. The girl was wearing a red T-shirt and jeans. She was holding a green spell book, but Reuben and Raspel hardly noticed any of this.
"What happened to her hair?" Reuben muttered. Raspel was rolling around on his tree branch. He was laughing silently with tears streaming down his face. The girl's hair was an assortment of blue, yellow, orange, pink, purple, green, red, and brown.
A young boy stepped out of the bushes nearby. He was followed closely by a small, three foot robot. The boy was holding a purple spell book. He looked over his opponents and did a double take when he spotted the girl's hair.
"What happened to you?" the boy said.
"You like it?" the girl's Mamodo grinned mischievously. "I had her dye it like that. I think it's pretty, don't you agree?"
The other boy burst out laughing. "That is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen!" He straightened up. "Okay, enough fooling around. My name is Dante. This is Raren."
The girl's Mamodo ran up and surprised Dante by shaking his hand. "Hi! My name is Vinderlind, and this is my twin sister Mila. How are you doing today?"
"Your twin sister?" Dante raised an eyebrow. "I didn't think Mamodo were related to humans."
"Well, that's where you're wrong," Vinderlind smiled. "Look, see?" He was pointing to a rose-like mark on his left cheek. Vinderlind ran over to his partner. "Look." He pointed to a rose mark on her right cheek. "See?" the Mamodo boy nodded. "That's my sister."
"Okay Vin, let's stop messing around," Mila said. "We came here for a battle, remember?"
Vinderlind nodded. "Right."
Banshar A tiny laser struck Vinderlind on the arm and he jumped. "Are we going to have to wait all day?" Dante said in a bored voice.
"We were about too," Mila returned. Mirocosh Vinderlind's hands glowed and the trees around Dante grabbed him.
"What? Raren, move!" Dante shouted. His robot Mamodo hurled itself away from the trees as they reached for him. Raren looked back at his partner in confusion. "Now go and get them," Dante ordered, exasperatedly. Raren turned towards their opponents to see Vinderlind right up in his face.
"Hi there," the plant Mamodo beamed. He punched the Raren hard, sending the little robot flying away up into a tree.
Mirocosh The tree, which Raren was sitting in, wrapped its branches around him and Vinderlind moved swiftly towards Dante.
Baroga The plant Mamodo looked up to see Raren cutting through his bonds with a small laser sword he was emitting from his arm. Raren finished off the branches holding him and he fell towards Vinderlind.
Vinderlind jumped back out of the way of the laser sword. Raren ran to his partner and cut him free. Dante powered up his book. "Take them Raren!" Bansharaga Raren fired a large laser from a glowing blue orb on his chest.
"Block it Vin!" Mila shouted. Licosh The trees, on both sides of Vinderlind, moved their branches into the way of the attack. The grass beneath the tree branches grew rapidly and tangled itself among the tree branches, tightening them. The laser struck the plant shield, buckled, and vanished. "Got it!" Mila said triumphantly. "Now for them!" Ashcosh A vine fell down from its tree and it wrapped around Raren's neck. It yanked the robot into the air.
"That won't work on us," Dante said with a grin. Sharuk Raren burst into six separate pieces consisting of his arms, legs, head, and his middle chest plate that connected it all together. He flew over Vinderlind and surrounded him.
"What kind of spell is that?" Mila wondered, then her eyes widened. "Vin! Get out of there!"
"You're too late!" Dante laughed. Banroaga Mila and Vinderlind watched as Raren's six parts glowed and they each fired a laser at Vinderlind. He dodged one, two, WHAM! Vinderlind was blasted to the ground. He groaned and struggled back to his feet. "You're done!" Dante said. Banroaga The lasers came down towards the plant Mamodo once more.
That's enough!" Vinderlind roared as he leapt over the oncoming lasers. Green blades extended from his wrists as he moved. He hurled himself up at Raren's head and slashed the robot with the blades. Raren cried out and his pieces flew back together. Vinderlind grabbed the robot and threw him back at his partner, sending the two crashing into a heap.
"I'm not letting you get away with this!" Dante said, leaping back to his feet.
"You're not going any further!" Mila replied. Mirocosh The tree branches, and grass, surrounding Dante and Raren wrapped them tightly.
"That won't hold us for long!" Dante said. Baroga Raren began slicing through the plants with his laser sword.
"It will hold you long enough," Mila said. She walked up to Dante and plucked the book from his hands. "Here Vin," she tossed her Mamodo the book and he cut it in two.
"What?" Dante watched the book burn up. He turned to his Mamodo. "Raren I…" His Mamodo was already gone. Mila closed her book and the plants holding Dante vanished. The boy stood up and walked off sadly.
"Well, that's over with," Mila said quietly.
"Yay! Good battle!" Raspel clapped appreciatively. "Wasn't that great Reuben?"
Mila and Vinderlind spun around to see Raspel and Reuben watching them from their tree. "No, more Mamodo," Mila said. She opened her book. Mirocosh The tree branches moved to grab Raspel and Reuben.
Reuben acted quickly and pulled out his own book. Valada Raspel's claws grew to massive proportions and the raccoon slashed the branches that were holding him and his partner. They fell to the ground and Reuben held up his hands as Vinderlind moved towards them. "Hang on! We're not here to fight!"
"Not here to fight?" Mila was suspicious. "Then what were you doing in that tree?"
"Observing," Reuben replied. "I like to pick up info on other Mamodo teams so we watch other people's battles to figure out how they fight."
"So you were planning to fight us later anyways?" Mila asked. "We can just do that now."
"Hold on!" Reuben said. "I really don't want a fight. I know we could win because you're all worn out, but I'm more interested in making allies then enemies."
"Sure," Mila said. "You're really going to put the hurt on us with that rodent."
Raspel's eyes blazed and he hurled himself at Mila. Reuben grabbed Raspel's tail and the raccoon swung there, trying desperately to reach Mila. "I'm going to destroy her!" Raspel screamed in fury.
"Don't underestimate him Mila," Vinderlind said cautiously. "I know he looks weak but you humans…" His voice drifted off.
"Care to finish that sentence?" Mila asked dangerously.
"No, I think that's all," Vinderlind said quietly.
"Whatever," Mila said. She turned back to Reuben and Raspel. "As for you two…" They were gone.
EN
Thank you all for the reviews. I have a question for Vinderlind's creator. Did I get his personality down? Or was I completely wrong?
Mamodo Statistics
Name: Raren 49th in the fight for king
Partner: Dante
Book: Purple Burned by Vinderlind
Spells:
Banshar A tiny laser
Sharuk Split into multiple pieces that can fly
Bansharaga A large laser
Baroga Laser sword
Banroaga Lasers come from every part of Raren's body
Vinderlind's stats are in my reviews