CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
"IIIIIIII'm sailing, oh yes I'm sailin' on the sea! IIIIII'm makin'…believe I'm captain of the "Pea"!"
The narrator was riding by Helen and NiGHTS on a little boat as he bobbed his head back and forth, singing to the Nightopians. "Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream! Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, this is not a dream!"
Owl floated after him. "Slow…down!" He called out. "I'm not as…not as young as I used to be!"
"Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts! Mutilated monkey meat, constipated turtle's feet!" The narrator sang as he strummed on a guitar. "French fried eye balls rollin' up the dirty street, floating in my blue lemonade, and I forgot the spoon! They gave me chopstiiiicks!"
"Your song defies ALL logic!" Owl hooted after him.
"Yeah, well, you're wearing glasses!" The narrator snapped back.
"These are-these are just reading glasses!"
"Liar, liar pants on fire!"
Helen and NiGHTS, who had both dualized, weren't actually floating ON the water so much as they were floating ABOVE the water. NiGHTS put her hands behind her head and smiled as he looked up at the sun.
"It looks as though a lot of the light has returned to Aqua Garden." She commented. "At this rate, we'll have your White Ideya back in no time!" She went on.
"All right!" Helen said happily.
The narrator, who was a good distance away, suddenly gasped in surprise. "Oh no!" He looked down at his watch, eyes widening, then turned back to face them. "HELEN! NIGHTS! SWIM, FLY, GET AWAY!"
They tilted their heads to the side. Was that…music playing from his watch? Helen was SURE she'd heard that theme song before…
Uh oh.
Too late did she realize the truth. In an instant, a large, armored piranha jumped up and swallowed her and NiGHTS on the spot. They screamed as they went down into Girania's gullet as the evil Nightmaren laughed and laughed, fading away from the water before the narrator could stop him.
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….Girania smirked to itself. "I could just digest you two, baht no…I want mah meat TENDERIZED before I enjoy eet!"
He spat them out and they hit hard concrete. NiGHTS and Helen rubbed their heads before jumping back into the air, their dualized forms taking a fighting position. They recognized the battleground instantly….an abyss tainted by the color dark green inside of an abandoned stadium, with a large chandelier in the middle of the stadium, facing upward, with chilling, unnaturally-colored flames rising into the sky.
"Not this creepy place again!" NiGHTS remarked.
"Ooh, this place gives me the willies."
"I am going to give you more than ze willies, leetle girl!" Girania snarled. "I am going to give you a very painful death! NiGHTS especially…"
"Is this about Gulpo? Because if it is…" NiGHTS remarked.
"My brothair's soul screams for vengeance, you annoying jestair!" Girania howled as he rushed at NiGHTS, who quickly zoomed out of the way. Girania swirled back at him, snapping it's jaws. "Stay still you leetle-"
NiGHTS and Helen struck his eye. BA-BAM! His body exploded into balloons.
"You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?" NiGHTS asked.
She was! They proceeded to paraloop as many of the balloons as they could get. Unfortunately that wasn't much, because just a few moments later, Girania reformed into it's nasty old armored self and dove at them again. NiGHTS swirled through the air, barely able to dodge the evil fish, who was cackling madly.
"Oh, his laughter's so horrible!" Helen said.
"You're going to die! Oh happy, happy, happeeee!" The fish sang.
Your momma was a fishstick!
Girania stopped in mid-air. "Who said that?"
"I DID!" The narrator remarked, appearing from behind Girania, and grabbing the fish's tail. He swung it at NiGHTS, who flew right at Girania's eye again…
BA-BAM! Balloons all over again! And this time, when Girania reformed.
"HA! Now I shall…shall…shall…"
NiGHTS and Helen stood over the fish, towering above him. "Shall WHAT?" NiGHTS asked, amused.
"…oh foo." The fish remarked as NiGHTS grabbed him, twirled him around and around, then tossed him into the sky. He vanished with a twinkle.
"Who was…uh, "Gulpo"?" Helen asked. "NiGHTS, you wouldn't really…really KILL anyone, would you?"
NiGHTS looked down at the ground and sighed. "Well, you see, this was back when I was dualizing with Elliot and Claris. There we were, flying through the skies, when all turned dark. And then…
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…The dualized NiGHTS, Elliot and Claris floated around in what was like a fishbowl from HELL. It was made completely of water, and although they could breathe just fine, there was no way out. The walls, the top, the bottom, all of it was made of water that rushed on and on. A dark abyss could be seen on the outside…as well as strange, red fish-shaped buttons that were littered all around the walls of the tank, spaced out. And in the center…
A large fish with sharp spikes upon it's back, it's fins and the top of it's head. It grinned, showing off fangs. The spikes were yellow with light orange tips, and it blinked it's big red eyes at them.
"Oh good, you're here. I was getting hungry…GULPO!"
"Gulpo, hold on, I already beat Gillwing and Puffy, I can beat you too!" NiGHTS warned.
Gulpo just let out a big raspberry. "Not nice of you killing cousin Gillwing…gonna beat you for that! Made Jackle upset, so gonna GULPO you, GULPO-GULPO!"
NiGHTS looked hurt. Claris understood instantly.
"That's right…you said Gullwing and Jackle were friends, right?"
"…yes." She admitted.
"GULPO!" Gulpo howled, diving at them, trying to swallow them whole. NiGHTS instinctively moved back, and Gulpo's jaws clamped shut on nothing. But NiGHTS had moved right into the orange fish button…
It was actually a SPRING. It shot NiGHTS at Gulpo, knocking him clear across the tank space, making him groan in pain. Elliot's eyes widened as he and the other two smiled. "That's it! Quick! Line up another shot!"
Gulpo shook the cobwebs from its head as it looked up and saw NiGHTS cheekily pulling on her cheeks. Growling furiously, Gulpo dove at her…
NiGHTS quickly jumped backwards, slamming against the spring. It launched her like a bullet at Gulpo, knocking it back across the arena.
Now Gulpo was furious. Snarling, it slammed it's fin into NiGHTS, sending her flying. Smirking, it slowly advanced on its unconscious prey and opened it's jaws…
Then NiGHTS's eyes shot open and she looked up, smirking. It was a trick. She dove right underneath Gulpo, pressing against another spring. She launched upwards, and…
BA-BOOOM! With a mighty cry, Gulpo floated up to the top of the tank, then vanished in a flash of blue light that encompassed them all…
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Helen looked around and found herself in the middle of a white abyss. She looked up and saw something approaching, a glowing orb of white light that fell down into her outstretched hands. The large orb shone gently, comfortingly.
"This is…the White Ideya." She realized. "A reflection of a pure heart…is it…my heart?"
She felt it slowly fade into her body and she smiled.
It was…it was…
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..Wizeman floated in his palace, a frown apparent upon his face. "Reala…this news that Girania has been defeated…" He paused for a moment as one of his hands floated over to Reala, the eye glowing purplish/green in a mix of curiosity, fury and amusement. "Is it…true?"
Reala bowed in a respectful manner towards Wizeman. "My apologies, Master…" Reala panted, fear filling him from head to toe. "I fear it is!"
The eye widened, and then floated back to Wizeman's form. "Hmmmm…" Wizeman mumbled.
"Worry not though, master." Reala insisted, clenching a fist. A form rose in between them, a smirk upon her green, ugly face. "The next of your servants is already on her way."
"I see…" Wizeman remarked as the green form twinkled and vanished. "I will expect good news in the future, then." He told Reala in a threatening tone.
"Leave it to me, Master Wizeman." Reala said, bowing respectfully.
Author's Note:
I hope you enjoyed the boss fight! Also, I want to thank my dad for the rhyme from before. It's kind of his own spin on the song, he used it back in elementary school and it's been stuck in my head for years! Review, please!