Normal POV
Buttercup fell back into the snow, she quickly sat up as a Ghoul lingered over her, ready to lunge. As the Ghoul charged in for the attack, she backflipped and just as she landed on her feet, swing her hammer into the Ghoul's head.
Another ghoul came at her, she blocked its attack with the handle, swinging the hammer around like a staff, slammed it down right on the second ghoul's body, both expired into fireflies. As two Snow revenants groaned and attacks with its frost bite claws, Buttercup front flips, stomping on one in the head, with her body stretched for the attack as she was in midair, she brings the hammer down with all her might and slams it into the second snow revenant.
Look out!" Bubbles shouted, her ice platform formed and block the first Snow Revenants, the monster roared and went charging at Bubbles. It stabbed her in the stomach.
"Bubbles!" Buttercup shouted, she picked herself right up and went charging at the monster, but a zombie stood in her way, hissing with its foul smelling breath.
"Disgusting foul monsters, still hungry for children," Brianna didn't look worried as she took one swipe at a Pale Man Monster's head with her fan, its head fell clean off, "Buttercup, don't sound so lame. Snow Revenant's attactks are ice, remember?"
Buttercup axe kicked the zombie on the head and slamming it down to the ground, its skull practically cracked from her strong kick.
Boomer said with confidence, "Don't worry Buttercup, my Bubbles got this." Boomer said as he screamed off a Icy Mammoth
Bubbles creepily smiled as her eyes flashes the steely icy gray, she hissed as she pulled the Snow Revenant's hand from her stomach, she slammed it to the ground. The monster roared again as it was just about to get up, but Bubbles just stabbed it in the chest with her staff. She gave Buttercup that same creepy smile as if wondering if she stabbed her in the chest.
"Should I be worried?" Buttercup pointed.
"Don't be a wimp, she normally snaps out of it...normally." Brianna said.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A WIMP!" Buttercup snapped.
Blitz grabbed a zombie by the face and practically melted its face off, "Ladies...Ladies please. Save the smoking hot wet snow fight for later."
He looked over at Steel who was surprisingly holding his own and holding his weapon, a medium size silver boomerang with alchemy markings all over it.
"Need any help Kid."
Steel ducked and crawled through a Pale man Monster's leg and slashed it in the back, "No way, I can take care of myself!" Steel looked proudly as he touched his bommerrang with one hand. It glowed yellow and with another slash on the back, the monster had that yellow glow mark on it back, with that it exploded into fireflies.
Steel nodded and stood again proudly, but then squeaked as he stood to close to a small half frozen frozen where an Icy Sealed Croc stood up and snapped at him.
Blitz pointed at laughed as the Croc grabbed Steel's bag.
"LET GO! IT'S MINE!" Steel yelled.
Brianna smacked Blitz in the back of the head, "Don't laugh! Help him before that thing kills him!"
"Brianna, those Crocs are super friendly...except if you attack them...he probably has some food in his bag.
"Croak! Croak!" Sam laughed and shouted as she lifted up her hand, strangely enough a ghoul was lifted in the air and sent flying towards the Croc, who let go of Steel's bag, snapped the monster into its jaws and plunged into the frozen lake.
"Nice job Kid." Steel gave her the thumbs up and Sam clapped and blushed at the compliment, Steel ppounted and pointed at Blitz, "You're the worst grown up ever!"
"A little help...someone!" Butch shouted, he was clenching his hurt ribs in one hand, his lances surrounded him like a sort of barrier as they protected him the the Zombies and Snow Revenant's attacks but that was all he could do.
"Help is on the way." Buttercup pulled herself up, she was able to side step, with one spin kick she brought a zombie quickly down and slammed her hammer down on its head. She front kick the snow revenant, but as if copying her move, it side stepped and slashed at her. With Buttercup already exhausted she could only block with her handle and was knocked to the ground.
Butch could barely move before but in an instance he was in front of Buttercup, blocking the horde's charge attacks
"Buttercup! MOVE! Butch! AVERSION BLOCK #3! Blitz! I COULD USE A POWER UP!" Boomer yelled, he swung his trident, turning it into a blaster gun.
"You might wanna stay close, " Butch hinted to Buttercup as he painfully lifted up both hands as his lances floated around the two, spinning faster and faster, "Wind Magic: Shield of Air."
Blitz stood right behind him, his fire magic surrounding the gun, "Secret art: FIRE BLAST UNISON!" Boomer blasts his gun, incinerating the horde of undead monsters while the blast bounced off of Butch's shield and hit the rest of the undead monsters behind him.
Sam clapped at giggled at the pretty bright light.
Butch leaned on Buttercup a little, still clenching his ribs and wincing in pain.
"Using your injury and the battle as an excuse, you Sly Dog." Blitz teased, "Maybe I should try that."
"Screw...you." Butch winced but he slowly removed himself from leaning on Buttercup, "Nice job on the call, Boomer. Looks likke you have Leadership skills after all."
"Where to next?" Brianna asked, she was still looking through her orb, but then shivered at the cold wind, grabbing the blanket from Blitz's bag and snuggling up right next to him, "HOW CAN YOU NOT BE COLD!"
"Dragon scales and Dragon fire magic, Princess." Blitz smiled as Brianna grabbed him around the waist, "Oh...looks like I don't need to fake injuries."
"Shut up and start with the Fire Magic."
"Isn't she just the cutest?" Blitz smiled as his fire aura appeared, Brianna sighed in relief.
Steel was gathering something from the snow, "Sweet." He snickered to himself.
"What are you doing?" Buttercup asked, Steel held up a piece of Zombie's dead skin.
"Collecting." Steel just said as he froze the skin and placed it in a smaller bag and put it into his.
"Of course...sometimes Monsters leave treasure, like magic orbs, weapons and even items...including rare items. Animal monsters leave different kind of treasures: like fur and teeth." Butch explained as Bubbles was using her healing magic on him, dulling the pain.
"I'm an alchemist, so I can use these monster stuff to make weapons and armor stronger, or sell it to the shops or make weapons, armor and potions out of them and sell them myself." Steel proudly nodded, "If I added this Zombie's dead flesh to your clothes, their slashing or decay attacks hurts less."
"Whoa, that's neat...I bet this is how you were able to survive on your own right? That is awesome." Buttercup had stars in her eyes. Steel blushed from the compliment of the Star Goddess.
"BB is cool too." Sam hugged Buttercup's leg, but she suddenly crumpled into the snow.
"I feel so out of shape...those monster came out of nowhere, I didn't even have time to transform." Buttercup sighed in exhaustion.
"This isn't good...we need to get out of here...find a town quickly. The Gemini twins are causing a lot of trouble...and the fact that we only saw one, is even more troubling." Butch said.
"Steel, do you know where the next city is?" Boomer asked.
"Well...there's Molly City, my home." Steel looked strangely nervous.
"Molly City...Oh...You mean Mjolnir City...I've been there once..."Boomer was tapping his forehead with his finger, " They have an Port there...we could get a ship from there."
"We have a plan." Blitz cheered as Brianna was still hugging him, "Now then, we better get going."
Buttercup stood back up, she was holding Fang in her bag and tried to pick up Sam, but she shook her head.
"I walk tuff like Sel." Sam nodded, proudly and puffing up her cheeks.
"COULD YOU BE ANY CUTER!" Buttercup squealed in her head but snapped out of it, " I have a question, why would it be dangerous...you guys keep saying that Gemini is dangerous without the twin, how exactly?"
"You're the Star Goddess, and you don't know?" Bubbles looked confused and back to her old self.
"IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'S A DAMN MANUAL FOR THIS SHIT!" Buttercup instantly snapped while keeping up with the others.
"Yeah, she's pretty hopeless with information, she's worse than Bubbles." Brianna commented still hugging Blitz while walking.
"If you got somethin' ta say Banshee, come over here!" Buttercup shouted.
Brianna had a tick mark, "STOP CALLING ME BANSHEE! YOU STUPID PIECE OF-"
"Girls, as much as me...and Butch would love to see the smoking hot fight, we should save it. We've gotta get to the town before nightfall."
"I'll only explain this once...and only once...I'm a Desert Muse Fey, I sing for people's enjoyment, Banshees are death bringers." Brianna growled, but then the cold icy winds blew and she was too far away from Blitz to feel his warming Aura. She rushed over towards him.
"Damn it, will someone answer the question, why is it so dangerous for the twins to be separated?" Buttercup shouted.
"Such language." Butch commented, but then he just sighed at seeing Buttercup's glare, he quickly looked away while trying to hide the blush, "It's part of a Legend, so I don't know if it's true or not...but seeing it and how Articana is in such a state confirms it. The Twins...Gemini Mara and Morte, come from Lunaria, the dark region of our world. The fact that they're here...doesn't explain really much...I mean...we did find Mathus Shivar in Cynder."
"Because...its home was destroyed...right? So that could be the same for the Twins."
"Yes, but...the scary thing is...that we've only saw one. Many sages can account for this: when Mara and Morte appear, it's always together...because they're chained together."
"Ok...I get that...I'm gonna take a shot in the dark...if the twins aren't together, one of them can cause major damage." Buttercup guessed.
"That's correct, maybe you aren't a dummy after all." Butch smirked.
"No...just experience...back in my world, I knew a pair of twins myself kinda like that. One of them was ok, she wasn't dangerous at all, in fact...she's one of my best friends, but she had a twin sister...who was crazy...crazier...a total psycho. She was pure madness itself...just being around her was enough to make me almost gone crazy. When they were together, my 'best' friend could calm her down...even if it was a little. Let's just say, that as long as they were together, we could rest easier."
"You've put it quite nicely, but there is a little difference, "Boomer said, "Mara can summon Undead Monsters but Morte can control them. If the twins are together, then...Mara's wails summon the monsters, while Morte controls them...but separated."
"Morte can only control the Undead Monsters that he crosses, while Mara's screaming is bringing up too many." Buttercup looked horrified.
"Yes...but what's even worse...is the fact that they weren't bound together. Something or someone did that. The Twins couldn't break their chains. I fear that whoever did that...is the one that's causing all this death."
"But how...and why?" Bubbles asked.
"Well, Scholar Utonium one time brought this up, it was only a theory...but he thought that if the Crystal of Mathus Shivar was cut in half, maybe it could free Shivar from imprisonment...but it was only a theory. One that he wouldn't even try...maybe this is what happened here." Boomer looked serious.
"Without both of them...when the twins aren't together..."
Back to the Dark Emipre of Luminousa (This is from the Chapter 22, remember the Maid who was actually a traitor, working for the Rebels)
The Maid was bounded by chains and pinned to the wall. She struggled again, but the shackles were too tight and heavy. The room she was nearly pitch black except for one light orb that floated around the room.
The maid's nose flared up as she continued to smell the decay and rotting fat, what scared her more was the figure that was sitting at a table...munching away at a bag of cookies and the echoing of a clicking and clipping sound, like metal hitting wood...over and over. The sounds continued on and on.
Munch! Clip! Munch! Click!
The maid finally just screamed, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING! PLEASE! I...I HAVE WORK AND...AND..."
The figure stopped, a cookie stopped midair before her lips. The figure turned around, her face still covered by the shadows of her hood. The Light Orb floated over towards the walls, her Razor King puppet sat on a still with its grin.
"Look...I...I know what you are...and I know what you do...i've heard...heard plenty of screams...and...and..."
She stopped, frozen with pure fear as the figure was looking down at her.
"You...have pretty eyes...I like them...In fact...I like your face...altogether...My Razor King needs a partner." The figure said with a straight face.
The Maid looked terrified, her chest was in pain...even though the figure's eyes were still covered by the cloak, the Maid could feel the intense gaze from them...it was pure anguish...all those screams...all this rotting fat and flesh...and this girl...who's pure power and magic rivals the Mistress...maybe even the Dark Lord.
The Maid was choked back as she could sense the strong overpowering aura of this presence.
"What? What do you mean?" The Maid continued to cough, but sighed in relief as the figure backed up. The light orb floated over the table, revealing another puppet in the making.
The figure pulled out a knife and patted on the Maid's cheek, "You should smile...smiling is nice. Should I smile...to show you. A good person would do that right."
The Maid struggled harder, trying to even summon her magic but the chains glowed an eerie purple and zapping her strength.
"A good person would let me go...how about it? Be a good person." The Maid said, the figure seemed taken back a little, tapping her own cheek with the knife.
Then...then...the figure just smiled...and laughed...it...it was unnatural...her straight face cracked into the most twisted smile imaginable. That was when she was only dangerous...when she smiled...or laughed.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Hehehehehehehehehehehe!" She through her head back and her laugh poured into the room like an unnatural flow of madness and her hooded cape fell off her head," HHHHHUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHAAAAAAAAA!" Her laughter continued to echo through the room, The Maid's eyes widened in terror as the Figure's knife came closer, "But I will be a good person, Ill give you aneternal body, you won't age anymore...isn't that nice of me? Isn't it good of me? I am a good person!AHAHAHAHAHAHhHHhahHahHAHHHHHAAAAAAAAHAHAHA!"
The maid's eyes widened in pure shock, it almost seemed that her heart would stop, "No...No...it can't be...why? Why do you have that face? Why do you look-"The Maid stopped, she looked down...the figure stuck her with a knife.
"Oops...HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE! I missed your heart! Hehehehehehehehehehehe! I MISSED YOUR HEART! That's right! I NEED YOUR HEART! HEHHEHEHEHEHEHEEEEHHHHEEEEE! And then your face! Your face for my puppet!" She laughed...she continued to laugh over and over and over, her eyes were dark purple but they erupted into Lavendar...and madness as she continued stabbing and stabbing...and laughing and laughing.
The figure removed the heart of the Maid and carried it to the puppet model.
"You won't be alone, Razor King...hahahaha...you won't have to feel alone...two." she bit into her finger and continued laughing.
"Are you done yet?" The Tank asked, "It seems our little Spy got a lead, so get your ass in gear...ok?"
"But...I'm not ready with my new Puppet." The figure just chuckled again as she removed something else from the corpse.
The Tank frowned with digust, "What the hell?"
"Am I still a good person? I gave you a new body...Ms. Smiley Queen." She laughed harder and harder, "HEEEHEEEHEEEHEEEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHE AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
"No...just experience...back in my world, I knew a pair of twins myself kinda like that. One of them was ok, she wasn't dangerous at all, in fact...she's one of my best friends, but she had a twin sister...who was crazy...crazier...a total psycho. She was pure madness itself...just being around her was enough to make me almost gone crazy. When they were together, my 'best' friend could calm her down...even if it was a little. Let's just say, that as long as they were together, we could rest easier."
Well sorry for the late update. My iPad was acting up and kept shutting off. Writing a fight scene over and over was hard enough. So sorry about that. I hope this chapter was good and gave you some clues. I hope you enjoyed it, and sorry if this wasn't good. I promise next chapter will be better
