Chopper and his friends quickly jumped off the spiky X-Naut ship and got back onto Cortez's. Lord Crump slowly got back up and shook his fist at them in anger, and then he kicked the ground in anger for his loss. He was even beaten up too, with his cape a little ripped and having holes.

"MAN! What the heck is WRONG with me?! How could I lose...again?! I HATE LOSING!" Lord Crump complained. "Now I gotta think of another excuse for Grodus! Grrrrrrr! And with that...pow! I'm gone!"

The X-Naut ship made a getaway, leaving only Cortez's ship and the Phi ship standing.

"Hey… That ship's leaving!" an Elite Phi smirked. "Does this mean we got Chopper to ourselves to fight? Awesome! Just. Plain. Awesome."

As the Phi ship made its way over to the ghost ship, Chopper showed off his flaming hands.

"I'll do the same thing as I did to those guys!" Chopper warned, making the Phis jumped up in fright and turn back around, afraid of getting their uh…butts kicked by Chopper and his friends. He looked rather surprised. "Wait... That was it?!"

"Heh heh heh! That was easy! That Lord Crump guy was a piece of CAKE! …Hold on! You leveled up, Chopper!" Scrub noticed. Chopper realized this, so he upgraded his BP to 18, since 30 HP and 30 FP were fine enough.

"Excellent work, Chopper! We've taken care of those goons for now!" Bobbery confirmed. "With that, we can get you into Unagi's Cave! …He's swimming around these seas right now, is he?"

"It's OK, Bobbery. I think he's taking a long nap at this second." Shadower predicted. "We don't need to worry if he's going to attack us or not. We're perfectly safe from harm. …But the entrance is sealed. How are we going to get through now?"

"I'll handle that. Embers!" Cortez summoned a bunch of Embers, which got rid of the rubble in the way. After about three minutes, they got the last of it, and the ship sailed inside. There wasn't much land around in the beginning of the cavern.

Bambo walked over to Chopper with a worried look. "Umm… Listen to me. Are you REALLY going to go after Unagi? It's REALLY dangerous! I warned you before, and I think you should reconsider doing this…"

"Didn't you hear what I said before? I took on a STAR GOD!" Chopper reminded. "I BARELY won the fight! HE was actually a tough guy. I bet this eel probably has 50 HP or something. You know how much he's got?"

"I think he has 40 HP," Kooplang informed.

"40 HP?" Chopper began to burst in laughter afterward. "See? I told you he wouldn't be so threatening! I mean, we fought Doopliss, who had about 40 HP! That's practically the same!"

"But... He IS dangerous..." Bambo reminded.

"Arrr! Listen 'ere, Bob-omb Buddy!" Bombette cut in. "We're here fer the treasure! And you even saw us defeat that fat guy earlier! He had about 60 HP, while an eel has only 40! I bet the fight will be a joke!"

"Well, don't underestimate him! He's tougher than you think! Because he will definitely…" Bambo's words got interrupted when the ship came to a halt. Apparently, pieces of a different ship were floating up on the water.

"Oh… I was hoping it wouldn't be like this." Bobbery sighed. "Well, Chopper, my boy, it seems like you're on your own here. The ship can't go past these. I think you might have to jump on the shipwreck."

"Really? Well that's a shame. Thanks for the help though, Bobbery." Vivian thanked as Chopper jumped onto a piece of the shipwreck and saw some more floating pieces of a ship. This piece had a water panel too.

"I think I can just surf through here!" Chopper equipped his Water ability and jumped into the water. He summoned a wave, which allowed him to stand on it and take him through the waters.

"This bites. Why can't we go swimming?" Scrub groaned as he jumped into the water and began to do some strokes. Kirby shrugged and went in the water too. They could see the bottom of the ocean floor below them in this cave. There were sand and rocks down there too.

"Poyo... (This place is cool, I guess. But it seems kinda creepy…)" Kirby trailed.

Chopper stopped surfing and went underwater. There were a few Cheep Cheep bones down there. Just the sight of them made his eyes widen.

"Oh, geez… I don't like seeing those…" Chopper thought. "Guys... Maybe you shouldn't look down."

"An' why not?" Bombette questioned, looking down for herself. "Oh... That boy be right. Don't look down."

"That means you, Scrub."

Scrub nodded as they found some sand ahead and a doorway that must lead to somewhere else.

"All right, I think we should be safe because of the water. Let's go see what's around here." Chopper headed toward the cave-like room to find a long, narrow path with water dripping from the ceiling.

"I don't like the looks of this place at all, Chopper. It's kind of dark in here." Vivian said worriedly as Chopper decided to remove his Water ability. His gloves had flames on them, lighting the room up a little.

"I guess this works… Well, a little bit. We need some more light in here." Chopper frowned.

"Here, let me help," Vivian lit up some fire too, and they could see a little more. No enemies around, no water on the pathway, and no eel. But once they walked through the pathway, they saw some water ahead past some floating rocks. They could see a damaged ship that led over to another cave passageway. So… They jumped onto the rocks and then to the ship.

"Hmmm… Ye know, I wonder why there's a poop deck on the pirate ship…" Bombette began to wonder, and so did Chopper. But he then realized something about the poop deck.

"Wait… Is it where you take a…" Chopper stopped and shook his head. Everyone snickered a little, but they simply walked into the next cave area to take the narrow path to the next area…until…

"FREEZE!"

"Oh, what now?!"

Four Dry Bones came down, but they were wearing masks that were red, black, yellow, and green. Their boots were the colors of their masks too. Chopper jumped up a little and gaped at them.

"What the… Are you the Koopa Bros.? Did you…die?!" Chopper gasped.

"The Koopa Bros.? Pbbbbbbbbbt! We're not those wusses!" the Dry Bones in red scoffed. "Y'know who we are? The Dry Bros.! That's who! I'm Dry Red! People like you aren't welcome here, y'know!"

"Yar! Then we'll fight ye to get through here!" Bombette declared. Dry Red smirked and gave his brothers a signal to fight.

"Let's get 'em!"

They rushed at Chopper and his friends, and they knew they had to fight against…a mini-boss.

Tattle: Those are the Dry Bros. Are they supposed to be related to the Koopa Bros. or something? I see no resemblance. They all have 10 HP, their Attack is 3, and Defense is 1. Fire DEFINITELY works against them. Explosions can work too, but they actually defeat them, so use fire attacks on them is you want to win. So… Vivian and Bombette just might work here. Be careful when they all work together. They'll do about 8 damage to you!

"All right… I guess we can just use fire on them!" Chopper threw a fireball at Dry Green to deal 3 damage, and then Vivian used her Fiery Jinx after to burn them. Basically, Dry Green had taken 8 damage while the others had taken 5 damage.

"Whoa! This kid's got some guts! Let's take it to overdrive, boys!" Dry Red ordered.

"Good idea," Dry Black nodded.

"Yeah, we'll give 'em something!" Dry Green grinned.

"Oh, yeah! We're going break their legs, right?" Dry Yellow asked in a hyper voice. Dry Red walked over to him and punched him in the face.

"Shut up, Dry Yellow!"

"Yup... They definitely remind me of the Koopa Bros..." Chopper sighed.

"I told you, we're not the Koopa Bros.!" Dry Red growled as they got in their positions and made their attack, with Chopper Superguarding Dry Green's attack. Vivian, Kirby, and Shadower got hit by them, however.

Once they all got hurt by the burn effect, Dry Green fell to the ground, mumbling, "…Finish the job…"

"Well I guess we can finish this up, huh?" Chopper hurled a fireball at Dry Yellow, and then Bombette blew him up with her Bomb attack to finish him off.

"I'm dead…" Dry Yellow said as he collapsed, making Dry Red face palm.

"You're already dead!" he and Dry Black got in their shells and rammed into the six, doing only 5 damage, apparently. Their burn effect was gone, but they were left with 3 HP, so they didn't have much else left.

"Oh, crud... This isn't good..." Dry Red gulped.

"I got this!" Bombette walked over to Dry Black and blew him up into pieces, and then Dry Red got defeated by Chopper's fireball. They got 18 Star Points from the fight, which was nice.

"That fight...was a complete joke..." Chopper trailed.

"Poyo! (I didn't get to do anything against them!)" Kirby whined.

"Curses! We were not tough enough!" Dry Red hissed. "Oh, well… We're getting out of here!"

The Dry Bros. were forced to retreat, unfortunately, so the group of six walked through the caves past them and found a bigger room with no water around.

"Huh… I guess this is a safe place for right now. Nothing bad's around here." Chopper hit the Save Block and Heart Block before they walked over to the crack in the wall. Bombette seemed disappointed, though.

"Yar? So… This whole cave is this?" Bombette blinked in bewilderment. "I be a little disappointed… Not to mention the chapter and fight was a little short."

"That's what happens when you have a hard time thinking of something. At least this is ENOUGH… Anyway, let's blow up the wall!" Chopper picked up Bombette and threw her near the wall. She blew it up and found a new area up ahead.

"Yar? This be something new..."

"Let's go check it out!" Vivian suggested as they walked through the pathway that Bombette blew up. Whatever they were going to find was probably going to be a little surprising…

Or will it?

Yeah, this is one of the shorter ones... But, we can't always have long chapters, right? Well, they'll get a lot longer later on. Trust me.

Well, next chapter is going to be, well, the boss chapter! Yup!