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Celine and the Rose Crystals

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Chapter 35 – The Shades of Acne: Shaddyzomb & Acnao's Collaboration Attack!

Normal POV

"Hmm… those girls are interesting. I wonder if someday I can successfully beat them and take their Rose Crystals away…"

Shaddyzomb commented as she appeared in the largest guest room at the Rose Crystal Catcher's castle, which now became the bedroom for her and the other demonic zombies there. It was right after she failed in her first trial to steal her new target, which was the seven Rose Crystals.

"Shaddyzomb, you're back!" called Acnao, one of the demonic zombie who had too much acne on her face, "How about your plan? Is it going well? Can you steal those Rose Crystals from them?"

"Not yet. One of them found one of my weaknesses, and she could break my wonderful barrier…"

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, Shad," cut Acnao before she offered, "Anyways, do you need some help from me?"

"Well, only if you have some good ideas for our next trial, Ace," replied Shaddyzomb, "So, do you have any idea for our combo?"

"Of course, I have. This will be our greatest collaboration," Acnao smirked, "There's one of them who is an actress, right?"

"Yeah, so?"

Acnao then whispered her answer to the shadow demonic zombie, and after a few minutes, both of them laughed together.

"I know you're so smart, Ace. Even with those acne on your face," praised Shaddyzomb, "That's why I prefer to call you 'Ace', rather than 'Acne' or 'Acnao'."

"Thank you, Shad. You're really the best," replied Acnao, "Now we just need to wait until tomorrow."

.O.

Meanwhile, in another room…

"Oh, I thought she could defeat them easily…" Piceshia gritted her teeth, "That Shaddyzomb seems potential for me, though…"

"Don't you feel confident with your own idea, Piceshia?" asked Charmillion as he gazed at the pixie look-alike demon beside him, "Isn't it too early to give up on your own idea to trust those demonic zombies?"

"Well, I just wonder if all of them would keep failing again and again, as I'm the one who brought them here before," Piceshia admitted, "because I noticed that Shaddyzomb is their leader, and as she didn't make it now, I think…"

"You don't need to worry about that, Piceshia," cut Charmillion, "Moreover, I don't really mind if your idea wasn't going smoothly. For now, I just need some time to take a rest here, so that I can have much greater power for our final battle."

"Hmm? Why do I feel that actually, you're the one who aren't sure that my plan will work now?" said Piceshia, noticing Charmillion's statement, "Charmillion, do you have another plan?"

"Yeah, and that's why, I ask you to come into my room right now. There's something that I want to share with you," Charmillion started to explain, "and we can use it to prepare ourselves for the final battle."

"Should we share it with those demonic zombies?"

"Nope!" the dark prince shook of his head, "We just need to use it and take some rest."

"Oh… okay," Piceshia finally said, "I agree with you."

Onpu's POV

"Onpu-chan, is it okay? I mean, you paid all of the things which Shaddyzomb stole from those stores," asked Doremi worriedly when all of us were on the way home, "Even if we could bring her to meet with those store owners, all of us know that she can't pay all of those. Zombies don't have money, right?"

"It's okay for me," I assured her, "At least, she didn't steal the expensive ones."

"But she stole too many things. Not to mention that she made all of those store owners blamed at me."

"It's okay, Doremi-chan. Let's just say that I want to help those store owners to get what they deserve," I said, "However, Shaddyzomb stole those stuffs because… she wants to get our Rose Crystals, right? Even though it isn't you who stole those stuffs, we still have responsibility here."

"Well, you're right," finally, she sighed, "Maybe, we should see it from that side."

"Anyways, now we know that the one who will keep attacking us from now on is Shaddyzomb…" I stated, "and I'm not really sure that she would attack us alone in her next trial. I mean, as she realized that she couldn't win from us when she was alone today, sooner or later, she'll ask one of her friend to help her in her next trial to get our Rose Crystals."

"Hmm… probably you're right, Onpu-chan," replied Aiko who then asked, "Then, what should we do now?"

"How if we talk about it right now? I think we still have time to talk about it somewhere," I suggested, "Moreover, it's so rare that I'm off today."

"Well, that's a good idea, though…" commented Doremi while we kept walking. She asked, "Where will we talk about it?"

"How if we talk about it in your house?" I asked back, "It's near from here."

"Okay, I think we can talk about it there," said the redhead. All of us then made our way to Doremi's house.

"So, there are still seventeen demonic zombies beside Shaddyzomb whom we still don't know about," I started the conversation in Doremi's bedroom, "One of them probably will attack us with Shaddyzomb, so we need to be really careful. Don't let Shaddyzomb to have any chance to disguise into one of us anymore, and also, we should keep an eye if there's her friend who help her to attack us later."

The others gave their own opinions, and even the Sailor Senshi also gave us some advice. However, this talk about Shaddyzomb was really important for all of us, so that we could be ready to face her next attack.

"Huh, now I just wonder if we'll reach the final battle soon," Aiko sighed, "Why should we face those demonic zombies now? I thought we just need to face Charmillion and Piceshia, but then…"

"Ironically, that's what happen now, Ai-chan," I replied, "Right after we found the way to protect ourselves from Charmillion and Piceshia's attacks."

"You know, maybe we can beat all of those demonic zombies later, but I'm just afraid that Charmillion and Piceshia would have enough time to strengthen their power which they would use in the final battle," Aiko gave her opinion, "However, our main enemies are still both of them."

"By the way, speaking about those demonic zombies makes me wonder…" said Hazuki, "How can those zombies become demonic zombies? I mean, what did they do so that they can become demonic zombies? Were they doing some sort of ritual or something…"

"Hmm, demonize ritual, huh?" Rei tried to remember, "Well, I've ever read a book about demonize ritual for human, but I'm not really sure if zombies can do the same ritual to demonize them…"

"Really? Rei-chan, what kind of ritual is it?" asked Doremi.

"Well, a human who wants to do the sacred ritual should hunt a demon and drink the demon's blood, as much as he or she can," explained the black haired girl, "If his or her heart is already evil, that person will instantly become demon just by drinking some drops of the demon's blood."

"So, it means that probably those zombies did a similar ritual, right?" concluded Aiko.

"Probably," Rei nodded, "Then, Charmillion and Piceshia helped them to do the ritual."

"Does it mean that Charmillion and Piceshia helped them to get the demon's blood which they need to drink in the ritual?" asked Momoko while she thought about Rei's last statement, "Wait, does it mean that they killed another demon?"

"I don't think so," Hana-chan shook of her head, "Piceshia killed the School Demons when she asked those zombies to join with her, right? They can use the School Demons' blood for their ritual."

"Well, that can be true, but if Charmillion and Piceshia helped them in their ritual so that those demonic zombies can be part of them in the Rose Crystal Catcher, I think they should use the blood from the member of the Rose Crystal Catcher," Rei opined.

"Eh? Does it mean that they should kill each other?" asked Hana-chan didn't understand, "How can they use their own blood and still alive?"

"Rophelia!" Doremi exclaimed, "It's really possible that Charmillion and Piceshia killed her as their final punishment for her, then they used her blood in the zombies' demonize ritual!"

"Hey, how can we forget about her now? She was the first demon from the Rose Crystal Catcher who attacked us," replied Hazuki, "Back then, she attacked us countless times. She poisoned us at the party in my house."

"She'd ever ruined my date and used some power from my Rose Crystal to manipulate you all," added Doremi, "Not to mention those dangerous trials which she did anywhere."

"Oh, I won't ever forget the way she insulted me about my first attack!" Aiko clenched her fists, "What a rude, old demon she is!"

"If I'm not wrong, she launched her last attack in my audition, right?" I continued, "Then, soon after that, Doremi-chan started to get a nightmare about Dark Celine and Charmillion started to attack us."

"Wait, so Charmillion and Piceshia gave some punishment to Rophelia right after she failed to get our Rose Crystals countless times?" Momoko noticed something, then she asked the redhead beside her, "Doremi-chan, did they still punish Rophelia when you… I mean, when Dark Celine joined with them?"

Doremi nodded, "It seemed like they locked her up at the basement of the castle in that time. Charmillion even allowed Dark Celine to use Rophelia's portal in her room."

"That's the portal which you and Kotake-kun used to escape from the castle, right?" asked Hana-chan. The redhead nodded again.

"Well, now I don't know if we should be relieved or not," Hazuki sighed, "We don't need to think about Rophelia anymore, but we should be patient to face those eighteen demonic zombies…"

All of us sighed together, "What a long way to reach the final battle…"

.O.

On the next day…

It was Sunday, so now I was at the radio station for my radio show again.

This time, the theme of the show was my newest movie, and we invited some fellow casts from the movie to the show as the guests star for this week, including someone named Morino Karen whom I already know about since I was still in the elementary school. I'd ever competed with her in an audition back then, and she was the first one who could win from me in a local movie audition. Even so, as she became my classmate in the middle school, she also became my good friend.

Right after the recording of the show, we were scheduled to attend the gala premiere of our movie, so I and Karen decided to go to the cinema together. Karen told me to walk out from the radio station first because she wanted to prepare herself at the toilet in the radio station, so I walked out from the radio station and waited for her in my car.

Surprisingly, I noticed something different from her face once she walked out from the radio station, which suddenly was full of acne. On top of that, she looked so mad at me.

"Karen-chan, what happened with your face?" I asked, "Those acne weren't there before…"

"It should be me who ask you about this, Onpu-chan," replied her with angry tone, "Why did you recommend these dangerous cosmetics to me a few minutes ago?"

"Cosmetics?" I tilted my head, "I didn't recommend any cosmetics to you."

"Don't you even try to hide it from anyone. I clearly saw you walked into the toilet and offered me these," said her as she shown me the mentioned cosmetics, "I thought we were good friends…"

'It must be Shaddyzomb!' I thought, then tried to explain, "Karen-chan, I…"

"I hate you, Onpu-chan!" screamed her, and suddenly, the sky around me became dark. I looked around just to see that everyone around me fainted right after heard Karen's scream, including Karen herself.

'I should do something,' I walked out from my car and tried to call the shadowy demonic zombie, "Shaddyzomb, I know that it's you who did all of this! Show yourself right now, or I'll make sure that you won't ever have any chance to attack any of us anymore."

"Oh, pretty girl, you're so smart to guess that it's me who did it," replied Shaddyzomb while she appeared in front of me, in her disguise form as myself, "but still, you aren't that smart enough to guess that those acne are my friend's creation. Right, Ace?"

"You're right, Shad," added another demonic zombie who appeared beside Shaddyzomb. I looked at her whole body which was full of acne as she said, "Those acne are the Great Acnao's masterpiece."

"Acnao? So, that's your name, huh?" I took out my Senshi Tap, "Seems like I don't have choice but to fight you both by myself. Mars' Witch Power, Make Up!"

Onpu's transformation sequence: She hold her Senshi Tap with her right hand and swung her left hand on it, made some small purple fireballs appeared around her body. She then pointed her Senshi Tap forward, under the small fireballs, and then swung it around and made it change to be a purple fire ring which appeared under the small fireballs – the fire ring was larger than the circle of the small fireballs. Both of the fire ring and the circle of the small fireballs then expanded its height while Onpu crossed her arms, covered her body, and when both of the fire circles disappeared, it revealed her gloves, her costume which was a leotards with purple skirt with a piece of short red ribbon behind it and purple collar with red bow ties, along with her high heels, a necklace with purple ribbon and yellow round pendant, a pair of yellow small earrings, a purple ribbon on her untied hair and a tiara. Her crystal was on her golden tiara.

"Witchi Senshi Onpuchii!"

"Exotic Fire Beams!" I shouted while launched my attacked to both of the demonic zombies, but then they could dodge it and jumped to the air.

"Now it's my turn to attack you, sweet girl," Shaddyzomb smirked, "Hell Fire Beams!"

"Don't forget about me, Shad," added Acnao who also launched her attack, "Burning Acne!"

"Circle Fire Burst!" I launched my protection attack to blast their combined attack, and it worked. It seemed like all of us launched 'burning attack', so I didn't think that we could finish this battle soon.

'I should call anyone from the others who can help me here, but who?' I thought, then tried to attack them with my 'Exotic Fire Beams' again, when suddenly…

"Double Magical Crystal Petals!"

"Starry Heart Ribbon!"

"Aqua Needle Rain!"

"Supreme Lightning Bullet!"

"Little Sparkling Star!"

"Minna, all of you come here," I turned to see my fellow Majo Senshi behind me, "Even so, how can all of you know that Shaddyzomb and Acnao come here and attack me?"

"Don't you remember me, Onpu-chan?" protested Roro who also came there with them, "I saw Shaddyzomb when she disguised as you and gave Karen the cosmetics from Acnao, so I think that maybe I should tell the others to come here."

"Thank you, Roro," I smiled, "Alright then, let's we attack them for the last time!"

The others nodded, then we launched our attack together. Surprisingly, Acnao disappeared right after she screamed in pain, while Shaddyzomb successfully escaped from our attacks.