World 7-4 Continued: The Get-Quest Continues
"Those Mega Stars are so much fun!" Ieda told the gang as they caught up to her. Along their search, they came across an area that they hadn't accessed before behind... well, behind a door. They found it in 3-D like when Phred found the pipe behind the door in Fort Francis. Ieda, being the brave one to seek out a Question Mark block, discovered the awesomeness of the all-powerful Mega Star. Taking care not to step on her companions, she bashed through blocks and Skellobits forward until the effects wore off.
Now the gang stood at the end of the path.
"And who'd think that you'd actually be able to land the Merlee Wheel O' Fun while being mega?" Phred wondered.
"Who cares about that now? I've a feeling Blubi is here, so can Phred take us into 3-D?" Ray asked.
"Yeah, hold on." They grabbed on to each other and found themselves in the magical land of the third dimension again jumping across clouds. They exited 3-D and found another bathroom.
"You good Rachel?" Ray asked, jokingly. She ignored him purposely, rolling her eyes and crossing her arms with a huff.
Ieda knocked on the door and, to no one's surprise, someone answered.
"Are the fell beasts gone?" the voice asked. "So it is safe for me to come out thither? …By the way, who art thou?"
"Phred."
"Grambi." Rachel answered.
"A monster."
"Ray!" Ieda scolded.
"A monster? Thou LIEST! No monster wouldst admit to being a monster!"
"Ray, you're a genius!" Tippi complimented.
"Who said I was lying though?"
"Huh? Hold a moment… That meaneth… Thou art NOT a monster?" The gang got out of the way and Yebbi (Damn! thought Ray) exited the bathroom.
"Hello to thee! I am Yebbi! Thou came to rescue me?"
"Sure…" Tippi said.
"Yebbi," Luvbi started as she floated over to him, "we must rebuild yon bridge to reach Grambi! Thou must givest us the yellow orb! If thou dost not, we shall tell all how long thou spent hiding in thither!"
"We're not starting rumors about complete strangers." Ieda told her.
"L-Luvbi? Oh prithee, thou must not tell! I shall do all thou askest!"
~*-SPP-*~
You got a Yellow Orb!
A yellow orb from Yebbi. It draws a bridge to the temple.
~*-SPP-*~
"I should not hath hidden like a base coward. I goeth to help the others now… Be thou careful!" and with that, he left.
"Where could Blubi be?" Tippi asked.
"There is… one place we haven't checked yet…" Ray told them. "Where we got the first key."
~*-SPP-*~
Ray thrust his arm into the ice and the blade of his knife shattered it all. Blubi was freed.
"Oh, thank thee! It is as though thou hast brought me back to life! I am Blubi!" Once again, Luvbi pined for the orb.
"We hasten to yonder shrine to help Grambi, so givest thy blue orb."
"What? Oh, indeed, I see… Fell beasts have attacked from the Underwhere…"
"What? Then Ray wasn't the beast that those D-Men were guarding? Oh dear…" Tippi mused out loud for Phred to hear. He heard and understood what was going on.
Those Skellobits must be the henchmen of the monster, otherwise we'd be sailing up to Count Bleck's castle by now… So is thing an icy creature? I wonder…
"Phred! Wake up, Phred! We're heading back to Whibbi." Rachel told him in a loud voice.
"Wha-? Oh, alright. Here I come."
~*-SPP-*~
"Thou wantest to ride my darling's Overvator? Hold a moment… He descendeth." Fallbi told them. At that moment, the Overvator did descendeth- er, descend and Luvbi was nearly crushed, but moved out of the way at the last moment. She was angry, but forgave him.
Up they went and through the door to Whibbi they went.
When they met up with Whibbi, he told them to stand on the pedestal over yonder.
Phred jumped up onto the pedestal and Tippi handed him the orbs.
"Red… Blue… Yellow… There, that should do it…" With each placed orb, there was a column of light that matched the color of the orb placed. Also, there was a majestic ringing… though it was annoying soon enough.
Once all the orbs were placed, the pedestal emitted a white glow and the clouds started to rumble.
"What's happening?" Rachel asked as she fell over onto Ray's leg.
"The bridge! It's… playing… Tetris with itself." Ieda noticed as long pieces made the bridge entirely. When completed, it started changing colors. That's when they noticed…
"It's a rainbow!"
"Grambi is in danger grave… But we are all so weak…" Whibbi told them. "We must ask you… Savest him for us!"
"Of course we will!" Rachel, getting up, assured.
"Let's get moving! C'mon Luvbi, you too." Phred commanded. The team jumped over the bridge and entered the door leading to the shrine.
~*-SPP-*~
"HOLD IT!" A Spiky Skellobit approached the intruders and wore the countenance of bewilderment.
"How'd you guys get in here? I thought we destroyed the bridge!"
"There's always a way to repair things… except Ray's soul. That's broken forever."
"Rachel!" Ray yelled.
"What? Isn't it true?"
"Now's not the time."
"Shuttest thy trap, foul one!" Luvbi shouted to the enemy. "Speakest! Dost my father fare well? If thou hast hurt a whisker on his face, I SHALL END ALL THAT IS YOU!"
"Luvbi…" Tippi groaned.
"Wh-Wh-Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat? You little brat!" he turned around and called his army. Millions of Skellobombers and tons of Skellobits and Spiky Skellobits then approached.
"So, ya wanna see how scary we can be, little girly? Well, take a good look!"
"Oh dear, there seems to be a lot of them… I didn't know there were so many left…" Tippi noticed.
"Thanks a lot, Luvbi." Ieda groaned.
"CALM THY MIND!" Someone that sounded like Rebbi called from behind. They turned to see him.
"Rebbi!" Luvbi cried.
"I shall handle them!"
"You…" Tippi didn't finish, for Rebbi interrupted.
"At long last, my strength returned to me, and now these fiends shall reap the grim harvest of my Nimbi fury!" He turned to call his army.
Millions of Nimbis flooded the sky, but one in particular caught Ray's attention.
"That… That looks like… No. It can't be."
"Hast thou fear of these fiends from the Underwhere?"
"NAAAAAY!" cried the army.
"Ooh, all tough 'cause ya go an army, huh? Let's see how ya do against MINE!" yelled the Spiky Skellobit.
"YOU'RE GOIN DOWN!"
"THOU ART TOAST!"
"CHAAARGE!" cried both generals.
"Now's our chan- COME ON, RAY!" Rachel yelled, grabbing his wrist and trying to pull him. Amazing how he didn't even wince...
"Wait! I wanna check if I'm seeing correctly."
"WHAT COULD YOU POSSIBLY BE MIS-SEEING AT A TIME LIKE THIS?"
"I thought I saw… never mind. You're right. We've gotta get to that shrine."
"THEN LET'S GO ALREADY!" Phred shouted over the noise of the battle going on above.
The team rushed past a few grounded enemies and found the stairs leading up. Ray paused while the others climbed up to look back. Just to double check...
"Go Ray!" Called one of the Nimbis. Ray jumped at the voice. It was all too familiar to him... and it belonged to the Nimbi that he happened to be looking straight at. This Nimbi looked unique however; he had part of his hair over one eye.
"But... Is that you—"
"GO!" it yelled. Ray sighed, then reassured with an, "Okay," and regrouped with his friends at the top of the stairs.
"Where'd you disappear to?" Tippi asked.
"Don't think I'm crazy, but I think one of my childhood friends is fighting in that battle…"
Everyone: You're crazy.
"I told you NOT to think me crazy!"
"Ray, think about it," Rachel started, "What're the odds that someone you know happens to be—"
"We can argue about that later! We've gotta get that last Pure Heart!"
"Phred's right… Let's go…"
Cameo alert! For those of you that care about my picture, the one on our left of Ray appears in Nimbi form. He died when Ray was 12-ish (I don't have the exact details in front of me at the moment...) and I thought it would be nice if Ray knew that he went to Heaven through the game. He isn't actually a Nimbi, so creative licensing FTW! If you're really curious, his name is Tedward.
I'm thinking that I should post the boss chapter tomorrow - for certain reasons I don't want to spoil yet - but then again, I don't because I still have that bet with Santa... I doubt I'll make it though. But I have a feeling if I post it at all, I'll get yelled at angrily. DX
