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A few hours earlier
Alorn emerged from his laboratory, wild eyed and weary. His invention had finally been completed. As he moved, his movements were erratic as sluggish, as though he was drunk.
Reaching out with his magic, he felt around. Everyone appeared to be on the roof. That was where he headed, blue hair falling into his eyes.
As he approached the Royals, Kammy glanced behind her.
"Alorn? What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be-"
The blast of magic hit her square in the chest. Kammy's body was electrified and burning flesh could be smelled. For one terrifying moment, her body seemed seethrough. Anyone could see right through her.
She hit the ground, a blackened and smoking corpse.
"KAMMY!" Kamek yelled. For one moment, the barrier shivered. Almost like it would collapse.
Alorn grinned up at him. There was something demented about his smile.
"All this time, and you're an even bigger fool then your king. Did you honestly buy my story?" And with that, his voice became high pitched and mocking, " Oh Im a poor little human who can't control the powers I was BORN WITH."
Something disturbing was happening as he spoke. Pieces of his face seemed to be flecking off. Underneath, shimmering white crystal was quickly being revealled.
Kamek's face lost all of it's color.
"Diamond. Of course. Only you would be able to sneak in here under the radar. You with your magicks could easily disguise yourself as a human."
Diamond reached up and hooked his fingers into the hole that had been revealed. With a sadistic grin, he began to tear the human flesh from his body. Grotesque clumps of blood and pus and flesh began to hit the ground as the rest of his skin simply sloughed off his body. His white crystalline flesh was soon revealed in full.
Diamond wore the black clothing of a high ranking crystal officer. His white hair was cropped very closely to his head. But it was his smile that put everyone off. It was split from cheek to cheek revealing white shark-like teeth underneath.
Iggy was the first to leap into action. Leaping into the air, he began to attack Diamond with two swords at once.
Diamond drew his own sword. It glowed blue and somehow, Iggy knew it was sharper than any razor.
As the two whirled and clashed together, Iggy yelled out.
"KAMEK. SYRIO. GET THEM OUT OF HERE!"
"I won't leave you to fight this bastard alone!" Syrio protested.
"THAT WAS AN ORDER. MORTON. GET THEM OUT OF HERE!"
As Morton began to forcibly drag his siblings towards the stairs, he yelled back to Iggy.
"IF YOU DIE HERE, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"
As the group vanished from sight, Iggy turned back to Diamond.
"You will not get your hands on my family. I'll die before I let that happen."
Diamond's smirk was that of amusement.
"That can be arranged. I am not the only one who infiltrated this castle. Now," He ran at Iggy," Let us Dance."
The group was in a state of panic as they stampeded down the stairs.
Syrio turned to Bowser.
"Get them into the lower tunnels Bowser."
Thalia pressed her hand against Syrio's shoulder.
"What are you-?"
"Lina and Arya are in Ludwig's room with Kyprus. I need to get them. Raven will never forgive me if I let her little princess get captured."
Bowser hesitated.
"Go." He commanded,"Go protect my daughter."
The group stared at Bowser.
"I'm your only daughter." Wendy stated incredulously.
"Not anymore." Syrio cut in. As he made to leave, Thalia grabbed his arm.
"I'm coming with you."
"Thalia-"
"No. I'm not losing you again. I'll hop after you if I have to." She indicated her leg, which was still in a cast.
Syrio sighed softly.
"Fine, but keep up."
Tyrion placed his hands on his siblings' shoulders.
"Be safe," He urged," We have only just been reunited. Do not let it be for naught."
Syrio smiled a little.
"Tyrion. Always so formal. Worry not, Big Brother. I'll be careful."
And with that, the two took off. Tyrion turned to the others.
"You heard them. Get going."
"My people-" Bowser began.
"Are safe. The Crystal army is aiming for you, your grace." Toadsworth cut in, "For the sake of your children, you must go."
Tracey whimpered quietly and held onto her brother. Ness stroked her hair gently.
"We need to distract them." Poo spoke," If we could use P.K. Starstorm..."
"Raven is on that ship," Nabooru interjected," And I think Bowser might not like that too much."
"And what do YOU suggest?" Tracey asked, rounding on Nabooru," All you and the Tiny Twit have done is offer useless information. Poo, Do it."
Poo looked up at Bowser questioningly. Bowser nodded once.
"Do it."
Poo took Ness' and Paula's hands.
"Focus you two," He instructed,"We need to make this as big as we can."
"How about you just die instead?" A voice called merrily from the ceiling.
As the group looked up, a denizen made of shimmering Rainbow Quartz leaped from the chandelier and landed on the floor. As she popped to her feet, Tyrion's eyes hardened.
"Queen Rainbow Quartz." He hissed.
"Aren't you supposed to be dying in Sarasaland?" The Queen snapped,"That was where I left you."
"My lovely daughter found that disagreeable." Tyrion shot back.
"And now she's on her way to my husband. Shall I ask him to send you her head?"
Tyrion had his hand on Raven's sword. He had taken it and the Sarasaland sword the moment that Raven had left. Syrio was in possession of the Sarasaland one.
Rainbow Quartz clapped her hands together. All at once, the group was surrounded.
"I don't think you realize how screwed you are." She commented, "You and your brats won't be surviving this, Bowser. I'll be taking your kingdom's sword now."
"Are you blind, or just stupid?" Morton snapped, his jaw clenched,"Does it look like any of us have it?"
"We sent our men into your little "Cave" He reported it to be a shallow and empty cave. So one of you must have it."
Bowser's eyes widened in horror. The cave doing that usually only happened when the trial was over. Either Junior had succeeded, or...
Wendy pressed a hand to her mouth.
"Gods no."
"Did you find a body?" Bowser demanded.
"Does it matter?" The Queen laughed merrily."You'll die here."
Lemmy and Larry exchanged a glance, then nodded. Without warning, the two began to breathe fire at the Crystal Soldiers.
"Dad! Get going!" Larry called, "We will handle them for you!"
Bowser shook his head no violently. Morton began to drag him.
"DAD COME ON."
As the group ran, Wendy stopped and turned.
"WENDY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Ludwig demanded.
"I'm not losing another sibling,'' Her voice was sharp as she pulled off her bracelets,"Go. Now. I'll take care of the Queen."
"Wendy. Thank you." Ness spoke, "Thank you for bringing me here."
Wendy glanced at him. Then at her family.
"I love you guys." Her voice was shaking. Then she turned and ran towards the Queen.
"Soldiers!" Morton barked at the Gerudo. "We need people at the front and at the back. Form up!"
The females looked at Nabooru, who nodded.
"Do as he says, girls."
The Gerudo moved into position quickly.
Ludwig shook a little as they walked.
"What is it Lud?" Roy fell into step with his older brother.
"I thought Junior would make it," Ludwig choked out, "Gods, why did he have to be so STUPID?"
-
SYRIO AND THALIA
The twins moved in unison through the darkness. Above and below them, fighting could be heard. The forces must have invaded the castle.
As they moved, Syrio finally asked the question that had been bothering him.
"Why didn't you get your leg healed?"
"Cause I didn't want to. I thought we had more time, to be honest. Didn't think the Crystal fucks were mobilizing this fast. I KNEW there was something off about Alorn. He drank way too much coffee to be normal."
"No time to dwell," Syrio responded, pushing open Ludwig's door.
Inside, Kyprus was playing patty cake with Lina, who was squealing happily. A red headed toddler banged on the keys of Ludwig's piano. She had shimmering violet eyes.
"Syrio?" Kyprus asked. "What is going on out there?"
"Diamond was Alorn. We are evacuating. Cmon. We have to go."
"UNCLE UNCLE!" The redhead shrieked. "Up please!"
Syrio picked her up and held her tightly.
"Hello Arya."
"Syyyy." She patted his cheek with her chubby little hand.
"We are gonna go see your daddy, Arya."
Arya perked up. She had been promised a meeting with her father for days now.
Lina reached for Kyprus, who picked her up.
Thalia waited for them at the door.
"Hurry up!" She called out," We can't risk Diamond finding us."
Together, the small group moved down the hallway. An explosion rocked the castle, sending Kyprus reeling into Thalia.
"Sorry Thal."
"No problem."
"Auntie! Louuuud." Lina sniffled, covering her ears. The Explosion had scared her.
"It's okay baby." Thalia tried to soothe her. "Everything is fine."
The group began to head down the stairs. Thalia was cursing her leg.
Then, all at once, the staircase exploded in a blinding flash of shrapnel.
The group was thrown down the stairs. Kyprus and Syrio were shielding the small ones with their own bodies at this point.
A Crystal soldier emerged from the hole. It was an enormous Jasper soldier.
Thalia nearly vomited when she realized it looked like her. Of course. They probably had crystal clones of all of them.
"SYRIO. KYPRUS! GO!" She yelled out.
"I won't leave you!" Syrio yelled back.
Thalia vaulted over her clones head.
"RUN THEN."
At the bottom of the stairs, they found a Koopa arm. Thalia swallowed another wave of nausea. It was too small to be Bowser's .
"Is that Bowsers?" Kyprus questioned.
"Too small to be his." Syrio pointed out.
The group made their way through the castle. Kyprus tightened his grip on Lina, causing her to let out a squeak of discomfort.
"Arya, Lina, "Syrio spoke," We are gonna play a game okay? It's called the quiet game. Whoever can be the quietest will win a sweet."
Both girls immediately covered their mouths, giggling.
A panel slid open in the throne room. A very exhausted Morton Jr peeked out.
"You three. Inside. Now."
The three scurried inside. They appeared to be inside some sort of storage unit.
"Bowser. They've arrived." Nabooru spoke from beside them.
When Arya saw Bowser, her eyes got really big. Immediately, she forgot the game they were playing.
"DADDY!" She squealed. Of course she knew him. Hadn't her mama shown her pictures of him before?
Bowser's face softened.
"Hello little one," He replied, "Syrio, may I hold her?"
"Ask her yourself."
"Arya? May I pick you up?"
Arya responded by launching herself at her father happily. Bowser just managed to catch her. The little one settled into his arms and looked up at him.
"Hi Daddy."
"She's so cute!" Paula scooted over to them," Hi Arya. You going to be a fighter like your mom?"
Arya didn't answer. She was fast asleep. Her chubby little hands were clutching one of Bowser's armbands.
Thalia scooped Lina up from Kyprus and cuddled her.
"Hello Linaheart."
Lina kissed her auntie right on the nose. She had missed her auntie terribly.
''We have to keep moving," Poo spoke up,"Where do these tunnels lead?"
"To the Trial Caverns," Bowser's voice was low,"Where my..youngest went."
Kamek placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Bowser. He may have survived. It could be he went for the sword. In fact, he said he was going there in the phone call." His face was etched with grief.
Bowser looked back at him.
"I'm sorry for your loss, my friend," he murmured, "No one deserves to die like that."
Roy pushed open an enormous stone door.
"Lets hurry."