Chapter 15


"Now! Kill them!" TarTar commanded.

Chili managed to peel himself off of the floor and helped Mint and Akari to their feet. "What now?!"

Akari nodded and pointed towards the creature. "I'll distract the creature! You get Kira free!" She ran to a long rod pipe and called to it. "hey ugly! Come and get me!"

The creature screeched and followed after Akari, while Chili and Mint ran to the container.

"I need the chains off to access the panel!" Mint cried.

Chili broke the chains off of a metal console and took off his own. "Start working, Mint. I'll get Kira out."

The octoling typed furiously on the console and opened the container while Kira chanted the incantation over and over again quietly, tears pouring down her face.

"Kira, I'm gonna get you out-" He grabbed her arm and yelled as his bad, splotched arm had black lines running across his skin before quickly fading.

TarTar laughed. "You try freeing Kira and you'll die my boy!"

Chili snarled. "It's a risk I'm willing to take!" He started unhooking the chains from Kira's body, screaming in agony as the blackness started to devour his arm from the quiet chanting of the incantation. He only stopped after it reached a certain point in his arm, making him yowl in pain and fall back, holding his arm as it burned and left scorch marks. He only had one more chain to remove from her body, but he would lose his arm if he did, as the blackness covered his hand up until the beginning of where his elbow would be.

"Chili!" Mint cried.

"Uh, guys?! Sometime today would be nice!" Akari yelped as the beast smacked her weapon away from her and approached with each huge step, gnashing it's teeth at her.

The injured inkling heaved and groaned. "I gotta.. Get that last chain off of her..."

"You'll lose this arm if you do!" They told him. "Please! We'll find another way to snap her out of it!"

Akari screamed as the creature grabbed her and took a fine liking to her right leg. He started clawing at it, making Akari cry in pain. With Mint's quick thinking, they broke the glass encasing the fire ax, wincing in pain as they had glass embedded into their elbow, and chucked the ax towards the creature, landing directly in the forehead. With it distracted, Akari climbed up it and finished it off by removing the ax from it's bleeding forehead and chopped at it's throat, making it fall and evaporate back into the portal.

The creatures inside were not happy and began to crawl out.

"Shit! We can't handle another round!" The octoling yelped.

Chili finally ran up and pulled out the final chain on Kira's body making his gasp as his arm went completely numb. Kira fell out of the container and her dark form faded away as he grabbed Akari's arm using the good arm and screamed at her as the black lines slowly traveled up his arm past his elbow. "CUT IT OFF!"

"What?!"

"You heard me! Chop off my arm! Please!"

Just as he pleaded for help, a loud blast from the wall and the machine powering down revealed Layette. Her hood down and the cloak flying behind her.

"Layette!" They all cried.

The vampire squid blasted off their restraints and Mint immediately went into light form, using all of their energy to stop the shadow inflicted wound from spreading. They yelled as they used all of their energy to stop the blackness and restore his arm up. But the octoling immediately fainted and Chili kept them and Kira close.

Akari turned into her electric form and began tearing into the sanitized, alongside Tenta and Layette.

Kira's eyes finally opened and she gasped, wincing in pain from all of her previous injuries hitting her like a cement truck.

"You stay low." Chili ordered. "You're not ready for a fight."

"Your hand!" She cried, black lines forming a symbol on his hand.

He nodded. "I know. Don't worry about it."

Captain Cuttlefish was using his Bamboozler and cheered as he blasted some away. "Come on kiddos! We gotta go!"

All were rushed into the train and the train zoomed off from the base. They set up a small base in an abandoned station and took a deep breath of relief.

Kira and Mint admitted to beds while Chili and Akari were positioned against a wall.

"Took ya long enough." The inkling commented under his breath.

Tenta snarled. "Thems damned sanitized were in the stations already, so we 'ad ta take dem out first before we could get to ya."

Akari held her leg and hissed in pain. "Damn... My fucking leg..."

"We can walk it off, can't we?" He replied with a small smile.

She nodded with a smile. "We sure can."

"Now we wait until these two are better..."


End of Chapter