Chapter 7: The Egg of Light.
Duster pushed open the next door, followed by Kumatora and Wess.
"So, does anyone want to explain this important object to me now?" he asked.
"We get there when we get there." Wess scolded. "The fact that you don't know what to steal makes you a worthless thief! You moron!"
"Quit calling your son a moron, Geezer." Kumatora snapped. "If we were a moron, he wouldn't know what it was?! Plus, what's this shit about being a crappy thief? There's never anything to steal around here!"
"Well, I do believe that he's a moron." Wess muttered.
Out of nowhere, a large fireball shot from over their heads. A large flame spirit looking torch headed floated out in front of them.
"What is this?" Duster asked curiously.
"The spirits and other crap get angry around here." Kumatora said quickly. "That's why the Geezer hid the stupid thing around here."
Duster shook his head and quickly took out the Siren Beetle he had and it started vibrating in his hand. A loud, irritating pitched noise echoed through the area, the Flame Spirit didn't take too kindly to this and fired a large wave of fire, blasting Duster backwards as he felt his body burn from the flames he was blasted with.
"Hey, Duster, you moron!" Wess snapped. "Get your act together!" he picked up a thunder bomb and chucked it across the room, the bomb blew up into a large blast of electricity through the area.
"This is literally a floating ball of fire!" Duster snapped back as he ducked under another fireball. "How the hell am I supposed to fight fire?!"
Kumatora gave a smug little grin. Her hand flashed a bit of a bright bluish color as she pointed her fingers in a little gun-like manner.
"PK Freeze α!" She said.
Duster felt his eyes widen in shock as a beam of ice shot from the young teen's hands and blasted into the wandering flame spirit. The spirit of fire collapsed into the ground and fell down. A little ghost-like figure shot back up and disappeared.
"Well done Princess." Wess said, applauding, "I see that you've still been training very well for this day. Have you not?"
"Wait, wait, wait!" Duster shouted, waving his hands around like a maniac. "How did she do that? How'd she do the ice thing?"
"You mean the Geezer never told ya about PSI?" Kumatora asked.
"PSI?"
"Well, basically a quick run down, individuals long ago used PSI to protect the world and grow closer to the Earth. I think there was once a legend about a bunch of kids kicking an aliens ass, or something like that."
"Uh huh...and...what can you do exactly?"
"If I'm being honest, I don't know." Kumatora said. "I'm still learning most of my skills. The most I can do now is mild healing, pyrokinesis, and cryokinesis."
"You say you can do mild healing?" Duster asked. "Maybe help with my burns?"
"Sure, just gimme a minute." Kumatora said. She walked over to him, her hand flashed a bright of dark greenish color as she waved it over his head. "Lifeup α!" Duster felt his injuries fade as a warm feeling spread through his body, refreshing him fully.
"Does everyone have PSI?" Duster asked.
"Nah, it seems to develop only in descendents of people."
"Back to looking, you moron." Wess snapped.
The three of them continued, occasionally using the Rope Snake to swing across some opening that...in reality, looked easily jumpable. Eventually they came to a door at the end. Wess pulled the door open and they were met with a small shrine room. It had two stone sculptures of what appeared to be a large snake head.
At the center of the room, there was a golden goblet holding a weird looking egg. The egg had a pink target design on the front that stretched up and around the entire egg. There were also small angel-like wings on the sides.
"Yes, here we are." Wess said happily. "Good."
"It's...an egg?" Duster asked, bewildered.
"Duster, this is the 'Certain Important Item' I had instructed you to bring back."
"But...it's an egg!"
"It's the Egg of Light, or as the king called it, The Hummingbird Egg."
"Alright then Geezer, what does it do?" Kumatora said, rolling her eyes.
"Truth be told, I don't even know." Wess replied. "The Egg of Light is an egg of secrets inside secrets that are inside even more secrets...Or something like that?"
"And now, those secrets are needed." Kumatora said, approaching the goblet. "If this thing wound up in the wrong hands, the lid may come undone and...bad things would happen."
"What sort of hope - or calamity - is hidden away within this egg?" Duster asked.
"We could only imagine." Wess said.
A loud smash suddenly echoed through the area. All three of their heads shot towards the door, a small chunk of wood had flow
"Aw, Damn it." Kumatora muttered. "Let's get out of here." Duster turned as the young princess grabbed onto the egg from the goblet.
"Princess wait," Wess said, without even turning to face her. "I know the egg appears to be sitting there nonchalantly… But I placed traps around the egg." He turned and his mouth fell open at the sight of Kumatora holding the egg.
"...Traps?" Kumatora asked.
The floor suddenly disappeared around them and they all fell down through the hole in the ground.
"Ah damn it." Duster muttered.
"PRINCESSSSSSS!"
"My bad."
The three of them fell down into a large portion of water somewhere inside of the castle. There were also a lot of skulls and bones along the surface of the water as well.
"Princess are you alright?" Wess asked as he surfaced from the water.
Kumatora surfaced from the water. "Yeah, I'm alright." Kumatora said. "But…"
"Whatever's the matter?" Wess asked. "If you're worried about that moron, don't be. He's been trained for just this sort of thing."
"Seriously?" Duster asked as he surfaced from the water. "I don't recall you ever telling me what to do if I fell into one of your traps.
"Where's the egg?" Kumatora asked.
"Great, the moron is here, but the egg isn't!" Wess muttered.
The egg suddenly surfaced into the water. Which Duster swiftly grabbed before anyone c
"Ah, there's the egg." Wess breathed a sigh of relief. "I know I've called you a moron about 11 times by now. But I take it all bac-"
"GROAH!"
A giant pink snake suddenly surfaced from the water, peering down at the three of them. It hissed with its tongue as it glared down at them.
"I don't think I'd say Hurray just yet." Kumatora said.
"The Os-So-Snake." Wess said. "I forgot about this...good thing a bunch of idiots have tried to steal the egg...I would've thought this thing would be dead."
"WHAT DO MEAN GOOD?!" Duster shouted. "How the hell do we fight this?!"
The Os-So-Snake lifted it's tail and slapped it down against the water, unleashing a giant wave to come crashing down on top of them.
Kumatora dived under the wave and resurfaced. "PK Fire α!" she shouted. A blast of fire erupted from her hand and burned into the snake's skin. The snake let off a hiss and dove down. Biting Duster's arm with its surprisingly small mouth for its size.
Duster quickly hopped up on the bone piles and jumped up, unleashing a powerful kick on the Snake's mouth. He then placed a thunder bomb on its head as he hopped down and splashed into the water.
Wess swam over and hopped on the tail, using a quick Karate Chop in a Kung-Fu style. The Os-So-Snake was flung across the arena of water. It smashed into the wall and fell to the water, creating another massive wave that the three heroes had to dive under.
Duster took the Rope Snake and flung it up at a ledge. He pulled himself out and did a roundhouse kick on the back of the Snake's head. Pushing the head down as Kumatora launched a PK Freeze at the Snake's head.
"Hey, Duster, I got another Power I'd like to try out, gimme an opening, it's a bit hard to control...Also, get out of the water."
Duster nodded and grabbed his Hypno Pendulum as he scurried up on the bone piles. He jumped up on top of the area He climbed up on top of Os-So-Snake and swayed the Hypno Pendulum in front of its face. He gave the thumbs up to Kumatora and jumped down.
"Alright Os-So Snake. You're Oh So Dead. PK THUNDER α!"
A large blast of lightning shot from Kumatora's hand and struck the Snake. The Snake let off a large roar and fell into the water, it's weird corpse surfacing and no longer moving.
"Alright, we did it!"
Suddenly, the ground started to shake.
"Aw damn it. What now?" Kumatora groaned.
A door opened and the water started to flood them out and down a waterfall.
"WAAAAA!" Each of them were swept away by the rapids.
Wess and Kumatora awoke inside of Wess's house. Both of them grunted as they got up out of bed.
"You both seemed to take quite the fall there." They turned their heads towards Lighter and Fuel. "Good thing Fuel spotted you both. Otherwise you might've been washed away.
"Ugh...thanks for that." Kumatora said, rubbing her head.
"Where's the moron?" Wess asked.
"If you're talking about Duster...it was just the two of you." Lighter said.
"You know...for a couple. You sure have a big age difference Mr. Wess." Fuel said.
"Wha- I will…"
"Give it a break geezer, he's just a kid."
"Let's go look for him." Kumatora said.
The two of them walked out of the house and down towards the town. Only to find a large crowd gathered around the well in the center of town.
"WESS!" Both of the flinched as Butch stormed up to them. "Where's Duster?! That Scumbag stole my money! I hid it in the well and he was the only one who saw me do it!"
"We don't know. What's this about?" Wess replied. "And what the hell is this...money?"
"This sounds fishy." A blonde woman spoke up. "I think you're just trying to cause trouble."
Butch started to sweat as Flint and Boney walked up into town.
"Flint, there you are!"
"Aw dammit." Flint sighed. "What now?"
"Arrest Wess and Duster!" Butch snarled. "They're thieves, but they never stole until they had anything valuable."
"On what charges?" Flint asked, a bit of irritation in his voice.
Facade and Salsa suddenly walked into town as well. Everyone's heads turned towards them.
"Oh deary me." Fassad said, fakely with his weird stupid voice. "Did someone steal poor Butch's money that I gave to him?"
"Yeah!" Butch said.
"Dear Dear, this town is worse than I thought." Fassad replied. "I'll have to think over my decisions. Come along now Salsa."
Salsa looked at Kumatora for the longest time as Fassad started walking away.
Kumatora looked back at the brown monkey, who had a bit of weird scars and burns on his fur. very weakly, she heard him say, somehow. "Help Me!"
That's all for this month's chapter. Now we move into a section of Mother 3 that I still, to this day, do not understand.
Salsa is an...interesting party member to say the least. In terms of characters, I like his concept and party status. But, he doesn't really...do anything. I think Mother 3 has a great story. Prologue included. And, I get that Five Party members may have put pressure or may have been too much. But Salsa isn't really all that useful.
And then there's Fassad. I'm not much of a graphic person, I can be at times if I feel it's necessary. But I'm not all to sure about how I'll do Salsa's three or four chapters.
Anyway, that's about it, leave a review, support is always appreciated. Even it's just Nice.
Also, Steve in Smash, wasn't expecting that, but, then again, I wanted it myself. Just didn't expect it.