Chapter 9 : Found the demon! He's it! He's it!
"Well," stated King Vaygus, "You must be a royal family member since you have the ability to cast spells from the Book of Claire. I mean, really, it's quite impressive."
"How so?" Asked Gungho.
"You see," continued the King, "it seems your friend Stragus here can cast even the most powerful of spells, which only a select few of even the royal family are able."
"What does that make me?" Asked Stragus.
"That's a very good question," Said the King, "We'll run a complete genetic test to recombinant some DNA and use a regressionary analysis to determine if you have the royal blood. It's a quite involved process."
"Sounds exciting," Gungho said not very energetically.
"How long does something like that take?" Asked Setzer.
"Well," said the King, "It can take…"
"Days?" Asked Gungho.
"Weeks?" Asked Setzer.
"Five seconds? We're kinda in a hurry." Said Stragus.
"Stragus," answered Gungho, "You heard the King, it's a very involved process and…"
"Well, actually," said the King, "That is absolutely correct. TELL HIM WHAT HE'S WON, JOHNNY!"
At that moment all logic in the place began to fall. The throne room magically transformed into a game show room, with Stragus in the hot seat. Gungho and Setzer found themselves as the only audience members.
"Well King Vaygus," stated an unknown announcer voice, thought of to be Johnny, "For answering the King's question correctly, proving to have cast a spell of the Book of Claire, and wielding most of a sword of the royal family. Stragus, you will a free trial of the Mark VI scanner!"
'Oohs' and 'Ahhs' came from the direction of the audience, although Gungho and Setzer were the only ones in the seats.
"The Mark VI scanner," Johnny the announcer continued, "will tell us for certain, whether Stragus here is a member of the royal family!!! And now, back to you King Vaygus."
The royal throne room mysteriously changed back into a throne room as mysteriously as it had transformed in the first place.
"That was weird," said Setzer.
"Somehow," stated Gungho, "I should have expected this all along."
"Well, Stragus," said the King, "According to these readings, you have the royal blood of our family. Hoorah! You know what that means. Party Time!"
"Uh oh," said Gungho, "here we go again."
The throne room, just as mysteriously as is changed from throne rooms to game show, changed from throne room to dining hall with DJ. But Stragus smelled a familiar smell. It was JELLO! Sitting on the smorgasbord table was the biggest, next to Stragus's house, collection of Jello you had ever seen.
"Well," said Gungho, "that's one less thing to worry about getting. Now if we only can find the monster."
"I'm sure he'll turn up soon," Setzer replied.
Little did our gambling airship entrepreneur know, was that Ka zi lao was with them in the palace the whole time. Ka zi lao had gotten a job at the castle as a therapeutic healer under the name Lao Showron. He was taking all the puzzled energy he could from his clients, as most of them were suffering from stress. This whole time he had been targeting Stragus, Gungho, and Setzer because this whole day had been nothing but craziness and confusion for all of them. Ka zi lao had been draining the puzzled energy from them the whole day, and now he had consumed more than enough to begin his plan. Having access to the palace in this time, he found where the Omega Weapon was and edited it into his plans, because until now, the king had this weapon guarded very closely, but because of these visitors, his guard was down. This was the perfect time, while they were having fun, to destroy them all. He had picked the perfect time, right after the hokey pokey but before the macarena he hated that song, to strike.
"Yo! Yo!" Screamed the DJ, "Now its time for everyone's favorite musical number..."
"Except MINE!" Yelled a loud, demonic voice from beyond the doorway, "I loathe that song."
"Get a grip, Showron", said King Vaygus, "Its not like it's the theme to that show Card Acquirers."
"They didn't even dub the title correctly on that show, but anyway. King Vaygus!" Said Ka zi lao, continuing in the proper demonic voice, "I have been playing you the whole time."
"So you're my anonymous chess-by-mail friend?" Asked the King.
"Well," Ka zi lao thought, "actually… yes. But that's NOT what I'm talking about!"
Ka zi lao decided at this point that talk is cheap, or at the very least, marked in the flea market discount aisles. So destroying them now will save him a lot of time and paperwork involved when taking over the world.
"Feel my wrath!" Yelled out the demon as he quickly changed into his final form and powered an incredible attack.
"Stragus!" Panicked Gungho, "We need some help over here!"
"No problem," said Stragus.
Stragus had this demon's number, and it was zero. He knew that if he countered with a Grand Train he would push the enemy far enough out of the town's way. And from an earlier close inspection, Stragus realized, and didn't tell anyone, that the material used in building the castle was magic based and was sturdy enough to take a single Grand Train hit. It would never hold up to two grand train hits, but there was, fortunately, only one Stragus.
"Grand Train… Train… Train!"
Stragus casted Grand Train, however, at the same time, Stragus also heard King Vaygus cast the same spell. Oh boy, thought Stragus in the split second he had to think of a way out of this mess. The worst part was yet to come, because Stragus also saw Valeous cast Grand Train as well. Well, this place may be destroyed, and a great portion of the vicinity, but Stragus knew that Ka zi lao wasn't getting away. Besides that, he was tagged three times; he's it!