Chapter 6

Three days later, the girls were on their way to school when they heard screaming

on the other side of town. Blossom said, "That sounds like it's coming from Princesses'

house." Buttercup said, "Who cares? She probably wants money from her dad."

Blossom said, "You're probably right, but we should check it out anyway." When they

got there, the mansion was destroyed. The girls got into the room that was the source of

the screaming, and saw something that shocked them tremendously. It was Black, and he

was absorbing Princess into himself. Black's body looked like it had been in the ship

when it exploded. One of his legs was halfway torn off, and his other leg was gone. One

of his arms was missing as well, as was the case with most of his body and the right side

of his head. Blossom went to attack him, but all he did was look at her and she went

flying into the wall. He turned and smiled at Buttercup and started to float toward her.

Bubbles flew up and punched Black as hard as she could, but Black did not move an inch.

He was almost done absorbing Princess, and he took his left arm and hit Bubbles with all

the wires and what was left of Princess. The wires then wrapped around Bubbles and she

started to scream in pain. Blossom had got back and tried to free Bubbles, but she

couldn't. Buttercup had tried to get away from Black, but he followed her every move

and hit her from behind, knocking her down to the ground. He walked up to Buttercup,

who was shaking like a leaf and he just started to laugh. A low laugh that sounded so

menacing that Buttercup actually started to cry. Blossom had gotten Bubbles freed, but

she had bad burns and cuts on her lags and arms. They flew past and grabbed Buttercup

and got out of there and flew toward Townsville. When they got to an alley, they landed

and Blossom said, "Buttercup, are you okay?" Buttercup just shook her head no and flew

over to the end of the alley and started to throw up. They looked at the wall of the alley

and saw their shadows on the wall from a streetlight that didn't go out yet. All of a

sudden, Black was floating at the opening of the alleyway. He did not cast a shadow on

the wall.

Black laughed at the girls and pointed at them with his left arm, which was now

bursting with wires and they were moving like they were alive. Blossom tried to fire eye

beams at Black, but he blocked them all with his arm. Blossom looked and saw the other

earring on his head. She tried to hit it, but he was able to block everything. Black caught

Blossom and she yelled, "Bubbles, aim for the earring and destroy it! It's what's

protecting him!" Bubbles tried to punch it, but Black swung at her and Bubbles ducked

and flew right next to his face and screamed right in his ear. Black hit the ground and let

Blossom go and they both were hitting the earring. Buttercup got there and Bubbles said,

"Hit the earring!" Buttercup smiled and said, "You don't have to tell me twice." She

flew up and landed right on the earring, shattering it into pieces. Black screamed out and

started to float up in the air, and he started to explode. He looked down at the girls and

said, "You girls will die. You will be destroyed.by my.master." With one last shriek,

he exploded and the girls had to look away because of the force of the blast. When the

light from the explosion had died down, the girls looked and saw the three Rowdyruff

boys lying there and not moving. Neither of them were whole, and they were not

breathing at all. Blossom sighed and said, "It's over now. They won't be getting up this

time." Bubbles said, "But who brought them back?" Blossom said, and with a hint of

sadness in her voice, "I don't know, but they didn't deserve to be used like this."

Out in space, an even bigger ship was heading toward Earth. Inside, a figure

cloaked in all white was watching everything on a monitor. He said, "That concludes

that test, the girls handled that rather well. But they still didn't do well enough to let me

spare them though. They will be destroyed by me, Nocturne, the Harvester of Souls!"

He started to laugh as the screen shut off, plunging the room into total darkness.

TO BE CONTINUED.