Author's Note: I don't anything here. All related to StarFox and StarFox
Adventures belong to Nintendo and Rare. Anything related to Japanese
mythology (Jigoku and the chains) belong to... well, Japanese mythology.
Otherwise the only thing I own here is the plot and Diva and Starr Jenson
and Kuro Youkai. Sorry if the plot strays a bit, the second part of the
story is a bit chaotic, I'm struggling to keep face. I've been writing this
fic ever since November, and it's near completion now, but that doesn't
mean I'll update my fic every day because of school. Please R&R. Thank you.
~Imagen~
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Part II
Chapter 2: "Haughty Problems"
"... ever since you left, the well became infested with Red GrubTubs. There are so many in there it's literally a forest of Red GrubTubs."
"Great," Fox mumbled. "I hate those things..."
"And that's not all," the Queen continued. "Some of the GrubTubs have grown bigger the past year. Plus with the vast number of the fungus, breathing in the spore gas could do more than just hurt you."
Fox could imagine himself running through spore gas, breathing in some spores, and having several grow in his lungs. He shuddered at the thought of it, "Brrrr..."
"Hey, I have an idea!" Starr said as he stood while holding Hoppy the Golden Bafomdad (as Slippy called him) in his arms like a pet or a teddy bear. "Why don't the ghosts go?"
"US???" Slippy gulped.
"Yeah! I mean, you're already dead! Plus you can revive yourselves... if you want to-"
"Of COURSE we do!" Falco said as he looked around for the well. "Let's go, guys!"
"Wait!" the Queen halted the late StarFox Team before they began walking to the Well.
Falco moaned, "What now?"
"I suggest you just hold on to the Bafomdad. Don't use it just yet."
"Why?"
"BECAUSE I SAID SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
For the first time in their entire lives (or should I say "afterlives"), Peppy and Slippy saw that Falco was actually intimidated.
***
"Wow, when the Queen said this place was infested with Red GrubTubs, she was not joking," Krystal commented as she slid down the ladder, her sharp vixen eyes fixed on the floors and walls of the well around her. Surrounding her and her fellow ghosts was a literal forest of Red GrubTubs, growing everywhere rapidly, on each inch of the floor, wall, and corner. Perhaps "forest" wasn't the right word, rather, the correct one would be 'sea', for there was hardly a place in the well to give footing. Krystal was shocked to see the variety of sizes of the Red GrubTubs, from those as small as thumbtacks to those as large as palm trees. Now she understood how dangerous these fungus could be, knowing how they often shake off spores into a passerby whenever someone walks near them.
"Whoa... this place..." Slippy muttered as he leaned forward over the edge as Peppy began sliding down the ladder. However, he leaned too far, and the poor frog ended up falling off the platform, landing headfirst on Peppy's face then causing both to fall. Falco sighed then took his turn on sliding down the ladder, purposely sliding into the fallen rabbit and frog and landing on them.
"OW!!!"
"My bad," Falco said dryly.
Krystal approached the nearest GrubTub, which was average sized-- her size. She lightly poked the cap, and the fungus responded by violently shaking, releasing a smoke of spores into the air. More came out than usual, probably due to the dampness of the well. The spores filled up half the entire room of the bottom of the well before dissipating, the spores landing into the ground and atop some other GrubTubs.
Slippy watched the whole spectacular. "Wow, no way anyway could avoid that. It's a good thing we're already dead."
"What about the Bafomdad?" Falco started. "I mean, with a place so infested with Red CrudTuds-"
"GrubTubs!" Everyone else corrected him.
"Whatever! With a place so infested will Red GrubTubs, how can a Bafomdad survive in a place like this?"
Krystal took a glance at Peppy. "He's right."
Peppy grumbled. "Then why did the Queen EarthWalker tell us there's a Golden Bafomdad here?"
"Let's search here first before we jump into conclusions," Slippy said before he hopped atop one of the GrubTubs to begin the search. As soon as he landed atop it, the GrubTub began to shake violently, throwing Slippy into a hole in the ground.
"SLIPPY!!!"
"OOF!!! OUCH!!! ACK!!! OW!!! WAH!!! EEP!!! AWK!!! WAK!!! ARGH!!! AGH!!! OOK!!! WHOOOOOAAAAAAAAAA!!!" *THUD!*
The other ghosts ran by the mouth of the hole and peered in. "Um, Slippy..... are you all right?"
"I'm...... okay! *koff* How can I get hurt if I don't have a body?"
Krystal, Falco, and Peppy took quickly glances at each other, and that's that. They had no explanation for what happened to Slippy.
Slippy, who landed headfirst in the pit, dropped to his rear then stood up. He looked up to the light where his friends looked down then examined the walls. Unlike the rest of the well, this place was pretty dry, with not even one GrubTub growing, not Red, not even Blue or White. All that was in there was rocks, dirt, and a sleeping Golden Bafomdad.
Hrm......
"GUYS!!! I found the Golden Bafomdad!"
"Great! Bring it in!" Falco called back.
The little critter awoke from Slippy and Falco's shouting, but it didn't move from its spot, rather, it only twitched its many ears. Slippy didn't see it awakening, and he quietly approached the laying Bafomdad quietly and slowly, with arms out to pick it up. Before the frog would get his amphibian fingers on the furry creature, the Bafomdad hopped up and leaped on Slippy's head. Somehow, with its ability to contact with the dead (it's going to need to since its job is to revive the dead), it didn't go through the ghost's head and stomped on it like a living head. Slippy toppled forward and fell on his face, his hat falling off. The Bafomdad hopped to the hat and put it on, the hat too big to fit on its head and instead covering its entire body. Still, the furry creature could see through the tiny holes of the material, and the Bafomdad hopped on the rocks of the hole and climbed to the light.
Krystal's eyes popped when she saw the moving hat. "WHOA, WHAT THE-"
*BONK!!!* Without warning, the hatted Bafomdad leaped out of the hole and onto Krystal's head. Krystal fell back as the Bafomdad leaped on a Red GrubTub.
"MY HAT!!!" Slippy screamed from inside the hole. "THAT BAFOMDAD STOLE MY HAT!!!"
"I got it!" Falco called as he climbed the GrubTub and struggled to reach for the Bafomdad. Before he let his wing feathers touch it, the critter hopped onto the next GrubTub. Falco climbed onto the cap of the GrubTub, and right before it would shake he leaped onto the next, right by the escaping Bafomdad. The creature continuing leaping onto the caps of other GrubTubs, and Falco followed it until he fell off an already shaking mushroom.
Peppy shook his head and approached Falco with a sigh. "Aren't you forgetting something?"
"What?"
Peppy closed his eyes, as if concentrating. When he reopened them, he ran right into a Red GrubTub. Instead of smacking into it, he went right through it like smoke, reappearing in the other side of where he came from then ghosting through more and more mushrooms like any other ghost would.
"Uh...." Falco shouted, "I KNEW THAT!!!"
Peppy ghosted through many mushrooms, chasing the Bafomdad as it hopped atop the GrubTubs like hopscotch. They chased in circles, running around the ladder's area until finally the hat fell. Peppy dived in and grabbed the hat, feeling it moving inside. The rabbit plucked it from the ground and snatched the hat off-- revealing a small Red GrubTub. The mushroom then shook spores all over Peppy, covering him in spore-filled smoke.
"There it is!" Krystal shouted as soon as she caught sight of the Bafomdad hopping up the ladder.
Slippy snatched back the hat and snapped it on his head as soon as he got out of the hole and caught up with Peppy. Everyone soon ran to the ladder and began to climb it, first Krystal, then Falco then Peppy and Slippy. Krystal watched the Bafomdad as she climbed, noticing that it was climbing very slowly because of its small size.
Suddenly Krystal lost her footing, and her foot slid off and stepped on Falco's face. Falco growled, "Hey, watch it!"
"You watch it, chap! And don't look up my skirt or else I'll pound your feathered face!"
Now that she mentioned it, one of Falco's eyes was left uncovered, and he mistakenly looked up Krystal's loincloth, seeing ##### (why should I tell YOU?). He shut that one eye and whimpered as Krystal stepped off his face and continued climbing.
The Bafomdad noticed how slowly its pursuers were climbing, and just to tease them it leaped off the step it was on and landed right on Krystal's face. Krystal lost her balance and grip on the ladder and fell on Falco, who fell of Peppy, who fell on Slippy, who fell into the sea of Red GrubTubs.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!" *CRASH!!!*
***
"They sound like they're having fun..." Fox muttered to himself as he heard his companions scream inside the well. Tricky and Starr, who were playing with Hoppy, nodded in agreement.
The GrubTub Well Golden Bafomdad hurriedly hopped out of the opening in the well and ran into Starr's arms. Starr was shocked to see a little Golden Bafomdad suddenly run to someone it doesn't even know, but he saw that it seemed frightened. Starr embraced the second Bafomdad and stroked its soft fur, "Hey, guy, what's the matter?"
Suddenly all four of the ghosts crawled through the walls of the well, all of them furious. They're eyes were red with fire, glaring viciously at the second Golden Bafomdad. Hoppy hopped away, and the GrubTub Well Bafomdad dug deeper into Starr's arms.
Fox could hear his Team's angry growling and panting. "Geez, guys, what is your problem?"
"That f#ck-@$$ Golden Bafomdad, that's what's our gawddamn problem!!!" Falco spat angrily.
"Hey! Wash your beak, fowl mouth!" the Queen EarthWalker barked.
Falco made a face, knowing he wouldn't be seen, which was on the good side. He especially disliked the pun the Queen made.
Starr held up the Golden Bafomdad in his arms. "What did you do?"
The Golden Bafomdad became teary eyed and starting to cry. Starr didn't catch the fact that they were crocodile tears, though.
Slippy pointed to the critter angrily. "It's faking it! It's only trying to look innocent!"
The Bafomdad wailed.
Starr glared at the ghosts. "Leave this Bafomdad alone! What did it do to you???"
"A LOT!!!!!!!" all four yelled at the same time.
"Just shut up, all of you! At least we have our second Bafomdad!" Fox scolded.
Starr nodded a snotty agreement at the four ghosts. "That's right!" He lifted his beak in the air as he turned around then looked back at the little Golden Bafomdad, "Don't worry, little guy! I'll protect you."
As Starr turned around to walk off, the Bafomdad stuck its tiny tongue out and blew raspberry. Right away, the late StarFox Team lunged at the Golden Bafomdad and beat the living crap out of it, having Starr in the line of fire.
As soon as the smoke cleared, Tricky shook his head. "That thing HAD to have the last laugh... or tongue."
"I think we'll name this one 'Haughty'."
***
General Scales ignored the activity behind the pillars where he leaned. He tried not to bother to even look or listen to what's going on... all he knew was that it was not his business. It was the deal he kept with Kuro, and as long as they have that deal, then they can cooperate nicely. The activity... disgusting, it truly is. Scales never knew there could be such activity done with ghosts, but now he knew. He closed his eyes as he tried to ignore the sinister laughter of Kuro, of rigorous movement on the rocky floors, and the agonizing sobbing of Serena. Agonizing, painful, and definitely sad. It was as if General Scales would have pity on the woman, but no, his cold, stone-hard heart felt no sympathy over the suffering victim of Kuro. He must keep his end of the bargain: he lets Kuro keep his woman, he receives his revenge from the man who killed him. As much as anyone knows, General Scales could care less of what would happen to Serena Jenson.
Finally the giant SharpClaw growled with impatience and yelled from in front of the pillars, "Are you quite finished, Kuro? We have a deal!"
"I have finished already, milord," Kuro said as he came to his General zipping his pants.
Scales took a peek at Serena, who was lying on the floor half-naked. He shook his head, "You know, if what you are doing was happening when both of you were alive, that boy Starr would have many, many siblings."
"But we're not alive, are we?" Kuro asked.
Scales gave a cold look in the eye.
Kuro shuddered a bit but kept a stern look on his feathered face. He grinned then bowed, and continued, "I have looked into the stars lately, my lord. I am sorry to say, but Fox will not be the next one to die. However, I still will ensure his death to you, sir. I will make sure you have your revenge and find rest, and I will not rest until that happens."
General Scales nodded. "You know, I find your loyalty to my mission quite amazing. In fact, I have a feeling you want more than your woman..."
"My woman is all I want, sir."
"That is far too good to be true. Tell me the truth, Youkai, what more is it that you want?"
Kuro looked back and grinned. "Well.... there was a revenge I was seeking-"
"Speak of it, I beg you to."
"There was a man who drove me away from my woman that one time I took possession over her the very first time. It was rumored that my woman had a lover, but I never knew who it was. I had a feeling it was that blue tiercel who fought many fights with her."
General Scales raised his scaly eyebrows. "You mean that feathered companion of Fox McCloud."
"Yes, sir."
"What is his name?"
"I do not recall... perhaps it is Falco Lombardi."
Scales nodded. "What do you want from him?"
"Just as you want revenge from the man who killed you, I want revenge from the one who already owned my woman. He is dead now, but not at rest. I want him to meet his fiery demise in Jigoku and burn for eternity."
Diva yelled from behind the pillars, "You @$$holes! Falco's not my lover! I have a boyfriend, but it ain't Falco!"
Kuro silenced as the crickets played their music. He then chuckled and mumbled under his breath, "She lies."
"So what do you want me to do?" Scales asked Kuro.
"The next time you have your encounter with Fox McCloud and his companions, please, make sure you take down especially that blue feathered bird brain. That is all I ask, my lord. Nothing else."
"Hmmmmmm......"
"And my son too."
"Your SON???"
"He IS the one who led me to my death."
"Now your requests seem less trivial than simply owning a woman."
Kuro nodded.
Diva's eyes filled with tears as she continued the hawk and dinosaur's conversation. "Fine. Bring me the death of Fox McCloud and your assistance of achieving my revenge, and I will ensure the downfall of Falco Lombardi and your son."
"Thank you, sir. I shall go now. Expect me to be long for quite some time, though, sir."
"All right. Hurry up and take your time."
"......................."
"Just go!"
((to be continued...))
***
Imagen: And that's the end of that chapter!
Diva: When I am released from these shackles, I will...
Imagen: Hey, who said you'd be freed?
Diva: Damn!
Falco: So now it's US who gets the torture treatment here!
Fox: (Rolls on the floor laughing)
Falco: (Kicks him all the way to Walled City) Welcome to the Falco Express!
Fox: Wait! I didn't even buy a ticket! *CRASH!!!*
Starr: (Sighs) How much longer will this take...?
Imagen: (Claps hands together and bows) Pleeze, pleeze, I need those reviews so I can continue! Review, please???
~Imagen~
***
Part II
Chapter 2: "Haughty Problems"
"... ever since you left, the well became infested with Red GrubTubs. There are so many in there it's literally a forest of Red GrubTubs."
"Great," Fox mumbled. "I hate those things..."
"And that's not all," the Queen continued. "Some of the GrubTubs have grown bigger the past year. Plus with the vast number of the fungus, breathing in the spore gas could do more than just hurt you."
Fox could imagine himself running through spore gas, breathing in some spores, and having several grow in his lungs. He shuddered at the thought of it, "Brrrr..."
"Hey, I have an idea!" Starr said as he stood while holding Hoppy the Golden Bafomdad (as Slippy called him) in his arms like a pet or a teddy bear. "Why don't the ghosts go?"
"US???" Slippy gulped.
"Yeah! I mean, you're already dead! Plus you can revive yourselves... if you want to-"
"Of COURSE we do!" Falco said as he looked around for the well. "Let's go, guys!"
"Wait!" the Queen halted the late StarFox Team before they began walking to the Well.
Falco moaned, "What now?"
"I suggest you just hold on to the Bafomdad. Don't use it just yet."
"Why?"
"BECAUSE I SAID SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
For the first time in their entire lives (or should I say "afterlives"), Peppy and Slippy saw that Falco was actually intimidated.
***
"Wow, when the Queen said this place was infested with Red GrubTubs, she was not joking," Krystal commented as she slid down the ladder, her sharp vixen eyes fixed on the floors and walls of the well around her. Surrounding her and her fellow ghosts was a literal forest of Red GrubTubs, growing everywhere rapidly, on each inch of the floor, wall, and corner. Perhaps "forest" wasn't the right word, rather, the correct one would be 'sea', for there was hardly a place in the well to give footing. Krystal was shocked to see the variety of sizes of the Red GrubTubs, from those as small as thumbtacks to those as large as palm trees. Now she understood how dangerous these fungus could be, knowing how they often shake off spores into a passerby whenever someone walks near them.
"Whoa... this place..." Slippy muttered as he leaned forward over the edge as Peppy began sliding down the ladder. However, he leaned too far, and the poor frog ended up falling off the platform, landing headfirst on Peppy's face then causing both to fall. Falco sighed then took his turn on sliding down the ladder, purposely sliding into the fallen rabbit and frog and landing on them.
"OW!!!"
"My bad," Falco said dryly.
Krystal approached the nearest GrubTub, which was average sized-- her size. She lightly poked the cap, and the fungus responded by violently shaking, releasing a smoke of spores into the air. More came out than usual, probably due to the dampness of the well. The spores filled up half the entire room of the bottom of the well before dissipating, the spores landing into the ground and atop some other GrubTubs.
Slippy watched the whole spectacular. "Wow, no way anyway could avoid that. It's a good thing we're already dead."
"What about the Bafomdad?" Falco started. "I mean, with a place so infested with Red CrudTuds-"
"GrubTubs!" Everyone else corrected him.
"Whatever! With a place so infested will Red GrubTubs, how can a Bafomdad survive in a place like this?"
Krystal took a glance at Peppy. "He's right."
Peppy grumbled. "Then why did the Queen EarthWalker tell us there's a Golden Bafomdad here?"
"Let's search here first before we jump into conclusions," Slippy said before he hopped atop one of the GrubTubs to begin the search. As soon as he landed atop it, the GrubTub began to shake violently, throwing Slippy into a hole in the ground.
"SLIPPY!!!"
"OOF!!! OUCH!!! ACK!!! OW!!! WAH!!! EEP!!! AWK!!! WAK!!! ARGH!!! AGH!!! OOK!!! WHOOOOOAAAAAAAAAA!!!" *THUD!*
The other ghosts ran by the mouth of the hole and peered in. "Um, Slippy..... are you all right?"
"I'm...... okay! *koff* How can I get hurt if I don't have a body?"
Krystal, Falco, and Peppy took quickly glances at each other, and that's that. They had no explanation for what happened to Slippy.
Slippy, who landed headfirst in the pit, dropped to his rear then stood up. He looked up to the light where his friends looked down then examined the walls. Unlike the rest of the well, this place was pretty dry, with not even one GrubTub growing, not Red, not even Blue or White. All that was in there was rocks, dirt, and a sleeping Golden Bafomdad.
Hrm......
"GUYS!!! I found the Golden Bafomdad!"
"Great! Bring it in!" Falco called back.
The little critter awoke from Slippy and Falco's shouting, but it didn't move from its spot, rather, it only twitched its many ears. Slippy didn't see it awakening, and he quietly approached the laying Bafomdad quietly and slowly, with arms out to pick it up. Before the frog would get his amphibian fingers on the furry creature, the Bafomdad hopped up and leaped on Slippy's head. Somehow, with its ability to contact with the dead (it's going to need to since its job is to revive the dead), it didn't go through the ghost's head and stomped on it like a living head. Slippy toppled forward and fell on his face, his hat falling off. The Bafomdad hopped to the hat and put it on, the hat too big to fit on its head and instead covering its entire body. Still, the furry creature could see through the tiny holes of the material, and the Bafomdad hopped on the rocks of the hole and climbed to the light.
Krystal's eyes popped when she saw the moving hat. "WHOA, WHAT THE-"
*BONK!!!* Without warning, the hatted Bafomdad leaped out of the hole and onto Krystal's head. Krystal fell back as the Bafomdad leaped on a Red GrubTub.
"MY HAT!!!" Slippy screamed from inside the hole. "THAT BAFOMDAD STOLE MY HAT!!!"
"I got it!" Falco called as he climbed the GrubTub and struggled to reach for the Bafomdad. Before he let his wing feathers touch it, the critter hopped onto the next GrubTub. Falco climbed onto the cap of the GrubTub, and right before it would shake he leaped onto the next, right by the escaping Bafomdad. The creature continuing leaping onto the caps of other GrubTubs, and Falco followed it until he fell off an already shaking mushroom.
Peppy shook his head and approached Falco with a sigh. "Aren't you forgetting something?"
"What?"
Peppy closed his eyes, as if concentrating. When he reopened them, he ran right into a Red GrubTub. Instead of smacking into it, he went right through it like smoke, reappearing in the other side of where he came from then ghosting through more and more mushrooms like any other ghost would.
"Uh...." Falco shouted, "I KNEW THAT!!!"
Peppy ghosted through many mushrooms, chasing the Bafomdad as it hopped atop the GrubTubs like hopscotch. They chased in circles, running around the ladder's area until finally the hat fell. Peppy dived in and grabbed the hat, feeling it moving inside. The rabbit plucked it from the ground and snatched the hat off-- revealing a small Red GrubTub. The mushroom then shook spores all over Peppy, covering him in spore-filled smoke.
"There it is!" Krystal shouted as soon as she caught sight of the Bafomdad hopping up the ladder.
Slippy snatched back the hat and snapped it on his head as soon as he got out of the hole and caught up with Peppy. Everyone soon ran to the ladder and began to climb it, first Krystal, then Falco then Peppy and Slippy. Krystal watched the Bafomdad as she climbed, noticing that it was climbing very slowly because of its small size.
Suddenly Krystal lost her footing, and her foot slid off and stepped on Falco's face. Falco growled, "Hey, watch it!"
"You watch it, chap! And don't look up my skirt or else I'll pound your feathered face!"
Now that she mentioned it, one of Falco's eyes was left uncovered, and he mistakenly looked up Krystal's loincloth, seeing ##### (why should I tell YOU?). He shut that one eye and whimpered as Krystal stepped off his face and continued climbing.
The Bafomdad noticed how slowly its pursuers were climbing, and just to tease them it leaped off the step it was on and landed right on Krystal's face. Krystal lost her balance and grip on the ladder and fell on Falco, who fell of Peppy, who fell on Slippy, who fell into the sea of Red GrubTubs.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!" *CRASH!!!*
***
"They sound like they're having fun..." Fox muttered to himself as he heard his companions scream inside the well. Tricky and Starr, who were playing with Hoppy, nodded in agreement.
The GrubTub Well Golden Bafomdad hurriedly hopped out of the opening in the well and ran into Starr's arms. Starr was shocked to see a little Golden Bafomdad suddenly run to someone it doesn't even know, but he saw that it seemed frightened. Starr embraced the second Bafomdad and stroked its soft fur, "Hey, guy, what's the matter?"
Suddenly all four of the ghosts crawled through the walls of the well, all of them furious. They're eyes were red with fire, glaring viciously at the second Golden Bafomdad. Hoppy hopped away, and the GrubTub Well Bafomdad dug deeper into Starr's arms.
Fox could hear his Team's angry growling and panting. "Geez, guys, what is your problem?"
"That f#ck-@$$ Golden Bafomdad, that's what's our gawddamn problem!!!" Falco spat angrily.
"Hey! Wash your beak, fowl mouth!" the Queen EarthWalker barked.
Falco made a face, knowing he wouldn't be seen, which was on the good side. He especially disliked the pun the Queen made.
Starr held up the Golden Bafomdad in his arms. "What did you do?"
The Golden Bafomdad became teary eyed and starting to cry. Starr didn't catch the fact that they were crocodile tears, though.
Slippy pointed to the critter angrily. "It's faking it! It's only trying to look innocent!"
The Bafomdad wailed.
Starr glared at the ghosts. "Leave this Bafomdad alone! What did it do to you???"
"A LOT!!!!!!!" all four yelled at the same time.
"Just shut up, all of you! At least we have our second Bafomdad!" Fox scolded.
Starr nodded a snotty agreement at the four ghosts. "That's right!" He lifted his beak in the air as he turned around then looked back at the little Golden Bafomdad, "Don't worry, little guy! I'll protect you."
As Starr turned around to walk off, the Bafomdad stuck its tiny tongue out and blew raspberry. Right away, the late StarFox Team lunged at the Golden Bafomdad and beat the living crap out of it, having Starr in the line of fire.
As soon as the smoke cleared, Tricky shook his head. "That thing HAD to have the last laugh... or tongue."
"I think we'll name this one 'Haughty'."
***
General Scales ignored the activity behind the pillars where he leaned. He tried not to bother to even look or listen to what's going on... all he knew was that it was not his business. It was the deal he kept with Kuro, and as long as they have that deal, then they can cooperate nicely. The activity... disgusting, it truly is. Scales never knew there could be such activity done with ghosts, but now he knew. He closed his eyes as he tried to ignore the sinister laughter of Kuro, of rigorous movement on the rocky floors, and the agonizing sobbing of Serena. Agonizing, painful, and definitely sad. It was as if General Scales would have pity on the woman, but no, his cold, stone-hard heart felt no sympathy over the suffering victim of Kuro. He must keep his end of the bargain: he lets Kuro keep his woman, he receives his revenge from the man who killed him. As much as anyone knows, General Scales could care less of what would happen to Serena Jenson.
Finally the giant SharpClaw growled with impatience and yelled from in front of the pillars, "Are you quite finished, Kuro? We have a deal!"
"I have finished already, milord," Kuro said as he came to his General zipping his pants.
Scales took a peek at Serena, who was lying on the floor half-naked. He shook his head, "You know, if what you are doing was happening when both of you were alive, that boy Starr would have many, many siblings."
"But we're not alive, are we?" Kuro asked.
Scales gave a cold look in the eye.
Kuro shuddered a bit but kept a stern look on his feathered face. He grinned then bowed, and continued, "I have looked into the stars lately, my lord. I am sorry to say, but Fox will not be the next one to die. However, I still will ensure his death to you, sir. I will make sure you have your revenge and find rest, and I will not rest until that happens."
General Scales nodded. "You know, I find your loyalty to my mission quite amazing. In fact, I have a feeling you want more than your woman..."
"My woman is all I want, sir."
"That is far too good to be true. Tell me the truth, Youkai, what more is it that you want?"
Kuro looked back and grinned. "Well.... there was a revenge I was seeking-"
"Speak of it, I beg you to."
"There was a man who drove me away from my woman that one time I took possession over her the very first time. It was rumored that my woman had a lover, but I never knew who it was. I had a feeling it was that blue tiercel who fought many fights with her."
General Scales raised his scaly eyebrows. "You mean that feathered companion of Fox McCloud."
"Yes, sir."
"What is his name?"
"I do not recall... perhaps it is Falco Lombardi."
Scales nodded. "What do you want from him?"
"Just as you want revenge from the man who killed you, I want revenge from the one who already owned my woman. He is dead now, but not at rest. I want him to meet his fiery demise in Jigoku and burn for eternity."
Diva yelled from behind the pillars, "You @$$holes! Falco's not my lover! I have a boyfriend, but it ain't Falco!"
Kuro silenced as the crickets played their music. He then chuckled and mumbled under his breath, "She lies."
"So what do you want me to do?" Scales asked Kuro.
"The next time you have your encounter with Fox McCloud and his companions, please, make sure you take down especially that blue feathered bird brain. That is all I ask, my lord. Nothing else."
"Hmmmmmm......"
"And my son too."
"Your SON???"
"He IS the one who led me to my death."
"Now your requests seem less trivial than simply owning a woman."
Kuro nodded.
Diva's eyes filled with tears as she continued the hawk and dinosaur's conversation. "Fine. Bring me the death of Fox McCloud and your assistance of achieving my revenge, and I will ensure the downfall of Falco Lombardi and your son."
"Thank you, sir. I shall go now. Expect me to be long for quite some time, though, sir."
"All right. Hurry up and take your time."
"......................."
"Just go!"
((to be continued...))
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Imagen: And that's the end of that chapter!
Diva: When I am released from these shackles, I will...
Imagen: Hey, who said you'd be freed?
Diva: Damn!
Falco: So now it's US who gets the torture treatment here!
Fox: (Rolls on the floor laughing)
Falco: (Kicks him all the way to Walled City) Welcome to the Falco Express!
Fox: Wait! I didn't even buy a ticket! *CRASH!!!*
Starr: (Sighs) How much longer will this take...?
Imagen: (Claps hands together and bows) Pleeze, pleeze, I need those reviews so I can continue! Review, please???