A/N this is the chapter, where things get interesting. At least for me.
Chapter 9
Dan woke up at 6 o'clock as usual. Noticing that he had extra time he decided to finish working on his Crusher Rifle.
"Ungh…," Russ stretched with arms and he awoke. He got out of bed and looked out the window. Darkness met his eyes when he had expected sunlight, "Stupid zombie town with its stereotypical dark sky."
He continued his grumbling until the other boys woke up.
"What's the racket?" Sean mumbled.
They all got up, slowly, and told Chris to go get Paige, and Dan to check to see if Ness had left yet. After 5 minutes he returned with Paige.
"Aww, Paula is sitting beside Ness' bed, watching him sleep." Dan had used his eye on infrared to scan Ness' room.
Chris returned with Paige, "Okay, are we going to leave?"
"We need to get outside before Ness and Paula do so we'd best leave now."
The group grabbed their stuff and checked out. Once outside the group found a comfortable patch of grass and sat, waiting. Russ lay down against a tree and tried to catch up on some sleep. Paige sat against the same tree and fixed some loose hairs. Sean stood against the tree and stared at the sky. Chris jumped up into the tree and sat on one of the branches. Dan set up the life detector and decided to share his findings.
"Guys, last night the detector noticed that all the zombies have moved to the circus tent."
"The zombies did what?" Russ asked suddenly awake.
"Remember when Ness talked to Apple Kid about the 'zombie paper'?"
"Yeah, but what does that have to do with all the zombies being in the tent?"
"I think that delivery guy gave Ness the 'zombie paper'. After the delivery guy left Ness went into the tent for a minute. I think he put, whatever the 'zombie paper' is, in the tent and it attracted the zombies."
"Interesting, you think it really got all the zombies into the tent?"
"I looked around, and all of the zombie that were in the town, are now in the tent."
"What's that? Dan! Use your zooming eye thingy to see what that light up there is." Chris had seen a tiny light move in the sky.
"Huh?" Dan looked up at Chris
"Look up and zoom in on that tiny light that's moving." Chris jumped down and pointed at it. By now the whole group was trying to find it too.
"Over there?"
"Yeah that's the one!" Chris yelled.
"You're not in the tree anymore, no yelling. It's probably just a star."
"The clouds are blocking he sky you can't see the stars."
Dan looked at the light and zoomed in. It took him a few moments to zoom that far in, but when he finally saw it he gasped.
"What is it Dan?"
"Everyone get ready for a fight, I think Gigyas Minion #1 has just arrived. It's Crius!"
Russ grabbed his bat, "I've been itching for something to beat on."
Paige tried Psi Blades and formed her weapons, "I have to keep my concentration."
Dan grabbed his Crusher Rifle, "No time like the present to test it out."
Sean pulled out his wrench, "I really need to get another bat."
Chris unsheathed his daggers, "Everything is in shadows, my kind of battlefield."
(A/N Chris' element is shadow, so he pretty much has Psi supremacy here.)
"You people are more persistent than I thought!" Crius yelled.
"Alright we need a plan." Dan decided to use his Psi-gun and equipped his wrist weapon.
"Here's what we'll do, Dan use half what you used last time with your Psi gun." Russ ordered.
"Probably more about 1/10, because that test shot was quick powerful." Dan explained.
"Okay, Paige wait until he's within range then hit him with Freeze alpha. Sean when Paige uses Freeze follow-up with inferno alpha."
"I have beta, though." Sean remembered.
"You do?" Russ asked, "Okay use that instead."
"Chris, you can use shadows to get around so warp up to him and try to control him, when we all shot get away. I will use Ultima Beta. All right let's do this!" Russ ended the discussion and got into position.
Chris tried Psi Shadow flew up to Crius through the shadow. When he rematerialized he was on Crius' back.
"What is this? Get off of me!" Crius started struggling to get Chris off.
"Now everybody while he's distracted."
Russ tried Psi Ultima Beta, Paige tried Psi Freeze Alpha, Sean tried Psi Inferno Beta, and Dan, bracing against a tree, fired his Psi-gun. As the attacks of Light, Ice, Fire, and Energy shot towards Crius, the shot from the Psi-gun absorbed the other attacks. The attacks formed a beam of light purple. (A/N: Okay I suppose I should clarify something. The Psi-gun, works by mixing the blood of Psi users with the material Psium. Now for it to work the Psium absorbed the blood, so, in turn the shot from it, would naturally absorb the Psi attacks from the other. As for the colour this is how I figured it would be. Russ' attack is Light white, Sean's attack is Fire red, Paige's attack is Ice light blue. White+ red+ light blue light purple, back to the story.)
Chris tried Mind Control alpha on Crius and it kind of worked, instead of controlling him, Chris managed to disrupt his thoughts making him unable to dodge the attack about to hit him.
"Chris! Get out of there!"
At the last moment, Chris warped away through the shadows, the attack hitting Crius dead on. He fell to the ground and lay there.
"We beat him!" Russ cheered.
"That wasn't hard." Dan was suspicious.
"It was five on one, we had an advantage." Russ reassured.
As the teenagers celebrated, the body on the ground started regenerating its damaged cells, and slowly rose from the ground, "You stupid children think you can defeat me that easily!" Crius stood up.
"I hate it when I'm right." Dan said, "Russ, Chris, Paige, Sean, brace me quickly!"
They all held him as he set the power on the Psi-gun to 5, from 1. Everyone leaned forward and barely manage to keep from flying back as the huge laser shot through Crius. This time there was nothing left of him.
"Whew." Dan opened the Psium chamber on his gun, "Oh no! I almost used it all up."
"What?" Russ asked.
"The material used in this gun was almost all used up in that last attack. It regenerates, but it'll take a while."
"Okay, I'll keep that in mind."
"Watch out guys. Ness' group is exiting the hotel."
Everyone ran beside the hotel and watched the entrance, and as if on cue, Ness, Paula and Jeff, walked out just as they were all out of sight. The group watched them enter the tent, and quickly moving behind the circus billboard.
"We've got more bogeys incoming!" Dan informed.
"What? That's not funny Dan." Sean yelled.
"Around the same place Crius came from." Dan ignored him. The group looked and another "star" was falling from there. Dan looked up at it, "It is Crius! He must have clones."
"We'll just do what we did last time." Russ said.
"But my Psi-gun is too low on Psium at the moment." Dan said.
"Oh right. Well everyone else do the same thing. Dan you just bombard him with laser fire."
"Right."
Everyone got ready for the attack. Dan pulled out almost the entire contents of his pack, which consisted of one big container. He opened it and activated the auto-assemble feature. The constructed itself into his Plasma Cannon. It was basically a really big rifle on a stand for stability; it also had a chair for the gunner to sit on. (A/N it all fit in his backpack.) Dan jumped in the seat and switched it to anti-air mode. The gun rose and the chair straightened out a little, moving under the gun.
Russ just stared at Dan and his gun the whole time, snapping back to reality he gave the order to attack. Chris, once again, moved through the shadows and tried to disrupt Crius' mind, this worked to little success. Dan opened fire on Crius; The Plasma Cannon generated very little light, so it didn't alert anyone to what was happening. Russ tried Psi Ultima Beta; it hit Crius and stunned him for a moment. This gave everyone else a chance to hit him, Paige tried Psi Freeze Alpha, and Sean tried Psi Inferno Beta, both hitting dead on.
Crius quickly launched a huge ball of electricity at Sean and Paige, knocking both backwards inflicting severe wounds and ripping most of their clothing to shreds. Dan took this time to hit Crius many times, knocking him unconscious and causing him to start falling. Suddenly enraged, Chris moved through the shadows under he was on the ground under Crius. He pulled out his daggers and held them upward.
Crius regained consciousness just as he fell onto Chris' daggers, the duel blades sliding through his body, causing a dark red fluid to spill out on his killer. In a final desperate move he jabbed something into Chris' neck. Chris' face and arms were painted red as he dropped Crius' second body to the ground. Chris' anger wore off and he saw the body on the ground in front of him, swimming in a puddle of its own blood, it made him sick to his stomach, he hadn't even noticed what Crius had done. He turned away and looked at Russ, Dan, Paige, and Sean. Paige and Sean were unconscious, but Russ reassured Chris he had had to do what he had done.
Dan jumped out of his gun and ran to Sean and Paige's sides. He examined their wounds, before covering Paige's exposed body with his jacket; Sean was only missing his shirt. Russ ran over and tried Psi Life-up Alpha on both of them. Nothing happened.
"That should've worked!" Russ yelled.
"I'll call an ambulance." Dan quickly called the hospital and within minutes they were reduced to three people.
"One of us should get Paige and Sean from the hospital, who wants to go?"
"I will." Chris turned in the direction of Crius' second body, "I want to make sure they are okay."
"All right here's some money for the doctor's fee." Dan handed some money to Chris.
Chris ran off towards the hospital. Once he was out of sight, Russ and Dan turned towards Crius' body. They grabbed it and dragged it into a nearby bush. Suddenly realizing how long the fight had taken, Dan quickly scanned the tent for people. Empty, the tent was empty. Dan quickly scanned around the town but there was no sign of Ness, Paula, or Jeff.
"What's wrong?" Russ asked.
"Ness is gone." Dan replied while still looking around.
"Russ. Remember, you can sense where he is." Buzz Buzz whispered in Russ' ear.
"Buzz Buzz? What do you mean I can sense him?"
"You have the power to sense the location of the one who will unite his power with the earth's, Ness."
"Didn't we go over this already?"
"Russ, just try it." Dan was getting anxious, he still couldn't find Ness.
"Fine."
Russ concentrated on Ness, on a memory of Ness. He held that memory in his mind as he pictured viewing Onett, then Twoson, then Threed. He followed the landscape north of Threed to an underground tunnel, through a trail and another tunnel, to a small village with strange little men.
"Got him!" Russ opened his eyes as he saw Ness in that village.
"Where?"
"He's in a village north of Threed. The tunnel along the way is littered with zombies, ghosts and…piles of puke…"
"Let's go get the others quickly."
Russ and Dan headed for the hospital. They got there as Chris had just paid the doctor and was walking out with Paige and Sean. Sean had a new shirt of bandages, Paige was also covered in bandages, and was clinging onto the jacket she had trying to cover them.
"We have to hurry and get to Saturn Valley." Russ informed the group.
Paige glared at him, and gestured towards her bandage clothing, "I need some clothes first!"
"We'll get some clothes in Saturn Valley."
"Ness is sure to see us if we are walking around."
"That may be true, but we'll just have to make sure he doesn't."
Paige gave him a pale stare, "I need clothes, now."
Russ sighed, "Fine."
The group walked to the nearest clothing store and walked in. It was disserted, so Paige and Sean just grabbed some clothes, threw them on and walked out. Sean's new outfit was a gray hoodie and blue jeans. Paige wore a dark blue t-shirt and a blue sweater, she too had blue jeans. Satisfied, they walked towards the graveyard. As they were walking a kid with a pumpkin head walked up and threw a bunch of seeds at Russ.
"What the hell?" Russ ran up to the kid and hit him in the head with his bat, breaking the pumpkin, but leaving the kid undamaged.
The kid shook his head and walked off. A couple ghosts picked a fight, but they too were no trouble.
"Wow, and to think, Ness had trouble with these." Russ bragged.
"Well there are 5 of us, and only 3 of them. Plus we're supposed to be a lot stronger; we have to stop Gigyas' Minions."
"I guess that's true" Russ said, knocking out another mad fly.
"We'd better hurry if we are going to catch up to them."
"Hey that looks like the entrance to a building." Sean was pointing to a ladder extending down into a stone opening.
"That must be the way to Saturn Valley!"
Russ and this team jumped into the secret passage way to Saturn Valley and took off to find Ness.
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A/N I guess PG doesn't cut it anymore, ;; oh well.
