Ugh… would you two stop it already? You're making me sick… I love you. I love you too. I love you three. I love you four. SHUT UP! IF YOU GUSY WON'T STOP THEN I'LL HAVE TOO--Hey Hale, what's been going on lately L-Li? Kuya Li! (Hugs Kuya). Hey there little cousin.You must be Li. And you must be Johnny. What're you doing here anyway Kuya Li? Just wanted to visit Hale. (Blushes)… shut up Li… But it's true, I missed you, you know. Y-you did? (Nods head). (Blushes even more). Uuuuyyyy! Hale-chan is blushing! Shut up! Here's chapter 8 people!
Chapter 8: Captured
They gang finally reached Byalan Island and got off the boat. "We could find Obeaunes in level 3 or 4 Byalan Island," Hayveene said.
"Well what're you waiting for! Let's go already!" Kaina said. The gang were on their way to level 3 Byalan Island with no trouble, they didn't seem to find any monsters on the way. "This is boring, where did all the monsters go!" Kaina whined.
"Maybe we're better off just fighting at level 3 or 4, so we could save energy," Aika said. Kaina made a face.
"This bites…" Kaina murmured. Pan-chao was just sleeping comfortably in his master's arms until he heard something move in the silence of the Byalan Island.
"Poring?" Pan-chao said.
"What is it Pan-chao?" Aika asked her pet. The pink creature just kept quiet and looked around his surroundings. Then all of the sudden a scaly tentacle reached out from out of nowhere and grabbed on to the blonde priestess's hand, making her scream in horror.
"Aika!" Nayuko yelled and ran to his blonde cousin to help her. "EXTRIMITY FIST!" Nayuko yelled but unfortunately he was grabbed by a strong tentacle himself. "Hey! W-what's the big deal!" Nayuko said.
"Nayuko! Aika!" Kaina said running to their aide preparing her spear to attack. "Gale!" Kaina yelled calling upon her Pecopeco. The colorful-feathered bird ran to his master's call and the pretty brown haired knight jumped on her Pecopeco. "BRANDISH SPEAR!" Kaina yelled plunging her spear on whoever or whatever was attacking, suddenly 7 strong, scaly tentacles came out, one grabbed her spear, two grabbed her arms, and four grabbed her Pecopeco by the legs. Two more came out and grabbed Kaina's legs making her fall off of Gale. Gale struggled to be set free from the tentacles, squawking in fear. "Airuko!" Kaina yelled.
"Kaina!" Airuko said. "CLOAKING!" Airuko yelled and disappeared into mid-air. He crept briskly to locate where the tentacles came from, that is when he himself got entangled by the mysteriously strong tentacles. 'W-what! This is impossible! No one could see me when I activate the cloaking skill! How could these… monsters see me!' Airuko thought, confused.
"Airuko! Guys!" Keishi said and ran off to help them.
"Keishi! Wait up!" Hayveene said following the handsome violet haired crusader.
"SHIELD BOOMERANG!" Keishi yelled as he threw his shield like a boomerang attacking the mysterious owners of the strong and scaly tentacles. But the shield ended up being tightly gripped by one of the tentacles. "W-what! Impossible!" Keishi said, stunned that he didn't notice more tentacles creeping closer to him eventually grabbing his whole body tightly.
"ACID TERROR!" Hayveene yelled throwing an acid bottle on her target. She seemed to have managed to hit one, hearing a shriek of pain. She smirked. "Gotcha… what the!" she said when she too was entangled by the tentacles.
"Guys…" Aika said weakly as she passed out due to lack of oxygen since the tentacles were holding her tightly. Everything went black. After some minuets or so, Aika was the first to wake up, finding the others still unconscious. She looked around, she found they were in a small cave and the entrance was blocked by spikes of stalactites and stalagmites. Looking like a prison cell. Still feeling weak, she slowly got up and made her way to the spikes holding them in and looked around. She saw monsters, but monsters she has never seen before, like a new breed of monsters. One monster was sitting on what somewhat looked like a throne. She looked like an Obeaune, except she looked more like the queen of Obeaunes. She had wet, silky silver hair, she was wearing golden armor all over her body, carrying what looked like a golden scepter encrusted with beautiful shells and one big, glowing and the most beautiful shell was placed on top of the scepter, with a beautiful golden crown also encrusted with the most beautiful shells.
"Check on the prisoners," she said.
'S-she can talk! Amazing… only some boss monsters can talk… unless she really is a boss!' Aika thought, surprised.
"Aika? Are you all right?" she heard Kaina say, weakly.
"Kaina! Quick! Pretend you're still unconscious!" Aika said as she lay back down.
"Wha?" Kaina said, confused.
"Just do it!" Aika demanded. The two did the same but they left one of their eyes slightly open. Then they saw something that also looked like an Obeaune, except it looked stronger and a bit more beautiful, not as beautiful as the one seated on the throne though. She had also silky and wet black hair, she had silver armor on and a silver colored bandana with a beautiful shell on the middle, she was carrying a sword case, in it was a shell encrusted silver sword and a silver shield that also had beautiful shells on it. She examined the gang carefully and went up to her queen bowing.
"They're still unconscious my queen," she said.
"Hmp, I see," the Obeaune on the throne said. Aika seemed amazed the other Obeaune could talk, but not as amazed as the pretty brown haired knight next to her.
"What in Odin's name! They could talk!" Kaina said, nearly shouting.
"Shh! Shut up Kaina! You'll attract attention!" Aika said.
"Sorry…" Kaina whispered. Then they heard a loud water-monster-like roar. Followed by a whipping sound.
"Beast Tamer! Silence that damn beast!" the Obeaune on the throne said.
"Yes my queen," another kind of Obeaune said, she was just as beautiful as the other two, wet, silky chocolate brown hair, a bronze two pieced armor, a whip in one of her hands and a similar shield like the last Obeaune, except that it was bronze colored and two bronze arm bands on her arms with one shell on each. "The queen said silence!" the Obeaune shouted as she whipped a horrendous monster in a cage, looked like a more vicious and stronger version of a Hydra. It roared loudly as the whip made a loud cracking noise.
"I wonder what those things are…" Aika wondered out loud.
"I can answer your question," they heard someone say. They turned to see Airuko leaning on the cave wall folding his arms across his chest.
"Airuko! You're awake!" Kaina said.
"Well it's not like I'd stay unconscious forever, now I know why these monsters can see through my cloaking ability," Airuko said.
"What are those monsters? How could they have seen through an assassin's cloaking ability?" Aika asked.
"You see that Obeaune in gold?" Airuko said pointing to the Obeaune wearing gold. The two girls nodded. "That's an Obeaune Queen, one of the most powerful bosses, the one in silver is an Obeaune Soldier, stronger than any other Obeaune aside from the queen, and destined to protect the whole species of Obeaunes, the one in bronze is the Obeaune Beast Tamer, Hydras, Marinas, Thara Frogs, Phens, just name any water-type monster and she could wrap them all up in a cage in a few seconds, more powerful than any ordinary Obeaune of course, her specialty is training those monsters," Airuko said referring to the ones in the cage the Obeaune Beast Tamer just whipped.
"Do you know what they're called?" Aika asked.
"Unfortunately… no…" Airuko said.
"I know what those things are," they heard someone say. It was Hayveene, slowly getting up. "Those are called Hydranix (I know… late name…), like a Hydra but more deadlier, vicious and they may poison an enemy when attacked," Hayveene said.
"We were lucky we didn't get poisoned by one of those monsters," the heard another voice say. They turned to see Nayuko get up. "Their poison's really lethal; it would be hard to get rid of the poison, even if a priestess's cure is a high level, no offense couz, but only a high priest or priestess could cure their poison," Nayuko explained.
"Hmp, I never knew you were that smart," Airuko said. The black haired monk twitched angrily.
"What the hell's that supposed to mean huh?" Nayuko said, even though the answer was quite obvious.
"It means—"Airuko said but was interrupted. Kaina stepped in-between just in time to stop them from fighting again.
"take it easy guys, this is not the time to fight," Kaina said. She turned to the silver haired assassin with a smile. "We wouldn't want anyone to get hurt, we might get into a fight with one of those monsters, we need the energy," Kaina said. Airuko blushed faintly but Nayuko still noticed him blushing.
"Um… yeah… y-you're right Kain… w-wait… I c-can call you Kain right?" Airuko stuttered blushing a little more. The pretty brown haired knight seemed to blush too.
"Y-yeah! Sure!" she said. After a moment of staring into each other's eyes they hard faint snoring from behind them. They turned to see the violet haired crusader, who seemed to be fast asleep. Everyone sweat-dropped. Airuko sighed.
"That's just like Keishi… when he's knocked-out he sometimes just falls asleep… and wants to stay that way…" Airuko said.
"But how could he sleep at a time like this!" Hayveene said, frustrated.
"Well we better wake him up," Aika said. Airuko bent down to his sleeping friend, broke off and sharp piece of rock and sighed deeply.
"Forgive me Keish," Airuko said and poked his butt. Keishi gave out a yell but his mouth was covered quickly by the black haired monk.
"Shut up! You're gonna grab the Obeaune Queen's attention!" Nayuko hissed. He let go of Keishi and he turned to his silver haired companion rubbing his sore butt.
"Airuko! What did you do that for!" Keishi said, not really loud.
"It was the only way to wake you up, you fell asleep when you were knocked-out again," Airuko said.
"Oh… but did the rock have to be so sharp!" Keishi said. Airuko shook his head.
"You always try to find a way to scold me to calm yourself down…" Airuko said.
"Soldier, I hear voices in their cage," the Obeaune Queen said.
"Do you want me to go check it my queen?" the Obeaune Soldier asked. The Obeaune Queen nodded.
"Oh no! They're coming this way! What should we do!" Kaina asked, panicking.
"Calm down Kain, we just have to stand our ground," Aika said. The Obeaune Soldier made her way to their cage. Keishi seemed to e amazed by her beauty.
"They're awake, should I let them out my queen?" the Obeaune Soldier asked.
"You may," the Obeaune Queen said. The Obeaune Soldier got her sword out and slashed a huge opening big enough for 6 people to fit in. In just one hit too. The gang just stood there, dazzled by the Obeaune Soldier's attack.
"Don't just stand there, the queen wants you all out, now!" the Obeaune Soldier demanded. Everyone looked at each other, exchanging unsure glances. When Aika finally stepped out of the small cavern. Followed by the others. They saw two more Obeaune Soldiers on the sides of the queen's throne. The look on their faces looked like they're ready to attack anytime. Then sitting with the queen on her clam-shaped throne were ordinary Obeaunes combing their queen's silky silver hair with a comb-like shell. The gang kept silent and they stood in front of the queen. "What do you think you're all doing just standing there! Bow down to the queen!" the Obeaune Soldier demanded.
"Why should—"Nayuko said, about to protest when Airuko hushed him by extending his arm in front of the black haired monk. The silver haired assassin shook his head.
"Don't argue, we'll only get into more trouble," he said and bent down on one knee, bowing down to the Obeaune Queen. Nayuko hesitated but followed Airuko instead, followed by the others. It seemed there was no way out on the situation they were in. It looks like they'd have to play by the Obeaune Queen's game. Whatever she wanted them to do.
Hey guys! Sorry this chapter took so long… things been really busy lately hasn't it been Hale? Too… tired… to… speak… (falls down on bed and sleeps). We've just finished out intramurals today… and we're both really tired… even though all we did was cheer for the Freshmen and play badminton all day… (). Hey, what happened to Johnny? He went back to the studios to film his part in the show. What part? Sitting in the crowd watching the tournament… (falls down in anime form) Well, we'll see you guys on the next chapter!