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Miro and Jack look at the stuffed bear in front of them. It looked just like it used to, but the eyes glowed with a brighter sheen than ever before. It began to walk toward them, very slowly.
"Okay, what do we have for weapons?" Miro asks, looking over to Jack.
"Uhh..." Jack says, putting down his rucksack and beginning to rummage through it. "We have... a straw and a tuna fish sandwich."
"What kind of straw?"
"A bendy straw."
"Damn..." Miro curses. "What about the sandwich?"
"Uhh," Jack says, peeling at the bread. "Tuna, with the heads still on, something that might be either mayo or run-off from the fish, bits of pickles, onions, lettuce, tomato, ketchup, mustard, garlic, peanut butter, bananna, relish, hot sauce, kerosene, and some stuff we found in the barn when the cow got sick."
"Really?" Miro says. "Are you sure it's all that stuff?"
"I can't tell, exactly..." Jack replies. "everything but the fish was kinda fused together."
"How?"
"I've had it in the bottom of my backpack for the past... ten years."
"Oh... eww!" Miro says, looking queasy. "Is THAT what that smell was?"
"Uhh... yeah." Jack replies, nodding weakly.
Miro looks back to the bear, who was still approaching very slowly. He cringes.
"Do you have anything else?" He asks, looking back to Jack.
"Uhh..." Jack begins, going into his backpack again. "Well, here." He pulls out a baseball bat and hands it to Miro.
"Ah, this is perfect!" Miro says. He brandishes the bat and faces the bear.
"Okay, Kate, watch me!" He says.
Remaining where she was previously, Kate rolls her eyes.
"Yeah, you go Miro. Beat up that large, cute, stuffed teddy bear. That'll look impressive for sure." She says sarcastically.
Miro sighs and lowers his head, handing the bat back to Jack.
"You do it." He says. "I don't feel like doing it anymore."
"Ah, what, did Kate's mean, evil comments get you down?" Jack says to his son, taking the bat. "Don't worry, I'll finish this thing off myself. Heck, I married Nami, this'll be no challenge at all!" He rushes over to the bear, yelling enthusiastically. He swings his bat right at it, or that was what he thought. Daachan had somehow dashed out of the way at a speed almost quicker than the eye, and was now behind Jack. As Jack realised what had happened and turned around to face it, Daachan struck Jack hard with a flying roundhouse kick, sending him five feet before hitting the ground.
"Dad! You okay?" Miro says, alarmed.
"Nope..." Jack replies weakly.
Meanwhile, Nami was staring down Muffy, who brandished her sharp nails in preperation to fight. Nami reached into her pockets, but turned out nothing.
'What a time to not bring my knives...' she thinks to herself, looking back to Muffy. She clenched her hands into fists and got ready for a fight.
"You can still run, you know." Muffy reminds her. "You can skip town, it's not like there's going to be anything left for you once Daachan's done."
"You talk big," Nami says. "but if you think that my husband and son can't win a fight against a teddy bear, and that I can't win a fight against two little preps who are pushing their thirties, you're gonna get a harsh slap of reality very soon."
"Enough talk!" Muffy yells, running at Nami with ferocious speed. Muffy slashes at Nami, which she dodged, but her second strike had to be blocked. The two clasped hands, trying to get the upper hand on one another.
Celia simply watched, allowing Muffy to do the dirty work for her. If worse came to worse, Celia was prepared to fight, too.
Muffy, however, had the advantage in this situation due to her claw-nails, and dug into Nami's hand with them. Nami gasps, and is lowered down to her knees, but she wasn't even close to being defeated.
"Look, signs of aging!"
"Where?" Muffy asks worriedly, removing her hands in order to feel her face for whatever Nami was talking about.
"Right here!" Nami says, lifting her fist and punching Muffy right in the middle of her face. Muffy staggers back, stunned. Nami takes this opportunity to kick Muffy square in the gut, and as she fell back, to quickly grab her by the neck with one hand. She puts her face right in front of Muffy's.
"So, is this part of your plan?" She asks.
"Na... m... mi..." Is all that Muffy could choke out due to being... choked. Nami releases her grip slightly.
"Yes?" Nami asks.
"Maybe it is." Muffy says, smirking. She whips her hand around and cuts Nami across the face with her nails. Nami makes no yell of pain, but instead grabs Muffy's arm with her other hand and angrily throws her out of a nearby window, shattering the glass.
"OKAY, THAT WASN'T PART OF THE PLAAAAaaaaan!" Muffy yells as she falls to the ground outside with a painful-sounding crash. A groan of soreness could be heard outside now.
Nami feels her cut face for a second and turns to Celia.
"Yes," Celia says. "Before you ask, that was part of my plan. I would've only been disappointed if Muffy could defeat you."
"Well, then," Nami says, getting ready to fight again. "I guess I'm about to impress you more than you've ever been in your life."
Back at the street, Miro was looking around for a weapon of some sort to fight Daachan with. He searched around frantically, but couldn't find a thing. Finally, Kate loses her paitence.
"Miro!" She yells. "Just throw a rock!"
"But where's a rock?" Miro asks, looking around on the ground.
"Miro, YOU'RE STANDING ON A PATH!" Kate yells. "THEY'RE MADE OUT OF ROCKS, YOU INANE, WITLESS, DENSE, HALF-BAKED TWIT!"
"...Okay, what does that mean?"
"I found the words in a thesaurus, now THROW SOMETHING!"
"Oh, right..." Miro says, finding a decent-sized rock on the ground. He picks it up and turns to the bear, a glare in his eyes. It was a showdown, perhaps a final one. It was so completely final-ish, it even had showdown background music, supplied by Van when he put the music on accidentally as he rushed to cower under his stand. After a long staredown, Miro winds up his throw, and launches the rock directly at Daachan with a tremendous force.
Daachan, with another burst of speed and power, span and kicked the rock back towards Miro. It came back too quickly for Miro to react, and riccocheted itself right off of his skull. Stunned and dazed, he had no time to defend himself from Daachan's next attack. It dashed towards Miro and slammed into him, sending him quite a distance and pinning/slamming him against one of the Inner Inn's posts.
"Ooowwwwwwwww..." Miro whines while being pinned against the wood. He is suddenly pressed harder by the bear's arms, now being strangled. It looked like he was toast, the world around him was getting dark...
Suddenly, like an extremely angry budgie, a black throwing star whizzes from the trees and plants itself into Daachan's fuzzy head. It releases it's grip on Miro and lets him fall, while now busy trying to remove thew implement from it's head with it's fuzzy paws. Miro takes this opportunity to kick Daachan, sending it tumbling a short way down the hill. He then looks to the trees to see who had just saved him. A mysterious person with a black ninja outfit on jumps down from the trees, face half-covered in a black cloth.
"I am..." The fuigre begins.
"Lumina?" Miro says.
The person sighs and grumbles something, but then returns to a heroic stance.
"No, I am... A Random Ninja!"
"No you're not." Miro relies. "You're Lumina, in a very sleek, cool-looking ninja disquise."
"Grr... Look, kid," The ninja yells. "I've had a tough day, Granny's giving me heck for not being able to play Napoleon's Fifth Symphony blindfolded with one hand, the cats are getting REALLY annoying, and our butler's ugly and he smells like garlic bread, TODAY I'M A FRIGGIN' NINJA!"
"you must have a lot of time on your hands, to practice piano and have ninja training." Miro says.
"Yeah, I guess." Lumina says. "Say, are you busy tomorr-" Her question is cut off by Kate's elbow.
"Watch it, missie, you're not getting Miro until I'm through with him. You can have whatever's left."
"Huh." Miro says plainly, shifting back slightly. "Umm, don't we have something we should be doing? Like fighting the bear?"
"I'm not fighting." Kate says. "You, your comatose Dad, and Ms. Ninja here seem to have things under control."
"Uhh, actually, to tell the truth..." Lumina says, rubbing the back of her head nervously. "I only have that one throwing star, it's my only real weapon..."
"So you'll be sitting on the sidelines with Kate?"
"Yeah..."
"After all of that stuff you did?"
"Kinda, yeah..."
"Greeat... Dad, you awake yet?!"
Jack grunts and gets up slowly. "Yeah, mostly..."
"I got hit by a rock, and I'm already back up!" Miro says. "You're my Dad, you should be able to take more punishment than that!"
"Yeah, yeah." Jack says, shaking himself off. "Now let's finish this thing off!"
Nami, meanwhile, was just waiting for Celia's first move. She was ready for whatever Celia had in mind.
"You just gonna stand there, girly, or are you gonna fight?" Nami asks.
"I like the second choice." Celia says plainly. She walks over to a broom leaning against the wall, and picks it up. She then turned to face Nami, keeping her sweet smile on.
"Give it your best shot." She says cheerily. Nami obliges and runs at Celia, aiming a fist at her. Celia dodges out of the way at a surprising speed for someone wearing a heavy, plaid dress and counters Nami's attack with a swift strike of the broom to the back of her head.
"Ah!" Nami yells in pain and surprise, holding the back of her head and turning back to face Celia. "What is that thing, hardwood?"
"It has to be the best quality if I want to sweep up trash like you." Calia says, returning to her sinister personality. Nami just narrows her eyes and gets ready for another attack.
This time Celia came at her, striking at Nami with a series of attacks from her broom handle, which Nami either blocked with her arms or dodged when she could. At the end, Celia jumped back a distance.
"I'm a little impressed." She says. "Not many people can get around hits like that. Too bad your little arms must be sore now. Well, time for round two!" She jumps back forward, ready to strike. Nami catches her hit with her hands, fortunately, and tries to disarm Celia. Celia keeps a strong grip on the handle, however, and tries to pry it away from Nami's grip.
"That's cheap fighting!" Celia says.
"No THIS is!" Nami yells, pushing the broom into Celia's face, the bristles scratching slightly. Celia yells and pulls the broom away from Nami.
"So, you wanna fight dirty-" Celia begins, but Nami dosen't bother to wait for her to finish. She starts punching at Celia, but the attacks are blocked by the broom. Celia was really starting to get mad now, and pulls out a bottle of perfume. As soon as she had the opportunity, Celia sprays Nami directly in the eyes. Nami yells and steps back a bit.
"You're paying for that!" Nami says, still rubbing it out of her eyes.
"Do you know what kind of scent that is?" Celia asks.
"What kind?" Nami says. "-Oh, don't tell me..."
"Popuri!" Celia exclaims.
"Crap!" Nami yells in frustration. "You mean I smell like a ditzy chicken farmer?!"
"No, the leaf." Celia explains. "You see, the leaf gives off a scent when you beat it in a cup of water for a while and then dry it, and then the people make the leaf into a perfume which smells really nice, I think, but I'm sorta traditional, I like the rose scent more, personally, but-"
"SHUT UP!" Nami yells, plugging her ears. "I DON'T GIVE A CRAP, WE'RE FIGHTING HERE!" She runs at Celia again but dosen't quite get the opportunity to attack. With a quick upward movement, Celia strikes Nami upside the chin, sending her to the ground. She then walks up and pins her to the ground with her foot.
"Any last words?" She asks, pointing the broom handle to her face.
"Ow, you made me bite my tounge..." Nami says.
"Besides that?"
"Sure. How about, you're not gonna win this?"
Calia laughs in an evil fashion and raises her broom above her head, ready to strike.
"Oh? I don't think so. Say goodbye, Nami!"
Back at the battle of man and stuffed beast, Miro and the newly conscious Jack get ready to continue the battle.
"Okay," Miro begins, turning to the hill where he kicked Daachan down. "Let's... Where'd he go?"
"What?" Jack says, looking around. "I don't see it, where is...?"
"Watch out!" Kate and Lumina chorus. The guys turn aroud to see Daachan flying at them, blur of fur and red eyes. Jack and Miro are ready just in time, and manage to grab it in mid-flight. It was a strong impact, though, and they slid some way before halting. Finally with the upper hand, they smash it into a nearby streetlight and throw it at the ground. They both make a motion to start jumping on it, but it moves out of the way, and instead Jack ends up crushing Miro's foot.
"Owww!" Miro whines, hopping on one foot for a moment.
"Oh, sorry, son!" Jack says. "Here, let me take a look at-" Just while he bent down to look at Miro's injury, Daachan dashes and strikes him, sending Jack careening across the road about fifteen meters and hitting the ground, hard.
Daachan dosen't stop there, before Miro had time to react, it tripped him since he was on one foot and he falls, as well. Daachan then raised a foot to finish Miro off, but suddenly a very rapidly-firing slew of rocks began to continually strike it and force it to step back. It was Kate and Lumina, doing their part to keep Miro from being smacked around any more than they wanted him to be.
"Miro, get up!" Kate yells.
"We don't want to do all of the work!" Lumina adds.
Miro obeys and slowly puts himself back on his feet. Just before Miro had stood up fully, Daachan jumped an incredible height to avoid the rocks and went at Kate and Lumina. Miro gasped, and started running after it. Daachan landed between them and prepared to attack.
"No, my prospects!" Miro yells, running faster. Kate and Lumina could take care of themselves, however, and blocked Daachan's attack, but unfortunately, due to the supernatural bursts of power that Daachan was prone to due to absorbing so much 'cute-wittle-bear' baby talk and converting it into evil, powerful energy over the years, the attacks were still strong enough to knock them back a distance, Kate hitting the wall of the Inner Inn, Lumina hitting the cliff-wall opposite.
Miro stops. "Okay, that's it! This is the end!" He yells. "Dad, throw over the big guns!"
Jack gets up, groaning, and realises what Miro meant. He walks over to an object he had left on the ground and picks it up. Winding it up, he throws it to Miro.
Miro snatches it in mid-air and holds it in front of him. Daachan turns around slowly to face it's opponent. Miro was holding the tuna fish sandwich. It's putrid smell radiated from it like a dead skunk that had been left in the sun at the top of a garbage pile in an open-air sewer. Miro knew the risk, but it had to be done.
Kate recovered from her hit and looked to see Miro holding the sandwich. She gasped, just slightly.
"Take cover!" She yells. Lumina looks over to her.
"What for?" She yells back.
"He's gonna-"
Before she could finish her scentence, Miro had crammed the entire tuna fish sandwich into his mouth. After a long bout of chewing the moldy, musty, nasty piece of putrescent, decade-old lunch, he swallows it down hard. He immediately lowers his head, but raises it again to look at Daachan with a vicious gleam in his eyes.
"You're making me angry..." He says slowly, with an evil grin on his face. "You don't like me when I'm angry..."
Daachan's eyes seem to narrow, as though it knew that it now faced a whole new opponent.
Lumina decides to follow Kate's advice and ducks behind a house nearby. Kate gets behind a barrel and pokes her head over slightly to see what happens.
Jack watches in awe and shuffles towards Kate in the middle of this standstill. He ducks behind a barrel nearby and does the same.
"How decrepit was that sandwich?" Kare asks Jack.
"Huh?"
"It means old. How old was it?"
As soon as Jack uttered 'ten years', Kate's eyes widened and she gasped.
"That means... Oh my frickin' Goddess..."
Miro suddenly began convulsing where he stood, looking like something was about to shoot from his chest. He had to bend over in pain, but he stopped for a moment. A low rumbling could be heard.
"Oh, no..." Jack says weakly.
"He's getting gas back-up!" Kate yells. "He's gonna unleash... NUCLEAR TUNA BREATH!!!" They both duck behind the barrels completely.
Daachan tried to take quick action and leaped at Miro with all of it's energy, but it was too late. Miro looked up to Daachan, felt it moving up his throat and fired. He emmitted a massive belch that carried with it such power and such stench that the very foundation of the planet rattled under it's force. He disgorged a breath wave of impure, nasty tuna smell so ungodly, it rotted or ripped plants and trees from their roots and threw any small animals in it's path all the way to Mineral Town. Daachan was in the middle of it's leap but the blast was so strong that he was suspended in mid-air for a moment. Slowly, the power overcame it, and Daachan dissolved away into nothing but a pair of eyes, which fell to the ground with a clink.
Celia was taken by surprise from this, and the quake that resulted knocked her off of her feet, falling backwards to the ground. When the quake subsided, Nami got up and kicked the broom from Celia's hands, to the far end of the room. Celia whimpered slightly.
"Goodbye, Celia." Nami says.
The following events in that room could be heard by Griffin as a long and very, very painful-sounding series of punches. A few seconds after it ended, Nami stepped from the back room of the bar, dusting her hands off. She ignored the stunned Griffin and walked out of the bar, back to the others.
Kate looked out from the barrel, blinking for a moment.
"That... was the most disgusting thing... EVER!" She yells.
Ending the attack, Miro fell over backwards and spent the next little while looking up at the pretty colors. Lumina did a classical 'ninja vanish', but Kate and Jack rushed over to see if Miro was okay.
"Miro?" Kate says. "Miro? Meeeero?" She leans over him and waves a hand in front of his face. Miro blinks but otherwise makes no response. Jack prodded him with his foot, but he still held still.
"Wow, he's out of it." Jack says.
"Do you think he can hear us?" Kate asks.
"Maybe." Jack says. "Try to say something he'd respond to."
"...No way, I'm not falling for that!" Kate yells. "You're trying to get me to say something really corny so this'll all turn into a big, stupid romance!"
"Did I say that?" Jack says innocently. "I don't think I said that. I just meant for you to say something like 'you want seconds on that tuna fish?'"
Still no response from Miro.
Nami walks over to them, and sees Miro on the ground, dazed.
"He's the one who did that?" She asks. Jack and Kate nod.
"Hmm..." Nami says, trying to think of a way to bring Miro back. "Ah, I know. Miro! Kate says she lo-"
Miro snaps awake suddenly, standing bolt upright. Unfortunately, Kate was in his path, and their faces bashed into one another. After a second of being facially connected, they realised what they were doing and jumped back, both slightly red.
"Your mom lied!" Kate says, making sure that that was known to everyone. She spits for a second and wipes off her mouth before speaking again.
"Ugh, your breath is horrible!"
"You're no Listerine lady yourself!" Miro says, also spitting.
"You're the one who ate a mummified fish sandwich!"
"I guess you have a point, your bad breath must just come naturally!"
"Should we go?" Jack asks Nami while the other two continued to argue. Nami nods slightly. They both walk away slowly, back to the farm.
The two glowing red eyes of Daachan remained on the ground, their bright shine fading away. Finally, after enduring for a few minuites (while Miro and Kate continued to fight), they dimmed down more and more, until finally they flickered out.
(So ends my longest chapter yet! Please give me reviews, I'd love to hear what everyone has to say about it.)
Miro and Jack look at the stuffed bear in front of them. It looked just like it used to, but the eyes glowed with a brighter sheen than ever before. It began to walk toward them, very slowly.
"Okay, what do we have for weapons?" Miro asks, looking over to Jack.
"Uhh..." Jack says, putting down his rucksack and beginning to rummage through it. "We have... a straw and a tuna fish sandwich."
"What kind of straw?"
"A bendy straw."
"Damn..." Miro curses. "What about the sandwich?"
"Uhh," Jack says, peeling at the bread. "Tuna, with the heads still on, something that might be either mayo or run-off from the fish, bits of pickles, onions, lettuce, tomato, ketchup, mustard, garlic, peanut butter, bananna, relish, hot sauce, kerosene, and some stuff we found in the barn when the cow got sick."
"Really?" Miro says. "Are you sure it's all that stuff?"
"I can't tell, exactly..." Jack replies. "everything but the fish was kinda fused together."
"How?"
"I've had it in the bottom of my backpack for the past... ten years."
"Oh... eww!" Miro says, looking queasy. "Is THAT what that smell was?"
"Uhh... yeah." Jack replies, nodding weakly.
Miro looks back to the bear, who was still approaching very slowly. He cringes.
"Do you have anything else?" He asks, looking back to Jack.
"Uhh..." Jack begins, going into his backpack again. "Well, here." He pulls out a baseball bat and hands it to Miro.
"Ah, this is perfect!" Miro says. He brandishes the bat and faces the bear.
"Okay, Kate, watch me!" He says.
Remaining where she was previously, Kate rolls her eyes.
"Yeah, you go Miro. Beat up that large, cute, stuffed teddy bear. That'll look impressive for sure." She says sarcastically.
Miro sighs and lowers his head, handing the bat back to Jack.
"You do it." He says. "I don't feel like doing it anymore."
"Ah, what, did Kate's mean, evil comments get you down?" Jack says to his son, taking the bat. "Don't worry, I'll finish this thing off myself. Heck, I married Nami, this'll be no challenge at all!" He rushes over to the bear, yelling enthusiastically. He swings his bat right at it, or that was what he thought. Daachan had somehow dashed out of the way at a speed almost quicker than the eye, and was now behind Jack. As Jack realised what had happened and turned around to face it, Daachan struck Jack hard with a flying roundhouse kick, sending him five feet before hitting the ground.
"Dad! You okay?" Miro says, alarmed.
"Nope..." Jack replies weakly.
Meanwhile, Nami was staring down Muffy, who brandished her sharp nails in preperation to fight. Nami reached into her pockets, but turned out nothing.
'What a time to not bring my knives...' she thinks to herself, looking back to Muffy. She clenched her hands into fists and got ready for a fight.
"You can still run, you know." Muffy reminds her. "You can skip town, it's not like there's going to be anything left for you once Daachan's done."
"You talk big," Nami says. "but if you think that my husband and son can't win a fight against a teddy bear, and that I can't win a fight against two little preps who are pushing their thirties, you're gonna get a harsh slap of reality very soon."
"Enough talk!" Muffy yells, running at Nami with ferocious speed. Muffy slashes at Nami, which she dodged, but her second strike had to be blocked. The two clasped hands, trying to get the upper hand on one another.
Celia simply watched, allowing Muffy to do the dirty work for her. If worse came to worse, Celia was prepared to fight, too.
Muffy, however, had the advantage in this situation due to her claw-nails, and dug into Nami's hand with them. Nami gasps, and is lowered down to her knees, but she wasn't even close to being defeated.
"Look, signs of aging!"
"Where?" Muffy asks worriedly, removing her hands in order to feel her face for whatever Nami was talking about.
"Right here!" Nami says, lifting her fist and punching Muffy right in the middle of her face. Muffy staggers back, stunned. Nami takes this opportunity to kick Muffy square in the gut, and as she fell back, to quickly grab her by the neck with one hand. She puts her face right in front of Muffy's.
"So, is this part of your plan?" She asks.
"Na... m... mi..." Is all that Muffy could choke out due to being... choked. Nami releases her grip slightly.
"Yes?" Nami asks.
"Maybe it is." Muffy says, smirking. She whips her hand around and cuts Nami across the face with her nails. Nami makes no yell of pain, but instead grabs Muffy's arm with her other hand and angrily throws her out of a nearby window, shattering the glass.
"OKAY, THAT WASN'T PART OF THE PLAAAAaaaaan!" Muffy yells as she falls to the ground outside with a painful-sounding crash. A groan of soreness could be heard outside now.
Nami feels her cut face for a second and turns to Celia.
"Yes," Celia says. "Before you ask, that was part of my plan. I would've only been disappointed if Muffy could defeat you."
"Well, then," Nami says, getting ready to fight again. "I guess I'm about to impress you more than you've ever been in your life."
Back at the street, Miro was looking around for a weapon of some sort to fight Daachan with. He searched around frantically, but couldn't find a thing. Finally, Kate loses her paitence.
"Miro!" She yells. "Just throw a rock!"
"But where's a rock?" Miro asks, looking around on the ground.
"Miro, YOU'RE STANDING ON A PATH!" Kate yells. "THEY'RE MADE OUT OF ROCKS, YOU INANE, WITLESS, DENSE, HALF-BAKED TWIT!"
"...Okay, what does that mean?"
"I found the words in a thesaurus, now THROW SOMETHING!"
"Oh, right..." Miro says, finding a decent-sized rock on the ground. He picks it up and turns to the bear, a glare in his eyes. It was a showdown, perhaps a final one. It was so completely final-ish, it even had showdown background music, supplied by Van when he put the music on accidentally as he rushed to cower under his stand. After a long staredown, Miro winds up his throw, and launches the rock directly at Daachan with a tremendous force.
Daachan, with another burst of speed and power, span and kicked the rock back towards Miro. It came back too quickly for Miro to react, and riccocheted itself right off of his skull. Stunned and dazed, he had no time to defend himself from Daachan's next attack. It dashed towards Miro and slammed into him, sending him quite a distance and pinning/slamming him against one of the Inner Inn's posts.
"Ooowwwwwwwww..." Miro whines while being pinned against the wood. He is suddenly pressed harder by the bear's arms, now being strangled. It looked like he was toast, the world around him was getting dark...
Suddenly, like an extremely angry budgie, a black throwing star whizzes from the trees and plants itself into Daachan's fuzzy head. It releases it's grip on Miro and lets him fall, while now busy trying to remove thew implement from it's head with it's fuzzy paws. Miro takes this opportunity to kick Daachan, sending it tumbling a short way down the hill. He then looks to the trees to see who had just saved him. A mysterious person with a black ninja outfit on jumps down from the trees, face half-covered in a black cloth.
"I am..." The fuigre begins.
"Lumina?" Miro says.
The person sighs and grumbles something, but then returns to a heroic stance.
"No, I am... A Random Ninja!"
"No you're not." Miro relies. "You're Lumina, in a very sleek, cool-looking ninja disquise."
"Grr... Look, kid," The ninja yells. "I've had a tough day, Granny's giving me heck for not being able to play Napoleon's Fifth Symphony blindfolded with one hand, the cats are getting REALLY annoying, and our butler's ugly and he smells like garlic bread, TODAY I'M A FRIGGIN' NINJA!"
"you must have a lot of time on your hands, to practice piano and have ninja training." Miro says.
"Yeah, I guess." Lumina says. "Say, are you busy tomorr-" Her question is cut off by Kate's elbow.
"Watch it, missie, you're not getting Miro until I'm through with him. You can have whatever's left."
"Huh." Miro says plainly, shifting back slightly. "Umm, don't we have something we should be doing? Like fighting the bear?"
"I'm not fighting." Kate says. "You, your comatose Dad, and Ms. Ninja here seem to have things under control."
"Uhh, actually, to tell the truth..." Lumina says, rubbing the back of her head nervously. "I only have that one throwing star, it's my only real weapon..."
"So you'll be sitting on the sidelines with Kate?"
"Yeah..."
"After all of that stuff you did?"
"Kinda, yeah..."
"Greeat... Dad, you awake yet?!"
Jack grunts and gets up slowly. "Yeah, mostly..."
"I got hit by a rock, and I'm already back up!" Miro says. "You're my Dad, you should be able to take more punishment than that!"
"Yeah, yeah." Jack says, shaking himself off. "Now let's finish this thing off!"
Nami, meanwhile, was just waiting for Celia's first move. She was ready for whatever Celia had in mind.
"You just gonna stand there, girly, or are you gonna fight?" Nami asks.
"I like the second choice." Celia says plainly. She walks over to a broom leaning against the wall, and picks it up. She then turned to face Nami, keeping her sweet smile on.
"Give it your best shot." She says cheerily. Nami obliges and runs at Celia, aiming a fist at her. Celia dodges out of the way at a surprising speed for someone wearing a heavy, plaid dress and counters Nami's attack with a swift strike of the broom to the back of her head.
"Ah!" Nami yells in pain and surprise, holding the back of her head and turning back to face Celia. "What is that thing, hardwood?"
"It has to be the best quality if I want to sweep up trash like you." Calia says, returning to her sinister personality. Nami just narrows her eyes and gets ready for another attack.
This time Celia came at her, striking at Nami with a series of attacks from her broom handle, which Nami either blocked with her arms or dodged when she could. At the end, Celia jumped back a distance.
"I'm a little impressed." She says. "Not many people can get around hits like that. Too bad your little arms must be sore now. Well, time for round two!" She jumps back forward, ready to strike. Nami catches her hit with her hands, fortunately, and tries to disarm Celia. Celia keeps a strong grip on the handle, however, and tries to pry it away from Nami's grip.
"That's cheap fighting!" Celia says.
"No THIS is!" Nami yells, pushing the broom into Celia's face, the bristles scratching slightly. Celia yells and pulls the broom away from Nami.
"So, you wanna fight dirty-" Celia begins, but Nami dosen't bother to wait for her to finish. She starts punching at Celia, but the attacks are blocked by the broom. Celia was really starting to get mad now, and pulls out a bottle of perfume. As soon as she had the opportunity, Celia sprays Nami directly in the eyes. Nami yells and steps back a bit.
"You're paying for that!" Nami says, still rubbing it out of her eyes.
"Do you know what kind of scent that is?" Celia asks.
"What kind?" Nami says. "-Oh, don't tell me..."
"Popuri!" Celia exclaims.
"Crap!" Nami yells in frustration. "You mean I smell like a ditzy chicken farmer?!"
"No, the leaf." Celia explains. "You see, the leaf gives off a scent when you beat it in a cup of water for a while and then dry it, and then the people make the leaf into a perfume which smells really nice, I think, but I'm sorta traditional, I like the rose scent more, personally, but-"
"SHUT UP!" Nami yells, plugging her ears. "I DON'T GIVE A CRAP, WE'RE FIGHTING HERE!" She runs at Celia again but dosen't quite get the opportunity to attack. With a quick upward movement, Celia strikes Nami upside the chin, sending her to the ground. She then walks up and pins her to the ground with her foot.
"Any last words?" She asks, pointing the broom handle to her face.
"Ow, you made me bite my tounge..." Nami says.
"Besides that?"
"Sure. How about, you're not gonna win this?"
Calia laughs in an evil fashion and raises her broom above her head, ready to strike.
"Oh? I don't think so. Say goodbye, Nami!"
Back at the battle of man and stuffed beast, Miro and the newly conscious Jack get ready to continue the battle.
"Okay," Miro begins, turning to the hill where he kicked Daachan down. "Let's... Where'd he go?"
"What?" Jack says, looking around. "I don't see it, where is...?"
"Watch out!" Kate and Lumina chorus. The guys turn aroud to see Daachan flying at them, blur of fur and red eyes. Jack and Miro are ready just in time, and manage to grab it in mid-flight. It was a strong impact, though, and they slid some way before halting. Finally with the upper hand, they smash it into a nearby streetlight and throw it at the ground. They both make a motion to start jumping on it, but it moves out of the way, and instead Jack ends up crushing Miro's foot.
"Owww!" Miro whines, hopping on one foot for a moment.
"Oh, sorry, son!" Jack says. "Here, let me take a look at-" Just while he bent down to look at Miro's injury, Daachan dashes and strikes him, sending Jack careening across the road about fifteen meters and hitting the ground, hard.
Daachan dosen't stop there, before Miro had time to react, it tripped him since he was on one foot and he falls, as well. Daachan then raised a foot to finish Miro off, but suddenly a very rapidly-firing slew of rocks began to continually strike it and force it to step back. It was Kate and Lumina, doing their part to keep Miro from being smacked around any more than they wanted him to be.
"Miro, get up!" Kate yells.
"We don't want to do all of the work!" Lumina adds.
Miro obeys and slowly puts himself back on his feet. Just before Miro had stood up fully, Daachan jumped an incredible height to avoid the rocks and went at Kate and Lumina. Miro gasped, and started running after it. Daachan landed between them and prepared to attack.
"No, my prospects!" Miro yells, running faster. Kate and Lumina could take care of themselves, however, and blocked Daachan's attack, but unfortunately, due to the supernatural bursts of power that Daachan was prone to due to absorbing so much 'cute-wittle-bear' baby talk and converting it into evil, powerful energy over the years, the attacks were still strong enough to knock them back a distance, Kate hitting the wall of the Inner Inn, Lumina hitting the cliff-wall opposite.
Miro stops. "Okay, that's it! This is the end!" He yells. "Dad, throw over the big guns!"
Jack gets up, groaning, and realises what Miro meant. He walks over to an object he had left on the ground and picks it up. Winding it up, he throws it to Miro.
Miro snatches it in mid-air and holds it in front of him. Daachan turns around slowly to face it's opponent. Miro was holding the tuna fish sandwich. It's putrid smell radiated from it like a dead skunk that had been left in the sun at the top of a garbage pile in an open-air sewer. Miro knew the risk, but it had to be done.
Kate recovered from her hit and looked to see Miro holding the sandwich. She gasped, just slightly.
"Take cover!" She yells. Lumina looks over to her.
"What for?" She yells back.
"He's gonna-"
Before she could finish her scentence, Miro had crammed the entire tuna fish sandwich into his mouth. After a long bout of chewing the moldy, musty, nasty piece of putrescent, decade-old lunch, he swallows it down hard. He immediately lowers his head, but raises it again to look at Daachan with a vicious gleam in his eyes.
"You're making me angry..." He says slowly, with an evil grin on his face. "You don't like me when I'm angry..."
Daachan's eyes seem to narrow, as though it knew that it now faced a whole new opponent.
Lumina decides to follow Kate's advice and ducks behind a house nearby. Kate gets behind a barrel and pokes her head over slightly to see what happens.
Jack watches in awe and shuffles towards Kate in the middle of this standstill. He ducks behind a barrel nearby and does the same.
"How decrepit was that sandwich?" Kare asks Jack.
"Huh?"
"It means old. How old was it?"
As soon as Jack uttered 'ten years', Kate's eyes widened and she gasped.
"That means... Oh my frickin' Goddess..."
Miro suddenly began convulsing where he stood, looking like something was about to shoot from his chest. He had to bend over in pain, but he stopped for a moment. A low rumbling could be heard.
"Oh, no..." Jack says weakly.
"He's getting gas back-up!" Kate yells. "He's gonna unleash... NUCLEAR TUNA BREATH!!!" They both duck behind the barrels completely.
Daachan tried to take quick action and leaped at Miro with all of it's energy, but it was too late. Miro looked up to Daachan, felt it moving up his throat and fired. He emmitted a massive belch that carried with it such power and such stench that the very foundation of the planet rattled under it's force. He disgorged a breath wave of impure, nasty tuna smell so ungodly, it rotted or ripped plants and trees from their roots and threw any small animals in it's path all the way to Mineral Town. Daachan was in the middle of it's leap but the blast was so strong that he was suspended in mid-air for a moment. Slowly, the power overcame it, and Daachan dissolved away into nothing but a pair of eyes, which fell to the ground with a clink.
Celia was taken by surprise from this, and the quake that resulted knocked her off of her feet, falling backwards to the ground. When the quake subsided, Nami got up and kicked the broom from Celia's hands, to the far end of the room. Celia whimpered slightly.
"Goodbye, Celia." Nami says.
The following events in that room could be heard by Griffin as a long and very, very painful-sounding series of punches. A few seconds after it ended, Nami stepped from the back room of the bar, dusting her hands off. She ignored the stunned Griffin and walked out of the bar, back to the others.
Kate looked out from the barrel, blinking for a moment.
"That... was the most disgusting thing... EVER!" She yells.
Ending the attack, Miro fell over backwards and spent the next little while looking up at the pretty colors. Lumina did a classical 'ninja vanish', but Kate and Jack rushed over to see if Miro was okay.
"Miro?" Kate says. "Miro? Meeeero?" She leans over him and waves a hand in front of his face. Miro blinks but otherwise makes no response. Jack prodded him with his foot, but he still held still.
"Wow, he's out of it." Jack says.
"Do you think he can hear us?" Kate asks.
"Maybe." Jack says. "Try to say something he'd respond to."
"...No way, I'm not falling for that!" Kate yells. "You're trying to get me to say something really corny so this'll all turn into a big, stupid romance!"
"Did I say that?" Jack says innocently. "I don't think I said that. I just meant for you to say something like 'you want seconds on that tuna fish?'"
Still no response from Miro.
Nami walks over to them, and sees Miro on the ground, dazed.
"He's the one who did that?" She asks. Jack and Kate nod.
"Hmm..." Nami says, trying to think of a way to bring Miro back. "Ah, I know. Miro! Kate says she lo-"
Miro snaps awake suddenly, standing bolt upright. Unfortunately, Kate was in his path, and their faces bashed into one another. After a second of being facially connected, they realised what they were doing and jumped back, both slightly red.
"Your mom lied!" Kate says, making sure that that was known to everyone. She spits for a second and wipes off her mouth before speaking again.
"Ugh, your breath is horrible!"
"You're no Listerine lady yourself!" Miro says, also spitting.
"You're the one who ate a mummified fish sandwich!"
"I guess you have a point, your bad breath must just come naturally!"
"Should we go?" Jack asks Nami while the other two continued to argue. Nami nods slightly. They both walk away slowly, back to the farm.
The two glowing red eyes of Daachan remained on the ground, their bright shine fading away. Finally, after enduring for a few minuites (while Miro and Kate continued to fight), they dimmed down more and more, until finally they flickered out.
(So ends my longest chapter yet! Please give me reviews, I'd love to hear what everyone has to say about it.)