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Chapter 8: Mole and the SwordRen and Pai-Long are preparing to confront Hardhat and Kleever while Jun is standing at the back cheering for her brother and guardian.
"I'll fight the possessed sword and you fight the oversized mole," says Ren.
"I'll do as you say," replies Pai-Long.
"So you want to play it that way? I will! But Kleever doesn't care as long as he can dip his blade into someone's blood!" says Hardhat, and then he digs into the ground in a blink of an eye.
Kleever positions itself so that its tip of the blade is pointing at Ren, and then it charges at him. Ren holds up his kwan-dao and blocks the sword, and then they proceed to have a swordfight.
Hardhat reaches his claw out of the ground to slash Pai-Long, but the undead hops back to avoid it. Hardhat continues it again, but once again misses. This kept on going and going until Pai-Long is annoyed. He punches the ground where Hardhat is supposed to be under, but the mole pops out from behind him all of a sudden and swipes his claws. Pai-Long was able to flip away quickly before he gets hit.
"You're very quick for a big bulk like you!" says Hardhat.
Ren is still clashing swords with Kleever. The possessed sword backs off and hurls several fireballs at Ren, who quickly leaps aside to avoid it. "Rapid Tempo!" Ren thrusts his weapon in midair rapidly, firing several golden beams. The beams hit Kleever and send it flying backwards, slicing through a rock along the way, and then it drops onto the ground and stops moving.
"Is that all?" wonders Ren. "I was expecting more!"
Pai-Long is trying to hit Hardhat, but the mole pops up and down from the several holes that were dug earlier, so Pai-Long never scored a hit.
Hardhat pops out from a hole far from Pai-Long and throws his hat at him. Pai-Long quickly dodges the hat and it flies past him and towards Jun. She quickly ducks down to avoid it, but the hat comes back like a boomerang and slashes through her left arm in the process. "AH!"
The hat flies back to Hardhat and he puts it back onto his head. "Ha! My hat is like a boomerang. Because very few people know about it, they always end up getting hit as it is returning!"
"How dare you harm Lady Jun!" says Pai-Long angrily. He charges at the mole and tries to hit him again, but like usual, Hardhat pops into the hole to avoid the hit.
Ren looks at the fallen sword, which is starting to move again. Kleever gets up and glows in a blood red aura. "You're really pissed off, are you?" asks Ren. "Very well! That's the way I want it!"
Kleever charges at Ren and they fight again, but the possessed sword is fighting more furiously than before.
Pai-Long is getting more and more tired because he couldn't hit the mole at all. He looks at the holes around him and is trying to predict which hole he'll come out of. "Hehehe! Are you only aware of yourself?" says the voice of Hardhat coming from under the ground.
"Where are you? Come out at once!" demands Pai-Long.
"Now there are three of you, but why is only two fighting? Shouldn't everyone join the fun?"
Jun knows that Hardhat is talking about her, and she becomes aware of her surroundings. She looks back and forth for any incoming danger. Suddenly, Hardhat bursts out of the ground right next to her.
"Lady Jun! Watch out!" yells Pai-Long. Hardhat swings his claw at Jun and slashes her hard.
"AHHHHH!" She flies to the muddy ground with a large slash mark on her face and body. "Ugh… That hurts…"
Ren turns to look at Jun in concern. "Sister!" This gave a chance for Kleever to attack. He swings horizontally at Ren and cuts a gash in his right waist. "YAAAAA!" Ren drops his weapon and flies onto the ground in pain. "Ugh… I let my guard… down…!"
As Jun is trying to get up, Hardhat pops out again and hits her. "OUCH!"
"Stop it!" shouts Pai-Long. "Your opponent is I! Don't hurt her!"
But Hardhat ignores what he said and sticks his hand out of the ground and grabs Jun by her legs. "Want to go for a ride, lady?" And then he moves forward at a high speed, poking only his head and hands out of the ground. Because his hands are holding onto Jun, she gets pushed along as he moves.
"Ahhhh! What are you doing to me!" she screams.
Pai-Long quickly runs after them. "You! Stop it! Come back here!"
Ren gets up and grunts painfully. "Jun! I'll help you!" But he is immediately slashed in the back by Kleever. "AAAAHHHHH!" He collapses onto the ground.
Hardhat keeps on pushing Jun forward at a quick speed while Pai-Long is chasing from behind. "Let her go!"
"Stop! There's a stone wall in front!" screams Jun. "Stop!"
"I'm moving so fast that I can't stop!" says Hardhat sarcastically.
Jun gets pushed closer and closer to the wall. "NOOOOO!"
CRASH!
Hardhat crashes her right through the wall but did not stop there; he keeps on pushing her. This badly injured her face; blood is trickling down from it.
"Lady Jun! You monster, stop it!" yells Pai-Long while chasing the mole.
"I told you I can't stop!" replies Hardhat. "Hey Kleever! In for some slaughter?"
Kleever was about to spear Ren right through the heart when Hardhat called him, so it turns its attention to the mole. "I'll push the girl into you and you slice her head off clean, okay?" asks Hardhat. The eyes on the handle of Kleever glows in red, meaning to say yes. It positions itself to ready to give a deadly blow.
Ren slowly gets up. "I must not… let you… do it…"
Hardhat gets closer and closer to Kleever with Jun still in his grasp. "NOOOOO! I'M NOT READY TO DIE!" she screams.
Ren quickly pulls out the Sword of Thunder and stabs it into the earth. "Golden Thunder Impalement!"
This causes lots of sharp spikes to stick out of the ground. Because it came from the ground, it also poked Hardhat's butt in the process. "OWW!" He flies out of the ground and hurls Jun into the air. He was very near to Kleever when this happened. Kleever swings itself forward and cut Hardhat across his body instead. "UUUUUWAAAAAA!"
Hardhat flies into the air and falls back down with a crash, wallowing a puddle of his own blood.
Pai-Long hops into the air and catches Jun as she is falling back down. "Are you all right, Lady Jun?" he asks her in concern.
"I'm fine…" she replies weakly.
Ren turns to Kleever and slashes it with the Sword of Thunder. The powerful slash cleaves Kleever in half. The two halves of the sword fall onto the ground and the aura around it fades off.
"Huh… We did it…" says Ren.
Pai-Long drops onto the ground and places Jun down. She runs to Ren and hugs him tight. "I'm so glad you're all right, Ren!"
"Ugh! It hurts!"
"Oh sorry! I didn't know you are badly injured!" She lets go of Ren and is shocked to see her arms dyed in red. "Ren! You're bleeding all over!"
"These are nothing! You're badly injured in the face too."
"No! You're more serious! You need treatment at once!"
"Not until we found the switch."
"I believe it is there," says Pai-Long, pointing to a small dome up ahead. He runs into the dome and sees the switch, so he presses it and they all experience a short rumbling, and then it stops.
"Is that all?" wonders Ren, and then he collapse onto the ground due to loss of blood.
Jun kneels down next to him in concern. "Ren! Please be all right!"
"We must get back to the meeting place," says Pai-Long.
"Yes! Let's go!" She carries Ren on her back, even though she could've let Pai-Long do it, and they return to the crocodile mountain.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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