Yoh, Anna, and Manta are walking up a steep hill. Yoh and Manta are rather tired, but Anna isn't. Even if she is, she wouldn't show it anyway. "I'm tired…" complains Yoh. "When will we reach the top…?"
"You're getting useless all the time," says Anna. "Looks like I have to triple your training."
Upon hearing this, Yoh quickly runs up the hill at a very fast speed.
"That's better."
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They finally got to the top, where there is a cliff with the sea at the bottom. And it is a rather long drop too. "Ah… Finally here at last! And what a beautiful sight!" says Yoh.
"There's no time for sightseeing," Anna tells him. "We need to find the switch."
"I know."
Suddenly, they hear a loud roar, and then a gigantic Kremling, known as Kerozene, rises from behind the cliff! "What is that!" gasps Manta.
"It must be one of those crocodiles," says Anna. "Yoh, you handle him."
"I know. You and Manta stay back, okay?" says Yoh. "Time to battle, Amidamaru."
"I am ready when you are," says Amidamuar as he fades into existence.
"Okay, then oversoul into the Harusame!" Yoh turns Amidamaru into a spirit ball and puts him into his sword. The sword glows with a blue aura and a large red shield forms around the hilt.
Kerozene whips out two large swords in his hands, but the swords are still considered very small in Kerozene's point of view. He slams it down towards Yoh, but he successfully avoids it. The Kremling then swings it horizontally to hit him, but he jumps up avoid it.
No matter how Kerozene swings the double swords, Yoh is able to avoid each strike swiftly and with ease.
"I never knew Yoh is this agile!" says Manta.
"My training sure paid off," says Anna. "It never fails."
Yoh hops back a few yards from Kerozene and says, "Okay, it's my turn to attack. Celestial Slash!" He swings his sword in air and fires a crescent-shaped beam at Kerozene. It hits his right sword and shatters it into pieces.
Kerozene roars angrily and hurls his other sword at Yoh, who bats it away easily with his own.
"You shouldn't throw your sword. Now you don't have any weapons. What will you do?"
Kerozene takes a deep breath and let loose a stream of fire from his mouth. The shield around the sword's hilt quickly appears in front of Yoh and protects him from the flame.
"Oh no! Yoh is in trouble!" gasps Manta.
"No, he's all right," Anna tells him. "There is no way he can lose to a simple attack like this."
When Kerozene stops breathing fire, Yoh puts down the shield. "Over already?" he says curiously, but he is instantly punched by the Kreming's giant fist and is sent flying onto the ground. "Ow!"
Kerozene brings up his massive foot and brings it down at Yoh to stomp him, but he is able to roll aside before he gets flattened.
Yoh gets up and jumps at Kerozene to attack him. He jumps around the Kremling's body and slashes him in every part. Kerozene roars in frustration as he gets slashed, and he sways his hand around his body to get Yoh off.
Yoh finally drops back onto the ground and says to himself, "This thing won't go down, despite the fact I hit him several times already!" He turns to Anna and Manta and tells them, "We can't keep Donkey Kong and his friends waiting! You two must go find the switch! Don't worry; I'll catch up with you after I defeated this monster."
"Yoh is right! We must go find the switch first!" says Manta.
"Then let's go," says Anna, and they both run towards where the switch is.
Kerozene sees the two running towards the switch, and because K. Rool told him that no one should touch the switch, he breathes fire in at them. "Manta, Anna! Watch out!" Yoh shouts to them.
Manta and Anna turn around to see a large fireball coming towards them, and they quickly jump to the side and land onto some soft mud.
"Phew… That was close…" says Manta with a sigh of relief.
"Ugh… My dress is dirty…" says Anna in disgust.
Yoh jumps up to attack Kerozene again. "Don't hurt my friends! Your opponent is I alone!" He raises his sword and is about to slash Kerozene when the Kremling swings his massive hand at him and sends him onto the ground with a hard thud. "AH!"
Then Kerozene turns to Anna and Manta and picks up a large boulder, and hurls it at them. Manta screams in fright and quickly runs off by himself. Anna tries to get up to run, but she slips on the mud and falls again. She turns around and sees the boulder coming closer and closer to her. "Oh no…"
Yoh sees the boulder falling towards Anna, and he quickly runs towards her. "Anna! Run!"
The boulder falls closer and closer to her…
SLAM! SQUISH!
The boulder crushed her underneath, but her left hand is still sticking out from beneath it on the side.
A shocked expression appears on Yoh's face, and also Manta's. "Miss Anna… She… This can't be…" says Manta.
Yoh drops to his knees and tears begin to fall. "Anna… My Anna…"
Kerozene approaches him from behind and raises his fist. Yoh suddenly turns around and glares at him with really angry eyes. "How dare you!" He pulls out a small red knife-looking thing and touches it against his sword. In a bright flash, the two fused together to become a large beam sword!
Kerozene brings his fist down, but Yoh quickly dashed aside to dodge it. He swings the large sword at Kerozene's body, making a large gash across it. Kerozene cries in pain when hit. Yoh shoots up into the sky using the sword and slashes Kerozene across the face this time. Kerozene lets out a yowl and takes many steps back.
Yoh charges at him and again and says, "This is for Anna!" He thrusts the sword forward and stabs Kerozene right through the body. Manta is rather shocked to see Yoh killing off his enemy in a rather brutal way, as it is the first time he ever done something like this.
Yoh pulls the sword out of Kerozene's body and the giant Kremling falls backwards off the cliff and plummets into the sea below.
SPLASH!
Yoh looks down at the sea from the cliff for a few seconds, and then he quickly runs to the boulder that Anna is underneath. "Anna… Do we part ways from here… just like this…?"
Manta is also starting to cry. Even though Anna treated him rather cruelly, he still feels sad that this is the end of her. But wait… He notices that her left arm, which is sticking out from beneath the boulder, is twitching a bit. "Yoh! The fingers are still moving! She's still alive!"
"Really!" Yoh slashes the boulder with his sword and shatters it, freeing Anna from underneath. There lies Anna, wounded all over and lying in a blood-spattered mess. It was the softness of the muddy ground that softened the impact. She was pushed into the mud, and this as what prevented her from being crushed into a piece of paper.
Yoh lifts her up by her head. "Anna! Please say something! Please don't die!"
Anna slowly opens her eyes. "Yoh… Am I… in heaven…?"
"Don't say that! You're alive and well! I'll never let you leave my side!"
"Miss Anna! It's great that you're still alive!" says Manta with joy.
"It's all right now, Anna. I defeated the monster who tried to kill you."
"Thanks… Yoh…" And then she closes her eyes and passes out, but luckily, she's still breathing.
Yoh lifts her up and carries her on his back. "She needs to be treated instantly," says Manta. "Even though the muddy ground softened the impact, she still broke lots of bones and took serious internal injuries."
"I know, but we have to find the switch first."
"Right. I believe it's up on top of that rock."
They both look up at the towering rock. "How do we get up there?" asks Manta.
Suddenly, Anna, still being carried by Yoh, grabs him by the hair and tosses him up onto the rock.
"WHOA!"
"Uh… Anna…? You don't have to push yourself…" says Yoh, surprised by her sudden movement.
"How else are you going to get up there?" Anna asks him.
Up on the rock, Manta gets up and holds his head. "Ow… Miss Anna sure has lots of strength to survive a boulder crush and then even throw me up here… Oh look, it's the switch!" Manta jumps on top of the switch and steps on it rapidly until it sinks into the rock. A rumbling follows shortly after it is pressed. "Done, I guess…" He looks down from his standing place and shouts to Yoh, "How do I get down?"
"Um… Jump?"
"Are you kidding me! It's too high!"
"Just let me down and you catch him," Anna tells Yoh.
"But you're too weak to stand!" protests Yoh.
"Who says I'm too weak?" She hops down from Yoh's back and stands on two legs perfectly. "See?"
"Uh… Yeah, you still have strength…" Yoh looks up the rock. "Manta! Jump down and I'll catch you!"
"All right…" Manta has no choice, so he says a short prayer and jumps down from the rock and into Yoh's hand safely.
"There! What did I tell you?" says Yoh.
"Good catch!"
"All right, let's return to the others," says Anna. "But can you carry me again?"
"But you said you can walk by yourself," says Yoh.
"Who cares? I like being carried by you. You're going to carry me too after we get married, right?"
Yoh blushes at hearing this. "Um, yeah… All right, hop on…" He bends down and lets Anna climb onto his back. "Hold on tight."
So they walk back down the steep hill to return to the others.
TO BE CONTINUED…
So all 5 of the switches are activated. Ouch… Anna is crushed underneath a boulder, and she still lives! That's the good thing about stories—you can make things however you want!
Sorry if this chapter is rather short; I'm sort of running out of ideas. But anyway, I hope you still like it.