Chapter 44
The party met Trevrep in a huge room in the castle. The path had been clearly marked, and there had been no monster attacks on the way. However, as soon as the team entered, the exits were blocked, and what was apparently the final battle began.
Frus' turn was first, and he struck with his sword…and met defenses. The same happened when Vrust attacked with his sword. Then, it was Ivy's turn. She went over to Trevrep and placed a hand on the side of his face. She claimed that she wanted to join the winning team, then whispered something that the others couldn't hear, and a grin that said slime ball spread across Trevrep's face. Ivy knew that she needed to smile, too, to make it convincing, but she had to think about other things to pull that off. Just standing too close left a bad taste in her mouth, and what she'd just said made her want to vomit.
Ygrene attacked as hard as he could, and his attack did full damage, and was a critical hit as well. However, with Trevrep thinking that he had already won, he didn't even react. He even skipped his turn! Frus acted on this stupidity, mana-charging his sword and striking, landing a critical hit like Ygrene. Vrust did the same, and Trevrep was finally knocked out of his stupor. It was too late to put up his defenses, however, and since Ivy could tell that he was alert, she attacked him as hard as she could. Ygrene, seeing that the team would need a new edge, now, used a status-inducing spell, and a green haze appeared around Trevrep's head.
On Trevrep's turn, he renewed his defenses and attacked Frus with a giant sword that had one blade of ice and one of fire with some chaos magic sprinkled over the whole thing. He attacked Frus and did a huge amount of damage. Oh Frus' next turn, he fully healed himself with some really good item. Trevrep took another turn, and he attacked Vrust this time. Vrust used his turn to attack Trevrep, but with the defenses up it did little damage. Trevrep took the rest of his health on his next turn. Ivy attacked him with lighting magic on her next turn, but Trevrep's defenses were superb. He attacked Frus again, and then it was Ygrene's turn. Ygrene attacked Trevrep again. Then trevrep tried to attack Frus and take him out of the fight…but he missed.
On Frus' next turn, he used the rest of his mana in an attack on Trevrep, who tried attacking Ygrene instead. Then, Ivy attacked Trevrep, and once again Trevrep attacked Ygrene. Ygrene fell, and it was down to Frus and Ivy.
Frus attacked, and Trevrep attacked him right back, but he missed again. After Ivy's attack, Trevrep looked at her and sighed. "Sorry, babe," he said, "but I plan on winning this. I'll revive you soon enough after the fight." With that, he attacked Ivy with his sword. The battle continued on, and after two more attacks Ivy was down as well, and at the same time the haze around Trevrep faded. He knew that the battle was about to end. Just to be sure, he used a spell that would freeze Frus for two turns. Trevrep was about to attack, when suddenly the game said that it wasn't his turn. He looked up, and saw Ygrene vanish and Saga appear in his place. Saga, who was fresh and ready to fight, where as Trevrep had used a desperation spell in case his next attack on Frus didn't end it. And of course, there was the fact that he'd forgotten to renew his defenses since Frus was frozen anyway. However Saga had joined the battle, Trevrep was in trouble.
Or, at least that's what he thought. Almost immediately, Saga began to vanish, and he couldn't attack. As Trevrep was about to let out a shout of triumph, Saga held up a big red feather, and dropped it onto Ivy. Apparently some sort of Deluxe Feenix Down (darn you, Puck!), it fully healed Ivy, and restored all of her mana. Saga was grinning evilly when he disappeared back to the waiting place outside the battle.