"I don't want to." Nika told Angel, "It's not a choice, it's a must." Angel corrected, "We don't know what could be under this!" Nika exclaimed, but Angel just sort of froze in response.
After a few seconds of nothing, Nika waved her hand in front of Angel's face, checking if she was alright, "Hello? Are you there?" she asked, "Under this place there's just pools of poison and revived corpses." Angel finally said, "Corpses of what?' Nika asked, "Bokoblins." Angel answered, "Alright then..." Nika finally relented.
Now the issue was understanding how to get there... "Pressure Engine!" Nika exclaimed before taking the form she used to fight the Imprisoned, and just like then, she retracted her hand in her arm and it the spring effect shot it against the ground, making it crumble to rubble, revealing the chest that contained the key, "This is too easy..." Nika commented, "Master... This isn't how this place works..." Angel informed.
"Why are you so talkative all of a sudden!?" Nika lamented, not used to hearing the sword spirit talk so much, "It's because of the holy magic in this location, either way Master, the hole is fixing itself, so I'd hurry." Angel warned, prompting Nika to jump down the hole, into a cave where the holy aura was instantly replaced by an incredibly evil presence, "Okay. Key. Get Out." Nika quickly planned.
The key in the chest looked a lot simpler than all the others, the only thing to do now is get out using the... Hole... That is now closed. "Sh*t." Nika stated, since this is all this situation is, nothing less, nothing... Scratch that, it is more, as corpses started rising from the ground, surrounding Nika, who deactived Pressure Engine, and didn't have time to activate it again.
This means running, "You know Angel!? When you said that there were resurrected corpses in this place, you could have at least mentioned that they where buried wherever!" Nika lamented as she kept running, avoiding the hands coming out of the ground, trying to grab her, and the fact that there were pools of very dangerous looking liquid didn't help.
Running didn't fix the problem however, as there was a waterfall of that dangerous liquid, "Fighting it is." Nika muttered bringing out the sword, which seemed to scare the res- Zombies a little, but not nearly enough to make them back off, so Nika started slicing them down.
Legs, hands, arms, and many more undisclosed body parts fell to the ground, but that didn't matter as the body parts kept moving, Nika even tried to cut the body parts to pieces that couldn't move, didn''t work, the flesh chunks reformed into tiny bodies, somehow.
"F*ck! F*ck! F*CK!" Nika lamented as more and more zombies kept coming out of the ground, worst part, her devil fruit powers would be even more useless, if cutting limbs off didn't work, punching them would work even less, "Master, I suggest-" Angel started talking, but Nika interrupted "Nothing! I can't run away! I can't kill these things! And if I do they might just come back to life! So I might just-" Angel interrupted in kind "Master! The panic you're feeling activated that power you used in the lake!"
And Nika noticed that her clothes turned white, along with her hair, and instantly the panic disappeared, to be replaced by pure joy and happiness, "Heheh... HAHAHAHAHAH! How did i not notice!?" Nika questioned herself before kicking the ground hard, making act like a bouncy castle, knocking the zombies away, along with launching her to the ceiling and to the main room of the cistern.
"Now to find that flame." Nika pondered, before remembering that the door was in the statue, she broke down the door and entered and saw the door on the ceiling, but in the process of breaking down the door, she fell down to the room in where she fought the bistalfos, but the moment she touched the ground, she got squished like a spring and bounced back up to the door.
The key she found under the Cistern was he simplest one yet, but behind the door there was just the top of the statue, with a valve, it was thee only thing there so Nika decided to turn it, what's the worst that could happen?
When she finished turning it, the head of the statue started rising into a slot in the ceiling that Nika didn't notice before, when the head stopped, the only thing around was a single set of stairs.
The only way now was up, then when near the top she spotted Ghirahim sitting on a robot looking thing, down was an option now, but Ghirahim saw her, "Already looking all white!?" He lamented, but it made Nika smirk, "Yeah, I think it looks better on me rather than you." She responded, only serving to piss off Ghirahim, who snapped his fingers and generated a lot of black goo inside the robot thing, allowing it to move, then Ghirahim disappeared, leaving Nika as the only target.
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"Doesn't have legs luckily." Nika commented, but to her dismay, it pulled out six swords in total, "I jinxed it." She said before quickly moving to the side to avoid being sliced in half, this made the sword get stuck to the ground, allowing Nika to try and cut one of it's arms off, but when her sword made contact, it just bounced off due to the metal being too strong.
Nika didn't have enough time to think about that as she was flung upwards by the robot pulling it's sword out of the ground, it probably wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't that her body wasn't following the laws of physics right now, causing her to reach the ceiling, but this allowed her to make her hand grow to at least the size of the robot itself, so while it wasn't a certain knockout, it was enough to rip it out of the floor, revealing a set of legs, but also breaking off some of the plating on it's arms and chest, showing some red cores.
Seeing this, Nika got an idea, she landed back on the ground and waited for the robot to attack like it did before, and when it got it's sword stuck in the ground again, she was able to cut it's arm off and grab it's sword, "Heavy..." She muttered, but it didn't really matter since it would probably be enough for her to break at least the legs.
With one very painful swing, she made the legs shatter, making the robot fall to the ground and lose it's balance, this allowed Nika to attack the cores that were on it's chest, swing after swing, the robot seemed to lose more and more of the goo Ghirahim put in it, causing the arms to go limp, but what she didn't expect was the arm she cut off before to suddendly snatch the sword from her hands, while the robot swatted her like a fly into a wall, and in that moment, it punched the wall, causing a piece of the ceiling to fall on Nika.
The "threat" seemed to have disappeared, so the roboit was about to get stationary again, but Nika was pissed enough by having had the ceiling fall on her, so much so that she instinctively turned giant, much bigger than the robot and kicked it so hard that it broke through the wall of the Cistern and sent it flying across the ocean onto an island where someone was building a machine that very much needed this kind of technology, maybe someone would be able to improve it in the future, if only it could be an actual living thing.
But back to Nika, she took a moment to realize what she just did, but not even the time to look at herself that this last stunt costed her the last minutes of this form, turning to normal and falling to the ground, passing out once more.