Ms O'hare walked around the market, looking at the various apples inside the stall, twidling her fingers as she decided which one was in the best condition, Gerard, Tess and Sean were just around the corner observing unbeknownst to her.
"Are you sure giving her this thing will work?" Asked Sean, holding up a blue calling card.
"Once she sees the card then her hearts inner desires will come forth and her treasure will show itself." Tess nodded, Sean put the card in his pocket. "I'll have to find some way to get her to read it." He said, walking forward, being sure to keep out of sight.
"Is something wrong?" Asked Gerard as Tess seemed a bit hesitant to continue.
She nodded slowly. "I am just not sure what is going to happen... this is the further I have ever gotten to stopping a palace... I still have parents and even a life but there is still this gap in my memory that I feel is important." She sighed, disheartenedly. "But maybe the metaverse is the key to finding out what happened... if I can regain my memory then maybe my heart will get stronger." She said with some new found determination.
"Yes." Gerard said, feeling like he understood them a bit better now.
-TESS SOCIAL LINK, THE HIGH PRIESTESS 0 - 1 (TESS WILL OCCASIONALLY BUY ICE CREAM THAT RECOVERS HP)-
THWACK!
"Go GO Go!" Sean whispered as he ran past them, having tied the calling card to a rock and throwing it at Ms. o'hare, Tess and Gerard immediately ran after him.
O'hare read the card. "Hm... Mhm... pathetic," she muttered, throwing the card in the trash as she clenched her fist, her eyes turned yellow and a burst of black aura came from her and slowly the people in the nearby area started to fall to the ground, their breathing slowed and the effects of the aura was getting larger. "WHEN I AM DONE WITH THEM THEY WILL BE NOTHING BUT SHRIVELED CORPSES!" She declared, the security level in the hospital turned to max almost immediately.
Gerard, Aaron, Daniel, Tess and Sean landed in the hospital corridor, turning into their various outfits.
"Our only objective today is to steal the treasure, Let's go!" Aaron yelled, taking a sip of the hot chocolate he had brought in, picking up the distant reading of the treasure on the upper floor.
They made their way through the various corridors, avoiding as many shadows as they could
"Why did you bring crutches? are you like disabled or something?" Asked Tess.
Sean glared at her in disbelief. "These... these are Tonfas, martial arts weapon-"
"But you have been running just fine!" Gerard pointed out.
"THESE DON'T EVEN REACH THE GROUND!" Sean yelled.
"Why do you have a motorcycle helmet?" Asked Tess.
"Because it is my mask!" Sean defends.
"Your outfit makes no sense, I know Tess's is kinda out there but for real it's like all over the place, it would be worse if your gun was like something from halo." Gerard laughed.
Sean went silent, his face flushed. "Uh..."
"Oh it isn't it." Daniel sighed.
"I DIDN'T PICK WHAT MY SOUL MANIFESTED-OH!" He gasped as the floor below them started to crack.
Him, Aaron and gerard fell through as Daniel and Tess jumped away, the three of them falling through down into a lower floor.
"They are being ambused!" Daniel exclaimed as they were quickly surrounded.
"This way to the stairwell!" Tess exclaimed, running to the nearest stair access point.
Sean clutched his helmet, shattering it into pieces as a horse being ridden by a black night appeared behind him. "King Arthur, go!" He declared the knight pointed his sword at the shadow, shooting a beam of holy damage from the tip of its sword and blasting directly into the enemies body, slowly but surely destroying it.
Gerard landed, staring at the Kali who brandished her four swords as them, smirking menacingly. "Aaron summon your persona, we can... aaron?" He asked, sensing an overwhelming power coming from aaron as he sat on his knees, staring at his spilled hot chocolate, clenching his fist. "I had barely started that... and starbucks is closed NOW!" He grumbled, standing up and staring at the shadow.
"This power..." Gerard murmured in shock.
"Gerard help me teach this whore a lesson..." He muttered as him, Gerard and the Kali were teleported to a night time city.
"SHOWTIME!" Aaron declared summoning Rumplestiltskin. "Za Warudo!" he yelled, stopping time, Gerard ran forward tearing out the glowing hear to the Kali and putting in on a rope.
"Now!" Gerard yelled as he summoned Atlas, Aaron quickly ran forward. "ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!" Aaron and Gerard screamed, dealing multiple blows to the heart.
"WHORE!" Aaron exclaimed, freezing the heart and shattering it, the shadow immediately disappeared as they came back to the hospital corriders.
That showtime attack took a lot energy to pull off, Gerard felt as if his bond with Aaron got just a bit strong.
-AARON SOCIAL LINK, THE MOON 0-1 (Aaron will be slightly less homophobic)-
"Oh you're ok." Daniel said as him and Tess came into the large open hallway.
Aaron chuckled. "Well yeah, it was a pretty shitty ambush."
"Believe me that is just the appetizer." O'hare said as she entered the hallway, although this time she was standing on spider legs coming down from her skirt.
"This presence... I can't believe it..." Tess gasped.
"We haven't found her treasure yet, this is bad." Aaron gulped.
"It wouldn't matter..." Tess commented, everyone looked at her. "She... she is not even human!" She exclaimed, staring at Ms. O'hare "What are you!?" She declared.
O'hare laughed. "The dark hour, the holy grail, the murders in that small town, all but a figment of the consciousness that those beyond manifested, I am simply a fragment of what remains and thus when I gain enough power, I will be able to join with the other fragments and revive the dark masters such as Nyx or Nyarlathotep." She laughed.
"Who are they?" Asked Daniel.
"If I had to guess, darkness that the groups before us managed to lock away, but it seems that they managed to break some of their power and hide it here so one day they could be revived once again." Tess explained.
Aaron aimed his wrist cannon. "Well that isn't gonna happen is it now?" He said, firing a blast at Ohare who shrugged it off as her clothing ripped and fell off, revealing a hairy spider-like body.
"I am so glad I'm gay." Gerard sighed, staring up at her.
"Once I catch you flies, I'll digest you externally." She laughed, her face getting bigger and stretching out as her body got bigger and she grew more legs, eventually becoming a giant spider that looked like it was wearing the skinn of an old woman, O'hare large empty eye sockets and lips were also visible and wrinkled like a mask as it covered the massive body.
"Forgot the treasure, we need to kill her, if she is alive then it won't matter what we do, she isn't even human!" Tess yelled, pulling her hat off and summoning Mystery, the plesi squeaked and shot a beam of psychic energy at the spider.
O'hare ducked, pointing at them. "Let's see you avoid THIS!" She barked, choking and vomiting up a green web towards them.
"Dovah..." Daniel murmured, summoning his chains and wacking them around, creating a sphere of fire in the area and burning and batting the web away before it could touch them.
Aaron and Gerard ran forward, summoning their personas and blasting ice and nuclear damage at her.
Ohare grunted as her back started to bleed yellow blood, she quickly jumped upwards, hanging from the ceiling on the web and starting to fix herself.
"We need to send someone to cut that line or else she will just keep healing herself..." Aaron pointed out.
"Daniel, make yourself useful for once and cut her down!" Gerard yelled.
"Yo that's toxic, just wait the carry is here." Daniel said, using his chains to grab onto the bars of the window high up and starting to climb to it.
O'hare jumped down from the ceiling with a fully patched wound. "Let's see you avoid THIS!" She laughed, once again vomiting a few green webs from her mouth, Sean using his halo gun to blast them away, giving Tess a boost upward as she threw her machete into O'hare's eyes.
"AH FUCKING SLUT, I'LL GIVE YOU DETENTION!" The spider screamed.
"Can't give me shit when your dead!" Tess yelled, taking out a shovel launcher and shooting a shovel at her, hitting the handle of the machete and pushing it deeper into her eye.
"Ah... DIE DIE DIE!" Ohare howled, stomping her legs on the ground, causing an earthquake.
Daniel grunted, being thrown back and forth, barely being able to hold onto his chains.
"Rumple!" Aaron called, freezing the spider's legs.
"Atlas!" Gerard called, the snow leopard blasted beams from it's eyes, eliminating Ohares back legs.
Sean leapt forwards, using his Tonfas and shattering the other legs that were frozen.
Ohare sobbed, vomiting yellow blood and acid around her, forcing everyone else to back off.
"This is it, she is going to heal!" Tess exclaimed as the spider shot a web at the ceiling and quickly ascended up to patch her wounds.
Daniel stood on the window to the side, taking out his Scottish claymore. "Great!" He exclaimed, throwing it and cutting the web strand as he jumped forward, grabbing the hilt of the claymore "Aether!" Daniel yelled, slamming down onto the body of the spider as they crashed to the ground, pulling his sword out and jumping to join the rest of the gang.
"The enemy is weak, if we attack now we can kill her."
"Everyone go all out!" Gerard yelled as everyone jumped forward, using their combined power to slice, hit and wound in a concentrated all out attack.
Gerard skidded to a halt on the ground. "You were already dead." He sighed as Ms. Ohare blew up, melting rapidly into the ground.
THUD
THUD
ceilings and walls began to crack and the ground started to shake, every single window in the hall was starting to break apart.
"The palace is collapsing... we need to get out of here!" Tess yelled, opening the door for everyone who quickly followed her.
back in the real world the dark aura that was slowly draining the life and youth of those around her stopped as Ms. Ohare coughed up some black sludge and her eyes rolled back into her head, her body shook uncontrollably as she exploded, blood splattering everywhere, everyone staring at the remains before slowly starting to scream in horror at what just happened.
With Ohare defeated and the hospital palace gone, countless people were safe from her youth sucking powers, but as the thieves who did it, something bigger was just starting.
