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BGM: World 1 Map (Super Mario 3D Land)
"Aw, cheer up, Cloud. It's not that big of a deal." Yuffie said as they walked around.
"Oh yeah? Name one good reason."
"Well, for starters, you still have your Buster Sword along with your Summoning Materia." Yuffie pointed out.
"Yeah, and just imagine beating Sephiroth as a Moogle!" Tifa said.
"Hmm…"
"You just got bested by a Moogle. That's embarassing even for you!"
"Mother… put me out of my misery!"
Cloud smirked. "Well, I suppose-"
"No no no, it's obviously missing something." Barret pointed out.
"You just got bested by a Moogle. That's embarassing even for you, Kupo!"
"I AM NOT SAYING KUPO!" Cloud yelled, causing Barret to laugh.
"You just did." Aerith pointed out, causing Cloud's face to go red.
"Mmph…" Cloud grumbled.
"Ah, I wouldn't worry too much about that." Red said.
"Yeah, nothin' to worry about, my good man." Barret chuckled.
"Remind Ibuki to trick him into saying Kupo later." Ibuki whispered.
"How are you gonna pull that off?" Chiaki whispered back.
"Oh, you know her. She always finds a way~" Ibuki giggled.
"Good point." Chiaki chuckled.
"Hello, what's this?" Nora wondered, staring at a small hill on the ground.
"It looks to be a small dirt mound of some kind." Jaune said.
"Just out in the open? Probably a Monty Mole trying to cover its tracks." Nora said as she stood on top of it. "Hey buddy boy, you didn't do a good job!" She said as the ground underneath her started to vibrate. "Pffft, I see you don't take criticism that well. Here's some advice. Take a deep breath and-"
Turns out, it was a water geyser. And it sprayed tons of water into Nora that launched her high into the way. "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Oh, it's a water geyser." Ruby said.
"I was wondering how we'd get up on that platform up there." Weiss said.
"Welp, up we go!" Yang grinned.
End BGM
Nora landed on top, soaking wet. "Plepth… I'm okay…" She said, getting up and shaking the water off of her as a lightning bolt landed near her. She looked to see Laxus coming out.
"You alright?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine." Nora said, tilting her head and smacking her ear to get the water out.
Laxus glanced over at a ! Block. "Hmm? What's this?" He wondered as he smacked it, as a directional platform popped into existence on a railing.
"Oh sweet!" Nora exclaimed.
Laxus sweatdropped. "Uh… can we take the scenic route?"
"Nonsense! It's not like you have motion sickness, right?"
…It's all in your head. Besides, it's in the past. Not like it stuck with me for centuries. Laxus thought. "I shouldn't."
"Great!" Nora grinned. "Now let's go!"
World 1-4 - Need a Ride?
BGM: Athletic (Super Mario 3D Land)
Nora hopped on along with Laxus as they started moving. Nora sat down and took a deep breath. "Ah, feels great to sit down and enjoy the ride, eh?" She asked, watching some Paragoombas fly by.
"Y-yeah… that's one way to think like that…" Laxus groaned.
"Hmm?" Nora turned her head to see Laxus completely pale. "Whoa! Are you okay? You look pasty!"
"It's fine… I… I just need to get out in the sun more often…"
"You had color just a second ago!"
"Mmph… I'm fine…"
"You are definitely not fine!" Nora argued as they turned a corner. "Just close your eyes! Try to imagine you're not on this thing!"
Laxus closed his eyes, desperate to picture himself back at Toad Town and sitting on a bench. "Mmm…" He mumbled, as Nora would see color on his face returning.
That's my guy! She thought as she turned around to enjoy the ride. She did spot a Grimm Paragoomba terrorizing some other Paragoombas, so she lightly zapped it to clip its wings and caused it to fall into the watery depths below.
With a smile, she leaned back to enjoy herself while also keeping an eye on Laxus. It seemed as if he was meditating to try and fight it. She looked around to see water geysers shooting water out all around. She smiled and took a deep breath, and then a water geyser shot up in front of them.
She let out a giggle, before realizing it was between the rails. She grimaced as the platform hit the water geyser and flew up to a smaller railing. The thud was enough to make Laxus groan. "Tell me we didn't just fly with this thing…"
"Nooooo, of course not! It's just your imagination and-" The platform fell off and went back onto the original railing. To make matters worse, the platform started to go down a small slope. Normally, she'd be going "Wahoooo!" but this time, she was desperately trying to get Laxus from puking. '
"Uuungh…" He gagged.
"Deep breaths! Deep breaths, big guy!" Nora turned around and saw brick blocks that they were about to smack their heads against. She swiftly pulled out her hammer and destroyed the brick blocks, including a few Grimm Paragoombas that were hiding against them.
They came to a gentle stop soon after. "Phew…" Nora sighed with relief as she grabbed Laxus's arm as they got off.
"Ugh… I'm so glad it's over." Laxus mumbled.
"I wonder how the others are taking it?"
Behind them…
"We're not getting anywhere!" Simmons said.
"That's because we're all on the platform!" Epsilon pointed out. "We're all on both arrows!"
"Well, someone's gonna have to give us a push!" Tucker said.
"Okay!" Caboose hopped off and kicked the platform as hard as he could, which was enough to send the platform sailing.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"When you guys are done, I get a turn, okay?" Caboose called out as Ruby hit the ! Block. "Oooh, my turn!" He hopped on along with RWBY, Tai and Maia as they took off.
"Shovel hoooo!" Shovel Knight raised his shovel in the air as he, Shield Knight, Byleth and Dorothea went off next.
"Waaaaaaaaaaah!" Xion yelled as Lea used his fire to give them a strong push.
"Lea, this is insane!" Ven exclaimed.
"Nah, this is how ya do it!"
Another platform went by as Isa had his arms folded with JPR, Pyrrha using her semblance to control it. "And this is why I chose not to ride with Lea."
"Noted." Jaune nodded.
"Onward!" Daisy exclaimed as she, Luigi, Mario and the Pits rode off.
"Glad I picked up a lot of those Ethers!" Aerith said, using Aeroga as her team went by.
"Way better than just moving around!" Yuffie chuckled.
"This is fine." Jade said as Xena telekinetically moved them across.
"I can easily take a nap like this." Umber said as he was with them.
"Let's see…" Chiaki looked through her menus. "There's gotta be something that would get us through safely without exhausting ourselves."
"Ibuki's got a better idea." Ibuki strummed her guitar as electricity poured out as it went underneath the platform as the electricity started to push them forward.
"Oooor we can do this." Chiaki chuckled. "Sooooo, are we gonna slow down or…?"
"Where's the fun in that?"
Chiaki sweatdropped. "Oh boy…"
As for the rest, Rosalina and Summer simply flew across, Raven and Qrow turned into birds and Gloria went into her Beedrill form to fly across.
Back with Nora and Laxus…
"Alright… I'm good to go." Laxus said as he saw another ! Block as Nora hit it where another directional platform popped into existence. "Ah… shit."
"Just like I told ya, deep breaths and pretend you're somewhere else!" Nora advised as they got on, where Laxus did what Nora advised him to do. "That's it, deep breaths."
CRASH!
"Hmm?" Nora turned her head.
"Waaaaaaaaah!" All the Reds and Blues slammed into the ground in one massive pile.
"Oooh." Nora winced.
"Ya know… I can see why Tex didn't want to come…" Grif mumbled.
"Ah, she's just a stick in the mud!" Donut said.
Nora turned around. "They'll be fine." She chuckled, and then turned around… to fall off and landed onto another railway.
"Mmmph!" Laxus grimaced.
Nora put her hands on his shoulder. "Deep breaths." She said, massaging his shoulders. "Picture yourself sitting on a bench, eating a snowcone and enjoying the weather, watching everything go by in a soft and gentle way…"
"You could make a good therapist…"
"Me? Naaaaah, I don't think so. That's all Byleth!" Nora smiled as she saw some water geysers up ahead. Oh crap… She thought. "Okay, we're gonna experience some turbulence, but picture yourself meditating on top of a mountain. Nothing that can make you sick…"
They went over a water geyser that pushed them on top of another railing. The small thud was enough to bother Laxus, but he dismissed it thanks to Nora. "There we go, nice and easy… nothing will disturb this moment." She said as she looked up ahead and saw a massive slope that went into some water geysers, followed by a looooooooong fall to the bottom.
EXCEPT FOR THAT! Nora thought as she swiftly hit the back button just before they hit the lip. Phew…
"Are we there already?"
"No no, we're just letting a Para Biddy Bud and her children fly by. No need to worry!" Crap, how am I going to get to the bottom? I can slow the descent, but there's no way to slow down that long fall…
"How many?"
"Uh… thirty little babies!" Nora lied.
"Wow, they multiply like rabbits, don't they?"
"Yeeeeah, they sure do!" Crap, think Nora think! There's gotta be an alternate route!
"MOVE! MOOOOOOVE!"
Nora looked over to see the Reds and Blues speeding towards them. It appears that Caboose had kicked them again.
"Out of our way!"
"We're gonna hit you!"
"MOVE DAMMIT!"
Oh crap… Nora thought, sweating nervously. OH CRAP OH CRAP OH CRAP OH CRAP OH CRAP OH CRAP!
POW!
"MMMPH!" Nora was thrown back into the forward button, and along with the momentum, was enough to send them careening down the slope. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" She screamed.
"Hnnngh!" Laxus immediately turned green, as Nora desperately reached for the back button, pressing her hands on it.
"GOT IT!" She yelled. "…Wait, why do I feel weightless?"
She looked behind to see that she was a little too late as the platform had hit the water geysers that shot them high into the air. "OH FORGET IT!" She yelled, grabbing a hold of Laxus and converted their bodies into electricity and shot off into the air and then down right at the flagpole.
End BGM
"Uuugh…" Laxus groaned, rubbing his head right as Nora slid down the flagpole.
"There we go." Nora smiled.
THUD!
Nora turned her head to see the Reds and Blues all piled up again as their platform rolled to a gentle stop while the first platform was upside down.
"We're okay…" Tucker groaned as one by one, the groups came to a stop.
"I would've preferred not falling from that height." Weiss said, gently scratching Blake's ears to calm her down.
"Okay… never again." She shuddered as the others came over.
"Whew… yeah, I'm not doing that again either." Dorothea said.
"Agreed." Byleth nodded.
"Hey… where are the Ultimates?" Nyx asked.
"Uh… take a wild guess!" Umber pointed into the distance.
"WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Ibuki cheered.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Chiaki screamed as they slammed onto the pile of platforms.
"Woo! What a rush!" Ibuki grinned.
"Aheheheh… uh… it's cool… I'll just stay here and wait for the feeling in my legs to come back…" Chiaki groaned.
"Is he okay?" Pyrrha asked with concern.
"He has motion sickness." Nora explained.
"Ugh… why did that have to come with me…" Laxus mumbled.
"So you had motion sickness back in your day?" Ruby asked.
"It wasn't just me who had it. Apparently, it only affected us Dragon Slayers. Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy, me, Sting, Rogue and Erik, although he preferred to call himself Cobra because he was a snake Faunus."
"So you had dragons way back then?" Gloria asked.
"Well, we had a lot of Grimm Dragons… and we were the ones who were able to take them down without much effort, hence our nicknames. Although Erza could also take them down without much trouble… yet she didn't seem to want the title of "Dragon Slayer". Unfortunately, we all seemed to get motion sick… at one point, Wendy wasn't affected by it, but at some point, she started to get nauseous."
He folded his arms. "I can understand that the idiot got motion sick… I have a theory it's because he's too rambunctious, but the rest of us? It's not fair, honestly."
"Was Natsu actually that much of an idiot?" Ren asked.
"Well…"
BGM: Let's Party! (Fairy Tail 2014)
"Waaaah!"
Thud!
"We mustn't let ourselves be discovered. We are ninja!" Natsu said, covering his head with his scarf and holding his hands together.
"Ninja!" Happy repeated, having a scarf of his own.
"Ninjas are supposed to be quiet, guys…" Lucy groaned.
"RAAAAAH! I'M THE CRAZY LADY YOU OLD TIMERS HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR!" Natsu yelled, wearing a horrible disguise of Erza. "IF YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH HOW ME AND MY GUILD WORKS, YOU CAN FIGHT ME!"
"Oh no…" Erza groaned while facepalming.
"I AM THE ALL POWERFUL ERZA! IF YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T CRAZY BEFORE, YOU HAVEN'T SEEN NOTHING YET!"
"Really? You've never heard of the Tortoise and the Cheerleader?"
"It was a hare, you moron!" Gajeel yelled. "And the dumb bunny lost, remember!"
"Heheheh…" Natsu smirked, using his fire to try to bring a petrified Erza back to life… only she started to crack.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" He, Happy, Gajeel and Makarov yelled.
Natsu picked up the statue. "I didn't mean to break her! Someone get me the glue!" He yelled in a panic. "Quick! Happy! Glue!"
"DO WE HAVE ANY GLUE?!" Happy yelled.
"That's not gonna do anything, you idiot! We gotta use your fire and my iron semblance to weld her back together!"
"ERZA, NO!" Makarov yelled.
Erza continued to crack some more. "Ah! I'm sorry!" Natsu kept bowing repeatedly. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I'm sorr-" Erza broke free. "Oh!"
"I feel hot… it was you, wasn't it?" Erza gave Natsu and Gajeel a death glare, and then slugged them hard enough to send them flying. "WERE YOU TRYING TO COOK ME?!"
"Lucy, listen…"
"Natsu…" Lucy blushed.
"I ate so much, you're gonna have to roll me home!"
"Oh, that's just great…"
"Aaaah, what a day…" Lucy said as she walked into her home. "After that crazy mission, I can just take a nice long rest…" Lucy opened the door to her room… to see Natsu doing situps on the floor with Happy holding him down.
"Thirty! Thirty one!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Lucy shrieked.
"Oh hey Lucy. Welcome ho-"
"GET OUT OF MY ROOM!" Lucy yelled, kicking the two out of the window.
End BGM
"Let's just say if there ever was a moment to commemorate a historic event, that knucklehead would probably ruin it." Laxus said.
"Oooh…" Nora winced.
"That definitely sounds like him." Chiaki said once she got the feeling in her legs again.
"Why does that sound familiar all of a sudden…" Mario rubbed his chin. "Eh, I'mm-a probably going crazy."
Laxus stood back up. "Alright, so we ready to go then?"
"Yup! Let's rock!" Ruby said as they took off running… and they would eventually come across a castle.
"We're there already?" Weiss wondered. "Huh… that didn't take too long."
"Eh, it's only the first area." Ruby shrugged. "So… who do you expect we'll be fighting?"
"Larry." Jaune said.
"Lemmy." Yang and Weiss said.
"Iggy." Blake guessed.
"A fake Bowser with a Tanooki Tail that is actually a Goomba." Chiaki guessed.
"I can see that happening." Ruby said. "Let's rock!"
World 1-Castle: A Harsh Greeting
BGM: Castle (Super Mario 3D Land)
Laxus walked up to the doors and punched them open as they would all inside. They would proceed to hop down a ledge and landed on a few Draglets. They would work their way ahead as they jumped over some firebars as some Podoboos popped out of the lava.
They would see spinning gears as platforms as everyone made it across while Laxus decided to zip on over with his semblance, and then kicked a Grimm Bones into the lava. They then rode a platform that rose up from a lava geyser as they walked their way through a grate, working their way around some plumes of lava.
Once they got past that, they would see a few Grimm Hammer Bros throwing hammers at them. Once the hammers hit the ground, the hammers split and exploded, shooting out spikes everywhere. "Whoa!" Ruby yelped as Pyrrha and Jaune used their shields to block the spikes, and then Xena floated up and shot out telekinetic fire at them to burn them and Nyx fired her crossbows to put them out of their misery.
"That's concerning…" Nyx mused.
"Yeah, something's up." Iris said as they walked further along as some Grimm Thwomps slammed into the ground, producing shockwaves and shooting out large bony spikes. Daisy would conjure up crystal spears and launched them toward the Thwomps, pinning them against the walls.
"Alright, that'll buy us time. Go!" Daisy said as they slipped past the Thwomps as they would come into contact with a Grimm Bones as Tifa swatted it away with her fist, then they hopped down and ran across the pathway.
Strange… shouldn't we be attack by now? Chiaki wondered.
"Ibuki doesn't like this…"
"My my my, it seems you've gathered up a large crowd!" A voice said before they got to the bridge.
End BGM
"Who said that?" Cloud asked, readying his Buster Sword.
Byleth looked around and then looked up at the building up ahead. "Over there!" She pointed as they turned to see a certain man sitting on top of the roof, wearing a red cape.
BGM: Ghirahim's Theme (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
"Wait a minute, I know him!" Ruby exclaimed. "It's that Assist Trophy that rarely shows up at the Smash Mansion! What was it again… Ghorahime…?"
"Ghirahim." Chiaki corrected.
"That's Lord Ghirahim to you." Ghirahim responded. "And it amuses me that you think you all can just go around in these eight areas and not realize what's really going on."
"Do you have the power to control Grimm?" Summer asked.
"Hmhmhmhm~ I am neither confirming nor denying it." Ghirahim said. "That said, if you continue on with your little quest, you'll be met with disappointment."
"Yeah, like what?" Yang demanded.
"I am not spilling any secrets to any of you. However-" He pointed to Ruby. "Do you consider yourself to be strong?"
"Yeah…? Of course I do!"
Ghirahim smirked, suddenly disappearing as he appeared behind Ruby, "Well now-" He put his hands on her upper arms and put his face close to her ear. "Shall we put that to the test then?"
"Mmmph!" Ruby shivered.
"HEY!" Pit fired an arrow at him. "Get your hands off of my girl." He said in a low threatening voice.
"Right, you people exist too." Ghirahim snapped his fingers as the doors opened up as Triceratops and Stegosaurus Grimm came running out. "Dispose of these idiots." He said and disappeared with Ruby.
End BGM
BGM: Bowser's Lava Lake Keep (Super Mario 3D World)
"What the hell are those things?!" Byleth said in surprise.
"Definitely Grimm!" Laxus said.
"I've heard about these two. That Triceratops is called the Ngoubou and the Stegosaurus is called the Muhuru!" Summer said.
"Let's take these assholes down. I'd rather not know what he's planning on doing to Ruby!" Yang said as everyone got ready to fight, then they would see a whole stampede of Ngoubou and Muhuru.
"We're gonna be a while." Nora said as Gloria transformed into her Latias form.
A Ngoubou charged ahead at Shovel Knight, but he jumped up, thrusting his shovel down to bounce off of its faceplate and landed behind it as the Triceratops Grimm kept charging and charged through a few pillars as it landed in the lava. "Interesting…" He mused as he turned around and charged up his shovel as he swung hard at the Muhuru as it had swung its tail at Shield Knight and JINXY.
The Muhuru turned to Shovel Knight and curled its whole body into a ball and spun like a spinning saw blade and lunged at Shovel Knight, but he jumped away as the Muhuru stopped and turned, only to get lighting punched in the face by Laxus, sending it into the lava.
Another Ngoubou charged at Rosalina, but she telekinetically stopped it and turned it around where it bowled over a few smaller Muhuru's, killing them as the Ngoubou struck the wall and was stunned, where Tai and Yang both draconically punched it in the sides until the Triceratops pulled its horns out of the wall as it turned around and attempted to impale the two, unaware of a glyph forming underneath it and an iceberg impaled it as it disintegrated right after.
A Muhuru swung its tail at Chiaki, but she blocked with the Hylian Shield and then slashed away with the Master Sword. The Muhuru shoved its body into Chiaki, making her slide as Ibuki aimed her guitar and strummed it, as fire shot out of it to make it take a step back. Chiaki would take this opportunity to swiftly go into her screens and changed her weapon to an Oathkeeper Keyblade as she unleashed a Thundaga on it, then Xion came in with a Zantetsuken to slash through the Muhuru. "Wow, it even lets you use those?" Xion asked.
"Yup!" Chiaki nodded, dodging a Ngoubou that charged at her as Tifa put her hands up front and stopped the charging dinosaur after sliding several feet. The Triceratops tried to shake her off but Tifa managed to pick it up by the horns and thrusted her body down, shoving its face into the ground where Cloud Cross Slashed it from the side and Barrett used some Materia to unleash Firaga Shots at it, then Red would claw it with a few Blizzaga slash attacks.
"They just keep coming!" Dorothea said.
"We have to make sure one of us gets to Ruby and Ghirahim!" Byleth said, fiercely cutting through a Muhuru.
Speaking of Ruby and Ghirahim…
End BGM
"Nngh!" Ruby was thrown against the carpet on the roof.
"Hmhmhmhm. There, none of them will disturb us."
Ruby got up. "What's your deal? Why go out of your way to kidnap me?"
"I just want to see if you're truly ready." Ghirahim smirked.
"Ready for what?"
"Why, the ultimate slaughterfest, of course!"
Ruby raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
"Hmhmhmhm, I'm just going to enjoy beating you within an inch of your life before taking your pathetic lifeless body to her!"
Ruby glared. "So you work for Salem now?"
"Ohohoho, how delectably naive. If you think that way, your naivety will be your downfall!" Ghirahim pulled out his sword. "Let's have a good show, shall we?"
Ruby took out Crescent Rose. "I'll wipe that creepy look off of your face!"
BGM: Boss - Lord Ghirahim (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
Flamboyant Sword Spirit - Lord Ghirahim
Ruby used her semblance to get to Ghirahim faster and swung her scythe, but Ghirahim simply caught the blade between his two fingers. "You won't mind if I borrowed this, will you?" He knee'd her in the gut and yanked the scythe out of her grip. He kicked her away as she got back up. "Here, you can use this little toothpick." He tossed his rapier to her as she caught it.
What am I supposed to do with this? Ruby thought as Ghirahim got in a stance and charged at Ruby, her eyes widening as he swung the scythe at her, she quickly backflipped and countered by slashing him, but Ghirahim effortlessly blocked.
"You swing like a reckless child." Ghirahim countered her as he effortlessly and gracefully slashed at him with more precision compared to Ruby. "You swing this around recklessly, thinking you know how to work with a scythe!" He said as Ruby tried to swing Ghirahim's sword. "I wouldn't have realized this but the way you swing my sword around, I know exactly the truth!"
He disappeared, reappearing behind Ruby as he slashed her from behind. "Aaagh!" She cried.
"You're young! You're naive! And above all else, you're too young to even be considered a huntress! You wanted to be a hero so bad… it's easily telling how inexperienced you truly are!"
Ruby got back up, turning around only to see the barrel of Crescent Rose's gun form pointed at her face. "And you're going to die a premature death."
"Except you're wrong!" Ruby slashed upward to make Ghirahim fire at the air instead. "I've gained experience from all the adventures I've taken. I know exactly what you're trying to do and I'm not going to let some clown talk me down!" She used her semblance to quickly get him into a Rose Tornado as she launched herself in the air and stabbed Ghirahim a few times, but Ghirahim snapped his fingers as daggers appeared and embedded themselves into Ruby. "Rrrgh!" She winced as she fell to the ground.
Ghirahim gracefully landed on the ground. "I must say, you have some curious craftsmanship, but that's all you have going for it. It would be a shame if it were to get dismantled."
Ruby growled, pulling out her boomerang and threw it at her. "Hahaha! A boomerang!" Ghirahim tilted his head as the boomerang went past him. "Those things aren't good weapons!" He said.
"Yeah, but I made you look." She smirked as Ghirahim disappeared again. She gasped and turned around to block Ghirahim's attack as she swiftly slashed at him once she found an opening, only for the boomerang to come back and struck her in the back. "Rrrgh!"
"Tsk tsk, shouldn't have brought the blade out!" Ghirahim taunted as he slashed at her, but she blocked as she painfully took the boomerang out of her, wincing. Ghirahim got in a stance and rushed at her, slashing at Ruby but she backflipped and then in midair, she chanted a few words and went into her Zinogre form, blasting him with a bolt of lightning.
"Mmmph! Impressive!" Ghirahim smirked, sadistically licking his lips as Ruby fired another lightning bolt but Ghirahim raised Crescent Rose up to use as a lightning rod, which gave Ruby time to lunge ahead and stabbed Ghirahim with his sword before clawing at him. "Rrrgh!" He smirked and fired point blank daggers at her.
"Agh!" She cried, as her aura fizzled, as Ghirahim slashed her a few times as Ruby tried to block but he parried and effortless cut her, cutting through her clothing and skin while her aura broke. "AAAGH!"
Ghirahim chuckled, seeing some blood drip from Crescent Rose as he brought a finger to the tip of the blade, let some blood drip on his finger and licked it. He then sadistically licked his lips right after. "You inexperienced naive fool! Did you really expect to win against the Demon Sword, servant of Lord Demise!" He taunted. "I have your weapon, your aura shattered, what can you possibly do!"
Ruby staggered, panting. She aimed her hand at him as Ghirahim aimed at her, switching it back to its gun form. "You're all out of weapons. They are useless!" Ghirahim said as he lunged directly at Ruby.
"Not all of them!" She said, unleashing her Rose Palm at her to blow him away as she pulled out her Silver Bow and fired silver arrows at him, one of them knocking Crescent Rose out of his hand and another into his chest.
"Rrrgh!" Ghirahim grunted as he fell on one knee as Ruby aimed her Silver Bow at him.
"You lose."
"Hahahaha… did I now?" Ghirahim smirked. "This battle has told me everything I needed to know. She is going to make you her chew toy. Hahahahahaha! And with that… I bid you adieu!" He said as he disappeared.
End BGM
"Hah… hah…" Ruby fell on both knees. "D-dammit…" She cursed under her breath. "What the hell just happened…"
"Ruby!" A voice called out to her as she turned to see her family, Pit and Gloria coming over to her.
"Are you okay?" Byleth asked.
"Yeah… I… I should be…" Ruby panted as Rosalina knelt down and healed her up as Yang, Byleth and Summer hugged her.
"…Lad, do ye think-"
"That something bigger is happening?" Pit turned to Gloria. "Yeah, something's screwy here."
Meanwhile…
Ghirahim walked away from the castle. "Ahahahaha… she's quite the feisty one, isn't she?" Dimentio appeared next to him.
"She's also naive and inexperienced. She will not last long. After all, didn't your Ruby succumb to the Chaos Heart?"
"She did… and I have a feeling this young one will be dead before she even realizes what hit her~"
Ghirahim smirked. "That will be an amusing sight to see."
Ibuki: Something sinister's going down... and she's not liking it. And it's only the second chapter!
Mhm. It's gettin' wild. Anyway, shout out to DarkRebellion for the Triceratops and Stegosaurus Grimm!