Anya POV:
Our group made it through the next few areas with ease, even when facing off against a giant Rockwind Wolf Ghost, we were way above all of their leagues. It was then that we emerged in the Great Desert and we gawked at the giant spires of glass... I knew what they were the moment I saw them, however. "These things... this is how Nene's going to rule the world," I gawked when I saw them.
"How?" Shu asked.
"These giant pillars are not glass, nor have they ever been glass spires. They are the fins of gigantic Crystalline Land Sharks. Once Nene decides it's time for them to wake up, he's going to turn them on and carve the planet in two, not caring about who would die in the process... the big problem is that, even with our shadows, Nene claims that nothing can destroy these things. Not even a powerful laser is enough to make a dent... he really can rule the world if he chooses," I frowned as I punched a hole in the sand and growled lowly. But then we heard something from nearby.
"So, you finally showed up?" asked the voice of our favorite mercenary friend.
"LADY ZOLA!" Marumaro exclaimed as he rushed over and hugged Zola's leg when he saw her.
"What happened to you after you left us to face off with Szabo?" Jiro asked her.
"Szabo wasn't as easy to take out as I thought... but I found this Mechat in a hangar nearby when I had escaped the Fortress and decided to borrow it. I grabbed a hitchhiker around the western continent that wanted to go to Noluta, and I'm sure you know who I'm referring to," Zola smiled.
"My daddy," I smiled.
"Yes. He told me I'd probably find you in the Eastern Continent, as he said that you were probably going to save Noluta next. Turns out he was right. But we should get going," Zola said.
"Agreed on that much. We have to go after Nene now!" Shu said as we all boarded the Mechat and we proceeded to fly to the east. And when we did so, I gasped when I happened to see the spires start to move.
"Oh no... not now..." I gulped when they then started to move some more and more! "No! Nene's woken up the giant Land Sharks! Zola, take us higher!" I exclaimed, Zola doing just that as we then climbed through the atmosphere and I gasped as I saw the world start to be cracked in half, seeing that the impact had left Castle Jibral in complete ruin! "KING JIBRAL!" I exclaimed in anger as the planet then split into two parts. And when it did so, the inside of the planet gained numerous cubes that flew out of the inside of the planet.
"Take us back, we need to find a way into that center area!" Jiro said. And when Zola did so, we gasped as we entered a giant flume of Nene's signature mode of tyranny. "The violet clouds..." Kluke gasped as she held her heart and we saw something emerge from all of the clouds. It was a giant visage of Nene that he had projected into the clouds for the whole world to see!
"AHAHAHA! Greetings to all of you pitiful humans! I am your new lord and ruler, Nene!" he exclaimed with laughter as I snarled at what he was doing. "You humans who have forgotten magic will pay the ultimate price. For those who are unwilling to accept my new rule, your world shall be wracked with numerous natural disasters! But if you wish to serve as my slaves, you will all be spared. SO! Do you want to oppose someone who was able to return the world to the state it was originally intended to do?!" Nene exclaimed with a loud cackle before the clouds then started to show some more apparitions. It was all the villages, towns, and cities we'd been to. All of them having the same exact plague happen to them as before! A giant man-eating tree was in Devour Village and grabbed some people trying to run from it! But I smiled at how the visage then showed that the tree had been sliced in half by something.
"WHAT?!" Nene exclaimed when he saw the one who attacked the tree. It was Sahlia, who had already gained control of her Cat Genie and had instantly felled the undead tree with Ghost Killer!
"Is that all you got, you purple skinned bastard?! Keep sending in more trees! I'll slay through all of them just like you did to my parents!" Sahlia exclaimed as another visage I saw made me smile some more. Castle Jibral was being bombarded by Tidal Waves, but all of the citizens were safe with Jibral protecting them with his Qilin shadow's Guardian status!
"For all the lives that you have killed in your mad lust for power, we will not allow you to rule this world! Even if all of us die, we will never bow down to you, even if you are the last person on Earth, you will never take our FREEDOM!" King Jibral exclaimed as he then used a technique that I smiled at. He used immense magic to warp himself and all of Castle Jibral's citizens to a safer area, which I could see was Noluta. The village hadn't frozen because Raging Kesu had demolished the device that controlled the frozen city.
"If you can hear me, Nene, you are no longer my master! For the murders of thousands of people, for harming my best friend's family, I hope you rot in hell for all eternity!" Kesu exclaimed angrily as my dad then did something I never expected. He let out his shadow and I saw it was a centaur with a large flail on it!
"You will pay for turning my little Annie into a robot! YOU WILL!" he exclaimed loudly as he then busted a giant sheet of crystal with just one swing of the shadow's flail. I then saw Talta Village was being bombarded by Land Sharks and the one to be taking them all out single-handedly was none other than Shu's grandpa Fushira! And his shadow? It was a flower ghost of sorts that I smiled at.
"The Noxious Rafflesia! Your grandad has magic too!" I smiled as I shook Shu a bit in excitement as Fushira used the power of it to buff all of the different villagers insanely to the point that all of them were able to completely manhandle the Land Sharks that were attacking the village. Even Jiro's parents were destroying them with bare fists!
"Keep up the supply of Land Sharks, Nene! You took my daughter away from me, and you took little Kluke's parents, but this old man still has a lot to live for! Talta Villagers, let's show this creep why no one messes with a Talta resident! GO GET 'EM, SHU!" Fushira exclaimed with a hearty laugh.
Then it switched to Devee Village, the place looking to be experiencing an Earthquake, but a duo of Devee children had their own shadows and were using them to get all of the Devee people into the giant Drill machine for safety! And who were the kids in question? "Ah! Marumira and Marutora! They have magic too!" Marumaro exclaimed in joy. Marumira had a Tri Cerberus for her shadow while Marutora had an Imposing Kraken!
"Thanks for the tacky drill, you purple devil! We're just going to hide out in that little underground hospital that contained that stupid medicine you cared so much about! And when we find it, we're going to demolish every last bit!" Marumira exclaimed with a giggle as she hit the button on the Drill Machine and it started to drill underground once more!
"Looks like Nene's plan is backfiring, isn't it?" Kluke smiled.
"Not at all. Keep in mind, as far as we know, all of these guys have just recently discovered their shadows. They're not going to last long with their low magic supply! We need to find Nene's base of operations and take him out once and for all!" I exclaimed as Zola finally managed to get us into the core area of the planet's interior, her face of determination and grit unlike any I'd seen before on her.
"I'm picking up massive energy readings on sonar coming from that natural cube area. No doubt that's where Nene is hiding with numerous robots and monsters guarding him," Zola said.
"Then what the hell are we waiting for? Let's go save the world from this beast! Charge! Da da-da-da DUN DUN!" I exclaimed, doing a charge medley as Zola raced in the Mechat for the giant cube. "Hang on, everyone. We'll be home for cake soon," I smiled.