Chapter 32 – Amitie's Favorite Copy Ability

It wasn't long after that (apparently planned) battle with Meta Knight and Schezo. With the latter being blasted off by Arle and Misuki due to his insults. And now we were continuing our walk through Gigabyte Grounds. Hoping to find a lead to the next Puyo Soul.

The deeper we went into this "desert", the more recurring the poison became. At this point, there were gallons of it being dumped out through a pipe and a bunch of poisonous clouds were flowing everywhere.

And to be honest, I was really interested with it all. I know poison is a bad thing, but thanks to me helping Misuki out with her potions I've been really interested in chemicals and stuff of that nature. Mixing stuff together to see what comes up was always super exciting. Like opening a Christmas present every single day. It was one of the many highlights of sleeping over at Misuki's every weekend.

And I was getting the same kind of excitement here as well.

"You seem to be pretty interested with this poison, Amitie." Francisca said to me.

"Huh? Oh, yeah. It's a recent interest, though. I often help out Misuki with her potions back home. Some were kinda like this."

"I see."

"You two are making potions together?" Arle asked Misuki.

"Yeah. That just proves that I'm getting better…a-at a slow pace, I mean."

"Right…" Arle still didn't believe her when she says she's getting better. She really is. Just…not as fast as either one of us thought it would take.

"Working progress" is what I'm trying to say.

We then saw Bandanna-Dee walk up to the poison being dumped right under us and then started writing on his board. What he wrote…it made me more excited than I was a few seconds ago.

"You know Amitie. There is a Poison Ability. You can probably use this to your advantage."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Get really real! There's a Poison Ability?!"

"It's recently new. So very few people know about it."

"Neat-o! I SO want to use it! I want the Poison Ability!" I shouted with glee.

"A-Amitie. L-Let's be serious here." Ringo said. "D-Do you really need to use poison?"

"It's not a "need", Ringo. It's a "want"."

"Yeah, but poison? How did you get interested in that?" Lidelle asked.

"Misuki told me about it."

"Oh, really now?" Arle and Raffina looked over at Misuki, who was trying to sneak off to avoid being in this conversation. But wasn't fast enough.

"Witch…" Arle said.

"Care to explain?" Raffina asked.

"U-Um, well…you see. I-It kinda went like this…"


*BEGIN FLASHBACK*

"A book?" I looked confused.

"It's a special book that a friend of mine let me keep. It has a bunch of spells and potions in here. And even explains how to do them."

"R-Really?!"

"Yeah! And I thought that we could do one together!"

"Seriously?! You want that?!"

"Sure. I mean why not, right? We both want to be better at magic and spells. This is like a cheat guide. Come on, Misuki."

I gave this much thought. I normally don't follow the instructions of magic books due to them being too complex (and the fact that I'm too lazy to read the damn thing). But if Ami wants to do this, and believes that we can get better with this, then I at least had to try.

"*giggle* Alright, Ami." I said.

"Yay!" Ami cheered. "Let's each pick one together!"

As we looked through the book together, we actually found tons of spells that we liked. There were even some that we never knew existed. It was a hard choice and indeed a rare find.

For us I mean.

"Woah! Look at this!" Ami said. "There's a Plasma spell, an ESP spell…Ooo! I can even learn a Poison spell!"

"W-Why would you need a Poison spell?!" I yelled out of shock.

"Duh! Just in case I get attacked or kidnapped."

"You actually think that will happen?"

"You don't know what's out there, Misuki. It's best to be prepared."

"Yeah, but…"

After minutes of talking, I (somehow) eventually talked Ami out of trying to learn the Poison Spell. She really wanted to learn it, but I kept telling her that it's too dangerous. And convinced her to try the Plasma Spell.

*phew* That was a close one. Hopefully, this won't come back to bite me in the ass in the future…

*END FLASHBACK*


"…And that's what happened. Since then, her interest in poison and pretty much chemicals as a whole only grew more. Which is why she helps me a lot at my shop."

"*sigh* Geez, you two. You're gonna end up destroying our world if this keeps up." Arle said.

"It's nothing bad or anything. Just some potion-mixing and a…few explosions or so."

"Few?" Ringo asked.

"Or so?" Maguro asked.

"Look, it's a working progress okay?! Just lay off already!" Misuki started to pout.

"Right…" Arle said.

"And stop saying "Right" like that!"

"Are you really okay with this, Amitie? I mean, do you even know how to use the Ability's attacks?" Raffina asked me.

"It's fine Raffina. I can just learn from Kirby. Right, little buddy?"

"Poyo!"

"Well…there's nothing wrong with having more Abilities." Adeleine said.

"Have you heard of it?" Raffina asked.

"Well…no. But like Dee said, very few people do."

"I'm kinda interested." Ribbon said.

"If they're poisonous attacks, then they're sure to do massive or even DEADLY damage. *giggle*" Marx said.

"You sounded really creepy when you said that." Lidelle said to him.

"Thank you. It's the universal power that embodies my soul. It makes me SUPER creepy."

"More like SUPER annoying." Adeleine whispered to Raffina, who then quietly giggled afterward.

"Anyway, enough wasting time. I'm doing it." I said.

"A-Amitie. You're not getting the…"

"Too late!" I cut Ringo off as I placed my left index finger into the body of poison below us. I felt the power surge through my body as I stepped back from it in excitement.

Suddenly my arms started twitching. And they began turning into bubbling vortexes of a bluish-purple poisonous liquid. My fingers were gone, both arms ending with bubbles instead. And they both grew a little thicker too.

Lastly, the part of my hair that would usually change color depending on the Ability…didn't change this time. All it did was gained a skull hairpin. A pretty cute one, to be honest.

"Holy crap…" Misuki said. The rest were pretty much speechless as what my version of the Poison Ability looked like. Me, on the other hand…I was pretty freaking excited.

"Woah. SO COOL!" I shouted.

"THIS is cool?!" Raffina yelled.

"Amitie! You have no fingers!" Arle yelled.

"I think it's only because of the Ability. Her fingers should return when she changes Abilities." Bandanna-Dee wrote on his board.

"Yeah, but that still doesn't explain why her arms changed like that."

Bandanna-Dee thought for a moment. Then wrote something else on his board.

"Maybe her arms are her way of attacking."

"He's got a point." Maguro said. "Know any attacks, Amitie?"

"Well, I could try to figure it out. I mean I did for the others."

I looked at my right poisonous arm as it soon after started to form a poison ball from the top. It gave me an idea for an attack.

"Sticky Toxin!"

I threw the poison ball forward. Landing on the ground and forming a toxic puddle on the same spot.

"Woah!" Arle said.

"You can throw poison balls?! And they leave a puddle wherever they land?! That's so cool, Ami!" Misuki cheered.

"Right?! I told you using poison was fun!"

"Now that I think about it, Some of Poison's moves are quite similar to Water's." Bandanna-Dee wrote.

"Similar…to Water?" Adeleine asked.

"No one really knows the connection. They just have one for some reason."

"I see." I said. "So the Poison equivalent to Surf would be…" I started thinking for a bit. Then the name of the attack came to my mind like I knew the answer to one of Ms. Accord's surprise tests.

I placed both my arms on the floor and started running in front of me.

"Toxic Slide!"

I then started surfing on a giant wave of poison with my arms adding more to it. I then decided to stop, but the wave dispersed and flung a bunch of poison balls ahead of me. Each making a puddle on the ground.

"Riding a poisonous wave? How is that possible?" Ringo asked.

"Gah! This girl is so hard to understand!" Flamberge yelled. "Why are we even helping her, Francisca?!"

"Didn't you say that you wanted to get back at Zan?" Francisca asked.

"Well…yeah, but…I want to at least not look like an idiot with all this "soul" stuff!"

"Even if you did knew, you would still look like an idiot." Marx said.

"For once, Marx. I agree with you." Adeleine added.

"What?!" Clearly, Flamberge got insulted.

"Anyway…" Raffina interrupted. "Now that you got your Poison Ability, Amitie, can we please go now? This poison is making me nauseous."

"Sure, Raffina. I'm ready to go." Once I said that, Raffina covered her mouth like she was going to puke or something.

"A-Amitie…YOUR BREATH STINKS!" She yelled, still with her hand over her face.

"Huh? Does my breath really stink?" I asked the others. They soon started reacting the same way as Raffina. As in they were nearly about to puke.

"*groan* Do you think it stinks, little buddy?" I asked Kirby.

"Poyo poyo poyo."

"You don't smell anything?"

"L…Lucky." Lidelle barely said.

I then breathed out onto my poisonous hand and caught a whiff of the scent that everyone seems to say it stinks. After one sniff, though…

"Huh. Smells like poison."

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Yep. Back to writing this. I want to explain to you guys why I'm taking longer to update this story.

It takes a lot of research to write a chapter. I have to research the area I want to use (the background, the environment, how big it is, obstacles (if any)), the characters that get added (for both series), the bosses and how their attack pattern is, and even the Abilities. It's a lot of work, but I want to make each thing as accurate as possible. Which is why I stopped doing back-to-back updates for this story.

I'm still very appreciated for all of you who like and enjoy this story so much. It makes me happy that it's getting so much attention.

By the way, the flashback is a part taken from Magical Alteration. This story is not a sequel to that, it's just adding the Poison Ability made me think of that. So it's like a little Easter Egg. It was also changed to be in Witch's POV instead of Amitie's. It fitted with the story more.

Anyway, thanks for reading. Later.