Adventure

by SplatMaster00

Terraria is in crisis. The Moon Lord threatens to destroy the whole world. Luckily, there is a prophecy that 4 heroes will rise up and destroy the Moon Lord. Unfortunately, they're wanted dead by the whole of Terraria.

"I want all of you maggots to kill that fairy, it's not difficult!" A commander shouted. "The reward has been raised to 1,000 platinum!" I was hiding out in a tree right above the command centre in the town of Pondshade. "Why are they so desperate to kill me?" I muttered. It wasn't like I did anything other than, IDK, kill a few people. That wasn't even my fault; they were coming onto my property. But hey, it's not like these morons could do anything to me. I snickered to myself and jumped away to a nearby rooftop. I creaked open the trapdoor on the roof and jumped inside. "Lucy, you should be a lot more careful than how you are," Sean said. Sean was one of the only people in the town who didn't want to kill me. "Hey, if they attack me, I'll just destroy them," "And make the bounty on your stupid ass head bigger?" "That is a fair point," I replied, sitting down on one of the chairs he's laid out. "They have a 1,000 platinum bounty on my head already," Sean's eyes widened. "They're that desperate to have you dead?" I nodded and giggled./users/SplatMaster00/pseuds/SplatMaster00

"It's not like they can kill me though, so we don't need to worry about that bounty!" "You need a better sense of urgency. Once it hits night, we get the hell outta here." "And then where would we go?" "Any place that isn't Pondshade." "Fair enough."

7 hours later

I creaked the front door open and slipped outside. I'll be back before Sean wakes up. I walked along the streets, making sure not to wake any Terrarian up. "Hey Lucy, you okay out there?" A merchant asked. I nodded. "I'm just getting some fresh air, Humphry!" "It's not that good of a night to be out, I feel a strange presence watching us!" "I'll be fine!" Humphry was another one of the only people who didn't want to kill me. He runs the General Store here in town, and I'm only able to jump in and grab stuff at night when everyone thinks that it's closed. roar! There was distant roaring coming from somewhere. Another zombie? I whipped my Diamond Staff right off my belt. Where is that piece of shit? I looked around, not seeing a single zombie, demon eye, hell even a slime was nowhere in sight. Roar! The roaring got louder. "Damn, where is that coming from?" I put my staff back on my belt and continued down. "Probably just hearing things. Then again, Humphry was talking about how he felt something off…" I couldn't finish my thought because BAM! A giant demon eye rammed into me. BANG! I got knocked into a nearby tree. "What the hell is that thing!" I shouted. I jumped out of the way of its next ram. BANG! It slammed into the tree, destroying it. Some people came out of their houses. "What is that thing!" "Why is that so big!" The massive demon eye flew high up into the air and pointed it's iris towards the ground. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! It started summoning smaller demon eyes, hundreds of them down to the village. "That is not a normal demon eye!" I shouted. "What the hell!" A warrior shouted, running out of a barrack. "How do we kill that!" PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! Archers on the village walls shot at the massive demon eye, but their shots were negated instantly. "Incoming!" BOOM! The massive demon eye slammed into the wall, levelling it, launching the archers to their graves. "Move out the way you stupid fairy!" A mage shouted, shoving me out the way. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! He shot water bolt magic from his tomb at the massive demon eye. ROAR! The demon eye started spinning uncontrollably. "What the hell is going on?" I thought. WHOOSH! It shed its top layer of flesh, and it revealed a bloodsoaked demonic mouth underneath. "RUN!" BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! The demon eye charged faster than my eyes could track it, eating up dozens upon dozens of people. "No way!" The commander from earlier exclaimed. "Men, fire at the eye, do not let it eat anymore people!" BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! The first wave of archers shot cover fire, as a group of warriors charged at it with platinum broadswords. BANG! The eye charged, killing all of them in one hit. "ARGH! SHIT!" The commander shouted, now in the rubble of a nearby building, blood pouring from a wound on his shoulder. SHKT! The demon eye bit into him, tearing him apart limb by limb. And then it turned in my direction.

"Eek, don't hurt me!" I screamed, covering my head with my hands and curling up into a ball. "I won't eat you!" I heard a demonic-like voice growl. I looked up at the demon eye. It was just hovering over me, blood dripping down from its fangs. "I won't hurt you, I want you to suffer before Cthulhu destroys you and those so-called 'Heroes'" "What the hell? That eye is talking to me." ROAR!! The eye gave off a massive roar before flying off. "Heroes, I'm no hero. And who the hell is Cthulhu?"

The Next Day

"A massive demon eye attacked the village!?" Sean exclaimed. I nodded. "You can look out the window, there's blood all over the streets!" Sean looked out the window and the light in his eye vanished. "Holy shit, we've gotta get out of here!" "But there is one thing it said that bothers me," "What, it talked to you!" "Shh, keep it down." "But yeah, it said it wants to make me suffer before some Cthulhu guy kills me and some heroes of some sort." "Heroes?" "That's what I was wondering, there's no way I can be a hero!" "Well, there is a chance," "A chance of what?" "Lucy, I think that you should go hunt down that Demon Eye." My heart dropped. "Hell to the no! I'm not a hero. I seriously only care about myself, besides; where in the name of hell would I find that Demon Eye?" "You wouldn't have to find it, it would come to you when it wants to." "Based on what you told me, it's safe to assume that that demon eye is an Eye of Cthulhu." "Before you tell me this needless lore, please tell me, who the hell is Cthulhu?" "Cthulhu was a destroyer of worlds, a doomsayer of death, calamity itself. He destroyed countless worlds and he soon came for this one. Knowledge of this attack is sparse, to say the least, though it is widely accepted that an ancient race of Dryads came and sealed away his lower body, eyes, spine, brain, and skull. This sealing had cost the lives of all of the dryads but 1, however." "So you're telling me, that this Cthulhu guy is supposedly dead?" "Then what the hell does this Eye of Cthulhu mean by it'll destroy me and heroes? Is that a prophecy of some kind?" "I'm not sure." "Damn! So I just go out into Terraria, with no idea what the hell I'm doing, looking for, or need, and kill this Eye of Cthulhu that killed the majority of our village in 15 minutes!?" "Well, I do know what you should look for." He pulled a map out from his back pocket and unravelled it. "There," He said, pointing to the red and gory crimson. "Go there and destroy a crimson heart with some bombs. Terrarians in the past said that the destruction of crimson hearts had caused meteorites to fall from the cosmos." "Isn't meteor used in mage equipment?" Sean nodded. "Meteor armour needs about 55 bars of meteorite. Next, I heard from the Wizard that to use mana for an extremely long period of time, you need a Mana Flower." "Those are harvested in the Jungle, right?" Sean nodded. "Go to the Jungle, harvest a Nature's Gift, and combine it with a mana potion to make a Mana

Flower. That should hopefully be enough to kill that Eye of Cthulhu." "Alrighty, I guess I'll head out."

2 hours later

I had packed my bag and went out the back gate of the village. "Well, I guess this is probably the last time I ever see this place," I thought, walking down the road. I had been outside the village before, but that was only because I needed some Moonglow for a potion Sean was making. I passed through dozens upon dozens of trees and made it to a fork in the road. "You kidding me," I groaned, looking at the RPG-like signpost I've ever seen. The left path would take me to the crimson in 15 minutes, and the right path would take me to the crimson in 3 hours. "Whoever built this sign probably doesn't want me to take the left path. But I need to get prepared because that Eye of Cthulhu could attack at any moment," I stood there pondering the choice for about 2 minutes before; "Hey, I see you don't know what road to take." Someone shouted. I looked around, before; "Oh right, you probably can't see me right now!" WHOOSH! They just appeared in front of me. "Back the hell up!" I shouted, pointing my staff at her. "Damn, I'm trying to help your sorry ass." I put it back on my belt. "Did you make this stupid sign?" "Why would I, I'm not a dumbass." "Really, because from everything I'm getting from you, I kinda think you are a dumbass," "That's harsh." "It's true." "I'm about to leave your ass to end up dying to that Eye of Cthulhu," My heart dropped. "How the hell do you know that?" "Your face is everywhere around Terraria, 1,000 platinum for the nefarious Lucy Nebula." She backed up into the shade as the clouds cleared from the sun. "Great, another bounty hunter," I groaned, pulling my staff back out. "Hey hey hey, I don't need money, I'm set. I'm just saying, you're kinda infamous around Terraria now, and I've kinda decided that hey, there's another monster around here that was fucked up by the Eye of Cthulhu!" "Not interested, what road do I take." "Fine then, be like that," WHOOSH! She disappeared into thin air. I rolled my eyes and went down that short ass path. I walked down it and made it to the crimson in that allotted time. "EW! That's blood!" The ground was soaked in blood, and monsters roamed around. "Okay, head down underground and destroy a crimson heart, simple enough." I went into the fleshy, disgusting, seriously there are not enough words to describe how horrible it was in here. I was close to a chasm when; Roar! "Shit, what the heck is that!" There was a monster with its legs backwards and its mouth looked like it could swallow me whole. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I destroyed the damned thing with my staff. ROAR! ROAR! ROAR! More of them sprouted up from the ground. "MORE!" I ran back, but somehow these monsters were faster than me. SHKT! One bit my arm. "Watch out Tinker Bell!" A familiar voice shouted. BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! All of the nearby monsters were destroyed. That one chick from earlier had grabbed me and pulled me into a chasm. She lit a torch and placed it next to us. "I said that it would be smart for us to travel together." "I could handle them myself."

"Lucy, you were running away from them." "That was part of my strategy," She laughed again. "I'm Christie," She said, extending her hand. I pushed it away. "I know better than to trust a vampire." "I'm not one." "Of course you are, you were hiding from the sunlight earlier." "Damn, got me all figured out. You know what." She forcefully gave me a kiss. "What the hell!" I thought. SHKT! She bit onto my tongue and ripped it out my mouth. "Mmmm, fairy blood tastes a lot better than those Terrarians," I was unmoved. "First off, that's mine, second, that hurt, third, my tongue literally has the least amount of blood in my entire body." Christie looked surprised. "How are you still." "I'm a fairy, I wouldn't know." GULP! She swallowed up my tongue. "Well, let's go do whatever it was that you came here for." She was really relaxed for someone who literally 5 seconds ago tried to kill me. "Uhm, yeah, I need to destroy a crimson heart." "Alright, good thing we're inside of here now isn't it!" Christie said, physically trying to drag me with her, unable to. "What the hell?" "With my wings, I weigh 675 pounds, you're not moving me." I stood up myself and walked deeper into the chasm. "Lucy, you know that…" "Please shut up!" HISS! HISSSS! There was hissing coming from the ceiling. "What the heck?" I thought. PLOP! A massive spider jumped down from the ceiling. "EEEEEKK! SPIDER!" I screamed, running. Christie was laughing her ass off. "It's just a Blood Crawler, chill out!" SHKT! She killed it with one shot from her bow. "See, it's gone," I was hiding behind her, trying to stay away from the corpse. "I hate spiders." "Fair enough. Just follow along behind me, I'll handle them." I followed behind her, letting her kill all the Blood Crawlers that fell from the ceiling. Soon we made it to an open area. "You see those little openings around this room," Christie explained. "Those are the Crimson Hearts," I jumped down from the cliff we stood at. SPLASH! I fell into a pool of water. Sean had gaven me bombs back in Pondshade, and I dropped one down the opennings. KABOOM! There was an explosion and a weird gun fell out of the Heart. "Hey Lucy, if there are any guns down there, just throw them up here!" "How about you get your lazy ass down here and get it yourself!" SPLASH! She jumped down and grabbed the gun. "Sick, it's not automatic, but it's work fine." I didn't understand what that meant, so I went and bombed another Heart. KABOOM! This time, some weird cloud looking rod popped out. "What the hell is this thing?" I thought, grabbing it and swinging it around. WHOOSH! A small crimson cloud appeared dropping rain on the ground. "I've never seen a magic weapon like that!" "Eh, it's mine!" I laughed. I went over and bombed a third heart. KABOOM! This time, nothing popped out. "Aw man, a scamming heart." Christie groaned. ROAR! "What was that?" ROAR! ROAR! BAM! I felt a small orb monster thing crash into me. PEW! I shot it down. "What's going on," Christie asked, looking around. I turned around and my heart fell into my leg. It was an enormous brain with creepy orbs surrounding it. "You think that's Cthullu's brain?" "Doesn't matter, let's kill it!" BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! Christie opened fire on the creepers. WHOOSH! I cast the crimson cloud above some of the creepers and shot some with my

Diamond staff. WHOOSH! The brain went invisible. "Shit, it's gone!" I spat. Christie quickly looked in my direction. "Get out of the way!" She shouted. WHOOSH! I rolled out the way as the BoC teleported to where I was last standing. "It can just do that!" I complained, blasting the nearby creepers. "Yeah, I guess, watch out!" Christie did something to a grenade to activate it and threw it at the last large clump of creepers. KABOOM! The last of them exploded into a pile of flesh and blood. ROAR! The BoC shed the upper layer of its skin and now it had a massive heart inside of it. "That looks important" Christie shouted. BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! She shot at it, and as she said, the brain looked as if it was being hurt. WHOOSH! It made 3 other clones of itself. BANG! I rolled out the way of one's charge. "These clones don't get hurt!" "Then find and magic-magic the real one!" PEW! PEW! PEW! I shot at the one that charged me but my shots went through. "This is taking forever!" Christie complained. BOOM! She threw another grenade at the 4 BoCs. ROAR! "That's the one!" She shouted, pointing at the one with a massive burn mark from the explosion. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I shot at that one, and sure enough, it was taking damage. CRUNCH! There was a massive crunch noise as the BoC exploded into blood and gore. SPLASH! I looked down at my clothes. "EEEEK! BLOOD!" I screamed. Christie laughed at me. "You killed a massive brain, and are surprised because of a little blood!" I grabbed my hat and wiped the blood off my face onto it. "Wait, there's a treasure bag," I said, grabbing a weird bag from the gore of the BoC. "There's one there for you too." Christie went over and grabbed the other one. She opened it up. "Hey, I've seen one of these in the Guide's book." She acknowledged, pulling out a small brain. "These like, confuse the enemy if held." I strapped mine onto my hat. "This looks stupid." WHOOSH! It hovered up next to me. "Great, now I look like a Witch." "But aren't you?" "I'm not a Witch, I'm a student of all magic!" "And I like guns, and rocket launchers, and bows, and anything that makes stuff explode!"

The Next Day…

Sooo, Christie has kinda become friends with me. I didn't want to bring her with me, but she pushed like hell 'til I agreed. We camped out about 14 kilometres away from the jungle, where Christie coincidentally also was heading. "I heard from this Arms Dealer that there is a sick gun called the Boomstick that can be found in the jungle." She explained as we set off towards there. "Don't you need a Nature's Gift or something?" I nodded. "I think they just randomly grow in the grass." SHKT! I felt something bite into my arm. "Shit!" I spat. BANG! I smack a Jungle Bat away with my staff. "Rats with wings!" "Hey, Lucy, you're sorta, bleeding to death." I looked down at my arm. It was soaked in my blood. "Do you have a bandage or something to stop this?" Christie ran through her pockets and pulled a vine out. "Does this work?" I quickly nodded and she wrapped the thing around my arm. "You're fine?" She asked. "Yes and no. It doesn't matter though, let's keep going, there's a cave underground there." I pointed down to a dip in the ground heading underground. We climbed down and were mobbed by

Hornets. SHKT! Christie killed them all with one shot from her bow, sticking them all to the wall of the cave. "Everything in this world wants to kill us." I groaned, looking at the corpses of the massive Hornets. We climbed deeper into the cave until we ran into a massive hollow tree. "These trees usually have chests inside of them!" Christie said, jumping inside. I wanted to follow her, but it was much too tight there for my liking. "Lucy, aren't you coming?" Christie shouted up to me. "No, it's too tight." "Girl, get your faking ass down here now!" I sighed and jumped down after Christie. My wings caught the air and I hovered down to her. "Look at this." She said, opening up the chest. She pulled out 2 strange aglets. "Wow, uhm, shoelace covers!" "Why don't you put this onto your shoes," She threw me one of them attached it to my shoelaces and walked out of the tree. I already noticed that I moved much faster than usual. "Aglets here make you move faster." She explained. "How do you know this?" "I dabble in those books written by the Guides Guild." We went deeper into the underground jungle, slaying giant ass bugs and taking loot from chests until I came across a small blue flower. "This flower is radiating with Mana!" I exclaimed, picking the flower. "Is that a Nature's Gift?" Christie asked. I nodded. "If I just," I mumbled, putting the flower into one of my Mana Potions. WHOOSH! It kinda freaked out and made a mess of Mana, but it fused the bottle and flower. "Dramatic much." I laughed, picking up the newly made Mana Flower. "What the hell is that supposed to do!" Christie asked. "Well, it takes the actual Mana from my Mana Potions and injects it back into my body." I said. "Wow, that is the lamest thing you could have ever said." Christie laughed. I frowned. "Much better than just shooting stuff." I replied. "Hey, look, there's another chest just sitting there," Christie went over and opened it. "It's empty." She groaned. "Looking for this?" Someone asked. I turned around. It was some demon looking guy. He was throwing the Boomstick up and down. "Damn, you don't have to flex that you got here first," Christie spat. "No I think I will," The guy replied. "I'm Dante, Lord of the Demon Realm." "That's a dramatic title." I said. "Also, no one asked." Dante wasn't moved by this. CLICK! Christie loaded up her Undertaker. "I was going to let you keep that, but now you've gone and pissed me off." She spat. "So now, I want you to give me that gun before I make you chew gum out your forehead." "Really?" Dante laughed. "I'd actually like to see your pathetic Terrarian ass try." His comments were really pissing off Christie. BAM! BAM! BAM! She shot point blank at him. PEW! Dante teleported behind her. CHOP! He did that anime chop that everyone knows for some reason, knocking her out. "Just like I thought." He said. CLANG! He dropped the Boomstick down next to her and turned towards me. "If you ever tell anyone about this, I'll kill you!" He spat. "Yeah, to hell to you too." I countered.

15 minutes later...

Christie slowly woke up and then aggressively pulled herself up. I had taken her to the nearby town of Ensamble to get medical help. "Where is that bastard, I'm gonna fry his ass!" She shouted. "Uh, he's gone." I replied. "WHAT! Please tell me you killed him!" Christie complained. I shook my head and gave her the Boomstick. "He, uh, dropped it and left us after knocking you out." I explained. Christie was furious. "Next time I see him, I'll blow him up!" She shouted. "Chill Christie, chill." I said. "Everyone's thinking that we're insane." Christie promptly stopped, but still didn't stop with her 5 year old looking pouty face. "Fine, then what else do we need?" She asked. "An anvil," I replied. We walked out of the hospital and I quickly paid what we owed-37 gold. Ensamble was home to the world's greatest bards according to some people. The whole town

looked like Music Park in Mario Kart 7. The streets were painted like piano keys, the building looked like various instruments, and the crown jewel of the entire town was the Music Hall, where various performances were held. "This is the nerdiest place I've ever seen." Christie said. "You say that about everything that doesn't require 2% of your brain capacity." I replied. "Look, there's a small little blacksmith over there." We walked over to the blacksmith and I knocked on the door. "This place is closed." Someone replied. "We have some jungle materials to craft with." I replied. "So what, hours are 700-1600 hours, come back tomorrow." He spat. "First, what the hell is 1600 hours?" Christie asked. "And 2, come on, we don't need you to do anything, we just need an anvil." "And there aren't any other anvils around here." I added. The blacksmith sighed and opened the door. "Don't take too long." He spat, leading us over to the anvil. He then proceeded to leave us. "Alright, how the hell do we use this?" Christie asked. "Well, you kinda make the frame of the weapon first." I replied, handing her some vines and stingers. "Hmmm, how about a bow." Christie muttered. She started wrapping the vines around a frame that was lying on the grounds and stuck the stingers around it. "I think I've made a horrible Bramble Shot rip off or something." She laughed, plucking at the string. "Alright, hand over those vines." I said. Christie gave me them and I then made myself a set of Jungle Armor, the only armor set that Sean had ever shown me how to make. "There we go, can you turn around?" I asked Christie. She did so, and I quickly threw on the armor. "Jeez, that tickles." I thought. "You can turn back around." Christie turned and then saw me in the armor. "That's the cutest thing I've ever seen!" She laughed. "It's something that Sean showed me how to craft a while ago." I replied. "Are you two done yet dammit!" The blacksmith shouted. "I'm trying to jack off at this photo!" "TMI!" I complained as we left the store. WHOOSH! The lights were really going crazy at the Music Hall. "It looks like a party over there!" Christie exclaimed. "Let's go over there." We went over to the Music Hall, where a sick looking concert was going on." The lights were flashing pink, blue, and green. Spectators were holding up glowsticks and fireworks were being shot everywhere. The performer on the stage was a cute looking pink haired girl. "Ooh ooh, I've heard about her, she's Melody, probably the best Bard here!" Christie said. "And she's super cute!" I frankly couldn't hear anything she was singing over the massive cheers of the crowd. "How do people love this stuff, it's way too loud." I thought to myself. "But hey, if we're about to go and get killed by a giant eye, it's good to have some fun." The music soon stopped. "I need a volenteer to come up here for a minute!" Melody shouted. "So crowd, LET ME HEAR SOME NOISE!" The crowd went absolutely ballistic. "God damn, this noise!" I complained. "That's the point!" Christie cheered. "But like, ow, my ears!" I replied. "How about that girl there in the Jungle Armor?" Melody shouted, pointing directly at me "She quite obviously doesn't want to be here but come on, what's the worst that could happen ?" "No." I thought. "Hell no," "Come on Lucy, go on up there." Christie urged. "Christie, I'm… you know what, whatever." I went over to the stage. "What's your name?" Melody asked. "Lucy," I replied. "Lucy Nebula." " That's such a pretty name !" Melody laughed. "Everyone give it up for Lucy over here! " The screaming was very loud, and very painful for my ears. "Can I go back now?" I asked. "No, there's something I need you to do." Melody said. "SO EVERYONE!" The ringing from her microphone made my head hurt. " RIGHT NOW, LET'S HAVE LUCY HERE SHOW US A TALENT SHE HAS! " "Talent, like a talent show?" I asked. Melody nodded. "Well then that's easy." I put my hands in the air. WHOOSH! I shot a firework-like effect in the air. " Look at that !" Melody exclaimed. "I guess those fu… those mages are very talented." I was weirded out over her stumbling over one of her words. "Anyways, that's it for today's concert, MelodyOUT!" She shouted. As the spectators were leaving the music hall, Melody grabbed me and pulled me to the side. "I want you to meet me outside of town in 2 hours." She whispered. Her voice wasn't as cheery as it was during the concert. "And don't bring that vampire chick with you if you know what's good for you."

2 hours later...

I went over to the outskirts of Ensamble. Melody was waiting for me under a tree. "I know who you are," She explained. "You're that fugitive worth 1,000 platinum from Pondshade." I nodded. "Don't you get paid more than that though?" I asked. "I know," Melody chuckled. "But after I went on my own adventure around Terraria, I found that I've always had a strong urge to fight strong opponents." "That's cool." I said nervously. "So you aren't going to turn me in." I started to slowly walk back towards town. Melody quietly chuckled under her breath. "No no no, that bounty is only a bonus," She laughed. "I'm gonna kill you, just for the hell of it!" She stood up, her microphone in hand. "Get ready Lucy, cause THIS IS YOUR LAST FIGHT EVER !!" RING! The recoil from the microphone made me unable to hear anything. "Shit, my head!" I thought, holding my head. RING! She yelled into her microphone again, launching a shockwave at me, knocking me into a tree. "That microphone is a problem!" I thought to myself. "She's a Bard, so she's definitely gotta run out of Inspiration soon." "I don't want to kill her though -she's a damn celebrity!" WHOOSH! I rolled out of the way of her shockwave. CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! She threw Aquamarine Wineglasses around my feet. WHOOSH! She screamed, shattering them, launching shards of glass everywhere. SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! They cut into my arms. My hearing had come back. "Hmmm, you aren't as strong as I thought you would be." Melody laughed. "I'm not going to fight back," I countered. "You're a celebrity, your fans would be devastated." "I was originally going to ask you to fight me right there on the stage, but I didn't want to crush you in front of thousands of people." She said, "They would have loved to see that their favorite singer was also a powerful bard." "I don't care if they see me lose, hell even if they see me die." I spat. "They should all see you as you are -a psychotic murderer." "Oh yeah, that'd really get the spotlight on me!" She laughed. "I'll tell you what Lucy, tomorrow, I'll have another concert, and I want you there. I'll call you up, and we can finish this infront of them!" "Fine then!" I countered. Melody used a magic mirror and teleported off. I held my arm. It was the same arm that was bitten by that Jungle Bat. "Shit, this useless arm!" I thought. "I should've gotten this checked out when Christie was in the hospital." I walked back into town.

The Next Day...

"Wow Lucy, I never knew you wanted to come to Melody's next concert so badly." Christie laughed. "Yeah, I guess going up on stage changed my mind about the whole thing." I replied. I was still on edge about fighting Melody again, this time in front of thousands of her fans. "She might have more than just her microphone this time." I thought to myself. "I'd better be prepared. We went to the concert and watched the entire show. This time, there was a different person up there, Harley and his sister Jayni. "Jayni's pretty cute." I said. "She's Aromantic Lucy." Christie replied. I frowned. "Oh." I groaned. Once the concert was nearly over, Melody came on stage. "HEY EVERYONE!" She shouted. "We've got a familiar face coming on stage from yesterday's concert, it's Lucy Nebula!" "Wait, you got her to have you go back up there?" Christie exclaimed. I didn't reply, simply going up to the stage. Christie was both confused and excited for me, but I felt neither, only complete and utter anger. "Care to explain why I'm up here." I spat. Melody smirked and nodded. "So, a few years ago, y'all remember that I went away for a few months to explore the world." She explained, her singsongy voice fading. "Well, I discovered that I had another interest other than singing, another talent, if you would. Fighting strong people." The crowd seemed to know where this was going and started cheering. Christie, however, was looking very nervous. "Lucy here, is wanted in Pondshade for 1.000 platinum, for multiple crimes including Larceny, Murder, and Assault." Christie was getting scared now. "Last night, I was going to fight her, but I thought, hey, wouldn't it be a much better show if I did it in front of the fans?" She shouted. "So,

to conclude this show, I'll be taking down Lucy, and bringing her to justice." The crowd was hype, while Christie seemed distressed. "If anyone has any children here, you might want to take them home, this might get graphic!" "Whelp, there goes my 15 minutes of fame." I thought. "She can't really be considering killing me though." I looked around trying to spot any and all instruments around the stage. "Shit, I only see her microphone!" I thought. SHKT! I pulled out my diamond staff. "Sorry about this Christie." I said. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I opened fire on her. "Really Lucy, you already know, YOU'LL NEVER BEAT ME!!" Melody shouted. WHOOSH! She launched a shockwave at me. I rolled under it. BAM! I smack her with my staff. I flipped back away from her. "Good, that's some momentum." I thought. "Heh, nice blow." She laughed, wiping the blood off her cheek. WHOOSH! She made a Hot Horn appear from thin air. HONK! She blew into it, launching a fireball at me. I leaped over it. "Pretty good but NOT GOOD ENOUGH!" She shouted. WHOOSH! She launched a shockwave at me, knocking me out the air. BAM! I crashed into one of the spotlights. The crowd went crazy. "Why did that hurt alot more than her other attacks?" I thought. "Is her wearing less clothing making her stronger! No, that can't be it." I pulled myself up. "She probably is buffing herself with her Bard weapons." "This is a sick fight." Someone in the crowd told Christie. "It becomes less sick when Lucy is your best friend." Christie spat. "I still don't know why she's fighting a celebrity right now." "Come on Melody , I can do this all day." I laughed. "That confidence will BE YOUR DEMISE!" Melody shouted. WHOOSH! I rolled under her shockwave. "That trick won't FOOL ME TWICE!" She screamed. WHOOSH! I ducked into the curtains. BAM! I cracked her across the face with my staff. There were a bunch of Ooohs in the crowd. "SCREW YOU TINKER BELL!" she shouted. WHOOSH! I rolled past this shockwave. BING! She whipped around and smacked me with a Blooming Bell. BAM! I fell to the ground, my head ringing like hell. "And THAT'S how you handle a villain." Melody shouted, the crowd going wild. She turned and crouched down to me. "Don't worry Lucy, you'll enjoy your new life in jail," She chuckled. I smirked. "You moron," I laughed. "Look up" Melody looked up and; BAM! BAM! BAM! She was knocked out by my Crimson Cloud. "She's so cute when she's knocked out," I said, pulling myself up. "Lucy, let's get the hell out of here!" Christie exclaimed, jumping up to the stage. "Y'all might want to help Miku right here," We ran off the stage and into the dark streets of Ensamble. "Don't worry, we've got them!" Harley shouted. "I completely forgot about those 2." Christie complained. PEW! Harley and Jayni teleported in front of us. "Stop right there," Jayni spat. "Lucy," Christie whispered, handing me a recall potion. "It teleports you home. I also live in Pondshade, so meet me at Humphry's place." GULP! PEW!

Time later...

I was warped to my house and I ran out. "Hey Lucy, how are you?" Sean asked. "Not now Sean!" I exclaimed. ROAR! I heard roaring in the distance. I ran into the center of town and Christie was also there. "The roaring." I told her. "The Eye of Cthullu i…." ROAR! BOOM! The Eye of Cthullu rammed through a building. "T-that's a big eye!" Christie exclaimed. "Same as usual,just shoot the damn thing!" I shouted. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I opened fire on the Eye. KABOOM! Christie threw a grenade at the eye. ROAR! SPLAT! It launched it's upper layer off, revealing it's fangs. "You 2 die now!" The Eye spat. "It can talk!" Christie screamed. "I know, lots of crazy stuff." I mocked. BAM! I dodged out of the way of it's charge. ROAR! ROAR! ROAR! ROAR! "There's no opening to shoot the stupid thing!" Christie spat. It kept charging in every possible dirrection, failing to hit us. "I've got it!" I shouted. ROAR! The eye charged in my dirrection. I ran and; SHKT! Dove through it's mouth, impaling it on my staff. "Lucy GET OUT OF THERE!" Christie shouted. SHKT! I ripped my staff out and jumped out the eye. BOOM! It exploded into blood and gore. SPLASH! It soaked us in blood. "Lucy, are you okay!" Sean shouted, running to the middle of town. Slowly, people started leaving their houses, seeing the corpse of the Eye of Cthullu. "Did

the fairy kill it?" Someone asked. "But isn't she wanted for thousands of platinum," Someone else asked. "I did it for you all ungrateful bastards!" I spat. "I could've let it kill everyone here, but I didn't. I've grown past that shit!" "Lucy, let's get the hell out of here," Christie complained. "You're right," I replied. We turned to leave the town, before; "Guy's wait!" Sean shouted. He ran in front of us. "I need to tell you guys something." He explained. "The lore about 4 heroes, it all makes sense now. You need to find 2 others like yourselves." "Question, is Melody, you know, that Bard from Ensamble one of them?" I asked. Sean shook his head. "I heard about what happened there, and she's not pure of spirit." He explained. "In fact, I hope this doesn't become true, but she might be an antagonist in your tale, if you would." "How about that Demon Lord Dante?" Christie added. "You guys really have made bad enemies." Sean laughed. "I'd get the hell out of this region of Terraria if I were you." "Where'd we go?" I asked. "There are 5 regions of Terraria; Lakeside, Hell, Wilderness, Sea, and Sky." Sean replied. "Go to the Sea region, I bet you someone is there,"

The Next Day...

We left Pondshade and started heading south, towards the closest town in Sea; Beachmarsh. It was a long journey that took several days, but we soon made it to the outskirts of the town. "What the hell is that smell!" I complained. The air was smelling like wet dogs. "That's that beautiful sea breaze!" Christie replied. "Smells great, right?" I shook my head. "It smells horrible!" I groaned. We walked down into the town and saw that it was a fishing village. There were barrels of fish, fishing rods everywhere, and the houses had roofs of seaweed. "This is the worst smelling place ever," I whined. "Look, there's a hotel over there, we can stay there," Christie noted. We went over into the hotel, and I was bombarded with another horrible smell. "Hello, we'd like to get a room for 2," I told the guy working at the desk. "There's only a room for 2 with 1 bed, is that okay?" He asked. "What kind of sick joke is this?" I thought. "How much is it?" Christie asked. "15 gold 76 silver," The desk guy replied. "Good, we'll take it," "Um Christie, I beg to differ." I interrupted. "You want to sleep in that drafty ass tent again?" Christie asked. "No, but maybe…" "Okay, we'll get that room." she said. She put the money on the desk. "Ok, the room is number 258." The desk guy said, giving me the keys. "I'm gonna share a bed with Christie." I thought. "You've got to be kidding me," Up in the room was quite open, but the desk worker was dreadfully right, as there was 1 bed. "Christie, I'm gonna go look outside by the ocean." I said. "Alright, I'll catch up on some sleep." She replied. I left the hotel and went to the ocean. It was a nice clear blue color. "This smell is not getting any better." I complained. Then, I heard some odd beautiful singing. "What's that?" I thought. "It's coming from the ocean." I looked down, but didn't see anything. "I think I might have to go down there." I thought. "I want to hear more of that." SPLASH! I jumped down into the ocean. The great thing about being a fairy was that I can breathe underwater and on land. I swam down a bit, before; SHKT! Something cut into my leg. "Damn, what was that?" I thought. Then I felt an arm on my leg. "What the…" I couldn't finish, because; BANG! I was slammed into a coral reef. I swam up, trying to see what grabbed me, but I couldn't see. SHKT! I was grabbed again, claws digging into my shoulders. I felt my body being pulled around and then; "Aw man, a girl." The creature said, disappointed. "What are you?" I questioned. "Do you not know just from looking at me?" She asked, swimming back so I could see her entire body. "I'm a Siren! Obviously." "Aren't you one of those creatures that eat men and only men." She nodded. "We also sometimes eat each other, but that doesn't happen very often," She replied, extremely casually. "Actually, what are you, and how are you breathing and talking right now?" "I'm a Fairy." I replied. "Oh, I've never seen one of you guy's before." She laughed. "Name's Anastasia Genesis!" She extended her hand. "Uh, Lucy." I replied, shaking her hand. "Why'd you come down here Lucy?" Anastasia asked. "I was looking for some chick's singing." I replied. "That's cool, because that was me!" I was confused. "That was a Siren's Call; it'll kill you to hear it again." Anastasia

explained. My heart dropped. "Well that's cool, but I need to, you know, get to the surface, so bye, hope to never see you again." I said. Anastasia frowned. "Jeez, don't have to be such a mood killer," She complained. I swam back up to the surface and got as far away from the water as possible. "Never swimmin again," I thought. "Hey, what's up Lucy?" Christie asked, walking up behind me. "Nothing, just met a Siren underwater." I replied. "And I'm now feeling Hydrophobic, so I'll go litteratly anywhere except the water now." "Don't worry mate, you're a girl, they don't kill girls." Christie reassured. "At least I think they don't." I pulled myself off the ground. "Come on, it's getting late," Once the next day rolled around, I decided to try out fishing. There was no point in intentionally looking for any other 'heroes' here, so Christie and I agreed on just letting fate decide when we run into them. I bought a Reinforced Fishing Pole and some, ehem, Master Bait, and sat at a fishing dock. "This is extremely boring." I thought. "Why fish like that, when you can fish like this!" Someone shouted. SHKT! An arrow pierced through the sky, slamming into the water and impaling 3 fish at once. "What the hell?" I muttered. A young man came over to my side. "What's going on Tinkerbell, did I interrupt your fishing?" He asked. I shook my head. "My names not Tinkerbell." I replied. "Of course, but I never asked." He laughed. He picked the arrow out of the water. "The name's Casey, I'm a fine archer some say." I was about to tell him what my name is, but I remembered that telling people who I am when I'm wanted in most towns is a very bad idea. "That's cool, but I never asked." I said. "Clever!" Casey replied. "I do know that you're Lucy Nebula, but I could care less." I was relieved. "I'm out here, because I was told to kill a Si… oh right, that's classified," He said. "Didn't you fight Melody in front of Ensamble?" I nodded. "I'm gonna be blunt, I was kind of rooting for her to win, but you're also pretty cool." "Yeah, I guess," "I'm making you uncomfortable aren't I?" "No no, not in any way," "Good, well, I'm gonna go back to what I'm busy with, you enjoy your day Lucy." He winked and then he walked off. I was still kind of weirded out by him just randomly making conversation with me, but at the same time, I was glad that someone wasn't trying to kill me. BFVT! BFVT! I felt some tugging on my fishing rod. A familiar face poked their head out of the water. "Really Lucy, you're fishing now!" Anastasia complained. "Anastasia, I really think that you shouldn't be up here," I replied. "Why not?" She asked. She pulled herself onto the dock. PEW! Her fin turned into a pair of legs, and her tail was now on her behind. "See, I look like a Terrarian now." She laughed. "The tail." I noted. "Your fangs, and antenna." "You're not wrong," She said. She stood up. "I think I might hang out with you for a bit," She laughed. "Uh, there isn't enough space in my room for that." I replied. "An…." "Nope, too bad, it's final, I'll hang out with you!" I rolled my eyes. Having Anastasia follow me everywhere was like having a 5 year old with me. Everything surprised her. We went over to a bar, and she was confused by the drinks they had there. "What's a 'Alcohol'?" She asked the Tavernkeep. "How old is this girl?" The Tavernkeep told me. "IDFK." I replied. "Oh, I'm 70,000 years old!" Anastasia laughed. The Tavernkeep and my eyes widened. "How the hell are you still alive!" I exclaimed. "I'm immortal." Anastasia replied. "Well, uh, here you guy's go." The Tavernkeep said, giving us some drinks. We went over to a small table at the corner of the bar. "Wow Lucy, the surface is a lot more intricate than underwater." Anastasia laughed. "What do you do up here?" "I'm, uh, looking for 2 other people, for reasons of my own." I replied. "No, I mean like, for fun, or like a job." Anastasia said. "I don't have one." I replied. "Christie and I kinda just go around Terraria now," GULP! Anastasia gulped down her drink all at once. "Anastasia, you're not supposed to do that." I urged. "Why not?" She asked. "You know what, you're a Siren, it probably doesn't have the same effect on you as it does on other people." I mumbled. Once night rolled around, Anastasia and I said our goodbyes before I headed back to the hotel room. "Lucy, good, you're here, I did some investigating while you were out today, and I think I know what we should be looking for," Christie said. I went over to the desk where Christie had a

notebook full of notes she'd written down. "According to Lore, there are 4 heroes that would defeat Cthullu, and 4 classes they specialize in." She explained. "Mage, Ranged, Summoning, and Melee." "Well we're a Mage and Ranger," I concluded. "So, we should be looking for a Summoner, or a Warrior." Christie said. "You know anyone like that?" "There was this one Archer that I met at the docks, but he's probably also a Ranger." I noted. "Then there's that Siren chick, but she seems a little too stupid to be a Warrior or Summoner." "Dammit," Christie muttered. "Alright, once it reaches morning, we both can go out and look for anyone like either of those." The next day rolled around and I went straight to the seaside. Anastasia was there, collecting seashells on the shore. "Good morning Lucy!" She cheered after seeing me. "Hey Anastasia." I replied. "You know you can just call me Ana," She said. "Ok Ana, Christie and I are looking for a Summoner and a Warrior, do you know any?" I asked. "Well I don't know any Warriors, but I definitely know a Summoner." "Really, well who are they," "Me." My eyes widened. "How are you a Summoner, you seem too, stupid," I said. "Ouch, words hurt." She complained. "I'm one of the best Summoners down in Atlantis." "Wait, Atlantis is a real place!" Ana nodded. "I'm not sure if I'm one of those Heroes that you're talking about, but I might know some people down there that might know," She explained. "Cool, I'll get Christie and we can go!" "Get me and go where?" I turned around. Christie had come down to the shore, not without her cute parasol umbrella that she uses to not burn in the daylight. "Is this that Siren girl you were talking about?" She asked. "Yep, I'm Anastasia, but you can call me Ana!" Ana laughed. "Cool, I'm not shaking your hand, I don't want to burn." Christie said. "So, where are you guy's going?" "Ana here says she might know where we can find the Summoner." I explained. "Down in Atlantis." "Woah, Atlantis exists!" Christie exclaimed. Ana nodded. "We're going down there right now, you want to come with us." Ana said. Christie nodded eagerly. Ana gave her a small diving mask she found in the water. "It should keep you from burning to death." She said. Christie put it on and then; SPLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH! We jumped into the water. "Atlantis is this way," Ana shouted, now in her true Siren form. We swam down deep into the ocean, before we swam up past a massive boulder, and saw Atlantis in all its glory. "That's amazing!" I exclaimed. Christie couldn't talk without losing her breath, but I assumed that she was amazed. "The entrance is right over here." Ana said, pointing towards a bubble-like door. SPLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH! We entered Atlantis. "THIS WASN'T EVEN ON MY TO-DO LIST AND I'VE CROSSED IT OFF!" Christie shouted. "Damn, the noise!" I groaned. "Stop yelling all the time!" "Well guys, I live here," Ana laughed. "This is Atlantis!" The whole city was shiny and beautiful; Gold plated buildings, silver roads, fancy ass torches that didn't use fire somehow. It was all amazing. "Look at that, that door opens in it's own!" Christie exclaimed. "How the hell does anything here work?" I asked Ana. "IDK, I just, uh, IDK?" She replied. "Princess Anastasia, I've found you!" Someone shouted. We turned around. It was some knight looking guy. "Wait princess!" I questioned. "What the hell?" Christie muttered. "Your Highness, where have you been?" The knight asked. "I've made friends!" Ana laughed. "With these peasants?" He exclaimed. "Hey, who you calling a peasant, you uptight, simping, posh-ass, edgy-ass, shark-looking-ass, black road trip movie father, shifty-ass bitch!!" Christie spat. "What was that all for?" I asked. "Hey, let me try spitting bars." Christie complained. Like 5 more guards came from behind the first one. "I have no idea who you 2 are, but you are under arrest for kidnapping the Princess." the leader spat. "The hell?!" I exclaimed. SHING! SHING! The guards pulled out spears. "Hey, wait, I'm completely fine, you don't need to arrest them, they're innocent." Ana complained. "Sorry, thy's the law." One guard said. "Bring Anastasia back to the castle." One of the guards grabbed Ana and pulled her away. "Hey, stop it!" Ana shouted. "Don't resist Anastasia, we've got these 2 handled." He said. "I don't know if we should fight back against these guys," Christie mumbled. "Doesn't matter, they're in the way, let's get them out the way!" I said, pulling out my Diamond Staff once more. "Let's kick their asses." PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I sharted firing at the guards. CLANG! One blocked all of them with a shield. Da-dum! Da-dum! Da-dum! One of the guards was banging on a bongo.

"The hell." Christie muttered. BAM! She shot that guard dead. WHOOSH! The other guards gained some sort of odd aura. "That's the same aura that Melody had on her!" I exclaimed. WHOOSH! I cast the Crimson Cloud in front of us. CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! Christie loaded up her Boomstick. "They can't do anything from that far away." She said. "If they come up, I'll pump them so full of lead they'll have to use their dick as a pencil. PEW! One of them shot a beam from their sword. WHOOSH! Christie and I dove out the way. "Hey, that's not fair!" She complained. BOOM! BOOM! She shot the 2 guards with guns dead. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I shot away the rest of them. "Alright, any idea where the heck a castle is?" I asked. "That giant building in the center of the city that quite obviously screams castle," Christie said, pointing at the obvious castle. "Oh, that is obvious," I muttered. We ran through the streets, ignoring everyone and everything, eventually reaching the castle. "This is Ana's crib!" Christie exclaimed. "She's a Princess I guess, so, yeah." I replied. BAM! BAM! BAM! Christie knocked on the massive door. "Why would you do that!" I complained. "They're just going to arrest us on sight." CREAK! The massive damn door creaked open. "Who goes there?" A guard groaned. "Wait, aren't you the…" CHOP! Christie nailed him with the knock out anime chop. "Thank you Dante." She laughed. We snuck into the castle and Ana was there being scolded by the king. "Anastasia, there are not enough ways for me to say that you can't go to the surface." He shouted. "If any Terrarian were to see you…" "Yeah, about that." Ana laughed. "I kinda met a Fairy, and a Vampire." The king's eyes widened. "Who are they?" He complained. "Oh, they're right there!" Ana said, pointing at us. "How'd you two get in here!" The king shouted. "Your guard sucks!" Christie countered. "And also, quit with your overprotective, black roadtrip movie father ass." "I'm not being overprotective, she's just not ready to deal with the dangers of the surface." The king spat. "There is absolutely no one up there who wants to kill me." Ana replied. 'I'm here because I was told to kill a Si…. oops that's classified.' I don't know why Casey saying that was repeating inside of my head. "Even if that's the case now, you don't know if that'll stay the case." The king said. "I don't want anything to happen to you!" "Nothing will happen to me dad!" Ana complained. 'I'm here because I was told to kill a Si…. oops that's classified.' Casey's line was still stuck in my head. "Ana's a Siren who repeatedly comes to the surface and kills people." I thought. "That would make her a menace to the people on the surface, so obviously." It clicked. "Casey was sent to kill Ana!" The room grew quiet. "What! Who's Casey!" Ana asked. "Casey was the Archer that I met when I was fishing, right before Ana ran into me at the dock." I explained. "Casey stumbled and accidentally said that he's here to kill a Siren, but I never thought I would be Ana." "How do we know that it wasn't some other Siren?" Christie replied. "The way the king was talking to Ana makes it obvious that this type of thing happens all of the time." I continued. "So Ana going to the surface and killing people would make the Terrarians scared of her." "Then we keep her down here forever." The king said. "The hell!" Ana shouted. "No! Let me go up to the surface and kill him!" "No way, you've already caused enough trouble by killing Terrarians!" The king said. "Yet you have a confirmed serial killer and a vampire in the castle!" "That has absolutely nothing to do with us!" "It has to do with me, since they are my friends!" "Friends, you consider these peasants friends!" CRACK! Ana gave him a powerful kick in the, um, I dropped out of school, what's that part of the male anatomy that hurts when it's kicked? Anyways, Ana kicked him there, knocking him to the ground. "Let's go!" She shouted, running out the castle. "Don't let them get out!" The king shouted. Christie and I followed Ana out. "Get your weapon out Christie!" I yelled. "Ana, stay behind us!" "Because I'm a Princess!?" She complained. She pulled a Imp Staff and Snapthorn Whip. "I said I'm a Summoner!" PEW! PEW! PEW! She summoned some imps. CRACK! She tripped the guards following us. "Take back what I said, let's just get out of here!" I noted. SPLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH! We jumped into the ocean. "You guys might want to get ahead." Ana shouted. We swam up ahead of us. CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! She smacked the guards behind us out cold. POOF! POOF! POOF! The imps she summoned disappered. "Shoot, they're gone!" She complained. "Ana, I've got you!" I said. PEW! PEW! I shot the last 2 guards away.

SPLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH! We jumped out of the ocean. "I'm not going back there for a while!" Christie exclaimed. We ran into town and ran up into Christie and I's hotel room. "Thanks guys!" Ana laughed. "No problem." Christie replied. "So, I guess that kinda does prove that you are the Summoner we're looking for." I said. "I guess it does," Ana said. "Whelp, all's well that ends well,"

Ana POV

Lucy and Christie are letting me sleep inside of the bathtub instead of getting me my own room, but I didn't really care. In the morning I went on out to grab something to eat. "Hello, welcome to the General Store." the clerk said when I walked in. "Do you guys have Steak here?" I asked. "Wow, steak for breakfast, that's odd, let me see what we've got." He replied. He went into the back room and came back with a pack of Beef. "It's raw, but you can easily cook it at home," He explained. "Thanks," I said. "Uh, this is where I pay, right?" He nodded. "17 silver." He said. "Silver, alright." I muttered. I went through the change Lucy gave me. 2 of the coin types looked very similar to each other. "Umm, which one of these is silver?" I asked. "That one." The clerk said, pointing to the darker coins. "Okay," I said, giving him the 17 silver. I took the beef from him and left the store. I was extremely confused by what he meant by cooking the meat, so I just sat on a nearby barrel and ate the beef. I think some people were looking at me weird, but I didn't care. After I ate it I was about to head back over to Lucy and Christie, when; "Are you Princess Anastasia of Atlantis?" Someone asked. I turned around. It was a pretty cute looking boy. "Yeah, what about it?" I asked. "Heh, I've been looking for you for quite a while now," He said. This scene was attracting quite a lot of attention, a crowd forming. "I'm Casey Nichols, an Archer from Ambermeadow." I didn't remember why that name felt so familiar. "That's cool, well, I guess you already know who I am," I laughed. "What'd you need from me?" "You've terrorized these people in this small town for way too long." He spat. "And I'm going to put you down and restore the peace here." I just now remembered who he was. "Hey Casey, I don't think it's a good idea to shoot me in this crowd." I muttered. BAM! I felt something hit the back of my head. It was an old can. "Yeah, kill her Casey!" Someone cheered. "Kill that horrible beast!" Someone else shouted. BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! People were pelting me with pebbles, cans, and old junk. "Quit it, stop!" I complained. BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! The pelting continued. "Heh, thanks guys you're making this much too easy!" Casey laughed. THWUMP! He aimed his bow at my head. "See ya Ana!" THWICK! He shot out an arrow. BANG! I dove behind a barrel. WHOOSH WHOOSH! WHOOSH! I summoned up some Imps. CRACK! I stuck the floor in front of Casey with my whip. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! They shot fireballs at him. BAM! BAM! BAM! People kept throwing garbage at me. "Stop before I end up eating you guys!" I spat. PEW! Casey did something to teleport behind me. BANG! He smacked me across the head with his bow. BAM! I fell into the barrel. CRASH! It shattered. "You really, honest to god thought that you could stand up to me?" He said. "Seriously you guys are always so cocky." I replied. "Anyone with the slightest upper hand just grows the biggest head and ego ever." He picked me up by the neck. SHKT! He stabbed me in the chest with an arrow. "SHUT UP!" He spat. "You are the cocky one, thinking you can just casually talk to me like some guy, when I'm about to kill you!" SMASH! He slammed me into another barrel. "I'm sick and tired of you, and I've only known you for about 7 minutes!" BAM! He stomped on my stomach. PFFT! I spat out the blood in my mouth. "Would you not torture me before you kill me?" I groaned, standing up. "Grr, WHY YOU…" CRACK! One of my Imps cracked Casey across the head with my whip. BAM! He hit the ground and passed out. "No way!" Someone in the crowd shouted. "Get her!" I quickly ran into the hotel. "Hey guys, I kinda fought with Casey, and now we might want to get out of here." I rushed. "You moron!" Lucy complained. "And I thought we could go a little bit without running from everything with a pulse." BAM! Christie smacked her on the back of the head. "You should be a little more

considerate to Ana, you know." She said. They quickly packed up their necessities and we ran out of the hotel. The angry mob had weird big forks and sticks on fire. "Shit, you've got a mob on us." Lucy spat. "This way." We ducked into an alley and towards a dock. "There's a row boat right there!" Christie shouted, pointing at a small wooden thing on the water. PEW! PEW! PEW! Lucy shot warning shots at the mob. "Alright let's get into it." She urged. We jumped into the 'boat', and Christie started pushing 2 weird sticks through the water. "Alright, we got away!" I cheered. SPLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH! They started shooting odd arrows attached to ropes at us. "Dammit, harpoons!" Christie complained. "What's a harpoon!" I asked. "Those things, dumbass." She replied. SHKT! One stuck the boat, halting it in place. "Wait, I see Casey over there." Lucy noted. He was pointing his bow at me once again. "What kind of weak ass knockout did you do on him?" Christie asked. "I smacked him with my whip." I replied. "That's not going to do anything!" She complained. PEW! He shot a starry arrow at us. SHKT! It struck the boat. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! It started raining stars over us. "What kind of arrows are those!" Lucy exclaimed. "I don't know, but I definitely want to get my hands on them!" Christie laughed. "We're out of any of their ranges right now, we should be safe." The town started getting smaller and smaller, until it disappeared. "What happened to Beachmarsh?" I asked. "That's what happens when you get far away from something." Lucy replied. "Have you seriously not gone anywhere your entire life?" I shook my head. "This is the farthest out I've ever been before." I said.

1 week later

It'd been 1 week since what happened at Beachmarsh. We went far out into the seemingly endless sea of Terraria, before we made it to a massive forest. The last 6 days of that week were spent looking for any civilization in the place. "It's been a whole week!" Lucy complained. "Don't worry, we should find a town eventually!" Christie replied, optimistic. I was still amazed by how many different shapes and sizes the trees came in. "Look at this tree, it has yellow flowers!" I laughed. "And that one has a black stem!" "How is this girl 70,000 years old, yet she still acts like a newborn baby?" Lucy asked. I heard her and frowned. "I've never seen trees before." I said, upset. "You guys were surprised to see automatic doors down in Atlantis." "Well yeah, because they aren't something that I see literally everywhere!" "I lived thousands of years ago underwater, you think we have trees there." "I just thought maybe you'd see the reflection of one inside of your oversized bathtub!" "Oh, so now I live in a bathtub." "Yeah, what are you gonna do about it!?" "Can we please stop this needless bitching!" Christie interrupted. I was seriously about to ignore her, about to sink my fangs into Lucy's neck, when; SNIFF! SNIFF! I heard something sniffing. "W-what was that!" I muttered. "Hey look, there's enough meat for all of us here!" Someone laughed. "Heh, finally, I'm starving!" Someone else said. A bunch of weird wolf people started coming from the forest to our camp. "What the hell are those guys!" Lucy gasped. "We're Werewolves ya idiot!" The leader said, coming out in front of us. Compared to everyone else, they were taller and had orange spiky fur. "Y'all look adorable, what are your names!" They laughed. "Guy's what's a Werewolf?" I whispered. "They're men who turn into wolves at a full moon." Christie explained. "That leader one though looks like a girl." "Ya guys don't hafta talk bout ya names do ya!" She spat. "Come one out with it!" "I'm Anastasia." I said. "Oh, like Princess Anastasia from Atlantis?" I nodded. "Sick, I've always wanted to meet royalty." "That fairy is Lucy, and the vampire that's covering herself with a parasol is Christie." "Why would you tell her our names!" Lucy complained. "Nice, ya guys all have very cute names, especially Anastasia." The werewolf leader laughed. I blushed. "Come on Emma, I'm finna just destroy them if you don't give us the go ahead." A werewolf complained. "Wait, destroy us!" Christie exclaimed. "Nope, let's get outta here!" I shouted, running into the forest. Christie and Lucy followed me. "Get 'em!" I heard Emma yell. "Well shit, we've got Werewolves on our asses!" Lucy complained. Lucy and Christie were somehow running up ahead of me. "Hey guys, why are you moving so fast!" I

complained. "Aglets, 15% higher movement speed." Christie explained. "Well don't have o….." SHKT! A Werewolf jumped out of the woods and bit me in the arm. BAM! I fell over into a tree. "Ana!" Lucy shouted, turning around and running back. PEW! She killed the Werewolf on me. "You okay?" She asked. "No," I replied. Christie came and licked some of the blood. "That's venom!" She exclaimed. "They used flasks on their fangs!" "I'm finna kill your ass!" A werewolf shouted. BANG! Lucy caught his fangs with her staff. PEW! She shot him in the mouth. "We've got to get Ana to medical help." Christie noted. "I'll carry her, let's get the hell out of here." Christie picked me up and put me on her back as they ran deeper into the forest. "Ana, does your other arm work?" Lucy asked. "sOrT Of." I replied woozily. Lucy threw me over my whip. "Go smack a few guys around." She said. CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! I smacked a few guys out cold. SHKT! Something grabbed onto my whip. BANG! They pulled me down over to them. It was Emma. SHKT! She sank her claws into my neck. "The pack's really gonna enjoy eating ya!" She laughed. "Usually I do the eating of someone." I replied, totally not blushing. "Are ya, blushing at me holding ya like this?" I shook my head. Emma chuckled. "Ya totally are, ya masochist!" She laughed. "Put me down Emma, please." I groaned. "Ya know what, I think I'll take ya with me; you're adorable!" Emma joked, throwing me on her back. "Ya guys hunt those other 2 down, I'm keeping Anastasia!" She shouted out. BANG! She swiftly knocked me out.

???

Emma took me to some strange place in the forest. "Hey, hey, sleeping beauty, wake up!" She shouted. I promptly burst awake. "You're pretty odd!" She laughed. "I'm a Siren, what do you expect?" I complained. "No, I take ya here, and then suddenly everyone wants ya away from them." She replied. "Did ya do something to yourself?" "I can barely tell the difference between a tree and a hedge, why would I be able to do something," I countered. "Hmmm, you're a strange fellow, I'll give ya that," she muttered. "Emma!" Someone shouted, walking into her tent. "Oh, hey Faye!" Emma replied. I was thinking that Faye was probably either related to Emma, or some sort of close friend. "You brought a Siren over into the village?" Faye complained. "How? How is she still alive and why!" "Contrary to popular belief, Sirens can breathe on land," I groaned. "No one asked for your opinion, Fishsticks!" Faye countered. "If it were up to me, you'd be dead the second I saw you!" "Damn Faye, no need to be such a bitch!" Emma said. "I know," Faye groaned. "But I just don't want to risk the village's position being compromised." "Really," Emma sighed. "If she tries to escape, I'll just kill her." "Hey, I'm not your pet," I complained. "Ya are now," Emma laughed. "But I'm the Princess of Atlantis, you can't just keep me in here!" " I can and I will!" I was getting pissed off now. "This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen!" Faye muttered. "Then let me freaking go!" I spat. "Nope, I'mma keep you!" Emma laughed. "And I'mma bring you with me to chill with the younglings."

It turns out that Emma is the Chief of the village that they haven't named yet. She took me to the Daycare about 5 minutes away from her raggedy ass house. "Emma, it's about time that you came around here." The owner of the Daycare said. "Uh, who's that with you?" "This is Anastasia!" Emma said. "She thinks I'm her pet or something!" I complained. "Well ya are!" Emma replied. "Um, can you not bring up your odd kinks in here Emma," The daycare owner groaned. "Kink? WAIT THIS IS SEXUAL!" I exclaimed. Emma and the Daycare owner urged me to shut up. "Anyways, the pups were saying that they wanted to hear one of your stories again." "Didn't they get nightmares the last time I did that?" "Yeah, but they enjoyed it so much that they want to hear them again!" "Alright then," Emma physically dragged me with her to the Daycare room with all the little abominations in it. "I can't stand children," I mumbled. "Hey Emma, who's that!" "Emma, are you finna tell us a story?" Blah Blah Blah! I literally can't stand kids. So annoying you know. "So, y'all wanna hear a story, huh?" Emma asked, sitting on a creaky chair. "Uh, Emma, there's nowhere for me to sit." I said.

"Well of course there is," Emma replied. "The floor," "Wha? I'm a princess, I refuse to sit on the floor!" I complained. "There ya go, stand up for yaself for once." Emma laughed. "I'm still not getting up though, so go sit down with everyone else on the floor," I frowned and sat down on the stupid floor, with the stupid kids. "Alright y'all, I think I've got a pretty sick story to tell." Emma announced. BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! I didn't listen to a word she said. It was probably a baby story about a sharkshit Prince and unindependent Princess or something. Once Emma was done with it, she took me back to her tent. "I hate you soo much!" I complained. "I haven't done anything to ya," Emma replied. "You kidnapped me, forced me around places, and you treat me like a freaking pet!" I shouted. "If you weren't so freaking attractive, I would've brutally murdered you hours ago!" "Ya think I'm attractive?" Emma asked. "I uhm, no one's eva said that 'bout me," "I didn't mean that as a good thing!" I countered. "Just let me go, and you'll never have to see me again!" "If I let ya go, y'all have to die," Emma muttered. "Oh right, you guys are such pussies you can't let anything know that you exist!" I spat. I was about to leave her tent, but Emma blocked the door. "Get out my way!" I complained. "I don't want to kill ya!" Emma countered. "Why! You've treated me like a freaking animal this entire time!" I spat. "Because I have no one to hang out with!" Emma shouted. I promptly stopped trying to push past. "My entire life, I've been stuck here, barely ever leaving a 5 kilometer radius of the camp." She cried. "For the past 592 years, I've been trained to lead the pack, but I've neva gotten to talk to anyone. Then I met ya, and I thought ya would be awesome to hang out with," "If you think that'll make me hate you less, you're completely wrong!" I spat. "I guess," Emma mumbled. "Then I guess…" She stepped out of the way. "Just go, I can't bring myself to be near you," For some reason, I was feeling extremely bad for her. "Don't feel empathy," I thought. "She kidnapped you, and tried to murder you," I just couldn't help myself. "Pull yourself up," I complained. "Aren't you the chief, I shouldn't be making you cry!" Emma looked up. "And besides, you kidnapped me, I should be, I don't know, intimidated by you!" "Heh, you've fallen into my trap!" Emma laughed. "I got ya to like me!" I frowned. "You're the absolute worst!" I spat. "Nope, I'm the absolute smartest person in this camp!" She replied. SQUEEZE! She squeezed me tightly. "Ya gonna be my friend from now on!" She laughed. "I have absolutely no say in this?" I choked, wondering how she was able to hold me this tight. "Nope, you automatically agree with me." She replied.

1 weeks later

It'd been a week since Emma had kidnapped me. I haven't been referring to it as such, but it was a kidnapping. Emma showed me around the entire camp, which had no name yet. I, in turn, told her about Atlantis, which frankly isn't much different than the camp, but hey, it was the only place I knew about for the past 70,000 years. 1 day when I woke up, Emma was nowhere inside of her tent. "Emma?" I questioned, walking out of the tent. "EMMA, WHERE ARE YOU!" Me shouting this out drew a lot of unnecessary attention to me. "Ana, I'm up here!" She shouted from atop of her tent. "Why are you up there?" I asked. "Keeping watch," She replied, jumping down. "Some of the hunters didn't come back from last night's hunt, so the whole camp is sorta on high alert." My heart dropped. "You know what did that?" I asked. "Nah, doesn't really matter though, pretty sure God didn't send them to hell to rest." Emma replied. I didn't know why, but an odd feeling creeped up my spine, like someone was watching us. "Anyways, I'mma head over to the grocery store for some shopping, ya wanna come?" She said. I nodded. Going anywhere with Emma was an interesting experience. When we got to the store, Emma was grabbing some weird red things called apples and graham crackers, I think. "That's a strange thing," I muttered, looking at the apple. "What's it used for?" "Ya eat 'em." Emma replied. She paid at the clerk, who was at a counter-like thing made of a tree leggy and gave me the apple. "Why is it covered in blood?" I questioned, inspecting it. "It's not blood, that's its skin." Emma said. "Skin, so it's meat?" "No, that's just what Faye says the outside of it is called." "Faye seems quite knowledgeable,"

"Yeah, she says she's from some other pack called Pondshade or somethin'." SHKT! I got one of my fangs stuck in the apple. "Uh, mmfm,mhm,hmf,mhm," I mumbled. Emma laughed and took the apple off my mouth. "There ya go," She said, giving me the apple and patting my head. "This creature is impossible to kill!" I complained. "It's not a creature, ya just eat it like ya eat a Terrarian." Emma replied. "But Terrarians are squishy and juicy in the mouth." I said. SHKT! I bit a piece of the apple off and chewed it. "So good!" I thought. "I've never tasted anything like this before!" After eating the entire apple, even it's core, Emma took me right outside of the camp. "I've always wanted to see the outside world." She muttered. "But they won't let me. Says stuff like I'm too important to leave." "Emma, if me, the princess of Atlantis can leave, then you most certainly can," I replied. "Just ask Faye to lead the camp for now," Emma smiled. "Hey, I guess ya is right." She laughed. "But if I went with ya guys, I doubt the others would want me with ya." "They'll just have to suck it up and deal with it," I said. GRRR! My stomach growled. "Man, it's been forever since I've eaten a Terrarian," I complained. "Same," Emma replied. "I think that they've labeled this area of Terraria as off limits or something," I frowned. "Man, that sucks," I groaned. "Hey, maybe we could, I don't know, leave the camp," Emma was looking at me like I just told her that we should jump off a trench. "Remember what I told ya, they'll never let me out of the camp!" She replied. "And I said that you can tell Faye to lead while we're gone," I said. "Besides, she probably can probably keep a secret," "I, uh, but, fine, I'll try askin' em'," Emma sighed. "But if she says no, we completely forget this conversation even happened," "Okay, we can do that," I said.

The next day rolled around and Emma came into the tent with a massive smile on her face. "I asked Faye to cover for me, and she agreed!" She laughed. "Nice, then let's get some stuff and go!" I replied. "Oh, about that, what stuff do I pack?" she asked. I shrugged "Now thinking about it, I didn't take anything when I ran away from Atlantis." I muttered. "Hmmm, this is odd," "What if I just bring some weapons and a fold up tent?" Emma asked. "Sure, I guess that would work." I replied. She went into a nearby chest and took out what seemed to be a Fiery Greatsword, a Thorn Chakram, an Amazon Yo-yo, and an Arkahlis. "I think these weapons are fine," She said. "Damn, that's a lot of weapons." I replied. "Well, I am a Warrior, so I've gotta have a load of weapons," She said, putting them all onto her belt. (Inventories in Terraria are strange. Essentially, they can warp items from them to their hands. The actual realm that is an inventory is highly speculated amongst the wisest philosophers in Terraria.) PEW! They all shrunk to the size of little belt buckles. "Alright then, let's go!" She laughed. We left the camp and went over to where Christie, Lucy and I had docked the boat. "Just as I thought, they left," I mumbled, not seeing the boat anywhere. "They've probably gone back to that Beachmarsh place to look for ya," Emma replied. "Maybe, but how in the name of Leviathans do we get over there?" I asked. "You're a Siren!" Emma said. "We can just swim over there," "But what about you," I replied. "Girl, I've the longest breath holding in the camp, Imma be fine," She laughed. "Okay then," I said. SPLASH! I jumped into the water. SPLASH! Emma followed after me. Just as she said, she was completely fine. We swam across the sea much faster than the slow boat we took, and we soon made it to Beachmarsh. I slowly peaked my head out of the water before climbing out. "What was that for?" Emma asked, also now climbing out of the water. "There was this one guy named Casey, who was trying to kill me for eating a bunch of Terrarians," I replied. "Those Terrarians get scared over everything," Emma groaned. "Come on, ya got me to protect me," I frowned. "Just because I'm a princess doesn't mean I want you to treat me like one," I replied. We went through the town, which was much more deserted than usual. "Dang, where'd everyone go?" I thought to myself. The barrels that lined the streets were empty, and there was a faint smell of, blood. "Something's definitely happened." I told Emma. "Yeah, those Terrarians packed up and ditched after they saw ya kick Casey's ass." Emma laughed. "You're probably right," I replied, completely forgetting why I was nervous to begin with. We left the town, and went on north to the weird massive tree place. "This is a jungle!" Emma exclaimed. I was in too much awe to really say anything. "Tall!" I mumbled. "Tall trees!" "Hold up, we're getting distracted." Emma said. "I've heard, from some others, that

there are massive bee hives deep in the underground jungle that have sick weapons," "Cool," I replied. "What's a bee?" "You'll know when you see," We climbed down into a deep cave, and saw how some familiar footscars were on the mud. "Hey, these are Lucy and Christie's!" I noted. "But they're kinda oldish; maybe a month old," "How can you tell?" Emma asked. "I took a class on footscars back in Atlantis," I replied. "Footprint," Emma corrected. "Whatever, I think that they might've come here before they went to Beachmarsh." I explained. "Or even before they went to Ensamble," Emma replied. "Wait, look, I see a hive right there," BZZZZZZ! There was a weird buzzing noise coming from the massive yellow thing with holes. "What kind of architecture classes did the things who made this take?" I questioned. SPLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH! I poked at the yellow thing, letting a sticky yellow liquid out of it. "The heck!" I exclaimed, stepping back, wiping the liquid off of my hands. "That's honey!" Emma laughed. SHKT! She sunk her Fiery Greatsword into the honey holding thing. BZZZZ! Dozens of tiny things flew out of it. "Might want to kill them!" Emma shouted. CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! I mowed down hordes of the tiny thing with my whip. "Hey, I've gotten to an opening!" Emma said, going into the honey holding thing. "What is that!" I muttered. "A hive!" Emma replied. I slowly crept into the hive having all of the disgusting honey spill all over me. SPLASH! I climbed onto a floating part of the hive. "I hate this!" I complained, lying back. "What, Ana, hold up!" Emma shouted. CRACK! I smashed something on my shoulder. A small baby worm thing popped out of the thing and flopped around. "That was a larva!" Emma said. "Shit, the Queen Bee might screw us up!" BAM! Some big bee rammed into me. SPLASH! I landed into the honey pool. "You okay?" Emma asked. "I think," I replied. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I summoned up my minions. ROAR! The giant bee came flying back. SPLASH! SPLASH! Emma and I dove under the honey to dodge its charge. CRACK! I smacked the giant bee, sicking my minions onto it. "That's the Queen Bee I think!" I shouted. "Probably!" Emma replied. BAM! BAM! BAM! She lugged her Thorn Chakram at the Queen Bee. BOP! BOP! BOP! BOP! BOP! BOP! The Queen Bee hovered over us and started shooting freaking bees from its bottom. "Ugh, it's having babies to freaking murder us!" I groaned. BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! Emma used her Amazon Yo-yo to kill all of the tiny baby bees. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! My minions casually lobbed fireballs at the bee. CRUNCH! There was a horrible crunch noise and the Queen Bee burst into blood and gore. "Bleugh, that's freaking horrible!" I groaned, holding back my puke. "Sick! That was nice and refreshing from killing dumbass Terrarians," Emma laughed. "How is that refreshing?!" I complained, wiping the blood off my whip. SPARKLE! There was a strange sparkling sensation somewhere in the hive. "What was that?" I thought. I dug a bit throughout the honey before; SHKT! I cut my finger on something sharp. I pulled it out, and sure enough, it was a bee-like sword. "Whoah, that's a cool sword!" Emma said, mesmerized by the blade's reflection. "Here you go," I replied, throwing her the blade. Emma swung the sword around before putting it on her back. When we were leaving the hive, I quickly snatched up some weird wax thing from the ground and stuffed it into my pockets.

The next day…

We went over to Ensamble, where we stayed at a hotel for the night. I left the hotel room to get some fresh air, and I saw a poster with Lucy's face on it. "2,000 Platinum!" I exclaimed. "Why do Terrarians want her dead so badly?" I promptly went back into the hotel, because I didn't know if anyone saw me with Lucy or Christie in Beachmarsh. "I thought ya went to get some to get air." Emma said, seeing me come back inside. "I was, but I saw how much Lucy is wanted for," I replied. "It's extremely dangerous for her here." Emma was reading the paper that was delivered to us this morning. "Hey look, there's a, um, there's words that look like they're about Lucy here!" She said, pointing at the extremely dark print. '19 year old Lucy Nebula was last seen leaving Beachmarsh with 16 year old Christie Ricochet and Princess Anastasia Genesis.' "You guys were running from the Coppers?" Emma asked. I reluctantly nodded. "You act like I seriously care!" she

laughed. "When we got here, I saw a picture for a local blacksmith near here, if you need to have anything built for you," "Actually, I might," I said. I left the hotel and quickly ran over to the blacksmith Emma was talking about. I went inside and; BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! I saw the blacksmith working on a shield. "What is it that you need?" He asked, not looking up from his forging. "I found some Bee Wax and was wondering if you could forge me some Bee Armor," I explained. The Blacksmith looked up and I handed him the Bee Wax. "Hmm, 20, yes I could make you some Bee Armor outta this," He said. "Because it's so easy to make, I don't think I'll charge you for this." He quickly got to work, molding the armor and drying it out. Soon he had finished the armor. "There you go, one set of Bee Armor," He said, giving me it in a case. "Thanks!" I laughed, still throwing him over 3 gold before leaving. I went up to the hotel room and Emma saw the armor I had gotten. "That doesn't look very sturdy, but hey, it's armor," She said. I threw on the armor over my regular clothes. "It feels odd," I moaned. "That's just what armor feels like after never wearing it," Emma replied. She poked me with her Arkhalis. "Look at that, you won't just fall apart from me touching you," she laughed, sheathing the blade. "Really," I complained, again totally not blushing. "Come on, let's get the hell outta here!" She replied. I went to open the door again, but there were 2 people waiting for us. "Morning ladies," The red haired guy said. "Not good," Emma muttered. I turned to get away, but the yellow haired girl grabbed my arm. "Let go of me!" I shouted, trying to pull my arm away. "Nope, you guys aren't going anywhere!" she replied, pulling me towards her. "Ay yo, there are how many different ways we can do this," Emma said, sneakily pulling out her Amazon Yoyo. "Your choice of course," "Jayni, get Anastasia out of here, I've got this Werewolf here," The boy said. Jayni pulled me out of the room. "Really, you don't know how to respect your superiors!" I complained. "Don't play that status card with me!" Jayni spat. "Princess or not, you're a wanted criminal, and Ms. Melody wants us to take care of you 3. It does seem like you picked up another monster, but she'll be no problem." "I'm going to make you eat those words!" I countered. PEW! PEW! PEW! I summoned up 5 Imps and took out my whip. "You're only a healer, I can take you!" I spat. Jayni just laughed. "Oh really, you think I would be where I am right now if I couldn't fight back?" She laughed. SHKT! She reached for her eye and ripped the freaking thing out. Her other eye grew a dark red color and her hair turned purple. "Let's see how you handle this!" She laughed, whipping out a Molten Thresher I think. CLANG! I blocked her quick slash to my legs. CRACK! I retaliated with a crack on her chest. PEW! PEW! PEW! My Imps started shooting fireballs at her. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Jayni dodged out of the way and the fireballs broke through walls. "Watch out for that!" I complained at the imps. SHKT! I ducked under her next slash but got my face sliced a bit. CRACK! I swung my whip at her and she dodged out of the way. "Stand still would you!" I spat. BANG! She kicked me in the face, knocking me back. I pulled myself up. "What happened to you being able to handle a weak little healer Annie?" Jayni mocked. "You're pathetic," "She's on a completely different level than me," I thought. "How in the name of Atlatis do I, how do I survive this!" SHKT! I dodged out of the way of her stab. BANG! She tore a bit of a wall off. "There are other people in this hotel!" I complained. "You're doing all of this for one person!" "That's the plan!" Jayni spat. BAM! I caught her slash at me in my hands, cutting the hell out of my palms. "Shit!" I thought. BANG! Jayni hit me with a savage headbutt, knocking me to the ground. "Come on Annie, I'm trying to actually try against you." She laughed. "At least cut my skin or something!" I didn't get up, my head still throbbing from her headbutt. "I said to get up!" Jayni spat, kicking at me. Slowly, I pulled myself off the floor. "There you go!" She laughed. CRACK! I smacked her across the face with my whip. "Don't insult me!" I growled. "BEFORE I MUTILATE YOUR BITCH ASS!" CRACK!! I hit her with the strongest whip smack I could possibly muster. BAM! She hit the nearby wall. She wasn't getting up. "Damn her to hell!" I thought, wanting to stomp on her face but not. Then it came to me. "Emma!" I quickly rushed to our room where I saw that Emma had dispatched the red hair guy. "That was almost too easy, Harley!" She laughed. She turned in my direction. "Oh Ana, did you deal with Jayni?" She asked. I nodded, whilst pointing at my cut up face. "Oh, we might have to deal with that." She mumbled. We hurried out of the hotel and rushed out of town. "So, maybe we shouldn't go into any town that we know those 2 have gone to,"

Emma said. "In fact, maybe we should find them." "Well where in the freaking world would we find them," I complained. Emma suddenly stopped. "I smell something burning," She groaned, squeezing her nose. "I don't smell anything." I replied. "Look, over there, some smoke!" She said, pointing at a pillar of smoke in the sky. We ran over to where the smoke was, and there was a small town completely destroyed and burning. "What the hell is this!" I thought, just looking at the scene. There were burnt corpses, charred plants, destroyed homes, everything was just screwed up. "What happened here?" I thought. Emma walked over to one of the bodies and grabbed an unburnt book off of it. "This book isn't burnt." She muttered, opening it up. I peaked over her shoulder. "What does it say?" I asked. "Why would I know, I can't read." She replied. I frowned. "Give me that," I complained, taking the book away from her. 'A brimstone witch attacked this village' it read. "What in the world is brimstone!" Emma questioned. "It's a strange kind of magic that has been banned for millennia." I replied. "I was there when it was banned," "Okay so, this is probably bad, right?" Emma asked. I nodded. "There was a town in the mountains that practiced Brimstone Magic," I explained. "But… I swore that they all died off," "Well, let's get out of here, I prefer not to mess with people who can destroy entire towns on their own," Emma said, extremely scared. "Yep, let's go!" I replied. We ran out of the screwed up town and hurried out of there.

4 hours later…

We had arrived at the nearby town of Hollyhead and set up camp right outside of the walls. When the sun came up, we finally went inside of the town. "This is a tiny place," I said, not really seeing anyone on the streets. "Well that's good, we won't have to deal with decent people actually ending up being horrible people," Emma laughed. BAM! I walked right into someone. "Watch where you're going!" They spat. I recognized that voice. "Lucy?" I questioned. She looked up. "Ana!" She exclaimed, pulling me up. "Hey Christie, look who I just ran into!" Christie came out of a weapons shop. "Ana!" She ran over to me and squeezed me tight. "Air, please I need air!" I choked. "After we lost you by those Werewolves, we thought…." She frankly couldn't finish her sentence. "Hey! That Werewolf is right there!" CLICK! She pointed a gun at Emma. "I should've done this when we were in the damn forest!" She spat. "Wait, I can explain!" Emma said. "You don't get to explain!" Christie countered. "Can we not fight in the street!" Lucy complained. "And let go of me!" I shouted, trying to slip out of Christie's grip. "Oh, I forgot that you were here," She laughed, letting me go. I quickly ran out of the way of their standoff. "Let's not do this at all!" I shouted. "Just listen to her, Christie!" "You've got Stockholm Syndrome," Christie said. "She kidnapped you for the past month!" "Yeah, but she hasn't harmed me at all, and only wanted a friend." I countered. "UGH! That's the most childrens story plot ever!" Christie spat. Lucy was covering her ears from the noise. "Stop screaming!" She complained. "Don't worry Lucy, I'll stop all of the trouble." Christie replied. CLICK! She pointed her gun back at Emma. "You're dying now!" BAM! Christie shot at Emma. Emma stepped out of the way. "Oh sorry, was I supposed to stand still and let you shoot me!" She replied. "Can we just all get along!" I shouted. "I'm gonna have to agree with Ana," Lucy said. "I don't think Emma is a morally bad, uh, person." "Dammit!" Christie groaned. She put her gun back on her waist. "I don't trust you Emma!" "Ya don't have to!" Emma countered. "Can you stop for 5 seconds!" I complained. "We're drawing a load of attention." Those 2 looked around and saw how some Terrarians were watching the entire event. "You're lucky these 2 are here to keep me from killing you!" Christie spat. "She has absolutely no chill whatsoever!" I thought.

The next day…

While Christie was still pouting about having to deal with Emma with us, Lucy explained to us why they were here at Hollyhead. "This town is one of the only places in Terraria that doesn't have people who hate us," she explained. "We heard from the Governor here that a famous mechanic here named Korrie was captured by some skeletons," "Skeletons?" I questioned. "Walking piles of bones." Emma replied. "Anyways, Christie and I were preparing to get you back and then roll up on the Dungeon." Lucy continued. "The thing is, there is a giant skeleton guarding it, so we needed to find that warrior that Sean was talking about." I promptly pointed at Emma. "Here's a warrior that seems to fit the criteria!" I said. "Hell no!" Christie shouted, coming into the room. "There is no way in hell that Emma here is that 4th hero!" "She has to be, we killed the Queen Bee together." I countered. Christie's eyes widened. "How, even some damn pros from Pondshade couldn't kill that thing!" She exclaimed. "Well we did, so yeah, Emma definitely is the 4th one." I replied. "Fine," Christie sighed, admitting defeat. "So did you tell them about Skeletron?" Lucy nodded. "Well then, they should know how absolutely ridiculous this quest is going to be." Christie said. "Come on Christie, try to be the slightest bit positive." I replied. "You be positive, I'll be realistic," She countered. "Let's just grab our shit and try to kill this stupid skeleton."

We packed up our things and made our way over to the dungeon. When we got there, there were wooden platforms in rows next to the dungeon. "I think someone else came here," Emma muttered. "Yeah, I can tell!" Lucy replied, pulling out a gun. "Hey Lucy, aren't you a Mage?" I asked. "Space Gun, we found the meteorite and made this for me and"; WHOOSH! She pressed a button on her shoulder and a helmet flipped on over her face. "Sick ass Meteor Armor!" She laughed. CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH! There was some movement in a bush. "There's something in there," Christie noted. "No shit," Lucy replied, slowly moving to the bush. She pointed her Space Gun at the bush before moving the bush and; it was a slime. A green slime. "Really?" She groaned, picking up the slime. SMOOSH! She crushed it in her hands. We walked over to the dungeon, where there was that strange arena thing and an old man. "Uh, hello!" I said. The old man turned in our direction. "Ah, you lot must be those heroes the Governor was talking about" He acknowledged. "Did you build this arena?" Christie asked. The old man nodded. "You guys must know about Skeletron, if I am not mistaken." He explained. "He is the skeleton that was left after the ancient dryad race destroyed Cthullu, 500,000 years ago. It has since then become a curse that locks onto someone who comes across this dungeon, eternally bounding them to defend this place." I put the pieces together. "Skeletron cursed you," I noted. The old man nodded. "Yes, he has me bound to guard this place for eternity," He said. "But you 4 might be able to help. I recall tying up a young girl and throwing her into the dungeon here, but I barely have any free will left. Me talking to you 4 right now is almost impossible. I need you to destroy Skeletron for me, and I'll be able to let you into the dungeon," "You said that you barely have any free will," Emma said. "How do we know that you aren't tricking us right now," "I have no wish to betray you 4," The old man answered. "I need you to destroy Skeletron and free me from my curse!" "But won't that kill you?" I asked. "I'd much rather die, then be bound to this torture and making others suffer." The old man pleaded. "Please end mine and other's suffering, please!" "Okay!" Emma said, pulling out her blade. "I'm sorry for this," "You are alright," The old man replied. SHKT! She stabbed him in the chest, a quick and painless death. "Hmm, for being part of Cthullu, I expected something a little…" Emma couldn't finish, because; WHOOSH! A blast of hot air launched us back. BOOM! A giant skull and arms erupted from the old man's corpse. "That's probably it!" I shouted. BOOM! I jumped out of the way of a smack. "Now might be a good time to get to the arena!" Lucy shouted, flying up to it. "The rest of us can't fly!" Christie complained. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! She started firing stars out of a Star Cannon. "I've got y'all." Lucy shouted. She grabbed Christie and flew her up to the arena. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! I summoned up 3 Imps. CRACK! I smacked Skeletron with the whip, sicking my Imps onto it. Lucy grabbed me and pulled me up to the arena. "Watch out for the hands!" Christie shouted at me, still keeping the pressure

on Skeletron. ROAR! Skeletron started spinning uncontrollably, charging at Christie. BOOM! She rolled out the way and Skeletron slammed into the platforms. Lucy had just brought Emma up to the arena. "You guys be careful without any armor!" Lucy told Christie and Emma. BAM! She jumped out of the way of one of the hand's charges. BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Emma attacked one of the hands with her Yoyo. CRACK! The hand burst apart and fell away. "Destroy the other hand, it won't be able to hit you then!" She yelled. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! My Imps started launching fireballs on the other hand. CRACK! It burst into pieces and fell. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! Skeletron started shooting tiny skulls at us. "Watch it!" Christie shouted. BANG! She pushed me over, a skull barely missing me. PEW! PEW! PEW! Lucy opened fire on the actual skull of Skeletron. ROAR! It started spinning and charging at her. 'HEY! Leave her alone!" Emma shouted. BAM! She threw her Thorn Chakram at Skeletron. ROAR! It started charging at her. "Probably wasn't a good idea!" She exclaimed, running from it. KABOOM! Christie threw a grenade at Skeletron, destroying it. "It's dead, I think," She groaned. "You, just need to lead with grenades, those are insane." Lucy laughed. "I never want to do that again." Emma whimpered, curling up into a ball. In the remains of Skeletron, there was an odd spell tome in it. "Hey Lucy, you know what this thing is?" I asked, picking up the tome. "It's a spell tome for, look at that, it's a Book of Skulls!" She laughed. I handed her the spell tome. "I've wanted to use one of these things for a long time!" She said. She opened up the tome and: WHOOSH! A ton of tiny skulls like what Skeletron used shot out. "That's a cool weapon and all," Christie said. "But we kinda need to help Emma, she's kinda horrified." "I'm supposed to chase bones not get chased," She mumbled. "Yeah, something is 100% wrong with her," I said.

After we mentally helped Emma with her bonecrisis, we went down into the dungeon. There was moss growing on the walls and old books and Water Candles everywhere. "This is disgusting!" I groaned. "Hey look, there's another spell tome here!" Lucy said, pulling a book off a shelf. "Score, a Water Bolt!" "How about we find weapons for the OTHER 3 people with you!" Christie complained. Lucy frowned and we went deeper into the dungeon, where it opened up to a massive chamber. "Look, there's a chest!" Emma exclaimed, going over to it. She tried opening it and nothing happened. "I think this chest is broken!" She groaned. "It's locked," Lucy said, showing her the obvious lock on the chest. "Then we need a key!" Emma replied, eagerly searching the room for a key. "I think, she might want a new sword." I muttered. "You think," Christie replied. "Look, knowing old places like this, there's probably a key inside of these pots," SMASH! She kicked a pot over and there was a key inside. "Oh, a key," Emma exclaimed. Christie threw the key to Emma and she, jabbed the thing at the lid. "Did she lose brain cells from Skeletron?" Lucy mumbled. "I don't know, she isn't usually this looney," I replied. "Uh Emma, you put it in the Keyhole," Christie said, pointing at the hole. "I see what you're talking about!" She said, trying to force the key in upside down. Christie rolled her eyes and took the key away from Emma. CLICK! She unlocked the chest and opened it up. "There's a person inside of here!" She exclaimed. Her and Emma lifted the person up and out of the chest. "Is she the mechanic they were talking about?" I asked. "Probably," Emma replied. The girl slowly opened up her eyes and was shocked. "Who the hell are you guys!?" She exclaimed. "We're from Hollyhead, we're here to rescue you!" I said. "Come on, we just got here, let's look around a bit," Emma complained. "Really!" Lucy replied. "We need to get Korrie here out!" "Guys, I can make my way back to Hollyhead on my own," Korrie said. "You guys should check it out, I think the machines they forced me to build are somewhere in here," "Wait, forced you to build machines?" I questioned. "That would explain why they kidnapped a mechanic," Christie replied. "But, what did they force you to build, Korrie?" "They wanted me to rebuild Cthullu's body," Korrie replied. "That makes no sense!" Lucy said. "How can you rebuild something that is already destroyed and banished to the moon?" "The guys who kidnapped me, they're a cult of Cthulhu followers who seek the demise of this world," Korrie explained. "That's all I really know; they made me build a new Skull, Spine, and Eyes for Cthulhu," I wanted to throw up. "That's some disgusting necromancer stuff there!" I groaned. "You get on out of here Korrie, we'll find your horrible necromantic machines and destroy them,"

Lucy said. "You seem confident," Korrie replied. "We're the heroes that are going to protect Terraria, I'm sure we can handle a few metal machines!" Lucy laughed. Korrie nodded and ran out of the dungeon, leaving us in it. "Well, that leaves us to just explore," Emma muttered. "There are 4 hallways leading out of this room, which one do we take?" "That one there would lead us out," Christie noted, pointing at the northern corridor. "So the south, east, and west ones," "South," Emma said, running into that hallway. "Does someone have to tell her that the ground doesn't seem very secure in that direction?" Lucy mumbled. BOOM! The ground collapsed below Emma, and she jumped back over to us. "Those bricks are extremely fragile!" she groaned. "Well, I guess this is the perfect time to try these out!" Christie laughed. She reached into her pockets and pulled out 4 pairs of Terraspark Boots. "I bought these right before we left town; thought we might've needed them for something like this," She said. "You could've given us them when we needed to go up to the arena!" Lucy complained. "Fair point." Christie replied, giving us all boots. "They're also rocket boots in addition to letting you walk on liquids and greatly increasing your movement speed." "This isn't a game, let's not start with the stats!" Emma complained. She ran and jumped over the gap, letting the rockets on the boots fly her up. "Come on guys, there's more stuff over here!" She shouted. The rest of us followed, except Lucy, who just used her wings to fly across the gap. Roar! There was some distant roaring in the distance of the dungeon. "What the hell was that!" I mumbled. "It's a skeleton," Lucy replied, shooting the thing away. Frankly I hated seeing all of these walking bone piles. CLICK! Christie opened up another chest in the hallway. "Hey Emma, here's a pointy stick," She said, throwing Emma a blue blade. "Whoa, blue!" She laughed, sheathing the blade.

Frankly describing our exploration of the Dungeon would take much too long, so in short, Emma has that blue sword and a shield, Christie has a weird bone like armor set with a new gun, I found a odd bone whip, and Lucy has those 2 spell books, a Magic Missile, and an Aqua Scepter. We also found a weird purple key that didn't fit any chests. When we left the dungeon and headed back to Hollyhead, we were greeted by welcoming hands. "Thanks for rescuing Korrie!" Someone said, You guys are the greatest!" Someone else cheered. "Do these guys know about our combined bounty?" I muttered. Christie shook her head. "Does it matter though, at least some people look past the past," She replied. Lucy had us come with her to the Governor's Office. "I would like to thank you for rescuing my daughter!" He said. "Wait, daughter?" Lucy exclaimed. "Yes, she doesn't really like when I bring it up much," He explained. Korrie came into the office from a back room. "Father, did you tell them about that beast?" She asked. "Give me a second, I'm getting there," He replied. "Anyways, Korrie overheard from some cultists when she was leaving the dungeon that they have all the preparations to summon Cthulhu, but they lack 1 crucial thing," "What is that thing?" I asked. "It's not the Day of Reckoning," Korrie replied. "The anniversary for the sealing of Cthulhu," I added. "That's also the day the Moon is the closest to Terraria," "Personally, I think that they need the Moon as close to here as possible to have Cthulhu summoned and down here in a reasonable amount of time," The governor said. "7 months," Lucy muttered. "That does give us quite a bit of time before Cthulhu is confirmed to arrive," "Shit, but even if we do have 7 months, how the hell do we get prepared for fighting a damn god!" Christie complained. "I don't think I really know much else," Korrie replied. "Don't worry, you don't need to," I told her. "We can find something out on our own," I grabbed Emma by the collar and we left the office. "Well, now we're on a time limit!" She complained. "Not only that, we have weapons that are nowhere close to strong enough to kill a goddamn god!" Christie added. "Hmmm, maybe Sean might know something about it," Lucy muttered. "He did say he was going to look at the lore of the world when Christie and I left Ponshade together." "Isn't Ponshade the worst place for you to be right now?" I asked. "I guess, but do we really have a choice?" she replied.

It took about 5 hours, but we finally made it to Pondshade. The entire town had a dark aura, almost as if all the lights over the town were turned off. "It wasn't like this when we were last here," Christie said. "Psst, guys, over here!" Someone whispered. A terrarian climbed out of a bush.

"We're hiding out down here!" He pointed to the inside of the bush, and we reluctantly climbed inside. WHOOSH! We were teleported into some underground base thing. "This is an insane place!" I thought to myself. "This is where most people who support you guys are forced to live." The Terrarian explained. "No one likes it down here, but it's the only place we can stay, since they've started killing people who agree with you guys." "Hold up, executions are happening, because people like us?!" Emma exclaimed. "Bullshit!" "That's what we think," The Terrarian said. "We've been waiting for the 4 that Sean told us about to come here, and you guys are finally here!" "Well, we've got 7 months until Cthulhu is summoned and maybe destroys the world, so we need to get much stronger to stand any sort of chance!" I said. "Sean should be at his house, which is a tall green building." The Terrarian explained. "Thanks, uh?" Lucy said. "Xander," He replied. "Xander Silvia." We went on off deeper into the underground town, and were surprised to see how these people from Pondshade were indeed happy to see us. "I'm not used to this sort of attention," Emma muttered, hiding behind me. "You kind of just get used to it." I replied. "You guys are gonna protect us, right?" A little boy asked. "Definitely!" Lucy said, crouching down. We soon made it to Sean's house. BAM! BAM! BAM! Lucy knocked on the door. "It's Lucy, Sean!" She shouted. Sean came down and opened up the door. "You actually found them!" He exclaimed. "Took a little time, but yeah!" Lucy replied. Sean let us into his house and gave us seats to sit in at the table. "So, why did you come back here?" He asked, pouring us and himself cups of tea. "We learned from the Governor of Hollyhead that a cult of Cthulhu followers plan on resummoning him in 7 months on the Day of Reckoning." Christie explained. "And we know that with our current gear, there is no way in hell we are killing him," "Then I guess I have to tell this to you." Sean muttered. He pulled an old, dusty book from under the table. "This is a book written millennia ago, even before Cthulhu, by the first Guides." He explained. "Inside, it talks about a beast called the Wall of Flesh," "Nope, nope nope nope nope nope," I groaned. "That sounds horrible!" "It isn't as bad as it sounds," Sean continued. "It's a beast that is the Guardian of The World. However, the ancient guides did write about a transformation of the world that would occur if the beast were to be slain." "That sounds extremely bad and something we should completely avoid," Lucy replied. "Here's the thing," Sean went on. "The guides wrote that this is a necessary evolution of the world that it must undergo if it and the heroes sworn to protect it would survive." "We'll die if we don't kill that Wall of Flesh thing!" Christie muttered. Sean hesitantly nodded. "See, there's also this one thing that I found interesting in another book of the same age." Sean said, pulling another old book out. "This one speaks of the prophecy of the 4 heroes of Terraria, but it also has an extra bit that I haven't seen in my life." "Come on then, what does it say?" Emma urged. "It says that the greatest challenge for these heroes comes after the death of Cthulhu." Sean said. "It comes from a bard, a druid, a rogue, and a healer the heroes met on their adventure." "I knew that Melody was bad news, I KNEW!" Lucy shouted. "She's an enemy to us. Come on, does it say if I'll beat her again!" I'd had no idea that Lucy could've been so sadistic about fighting someone. "It doesn't say," Sean replied. "But it does say about them going on their own quest in another world to obtain enough power to slay their rivals." "Another world?" I questioned. "That can't be physically possible!" "I'm afraid that it is." Sean said. "The prophecy says you guys will struggle against Cthulhu, but I can't say how difficult it would be to fight these guys," "So, the only Bard we've really met was Melody," I muttered. "I have no idea what a druid or a rogue are though," "A rogue, isn't that like a ninja or something?" Christie asked. Sean nodded. "And a druid is a religious leader." He explained. "Well great, we have absolutely no idea who these people we should look out for are!" Christie complained. "And plus, we need to kill a damn god befo..." BAM! Lucy chopped at Christie's head, knocking her out. "Sorry about her," She laughed. "So you think that we should try to destroy the Wall of Flesh and evolve the world?" Sean nodded. "Before you guys go, there is one last thing that you need to know," He explained. "For the Wall of Flesh to be summoned, it needs a sacrifice of unyielding knowledge." "No, don't tell me…" Lucy said. "Yes, you guys will need to use a Guide Voodoo doll, and sacrifice me to the Lava Gods to summon and destroy the Wall of Flesh." Sean replied. "It is what must be done for the good of all of Terraria." "We can't!" Emma shouted. "I know I haven't known you for very long, but I know that you matter to Lucy,

and I can't just let you die!" "I'm sorry you 4, but there's no other way," He said. "Guys, let's go," Lucy said, carrying Christie on her back. "You can't just accept this!" I shouted. "Jeez, quit screaming!" she groaned. "Sean just said, there's no other way, and I've learned that we should accept others' wishes, instead of trying to change them!"

Melody POV

I grudgingly woke up. "What happened?" I questioned, looking around. I saw dozens of presents on the tables around the room. "Dammit, I'm in the hospital!" I thought. "That Lucy bitch ended up beating me." I clenched up my fists. "Melody, you're awake!" Harley shouted, running into my room. "How long have I been out?" I asked him. "2 months," He replied. "You suffered a pretty heavy amount of blows from her." "It's nothing I can't handle." I countered. "Melody, despite the fact that you were able to kill an Eater of Worlds, doesn't mean that you are invincible!" I rolled my eyes. Then I changed the subject. "Did you and Jayni end up tracking down those 'heroes'?" I asked. Harley nodded. "They destroyed Skeletron in the dungeon." He replied. My heart dropped. "Damn them, they killed Skeletron!" I spat. "That's literally what I just said." Harley muttered. I pulled myself out of the bed. "Eww, this hospital gown does not match my hair!" I groaned. "Anyways, I want you and Jayni to track down those 'heroes' and find out what they plan on doing," "Of course," He replied, leaving the room.

I left the hospital and went over to my house. "I can't believe I got beaten by Lucy of all people." I threw myself onto my bed. "I'm gonna find her, and destroy her!" I snickered. "No, I'll beat her so badly that she'll be begging for the sweet release of death, and I won't give it to her." BAM! BAM! BAM! "Who is it?" I asked. My boss, Purushottama, came into the house. "Uh, hey boss!" I said, nervous. "You thought that it would be a good idea to fight one of the heroes in front of a crowd of thousands of people, and ended up losing," He groaned in his monotone voice. "Maybe you should think past your fame and use your brain inside of that head of yours," "I was using my brain, and everyone has been pitying me for the past 2 months and I've gotten up to number 1 on trending on Twitter and Youtube!" I laughed. "So it was all worth it." "You are really bad at hiding your sadistic side around me," Purushottama said. "You know that there are cameras everywhere that heard your rant about torturing Lucy," "So what, let the public know how much I hate her!" I countered. "You know what, I think I want to go out again!" "Really Melody!" Purushottama groaned. "You can't just go out anytime you end up getting into a bad mood." "I can, and I will!" I countered. "Tell the fans I'm going out for the next, say 6 months," Purushottama rolled his eyes and pulled out his phone, typing the stuff up on all my social media platforms. "Done, you're going to want to get out of here before the stans flock to your house." He mumbled, before leaving my house. I smirked eagerly and grabbed everything I needed to go on my new adventure; a few instruments of every class, my microphone, and of course my favorite hat. It was a copy of the first cap in my merch line that I ever released.. I changed into casual clothes and then ran out of my house. Just as Purushottama said, there was a flock of stans already in front of my house. "Uh, I'll be back, maybe by the Day of Reckoning ceremony!" I shouted, running off. Their cheers and screams were extremely loud, and I could hear them even a kilometer away from Ensamble. Finally, I was free of them. "Okay, where to go first?" I thought, pulling out my map. It was the exact same map I used when I went exploring those years ago, and I had crossed out everywhere I went before. "How about Pondshade," I thought, putting the map away. I made my off to Pondshade, remembering that that's where that dumb fairy Lucy was from. I soon made it to the town when it reached dawn, and saw how small the town really was. I was surprised that someone who was such a big deal was from here. I walked into town and was intercepted by an intimidating looking guy. "You shouldn't be out at this time," He growled. "Curfew is at 2000 hours," "Well, I didn't know about that." I said. "I'm not from this town, I'm from Ensamble." "Hey, you look like Melody from that place actually," He said. "What are you doing with a bunch of slums like us?"

"I'm taking a breather for a few months." I replied. "But there is one reason that I won't tell you. Anyways, is there a hotel or something that I can stay in?" The man pointed towards a disgusting looking building that I was dreading was the hotel. "There you go," He said. I completely ignored everything he said after and went off to the hotel. "How much for a room?" I asked when I walked in. "Pfft! Melody!" The desk worker exclaimed. "Yes that's me, just tell me how much a room is?" I complained. "Uhm, uh, here, just have it for free." He said, handing me the keys. "Room 281." I took the keys and went off to the room. It wasn't as gross as I thought it would be, though I've seen tents in better conditions than this place. I threw my bags down next to the bed and sat on the bed. "Hmm, I need a goal or something that isn't just getting revenge on Lucy!" I muttered. RING! RING! My cell phone rang. "Hello?" I answered. "What's up Melody!" Lucy laughed. "Why do you have my number!" I spat. "You had Harley and Jayni come after us, so obviously we were going to beat them 4 verse 2!" She replied. "You're so salty that I beat you, huh?" "I'm not salty you bastard!" I spat. "Ah, music to my ears." Lucy laughed. "I'm going to kill your ass!" I spat. "I doubt it!" She said. "You are making me a lot more psychotic than I usually am! Please, keep going with the threats!" I was getting furious. "Lucy, listen well." I said. "I'm going to beat you down. And when I do, I'll leave you in agony, not putting you out of your misery." I think Lucy got that image in her head, because her next response wasn't as cheery as her others. "We'll see about that you villain!" She said. BAM! I think she tried hanging up the phone. "Lucy, there's a button that hangs it up." I muttered. BAM! She poked the phone again and it didn't hang up. "What the hell is this sorcery?" She questioned. "No, there's a red button, on the screen with a phone with an x over it, press it," I said. "I did, it didn't stop!" She cried. "Damn, the phones frozen." I groaned. "Help! I don't know what I'm doing!" She shouted. "Press the button again!" I countered. BAM! She pressed the button, and the phone hung up. "That was embarrassing!" I heard her voice faintly say. "No way she's here!" I shouted out loud. "Hold up, Melody! I think I hear you!" She laughed in a sing-songy voice. I heard her come into the hotel, talk to the desk worker, and then come over to my room. "I found you Melody!" Lucy laughed, coming inside. "So what!" I countered. "No no no! Don't make it seem as if I'm here to kill you!" Lucy said. "I just wanna talk," I sat back down and pointed my microphone at her. "Talk, before things get messy." I threatened. "A bard mentioned in the prophecy about the 4 heroes." She said. "Something about trying to kill them after Cthullu's fall with stuff from another world or something. I think you are them." "Why would I kill any heroes!" I laughed. "It's not like I'm a villain!" "That's where you're wrong!" Lucy countered. "Because I am one of those heroes." My heart skipped a beat. "You a hero!? Damn I never took you for a comedian!" I joked. But she was dead serious. "As little as you want to believe it, it's true." She spat. She lifted up her left sleeve. There was a birthmark that looked like a nebula. "Each one of the heroes has a birthmark that represents their class!" She explained. "Mine's a nebula, which means I'm the Nebula Hero! And you!" She forcefully lifted up my left sleeve. There was my very embarrassing birthmark that looked like a shooting star. "Each one of the villains has a birthmark that represents their class. That means that you are the Shooting Star Villain!" She forcefully threw my sleeve back down. "So there you have it, it's in your nature." I clenched my fists. "There is no way in hell that you are a hero, screw these birthmarks!" I spat. "And even if I'm some Shooting Star Villain and you're some Nebula Hero, it doesn't matter; I'd kill you no matter what!" "That is why you are a villain!" Lucy laughed. "And when it comes time for us to fight," She edged real close to me. "Don't expect me not to kill you!" She whispered. She left my room while waving to me. "I'm not a villain, I'm too good for that," I thought. "But she said it was that prophecy, and everyone knows that it's true; the ancient guides told it. Does that mean I am some evil person," I curled up into a ball. "I can't be, I don't want to! It can't be true!" I was scared of being branded as a villain, and scared of getting killed by Lucy. The thing is though, those fears soon disappeared, as if the realization of my fate and destiny completely washed them away. "I should find those other Villains then." I thought. "I need to find those other Villains! If Lucy wants me to play as a villain, then fine, I'll be a villain! We'll team up and then destroy those damned heroes!"

Once the next day rolled around, I left Pondshade and went back on the road. "Alright, where the hell should I start looking," I thought. Lucy had left a sheet of paper on the floor that read 'If you really want to follow your destiny' followed by the classes of the other 3 villains; Healer, Rogue, and Druid. I knew that Jayni wasn't the Healer, as she's told me she has no birthmarks. She even says she wishes she had a birthmark like mine. I was glad that I didn't need to get her roped into my trouble though. I pulled my sleeve up, wondering if my birthmark gave any clue as to where they could be hiding. It was reflecting the sun's light off of it. "Are you telling me something?" I thought, looking in the direction that it was pointing in. It was pointing towards a small town. I looked at my map to see what the hell it was. "Hmm, that's the town of Windermere." I muttered. "Let's head there, it might be important." I headed off to that town. When I walked into the town, I noticed that it was a lot more rural than most places in Terraria. There were wagons along the streets, people were still getting around on horses, and there were torches instead of lights. When I was following the reflection off my birthmark, some people were looking at me like I was insane. I think they were confused by my choice of attire, but frankly, I liked standing out in the crowd. Soon, the light stopped reflecting when I reached a bar. "I hate these places," I thought, going inside. There was a light jazz show going on by the karaoke machine, and there wasn't too much going on at all, other than some people enjoying themselves. "Well don't just stand there!" The bartender said to me. I went over to the bar counter. "What can I get you?" He asked. "Uh, you guys have Mountain Dew?" I asked. "Oh, you're one of those Ensamble people," The bartender said. He pulled a can of Mountain Dew from under the counter. "There you go, Melody," I was sorta confused on how he knew my name. I went over and sat at one of the tables around the bar. I looked at everyone around the bar. "No one seems too special here," I thought to myself. "And I really thought that this stupid birthmark would be useful," I stared at my birthmark. "What are you trying to tell me?" I groaned. I took a sip of my Mountain Dew. I looked around again for anyone that looked the slightest bit different. Then this one guy walked up to my table and asked; "You okay if I sit here?" He asked. "It's a free world," I replied. He sat down. "Aren't you Melody from Ensamble?" He said. "Guess it's kinda hard to not know me," I replied. "No, I don't really care that you are a celebrity, I heard about what happened with that Lucy chick, and it's stupid." He explained. "Oh, I'm getting too comfortable, the name's Kenji!" He extended his hand. "Well, I guess you already know who I am!" I laughed, shaking his hand. "I guess so!" Kenji laughed. "Can I ask why you came here Melody?" "Can't really, your opinion of me might drop a few pegs," I replied. "Come on, just tell me!" He begged. "Fine," I pulled up my sleeve. "Most people don't know that I even have this birthmark," I said. "And it has a deeper meaning than you might think," "What is it?" Kenji asked. I looked around, making sure no one else was listening in. "This means, well according to books written by the ancient guides, I'm supposedly a Villain that will destroy the Heroes from said books," I replied. "Wow!" Kenji exclaimed. "That's crazy. So, is Lucy one of those heroes?" I nodded. "I didn't know back in Ensamble that a fight between us at a later time was destined to happen," I explained. "But now that I know, I've grown eager for the moment! And then I also need to find 3 other villains or something, IDK, old lore is confusing." "3 others, would they also have weird birthmarks?" He asked. "I think," I replied. "Hey, why are you so casual about me telling you that I'm supposedly a Villain?" Kenji shrugged. "I"m just not really getting bad vibes from him," He laughed. He pulled a pocket watch from his pocket. "Oh shit, I'm late for the Mass!" He exclaimed. "Hope to catch you later Melody!" He threw his watch back into his pocket and ran out of the bar. "That's a strange individual," I thought to myself. "He seemed extremely relaxed about me being supposedly a Villain and everything. And then he just ran off." I sat there, pondering if I should follow him to where he went, just in case he was the Druid I was looking for. I decided to follow him and went the rough direction he ran in, until I ran into the massive church. There were people walking out of the church, seemingly done with the Mass. "Damn, Kenji was extremely late," I thought. I walked inside, and saw how absolutely massive the inside was. I couldn't take it all in, because; BAM! I ran straight into someone. "You okay?" I asked, helping them up. "I hope," They laughed. They got up, and it was Christie. "Excuse me, why the H. E. double hockey sticks are you here?" She asked. "Ditto," I replied. "Trying to keep

myself as human as possible," She said. "I love not flailing out and eating everyone around me," "Fair enough." I laughed. "You never answered my question; why are you here?" She complained. "I'm acquainted with a Kenji who works here I think," I said. "Kenji huh?" Christie muttered. "Sure, he's the local druid, he comes here practically every sunday," "Thanks," I said, walking past her. "Hey Melody," Christie said, opening up her parasol. "Don't do anything stupid." She walked out of the church. Kenji was up front, speaking with the Priest. "And then I said, oh wait, hey Melody!" He said. "Hi Kenji," I replied. "Is she Melody that you were talking to me about?" The priest asked. Kenji nodded. "Melody, this is Father Mccarthy," he explained. "Hello there," I said. "General Kenobi," Father Mccarthy replied. "He's a cultured individual!" I laughed. "In all seriousness, hey Melody," He said, shaking my hand. "Why'd you come here Melody?" Kenji asked. "No reason, I thought that I should come to church today," I replied. "Never thought that you'd be a religious person," Father Mccarthy said. "You might want to come next week if you don't want to miss it," "Oh sorry, I'm gonna be out of town next week," I replied. "I'm going around the world for a while. Gotta find some Vi…. I mean find some entertainment outside of concerts." "Shit, I stumbled over such an easy lie!" I thought. "Well that seems like it will be an interesting adventure," Father Mccarthy laughed. I was about to turn around, but I remembered the whole reason why I came here. "Melody, just head out, I'll meet you at the fountain in the center of town!" Kenji said telepathically. I went out of the church and walked over to the fountain in the middle of town. Kenji was somehow already there. I felt a feeling that we were being watched. "I'm a little nervous about showing anyone this," He muttered, pulling up his right sleeve. There was a birthmark that was a strange plant. "I don't know if this makes me a Hero or Villain," I asked. "Stop it right there!" Christie shouted, running from behind the fountain, pointing a Hermorrage Bow at us. "Lucy told me that you are bad news Melody, and I don't think I'll give you the time to recruit any other bastards!" She spat. Kenji pulled out a Lunar Crescent Stave. "We don't have to go that far." He muttered. "We can just talk it out," "Talk it out, yeah, how about we talk it out after you guys end up contributing to the end of the world because you killed us!" Christie countered. "The texts say that you would get killed after you killed Cthullu!" I spat. "And besides, I'm pretty sure no one would feel safe with you guys having weapons that can kill gods!" "Kill gods, what the heck are you guys talking about!" Kenji exclaimed. "Look, you're already manipulating Kenji over here to join you," Christie spat. "Lucy was right about you, there's nothing good about you!" "Manipulating!" Kenji complained. He showed Christie the birthmark on his arm. "I guess this makes me the Flora Villain!" He shouted. "Same arm, huh?" Christie asked. She pulled down her sleeve. Her birthmark was a vortex. "Vortex Hero I guess," She said. "Christie!" Lucy shouted, coming out of the nearby grocery store. "We came here for you to go to church, not to pick on the locals." She looked in our direction and saw the birthmark on Kenji's arm. "Another villain?" She questioned. Christie nodded. "Let me guess, you're the Druid?" Lucy asked Kenji. He nodded. "Cool, I've always wanted to meet a knock-off Mage," She turned to Christie. "Let's go, we've still got some preparation before we fight the WoF." She said. "What are you talking about!" I spat, pointing my microphone at her. "We're going to evolve the world for the good of Terraria," Lucy explained. "Christie, how about you tell Father Mccarthy about Kenji," Christie ran off to tell Father Mccarthy. "Hey, get back here!" Kenji shouted, running after her. I was about to follow them but; "Where do you think you're going?" Lucy spat, blocking me. "Hey, BACK OFF!" I screamed. WHOOSH! I knocked Lucy back from me. PEW! PEW! PEW! She shot some Water Bolt blasts out her hand. "That can't be possible!" I thought. I dodged out of the way. "I guess no lifing that book was helpful," Lucy muttered. She pulled her Space Gun out. WHOOSH! I unshrunk my Skyware Lute. "Here's some noise for your fragile little ears!" I laughed. BWANG! BWANG! BWANG! I started just randomly plucking the strings in the most unappealing way possible. "God, quit it!" Lucy complained, covering her ears. "Fine then," I replied. PLUCK! PLUCK! PLUCK! I started playing a nice, calm piece of music. WHOOSH! I got an aura of defense. "What did you do to yourself?" Lucy spat. WHOOSH! I shrunk the Skyware Lute again. "Why would I ever tell you!" I laughed. BAM! Lucy kicked me in the face and jumped back up. "Once Christie catches Kenji, we'll put you down to keep this hell from ever happening

again!" She spat, pointing her Space Gun at me. PEW! The shot bounced right off my aura. "Really Lucy, you really thoug…" BAM! An arrow shot through the sky, pinning my hair to a tree. "What the hell!" I complained, trying to get loose. "I have no idea where Kenji went," Christie groaned, coming out of the shadows. "I hope he reconsiders joining with Melody; he's a very good Druid," POKE! POKE! Christie was poking at my face. "She's not going to get down from here for a while," She laughed. "Let's just meet up with the others and pray we don't run into her for a while," "Fair enough," Lucy said. "Stay outta trouble," The 2 of them walked off. Once they were gone, Kenji came out of the shadows. "She told Father Mccarthy and I'm fired from the church," He said, taking the arrow off the tree, releasing me. "I knew I should've changed my hair for the holiday season," I complained. "Melody, I don't know what you really aim to do with this villain thing, but if it means getting revenge on Christie, sure." Kenji explained. "That's kinda a petty reason to join me," I replied. "Melody, I worked at that church for 8 of my 25 years on this world," He countered. "It was my first and only job, and I loved it. The people were great and very nice, and I loved teaching them about stuff. And now, this vampire comes over and now I'm fired simply because I have this damned birthmark. It's not petty in the slightest." "Point made" I replied. "Welcome to the, uh, people who don't like the heroes because they aren't good people!"

We left Windermere and headed south to the town of Beachmarsh. "I heard that one of the heroes is Princess Anastasia," Kenji muttered. "They've got royalty on their side?" I questioned. "You know where she's from?" "Atlantis," My heart dropped. "We're screwed." I complained. "What's the problem with that?" Kenji asked. "Atlantis is the nation that conquers everything in their path." I replied. "I heard that they're leaders are some of the most fearsome beings in the world." "That doesn't seem good." Kenji replied. We got into the town and were greeted by a strange archer. "What's up?" He asked. "Are you okay?" I asked. "You look extremely tired." "Thank you for noticing," He groaned. "I've been awake for 3 days at a time looking for a bounty," "I'm not sure any bounty is worth losing that much sleep over," Kenji noted. "It's for Princess Anastasia, 1500 platinum," "You're looking for Anastasia?" Kenji asked. "What, you've seen her before?" The archer gasped, gaining a burst of energy. He was creeping me out extremely. "I don't think you're in a very healthy state," Kenji muttered. "What are you talking about, I'm completely fine!" The archer laughed insanely. "No, you're not," I complained. "Silence woman!" He shouted. "Okay, uh, we'll tell you if we find anyone who remotely seems like a princess," Kenji said, grabbing me by the arm and dragging me past the disgusting, creepy archer. The town was screwed up. There was green stuff growing on the buildings, and seaweed creeped up the docks. The air was smokey and the sky was a dark black color. "What the hell happened here?" I questioned. There was a young person fishing off the side of a dock. "Hey, you know what happened here?" I questioned, about to put my hand on their shoulder. BAM! Their tail came up and smacked my hand away. "Don't bother me, I need to focus," She said. I was confused about what she needed to focus on, because fishing really wasn't that hard. Her bobber bopped down. SHKT! She yanked the fish out and caught a Shadow Fish. "That makes 30," She muttered, putting the fish into a cooler. "Hey, I asked, 'do you know what happened here!'" I shouted. The girl got up angry. "Do you not see me trying to fish here!" She spat. "What do you want from me!?" "Uh, we were just wondering if you knew what happened to this place?" Kenji asked. "Tch, as if I would know," The girl groaned, turning back to her fishing. "What are you?" I questioned. "I'm a Uarion, and you're about to figure out what that means if you don't SCREW OFF!" She quickly covered her mouth, didn't say anything else, and got back to fishing. "Melody, let's leave her alone," Kenji said, walking off. I was also about to leave before; "Calamitas attacked this place," The girl said. "She's a Brimstone Witch who works for Lord Yharim, and she's my Step-Sister." "What!?" I exclaimed. "I'm sorta out of the loop, who is Yharim and why is he such a big deal?" Kenji questioned. "Yharim is the one who rules the entire world." I explained. "He's immortal, and he's ruled for almost 1 thousand years. He's a very severe tyrant, killing anyone who opposes him," "What about those stories about the Dryads sealing Cthullu on the moon, or Ragnarok, or how about Brimstone magic being banned!" Kenji asked. "He banned brimstone magic so no one would question him," The girl

explained. "He forced the Dryads to seal Cthullu to get rid of them, the only people who could stand up to his power. And Ragnarok, I'm not sure about that." The girl picked up her stuff and started to head away. "My names Stella," She said, not turning towards us. She pulled down her sleeve. There was a birthmark of Heaven with a Quasar behind it on the back of her left arm. "Empyrean-Quasar Villain," She said, walking off. "Hold on, Stella!" Kenji shouted, stopping her in her path. "Look!" He said. He showed her his Flora birthmark and I showed her my Shooting Star birthmark. Stella put her hands on our heads. "Kenji Isaija and Melody Anushka," She muttered. Her hair started turning a normal black color contrary to the red when she was pissed at us. "It's not safe for us to talk out here," she said. "Follow me," She took us into a small cabin in the outskirts of the town and let us down a ladder. There, there was a small little shelter under. "Stella, did you end up getting any Shadow Fish?" A cute looking boy asked. "Yeah," Stella said, throwing the cooler onto a table. "Just to be safe," The boy replied. He pulled down his sleeve. There was a birthmark of multiple planets and stars. "Leslie Clayton, Celestial Villain," He said. "Damn, he's cute," I thought, hiding my extreme blushing. "Why'd you bring us down here?" Kenji asked, knocking out of my trance. "We overheard those heroes planning to kill a Wall of Flesh," Stella explained. "And Leslie and I were planning on killing it first and snagging that loot." "The thing is, we didn't have the proper allies to properly kill the damn thing," Leslie said. "So we've been going around Terraria, looking for the other 2 Villains." "Funny thing, we were looking for the other 2 as well," I replied. "I found Kenji here in Windermere, and we got our asses kicked by Lucy and Christie," "The other 2 are Anastasia from Atlantis, and some Emma chick from the Deep Forest," Stella muttered. "They're the Summoner and Warrior respectively," "And what about you 2?" Kenji asked. "I'm a healer and Stella is a Rogue/Thrower," Leslie replied. "So, what exactly should we do?" I asked. "You know, since if we ever run into the Heroes, they'll just beat us up." "We're going to kill a Granite Energy Storm," Stella said. "Then we'll kill a Buried Champion and a Star Scouter. They should give us enough equipment to be able to kill the Wall of Flesh." "I saw that the 4 Heroes, they're making their own preparations to kill it, so we'll have to hurry." Kenji noted. "Fair enough," Stella replied, taking some knives off a table. "Let's go then,"

We left Beachmarsh and snuck into one of the nearby mines down underground. "So the Granite Energy Storm is only in the Granite Caves, and the Buried Champion is only down in a Marble Tunnel," Leslie said. "I think that we should go after the Buried Champion first, doesn't seem too bad compared to an energy storm or whatever," I replied. "Touche." Leslie laughed. SHKT! Stella killed someone guarding the entrance to the path leading down to the Marble Tunnels. "Did you really have to do that?" Kenji complained. "It's not like 1 kill is really going to affect my already horrible track record." Stella replied. We arrived in the Marble Tunnel soon after, a long white labyrinth that looked like ancient rome. "Spread out, let's look for anything that looks of interest," Stella said. We went on out and; BAM! I tripped over a Javelin on the ground. "What the heck?" I complained, kicking it away. "Hey, I found a chest over here!" Kenji yelled out. He rummaged through it and found pairs of Terraspark Boots. "Bro, this is a good chest!" He exclaimed. He threw the boots down to all of us. Stella grabbed the Javelins I tripped over. "Damn, they're not made of Fossils," She groaned, throwing them deep into the tunnel. "Hey, look at this," I said, looking at a strange old armor set standing up against the wall. "It looks like it's made of Bronze." Leslie acknowledged, poking at the helmet. Stella put a piggy bank on the ground and pulled an anvil and furnace out of it. "Doesn't seem like it really belongs to anyone," She noted. "Let's smelt the thing down and make some stuff out of the bronze alloy we get from it." We slowly took the armor apart and put it into the furnace, melting it into bronze alloy fragments. "Bronze alloy fragments, I remember reading about them in a book back in Ensamble," I muttered. CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! I made a Bronze Tuning Fork for a weapon and a Brass Cap for extra damage for my brass instruments. "I think that's fine," I thought, attaching the Brass Cap to my Hot Horn, before shrinking it back down. "Kenji, Leslie, you guys don't need anything made from these, do you?" Stella asked. They shook their heads. "Alright, I'll use the rest," Stella noted. CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! She made a set of some Bronze Armor, some Bronze Throwing Axes, and a

strange handheld statue. "Oy vey, that looks uncomfortable," Kenji said, looking at the Helmet for the Bronze Armor. "True, you know what, I'll do without the Helmet," Stella muttered. She put the remaining Bronze Alloy Fragments, the anvil, and the furnace into her piggy bank and picked it up. "What's that statue for?" I questioned. "This thing should summon the Buried Champion," Stella replied. Roar! There was some distant roaring coming from deep in the tunnel. "Get ready for battle everyone!" Leslie shouted. "Melody, follow me!" He took the 2 of us to a high part of the tunneland boulders. "Are we hiding?" I questioned. "I'm a Healer, and you're a Bard, we're supposed to support them, not get killed out front," He explained. "We're not hiding, we're just in a position where we can still attack the guy, but safe enough for them to come up here for buffs and regen. You could call it setting up shop." PEW! PEW! PEW! He summoned up a stange bulb and a statue thing. "You gonna get some stuff up?" He asked. "Oh, right." WHOOSH! I activated my autotuner. HONK! I blew into my Hot Horn, surrounding everyone in a Damage Up aura. "This should last for A WHILE!" I screamed into my microphone, making the aura stronger. BOOM! The Buried Champion smashed through one of the tunnel walls. "There it is!" Stella shouted. SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! She started throwing tons of knives at the thing. PEW! PEW! PEW! It started shooting magic out of a staff thing. "Gods of the Underground!" Kenji shouted, slamming his Lunar Crescent Staff into the ground. "Lend me your strength and smite this beast!" BOOM! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! The ceiling ripped open and stars rained from the sky. "I think they're safe, can we go and attack it yet?" I begged. "Melody, I get how you're used to working alone, but you're in a team now, and we each have to fulfill a certain role," Leslie explained. RING! RING! RING! I rang my Blooming Bell around, giving those 2 Resource Restoration. "I get that, but I can do more than just support," I replied. TWANG! TWANG! I played my Skyware Lute and gave them Defence Up. "Throwing Technique, Meteor Stomp!" Stella shouted. BOOM! She blasted the Buried Champion into ash. "It's gone, you 2 can come down now," Kenji shouted. We came down from our vantage point up high, but I wasn't satisfied with the outcome. "There was a lot more I could've done," I muttered. "Melody, think back to everytime you tried fighting someone head on, and think of the outcome," Stella explained. "Most of the time, you end up getting beat up." "Bu…" "Melody, I don't think that you're really at a point where it's safe for you to fight up close," Stella interrupted. I frowned. Despite my very cheery appearance, I was extremely sadistic, and wanted to hurt stuff. "Fine," I muttered, still stuck up about it. "Hey, look at this stuff!" Kenji shouted, pointing at some stuff that dropped from the Buried Champion. There was marble torn up from the ground, but the real kicker was the other stuff. There was a Champion's Swift Blade, Champions's Trifecta-Shot, Champion Bomber Staff, Champion's God Hand, Champion's Rebuttal, Champion's Helmet, and Champion's Wings. How do I know? Stella told me. Maybe it has to do with Calamitas being her Step-Sister or something, but she knows a ton about the world. "Let me see that staff," Kenji said, picking it up and swinging it around. "I think I could make this work.'' He muttered. "I knew it would be you guys!" Someone shouted. We turned around. It was Lucy and the other Heroes. "God dammit!" Leslie muttered. "Someone from the nearby town told us that some people had broken into the mines, and I knew that it had to be y'all!" Christie spat. "You know you pop up at more inconvenient times than Team Rocket in the Pokemon Anime!" Kenji countered. "Do we have to do this?" Anastasia muttered, turning back. Emma grabbed her and turned her back around. "Grow a pair and help us kick these guy's asses." She complained. "A pair of what?" "Ligma," "Seriously Emma, what's a Ligma" "Ligma Balls!" "I'm sorry, you fell right into that!" I laughed. Anastasia was pissed. "Let me at them!" She shouted. She whipped out a Spinal Tap Whip and Imp Staff. "Whelp, there goes anyway to avoid this conflict with conversation," Leslie groaned. He unsheathed his Blood Harvest Scythe. "Give me cover fire Stella, I'll take out whoever is unlucky to touch my scythe!" "So now the healer is fighting!" I complained. "Go and make a mess, I don't care," Stella spat. "Just don't die!" "That's

all I needed to hear," I snickered. "Come on Leslie!" We ran at them. SHKT! I ducked under Emma's slash. "Let's GO COWARDS! I screamed into my microphone. Emma wasn't moved. SHKT! She slashed my leg with her claws. PEW! I rolled out the way of one of Christie's shots. "Throwing Technique, METEOR STOMP!" Stella shouted. BOOM! Everyone who's name wasn't Emma went flying everywhere. BAM! I crashed into a pile of marble. "Argh, my head," I groaned. WHOOSH! I rolled out the way. BAM! Anastasia fell into the same pile as me. "You good?" I questioned. SMACK! She cracked me across the face with her whip. "Damn, no chill whatsoever," I thought. CRACK! CRACK! She kept swinging at me, but I dodged them all. "Why'd I get stuck with the weakest hero?" I groaned. I threw my bronze tuning fork at her. PEW! She somehow teleported behind me. "I'm not weak," She mumbled. WHOOSH! I dodged out of the way of her swing. PEW! She summoned a mantis below me. BAM! It knocked me into a pile of smashed marble. "Don't underestimate me," Anastasia spat. CRACK! She smacked me across the face again with her whip. The tip was dull, and it barely left a mark, but it still hurt like hell. BAM! I kicked her whip out of her hand and jumped back away from her. CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! I threw dozens of Aquamarine Wineglasses on the ground. "Don't move if you don't want to require an Arc Reactor," I spat. "Though it wouldn't be really helpful in keeping glass from you." "What the hell is an Arc Reactor!" Anastasia complained. "You'll find out SOON ENOUGH!" I screamed. BANG! Ana kicked the Aquamarine Wineglasses away from her. CRASH! They all exploded, hitting everything except her. CRACK! She wrapped her whip around my legs. BAM! She yanked me down to her. "Throwing Technique, Smoke Bomb!" Stella shouted. WHOOSH! My body became intangible. BANG! Ana's whip went through my body. I rolled through her and ran to Stella. "On me," She complained. TWANG! I gave her Defense up with the Skyware Lute. "Guys!" Lucy groaned, coming out of a pile of rubble. "Let's leave and let them be! We're wasting our time!" The 4 of them kinda just left us and left the cave. "What the hell was that, Stella!" Kenji complained, pulling his Stave out of the wall. "In simple terms, I threw a meteor at them," She replied. "In complex terms, I just made a kinetic energy blast with the power of a meteor." "The hell!" I said. "Where's the loot?" Leslie questioned, looking around. There was none of the stuff anywhere. "I think they took it," I sighed. "Dammit!" Stella spat. "We wasted our goddamn time!"

Stella POV

The good thing is that the Granite Energy Storm and Star Scouter actually gave us useful stuff. The bad thing is, we kept running into the goddamn heroes and kept getting beat up. Now, we were making our way down to hell, to hopefully kill the Wall of Flesh before they even could get down. "It's getting hot down here!" Kenji complained. We were on a special elevator that would take us straight to hell. "Incredible, it's almost like that's what being around lava would do to you," Melody countered. She was getting extremely angry at the constant beat ups and lack of victories. Or at least I think. The good thing is that she has a set of Noble Armor now that's much better than her previous non-existent armor. Honestly, the orange and black of the armor didn't mesh well with her pink hair. "I know, it's just that I'm used to extreme cold, not heat," Kenji said. He had himself some Dragon-Lead Armor he totally didn't steal from Ensamble. It was sorta hard to understand him with the mask covering his mouth. "You know, I thought us going to fight essentially a god would be a lot more civil," Leslie mumbled. He was wearing a set of Templar Armor, and looked like a knight. "When I corrupt myself with this Dark Intent, stand back, I've never done it before," He explained. We all nodded. DING! The hellevator reached the bottom, and we came out in hell. The floor was ash, there was fire and lava everywhere, and buildings were made of obsidian. "It wasn't this bad in the photos I've seen," I thought. "Did Calamitas reach here too?" CREAK! Kenji opened up a chest atop a hill of ash. "Hey Melody, I found this weird Bard

Weapon!" He shouted, throwing the Nocturne inside down to her. "You good Stella, you look like you've seen a ghost." Leslie asked. "I'm fine," I replied. "Come on, we've got to head deeper into this place," As we went through Hell, I felt an ever growing feeling of dread. I looked around, seeing charred corpses and destroyed homes. "Something's definitely up with you," Melody said, seeing how I was acting. "You're not usually this quiet." "I said I'm fine," I complained. "Look, that's where the Lava Ocean begins." There was a massive drop of ash and a massive ocean of just lava. "Great, what now?" Kenji questioned. "Well, I think that I heard that you need to make a sacrifice or something," I muttered. I took a random bunny I grabbed from the surface out of my pocket. SHKT! I crushed it in my hand and threw it into the lava. Nothing happened. "You think the lava gods are going to accept the sacrifice of a bunny!" Leslie laughed. "Then what do you think we should do!?" I countered. Kenji pulled out his Stave and started praying to something. "I'm communing with the gods." He muttered. He stood there, motionless and silent, his eyes closed for about 5 minutes. "They need unyielding knowledge." He finally said. "You could've said that 5 minutes ago!" I complained. "Throwing Technique, Decoy!" PEW! I created a log clone of myself. BANG! SPLASH! I threw it into the lava. ROAR! There was a massive roar in the distance. "That should be it." I shouted. WHOOSH! A massive, fleshy wall started charging at us. "It's fast, run!" Melody screamed. Ba-DUM! DUM! She banged on a pair of bongos and gave us Movement Speed up. We started running away from the damn thing. "Light 'em up!" I told Kenji. SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! I started throwing dozens of daggers at one of the eyes; the upper one. It also had a mouth in the middle and another eye at the bottom. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! Kenji was shooting stars at it. ROAR! The Wall started speeding up. "It's faster! Got any stronger buffs Melody!" Leslie urged. "Just keep running!" Melody countered. "Seems like you need some help!" Someone shouted. BOOM! Christie jumped out from the roof and threw a Beenade at the Wall, staggering it. "Wha.. but..!" I exclaimed. "Screw birthmarks and titles, this is for Terraria!" Lucy complained. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! She started shooting at the now blinded Wall of Flesh. "Hurry, let's get it!" Leslie said, pulling out his scythe, running at the wall. SHKT! He stabbed it into the bottom eye. Emma and Ana came out from inside a ruined house. "I think we missed our que," Emma laughed. She ran at the wall and sliced it up with her Arkhalis. SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! I started throwing Throwing Axes at the wall. ROAR! The Wall gave off a massive roar and; BAM! Rammed into us knocking us all back. "I don't think it's blinded anymore!" Lucy shouted. "Come on Melody, give us a Movement buff!" Melody muttered something under her breath before; DUM! BUM! BA-DUM! Banging on her bongos and giving us a movement buff. "Well don't just stand there, mo…." BAM! Melody couldn't finish her insult because the Wall smacked her with a weird Mouth Thing. BAM! She fell into a ruined house. "I've got her, y'all hurry up!" Leslie shouted, running to her. "Throwing Technique, METEOR STOMP!" I yelled. BOOM! I blasted the Wall back a few meters. "Let him have it!" I shouted. We threw literally everything we had at the wall when; KABOOM! The thing exploded into blood and gore. WHOOSH! A massive shockwave launched us back. WHOOSH! A giant pillar of light and dark light erupted from the remains. "What the hell is that!" Ana exclaimed. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Beams of light flew in every direction, exploding wherever they landed. "The Wall of Flesh is the world's guardian, the world's trying to find a new guardian!" Kenji shouted. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! The beams of light became even more frequent. KABOOM! The main pillar of light tore through the ceiling erupting on the surface. "Not good, hurry, to the surface!" Lucy shouted. We all squeezed into the hellevator and rode it up to the surface. There was a massive crowd of people just watching the pillar of the 2 conflicting colors meshing. "I thought it was just a powerful monster with cool loot!" Melody screamed. WHOOSH!

The pillar of light imploded on itself and launched energy throughout the whole world before sputtering out. "Temporary truce until you guys kill Cthullu?" Kenji asked. "Yup, 100% agree,"

Christie replied. The dust from the explosion slowly faded away, as the crowd turned their attention to us. "Call the truce." Lucy said, putting her hand out. "Fine then. I replied, shaking her hand. Frankly, it was the most passive aggressive handshake ever, because the both of us were trying to break the other's hand. "Just leave her with a busted hand so she'll be at a disadvantage later," I thought. "Ya guys, the truce, ya know, you can't hurt each other." Emma reminded us. "It's only in effect when we let go, and I'm trying to break her hand!" Lucy replied. "Seriously though, who are you?" "Stella," I replied, letting go of her hand. "Empyrean-Quasar Villain." "You're related to Calamitas?" "Roughly, step-sister," "From who," "My father," "Pretty rare to see an Uarion outside of Calchester." "Pretty rare to see a fairy outside of a bottle," "You're a clever one," Lucy scoffed. "I think I'll look into you more, Stella." "Lucy, you're sounding more villainous than her!" Christie laughed. "Force of habit." Lucy replied, staring me down. "This is the worst truce I've seen in my entire life," Melody laughed. "You would be just as tense as me if you just shook Lucy's hand." I replied. "I've been wondering though Stella," Kenji said. "What is an Uarion?" "You'll find out in due time," I replied. "Probably not the greatest circumstances, but in due time. Whatever, let's bounce you 3, we've got preparations and shit to do." We went off, and it seemed like Ana completely forgot about what would happen eventually. "See you guys soon!" She laughed. "She is such a child," I thought, rolling my eyes.

The 4 of us Villains left the scene and headed towards our home in Calchester. This was the first time that Kenji and Melody had seen it, so they were quite surprised. Leslie and I made our home from an old abandoned warehouse, and turned it into almost a stadium. The only odd thing was that the surrounding biome wasn't a forest anymore, but a strange blueish biome. "What happened to the forest?" Leslie questioned, looking around at the white logs and blue leaves, pink water and prancing horses with horns on their heads. "Killing that Wall of Flesh had something to do with it, I think," I muttered. "Doesn't matter right now, let's get inside of the base." CREAK! I tapped on the front door and revealed a secret door. "Here we go, our, home," I said. We went inside, and Melody and Kenji were amazed. I frankly didn't see what was so surprising about it, however. Maybe because I built the place. The walls had random posters of celebrities that Leslie and I enjoyed. Some of them even had Melody on them. We furnished the place decently, so it looked middle class. "That's awkward." Melody laughed. We went up a flight of stairs into the main chamber. I say chamber, but the thing was tiny. "We don't really have a place that we meet in," Leslie explained. "But I mean, this room could work." "This place is smaller than a bathtub!" Melody groaned. "You've got a pretty big bathtub then," Kenji replied. We all crowded around the floor. "So, we should find out how we can get stronger," I explained. "Done," Kenji said, pulling out 4 strange emblems. "I grabbed these before we came up to the surface, I think they came from the Wall of Flesh. They sort of look like they might power up the shown class. He gave Melody a Bard Emblem, Leslie a Cleric Emblem, himself a Druid Emblem, and gave me a Ninja Emblem. "It's kinda like a badge or something you attach to yourself." Kenji muttered. SHKT! I accidentally stabbed my chest with it. "They're sharp!" I groaned, actually attaching it to my armor. "So uh, does anyone know what we should possibly be looking for?" The other's shook their heads. "Damn!"

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The wind howled over the mountain. Snow fell from the sky, and thunder crashed down. CREAK! Lord Yharim slammed the doors of Permafrost's castle open. "Permafrost!" He yelled, storming into the castle. Permafrost came out of one of the side rooms. His hair was almost as white as snow, and his beard reached down to his waist. "What do you need, Yharim?" He asked. "The prophecy of the 4 heroes, it's true," Yharim spat. "They slayed the Wall of Flesh, and initiated hardmode!" Permafrost dropped his mug of hot coffee on the ground. "Come with me," He said. He led Yharim from the main hall to a side room. It had a pedestal with a Crystal Ball in the center. Permafrost knew that this meant bad news for the empire, so he was checking to see if he could foresee any loss of Yharim's power. "Strange, I see that there were 8 people in hell that slayed the Wall of Flesh," He muttered. "Impossible, the Guides said that the 4 heroes would kill it." Yharim countered. Permafrost kept looking, hoping to find who the other 4 were. "It's the 4 Villains that should be destroying the Heroes," He groaned. "They're the other 4 people." "What!" Yharim yelled. "How is that possible!? How are they possibly working together!?" "I don't Yharim," Permafrost replied. "The future is blurry, but there is the certainty that they will successfully slay Cthulhu." "What about the Villains, what's their status on killing the Heroes?" Yharim demanded. "At this moment, they're unsure of what to do with the evolution of the world, same with the Heroes," Permafrost replied. Yharim just snickered and pulled out a Safe. BAM! He yanked a Guide out of it. "What the hell did you stuff me in there for!?" He shouted. "Shut it!" Yharim spat. SHKT! He stabbed his blade through the guide's head. Permafrost was shocked. "This guide was the last survivor from the ancient race of guides," Yharim explained. "I'll transfer his knowledge of the evolved world to the heroes and villains, and see how they do." He opened up a window and threw the guide's blood out. The wind caught it and blew it away. "This should make their confrontation interesting!" Yharim cackled.

Christie POV

We still didn't have a place to call home. Luckily for us, Korrie and her Father let us stay at their house in Hollyhead until we were actually able to get a home of our own. "Guys, something happened to me!" Lucy groaned, coming out of her room. She looked extremely tired and woozy. There was blood around her lips. "Did you eat something bloody?" I questioned. "No, some strange blood flew into my mouth, and now suddenly, I for some reason know about the world." She replied. "Why are you acting like this is a bad thing?" Emma asked. "Now, we have some sort of idea what we should be trying to do!" "No, it's that my head hurts like absolute hell," Lucy complained. "Here, try taking these pills," Korrie said, handing her a canister of pills. GULP! Lucy chugged one of the drugs down. "Alright, headache gone." Lucy muttered. "We need to go underground. We can get some new ores that were created from the Wall of Flesh. Cobalt, Oriculcum, and Adamantite." "So now we're miners for a day," Ana laughed. We said goodbye to Korrie and Governor Phillip, grabbed our stuff and headed towards the mining town of Ula'ree. Ula'ree was a small town with people moving stones, ores, and other precious metals from store to store. "Hey look, it's those Heroes!" Someone shouted when they saw us. "Did he just unironically call us Heroes?" I questioned. "Come one Christie, just enjoy when people compliment you!" Lucy laughed. "Wish you would compliment me," I thought. We went through the streets and people were happy to see us, and some people used their cameras to take selfies with us. "The mine starts in the center of town." Lucy explained. "There, we should be able to get pickaxes and mine up some of those new ores," I was getting jealous of Lucy's guide-like knowledge already. We made it to the mine center and went into the building. "What can I get you 4?" The clerk asked. "How much for 4 Molten Pickaxes?" Emma asked. "2 gold 14 silver." They replied. Emma gave her the money and the Clerk gave us all pickaxes. "Whoah, how do these work?" Ana questioned. I rolled my eyes. "You see, you swing at the ores, and it breaks," I muttered. SHKT! Ana swung it and

dropped it onto the ground. "I think it might be too dangerous for her to use that pickaxe," The clerk laughed. "Probably is," Emma replied, grabbing the pickaxe from Ana. We left that place and went down into the mineshaft. "How deep do ya think it is?" Emma questioned. "Literally anywhere that isn't on the surface." I replied. Emma frowned. We went deep into the mine, until we landed in an unexplored area of it. WHOOSH! I lit up a torch. The light from the fire revealed the entire cave. "I ain't ever seen any ore like that before," Emma muttered, pointing at the blue ore that lined the walls. "That's gotta be some Cobalt," Lucy said. We grabbed our pickaxes and; CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! Started mining up the ore. "Guys, I feel like something is coming out from the dark!" Ana muttered. "Don't worry, we're completely fine." Lucy replied. GRRR! There was growling coming from behind the wall. "Wait, hold on, stop mining!" Ana shouted. BOOM! Emma broke through the wall and a horde of Skeletons with bow jumped us. SHKT! SHKT! They started shooting arrows at us. "I ain't ever seen a skeleton that can use a bow!" Emma shouted. BOOM! I threw a grenade at them, but they didn't take any damage. "They're grenade proof!" I exclaimed. We slowly backed up into a wall. "Shit, what do we do?" I thought. I took out my Hemorrhage and loaded it with some strange arrows that the skeletons dropped. WHOOSH! I shot them and it started raining stars from the ceiling. "These are the arrows Casey had!" I exclaimed. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I kept shooting the skeletons until they all died. "Shoot, it's like the entire world just got a massive difficulty spike!" Lucy groaned. I picked up 3 quivers that the skeletons dropped. "These are mine now!" I laughed. We kept going through the mine, grabbing more cobalt, some oriculcum, and adamantite. Once we had about 1000 pieces of each, we came back up to the surface and headed back to Hollyhead. It was about night time when we got back. We went into Korrie's house and into Lucy's room. "Okay, let's smelt the ore down," Emma muttered. We threw the cobalt and oriculcum into a hellforge we grabbed from hell. The adamantite didn't seem like it was smelting down into bars though. "I think the adamantite is broken!" Ana complained, taking it out with her bare hands and not getting burnt. CLANG! Lucy made an anvil out of oriculcum. She grabbed the hell forge and; CLANG! Upgraded it to an Adamantite Forge with some of the adamantite ore. We threw the rest of the ore in the forge, and it ended up smelting into bars. "It needed a stronger flame," Lucy muttered. "How?" I thought. "Man, this guide's knowledge is ridiculous!" "Alright, this doesn't look that strong, but we could maybe make some basic armor," Ana said. "Yeah about that," Lucy said. "There's no possible Adamantite summoner armor, so you're gonna be stuck with that Bee Armor for a while," "Aww!" Ana groaned. CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! Lucy made 3 sets of Adamantite armor. The leggings and chestplate were the same for them, but the helmets were different for each of us. Headgear for Lucy, Helmet for Emma, and Mask for me. "It's tight!" I complained. "Well it should keep those melons of yours protected!" Emma replied. "You're the one who's flatter than a damned paper." I countered. Lucy and Ana were just watching in disbelief our weird argument about boobs. "Fine then, be like that," I spat. "Y'all, it's just armor, chill the everything out!" Lucy shouted. "How is Korrie sleeping through this?" Ana questioned. I shrugged. CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! "Here, these should be helpful." Lucy said, handing a sword to Emma and a crossbow to me. "Score, I haven't seen one of these bad boys since Zoxicdof!" I laughed. "Okay, next, let's head over to the crimson." Lucy explained. "We need some Unfathomable Flesh from some Crimipedes. I know that it sounds gross, but we can make weapons out of it, and Ana can get some armor." "So you're telling me that I need to wear an armor set that's made out of flesh!" Ana exclaimed. "Ya wearing an armor set made from a bee's ass!" Emma replied. Ana frowned. "Fine then, let's go,"

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Calamitas and Permafrost came into Yharim's palace in the Jungle. "You screwed up in Hell."

Permafrost muttered. "Yharim told me to kill everyone who lived there, he never told me about making it impossible for people to go down there!" Calamitas spat. Calamitas and Permafrost weren't on good terms at all. The fact of the matter was that both of them were Yharim's most important generals, and they both wanted to have the title of most important. The 2 of them having clashing kinds of magic didn't make the matter any better. "My point is you have direct contact with your Step-Sister Stella, and it's absurd that you couldn't possibly see this coming," Permafrost said. "Unlike you, I don't have a magic ball that let's me see the future!" Calamitas shouted. "Calamitas, Permafrost, so good of you to come here in such a quick manner." Yharim said, chillin like krill on his throne. The 2 generals were surprised by Yharim's unprofessional behavior. "Damn, this thing isn't very comfortable!" Yharim complained, constantly moving to find a more comfortable position. "He's never usually this calm," Permafrost thought. "Something horrible must've happened, there's no other way." "You must be wondering why I called you here," Yharim continued, completely ditching his throne and just standing. "Well, I have possibly identified the 4 Heroes and 4 Villains that will soon eventually clash. And Calamitas, one of the Villains is Stella, your Step-Sister." "Yeah, that's correct," Calamitas replied. "Why didn't you tell me this before?" Yharim demanded. "I had no idea until her and the Villains and Heroes unleashed hardmode," Calamitas replied. "Hmm, very well then," Yharim muttered. "With that out of the way, I have a new assignment for both of you to work on together," He sat back down onto his extremely ridiculous Iron Throne uncomfortable throne. "Damn, why would he use Auric Tesla for his throne, but forget to use cushions for the actual seat," Calamitas thought. "There is a group of people who pose a massive threat to my power, and I want you 2 to handle them," Yharim explained. "Alright, who are they? It should only take about 15 minutes." Permafrost laughed. "Don't be too cocky now," Yharim replied. "I want you to kill the Legends of the world." Calamitas and Permafrost looked as if they were just told to sleep with a hammer. "The Legends, like the god-like beings in each biome of the world?" Permafrost asked. Yharim nodded. "I won't judge you two in the slightest if you decline." He replied. "Courage is one thing, but knowing when a task is too difficult is another." "My Lord, it will be done," Calamitas said. "And what about you, Permafrost?" Yharim asked. "Fine, I shall complete this task," Permafrost replied.

Christie POV

"I look stupid!" Ana complained. Lucy built her the Flesh Armor, and Ana's been complaining about it for hours. "It's effective!" I reiterated. "Would you rather die from everything that touches you now?" The world is ridiculous now. We're called to 3 different towns to deal with crazy powerful monsters, and old weapons were close to useless against them. "Ya look edible," Emma laughed. BAM! Ana tried smacking her, but found out really quickly that you can't smack Emma without experiencing extreme pain to said body part doing the smacking. We found a bunch of loot that the Wall of Flesh had dropped back down in hell, so we thought we were set. "Guys, there's a massive problem!" Korrie shouted, running into Lucy's room that we were hanging out in. "What's up?" I asked. "Okay, a little backstory, so the cult of cthulhu forced me to make those mechanical body parts for cthulhu, maybe being able to rebuild it." Korrie explained. "Well, I forgot that I didn't build the brain, so they can't rebuild it. So they just released them into the world to destroy stuff!" "Alright, let's go and smash them then!" Emma said. "Where are they?" WHIRR! CLINK! CLINK! CLINK! "Right outside of town!" Korrie replied. We ran out of her house and saw the Mechanical Creatures causing absolute mayhem. There were 2 Mechanical Eyes, 1 Mechanical Skull, and a Mechanical Worm thing. "Why did you give them weapons, they're body parts!" I complained. As if that wasn't bad enough. ROAR! The moon turned a reddish tint. Yep, there was a damn blood moon. The streets soon were flooded by monsters. "Korrie and Ana, get the Civilians to safety!" Lucy shouted. "The rest of us have got these mechs!" "Okay then!" Korrie said. Her and Ana ran off to get people away. "One at a time, let's get the Mechanical Wo…" Emma couldn't finish, because; BAM! The eye with a Green Pupil rammed into her. BOOM! She crashed into a building, busting it up. RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! The

ground started to shake. "Move!" I yelled to Lucy. BOOM! We jumped up onto houses before the Mechanical Worm ripped through the ground. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! It started summoning probes out of its body. "Finally a time to try this sick bow out!" I laughed. I loaded up my Daedrius Stormbow with some Holy Arrows. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I shot the arrows, raining stars from the sky. POP! POP! POP! POP! The small probes around exploded when the stars touched them once. ROAR! The Mechanical skull started spinning like Skeletron and started ramming towards us, waving it's 4 arms with ridiculous weapons everywhere. CRASH! I jumped over the Mechanical Skull and it slammed through the building I was on. "Damn it, we gotta know what to call these damned things!" I spat. "Skeletron Prime, the worm, a Destroyer, the Eyes, just call them Red and Green!" Lucy complained. BOOM! The Destroyer slammed through the building Lucy was on, leveling it. Lucky for Lucy, she has wings. Unfortunately for me, I can't fly or know how to use my damn Terraspark Boots. BAM! The green eye rammed into me, knocking me into the town's well. "Dammit, it's gun time!" I thought. I loaded up my Uzi with Crystal bullets. Ratatatatatatata! I started unloading on Skeletron Prime. Emma finally got out of the screwed up house. "How about you try helping!" Lucy shouted. "Okay, wait, damn!" Emma countered. She strung up her Amarok Yo-yo around her fingers. BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! She let them loose, striking Skeletron Prime dozens of times. "Hey, where the hell is that worm?" Emma questioned. BOOM! The Destroyer ripped through the ground. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! It shot lasers everywhere. "I've got it!" I yelled, weaving through the laserfire. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I shot the Destroyer with as many arrows as I could muster. KABOOM! The Destroyer exploded into scraps of metal and other mechanical mumbo jumbo. "That's one down!" I laughed. ROAR! Both of the twin eyes shed their upper layers and revealed a big ass laser on the red one and fangs like the Eye of Cthulhu on the green one. WOOOOOSH! The green one started spewing cursed flames everywhere. "It's a mutha flippin' flamethrower!" Emma shouted. ROAR! Skeletron Prime started charging at me again. BOOM! I jumped over it and it completely destroyed the well. "Damn it, keep collateral damage to a minimum!" I complained. "It's not our fault if stuff breaks, just keep fighting!" Lucy shouted. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! She made it rain meteors on the green eyeball with her Meteor Staff. ROAR! BOOM! The green eye slammed into Lucy's building and she jumped over to a different one. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! The red eyeball started shooting a barrage of lasers at us. "Watch out!" Emma shouted to me. PLING! PLING! She defelected the lasers away from me with her Cobalt Shield. "Use the goddamn shield more!" I spat. "How about you Ichor the damn things first!" She countered. BANG! BANG! BANG! I shot at the Eyes and Skeletron Prime with ichor covered darts from my Dart Pistol. It slowly started melting through the bodies of them. "There we go, we're actually getting somethi…." Lucy couldn't finish, because; ROAR! BAYOOM! The red eye shot a massive deathray out and started slowly spinning in a circle. "Cover, NOW!" I yelled We ducked behind a fallen roof. KABOOM! KABOOM! KABOOM! The deathray sliced through buildings effortlessly, causing explosions everywhere. Along with that, the monsters from the blood moon were eating and killing people everywhere. CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! Ana came from around a corner, getting her minions to kill all the monsters around. "Don't just stand, get the freaking machines!" She shouted. ROAR! BOOM! The green eye charged at us and tore through the building behind us. BAM! It sent us flying into another building. "LET GO OF ME YOU BEAST!" I heard Lucy scream. She was stuck between the fangs of the eye.

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Christie was enraged. The other 2 stood in shock at the sight that they saw; Lucy about to be completely crushed by Spazmatism, that Green Eye. PEW! A strange, blue aura surrounded Christie. "YOU MOTHERFUCKER!" She screamed. "I'LL DESTROY YOU!" PEW! Faster than anyone could see, she dashed over to the eye. KABOOM! She threw a Beenade and destroyed

Spazmatism. BAM! She caught Lucy. "Christie, what's going on?" Lucy asked. Christie simply shrugged and put her on the ground. "I'm about to fuck these piles of scrap up," She replied. BOOM! She shot the red eye Retinazer and Skeletron Prime with one shot, piercing through them and destroying them.

Christie POV

WHOOSH! The aura that surrounded me disappeared. "What the heck was that?" Ana asked. PLOP! My hair came out of it's tie and plopped all over my face. "I don't know," I replied, moving my hair out of my face. People slowly came out of their houses and started cheering. PLOP! My hair fell back onto my face. "ARGH, come on!" I complained, getting my hair out of my face. "I think you look real cute with your hair down like that!" Lucy laughed. "Oh shit, she just called you cute!" I thought. "What do I do!? I can't comprehend this!!!" "Uh, thanks!" I said, awkwardly. "You fucking idiot, why did you say that!"I thought. I was kinda frozen in place, not knowing how to react to that situation. "Christie, look around!" Emma muttered. I looked around, seeing how absolutely screwed up the town was. Homes and businesses were destroyed, fire was everywhere, cursed and normal. Trees were uprooted and were everywhere except where they should be. And let's not talk about the blood. "Wasn't my fault!" I said. "No one said that it was," Ana replied. I breathed a sigh of relief. "I should've held back," I thought. "Now everyone's wondering why and how I was able to do that," I sucked my teeth. "Damn, I need to relax a shit ton more."

Melody POV

HONK! HONK! HONK! I gave everyone Damage Up from my new Shadowflame Battlehorn. "Throwing Technique, Absolute Zero!" FRRRR! Stella froze all of the pirates in place. "Let's go Leslie!" Kenji shouted. PEW! PEW! PEW! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! Kenji and Leslie killed the frozen pirates. "That seems to be the last of them," Stella said, disabling her Rocket Fist. Despite being considered villains, Calchester is a town that doesn't give 2 shits about titles or that stuff. We've been defending it from invasions from Goblins before, and now we just fought some pirates off. "How much did the Governor say he was paying us?" Kenji asked. "Like 1 platinum or something," I replied. "It's barely anything, but hey, maybe it could keep us fine for a week." "It's gotta be illegal how little they pay us for almost dying essentially everytime we help them." Leslie groaned. "Come on guys, let's go get it." Stella said. We went on over to the Governor's Office. "You guy's actually ended up getting rid of the pirates?" He questioned. Stella nodded, showing how her rocket fist was very bloody. "Very well then, here's your payment." He handed us 50 gold. "You said 1 platinum," I replied. "Yes but because you took too long, I had to deduct half of the pay," He replied. "You gave us the job 3 hours ago!" I countered. "I do not like that tone you're taking with me!" The Governor demanded. "Just let it be," Kenji whispered. "We don't want to become wanted, now do we?" "Damn political figures, doing shit without repercussions." I muttered. Stella snatched the gold out his hand and we left the building. "I've got money back at Ensamble, but I'm not sure how people would react to seeing me back so early," I explained. "You said you would leave until the Day of Reckoning, right?" Leslie asked. I nodded. "Hmm, July 9th, that's about 6 months." Stella muttered. "We don't have that much time, and frankly, I think I know where we should go. It might screw up the world again, but we don't have much of a choice." "Then what is it?" Kenji asked. "We need to kill Xenomite creatures," Stella replied. "Now, I know that there was a sighting of a Xeno Eye or something flying around the Abandoned Lab, so we should be able to kill it and maybe get some Xenomite stuff." "But Bards and Healers can't make stuff out of Xenomite," I replied. "I know, that's why we're splitting up." Stella explained. "Leslie and Melody will go to the Tundra and fight the Frost Legion and Hell to fight this one guy that Calamitas ranted about once; Coznix." "I've gotta go alone with the cute boy!" I thought. "Chill Melody, chill!" "And what about you guys?" Leslie asked. "Kenji and I will head

to that Abandoned Lab and fight the Xeno Eye." Stella said. "We meet back at the house at the end of the day; it shouldn't take that long." "Alright then!" Leslie laughed. "Come on Melody, let's go!" He ran off ahead. "Wait up!" I shouted, running after him. 2 hours later…

I was not used to the cold in the slightest. Sure, part of Ensamble reached into the Tundra, but I never entered that region of town, and I was freezing right now. Snow fell all over the ground around us. "Just a little bit more!" Leslie shouted, the roaring of the snow almost completely drowning out his voice. WHOOSH! We came out of the howling blizzard and came out in the much calmer Tundra area. "It's freezing!" I cried, shivering like hell. "Wait, I've got you." Leslie replied. WHOOSH! He lit up a torch and gave it to me. "Thanks," I replied, huddling around it. "Don't mention it!" Leslie laughed. "Too cute!" I thought to myself. "Look, over there!" Leslie said, pointing. "There's a small little ship over there!" We ran over to it, and saw that it was built out of some strange plating, and was stuck in the snow. "Whoa, that's a sick ship!" I exclaimed, mesmerized by it. "I don't think this belongs to the Frost Legion." Leslie replied. "Mind telling me why you are rummaging through my things?" Someone said. We slowly turned around and saw a tall cyborg guy standing behind us. "Uh, we were just surprised to see a spaceship down here!" Leslie lied. "Hmm, imperfections!" The cyborg guy said. "Are you 2, scalpers perhaps?" "No, we're…" I started. Then I had a stupid idea. "Melody, Shooting Star Villain!" I said, pulling down my sleeve. "Really Melody, you can't just… ugh! Leslie, Celestial Villain." Leslie groaned. "Villains, huh?" The cyborg muttered. "So you're scum?" "Scum, no, I'm one of the most popular pop stars in the world!" I replied. "If you were a pop star, you wouldn't be evil, would you; Melody Anushka," He laughed. My heart dropped. "Why do you know my name!" I spat. "I've come from a planet that has very advanced technology," He explained. "Our technology is so advanced, I can see the future. But I don't think I want to tell you what you do, because I've always wanted to research people like you." "Who are you!" Leslie shouted. "Me, I'm Draedon, rather, Yharims most, admired mechanic." He replied. "It's been a very long time since I've seen anyone so close to perfection, yet imperfect at the same time." "Imperfect, what do you know about perfection?" I said. "I've created machines rivaling even gods," Draedon explained. "I've squashed every single imperfection out of them. Although, I've never met anyone worthy of testing them on. So I've been looking around Terraria for anyone who might be interested in becoming, perfect." "There's a catch," Leslie replied, suspicious. "The catch is, you would have to help Lord Yharim with what he requests of me," Draedon said. "He asks so much of me because I am his most trusted mechanic, but I'd much rather be working on my, experiments." "We'd accept, but there's no way we could test god tier power," Leslie replied. "Yeah, it sounds like a good deal, but that's almost as stupid as fighting the heroes as we are now." I said. "No matter, I can simply assist you on your quest for power." Draedon replied. "But, alas, you must accept the request for us to start working on that." I looked at my cell phone. 3 hours had passed since we left Stella and Kenji. "I need to make a phone call," I said, walking off a bit. I rang Stella's phone. "Yello?" She said. "Stella, I've met with some guy named Draedon, he said that he'll give us absurd power if we work with him and Yharim." I explained. "You sure it's him?" She asked. I nodded. "He's got the flying chair and everything, it's him." I replied. "Alright, tell him we accept, we need all the power we need to kill those heroes." She said, "Alright, I'll tell him that." I noted, hanging up. I walked back over to Leslie and Draedon. "We accept." I told Draedon. "Excellent," Draedon replied. "I believe that our partnership will be most beneficial." "Alright, so I'm a Healer and Melody there is a Bard." Leslie said. "Hmm, from what I can tell, you have late Pre-Hardmode gear," Draedon noted. "Well, how about you head down to the Brimstone Crags." "Brimstone Crag?" I questioned. "After Calamitas destroyed the Hell Empire, the people who lived down in the Brimstone City all died off, and it's become a, ruin of its former self." Draedon explained. "Go there, you can get some strong weapons down there." "Alright then." I said. "Oh right, when you're down there, you might run into someone named Tartarus." Draedon added. "Watch out for her, or things might get, deadly." "Okay, we'll keep that in mind." Leslie said, walking off. "Hey wait for me!" I shouted,

running after him. Once we got far away from him Leslie said; "Tartarus, that's the Legend of Hell!" "I know, that's why we've got to stay away from her." I replied. "These Legends, you think that they're humanoid?" "Possibly." We got into a Hellevator and went down to hell. "They're said to be gods," I replied. "And if she's aggressive, we're not winning in a fight." BEEP! The hellevator stopped, and we headed in the direction of the Brimstone Crags. "This is freaky!" Leslie muttered. The burnt corpses that were everywhere were all glowing red, and the fire started looking like Brimstone Flames. We soon made it to the Brimstone Crags, where we were shocked by the sight of the destroyed city. And right on top of a building was some chick, sitting. "Who are you guys?!" She spat, not turning our direction. "Uh, Melody Anushka." I replied. "Melody huh? Why are you here!" The girl growled. PEW! She summoned a freaky looking blade. "I think that might be Tartarus." Leslie whispered. "Correct Mr. Leslie!" The girl shouted, turning around, pointing her blade at us. "I am Tartarus, and I want to know why you guys are here!" "We're here for weapons," Leslie said. "Weapons, you're not gonna find any here!" She spat, walking on the goddamn air. SPLASH! SPLASH! The lava started splashing everywhere and the ground started burning up. WHOOSH! Brimstone Flames surrounded the 3 of us. "It was a mistake for you to come here!" Tartarus spat. "I won't let anyone come here after what Calamitas did to this place! YOU TERRARIANS ARE A PLAGUE ON THE WORLD! AND I'LL PERSONALLY DESTROY ANY OF YOU THAT COME HERE!" WHOOSH! The flames grew even more intense. "We're screwed!" I thought. "We can't fight a damn god!" "Melody, drink it!" Leslie shouted, shoving an obsidian skin potion into my mouth. We both drank one and; CRACK! Leslie broke through the ground and we fell into the lava. Leslie pointed deeper into the city and we swam over. CRACK! He broke through the ground and we climbed out of the lava. "She still probably knows that we're in here!" He whispered as quietly as possible. "She seems really angry, so let's try not to break anything while we're in here." "You broke the damn floor!" Tartarus spat, teleporting over to us. "That's cheating!" I screamed. We ran out of the building and Tartarus was just walking behind us in the air. "You could've just left when you fell in the lava, but no! YOU JUST HAD TO STAY AND SCREW WITH ME!" Tartarus yelled. "We're not leaving without anything to show for it!" Leslie countered. "GET OUT OF MY HOME!" Tartarus shouted. WHOOSH! Flames erupted from the ground. BOOM! She shot a large blast of Brimstone Magic at us. Leslie grabbed me by the arm and we jumped back into the lava. "We stay?" I questioned. "Yeah!" Leslie replied. He slowly peaked his head out of the lava, then quickly came back down. "She knows where we are, and is just waiting." He muttered. TWANG! I gave both of us some Defence Up. "On the count of three we jump up and just bum rush her!" I said. "1,2,3!" We both leaped out of the lava and just charged at Tartarus. "You idiots think you can take me head on!" She laughed. PEW! I drank a recall potion and teleported off. BANG! I landed in the building Leslie and I were in previously. PEW! Leslie also teleported to me. He jumped and; SHKT! Managed to touch Tartarus' back. "I got her!" Leslie laughed. "Hmmm, you actually managed to touch me." Tartarus noted. WHOOSH! She forced me out of the building. "You two pests impress me!" She laughed. "I think I'll let you guys live." She came down and sat atop a pillar of lava. "What do you guys want from me?" She asked. "Uh, we came for weapons," I mumbled. "Okay. A Bard and a Healer, right?" Tartarus said. I nodded. WHOOSH! She just snapped her fingers and made a scythe out of thin air. "Brimstone Thresher, there you go!" She threw it to Leslie. WHOOSH! She made a sitar and threw it to me. "Acrid Tune." She said, "Defense up and Invulnerability," "Thanks." Leslie said, hesitantly. "Now get out before I kill you guys so fast you won't feel it." Tartarus spat. Leslie and I quickly raced out of the Crags and went up the Hellevator. "I didn't cut her." Leslie muttered. "My scythe didn't even tear her clothing." "She's a god," I reminded him. "You were lucky to even touch her,". " I guess," He replied, twirling his new scythe around. BEEP! We reached the top of the hellevator. "Dammit, this is the hellevator in the Lab!" I groaned. The abandoned lab was abandoned for a good reason. Poisonous liquid dripped from the ceiling and melted though the ground, and there were the remains of scientists lying on the floor. "Let's get out of here then!" Leslie urged, trying to activate the hellevator. POOF! A plop of smoke popped out of the hellevator, and we weren't moving anywhere. "Shit!" He spat. "We got to go

though the lab!" I looked around extremely nervously before stepping out of the hellevator. There was a horrible smell and I felt like the acid was going to melt my skin. "I know this room, the exit should be in this direction!" I said. We ran off in the direction I was pointing in, avoiding everything in the way. BAM! I slammed the door wide open and we came out of the lab. Stella and Kenji were chilling beside a tree nearby. "Hey Stella, Kenji!" I shouted, running over to them. "What's up Melody!" Kenji laughed. "Stella told me you got us in with Yharim." I nodded. "Yeah, and we got some cool weapons from the Brimstone Crags." "Did you see Calamitas?" Stella asked. Leslie came over and shook his head. "We only met Draedon, though he did say he would tell Yharim about us." He explained. "Hmm, okay then." Stella muttered. I didn't think she liked the idea of working with Calamitas in the slightest, but hey, we're power hungry so we do what it takes. "That Xeno Eye took longer to kill than we expected." She said, "But I've got some Xenomite Daggers and Kenji there has a Seedbag or something." "Grassroot Seedbag." Kenji replied. "Whatever, anyways, I guess we should head over to the Jungle and see what Yharim wants from us." Stella mumbled. "Alright, then let's head on over there." I replied. On our way over to the Jungle, we ran into the heroes once again. "God damn!" Stella complained. "Why do we keep running into you!" "Believe me, I think that everytime I see your faces." Lucy replied. "Damn, sick burn!" Christie laughed. "That's not even a burn!" Kenji countered. "Yes it is!" Christie countered. "If that's a burn, then literally anytime General Kenobi says anything after anyone is nuclear!" "Because it is!" Kenji rolled his eyes all the way around. "God have mercy on my screwed up soul!" He muttered. "What's up with you guys?" I asked, trying to break the tension. "Christie has a smoking addiction now." Lucy replied. "What are you talking about?" Christie replied, totally not lighting a cigar. BAM! Emma knocked it out of her mouth. "Can't kill Cthulhu if ya kill yaself first" She spat. "Dammit Emma, that one was a good one too!" Christie replied. "Christie! Quit it!" Ana begged. "No one thinks you look cooler doing that!" "But all the cool people do it!" She replied. "Yeah, I think that a rehabilitation facility is where we need to go now." Lucy said. "What about you 4?" "As if we'll tell you!" Stella spat. "Damn Stella, chill, it's not like it matters to them." I countered. "But they're the enemy, we shouldn't be frolicing with them!" She replied. I groaned loudly. "Well, Ms. Edgy over here won't let us tell you." I muttered. "But who cares, it's not like it matters anyway." "I guess that's true." Lucy replied. "Come on you 3, we've gotta get Christie some therapy." Her and the others just left. "You've gotta be more chill!" Leslie complained. "I'm not letting my guard down." Stella replied. "Lucy said she's looking into me, and I don't want her knowing anything about me." "Whatever guys, let's go meet with Lord Yharim." I muttered. As we went off, I swore that Lucy heard that, because in the distance, I felt her just staring at me specifically, as if she was suspecting something.

We arrived at the jungle and took the ski lift like thing up to Yharim's Palace. The thing was massive, with gold statues of him and auric tesla plated walls. There was uelibloom covered paths and beautiful trees growing. "Wow, I thought Yharim would live in a scary place!" Kenji exclaimed. BEEP! The machine thingy that brought us up stopped and we walked into the palace. The inside was even more grand, with golden floors and statues of dragons everywhere. "You 4 were referred to by Draedon, correct?" A deep voice said, coming from the throne. We hurried over, and there was a guy in full Auric Tesla armor sitting on the throne, his blade stuck into the ground. "I believe so, yes." Stella replied. We were kinda doing that awkward half bowing but not thing. "No need to kneel." Yharim said. We all stood up. "I'm Yharim, if you didn't notice. But who are you 4." "I'm Melody Anushka." I replied. "The blonde one there is Kenji Isaija." "I'm Leslie Aisopos." Leslie said. "Aren't you Stella?" Yharim asked Stella. She nodded. "Yes, my step-sister's Calamitas." She replied. "Excellent." Yharim said, now actually looked at us. "Draedon said that you 4 were an interesting bunch from what he could tell. He also said that you are the Villains from that ancient prophecy foretold by the ancient guides. Do you mind if I see your markings?" We pulled up our sleeves and showed him them. "Perfect." He muttered, letting

us pull our sleeves down. "Of course, Draedon is never wrong with his predictions, but it's better to be safe than sorry." He said. "Question." Leslie said. "Uhm, what do we refer to you as?" "Well, you 4 are relatively young, so for your sake, you can just call me Yharim." Yharim replied. "No formalities required, as I do suspect that you 4 will be beneficial to my cause." "If you don't mind me asking, what is it that is your cause right now?" Kenji questioned. "I'm right now having my biggest obstacles to my power removed." Yharim replied. "And I guess that segues to your next first assignment. I need you guys to go to the underground jungle, and kill someone named Bailey." "Seems easy enough." Stella said. "Give us the coordinates and we'll do it." "Hold your horses." Yharim explained. "There's one thing you need to know before you go. She's fairly powerful, so I don't expect you to be able to do it at your current level. Which is why, I've got armor sets and weapons for you guys in the armory down 2 floors." "Thank you." I replied. "But we should be doing things for you." "It's a beneficial relationship for both of us." Yharim explained. "You guys get more power, and I get to keep ruling Terraria." "Alright then." Stella said. "Let's move out guys."

We headed down the stairs by Yharim's throne and into the armory, where just like he said, there were 4 sets of armor there with weapons for each of us in chests. "Whoa!" Kenji exclaimed, taking his armor off of his armor stand. It was a set of Blossom Druid's armor, a green armor with petals covering the back like wings. "It's beautiful." He muttered. "It's radiating so much natural energy." Leslie pulled his armor set off of his armor stand. There were actually 2 armor sets there, although it made sense, because healers could either corrupt their powers and deal a lot of damage, or purify their powers and heal a load. The healing one was biotech armor, a technical green and gray armor set, and the damage one was whispering armor, a purple and black set with beautiful robes and a sick hood. "Stella, let me borrow your piggy bank for this." He said, folding up the whispering armor. Stella gave it to him, and he placed it inside. On my armor set was a set of CyberPunk armor. It was sick as hell, with a red helmet and silver armor. "It looks tight." I muttered, slipping the helmet onto my head. Stella had a set of Umbraphile armor with her. It looked absolutely indistinguishable from the others, looking like an assassin's attire. "This is gonna hide my face." Stella muttered, quickly slipping the armor onto herself. Like she said, we couldn't see her face at all, only seeing the darkness inside the cloak. "Woah, it's like you disappeared!" Leslie said, putting his hand into the hood. BONK! "Ow shit!" Stella groaned. pushing him away. "That's my eye!" Leslie looked freaked out. "Hey guys, how do I look?" I questioned. "Whoa, you look all futuristic and stuff!" Kenji laughed. "I thought that!" I laughed with a distorted robotic voice. "Your voice, Melody!" Leslie exclaimed. "It's robotic." "It is?" I questioned. Stella nodded. Or at least I think, frankly it's hard to tell anything when I can't even see her face. I opened up my chest to see what was inside. I was amazed by what was inside. There was a Primes Roar, Frostwind Cymbals, Sunflare Guitar, Steam Flute, and a Hallowed Microphone. And that was just weapons. For accessories, there was a Digital Tuner, Epic Mouthpiece, Guitar Pick Claw, Straight Mute, Conductor's Baton and a Marching Band Enchantment. "Insane!" I thought, attaching the accessories except the Baton and Enchantment to the instruments, before putting the other 2 in my pockets. PEW! I shrunk down all the instruments and put them on my belt. "This is an awesome scythe!" Leslie laughed, twirling a Terra Scythe around. Kenji was inspecting a Terra Stave, and Stella was testing out a Terra Knife. She also had Plaguenades, Terra Disk, Radiant Star, and Fantasy Talismans. "We all armed and ready?" She asked, twirling her knife. "Hell yeah!" I replied, still wondering why I sounded like a robot. We left Yharim's palace and went down into the underground jungle. For some reason, I was scared of this Bailey chick, though she probably was some person who spoke out against Yharim or something. I didn't care though, the thought of fighting another person was exciting. "You okay Melody, you look extremely crazy," Stella questioned. "I'm completely fine, I'm just oddly excited!" I replied. "I haven't fought another person in forever, and I just can't wait for this!" "Man, I'm so glad I'm on your side." Leslie muttered. "You are psychotic." I didn't know why, but this made me giggle. I was getting kinda crazy. "Melody, we're taking a breather, you need a

break." Stella said. We stopped by an old cabin and just chilled. "Come on, I want to fight something!" I laughed. BAM! Leslie slapped me across the face. "The most effective healing option." He muttered. "I'm okay." I said. "Sorry about that." "Melody, what was that about?" Stella asked. "I'm itching for a fight." I replied. "I haven't fought a person in forever!" I was starting to get crazy again. BAM! Leslie slapped me again. "Control yourself!" He complained. "Woah, there are real Terrarians up here!" Someone said. I looked out of the doorway, and saw a cute girl with pink and green hair come up from the cliff. "Don't move!" Stella shouted, pointing her Terra Knife at the girl. "Don't shoot!" The girl cried, ducking back down. "Chill Stella, it's a young girl!" Kenji complained, pulling her arm down. "You're fine, you can come out now!" I said. The young girl slowly came up from the cliff again. "Who are you guys?" She asked. "We're adventurers." I lied. Stella was still suspicious of the girl, but she sheathed her knife. "I'm Bailey," She replied. I just realized who she was. "That's Bailey!" Kenji said telepathically. "Damn, she's just a kid!" "Seems like my little trick won't work on you 4." Bailey muttered. PLEK! PLEK! PLEK! She grew up to a normal size, her hair growing out and her voice sounding older. "You 4 are more impressive than most Terrarians that come down here to kill me." She was freaking me out now. "What are you!" I spat. "I already said, I'm Bailey!" She countered. "I'm the Legend of the Jungle!" My heart dropped. "Yharim wants us to kill you!" Stella shouted. "And we don't plan on failing!" "Ha, Yharim has sent litteral gods to kill me, why do you think you pathetic Terrarians can kill me!" Bailey snickered. "The only people who remotely came close to knocking me out were the ancestors of those Heroes you guys hate so much!" "How do you know we're the Villains!" I spat. "You don't get it!" Bailey laughed. "I'm stronger than gods! I'm stronger than Yharim! That's why he wants me dead!" I gripped my microphone. "We're going to kill you, Legend!" I spat. "Don't even think of getting away!" BOOM! She made a huge vine erupt from the ground, completely destroying the cabin. "WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT!" She laughed. PEW! She disappeared. "Watch you back!" Stella shouted, unsheathing her knife. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! Dozens of giant stingers flew in every direction. "Gods, shield us from this beast!" Kenji yelled. WHOOSH! A magical aura surrounded us. PING! PING! PING! PING! The stingers bounced off of it. WHOOSH! Stella disappeared. "You too!" I complained. "Still here!" Stella shouted. "Rogue stealth, lets me get a special attack with all rogue weapons!" BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Giant spore clouds destroyed Kenji's aura. "Where is she!" Leslie yelled. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! The spore clouds knocked us into a living mahogany tree. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! WHOOSH! Leslie threw up a magic shield that blocked all the approaching stingers. "Competence huh!?" Bailey snickered, reappearing. SHING! She made a creepy plantish sword. "We'll see how long that lasts!" She laughed. PEW! She disappeared again. "Come out you coward!" Kenji spat. HONK! Everyone got Flat Damage Up from my Prime's Roar. "Just unload hell when she reappears!" I shouted. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Vines started erupting from the ground. "Your accuracy is shit!" Stella yelled. "Not a single one of your attacks has hi…" BOOM! A vine erupted from the wall and smacked her into the destroyed cabin. "Don't talk about my aim!" Bailey muttered. "How can we hit someone we can't even see!" Leslie complained. SHKT! Bailey's blade cut through his arm. "Argh! Just a scratch!" He groaned. PEW! SHKT! Bailey reappeared and bit into his arm. SHKT! She ripped the blade out of him. "That's only my arm!" Leslie spat, holding up his other arm. "I have this other one!" "You foolish child!" Bailey giggled. "I injected you with 5 different poisons! You're lucky to even be standing now. They'll slowly flow through your body until they destroy you!" Leslie looked absolutely terrified. "Heal yourself Leslie!" Kenji shouted. "Melody and I got this!" Leslie stepped back, and used every healing item he had on his arm. "And then there were only 2!" Bailey snickered. "You guys are who Yharim sent to kill me? You're pathetic!" TWANG! I struck my Sunflare Guitar. NEOW!newnewnewnewnnewnewnewnwnewnewnew! I started just shredding it. "Get her!" I yelled at Kenji. "Got it!" Kenji replied. PEW!PEW!PEW! He started shooting huge balls of energy at Bailey. WHOOSH! She disappeared. Popopopopopopopopopopopo! Hundreds of stingers started flying at us from the walls. WHOOSH! Kenji surrounded us in his aura. CRASH! I slammed the Frostwind Cymbals. "Get ready to dodge everything!" I said, lightly tapping the

cymbals together, keeping the boost on. Kenji nodded. BOOM! A vine erupted from the ground. WHOOSH! Kenji and I jumped out of the way. Stella came out of the cabin ruins. "I like where this is going!" She laughed. PEW! Bailey became visible again, clearly pissed. "Just die alre…" BOOM! Stella threw a Plaguenade at her. BANG! She slammed into a tree. "We got her!" I shouted. PEW! PEW! PEW! Leslie stood up and healed away all of our wounds. "Go and get her!" He shouted. Bailey pulled herself up. "You bastards!" She spat. BOOM! She made another vine erupt from the ground. "Watch out!" Stella yelled. SHKT! She sliced the thing in half. WHOOSH! She threw her Terra Knife at where Bailey was standing last. SHKT! There was a sickening slicing noise. PEW! Bailey reappeared, and we saw that Stella had landed her knife right in her forehead. "I got her!" Stella cheered. Bailey didn't even look like she was in pain, just extremely furious. "Damn Terrarians!" She spat. BAM! She fell to the floor. Her blood poured from the stab wound. "Yharim is just using you 4." She groaned. "SHUT UP!" Stella yelled. BAM! She kicked the knife deeper into Bailey's head. "GAH!" Bailey screamed. "Don't you understand, you aren't doing anything good! Yharim's going to throw you away if he doesn't need you anymore! Like he did with Macy!" "I don't care what you say!" Stella countered. "We're not doing this because we like him, we're doing it so we can destroy the Heroes!" SHKT! Bailey tore the knife out of her head. "You really are villains!" She spat. I almost puked at the sight of the inside of her skull and brain. "Pi angop shng a kng ung ip anng khviop!" She muttered. "What the hell did she say?" Kenji questioned. BANG! Bailey fell over, and she was dead. "Let's go, we need to tell Yharim about this." Stella said. The other 3 ran off, but I was still looking at Bailey's body. "We killed a Legend." I thought. "This shouldn't be too bad, right?" I ran off after them.

We went back to Yharim's Palace, where Yharim was once again just on his throne. "Yharim, Bailey is dead." Stella said. "Excellent!" Yharim said. "You are just as exceptional as I expected." I was still worried about Bailey's whole death though. "Pi angop shng a khng ung ip anng khviop?" I muttered. "What does that mean?" "You guys deserve a rest, so I'll call you guys when I need you." Yharim said. We left his throne room, but Stella noticed that I was contemplating something. "What's up? She questioned. "Pi angop shng a kng ung ip anng khviop." I replied. "I've been wondering if that means anything." "Yeah, it's in the language that the legends speak. It doesn't matter though, she's dead." Stella reassured me. "You're a Villain, you shouldn't be feeling guilty about killing." "I don't!" I replied. "I feel alive again! I'm just confused by her talking." Stella put her hand on my shoulder. "Don't worry." She said, "If any Legends try to get revenge on us, we'll kill them like we did to Bailey."

A week had passed, and a load happened. It turns out that there was an evolution of the world's Jungle, and now it was extremely dangerous to be there. Yharim had to relocate to the Tundra, where he hated having to bunk with Permafrost. Stella and Calamitas were slowly getting closer, though any room both of them were in was very tense. Good news though, Yharim appointed us to be his personal guards, which I think is good. The thing about this though, was that we were always on edge, because we stopped 7 assassination attempts of him in 2 days. Now, we were accompanying him to a party at Ensamble. "Are you sure no one will notice us?" I asked Yharim. "You're fine, with that Cyberpunk armor, no one will ever notice you." He replied, getting out of his carriage. There was a massive crowd of people taking photos of the Tyrant and a very beautiful red carpet. "Alright, give the Lord some space!" Stella spat, waving her Terra Knife at people. I knew a handful of people in the crowd, and even saw Purushottama. "Don't panic Melody, they won't know it's you." I thought. We led Yharim into the Theater the party was taking place in, and took him to his throne. "Thank you." He told us. "How about you guys enjoy the party?" "But who will protect you?" Kenji questioned. "I'll be fine!" Yharim reassured, pointing to his sheathed blade. We noticed and went down to the actual place where the party was. There were the essentials; the DJ, the music, lights, and the dance floor. "Melody, don't you usually perform at this party every year?" Leslie asked. I nodded. "It might be too dangerous to reveal myself while on duty though." I replied. "Come on Melody, your fans would be happy to see you." Leslie

laughed, pushing me over to the DJ. "Dammit!" I muttered. "Melody!?" The DJ exclaimed, recognizing my voice. "Yeah, it's me." I said, pulling my helmet off. The DJ turned the music down and turned the normal lights on. "Hey everyone!" He shouted. "Look who turned up today!" He pointed at me. The crowd got hype and started cheering. "Shit, put on your stage voice!" I thought. "Hey everyone!" "I thought maybe I should come back or something for today because I'm always here for today's party, you know!" POOF! The lights went out. "What happened!" The DJ exclaimed. POOF! The lights came back on, and there was a robed figure standing with a dagger to my neck. "LET GO OF ME!" I exclaimed. "Melody Anushka." They mumbled. "How about you show the world who you really are." They yanked my sleeve down. "This, everyone, is the birthmark of the Shooting Star Villain! Don't believe me? She's allied with Yharim, murdered the Legend of the Jungle, and plans on killing the heroes prophesied by the ancient guides to destroy Cthulhu! That's who your beloved Melody is!" The person wrapped their arm around my neck tighter. "Let her go!" Leslie yelled, unsheathing his Scythe. "Another Villain here!" The robed person said. "Leslie Aisopos, the one behind the Pondshade Massacre! Of course the true Villain here is there, Stella Calamitas! The sister to that Calamitas you all hate!" BANG! They squeezed my neck tighter. "I think everyone would love it if I killed them right here and stopped any future massacres from happening!" "Those Heroes aren't actual Heroes!" I choked. "Of course you would say that!" The person spat. "You were the one who beat up my sister in front of thousands of people!" "Who are you!" Stella growled, her hair a dark crimson red. "My name is Macy Nebula!" The person said. "And I'll kill you guys and stop the world from being destroyed by you!" BOOM! A laser ripped through the air and struck Macy, loosening her grip on me. BANG! I pushed her away. Yharim came from out of the shadows. "Macy huh, my bodyguards are off duty right now, so don't bother them!" He spat. Macy pulled herself up. "Lord Yharim!" She laughed. "You'll regret sending me off all those years ago!" "We're causing a real big scene here!" Kenji muttered. "Nah, I want to see the Lord kick her ass!" Stella replied. SHING! Yharim drew his blade. "I should've killed you!" He shouted. Macy looked around at the place. She hadn't caused any damage, and she got her message out that she could kill us without us knowing. "My job here is done!" She laughed. PEW! She disappeared. "What was that!" I thought. "You guys, let's get back to Permafrosts." Yharim said, sheathing his blade and heading back for the carriage. We hurried over to follow him. "Damned traitors!" He muttered. "She tried to kill me when she was part of my council, so I exiled her, but she's back now!" "We can do something about it!" I replied. It looked as if a lightbulb flashed over his head. "She's from the Static Clan in western Terraria." Yharim explained. "I want you to go to that village. And kill everyone. Spare no one; Children, Women, Men, Elders, everyone should be killed."

Lucy POV

We were going to a small ninja village in the middle of nowhere, because we might be able to get equipment from them. "You think they got cute ninja girls there?" Christie asked, smoking a cigar. BAM! Ana knocked the cigar out her mouth. "Quit it!" She complained. Christie frowned. "Nah, but they might have some weapons." Emma replied. Right when we arrived, we were greeted by a horrific sight. There were dead bodies everywhere, blood soaked floors, and body parts everywhere. I was about to throw up. "What the hell happened here!" I screamed. We just walked through, seeing the damage. "It was probably Calamitas." Ana muttered. "That's what I want you to think!" Someone laughed. I turned around, and saw Melody messing with one of the bodies. "What the hell did you guys do!" I spat. BAM! Stella came out of nowhere and held a Knife to my throat. "Your sister posed a threat to Yharim, so this is payback." Leslie said, unsheathing his Scythe. "What about the truce!" Ana replied. "Who said we had to keep our word?" Kenji asked, nowhere in sight. They had us surrounded. "They murdered thousands for my sister?" I thought. "Wait, I have a sister!?" "What are you talking about, her sister, Lucy's an only child!" Christie

spat. "Macy Nebula." Stella replied, tossing her knife and catching over and over again. "Doesn't that ring any bells?" I shook my head. "I never met my sister." I replied. "Well that sucks ass!" Melody laughed. SMASH! She smashed the body's head in. My heart dropped. "Come on guys, let's get the hell out of here!" Kenji said. They went to leave the dead village. "Let me kick their asses!" Christie shouted. "No, we need to find this Macy person." I replied. Christie clenched her fists, but eventually gave up. "Fine, where would someone like her be hiding off?" She questioned. "She's a Static Ninja." Emma replied. "They have several camps around Terraria, but the main one is by my home."

We moved extremely quickly, but it still took us 2 days to get all the way over to the Werewolf camp. "I don't know if they will let me in, since I've been gone for the past 2 months." We went into the village, and got strange looks from all the Werewolves around. Emma took us to the Chief's Tent, where her friend Faye was. "Why were you out for so long?" She asked. "You remember that old story that my dad used to tell us about the Heroes and stuff?" I replied. "Yeah, apparently I'm the Warrior in said story." Faye didn't believe this for a second. "Look Emma, I want you to go out and see the world and all, but you have to do stuff here in the village." She explained. "I'm not lying!" Emma countered. "Look at this!" She moved her fur out of the way and on her skin was her birthmark of a star. "Solar Hero, it's the same one as the story." She said. Faye was surprised. "So you're some prophesied hero or whatnot?" She asked. Emma nodded. "We came back here because we need to find out about Macy Nebula." She explained. "Lucy's sister." "I've never heard of a Macy Nebula." Faye muttered. "She's a Static Ninja, if that helps at all." I added. "The Villains that the prophecy talked about killed her entire village." "That sounds like something they would do." Faye groaned. "There is a Static Camp about 1000m from here east. Maybe you might find something there." "Alright, we'll head over there." I said. "Wait." Faye said. "Ana, you and Emma seem cute together." Ana looked extremely flustered and Emma was just confused. "No!" They complained simultaneously. We said our goodbyes and left the village and headed over to the static camp. "I doubt we'll find Macy here." Christie said. "Yeah, but maybe we'll find something that could point us in the right direction." I replied. "Maybe a photo of her or a diary." "You really think someone wanted by Yharim would keep a diary?" Christie laughed. "I keep one, and I'm the most wanted criminal in all of Terraria." I said. "True." Christie muttered. "Hey look, I see the camp over there!" Ana shouted, running over to the camp. It was completely barren, with no sign of life. "2 days ago there was a festival for the Slime God." Emma explained. "I knew that we wouldn't find anyone here, but I hoped that maybe there would be 1 survivor." Ana came back from deep in the camp with a photo. "It looks like everyone who lives here." She noted. "That's cool and all, but we don't know what Macy even looks like to know if she's in this photo." Christie complained. I took a long ass look at the photo. The women all had similar hairstyles, which I can't really describe, but one specifically looked different. She had red hair instead of pinkish blue, and it was in pigtails. "My family always had odd colored hair." I mumbled. "That's gotta be her." "Hey!" Someone shouted. "What are you guys doing here!" We turned around, and that red haired girl was there. "We aren't here to fight, dammit!" I complained. "We're looking for a Macy Nebula." "What do you want from me?" The girl asked. I put 2 and 2 together and realized that she was Macy. "The Static Village, it was massacred." I explained. Macy looked horrified. "Who did it!" She shouted, running over to us. "Stella and her Villains." Christie replied. Macy clenched her fists. "Those bastards!" She growled. "I bet it was Yharim who told them to do it too!" "This Yharim guy seems like an absolute dick." Emma said. "No shit." Macy countered. "I heard about him essentially creating the Sulphurous Sea and had to do something about it, but he stopped me and exiled me." "How did you exile you, Terraria other than the land is just an endless sea." I questioned. "And you don't look anything like a Fairy, how are you my sister?" "You're part Succubus, part Fairy, while I'm completely a Succubus." Macy explained. "It's probably why you thirst over Christie so hard." "I don't, what are you talking about!" I

countered, flustered. "Whatever, he sent me to another universe." Macy said. "Wow, and in this 'universe' did people lose their faces or something?" I mocked. "Yes actually." Macy replied, completely serious. "Long story short, I came back to this universe and learned about Yharim's bodyguards being the Celestial Villains, so I thought I'd kill them for you guys to have a lighter load." "Hold on, how did you think that you would survive to fight them?" Ana asked. "You really know nothing about me." Macy laughed. "I'm what some people call, the Great Sage, others call me the Wise One, blah blah blah, I'm stronger than all 4 of you gals combined!" I was surprised by this, but seeing how she just walked in front of Yharim without a care in the world, I was sure she was telling the truth. "So, 1 last question, do you know anyone on Yharim's side that we could get information from?" I asked. "Well, Calamitas is roughly under Yharim's control, so it should be easy to bring her back." Macy replied. "She was one of 2 people on his council that voted for me to not be exiled. Just tell her that I sent you." She turned to walk away. "Where are you going now?" I said. "I'm going to find Yharim and settle some unsettled business." Macy replied, walking off. "Damn, my sister is a badass." I thought.

We crossed across Terraria again to the mountainous town of Willsden. It was freezing, as this was the highest point in all of Terraria. "You guys need some scales or something, it's not that cold!" Ana laughed. "Dammit Ana." I muttered. We entered town, and the first thing we saw was a public execution. "Mr. Nathan Urania here helped Calamitas escape from here after murdering our King!" A guard shouted. "He is the scum we don't need in this world, and we're going to put him down and help restore Terraria's peace!" "People of Wilsden, I'm innocent of all crimes that you accuse me of!" Nathan countered. "Shut it traitorous scum!" Some guy shouted. "This is the most tribal thing ever." I thought. BAM! The executioner shoved Nathan down into the guillotine and fastened it around his neck. WHOOSH! He yanked the rope and; SHKT! Nathan's head fell off. "Justice!" The guard cheered. "Well, it looks like we just went back in time about 300 years ago, let's leave!" Christie said, walking off. Emma grabbed her by the shoulder. "Ya being a coward!" She complained. "We still need to find Calamitas." "Shush! We don't want to end up on a freaking guillotine do we?!" Ana urged. The crowd of people watching the execution cleared, and we went deeper into the town. The houses were cleverly crafted, built right into the side of the cliffside. But there was a faint feeling I had about this place that I just couldn't shake off. Like something horrible happened. "We need a place where we can talk about Calamitas at all without being headless." Christie muttered. "Tavern." Emma replied. "They don't give 2 shits about what you talk about in there." We went inside of a nearby Tavern and bought some drinks. The other 3 went to sit at a table while I was talking with the Tavernkeep. "Do you know anything about Calamitas?" I asked her. "She uses Brimstone Magic." She replied. "Yeah, doesn't everyone know that, I'm talking about deeper stuff, like backstory or shit like that." I complained. "Well, her parents and 2 brothers were crucified by a rival faction, and she completely destroyed them." The Tavernkeep explained. "She then revived her 2 brothers, Cataclysm and Catastrophe. Somehow, Yharim got word of it, and recruited her to his side. But she still had good inside of her, so she released one of those Golem guys in his castle. That's all I really know." "That's more than most others know." I replied. "Did she have a home here at any time?" "She lived about 3 blocks down from here, but it's been off limits after she returned and murdered the king." She replied. "I'm not sure what the motive was, but the King was very Anti-Yharim, so maybe that's why." "How bad was the killing of the King?" "It was brutal. She tortured him first, slowly burning his skin off, then reduced him to just bones on the floor." I was disgusted by the imagery I was getting. "Alright then, thanks for that stuff." I said, tossing her a gold before going over to the others. "What'd ya find out?" Emma asked. "We might be able to bring Calamitas back easier than expected." I replied. "We should head down to her house, maybe she for some reason is there." "We're going to her crib!? That's an easy way to get killed!" Emma groaned. "Doesn't really matter, it's not like she's that horrible." I laughed. "Damn, ya got the whole squad laughing." Emma replied.

We went down a few blocks and found an old house compared to all the others in the area. It was rotten, with burns everywhere. "Hmm, I wonder where it is?" Ana muttered, looking everywhere except for the house. Christie forcefully faced her at the house. "Ohhhh!" Ana exclaimed. CREAK! Emma creaked the door open. "Shit, it smells like a Moose Goose's ass!" She groaned. I had absolutely no idea what a Moose Goose was. The interior of the house was quite posh. The floor tiles were rich mahogany, and there were silver chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. There were multiple portraits of Calamitas' family on the walls, though they were smashed up or burnt to imperceptibility. "Cozy place." Christie noted, kicking the dust off of a rug. I had recognised the rug at Sean's place, though it was a different color with the same pattern; a rough diagram of the whole world of Terraria. I wasn't sure why she had this rug, however. WHOOSH! I lit up my wings, lighting up the entire building. "Hey look, chest!" Ana said, running over to a weird chest made of a wood I've never seen in my entire life. She opened it up, and there was a fairly new book in it. "Hey, it's a diary!" Ana laughed. "I haven't seen one of these since I was 17,000!" She opened it up, and there was red text inside. It read. "Why are you looking for me? I have nothing to offer you 4. However, if you do want to meet me so badly, I guess I'll be able to see you at The Pit." WHOOSH! The books promptly burnt up. "What's the Pit?" Ana questioned. "It's an annual tournament held every year." I replied. "In fact it's next week, April 7th." "Okay, let's go then!" Christie said. "Hell nah!" Emma replied. "We've only got 3 months until the Day of Reckoning, and we don't got the time to be going to this." "But maybe Calamitas could be an ally to us that could help." I countered. "Ana, what do you think?" " "We should go, and plus, maybe it could secretly be a sneaked in training session." She replied. "Fair enough, let's go off to The Pit." I laughed. Emma didn't look very thrilled, but she knows better than to fight a losing battle.

We arrived at The Pit, a tall arena right outside of the small town of Kald. It was built out of a strange block I've never seen before, and it had banners all around it, probably to keep monsters away. We entered the place, and saw how massive it was. "Look at that poster right there!" I exclaimed, pointing at the big poster hanging over everything. 'WIN THE TOURNEY AND WIN THE REMAINS OF THE SWORD WIELDED BY TERRA!' it read. "The Terrablade!" Emma said, shocked. "I've always wanted to see this! Maybe this isn't a complete waste of time." "There we go, finally some sort of enthusiasm!" Christie laughed. We went up to the registration desk. "Do we sign up for the tournament here?" Ana asked. "Yes ma'am!" The guy replied. "I just need your names and classes." "I'm Christie Ricochet, I'm a Ranger!" Christie said. "Lucy Nebula, Mage." "I'm Anastasia Genesis and I am a Summoner." "Emma. Just Emma. I'm a Warrior, or Melee, or what it's called." I swore I saw the registration dude make a snickering face like he did something stupid, before handing us 4 badges. "You've got 5 days of preparation time before the tournament starts, good luck." He said. "Did he just say good luck, like we might end up dying!" I thought. "Damn, and the only tournament I'm used to was the Cell Games." We went on out of the arena for now. "5 days, what do you think we should do?" Ana asked. "The first 2 events are always random, then the last is your usual 1v1 brackets system." I explained. "So I guess we should make sure no one really notices us doing preparation things and stuff." "It's kinda hard to be secretive if there's a massive crowd everywhere remotely close to this place!" Christie replied. I had just noticed how many people were surrounding the arena, and I started feeling a lot less confident about our ability to find Calamitas, let alone survive if people actually die. They always take the knocked out people out of the arena, but now I was starting to think that they might be dead.

5 days later

We were required to demonstrate to the heads of the tournament that we could actually compete, and weren't just doing it for the free housing they gave you. "Contest 284, Lucy Nebula." A lady on the intercom said. "You'll be fine!" Christie laughed, smoking a cigar while noticing that I was

extremely nervous. "I know." I replied. I left our room, went down the stairs to the room they were testing in, and shut the door behind me. There were 2 important looking people, one male, the other female. "Are you Lucy Nebula?" The man asked. "Yes." I replied. "You put down that you are a Mage, is that correct?" I nodded, kinda confused why they're asking me these questions, when it's quite obvious that I'm a Mage based on my Daedalus Armor. "Demonstrate your skill." The woman said. "Yes ma'am, don't let me take 2 seconds to take my Sky Fracture out, and don't let me take 2 more seconds to get myself ready!" I complained, pulling out my Sky Fracture. PEW! SPLAT! I shot and killed a green slime about 20 meters away. "How long can you fire for?" The man asked. "I never really tried, maybe 2 hours." I replied. "And, how do you feel about the other 3 in your party?" The woman asked. I was very surprised by this question. "Uh, so Emma." I started. "She's pretty dumb and stubborn, but she's very caring and protective I guess. Anastasia is also kinda dumb, but she's shockingly strong and is super fun. She is kinda cute too. Then Christie, she's overconfident, bashful, but she's probably the one I'm the closest with, and she saved me from one of those eyes that attacked Hollyhead." The man wrote some stuff into a journal. "You can go Lucy." He said.

"That sounds awfully sketchy." Christie muttered. I went back to our room and told the others about what happened. "They never asked me about that. Why would that be important?" "Doesn't really matter though." Emma replied. "It's not like they're going to put us up against each other!" I was getting a bad feeling. SHKRT!! The intercom blared to life. "Attention all competitors, we have completed the screening earlier than expected, so the tournament will start today! Please meet up at the main arena!" The woman shouted. "Damn, that's loud!" I complained. "Let's go!" Ana laughed, running out the room. We all followed after her. We ran into the hallway into the arena and were greeted by maybe millions of people screaming cheers. The sun was extremely bright and shone on us. "Just cover your ears Lucy!" Christie told me. An announcer guy was flying on a magic carpet above the arena. "WELCOME TERRARIA TO THE PIT!" He screamed into the microphone. "WE'VE ALREADY GOT A GOOD IDEA ON WHAT THIS IS, SO LET'S GET TO THE GAME WHEEL!" BAM! Some chick shoved past us. "Watch it!" Emma complained. "Make me!" The girl snickered, sticking her tongue at us. "I hate you already." Emma growled. The girl walked off. CREAK! A giant wheel rose out of the goddamn ground. The announcer flew over to it and; WHOOSH! Spun the thing. The wheel went around about 18 times before stopping. "Look at that, it's already an interesting thing!" The announcer yelled. "It's Thieves and Coppers!" "A kids game!" I thought. "In this game, it's 4v4 to catch the other team." The announcer explained. "If you get caught, you are out. When all 4 members of the other team are out, you win! You get 20 minutes to make your teams!" The 4 of us obviously formed a team and got away from everyone else. "So, what's the plan?" Emma asked. I looked around, scouting out the other teams. "I'm not sure what the map is going to be, so it's hard to make any concrete plan, but we can have a general strategy." I explained. "I can fly, so I'll be at the highest points of the map. Ana, you take the water. Emma, you should hold back and support Christie, who will maybe go down the most straight path." "ONE LAST THING!" The announcer yelled. "KILLING IS NOT ALLOWED. THAT'S IT THOUGHT! ANYTHING ELSE IS FAIR GAME! ONCE MORE! THE AIM OF THE GAME IS TO GET THE 4 MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITE TEAM WRAPPED IN THE CAPTURE TAPE!" "Shit!" Christie said. "So we don't want to lose any limbs." "Might be hard for you, considering that you have like 7 pounds on your chest!" Emma laughed. Christie and her both resume their argument about boobs from Hollyhead. I noticed how Ana was very nervous and was shaking. "You good?" I asked. "Just scared." She replied. "I'm not used to this many people watching me." "Just imagine that everyone is naked." I laughed. Ana looked around and then became flustered. "Uh, never mind!" I said. "TIMES UP!" The announcer yelled. "Bro, you said 20 minutes!" Some guy complained. "I CHANGED MY MIND!" The announcer countered. The crowd started laughing. "I've already seen what your teams are, thanks to my goggles, so let's start the first match!" He took out a massive hat with papers with teams on them. He drew 2 out. "Team, Anastasia Genesis, Christie Ricochet, Emma, and Lucy Nebula, vs Team Jasmine Aura, Terry

Talita, Bohuslav Wit, and Chares Iracema!" "And we're first!" Christie complained. We went up to the middle of the arena and saw the other team. Jasmine was a blonde chick with long hair. Terry was black with spiky anime protag hair. Bohuslav had dirty brown hair with it up a bit and it was a mess. Chares was hard to tell what he looked like, because he covered his face with a robe. "GLHF!" Bohuslav said. "Gesundheit?" I questioned. "Good luck, have fun!" Bohuslav groaned, probably upset that I didn't understand his stupid acronyms. Suddenly: PEW! We were teleported off to a map. "321go! The announcer rushed. The map was a jungle, not much else to say. "Okay, let's do what we barely had any time to prepare for!" I said. SPLASH! Ana jumped into the river and swam down it. Christie and Emma ran off into the jungle and I flew up to the trees. I could see the arena from up here, just a small dot. "Let's go then!" I thought, jumping from tree to tree. I couldn't see anything at all, because the trees were covering up the view. "No point in staying up here!" I thought. CREAK! I grabbed hold of a tree and jumped down to the ground. I still couldn't see anyone down here; it was too dark. I ran deeper into the jungle, my legs getting cut up by thorns, but it didn't really phase me. "LUCY!" I heard Christie yell out. "LUCY COME HERE!" I looked around before running to where I heard her voice. I pushed through leaves before: BAM! I got punched into a tree. I pulled myself up, and saw that it was Jasmine. "Already found someone!" I thought. "Now to tie them up and…" CRASH! She threw a flask at the ground and made a smokescreen appear. "Dammit! A smoke screen!" I spat. WHOOSH! The smoke lit up into flames. I jumped up into a tree. "Get down Lucy!" Jasmine complained. "No, I don't like being roasted wings!" I countered. I grabbed my Sky Fracture in my mouth and climbed up the tree more. I came out atop the trees. Jasmine jumped up after me. "You're a fairy?" She asked. "Yeah, why." I replied. "Nothing, just curious." She said. CRASH! She threw another flask at me. I dodged out of the way. WHOOSH! This one erupted into a poisonous cloud. PEW! PEW! PEW! I shot at her. BING! BING! BING! She caught all the projectiles by the hilts of them. "That's not a very good weapon." She joked. "I can tell." I replied. WHOOSH! I cast Cursed Flames at her. She jumped out of the way. CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! She threw 3 different flasks at me. 2 were the same as the others but; BAM! The 3rd was just an explosion and knocked me back. CREAK! I caught myself with a tree. "I need an ass pull." I thought. I took a second look at Jasmine, before seeing a Halo over her head. She was an angel. "Alright, aim for the Halo." I thought. PEW! She used something and teleported behind me. I rolled back. BOOM! There was a flask behind and it knocked me down to the ground. BAM! I hit my head into a tree. Jasmine jumped down after me. "Pretty smart, right?" She asked. "Damn, anytime someone fights me, they always forget to look up!" I laughed. WHOOSH! The capture tape fell from a tree leaf and wrapped around her Halo. BOING! It pulled her up to a tree and she couldn't move. "You noticed my Halo." She sighed. "What, were you hiding it?" I questioned. She shook her head. "How'd you even get it up there?" She asked. "I just hung it over where you'd be standing when I fell to the ground." I replied. "Clever!" Jasmine laughed. "Extremely flawed is what it is." I said. "Well, I guess you're out." "I guess I am." "You know what, here, Imma slip my cellphone number into your pocket, call me after the tournament." I slipped a slip of paper into her pocket. "OKay, uh, ttyl." She laughed. I ran off.

Christie POV

Emma and I went deeper into the jungle. RING! RING! I felt my cell phone go off. "Hello?" I questioned. "Hey Christie!" Lucy said. "I got Jasmine and took her to the beginning area place." "Cool, you got any idea how Ana is doing?" Emma asked. "I don't know, the river isn't that long, so that gives us a decent idea where she could be." Lucy replied. "Okay, maybe you should keep an eye on Jasmine, don't want her teammates to get her out." I explained. "You know, I should've thought of that." Lucy laughed. "Damn, well it's too late now." BEEP! She hung up the phone. SNIFF! SNIFF! Emma started sniffing the air. "I smell Terry and Chares." She muttered. I was sort of disgusted by this, but she was a werewolf, so I didn't care much. "You smelled them before we got here?" I questioned. Emma nodded, still sniffing around. "9 meters! MOVE!" She yelled,

shoving me over. BANG! BANG! She blocked 2 arrows on her Ankh Shield. "We've got you surrounded!" Terry shouted. "How, there's 2 of you!" I countered. WHOOSH! The leaves around us all blew away, and as it turned out, we were surrounded by Ballistas. "Yeah, we look kinda surrounded." Emma laughed. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way!" Chares explained. "Pretty self explanatory what they are." "Mate, I don't think that was necessary." Terry sighed. "These things are definitely gonna tear us up!" I thought. "How do we get rid of them? And simultaneously catch both Chares and Terry?" WHOOSH! Chares shot a blast of fire at us. "You're taking too long for an answer, we're doing it the hard way!" He shouted. CREAK! I hung onto a thick tree branch. I didn't see where Emma went. CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! Terry commanded his Ballistas to shoot at me. I dropped down from the tree. "Emma, a little help!" I shouted. WHOOSH! I jumped out of the way of Chares' fireblast. "Let's go then!" I complained. PEW! PEW! PEW! I shot my Daedrius Stormbow, having it rain arrows and stars from the ground. WHOOSH! Chares made a damn shield out of fire and blocked all the arrows. "Piece of…" BAM! An arrow from a Ballista got me in my cloak. BAM! It pinned me to a tree. "That's one!" Terry laughed. BANG! Emma came from another tree and bashed him in the head with her shield, knocking him out. "That was my teammate!" Chares yelled. WHOOSH! Emma blocked his fireblast with her shield. BAM! She whirled around and cracked him across the face with her Dao of Pow. BANG! He caught himself on a tree. SHKT! I attached some capture tape to an arrow and shot it around Terry, rendering him out. "Good, now all we have to deal with is Ch…." BAM! Chares did the lowest blow ever and kicked Emma in the crotch. Now, normally this would've just hurt her like any other blow but: BAM! She fell to the ground. "AUGH! Why would you do that!" She cried, holding herself in pain. I was extremely confused. "Are you even a girl?!" Chares exclaimed. Emma struggled and shook her head. "They never removed my genitals." She groaned. SHKT! I grabbed an arrow and sliced my cloak off my armor. BOOM! I shot at Chares with my Onyx Blaster. WHOOSH! He whipped around and burnt up the projectiles. PEW! I teleported behind him. "Where'd she go!" He exclaimed. "Behind you." I whispered into his ear. BAM! I got him with that extra, JUICY, kick to the cheek. BANG! He caught himself again on a nearby tree. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! He shot dozens of fireballs at me. I jumped over all of them. "Emma, get up, I need help!" I shouted. CHIK! I landed atop a tree. I could still hear Emma groaning in pain. BOOM! I felt the tree I was on, falling over. BAM! I fell to the ground. "I'll tie you up, then tie up Emma!" Chares spat. "Out of context that sounds horrible!" I countered. BAM! Emma pulled herself up and rammed into Chares. BANG! He still landed on his feet. "I can do this all day." He spat. "Look at your leg!" Emma replied. Chares looked down too late, because: WHOOSH! The tape pulled him towards Emma. BAM! Now she punched him in the crotch. "Doesn't feel so good, huh?" She asked. BANG! He fell to the ground. "Christie, your cape!" Emma exclaimed, pointing at my cape stuck to a tree. "I don't need it." I replied. "Let's get these guys to our side and help Ana." I said.

Ana POV

SPLASH! I pulled myself out of the river. "That smells horrible!" I groaned. I looked around, and saw nothing but trees and bushes. "Okay Ana, it isn't that dark in there, just go in!" I whimpered. I can't stand the dark, or anyplace that I could get jumped in, so I'm kinda always scared. RUSTLE!!! RUSTLE! RUSTLE! There was rustling in the bushes. "Who's there!" I shouted, getting out my Durendal. WHOOSH! I swang at the bushes, cutting them down but finding only a bunny. "It's just a bunny." I muttered. RUSTLE! RUSTLE! There was more rustling behind me. WHOOSH! I cut them down and found a grubby. "How did such a tiny bug do that?" I questioned. PEW! PEW! I summoned some Sanguine Bats. "Go off in 2 different directions, tell me if you find anything." I explained. The bats nodded and flew off. I soon had it hit me that spliting up 4 of my 5 minions was a very stupid idea. PEW! I summoned an Ice Clasper. The 2 of us went deeper into

the jungle. SCRATCH! SCRATCH SCRATCH! I was now hearing scratching noises everywhere. "Just come out already!" I shouted. "Gladly!" Bohuslav replied, coming out of the shadows. I tightened my grip on my Durendal. "Honestly, getting all the creatures here to get you right under my thumb was easier than I thought." He explained. "Back away!" I complained. "Get away from me!" SHING! Bohuslav pulled out a poisoned knife. "Wasn't planning on it." He replied. BANG! I dodged away from the knife. "Get him Icy!" I shouted. WHOOSH! Bohuslav dodged the ice clasper's charge. BING! It got stuck on a tree. CRACK! I swag my whip at Bohuslav. He caught it in his hand. "Get over here!" He shouted, yanked it. I went flying over at him. BAM! He slammed me down into the ground. My head was spinning. SHKT! The Ice Clasper yanked itself out of the tree. BANG! It rammed into Bohuslav and pushed him away from me. I pulled myself up. "No whip!" I thought. "Weapons, weapons, weapons!" I was at a loss of ideas at this moment. WHOOSH! I dodged out of the way of Bohuslav's sword jab. "What class even is he!" I thought. CLANG! I blocked his slash with my whip. SMACK! I did a somersault and slapped him in the face with my tail. BANG! BANG! I kicked him over. "Get him, Ice Clasper!" I yelled. SHKT! He impaled the Ice Clasper on his sword. "Why don't more people just do that?" He questioned. BOOM! He shot me in the leg with his Onyx Blaster. POOF! I felt something in my back pocket. It was one of the Sanguine Bats I summoned. It pulled the capture tape out and flew back into the jungle. I realized what it was trying to do. BAM! I kicked Bohuslav with my good leg and jumped back. I was now just standing on 1 leg when he had both of his. "You're at a severe disadvantage!" Bohuslav spat. "I wouldn't want to accidentally kill you!" I leaned back and used my tail as my other leg. "Uh, you're wrong?" I winced, trying to think of some badass counter or something. BOOM! He shot at me but I jumped over it. I used my tail to grip onto a tree branch. BANG! I swang off and kicked him over. "NOW GUYS!" I yelled. WHOOSH! The 4 Sanguine Bats flew out of the jungle and wrapped Bohuslav in the tape. I sighed a big sigh of relief. "I won't accept this!" Bohuslav shouted. "You're just sushi waiting to happen!" He pointed his Onyx Blaster at me. PEW! I teleported behind him. CREAK! I crushed the blaster in my hand. "I'm no sushi." I growled. BANG! I dropped the Blaster on his head. "THERE WE GO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!" The announcer screamed. "TEAM AVEL WINS!" I just realized how badass that abbreviation for us 4 sounded. PEW! All of us were teleported back to the main arena somehow. BAM! I fell over from my busted leg. "Good Game!" Jasmine laughed. "Hey, your teammate Bohuslav tried to freaking kill me! I complained. "What are you talking about!" Bohuslav questioned. I was dumbfounded. "What a waste." Chares groaned, walking off. "I'll be watching the rest of the tournament if it matters to you." Terry said, running over to the massive stands. "Come on Ana, let's get your leg fixed up." Emma said, picking me up and putting me on her shoulder.

I didn't see the rest of the event, because I was with the nurse for 3 hours. "That should be just about it!" She said, "It took me so long, because I've never seen a siren before." "I wouldn't judge you." I replied. "We don't really come out this far." I got off of the medical bed. "I'll be rooting for you!" The nurse laughed as I left. I went over to the lounge where the others were. "Your leg fine?" Emma asked. I nodded. "How about your crotch Emma?" Christie laughed. "What do you mean crotch?" Lucy questioned. "Care to explain?" "Oh right." Emma muttered. "I'm not actually a girl, well, I am, but you know, gender change. But I've still got a penis." "Whoa, she still has one!" I thought. "Oh god, am I blushing?! Stop me stop!" "Uh, Ana, you good?" Christie asked. "I'm fine!" I replied, snapping out of my trance. "So, what's the next event?" "I did some Investigative Journalism, and found out the next event is, well, Hot Potahto." Lucy explained. "It's Potayto!" Emma countered. "I'm pretty sure it's potayto." Christie said. "What's a potayto?" I questioned. "You three are ganging up on me!" Lucy groaned. "Anyways, it's a more extreme version of it, with an actual bomb!" My heart dropped. "Won't that like, kill us?" I questioned. "I feel like that's the point." Christie laughed. "Besides, what's stopping me from just shooting someones arm and keeping them from throwing the bomb?" "Nothing." Lucy replied. "The game will go on until 16 people remain, out of the 100 people remaining." My heart dropped more. "So,

killing is allowed, and 84 people will either die or get serious injuries?" I asked. Lucy nodded. "We'll be fine, don't worry about it." She laughed. I wasn't amused. "This is absolutely horrifying!" I complained. "CONTESTANTS, PLEASE MOVE TO THE MAIN ARENA ONCE MORE!" The announcer yelled into the intercoms. We went there, and saw how the number of contestants was much smaller. "This is paranoid!" I muttered. "THE GAME STARTS, NOW!" The announcer yelled. A bomb was dropped into my hands. "Get rid of it!" Lucy yelled, running off. I threw it and smacked it with my tail to get it some distance. BAM! It hit some other guy in the face. I ran off to one of the empty corners of the arena. KABOOM! The bomb exploded and killed like 5 people. "It's for real! People are dying!" I screamed. I saw someone with another bomb running at me. PEW! I summoned a Sanguine Bat. "Keep the bomb away!" I yelled. BANG! It slammed into the person with the bomb and knocked them away. KABOOM! The bomb exploded. I saw Lucy just camping in the air away from everyone. "What I'd give to fly right now!" I groaned. I ran away from my now contested corner to get closer to the center. "Only 75 remain, LET'S TURN IT UP A NOTCH!" The announcer yelled. CREAK! A small bit of the arena went down into the ground and replaced it with lava. "They're making it smaller!" I thought. BOOM! The bomb exploded again, knocking some people into lava. "Ana, come on!" Emma yelled, running to me. She pointed up to the sky and showed how the moon was almost up. "Get on my back, and don't let me see you," She explained. I jumped onto her and she went on all fours. WHOOSH! She turned into a full on werewolf. "Oh shit!" I thought. BAM! She knocked the bomb off towards a crowd of people. KABOOM! It exploded and knocked them into the lava. "25 people left, who will be the unlucky 9 to fall?" The announcer yelled. WHOOSH! The arena got smaller. PEW! Somehow it became a day all of a sudden. WHOOSH! Emma turned back to normal. "Dammit, what happened?" She groaned. I was still holding on to her back. "Ana, give me a hand!" She said, "Whip Christie over to us!" I took out my Durendal and; CRACK! Wrapped it around Christie and pulled her to us. BAM! She landed right on Emma's lap. "Get off!" Emma complained. "Look out!" I yelled. BAM! BOOM! I smacked the bomb away with my tail and it exploded. KABOOM! The arena got even smaller, now about 20 square meters. "Where's Lucy?" Christie asked. Emma pointed up and Lucy was just soaring in the air. I countered around and saw that including us 4 there were 17 people up here. "Smack that chick." I said, pointing to a girl that looked maybe 16. BAM! Emma caught a bomb and threw it at her. PEW! The girl blasted it away. "Watch it!" She snarled. I was freaked, because she had a damn dragon's snout and was gray. SPLASH! I heard someone land in the lava. "AND THAT'S THE GAME!" The announcer yelled. "Let's see!" PEW! He teleported us all to the shore of the lava hellhole. "Our survivors are: Anastasia Genesis, Brigitta Phillis, Berthold, Christie Ricochet, Detlef Etta, Emma, Fernande Travers, Gabe Zavanna, Haruka Yamata, Isa Calamitas, Lucy Nebula, and Sky Rosemarie. Hmm, it looks like we only have 12 people. Well that sucks. Also, come on men, you're supposed to be the majority to keep the incels from bitching about this being gender obsessed, even though if the genders in this story were swapped, nothing would really change, plus it just shows how pathetic you are, and it shows how you really should look at the millions of other stories that have male leads to satisfy your pathetic existence, while having a bad opinion of something because of the character's genders is ridiculous." I was confused by what he meant by 'characters' or 'stories' but it sure was funny. "Alright, y'all get a 2 hour break before the final event, see ya!" PEW!

"I got a good view of everyone from the air." Lucy explained. "It's quite obvious who Calamitas is." "We know what the brackets are?" Emma asked. Lucy shook her head. "By the way, you know who that dragon chick was?" Emma added. "Definitely that Haruka." Lucy replied. "I know, because she's won every single tournament for the past 5 years." "5 years, she can't be much older than me!" Christie said. "She's a dragon, they age differently." Lucy replied. She jumped down from the coffee table. "But it doesn't matter, we just need to not be put in the same bracket as her." She said, "Or each other." I added. "Impossible." Christie explained. "If we were to hypothetically

be placed with 1 person in between us on the board, then win 2 rounds, we would still fight in the 3rd round." My heart dropped to the ground. "Why would you even say that!" I complained. Physically they were all bigger than me, and probably stronger than me, and probably know more about me than I do myself. "Why would you, you're scaring the hell out of me!" I started inching away. "You guys are a million times stronger than me, you're gonna accidentally kill me!" "Ana, I didn't mean to…" "NO, leave me alone!" I cried, running out of the room. I ran out of the lounges and into the bathroom and just huddled up in a stall. "I don't want to fight them!" I cried. "I can't, they'll beat me to hell and back!" I was feeling every emotion I ever had in that very moment, and was too scared to even move. "Hey!" I heard someone say. "Are you good there?" I slowly creaked the stall open, and there was a pretty, teal haired girl there. "Who are you? I asked through my streams of tears. "I'm Sky." She replied. "You know, one of the other contestants." "Leave me alone!" I cried. "I can't do this, everyone's gonna beat me up!" I curled up into a ball. "I'm not going to do that to you." Sky replied. "Hell, even if I did get paired up against you, I'd probably just surrender after seeing you like this." "Stop lying to me!" I countered. "You'd just take advantage of a weakened opponent." "That's what Haruka would do." She laughed. "Personally, I'd much rather have a closer fight." I stopped crying. "But I'm likely going to have to fight one of my friends." I muttered. "They're probably going to take it easy on you." Sky explained. "I wouldn't try to beat the hell out of my friends." "But you're not one of my friends." I sighed. "Ana, look. They aren't going to beat you badly if you're not fighting back." She said, "Even if you do, you'd probably have a bloody nose at the worst." I barely felt any better. "They aren't like that though." I replied. "They only do all out or not at all." "How do you know?" Sky asked. I shrugged. "They never let up against bad guys." "Because they're bad guys!" "They didn't hold back in Thieves vs Coppers." "It's a tournament." I felt defeated. "I'll just surrender if I go up against them." I sighed. "No, you're going to fight!" Sky complained. "Because I'm pretty sure none of them would let you forget if you did." "I guess." I replied, getting up. "Thanks." I gave her a hug. "No problem!" She giggled. "Good luck!"

I didn't go back to the lounge, I just went to Sky's place and we talked until the brackets started. Apparently, she's an Elementalist, whatever that means. "I have an idea!" Sky said. "Why don't we find out the best possible outcomes of the brackets?" "That's a good idea." I replied. Sky took out a notebook and paper. "So, we know 3 bad outcomes, which is either Emma, Christie or Lucy." Sky said. "And Calamitas." I added. "And Haruka cause we pissed her off during the Hot Potayto. And maybe not you, because you'd kick my ass." "Okay." Sky said, surprised. "That leaves us with Brigitta, Gabe, Fernande, and Detlef." "Never heard of any of them." I said. "Well, I just know their classes." Sky explained. "Brigitta is an Assassin class, Gabe is a Fighter, Fernande is a Thief, and Detlef is a Bonfire." "Never heard of any of those classes before." I laughed. "An Assassin is someone who specializes in sneaky backstabs and AOE." Sky said. "Fighters don't use weapons, thieves are fast as hell and have a lot of thief stuff, and bonfires are, well, fire." "Well considering how a lot of the times I end up doing bad is because someone grows a brain, grabs my whip, and Scorpions me over to them." I said. "So, idk, maybe it'd be the best if I went against someone who was mainly ranged, so maybe that thief guy or the bonfire guy." "So the first round would somewhat look like this as the best possible layout." Sky noted, showing me her notebook. "It's not in 1v1 fashion, it's actually 11 matches and whoever has the most points wins." The first round she put as the best for me, was Brigitta vs me. "Are you sure that's the best match!" I exclaimed. "Yeah, you completely outrange her if you step back 10 meters." Sky replied. "But what's stopping her from tipping forward 10 meters?" "Then step back again." "But what if I hit the wall?" "Didn't you teleport behind Bohuslav during the first round."

"I did?" "You are one very interesting individual."

"THE MATCHES IN 5 MINUTES!!!!! GET TO THE ARENA!!!!" The announcer screamed. "I'm going to fry his ass if he screams again!" Sky complained. We left her lounge and went on into the arena. I didn't know why, but seeing the flashing lights and the other contestants, including Lucy Christie and Emma, made me very scared. "I can't do this." I thought, shivering. "Calm down Ana." Sky said. "You'll be fine." She was very reassuring, but that didn't make me any less scared. "WE'RE GONNA DO THIS TOURNAMENT ROUND ROBIN STYLE!" The announcer explained. "EACH CONTESTANT WILL FIGHT IN 11 MATCHES, AND IF THEY WIN, THEY GET A POINT! WHOEVER HAS THE MOST POINTS AT THE END WINS!" "See, I told you you won't have to worry." Sky said. I was shaking even more. "That means I'll have to fight everyone!" I muttered. "We only came here to speak with Calamitas, and now it seems like I'm gonna get killed by the strongest mage Terraria has ever seen!" BANG! I fell over. "You okay?" I heard Gabe ask. "Ana, you okay?" I pulled myself back up. "Come on, you're my first match and you're already out here fainting!" He laughed. "Huh?" I questioned. I looked into the center of the arena and saw how the brackets were already made, and sure enough, Gabe was my first opponent. "I guess so." I replied. "Man, I'm so pumped!" Gabe cheered. "I came here to fight with strong people, and I'm already meeting one of those legendary heroes!" I didn't know what to say. "I'm fourth in the first round." I thought. "That's good, I'll be able to better understand how everyone else fights." The first match was between Berthold and Lucy. The people not in went up to the stands. "Hey, what's going on Ana!" I heard someone shout. I looked and it was Melody. "Melody!" I exclaimed, dumbfounded. "Yeah, it's me, I was going to compete, but I didn't." She replied. "You're really casual with this talking to someone who's supposed to be your mortal enemy." "Eh, you're a lot cooler and cuter than the others." "I guess." "Oh my GAWD, you know Melody Anushka!" Sky exclaimed. "I'm such a big fan!" She was roughly shaking Melody's hand. "Hey, calm down, we don't want an uproar happening!" Melody complained. "Whoah, Melody!" Gabe said. Melody forcefully shut his mouth. "Shh, the fans, remember, and this is about the people competing, not me!" Gabe frowned, but shut up. BAM! The popgun that symbolized the start went off. WHOOSH! Lucy cast up a Nimbus Cloud. PEW! Berthold shot a fireball up at it. "Damn, he's also a Bonfire?" I questioned. "I forgot he was even competing!" Sky replied. "Wouldn't really blame you, he's quite a stickler for staying secretive." Gabe explained. PEW! PEW! PEW! Lucy opened fire with her Sky Fracture. Berthold jumped over and; WHOOSH! Made it start raining flames. WHOOSH! Lucy flapped her wings up and blew all the flames away. CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! She launched over frostflame bolts at him. "What's the goal here?" I asked. "There's a box that they have to stay in." Gabe explained, pointing at the white lines drawn on the arena floor. "They step out, they lose, they tap out, and if you're down for 5 seconds without being held down by the opponent you lose." From what I could tell, it seemed like Lucy was going all out to knock him out of the arena. PEW! Berthold jumped into the ground. Lucy looked around frantically for him, before flying up into the air. BOOM! Berthold jumped out of the ground and grabbed Lucy by her leg, yanking her to the ground. WHOOSH! Lucy caught herself with her wings. BANG! Berthold hit the ground hard. WHOOSH! He engulfed his body in flames. FLAP! FLAP! FLAP! Lucy was desperately fanning him out with her wings, but was only making it worse. BOOM! Berthold shot a big blast of fire at her. PEW! PEW! Lucy quickly acted up 2 nimbus clouds. WHOOSH! The fireblast went out. WHOOOSH! Berthold himself went out. "Lucy's probably gonna an ass play like she did against me." Melody groaned. SPLASH! Lucy sprayed Berthold with a Water Bolt right out of the box. "LUCY NEBULA WINS HER M…." The announcer couldn't finish, because: "BLEUGH!" Berthold just started puking all over the floor. "What the hell!" Gabe questioned. "BLEUGH!" "BLEUGH!" Fernande and Detlef also started puking. "OH SHIT, LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE'S CATCHING THAT VIRUS!" The announcer said. "Shit, I think I'm about to puke!" Gabe groaned. "BLEUGH!" So now, the only people puking were the men competing. "Someone really hates men." I thought.

The tournament final round was being postponed until the next day, so Sky and I had some time to prepare. I still hadn't spoken with Lucy, Emma, or Christie, since I ran off before. "You really should go talk to them." Sky said. "But… I just ran off randomly, and it wouldn't be good to just come back from nowhere." I replied. Sky rolled her eyes and then changed the subject. "I saw what the matches are now, so they look like this." She showed me the database with all of the matches. I was very unlucky, and the first match for me was against Calamitas, and my second round was against Haruka. "Wha… I… uh, but, no way!" I exclaimed. "NO! I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die!" "Ana, calm down, you're not going to die." Sky said, hugging me. "Okay." I replied.

It turned the next day, and I sat atop the arena, watching the people come in the stands. "Are you watching the sunrise?" Someone asked. I turned around, and it was Calamitas. "Don't kill me!" I exclaimed. "Why would I kill you?" She asked. "You are spineless." She sat down next to me. "Look, you can see the contestants coming out to the arena." She said, pointing. I just remembered why we came here. "Macy sent us to you." I explained. "Of course." She groaned. "I would meet her, but Yharim would probably torture me." She showed me her scars all over her arms and back. "From his sword." She sighed. "Why would you still work with him!" I exclaimed. "There's no benefit!" "He said he would revive my family." She replied. "That's a very sketchy deal." I countered. "CONTESTANTS PLEASE HEAD TO THE ARENA!" The announcer yelled. "We can just jump!" Calamitas said, jumping down into the arena. I was kinda scared, but I jumped down after her. BANG! I landed on my feet, completely fine. "Whoa, where'd you come from?" Sky questioned. "The sky." I replied. "ANA!" Emma shouted, running towards me. "Where have you been?" "Mentally preparing myself." I replied. "Well come one then, let's get to the stand, it's Lucy's first match!" She said, pulling me with her. "Sky, aren't you coming?" I asked. "It's my match!" She replied. Emma pulled me up to the stands. "You had to pull me like that?" I asked. "Yep!" She laughed. "So, who do you thinks gonna win?" "We're being completely honest, I'm gonna say that it's Sky." I replied. "She's been training with me, and we know what to do against everyone." "I'm going with Lucy." Emma laughed. "I have no idea what this Sky's deal is, so I'm just gonna go with the one I know." BAM The popgun went off. WHOOSH! Sky froze the entire battlefield. BANG! Lucy slipped and fell, while Sky was just skating around. "That's a dumb move, Lucy can still fly." Emma muttered. "Why don't you take a closer look at Lucy." I replied. Emma took a look, and saw how Lucy's wings were frozen together. "I told you, we discussed how to beat everyone in a somewhat easy manner." I explained. "Lucy's wings are always soaked with pixie dust, so Sky would just freeze up the pixie dust as well." "Smart." Emma acknowledged. PEW! PEW! PEW! Lucy was missing all of her shots due to not having stable footing. "But don't our Terraspark Boots act like Ice Skates?" Emma asked. "Yeah, but Lucy never really wears them, so Sky's taking advantage of that." Calamitas said, sitting next to us. "Where'd you come from?" Emma exclaimed. "Shush, I'm watching." She countered. Lucy had just managed to stand up and: WHOOSH! Put her hands to her wings and melted the ice, flying up into the air. CRASH! Sky struck her down with a bolt of lightning. BAM! She landed outside of the battlefield. "LOOK AT THAT, SKY BANKS THE FIRST POINT OF THE TOURNAMENT!" The announcer yelled. "I did not expect that." Emma muttered. "THE NEXT MATCH IS BETWEEN EMMA AND BRIGITTA!" The announcer screamed. "Wish me luck." She laughed, going down to the battlefield. Lucy flew up to the stands. "My ears are still ringing from that lighting." She groaned. "Hey Ana, how'd I do?" Sky giggled, running over to me. "Exactly like how we rehearsed." I replied. "Really Ana, you told her about my Pixie Dust?" Lucy complained. "I would've won otherwise!" "Well you lost." Sky laughed. "I didn't lose!" Lucy countered. "I merely failed to win!" "That's what losing is!" I said. "Come on look, it's Emma's match." "So, who do you think is gonna win?" Sky asked. "Emma." Lucy replied. Brigitta specialized in stealthy strikes, which is hard in such an open area against a Warrior." "That is true, but there is nothing stopping Brigitta from disappearing right in front of Emma's face." Calamitas explained. "Although, there is the chance of her just fighting head on, which she is not bad at, though it is not as good as her stealth

strikes, ergo, Emma is in the advantage, though it won't be an easy sweep." "I forgot you were even there!" I laughed. BAM! The popgun went off. Neither of them made any moves however, kinda just circling around the battlefield, waiting for either one to make the first move. "Hmm, that's awfully cautious of Emma." Lucy said. "Usually she'd go all out right at the start." BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Emma was banging on her shield and saying something, I couldn't hear over the crowd. "Let's get down lower, I'm tryna hear what they're saying." Sky said. We got up and went down practically right next to the battlefield. "Come on you coward!" Emma spat. "Do something!" Brigitta didn't say anything, merely twirling around her knife. "Awfully boring!" Lucy complained. "Nothing's really happen…" SHKT! Extremely fast, Brigitta slashed at Emma, but she blocked it. BAM! Emma bashed her across the head with her shield. Brigitta jumped back and: SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! Threw dozens of Shuriken at Emma. BONG! BONG! BONG! Emma blocked them all. "There we go!" She snickered. She ran at Brigitta. WHOOSH! She disappeared when Emma slashed at her. BAM! She reappeared and kicked her in the back of the head. BANG! Emma fell to the ground. BONG! BONG! BONG! Emma blocked the barrage of shuriken she threw at her. "She's going to pressure Emma out of the battlefield like Sky did to Lucy." Calamitas explained. "Everytime Emma blocks a barrage, she slides slightly back. It's not much in actual action, but here, it could result in her leaving the bounds of the battlefield." BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! Emma kept blocking all of Brigitta's shuriken and sliding back. "Emma isn't that good at combating this much pressure." I mumbled. Then, a smirk grew on Emma's face. "How about this!" Emma yelled. WHOOSH! She launched a huge shockwave of energy at Brigitta and knocked her out of the battlefield. "WITH ONE SINGLE ATTACK, EMMA TAKES THE GAME!" The announcer yelled. "What was that?" I questioned. Emma came running into the stands. "So, how'd I do?" She laughed. "I don't know what you did!" Sky replied. "Asgard's Valor." Emma said. "It gives me a pretty powerful dash attack." "Pretty powerful, you launched her halfway across the arena!" Lucy exclaimed. "The next match is Christie vs Haruka." The announcer said, chiller than usual. "Speaking of Christie, where is she?" I asked. They all shrugged. Christie went onto the battlefield exactly adjacent to Haruka. BAM! The popgun person didn't hesitate to fire instantly. Ratatatatatatata! Christie just opened fire while running the opposite direction. Haruka just stepped to the side. WHOOSH! She threw a dagger at Christie. Christie jumped out of the way. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! She shot a bunch of hand blast things at Haruka. "What the heck is that?" I questioned. "I'm not sure." Sky replied. "Never seen someone do that before." WHOOSH! Haruka threw another knife at Christie. She dodged out of the way. BAM! She kicked Haruka with a savage kick in the face. "Nice, spot on!" Emma cheered. "Feel like this is going to go downhill." Lucy mumbled. SHKT! Christie dodged Haruka's stab, and jumped back. "Daedalus Stormbow time!" Christie laughed, firing her Daedalus Stormbow. Haruka, once again, just stepped out of the way. "Pathetic." Haruka muttered. "What'd you call me!" Christie shouted. PEW! BAM! Haruka teleported right in front of her and gave her a spicy punch to the stomach. BANG! She hit the ground hard. "I'm not done yet!" She shouted. "Christie, look below you." Haruka snickered. Christie looked down and saw how she was out of the line. "Fuck!" She spat. "OOH! LOOK AT THAT! HARUKA TAKES HOME THIS POINT!" The announcer yelled. "Shut the fuck up before I blast you to oblivion!" Christie complained. She came into the stands with us. "Stupid ass cold-blood." She mumbled. "THE FINAL MATCH FOR THE FIRST ROUND IS ANASTASIA vs CALAMITAS!" The announcer shouted. "Whelp, here I go dying." I muttered. "You're not dying!" Sky complained. I made my way to the arena, and could practically hear my heart pounding. Calamitas looked so big, even from like 50 meters away. BAM! The popgun went off. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I summoned up my Sanguine Bats. 'Aim for her back, it's where her scars are' is what Sky told me to do, so that's exactly what I was planning. CREAK! I summoned up a Flameburst Tower, although it's not much of a tower, considering that it's half my height. Calamitas was just watching me closely. 'She never makes the first move when she doesn't know the power of someone' Sky had also said, so I was abusing this. "I've got this, I think!" I told myself. "You're gonna win, and get to rub it in everyone's face!" PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! Calamitas shot a massive barrage of

Brimstone Hell Blasts at me. I dodged past them. CRACK! I swang my whip at her. She teleported behind me. "Don't take it too personally." She whispered. BOOM! She hit me with a Gigablast. WHOOSH! My Sanguine Bats caught me before I fell out of the battlefield. "I just need 1 hit!" I thought. "One whip smack and then it's easier!" CRACK! I swang at her again. She caught it in her hand. She yanked me towards her. I let go and rolled between her legs. BAM! I smacked her with my tail. She didn't even flinch. BANG! She grabbed my tail. "What to do with this." She muttered. She just poked it and it started burning like hell. "LET GO LET GO!" I yelled. "That bothers you?" Calamitas questioned, squeezing my tail harder. "STOP!" I cried. "LET ME GO!" "No, this is much more entertaining." Calamitas snickered. She squeezed it even tighter. "Is this even legal!" Emma yelled. "Call off the match or something, announcer!" "I can't, that's completely legal!" The announcer replied. "Let! Me! GO!" I yelled. SMACK! I grabbed my whip and cracked Calamitas across the face. She dropped me. BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! My bats were now gnawing the hell out of her flesh. "Very interesting." She muttered. WHOOSH! She engulfed herself in brimstone flames and destroyed all of my bats. "How the hell!" I exclaimed. "Let's end this already!" Calamitas said. CRACK! I wrapped my whip around her legs. "How about this!" I shouted. BANG! I yanked her off her feet and out of the battlefield. "WOW! ANASTASIA SOMEHOW WON THAT ONE!" The announcer yelled. I quickly ran off over to the others. "You're not dead!" Christie laughed. "Give me a second, let me check!" She rubbed her hands on my cheeks. "No way, you're alive!" She joked. "Hahaha." I said sarcastically.

The next few matches were very uneventful. The first was Calamitas vs Lucy; which Lucy lost. The second was Christie vs Brigitta, which Christie also lost. The third was Emma vs Sky, which Sky surrendered like 1 minute in. Finally, the last match of the round was me vs Haruka. "You're not gonna die." Sky told me. I was very scared about this match. "Remember, go for her snout." "Why are you helping her and not us!" Lucy groaned. "I'd probably wouldn't smell like dirt if I knew how to fight Calamitas." "But see, you aren't mentally shattered." Sky countered. "Because someone wasn't talking about beating you up!" She glared at Christie. "Anyways, good luck." I went onto the battlefield, and was physically shaking. Haruka threw a dagger right in front of my feet. There was a note attached to it. "I'm taking it easy on you, cause I pity you." It read. BAM! The popgun went off. "I yield!" I shouted. The crowd was speechless. "What are you doing!" Haruka growled teleporting to me. "This note!" I complained, throwing it at her. "I won't accept it! I don't need, nor want your pity!" "What I'm doing is so you can last until the end of the tournament!" Haruka countered. "Then I don't accept." I spat. "You either go all out, or don't at all." "Fine then." Haruka said, walking away. "It seems like Anastasia is forfeiting the match!" The announcer said. "Anastasia, you might want to stay on the field, because the next match is Anastasia vs Christie." My heart dropped again. Christie came onto the battlefield. "I'm not losing to you Ana." I couldn't think of anything to say back. BAM! The popgun went off. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! Christie started shooting her hand pulse things. "Protect me!" I told my Sanguine Bats. They got up and made a shield. BONG! BONG! BONG! All her shots bounced off. WHOOSH! She teleported behind me. BANG! I blocked her kick with my tail. SHKT! She shot my tail with her Marrow. SHKT! I ripped the arrow out of it. BANG! I somersaulted back and kicked her in the face. "Why don't you stand still!" Christie spat. I didn't reply. "Say something!" WHOOSH! She dashed right up to me. BOOM! I dodged out of the way of her big hand blast thing. "Now! I yelled. BOOM! A Caustic Dragon I summoned pulled up a bit of the ground. "Sorry about this!" I said. BAM! BOOM! I kicked Christie into the torn up piece of ground, shattering it. "That was a solid hit!" I thought. "Maybe she'll end up coming out or something." The crowd went extremely quiet. I felt my own weight pulling me down to the ground. "I'm. Not. LOSING!" KABOOM! There was a massive shockwave that knocked me back. My Ice Clasper caught me. "What the hell is going on!" I exclaimed. The dust settled, and I could finally see Christie. Her hair was all up, dark as hell blue, and she was surrounded by some aura. "I'M NOT LOSING TO YOU OF ALL PEOPLE ANA!" She screamed. "YOU'RE NOT GOING TO WIN!" My heart was pounding right out of my tail. "Chill Christie, calm down!" I shouted. "IT'S TOO LATE FOR

THAT!" She snarled. BOOM! She dashed over and nailed me right in the stomach. WHOOSH! My Ice Clasper caught me. CRACK! I slapped her with my whip. It just bounced off. "No way!" I exclaimed. BOOM! I dodged out of the way of her hand blast thing. "What do I do!" I thought. SHKT! Christie shot my tail and pinned me to the ground. SHKT! I ripped the arrow out again. "I sur…." BANG! Christie grabbed me by the neck. "You don't get to tap out." She spat. BOOM! She threw me halfway across the arena into a wall. "I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, BUT CHRISTIE WINS THIS MATCH!" WHOOSH! Christie turned back to normal. "What happened?" She questioned. SMACK! Lucy ran over and slapped her in the face. "What happened is that you almost killed Ana!" She complained. Emma came over to me and pulled me out the wall. "You alright?" She asked. I struggled and nodded. "Good." She laughed. "What are you guys talking about, I blacked out then I'm here!" Christie pleaded. "No!" Lucy countered. "You went all pissed or whatever and beat Ana to a bloody pulp!" Emma took me to the stands and sat me up. I couldn't move, or see, or hear, or feel, or smell, or anything. I just felt blank. Emma gave me a Greater Healing Potion. WHOOSH!

Emma POV

Ana fell into a deep sleep. Christie came over and was being chewed out by Lucy. "Why would you even do that to her!" She shouted. "I said I'm sorry, I lost control!" Christie countered. "I'm not who you should be apologizing to!" Lucy spat, pointing at Ana. She was still bleeding out. "I'm not sure how to stop the bleeding!" I exclaimed. "Why would you do this Christie!" "I lost control!" Christie replied. "I couldn't stop!" "That isn't believable in the slightest!" Sky countered. "WE'RE! Gonna break until Anastasia recovers, she looks pretty beat up." The announcer said. I picked up Ana and put her on my back. "Let's get back to the lounge." I said, carrying Ana back. Once we got there, I rested her down on her bed. "I've got the bleeding to stop." I muttered. "She'll be out for a few hours." "And once she does, you're going to apologize!" Lucy shouted at Christie. "Not like I wasn't planning on it." Christie mumbled. "Hey guys, is Ana going okay?" Sky asked, coming into the lounge. "She's alive." I replied. "Might be a few hours until she comes around though." "That's good news." Sky laughed. She sat next to Ana and brushed her hair out of her eyes. "I'm gonna go get some air." I said, walking out of the room. The others waved me off. I went out and climbed up a tree. "Christie needs a chill pill." I thought. "Did she not in the slightest recognize Ana? This makes my head hurt!" CRACKLE! CRACKLE! CRACKLE! I felt someone tapping on the tree. "Hey, stop that!" I complained, jumping down from the tree. It was Haruka that was doing it. "Why would you do that!" I groaned. "I need to talk to you about something." She replied. "Come to my lounge, I'll make tea."

BLUB! BLUB! BLUB! BLUB! Haruka was boiling water in a tea kettle. "It's Darjeeling Tea." She said, putting a tea bag in and handing me a mug. "What did you want me for?" "There's something odd about you 4." "Ah yes, the observer." "I'm being serious, there is something unnatural about all 4 of you." "Like?" "Christie went absolutely berserk out there, and anytime someone insults Ana, she goes all horror movie antagonist and teleports behind them after dealing some hefty blow." "Well thank you for telling us something we already know about!" "I'm not doing it for your sake, I'm telling you this because you guys are dangerous. If you guys can't control this stuff, who's going to look up to you against Cthulhu?" "..." "Exactly what I thought. Just control this, and you'll do the whole world a favor."

I gave her back her tea cup. "We'll do the world a favor in defeating Cthulhu." I spat. "I don't need a cold-blood to tell me what to do." I walked out and went back to our place. Ana was already okay, and was trying to land a bottle flip. "Sky went out to tell the announcer that he can unpause." Ana said. "Me being a siren lets me heal myself by sleeping." "Then why don't you just sleep when you're injured during fights?" I asked. "Because I'm not an idiot." Ana replied. "The others are already in the stands, and your next match is against Calamitas. Might want to head on out." "I guess." I said. Ana and I went out to the main arena and I went into the battlefield. "We've been waiting forever for you Emma!" The announcer groaned. "Man, shutcho bitch ass up!" I countered. "Call the damn match!" BAM! The popgun went off. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! I deflected all of Calamitas' hellblasts. "Why do people just spam projectiles!" I groaned. "Asgard's Valor, do something." WHOOSH! I dashed right up to her, whipped out my yoyo and: BANG! Calamitas caught it in her hand. WHOOSH! I dashed back a bit. "Impressive." she muttered. "You almost landed a hit on me. To be honest, Anastasia was much tougher than you." I frowned. "She's the one Christie practically beat in one hit." I countered. "If I was remotely trying right now, ya'd be halfway across the arena." "Do it then." Calamitas teased. "I don't like to be bored." SHING! I unsheathed my True Night's Edge. PEW! PEW! PEW! I shot a ton of projectiles at her. She dodged under all of them. BOOM! She launched a huge Gigablast at me. WHOOSH! I just barely managed to evade it. BOOM! It exploded into smaller Helldarts. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! I deflected them all away. Except I turned away from Calamitas and left my back unguarded. BOOM! She hit me with a hella strong Hellblast. BANG! I almost fell right out of the battlefield. "One more blast and you're out." Calamitas snickered. "Here's the thing though." I replied. "Come 'ere bitch!" WHOOSH! I yanked the Chain Guillotine's I wrapped around her legs and pulled her over. BANG! I threw her over me and out of the battlefield. "EMMA WINS THIS MATCH!" The announcer screamed. "LET'S SPEED THIS THING UP ALREADY! NEXT IS HARUKA AND SKY!" I really quickly ran back into the stands. "I told you those Chain Guillotines would be useful for something!" Lucy laughed. "I never said they wouldn't have." I replied.

We're just going to skip the boring matches for now. Sky actually managed to beat Haruka, and then Lucy beat Brigitta. Next round, Ana beat Brigitta without breaking a sweat, and Christie and Sky tied. I was really dreading what was about to happen, because next it was me vs Lucy. "Alright, don't bust up her wings." I muttered. BAM! The popgun went off. WHOOSH! I dashed right up to her. "Sweep at the legs and knock her out." I thought. WHOOSH! She jumped over my leg sweep and was just flying over me. "What's wrong darling, can't touch me!" She teased. "Damn, you're a bitch!" I complained. I wasn't even going to try attacking her; she was way too high. "Fine, I'll do it myself." She groaned. PEW! PEW! PEW! She made it rain small meteors with her Meteor Staff. I then had a really horribly stupid idea. BANG! I caught one of the meteors in my hand. "Batter up!" I laughed, throwing it at her. BAM! It slammed into one of her wings and she fell to the ground. PEW! She RODed behind me. "That hurt you dick." She complained. "That sucks." I replied. SHING! I launched my Chain Guillotines back at her. SHKT! It wrapped around her Crystal Vile Staff. PEW! She shot it up to the sky. "Did the air piss you off or something?" I laughed. "Look up." Lucy sighed. WHOOSH! BANG! A Nimbus Staff Cloud smacked into me from the sky. I rolled backwards. "Emma, you stepped out of bounds." The announcer said. I looked down, and saw how I passed the line. "Well shit!" I muttered. PEW! Lucy teleported over to me. "You fell for the easiest trick in the book!" She giggled. "I don't often come across that trick." I mumbled. "Come on, back to the stands." We went back up, and were very intrigued about the next match. "It's Haruka vs Calamitas." Christie said. "My money's on Calamitas, sure she has a lower win to lose ratio, but something makes me think she's gonna win." "Except the fact that she lost to Ana." I replied. "What are you saying!" Ana complained. "You have the lowest defense and possibly the biggest coward in the world, yet you beat Calamitas, supposedly the strongest Mage in the world." I explained. "There, I said it." Ana frowned. "Why you bully me?" She whined. "Lucy, what about you?" Christie questioned. Lucy shrugged. "I'm not really sure." She

replied. "Sorta busy with something." "Hello there, Lucy!" Melody snickered, walking over to us. "I've noticed how you've been doing the worst out of everyone in the tournament!" "If you really were, you'd know that Brigitta is doing worse" Lucy spat. "Why are you even here?" "Stella told me to come here in case you'd show some hidden power that you guys have." She explained. "But all I've seen is that you guys will be pushovers to destroy!" I was weirded out by how she was explaining how she wanted to destroy us, in the most crowded place in the world right now. "See you Lucy!" Melody teased, walking off. BAM! The popgun went off. WHOOOOSH! Calamitas engulfed herself in Brimstone Flames. Except now she was staying like this. "DAAAYUM it's hot in here." I groaned. "I'm taking my shirt off." I took it off, and Ana was just staring at my abs. "Don't look at me, watch the match." I told her. "All that isn't necessary." Haruka said. "I concede the match." Literally the whole arena was bummed out. "Really Haruka, that would've been the sickest battle ever!" Christie mumbled. Calamitas also looked bummed. "I'm not going to be able to use this for a month now!" She complained. "Ain't my fault." Haruka replied, walking off. "GET OFF!" The announcer shouted. "Come on mate, we don't whant your boring ass here right now, next match is Emma vs Christie!" I didn't like how this was going, but Christie and I went onto the battlefield. "Wait wait wait!" I exclaimed at the popgun guy. "The match is over when someone is knocked out, alright?" "Hey! Don't I have to agree to that!?" Christie exclaimed. "Then agree to it!" I countered. "F-fine, whatever, we'll do that." She mumbled. BAM! The popgun went off. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! Christie started firing her Daedrius Stormbow into the air and made it rain Holy Arrows all around me. WHOOSH! I dashed right through the barrage of arrows. PEW! She teleported off away from me. "Catch!" She shouted, throwing a grenade towards me. I rolled out of the way. BOOM! Dust flew up into the air. "Totally wasn't just about to die!" I thought. SHKING! I wrapped my Chain Guillotines around Christie's arm. "Come 'ere bitch!" I shouted, yanking her over to me. WHOOSH! She slid through my legs. BAM! She flipped me over her and slammed me to the ground. "Ayo, get this off my arm." She muttered. SHING! I brought my chains back to me. PEW! Christie teleported away from me. "Why does everyone except me get to teleport." I groaned. I wrapped my Yinyang yoyo around my hands. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! Christie started shooting her hand blast things at me. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! I reflected them back to her. WHOOSH! She reflected back. BAM! It knocked me down to the ground. PEW! WHOOSH! She started charging something up on her hand. "Why don't I feel like moving!" I thought. "Shit!" "STREAM STREAK!" She shouted. POP! She broke a tiny pebble on the ground. "You missed." I laughed. PEW! CHOP!

Sky POV

Christie carried Emma back into the stands. "What was the point of that!" I questioned. "I destroyed the world!" Christie replied. Lucy burst out laughing. "Gotta remember that for Cthulhu!" She laughed. "Yep, completely terrify him, then pop a pebble." Christie giggled. "NEXT MATCH IS LUCY VS HARUKA." The announcer yelled. "Good luck!" Ana told Lucy. "Though I doubt that Haruka will actually be able to beat you." "I've been sleeping on this." Lucy muttered. "I'm totally gonna win, cause I've got plot armor!" I was confused by what she meant by 'plot armor', but it was probably nothing. She went down to the battlefield along with Haruka. BAM! The popgun went off. WHOOSH! Haruka threw a dozen daggers at Lucy and; PEW! Teleported behind her. CLANG! Lucy blocked her slash with her Sky Fracture. WHOOSH! She rolled out of the way of Haruka's daggers. PEW! PEW! PEW! She shot at Haruka but she dodged past. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! She cast cursed flames all around her. PEW! Haruka teleported at her again. CLANG! Lucy blocked her once more. BANG! She slapped her away with her wings. WHOOSH! Lucy cast up a Cursed Flame wall. SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! Haruka threw her daggers to put the flames out. But Lucy was nowhere to be seen. Haruka looked around, confused. BAM! Lucy appeared out of thin air and struck Haruka in the jaw with a somersault. SPLASH! Lucy sprayed the ground with water and pushed Haruka out of the Battlefield. "EASILY THE CLEANEST FIGHT OF THE TOURNAMENT!" The announcer boomed. "Lucy won

without breaking a sweat!" "Damn, has Lucy been paying this much attention the whole time!" Christie exclaimed. "I guess so!" I thought. "It's incredible how much she's innovated since our match! I'd like to fight her again some other time, maybe outside of this tournament system." "NEXT IS BRIGITTA AND CALAMITAS!" The announcer shouted. This match, Calamitas surrendered, saying how she felt pity for Brigitta sucking ass during this. And now, it was Ana vs me. "Don't hurt her too badly!" Christie told Ana. I frowned at this. "She's gotten a lot more confident since the bathroom." I muttered. "But that doesn't mean this won't be a cakewalk." "Good luck!" Ana laughed from across the battlefield. I didn't say anything. "As much as I like you Ana, I'm not losing this tournament for you." I said. "Christie and Emma have already cost me 2 points, I can't lose anymore." BAM! The popgun went off. BOOM! I smashed the ground and split the battlefield in half. Ana had jumped to the left side of the split. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! She summoned up a bunch of Sanguine Bats. "45 meters!" I thought. "That's our distance." CREAK! I started freezing up the battlefield. CRACK! CRACK! Ana cracked her Firecracker Whip at the ice and melted it. WHOOSH! I shot a blast of fire at her. She jumps over to the right half of the battlefield. "Come over here you coward!" She shouted. "You're boring me!" I didn't think Ana had it in her to talk shit. BOOM! I tore up a chunk of the ground and threw it at her. BAM! She jumped out of the way and it shattered onto the wall. WHOOSH! I shot another blast of fire at her. CRACK! Ana cracked her whip and absorbed it into it. "What's wrong, you're holding up the deal you made yesterday!" Ana mocked. "I don't need your pity, come and fight me!" I was very surprised at her sudden confidence boost over the course of this tournament. "Come on Sky, try me!" I smirked. "Fine then!" I snickered. PEW! I teleported over to her. BOOM! I hit her with a point plank fire blast. CREAK! She landed like 5 meters away. CRACK! She managed to hit my leg with her Whip. BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! Her Sanguine Bats went all off on me. WHOOSH! I blasted all of them away. BZAP! I shot a bolt of lightning at Ana. She just barely managed to evade it. BANG! She nailed me with an Axe Kick to the head. BANG! I slammed into the ground. "I can't lose now!" I thought. CREAK! I froze up the ground. BANG! Ana slipped and fell to the ground. "I'm sorry about this!" I told her, charging up a blast of lightning. "You don't need to." Ana replied. SHKT! She grabbed me by the neck. She whipped me around and; BOOM! Slammed me down to the ground. "I won't let Ana beat me!" I thought. "There's no way this coward can beat me! I c-can't. I won't l-l-lose…" BAM!

Lucy POV

Ana had somehow beaten Sky, and frankly all of us were surprised. "Yeah, that's my girl!" Emma cheered. "When did you wake up?" I questioned. "Before Ana's match!" Emma replied. The next 2 matches were uneventful. Haruka beat Brigitta and Sky beat Calamitas. And the next match now was. Christie vs me. I was oddly psyched. "I won't beat you too badly!" Christie laughed. "I was just about to say that to you!" I replied. "Bet!" She snickered. BAM! The popgun went off. "Wait, it's starting already!" I thought. WHOOSH! I cast a cursed flame wall. "Dammit, I never got any planning time!" I muttered. PEW! Christie teleported next to me. "Hello there!" She laughed. CLANG! I blocked her punch, but it still managed to knock me back a bit. "That shit was gonna kill me!" I exclaimed. "Well you blocked it." Christie replied. CLANG! I blocked her next punch, and actually managed to push her back. SHKT! She shot an arrow into my wing, pinning me to the ground. SHKT! I tore it out. PEW! I blasted Christie back away. SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! She started firing her Daedalus Stormbow. WHOOSH! I cast my Cursed Flame Wall above me and burnt up all of the arrows. PEW! I deflected back one of Christie Hand Blast thingies. BAM! I swept at her feet. PEW! She teleported above me. CLANG! I blocked her Axe Kick with my Sky Fracture. She jumped back and threw a grenade at me. BANG! I kicked it back to her. KABOOM! It exploded in the air. WHOOSH! I flapped the smoke back into Christie's face. PEW! Christie blew all of it away. BAM! I kicked her in the stomach and knocked her back. "Come on Christie,

you're making me want to take a nap!" I mocked. "Fine then!" Christie replied. "Imma do the transformation thing, it sucks if you lose an arm, or wing!" KAWHOOSH! Her massive aura thing pushed me back a bit, but I was still standing. "Get ready Lucy!" Christie laughed. "I feel like I shouldn't have done this." I thought. "I should not have done this." WHOOSH! PEW! I cast up a Cursed Flame Wall to block Christie's arrows. I jumped over it and; PEW! PEW! PEW! Shot my Sky Fracture at her. PING! She reflected the projectiles back to me. WHOOSH! I cast up my Cursed Flames and burnt them up. BANG! She blocked my kick with her Megashark. BAM! BAM! BAM! I flipped over her bullets. SHKT! She grabbed my neck. PEW! I teleported behind her. BANG! I kicked her in the back. PEW! BAM! She struck me with one of her Hand Blast thingies. I caught myself on my wings. "Whoa, you last longer than Ana." Christie exclaimed. "Not cool Christie, not cool." I groaned. "By the way, consider doing me a favor and look up." BAM! BAM! BAM! The nimbus cloud pushed Christie out of the battlefield. "LUCY WINS THIS MATCH!" The announcer shouted. Christie pulled herself up and turned back to normal. "That was sick as hell!" She laughed. "Same!" I cheered. We went back into the stands. "You guys seem way too calm." Sky groaned.

Ana POV

"THE NEXT MATCH IS ANA VS EMMA!" The announcer shouted. PEW! Emma teleported into the battlefield, and I slowly trotted down. "Play my distance, and don't move too close." I muttered when I arrived. "And if I have to get hit, avoid her mouth." I looked up at the sky. The moon was just now rising. "And finish this before night; it's a full moon out." I added. BAM! The popgun went off. WHOOSH! I summoned up my Blade minions. SHKT! Emma ran straight up to me and slashed at me with her claws. I just barely dodged. CRACK! I smacked her tail with my whip. SMASH! She crushed the blades in her hand. "Shit." I thought. BAM! She hit me across the face with her Yelets. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! I summoned up 2 Caustic Dragons. "Not straight on." I muttered. CRACK! I smacked Emma's tail again. "Literally anywhere except my tail dammit!" She complained. SMASH! She crushed the Caustic Dragons in her hand. "Minions don't work." I thought. CRACK! I slapped Emma's tail, once more. "Next time you do that, I'm finna do something bad!" Emma spat. CRACK! I slapped her tail, again again again. SHKT! She grabbed onto my whip. "Come 'ere bitch!" She spat, yanking me towards her. BANG! I flipped and smacked her with my tail, in the mouth. CHOMP! She bit my tail. "Don't scream, don't scream, don't scream!" I thought. "It's all rubbery!" Emma mumbled. BAM! I kicked Emma off of me. "Emma never bites people!" I thought. I looked up at the sky and saw how the moon was up. "Not good." I mumbled. "Ana, get away!" Emma screamed, holding her head. BANG! She fell over. "Can I call off the match!" I exclaimed. "Sorry can't, it's the last 2 rounds." The announcer replied. "Isn't really my fault if you die." I was dumbfounded. I was also terrified, because; WHOOSH! Emma was going full on Werewolf now. Like, on all fours, snout, all furry. "God help me!" I shouted. SHKT! I dodged past her slash at me. WHOOSH! I summoned up my Sanguine Bats. "Don't hurt her, just get her out of the…." BAAM! She rammed into me and launched me across the battlefield. "My chest!" I struggled, pulling myself up. SHKT! My Bats flew in front of me, blocking Emma's slice at me. She wasn't saying anything, just growling and barking. "Emma." I muttered, just staring at her. My bats pulled themselves up and slowly pushed Emma out of the battlefield. "ANA…" "Shut up." I spat at the announcer. Emma was still agro as hell. "Calm down." I told her, walking slowly towards her. SHKT! She bit into my arm, but I didn't care. "Don't worry Emma." I whispered, muscling through the pain. I put my hand on her head. "Everythings gonna be just fine." I reassured her, scratching her ears. She seemed to really like this, panting like crazy and wagging her tail. "Come on, let's go into the stands." We went into them, and the others were extremely surprised. "That's Emma!" Sky exclaimed. I nodded. "She's a

werewolf, did we not tell you this?" She shook her head. "Doggy!" Christie giggled, petting her. "Cute doggy!" "Let's hope Emma doesn't remember this." Lucy sighed. WHOOSH! The moon suddenly set and it was day again. WHOOSH! Emma turned back to normal. "What'd I miss!" She laughed. Christie was still petting her. "Uh!" She muttered, realizing Emma was back to normal. "Where's the doggy!" "Dammit, it was a full moon out!" Emma groaned. "I hate when this happens!" I didn't care though. I was squeezing her tight. "You're okay!" I giggled. Emma hugged me back.

Lucy POV

It was the final round of the tournament. First off, Christie just barely beat Calamitas. Then, Sky wiped the floor with Brigitta. Then Haruka didn't bother fighting Emma and just surrendered. Now it was the final match of the tournament, me vs Ana. I didn't know why they even bothered running the other 3 games, because no matter how they went, either Ana or I was going to win. "This is the one match Ana was dreading the most." I thought to myself. "I wonder how Ana is feeling about this right now." Ana looked completely fine, hell even with a big ass grin on her face. "Good luck Lucy!" She laughed. "To you too." I replied, on edge. "There's no reason she is this calm, somethings up." BAM! The popgun went off. I just stood there though. "Gonna let her make the first move." I thought. "Maybe I should set up my Nimbus Cloud or something." WHOOSH! I cast the Nimbus Cloud up in the air. I was slowly growing impatient waiting for Ana. PEW! PEW! PEW! I shot at her with my Sky Fracture. WHOOSH! She just disappeared. "Where'd she go!" I exclaimed, looking all around. BAM! She appeared from thin air and kicked me in the jaw with a somersault. PEW! I launched her back from me. WHOOSH! I cast a bunch of Cursed Flames at her. WHOOSH! Her Firecracker Whip absorbed it all. CRACK! I jumped over her whip crack. SHKT! I threw my Sky Fracture and pinned her whip to the ground. CLANG! She blocked my slam with my Meteor Staff. KABOOM! One of her Sanguine Bats destroyed the sneaky meteor I shot. BAM! It rammed me back. SKHHHHT! I dug my feet into the ground and slid back a bit. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I shot at her with my Venom Staff. WHOOSH! Ana slid under all of the shots. CRACK! She wrapped her Durendal around my leg and; BAM! Slammed me down to the ground. PEW! I shot my Venom Staff and made Ana release it from me. "Look up…" CRACK! Ana destroyed the Nimbus Cloud above her. "Not falling for it." She spat. CRACK! CLANG! I blocked her whip smack with my Venom Staff. PEW! PEW! PEW! I shot at her again. WHOOSH! Her Caustic Dragon absorbed it all. BANG! It slammed into me and pushed me back a little. BAM! I smacked it with my staff and it flew back. "She's really tough!" I thought. BAM! An Ice Clasper flew up behind me and slammed me over to Ana. SHKT! She grabbed me by the neck. "Who's the loser now!" She snickered. BOOM! She slammed me down into the ground out of the battlefield. "LUCY'S OUT OF THE BATTLEFIELD! ANASTASIA WINS THE MATCH!" The announcer screamed. I struggled and pulled myself out. "Damn, how did Ana get so strong?" I muttered. "WE'RE NOW GONNA BREAK TO TALLY UP THE POINTS!" The announcer shouted.

"I beat all three of you!" Ana laughed. "Technically I beat you." Christie replied. "Remember the whole, throwing you an inordinate amount of times." We were waiting in our lounge for the results to come in. "I told you that you weren't going to die." Sky said. Ana's eyes widened. "OH!" She shouted. "We came here to get Calamitas to join us!" I just remembered. BAM! BAM! BAM! Someone knocked on the door. "Come in!" Emma replied. It was Calamitas. "That was impressive Ana." She said, sitting on a cushion "I did not know that you had that in you." Ana frowned. "Only my friends call me Ana!" She pouted. "Fine, 'Anastasia'. You did good. But that is beside the point; I heard that you 4 came here to join you." "That's right." I replied. "We need to know where Yharim got his power from. And how to beat him."

Kenji POV

Melody walked into the Base. "What'd you find from the pit?" Stella asked. "They're a lot stronger than we last saw." Melody replied. "Their weapons are weaker than ours, but we have to worry about their ingenuity." "What do you mean?" I questioned. "They fight best under pressure, and invent new ways to use weapons." Melody explained. "That's the least of our worries." Leslie acknowledged, walking into the room. "Draedon wants us to go to the Corruption." "Ugh, I hate that place!" Melody groaned. "That Eater of Worlds was threatening Ensamble, so they sent me to kill it. It smells there and it's just gross." "What does he want us to do there?" I asked. "Wants us to find out if killing the Hive Mind will contain the Corruption." Leslie responded. "It's closing into the Jungle, and Yharim doesn't want to rule Terraria from a corrupted Jungle." "Fair enough." Stella acknowledged. "We'll set out for the Corruption as soon as possible."

We took our Unicorns there, which was really fun. I'd never ridden one before, but it was much faster than simply walking. Once we reached the Corruption, I realized just how correct Melody was. It was an ugly purple color with fangs sprinkling the ground and rotten trees everywhere with an ugly purple tint. "We gotta contain this." Melody moaned, getting off of her Unicorn. "Yep, by killing a Hive Mind." Lelsey replied. "But we're good at killing things." We walked around the Corruption, looking for this Hive Mind, and found nothing. Nothing other than rotten corpses and dead everything. "There!" Leslie shouted, pointing at a strange cyst. It was bulging and had rotten blood and flesh all over it. "That's probably it." Stella noted. "Let's get into tactical positions, in case this thing puts up a fight." Stella got some high ground atop a hill, while Leslie and Melody got some cover behind some boulders. "Alright, setting the charges." I said, putting the bombs down and running up to Stella. KABOOM! The cyst was destroyed. "Hold it!" Stella shouted, waiting for the smoke to clear. BOOM! A giant brain-like hive tore through the ground. "That's it! The Hive Mind" I shouted. BZAP! I struck it with a giant bolt of lightning. ROAR! A bunch of Eater of Souls erupted from it. HONK! Melody destroyed them all with her Primes Roar. POOF! The Hive Mind summoned a load of Hive Blobs. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! They started shooting fireballs everywhere. "Leslie, get in and destroy those!" Melody shouted. "I need cover!" Leslie replied. PEW! I summoned a Guardian Statue next to him. "Thanks!" SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! He ran in and sliced up all of the Blobs. SHKT! He stabbed into the Hive Mind. BAM! It summoned 2 Dank Creepers and they rammed him back. HONK! Melody blasted them back. "The Creepers are summoned when it gets hit!" Stella shouted. "And the Blobs spawn Shade Nimbus' when killed!" "What do we do!" Leslie questioned, fending off the Dank Creepers. "Focus all our efforts on the Hive Mind!" Stella replied. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! She threw a bunch of Plaguenades at the Hive Mind. ROOOAAAR! It tore itself out of the ground and started flying. "It's flying, we need better positions!" Stella told me. We jumped down from the hill and faced the Hive MInd face on. ROOOAAAR! WHOOSH! It disappeared. "Where'd it go!" I exclaimed. Leslie and Melody ran over to us. "It's gonna come from any direction, watch your back!" Leslie shouted. ROOOAAAR! WHOOSH! It appeared above us and summoned a bunch of Shade Nimbus' above us. "Throwing Technique, Absolute Zero!" Stella yelled. CRACK! The Hive Mind and the Shade Nimbus' froze in place. "Kenji, do your thing." Stella snickered. "Gladly!" I replied. WHOOOSH! BOOM! I struck them with a giant bolt of light, destroying all of them. "It's done!" I noted. "The Corruption isn't going away though!" Melody groaned. "I thought this was supposed to destroy it." "It'll take time I bet." Leslie noted, sheathing his scythe. "Let's get back to Draedon, tell him the good news."

BAM! BAM! BAM! Stella knocked on Draedon's door. "We did it, the Hive Mind is destroyed." She said. "Come in." Draedon replied. We went in, and were surprised by all the machinery and tinkering stuff that was around the place. "Well, this is my workshop." He said. "Usually only The Tyrant comes in here, but you 4 are, special." "Here's the thing though." Leslie explained. "The Hive Mind's death didn't cause The Corruption to stop." "A shame." Draedon muttered. "Draedon!

Celestial Villains, I require your attention!" Yharim shouted. We went up to his Throne Room. "What is it, My Lord?" Draedon asked. "I've learned that there is a Legend named Sean for the Forest Biome." Yharim explained. "He's taking the appearance as a member of the Guide's Guild. I need you guys to kill him." He showed us a photo of him. Melody's eyes widened. "I remember seeing Lucy with him once in Pondshade." "Then you should be quite familiar with him." Yharim noted. "And Draedon, it would cause quite a scene if you were to break out the Exo-Mechs, so please don't." Draedon nodded. "It will be done, My Lord." He said.

"Pondshade." Stella muttered. "Isn't it that small town right next to Ensamble." Melody kept squirming in the carriage. "What's up with you?" I questioned. "I can't wait to make things worse for Lucy!" She giggled. "Calm down." Draedon replied. "We're here to eliminate the Legend of the Forest Biome, not to fulfill your personal bias." "I know." Melody sighed. "But Draedon, what was Yharim talking about by your Exo-Mechs?" "They are my creations I wanted you guys to test." Draedon explained. I had completely forgotten about our agreement. "When would we need to test them out?" I questioned. "You 4 would need Auric Tesla gear to survive them." He replied. I didn't know why this freaked me out a bit. Auric Tesla was said to be forged by literal gods, and these guys just had some lying around. "We've arrived at Pondshade." The driver said. "Try not to destroy the whole place." "We won't!" Leslie laughed, getting out the cart. We all got out, and the driver drove off. "Sean's hiding out here somewhere." Stella explained. "We should fan out and search for him." "I'll stay right here." Draedon said, sitting by the gates. "I've got a certain machine that will help with this trial. He took out some strange remote. "It will take me some time, you 4 go do what you were going to do." We agreed on it, and spread out into the town. I went down into the secret resistance base that I heard about from Melody. Apparently this place started executing any non-terrarians after Lucy killed the Eye of Cthulhu, but I didn't really care. Numerous people noticed me and ran into their homes, shutting their doors. "Heh, I guess they know who I am." I snickered. "News travels fast." "Kenji!" Someone shouted. I turned around. It was some average looking guy, holding a Pearlwood Bow. "Look, I don't need to waste my time with nobodies." I spat. "The name's Sean, I'm that Legend you were looking for!" He countered. "I told everyone to lock themselves in their homes, in case you Celestial Villains decided to show your devious mugs." WHOOSH! I powered up my Terra Stave. "All who oppose the Lord shall be punished!" I spat. BOOM! I shot a huge beam at him. SHKT! He shot an arrow that absorbed it. "What kind of bow is that!" I thought. I stepped away from the arrow. It seemed like any old wooden arrow. SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! He started shooting more arrows that I easily evaded. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I shot my Terra Stave at him. WHOOSH! He shot an arrow and knocked it out of my hand. WHOOSH! SHKT! He shot another arrow and pinned my hand to the ground. "Man, that was like, absurdly easy." He muttered. SHKT! A scythe cut through his chest. "Mate, you just died to the healer!" Leslie laughed. BAM! Sean fell to the ground, dead. "That was much more underwhelming than I expected." Stella sighed. "Come on, I was supposed to kill him!" Melody complained. "You can take the credit." Draedon replied.

"Excellent work." Yharim said. "I honestly didn't think he would be that easy for you guys to kill." "My Lord, if I may interject." Draedon said. "I've read deeper into the prophecy concerning these four, and the Day of Reckoning is approaching rapidly, 2 and a half months to be specific." "Hmm, true." Yharim muttered. "They still are in no way strong enough to defeat their rivals." "Hey, we've grown plenty strong!" I complained. "I know, though I worry you aren't strong enough to defeat them." Yharim replied. He then lookecd like a lightbulb flashed above his head. "What if we send them to an alternate world?" He suggested. "Draedon, you have been working on that machine, have you not?" "Yeah, it's how we first banished Macy." Draedon replied. "Celestial Villains, pack your things." Yharim said. "We'll send you to another world!"

"Hot damn Melody, I expected you to have a lot more than that!" I exclaimed. Stella, Leslie and I

had decently sized trunks, but Melody only had a backpack. "I don't need most of the stuff I have at home!" Melody laughed. "I really only need 3 pairs of clothes and some instruments!" We went back to Draedon's lab, where he had a huge door-like portal set up. "This is going to take you to an alternate reality with only you guys and monsters." He explained. "Here's a list of everything you should do when you get over there. And here, you might need these chainsaws, drills, and jackhammers." He handed us Chlorophyte Tools. "Physical labor!" Melody groaned. "These are the most automatic tools we're going to get, Melody." Stella sighed. Draedon gave Stella the list of things to do. "It's an empty world, but you should find it to your liking; no one will be able to stop you from growing stronger." He explained. "Bet." Leslie laughed. "So, uh, who's going first?" "I'll go." Melody said. "I'm sorta like the co-leader." "No one's objecting." I replied. WHOOOSH! Melody stepped in and disappeared. "Oh, it's not that hard!" I thought. WHOOSH! I ran inside.

WHOOOSH! BAM! I appeared in the new world and slammed right into Melody. "OW!" She groaned, pushing me off of her. "Move move move!" I shouted, pushing her out the way. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! Stella and Leslie stepped out of the portal. "Whoa, it's so empty!" Leslie exclaimed, looking around. He was right. Other than trees and green slimes, there wasn't anything really around. Stella pulled out the list that Draedon gave her. "First thing it says here is to build a base." She said. "Do any of you guys know how to use a chainsaw?" We shook our heads. "Well shit." She groaned, inspecting the chainsaw. "I think I remember my father using one of these before." I muttered, taking the chainsaw. "You just go over to a tree, then pull this cord and…." VRMM! The chainsaw roared to life. "Perfect!" I laughed, cutting down a tree. "You guys follow?" "Yeah!" Leslie replied, turning on his chainsaw. "Uh, I don't want to slice up my stomach." Melody sighed. "Don't worry, we'll just go grab some gel for torches." Stella replied, taking Melody with her. "We'll be back in like an hour!"

We spent the rest of the day working at building ourselves a base, and once it just about turned nighttime, we finished. It wasn't too fancy, 2 bedrooms, a kitchen, and a meeting room, but it kept the monsters out at night. The roof was covered in a thin layer of living leaf, and it had a stone slab foundation, with bamboo pillars around inside. Okay, maybe it was sorta fancy, but we wanted a good place to stay. "It's perfect!" Leslie laughed. "Our very own base away from base!" "That was the most childish thing you've said so far." Melody replied. Stella took a look at the list. "Next, we need to kill Golem in the Jungle Temple?" She questioned. "Isn't that where Yharim has his castle?" "Maybe, this world came before any Terrarians stepped foot in Terraria." I suggested. "That means we're the first Terrarians in the world!" Melody laughed. "We just casually made history!" "I'm, not a Terrarian." I said. "Me neither." Stella added. "Same." Leslie replied. "Wait, I know you're a Uarion, Stella, but what are you 2?" Melody questioned. "I'm an Angel." Lesley explained. "Not a biblically accurate one though." "I'm an Oni." I replied. "I'm not in my actual form though, kinda embarrassed by it." "Not gonna force you to do anything you're uncomfortable with." Stella noted. "So I alone made history!" Melody laughed. "Good for you!" I sighed. "Anyways, in the morning, let's make our way towards the jungle."

The beds weren't even that good. They were made of grass, and felt just straight up uncomfortable. "Hey, good morning!" Melody laughed. "I slept like a baby!" "How did you do that? These are uncomfortable as hell!" Stella groaned. "Because you made me super warm." Melody said. Stella blushed. "Bro, I think they shared a bed." Leslie said. "Bro, I think they did." I replied. "Broooo." We both muttered. "Anyways, let's make our way over to the Jungle Temple."

Lucy POV

OIARK! Duke Fishron emerged from the depths of the ocean. "What was that noise!" Emma laughed. OIARK! BAM! Duke Fishron rammed into Emma. SPLASH! She landed inside of the

ocean. "Maybe we should do something!" Ana shouted, summoning up her Terra Wizards. SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! Christie got in a few popshots at Duke Fishron. WHOOSH! She dove down to grab Emma. Ana grabbed onto my back and I took flight. "Damn, that Spooky Armor makes you very heavy!" I groaned. "Less talking, more blasting!" Ana countered. CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! She smacked it with her Dark Harvest. CLAP! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! I made it rain Spectre Shots from the sky. SPLASH! Christie pulled Emma out of the ocean. "You smell like a wet dog!" Christie groaned. OIARK! POP! POP! POP! POP! Duke Fishron blasted Detonating Bubbles at me. WHOOSH! I swerved up and around them. "Lucy! Slow down!" Ana cried, gripping onto me for dear life. "You're a Siren, you'd just fall into the ocean!" I replied. BOOM! A Sharknado erupted from the sea and knocked Ana and I to the beach. "Cover me Christie!" Emma shouted. Rattattattattattattattattattat! Christie shot Duke Fishron with her Megalodon. "I don't like the look it's giving me!" She shouted. SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! Emma jumped up and sliced at Duke Fishron with her Terra Blade. OIARK! BAM! SPLASH! It rammed into Emma and she fell into the water again. PEW! BOOM! PEW! BOOM! I shot at Duke Fishron with my Inferno Fork. WHOOSH! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! Sharkrons flew out of a Sharknado. CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! Ana killed all of the Sharkrons. SHKT! BOOM! Emma threw a Scourge of the Corruptor through Duke Fishron, killing it. "Anyone want some Duke Kabobs?" She laughed, catching the javelin. SPLASH! The corpse fell right into the ocean, floating up to the surface. "Loot!" Christie shouted, snatching a bow out of the corpse. "I could shoot 5 arrows out of this!" She laughed. "Couldn't any bow do that?" I replied. "Not like this!" Christie said, shooting 5 arrows at once. Emma yanked a flail out of the corpse. "Eh, another one of the most useless weapons ever." She sighed, shrinking it and stashing it. Ana found a strange staff lying on the beach. "Whoa, a new weapon. Finally!" She said, swinging it around. WHOOSH! She summoned a mini sharknado. "SHARK!" I screamed, blasting the sharknado. Ana burst out laughing. "You're scared of a tiny baby shark?" She giggled. "I gotta remember that for later!" "Never speak of this again!" I spat. I pulled a Spell Tome and a gun from the ocean. "Magic Gun!" I exclaimed. "Hey Christie, you're not the only one who gets guns!" "Yeah, but I'm the one with the actual aim!" She replied. "Oof Lucy, everyone's getting onto you!" Emma laughed. "You guys are such bullies!" I whined.

We went down to hell to fight another monster. "I've got the lens." Ana said, pulling out a purple mirror. She gazed into it and: WHOOSH! A purple thing with tentacles and fiery wings erupted from it. Ratatatatatatatatatatatatat! Christie opened fire on it. SPLASH! Lava splashed near us from the lava ocean. "So he's from the fire nation!" I sighed, throwing everyone an Obsidian Skin potion. "Man, Coznix a bitch!" Emma groaned, unsheathing her Terra Blade. SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! She started slicing at him. BAM! Coznix rammed into Emma and knocked her into a ruined house. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! Ana summoned 3 Sharknados and: CRACK! Sicked them onto Coznix, shooting sharks at him. POP! POP! POP! POP! POP! I shot my Bubble Gun at him. PEW! BOOM! He shot a massive beam at us. We jumped out of the way into a ruined house. "Emma, now's the time to maybe get his attention!" Christie complained. Emma jumped up and banged on her shield. "Over here you big ol' orc!" She yelled, running deeper into hell. PEW! PEW! PEW! Coznix shot dozens of lasers towords Emma. "How about a taste of this!" Christie yelled, charging something up on her pointer and middle fingers. "STREAM STREAK!" KABOOM! She shot out a massive laser that pierced through Coznix, killing him instantly. BAM! The body fell on top of Emma. "I've been swallowed!" She laughed. BANG! She pushed it off of her. "Look at this spear!" She exclaimed, swinging around a fiery halberd. "It's like, hella cool!" "It's super shiny!" Ana replied. She grabbed a fiery staff. WHOOSH! She summoned a tiny Coznix. "It's a 'wittle baby Coznix!" She giggled. "I want to squeeze it!" I laughed. "It's so cute!" Christie added, picking up an orange gun. "I have a feeling this shoots fireballs." I grabbed a wand off the ground. BOOM! I shot a fireball at a wall that exploded. "Useful!" I muttered, shrinking it down. "Next stop is the jungle. I heard from Korrie that Yharim had weaponized Queen Bees into Plaguebringers. We're going to kill the strongest of them, The Plaguebringer Goliath."

We were sitting in a massive underground jungle cave, waiting for The Plaguebringer Goliath to fly this way. "The Day of Reckoning is tomorrow." Ana noted. "Are we ready for this?" "Hell yeah we are!" Christie laughed. "Cthulhu's got nothing on us!" "He's a Eldritch Cosmic Deity that could destroy the universe with one attack." I replied. "And he's about the size of the Moon. And he's got an entire army of Celestial Beings. And not even the Ancient Dryads could kill him. And plus theirs that Lunatic Cult that wants to restore him to his true power, which simply by existing could destroy us. What do we have?" "Courage!" Christie said." "Courage only gets you so far." I muttered. "Lucy, what's up, you seem depressed." Emma noted. "I'd much rather die to Cthulhu than Melody." I replied. "If we kill Cthulhu, we still have to fight the Celestial Villains, who are on the same tier as us. AKA, they too would be stronger than Cthulhu." "Well, we didn't do anything in particular to them, maybe they'll just leave us alone." Ana suggested. "After Christie got Kenji kicked out of the Church, I embarrassed Melody in front of the entirety of Ensamble, Ana drove Leslie's cousin insane, and Emma's a werewolf; Uarions are the natural enemy of Werewolves." I explained. "How have we not done anything to them?" "Hey, I'm the one who joined so late that the villains shouldn't hate me!" Emma exclaimed. "They probably don't care." Christie explained. "They're morally wicked. They aren't going to care when you join, they'll kill you like the rest of us." "Sorry, not used to bad guys like that." Emma muttered. "Fair enough." Ana sighed. "We are new to this, and now we're getting ready to fight a Cosmic Entity." "MISSON COMPLETE! RETURNING TO BASE!" A machine roared. "That's it, get ready you guys!" I shouted. PEW! BOOM! Christie shot the Plaguebringer Goliath down with her Obliterator and it crashed to the ground. PEW! PEW! PEW! Ana summoned up 2 baby Coznixs and a sharknado. "Let's get it!" Emma yelled, running at the Plaguebringer Goliath. PEW! BOOM! Plaguebringer Goliath shot a missle at her and knocked away. "Emma's more durable than a boulder!" I exclaimed. "PLAGUE NUKE BARRAGE ARMER, PREPARING FOR LAUNCH!!!" The Plaguebringer Goliath roared. WHOOSH! It flew up into the air. "Nuke Barrage!" Ana screamed. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! It shot a barrage of missiles at us. We jumped down to Emma and: KABOOOM! The missles completely destroyed the cliff we were on. "Smells like shit!" Emma groaned. SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! Plaguebringer Goliath shot a bunch of plague covered stingers at us. CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! Emma deflected them all back. "I love this shield!" She laughed. PEW! BOOM! I shot at it with my Pyroclast Staff. KABOOM! It flew into the top of the cave. SHTK! STHK! STHK! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! Christie loaded it up with as many Holy Arrows as possible from her Tsunami. WHOOSH! We dove out of the way of a charge. KABOOM! Something exploded and destroyed the Plaguebringer Goliath. "What happened?" Emma exclaimed, inspecting the corpse. "I put an Explosive Trap right there." Ana said, poking the trap. "That was oddly clever." Emma replied. The floor was covered in Infected Armor Plating. "It's a stronger Queen Bee, right?" I asked. "So since Yharim had to have strengthened the hide of Queen Bees, couldn't Ana use that plating to upgrade her Bee Armor." "Lucy, you're a genius!" Ana laughed, collecting up all of the plating. Emma scooped up a Yoyo and a Sword. "Finally, a new Yoyo!" She laughed, wrapping the string around her hand. Christie pulled a Rocket Launcher, a Bow, and Flamethrower from the body. Ana found a weird Remote Control and I pulled a Staff out of it. "Isn't it kinda dangerous to be this close to Yharim's base?" Ana asked, forging Plaguebringer Armor. "Nah, I doubt he really knows where we are." Christie laughed. "Besides, he probably sent the Celestial Villains to that other realm already, so they can't bother us now." She went over to the Mythril Anvil Ana put down and started making her own set of Armor. "So Lucy." Emma said. "You were the one who started the team, right?" I nodded. "Well, do you ever think Terraria will allow 4 traditionally evil monsters to protect them?" She asked. "They definitely will." I replied. "Once they see us kill Cthulhu, they'll completely forget about our species." "Hey Lucy!" Christie laughed, strapping a plague doctor mask on. "Doctor Christie is on the case!" I burst out laughing. "You can suck all the virus out of me!" I giggled. "Hey Emma, how does this look?" Ana mumbled. Emma looked like she had an Anime nosebleed. "Uh, Terraria to Emma!" I questioned. "Wake up Emma!"

The next day rolled around. We were staying in a hotel in Ensamble. I was woken up by the sounds of instruments playing and crowds cheering. "It's time." I thought. I threw on my Spectre Armor and went downstairs. The others were already downstairs, all armored up and ready. "Let's go." Christie said. We went outside and couldn't really get anywhere because of the floats everywhere. I could barely take in the view, flashing colours and a load of screaming. My ears weren't ringing that much though; guess the adventure made them less sensitive. We finally made it to the center of town, where Melody was there, throwing a concert. "Don't bother with her." Emma said. "She's not doing anything to us right now." We kept moving out of town and over to the dungeon. Right outside of it, there was a group of cultists holding a ritual to Cthulhu. "You there!" The lead cultist shouted, noticing us. "What are you doing here?!" "Waiting to kill Cthulhu." Ana replied. "Well you're too late, Celestial Heroes!" He cackled. "The ritual has already been completed; Cthulhu's army will destroy Terraria and everyone in it!" My heart dropped. "You know if you destroy Terraria, you'll also be destroyed." Christie laughed. "You just sealed your own fate!" The cultists all looked surprised. "Of course not you fool! Cthulhu will spare us for reviving him!" A cultist spat. WHOOSH! The sigil on the walls glowed to life. "Perfect, Cthulhu is rising!" The lead cultist laughed. "Not if I have anything to say about it!" Emma yelled, running at the sigil. PEW! BOOM! The lead cultist shot her back with a massive firewall. "It's a fight then!" Christie spat, whipping out her Tsunami. BOOM! The Lunatic Cultist flew up into the air and destroyed the dungeon. PEW! PEW! PEW! Ana summoned up a Plague Air Fighter. CRACK! She smacked him with her Dark Harvest. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Lightning erupted from the sky. PEW! BOOM! Emma deflected one back at the Lunatic Cultist. I took flight and picked up Ana. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I launched a bunch of Razorblade Typhoons at him. WHOOSH! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! He fired an Ice Rune at us. BAM! Emma jumped up and smacked him with her Pandemic Yoyo. WHOOSH! He disappeared. "Where'd he go!" Ana exclaimed. WHOSH! WHOSH! WHOOSH! He duplicated himself and started holding a ritual in the air. "Hit the real one!" Christie yelled. HISSSS! She shot her Blight Spewer at him. ROAR! BOOM! A cosmic dragon came out of thin air and struck Christie out of the air. CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! Ana kept swinging at the dragon. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I shot at the Lunatic Cultist with my Plague Staff. "Why won't this bastard die!" Emma yelled. WHOOSH! KABOOM! The sigil under the rubble shot a massive beam into the air. "Holy shit!" I screamed. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! 4 enormous pillar things flew across the sky around the world. "It has been completed!" The Lunatic Cultist laughed. "Cthulhu's army is he-" BOOM! A pink pillar landed on top of him completely destroying him. "Instant Karma?" Christie groaned, pulling herself up. SNKNKNKKKNKKT! Weird alien things started appearing all around us. WHOOSH! A shield surrounded the pillar. "This is part of Cthulhu's army!" I shouted. SHKT! A weird monster wrapped around my head. BAM! I fell out of the sky and to the ground. SHING! SHKT! Emma sliced the thing in half. "We gotta destroy that pillar, it's summoning the enemies!" She shouted. SHKT! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! CRACK! CRACK! WHOOSH! Ratatatattat! We were completely overwhelmed by the mass of enemies around us. "The other 3 surrounded Ensamble!" I yelled. "We gotta destroy this then get back there as fast as possible!" PEW! BOOM! The shield around the pillar disintegrated. "There! KILL THE PILLAR!" Ana yelled. SHKT! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! CRACK! CRACK! WHOOSH! Ratatatattat! KABOOOM! The pillar exploded into pieces, and all the enemies simultaneously blew up. All that was left was fragments and a weird altar thing. "Lucy!" Emma muttered, grabbing one of the fragments. "These look like your birthmark." I held one up to my birthmark, and she was right, they did look like them. "Try making stuff out of them on that altar!" Christie suggested. I flew around and scooped up all the fragments and the altar. "We don't have time, we have to save Ensamble!"

We raced back to Ensamble, and the whole place was in flames. Monsters were everywhere killing everyone in sight. "Alright, let's save the world!" Ana yelled, running over to the light blue pillar. Emma ran to the orange pillar and Christie went after the cyan pillar. I ran off to the concert hall to get people out of the ruins. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! WHOOSH! BOOM! I killed all of the aliens

around me. Some were humaniod and orange, others were giant worms. Some were giant orbs and others were just indescribable. "HELLO!" I yelled out. "IS ANYONE IN DANGER!" WHOOSH! I blasted a giant, flaming plank off of someone. "Thank you!" She said, running off. "She's gonna get killed." I thought, going deeper into the stage. I helped about a dozen people get out of the burning place before: KABOOM! KABOOOM! KABOOM! There were distant explosions in the distance. I looked out, and saw how the other 3 pillars were collapsing. I met up with the others in the center of the city. SMOOSH! SMOOSH! BOOM! SHKT! Without the pillars, all of the aliens exploded into gore. I felt a sharp pain in my forehead. "Watch him like, tear out of my head!" I groaned. "I doubt that!" Christie laughed. "Quick, throw down that altar, let's see if we can use these fragments." I placed down the altar, and felt like I knew this before. "I think I've seen this before." Ana muttered. "Like, somewhere, I think I know how to make stuff." "Same." The rest of us replied. "Doesn't matter if we know this already, just make whatever you've seen before." Emma complained. I made myself a Nebula Blaze (glove weapon) and a Nebula Arcaneum (big orb). Christie made a Vortex Beater (GUN) and a Phantasm (Bow). Emma made a Solar Eruption (flail) and a Daybreaker (javelin). Ana made a Stardust Dragon Staff and a Stardust Cell Staff. "So, what do we do with these?" I questioned, pointing to the other 4 fragment types. "Give them to the villains I guess." Christie sighed. "lUcY!" Something growled. "Shit, Dark Matter talking to us." I complained. "ChRiStIe!" "Well fuck." "aNaStAsIa!" "eMiLE!" "Who the hell is Emile?" Ana questioned. "It's me, before I changed gender." Emma replied. "I Am ThE MOOn LOrd, thE UnIvErsAL DEstrOyEr, COnqUEr Of REALms, GOd Of ThE WOrLd!" He roared. "ThIs wOrLd yOU cALL TErrArIA mAy hAvE hELd mE bAck fOr mILLEnnIA, bUt nOw yOU wILL mEEt yOUr End!" WHOOSH! BOOOM! He appeared from thin air, towering over everything. He was missing his spine, lower body, and some eyes, but he was still menacing. "I don't care if you're the God of Existence, you're going down!" I yelled. "Let's get this bastard!" "YOU mIdgEts dArE chALLEngE mE!" The Moon Lord boomed. "VEry wELL thEn, I wILL dEcOrAtE thE rEmAIns Of thIs wOrLd wIth yOUr cOrpsEs!" BOOM! He backhand slapped the 4 of us into a building. WHOOSH! PEW! BOOOM! A giant laser came out of his forehead eye, tearing through the streets. "MOVE!" Emma yelled, pushing us out the building. KABOOOM! The building was completely vaporized. "That was an opening attack!" Ana exclaimed. SPLAT! The Moon Lord's left hand eye opened up. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! Phantasmal Orbs flew out of it. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! They launched at us, which we avoided. SHKT! BOOM! BOOM! Emma threw her Daybreaker at the eye. PEW! PEW! It shot 2 smaller bolts at her and launched her back. SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! Christie let out an onslaught of Holy Arrows at it, raining starts from the sky. SPLAT The eye closed again. PEEEEW! The Moon Lord's forehead eye opened up and started charging energy. "It's doing the Deathray!" I shouted. We dove for cover and: KABOOOM! The laser ripped through the concert hall and main street, destroying everything. "Now! Hit the eye!" Ana yelled. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! She summoned up a Stardust Dragon. SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! SHKT! It went bonkers on The Moon Lord's head. SPLAT! The eye shut. SPLAT! SPLAT! Both eyes on his hands opened up. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! They unleashed a barrage of Phantasmal Bolts at us. CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! Emma blocked them all. "NOW! GET THE HANDS!" She yelled. We ran up and unleashed hell on the hands. KABOOOM! The left hand eye exploded. "WhAt A pEst yOU ArE!" The Moon Lord yelled at me. BAM! He grabbed me and: BOOM! Threw me into a building. "LUCY!" Christie screamed out. PEEEEEEEEW! He was charging up his forehead deathray. "Gotta move!" I thought, pulling myself up and racing down the stairs out of the building. KABOOOOOOM! It was completely vaporized. I looked back at The Moon Lord. His left hand now had a gaping mouth, and the core around his chest looked weaker. "We gotta destroy his eyes then destroy his core!" I yelled out. "That should maybe kill him!" "Easier said than done!" Emma spat. WHOOSH! BOOM! She lashed her Solar Eruption at the right eye. SPLAT The eye shut. WHOOSH! A cyan Eye of Cthulhu flew out of the gaping hole on his left hand. "That's another Eye of Cthulhu!" I exclaimed. PEEEEEW! It was charging up a deathray from it's eye. "WATCH OUT!" Emma yelled, readying her shield. BOOOM! WHOOSH! She managed to

deflect the deathray at The Moon Lord. KABOOOOM! He deflected it back at her, knocking her away. "EMMA!" I shouted. I couldn't see where she went. SPLAT! The right hand opened up. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! It launched Phantasmal Orbs everywhere. PEW! PEW! PEW! The True Eye of Cthulhu shot Phantasmal Bolts everywhere. CRACK! CRACK! KABOOOM! Ana destroyed the right eye. "You little punk!" The Moon Lord roared. WHOOSH! Another True Eye of Cthulhu erupted from the gaping hole. BOOM! It rammed into Ana, launching her into the ruins of a house. "She's not dead!" Christie shouted. "I can feel it, they aren't dead, and we just have that forehead to deal with!" PEW! WHOOSH! I shot a Nebula Sphere at The Moon Lord's forehead. KABOOOM! It exploded, destroying his eyelid. Rattatatatatatat! Christie opened fire with her Vortex Beater. KABOOOM! The eye exploded. WHOOSH! Another True Eye of Cthulhu erupted from it. BOOOM! The core on his chest emerged. "Perfect! Now all we have to do is-" PEEEEEW! KABOOOM! All three eyes focused a big deathray at Christie, blasting her deep into the ground. "CHRISTIE!" I cried. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I dodged past all of the Phantasmal Bolts. "You're all alone Lucy!" The Moon Lord cackled. "Face your death with some courage." He was right. I didn't even know if the others were even still alive. But it didn't matter. PEEEEEEEW! I charged up a big blast on my Nebula Blaze. "I'm a Slayer of Worlds!" I shouted. BOOOOOOOOOOM! I blasted a massive nebula blast at his core, completely frying him. KABOOOOM! He exploded and was engulfed in a giant beam. WHOOSH! His gore disappeared, and there was a shit ton of ore and weapons on the floor. Christie pulled herself out of the hole. "I made Calamari!" I laughed. Ana and Emma came out of the ruins of a building. "Damn Lucy, you fried that bastard!" Emma joked, lifting Ana onto her back. Our armor was completely totaled, but we didn't really care. "He dropped weapons and ore!" I acknowledged. Ana got off of Emma's back. "We did it!" She cheered. "We saved the universe!!" A crowd grew around us. "They did it!" "Thank you!" "Amazing!!" "P-people are proud of us!?" Christie muttered. "They're cheering for us?" "Come on, take it in!" I laughed. Emma went over and pushed the weapons and ore over to us. "Well, the city's messed up, but we can rebuild." She said. "Anyways, let's check out these weapons." She already took out 2 swords, one red with stars and one white and pink with a cat at the bottom, and a green Yoyo. "You really enjoy this weapon thing." Christie laughed. "Why? I'm a Werewolf, I only know how to fight, eat, hunt, and reproduce." Emma sighed. Christie took a Dolphin gun and a very flashy Rocket Launcher out of the pile. Ana grabbed 2 staffs, one like a sword, and one like a portal at the end of it, and a rainbow whip. And finally, I took up a weird Prism thing and a spell tome. "This ore, maybe we could combine them with the fragments to make armor." Christie suggested.

A few days passed since the Moon Lord's death. We were finally regarded as heroes and had a statue built for us in Hollyhead. "I think they exaggerated my breasts." Christie muttered, inspecting herself. "No, I think they're just as big as the real thing!" I laughed. Christie blushed. "Besides, you should be glad they've got a statue of you rather than a mugshot of you!" I said. "Fair enough." She replied. She looked very cool in her vortex armor, like an astronaut. I had a set of Nebula Armor on, which was just fancy purple robes with a hood. "Hey, Lucy." Someone said. I turned around. It was Melody and Kenji. "I completely forgot about you 2." I groaned. "We aren't fighting in the middle of a crowded city." "Really, I thought you were more of a risk taker." Melody laughed. "But no, I just wanted to tell you that we're fighting in Terraria Field. And a ton of Terraria will be there to watch it." "Bet!" Christie said. "What's the time?" "Today in 5 hours." Kenji replied. "And we have weapons from The Moon Lord also!" "How'd you do that?" I asked. "We went to a whole other world and killed our own Moon Lord." Melody explained. "He dropped similar things to The Moon Lord, including fragments for our classes." They walked off. "Oh right, and if you don't come, we'll kill every single person who shows up." Kenji laughed. "Well, I guess we don't really have a choice." I sighed. "You're acting like it's a surprise that they would do this." Christie replied. "We'll get the other 2 and bring them with us."

We arrived at Terraria Field, where the villains were there waiting for us. "I almost thought you

weren't coming!" Leslie laughed in a full set of Celestial armor. Stella was in a set of Empyrean armor, Kenji in Creation Druid armor, and Melody in Shooting Star Armor. Well, none of them nor us were wearing helmets, probably because they weigh like a million pounds! There was a massive crowd farther off into the field. "You're incredibly dangerous together, so we're doing this 1v1 style." Stella explained, flipping a disk around. "If you don't agree to this, I guess we can let the bloodshed begin!" "NO, we agree!" Emma urged. "Alright then, Melody, choose who you're going against." Stella said. "I'm finally getting my revenge against you Lucy!" Melody laughed. The others walked back. Emma, Ana, and Christie followed suit. "Heheh, finally!" Melody snickered. "We get it, you want to kill me." I groaned. "Well good, because I can't wait to kick your spoiled ass!" She took out her Sound Sage's Lament. WHOOSH! I powered up my Nebula Blaze. Nenenenenenenennene! She opened fire on me. WHOOSH! I jumped out of the way. PEW! PEW! PEW! I shot some blasts at her. TWANG! She struck her Shooting Star Blast-Guitar and destroyed them. I went in and: CLANG! She blocked my punch with her microphone. "You're still carrying that piece of junk!" I spat. "This microphone is made of pure Luminite!" She laughed. "So it AMPLIFIES MY VOICE MORE!" BAM! I fell back. I completely forgot she loved screaming at me. And my ears weren't used to this at all. "What's wrong? I'M TOO MUCH FOR YOU TO HANDLE!?" WHOOSH! The shockwave launched me back. WHOOSH! I shot a Nebula Orb from my Nebula Arcaneum. Melody stepped out of the way. TWANG! TWANG! She kept striking her Blast-Guitar, leaving me unable to attack her back. "Come on Lucy, I expected a harder fight!" She giggled. I threw my hand out. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! I dropped a bunch of Lunar Flares from the sky. Melody dodged them all. I ran in and: BAM! Landed a punch in her stomach. She jumped up and over me then: BANG! Landed an axe kick on my head. BAM! I hit the ground hard. NENE! She destroyed the Nimbus Cloud above her. "You aren't getting me with that cheap trick again." She spat. I jumped back up. "Dammit, she's learned what I can do!" I thought. "And I have no idea what she's capable of! Shit!" WHOOSH! I cast up a wall of cursed flames. "Wait for her to come around and…" She jumped around from the side. BOOM! I blasted her away with my Nebula Blaze. WHOOSH! I shot a Nebula Orb at her. TWANG! She struck her Blast-Guitar and deflected the orb. "It's so slow that it's useless." I groaned. SHK! SHK! SHK! SHK! SHK! She started shaking a Green Tambourine. WHOOSH! She threw it at me. I sidestepped out of the way. SHK! SHK! SHK! SHK! She clapped and somehow shook the Tambourine. BAM! I got knocked into a tree. TWANG! WHOOSH! I dodged her blast from her Blast-Guitar. PEW! PEW! PEW! I blasted at her with my Nebula Blaze. WHOOSH! She dodged them. "Pretty good Lucy!" She laughed. BAM! I punched her down to the ground. "God, your voice is so annoying." I groaned. BAM! She jumped up and kicked me back. "You know, no one knows that you're a villain here!" I spat. "And it's best that it stays that way." Melody snickered. "NO! It's best if you show everyone who you are, you bastard!" I yelled. Melody just giggled. "Fine then!" She laughed. SHKT! She tore the ribbons off of her Pigtails. WHOOOSH! Her hair was shaded with a bit of red, horns grew out her forehead, and spiky wings emerged on her back. One of her eyes turned all demonic. "I AM a demon!" She snarled. "AND, I've been behind every single misfortune that's ever happened to you!" "I don't follow." I muttered. "Let me explain." Melody snickered. "EVERY SINGLE BAD THING THAT'S EVER HAPPENED TO YOU, WAS ME! EVERYTHING! The bounty hunters on your doorstep, you getting chased out of Atlantis, Calamitas and Haruka being in the Pit, every cut, scrape, gash, ALL OF THAT WAS ME!" I didn't really understand this, but I did know one thing; Melody's a bitch. "I even PERSONALLY killed your parents!" My heart dropped. "You did what!" I shouted. "I was the one who went into your house and killed them!" Melody explained. "Us demons are given someone to torment for all of eternity at birth, and you're mine!" "You're the one who murdered my parents?" I growled. "You're the one who left me orphaned for years. You're the one who made everyone in Pondshade hate me! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO HAD ME WANTED BY THE ENTIRE WORLD!" PEEW! I charged up my Nebula Blaze. "FUCK YOU MELODY! FUCK YOU!" BOOM! I shot a massive blast at her. WHOOSH! She dodged out of the way. HONK! PEW! I deflected a shot from her Prime's Roar. BANG! She blocked my axe kick. WHOOSH! I jumped over her punch and: PEW! BOOM! Blasted her into the ground. She jumped

up and: NENE! WHOOSH! I dodged past her Sound Sage's Lament. I dropped down in front of her and: BAM! BOOOM! Punched her in the stomach with my Nebula Blaze, then blasted her. WHOOSH! She turned back to normal. BAM! She fell on top of me. "I killed her!" I thought. "I'm finally free of this bitch!" I picked her up and leaned her against a tree. "This is all your fault, you know." I said. "If you didn't confront me on that stage, we wouldn't be in this situation right now."

Christie POV

Lucy was sitting over Melody's body. "Alright alright!" Kenji groaned. Get over here Christie, I'm up next." "Kenji wait!" Stella shouted. She whispered something into his ear. "Fine." Kenji replied, sorta upset. The 2 of us stepped up. BANG! Kenji jabbed his Creation Stave in the ground. "We'll see how you like it when you lose something dear to you!" He growled. "In this case-" WHOOSH! He transformed into an Oni. He had red skin, white hair, and was like a foot taller. "YOUR LIFE!" He boomed. CLICK! I loaded up my Vortex Beater. "I wish I had a stick too!" I replied. PEW! WHOOSH! I dodged out the way of his giant beam. Ratatatattataat! I opened fire on him. All the bullets bounced off of him. "So he's bullet proof." I thought. WHOOSH! I rolled under his slash at me with his claws. BAM! I punched him in the stomach, throwing him back. He growled at me with some strange language. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! Stars rained from the sky. "STREAM STREAK!" I shouted. KABOOM! I destroyed all of the stars. BOOM! He blasted me back with his Stave. "Alright, so anytime he does that growling thing, shit falls from the sky." I thought. "Who's this guy again?" CLANG! I blocked his claw strike with my Vortex Beater. BAM! I shot his foot. It bounced off again. "Please use your brain. I'm bulletproof!" Kenji snickered. BANG! He slammed his Stave over my head. WHOOSH! I rolled back. The sun was now coming up. "Dammit, I need my parasol!" I shouted. "I can't be out in the daytime!" "I forgot where that's my problem!" Kenji spat. "I should've splashed you with Holy Water back by the Church." "Not the time for should've's!" I countered. I pulled out my Phantasm. "I should've done this from the start." I thought, aiming straight at his eyes. SHKT! I shot an arrow right through his eye, killing him. "Nothing but aim." I muttered.

Anastasia POV

It's funny how we've just universally agreed that Lucy was defending the 'casualties'. I find it stupid that the others actually think that we're killing them. Seriously, we can't kill them, Onis, Angels, Uarions, and Demons are unkillable by normal weapons. They only wounded them to a knockout. I'm pretty sure the villains, Emma, and I understood this. "So." Leslie said, stepping up. "What are you gonna do with us if you guys beat us all?" "Lock you up in Atlantis." I replied. "You guys don't deserve death, rather far worse than it. Seriously, have you seen an Atlantis prison before?" I took out my Terraprisma and Kaleidoscope. "I've beaten a Healer before, what's one more!" I snarled. "Yeah, but that Healer wasn't an Angel." Leslie countered. "Nothing personal. I just want a nice, good fight!" "Yeah, until you remember you sent your psychotic cousin to kill me!" I spat. "This is personal." WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! I summoned up my Light Swords. CLANG! I blocked his slice from his Terrarium Scythe. CRACK! I managed to hit his leg with my whip. CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! He blocked all of the Light Swords' slashes. BAM! I blocked a sneaky kick from him and: BANG! Tripped him up with my tail. CLANG! He blocked my whip smack and: BAM! Kicked me over him to the ground. I pulled myself up. "Nice and easy." I told myself. CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! I blocked all of his slashes and: SPLASH! He tried grabbing my tail, but his hand slipped right off. BAM! I smacked him across the face with my tail. CLANG! I blocked his slash at my tail and: CLANG! Blocked a stab at my chest. BANG! I pushed him back with my tail. "You're really good with that tail of yours." Leslie snickered. "I've been training it this entire adventure specifically for stuff like this." I countered. PEW! WHOOSH! He healed himself with his Celestial Staff. "Hey, you never usually

heal us!" Stella complained. "Because we win so fast that I don't have to!" Leslie replied. "If we went with the original script of attacking all at once, maybe I'd have to heal you! I'm more of a Warrior outside of that!" "Are you guys done?" I groaned. "Yeah yeah, let's continue!" Leslie spat. CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! He blocked all of my swings at him. SHKT! I dodged a slash and he cut up the ground. CRACK! I dropped my whip and gripped it with my tail, smacking him with it. CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! He blocked all of the Light Swords. "How do I beat this guy!" I groaned, jumping back. "Angels are freaking immortal, yet I'm able to hit this guy!" I then saw the halo over his head. "That's how Lucy beat Jasmine back during the Pit!" I thought. I wrapped my Dark Harvest around one of my Light Swords. "Stab into that tree." I whispered. The Sword flew off and lodged itself into the tree. "Hey Leslie, you remember how _ died." I asked. "Yeah, why?" He countered. CRACK! I wrapped my Kaleidoscope around one of his arms. "NOW!" I shouted. CRACK! The Light Sword flew over and wrapped itself around his other arm. WHOOSH! It flew up and stuck him to the casualty tree. "Now this Nail Gun." I thought, aiming it at Leslie. SHKT! SHKT! Note I probably went a little overboard with nailing him to a tree like _ , but I was pissed at him. BAM! The Light Sword bopped him on the head and knocked him out. The nails were on his clothes, because I couldn't bring myself to nail through his hands. "And then there were 1." I muttered.

Emma POV

"You're the last one, Stella." I laughed. "Whatever." Stella groaned, stepping up. "Dammed wolf." I never actually fought a Uarion before, since the camp wasn't near their woods, but I already knew this was going to be real tough. "Ever see a Uarion in their true form?" Stella snickered. "Yeah." I replied. "Your Tiger ass can't do shit to me!" "Says who?" Stella countered. "Draw your damn blade and let's get this over with!" SHING! I drew my Star Wrath. Stella took out her Elemental Disk. CLANG! I blocked her throw and. CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! She blocked all of my slashes. PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! I let stars rain from the sky. WHOOSH! Stella teleported behind me. CLANG! I blocked her Stealth Strike. I whipped around, grabbed my Terrarium Yoyo and: WHOOSH! She disappeared. "Where'd she go!" I growled. SHKT! She slashed at my back. BANG! She blocked my Yoyo. BAM! I dashed into her, knocking her back. "Throwing Technique, Stone Palm!" She yelled. CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! She blocked my slashes with a big stone hand. WHOOSH! The hand disappeared, and so did she. CLANG! I blocked her Stealth Strike again. CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! I blocked all of her White Dwarf Daggers. WHOOSH! I rolled past her Stellar Smasher. "Coward!" Stella growled. "Shut up!" I countered. The sun came up and it was a Solar Eclipse. "Damn, one of these wasn't supposed to happen for another 2 years!" Lucy complained. My heart dropped. "The sun and the moon are up at the same time." I muttered. "This isn't good." Stella replied. "Why, what's wrong?" Ana questioned. "Full Moon, Werewolf thing. Full Sun, Uarion thing" I shouted. "Have you not been watching the sun! It acts just like the moon!" ROAR! Stella transformed, on all fours and looking like a tiger. I blanked out.

Lucy POV

Melody, Kenji, and Leslie all came around right when Emma and Stella transformed. "What are those!" Melody screamed. "How are you still alive!" I exclaimed. "Heh, you really thought you could kill me?" Melody laughed. Ana pointed at the binding she put on them. "After this, you're getting locked up in Atlantis." She explained. Emma and Stella were kinda just fighting like animals, so there wasn't really anything to explain. Seriously look up a tiger vs wolf and you'd see how this went. Except it was the opposite, and Emma won. BAM! Stella passed out and turned back to normal. Emma also turned back to normal. "I hate when that happens!" She groaned. "Alright uh, let's get these guys to Atlantis!" I said. "Hey! You're doing what!" Leslie shouted. "Shut up before I shut you up!" Ana spat, pulling him down.

CLANG! The guard shut the cell door. "You can't keep us here!" Melody yelled. "Cry about it!" I countered. "Don't worry, you'll stay here for about, the rest of your lives. Since you murdered an entire damn village!" "Alright you 4, let's get you out of here." The guard said, escorting us out. "Well, that solves that problem." Christie laughed. "Yep." Emma replied. "So, what now?" We stood there in silence. "Uh, that's a good question." I muttered. "I mean, we killed The Moon Lord, and beat the villains." I stood there thinking. "Lucy, you don't have a place to go to since Sean passed, why don't you come with me to Hollyhead!" Christie laughed. "Korrie gave me a house after we killed The Moon Lord, so you could bunk with me!" "Sure, I'll take you up on that." I said. I didn't actually see where Emma and Ana wandered off to. "Ana, Emma?" I questioned, heading into an alleyway. We went in and then, uh, saw Ana and Emma making out. SNAP! Christie took a photo on her phone. "Don't tell anyone about this!" Ana cried. "Wasn't planning on it!" I replied.

A week passed, and I was moving my stuff from Sean's house to Christie's. When I was moving one of the boxes, I found a letter that fell from a shelf. "What's this?" I thought, picking it up. Lucy. I carefully opened it up, trying not to destroy the envelope. The paper inside was very old from looking at it. Lucy, if you're reading this, then you won! You might be very surprised and confused, but I'll explain. I cast a spell on this that would show this letter once Cthluhu has been slayed. I am so proud of you, and wish I could praise you in person. I love you so much. My little bubblegum. - Your Mother, Celestia "M-mom!" I cried, holding the letter tight. "Thank you!" I fell over, crying tears of joy. I had seen that name before in ancient texts. My mom was the last dryad that sealed away Cthulhu. "Lucy?" Christie questioned, running into my room. "What's wrong?" I showed her the letter. "Your mom was a dryad?" She exclaimed. I nodded. "That means.." "Yes, I'm the last dryad in Terraria!"

A few more days passed. The 4 of us heroes were meeting up again. "Ana, I think you have a thing for kissing Emma!" I laughed. "Seriously, she's slept with me 5 times in the past week!" Emma groaned. "But I luv you!" Ana giggled. "Alright, let go of the wolf!" Christie said, pulling Ana away from Emma. "So, what are we doing?" I asked. "You wanna kill something, go explore, a little of both?" The others shrugged. "You decide." Christie said. "A little of both it is!" I laughed. "I heard that there's a portal in Ensamble where The Moon Lord died, let's check it out!" We agreed on it, and ran off to our next Adventure!

The End!!

End Notes

First ever actual novel. I'm very proud of this thing, and hope you enjoyed it. The ending is a cliffhanger because YEP, this is getting a sequel, no point in acting vague. A few things I want to clarify: Emma is transgender, didn't know if it was obvious or not, and she's actively dating Ana. You can kinda see where some plot points were changed throughout, and you can sorta see where some arcs (the pit) went on for much longer than they should've. Honestly, that's because I wrote this between my middle school years and my high school years, so you can see where I started understanding how arcs work. Ana's whole Siren who can go on land was actually something I thought up on my own. I started writing this thing back in the summer of 2020, so this is before some things came out. (I'm looking at you, Luca, Turning Red, etc). Frankly, the only references in the story are any that are straight up told. With that being said, um, for my next book, might want to see the Geometry Dash Demon List. And yes, that's critical to the next book.

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