Chapter 5: Showdown
Tonight the Piñarctic's weather was horrid. Violent snowstorm, the air was so cold that even a pengum wouldn't stand it. The lakes were completely frozen, and looking at the sky was impossible without getting a face full of snow.
Aurora was comfortably sleeping in her bed with her little pretztail Frostwind. Her 3 blankets were keeping her really warm and her pretztail was as soft and warm as a Teddy bear. Aurora didn't have to worry about the weather whatsoever.
It's about 3 am when suddenly Frostwind wakes up, sniffs the air and starts growling. The growling made Aurora wake up immediately since she knows there is a danger approaching.
"Ugh…Frostwind…What happened old gal? Is there an intruder in our home? That would be rather peculiar considering the weather is quite terrific…" mumbled Aurora as she rubbed her tired eyes and let out a big yawn.
She put on her long warm socks, her slippers and a nightrobe before getting out of her room to check if there is an unwelcome visitor.
Aurora looked around her house but saw no one.
She looked at Frostwind who was still growling as she was behind her as if she was more scared than aggressive.
"Are you sure there is an intruder here?" asked Aurora as she was slowly losing her patience, all she wanted to do was sleep.
Frostwind slowly walked up to the back door of Aurora's house which lead to her garden. At that moment Aurora's eyes slightly widened, so that's where the unwanted visitor was. She quickly walked up to the door and opened it, she was immediately greeted with cold harsh wind all on her face. Aurora and her pretztail quickly got out of the house and closed the door behind them.
Aurora looked when she noticed a bunch of ruffians who were running while clearing shivering. Aurora looked at the state of her garden, it wasn't that horribly broken since by the looks of it, her flapyjack was doing his job at defending the garden but not only the garden but a sick little lemmoning who clearly was unlucky enough to eat some sour candy. Aurora quickly ran up to the little piñata with great concern. How long has this lemmoning been sick? How is she going to get to Patch's clinic with a weather like that? Her nose already felt like it was frozen, not to mention it was slightly red along with her cheeks. All those questions were cut short when Aurora noticed a pair of shiny white eyes slowly approaching her garden.
Aurora knew exactly who that was, despite not seeing clearly because of the snowstorm, she could make out who it was by the sillohete and by simply looking at the white pair of eyes.
There is no doubt in her mind that this was indeed Dastardos. The person she despised the most after what he had done to her pretztail Frostwind when she was a baby.
Aurora gave a quick look at the flapyjack and Frostwind to not get involved and rather stay back and look after the sick lemmoning.
Finally Dastardos arrived and Aurora and him were facing each other while Dastardos was spinning his whacking stick in one of his hands.
While smiling in a twisted way. Aurora could feel herself go tense, she stood her ground and puffed out her chest to look more intimating.
"Well, well, well! Look what we have here! The witty witch Aurora and her precious piñatas! How splendid to see you again after such a long time!"
exclaimed Dastardos in a sarcastic tone of voice as he laughed right after.
Aurora could feel her blood boil already, her heart was racing fast and her fists were clenched.
"Go away Dastardos. You're not welcome here. Not after what you did to Frostwind." replied Aurora coldly, as she gave the reaper a threatening look.
Dastardos stared at Aurora before bursting out into a fit of laughter while floating and grabbing his head. "I can't believe this is real! Haha! You? Out of all people on this island? Threatening little old me? This must be the best night of my entire existence!" laughed Dastardos as he gave Aurora a shit eating grin which infuriated her even more.
"Oh! I AM THREATENING YOU! I'm not in a bloody good mood since all I want to do is sleep! Not deal with you trying to destroy my sick piñata who has done nothing to you!" she snapped at him as she stomped her foot so hard in fact that it made a loud thump noise despite her lack of proper shoes and not slippers.
Dastardos was taken by surprise, he even back away a little since that wasn't the reaction he suspected. Eventually he chuckled as he tisk-tacked and shook his head. "Aurora! I am shocked! I didn't know a 'sweet' and 'kind' witch like you would snap at someone like that! That just makes me sad!" he exclaimed once again in the same sarcastic tone while make a sad face at Aurora which caused her to roll her eyes.
"Are you done? You're wasting my time! Just go home and leave me and my piñatas alone!" she retorted back at him while getting really tense as she looked like she was ready to body slam him to the ground.
Dastardos shook his head once again before letting out a chuckle. He approached her slowly only to start circling around her in a threatening way. "Now, now Aurora. There is no need for such aggressive behaviour! I'm only here to do my job. I put sick piñatas out their misery and take their life candy for my personal benefits…" he said in a teasing way as his grin became wider.
The way he circled around Aurora made her uncomfortable and actually rather scared but she tried her best not to show it.
"Voi jumalan tähden….will you stop?! This is my last warning to you. Leave or I'll make you leave." growled Aurora as she clicked her fingers and her book of black magic appeared in her hands.
"Oooo! So scary! What will you do? Turn me into a lickatoad?! Hehehe!" he cackled as suddenly got up to Aurora really close and poked her with his whacking stick.
"By the way girl…I don't like when little punks like you think it's a good idea to threaten me. In fact…" he said as he grabbed her by the scarf and glared into her eyes.
"Whenever that happens I have a strong urge to bash that little punk's head in-" he was cut off as Aurora threw a fire ball at him in sheer panic when she saw him rasing his whacking stick.
This made Dastardos back away quickly, to stop his sweater from burning he threw some snow at it. Soon after he slowly looked at Aurora with fury in his cold eyes. It made Aurora shiver.
"You think a little fireball will hurt me?…you will need a stronger spell than that. How about I show you what REAL pain feels like…" he growled as he launched himself at Aurora hitting her right arm with his whacking stick really hard to the point were a sickening crunch was heard.
Soon after that sound, Aurora let out a loud screech of agony as she grabbed her arm which appeared to be twisted the wrong way. Tears rolled down Aurora's cheeks. Dastardos just let out a simple chuckle of content.
"That shall teach you a lesson…now where's that poor little sick lemmoning…" said Dastardos as he put a finger on his lip and pulled out a twisted grin while looking directly at the lemmoning which was being guarded by Frostwind and a flapyjack.
"DON'T TOUCH THEM!-" screamed Aurora as used her arm which wasn't broken to summon a purple pentagram like circle right under where Dastardos was floating. He looked down in shock, he thought that blow would clearly stop her from worrying about that pathetic piñata. Aurora's facial expressions became sour as she clenched her fist.
Dastardos felt himself getting lifted up in the air even more against his will, his eyes widened as he struggled to get free of the grasp.
That's when Aurora used her finger and used it to point it right in front of the nearest rock there was. That's when Dastardos was thrown at that direction of the rock Aurora had her finger pointed at, but before he could get hit he turned himself transparent as if he was a ghost. Dastardos growled clearly unhappy with this situation.
"Alright, now you've got my FULL ATTENTION!" shouted Dastardos as he threw himself at Aurora, pinning her to the ground very hard, making Aurora's back hurt tremendously. She struggled and gasped when she saw his whacking stick flying right at her face. In panic, she thew snow into Dastardos' eyes and quickly kicked him off of her, getting away from his grip.
Aurora quickly picked up her black magic spell book, and stared to quickly read through the pages trying to find a spell that would hurt him.
She finally found one just when Dastardos was able to see properly. She pulled out a bit of cinnamon out of her hat and some rosemary along with a tiny bottle of cocoadile's tears. She quickly mixed them on the ground as she was talking gibberish since she was reading her spell book as Dastardos picked himself up.
Suddenly the mixture became ignited and the flame appeared to be a purplish black. Aurora then used the flame and aimed it right at Dastardos who was about to hit her again. He soon realised his mistake and stopped in his tracks but it was too late. The flame was thrown at him, it burnt his hands and a bit of his mask. Luck he was wearing that mask, if he wouldn't then he would have a nasty scar on his face.
Because his hands were burnt, he dropped his whacking stick for a moment.
For Aurora it was the perfect moment to run and get her shovel which had in fact Dastardos face in it or well his mask. Once Aurora returned with the shovel she was greeted with Dastardos hitting her leg so hard that it send Aurora flying into the air for a split second and soon after she was skidding on the cold ground.
At that moment Aurora swore that her vision almost became black. She felt the snow from the snowstorm on her skin, and the wind was blowing her black hair really violently. This was the end wasn't it? Well not really. Because according to Dastardos he wasn't done.
Aurora could her hear head ring, it was painful as hell on earth. She barely managed to reach out and take the shovel. Just as Dastardos was going to hit his final blow at Aurora. With all the strength she had left, she swooned the shovel and hit the side of Dastardos' head. It definitely send him skidding across the cold ground.
Dastardos groaned in pain as he quickly managed to sit up. Dastardos' mask cracked but not completely, he felt blood running down on the side of his head and when he reached his hand to touch it, it hurt as hell for sure.
He slowly picked himself up, and looked at Aurora while his black gooey blood was dripping on the ground.
"You…win this time but only because I don't like when someone wastes my time…I hope you're happy…skank…" he muttered as he disappeared in the snowstorm. Leaving completely.
Aurora's flapyjack came running to her and picked her up with it's mighty horns, leading her into her house which miraculously Frostwind managed to open the door and delicately put her on the ground. Aurora dragged herself on the ground, as Frostwind entered the house as well and slightly shutting the door with her tiny paw.
Aurora pulled out her alert system and called Patch. "A-a-aurora? W-Why are you calling me so late in the n-n-night? It's very u-unusual of you…" he said as Aurora was breathing heavily.
"Patch please come here as quickly as possible please!" she cried as she grabbed her injured leg, "I-I think my leg is broken…my arm too…my back is horrible pain and can't even stand up!" she sobbed as the ringing in her head became louder.
"W-W-WHAT?!" exclaimed Patch in shock. "W-what happened?! H-how did you managed to do that?!" he exclaimed even louder than before.
"I…got myself in a fight with Dastardos…my lemmoning is really sick…please heal her!" cried Aurora as she felt her injured leg go numb. "Frostwind! Get help! Get Sparcticus!" she quickly turned around and told her pretztail who nodded and quickly jumped out of the window in the kitchen which was open.
"HOW ARE YOU EVEN ALIVE?!" shouted Patch as his jaw dropped and he soon gasped afterwards. "Don't worry A-Aurora! I'll b-b-be on my way right now!" exclaimed Patch as he quickly got into his tiny car and started to drive, he soon ended the call.
Aurora was slowly losing her consciousness, as her vision was blurry and everything was inaudible to her. She felt herself get picked up by someone strong, she barely managed to hear the man who was picking her up panicking while shaking her slightly. Aurora had no doubt in her mind it was Sparcticus. It's not like it matters since as soon as Aurora realised who it was, she indeed passed out.
Sparcticus didn't know what to do, thankfully about few minutes later he heard a tiny vehicle approaching. He sighed, for once being happy that Patch was here to help his injured friend.
