Tridon walked towards the tree and stared at it. He rubbed his hands together and sighed. He turned around and made his way inside.
"Tridon!" Sayori called out, "We're having the meeting outside!"
"What?" Tridon looked around and blew into his hands, "I thought we would go inside when the weather got cooler or if it was storming. Why are we staying out here?"
"Well," Monika started from behind Sayori, "our last adventure seems to be taking place in something rather temperate. So I think we'll be fine to have our last adventure for the year here."
"Where's everyone else?" Tridon asked.
"We're here." Natsuki called out with Yuri and Jen with her, "And we're ready for our final adventure!"
"Alright." Tridon chuckled. He looked down at his hands and sighed, "It's been a fun semester. One of the best ever, and I'm glad I was able to spend it with all of you." Tridon looked around for Erica and asked, "Where's Erica been? I haven't seen her for a while."
"We haven't seen her either." Sayori answered, "It's weird. She talked about how much she wanted to make up to you and she's not here."
"Well," Tridon started, "we're going to be having the best adventure ever and she's going to miss it!"
"What's our final adventure of the year gonna be?" Yuri asked, "I'm sure it'll be one of the biggest adventures we've had so far."
"Here we go!" Tridon snapped his fingers and the group were teleported to a massive metropolis.
The group wore a school uniform different from there uniform. This uniform had the girls where black and white plaid, pleated skirts while Tridon wore light navy blue pants. The tops were dark navy blue with regular white dress shirts with a tie for Tridon and a dark navy blue bowtie for the girls.
"What is this Tridon?" Monika questioned.
"I don't know to be honest." Tridon answered, "I just thought that we'd wing it through our last adventure."
"Okay."
"Oh!" Natsuki grabbed Tridon and whispered in his ear. She backed up and asked, "Got it?"
"I think so." Tridon snapped his fingers and what appeared were bracelets on their wrists sporting a different colored gem for each girl, "Is this what you wanted Natsuki?"
"That's right." Natsuki gave Tridon a thumbs up and smiled at him.
"Okay." Tridon thought to himself and nodded, "Alright, so give yourself an element and guardian animal that would go with your gem. I'll start." Tridon snapped his fingers and immediately pressed his gem, "I harbor the power of Fire and Dragon!" Tridon erupted in a sea of flames and burst out of the flames sporting a bright red suit/armor.
"Ooo." Monika cooed as she rubbed Tridon's arm, "The suit really brings out your muscles."
"Heel Monika." Sayori pulled Monika back and smiled at Tridon, "But I got my stuff next!" She shouted, "The power of Water and Shark!"
Tridon snapped his fingers and Sayori erupted with water surrounding her. She flipped and jumped on top of Tridon's shoulders and rested on it.
"Thanks best friend."
"Anytime."
The two fist bumped while the others watched.
"I think I'll like to have the power of Shadow and a Bat."
"Odd, but I understand." Tridon snapped his fingers and Yuri disappeared in a dark void and exploded out of it sporting a dark purple and black suit with some cleavage showing, "Uh..." Tridon stared at Yuri and held his mouth open, "Wow..."
"Stop ogling her." Sayori pinched Tridon's cheek and spun him around, "Idiot."
"This feels nice..." Yuri shyly stated.
"I'm next!" Natsuki shouted, "But if you sexualize me in anyway, Sayori and I will tear your arms off and beat you with them." Natsuki then whispered in Tridon's ear, "But I'll let you keep it on me regardless."
Tridon stiffened up and turned to Natsuki who winked at him, "A-Alright..." Tridon snapped his fingers and the ground around her shook before surrounding her. She punched the wall around her and burst out wearing a suit similar to Sayori except it was colored pink, "Is that fine?"
"Y-Yeah..." Natsuki sighed and smiled at Tridon, "Truth be told, I wanted him to sexualize me a little more. Curse my kid-like frame."
"Jen, Monika," Tridon looked at the two and asked, "what do you two want to be?"
"Me!" Monika shouted, "I want the power of..."
"I already know what you want Monika." Tridon snapped his fingers and a tornado formed around Monika before dispersing and revealing Monika wearing a suit similar to Yuri, minus the cleavage and that her suit was a light green, "Like it?"
Monika looked over at Yuri and pouted, "It's fine." She perked up and asked, "What's my guardian animal and element."
"Well, you can take a guess based on the tornado that your element is wind, but your guardian animal is a quetzal."
"Aw." Monika cooed, "I love quetzals."
"I know. I kinda got a peak at the yearbook bio you submitted last week."
"W-What?!" She exclaimed, "Y-You didn't read it all did you?"
"No. Just that part mostly before I got caught peeking." Tridon chuckled and looked at Jen, "And you Jen?"
"Well, my gem is white, so Ice and Seal."
"A seal?" Tridon nodded and snapped his fingers causing shards of ice to surround Jen and explode revealing her in a suit similar to Sayori, except white, "Nice."
"It feels nice." Jen commented.
"Okay. As for weapons, when you hover your hand over your gem like so," Tridon quickly hover his hand over his gem and an arm blade manifested itself out of thin air, "you'll see what your weapon is. How it manifests varies based on the weapon I gave you."
"Me first! Natsuki exclaimed, "Whoo!" Natsuki hovered her hands over her gem and what appeared in her hands was a sword with the blade tinted a bright brown among the metal, "Cool."
"Alright." Tridon nodded, "Who's next?"
"Me!" Sayori shouted and as she did shout, Tridon placed her back on the ground, "What?"
"Your weapon is long and I don't want to be hit by it accidentally."
"Alright." Sayori hovered her hand over the gem and a trident manifested in her hand, "Ooo." Sayori stared at the trident and looked at Tridon, "It's awesome!"
"Cool. Yuri?" Tridon asked.
"Alright." Yuri slowly, yet quickly hovered her hand over her gem, manifesting two sharp, metal fans, "Fans?" Yuri touched them and flinched, "Ouch."
"Be careful Yuri." Tridon warned, "Those things are as sharp as a sword."
"I understand that now."
"Me now!" Monika shouted while hovering her hand over gem. A bow appeared in her hand along with a quiver on her back, "A bow. Just my style." Monika twirled around and towards Tridon, "I'll be sure to assist you from a range."
"Odd way to flirt with someone, but okay." Tridon chuckled and look at Jen, "And lastly, Jen."
"Alright." Jen hovered her hand over her gem and closed her eyes. A bundle of throwing knives appeared in her hands when she opened them again, "Throwing knives?"
"Yeah. So we have two supports, 2 damage, and 1 flex."
"What?" The girls asked.
"Don't think about it too much." Tridon turned around as the guy turned a dark crimson red, "Uh..."
"Wow Tridon," Sayori started, "you're so good at using your power now that you don't even need to snap your fingers to change anything."
"This wasn't my doing." Tridon looked to his left to see a massive, dark, beam coming straight at him, "Oh shi-!" The beam collided with Tridon, sending him crashing into a nearby building.
"Tridon!" The girls shout.
"Hahahaha!" A loud, psychotic cackle was heard from where the beam came as a figured walked towards them, "Thanks for giving me life you idiot."
"Is that?" Sayori squinted and her eyes widened when she questioned, "Who's that?"
"Whoo..." The hooded figure scoffed, "I don't need to answer to you. Let's just say I'm a better version of that fool I just destroyed.
"Way to toot your own horn." Natsuki growled, "Only someone who is worse than the other would say that."
"W-What?!" The hooded figure shouted, "Can the worse one do this!" The hooded figure stomped the ground and a massive wave of darkness was sent in Natsuki direction.
"Uh oh..."
"I'll redirect it Natsuki!" Sayori threw her trident to the ground and hopped onto it. A massive wave formed underneath it and Sayori began to ride the wave, "Shark Wave Driver!" This completely engulfed the wave of darkness, dispersing it from sight, "Ha!"
"Oh come on!"
"Over here buddy." Tridon charged at the hooded and the two met in deadlock. The hooded figure wielded two blades and held Tridon back with only one of them while the real Tridon used all of his force, "Wow you're strong..."
"Like I said," the hooded figure smirked and kicked Tridon back, "I'm better than you!" The hooded figure formed a ball of electricity at the tip of his swords and was about to launch it at Tridon, but Monika hopped over him.
"Not on my watch!" Monika shot her bow and shouted, "Tempestuous Whirlwind Driver!" A massive upside down tornado engulfed the hooded figure, "Now Yuri!"
"Tenebrosity Slicer!" Yuri shouted as she threw both of her fans through the tornado, hitting the hooded figure and carrying him outside, "Now you Natsuki!"
"Cutting Earth Fracture!" Natsuki's sword doubled in size as sliced the hooded figure, "You hit him now Jen!"
"On it!" Jen leaped into the air and her knives glowed a bright white color, "Icicle Blind Driver!" The knives shot from her hand and collided at and around the hooded figure, erupting a massive explosion, "Tridon! Go!"
"I'm already on it." Tridon was then lifted into the air with the assistance of an air tornado before using the momentum to leap high into the air above everyone. They looked at him with awe as he shot down from sky shouting, "Dragon Emperor Soaring Soul Crusher!" A massive flame vortex surrounded Tridon the faster he moved towards the hooded figure before he finally collided with the ground.
A massive explosion sent every single girl back and a massive shockwave destroying the windows of nearby building and even causing the ground around the impact to cave in immensely. A massive smoke cloud surrounded Tridon as the girls ran over to him one they regained their footing.
"Tridon!" Sayori shouted, "Are you okay?!"
"I'm good." Tridon weekly answered, "But he's gone."
"Did you get him?" Monika asked.
"No. The world would've gone back to normal if I did." Tridon took a deep breath and sighed, "He's still out there." He looked at the girls and apologized, "I'm sorry girls, but I guess my heavily unstable world created an evil version of me."
"An evil version?"
"So we were attacking you?" Natsuki asked, "That was you..."
"An evil version of me." Tridon corrected, "This evil version of me houses all of my rage and negative thoughts into one." Tridon de-manifested his arm blade and balled his fists, "It's all the negative emotions I keep bottled inside."
The girls de-manifested their weapons too and surrounded Tridon. Who loomed badly while staring at the ground.
"You girls are gonna see a side of me I never wanted you lot to see." Tridon grabbed his arm and sighed, "The bad side of me that might ruin my relationship with all of you."
"Tridon," Sayori placed her hand on Tridon's and said, "no matter what, that you isn't the one we know and come to care about." Sayori smiled at Tridon who shied away from her.
"She's right Tridon." Monika agreed, "That 'evil' you isn't the real you."
"Besides," Natsuki started, "if you ever need to vent out to us, we're always here for you."
"We're here for you just as you're here for us." Yuri added.
Jen watched the four and though to herself, "They're so close. Why would Erica want to destroy this closeness? This friendship? Is she jealous of their relationship?"
Tridon took a deep breath and nodded, "Alright," Tridon looked at his gem and then to the girls, "when we channel our energy into our gems, our spirit animals will appear. My spirit animal, Sayori's, and Natsuki's can be ridden. However, Monika, Yuri, and Jen, you 3 will have to ride with each of us while we go searching for the evil me."
"I got Tridon!" Monika and Yuri shout before pouting and glaring at one another, "I'm riding with him! No me!"
"Hey you two." Tridon stepped in between them and said, "Just flip a coin." Tridon handed Yuri a coin and said, "Flip it."
Yuri stared at the coin and flipped it. Just as the coin in between their faces, Tridon caught it in mid-air. He stared at the two and slapped the coin on his hand.
"Who wants what?"
"I'll take heads." Monika answered.
"Then I'm tails..."
"Okay," Tridon smirked and muttered, "that's what I get from each of you based on whatever it lands on."
"A-Ah..." Monika and Yuri stuttered while blushing madly causing Sayori to suplex him, releasing the coin in the process.
Natsuki grabbed it and said, "It landed on..."
Moments later, Monika sat on Sayori's shark while crossing her arms and pouting. Yuri held onto Tridon as the two rode on his dragon.
Jen rode with Natsuki on her tiger and watched the two. They shrugged at one another while they were moving around the city.
"Alright," Tridon started, "my evil double is hiding his appearance with his hood. However, our guardian animals will be able to find him." After Tridon said this, a massive explosion in the distance.
"Or we could check that out." Natsuki commented.
"Let's go." The group changed their direction and towards area of the explosion.
On the ground, the evil Tridon walked around while firing dark beams at buildings and destroying them. He cackled loudly while firing beams endlessly.
"Stop!" Tridon shouted as the club landed in front of him, "I won't permit any further destruction here today!"
"Hmph." The evil Tridon aimed at the group and fired.
"Uh oh..." Tridon backed up and shouted, "Run!" Tridon leaped away followed by the girls, "I'll get him first!" Tridon dove towards his evil counterpart and the two fought.
The girls stared watching the two fight and were initially hesitant to fight. All but one girl was ready to help and that was Jen.
"What's wrong?" She asked, "He needs our help."
"R-Right..." The others respond.
Jen pushed forward and threw some knives at the evil Tridon. The evil Tridon dodged her attacks and fired beams at her. The girls, however, still refused to fight.
Tridon blocked a barrage of attacks from his evil counter part, but that counterpart split into 3 different copies and surrounded him. Tridon spun around and surrounded himself in a flame vortex.
"I'd really like some help you 4!" Tridon shouted.
"But he's you..." Monika responded, "The more I look at him the more I see Tridon. Our Tridon."
Sayori shut her eyes and shook her head.
"We can't just stand here though." Yuri added, "Our friends are in danger. The person we love is in danger."
"But can we hurt someone that looks exactly like him despite how this copy acts?" Natsuki added, "We can't do that."
"Gosh!" Sayori finally shouted, "You girls need to figure it out. The one we all love is there. That copy isn't the one we love. We love that idiotic goofball right there." Sayori smiled and glared at the evil copy, "Our real friend is in danger. My best friend. I'm not going to let this fake hurt him!" Sayori spawned her shark and a tidal wave formed under her.
She charged forward just as Tridon's vortex dispersed and hung her wave over them. She then shouted, "Crushing Tidal Wave!" Tridon jumped out of the way just as the wave crashed down on his evil double.
The evil double was knocked back while Jen appeared behind him. She stuck him with multiple knives and jumped away, "Icicle Thorn Exploder!" The knives exploded, sending him flying.
Natsuki caught him at the tip of her sword and glared at him, "Earth Shard!" Natsuki threw Tridon's evil counterpart at the ground and held her hand out allowing shards of rocks to be shot out of her hand at Tridon's evil counterpart.
Monika mouth shook before she jumped into the air and shouted, "Gale Force Driver!" She shot 4 arrows that turned into tornadoes. The tornadoes sucked him up and sent him into the air.
Yuri spun and threw her fans yelling, "Engulfed Darkness!" The evil Tridon was then engulfed in a sea of darkness before being spat out.
"My turn..." Tridon mumbled. His blade flowed a dark crimson red as he jolted towards his evilself. He shouted the closer he got, "Dragon Emperor Searing Fang!" Tridon sliced straight through his evil counterpart, causing him to fall lifeless onto the ground.
Tridon landed back on the ground behind his, assumed dead, counterpart. However, to everyone's surprise, the evil counterpart proceeded to put its body back together.
"What the hell?" Tridon groaned, "A healing factor?!"
"I must commend the power," his evil counterpart began, "of one of you at least."
"Huh?" Tridon stepped forward, but felt all the power from his body instantly disappear. He collapsed to his knees and grabbed his chest, "Ah..." He groaned in pain.
"Tridon!" Sayori tried to run over to Tridon, but was stopped by an unseen force. She was sent back and caught by the others.
"As a reward for showing me your amazing power, I'll be sure to take your power and take your spot as Tridon in the real world."
"Ah!" Tridon roared in pain as he fell onto the ground.
"No! Tridon!"
"You were just so stupid. All of you. Did you really think you could take me out? You're all to soft to take me out. Especially you." The evil Tridon glared at the real Tridon and smirked, "Now I'll finish you right now." The evil Tridon punched the ground, causing multiple explosions of dark matter to shoot up from the air.
"Not on my watch!" Behind Tridon, Tiffany came down on a zipline and dropped a small device near Tridon. After it landed, a dome surrounded him, shielding him from the dark matter.
"What?!"
"Tiff!" The girls yell.
Tiffany landed on top of the dome and said, "Did you really think I'd let you hurt, let alone kill him? Fat chance." The dome converged into the device again and she threw the device behind the evil Tridon, causing a small explosion, "Do it now girls! Hit him at the same time!" Tiffany dropped another device, surrounding both herself and Tridon.
"Let's do it girls." Sayori started, "Let's kill this thing."
"Right!"
The girls all prepared their special moves while the evil Tridon cowered and looked off to the side. He held up a sign saying 'HELP' just as everyone single girls' special moves dropped on top of him.
At the same time, the world around them shook before changing back to their world where they all stood outside the school. They ran to the dome just as it disappeared again.
"Is he okay?" Sayori quickly asked.
"He's fine." Tiffany answered.
Tridon sat up and rubbed his head, "I'm so glad this is the final adventure for the year." Tridon slowly stood up with the support of Tiffany and said, "How about we don't do an adventure until maybe 2 weeks after the next semester begins."
"You need to gain better control of your power." Tiffany stated, "You can't just keep using the way you have been this semester. You've never used this much ever before, so you're body isn't used to it being pushed this much."
"Tiff," Monika started, "is there a way to maybe speed up the process on having him learn better control of his powers?"
"There is, but he refuses to do so."
"It just inconveniences me so much." Tridon sighed while rubbing his head, "But I guess if it stops these unstable worlds, then I guess I'll start. Next semester."
"Fine." Tiffany looked at the girls and asked, "Can one of you handle him? I have something to work on."
"I got it." Sayori grabbed Tridon who grabbed onto, "Are you sure you're okay?"
"Well, after having my powers nearly drained from me, I don't think I would be 100%. I have a major headache and I feel sick."
"Let's get you home." Sayori worriedly looked at the other girls to help her.
"You girls go," Jen started, "I have to do something with Tiffany."
"Alright." Sayori said, "See you next week Jen."
"Yeah." Jen waved them off while her face changed to a deepened worry for Tridon, "What did you get on what Erica is doing?"
"She's trying to get a hold of an old acquaintance of Tridon and Sayori. This particular individual doesn't have the best relationship with Tridon, but has an amazing one with Sayori."
"Is she trying to get him to snap on this person to have her turn on him?"
"That seems to be it." Tiffany responded, "But I'm sure Tridon will get a hold of it."
"H-How?"
"I have my ways." Tiffany pointed at Tridon who had a piece of paper sticking out of his school uniform jacket, "He'll get the gist of it and once he does, we'll be able to have Robert play right into our hands."
"What about Erica?"
"I knew from the beginning that she didn't have a change of heart. She doesn't like Robert, that part still holds true, but he's her only ticket to get to Tridon. It's why she's helping him break their relationship apart."
"What'll happen when you arrest Robert?"
"Erica won't stop until those girls hate Tridon and she can swoop in to sweep him out of harms way." Tiffany scoffed and walked towards her car parked outside the walls of the school grounds, "Let's go. We have some work to do."
-Epilogue-
Tridon laid asleep in his bed while Sayori walked out and of his room and close the door. She walked downstairs where the others were waiting.
"So?" Natsuki asked.
"He's asleep. It's best if we just let him rest for the night."
The group fell silent for a short second before Yuri said, "You know, our ideas were rather unique."
"And very interesting." Monika added, "It was almost like we were Super Sentai!"
"I mean," Sayori started, "our writer had some trouble thinking of last adventure himself, so he had to get some help."
"Ha." Natsuki laughed, "Looks Mr. Writer isn't as cool as he thought."
"Don't mock him." Monika warned, "He might change your story to make you lose."
"Right..."
"Still," Yuri interrupted, "we gotta hand it to DarkHazen for giving writer the idea for the guardian animals and elements for us to use."
"Yeah." Monika agreed, "The fans wouldn't have seen this turn of events in the story if it weren't for DarkHazen."
"Guys," Sayori started, "I think we've said the name enough. I think they get it."
"Fine..." The girls groan.
A/N: Oh look, a lack of horizontal lines because everything was practically one massive scene with little to no cutaways. Anyway, this was pretty much done over the week as I spoke to DarkHazen in DMs about going through the plot for their last adventure of the year. All credit definitely goes to him as this chapter along with this story would've been lost in purgatory like my other works. I'm so glad DarkHazen took the time out of their life to assist me in this endeavor. All credit goes to them!
Anyway, the final stretch is here! The last two chapters are coming up! The next chapter is already in the works while the Finale is being revised. I hope you're all looking forward to the finale of this first volume!
