Not much to really say here. Here is chapter four.


Chapter Four - Path of the Noble.

As one would expect, this was a rather humiliating walk back through school. Seeing us injured and burned like this would cause one to wonder what we did to deserve all this. Every child that we passed by eyed us with great fear and scrutiny, as if we were some master criminals who failed a terrorism attempt. We were first sent to the nurse's office where kids who volunteered as healers and repairmen fixed us up and stitched back all our clothing. Afterwards, the ginger kids sent us to the principal's office, and from there we parted ways and faced the punishment to come.

Principal Victoria is a middle age woman who recently returned to her previous profession of being a principal at this school. Originally fired because Mr. Mackey framed her for allowing a student to refer to rape as a "Hot Cosby", I could tell she was rather moody based on her expressions when she saw us walk in. "So here they are."

Mr. Garrison was also here too, and he wasn't keen on seeing us either as he folded his arms and glared down at the eight of us. "You kids went full retard now."

Our party was all given chairs and so we sat down. Ellen's wolf and Wendy's demon both sat outside in the hallway. Principal Victoria picked up a piece of paper off her own desk and read out loud. "So I have here Kyle Broflovski, Kathy Freeman, Tyler Hoffman, Christopher Howard, Ellen Joseph, Stanley Marsh, Bebe Stevens, and Wendy Testaburger." She shot Mr. Garrison a glance. "These are all your students, correct?"

"Yeah, all these little shitbags are mine," Mr. Garrison replied.

Principal Victoria continued to read the paper she held in her hands. "So I have here you guys ditched school because...you wanted to look for Raymond Irvington and Eric Cartman?"

"Yeah, we did," Kyle replied.

"And may I ask why you kids wanted to look for them?" Principal Victoria glared down upon every one of us.

"Look, they are friends and we're worried about them, and that's why we wanted to travel to find them," I replied.

Principal Victoria nodded. "Yes, and do you kids not realize the flaw in your grand plan?" The rest of us were silent. Our party looked at each other, each of us dumbfounded. Therefore, Principal Victoria continued. "You see, if you kids went to look for them, and something bad happened to you, we no longer have two missing kids to deal with, we'll now have ten. This is a completely irresponsible thing to do, so just let the authorities handle this."

"You know the authorities are just as incompetent as most of the other adults in this town," Wendy countered. "You've seen it yourself firsthand."

"I know, but what you kids plan on doing is completely stupid and dangerous!" Principal Victoria said.

Kyle shook his head. "They're still our friends...well sort of...and that's what we'll do, won't we."

"Yeah, trust me, this is really important." Of course, I can't tell Principal Victoria the full details of how Douchebag and Cartman are involved with the Stick of Truth again and this isn't the right place and time to speculate on what they plan to do.

"Well regardless," Principal Victoria continued, "for all the things you have done today, you eight kids will have detention today, and yes I know it's club day...which means detention will be right now for you kids, no going to club day." All of us were silent. "Furthermore, if you kids don't show up for school tomorrow and Friday, I'm going to have to give you kids a suspension until next Friday. Are we clear?"

We all sighed. "Yes, ma'am."

"Good. Dismissed."

The eight of us walked out of the principal's office, and Ellen's and Wendy's pets, as well as Cole and Isaac, met up with us. Cole and Isaac were also healed up, back in their normal states. "So how'd it go?" Cole asked.

"We...have detention today," I replied.

"Nice going, asshole." Tyler glared at Cole.

As we started to walk, Isaac handed me The Truth of the Stick of Truth. I completely forgot about that book. "You dropped this while we were fighting."

"Oh...uh, thanks." I'm not sure if I'll need that book again, but I put it inside my backpack just in case.

Detention was held inside the library. Of course, there were actually a lot of fourth graders in the library, almost enough to form up an entire classroom, which was rather unexpected. "Why is this place so packed?" Bebe asked.

"This is one of our outposts of the New Conglomerate," Cole replied. "Yes, all of us in Mr. Gibbons's class."

"Whatever, Viceroy." Kathy rolled her eyes.

"It's actually President Cole. I've actually ascended to presidency. I'm actually a special snowflake, after all." Yes Cole, yes you are.

"You used the word 'actually' three times, idiot." Tyler stuck his tongue out at Cole.

Cole turned to me. "Stan, I understand looking for Ray, but that's still a dumb thing to do."

I narrowed my eyes at Cole. "And you wouldn't do the same? I thought he too was your friend?"

"I mean he is, but these adventures are stupid, that is why you keep getting into trouble all the time!" Cole glanced around his surroundings, in which everyone else was discreetly spying on us. "And why Cartman? Why not leave him to die or whatever?"

I mean, honestly, I wouldn't mind leaving Cartman to die. But not now, especially when I feel something more sinister is going on behind the scenes, especially considering the type of person Cartman is. But it's not Cole's place to know. "It's our duty as the Octopath Travelers of Zaron."

"JRPGs are gay." Cole shook his head. "But anyways, enough talk. You guys have detention, just go do your homework or something. I'm not watching over you, so I delegated detention duty to Felix Stolely." Cole motioned towards the library door, where Felix Stolely, a boy with brown hair, green jacket, brown pants, a blue cape, and a greatsword on his back, stood guard. "He'll decide when you guys can leave, or something. Whatever." Cole yawned before he and Isaac both walked off to the back of the library.

Our entire party sat down at a table. Bebe, Kyle, Wendy, and myself took one side while Kathy, Chris, Ellen, and Tyler sat across from us. "So what's this all about anyways?" Kyle asked.

My voice was soft and low in a whisper-like tone. "You know it's Cartman, and Douchebag promised we wouldn't have these powers anymore, but here we are."

"What do we do now?" Ellen whispered. "We're stuck here."

"We can probably gather info in the meantime," Wendy suggested.

"Good idea," I replied.

"Wouldn't mind interrogating some of them." Kathy rubbed her hands.

Kyle shook his head at Kathy. "No, Kathy. I'll just ask politely or something. They can' be all bad."

Kyle stood up from the table and glanced around. Most of the other New Conglomerate soldiers were casually chatting with each other. There was one who sat alone at a table, and I recognized him immediately, despite him wearing brown plates on his upper torso. Kyle walked up to the kid and sat down across. "Bridon Gueermo."

Seeing that kid made me close up my fists and crack my knuckles."Oh, this is the stupid asshole who tried to steal Wendy away from me."

"Is that why you acted irrationally and tried to make a song-and-dance number?" Wendy scoffed. I didn't want to answer that, so I turned back to Kyle.

"Oh hey," Bridon said to Kyle. "I remember you."

"Yeah, I remember you too, but it doesn't matter. You've heard what we're up to, and we need to get outta here somehow." Kyle sighed. "Every second we waste here is a second advanced by Cartman so please Bridon...if you know a way out, and know a fast way up north, please."

Bridon rubbed his chin for a moment before nodding. "I don't have that info myself." I groaned as soon as I heard that. "However, I know a girl, who knows a guy, who knows a guy, and she's right here in this library." Bridon pointed straight at a girl alone, who was browsing the bookshelves. She was a blonde girl with sort of a bowl cut, and she had white robes, a purple sash, sandals, and a golden staff.

"Sheba Hadley, of course." Kyle nodded at Bridon. "Thank you." Of course it had to be Sheba, she's in Mr. Gibbons's class and is one of Cole's and Isaac's friends, right?

We all stood up and joined in with Kyle as we walked over to Sheba. Sheba, of course, noticed us coming and she turned to face us. "Oh...hi. May I...help you?"

"We really need your help, and all we need you to do is to tell us a few things," Kyle inquired.

Sheba nodded. "Alright. I mean, you are a level twenty shaman, so you must be important around here as that is maximum level in the lands of Zaron. I'm only a level fifteen mage."

"Um...right." Kyle nodded. "Anyways, we need a fast way to head north. Anything like a car or something. Please, anything at all."

Sheba shrugged. "Hm...Ivan Taylor knows a boy our age in this school who might be able to help you with easy transport. If you can guide him or something, he'll show you, but he's outside the library somewhere, which means you need to get past..." Sheba pointed straight at Felix, who still guarded the door.

"Right," I replied.

Cole then came up to us. "You're this persistent on finding them huh?" He sighed. "The fact you guys are still willing to risk suspension is telling. It must really be important then. Fine, I'll let you go early on one condition: beat up Felix."

Our entire party looked at each other. "What?!"

"He's a level eleven death knight, and he's been slacking lately. He needs more training. So beat him up, why don't you?"

We all headed towards the door, but stood a few yards away from Felix. "I could always provoke him, ya know," Tyler said.

"No, no reason to piss people off." I shook my head. "I'll challenge him honorably, like a true warrior. Give me Shadow Resistance Aura, he has his own raid buffs." Tyler did as told, removing his Retribution Aura in exchange for the Shadow Resistance Aura buff to our entire party. "Alright guys, let me handle this."

I walked forward. Felix, who was leaning against he door, finally stood up straight, eyeing us ominously. "What do you want?"

I took out my axe and shouted, "Death Knight Felix Stoley, I challenge you to an honorable duel! Would you accept this honor and fight me in a one-on-one battle?!"

Felix reached into his left pocket and pulled out a pile of sand. He let it fall from his hand onto the ground, and a moment later, shadow energies erupted and a ghoul rose up, a synthetic, undead child-imitation with its spine and ribcage completely exposed with blood droplets, and fingers turned into sharp claws. Death knights do have power over the undead alright. "I promise you, Stan Marshwalker, I will be no pushover." He then took out his claymore.

Ellen muttered, "Isn't raising undead against school rules?"

"Who cares?" Bebe replied. "Your wolf isn't even supposed to be here with us anyways." Yeah, they don't enforce the rules well here.

The other kids stopped what they're doing to watch the one-on-one fight. "Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!" The words echoed throughout the library, reverberating off the walls several times.

I casted Charge, rushing in the speed of sound to bash Felix. Felix's ghoul responded by leaping at me to bite me in the neck, using Gnaw and stunning me as I cried out in pain. "Ow!" Felix also put shadow and frost diseases on me, and it felt like gnats eating away at my skin.

"Stan!" Wendy cried out in dismay.

"He can handle himself just fine," Chris said. "Have faith in him."

"Summon Gargoyle!" Felix casted exactly that, summoning a gargoyle down a few feet behind me, near where Wendy stood, to cast bombard me with unholy energies.

I came back to consciousness and switched to a Berserker Stance, then I immediately rushed to the gargoyle to try to cut it down by casting Intercept on it. However, I felt shadowy tendrils grapple my entire body, and a second later, I was pulled back towards the doorway, right into the hands of Felix and his ghoul as he seemed to cast Death Grip to pull me back.

I was enraged at this point, and I switched back to Battle Stance. First, I casted Enraged Regeneration, a heal-over-time which repaired some of the damage sustained to me. I then casted Intimidating Shout. "Rah!" I yelled as Felix began to try to run away in fear. I then casted Bladestorm, spinning around with my axe out with crazy, cutting Felix down.

After about five seconds when my Bladestorm ended, it seemed that the gargoyle fled, the ghoul was cut to pieces, and Felix was lying down on the ground, bleeding, but still breathing. The joints in my body were cold to the touch, and my skin was rather festered. "Damn."

"You...you win," Felix said weakly.

"It was good duel," I exhaled. "You fought honorably." I fell backwards onto the ground.

"Stan!" Wendy came to my side. Kyle, Bebe, and Tyler also came, knelt down, and began to try to heal my wounds with magic. "That zombie bit you, and Felix's diseases and all...are you alright?!"

"Yeah..."

"Come on, man." Kyle held his hands over my stomach as his hands glowed with blue water. "Don't you die on me yet.

After a few moments, the wounds began to heal. I managed to stand up, and looked over at Felix. He seems to also be treated by the nearby healers, and he too managed to stand up a moment later. He looked over at the eight of us. "You beat me fair and square, Stan. Your detention is immediately finished."

"Yeah!" Our entire party cheered.

"You heard him," Cole said. "We might be enemies in roleplay, but I do wish you guys good luck on your journey." He then waved goodbye to us.

Felix bowed his head before stepping out of the way, and we didn't waste any time leaving while waving goodbye to the rest of the New Conglomerate people. Sure, we're enemies in Zaron, but they weren't total jerks at all - in fact, they were a lot nicer than a lot of our Alliance members. The worst offenders, besides Cartman, were Craig, Clyde, Bebe, and Red as they tended to have a mean, and arrogant streak. Tyler could arguably end up on that list as well, but he doesn't contribute much to the roleplay, while the aforementioned four were most prone to starting drama over petty things such as what class to be, or where supply crates should go, or who is in command.

Now fortunately, I know who Ivan Taylor is, despite never really talking to him at all. Unfortunately, finding him is a much different matter. "Anyone knows where Ivan is? He's in Mr. Gibbons's class, right?"

"Sheba said he's right around here somewhere..." Kyle trailed off as we began to head down the hall and turn the corner to the right.

Sure enough, there was Ivan, a blonde kid wearing a purple jacket, red pants, and green cloak. He had a staff on his back as well. He was leaning against the lockers reading a Garfield comic book. "That's him," Bebe said.

"Sheba mentioned guiding somehow..." Kyle then turned to Ellen.

"Guess that's my job," Ellen replied.

Wendy put her right hand on Ellen's left shoulder. "You know, if this doesn't work out, if he doesn't care about your folk hero status, I could use my charm. I'm pretty sure he's straight."

I shook my head. "No, no..."

"I don't think I'll need your help, Wendy, but I appreciate the offer nonetheless." Ellen and her wolf moved up to Ivan now. "Hello there, Ivan."

Ivan put his book down and turned to Ellen. His expression was neutral, so it was rather difficult for me to discern how Ivan might be feeling right now. "Hi. Can I help you with anything?"

"Yeah, actually, I was hoping you'd know the way to someone who might be selling transport in this town. I know it's a weird request, but it's really important for us," Ellen replied. She took a piece of paper with writing out and showed it to Ivan. "This is my identification, as I might be a Grand Alliance citizen, but I am a hero after all."

"Wait, that's the royal stamp of the five nations - Alliance, Conglomerate, Federation, Pirates, and the Amazons! You're Huntress Ellen, one of the Heroes of Zaron who fight against injustice and tyranny throughout the realm, huh?!" Ivan exclaimed excitedly. I could see him smile wide, with energy akin to a kid too high on Adderall.

Tyler shook his head. "You guys are still dorks."

"I love you Heroes, you all do good work!" Ivan bowed his head. "Of course! I am happy to assist a Hero of Zaron in whatever she needs. It must be important business, after all!"

Ellen nodded as she put away her paper. "Then you know what we must do and what we're looking for here."

"Of course!" Ivan motioned to the rest of us and beckoned us over with his right hand. "Come! The answer is here! I must show you this!"

Kathy glanced over at Wendy. "Guess we don't need you to skank yourself out, huh?"

Bebe winked at Kathy. "Why do you think her superhero persona is 'Call Girl', eh?" At that, both girls began to giggle.

Wendy folded her arms, face contorted with disgust. "I'll get you both back during a future Pleases and Sparkles meeting, mark my words."

We turned a corner to the right, then stopped at the third door to the right. "The answer lies here. Hope you guys find who you're looking for!" Ivan looked over at Ellen and bowed.

Ellen bowed back. "You've done us an honorable service. Thank you."

After Ivan waved us goodbye and left, I turned to the rest of the party. "Alright, guess this is it. Ready?" After the rest of the party nodded, I nodded back as well. "Okay. Let's do this." I opened the door, and the room inside was the computer lab.

There was one boy in the computer lab, and this boy was someone who I knew far too well. He had a small tuft of blonde hair, golden circlet on his head, teal robes with a rope belt, blue shoulder plates, blue cape, and yellow rubber gloves. He had a hammer and wooden plank shield, much like part of Tyler's equipment. Beside him on the table was a small purse and a black crossbow with a quiver of bolts on top. Yeah, it was this person alright.

"Butters?!" We all exclaimed, deep in surprise and shock.

"Yep, that's me fellas! Butters the Merciful, at your service!" Butters waved at us.

Tyler pointed straight at Butters. "You are the vendor who's selling shady stuff to us?!"

Butters nodded. "Well yeah, I heard you're looking for transport. I have keys to a white van that's stolen. I gotta pay my debts to the Mexicans I hired somehow. It was when we were playing superheroes, remember?" Butters is completely right. Employment costs are no joke; they can rip straight into your wallet, and it seems Butters has learned that the hard way. "I just need a few more bucks, then I'll be debt-free forever!" Yeah, knowing Butters, he'll land into debt at least several more times in his lifetime, sadly. "Say, what's this about you guys finding Cartman? Why he is nothing but a no good meanie!"

"It's really important business, Butters, trust us," I responded. "We need your help."

"So you're looking to buy then?" Butters asked.

"Uh...give us a moment." I turned back to the others. "Let's huddle up." And we did just that.

Chris whispered, "You know, I could steal some of that for you guys."

Bebe shook her head. "I think I can take charge around here. Won't be needing your services, Chris."

"Pity," Chris scoffed. "And here, I was hoping to play gallant to the fair maidens here. But it seems the druid prefers to play the leading role."

"Because that worked out so well for me in the past when you tried to 'defend' my honor, Chris," Kathy snickered. I can remember the times Chris tried to rob from and swindle Craig and Clyde during our roleplay session just to give Kathy more riches. Needless to say, the other two boys were not pleased.

As the other girls giggled and Kyle snickered, Chris scowled, embarrassed at the revelation. "Tch...whatever. Laugh all you want."

We then split off, no longer huddled together. I turned to Bebe. "Guess you're up?"

Bebe nodded before walking up to Butters. "Alright, we'll buy the keys to the van."

"That would be eighty dollars." Keys to a van? This is most certainly worth more than even two-hundred dollars. Fortunately, Butters is rather oblivious to this, and I'd rather not try to point that part out.

But Bebe shook her head disapprovingly. "I'm not certain a transport van that is stolen and therefore could be tampered with is worth that much. Besides, you're Paladin Butters the Merciful, it's even in your name, and we're allies - even in the same Grand Alliance. Maybe even friends. Surely you couldn't perhaps give a small discount for us? We're all family here, right?"

"Hm...I do need the money, but when you put it that way..." Butters then held his right palm out. "Fifty-five dollars. That's my final offer."

Bebe reached into her pocket and handed Butters the correct change. "And this final offer is the final deal," she replied.

Butters got his fifty-five dollars and pocketed it. "Yippee!" He then handed Bebe the car keys, and Bebe tossed them to me. I grabbed them and pocketed them. "Anything else I can do for you?"

Bebe then eyed the crossbow and bolts on the table. "Actually, I'll also buy the crossbow and bolts off you as well."

Butters blinked in confusion. "I don't understand, druids can't use crossbows."

"And neither can paladins," Bebe replied. "Besides, it's not for me, it's for another one of us. Because somebody forgot to bring their ranged weapon to school today." Bebe sneered straight at me, and I couldn't help but grit my teeth in complete embarrassment. Yeah, I'm a forgetful idiot sometimes.

"Whoops..." I muttered.

"Fair enough," Butters nodded. "This package deal is worth twenty dollars."

"Make it thirteen," Bebe countered.

Butters paused for a moment. But then he piped up again. "Thirteen it is!"

Jesus Christ, either Butters is a complete idiot who has no concept of being an illegal goods vendor and severely under-prices his goods, or Bebe is just a master at haggling. Most likely both, now that I think about it. With that said, Bebe paid Butters the correct amount of cash, and in return Butters handed the crossbow and bolts to Bebe. "Is that all I can do for you today?"

"That is." Bebe waved at Butters. "Thank you for your service." She then handed me the crossbow and bolts, and I sheathed both behind my back. She then whispered to our party, "What a fucking retard."

Tyler snickered." Pft...tell me about it."

Then the bell rang. "Guess it's time to go home." I sighed. "Too bad we didn't really skip school."

"At least we got a lot out of this ordeal," Kyle said. "Positive thoughts, people."

"The van is at the local U-Haul," Butters said. "But I gotta head there anyways, so I need a bit of guidance. You know, protection. I'm just a healer, after all."

Ellen stepped forward. "I'm an official Hero of Zaron, but you know this already, Butters, just tag along with me for a while."

"Yippee!" Butters cheered once more. What a good kid.


Our party, alongside Butters, were now walking along the hallways of the elementary school, and now for the last time this week. The nine of us kids, with Ellen's and Wendy's minions, were approaching the front lobby of school, and it was rather clear for now; there weren't many children, and the ones who were there didn't pay us any mind.

"So you fellas are really gonna risk suspension just to go after Douchebag and Cartman?" Butters sounded rather astonished based on his tone, though I can't exactly be surprised. Given how harshly his parents treat him, I'm certain he would never find that acceptable, and it would make sense that Butters would not be willing to come with us for that exact reason.

"Yeah it's a tough sell," Tyler replied, "But gotta hunt down that fat fuck some time."

"With his chubby-ass weight, he'll stick out of the crowd like a sore thumb, so I'm not worried." Upon hearing Chris's words, Tyler was the first one to laugh. Butters also snickered lightly.

"So you met the New Conglomerate in detention?" Butters continued. "What were they like?"

"They were actually pretty cool," Kyle replied. "Cole's still the leader, apparantly he's president now, but yeah, overall, they're pretty cool."

"How many girls?" Butters asked.

"A few, not really that much, same as the Alliance." Wendy glanced over at Butters. "Why?"

"I dunno, most of 'em are still all one group," Butters said.

Bebe narrowed her eyes at Butters. "Are you talking about the Amazons? Because we haven't been with them for a while, and neither have some of the other girls, though a good majority in the fourth grade are still in it."

"Makes sense that you four ladies are in it, being two humans and two elves...say how did you two leave and end up with a race change?"

All four girls in my party glanced at each other, then glanced back at Butters. "What?!"

"You - you know, did you pay for a race change like how you can just pay money to Blizzard or something to get a race change in WoW?" Butters continued.

I shook my head. "Some questions are best left unanswered." I actually don't know how race change works in our roleplay, but it's something I'd rather not think about.

"I don't know, but I did hear the Amazons aren't too pleased with you guys," Butters said.

My lips thinned. If the Amazons aren't pleased with us, yet the Conglomerate are even though we did wrong them, that likely means that the Amazons are most likely to come after us. "...then we better get going." When we got to the front door, I opened it, and the total eleven of us went outside. "Oh fuck my ass." What we saw next was not friendly at all.

Well, most people stared at us with blank expressions, rather neutrally gazing upon us. They were neither happy nor sad to see us, but it wasn't those people who bothered me. What did throw me off was the large group of girls who were on the sidewalk across the front field, glaring back at us, eyes full of hatred. The Amazons. In the front and center of it all was Heidi Turner, flanked by Annie Nelson to her left and Millie Larsen to her right. "If you think I'm letting you bring Cartman back to South Park, you're sorely mistaken!" Heidi shouted.

"So this is what you're up to with the Pleases and Sparkles Club after I passed the mantle down to you, huh?" Wendy folded her arms, gritting her teeth in disgust. "Keeping up on that gender war that long overstayed its welcome."

"I'm still disappointed you four girls joined up with the boys, but this...oh this is about Cartman in particular." Heidi closed her hands into fists. "He tried to sabotage my food and make me obese. He tried to murder me several times! And don't forget all the sexist shit he has done against all the girls as well. How can you four defend him?" Heidi was especially glaring at Wendy, Bebe, Kathy, and Ellen in particular.

Kyle stepped forward. "Look Heidi, there's something else sinister going on, and Cartman might be the key to it all, which is why we need to-"

"Oh don't give me that shit, you're just as scummy as he was, Kyle!" Heidi shook her head. "As much as I hate Cartman now, I didn't when I was dating him, but you were trying to steal me away from him! And don't forget what you caused to Canada...you're a piece of shit too!"

Tyler shook his head. "Okay, we know shit, you don't, just admit you have no clue what's going on, and just back off so we can do our job."

"Oh that's exactly what I don't want you to do," Heidi replied.

Kathy shrugged. "Okay, well I guess we'll just leave school grounds through the back side then."

"Yeah, if you're willing to lose Butters that is," Heidi countered.

Butters opened his eyes in shock and took a few steps back. "W-w-what?!"

Heidi pointed straight at Butters. "Get him!"

Chris tried to step in front of Butters, but Millie and Annie both shoved Chris away. Chris staggered but managed to stay standing on his two feet. However, with Chris pushed off, Butters was now exposed, and a second later was grabbed and getting dragged back to Heidi.

"What are you doing to him?!" Bebe yelled. "Stop this!"

"Oh no you don't!" Tyler made a beeline towards Heidi, but a gust of wind came from Annie, and Tyler was pushed back, landing back-first onto the ground in front of us. "Damnit!"

"Tyler, are you alright?" Ellen weaved her arms through both of Tyler's armpits to help him stand.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Tyler said as he got up off the ground.

I gritted my teeth and focused my eyes on Heidi. "Let Butters go! He has nothing to do with this!"

"You're not wrong, but none of you are willing to abandon him, or will you?" Heidi glanced at every one of my party.

"Bitch," Chris muttered.

"Release Butters right now before I kick your ass, Heidi!" I yelled.

"Then you know what's about to come. Get my scepter." Apparently Millie was holding a mace, one that was black but glowed green, and handed it off to Heidi. She sheathed it as the other two girls back off to the rest of the crowd of Amazons. More kids were catching hold of this commotion so everybody scrambled in, expecting the impending fight. Heidi held out the mace. "Did you know that this is a legendary mace called Sporebreaker?"

''How the fuck did you get your hands on a legendary?" Kyle asked.

"I'm smart and I'm funny." Nice copout explaination Heidi, you fucking snowflake idiot. "But you can't steal it, since it's soulbound. Anyways..." Heidi's body seemed to turn slightly transparent and then darken into a shadowy hue, having entered the Shadowform. "You're not the only level twenties here. I'm a level twenty priest."

"This is some Mary Sue shit right here," Kathy grumbled as she casted Mage Armor, coating herself with plates of magic energy. "Managing to get a legendary? Come on."

"Shut up and fight, Heidi." Shadow energies began to gather in Wendy's hands.

Yes, it was yet a second decisive battle today. Heidi started off by casting Devouring Plague at me, and it felt like a flesh flies eating away at my skin. I could hear Bebe shapeshift, Kyle place down totems, and Chris vanish from sight, and thus I took out my battle axe, casted Charge to rush in. Yes I'm pissed. Butters is a good boy; nobody torments him and gets away with it. I immediately casted Bladestorm, spinning around rapidly to slice up Heidi as much as I can.

But Cartman didn't say she was smart and funny for no reason: a moment later, my sight darkened and I saw visions of horror briefly. This only stopped my Bladestorm, though this also disarmed me for a few seconds, disabling both my battle axe and my hand axe. I had to resort to weak fists, so all I could really do is measly punch her.

When the rest of our boys and pets jumped in, and when our girls began to hurl ranged attacks, Heidi casted Dispersion, becoming cloud of pure shadow energy. I did manage to finally get my weapons re-enabled, but that didn't seem to matter right now as my attacks were weak against a shadow cloud anyways. But once she gathered back into her true form once again, she was in the middle of our entire party completely surrounded. Good for us, right?

Wrong. She let loose a Psychic Scream, and we all ran in fear. I entered the Berserker Rage to break it immediately, but Kyle's Tremor Totem didn't clear the fear effect from everyone else yet. I went back in to attack her. However, she was casting forth shadowy afflictions onto our entire party, and it hurt to see all of my allies groaning in agony from Heidi's shadow spells. As for me, I could also feel the joints in my bones shackle and nearly break.

Everyone was now fully conscious. Tyler was casting Cleanse constantly to try to remove as much of the shadowy charms from us as he could. However, Heidi, utilizing a legendary mace, let loose a torrent of nature energies towards Tyler. Unfortunately, Kathy was also next to Tyler, so therefore, both were blasted back, severely hurt and now bleeding.

Wendy casted Death Coil, and this one was successful - Heidi ran back in fear for a bit while Wendy was healed for quite a bit. "Two can play at the affliction game." Wendy then casted Unstable Affliction to slowly destroy Heidi with shadow energy, while Bebe sent forth an Insect Swarm to attack Heidi.

I charged back in, instead opting to take use my hand axe and metal shield instead. I went into Defensive Stance and used Shield Wall, as my shield glowed, to reduce damage done to me greatly. Chris casted Shadowstep to Heidi and started attacking her from behind as well.

Tyler and Kathy were in the worst state of us all. Tyler had to Cast Divine Shield to protect himself with light, and Kathy had to cast Ice Block to trap herself in a block of ice. Both kids were rendered invulnerable. But Heidi was prepared - she began to cast Mass Dispel to try to remove the effects.

But then a stray bullet from Ellen came, ending the attempted cast immediately. She had fired a Silencing Shot at Heidi. Then Chris stunned Heidi with a Kidney Shot. Suddenly, shadow energies began to gather around Chris. "Shadow Dance!" Therefore, Chris repeatedly used his Ambush attack to deal massive damage to Heidi with his daggers.

Kyle then let loose a roar, casting Heroism. We were all boosted, in which we could attack and cast faster. I put away my shield and hand axe and switched to my battle axe now, and started to repeatedly attack Heidi faster. Kyle went in, attacking Heidi rapidly with his axes as well.

But Heidi's mace went off again, and this time it targeted Chris and me, and we both were blasted back by a torrent of plague. The burn was too much for me, and I fell down. "Damnit...damnit..." I couldn't get up, I was too weak and injured, and Heidi was far too powerful somehow.

Kathy and Tyler both were up again. Kathy was casting Frostbolts. Golden wings of light erupted from Tyler. "Avenging Wrath!" He ran in and began to whack Heidi as hard as he could with his greatsword. I then watched Bebe and Ellen (alone with her wolf) crumble from Heidi's shadowy afflictions, Bebe being forced out of her Moonkin Form, and the two girls slowly fell to the ground. Wendy seemed to manage herself fine for now, draining and stealing Heidi's life away. Her felhunter backed up to Wendy. Heidi attempted to cast a spell, but Wendy's demon casted Spell Lock, interrupting the spellcast as well as silencing Heidi from casting. Unfortunately, Heidi's mace triggered once more, and a third torrent was sent to Wendy and her demon, blasting both of them down. Seriously, this is overpowered. How the fuck did the girls manage to create a mace this powerful? Whatever, not like that matters anymore.

Next was Tyler to crumble to the magical afflictions. As his Avenging Wrath faded, he fell backwards. Of course, this was really bad - this meant that his Shadow Resistance Aura was no longer active. Then soon after was Kathy, who ended up being hit by a fourth torrent from Heidi's mace.

This left Kyle and Heidi in a one-on-one duel. Kyle was managing to stay standing throughout all of this. He casted Feral Spirit, summoning two ghost wolves, to assist him in attacking Heidi. Heidi tried to cast Psychic Scream again, but it broke immediately. She tried to cast a Vampiric Touch, but Kyle interrupted it with a Wind Shear. I had to get up at this point. Kyle needs me. The others need me. It took me a bit, but I managed to get on my own two feet again. I casted Charge, running down Heidi once more. Then I casted Bladestorm, spinning around rapidly to cut down Heidi. Normally Kyle would also be hurt, but he's my ally, so he can't be damaged. When I was finally done spinning was when Heidi was no longer in her Shadowform, now lying down bleeding on the ground.. But then I saw Kyle lying down on the ground as well. "Kyle!"

"Ugh..." Kyle could only shake his head. He wasn't much better off than the rest of my party.

My joints ached. My skin was burned, and I'm pretty sure Heidi's spells just ruptured the pores on my skin. "Let Butters...go..."

Heidi muttered, "Fine..."

I nodded. I managed to walk near Wendy, who was knocked out on the ground. I knelt beside her. "Wendy..." But then the rest of what little energy I had left was drained as I fell on top of Wendy now, my vision blurring. The last thing I could make out was Butters, Kenny, Token, and Red heading my direction.

Then the whole world went black.


I hope the path actions made sense for each of the canon characters. I suppose one could easily argue a case for Bebe having Allure. I was much less confident on Wendy having Purchase though, so I settled for this combination. I know there's been ALOT of fighting in the past three chapters, but I do plan on putting more emphasis on the characterization in the future.