Animal Crossing In Action: Duo Of Justice
Chapter 22: Pure Crystal Clear
Vicki went to the police station to see Booker and Copper. But when she heard the commotion, the police dogs told the cursed animals to be silent and banged the cell doors with their batons. Booker was getting tired of them ranting about wanting to get out of the jail. Copper was pissed off that he told the prisoners not to overreact and be the good animals many times, but they never listened to him. Suddenly, the duo saw Vicki coming into the police station and immediately saw everything.
"Oh Vicki, we apologized for letting you see all of this!" said Copper, as he was saluting her.
"Y-Yeah, hopefully this will never happen again..." said Booker quietly. "M-Maybe..."
"Oh, you guys don't have to apologize," said Vicki. "You two did your best though."
"Yeah, I'd say we did," said Copper. "But now, we have a slight, small problem here."
"And what's that?"
"Well, you see..." Booker replied. "We're now lack of capacity of prison cells...Which means, we don't have anymore room for one more animal to fit in."
"Oh dear, I can see that now..." Vicki looked at the prison cells, and they were now full.
"That's our problem alright!" said Copper. "And can you do us a favor, Vicki?"
"Sure, what is it, Copper?"
"If you ever ran into Duo of Justice, could you tell them that we don't have anymore room in the prison cell?"
"Y-Yeah, I'll tell them about it..."
After Vicki left the police station, she sighed heavily and looked up in the sky. She decided to go to the Roost until she ran into Robert who was also going there as well.
"Hey Vicki," said Robert.
"Hey Robert," said Vicki. "Grabbing a cup of coffee, are you?"
"Yeah, and the same thing goes for you, too. Right?"
When Vicki and Robert purchased their coffee from Brewster, they left the Roost and headed to the town plaza. They sat down at the town tree and drank their coffee. Vicki looked up in the sky once again and sighed very softly. After Robert heard her sighing, he put down his cup of coffee and glanced at her.
"Is everything alright, Vicki?" Robert asked.
"Well, I just stopped by at the police station today," Vicki explained. "Booker and Copper were having a hard time controlling the prisoners and silencing them. With the dark poison crystal taking an effect on the animals, they became so relentless. If only there's a way to get them back to normal, then Booker and Copper won't get anymore stress. Otherwise, there won't be anymore room for just one more animal to fit in the prison cell."
"I see what you mean... I wish there is a way to break an evil spell on them. But I don't really have an answer though..."
"Well, I guess now is not the time to find a better solution until the time will come, which I'm sure of it..."
"Hmm, I guess so..."
At night, Vicki fell asleep in her bed and started to have a dream. It's the same dream she had before when she met the mysterious figure as Phantom Angel. As soon as she held his hands, the light suddenly appeared and his appearance was finally revealed. When the angel saw his hands while holding, she noticed that his gloves looked very familiar. Finally, she saw his face and was very surprised to see of who it was.
"Wow, I don't believe this..." Phantom Angel gasped. "Masked Swordmaster, it's really you! You're the mysterious person this whole time in my dreams!"
"Well, I'm very surprised as you, Phantom Angel, and I would've said the same thing to you!" said Masked Swordmaster happily, as he and Phantom Angel immediately hugged each other. "Are we actually in the same dream?"
"If you're with me, then it seems that way. I don't know if it's either fate or destiny that brought us here."
Suddenly, something's glittering came from the sky. The Duo of Justice saw the shooting star, but it was heading straight towards them. They quickly got away from it and headed for cover, but the fallen star went straight to the lake. When it fell into the lake, the light began to shine very brightly as it turned out to be the shimmering, white crystal. Phantom Angel and Masked Swordmaster saw of how beautiful it was.
"Wow, and here we thought it was the shooting star..." said Phantom Angel.
"But it turns out that it becomes the pure crystal?" said Masked Swordmaster.
"Not only this crystal is clear, but it is a powerful one, too! I can really sense its power within."
"You're right, I can sense its power, too! Um, speaking of the shooting star, what did you wish for, Phantom Angel?"
"My wish? Well, searching for true love..."
"That's exactly what I wish for, too!"
Phantom Angel blushed slightly. "R-Really?!"
"Yes, really! Until we met each other for the first time, our wishes finally came true!"
"Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind!"
Suddenly, the pure crystal began to shine very brightly. The Duo of Justice covered their eyes while it was still shining. Then, something was about to happen. The pure crystal magically summoned the heroes' weapons and added their new powers. Phantom Angel's guardian staff evolved into the crystal staff, which it has a round, hard glass with the diamond-shaped crystal inside of it, replaced its golden wings for the silver bow, and its rod was a bit longer than the guardian staff. Masked Swordmaster's knight sword evolved into the crystalized sword, which there were three small crystals embedded the sub-hilt and the golden chain attached to the pommel of the hilt with the diamond-shaped crystal at the end. The dynamic duo took their newly, upgraded weapons and felt their new powers within.
"Wow, they looked totally amazing and powerful!" said Phantom Angel surprisingly.
"Yeah, the pure crystal is making our weapons more powerful than before!" said Masked Swordmaster.
"Next time whenever we'll face our enemies, we'll give them a taste of our new weapons!"
"I agree! Maybe we can show our guardians the new weapons, we have right now, and see of what they think."
The next morning, Vicki woke up from her dream and got out of her bed. When she noticed that there's a small light out of nowhere in front of her, she put her hands together around it. Then, she separated them vertically and the crystal staff magically appeared from her hands. She took it in one hand and started to examine it. Serena appeared in front of her and immediately saw her newly, upgraded weapon.
"Ah, could this be the guardian staff changed its form into a different one?" Serena asked.
"Yes, it is!" Vicki answered. "I thought it was just a dream, but it appears to be real!"
"Dream or reality, let me touch this staff..." Serena placed her paw on the crystal staff and suddenly sensed the greater power she had never imagined before. So, she quickly removed her paw away from the crystal staff and looked very surprised. "Wow, this is unbelievable! The crystal staff is twice powerful than the guardian staff!"
"Yep, it sure is!"
At the hotel, Robert showed off his newly weapon to Neon. When the dragon guardian sensed the sword's new power, he was very impressed. Robert put his crystalized sword away horizontally between his hands in a magical way.
"The crystalized sword is way beyond powerful than the knight sword!" said Neon. "I'm also amazed by its new power!"
"Whatever this sword's power holds, I'll do anything to harness it," said Robert.
"Then, let the new power protect you of all cost!"
Vicki was walking to the town plaza and suddenly saw a commotion over there. When she ran into Robert, he also noticed something very unusual. They saw a girl wearing a heavy coat and had a dark red hair. She was selling hollies to the animals at the town plaza. All of the sudden, Sammy and Jimmy were walking through Vicki and Robert and immediately pushed them aside.
"Out of our way, nerds!" said Sammy. "We're very interested in buying those plants from that girl!"
"Yeah, move it or lose it!" said Jimmy.
After Sammy and Jimmy were walking past Vicki and Robert, the pair of heroes shook their heads and brushed off their coats. To put that aside, they quickly went behind the building and watched over the crowd.
Sammy and Jimmy had arrived at the town plaza and were in line to buy the holly from the seller. As soon as they were in front of the counter, they noticed that all of the hollies were sold out. They didn't even see at least one holly at the counter.
"Um...excuse me, miss, don't you have any more hollies in stock?" Sammy asked.
"My apologies, gentlemen, I'm afraid all of my hollies are sold out now," said the holly seller. "Only those who purchased it, have pure luck..."
Suddenly, the animals were somehow frozen after they purchased their hollies. Sammy and Jimmy were terrified after what they saw all of the sudden. Vicki and Robert, on the other hand, knew that there's something terrible was about to happen. Finally, the holly seller snapped her fingers to summon the smoke around her to change her appearance, Ivy! The Slapjack brothers began to scream after she changed back to her true form.
"Who-Who-Who are you?!" Sammy asked in fear.
"Or what-what-what are you?!" Jimmy asked in panic.
Ivy didn't answered one of the twins' questions and began to summon her reinforcements. Her henchmen surrounded the Slapjack brothers so they had nowhere to run. While they were in panic, she immediately called out her animal slave.
"Hopper, time to freeze those two annoying humans, just like the other animals in town!" Ivy exclaimed.
"With pleasure, slushie!" said the penguin with the big, think eyebrows.
Hopper took out the ice laser gun to target the Slapjack brothers while they were scared and embracing each other. He was ready to aim and fire at them with ice. Until something stopped him from shooting, the ice laser gun was now cut in half and destroyed by the angelic boomerang. The enemies and the twins looked around to see of where that came from. Finally, they saw the Duo of Justice who were standing in front of them.
"Hey, you can't just frost everyone in town like this!" Phantom Angel exclaimed.
"That's right, you're turning this town into a nightmare of ice!" Masked Swordmaster exclaimed. "Now, we're here to defrost your evil plan! So..."
"The Duo of Justice are here to stop you!" said the dynamic duo altogether.
"Oh please, like, what do you two know?" Ivy asked sarcastically. "But that doesn't matter to me anyways! Men, forget those twins! Attack the Duo of Justice now!"
Phantom Angel and Masked Swordmaster fought Ivy's henchmen. While they were at it, this was the chance for Sammy and Jimmy to make an escape. But they were stopped by Ivy and Hopper who were blocking their way.
"Not so fast, boys!" Ivy exclaimed. "Whoever said you can run away from me now? I'm about to wrap you up!"
Ivy summoned her vines to wrap up Sammy and Jimmy from making a getaway. They started to scream and embrace themselves until something ceased her vines.
"Angelic reversal mirror!" Phantom Angel shouted, as Ivy's vines were now turned against herself and Hopper. Then, she immediately turned to the Slapjack brothers. "Sammy, Jimmy, are you two alright?"
"We're okay, thanks to you!" Sammy answered happily.
"Yeah, we're still all in one piece though!" Jimmy replied.
"Then, I think you two should run for your lives when you still have a chance!" said Masked Swordmaster.
"Good point, we're on it!" said Sammy.
"Yeah!" Jimmy agreed.
After Sammy and Jimmy left right away, Ivy and Hopper were struggling to get those vines loosened. This might be the chance for the Duo of Justice to show off their new weapons with their new power. So, Phantom Angel summoned her crystal staff vertically between her hands. She twirled it around and raised it above to call out her new ultimate attack.
"Pure crystal elimination!" Phantom Angel shouted.
Phantom Angel's crystal staff began to spread with light magic crystal attack on Ivy. As soon as the evil mistress of the plants screamed, the light crystal trapped her inside and shattered by itself that killed her off. Not only that happened, but it also removed the curse from Hopper. When the dark poison crystal was removed from his heart, it shattered into tiny pieces and disappeared into thin air before the penguin fainted.
Several minutes later, Hopper slowly opened his eyes and glanced at the Duo of Justice. He stood up, looked around, and didn't seem to remember of what just happened. So, they were starting to fill him in with details.
"Hopper, do you remember the time when you tried to evacuate from Emblem?" Masked Swordmaster asked.
"Y-Yes, I think I remember that, slushie..." Hopper replied. "But the next thing I knew was that I suddenly blacked out, and I don't remember the rest after that..."
"But at least, you're back to normal, Hopper," said Phantom Angel. "Even if you don't remember anything at all, you're still okay."
After Ivy was gone and Hopper was back to normal, the Duo of Justice had arrived at the police station to cure the rest of the animals back to normal. With the power of the pure crystal, Phantom Angel used her staff to remove the dark poison crystal from the animals' hearts. Once the animals were back to normal, Booker and Copper released them from the prison cells. None of them had any idea of where they were now or what just happened so sudden. Finally, the police officers saluted the dynamic duo for making the job well done.
"Thank you so much, Duo of Justice!" said Copper. "With the evil spell was finally broken, our job will be a lot easier once again!"
"That's right, we can't thank you enough..." said Booker quietly.
"Don't sweat it, guys!" said Phantom Angel. "It's the least we can do for StarLily's sake!"
"Exactly, you two won't get anymore stress from now on," said Masked Swordmaster. "Since our job is done for today, we should get going right away."
Phantom Angel and Masked Swordmaster left the police station after curing the animals back to their normal selves. Suddenly, they ran into Katrina whose eyes were glimmering at them. She was not alone, their guardians were with her as well.
"Well done, young heroes," said Katrina. "You've finally unlocked the new power in your dreams, and my prediction has been fulfilled."
"Wait, so do you mean to tell us that our fortune, you gave us, was actually...?" Phantom Angel asked curiously.
"Exactly, the answer to your bigger problems..."
"Of course, I think that's what Katrina means!" said Masked Swordmaster. "The pure crystal is the best solution we've been looking for!"
"That is exactly our point!" said Neon.
"With the pure crystal power in your hands, no villains will stop you!" said Serena.
"That's right!" said Phantom Angel. "We will finally defeat Allen in no time!"
Masked Swordmaster cleared his throat and turned around for a second. Phantom Angel was curious about his reaction whether she said something wrong or not. Katrina, Serena, and Neon were just glancing at each other for a second.
"What? Did I say something wrong?" Phantom Angel asked in confusion.
"Oh no, it's not like that at all..." Masked Swordmaster replied softly. "It's just that I...I mean, about what happened the other day, it would've been my fault."
"What?" Serena asked.
"Masked Swordmaster!" Neon exclaimed.
"If this is about trespassing Allen's ship in order to rescue Lorelei and Darren, then it's not really your fault," said Phantom Angel. "It must've been part of Allen's plan."
"No, that's not the point!" said Masked Swordmaster. "What I meant to say is I should've told you all about Allen in the first place!"
Phantom Angel has no idea of what to say. Neither did Katrina, Serena, and Neon as they were glancing at each other in the confused way. After a moment of silence, Phantom Angel bit her lip and began to speak.
"So, is this what troubles you in the first place?" the angel asked.
"Yes, it is..." Masked Swordmaster sighed. "Allen was like a childhood friend to me before we become enemies..."
"Excuse me? He's your WHAT?!"
"Allen is Robert's childhood friend," Neon explained. "They used to be friends in the past...Until few moments later, Allen found the dark poison crystal in the ocean while he was scuba diving. As soon as he touched it, the darkness suddenly awakened him. That crystal chose him because he carries the evil blood in his veins!"
"The evil blood? Oh, just like Teb was carrying the evil blood, too! Right, Serena?"
"Yes, that's exactly right, Phantom Angel!" Serena explained. "I have heard that those who carried the evil blood will be awakened as a villain in some point. They will remain evil for the rest of their lives and never return to their normal state again."
"And this is what worries me more..." said Masked Swordmaster. "When Allen possessed the evil blood, he will never be the same anymore! Which means, the Allen I know no longer exists in my life..."
"Even if we don't get Allen back to normal, then there's no other choice but to kill him, right?" said Phantom Angel.
"Perhaps so...But first, we must get past his retainers before we will reach him!"
Masked Swordmaster finally had his confidence which made Phantom Angel really happy. They would never know when Allen's madness could end. The time would only tell for their future's sake.