Stephanie continued running towards the burning castle, avoiding bush fires from getting burnt.
When she reached the entrance of the castle, Stephanie stopped in front of it, thinking to herself for a moment.
Then, she quickly took off her glasses and bubbled them, tapping the top to teleport them to safety.
After that, Stephanie puts her long hair up into a bun, reached into her pocket and pulled out a crescent moon-shaped hairpin that has a Tanzanite gemstone on it.
Once she had her long hair up into a bun and placed the pin in her bun to keep it from falling down, Stephanie ran into the castle as fast as she could.
She was on the mission to quickly find the heroes before the castle collapses.
Stephanie ran through the castle, searching for any cages that have the heroes locked inside.
Some cages were empty, but Stephanie just destroyed them so that the monsters would not use them anymore.
She dodged the traps the enemies laid out, bashed the minions out of her way, and freeing the Lums they were abusing.
Sometimes, Stephanie would find some small creatures after bashing some random cages they were inside, after they called out, "Help me!"
The small creatures have pale blue-gray skin and are characterized by their faces, which generally appear quite large due to their long, drooping noses, which overlap their hidden mouths.
Their noses are marked with elegant spiral patterns, which are slightly darker than the rest of their skin.
They have little, black, beady eyes and small hands.
The small creatures are wearing jail-like clothes, which are in the colors yellow and black and in stripes.
They would thank Stephanie after she rescued them from either the abuse from one of the evil minions, tied up to a pole or locked in a cage, before running off to exit out of the crumbling castle.
Stephanie kept doing this process as she went through the castle, bashing the enemies with her powers, freeing each creature inside the castle, and continued searching for the heroes.
Sometimes, when they showed their weapons, Stephanie would snap them in half after they swung it at her and defeated the enemy.
Outside the castle, there were banging noises and the sounds of the minions getting hurt, hearing some monsters crying out in pain a few times, but sometimes hear, "Oops, wrong way." from Stephanie.
Inside the main room of the castle, a massive red dragon flew down the hallway, roaring as it protected 7 or 8 cages that are dangling from the ceiling.
When the dragon disappeared into the hallway, a loud smack was replaced after that.
A yelp came from the red dragon, going back into the main room of the castle, with its tail between its hind legs as a handprint was on its face.
Stephanie stomped into the main room, barely covered in scratches, but her forehead was dripping with sweat from running all around the castle.
She glanced up at the ceiling and noticed the cages, smiling to herself.
Repositioning her legs, Stephanie was about to jump up and grab the nearest cage there is, when something quickly grabbed her leg after mid-jump, slamming her against the ground back-first with a spine breaking force.
Stephanie groaned after she was slammed to the ground, before seeing a massive black monster with one eye, roaring as it had multiple tentacles.
"Aw, frick!" Stephanie cursed before her leg was grabbed by a tentacle and flung up into the air.
When she was tossed up into the air to the ceiling, Stephanie saw someone in one of the cages.
That figure had no limbs and leaning against the side of the cage, its back facing towards her.
"Hey-!" Stephanie called out, before being cut off when the tentacled creature slammed Stephanie against the hard ground again, making a small crater underneath her.
Her body did not break from underneath her weight after the second slam, so the tentacled creature raised Stephanie high up in the air.
There were scratches on her body, but nothing broke or bled yet.
When Stephanie was up to the same cage again, Stephanie quickly reached into her blue jeans pocket and pulled the Golden Lum out from it and said, "You need this!"
She tossed the Golden Lum into the cage, between the bars, and in front of the limbless creature.
Then, Stephanie was slammed on the ground again, on the same spot, and deepened the crater underneath her body.
That third slam against the ground made some bruises on her body, but still did not make her bleed from it.
The creature roared with frustration, then lifted Stephanie up from the ground the fourth time, as her body limped in its grip.
It was about to wrap its other tentacles around her middle to pull her apart when Stephanie's long brown hair and wires turned white.
A slightly confused expression appeared on its eye after her hair turned white before Stephanie moved up from limping.
She quickly shot a beam of ice at its eye, freezing it with one shot.
The monster roared in pain after its eye was frozen, releasing its grip around Stephanie's leg as she dropped to the ground like a rag doll.
Instead of collapsing on the ground, Stephanie landed on her feet and glanced up at the cage where she had seen the limbless creature inside, thinking about the Golden Lum she had given.
A stray tentacle snapped her out of her thoughts, causing Stephanie to jump out of its way.
After she had jumped out of the tentacle's way, she landed on a pillar in the far back of the room.
The monster's eye healed after Stephanie gave it an icy blast, looking enraged as it roared again, launching its tentacles at her.
Stephanie looked slightly surprised from the speed the monster had, before quickly jumping out of the tentacles' way, running across one of them.
She continued dodging the tentacles, but a few times, Stephanie glanced up at the ceiling to check the cages.
Stephanie noticed that the one that had the limbless creature inside was swinging at a force, that the chain that held it up snapped from the movements.
"Holy-!" Stephanie exclaimed, before jumping out of the way when she was underneath the cage, as it smashed on the ground.
Soon, the other cages followed pursuit after the first one, crashing on the ground and damaging the tentacled creature's tentacles.
After the last cage dropped to the ground, something burst out from inside one of them, causing Stephanie to cover her head for a moment.
Then, something smacked her away from the battlefield with a strong force.
It caused her to crash against a pillar that crumbled from her back.
Then, something smacked her away from the battlefield, causing her to crash against a pillar.
After she had crashed into a pillar, it crumbled from behind her back.
Stephanie shook some debris off from her body and was about to stand up to fight against the creature, when something instead hit its weak spot a billion of times, before defeating it, making it disappear into a puff of black smoke.
She sat there for a moment on the ground, as her back was against the pillar she went into.
The expression on her face looked confused at what had happened.
Once the monster has been defeated, Stephanie placed her hands on the ground to stand up to her feet.
But, her bruises hurt her a little, so she sat back down for them to heal.
As Stephanie sat on the ground for her bruises to heal, someone walked up to her.
Stephanie looked slightly confused as she stared at the shadow, as the figure who has the shadow held his hand out for her.
To Stephanie's surprise, when she glanced up to see who it was, it was the limbless figure, the fairy mentioned to give the Golden Lum to.
Just like how Stephanie imagined he would look like, his hands, feet, and head float around his body.
He has a huge round nose and strawberry-blonde hair, which he divides into two fronds.
His eye color is dark blue, and his skin is fair.
His clothes are a purple sweater with a red hood and a white 'O' shaped symbol on his chest.
The limbless hero's shoes are in the color of yellow and white, and he has white gloves too.
Stephanie stared at him for a moment, after she had noticed him, before giving him a shy, but somewhat relieved smile.
Before she could say anything to break the silence, something dripped on Stephanie's arm, causing her to glance down at what it was.
The limbless hero noticed the same thing too.
He looked slightly confused as he moved his hand away from offering to Stephanie.
Holding her hand out, Stephanie noticed that it was debris that was dripping on her, before glancing at the limbless hero with the same confused expression on her face as he had.
Soon, more debris dripped on the two of them, causing them to slowly glance up at the ceiling.
They noticed that after Stephanie crashed into the pillar behind her back, cracks formed up to the ceiling, making it crumble.
To make matters worse, the holes the cages used to hang from were added into with the cracks, making the castle crumble from the damage.
"Oh, frick." Stephanie cursed, before a piece of the ceiling fell, heading towards the two of them.
Quick thinking, the limbless hero grabbed Stephanie by the hand and pulled her away from the piece of the ceiling, with such force that Stephanie yelped with startlement.
She was forced back onto her feet after he had yanked her out from under the piece of debris.
The piece of debris landed on the spot where Stephanie was, luckily not crashing on her.
Soon, Stephanie was running along with him, escaping from the crumbling castle.
The rest of the heroes followed after Stephanie and the limbless hero through the castle, as Stephanie was right behind him, holding his hand.
They all sped through the crumbling castle, avoiding each debris that was flying towards them from the ceiling.
Everyone headed towards the exit of the castle as fast as they could.
Soon, everyone zoomed out of the entrance of the castle, going through the now not on fire grass as the castle behind them finally collapsed.
Stephanie was panting after running with the limbless hero, kneeling down on the ground as he leaned against one of the trees.
"Thank you," he thanked after being quiet.
Stephanie glanced up at him and smiled, saying, "You're welcome." while winking at him.
She soon collapsed on her back on the grass, still panting and healing from the bruises over her body.
"You can let go of my hand now." Stephanie perked from being tired, looking slightly confused.
She glanced down at her right hand, noticing she was still holding onto his.
"Oh, oops, sorry," Stephanie apologized, releasing his hand.
His hand moved back towards him like magic, impressing Stephanie.
The rest of the heroes were panting and sitting in the grass.
This adventure might not be as bad as Stephanie suggested it might be.
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