A/N – Well this chapter took long than necessary. (blame that to my laziness, and as well as the time I took to make the cover)
After this I will never ever gonna write the next few half of the match, because that would take me much longer than it needs to be. I also have to make some changes, mostly the dates, as well at this story and at the previous story, The Duel, because I was supposed to make the first match to take place in Monday, which is March 17, 2014.
So, thanks for your patience, and now, I introduce you the 2nd Chapter of Splatoon – Reunion, The Masquidteers' First Ranked Match, showing the first half of the Masquidteers' first match. This chapter is really packed with action with less dialogue, and it also shows the results of what Kthulhu's has been experimenting in his hiatus.
(also, I think I got the map wrong… again… and I'll keep it that way for now)
Anyways, I won't keep you for long. I shall give you the second chapter of Splatoon – Reunion, and I hope you enjoy!
Chapter 2 – The Masquidteers' First Ranked Match
Location – Blackbelly Skatepark, Inkopolis
Time – March 17th, 2014, 8:03AM
"Alright, here we go, team!" Yeran excitedly yelled as soon as she and the other members of the Masquidteers have been teleported to their Green spawn point; Yeran teleported in the right side of their spawn point, Kthulhu in the left, Raei in the front, and Verique in the back, "Our first ever ranked match as the Masquidteers!"
The stage is Blueberry Skatepark, the same stage Kthulhu battled in his first match with Yeran and Verique. This stage already brings back memories of his first day of his career of Turf Warring, and it was pleasant to remember how he splatted Yeran for the first time in that match. Too bad he has no plans on using it on the future.
"And its Splat Zones," Verique added. Splat Zones are Verique and Yeran's favourite mode according to Raei in one of their conversations in the Masquidteers group chat, and also according to him that they are great at it, "It gets better with Splat Zones as our game mode for the first match."
"We are totally gonna win this, team!" Kthulhu admirred her optimism for the team's first ever ranked match together. The odds of winning got way higher because Yeran's high-spirited attitude today, which, like her smiles, is pretty infectious.
"It looks like we are off to a good start," Raei commented, as he prepares his Golden Dynamo Roller, "You're ready for our first match, K?"
"Born ready," Kthulhu answered with a determined smile.
"That's the spirit, K, we'll definitely gonna win this!" He then looks back at Verique, who is looking at his Squidphone that shows their opponents, "Who we're fighting for our first match, Verique?"
"A pretty well rounded team," Verique said as he scans their opponents, "Nothing out of ze ordinary, its just an E-Liter, an Inkbrusher, a 52. Gal, and a Mini Spatling."
"Sounds familiar," Raei lets his lips form a devious smirk, as if he knows their opponents, "...way too familiar..."
"Yep, you're Raeight... It's 'zhem..." Verique shakes his head. Kthulhu can't tell if he is disappointed or amused of either about what he discovered, or maybe about the bad pun that he just made with Raei's name. He doesn't seem to be bothered by it by the slightest.
"What do you guys mean?" Yeran asked as an eyebrow rose in curiosity.
"We'll be battling my friends," Raei answered, "Or in this case, our friends, right, nerdy boy?"
"Yep."
Yeran's eyes widened, surprised, "You're other friends? Who are they?" She asked excitedly, never would've thought that the fact the Masquidteers will have to battle Raei and Verique's other friends in their first Ranked match.
"You'll see soon," Verique then looks at Kthulhu and winks as he puts he puts his Squidphone back to his pocket. Oh, he knows what he means. This made Yeran frown, not because of Verique winking at Kthulhu, but he answered in a very vague and unsettling manner.
With that note, he readies his Carbon Roller, and also inspects the handle that he puts on his roller. It is still super glued (not literally) to the roller, and it's in perfect condition.
Raei notices this, as he peeks on Kthulhu's weapon, and he can't help asking, "What's with that on your roller?"
"It's a handle." He flatly answered.
Raei stared at Kthulhu with a deadpanned expression on his face, completely unamused, "Very funny. I mean, what's with that handle on your roller?" He clarified.
"You'll see soon, Raei," Kthulhu vaguely answers him. Raei furrowed his eyebrows in slight annoyance, but before he can say another word, the automated speakers spoke, "Attention, Battlers! The Ranked Match is about to start! Ready yourselves in a few seconds!"
"Looks like it's time," Verique said, as he prepares his Dual Squelchers for action, "'Ze first match of 'ze Masquidteers is about to start! Let's give it our all, but before we start, put your fists together and shout Booyah if you all are ready!"
"Booyah!" Yeran, Verique, and Raei yelled unison as they bump their fists into each other. Kthulhu didn't need to shout it to know that he is ready, as he smiled as he observed the strong team chemistry that the newly-formed team had. After that, all of the members looked at Kthulhu, expressing their confidence to their leader.
"So, anything to say before we start, Captain K?" Yeran asked, eager to hear what Kthulhu has to say. All of the members looked at him expectantly, waiting for their captain to say anything before the match starts that would boost up their confidence.
Luckily, he already knows what to say, as he opens his mouth to speak the words that have made them ten times confident, "I'm not a squid of words, but like Verique said, let's give it our all...
"And let's win this, and make mine and our team's first ranked match, as well as my return-" He then bumps his fists with the others, "-worthy of the Masquidteers!"
"BOOYAH!" The three other Masquidteer members shouted in unison, as they, along with Kthulhu, throw their fists into the air, ready for everything the opponent that will be thrown at them. It is not much, but since he has inspired his teammates, he felt good about it.
"Five seconds remaining..." Said the automated speaker beside their spawn point, making the Masquidteers get back to their position and ready themselves for battle.
"Time for battle..." Raei muttered to himself, as he readies his roller in battle stance.
3...
2...
1...
GO!
"Vamonos, Masquidteers!" Raei said as he started to fling ink on the right side of his spawn point, Kthulhu also flinging ink to his left in unison with Raei, as Verique quickly sprinted off to the right while he inks the ground with his Dual Squelchers, and Yeran excitedly runs off to the left while making ink paths from her charger. With that, Kthulhu and Raei started rolling their perspective rollers to ink most of the ground that are left in their area, whilst going to the center to battle their opponents.
And so, the first Ranked Match of the Masquidteers has begun...
A few seconds in, they have inked their first zone, and shet got immediately crazy as soon as Kthulhu and Raei reached the center.
After they have inked their area that is near the spawn, they proceed to ink their way to the center to ink the first zone and holy squid, they got immediately barraged rapidly by raining ink from the opponents Splatling that is standing at the tower in the middle. He wears a Alolan Shirt that has longer sleeves, Octo Glasses with transparent lenses, and Shark Moccasins. He has Pink tentacle hair with Cyan tips, but his tentacle hair is not like other male Inklings that are tied up in knots; his tentacle hair is like Eica, comb over to the left, albeit his is shorter and is comb over to the right instead of left, while his tentacle hair in the back is similarly tied like Marie's, just not like a ribbon, but it is tied up like a knot. His Octo Glasses lenses are shining, and he grins excitedly as he is about to splat both Kthulhu and Raei.
Both Kthulhu and Raei backed off to their inked area, and looked at the Splatling Inkling that is atop of the p but not without getting hit by off the ink that fired from the Splatling.
"Ha, ha, looks like you can still dodge some of my shots, Raei!" The opposing Inkling with the Splatling shouted at them, impressed, "It is to be expected from you, after all, and I also never expected that you and Kthulhu to be our opponent."
Raei flashed out a smirk in his lips, "Yeah, didn't expect you to be our opponent either, Zayd…" Zayd? He seems to know the Splatling Inkling, "Good luck winning against us, you'll gonna need it…" He flings ink from his roller horizontally in the enemy ink that is mixed in theirs, and his hair suddenly lit up with bubbles. His Special is up, and he immediately takes out his Inkstrike (the normal kind this time) and fired it at the tower that Zayd's currently standing on.
"Heh, you'll gonna also need it," Zayd said as turns into a squid and he jumps off the tower he is standing on as soon as Raei's Inkstrike is about to drop, avoiding the explosion. While he drops down, he began charging his Splatling, and as soon as he landed on the ground, he resurfaces and started to fire his Splatling.
The two squids immediately splits up; Raei to the raeight (sorry not sorry), and Kthulhu to the left, to avoid fire from the Splatling. He then focus fired on Raei first, giving Kthulhu the opportunity to close the distance, but as soon as he got close though, he puts down a Suction bomb by the ramp beside Kthulhu. He then swims backwards to avoid the explosion from the bomb, and throws a Burst Bomb as soon as he resurfaced. The Splatling Inkling dodged it by swimming through the ink that he created when he fired a barrage of ink shots onto the Kthulhu and Raei.
He is now vulnerable to be splatted in two sides. Kthulhu immediately took this opportunity as he folds his roller, firmly holds the hilt of the roller with his right hand, grabbed and holds the handle that he put in the roller, and prepares a vertical swing as he lunged at Zayd, ready to splat him, as well as Raei about to about to fling ink at Zayd. But as Zayd resurfaced, his hair is flowing with bubbles, indicating that his Special is ready to be deployed. As soon as he resurfaced, he suddenly pulled out an Inkzooka out of nowhere, aiming at Raei. As fast he pulls it out, he fired the Inkzooka while he is still midair, expelling swirling tornado at Raei that splatted him instantly.
He begins to turn around and fire the Inkzooka at Kthulhu, but as soon as he turns around to face him, Green ink hits him by the shoulder, staggering him backwards, and fired the Inkzooka at the wrong direction, missing his shot. Kthulhu then pulled out a burst bomb, and he slaps Zayd with it in the face, balance completely vanished as he stumbles backwards. Kthulhu then swipes his roller horizontally like a sword at Zayd's left hip, splatting him.
Welp, that didn't ended well for Raei… Kthulhu thought as he stands started to ink the left side of the centre of the stage. He is halfway through doing so, until he saw pink ink flying everywhere from one of the passages in their side of the stage, as well as green ink. In the same passage emerged Verique who is swimming away, and another Inkling girl came out front flipping out of the passage, an Inkling Girl that is way too familiar, maybe the same Inkling girl that Verique is talking about earlier. She wears Camo Zip Hoodie that didn't help hiding her big chest, wears cycling shorts that are seemingly skin-tight, showing those sexily slender legs, and Crazy Arrows. She wears no headgear, assuming that she wears Fake Contacts. She has light green eyes, and pink comb over tentacle hair with gold tips.
He immediately recognizes her, and there's no mistaking it; she's Eicarin 'Chelfinn, a skilled Seinen Inkling girl and the same Inkling girl he battled against during the preparations for the Duel, and the same Inkling girl Yeran got infatuated to the first time she sets her eyes on her. Hoo boy, the first Ranked Match of Kthulhu and the Masquidteers, as well as his return match is getting a lot more interesting than he thought it would be.
As Verique backs off of her 52. Gal's Range, he points his Dual Squelchers, but he didn't fire ink as he saw her excitedly wave her free arm at Kthulhu and shouted a greeting, "Bonjour, Kthulhu!" He then glances at his back to see Kthulhu, and also waved at him briefly, and briefly points at Eica with his thumb while he winks, mischievously grinning. Kthulhu nodded, as if he understands what he meant, as the two Inkling boys brought their gaze back at Eica, "It's good to see you in the splattlefield again, Kthulhu!"
Kthulhu waves at her with his two fingers, before going back to reality and started to battle against each other, as Kthulhu rolls his way to Verique and Eica.
Eica then points her 52. Gal directly at Verique, and fired burst rounds of ink at him. He dodged most of them while he tries to get near her, but he got hit by the two times in the right thigh, stopping his from moving another step to her for a second. She did not waste any more time to shoot him with burst rounds of ink of her 52. Gal, splatting him. Kthulhu came into range a little late, and swings his roller vertically at Eica, shooting a line of ink at her. She dodged it by doing a 360 degree side spin to her left with grace as she proceeds to fire burst round of ink at Kthulhu.
He instinctively backed off from the range of her weapon, and proceeds to jump and vertically swing his roller at Eica, flinging another straight line of ink at Eica. As expected, she dodged it with the same technique she did to dodge his initial swing, and this time, Kthulhu came prepared. After he swung his roller, he let go of the roller with his left hand, and takes out a Burst Bomb like he unsheathes his sword upwards preparing for battle, and swings it at her.
But the bomb didn't hit her, as she surprisingly dodged it by leaning her body slightly backwards.
But he is not done yet with his attack, as he continues to raise the burst bomb into the air, and precedes to slams it into the ground. Again she dodged it, but this time, in the last second, she jumped and did a gymnastic flip over him, using his back as a support. She is so light that Kthulhu didn't even flinch.
He then looked at his back, just to see her inking the zone that he gained the last few seconds. He immediately gained some of them by flinging a straight line at Eica, as he chases after, while attempting to retake the zone that she is about to take. But before he can even do anything, she puts a Splash Wall in front of him, blocking him. She then fires a burst round of ink at the corner of the zone, taking it.
They took Control!
"Ha hah, nice try, Kthulhu, but you have to try harder than that-"
SPLAT!
He just heard what seems to be an unintentionally sexual grunt behind the Splash Wall, as he witnesses Eica get splatted by a random black squid came out of nowhere with the Golden Dynamo Roller in back, whilst retaking back his team's zone with a splat bomb. Well that sentence got sexual real quick…
They lost Control!
"Surprise, mothersquirter," Raei said as soon as he splatted Eica. You don't hear that every day when a sexy inkling girl got surprise splatted so hard by a Golden Dynamo Roller while inking back their splat zones if you know what I mean. *wink wink
"What an inktrance, Raei," Kthulhu remarked, "You're on a roll with those sneak attacks."
"Thanks, I've been practicing. Now let's go, get the other zone!" He said as he motioned Kthulhu to roll their way to the other zone that is under the opponent team's control. Kthulhu then vertically flings ink to the tower, and he climbs to top of the tower to get a better view of the battlefield. Zayd is swimming his way to the center, while Eica's squid ghost is going into their spawn point.
A black-skinned Inkbrusher that kinda looked like Raei for some reason is about to slide his way to the zone, wearing Two-Stripe Mesh, Green Cardigan, and Zombie Hi-Horses. He uses the vanilla Inkbrusher, using it to slide his way to the zone to ink his team ink that is left in the zone.
The Pink Team is on the lead, their timer has gone down to 89 already in the first minute, while the Masquidteers has about 96. He needs to be tactical in taking the other zone, as he folds his Carbon Roller and grabs the handle again, while letting his left hand go off the roller hilt, holding his Carbon Roller like a sword again, ready to take over the enemy zone.
This is the perfect opportunity to ambush the Inkbrusher and take the zone from the opponent team. He was about to jump off the tower and about to splat the Inkbrusher…
…until he saw something shined in the corner of his closed eyes, in which he immediately recognizes an incoming charger shot…
As fast as he could, he lifts his roller at the line of fire of the charger and he successfully blocked it. He then looked at the direction where the charger shot came from, and he saw an Inkling boy with Dark Emerald Green, half-closed Monolid Eyes that is usually seen with Southeastern Inklings, prominently from the country, Yangtze, and with tied up pink tentacle hair with Dark Jade Green tips, standing on a yellow grate platform. He wears Paisley Bandana, Anchor Sweat, and Plum Casuals. His tentacle is a little longer than most of the Inklings he saw in the Plaza, and wears a bored expression in his face. He looked much more skinnier compared to other Inklings, and he always wonders how he can carry such a heavy weapon without much difficulty.
There's no mistaking it either; he is also one of the Inklings that he battled against during his match with Eica, as he is one of the skilled players in the said match. Now he had to be cautious of him this time, as his accuracy is always is at deadly eagle level.
The sniper is about to charge his E-Liter at Kthulhu, until he was interrupted by a random splat bomb that is thrown at the grate. He instinctively turned into a squid and swam through the ink in the wall and withdraws from the Splat Bomb. He then saw another splat bomb that landed on the outline of the zone.
Bomb Rush… Yeran's Special is on the house. Now this is the perfect time to drop down, splat the Inkbrusher , and take the zone. He turned into his squid form and jumped off of the tower. He saw the Inkbrusher fighting off Green Ink that is taking his team's zone that is coming from Yeran's Splat Bombs. Fortunately for Kthulhu, he is just about the right place, near the spot where he will land.
Kthulhu then turned back to his Inkling form mid-air, his roller ready to swing down vertically at the Inkbrusher, as he rotates himself to face his direction at the Inkbrusher. He was about to make a perfect sneak attack, but his big shadow gave his position away, and the Inkbrusher looked up. Screw you, you freakin' ball of fire in the sky…
The Inkbrusher then hops backwards as soon as Kthulhu is about to land, and slams his roller onto the Inkbrusher's noggin, getting hit by some ink that flung off from the roller instead instead. A Splat Bomb later, they finally took the opponent zone.
We took Control!
He took out a Burst Bomb and throws it directly at the Inkbrusher. The Inkbrusher deflected it back to Kthulhu with his Inkbrush, his ink is almost depleted, and he then tried to swim away by sliding his way out of the area. Until he got halted by a Splat Bomb thrown at the direction he is going, forcing him to hop back to the same spot he is on before he attempted to flee.
With the Inkbrusher vulnerable to be splatted, he momentarily submerged in Green Ink to refill, and then resurfaced with a burst bomb at hand. As soon as he resurfaced, he immediately threw it at the Inkbrusher to pressure him on defending himself from the closest danger he saw. He successfully swatted it away to left, but was slightly damaged by the ink that flew off from the burst bomb as it hits the wall, making him flinch a little.
This is enough time to make Kthulhu move in for the splat with a horizontal swing. He dashes to the Inkbrusher. On cue, Raei came out from the left behind the Inkbrusher, who is ready to swing his roller horizontally to the right at the Inkbrusher. This way he will be vulnerable of getting splatted from all sides. Raei then dashed to the Inkbrusher, who also turned around to see Raei is about to splat him as well, knowing full well that he can't escape.
They immediately reached the distance, with both rollers ready to swing horizontally at the Inkbrusher, with Kthulhu swings it like a sword, and Raei swings it horizontally like normal. As soon as the Inkbrusher is in range of the rollers, with no escape and ink is almost depleted in his ink tank, he was immediately crushed by Kthulhu's Carbon Roller and Raei's Dynamo Roller, sandwiching him to oblivion and turning him into an ink puddle as the two rollers connected between him.
SPLATWICHED!
"WOOO! Yes, we did it!" Raei cheered. They have been practicing that technique between those two days of hiatus, and those two days of training has paid off well for the both Rollers, "Finally splatwiched someone!"
They pulled out their rollers away from each other, and they high-fived for their success of the technique. The celebration was short lived though, as they heard a yelp behind Kthulhu; Yeran got splatted by the E-Liter Sniper inside the zone they have captured moments ago. He won't have any of that, as Kthulhu's hair is lit with bubbles, his Special, Inkzooka, ready. He decided that he should save it for later. He swims a bit closer to the sniper, and again as soon as he resurfaces, he pulls out a Burst Bomb and threw it beside the sniper.
The sniper was turning to face Kthulhu, and saw the Burst Bomb that is about him, making him instinctively swims away through the wall and away from the grate. He is soon quickly to get out of the bomb radius, and glances at the direction Kthulhu is, to see him already swam up to his location, with his Carbon Roller ready to splat him. Kthulhu swings his Carbon Roller vertically down to fling ink at the sniper at a long, straight line, successfully hitting him that makes him stagger backwards and stuns him. He then dashed forward to the sniper, and swings his horizontally like a sword at the sniper, hitting him in the hips and splatting him.
Successfully splatting the sniper, he then looked back Raei, who seems to be fighting Zayd again with difficulty, pushing Raei back, possibly back to the other zone, while Zayd is screaming, "That's raeight, run back to 'yer splat zone!" His battle crazy tone added up to the fear factor.
"Screw off with the puns, Zayd!" Raei yelled back, as he continues to get pushed back by Zayd, "I've already heard that a few minutes ago and already heard it a million times!" He was then continuously pushed back to the zone by Zayd's powerful barrages of ink with glee and with a crazy expression on his face, like a mad scientist that has become successful with a very recent experiment.
Well, better go and assist Raei…
He swings down his roller vertically at the tower, inking a long line of ink path that almost reached the top of the tower, and throws a burst bomb at the tip of the ink path to complete the ink path to the top of the tower. He then turns into his squid form and swims way to the top of the tower.
The first thing he saw as he got up to the tower is Yeran swimming her way to the first zone of the Masquidteers. Verique is in the alley that is about to jump out and help Raei defending the zone. Glancing at the zone, Raei is struggling to keep his ground against the crazy Zayd firing off barrages of ink at him from his Mini Splatling. In the corner of his closed left eye, he saw an Inkling that is about to swim to zone, possibly Eica about to assist Zayd.
Raei is at a disadvantage right now. If he doesn't help, they'll splat him with ease and the Masquidteers would lose control, and the others may struggle retaking it back because Zayd is going ham with the Mini Splatling right now, and if Yeran came in and Eica is on her sights, she will be stiff as a statue for the whole game until she is out of sight, either girls got splatted, or Kthulhu slapping her right in the face if he ever get the chance. Teasing her will be after the round is over or maybe after defending the zone successfully.
His long tentacle hair is flowing bubbles right now, his Special, Inkzooka, ready to be deployed. He wasted no more time, as he puts his Carbon Roller on his back, and takes his Inkzooka somehow out of thin air. He then aims towards the Zayd, who is nearing the already struggling Raei.
He fired the first tornado shot at Zayd. The first tornado shot didn't hit the target, but it instead hits a splash wall, which was place by Eica, who is now beside Zayd. At the same time, Verique just arrived at the fight, and threw a Splat Bomb. Raei also threw one in unison with Verique. The Splat Bomb Raei threw hits the Splash Wall, which it instantly exploded beside Zayd. Eica is fast enough to pull him away from the Splash Wall before the Splat Bomb hits the Splash Wall, but without Zayd risking damage from the explosion.
The next danger for them is the other Splat Bomb that Verique just threw, which landed a few feet from them. Both then turned into their squid forms back to their ink of its radius in time as they are getting fired upon by Verique's Dual Squelcher, but there is another threat that they have to worry about; Kthulhu's Inkzooka and his rather deadly aim with it. Kthulhu then aims at the path they are swimming to and fires another tornado shot at them. This made the two split; Eica swims to the right and Zayd swam backwards. Zayd resurfaced, an Inkzooka in hand, aimed at Kthulhu, with his also aimed at Zayd.
In unison, both Inkzookas fired at the same time, both aimed at each other.
The two tornados pillars collided with each other and both pillars exploded on impact, scattering big chunks of ink of Green and Pink Ink on all directions, slightly damaging Zayd, Raei, Verique and Eica. Zayd recovered quickly and fired another tornado pillar at Kthulhu, but he dodged by jumping down from the tower and to the elevated structure that is beside the tower, and fired another shot at Zayd. He almost got hit again, as Eica manages to put another Splash Wall in front of Zayd to protect him as he submerged into his ink and regenerate.
Kthulhu then switched his target, and points his Inkzooka slightly above Eica's head and fired a shot, his tornado shot went over the Splash Wall and it is about to hit Eica. She notices quickly, she elegantly side flipped to the left, whilst trying to fire her weapon against the cautiously advancing Verique shooting ink over the Splash Wall. Damn, she really does know how to fight with those hips and flips as she dodges that tornado pillar with style.
As she landed gracefully, Zayd resurfaced, his Inkzooka ready, and it fired a tornado pillar at Verique. Verique barely dodged it, but he got hit by the edge of the ink tornado pillar, and he attempted to get out of his line of fire, until Zayd just dashed through Eica's Splash Wall, and suddenly fired another ink tornado pillar at Verique at point blank range with the same crazy expression he wore earlier, splatting Verique. Zayd's Inkzooka's ink tank has been depleted, as he threw it to the side.
As Kthulhu fired his last few shots at Eica who is just flipping back and forth, and forth and back, Raei goes in for the splat, as he raises his Dynamo roller for a horizontal swing. Zayd has his barrage ready, and he lets out a half-charged barrage at Raei, who also has swung his Golden Dynamo Roller down, flinging a powerful ink at Zayd that is enough to splat him in one-hit. He did splat him, but the barrage is fired much earlier than Raei's, splatting Raei as well, which made the two fighters splat themselves simultaneously.
Kthulhu has fired his final Inzooka shot, emptying the Inkzooka's ink tank, and Eica is now side flipping a few feet away from the spot where Zayd got splatted. As Eica landed, she then fired her weapon at Kthulhu, who now jumped down from the elevated structure and towards Eica. Before he landed, he turned into his Inkling form, his Carbon Roller folded at his right hand whilst holding the handle, ready to fling a straight ink. As soon as he landed, he swings down his Carbon Roller, flinging a straight, long line of ink towards Eica. Eica hopped back, out of the way of the line of ink that is flung towards her, whilst trying to splat him with her .52 Gal.
He dodged the burst shots by hopping to his right, and hopped again to the left, right right, and now back, and swings down his roller to fling another straight line of ink at Eica. As expected, she hopped to the left, but before her feet hits the ground, Kthulhu threw a Burst Bomb directly at Eica.
Eica, being one of the most Inkling Girls who has really astounding stamina, endurance, and reflexes he ever met in his career, quickly notices the Burst Bomb, and frantically hopped diagonally backwards to her left before the bomb hits her. He was about to fling ink at her as soon as she lands, but a powerful charged shot from a Charger directly hits her, immediately splatting her.
Kthulhu froze mid-windup for a few seconds. That was a perfectly timed shot came out of nowhere. He then glances behind him, and he saw Yeran standing above the edge of the elevated plateau structure by the zone. Her face is now painted in the color of a tomato, she is visibly shaking slightly, maybe in anxiety, her facial expression is mixed with surprised, nervousness, and kinda like the expression when you see your high school pass you by. She then notices Kthulhu staring at her funny, and her eyebrows furrowed together, probably anticipating for Kthulhu to tease her with sign language.
But what she gets instead is a thumbs-up from Kthulhu, and mouthing the word nice. Her eyebrows shot upwards in surprise. A second later, her lips formed a small smile, and mouthed the words thanks. Their friendship sure evolves quickly.
Another second passes; they heard an explosion that sounded like an explosion coming from an Inkstrike. Kthulhu and Yeran glance to the source of the sound, and they saw a giant explosion of Pink Ink that has been expelled into the sky.
We lost Control!
An Inkstrike has been launched onto the zone that they just captured earlier. Looks like the Inkbrusher has already respawned and he got enough points to get an Inkstrike to retake their zone back.
Well, ain't that a waste of Inkstrike…
The two friends glanced back to each other. Both then nodded, knowing what to do, Kthulhu then proceeds to fling ink at the central tower to climb up to the top, while Yeran turned into her squid form and she saw through the ink that is left by her teammates to rendezvous with Kthulhu to the top.
The first match, or in this case, the first half of Kthulhu's first Ranked Match in his grand return, with the Masquidteers, and his first Ranked Match ever, has been… interesting to say the least. In the said match, they somehow matched up against Raei's friends; Eica Chelfinn', Zayd, the unnamed Inkbrusher and the unknown E-Liter Sniper, and they are also pretty skilled battlers.
What a way to start the day…
But the match is not over yet. This is just the first half of the match, and the battle is yet to be over. The opponent team are still fighting strong, and the Masquidteers are gonna do everything for them to win their first match. After all, the battle has just began, and they are gonna make this match worthy of the Masquidteers…
A/N – This is the end of the chapter! I hope you enjoy the action that I've been working on for weeks, which oddly took me long to write for some reason.
What really took this chapter so long is the damn cover page; I'm having problems with the colors, but I managed to do it in due time. :D For the full size of the image, you should check it out on my Tumblr, Cthulhian Artist's Works Officei, just search for #splatoon - reunion.
Also here is another Nationality that I used for this chapter:
Yangtze – A country from the Southeast Region, and the biggest country of Earth. It is the Splatoon incarnation of China, with the name is based off of the river of the same name. Natives, Citzens, and Language there is Yangtzen, or Yangtzese.
So anyway, I hope you enjoy the chapter, and I'll see you all in the next one!
.:Preview for the Next Chapter:.
"How about we continue the talk later, and we'll treat you guys food in Cephalon Haven, si?" Raei offered, "That match surely took a lot of us, am I right, K?"
"Yeah, sure," Kthulhu nodded, agreeing, "After all, a girl behind really wanted that date with Ei-"
He was interrupted by Yeran slapping him in the back of the head, "Shut up, you takoyaki! I had enough of your shite already!" She then turns to face Zayd's team, while Kthulhu rubs the back of his head. That was one mean slap, "Tá an-leithscéal orm, what he is about to say is not true-"
"Are you sure about 'zat?" Verique interrupted, mischievously grinning, with his thumb and index finger firmly presses on his chin; the word in sign language that would annoy her for eternity.
Yeran is fuming with anger and embarrassment, really flustered. Zayd is grinning with pride, and Eica is trying to hold off her chuckle from coming out of her mouth. She was about to punch the nerd right in the face, but Raei got in between them, trying to controlling his amusement right now.
"Alright, alright, enough with the banter," Raei said, attempting to calm down, "Now, let's get to the Cephalon Haven before shite escalates quickly."
Development starts – Tomorrow, March 28th, 2018
Chapter will be uploaded in – Early May