Chapter 43: Cassie's Thorns.

Lukas makes sputtering, desperate gagging sounds as he grasps his throat, trying as hard as he can to stop the bleeding and keep his mask clean.

"GIMMEEE!" Cassie shrieks as she shoves past Ivor and snatches hold of Jesse's enchanted flint and steel, but fails to tug it out of the Hispanic girl's hands.

Jesse doesn't even fucking look at Cassie, just holds on tight to the item while watching Lukas, all the while Cassie struggles (and fails) to take it.

"HOLY SHIT!" Petra's freaking out, "IVOR! DO... IVOR STUFF!" she grabs Ivor as he's getting back to his feet and throws him into Lukas, who makes a very unpleasant choking sound upon impact.

"FUCK OFF, CASSIE!" Jesse's finally had enough of the lesser killer's futile but persistent attempts, she kicks her down with her right leg, and then scrambles over to Ivor and Lukas with the flint and steel, "is there anything we can do to help!?" she asks the old warlock.

"Don't worry, a couple health potions will fix this easily." Ivor responds, bringing out two health potions from his robes "just keep the culprit under control."

"YOOOUUU!" Petra turns on Cassie, a raging fire burning in her eyes instead of her pupils and irises "YOU... HURT... LUKAS...!"

"Fuck all of you! I hope he DIES." Cassie spits.

"He won't!" Ivor snarks over his shoulder.

"What if the potion spills back out of his throat while he drinks it!?" Jesse inquires.

"I will prevent that, using, my, HAND." Ivor announces as he forces the first potion down Lukas' throat.

"Petra...! KILL...! Cassie-fucktoy...!" Petra roars a challenge as she draws another sword for each of her hands, big ones.

"Come here and try it...!" Cassie accepts.

"Two on one!" Jesse gangs up, running at the prisoner and sparking her with flames from the flint and steel.

PWOOSH! Cassie burns.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-!" Cassie screams in pain as she runs straight to the water block and puts herself out "-awww...!"

She then turns around to face Jesse and Petra, equipping Petra's sword in her right hand and a stack of ender pearls in her left, "You two want to FIGHT ME!?" she yells, her eyes wild and crazy-ass "then let's, get, FIIIIIIGHTING!" she finishes by throwing one of the pearls at them.

Poof! it lands and she appears behind Petra, "GAAAH!" she thrusts for Petra's back.

"Too...!" Petra grunts as she easily leans sideways and avoids it, "fuckin...!" she drives her swords towards Cassie "EASY!"

Clang!-BAP! Petra knocks Cassie's (Petra's) sword out of her hand and then punches Cassie in the face with her fist, clenched around the handle of that hand's sword.

"DOW!" Cassie stumbles backwards, but she realizes what this is "n-no...! don't PLAY with me! take, me, SERIOUSLY! I will KILL YOU!"

"I got the thing, Petra!" Jesse waves her sister's/Cassie's sword around in the air.

"Gud." Petra grunts.

"Ohhhhhh, you guys SUCK!" Cassie throws a tantrum, stomping down on the floor, hard.

"Lukas has recovered!" Ivor calls.

"Uggghhh..." Lukas groans as he sits up "did you miss me, Cassssie?"

"NOOO! NO, NO, NO, NO!" Cassie screams "you BASTARDS! he was supposed to DIE!"

"And you, Cassie, were supposed to be raped brutally in the ass some more, and everywhere else for that matter." Jesse reminds, "but only one of those two things will actually happen, care to guess which one?"

"MYYY WAY WILL BE THE ONE!" Cassie screams, "YAAAAAARRRRRRG!" she starts throwing ender pearls all over the place "behold, the power of my ENDER STORM."

Cassie used: Ender Storm.

Poof-poof-poof-poof-poof-poof-poof-poof-poof-poof-poof! Cassie rapidly appears and disappears at various points around the room, dropping a TNT block with each teleport, surrounding Jesse's gang.

Poof-"HA-HA!" Cassie laughs as she finishes, appearing in the windowsill, "it's a shame I have to cause such damage to my dear, sweet mansion, but you will ALL die, one way...!" she takes out a fucking creeper egg "OR, AN-NO-THEEER!"

Smash! she throws the egg at them before breaking the window glass and leaping outside.

"JUST RUN!" Ivor takes to the window after her.

Poof! the creeper egg hits the ground and transforms into a creeper.

"My invention!" Jesse refuses to leave without her shit, running over to scoop up her armor.

"Into the water with you!" Lukas growls as he runs up and kicks the creeper like a badass, sending it toppling into the water.

"Arrrgh...!" Ivor stops himself from leaping out the window, forcing his legs to turn around and fucking run back "FINE! everyone grab your stuff and gather around me!"

"Hrmph!"-clang-clank-bang. Petra just kicks all the pieces of her armor over to Ivor's feet.

"Coming...!" Lukas chimes, bringing his stuff.

"Huh-huh-huh!" Jesse runs back with her arms full.

Hicssssssssssss...! the creeper angrily comes storming out of the water towards them.

As fast as he can, Ivor starts layin' down obsidian blocks, forming a small, uncomfortably tight barrier of them around the entire gang, but he left a single block unfilled, one facing the creeper.

"Wait for it...!" Ivor hisses, his arms shaky.

BOO-pt. Ivor lets the creeper blow itself and fills the gap just in the nick of time.

Meanwhile, outside...

BOOM-OOM-BOO-BOM-OOM-BOOM-BOO-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-OOM! Cassie watches the room blow the fuck up.

"HAAAAAA! HA-HA-HAAA, YESSS!" she cheers "I did it! I killed them ALL! mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha, MWAAA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!"

Poll Results!

"How will the resulting battle unfold?"

1. Petra will hold Cassie off alone while Jesse and Ivor try to take care of Lukas. 0 Vote(s). (0%)

2. Petra and Jesse will hold Cassie off while Ivor desperately heals Lukas. 2 Vote(s). (16.6%)

3. Petra will charge Cassie and attempt to steal her sword back, succeeds. 1 Vote(s). (8.3%)

4. Petra will charge Cassie and attempt to steal her sword back, gets stabbed. 0 Vote(s). (0%)

5. Petra will draw a new sword and swordfight Cassie. 0 Vote(s). (0%)

6. Petra will draw two new swords and use them like a fucking badass. 1 Vote(s). (8.3%)

7. Jesse will use her flint and steel mastery to send Cassie up in flames like a fucking badass. 0 Vote(s). (0%)

8. Ivor will heal Lukas in five seconds and it'll be back to four-on-one. 1 Vote(s). (8.3%)

9. Lukas will die and Cassie will face the full wrath of Jesse's gang. 1 Vote(s). (8.3%)

10. Jesse and Petra, being swordless, will try to keep Lukas alive while Ivor uses his potions mastery to kick Cassie's ass. 1 Vote(s). (8.3%)

11. Cassie will charge at Jesse, trip, and stab herself like an idiot. 0 Vote(s). (0%)

12. Petra will fucking toy with Cassie and own her in seconds, causing Cassie to flip out with frustration. 0 Vote(s). (0%)

13. Cassie will seize Lukas and hold him hostage, using his draining life to bargain her way out of the mansion. 1 Vote(s). (8.3%)

14. Cassie will seize Lukas and hold him hostage, using his draining life to bargain for Jesse's enchanted flint and steel. 1 Vote(s). (8.3%)

15. Cassie will seize Lukas and hold him hostage, and then she will rape him in revenge for what he's done to her. 0 Vote(s). (0%)

16. Cassie will fight using her sword and nothing else, like an idiot. 1 Vote(s). (8.3%)

17. Cassie will fight using the sword and her ax. 1 Vote(s). (8.3%)

18. Cassie will fight using the sword and ender pearls. 0 Vote(s). (0%)

19. Cassie will fight using the sword and her traps around the room. 0 Vote(s). (0%)

20. Cassie will try to seize Lukas, but he'll still find a way to own her. 0 Vote(s). (0%)

21. Something totally unexpected will prevent the fight. 1 Vote(s). (8.3%)

Total Votes: 12.

Total Voters: 2.

Well-well, that certainly was a ferocious battle! Out of everything listed in the poll, Answers that were correct include: 2. Petra and Jesse holds off Cassie (2 votes), 6. Petra draws two new swords (1 vote), 7. Jesse sets Cassie on fire (0 votes), 12. Petra toys with sad little Cassie (0 votes), and 18, Cassie fights with her sword and ender pearls (0 votes). That's five correct answers, with three votes between them. And BOTH voters got the first one right. Bravo!

And now do you know what time it is? It's time to once again, swing back over to:

D-A-N T-U-E-S-D-A-Y-S.

When we last left DAN TUESDAYS, PwnKang had just given Dan one chance to speak the truth, Dan did as instructed, but PwnKang believed him to be lying anyway. And now, Dan is in for PwnKang's "surprise".
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