Hey! Chapter 2's here finally! What will Honoka get today?
Venturing through the door, it didn't take too long for Honoka to encounter something. A small humanoid with pointy ears, spiky yellow hair, and clad in a blue jumpsuit. The creature was quickly pacing towards her with the intent to fight! Dread began to take hold of her when she realized the door she came through vanished! The fighter had lunged towards her and landed a jab to her stomach! As Honoka staggered, in a fit of desperation, she took the star out of her pocket and threw it at the enemy! When she got up after clutching her stomach in pain, she found the star had a bigger, rose-colored one following it.
Keeping a firm grip on the item, Honoka began to observe the area. The trees were enormous! Similar sized palm trees could be seen in front of a range of purple mountains. "What a strange cave.." Honoka thought. Scenery aside, a fairly tall cliff stood in her path. She couldn't go back anymore, so she'd have to figure out how to get over it. Jumping over the cliff didn't seem plausible, but Honoka didn't have much of a choice.. Despite the circumstances, after prepping herself, she managed to jump over the entire cliff! However, it wasn't because of her jump's height, it was because she was able to jump in mid-air forever! Honoka sighed, had she knew about this ability sooner, she would've been out this mess.. She couldn't change the past, so it was best to keep moving onwards.
Dropping off the other side of the cliff, she spotted a large red chest, outfitted with a gold trim. Curious about the contents within, Honoka lifted the lid and peeked inside... She pulled out a shiny golden medallion with a star carefully engraved into it. Honoka began to examine the medal, attempting to remove the foil off of it, believing there was chocolate inside. Eventually she found out it was made of actual gold, stunning the orange-haired girl who now realized she found something valuable in the cave. She reached for her school bag to put the medal away, she noticed however that she had unknowingly taken the star-patterned bag along as well! Seeing how the bag was empty, Honoka decided to carry anything she found in here in it.
Advancing forwards, Honoka saw a large sunflower, it had a face and was swaying side to side, occasionally winking at her. Upon approaching the strange flower, it's head reeled back and attempted to lunge at her! Honoka had managed to safely scamper away in time, taking her time to wonder how she'd get past it. She began to look at the star, still firmly in her grasp; "I took out that strange thing by throwing this... Maybe it could work here?" Honoka pondered. She reeled her arm back, ready to throw the star again, but before the star could leave her grip, the crimson star right above it had launched itself at the flower! Upon impact, the flower's head had been smacked violently against a carved gray block behind it, destroying both in the process!
Another door appeared from the rubble of the block with another sunflower behind that. With another sunflower guarding the door, Honoka tried to do what she did last time, however it didn't work this time... "Maybe I need another star.." Honoka thought, taking note that maybe the star needed ammo; Honoka stepped closer to the new sunflower to throw the smaller version at it. It did the job, defeating the flower and spawning a bigger star above the charm. With no more enemies to guard the door, she stepped into the door. Water had greeted her as she fell in; Honoka soon floated to the surface and quickly realized her clothes had changed into a orange swimsuit with a matching orange vest and skirt. She remembered this outfit as one she used in her idol activities along with her group members. Honoka chose not to question the clothing change, she loved swimming and this was better than trekking through the cave in a wet school uniform. Another chest had caught her attention, so she began to swim toward it. Quickly diving under and opening the chest revealed a gold coin! She surfaced to find nothing else in the room, so Honoka began to swim back to the door.
After climbing out the door, Honoka found she was back in her school uniform with barely any trace of water on her. Climbing up a slope, three odd, orange colored blocks with a bomb printed on the side caught Honoka's attention. Honoka wasn't a very smart person, only ever managing to get passing grades on tests, but she wasn't that dense to not realize something with a bomb on it wasn't safe to touch. She got a new star to throw from a strange feetless alligator-like creature, so she could touch the block from a reasonably safe distance. Upon hitting the block, Honoka saw that the block didn't explode at all, but she could hear some rumbling below it. Having confirmed it was safe to approach, Honoka got closer to the remaining blocks. She saw another enemy, but she'd have to choose which block to activate. Knowing that the block (probably) couldn't harm her, Honoka chose to activate the block the furthest to right. As expected, the block didn't harm her, but it took out the gray blocks under her causing her to fall down a fair height; The surprise from it had caused Honoka to fall on her rump, but she was quickly able to recover to find she'd opened up a tunnel! Honoka found blocks similar to the bombs with a star printed on it instead; They didn't look too strong and upon breaking one gave Honoka a star to shoot at the rest. One more block revealed another bomb with rather sturdy iron blocks around it.
Activating the bomb took out the iron blocks, with a chest lying beyond it. The chest contained a well used leather whip; It didn't look like a very effective weapon, so Honoka put it away and jumped out of the tunnel. Honoka walked through a door ahead of her, and got quite the shock to see that this door hadn't vanished behind her. She climbed up another cliff to encounter an azure colored bird wearing a pilot's cap and goggles. Honoka had swiftly thrown her star at it, bringing with it a sky blue star this time. She began noticing that this was the second time the charm had offered a different colored star rather than a yellow one most enemies had dropped. Curiosity got Honoka moving her hand closer to it, wondering what made it special. After an intense flash of light that made her fall to the ground, Honoka stood up to find her clothes had changed again! This time she found herself in a white dress paired with a vest, tie, beret, and some feathers included behind her hair bow.
Honoka felt a familiar feeling, like she could flap her wings and fly to the heavens! Of course she knew she didn't have wings, but she did it anyways to release some energy, and she found herself flying upwards! Upon landing, Honoka did a quick pose, sending some feathers flying at another blue bird. The star had given her new abilities!
Despite this, the bird that had given her this reminded Honoka of one of her childhood friends, Kotori Minami; It looked alot like some of the plushies Kotori kept in her room. Honoka began to feel a bit lonely, everything she met in this cavern tried to hurt her and she didn't know how long she'd be in here... "I wish Kotori-Chan was here..." Honoka muttered out. The same light engulfed her vision again, sending her falling to the ground again. Getting back up, Honoka heard a familiar voice..
"H-Honoka-Chan?"
Thanks for Reading!
Chapter 2 will be a lot longer with more treasures and even a certain Bluenette will be joining the adventure!