Chapter 11: The Golem

Thank you Darkzuryan for some information about Golems and for supporting me throughout the story so far. It gave me A LOT of confidence to continue this story so thank you so very much! Reviews are always welcomed, bad or good. Enjoy!

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"Shit." Bo curses as her and Gou stood in front of The Golem.

"The hell is a Golem!?" Gou asks in fear. Suddenly, mud and clay started to move towards the Golem, making it bigger than before. It was now large as a two-story house, broader shoulders, thicker arms, and an oval shaped head that could fit a smart car. Rin yelled in pain as its grip tightened as it grew. Then it raises its arm, about to strike the girls.

"Get out of the way!" Bo shouts and pushes Gou away. The arm slams Bo into the ground, creating a large crater.

"Bo!" Gou shouts and runs towards the crater.

"I'm fine…" Bo says as she tries to get up but slips back to the ground

"How are you even alive!?"

"Another good point of being cursed is that you are bit stronger than an average human." Bo says as she gets up and tries to get out of the crater.

"What do we do?" Gou asks worriedly as she helps Bo out of the crater. "How do you defeat a Golem?" Gou gets frantic as she watches Rin in its grip, gasping with a pained face.

"The good thing about Golems is that they are EXERTEMELY STUPID!" Bo says loudly, trying to anger it. The Golem doesn't do anything as if it didn't hear her and just stands there. "See, dumb as fuck." Bo laughs. "But they make up for it by being extremely strong and will do anything for its master."

"Master?"

"Golems are supposed to guard and protect its creator A.K.A its master."

"So does that mean we have to find the creator and make him stop the thing right?"

"Depends." Bo vaguely answers.

"What the hell does that mean?!" Gou shouts at Bo. Then the Golem makes a big ball of mud in his hand and throws it at the girls. They moved out of the way, avoiding it.

"Gou, distract the thing! I'm gonna find us some water to use against it!" Bo shouts.

"Are you crazy!? We will turn into fish if we even touch the stuff!"

"Remember what I taught you! When in danger, you'll gain flippers!" Bo answers and runs to a red fire hydrant. She breaks off a large tree branch and starts to hit the fire hydrant with it. Water begins to squirt out of the hydrant. She continues to hit it until the water sprayed out like a geyser. She jumped in joy as the water flooded around her. Her feet became flippers and parts of her body became scaly with some fins. She waved her arms, causing water to rise up in the shape of a snake. Then she struck the Golem in the arm where it was holding Rin.

The arm came off and the mud around Rin loosened. Rin began to fall to ground but Bo quickly waved her arms again and caught Rin in a wave of water. She moves the wave to the park's entrance and gently puts him down. She turns around and sees the arm forming back onto the Golem. She quickly does a flip with water following her every move. She releases the water and hits the Golem in the face. His head was gone but it quickly regenerates.

"God damn it." She curses and runs to the other side of the park to keep it away from Rin. She does another flip and hits the Golem in the head again but its head regenerates again.

"Gou help me!" She shouts at her.

"I'm trying!" Gou shouts back. She moves her arms and puts them in a throwing stance. A large lance formed behind her as she stands still preparing to strike. Her eyes narrowed to focus on its head.

'That's not going to work. It will keep regenerating it back. Where else could I hit it?' She thought. She looked down at its legs. Instantly an idea hit her. She points the lance at its legs and strikes it. The lance splits the leg in half, making the Golem collapse onto the ground.

"Way to go Gou!" Bo praises her. But all the mud around the Golem moved back into the creature and it rises up again. Then it turns towards Gou and forms a fist. She moves out of the way as it strikes and it hits a fire hydrant. It fist covers the hydrant and absorbs the water. Its body grew a bit more as it continued to absorb the water.

"Okay new plan! How do you to take down a Golem without the use of water?" Gou says as she runs towards Bo while watching the giant take in the water. "Got any ideas!?"

"Um…" Bo mumbles. Then she snaps her fingers and gives a large grin. "I got it!" She shouts. Then she grabs Gou's shoulders and looks her in the eye. "You gotta freeze the thing!" Bo says happily.

"What!"

"The thing is absorbing water. Mud is just wet dirt. If you can freeze the water inside dirt then we can take this thing down."

"I can't do that!"

"Why not?!"

"Because…because…"

"Because what!?"

"Because I can't freeze anything!"

"Yes you can. You've done it before right?"

"That was on accident. I don't know how I did it." Then the Golem turns and raises his fist again.

"Well you are gotta find a way now!" Bo shouted. The Golem strikes her and she goes through a tree and slams into the one behind the other. Her eyes roll into the back of her head and she falls hard to the ground.

"Bo!" Gou shouts but Bo doesn't move an inch. Then the Golem raises his fist, preparing for another strike. "Oh fuck!" Gou jumps and somersaults out of the way. As she does that, three lances formed next to her and then she strikes the Golem. The lances get stuck on the Golem's side but it does no damage and quickly gets sucked into the creature. 'What do I do now!?' She thought.

'You gotta freeze the thing!' Bo voice reminds her. 'Freeze it!? I don't know how!' she thought frantically. As she was stuck in her thoughts she doesn't notice the Golem's fist. Bo slowly rises and sees the Golem getting ready to strike once more.

"GOU LOOK OUT!" Bo screeches. Gou looks up and sees a large fist coming towards her. She tries to escape its path but she was too slow. The fist hits Gou and grabs her and slams her into its chest. Gou tries to peel herself away from it but quickly she gets sucked her into its chest.

"GOU!" Bo cries out as see watches Gou disappear from sight.