Last time Bloom and co. got ready for a party on Jurai that would announce the engagement between Sasami and Roderick. Meanwhile Icy, Darcy and Stormy arrived on Jurai with Normad, an assassin of few words. Just as Ayeka and the guests were toasting Roderick and Sasami, Icy decided that the time was right to crash the party. On with the show!
Chapter 10: No Need for a Ruined Party
Bloom nearly dropped her wineglass at the sound of the glass ceiling shattering. She looked up and then covered her face to avoid being eviscerated by all the falling shards of glass. "Now what!" exclaimed Flora. "Three guesses," said Carmen as she glared up, "And they start with I, D, and S."
Bloom looked up to see Stormy blasting away with dark lightning, and was shortly followed by Darcy and Icy. "Damn it!" exclaimed Stella as she transformed into her fairy outfit, "Those witches have ruined Sasami's engagement party, and nobody ruined a party on my watch!" Bloom and the others transformed as well, while Sky and the boys charged up their energy swords.
Meanwhile Carmen, Morgan and Elise had already reformatted their attire for more fight worthy conditions. "Well look what we have here, ladies," said Icy, "Looks like someone's ready for a fight." "Damn right I'm ready for a fight!" exclaimed Carmen as she flew up to face Icy, "You and I have unfinished business!"
While Icy and Carmen traded ice shards and dark energy spears, Stormy and Darcy had summoned several biots to wreck havoc among the guests below. Bloom and the others had their hands full trying to fight the biots while keeping innocent bystanders out of harms way. "Why are they attacking us now?" asked Flora. "Since when has Icy, Darcy and Stormy ever needed a reason to do anything?" said Riven.
"You can't beat me, Carmen!" said Icy, "Not like the last time!" "I can beat you," said Carmen, "Just like last time, or any time, and all because I'm better than you. When we fought for the role of Student Body President, I couldn't fly then. You had the tactical advantage of flight, but I brought you down with a simple gravity spell."
"That was then," said Icy, "This is now. I won't fall for the same trick again!" "Then how about a stronger trick," said Carmen, "Like this; Ion Gravirei!" Before Icy knew what happened, she was pulled to the ground by the force of 100 times normal gravity. The force of Carmen's spell was so strong that Icy couldn't move at all once she slammed into the ground.
Carmen landed beside Icy, her hand ready for the final strike. "I should have killed you when I had the chance," said Carmen, "but I settled for bonking you on the head and humiliating you in front of the student body. So this time I'm going to finish you once and for all! Giganoreis!" A huge dark blue energy sphere formed in Carmen's hand as she took one step closer to Icy to be sure that she didn't miss. Unfortunately for Carmen, she slipped on some spilled wine. As Carmen lost her balance her spell shot at a nearby wall, blasting a 10-foot wide hole in it.
Icy had freed herself form the crushing force of Carmen's gravity spell and stood gloating over Carmen, "You should watch were you walk, Carmen," said Icy, "Now it's my turn to finish you once and for all. Get ready to be a Witch Popsicle!"
"Icy!" raged Bloom as she shot a large fireball at the ice witch. Icy narrowly dodged the fireball; then set her sights on Bloom. "I'll deal with you later, Carmen," said Icy as she shot several ice shards at Bloom. The ice shards missed and shredded a nearby wall tapestry.
"This is getting out of hand," said Washu, "Somebody should do something." "Well you're so smart," said Ryoko, "Why don't you do something?" "I'll do something," said Ayeka, "Ryoko, protect Sasami and Roderick. Washu, you just stay where you are."
Ayeka clenched her fist and her attire changed to what could be described as a dark-pink jumpsuit with purple gloves. Black war paint adorned her face as she shouted at the top of her lungs; "EVERYONE STOP!" This caused all fighting to cease. Bloom and the others had finished destroying the biots and were about to take on Stormy and Darcy when Ayeka shouted.
"You three," said Ayeka; she pointed at Icy, then Darcy and then Stormy, "You break into my house on the day of my sister's engagement with the intent to cause harm. I cannot allow this to go unpunished!" Yellow energy began to crackle as Ayeka summoned a large energy spear with a long curved blade.
"You think we're scared of you?" asked Stormy in a mocking tone, "Because we're about to totally trash this place!" Stormy didn't get any further, for a large metal wrench impacted on the left side of her face. She collapsed from the force of the impact.
"What happened?" asked Darcy. "I'm what happened," said Amanda as she picked up her wrench, "Nobody ruins a party that my family has been invited to when I'm around!" "Who the hell are you?" asked Icy. "That's my other cousin," said Stella, "And she's also a whole lot of woman!"
Just then Icy realized that the room was filling up with palace guards, each armed with a high-powered plasma rifle aimed at either her and her sisters. "Don't move!" shouted Mihoshi who was at the lead of the guards, she aimed a phase-pistol at Icy, "You three are fugitives from the law! Surrender or we will be forced to open fire!"
"You're outnumbered, Icy," said Carmen, "So give up or go away like the cowards you are." "It appears that you have us at a disadvantage," said Icy, "Very well, we shall take our leave." "You got to be sh$tt$ng me!" exclaimed Stormy, "We can take them!" "No we can't," said Darcy, "Not without perforated like a fishing net."
"You have a point," said Stormy, "Let's go." "I'll be seeing you later, Carmen," said Icy as she briefly glanced upwards, "And as for you, Bloom, I won't be seeing you any time soon." "What do you mean by that?" asked Bloom. "You'll find out soon enough," said Icy as she, Darcy and Stormy teleported out.
"What a mess!" said Sasami as she took in the damage to the party. "And for once," said Ryoko, "Mihoshi didn't do it." "Hey!" exclaimed Mihoshi, "I resemble that!" "You sure do," said Ryoko."
Just then something shiny caught Flora's eye. She looked up to see Normad aiming some sort of rifle at Bloom, who had her back turned towards the assassin. "Bloom look out!" shouted Flora as she pushed Bloom out of the way, just as Normad pulled the trigger. Less then half a second later a small dart imbedded itself in Flora's right shoulder.
Everyone looked up to see Normad trying to get away. Mihoshi aimed and fired her phase-pistol, hitting the assassin square in the chest. This was a little redundant, for Ayeka had launched her spear at Normad, the curved blade slicing the top half of his head off.
"Search the roof!" ordered Ayeka to the guards, "There might be more assassins!" "Are you alright?" Bloom asked Flora. Flora pulled the dart out of her shoulder; she then collapsed to the floor. "Flora!" exclaimed Helia as she rushed to her side. "She's not breathing!" said a panicking Bloom…
The end of chapter 10. Is Flora gonna die? Find out in the next chapter. Please review, and I'll see you next time!
