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Hun, in Squid form, jumps out from the silver kettle with a grate located on the top. He raises up assuming a humanoid form: the sky was completely black, as white sand hill were extending as far as the boy could see. He lies his foot on the sand: it sinks a bit. He looks down on the sand, as his hand picks up a small pile.
Hun rubs on it with his fingers, even brought the pile near the nose, sniffing it quietly.
"That's sand, Hunry."
Hun turns behind: Grina was smiling, holding her hips. Bars was on her left, as his head was turning around. From the grate, another Squid came in: changing the form, the boy remembers the girl he's seeing.
"You never saw it?" Grina looks up, for a moment.
"Yes I do!" He nods, pouring the pile down. "I never saw it so white, though…"
"An exclusive feature for the Boundaries of Existance." Mirii walks, passing Grina and watching Hun's eyes.
"Tsk." Grina shakes her head slowly, laying her wrist on her right hip, keeping her smile. "That's why you always manage to remember piles of words, for school."
Mirii turns her head, towards Grina.
"So?"
The girl raises both her hands, showing her palms, as her eyes are closed.
"Nothing that could make many veins pop on your forehead!" She grins.
"This is not the time to play around with words…" Mirii returns her head. "Who knows the creatures that could live around."
Bursts of light appear on the hands of Grina, Mirii and Bars: the light weapon materialize on their palms. The kids grasps them, as their eyes were glued on. Another burst of light appears above the Inklings: Hun's ancestor shows up from it.
"Young Anna is right. You should all have your eyes wide and ready!" He looks at each kid.
Mirii lowers her eyebrows a bit.
"Excuse me… my name is Mirii."
"Ah… sorry!" He bows down, slightly. "I can't remember many things…"
The kids all look at Hun.
"… what?" He raises his eyebrows, bending his arms with his palms facing Mirii.
"Nothing, Hunley." Mirii smiles, raising her eyebrows.
She looks at the ancestor, stabilizing her eyebrows, as her smile disappears.
"Now, can you track down that fiend?"
"He's not too far away from here…" He looks to his right, pointing at it with his forefinger. "I'm sure he must be there!"
"Good." Mirii nods.
"Excuse the interruption-smuckuption." Grina raises her right forefinger. "Do we have something who lets track down our Exit point right here?"
Grina points backwards at the kettle, with her right thumb.
"We can create other means of transportation, as well as close them down." The ancestor nods, while looking at Grina. "The grate will push away anyone who tries to enter inside. Trust us: we have experience about this."
The ancestor flies ahead.
"Please, follow me."
The kids nodded, as they started walking.
"Oh man… whenever I touch the sand, it feels like my teeth are chewing on rocks!" Bars does a downturn mouth, as his head was looking up.
"Don't think about it." Mirii looks ahead. "Thoughts like these, make you lose focus and feel unreal pain."
"Yeah, Barsy… just don't think about it!" Grina winks at him, grinning, as she wraps his shoulders with her left arm.
The boy raises his eyebrows. Grina pats him two times.
"But you know, Mr. Hun's Ancestor… I'd never thought that we were well protected by you all! Did you protect us even from weird form, we'd probably never see around?" The girl lay both her hands, behind the head's back.
"Something bad would happen, if you know the slightest details about us… but nothing happened this time." The ancestor keeps looking forward.
"Even appearing in front of us, is something against the rules?" Mirii looks at the ancestor.
He stood in silence for a moment.
"We are almost there. Prepare yourselves."
The kids look at each other: they nodded at the same time. Hun becomes a Squid, sliding on the sand. From a distance, the man was sitting on the sands, as his right elbow was resting on the bended right knee. He was as white as the other ancestors. His head turns over the group, which wasn't far away.
"So… you came all the way here, to imprison me inside an Orb?" He stands up. "You must be nuts…"
"Ha! Says the man who possessed furniture, a Hummer, rejuvenate Inklings and transformed into a giant spider, just to kill us because we didn't finish up his game!" Grina folds her arms, grinning.
The man snorted.
"Ingrate! You are lucky that I'm tired… otherwise I'd cut out that neck of yours…" He clenches his fists.
"Ooooh, puh-lease!" She moves her right hand down, as she raises her right cheek. "We know every single trick you have on your sleeves! Seriously, how about you act like a real grow-up adult and surrender yourself inside the nice orb?"
"Hmpf! You really think… I couldn't do anything to stop you?" He smiles. "I may be tired… but I can still play that event card, I have here…"
His hand goes under the jacket, as it picks up a card with a ? on its cover.
"Which it clearly says…"
The most dangerous creatures of your dreams, will surface in this desolate land to give you pain and misery.
Grina expands her eyes, as she looks at each kid: they all had the same expression. The Inklings look around, quickly.
"Wait… he said the most dangerous creatures of your dreams? Man… like, I never inked my bed!" Bars grins, lying his wrists on his palms.
"I don't even remember most of my dreams…" Hun scratches the back of his head.
"I'm not scared of anything… thus a monster will never appear." Mirii nods.
Silence fell down for a moment… all the kids look at Grina, which was trembling and gritting her teeth, as her eyebrows were raised.
"Grina… you don't have anything to say, about this?" Mirii frowns slightly.
"Eeeeeeehhhhmmmmm…" She lowers her head. "Actually… I… ehm… eh eh… I…"
"Grina?!" Mirii frowns even more.
Her mouth trembles, as her head raises.
"Heh… I do have this occasional nightmare, where I'm alone inside this collection of trees… and then… I see the fin risen up from the ground!" She covers her mouth with both her hands. "Here the fin starts chasing me down! I call for help… but the only voice I could hear is my echo! The fin gets closer and closer… and then"
"GRINA!"
The girl jumps, screaming. Veins were popping out on Mirii's forehead, as smoke was coming out from her ears.
"How can you still have such childish nightmares at your age?!" She clenches her fists, standing in tiptoes.
"My age…? You mean, this kid-like age?" She opens her arms, smiling.
"NO! YOU ARE NOT A KID!" Mirii snorts from her nose.
"Everyone, be careful! Something is coming from there!" The ancestors points in a direction.
Not too far away from their positions, a fin gradually emerges from the sands. Grina squeals.
"IT'S THE FIN!" Her hands lay on her cheeks. "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
Grina starts moving her legs in the opposite direction. Mirii grabs the back of her shirt, holding her in the same position.
"You will not go anywhere…" She pulls her in front of everyone.
"ARE YOU CRAZY?! I DON'T WANNA BE EATEN ALIVE!" Grina frowns a lot.
"This is your nightmare, Grina… and now, you are going to defeat it once and for all!" Mirii points at the fin, which was getting closer.
"Bu-but I"
"Come on, girl! Let's roll the monster dude out of the picture!" Bars was walking, while pushing the roller cover on the sand.
From the sand, a giant shark emerges, with the man sitting on his head! The boy yells, stopping with a small slide. The shark was colored in light-blue, as his stomach appears white. Bars swings his weapon over the white stomach: light ink flies on it, quickly sliding down.
"Dasquid?!" He expands his eyes. "Did that Ink inflicted some damage or what?!"
Mirii holds the trigger of her weapon, as she points its muzzle on his head.
BLAM!
The projectile flew on it, only to slowly slide all the way down.
"The light ink is useless!" The girl frowns, gritting her teeth.
"That's not true!" The ancestor looks at Grina. "Use your weapon, Julie!"
"What?! Wh-why me?!" She points at herself.
"It's your nightmare, Grina." Mirii looks at her.
The girl looks at her, for a moment. The shark immerges inside the sand, as the fin was the only thing visible. The animal passes near Bars, while going towards Grina.
"GIRL! THE MONSTER IS GOING AFTER YOU!" Bars lends his hand sideways, near his mouth.
Grina turns around, seeing the fin almost getting her legs: she turns into a Squid, jumping away from it. She returns into her previous form, as the fin was turning widely on the left. The girl gulps loudly.
"Shoot at it!" Mirii lowers her eyebrows.
Grina points her weapon over the fin: she holds the trigger, as ink flies out of the muzzle. The projectiles land on the fin: the monster quickly rises, screaming. The girl fell on her bottom, letting her weapon fall on the sand. She turns around, raising up with both her hands and sprints away!
The other kids were calling her name, as the girl kept running! The shark sinks inside the sand and swims towards Grina. Her heart was beating faster, her eyes were getting watery and her teeth were grit down. She was running up on hills, decreasing the pace when descending from them.
The fin was getting closer.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" She closes her eyes.
Suddenly, an explosion was heard from far away: the girl immediately opens her eyes, leaving her mouth open. A blue Squid descends from the sky, right behind Grina: she stops, turning around. There was a large blue spot on the sand, as the Squid emerges from it.
He slides, jumping on the incoming fin while spinning: the shark rises, hitting the squid with the tip of the nose. The Squid yells, as Grina lies her hands on her head, while looking up. He fell behind Grina, with the eyes looking down.
The shark roars in front of the girl, as she… gradually frowns down, with her eyes almost getting red.
"No one… EVER TOUCHES MY FRIEND!" She sprints over the shark.
The shark yelps, as it turns around and swims away! The girl was getting closer to the fin, with her hands forming fists and snorting from her nose.
"What's happening?! You were suppose to be scared by the monster!" The man's voice was coming from under the sand.
"THE ONLY THING I'M REALLY SCARED IS WHAT THINGS I'M GOING TO DO WITH YOU!" Grina dives over the fin, grabbing it with both her hands.
The shark yelps even louder, sinking down together with the girl. The other kids were running down the hill, as they see a blue spot on the sand. Bars looks around, while his heart was stretching widely on his chest.
"GRIIIIINNAAAAAAAA!" Both his palms are near his mouth's sides.
Suddenly, the shark jumps out of the sand: Grina was sitting behind the fin, grasping it with her hands. She was yelling, while smiling. The shark was holding the man, from the jacket's back, with the pointy yellowish teeth. The shark lands on its stomach, spitting out the Inkling, as he falls on his back.
"No… I can't be defeated like this!" He raises his back. "It's not fair!"
Mirii and Bars' weapons were surrounded by a burst of light: the two ancestors appear, floating towards the man. A female ancestors was flying really fast, from the back of a hill, reaching the others.
"I lose my achievements in the city, my girlfriend, my friends… WHY I HAVE TO LOSE MY FREEDOM TOO?!" He looks above.
The ancestors raise their hands, while closing their eyes.
"I knew it… real justice doesn't exist… it's filled with people who want to make suffer the next one! CURSE YOU AND YOUR LOGIC! YOU ARE THE EVIL BEINGS, AT THE END!" He grits his teeth, while frowning, as his head turns around at each kid surrounding him. "ALL OF YOU! ALL OF YOU!"
A circle was formed around the man, as it was quickly filled with a white light: it immediately flies up, disappearing in the black sky. The kids all look at each other: they jumped in the air, while closing their eyes and smiling, as they say…
Victory!