Chapter 9: Castle Siege

Jade: So, Pete. What's the mission?
Joe: But first, where did all these gil came from?
Pete: Contributions, Joe. The mission? Let me see here...*reads* It says here that Bervenia Palace is under attack.
Joe: *in shock* We better get there.
Pete: Right.

As they prepare, another mission letter shows up.

Magic: Another one? Hmm... Hey guysss, thisss misssion wantsss usss to tame sssome runaway monssstersss in Cssyril.
B-Man: Monsters, huh? Count me in.
Pete: Guess we have to split up again. Who wants to go to Bervenia?
Joe: I will. Who wants to go with me?
Chaos: I've never been there. Count me.
B-Man: No way. I'm going to Cyril.
Jesus: I decide to go to Berv...
B-Man: *interrupts* No way, man. You're going with me!
Jesus: Fine.
Jade: I'll go where my brother goes.
Magic: To Cyril I go.
Spike: Well, I'll go to Berv...
Ed: Bervenia I will go! Sorry, Spike, but I'm more interested in Bervenia than you.
Spike: Got me there. I'll go to Cyril.
Pete: Me, too, kupo. So that's me, B-Man, Magic, Jesus, and Spike to Cyril. And to Bervenia goes Joe, Chaos, Jade, Ed, and Dan. Wait, kupo. Where's Dan?

They searched for Dan, but he is found asleep in his room (Yeah, he's quick to sleep). Pete woke Dan up and told him to go to Bervenia Palace with Joe, to which Dan agrees. Then, they mounted on their Chocobos and went off. Pete's group ended up in Cyril first and sees the monster attacks. They were mostly Floateye-type monsters. Then they started fighting them, being careful not to kill them. Meanwhile Joe's group ended in Bervenia. Something peculiar is happening there. All of the judges were suddenly entering the palace as if something happened to what's left of the Royal Family (AKA Mewt).

Random Judge: Joe? Is that you?
Joe: Oh. Hey, Tom.
Tom: Come in here. Something horribly wrong is happening to Prince Mewt. Those reinforcements?
Joe: You may say that.

Judge Tom temporarily joined the party.

As the group went inside, there were strange beings in the castle killing all the judges. [Archaic Demons (6) and one Ultima Demon].

Tom: YOU! You're going down!
Dan: Kupo! To war!
Ed: It's not a war.
Dan: Fine......kupo.

The battle started. Five of the Archaic Demons versus Joe's group with no law restrictions.

Chaos: Here I go! Shadow Clone Jutsu! *Makes 3 clones of himself (and one as a shuriken) out of smoke*
Tom: Is that?
Joe: Yes. Eat Cleansing Strike!
Ed: Eat Flare!
Jade: Eat Oblivionated Bomb Arrows!
Dan: Eat Firagun!
Tom: Firagun? You mean Firaga? And how the heck can a Black Mage wield a gun?
Dan: You'll see, kupo. FIRAGUN!

Firagun: Gun gets overheated, enough that the gun shoots Firaja bullets like a machine gun.

Chaos: Cool. Watch this. Chaotic Skill: Ten Stabs of Doom!

Chaotic Skill: Ten Stabs of Doom: Chos rushes to the enemy's mouth and throws the shuriken to its esophagus. Then, he and the three clones jump to surround it and stabs it, but the shuriken transforms to a fourth clone and stabs it from the inside (all using dual Kikuichimonjis), ensuring instant death

Flare and Cleansing Strike killed the third Archaic Demon, while the Bomb Arrows wounded the fourth. Joe finished that off with his Ragnarok. Then there is one.

Jade: *mental* Hmm, Rapid Fire...I should try that sometime, but too bad B-Man isn't here to teach me it. Oh well, Better use what I have. Those horns, If I can use them for arrows...

Jade runs off to one of the detached horns of one of the dead Archaic Demons. The fifth Archaic Demon rushes to Jade, but a Firaga bullet stopped it. Jade picked up the arrow and used it as an arrow to hit the Archaic Demon. For some reason, the horn instant-killed it.

Chaos: Way cool. The Demons' weakness is their own horns. Better save them for kunai.
Jade: Hold on. I'm using them for arrows.
Chaos: Why should YOU keep them?
Jade: You're powerful as is. Let me keep them.
Chaos: Fine...

The sixth Archaic Demon and the Ultima Demon are near Mewt's door and Mewt is scared to more and starts crying for his dead mommy [What a baby!]. Joe's group eventually caught up with the Demons and Jade shot the Archaic Demon with a Demon Horn Arrow, which killed it. She tried hitting the Ultima Demon with another arrow, but it didn't work. Joe tried Quakera, but Tom stopped him because the quake might hurt Mewt past the door. Ed, however, thought of an idea to beat the beast.

Ed: Anyone have healing spells?
Tom: I do.
Ed: Use one at the Demon.
Tom: I think that's unorthodox, but alright. CURA!

The healing spell reached the Demon and it somehow calmed it.

Ed: Now, Dan. Fira it.
Dan: Kupo! FIRA!

Fira hit the Demon and it was enraged.

Ed: Now, Tom and Dan. Alternate Cura and Fira.
Tom: Alright. CURA!
Dan: FIRA!

The two spells were alternated from healing the demon to hurting it and repeat. The demon experiences frequent calming ang raging, sending it to a state of brain damage for constant emotion changes. Eventually, after Tom lost all of his MP, the Ultima Demon died.

Joe: Nice thinking, Ed.
Ed: If B-Man were here, he'd be jealous.
Chaos: Agree.

The group saved the castle, for now...