Aureolin emerged from the ink alongside her teammates. All their clothes had been dyed a purple colour, much to Linen's pleasure. The Turf War they were in was taking place at Arowana Mall. It was big for its size and there was a lot of ground to cover. Everyone was armed with the same weapons as before, except for Aureolin, who was trying out a new weapon, the Tentatek Splattershot. It was decent all around, plus she needed to get used to something else other than her default Splattershot.
"Remember the plan! Don't skip a beat," Folly reminded them. Aureolin nodded, and the team all scattered to begin painting every square of ground they could. The yellow inkling had split up with her best friend at her side. The plan was to go slow and allow the enemy to put pressure, but it still caught them all off guard that the entire enemy team consisted of quadruplets.
Aureolin and Linen had wound up at more of the centre area of Arowana Mall. There were a few ramps around leading to high points of the turf. They could see two of the enemy group who were already spraying their own half of the area, though the yellow inkling had an idea.
"Split and ambush?" she suggested, peeking from around the corner she and Linen were hiding behind.
"Sounds better than my idea," Linen sheepishly smirked. The idea he was going to suggest was to just blind rush them, but either way he was thankful to have her watching his back. He began to run out, gaining the two enemies' attention. They began opening fire at him as he took cover behind a random stone pillar that immediately got pelted in paint. Aureolin took the chance to spray an entire ramp in her team's purple ink. She then switched into her squid form, sinking into it and swimming quickly straight up to the top. Once she got up there, she emerged at the top of the ramp, seeing some graffiti on the nearby wall. She was starting to notice a lot of graffiti all over Arowana Mall. She looked at her weapon nervously.
"Let's hope I know what I'm doing…" the yellow inkling fearfully bit her lip. She had coated enough of the area to be permitted the use of the special form of her weapon for a brief eight seconds. She hit a button on the side of her Tentatek Splattershot, watching it quickly transform and change in size. It became the Inkzooka, one of the few special weapons that needed to have certain requirements by painting enough of an area, though sadly special weapons only lasted eight seconds each. The weapon itself was heavy for sure. Linen was still hiding behind the cover. He got shot in the leg by a stray paint burst. He cringed, feeling it sting, though he saw his best friend at the top of that ramp with the Inkzooka and that all too familiar gleam in her eyes that made him gulp in fear.
"Oh please, don't hit me by mistake…" Linen mentally hoped as the enemy got closer to him. Suddenly, Aureolin fired, watching the Inkzooka blast explode on contact into a small whirlwind of purple ink that went in a straight line, completely coating one of the enemies and sending the other tumbling down. Linen could only watch the enemy run in fear, dodging each shot of the Inkzooka, though sadly his legs couldn't keep him going from Aureolin's rampage. He got hit by the last shot, being soaked in ink and knocked out. The two bodies vanished just as her Inkzooka ceased fire.
"I love this gun!" Aureolin shouted. Linen was glad she was happy, but she became somewhat scary when too excited. She quickly jumped down from the ramp and ran over to her close friend, helping him up. He had to tolerate the pain in his leg for now.
"Yeah, you did great… c'mon, let's go find the others," Linen insisted, the two rushing off to find their teammates now that they had coated this entire area in their team's purple ink, even if their means of doing so were a little overboard. The two wound up in some back part of Arowana Mall that had pools of the enemy's green ink coated. They could see Folly trying to use his paint roller to cover some ground, but Myrtle was only able to protect him so much. They saw their pink tentacle haired leader get shot by multiple ink blotches before collapsing into unconsciousness.
"I'll try and get behind them," Aureolin said. Before Linen could advise against the idea, she had run off with a big grin on her face. She was all too happy to be in the turf war competition, and it showed. Linen groaned, running over to Myrtle. He shot back at one of the enemies, managing to suppress their fire while they attempted to refuel their ink containers on their backs.
"She seems a little too into this…" Myrtle commented about their newest teammate. Linen couldn't disagree. The timer was running down and the enemy had most of this territory. When Aureolin got behind the enemy, she opened fire, her purple ink splattering the back of one of the enemies entirely. The other member of the quadruplets, however, was quick, sinking into their ink in his squid form and swimming around behind her. The yellow inkling had no time to retaliate before she got shot in the face by his Splattershot. She fell over, unconscious. The enemy then threw an ink bomb above Myrtle and Linen's cover which exploded and knocked them unconscious. It only took a brief few moments for all three of them to appear right on the platform.
"Sorry… I messed up," Aureolin apologized, realizing her own overexcited tactic had somewhat done that. The time was coming to an end as Folly reappeared on the platform.
"It's fine, Aure, I swear," Linen reassured that she did great, though Myrtle's burning look in her eyes claimed to disagree. Folly rolled his eyes, not wanting to know what his team was discussing right now as the timer ran out. They had to go back now. Aureolin was feeling that all too familiar nervous tension in her head, being unsure if they won or not. Only the judge will be able to tell.
"How can something go from fun to scary so fast?"