Location: Naga Courtyard, Twilight Forest
Time: 4:18 PM
Steve's PoV
"Well, this is nice." I said to Fiona, who had taken us to the place she had seen the monster from earlier. "Quite a lovely place, maybe we should take a vacation or something here."
"Oh, shut up. It's here somewhere…" Fiona retorted, looking around nervously.
"What proof do we have of it even being here in the first place?" Cupa asked.
"*Ahem*" Fiona coughed as she tilted her head towards one of the courtyards walls, which was engraved with carvings of giant snakes.
"Giant snake monster, huh? Weird." Yaebi said as he walked towards the middle of the courtyard.
"Stop! Don't go into the middle! That's what I did and it came out of the…" Fiona started, and was interrupted by a low rumbling from below.
"…ground." she finished.
Suddenly, a massive green snake monster burst out of the ground and slithered over the dirt and cobble of the floor of the courtyard as quick as lightning. It stopped when it saw us, and paused.
"Wh-what's it doing?" Cupa asked, a look of terror on her face.
"Testing us, trying to deduce if we're a threat or not." Fiona answered.
"What exactly is it?" Andr asked me.
"I don't know. Yaebi, you know about animals and stuff, do you know?" I whispered. We were all whispering now, not sure what to do.
"That's a Naga, part of the local wildlife here. There are a lot of huge monsters here, I probably should have told you, huh?"
"I dunno, still beats the Nether." I replied. The naga looked at us though its large, red, reptilian eyes and then suddenly it charged toward us at an unbelievable speed. We had only just enough time to split up and run in opposite directions, which confused the naga long enough for us to climb on top of one of the large stone columns that were standing in the courtyard.
"Okay, we need a plan to either get away from this thing or kill it, who votes we kill it?" I shouted to my friends, I had to shout because the naga produced a huge hiss that drowned out any other noise.
Andr, Cupa, Fiona, and Cindy all voted to ending that monsters miserable existence, but Yaebi didn't want to hurt it. "Hippie." Fiona growled at him.
"Well, I don't see any other way out of this, I guess we will be fighting then." I told the others, who took out their weapons. "Just one more question. How fast do nagas learn?" Cindy asked, and pointed to the naga, which was now wrapping itself around the column, trying to break it.
"That's…actually kind of impressive." I said as another loud hiss deafened us.
"Anyway, I think it's time we finished this." I held out my hand and concentrated, and the Dragon Slayer sword appeared in my hand. I swung it outwards and it it sliced into the naga. It roared in pain and reared up to attack me. I jumped down and attacked again. This time the naga slithered quickly around me and destroyed another column, sending debris into the air. "Okay, buddy, this is where it ends. You're not going to hurt my friends anymore." Just then, the debris started falling and blocks started raining down. I felt a sudden agonizing pain on my head and I realised I had been hit by a block of cobblestone. I slowly felt myself falling unconscious and the naga advancing on me…
Cupa's PoV
"No!" I screamed. "Leave him alone! Don't you dare touch him!" I jumped down and pulled out my Destruction Catalyst. It hesitated, and then charged at me. I fired it, and it decimated the courtyard, but the naga itself didn't feel a thing. Apparently, the Catalyst only destroys blocks, not living creatures. However, I have a new toy that does. I pulled out my Red Matter Sword, the blade was bright red with a yellow aura around it, the crossbar was made of dark matter and the grip was studded with diamonds. I jumped down and charged just like Steve had, and the naga again destroyed a column and again debris started to rain, it knew this was an effective attack. But not a single block hit me as I slashed my sword and blew all the falling flocks back at it, distracting it long enough to make my attack.
"Chew on this, bitch!" I yelled as I swung my sword one last time and cleanly decapitated the naga. It's headless body collapsed to the ground and the head landed not too far away. I ran over to Steve and grabbed his shoulders.
"Steve? Steve? Are you okay? Please, tell me you're okay! Please, just fucking speak to me!" I called to him, tears welling up inside. I loved him too much to see him die, not now, not here…
"Cupa, I'm pretty sure he's okay." said Andr, who was behind me. Everyone had crowded around him, and were whispering all kinds of things. "Steve's survived far worse than this, even if he got hit by the corner of that block it wouldn't have given him more than a concussion."
"Guys! Over here! Something big just happened back at the base!" We heard a prim, female voice yell to us. From the pitch and volume we all instantly knew it was Stephanie. We looked up, and sure enough, she was flying around in our direction with a jetpack on her back. She landed next to us, and we told her what happened.
"Did it hurt you, Yaebi? Are you okay?" she asked with great concern to him.
He just laughed. "Nope, I'm fine, Steve got knocked out though and Cupa just went all warrior princess and sliced the damn things head off, so yeah, it's worse than any of us."
"Aww, I'm so glad you're safe." she said to him and pulled him into a hug. His face went bright red after that, and all the way back home., while she told us of the blackout and the transmission they had received. If there were others out there with the same intentions as us, it could really tip the scales in our favour…