FINALLY! THE LAST CHAPTER OF THE STORY!!!!
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There's abother chapter coming, and yes dearies, IT'S THE VERY LAST ONE. and you'll be surprised with the plot twist, muahaha......
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It was Lily. Obviously. However, to a unknowing person, he would think that the plant in the corner was a strange thing with five vine-tentacles and a pink Medusa head.
"What the hell—" said Raven, swearing in Russian. She cut off the head of the dear monster, only to find out that it grew. Two-fold.
The second head was as bad as the first, if not worse. Slimy, fat, raw pink… and yet Nigel adored it.
"She's learned how to re-grow body parts! She's so—"
"Geez, we get the idea Nigel!" said Otto. He nudged Shelby, and pointed out two glints behind the monster plant's body.
"The antidotes?!" Shelby made a move for it. She was pulled back by Wing, who saved her from being plant-slapped by a large vine.
"How the hell are we going to beat this thing, if it grows heads like a Hydra?!" said Shelby.
"We do the same thing that Hercules did!" Otto exclaimed, grabbing a lighter from one of the storage boxes. He tried to burn off one of the heads, only to have his weapon taken by Lily and crushed. Otto anime-crashed onto the floor.
"That was not being very good." Said Franz.
"I'd call that a complete failure." Nigel added, receiving a glare from Otto.
"Give me an idea then— Gah!" Otto dodged another slimy vine. The green thing grabbed at his leg, and started dragging him back to the main monster itself.
"Let go of me you freak!" he shouted, trying to slap the vine off. That resulted in the capture of that hand, and the failure of his escape.
"I am doubting that it is lethal, for it was based off a pond lily—" Franz stopped, when large spine-like teeth grew out of the edges of the mouth.
"It has teeth?! What the hell made it have that?!" Shelby shouted as they dodged yet another vine.
"I have no idea, but this is really starting to get on my nerves!" Raven shouted, cutting off one of the heads. Two more heads grew in its place, further irritating the Russian assassin
"A little help here!" shouted Otto, trying to beat off the vines on his arm and leg. Wing made a grab for his friend, and tried to pull the vines apart. Raven tossed one of her katanas to him, and he sliced off the vines. Wing pulled both of them away from the plant thing.
"Thanks Wing." Otto said, shakily standing up. Wing nodded dazedly, going back into the lines of attack.
"There!" Nigel shouted, pointing to the base of Lily's stem… neck—thing. "Hit that area, and she's dead!"
"Question: how do we get to the base of the stem?" Wing asked calmly, dodging another rapidly growing vine.
"Distraction!" Shelby said, going in front of the plant. It tried to grab at her, when she jumped over it and actually kicked one of the heads. The thing roared and tried to attack her again. It got too distracted to actually guard its weak point.
"Got it!" Raven shouted, slashing at the stem. Her hit was pushed away by another vine, as she was warily eyeing the main weak point.
"We need more distractions." Raven stated, nodding to Wing. He also started attacking the plant, but not lethally enough to actually hurt it. Raven tried again, but she was shoved off by one of the countless vines once more.
"You three! Distract the thing, I'll try again!" she barked, and Otto, Nigel and Franz nodded, if not a little put off by the dancing vines. They jumped in front of the plant, strenuously darting around the vines. Raven tried another attack from behind, and it did her good: she hit her target.
Strangely enough, like wax on fire did the plant fall. It melted, pooled on the floor like a green and pink mush. The antidotes were somewhere in that mess.
"Eurgh." Said Otto, retrieving the two vials of antidotes in the gunk. The bottles were still intact, luckily enough.
"Looks like we're taking this to Nero." He said, and they ran off to the lab.
Nero, still blinded by his sleeping mask, surveyed the scene in the lab with his remaining senses. From the snippets of conversation he'd heard from the other scientists, Raven had gone to help Otto and his friends to find that damned plant. He estimated that it had been an hour since Raven's disappearance; she should've found it by then.
"OUT OF THE WAY!"
From what Nero could tell, a stampede of people ran into the lab. He could sense good tidings.
"Raven." He said approvingly. She stopped beside him, and he hoped, with all he had, that they had the antidote.
"Can we toss the antidotes into the vents already? I'm getting sick of all this love gunk." Said Raven exasperatedly.
"We will, once the fans are running in the vents." Said Otto. After a few tense moments, a very, very low whirring sound rang from the open vent.
"Got it!" he said. There was the rustle of movement, and clanging of metal. Nero guessed that there was a ladder being placed and that one of them was going up it. From the quiet room, the sound of popping resounded, and a strangely smoke-like smell wafted into the room. A strange heaviness Nero hadn't noticed before was lifted, and so Nero dared to take off his mask.
When he looked at everyone there, a few dazed, he wasn't affected at all by the aphrodisiac. He warily looked outside, only to see a jumble of students and teachers regaining their bearings. He sighed.
"Thank goodness that's over." Nero said, and he went back inside the lab.
As he went in, he was greeted by a flustered Laura greeting her friends and thanking them for finding the antidotes. Nero approached her, a blank yet fiery look in his eye.
"Now, I think we know what we learned from brewing love potions, Miss Brand…" he said rather mischievously, a twinkle in his eye. Laura shrank back.
"I'm throwing these away."
Wing, Otto, Laura and Shelby sat on the beds in the boys' room. It had been two days since the aphrodisiac incident, and people were finally going back to their senses.
"Aw, why throw the haikus away? They were pretty good you know." Said Shelby. She was obviously torn between laughter and… more laughter. The haikus brought back good memories. Otto just glared.
Wing proceeded to dump the haikus in the trash can.
"But I'm keeping this one." He said casually, taping it onto the wall. Otto eyed it, and felt annoyed.
"Hey Wing… may I ask you something?" said Laura. Said Asian turned to her, and nodded. She smirked.
"Do you actually like Otto?" she asked. Otto pushed down a gulp.
Wing said nothing. He shrugged, and gave a relaxed, "Most likely."
Otto froze, and ran off.
From the din outside, mostly Otto's screams of "OUT OF MY WAY, I'M GONNA BE RAPED!!!", Laura and Shelby doubled over with laughter.
"….. You're evil, you know that?" said Shelby, grinning.
Wing simply gave a wicked smirk, and straightened the haiku on the wall.
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