CHAPTER 19-1
-A Bone Chilling Discovery-
After the background was drawn and colored, a purple, alien-like world was discovered to be through the door. In 3-D, there was yellow energy inside of the center of the transparent ground, while the trim was purple. What was also creepy were some of the thick, purplish reddish tentacles that were slowly moving around. Some small, purple energy sticks were around as well, storing energy for the comet.
The first thing Chopper noticed when he and Luvbi walked out of the door was the statue of Shade holding his sword up, which was standing on a pedestal.
"So this is where the last Pure Heart is…" Chopper trailed. "I should've known that Shade would be holding it in his hands!"
"Well… This place doth look creepy…" Luvbi trailed, feeling a little nervous about the creepy alien world. "But for some reason, I doth feel a little bored without thy friends hither for me to tease."
"Hold on, I thought you were over that?"
"Well, sometimes something doth tick in me that wantest me to tease them."
"Why do you even do that anyway? I'll be honest… I really don't like it when you do that, especially to people like Tippi."
"Ahh, the answer to that is quite simple, Chopper: because it doth be so easy! 'Tis rare for me to get such a reaction from a butterfly girl such as Tippi. But, the poor girl hath a hard time trying to keep her cool, nay?"
"I don't know what to say…" Chopper trailed.
"Thou dost not have to say much," Luvbi assured, giving him a smile. "It doth feel nice to finally be with just my prince and none of yon peasants around. It givest the two of us the perfect opportunity for a kiss!"
"Wh-What?!"
"Heh heh… Aw, look at da cute couple!" the first Spiky Skellobit snickered, getting on Chopper's nerves. "Isn't it just adowable?"
"Oh, great..." Chopper groaned.
"What are ya, five? Yer a bit too young ta be datin'!" the second Spiky Skellobit scoffed. "…Oh! I thought of a good joke!"
"What is it? Tell me it now!" demanded the first Spiky Skellobit.
"What did the princess-"
It barely had time to talk when Chopper fired a light ball at the two Spiky Skellobits and sending them flying off the platform and destroying them.
"If this is what I have to hear, I don't think I'll like this place..." Chopper frowned.
"Remember what Nolrem toldeth you," Luvbi reminded. "Thou shouldst pick me up and carry me around like a true hero!"
"Fine..." Chopper sighed as he picked her up while sweat dropping. "This is going to be fun…"
Chopper sighed and jumped over to the platform ahead and managed to jump over to a ledge leading down to a hill going down. He was a bit happy to see this, so he charged up a Speed Dash and went down the hill with immense speed.
"Yeah! This is fun!" Chopper cheered as Luvbi's eyes widened as she felt herself getting carried down.
"Ch-Chopper! Maybe thou shouldst slow down!" Luvbi stammered.
"Well, if you want me to carry you, then you're going to have to deal with it," Chopper declared as he ran through a loop ahead and found a small ledge leading up to a floating round platform.
"Hmmmm… Well, I don't see anything around here." Chopper looked down and gasped when he saw a bottomless pit before him. However, he saw a ledge up ahead higher than the platform, where he saw a blue, round door.
"That doth be a round door," Luvbi commented. "But how dost we get through hither?"
"Did you hear Nolrem's words, heroes?" Piccolo chirped. "He said to use the Nimbi to fly!"
"Pray, why wouldst he… Oh, I suddenly remembered now. Chopper, my prince… Thou dost need my help, so I will helpeth thee across with my wings!"
"OK," Chopper nodded as he held onto her while the Nimbi girl began to fly over the bottomless pit and over to the ledge where the door was. When she got exhausted, she slowly began to descend to the ledge, where Chopper let go of her and landed by the door.
"That wasn't bad flying, I'll admit," Chopper commented, making Luvbi smiled as the children opened the door, which opened quickly while making a strange, alien-like sound as they headed through.
When they were in the next area, they noticed another hill going down to a ramp leading over to a pathway below. Chopper shrugged and ran down the hill and jumped off the ramp to land on the new pathway. However, there was something strange about the bottomless pits in the area.
There was a strange, alien slime covering it.
"What disgusting stuff doth be on those pits?!" Luvbi gagged before they noticed a Dark Creature fire a laser from his blaster at Chopper, which he was able to duck and avoid.
"Dark Creatures? Here?" Chopper gawked. "What are they… Wait, hold on. Didn't Dark say something about his army leaving him?"
"Who doth be Dark?"
"Shade's brother. If anything, he's probably better than Shade, that's for sure."
Chopper ran up to the Dark Soldier and hurled a light ball at it, sending it flying back and making it scream from not only the light energy, but the fact that it was blinded by the light, causing it to fall off into the slime, which it began to sink as it was incinerated instantly.
"So… That's what the slime does, huh?" Chopper smiled nervously. "That sure looks like fun…"
"Chopper, now is not the time for jokes! We art in a very serious situation hither!"
"Well thankfully, I think I'll be able to make the jump," Chopper made a jump over the slime and landed by the edge of the ground ahead. He decided to flip into 3-D and saw a secret path leading around two platforms up ahead that were going to a platform moving up and down.
He took the pathway in 3-D to be safer and jumped on the platform with Luvbi. They waited for it to take them up to the ledge, where they encountered two Dark Soldiers ready to blast them.
Chopper inhaled one of the lasers and spat it at one of the Dark Soldiers before using his hammer and striking one of them with a light smash, thanks to the power of his light powers.
When the next Dark Soldier tried to hit him with its blaster, he held Starbow up and let shooting stars come down on the Dark Creature. With that, he picked it up with Thoreau and threw it at the other Dark Soldier, defeating them both.
"That was enjoyable!" Starbow cheered.
Chopper nodded as he walked through a tunnel with the walls being lavender with a purple glow from inside them. There were new Dark Skellobit enemies with dark spears called Dark Skellos charging at the group.
"Uh oh…" Chopper gulped as he noticed a ? Block above him. When he struck it, a ninja star popped out, so he inhaled it and got a hold of the Ninja ability. He began to throw a couple of shurikens and kunais at the Dark Skellos to drive them back.
However, there was one that charged anyway, so Chopper grabbed it when he made a dash toward it and used his Air Drop to slam its head to ground after jumping up while grabbing the Dark Skello. He finished it off by slashing it with his katana.
The other Dark Skellos responded by throwing their spears toward Chopper, who threw Hommissile at them and sent them flying away. After that, Chopper continued on through the small tunnel until he found a path below him at the end of the tunnel. He picked up Luvbi, who fluttered across the slime and landed on the pathway.
"That statue of Shade doth be ugly, nay?" Luvbi wondered as she looked at the statue of Shade in the background in the center of the area. There happened to be two purple crystals next to it for some reason.
"Hmmmm… You know, those crystals might reveal something if I hit them…" Chopper trailed as he flipped into 3-D, only to find a Dark Creature over by a platform where one of the purple crystals were. He simply threw some kunais to defeat it and jumped over to the platform, avoiding the slime below him.
He let out a sigh as he hurled a light ball at the first crystal, which lit up one of the statue's eyes purple.
"Chopper! The statue doth have a purple glowing eye!" Luvbi cried.
"Really?" Chopper gasped as he flipped back into 2-D and was back on the platform. There, he noticed the left eye of the Shade statue was glowing purple. "Oh… Well, I guess I should go to the other then!"
He went back into 3-D and defeated the other Dark Soldier in the way to light up the right eye with a light ball. This made a platform appear over the slime ahead after a piece of the background was torn off like paper.
"Weird…" Screwdy trailed as Chopper jumped on the platform and noticed the ledge ahead had another small tunnel, so he used Luvbi to fly him over to the ledge and landed by the tunnel, which led up to a door ahead.
"Chopper… I dost not think we art alone hither…" Luvbi trailed.
Chopper pulled out a kunai just in case. He noticed some cloaked enemies lurking around the small tunnel, so he threw the kunai and managed to hit a Dark Creature in purple armor that gave it the ability to be invisible.
"A Ninja Creature? That's a new one…" Chopper struck it with his Quad Shock, dashing toward it and striking it with his katana. Another one appeared, but with Starbow, he was able to defeat them all. Sadly, he ended up losing his Ninja ability when one struck him with one of its daggers.
"Dang it! Not my Ninja ability!"
But with that aside, Chopper was able to go through the door ahead. It led them into another small tunnel, but with some small Dark Creature babies that were all around the ground.
"What the..." Chopper gawked.
"Pray, what art those?!" Luvbi asked in shock.
"They look like…babies?" Chopper noticed one of the babies coming closer to him, making him shriek and smash it with his hammer. It didn't have a lot of HP, so it was defeated easily. He simply smashed the others until a Dark Worm rose up from the ground and tried to fire a blast of purple energy at him, so he tossed a light ball into its mouth and made the light envelope it and destroy it.
Once Chopper took a platform to get out of the tunnel, he noticed some kind of flying saucer was on it, and up ahead was more slime. He knew that having Luvbi carry him through wouldn't work in the slightest.
"Well, we might as well use that, amore!" Flippay declared.
"Use what?" Chopper wondered until he noticed the flying saucer. "…Oh! You mean this thing? It looks like it floats, but…"
"Let us away!" Luvbi declared as she followed Chopper, who used the flying saucer to go over the slime. To his surprise, it was working very well for him. He could've used Carrie for this, but it didn't look safe for Pixls to get close to it, hence why they were above them.
"I do wish I could help you through here instead…" Carrie trailed.
"Yeah, I can agree with that," Chopper nodded as they went over to a pathway ahead to find some Dark Skellos on the upper ledges above them throwing spears down at them. Chopper tried to counter some of them with his hammer, but when there were Dark Soldiers around on their flying saucers firing at him, there was a problem.
"Great… Now these guys are here."
"They might be able to be knocked off," Luvbi informed.
"Maybe…" Chopper hurled a light ball at one Dark Soldier, knocking it off the flying saucer and into the slime. Another tried to attack him with its blaster, but he ducked and used Crystaline to freeze it, while Kickbrin knocked it off the flying saucer.
They noticed a ramp up ahead, so when the flying saucer took off, it landed over more slime below the ledge. They noticed a small slope leading up to a pathway, so when they got over to it, Chopper jumped off the flying saucer and ran into two Dark Wizards.
"Why art there two Shades?" Luvbi wondered.
"Those aren't Shade," Chopper mentioned. "They're Dark Wizards."
"Here, let me add to the collection!" the Necromancer grinned as he flew down and struck the ground with white lightning. Two Dark Skellos rose from the ground. "There you go! This should get back at you for what you left on me, Chopper!"
"Necromancer!" Luvbi growled as she looked up and noticed that Shade was standing on top of the Necromancer's head, the sun on his crescent blade obviously glowing. "What art THOU doing hither?!"
"Isn't it obvious, Nimbi girl? This is my headquarters!" Shade chuckled.
"All right, where's Luvbi's parents?" Chopper asked, getting in his fighting stance.
"Idiot. You think I'm going to fight you right now? I've got a whole lot that I'm in the middle of right now! Besides… It's not fun simply fighting you alone. I'd rather fight you and the rest of your friends!"
"Well I don't know where they are."
"Believe me… I know where they are! Just try to find them! …If you can, that is!" Shade fired magic at the Dark Skellos with his wand and made them more muscular. "Have fun, Chopper…"
As the Necromancer began to fly off, Shade stuck out his green, forked tongue at Chopper, leaving him a little disturbed.
"What was with that tongue?" Luvbi gawked.
"I don't know…" Chopper trailed as he gripped his hammer. "But it doesn't matter right now… These guys need to go!"
The two Dark Skellos charged at Chopper, using their fists to attack instead. However, because they were strong and slow, Chopper was able to use this to his advantage when he quickly ran around them and kicked them with a light kick.
With his hammer, he was able to bash them a couple of times, but one of the Dark Skellos grabbed Chopper and threw him back, making him fall on his back. He quickly got up and tossed an ice ball at them to keep them frozen. With a charged light ball, he defeated the Dark Skellos.
"Thou didst it, my prince!" Luvbi squealed.
"Uhhhh… Not yet. There are still those guys." Chopper pointed out, dodging the dark magic the two Dark Wizards were hurling. While the Dark Skellos were tough, their magic was stronger.
It only took Chopper some ducking to avoid some of the attacks before he tossed some light balls at them. Of course, they did not like the light power enveloping them, but when Chopper used a light slamming kick on them, they were done for.
"Phew! What a relief!" Chopper sighed. "I'm sure my uncle, Chilbo, will be proud of me!"
"Pray, who doth be thy uncle?" Luvbi wondered.
"He was a great hero who managed to defeat an evil monster that was in control of another place on my birth planet. I don't know too much about it, but he was able to find its weak point and slay it, making that area a safe place. Of course, that was all before I was born anyway."
"What happened to him?"
"Well, he's gone, along with the rest of my kind… Yeah, I know it's sad, but I've learned to get a little used to it. I mean, I can't be saddened by it forever, right?"
"Yea, verily…"
"Let's move on," Chopper suggested as he ran over to the door up ahead and entered it, bringing him into an area where he was on a bridge with some slime down below. Some Dark Worms rose out of the slime and onto the bridge. However, one of the ? Blocks contained the Cutter ability, so he took it and got a hold of the ability.
He threw his cutter blade at the Dark Worm before going up to it and performing his Final Cutter attack on it. Sure, this was a great ability, but it wasn't as strong as Kirby's own Final Cutter. Perhaps he would find Kirby first in this place, like when he first found him after getting the second Pure Heart?
Well that wasn't something he was trying to think about when he finished off the Dark Worm. He carried on through the bridge until he saw some small platforms over the slime, with some of the slime firing up between the gaps. What made it worse were the Dark Skello Bombers flying above.
"Platforming… This is going to be fun…" Chopper sighed.
He threw his cutter blade and let it hit the Dark Skello Bomber, which knocked it into the slime and allowed him to jump over to the platforms and reach another pathway with a slope going down to a screw.
"Hey! I could get you through that!" Screwdy noted.
"Uh huh," Chopper nodded as he ran down the slope and used a corkscrew to make a small platform appear over by the slime ahead. He jumped on it and noticed the large gap ahead. He used Luvbi to fly him over to the gap and found two platforms ahead. One was going up to a ledge, while the other was going down to a pathway below. That appeared to be a speed-based area, while the other had a couple of small yellow blocks in the way.
"Pray, which way shouldst we taketh?" Luvbi wondered.
"I'll take the upper," Chopper shrugged as he smashed through the blocks with his cutter blade and found a door that led him into a small room with a ? Block. When he struck it, the Mirror ability was revealed to be inside, so he took it, which made two Dark Wizards appear.
However, with his ability to clone himself, he used this to his advantage and managed to take down the two Dark Wizards with mirror shards. Once the clones were gone, Chopper headed through the door ahead and found himself in an area where he was in mid-air. He ended up landing on a brown platform with pieces of it slowly falling into the slime, so he crossed over the platforms until he found a bridge with more slime firing upward.
"Yeesh… That was a little close…"
"Thou shouldst be careful hither," Luvbi suggested.
"Don't worry. This isn't anything new to me." Chopper assured, making his way over the bridge and over to the door ahead. Apparently, this was a little shortcut if they didn't take the lower pathway.
When they left the area through the door, they were met up with two other doors. Unfortunately, the one to the right happened to be locked, and past those doors was a slope leading down to more slime. There was nothing else that could help them get through it, to their dismay.
"Dang it… There's no way we're getting through that." Chopper sighed.
"Well, we can always headest through this door hither," Luvbi informed, pointing to the left door near the Save Block and ? Block. When he hit the ? Block, he got a hold of a Star Shroom he used to recover 150 HP, and then he struck the Save Block.
"I'm sensing something dangerous if these are here…" Chopper trailed as he headed through the door into a tall area that was slightly big. Of course, it was not even close to being bigger than the area he fought Arctail.
"Well… I don't see much around here, that's for sure…"
"Broo ha ha ha… So, it is you who showed up…"
"Huh? Who said that?" Chopper wondered until he was met up with a blue, dragon-like monster with a skinny, hunched back spine, a cannon and wheels on his legs and a curly black tail. He let out a cold war, which made Luvbi gape.
"Thou… Thou art still alive?!" Luvbi squawked.
"Ah, yes… It's you, child… I thought you were already turned into a Pure Heart…" the monster trailed. "As for you, other child… Allow me to introduce myself! My name is Bonechill!"
"You… You're that monster that Mario once told me about…"
"Yes, I am that monster," Bonechill confirmed. "And I can see you're still the same as before, Chopper… No surprise."
"What do you mean? And how the heck do you know my name?!"
"Does that Sky Star ring a bell to you?"
"Well… All I remember is some kind of cold angel that…" Chopper paused as his eyes widened. "No way… That was YOU, wasn't it?!"
"Yes, that was me! That was back when I used to be a Nimbi… I was exiled from The Overthere by Grambi, so I was forced into The Underwhere. Thankfully, I managed to escape to Starlite Galaxy, where I met the Crystal King..."
"Pray, thou were an apprentice to the Crystal King?!" Luvbi gasped.
"Broo ha ha ha! That being was a great teacher. If it weren't for him, then I wouldn't have been able to create my army of live Skellobits! …Or rather, Aliebits at the time."
"Well, I guess that explains those wings on your back and your name..." Chopper trailed. "Look, let's not waste any time. If you've come here for a fight, then let's just settle this once and for all! I know my uncle, Chilbo, wouldn't waste his time! He was a great hero, that's for sure!"
"Chilbo, you say? Broo ha ha ha… That name does sound a bit familiar to me…"
"What do you mean…? Hold on… Did you do something to him?!"
"Hmmmm... Perhaps. I do know a thing about him, though." Bonechill grinned. "And let's just say that all of those heroic things about him…weren't exactly true."
"Then tell me!"
"Well, you see... When I was free from The Underwhere, I had heard of a warrior on a planet called Mondrao who had wanted to escape from its destruction. He said he'd sell his soul to stop them, and that's when I came in... I gave him his offer to escape, in exchange for his soul."
"Wh-What? But that can't be! You're a liar!"
"Oh, trust me... I'm not lying. I will prove to you!" Bonechill opened his mouth, letting out his icy breath. Chopper could get a glimpse of a couple of cold souls within it. One of them being a familiar face.
"N-No... That can't be right..." Chopper trailed, a horrified look appearing on his face.
"How didst thou do such a thing when thou were in The Overthere?" Luvbi asked.
"Oh, I was able to get away with it easily... But unfortunately, a dumb little Nimbi named Wenbi ended up hearing what I did and ratted on me, which got me exiled from The Overthere. Thankfully, I managed to escape from The Underwhere and create an army..."
"And then I managed to beat the Wingels' home area…" Chopper trailed.
"Yes, and I was unfortunate to go to Underwhere Prison. My entire Nimbi body was eventually transformed into a monster, but because of the ice powers, I was somehow able to turn into this. That dark wizard who freed us offered me to stay on this comet."
"So… This whole time my uncle was nothing but a selfish person who sold his soul to you to save himself and not his close friends or family…" Chopper clenched his fists. "And here I thought my uncle was a hero..."
"Well, now that I've told my whole story, allow me to end your game! Once your gone, then your whole kind will be history, which means no one will stop me!"
Chopper jumped back when he saw Bonechill attempt to freeze him with his ice breath. He saw he had 440 HP, an Attack of 18 and no defense. However, the big problem here was the fact that he couldn't reach his head.
"Broo ha ha ha! I'll make sure that Shade receives a frozen Chopper popsicle!" Bonechill cackled as he shot a couple of ice balls toward Chopper, who used a mirror barrier to reflect it back at Bonechill's head, making him cringe.
However, he didn't feel good when hitting him.
"Chopper… Art thou all right?" Luvbi asked as she noticed Chopper's head hung low.
"It doesn't feel right…" Chopper trailed. "My uncle sold his soul to this guy? That's just not like him..."
"Broo ha ha ha! Sometimes the truth hurts!" Bonechill grinned. "I bet your parents were not who you thought they were!"
"Don't you ever talk to my parents like that!" Chopper clenched his scepter and fired a mirror shard. Unfortunately, there was no way he could even reach the monster's head.
"Don't you realize that I'm too tall for someone like you?! Pathetic!"
When Chopper looked up, he noticed some icicles that were hanging from the ceiling. He gasped and jumped out of the way before they could land on top of him. Bonechill even fired a large ice bullet from his cannon at Chopper as well.
"Even if I try to inhale them, there's no way I'll be able to reach his head…" Chopper trailed.
"Then allow me to help you," Thoreau declared. "I remember this guy, and I know for sure that you can throw those icicles and ice bullets at him if you jump high enough. Trust me, I know this."
"OK, I'll try to go with your plan," the antennae hero nodded as he threw Thoreau at one of the icicles and held it up. When Bonechill stopped using his icy breath on the ceiling to make more icicles, he threw the icicle at Bonechill's head, making him cringe in pain.
"Braaaugh? What the…? How did you manage to hit my head?!" Bonechill gaped.
"It was thanks to me, of course," Thoreau declared.
"Brrrghh… I'll make you pay with your lives!" Bonechill brought his head down and attempted to freeze Chopper, who put up a mirror barrier to prevent himself from being frozen. Once he stopped, Chopper split into two and struck Bonechill's head once again.
"All right! This isn't as bad as I thought!" Chopper realized. "Don't worry, Bonechill… I'm going to make sure you're returned to where you should stay in: Underwhere Prison!"
"Ha! I'll never go back there, puny boy!"
Bonechill spat a couple of ice balls toward Chopper, which he tried to deflect with his mirror barrier. They fired back at Bonechill, and it struck him in the head, since he was too slow to avoid the attack.
"Honestly, you were a lot faster before…" Chopper sighed. "Now you're some giant, slow Skellobit monster."
Bonechill merely scoffed at him as he tried to use his talons to swipe at him. However, since they weren't able to reach Chopper, he couldn't even hit him, so he fired ice energy shaped like a claw straight at Chopper, freezing him.
"Chopper!" Luvbi cried as she noticed Chopper shaking before he broke out. "Oh, thank goodness… I thought thou were done for!"
"Well, I was able to break out of there, so I'm fine…" Chopper sighed.
Bonechill let out another chilly roar as he tried to freeze Chopper with his icy breath, who retaliated by tossing a fireball into his mouth, causing his eyes to widen in pain as he opened his mouth, which black smoke began to come out of.
"BRAAGH! I HATE fire!" Bonechill roared as he fired a couple of ice bullets at Chopper, knocking him back. Luvbi tried to help him, but Bonechill slowly made his way over to Chopper and clawed at him.
"Chopper, don't let this monster stoppeth thee!" Luvbi cried out. "Thou can dost it!"
"That's not going to work, child," Bonechill cackled. "Sure, he may be putting up a bit of a fight, but he doesn't have as much willpower to actually take me down after what he heard! Besides… I'm much bigger!"
"It's true you're big… But I fought a dragon bigger than you…" Chopper trailed as he fired a mirror shard at Bonechill, who cringed and knocked away Chopper's Mirror ability with another ice bullet.
"And now look at you! You've got no abilities!"
"He can fight thee without an ability, thou knowest!" Luvbi shot back.
"I suggest you stay out of this, little girl. You can worry about your little boyfriend later!"
"I will not let thee causeth harm to him…" Luvbi warned as she shot a white blast from her wings at Bonechill, making him let out a cold scream. Luvbi, on the other hand, was left confused. "Pray… What happened? How couldst I do that?!"
"I think your, well… Sage powers are actually being active and helping you." Chopper whispered. "I mean, now Bonechill's completely stunned!"
"Then thou shouldst attack now, Chopper!"
Chopper slowly nodded and hurled a light ball at the stunned Bonechill, who cringed in pain as he was able to move once again. He tried to attack Chopper with his talons when he was close, knocking him back. Bonechill fired ice bullets afterward, which Chopper managed to grab with Thoreau and throw them back at his head.
"Huh? What's with his face?" Chopper wondered as he noticed some scales fell off of Bonechill, which made him gape as some of the scales landed on his talons.
"My… My scales!" Bonechill gasped. "Boooarrrgh! Now you're in for it, Chopper! I actually didn't expect you to come this far against me…"
"I'm not enjoying it, but I know I have no other choice…" Chopper trailed as Bonechill used his ice breath to make icicles fall from the ceiling. When Chopper inhaled one of them, he became Ice Chopper.
"Oh, so now you honestly think you can fight fire with fire, huh? You should realize I am a master of the cold dark!"
"Actually, it's more like fighting ice with ice… We're not fighting with fire, you know…"
"That doth be a figure of speech," Luvbi informed.
"Oh… Well, it doesn't matter at this moment." Chopper got in his fighting stance, but was unfortunate to be caught in Bonechill's ice breath. Luvbi gasped, but she noticed he wasn't frozen.
"Bruaahh? What's this?" Bonechill gaped.
"If I have the Ice ability on, then that means that you can't really freeze me," Chopper informed as he used his Ice Storm to attack the cannon and freeze it. He then tossed an ice ball at Bonechill, which surprisingly hurt him.
"Hmmmm… Mayhap ice dost not freezeth him, but ice attacks can still hurt him…" Luvbi deduced.
"Although, they don't seem to do as much damage, from what I can see…" Chopper trailed as he removed his Ice ability and jumped out of the way of the icicles. He used Thoreau to grab them and throw them at Bonechill's head and then used Starbow to make shooting stars fall on the monster.
"Hmph! For being the last of your kind, you do have a bit of skill…" Bonechill trailed. "But it's not enough to take me down!"
Bonechill clenched his fists as he fired an ice beam from his mouth toward Chopper, who tried to flee from it, but he ended up getting frozen. He shook a little before unfreezing himself and hurling a charged fireball at Bonechill.
"Man… I don't know what to think of right now…" Chopper trialed as he dodged Bonechill's ice beam. He then lowered his head and attempted to charge at the pale green gumball, but he was able to jump on his head a couple of times while performing stylish moves.
However, when Bonechill rammed his head at Chopper, it sent him flying across the area, making the monster cackle before he ended up getting struck by a white light that Luvbi unleashed.
When Chopper quickly shook himself, he saw Bonechill's head was vulnerable, so he ran toward him and struck him with a light smash, leaving the monster dazed. Bonechill managed to get his senses back to him as he turned to Luvbi.
"You, child… You are starting to get on my nerves!" Bonechill hissed. "I have a better idea on what to do with you!"
"Wh-What dost thou…" Luvbi's eyes went white as she was frozen by Bonechill's ice breath, making Chopper gasp.
"You… You froze Luvbi!" Chopper gaped.
"Brooo ha ha ha! Now your little angelic friend can't help you!" Bonechill cackled. "How does that make you feel?"
"You... What you did was horrible! And I'm going to make you pay for that, you monster…"
"Monster… I like that! That's exactly what I am!"
Chopper clenched his fists and hurled a light ball toward Bonechill, who ducked before it could strike him and made icicles fall from the ceiling. He grabbed one of them and threw it at Bonechill with the help of Thoreau, followed by Hommissile, which Chopper aimed at Bonechill's head.
"And then you go KA-BAOOM!" Hommissile shouted as Bonechill was left gaping after the explosion. He even tried to shoot Chopper with a couple of ice bullets, but he inhaled them and spat them at Bonechill's head when he brought his head down in order to bite him.
Bonechill was brought back by how Chopper's face looked. From seeing his friend frozen, he was certainly not happy with this guy. He even went out to spin his hammer around with fire energy while Bonechill's head with still on the ground.
"Urgh… You want revenge, do you not? I can tell it by the look of your face!" Bonechill grinned as he brought his head up.
"N-No... I'm trying to save all the souls you had taken from people." Chopper declared
"Ahhh... Now that's more like it." Bonechill grinned, using his ice breath to attempt to freeze Chopper, who jumped out of the way and threw a rainbow ball at Bonechill's face.
The monster retaliated by throwing a couple of gust tornados toward Chopper, which he inhaled and gained the Tornado ability. This backfired against Bonechill when Chopper spun in a tornado and moved upward, striking him a couple of times.
"I need to think of a new strategy against him," Bonechill thought as he tried to freeze Chopper with his ice breath. Unfortunately, this didn't work when Chopper was in a tornado and absorbed some of the ice energy to hit Bonechill.
"Brooah! My plan didn't work!"
"I guess not," Chopper stated as he kicked Bonechill's head with a flaming kick, following by a flaming spinning kick, making a couple of scales fall off the monster, leaving him with a few scales left. Some of them even landed on Chopper's gloved hands.
"Take this!" Chopper threw two light balls at once at Bonechill. He tried to avoid them, but he got struck in the spine instead. Thankfully, it didn't have much of an effect on him because of how tough his spine was.
"Huh? That didn't do anything!"
"That's because my spine is nearly invulnerable to all attacks!" Bonechill chuckled. "I think you should've realized this by now!"
Chopper simply used Starbow to make a couple of shooting stars fall on him while he went over to the frozen Luvbi and unfroze her with a fireball. He simply kept it close so the heat would help thaw her out.
In no time, she was completely thawed out.
"Ugh… What… What happened?" Luvbi moaned as Chopper managed to catch her.
"It's all right, Luvbi, you're fine," Chopper assured. "I… I just had to thaw you out, that's all."
"Oh… I doth remember getting frozen by yon monster."
"Are you two going to make out or what?" Bonechill groaned. "We're in a middle of a fight here…"
"Right…" Chopper trailed as he turned to Bonechill, who used his icy breath to freeze Chopper. When he broke out of his icy prison, his Tornado ability began to bounce around the floor (as a star, mind you). He was about to get it, but an icicle fell on top of it, destroying it.
"I'm afraid you won't be using any abilities to help yourself here," the monster declared as he made more icicles on the ceiling with his ice breath. Chopper did a back flip to avoid them and began throwing a couple of fireballs toward Bonechill. His ice breath was able to get rid of them.
"Pray… Doesn't fire melteth ice?" Luvbi gawked.
"I don't understand that either…" Chopper trailed. "That should've HIT you!"
"Broo ha ha ha! Oh, the silly minds of two children!" Bonechill cackled. "You see, my ice is stronger than your puny little fireballs. Not to mention that you're just shooting small particles, while I have a lot of ice breath with me!"
Chopper sweat dropped as he was frozen by Bonechill's ice breath. Luvbi tried to break him free, but he simply did it on his own before attempting to kick at the cannon, which didn't do a thing.
"Hero, you know that's not going to work," Crystaline noted.
"Ugh… I suppose you're right." Chopper decided to use Thoreau to grab an icicle that fell from the ground and throw it at Bonechill, who decided to change things up a bit by using his power to create a blizzard.
"Broo ha ha ha! Say hello to my blizzard, Chopper!"
At this point, the whole floor was snowy, and snowflakes began to fall around the area. Chopper was unfortunate to shiver, as well as Luvbi (though, the snow actually made her look a little prettier, which she liked).
"S-So c-cold!"
Despite being cold, he was still able to fight back. When Chopper whacked some ice bullets at Bonechill's head, he let out a scream as Chopper managed to hurl a couple of fireballs at him and melt the snow away with some flaming feet.
"The snow doesn't really work on a place like this, honestly…"
"Well, it suits me rather well," Bonechill hissed as he clawed at Chopper, knocking him back. Luvbi's sage power went to use once again as another bright light struck Bonechill and left him stunned.
"Get him, Chopper!" Luvbi cried.
"Got it," Chopper nodded as he bashed Bonechill's head a couple of times with fire smashes and light smashes. Needless to say, the monster was getting severely injured from the fight. Chopper started to raise his arms and create a light ball, while Luvbi added her sage power to the light ball to make it sparkle
"That shouldst finish him off!" Luvbi declared.
"It's time to end this, Bonechill!" Chopper declared.
"Argh! You will not finish me!" Bonechill hissed, opening his mouth to breathe more ice. However, this was not enough, as the light ball managed to strike him and make all of his scales fall off.
"BRAAAAAAAARGH! How?! How could this be?!" Bonechill screamed as he began to fall apart until he was no more. Once he was gone, all of the souls he had taken slowly began to fly upward.
"Bye, Chilbo..." Chopper trailed, waving at a particular soul. "Maybe you will be a good person in the future..."
"Mayhap..." Luvbi agreed. "I definitely dost not want my prince's uncle to live in The Underwhere..."
"Well, at least my uncle can live peacefully…" Chopper turned around and walked over to the door. "He may have been a liar, but if there's a way he can have a change of heart in the aftergame, it would make me feel happy."
"Let us hope…"
"We should get going now…" Chopper was about to leave the area, but he heard something drop from the ground. When he turned around, he saw a dark purple key before them.
"I think Bonechill dropped that," Chopper picked the key up and left the area and noticed the locked door to his right.
"Chopper, mayhap we can use that key to movest on!" Luvbi suggested.
"Yeah, we should do that. I don't think we can even move on ahead anyway."
When Chopper unlocked the door, they found themselves in a tunnel-like room with the slope moving at a downward angle. When Chopper saw this, he charged up a Speed Dash and moved on until he found the path end by a large gap of slime.
"Oh, me… This doth be dangerous…" Luvbi trailed. "Is there anything we can use?"
"Hey, I see a saucer here!" Chopper noticed as he jumped on and picked up Luvbi so they could go over the slime. Unfortunately, it didn't have enough juice, so when they got to the other side, it broke down.
"Crud… We can't even go back now…" Chopper even checked in 3-D, but he found nothing. "I think we're trapped…"
"Well… All we can dost is movest on…" Luvbi trailed as they found a small path going at an upward angle. Another thing that they could hear was some moaning. "Chopper… Be ready. There may be a monster there!"
"Don't worry, I'll be fine," Chopper assured as he made his way up the slope and stopped when he saw an alien-like tentacle up ahead.
Tipral was slowly getting up after losing his conscience.
"Ungh… I don't know what happened, but I don't feel so good…" Tipral moaned. "And this place doesn't look like my palace at all…"
Luvbi gasped as Tipral blinked a couple of times and noticed he wasn't back at his palace. However, what made him clench his fists was when he saw both Chopper and Luvbi looking at him.
"What the… What are you guys doing here?!" Tipral hissed as his fists started glowing purple. "You better answer me now before I destroy you both!"
"Thou… Thou hast causesth my friend Crysta to die!" Luvbi cried. "Why would thou dost such a thing?!"
"Great… It's you again, you little brat. And you should actually be thankful that I did that!"
"Why shouldst I?! She was my friend!"
"You do realize that she had the ability to live forever, right? Well, would YOU want to live forever? From what I heard from her, she certainly didn't. You should be happy that I did that for you."
"But thou were only trying to stoppeth us from getting the Pure Heart!"
"Hmph… That is true…" Tipral trailed as he folded his arms. "I'm not sure whether I hate you or Chopper more…"
"OK, let's not get into more arguing…" Chopper suggested. "Especially what happened before…"
"And what happened before?"
"It's…none of your concern."
"Fine."
"So, Tipral… Can you explain to me what happened without us getting into a fight? I'm a little too exhausted to fight for the moment."
"Fine, I'll answer your question and then finish you," Tipral declared. "From what I can remember, after our little battle, I ended up meeting a shadowy spirit that acted like Dim… Dimentio! So HE was responsible for sending me here in the first place!"
"I believe I met him too," Chopper added. "He's the reason why my friends are all separated! …Wait, hold on… I was told that six people were found here. If my friends are here too, then that means you were the sixth person…"
"Yes, that's correct," Tipral nodded before grabbing Chopper's arm and throwing him to the ground. "Now, let's just get this over with!"
When Chopper got up, Tipral jumped and prepared to strike him with a Star Spear. While he was weak, Chopper still had the energy to throw a light ball at Tipral, which knocked him to the ground.
"Wha… Light power?! Where did you get that kind of power?!"
"I got it from a light pedestal… When I touched it, I ended up absorbing some of the light power."
"I see… However, that's not going to stop me from destroying you!" Tipral was about to take out the Dark Star Scepter, but he realized that he didn't have it with him. Nor did he have the Dark Prognosticus on him!
"What the… Where did my scepter and book go?! And the Chaos Heart… Oh no…"
"What?" Chopper gawked.
"Chopper, if no one's controlling the Chaos Heart, its power will go out of control. Basically, it's going to go right to The Void and get enveloped by the darkness inside to transform into the True Chaos Heart. Chances are, everyone is going to die."
"Hold on… Why wouldst thou be concerned over this?" Luvbi asked. "Thou wantest to use that power to destroy all!"
"I wanted to, but it appears that Dimentio took away that privilege. The only way to stop it now is to have all twenty Pure Hearts in possession to counter it. Only then could it prevent a disaster."
"And why should I listen to you in the first place?" Chopper asked. "You destroy my home world, as well as my friends'! I shouldn't listen to you one bit!"
"Chopper, you realize that if you don't listen to me, you will fail miserably. Everything, and I repeat, EVERYTHING will be gone. You know that World of Nothing? There won't be a World of Nothing when the True Chaos Heart's power is not controlled."
"So, you're saying that the only option for us is to…work together?"
"Nay! I dost not want him to join us!" Luvbi retorted.
"Don't think I WANT to join you!" Tipral hissed. "Besides, even if you were to stop an uncontrollable True Chaos Heart, you wouldn't be able to do it. I'm sure even this place wouldn't be easy for you to get through if you didn't have my help."
"How so?" Chopper asked.
"That slime over there. I've heard about that slime before… If you fall in the pool of alien slime, every atom in your body explodes as you begin to incinerate. It's painful, that's for sure. However, my shoes are capable to hovering over that without harming me."
"And how could I get across there?"
"I can teleport you across. We work together, we can both get something that'll help us both get to The Void and stop the True Chaos Heart from harming both of us."
"Fine… I guess we have no other choice." Chopper sighed. "However, I will never forgive you for what you did."
"And I don't regret doing it either after what you did to me. We're still enemies, all right? You and the rest of your pathetic friends will remain as my enemies while we travel together."
"I have no problem with that, especially when you crushed the wand that Tippi…or rather Timpani was using!"
"Don't even mention the word 'Timpani' to me…" Tipral trailed, giving Chopper a glare as he clenched his fists. "She's dead. I moved on."
Tipral has joined your party! With his Star powers on your side, he is capable of taking down many undead beings and destroy many dangerous monster in his path as well! With his air shoes, he's capable of going across alien slime in his way without being harmed and move at the same speed as Chopper! His eyes are also able to help him see through dark places!
"I guess you're not going to listen to me…" Chopper sighed.
"Let's just movest on," Luvbi suggested.
Tipral teleported Chopper and Luvbi over to the other side with his teleporting abilities. Once they were at the other side, Tipral simply skated over the alien slime without being harmed by it.
"Geez… He wasn't lying when he said he could go over that slime." Chopper gaped.
"We should go now," Tipral suggested as he skated up the slope ahead, while the other two followed him to the door to the area with the two doors. Of course, there was a pathway across the slime.
"See? That's something we can't get past." Chopper noted as Tipral made his way across to the pathway ahead and teleported Chopper and Luvbi across. Unfortunately, they were met with a Phantom Hand that rose from the ground, making Chopper shriek.
"Oh, no! Not a Phantom Hand! Get it away from me!"
"You're kidding me…" Tipral trailed as he snapped his finger and defeated the Phantom Hand with Star Magic. "I guess you do prove to be a bit pathetic than I thought you were…"
"What givest thee the right to insult my sweet Chopper like that?!" Luvbi exclaimed.
"And I see you're still in love with that kid too. Listen, get on my bad side, and I'll rip your wings apart. Got that?"
"Thou dost know that Chopper won't let that happen…"
"Yeah, I wouldn't," Chopper nodded.
"And why is she here anyway? It's not like she's needed here."
"Mine parents were kidnapped by the alien kid Shade," Luvbi explained. "And apparently the Pure Heart is located hither too."
"You mean this is Shade's headquarters? Hmph… I've always wanted to take him down again. Considering that both of us hate Shade, there's another reason for us to work together."
"I guess so," Chopper agreed.
They noticed up ahead blocking a platform was a dark, muscular Skellobit that resembled the Skelloknight. However, the main difference was that it was a Dark Skello in black armor and carrying a sword and shield.
"Pray… Haven't we seen something like that before?" Luvbi recalled.
"Yeah, back by the way up to The Peaceness…" Chopper trailed.
"This shouldn't be a problem," Tipral assured as he cracked his knuckles.
When the Dark Skelloknight charged at them with its sword, Tipral simply swung his arm and fired a Star Spear, which was able to pierce through its armor and break it, leaving it vulnerable.
"Graaaaaah! I'll squish you, dark ball!" the Dark Skelloknight shouted as it ran toward Tipral with its sword ready. However, instead of using his own abilities, Tipral grabbed Chopper and threw him at the knight, who used its shield to block his attack.
"Ha! You missed me!"
"I wasn't trying to hit you, you know," Tipral mentioned as the Dark Skelloknight noticed its shield was knocked away after blocking Chopper. This gave Tipral the opportunity to finish it off by throwing a shadow ball and taking it out with a Star Spear.
"What was that all about?!" Chopper exclaimed, getting up and glaring at Tipral.
"You should be thankful that you're still alive," Tipral scoffed. "And besides, it helped me defeat the Dark Skelloknight anyway."
"Ugh… I guess you're just going to ignore any help I give you then?"
"Probably not, considering that we'll have to both work together to get through here. You DO have the ability to flip, after all."
"Yeah, I do…" Chopper carried on ahead and found a slope moving upward with boulders coming their way. Tipral tried to smash one of them, but it didn't work and ended up hitting him.
"Chopper. Flip. Now."
Chopper sighed as he flipped him and Tipral into 3-D while going around the boulders and reaching the door ahead, which they entered to find another large pool of slime up ahead, while they were standing on a platform.
Two Dark Wizards were flying over the slime and began to fire dark magic from their wands at them. Tipral simply snapped his finger and sent the two Dark Wizards into the slime with his Star Magic.
"That doth be a little gruesome…" Luvbi trailed as she watched the two Dark Wizards incinerate in the slime. Chopper decided to use some of the platforms sticking out of the slime to cross, but Tipral jumped and used his teleportation to get across and reach the other side, where he found some ledges above them with a boulder dropping to the ground.
After the boulder was gone, Tipral jumped to the right ledge above him, as well as Chopper. They jumped to the left ledge above them and to the right ledge to find a pathway with some gaps with slime below. Boulders were falling down as well.
"Well… I guess this isn't as bad…" Chopper trailed as he jumped after the boulder fell. Tipral simply teleported over to the other side to make things easier and reached an area with a couple of more gaps with slime below and some Ninja Creatures landing on the pathway and attempting to strike them with their katanas.
Chopper managed to bash one with his hammer with a light smash, while Tipral knocked them away with a Star Punch. He simply used his teleportation to cross the gaps and reach the end of the pathway.
"There isn't anything around here," Tipral noticed. "You're going to have to flip into 3-D, Chopper."
"Hey, who made you leader?" Chopper gawked.
"I'm just giving you a suggestion, you idiot."
"Don't call my sweet prince a…"
"Luvbi, let's not get into another argument," Chopper sighed as he went into 3-D and saw a platform to their right. They all got on it and landed on the next pathway moving to the left after going back into 2-D.
They defeated two Dark Wizards in the way and hurried to the door ahead, which brought them into a small tunnel and then a platform leading down to a lower platform floating above the slime.
"This doth be a bit tricky…" Luvbi trailed.
"Well, what are we gonna do about it?" Chopper shrugged as he ran through the tunnel and landed on the moving platform. Tipral followed him and landed on the platform up ahead to find a large gap with slime.
"Oh… This should be fun…"
"I can get through this slime without any problem," Tipral assured as he skated across the slime and teleported Chopper and Luvbi across. "I don't know how far we are in this comet. Unless… You guys know."
"I don't think we art verily far through hither…" Luvbi trailed.
"Great… Well, I guess it's not a big problem when I can crush all of these minions here." Tipral saw a Dark Soldier charging toward him, unaware that it was once on Tipral's side. Him, not caring about the solider, struck its face with a Star Kick to send it flying back.
"Why are Dark Creatures here anyway?" Chopper asked. "Don't they belong to Dark or something?"
"Dark told me that they left him to join Shade after discovering that his army was better than his. The Dark Creatures never really followed my orders, so I can simply crush them without feeling regret."
"Thou dost not feel any regret for anything…" Luvbi scowled.
"You mean for Chopper and his friends' home worlds? I don't feel any regrets for that, especially when they harmed me before!"
"Look, let's save these problems for later," Chopper suggested. "I would just like to get a move on before we end up in a fight and get ourselves hurt."
Tipral found two platforms moving up and down and jumped on them to find another tunnel with a slope moving downward with a loop ahead. Chopper and Tipral sped down the slope and went through the loop while jumping off a ramp to land on a small pathway with the rest of the floor being filled with alien slime.
And to make matters worse, there were Dark Worms coming out of the slime.
"What the… They're not harmed by it?!" Chopper gaped.
"It appears their skin is probably able to withstand that slime…" Tipral trailed as he went over the slime. He found a Dark Soldier on a saucer, so he threw a Star Spear and knocked it off before tossing the saucer to Chopper. "Here, you can use that to get through here. …Oh, and it can probably help that stupid brat as well.
Chopper groaned and held Luvbi up, not wanting to hold her bridal style. She had complained about wanting to be held bridal style, but this had got on Tipral's nerves and made him fire a Star Spear in their direction. Thankfully, Chopper had avoided it.
Before they could continue on through the toxic slime, a flying saucer teleported into the area, where a Dark Creature wearing black armor with a device on its back appeared. It was holding a purple blaster that could fire rapidly.
"Uh oh… That's not good." Chopper gulped as he avoided the Dark Assassin's attack and hurled a light ball. However, it didn't fall off the flying saucer to his dismay when he got hit by a blast.
"Chopper! Art thou all right?!" Luvbi gasped.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine…"
"But thou art rather hurt…"
Tipral jumped and managed to dive down at the Dark Assassin, striking it with a Star Kick and then his Star Burst, which sent the alien flying off its flying saucer and disintegrated into smoke afterward.
"Oh… Well, that wasn't too bad." Chopper shrugged as he followed Tipral over to the tunnel ahead to find a slope going down to some more toxic slime. Luvbi cringed at the tentacles on the walls and ceiling of the tunnel.
"Ugh… I dost not like those…" Luvbi trailed.
"Well, don't worry about it. If I'm here, then that means that you're probably not going to get hurt."
Chopper went down the slope while still on the flying saucer, while Tipral skated down, gaining some more speed as he traveled through a gap of slime and found a pathway with a purple pipe before them.
"Hmmmm… Well, there isn't much else here, so we're going to have to go down this pipe." Tipral declared as Chopper got off the flying saucer after crossing the slime and followed him down the pipe.
When they came out of the pipe, they ran into a large Dark Creature with no armor and a large, purple sword. It most likely had a lot of HP compared to the other enemies, having about 400 HP, so they knew this would most likely take a while to fight against.
"Great… This is going to be fun." Chopper sighed as he began hurling light balls at the Dark Brute. It managed to swing its sword, but Chopper was quick enough to jump out of harm's way while Tipral threw a shadow ball to leave it stunned. After freezing time around the Dark Brute, he began to throw as many attacks as possible.
However, Chopper's hammer was able to finish it off before Tipral could make the final blow.
"Why did you do that?" Tipral asked. "I had it right where I wanted it!"
"Hey, I have to fight too, you know," Chopper mentioned as they found a purple crystal ahead. Chopper hurled a light ball at it and made a pathway reveal itself. There was more toxic alien slime, but with a couple of prickly mines around as well.
"Pray, art those mines in the slime?" Luvbi gawked as Chopper got on a flying saucer. "This doth not appear to be safe hither…"
"They can easily get destroyed if they get in contact with anything," Tipral informed. "Obviously a Star Spear would destroy them."
While Tipral went over the slime with ease, Chopper used the saucer to do so. He used Hommissile to destroy a couple of mines in the way until they reached a waterfall made of toxic slime going downward. Tipral simply jumped down, while the flying saucer slowly landed below.
"Good thing that the fall wasn't too bad," Chopper sighed as he stopped when some toxic slime fired upward. Chopper had to stop until the toxic slime stopped and allowed him to move on. Some Dark Assassins appeared on flying saucers as well, with Chopper using Starbow to take them out.
When they found a high ledge ahead, they noticed that they couldn't find a way to get up there. The only thing they saw was some slime firing upward to the ledge.
"Mayhap we can use that slime to reach the ledge?" Luvbi suggested.
"Why would you think that would work?" Chopper wondered.
"Because thou will be fine on thy saucer! And yon hideous creature couldst simply teleport up there as well!"
"'Hideous creature'… I'm not too surprised to hear that again…" Tipral groaned as he teleported over to the ledge.
Chopper decided to listen to Luvbi and went over the slime where it fired upward. When this happened, the saucer went upward and was able to reach the ledge, where they found a pathway ahead with no gaps with slime.
"Well, that wasn't such a bad idea!" Chopper smiled as he got off the saucer. "I never knew you had some good ideas!"
"Yea, verily!" Luvbi blushed. "Mayhap thou canst reward me?"
"Uhhhh... I don't know what I can do except for saving your parents."
"Enough already," Tipral intervened, walking on ahead and knocking a Dark Wizard out of his way.
"Hmph! He doth be rude!" Luvbi huffed, a little infuriated over Tipral.
Chopper shrugged ran on ahead, knocking a Dark Wizard out of his way, which got up and struck Chopper with dark magic. He simply finished it off with a light sweeping kick and followed Tipral ahead to a tall platform blocking the way.
"There's something up there," Tipral noticed as he teleported onto the platform and found a chest, which contained a Comet Key. Up ahead, they saw a blue door that had a lock on it.
"I think there might be something of interest ahead," Luvbi noted.
"Yeah, but we have that Dark Skelloknight and the Dark Brute in the way…" Chopper sweat dropped as he whacked a Dark Wizard away with his hammer. When they got to the two large enemies, they got themselves ready to battle.
"So… Should we both take care of one of them?"
"Well, that's not a bad idea," Tipral noted. "I'll take care of the Dark Skelloknight."
"Then I got the brute!" Chopper smirked as he began to spin around the Dark Brute rapidly, making the alien dizzy and fall over. This gave Chopper the opportunity to charge up a light ball and hurl it at it, causing it to get enveloped by light energy. Although, this did not mean that it was down yet.
The Dark Brute lifted its sword and brought it down, but Chopper jumped on its head and performed a stylish move before using Starbow to make shooting stars fall on the Dark Creature. He finished it off by punching its chest with a light punch, which was able to destroy it thanks to the light energy.
"Wow… I guess speed really does help!"
As for Tipral, he had an easier time with his enemy. It didn't take long for him to destroy the armor on the Dark Skelloknight and punch its stomach with a Star Punch. It cringed as Tipral teleported behind the large Skellobit and kicked its face a couple of times.
"Take this!" Tipral roared as he swung both arms and fired two Star Spears straight at the Dark Skelloknight. However, before he could finish it off, Chopper jumped in and finished it off with a charged light ball, disintegrating it and leaving a Master Shroom Shake, which he took.
"There ya go! That's taken care of!" Chopper declared in relief before getting punched by Tipral.
"Why didst thou do that?!" Luvbi gaped.
"Next time, don't take care of something that I was taking care of!" Tipral hissed. "You're making me want to leave you and do this on my own!"
"Actually, you wouldn't be able to," Chopper mentioned. "I'm sure there are some things here that require light energy to get past. I know I can't go through here without you either, so we DO need to work together, sadly."
"Hmph… Fine." Tipral took the Comet Key out and unlocked the door, leading them into a small area with some floating asteroids leading down to a door where a ? Block was. There was a Save Block near them, so Chopper hit it to save their game.
"I doth wonder why there art asteroids around hither…" Luvbi trailed as she looked below and noticed some more toxic alien slime. Chopper jumped on the asteroids and reached the ledge below them. There, they found the ? Block and the door. Once he hit the block, a Star Shroom popped out, so he managed to take it and rip it into two to give one to Tipral.
"Wait… Why are you giving me that?" Tipral asked.
"Well, I'm sure you got hurt a bit, so you might want it," Chopper answered. "And besides, if you run out of HP, then I'm probably screwed."
"All right, whatever," Tipral took the Star Shroom and ate it to recover 150 HP. They then moved on to the next area, which wasn't as big as the area where Chopper fought Bonechill, but it sure did look a lot different.
"Hold on… This room doesn't even look slightly alien-like!" Chopper gawked. "It reminds me of that underground room on that island while going over the ocean in that one world!"
"Dost thou mean the world where The Peaceness was?" Luvbi asked.
"Yeah, that one… And there are even some pillars here as well!" Chopper looked up at the sky and noticed the black all around. "Yup… And the whole area feels a little purplish as well."
"Hmph… Can't say much about this place." Tipral commented. "Though, the door appears to be up ahead."
"So, we meet again…"
"Hold on a second… I remember that voice!" Chopper realized as he saw the Soul Collector appear before them. "Hey! You're that phantom that we encountered before! What are you doing here?!"
"I should be asking you the same thing," the Soul Collector replied. "This is a place where I have come to take some souls. After all, I do collect them."
"Thou dost appear a bit strange…" Luvbi trailed.
"I'm one of the members of the Tribe of Darkness. …Or rather, I used to be until my game was ended."
"I know you…" Tipral trailed as he got a good eye on the Soul Collector. "I've seen your face somewhere."
"…So, it is you, isn't it? The one who murdered me back then. I see you're still alive, aren't you?"
"You should've stayed dead instead of becoming a phantom. People would've probably liked that a lot more!"
"That may be, but I could care less about what people think of me. Now that you're here, I can finally get revenge on you for destroying me and turning me into nothing but a soul collector! I'm going to appreciate stealing your soul! And I'll gladly do the same thing with you, kid!"
"What?! What have I ever done to you?!" Chopper exclaimed.
"You idiot… I take people's souls! Since you are a wanderer, I'm going to take your soul! And thankfully, it shouldn't be a problem this time! I've gotten a little used to that rainbow energy!"
"Oh yeah?" Chopper flung a rainbow ball toward the Soul Collector, but it simply phased through it and hit the wall. "Uh oh… I guess he really has learned a few things from before…"
"Yes! Now I shall show you what I can do!"
The Soul Collector teleported behind Tipral and fired a dark spell from its wand at him. Tipral simply teleported in front of the Soul Collector and attempted to strike it with a Star Kick.
Sadly, it didn't seem to work.
"What?!" Tipral gaped before he was knocked to the ground by a dark spell while the Soul Collector cackled.
"Hwa hwa hwa… Well, it doesn't look like you're going to be hitting me anytime soon!" the Soul Collector grinned. "You guys don't even stand a chance against me!"
Chopper pondered for a minute before realizing that he did have something that he could probably use.
"Maybe this will work…" Chopper thought as he hurled a charged light ball at the Soul Collector. When it struck the phantom, its eyes widened in pain as it felt light enveloping inside of it.
"WH-WHAT?! What just happened?!" the Soul Collector looked down at its chest and noticed that its phantom-like appearance was more solid than before. When Tipral noticed this, he swung both arms and struck the Soul Collector with two Star Spears. "Did I just get struck by light energy?! That… That means I'm vulnerable to any attack!"
"Just like Hauntost…" Chopper trailed as the Soul Collector turned to him. "Yeah, I managed to get a hold of light energy. It looks like we can actually have a bit of a fair fight this time!"
"Fools… I may be vulnerable, but my attacks are still as powerful as ever!"
"Luvbi, stay back. Tipral and I got this."
"Of course," Luvbi nodded as she fluttered above the battle, trying to keep herself safe from harm. She watched as Chopper jumped out of the way of a dark spell the Soul Collector was firing. This thing had 440 HP, an Attack of 18 and a Defense of 6, which was nothing to laugh at.
The Soul Collector became frustrated as Chopper dodged the spells that were thrown at him and was spinning rapidly in a way to avoid them. Of course, Tipral found it stupid, but he was able to strike the Soul Collector by snapping his finger and hitting it with Star Magic.
"Chopper, let me use one of those Pixls you've got," demanded Tipral. "I think I could use one of them to help."
"I'll go by your side," Crystaline declared as she fluttered over to Tipral. When the Soul Collector tried to attack him, he tossed Crystaline at the phantom and left it frozen solid, which was enough for Tipral to use his Star Burst on.
"Grrrrrr… If only I were invulnerable to your attacks…" the Soul Collector groaned as he teleported above the ground and used more of his magic to make dark orbs of energy appear to their left and right.
"Whoa… This isn't good…" Chopper trailed.
"Well, I can probably help you," Barry informed, creating a spiky barrier around Chopper to protect himself. Tipral simply used Slim to turn sideways and avoid the dark orbs of energy flying toward him.
"Is this the best you've got?" Tipral scoffed.
"Those Pixls… They're getting in my way!" the Soul Collector tried to zap one of the Pixls with dark magic, but Reflecto was able to reflect the attack back at the Soul Collector, stunning it.
"Good thing Reflecto's here, or else we would be in some serious trouble!" Chopper smiled as he looked over at Reflecto, who remained silent as he went back over to the back by the other Pixls.
"He's one shy Pixl, isn't he?" Carrie noted.
"Yeah, he doesn't seem to be a talker…" Starbow trailed.
The Soul Collector slowly rubbed its head as it blinked and noticed Tipral fired a Star spear its way. It teleported to avoid it and managed to strike Tipral with dark lightning, leaving Tipral paralyzed.
"Grrrgh… I…can't move…!" Tipral grunted.
"Just try to stay calm while I handle this," Chopper assured as he ran toward the Soul Collector, who turned around and fired a dark spell at Chopper, who managed to jump over it and hit the Soul Collector with a light kick.
"Curse that light power you hold!" the Soul Collector spat. "Though… Dark power is something that can counter it, like light power can counter darkness."
"Yeah, I suppose that's true…"
The Soul Collector grinned as it destroyed the light ball that was thrown at it by using dark magic on it. Chopper gulped and jumped out of the way as Tipral managed to recover from the paralysis and attack the Soul Collector with his Star First.
"Now that I'm no longer paralyzed, you'll be expected to be met with death!" Tipral declared. "Though… You're technically dead…"
"I believe it'll be YOU who will be met with death…" the Soul Collector created a couple of dark phantoms that resembled Boos that flew down to attack, but with some light balls, they were defeated with ease.
"Chopper! Don't let that thing defeatest thee!" Luvbi cried.
"Don't worry, I won't let that happen," Chopper assured as the Soul Collector created a dark sword and tried to strike Chopper with it, only to have him jump out of the way and hit a pillar instead. It got knocked over, which hit the Soul Collector and forced it to create bombs and throw them.
While Tipral struck the Soul Collector, Chopper inhaled a bomb to become Bomb Chopper and hurled a bomb straight at the Soul Collector. Unfortunately, this didn't work when it dodged it by teleporting, but it wasn't able to escape Tipral's teleporting Star Strikes.
"I don't know why I even chose to use the Bomb ability…" Chopper trailed.
"Well no matter what, I still love thee either way!" Luvbi sighed sweetly.
"Uhhhhhhh… Honestly, I have no comment over that."
"Chopper, just shut up and help me fight!" Tipral hissed, getting pinned to the ground by the Soul Collector, who was about to use its magic wand to strike Tipral with another attack. While it charged, the phantom grinned at him with its scary smile.
"Well, it looks like I have you right where I want you!" the Soul Collector cackled. "I've been waiting for this moment, you know! You have any last words before I end up finishing you?"
"You're quite an idiot," Tipral scoffed as he teleported and kicked the Soul Collector in the face. "You should've known that that wouldn't work."
"Hmph… How stupid of me to forget that."
Chopper pulled a bomb out and chucked it at the Soul Collector, who simply threw it back at Chopper to send him flying back from the explosion. Luvbi wanted to go down and help, but she knew it would be too dangerous.
"I just hopeth Chopper doesn't loseth his game…" Luvbi thought as Chopper got up, with some soot covering him. He brushed it off and created an ice bomb thanks to the ice power he had and threw one at the Soul Collector, freezing it.
"Hmmm? An ice bomb?" Tipral gawked.
"Well, sometimes you need to bring ice bombs to a fight," Chopper shrugged before the Soul Collector broke out of its icy prison. It fired a dark glob of energy at Chopper to deal some damage, but that ended up getting hit by Tipral's Star Magic.
"I believe you're the more threatening one," the Soul Collector deduced, creating a staff from its scepter and attempting to strike Tipral with it. It managed to hit him at least once, but Tipral teleported above it and slammed his fists down on its head, making it hit the ground.
"Since you're no longer a phantom, you can't go through the floor," Tipral scoffed. "Pathetic…"
"Pathetic? Oh… You've really messed with the wrong Tribe of Darkness!"
"I don't care about that. You should've stayed dead, and that's what I plan on doing with you." Tipral declared as he stomped on the Soul Collector with Star energy on his feet and left the phantom cringing in pain.
"Why do you even want him dead?" Chopper asked.
"I destroyed him before, and that's how I want it to stay. How you managed to become this, I have no idea. In fact, I don't really care HOW you managed to turn into this."
The Soul Collector grimaced as it creating a dark X that formed a slash attack and made Tipral fall over on the ground. The Soul Collector was quite satisfied, until it got hit by a fire bomb.
"Sorry, I can't let you do that," Chopper stated as he tossed a charged light ball at the Soul Collector afterward. It made it cringe, but it was able to whirl around and create a dark shockwave that hit the two.
"Gah!" Tipral grunted as he winced. "Not bad… You do seem to put up a bit of a fight. Not that I'm surprised."
"If I didn't have the time to act before you finished me, I could've destroyed you instead," the Soul Collector hissed as it surrounded itself in a barrier. Chopper tried chucking bombs at it, but it didn't seem to break through.
"Hold on, I got this," Tipral threw a Star Spear at the Soul Collector, but the barrier around it was preventing him from hurting the phantom. "Great… Just what we needed. It doesn't look like this is going to work."
"Well, that's made of darkness, so I'm sure this might do something," Chopper used a light bomb at the barrier, which ended up shattering it. The Soul Collector wasn't surprised, but it fired dark lightning that paralyzed Chopper.
"N-No! I…can't move!"
"Quit whining, you'll get over it."
"Well… You really shouldn't be like that. I'm starting to like you a lot less."
"I doth agree," Luvbi agreed.
"Look, I'll take care of him until you're no longer paralyzed, all right? Of course, if you want to cry over it, go right ahead."
Chopper frowned as Tipral hurled two shadow balls at the Soul Collector. It didn't do much, due to his attack being dark, while the phantom itself was a dark being. However, this allowed him to snap his finger and attack with Star Magic before kicking the Soul Collector in the face.
"I wonder… Do you enjoy ending people's games?" the Soul Collector asked.
"I only destroy those who get in my way, simple as that," Tipral answered as he swung both of his arms and fired a Star Spear that left the Soul Collector in pain.
"And you know if you finish me… It's not going to get you anywhere."
"It'll certainly get me somewhere. You're in the way, and if I don't do anything about it, then I'd probably be dead."
"Uhhhh… Tipral? We don't have time for conversations!" Chopper cried, no longer paralyzed. "We still have to kick this guy's butt!"
"Oh, yes… Then there's you." the Soul Collector fired a small dark beam that blasted Chopper back over by the wall and got rid of his Bomb ability. It didn't matter too much, because he immediately got up and held Starbow up to let shooting stars fall down on the Soul Collector.
"I should be using those…" Tipral trailed as he used Hommissile to send the Soul Collector flying back. It teleported before it hit the wall and made dark orbs of energy rain down from above.
"Thou can dost it!" Luvbi cheered.
Chopper kind of liked the cheering, despite being whacked in the face by the Soul Collector's staff. Tipral jumped in and tackled the Soul Collector, using Crystaline to leave it frozen.
"And now allow me to make my next move!" Chopper smirked as he jumped on top of the Soul Collector and used Screwdy's corkscrew to break through the Soul Collector's icy prison and leave it wincing in pain.
"What was that?!" it gawked.
"Just a little something to help take you down, I suppose."
"I see… Well, let's see how you top THIS!"
"…What are you doing?"
"Chopper, move out of the way. NOW!" Tipral shouted as a large dark orb of energy was made and thrown down to the ground. The blast knocked both Chopper and Tipral back to one of the pillars, knocking it to the ground.
"Geez… We're a little low on HP, aren't we?" Chopper sighed as he drank a Star Shroom Shake to recover 150 HP. He tossed the last of it to Tipral, who drank his and recovered 150 HP. He simply disintegrated the can instead of throwing it.
"Hmmmmm… Mayhap my sage powers couldst do something?" Luvbi wondered as she watched the Soul Collector create a large, dark claw that tried to swipe at the two. They simply jumped out of the way and attacked it with a light ball and shadow ball.
However, she then realized that she couldn't reveal her sage powers to people other than Chopper. With Tipral around, it wasn't a safe idea.
The Soul Collector summoned a couple of dark minions to attack, but Chopper simply destroyed them with some light balls. Unfortunately, this left him distracted when the Soul Collector created two swords and struck him with them both.
"Thankfully, my wand can transform into any weapon I desire," the Soul Collector grinned as it swung at Tipral, who teleported to dodge them and reappeared by using his Star Burst, sending the Soul Collector flying upward.
When Tipral tried to kick at it, it simply used its arms to defend itself from Tipral's attacks. To his surprise, he wasn't doing anything to the Soul Collector as he got struck twice by the Soul Collector's sword.
"Urk! What the heck?! How did my attacks not work?!" Tipral winced.
"I put up a little spell to make sure when I guarded, I wouldn't get hurt! That certainly worked out we-"
"Hi-ya!" Chopper howled as he kicked the Soul Collector with a light kick, which knocked it back onto the ground. He looked down and tossed a rainbow ball to deal a bit of damage.
"Oh… So rainbow isn't as powerful against it now…"
"Of course it isn't! I told you that I ended up getting used to rainbow energy, so it's not going to hurt me that much now!"
"Oh… Well, you're pretty weak anyway, so it doesn't matter!"
"Gah… I just realized that… Oh well. Hopefully I'll get your souls soon!"
"I don't see that happening," Tipral scoffed as his fists were surrounded in a purple glow. "When this attack is unleashed, you're not going to be around anymore, that's for sure!"
"Wait… What are you doing?!" Chopper gawked.
"Chopper, I recommend that you stay far back as possible. I'm sure this might end this phantom!"
"Pah! I don't fear your stupid purple glow!" scoffed the Soul Collector. "Just try it!"
"Hmph! Well, if that's what you want, then I'll give it to you! I don't think I've ever showed up this before when I previously destroyed you. THIS is what happens when you try to mess with me!"
"Uh oh… I think he's going to do THAT attack…" Chopper gulped. "Luvbi! You're not safe up there!"
"I understand!" Luvbi nodded, fluttering to a safe place, along with Chopper.
"So, are you ready to witness my ultimate power?" Tipral asked, clenching his fists as the Soul Collector smirked.
"I dare you," the Soul Collector scoffed.
"Very well… STAR BLAST!" Tipral unleashed his Star Blast, creating a large explosion that made the Soul Collector's eyes widen in fear. Chopper gaped as he saw the blast coming close to him, but Barry managed to shield him and Luvbi.
"Whoa… That was close!" Chopper sighed.
"Yea, verily… Thou art verily a hero, my prince." Luvbi smiled.
When the bright explosion faded away, the Soul Collector was left lying on the ground, weak. Tipral landed on the ground and walked over to the Soul Collector, putting his foot on his body.
"Grrrrghh… So… It looks like you managed to…best me…" the Soul Collector wheezed. "Though… I'm sure my death will haunt you in your future!"
"You may think that, but I'm simply just going to move on," Tipral declared, crossing his arms. "But tell me… Who are you really?"
"My name… My name…is Count Drak."
With these last words, the Soul Collector, or rather, Count Drak, slowly faded away, his phantom dying off. Tipral walked over to the door ahead and looked back at the two others.
"Are you two coming?"
"So you're just going to leave without caring?" Chopper asked.
"What is there to care about that guy? It's his fault he got in my way in the first place."
"So you still continue to lacketh a heart," Luvbi realized.
"Enough with that already. Let's just get out of here."
Chopper sighed as he followed Tipral to the door ahead, which led them back into the alien-like area that they've been seeing for a while. Up ahead was the Star Block, which made Chopper gasp.
"We're finally at the end! Hooray!" Chopper cheered.
"Let us movest on!" Luvbi declared as Chopper ran on ahead and struck the Star Block. Tipral slowly followed ahead, not using his air shoes to move faster.
"So we're delving a little deeper into the comet…" Tipral trailed. "Hopefully we find Shade so I can personally squeeze the life out of him!"
END OF CHAPTER
With Tipral joining Chopper, he was starting to wonder how his friends would react to him being with him again. After all, he was responsible for destroying their home worlds, and not to mention he didn't regret it. As they made their way through the comet, Chopper started to worry about his friends. Were they possibly in this comet? Most importantly, were they all right? These thoughts plagued Chopper's mind as they continued their stroll. Unfortunately, things weren't getting better when they noticed the area get a little darker.
Hey, look, it's Bonechill! And it wasn't a short fight! Yeah, if Luigi were here, the fight would've probably not been so difficult...
Anyway, prepare for something else interesting next part.