Chapter Six

They were pulled into the seaplane interior and they found Ryan, the pilot who dropped them off in Japan, was the one who's rescuing them.

Ryan said "Don't worry, boys, I gotcha. You're safe now."

"Ryan." said Rook in relief. "I didn't know you would come."

"We were in the neighbourhood. Kinomoto called us to find you guys."

Pete, who's flying the plane, said to the trio "Japan is where all those animes are documentaries. You found the Ryu Sword and let a demon revive himself? I oughta punch you blokes in your faces."

"Leave them alone, Pete." Ryan protested "It was an accident, right boys?"

Patrick said "Well, that and a big misunderstanding. I thought Akuma was a phoney."

Rook aided Buzz over his injured head and said "That was crazy what you did, Buzz. That kinda headbutt would've killed you."

"FUCK, that hurt." said Buzz rubbing his forehead. "I guess I was lucky."

"I gotta say, that was a very brave thing you did. That took huge brains and guts." Rook scolding Patrick and continued "Unlike some I can think of."

Suddenly, the plane's radar just detected a lot of electromagnetic energy coming from behind.

Ryan headed to his co-pilot seat, scanned the area and said "We've got company."

A battalion of Dreadful each with one glowing, yellow visor and giant, bat-like wings. They had three sharp fingers on each of their hands. They all were flying after the seaplane like a swarm of winged insects drawn to whatever food they were interested in feasting on.

"The Dreadful." yelled Buzz. "They found us!"

"Move this piece of shit!" Patrick yelled at Pete.

Pete yelled back "You don't call my plane a piece of shit!"

"Don't worry boys," said Ryan, "there's a 50-cal on the top turret. Would one of you be a sport and fend off those dicks?"

"I can do it." said Rook.

He got up onto the 50-cal and aimed it at the Dreadful, where many were surrounding the plane. Rook began shooting bullets at the incoming demon, a few flew past the plane whom Rook shot with the 50-cal. The flying demons fought back by shooting beams of shadowy energy from their hands, which acted as lasers.

For Patrick, he was carrying Ryu Sword's hilt to figure out what to do with it. Suddenly, he saw something through the plane's windshield. An arrow pointing northwest.

Patrick yelled "Guys! Turn northwest! Step on it!"

"You got it, son." Ryan replied. "Hold onto your butts!"

Then the plane flew up swiftly and Rook crashed his head through the window. The Dreadful followed the plane, Rook started to shoot but he screamed. The seaplane flew straight and turned northwest. The Dreadful kept flying but one of them left the trail and headed to a cumulonimbus cloud. But somehow, it managed to fly through it. Rook continued shooting, but one of the flying demons came over and stomped him down from the turret, back into the interior.

In a panic, Buzz cried "What are we gonna do, what are we gonna do, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?!"

"Boys, this is no time to panic." Ryan said.

"This is a perfect time to panic!" Rook protested. "We're being chased by demons, and this whole shit happened because of Patrick!"

Patrick said "I already know that. Any more surprises?" Suddenly, a whirling saw blade pierced through the floor between Patrick's legs. Shocked, he yelled "He has a saw?! A demon has a saw!"

Rook searched for something to throw. He found an apple on the table, threw it to the Dreadful's head popping out from the floor, and it just poofed away.

"What?" Rook said, confused. "There's nothing bad about-" Suddenly, it came to him. He remembered the message back in Japan that said "Un-dreadful must defeat Dreadful". So that gave him an idea.

But before anything else happened, the seaplane's engines had been sabotaged.

Pete yelled "The seaplane's engines have been sabotaged!"

The Dreadful faded away as the flying seaplane went out of control. Perhaps it was going to crash down to solid ground, killing everyone in the plane.

"You three will have to keep getting your quest on." said Ryan.

Buzz asked "What about you guys?"

"We'll be alright, son. Put on some chutes and take off."

The trio put on their parachutes and leaped out of the plane. The trio were screaming for falling so high and so fast. Buzz was grappling onto Patrick.

"Hey," screamed Patrick, "get off me!"

"I want my mommy!" Buzz screamed.

After a while, their chutes opened and they safely glided through the wind as they watched the seaplane flying by with its engines smoking. They ended up in the countryside of someplace.

Calming down, Rook told Patrick "Alright. You got us into this mess, but we might as well work together to get back home."

"That's the whole point about having adventures." said Patrick. "I mean, I guess it was pretty sharp shooting up there with those ninjas, even though you shoot like a video game nerd."

"Shut up. Come on, let's get our quest on."

Not having a clue, Buzz asked "Hold on. How'd you know where to go?"

Patrick was thinking hard. But when he thought of something, he said "The guiding power. Akuma said something about it back in Japan. It must've been activated back onboard the plane. I saw an arrow and-" Suddenly, he saw another arrow pointing south. He figured that they might be closer than they think in finding the next piece of the sword. "This way."

The gang moved on, where the second piece of the sword might be located.