After having passed out, Nika woke up with bandages covering her arms, "What happened?" She asked as she looked around the room, "Oh my Goodness! You're awake!" Chopper exclaimed as he hurried to check up on her, "Yeah I'm awake... Why does that sound so surprising? Actually why am I so hungry?" She asked, "Don't worry Sanji will be ready to prepare food for you." Chopper reassured, "Oh good, I feel like I'm starving.
In the Dining Room, After an Entire Feast.
"I still can't believe you somehow eat twice as much as Luffy." Nami commented, "I think it's three times actually." Zoro corrected, "You think the stuff you saw me do today doesn't take a lot out of me? Although I was feeling hungrier than usual..." Nika admitted, "Today? No, wait, you've been asleep for three days." Franky informed, "Three days...! OH F*CK!" Nika screamed in panic, "What!? What's wrong!?" Usopp exclaimed in confusion along with the others looking confused too, "Angel! What is the state of the seal!?" Nika requested the Sword Spirit and it replied, "The seal is at 10% stability." It responded.
This information horrified Nika, "Oh f*ck, F*ck, F*CK!" She lamented, "What seal!?" Nami questioned, "Huge monster, sealed in the floor, Angel how far is the closest Loftwing Statue!?" Nika asked, "The nearest statue still wouldn't let you get there before the seal breaks." Angel informed, this made Nika think of an alternative, "What about from here? Can I get there fast enough to stop it?" She asked, "If you move fast enough it'll be possible." Angel confirmed, "Good, Franky, make me a flying machine or something, it need to be fast, really fast." Nika requested, "I'll see what I can do, but I would need more materials." Franky answered, "I can help with that." Nika said as she made the tip of her finger catch fire and she wrote something midair, "Wait, fish! I need fish!" Nika said to which Sanji ran to the kitchen and passed her a whole cod, "Perfect," Nika said as writing in midair faded and a two tailed cat appeared in it's place.
Nika talked to the cat for a bit and handed it the fish, the cat nodded and disappeared leaving a box in it's place, "Wha-" Jinbei was about to ask, but Nika cut him off "Nekomata delivery service, no time to explain, hurry!" She exclaimed as she handed Franky the box and he went to work, meanwhile Angel told Nika the direction of the Sealed Grounds, a few minutes later Franky came back with a pretty rudimentary, but still functional flying machine, "Okay good." Nika said as she mounted it, "It doesn't have much fuel though." Franky warned, "In that case, Luffy! Throw me!" Nika instructed while pointing in the direction Angel said, "On it!" Luffy exclaimed as he activate Gear Fifth and made his hand huge to easily grab Nika and the flying machine and then he chucked them as hard as he could, everyone waved Nika off as she took off.
Sealed Grounds.
"This is bad! Really bad!" Groose lamented, he was able to keep the Imprisoned back with his invention, the Groosenator, which he built while Nika was away, "It's getting way too close! Where in the world is Nika!?" He yelled as he fired another bomb at the Imprisoned, luckily for him, just over the horizon Nika was arriving, and just ran out of fuel on the flying machine, "Well I'm here!" She exclaimed as she jumped off of the machine and activated Imagination Drive to be able to run on air and she quickly approached the Avocado looking beast, to which she punched it in the jaw with something that Groose at least recognized all too well, because the moment she made contact, a dark aura exploded from her fist, sending the Imprisoned tumbling down the Sealed Grounds, and Nika was instantly out of breath, and she deactivated Imagination Drive and landed in front of the temple, "ARE YOU CRAZY!?" Groose demanded,.
Hearing this made Nika groan slightly, "Oh no, don't you groan at this! You barely got a hold on your Primary Mantra, let alone your Secondary!" Groose scolded, but it didn't go on for long as the Imprisoned roared, "Let's talk about this later." Nika requested as she activated Imagination Drive and went after the monster, she made her hand grow to about as big as herself, but quickly got surprised as the moment she went for the strike, an arm burst out of the side of the Imprisoned and blocked it, then another arm burst out on the other side and it used it to punch Nika away.
At this turn of events, Nika was like 'What the hell.' No time to dwell on that however, she had something to seal back, so she kept going upwards until she reached at least the lower layer of clouds and grabbed as many as she could, using them to make a giant water ball which she then threw at the Imprisoned, the impact stunned it, and either way it didn't look like it could swim and the lower level of the sealed grounds was basically flodded, but it clearly didn't do much to stop the Imprisoned from gathering it's energies and shooting them in the form of a beam at Nika, her eyes literally popped out of her face and she got completely engulfed by the beam, getting completely charred from feet to the tip of the hair.
Seeing as things clearly weren't going her way, Nika decided to do the thing Groose told her not to do since it had the most effect, "Alright you damned avocado! Let's see if having dark power means you can resist it!" Nika taunted as her arm got covered in a dark aura and she went diving down, the moment she reached the Imprisoned she slammed her fist on the tip of the sealing pillar and actually did it so hard that it went through the Imprisoned head, through it's jaw and into the ground.
Immediately after an ear piercing scream, the Imprisoned exploded into dark particles that went back in the center of the Sealed Ground and Nika quickly grabbed the pillar and stabbed it into the center, and due to her arm still being covered in dark aura, a seal was created with it, of course, Groose wasn't happy with that, so he walked up to Nika, placed his hands on her shoulders and began shaking her while yelling "HOW MANY TIMES DO I NEED TO TELL YOU THAT IF YOU DON'T GET A GRASP ON CONTROLLING YOUR PRIMARY MANTRA THEN YOUR SECONDARY MANTRA WILL BE INCREDIBLY DAMAGING FOR YOU!? IT WOULD BE ANOTHER THING IF YOU FIGURED OUT IMMORTALITY, BUT YOU DIDN'T! HELL! OUR TEACHER DIDN'T!"
After Groose finished screaming.
"There's a lot of things to unpack here, so you grew horns after finishing this trial thing, you unlocked whatever that white form was, went to the past and met literal legends, defeated what can be best described as a destroyer of worlds and a living meteor cannon island, did I miss anything?" Groose asked sarcastically, "No, that's pretty much it... Actually I did completely scorch my arms." Nika said as she lifted her arms, still wrapped in bandages, "How did you even..." Groose blankded, "After defeating the Dire Miralis I woke today, and I probably should specify I fainted for three days, so safe to say I was starving, luckily Sanji cooked a lot of food, and during dinner Chopper said I'll be lucky if my skin ever grows back." Nika recounted, "You know how I was in love with you after the reveal you're gay? Even then I wanted to tell you that you're the sickest person I ever met." Groose admitted, "I have to admit, I'm surprised that it hasn't even been a week and you already have this many stories to tell, truly a hero!" The Old Woman complimented.