A/N- Wow, I'm getting loads of ideas from people for this story! Plane 2 will be in Chapter 5 or 6, hopefully, if all goes to plan, so keep voting! (I have a 4-way tie at the moment!). Just to clarify, even though Shrogii would be seen weak compared to even he first miniboss in Plane 2, he's still insanely strong here, so think of each plane as a complete resetting of the kid's power. Anyway, you came here to see a big armoured guy getting his ass kicked, right? Well…
…enjoy the show!
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CHAPTER THREE- Plane One- The Plain of Spiders – Steel, Blood and Fire
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The tranquil, misty forest was completely silent except for the crunching boots of those who had just entered it.
Edd, Jimmy, May and Nazz were mystified by the tranquil beauty of the path, which lead on for several hundred meters before entering an autumn hedge maze. They moved to the hedge wall, and began to walk into the maze before a large, quadruped animal in full body armour leapt in front of them. Every time it spoke, they could have sworn it roared.
"You don't know what you're getting into, fools… I will take you to Shrogii's tower. Do you accept my guidance?" Nazz began to protest. "You're serious? No. I think it's a trap. No way would you take us to that tower!" The tiger-warrior drew two short blades from hilts on its back, holding them in oddly hand-like appendages. "If you are not here to challenge Shrogii, you are an intruder. And my duty is to slay all those who intrude in the Forest of Mists!" She quickly relented. The tiger-warrior turned around and lead a trotting, winding path through the autumn maze. Every now and then Edd was sure he saw the skull of a long-dead warrior on the ground, but he continued, if wary. After what seemed like hours, the gryphon-flanked oak door came into view, which opened after three knocks. The tiger ambled in, and was about to challenge them to the Challenge of Five Warriors when he heard the sounds of a fight upstairs.
"Stay here, fools. I will investigate this problem. If you have moved by the time I come back, I will slay you myself!" The tiger leapt up the stairs and was soon out of sight, and Jimmy looked to his companions.
"Rolf's up there? Then why should we listen to that tiger? We need to save our friends!" he exclaimed. May quickly agreed. "Big, strong monsters are always near the end of a video game. If we can beat this one, maybe we can win the game!" Edd countered her. "But then there's still the spider that kidnapped Rolf. That's going to be tough to kill, too." Everyone nodded and headed up on the stairs.
As soon as they reached the second floor, which was a white-walled oaken-floored dojo, they were stopped by another armoured animal- this time a bull, with swords for horns and spiked armour. "Fools, intruding in this tower! I will run you down!" The bull warrior charged straight into the group of adventurers, who barely jumped out of the way in time- May's foot was caught by the stamping feet of the bull, her HP becoming 21. As it tried to free itself from the wall, Jimmy rained longbow shots on it, some bouncing off the armour and others sticking into flesh, causing rivulets of blood to leak out over the grey armour. The bull roared and lashed out with its tail, that was extraordinarily thick and carrying a ball and chain, that caught Jimmy in the stomach and knocked him down. Having pulled itself free, the bull charged Nazz straight on, and succeeded in goring her- but her rapier was longer that the sword-horns the bull had, and had broken through the bull's skin, flesh and skull and was embedded in the beast's brain. The bull screamed and vanished, leaving Nazz's HP 19 and Jimmy's 16. However, on the bull's death they all felt a surge of power as the experience from the bull filled their heads, and their HP rolled up to full and then some. A message on everybody's vision showed that they had Levelled Up to Level 2 and were now stronger than ever. Edd opened his "stats" menu again, and looked at his increases.
EDD LEVEL 2 MAGE
HP- 29 (+4!)
MP- 16 (+7!)
ATK- 3 (+1!)
DEF- 4 (+1!)
MAG- 8 (+2!)
MDF- 7 (+2!)
SPD- 4 (+1!)
DEX- 10 (+5!)
Edd looked up, and saw another challenger had appeared from a room off the side- this one a lion in full armour. "Face me!" it roared as it drew and swung about its bladed staff as it charged. Jimmy gladly obliged with an arrow aimed at its face.
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Eddy winced and moaned as Shrogii's sword embedded itself in the floor next to his face. The master swordsman roared in anger.
"Get up! What kind of fool would challenge me and then just sit about on the floor moaning! Up I said!" The massive warrior kicked Eddy up, who leant on his sword and charged, cutting into his leg armour and creating a chink. However, before he could thrust his sword in there, he was smacked aside by the flat of Shrogii's sword and flew two meters to his right in pain. Landing upright and stabilizing with his katana, he ran at him again but was cut off by a bolt of searing fire. Aghast, Eddy saw the flames from inside the helmet dissipate and become empty and black again.
Eddy selected the "Special" command on his battle menu and prepared to attack, by sapping 7 of his 28 AP to utilise LEVEL 03- SPEED CHARGE. Running forward at incredible speed, he disappeared momentarily, reappeared, disappeared, reappeared in a different place, disappeared-
-and reappeared with his sword ready to slash Shrogii's neck.
The confused warrior had no time to counterattack. The sword bit deep into his neckguard, lopping bits off, and caused a small cut on his throat. He smiled. He'd never had such damage in years. But the fun was soon to end, as one end of Eddy's katana spun wildly into the wall, broken in two from the impact. Eddy gasped in horror. "Oh shit! What a stupid katana, to break just when I was gonna get him!" The huge swordsman's lizard-like tail came out and smacked him into the wall where the webbed hostages were, causing a horrible cracking noise to emerge from both impacted. Eddy fell down, his weapon, bones and pride broken. Shrogii spread his draconic wings and roared out a challenge.
"Will any worthy opponent face me?"
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The other party was on the fourth floor, fighting off several large, armoured animals with weapons drawn. Jimmy loosed arrows at the holes in visors, the occasional one hitting flesh and causing the animal fighter to screech. A bird with bladed wings swooped past Edd, goring him in the side, and two armoured bulls tried to skewer him with their swords. But Edd stood still, full of fear at what was about to happen. The two bulls hit him, and he screamed in pain as his HP was reduced to a paltry, single-digit number.
Then, the Limit bar, on the side of his battle screen, filled up with a sound.
A "Limit" option became available on his battle menu. Selecting it, Edd became full of a powerful energy, coursing around his staff and circulating around his body. The room filled with green light as Edd executed LIMIT BREAK- CIRCLE OF LIGHTNING.
Suddenly, a circular rune was burned into the floor beneath Edd's feet, forcing the bulls back into the wall with unparalleled force. The three circles of the rune expanded and stated spinning, lightning appearing in the air around the caster. The electricity began to move with the circles, and suddenly they started spinning at an incredible speed, creating a veritable vortex that all the enemies in the room were sucked into, and try as they might to escape they couldn't get out. Bolts of arcing lightning leapt from one half of the cyclone to the other, through the warrior animals, and then another, and another. Bolts of this lightning continued to strike the foes in the centre before they were completely vaporised, spoils flying out all over the room- stacks of coins, vials of fluid, pieces of metal- and coming to rest on the floor. The tornado died down, the room completely wrecked, leaving Edd panting on the floor, though fully healed. May, Jimmy and Nazz came over to him.
"How'd you do that, Double D?" said a bemused Nazz, completely amazed at the attack. A nervous Edd surveyed the room and gasped. "Messy messy messy!" he exclaimed as he tried to clean up all the broken armour with his staff as a broom. May and Nazz laughed despite themselves. Jimmy called to all three of them. "Come on! Shrogii's on the next floor!" The four warriors advanced up to the next floor, knowing full well that their greatest challenge yet was on top of that flight of stairs.
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"Damn, I know how to fly this thing, ok?" said another warrior in red, this one inside the compartment of an oaken flying machine with two fireworks strapped to the sides. She was wearing a helmet, but this one covered her eyes, and a lance was strapped to her back. It was Lee, and she was none too pleased.
Over the years, Lee had become a bit of a bad role model- she mixed with the wrong crowds, did the wrong things and had take up smoking. She had a strong sense of justice though, and when it came to "someone foolin' around with her sisters, they better scrammo or taste the pain."
Also in the machine were three other kids all dressed in red- none other than Marie, Kevin and Jonny, with a broadsword, shortbow and mace respectively. They were all trying to fit into the compartments on the flying machine that Lee was driving, though it wasn't going well.
With time, Marie had become the middle sister in all respects in her family- age, size, intelligence and social status. She generally got on well with kids at school, and she had once smoked but kicked the habit.
Kevin had mellowed out a lot since the Big Picture Show, and had even become friends with Ed and Edd, and friendly rivals with Eddy, at the expense of alienating Jonny, Jimmy and Sarah a bit. He had also started a bunch of classes that he liked, such as metal and wood shop, and so he had graduated from school with a very good report.
Jonny had become a bit of a darker person, ever since Plank was killed by some seniors. He was still a tree-lover, but now he got involved with it with his parents- woodcutter sabotage, police officer brawls- and as such nobody really understood him anymore.
The flying machine was an old box-winged device, with two firecrackers tied to the wings, and several auxiliary batteries tied to the side. It had four seats, made of straw, and just enough space for everyone to fit in- if they squeezed in tight enough. Unfortunately, the plane was not designed to fit in four armoured warriors, and it was a very tight fit indeed. Everyone was vying for the larger front seat, that had the most room.
"I know what I'm doing, OK! Just light the damn fireworks!" Kevin protested. "This thing looks as safe as a plank of wood. What if the sparks burn it?" Jonny moaned. "Idiots… just go already!" Marie shrugged and lit the fireworks on the sides. Immediately, the firecrackers burst into action, and fire began to burst from the ends. Kevin covered his head. Lee put on a piloting helmet that was in the glove compartment and pressed the aviator goggles down.
The plane's wheels began to move, and suddenly they were in the air, moving at a massive speed for the era. The distance between the mountain and them started to fall, and soon they were halfway between the village and the massive rock formation. Something whipped past Marie's face as she looked out the side.
"What was that?"
A spider with a web parachute was gliding alongside the vehicle, preparing to land on the wing. As soon as it did so, it bit down and cracked the "balsa wood" of the wing, hampering steering. Marie mashed it with her broadsword, the blade more crushing the insect than cutting. More spiders suddenly appeared from the wind, out of the range of the mace or sword of Jonny and Marie. Kevin notched his bow and loosed arrows at the web-parachutes, knocking the spiders out of the sky. Marie and Jonny took up the auxiliary batteries and started shooting, rockets flying through the air and slaying arachnids.
From above, it looked like some kind of space-invaders type game. Rockets slew several, Lee barrel-rolled and impaled them with her lance, and Kevin's arrows killed many more. However, all the spiders parted as a huge tarantula, flying with a massive web-shield, appeared in front of them. Rockets bounced off it, and Lee's driving couldn't shake it off. The spider shrieked and began to shoot web projectiles at them, one catching the side of the plane, taking off a firecracker.
The plane wheeled from side to side, and spiralled off towards the mountain, which was so much closer. Lee wrestled with the vehicle's steering, changing wing orientation, and attempted to steer away from the giant spider, which was hurling webs, while the others in the back were screaming their heads off. One caught the front of the vehicle, obscuring view, and everyone screamed as the plane cartwheeled into the mountainside.
The firecracker impacted with a tremendous explosion that shook the mountain's base, causing a rockslide that covered the site of the impact with spiked rocks. The plane was completely buried, and the occupants missing.
That which sat on top of the mountain saw this, and smiled. Or as close as you can come to smiling with mandibles.
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Shrogii stood on the site of his previous victory and waited for the inevitable challengers to approach him. His animal warrior audience was severely annoyed by the wait, when in fact the armoured dragon had been standing, unmoving, for ten minutes now, his heart slowing and his blood cooling down. This was something that had only happened before in his home land- he had completely destroyed the forest he had grown up in as well as all his kin in a rage after another had challenged his pride and lost. If he lost his temper here, he could destroy everything…
The door to his dojo opened with a clang as four warriors, clad in red, stepped out covered in blood all over their weapons and armour, each of them was Level 4 and powerful enough to take him on. Shrogii laughed at their appearance, all brandishing their weapons. He turned around and spread his wings, with bones replaced with metal, and took off his helmet, exposing his black, draconic head, complete with fangs, forked tongue and horns.
"Hahahaha… So you have fought your way up my tower? My animal samurai are lethality incarnated- though you have still bested them. Truly you are prodigy warriors… I know you will fight well against me, and you are sharp of mind enough to take on the Trickster, Tuschigumo. Maybe you can hold your ground against the Master's visage. Come, I will heal your wounds." True to his words, a burst of blue light emitted from his hand and Edd, Jimmy, May and Nazz were completely healed, HP returning to a large figure (53 for Edd). "Now, face me! Draw your weapons, ready your magicks and notch your arrows! I am ready for anything you can muster!"
MINIBOSS- Shrogii, Draconic Samurai Lord
Dramatic music started playing from absolutely nowhere, confusing the party. Shrogii put his helmet back on, drew his sword and waited for them to come at him. Jimmy notched his arrows and loosed one at him, but all they did was ping off his armour harmlessly. Edd cast LEVEL 01 ICE MAGICK- PARTIAL FREEZE, but the bolt of icy energy did nothing to the dragon's ebony armour. Nazz leapt up at him, and stabbed his armour with her rapier- his armour blocking the blow regardless of the attack strength. Shrogii countered with a sword swipe, crumbling armour and dealing heavy damage to Nazz. Jimmy tossed a dozen arrows through the air, but all of them failed to impact in Shrogii's body. Nazz leapt back to the rest of the squad, who rallied and began to talk.
"He's invincible! His armour's too strong to penetrate, and there are no weak links!" cried Nazz in hysteria, whilst coughing from the damage. She swigged a vial of blue liquid to regenerate her health, and it did so slowly but effectively. Edd came up with a possible solution. "How about a combo attack? Like, a lightning spell combined with a rapier strike could destroy his defences!" Nazz nodded. "So, charge me!"
Edd cast LEVEL 04 THUNDER MAGICK- JOLT on Nazz's rapier, which suddenly began glowing with a weak electrical current. She leapt through the air, and attempted to stab Shrogii's helmet for heavy damage. However, Shrogii countered with a swipe of his sword, his blade flashing through the air. Shrogii sheathed his sword and held out his hands that glowed with blue energy.
"BOSS RUBRIC- Offense Shield!"
A set of flechettes appeared around the body of the dragon, glowing bright blue and whirling around his body. They formed a shield of ethereal might, blocking Nazz's thrust and throwing her into the wall with circular motion. Nazz winced and fell to her knees. Shrogii slashed her three times and then attacked with a stomp, dealing massive damage and knocking Nazz's HP into Critical- below 1 HP, but not quite dead. "NAZZ!" shrieked May, who immediately ran from her position and carried Nazz to the sidelines, such a manoeuvre allowed by the dragon knight. The warrior ran at Edd, slashing him in the side, and then unleashing the flechettes in wider arcs, cutting through Edd's flesh- but exposing their true positions.
As Shrogii laughed, suddenly a flechette fell down and landed on the floor- an arrow quivering in its side. Another dropped, then another- soon all the flechettes were down on the floor, their magic broken. Jimmy stood with his bow up and pure fury in his eyes as he sent a flurry of arrows at the armoured figure's spaulders, which landed in the softer metal easily. May, back from the wings, unleashed a Partial Freeze spell at the armour, freezing half of it- and then Jimmy's arrows shattered the frozen half, exposing chainmail. Shrogii roared and swiped at the archer, cutting his stomach open, and then spun around and released a gout of intense flame at Edd, who leapt out of the way. The dragon lord flew up and stomped at May, who fell down in pain, and then slashed at her spine, rendering her Critical. Jimmy moaned and drank a potion, restoring his health and closing his wound. Jimmy bellowed in anger and loosed arrows at the exposed chainmail, starting to draw blood as they thunked through the individual holes. Shrogii laughed and slashed at the air, releasing a shockwave that knocked back the archer. He took flight, and grabbed the two remaining combatants, flew out the window and onto the roof, where he threw them down- though they were stopped in their descent by a spectral shield that faded as they landed on it. Shrogii descended and healed the two.
"Now there are only three combatants left. This is when blood is shed, and one side fails to fight due to fatigue or death. Come at me with all your strength!" Shrogii roared and vented flame at the sky. Edd and Jimmy looked at each other. This was going to be the hardest fight of their lives.
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The side of the mountain was once again quiet, the rockslide that had just occurred settling down. Spiders skittered away from the impact site, but remained on watch, just in case there were any survivors.
A rock dislodged itself from the pile, thrown by red-gloved hands from the side of the mountain. A helmeted red warrior pulled itself out, shortbow behind it, hauling out an unconscious pair of red-dressed fighters with a mace and broadsword. Sitting down on the rubble, Kevin sighed and began to shift apart rocks before one was hurled out at his head, and a dusty Lee climbed out of the wreckage.
"Why couldn't we have bought the plane off the non-dodgy salesman?" asked an irate Kevin, moaning in pain. Though they were of a decent level 6 all round due to their combat against the demons that assaulted the city, they were still weakened by the damage. They both looked out at the world below them that seemed so small below, and listened to the wind whistle past the rocky crags.
"What d'you suppose is up here, other than that arch-demon the crazy woman were yappin about?" inquired Lee. Kevin shrugged. "Probably just another mega-spider thing. Hopefully we can beat the shit out of it and get on with it." Lee shrugged as well. "Damn… another of those?" She laughed. "Well, I'll pound its face in fer last time!" Lee picked up her sister while Kevin picked up Jonny, and they proceeded around the high, rough mountainside. The path was dotted with shrubs, and every now and then they could hear skittering, which was probably a trick of the wind. As they moved forward, they saw huge spiders, each half a meter long, and killed them with single weapon swipes. Experience began to pile as they killed several dozen of the arachnids, but not enough to level up- they were Level 8 after all.
As they turned a corner, eight glowing spots of light appeared from a cave. Suddenly they were all webbed to the wall, separated from their allies, the web fibres drying fast. The spider they had fought before, a huge beast that wasn't Tsuchigumo, but about her size was crawling about on a webbed cave wall. Lee severed her webbing with her lance and freed Kevin, and the two warriors drew their weapons and trained them on the massive spider. What followed was an epic clash of human against spider, but that is another story.
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Shrogii immediately went on the attack, his katana swiping through the air and threatening to knock Jimmy off completely. The archer countered with a shock of arrows, all of which found their mark in Shrogii's shoulder. Roaring as a jet of blood seeped out, the dragon grabbed an extra plate of armour from his chest, which had three layers of obsidian covering it, and slapped it onto his arm, binding it with a talisman of sealing. All arrows directed onto it would simply bounce off, and those which hit the seal itself were reflected back into Jimmy, shocking the wounded archer. Edd cast spells to attack, but the armour was still too thick, and he was running out of MP-restorative items. Shrogii breathed a jet of flame, which scorched Jimmy and hit Edd, who attempted to block with his staff.
As the ferocious flames hit it however, Edd noticed that his staff was pulsing with absorbed fire energy, making it hard to hold. Swinging it at Shrogii, a bolt of searing fire emitted from the end, smacking into him and knocking him down with severe damage. The powerful seals around Shrogii's armour faded from view, the red lines of his black metal stopping glowing. Unleashing arrows into Shrogii, Jimmy found that this time they were doing some damage- causing blood to leak out from penetrations. Shrogii roared in pain, which was increased by LEVEL 02 WIND MAGICK- GUST which tore into him, and immediately cast a Boss Rubric:
"BOSS RUBRIC- Armour Seal!"
One-hundred and eight paper talismans now revealed on Shrogii's thick armour glowed, and became the red lines again, becoming glowing lines of protection. Shrogii cast the flechette spell again, and he redoubled his attack with another rubric, Spectral Sword. True to name, this created four afterimages of the dragon's sword every time he swung it, all of which had a solid presence. He struck Jimmy, who was also hit by the other four blades, lacerating him in several places and leaving him Critical. Edd screamed and held out his staff, his MP drained and only one spell remaining. Shrogii landed in front of him.
"Now do you see? You may be able to take on Tsuchigumo's tricks, but if you cannot defeat me you will never destroy her physical form in combat! Now, taste my ultimate attack!"
Shrogii felt his blood run hot and his heart rate increased- such a feeling he had only had when he killed his family accidentally, and was placed into exile. Flying up in the air, he felt his body heat up as he breathed fire around it, completely encasing himself in flame.
"ULTIMATE RUBRIC- Flaming Phoenix Convergence!"
The clouds parted around the dragon as the fire silhouette grew and eventually became a massive flame phoenix. Storm clouds began to buckle and create friction as his flames turned around and aimed themselves at Edd.
And suddenly, Edd had an idea.
"Bolt!"
The lightning bolt arced from his staff to the friction-filled clouds, creating a reaction in the skies. Atoms of water moved together and created strong friction, crackling with lightning that struck the other atoms. Soon, a massive electrical storm was brewing in the atmosphere. The friction was so powerful that a lightning bolt was due to be discharged at any time to the highest, most conductive object on the earth.
And what was so high in the air and so conductive it could attract lightning?
The dramatic music stopped as Shrogii realised what was about to happen and descended so fast it was almost blinding. However, though Shrogii was fast, the speed of light was faster, and the dragon was stuck with a lightning bolt so strong it should have blown him apart. The dragon's flames disappeared and the fried dragon crashed through the ceiling of the dojo, landing with a loud thwack on the mat. Edd leapt down, taking the wounded Jimmy with him.
Shrogii was lying on the floor, smoking and roaring in pain. Drawing his charred sword, he stuck it in the floor and used it as a crutch.
"Amazing… you managed to kill me… with such a tactical manoeuvre… you will one day be a strong warrior… I have no shame or regrets to losing my life to you. I shall heal all your friends and release those webbed with my flames." True to form, the webs burned away and the bright blue light recovered all of those wounded. "I will also give you the Spider Key to Mount Arachne. Wait here." The dragon limped over to the spider-printed pillar and shattered it with a single punch. A small, engraved key appeared from the rubble, floating with ethereal majesty. "That… will create… the lower part of the mountain… so you can climb up it. There you will fight… Tsuchigumo… inside the caves… and then my master… the Gumo-Oni… at the peak… Now… I have one final thing to say before I die…" The dragon beckoned Edd forward and whispered something to him. The dragon sighed, and then vanished completely.
From the silhouette issued spoils of war- stacks of gold coins, several potions, hordes of element shards and a black metal katana. The weapon disappeared, and reappeared inside Eddy's hands. A message appeared inside the scam-boy's head.
You are the chosen wielder of Shirakuroittou-no-Yuuruyoku, the Blade of Courage. Use it well.
Tossing his broken bronze weapon, Eddy threw his scabbard in the air and landed it on the blade, sheathing it in an unorthodox way. He opened his mouth before he was tackled and grabbed by an overjoyed Ed, in red armour with a set of kunai chained to his wrists.
"Eddy! I finally found you!"
"Ed! I can't believe it!" The katana-wielding youth looked at his lifelong friend with happiness, and Edd soon joined them. "What happened, numbskull? Did you fight this guy and lose?" Ed nodded. "I bet you thought he had Sarah hostage! Speaking of which, she's here now." Sarah ran to her brother, hugged him around the middle, blushed and stepped back. The rest of the kids reunited with Sarah and Eddy, and Rolf reunited with his warhammer, that May had carried to him.
It was then they noticed that the room was deathly silent. All the animal samurai had disappeared from view, whether dead or fleeing. Above, the storm Edd had created was brewing, rain pouring through the hole left by Shrogii's corpse. Edd picked up the Spider Key, and began to read the inscription before a horrible cracking met their ears.
Evidently the dragon-samurai's impact on the floor was enough to break the foundations of the tower, and it swayed ominously in the breeze. Eddy ran out the door, beckoning for everyone else to run with him. The tower was cracking as they moved, their footfalls causing the tower to sway, and by the time they passed the gryphon-flanked doors, which were wide open the tower was at a 45 degree angle before collapsing off the side of the cliff at the end of the autumn grove, the massive armoury-tower splintering at the rockface and falling deep into a misty crevasse. Everyone stooped to catch their breaths as the foundations collapsed and left the first floor of the tower standing in ruins.
The animal samurai had completely disappeared, and there were no tracks in the misty autumn maze. "That's a load of crap!" said an annoyed Sarah, who had never gone through the maze before. Everyone pondered on the solution as the rain poured down, until Eddy came up with the idea to just slash their way through the grove. Shirakuroittou-no-Yuuruyoku blazed with white fire as it slicked through the autumn hedges, burning the carefully tended groves to the ground as a fitting salute to the once-flaming dragon samurai who had ruled the place. As they moved on, Edd picked up the key again and read the inscription.
I am the keyhole that has always existed.
Edd looked at the spidery key, pointed it at the mountain and felt it grow hot.
This would be a difficult hunt.
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END OF CHAPTER 3
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A/N- Short chapter is short 0_0 because I'm off on holiday, with limited internet access, today. This chapter was beta-read by gamechanl44. Anyway, I can announce that Plane Two is gonna be set in a modern city that's under bomb threat- the kids must disengage the weapon before 24 hours elapse to stop their deaths. Anyway, I'll write some stuff while I'm on holiday.
Adios for now!