Hexagon Island 2

I remember that time when Captain give me this scythe to me.

It's just my tenth day at this red headquarters.

She calls me out to her room.

"Captain. Do you have something to say to me?", I asked.

"Here."

She extended her arms towards me while holding a weapon.

"A scythe?"

"Yeah. This is for you."

"But I have my weapon, and it doesn't look like it has an amulet on it."

"My, you don't know the trick aren't you?"

"What trick?"

"Let me show you."

She suddenly takes my knife on me.

I wasn't able to stop her because I froze out because of surprise.

"Let's see..."

I notice that there's a hole the near top of the scythe. When I look closely, it has the same shape as my knife.

"Woah! It fits."

"Eh?"

She put my knife on the hole.

"Does it make any change?", I asked.

"Look."

When I look at the scythe, the space between my knife and the hole disappears. It's like they combined and become one.

"Woah!"

"See, that's the advantage of having a small weapon."

"But... how can I get back my knife?"

"You won't."

"Eh?"

"You know that weapons or anything that has an amulet cannot be destroyed right?"

"Eh? That means..."

"Yup, from now on, you have to practice using a scythe. Good luck!"

"W-Wait..."

"By the way, the scythe is more suited to you than knives."

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The scythe that I'm been practicing for twenty days is just... being bitten by this Outsider.

After screaming, she runs towards me.

My body froze out because of the shock.

Thankfully I manage to block her mouth before she bites me on my neck.

"Grrr."

I spin my scythe to break her neck but she manages to spin along with it.

I try to kick her but she immediately let go of my scythe.

She jumps towards me.

I swing my scythe towards her but she manages to step on it causing her to jump higher.

She raises her left arm and swings down her long claws towards me.

I jump back to dodge her and then she dashes towards me.

She grabbed both of my shoulders.

I try to swing my scythe towards her but her hands went down to my arms.

She opens her mouth attempting to bite my neck.

I lean back and smash my head towards her's.

She let go of my arms and walk backward.

*I can't let myself die here.*

I hold tight of my scythe and throw it towards the Outsider.

The Outsider stops the scythe using her two hands.

I dash towards her and kick the scythe that she's holding.

She moves back a little then fell to the ground.

I grab my knife and jump to her.

Thankfully I still have this one.

While I'm on top of her, I raise my hand while holding the knife.

I thrush down my knife towards her face.

She stops the knife by biting it.

"What the?"

She manages to cut my cut using her teeth.

She let go of my scythe and push me.

We exchange positions.

I'm the one who's on the bottom now.

She opened wide her mouth.

"Tsk"

I try to smash my head to her again but she manages to dodge it by leaning backward.

*Oh no.*

"Heh."

*Did she just smirk?*

She hold my head and exposed my neck.

She's about to bite it but I push her head, after that, I kick her to make some distance between us.

I immediately grab my scythe and dash towards her.

I swing my scythe diagonally to her.

She jumps away to dodge it.

I keep attacking and she keeps dodging.

*This is irritating. Do I have to kill her so I can search for the others? But come to think of it, how did I end up separated from my team in the first place?*

While fighting the Outsider, I remember something.

The huge mountain... fog...

*I get it, this is an illusion. But how can I get out of this? Should I kill her first? What if she's also an illusion where I will not able to beat her at all?*

"Woah!"

Because of thinking so much, she almost got me.

*If killing her is the only option, then I should be focusing on it.*

I start spinning my scythe around me.

The Outsider ready herself for my upcoming attacks.

I dash towards her and swing my scythe horizontally.

She manages to block it using her claws.

I raise my two arms and swing down the scythe.

She block it again but I use more force causing her to fell on her knees.

I spin around and swing up the scythe.

She also manage to block it but since she was not ready for that, she flew away.

While she's in the air, I throw my scythe towards her.

She kicks it and the scythe went back to me.

I spin around and swing up again my scythe towards her before she landed.

She manages to step on it and kick my chin.

I walk backward.

"That hurt."

She's standing in front of me, looking.

"What?"

"Heh.", she smirks.

She run left and right and went straight to me.

She swings her claws towards me.

She's so fast that I barely block it.

She just away and dash again towards me.

She went on my back, left, right and front.

She becomes faster than before.

She manages to land some attacks on me.

"Tsk!*

The wound she dealt with me stings.

*Can I really beat her?*

I went on fighting stance.

She stays still in her place waiting for me to attack.

I dash towards her and swing my scythe as fast as I could.

I saw her smiling at me like she was telling me that I'm going to die if I continue.

Since I give all my strength in swinging, there's no way I can stop it.

*Dang it*

While in the middle of swinging, I feel something on my collar.

I feel like someone pulling me.

"What?"

No, there's really pulling me.

As I get pulled, I saw fog in my surroundings.

After I get pulled, I landed my butt on the ground and I saw Captain.

"There you are.", she said.

"Eh? What happen?"

"You're in her illusion."

"I know but did you just pull me and I get out of there?"

"Yup."

"Eh..."

"Chill. Let Crystal show you how it is done."

"Huh?"

"The reason why we fall into her illusion without noticing is because of the fog. That's why in order to escape, we have to eliminate these fogs."

"How did you do that?"

"Simple, since fog is a water droplet that hangs in the air, I just have to freeze it then that's that. Sorry if it takes so long. I don't know where exactly you guys are, thankfully, Captain is the first one I saw.", Crystal said.

"Crystal, there.", Captain pointed somewhere.

Crystal freeze the fog.

Using both of her hands, Captain grabs something.

"Gotcha you two."

It's Luan and Winter.

"Captain?"

"Yo."

"Welcome back you two."

"What just happen?", Winter asked.

"We just trapped on someone's illusion, but we're all good now."

"How did you..."

"Not just I can create flame but I can also feel it. Detecting your body temperature helps me to find you all."

Then she added.

"Since we're already complete, let's eliminate the remaining Outsiders."

"HEHEHEHEHEHE!!!"

A laugh comes from the Outsider who's hiding behind the fog.

When the fog is clear, it shows the face of the Outsider I fought in the illusion.

"That's the Outsider I fought lately."

"Same."

"My, my. So you're the real Outsider who uses illusion right?"

"GYAAAAAAAA!!!"

Captain dashes towards her.

"You're too loud."

She grabbed her head and smash it to the ground.

"Die."

Captain cast a flame to the Outsider's head.

She continues doing it until it burns to a crisp.

"Captain can be brutal sometimes isn't she?", Luan said.

"Is she dead already?"

"Yeah, now, for the remaining."

Captain raises her arm.

"What are you going to do?", I asked.

"Crystal."

"Haaaa... got it, you can do it."

"Hehe, thank you."

Captain cast flame in the air.

The flame reaches so high that it might visible on the whole island.

"Wait, Captain, don't tell me..."

"Get ready guys, because, after this, we're going to fight really hard."

*I know it!*

So many Outsiders arrived on our way.

It looks like Captain uses her flames to attract the remaining Outsider on this island.

"Captain..."

"What are you waiting for? Let's rock!"

After an hour we finally manage to kill them all.

"I thought I was going to die today."

"I can't move, I want to sleep."

"You can rest for now."

"Come on, we already finished."

"Yeah... so what?"

"What do you mean by that? You already agree with this. It's time for VACATION! Come on, let's find a spot where we can relax."

"So that's still her goal.", Crystal said.

"That's Captain after all.", I said.

After that, Captain search a spot by herself, after we find one, she carry two by two.

I can believe she still has so much stamina after what happened to us.

"Come on guys. Let's go!"

She grabbed her bag on the boat and throw something at us.

"Swimsuits?"

"Yeah, we're on the beach. Of course, the swimsuit is a must."

"Are we really doing this?"

"Yeah, after all, we eliminate all of the Outsiders here for this."

"We did that because of Miss Altina's order, Captain."

"Yeah, yeah. Okay, let's go!"

They wore swimsuits.

I'm just wearing a white t-shirt and shorts.

The same with Luan.

After that, Captain immediately dives into the water.

"Hiro, let's race.", she said.

"I don't know how to swim, Captain."

"Ehhhh..."

"I will help you.", Crystal said.

"If you teach me now and compete, I don't think I'll win."

"I won't teach you how to swim, I'm just going to freeze the water so you can run to it."

"It won't be swimming."

"Stop sleeping there, Luan."

Winter carried Luan who's sleeping on the sand.

"What with this vacation?"