Chapter 10 - Power of the moon.
Chapter 10
Completely covered on all sides, they seem to be watching and waiting for us to make the first move. Alright first move it is. I push down as hard as I can with all my leg strength, feeling the soil and flowers give way. My arms reach out towards Keeks and Zelia, feeling their hands clasps around mine. Surely with my sixteen in strength we can jump over and out of their creepy, graspy hands' range?! "Oh, oh! You're gonna love this nye!" startled, I look back at Keeks cheeky grin. As I release I feel the earth give way with nothing, still holding tight we zoom through the sky above, a simple jump over our enemies resulting in us rising 10 meters in the air. Zel's scream of surprise following us all the way up.
"Keeks what the hell moo?!" I yell at her, startled at our sudden arrival so high up. "Did I ever tell you all I'm not good with heights moo?!" Keeks starts laughing, all a game to her. I Look down and instantly feel queasy, but I can see them all clearly now, all eight of them. Looking up at us all, their comical bodies remind me of a flat cartoon cat. At least that's what I'm telling myself, their eyes alighting in the fast dimming of the afternoon sun.
"You both don't get to have all the fun! Besides, how do you think I'm so nyoomy nyehehe!" Zel laughs alone with keeks and then pulls her cards out of her sleeve.
"Alright my turn to show off something cool wan!" < Moon Form > I shy away from my beautiful wolf, her entire being seeming to burst with light, holding her body suspended in the sky, her moths flying out and forming a radiance just like that of the moon as she clasps her hands together in concentration. I feel everything has become right with my existence. The breath in my lungs surging, my body tensing and ready to spring, endless might rushing through my veins. Keeks has started screaming in happiness at the feeling rushing through her at the same time as me.
The playthings of the blue fairy start hissing and looking away from the light, their smiles and mutterings of 'play with us' and 'tag' still happening despite their aversion. A veritable buffet of buffs seem to light up my bar, one for each status, one for gravity even. I guess I have time to put my cool action into play then.
< Touched by the celestial moon >
< Character has Gained + 5 to all status points >
< Gravity of character is under the control of an ally >
< Only lasts while under the light of the celestial moon >
< 'Please celestial, fill your servants with the power to do what is right and redeem those that cannot redeem themselves' >
I feel her land on the upper top of my back and remember to exclude that area from what I'm about to do. She starts clapping her hands in happiness, using me like a surfboard.
"Let's drop these fools nyehe!" A voice penetrates through the light and adds onto her words.
"We are about to become curiosity for these kitties wan!" I almost groan, if I hadn't been thinking such a bad joke earlier as well.
"Keeks! Zelia has us, get ready to turn off whatever your ability does! I've got an idea and it's not going to be pretty moo!" the playthings still waiting for us to drop with unveiled horrifying excitement.
"Do it nyehehe!" I feel my entire body using < Anatomy Sense > and I internally scream one thing. OUT! < Bone Control > Activates instantly, seeming to already know what I want. Crude uneven bones splintering from my body from every place they can, pushing out 3 inches long, feeling like my entire body is on fire from my skin ripping and tearing open. Keeks almost jumps off and sees that there's a patch where she is standing.
Through blood stained teeth I scream out to her. "Push me down moo!" She realizes what I'm doing and I feel all her weight drop on me, then even more. I fall faster than I thought I would, the playthings gathering below me reaching out as if to gently catch my fall. There's nothing gentle about this fall.
As I get closer I see drool gathering around their mouths on their flat faces, or blood, it's hard to tell, their eyes flickering against the light, not knowing what's about to hit them. Just before I hit the playthings I pray to Nemesis that I make it through this, surely this is part of what she would want? < Undying rage > Targeting any one of the playthings my vision tightens, I throw my body wide, all my singular built up rage directed towards just one of the beings. Thankfully my body is big enough that even with that singular focus I'm able to hit them all. I now know what it feels like to be a meteor.
< Received Overwhelming Falling Damage - 563 damage received after reductions (Flat damage reduction = Constitution x 4 = 112 reduced) >
< Dealt 426 Critical piercing/falling damage to 'Plaything of the Blue Fairy' after reductions (2 horn attacks x 25 BD x 2.5 CD x 1.5 Weak x 1.3 < Slugfest > x 2 < Weight of the weightless > x Falling damage calculations) >
The notification on damage popping up eight times, each with varying damage numbers but all over at least two-hundred.
The feeling of cracking bone, ripping sinew and muscle, my body connecting with the creatures, and then barely a fraction of a second later, the ground. BOOM. my body screams to get up, to attack, to move, JUST DO ANYTHING YOUR TARGET IS IN FRONT OF YOU! In my terminal I see my status bars.
Health 0/280
Mana 54/234
Stamina 235/309
Not even hanging on by a sliver, not that I should be surprised, nearly taking double my health in damage. Feeling everything in my body having been crushed in the impact, I should be a pancake right about now!
The sounds of the playthings around me, distorted as their body and blood have mixed with me in this hole I created. "Heh… hehe… T-tag your it! Heh… hehe…" They say through torn throats, eviscerated lungs, my bones having snapped off alongside my fall, entering their bodies even with putting nearly 200 mana into hardening them and creating these daggers for tearing.
Plaything of the Blue Fairy has returned to their master.
Plaything of the Blue Fairy has returned to their master.
Plaything of the Blue Fairy has returned to their master.
Plaything of the Blue Fairy has returned to their master.
Plaything of the Blue Fairy has returned to their master.
Plaything of the Blue Fairy has returned to their master.
Plaything of the Blue Fairy has returned to their master.
Oh thank fuck! At least I got them all! A countdown on my bar is slowly approaching Zero, my 'buff', shit… I hope Zel has a healing spell with that new form… I didnt even think to ask hah. The countdown hit zero with the removal of the ability from my display. I wait… and wait…
"Are you gonna get up any time soon or am I gonna have to pick you up through all those boney bits nye?" I laugh internally, not knowing if I even have a throat or not, looking at my health bar, thinking I would have felt something when I got healed, my entire body in so much pain, my new mental fortitude ability seeming to have been doing its work this whole time. A sliver of health is continuously pushing upwards and then dangerously back down towards 0 again, some kind of regeneration instead of a full healing ability, hah alive is alive though.
"You fucking dummy! you almost gave me a heart attack wan!" The voice of an angel descends and I feel my head lift up… or what's left of it, a potion being poured down my throat, some of it dripping out into the ground instead of my body. My wounds start closing up and the bleeding effect stops, the regeneration doing some real work now that it doesn't have anything to fight against.
"P-perfect plan moo!" I hear a scoff and then feel a foot against my upper back, the spot that was left empty of spikes as again and again her foot presses down on me.
"Perfect plan! Perfect plan?! Did you loosing all your brains along with your weight wan?!" I let myself get trodden on to appease my wolf vixen's fury.
"It was a thing of the moment, I'm sorry~ I knew you would have a heal up your sleeve though love moo!" She huffs and takes her foot off me, letting me get to my knees so that I can beg more easily for forgiveness.
"I didn't even know that I would have a healing ability! I only got to know what I could do when I used it, I didnt even know if I would have any fucking abilities wan!" Oh yeah, that was a close one then. I rub the back of my neck and stab into one of the bones, hah right. < Revert Bone changes > I feel everything pull back inside myself, the holes closing around where thousands of jagged bones tore out of my body, damn that was probably pretty horrific for Keeks and Zel to see… oops. Keeks stares in fascination and Zel looks like shes about to cry.
"I'm sorry love, I won't do it again without telling you okay, just wanted to get them all so they couldn't get Anna moo…" She shakes her head and nods, her lips squeezed together in frustration, not wanting to forgive me but still doing so anyway.
"Alright dummy… did we get them all? I saw eight of them right wan?" I nod and start counting the amount of notifications I got, yup eight damage notifications anndd… seven return to the blue fairy notifications…
"Uhh… I think we lost one moo?!" I look around furiously, the hole that I created only having blue blood splattered around furiously, pooling at the bottom, no bodies to be found. Wait fuck. "Anna moo!"
One of the playthings has crawled over to her, reaching over to her passed out body, laughing and speaking to itself. "Hehe, hehehe, one with us, play with us forever, tag your it!" We rush as quickly as we can over to it, Keeks vanishing from where she was and appearing above its body, plunging her blade down through it, but not before it lays its elongated hand upon her face.
Plaything of the Blue Fairy has returned to their master.
"Phew that was that, anything else they wanna throw at us, the mighty Keeks can deal with anything nyehehe!" I exhale in relief as we get to her, then stop, no… that's not good. The fur on her face has turned blue, it spreads a little bit before stopping, like a scar across the side of her face.
Zel seems to have gotten it instantly, looking from Anna to me, taking out a booklet from her pocket she chants < Clean Person > All the signs from battle washing off of me. The blue like the blood of the playthings staying on me, covering most of my body, my beautiful brown fur now dyed blue.
Tag, I'm it.