8 ~ Path to Awesomeness
Laughing in relief, DJ
flopped onto his back and glanced at the ceiling. “Hey Lui, look up there.”
Lui stared intent at the
mural on the ceiling and gasped. “It’s Hanna!”
“Pfft, silly Lui,” Christina
said with a giggle. “That’s not Hanna. It just dimensional portal disguised as
a PAINTING of Hanna.”
Misty wrinkled her nose as
she stared at the mural. “Obviously… What makes you think it’s a portal?”
“Where would you stash
yourself if you were trying to hide you? Somewhere only you would look, right?”
“Why not just use a mirror?”
Misty asked.
Lui laughed nervously before
Christina could answer. “So, do we have a way to get up there?”
“You do now!”
Darkness filled the room as
black smoke laced with electricity encircled them. A billow of smoke rose up in
front of the stunned crew. Silver wings swept back the darkness like curtains,
revealing none other than EDJ.
“Miss me, losers?”
“What’s he doing here?!”
Christina pouted.
“What, you don’t want to
learn my evil laugh?” he said with a wink.
Christina brightened up
instantly and clapped in delight. DJ and Misty were left just as confused as
ever.
“You’re here to help us,
right? Lui asked as he pulled DJ to his feet.
“Of course!” EDJ replied as
he took out a few weapons. “Not. I’m just here to settle the score.”
He handed an extendible lance
to DJ and muttered, “For future reference, try to remember I gave you that
lance when you get your memories back, ok?”
EDJ next handed a bow and
quicker of arrows to Misty. “You too, missy. By the way, what did you think of
the new entrance? I’ve been working on it for a while.”
“It could have used some
background music,” Misty admitted.
“Like a theme song about your
wings with a chorus in the background chanting your name and a bunch of other
words in Latin!” Christina chimed in.
EDJ laughed. “We’ll go with
that.”
Coming up to Lui, EDJ stopped
and stared at him for a few minutes. “Come on, loser. Let’s go save your
girlfriend so she can stop controlling the world.”
“But she’s not my-”
“Yeah, right,” EDJ
interrupted as he grabbed Lui and flew up toward the ceiling. Once they were
close to the painting, EDJ threw Lui into the portal and flew back down.
As he neared the ground, EDJ
threw a large fireball at the doors. “Let’s go, pansies! Charge!” he shouted as
he crashed through what remained of the doors and swooped into the hall.
Anna was lying on her side,
just barely conscious, but Jester was still fighting. Every time Jester threw
an elemental attack at Shard, she effortlessly found a way to deflect or
annihilate the attack with her own element.
Glancing at the busted doors
and incoming reinforcements, Shard smirked.
“Well, you found me.
Congratulations. Was it worth it? Because despite your violent behavior, all
you’ve managed to break so far… are the doors to my throne room. Maybe you
could settle for that and we’ll just call it a day. I guess we all know that
isn’t going to happen.”
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