Φ Sitting down with the kids from Skydust, I read one of my picture books to them.
“What is this?”
“A cow.”
“And this?”
“I believe that is the wonderbeast Gapotamus.”
“And this?”
“That’s the wonderbeast Peak Gryphon.”
“What is this big one?”
“Oh, I don’t really know about that. ELIA HELP!”
“I am busy.”
Walking up to her I say, “I know you can be mean to me, but this is for the kids.”
“Do you remember two years ago when I tried to read you that very same book, but you said; piss off you know it all. Remember when you said that 'cause I sure do.”
“I am sorry, look at all those sad faces I know you won’t just leave them alone.”
“You’re right, but I want some payment.”
“Ok, I will do anything.”
“Anything, I see.”
“Listen here kids that wonderbeast you see in that book is a special one, called a behemoth. Any wonderbeast over 60 meters qualities for this classification, they are basically walking calamities that no one bothers, so be careful that if you ever see one you will run away.”
Turning back to me Elia says, “I always had this cute dress that I wanted to put on you.”
“Wait, what.”
Tying me to a chair, Elia says, “You said anything, so until Orb and the rest return you’re going to be my doll.”
Turning around to the kids, she asks, “Who wants to help me with his makeup?”
“I do!”
“No, me!”
“I want to join!”
“Looks like we are going to have some fun Iancu.”
-Break-
The wonderbeast comes towards us to attack, using snow boost I lunge towards Atalanta and grab her out of the way. As the beast's head passes us, I see the side of its body whip in our direction so I quickly create a large ice pillar at my feet, sending us high into the air, and it instead hits the pillar.
When the beast's body hits the pillar, it breaks it into little pieces so I jump off while I can and land on the beast's back and run along it.
Hearing the sound of something underneath me I dodge away and see spikes popping out of the wonderbeasts back. When I land, I hear more spikes coming so I dodge again, this keeps happening, so I dodge over and over again.
“Orb we won’t win by dodging.”
“I know!” I say as I dodge another spike. Stopping in one place I jump up into the sky then when I fall, I use the claw on my leg to cut the spike on the beast's back giving me some footing.
Raising my foot up I strike the back of the wonderbeast. When my foot strikes the back of the beast, I let out a scream of pain. “Orb are you ok?”
Turning my legacy off I look at my foot and see that all my nails have been shattered and are bleeding. When I use my legacy on a part of my body it becomes stronger and harder, so my nails become like sharp claws but even that wasn’t enough to break through its shell.
“It is too hard!”
“Then let’s change our approach,” Atalanta says turning her bow into a sword.
Φ With a sparkle in his eye, Orb says, “That’s super cool!”
Sighing I say, “Your toenails are cracked open but you’re still smiling over this. You really are special Orb.”
Seeing a different part of the beast's long body whip over to us, I say, “We need to move now!”
Creating ice underneath himself Orb jumps from the section of the wonderbeast we are on, to the part that tried to just whip us. When Orb lands, I say, “Run as fast as you can.”
As Orb runs the length of the beast's back, I pour spirit energy into my sword, then stab it into the beats back from Orb's arms. As Orb runs my sword cuts the beast in the same direction.
“Atalanta is that deep enough, the beast doesn’t seem phased?”
“I don’t know, but if you speed up we might see some results.”
“Sorry but I am already moving at max speed, I can’t go any further with how heavy you are.”
Feeling my face turn red, I say, “Am I really getting heavy, like do I actually have body weight? Please tell me I am heavy again Orb!”
“Why are you getting happy over this? I don’t have time for your weirdness right now!”
“Oh, no need to act bashful Orb, I know you're embarrassed from whispering such sweet words to me.”
Φ Seeing more parts of the beast's body whip over to us I jump from one part of the beast's body to the next, dodging the last whip from the beast I jump high into the air and see the beast's head moving towards us. Seeing this the moment I land I run across its back as fast as I can to get away from it.
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“We need Cyrus if we want to actually deal some actual damage. But for that, I need to keep this thing away from me long enough to wake up Anto.”
“Leave the distraction to me then.”
“Atalanta you’re nowhere fast enough to survive by yourself.”
Atalanta grabs me from the back of my head and slowly brings my head closer to her. “Hey, what are you doing, don’t you see this situation!”
As our faces come closer to one another she headbutts me right on my forehead, because of this I almost fall and drop her.
“Listen idiot, when it comes to running, I am unmatched, remember that.”
The serious look on her face is completely unbefitting the person I know as Atalanta. If her resolve is this strong all I can say is, “I am counting on you.”
“Same here, don’t take too long.”
Letting her down, I create a giant pillar of ice and snow boost towards Cyrus and Anto. While in the air I look behind me to see Atalanta moving at astonishing speed, “She is probably even faster than me.”
Φ By focusing all your spirit energy to specific muscle's you can increase the efficiency of those muscles, when you combine that with my initiate running ability; you get speed that will make your eyes pop.
While the giant beast's mouth comes towards me I dash away at full speed, the spikes in its back pop up and try to obstruct my path but with speed and precision, I move through all of them.
I have to keep its attention, so angering it is the first step. Lunging to the side I shoot 7 arrows into its open mouth. While I am falling off the side, I turn my bow into a sword and stab it which helps me slow down my descent.
Hearing the wonderbeast let out A giant scream I say, “I guess the first step is complete.” Jumping down and landing on the sand I say, “Now the next step is to not die.”
Running on the sand I hear the beast's mouth coming towards me so I shoot another volley of arrows into its mouth, but it continues to come at me ignoring my shots.
“Looks like I really made it angry. But with anger comes irrationality.”
With my bow, I weave a spirit arrow, but make a strand of spirit energy on its tail. I shoot the arrow I just made into a section of its body, and then I hold the strand and use it to be carried into the air.
When the arrow hits my target, I use the strand to swing around the wonderbeasts body, and just as I planned the wonderbeast follows me around its body.
I continue to swing around its body as the wonderbeast continues to coil around itself, and when I have wrapped it around itself enough times I let go of my strand and fall to the sand.
Staring up at the wonderbeast coiled around its own body I say, “A splendid knot if I say so myself!”
The wonderbeast is so tightly wrapped around itself that it can’t move, “This is why use your head idiot!”
The wonderbeast lets out a huge scream, and then I see it forcefully try to come towards me, but it barely budges since its body is wrapped around itself.
The beast continues to try to move towards my, eventually tightening the knot so much that it breaks the section of its body that it was wrapped around and moves straight towards me.
Running away at full speed I look around at all of the pieces of the wonderbeast's body protruding from the sand and I notice some of them have completely stopped moving. “This beast really did just cut off his body to reach me, to think it would go this far just to reach me how romantic!”
Still, this just makes it easier to kill in the long run, now I should just focus on avoiding it and let Cyrus do the rest of the damage.
Hearing a loud buzzing sound, I turn my head while running to see a hoard of giant flying bugs. “What the hell!” Looking down for a moment I see that the bugs are spawning from the cut-off parts of the wonderbeast's body.
The bugs fly towards me as I am being chased, weaving arrows in my bow I fire multiple shots knocking as many of them out of the sky as I can.
When they get close, I turn my bow into sword form and slash them, but there are too many so one of them manages to hit me in the stomach sending me flying back.
Recoiling from the blow on the ground I grab my belly and spit up. If I didn’t use spirit energy to defend myself my organs would have been crushed.
Getting up I see the beast towering over me, surrounded by its flying bugs. “Orb I need you to hurry the hell up!”
Φ Running over to Anto and Cyrus, I pick Anto up by the collar and shake him saying, “Wake up you idiot!”
Cyrus beside me says, “Quiet down you stupid incarnation of trigonometry!”
Did Cyrus really hate learning arithmetic from me so much that he thinks that’s an insult? Facing the problem in front of me I slap Anto repeatedly while saying, “WAKE UP NOW!”
With big swollen cheeks Anto eventually opens his eyes saying, “Death is coming for you Orb!”
Slamming him into the ground I say, “Death is coming for all of you unless you revert Cyrus to normal!”
In my ears I suddenly hear something, is the wonderbeast moving? Turning around I see the wonderbeast has started moving toward the other wonderbeast I just defeated.
Letting go of Anto I use snow boost to dash towards it at full speed while screaming “NOOOOO!!”
-Break-
The lone injured tiritrex can only lay in the sand as the behemoth approaches it. For almost two thousand years it has spent its time adapting to be able to survive against all the predators of Jedidiah, but it was to no end.
Laying there the tiritrex remembers how the rest of the tiritrex’s in Jedidiah were eaten by the behemoth in front of it. It survived that day and through the pure desire to carry on its family's will it has continued to survive, but realizing how pointless it was the tiritrex cries as the behemoth closes in on it.
Φ Jumping in front of my pet, I create the largest amount of ice I have done today to act as a shield. Turning my head around I say, “You’re my pet, so from this moment on I won’t allow anyone to hurt you, remember that!”
Seeing someone protecting it the lone tiritrex let out even more tears.
Hearing the sound of my ice break I continue to create more and more, but the wonderbeast breaks through each time and eventually I see its giant open mouth in front of me. With sweat trickly down my face, I say, “I am dead.”
From my right side, a giant sand tornado hits the wonderbeast which knocks it down.
What the hell, tornados don’t just appear out of nowhere. The tornado quickly dissipates and from it appears a small rabbit. The rabbit is gold and has purple stripes all over its body, it is also standing on two legs and is barely smaller than an average rabbit. It must be a wonderbeast.
The giant wonderbeast gets back up and lets out a scream, and then a horde of bugs appears beside it. “What the hell are all those!”
The beast and its bugs come directly at us and the rabbit wonderbeast. But then all the sand around us starts to spin and a sand tornado appears from it, but instead of towering over us it moves around us then I see the rabbit jump up and as it does the tornado follows it.
Then in mid-air, the rabbit wonderbeast lets out a punch which causes the tornado to hit the giant wonderbeast and all of its bugs. Every single one is blown away by the tornado.
After the dust clears, I see all the bugs on the say busted open and I see the giant wonderbeast cough up blood. Walking up to one of the bugs bodies I notice that, “Its outer shell is still in pretty good shape, but all of its innards are completely shredded.”
Getting tackled from the side I see Cyrus on top of me with tears in his eyes, “I-I-I-I-I am s-s-s-sorry Orb.”
“Don’t worry about it, Anto is the one at fault.”
“I didn’t know it would end up like that, it was a mistake!”
“Doesn’t change the fact that it is still your fault Anto!”
Behind us, I hear the giant wonderbeast let out a roar. “Looks like it still has some life in it.”
Getting up Cyrus walks towards the giant wonderbeast, as he does, I notice the bunny is covering its ears. Covering my ears I say, “Oh no, is he going to!”
Cyrus stops and then lets out an ear-shattering scream completely eclipsing the roar the giant wonderbeast just let out. When Cyrus finishes, I see the giant wonderbeast dive back into the sand moving away from us.
“Hey stupid wonderbeast, I need some water right now.”
Turning around I see Atalanta kicking my new pet, “Hey don’t bully him.”
“Shut up, I smell like shit due to those insects I need to be cleaned right now.”
“You have to give me some time to unfreeze the horns first.”
“Then hurry up!!”
As I activate my legacy to turn the ice into snow, I hear something coming towards me and dodge out of the way. Looking at what came flying I see Cyrus.
“What the hell,” I say turning around. On the sand behind me I see the rabbit wonderbeast inscribing with a stick the following: Give me payment or die!