As the three floated in the air, they noticed Trevor spew out more magic to stop them in their tracks. Glenda and Clause dodged them as best as they could.

Trevor then threw out some dark matter energy discs that chased the others down. Glenda and Clause ran across the walls before jumping off to avoid their collision and impact.

As they leaped off and Trevor snapped his fingers and created an explosion, pushing the duo back. He smiled, satisfied with himself, until something struck him from the back of his head.

As he fell, Nicholas stood on a pink platform throwing stones. Trevor turned and ordered more bats to attack the boy. Nicholas flew off while attacking some bats from behind him. Isabelle created more platforms for Nicholas to use to avoid the bats, attacking them with their magic.

“Oh no, we gotta hurry!” Benjamin cried out.

Getting up, he turned to find more clones creeping up from behind him and blasted them away with his magic. He backed up into the blob and got sucked up inside of him, along with Sebastian and Bridget.

The three looked up and saw Troy float to where they were. Enraged, they telepathically ask for the blob to erupt them out like a volcano towards where Troy is, to which it agreed without question.

Aoguro appeared above Troy’s blob’s head as he gave Aoguro a signal. Akapin watched as her brother went inside the blob, changing its color from blue to black with light blue eyes.

“Big brother?” Akapin gasped.

The two blobs continued their fighting.

“Aoguro, please stop! Both of you need to stop fighting!” Akapin cried out, getting in between the two of them. “Big brother, please tell me why! Why are you doing this? Won’t you listen to me?” Her brother stopped fighting and heard what his sister wanted to say. “You didn’t make a Pilkon Pact with that boy, did you? Did he blackmail you? Threaten your life? What was it?”

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Aoguro said nothing as he looked to the ground with saddened eyes.

Troy watched the fighting in the distance until he noticed Sebastian charging at him. He backed up, avoiding Sebastian’s attacks.

“Troy!” Sebastian exclaimed. “How could you do this!? Why?” Sebastian questioned.

“Wouldn’t you like to know...?” Troy retorted.

Troy sent dark beams after Sebastian, but he dodged them all before charging at Troy, once again, to fight hand to hand. Benjamin fired from a distance while Bridget rushed to attack Troy up close. Troy pushed Bridget out of the way and deflected Benjamin’s magic from afar.

Sebastian wondered if they could beat him when Troy stopped fighting. His attention drew to Aoguro, who didn’t fight anymore. He just stood there.

“Hey, Aoguro, snap out of it and fight!” Troy called out to him, but no response came from Ao. “Aoguro?” He called out again, this time softer.

Without warning, Bridget punched Troy in the face, followed by Sebastian kicking him. Benjamin readied a spell and aimed straight at Troy’s head.

“No, wait!” Troy shouted. “Have you forgotten something?” He summoned two bubbles in front of him.

Benjamin gasped. “Oh no! Chi-Chi and Harry?”

“That’s right, and if you dare to try anything funny, I won’t hesitate to kill both of your precious pets!”

As they thought up ways to get out of their predicament, Isabelle rode on her platform and knocked Troy on the back of his head, causing him to drop the bubbles and fall to the ground.

Benjamin and Bridget caught both of the bubbles before they hit the ground. Bridget gave Benjamin her bubble before they popped them, dropping the critters in his hands.

“Chi-Chi, Harry, please, wake up...” Benjamin pleaded while trying to hold back the tears in his eyes. “I’m sorry you guys ended up like this. I promise never to leave you guys again! So, please, wake up!”

The animals squirmed and slowly opened their eyes. “Huh?

“You guys... you’re both okay!” Benjamin exclaimed excitedly.

“We heard your voice,” Chi-Chi explained.

“We were sleeping for a while,” Harry added, “but we’re okay now!”

“Thank you for worrying about us.” They said simultaneously.

“You’re welcome,” Benjamin replied as they group hugged.

“Guys, I’d hate to ruin this sweet moment, but the others are still in danger.” Isabelle pointed out.

“Then we better hurry!” Sebastian responded as he and Bridget hopped on Isabelle’s platform.