Year 3002
Midohira, Daikidageda
Rakuten walked upfront, closer to Rintaro, continuing to look in his eyes. Rintaro blinked a few times and almost instantly, turned his head towards the battle scene not speaking a single word with Rakuten. He saw Mujika sitting on the ground, exhausted. Jill seemed to have partially transformed and was lying flat on the ground. He saw an octopus slouched next to her, trying to lift her up with its tentacles. Jinx, who had transformed into a rhinoceros, was walking to the other side of the battle scene. Rintaro continued looking to find a blonde man lying down on the ground, hurt by one of Mujika’s quills.
Suddenly, the blonde man started to tremble as if a sudden charge of energy was flowing through his body. His hand slid towards his leg. In a swift motion, he pulled the quill out of his leg and hurled it away, making every attempt to not attract Mujika’s attention. Using his hands to support himself, he stood up on his feet. He looked around him and saw his comrades who had transformed into a kangaroo and lion, lying dead on the ground. The cobra seemed to be breathing its final breaths.
Watching his fallen comrades enraged the blonde man. He took a deep breath and let his hands to his sides. Two wings started growing out from his shoulder muscles. The color of his wings started fading out and within no time, they turned translucent. His hands gradually started changing their form as they grew longer and thinner. Scales started growing out on his thighs as his legs got thinner, similar to his hands. A thick stinger grew out from his rear as the blonde man fully morphed into a wasp. His wings started buzzing at a tremendous speed to generate a thrust, lifting him in the air.
He started floating eccentrically around Mujika, making sudden attempts to bury his stinger in her neck. Startled, Mujika started hopping around, trying to dodge his attacks, while haphazardly shooting quills at him.
“I do not care if Haizaki wants you alive. I will kill you, right here, right now.” he said coldly and took a dash towards Mujika. Transforming multiple times and shooting a large number of quills at a high rate had taken a toll on Mujika’s body. She tried defending herself from the wasp’s attacks using her bare hands.
From the corner of her eye, Sayla saw Mujika struggle to keep up with the pace of the wasp and started crawling towards her.
Amidst the chaos, Jill opened her eyes, drowsy due to the venom shot by the cobra, which was searing through her veins. She watched the wasp make a sideways swing in the air as he flung his stinger close to Mujika, nearly penetrating her arm.
“We need her to sur-survive.” Jill whispered feably.
Rakuten continued watching the fight, hidden behind the bushes. She twitched as she saw Jill grappling her way back up on her four limbs. Jill started running towards Mujika in an attempt to protect her. Drawing every ounce of energy in her body, Jill leaped towards the wasp, tackling it hard. She stood her ground, glaring and intimidating the wasp to come at her.
“Is that all you have?” she growled.
The wasp tilted itself towards the ground and started charging towards Jill. Suddenly, it changed the direction of the charge and curved to its left. The wasp moved its stinger upfront in a quick motion bringing it closer to Jill’s face. Confused by the wasp’s sudden change of pace, Jill fell forward on the ground as the stinger grazed her fur, scratching her skin lightly.
Jill started running towards the woods and leaped into one of the bushes. The wasp followed her.
Mujika walked beside Sayla and looked her in the eye with fury on her face. They heard a howl reverberating from the woods as the leaves started to rustle along with a buzzing sound which seemed to be approaching closer. Mujika pointed her trembling hand towards the bush as she took a defensive stance.
“I will take that fucking fly down this time!” she scowled, angling her quills towards an approaching enemy.
The wasp emerged out of the bushes, flying low to the ground. Before it could fly any higher, Jill pounded from behind, smacking its mouth with all of her might. The wasp stumbled its way in the air and began losing its balance. Sayla grabbed Mujika with her tentacles and flung her in the air. Mujika stretched her right arm forward and shot a series of quills at the wasp. Two of her quills pierced through one of the translucent wings tearing it apart into shreds.
The blonde man started losing his form as a wasp and started returning to his human form. He felt a thick slimy arm curl around his neck, trying to strangle him. Gasping for breath, he turned around to watch Sayla, who had extended her tentacles to grab him. She pulled the wasp down with a brutal force, slamming it on the ground.
The blonde man continued fighting back as it wriggled its way out to sting the tip of Sayla’s tentacle. Biting her pain, Sayla continued strangling the wasp. Mujika walked up close towards the blonde man, glaring at him.
The blonde man twitched the antennas on his head and pointed them towards Mujika in unison. “You took this long to kill me, hah! How on earth would yo-” he laughed, “How on Daikidageda would you fight Aisa? I wish I could see her spin a-“
Mujika shot a quill in the middle of the wasp’s throat, muting it instantly. Sayla used her tentacles to strangle the wasp to death.
“Nice kill!” Mujika yeeted. The thrill on her face disappeared into confusion as she saw a wounded Jill run behind Jinx.
From her hideout, Rakuten saw Jill limp her way to the other end of the battle scene. “Jiz-Jizen is wounded.“ she stood up concerned. Rintaro and Kaaron tried to pull her back to safety. Rakuten whisked her wings to push them away and she started running towards Jill.
“JILL!” Sayla called her out, her eyes wide open looking at a seriously injured Jill.
“JIZENNNNNNNNNN!” Rakuten yelled as she reached closer.
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Mujika, Jinx, Sayla and Jill took a few moments to compose themselves.
“You must go and check on Prassaca.” Sayla spoke softly.
Jinx nodded and started walking towards Prassaca, hoping that she would have Aisa under control. His oddly shaped legs did not allow him to walk up the incline at a fast speed. He continued pulling himself one step at a time.
He reached the top of the hill and saw a drained Prassaca struggling to keep up the pace of her violin synchronous to Aisa’s heartbeats. Aisa was kneeling down on the ground, trying to pull herself back up on her feet.
Aisa moved her hand slowly towards her mouth, completely worn out by the tortuous dynamic melodies played by Prassaca. She opened her mouth wide as two small sharp fangs protruded out. She brought her fangs closer to her arm and thrust them deep. As waves of excruciating pain seared through her body, she let out a loud loud scream. The sudden change in emotion disturbed Prassaca's rhythm of dynamic melodies and she was completely thrown off beat. She paused playing her violin, tiredness oozing out of every muscle of her body.
Aisa loosened herself and took a confident step towards Prassaca.
“Your powers are weak!” Aisa chuckled, as she stretched her hands and flexed her neck sideways. “Redundancy V2.0, eh? Do you know, there is a weakness in your power.” she paused, “The more you play your tunes, the quicker it is for a human heart to get acclimated to the dynamics of your melodies. Eventually, the human heart starts changing its pace a bit faster than you can anticipate and a lot faster than your physical ability to move your wrists and fingers to play your violin.”
Prassaca squinted her eyes, “I do no-”
“Your powers are weak!” Aisa screamed. “I see, you have brought someone along to this party!” she exclaimed without turning around, pointing towards Jinx behind her back.
Jill arrived at the scene, panting.
"And you would be my special kill for the day." Aisa hissed at Jill, trying to intimidate her.
“Hmm… I think I am scared of you, Aisa. Is this what fear feels like?” Prassaca sighed. Terrified, she started inhaling huge breaths. She looked towards Aisa and pulled up her violin attempting to start playing again. Her fatigued fingers started sliding on the fingerboard. “Emotions… They are-” Prassaca paused, as her mouth lay wide open.
Aisa let her hair open, as a strong breeze picked up. Four limbs started budding out from her sides, which angled in parallel to her hands and legs. The fangs in her mouth grew longer. Threads of a sticky white substance started spurting out of her back and her feet, creeping swiftly in all directions. Within no time, Aisa spun a large sticky web behind her. She glared at Prassaca as a condescending smile appeared on her face.
Your powers are weak!” Aisa winked.
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