Chapter 98: The Boulder Trap

Chapter 98: The Boulder Trap

With Sandy joining the battle, Daykona has now fallen into her trap.

Daykona drops through a hole in the ceiling and lands in a square-shaped room with nothing but three buttons at the other end.

“I see now,” Daykona says. “Sandy, you have betrayed me.”

She walks to the left button and pushes it.

“The flaw with your magic, Sandy, is that you can’t use it unless you create a way to win.”

Unfortunately for Daykona, it was the wrong button, magically spawning raptors in the room.

“Just my luck…”

Small holes in the walls also open, but she doesn’t notice as the raptors assault her. While she is distracted by the raptors, Kurt falls from above and punches her down on the top of her head. He quickly runs to an open door, which disappears after he enters.

The hit stuns Daykona, allowing the raptors to continuously bite her.

“Damn you!”

Suddenly, lightning bolts from Joe come out of the holes in the walls, electrically shocking her.

In her rage, Daykona quickly punches all of the raptors to death, and then runs up to the right button, which she pushes. This time she was right. A door appears for her, and she quickly goes through it.

She is now in a pitch-black room.

“What are you trying to pull with this, Sandy?”

Since she can’t see, she walks into a hole and falls into a straight hallway, where she hears a rumble. Moments later, a giant boulder appears.

“You think you can defeat me with that giant boulder!!!?” she screams with her big, bulging eyes wide open.

A flying sign appears in front of her, and it reads, “Yes.” She grinds her teeth and punches the sign, breaking it into pieces.

Daykona holds out her five arms and grabs onto the boulder. Though she slows its momentum, it is still pushing her back. As she gets pushed back, she uses her laser beam from the eye tentacle, shooting a hole in the boulder.

From behind her, Emily comes charging.

Emily urgently thinks, “This is it!! I can end this battle right here!!”

She jumps and intends to cut off Daykona’s head with her Shadow Sword. She slashes, slicing off one of Daykona’s upper arms, but one of Daykona’s lower arms retaliates by punching her hard in the leg before her sword can reach Daykona’s head. The punch knocks Emily back, badly injuring her leg in the process. However, Emily’s attack loosens Daykona’s resistance enough that she gets rolled over by the boulder, which immediately stops after.

Kurt and Joe show up from behind Emily.

“Is it over?” Emily asks, wincing in pain.

“Hopefully, it is because your leg is in pretty bad shape,” Joe replies.

“Let’s get you out of here,” Kurt suggests.

They feel a rumble, turning their heads toward the boulder.

“No way…” Kurt mutters.

Lasers shoot through the boulder everywhere from below it. It then falls completely apart as Daykona emerges, though she is significantly injured.

Kurt, Joe, and Emily all stare in disbelief, their eyes wide open and trembling.

“I can’t believe she survived that!!” Kurt exclaims. “That boulder would have flattened us to a pancake!!”

Daykona looks less human now as her skin has reptile scales. From where her arm was just cut off is now a crab-like claw, leaving her arm arrangement as four human arms, an eye tentacle, and a crab claw.

“What does it take to kill you!!!?” Joe screams.

Daykona remains as confident as ever. “Hehehe! Clearly, more power than the five of you have! Unfortunately, my mutations are becoming too much. Once I destroy all of you, I will have to kill myself. But I will die happy knowing I killed two divine beings! Hahahahaha!!”

“That must be what she meant by calling herself a martyr earlier,” Emily says, her nerves rising.

***

Meanwhile, back with Sasha and Zeth.

Sasha is still crying while holding Zeth’s body, but a powerful dark aura begins to form around her body. She sniffles as she says, “That monster… She insulted us… She insulted all divine beings…”

Sasha’s voice starts turning from one that is sad to one that is angry. “She is trying to kill us and all that is important to us! Zeth… You must rip her guts out! Take my dark power. You need the energy to fight her. Show her what it means to challenge a god!”

Sasha’s dark energy flows into Zeth. “That’s it. Take it all.”

Sasha has given all of her energy to Zeth. His eyes open wide, and they are full of hatred. A dark tint sparks in them.

In an effort to save Zeth, Sasha has given Zeth her dark power. With this temporary boost, will he be able to kill Daykona and save his friends?

Chapter 98 END

To be Continued in Chapter 99: Dark Star