Omori was now joined by 3 additional people, each as oddly coloured as him. The first was an energetic kid who’d just caught his basketball returning to him from the air. “Hey there! I don’t like how you’re treating my friend!” scolded Kel.
The girl, Aubrey, tapped her bat onto her hand. “You should leave. Because if you keep this up, we’ll have a problem!” Madotsuki looked at the friends, all sticking up for her opponent. It made her feel several things. It warmed her heart because it was sweet; it made her sad because she could never have that; it made her angry because they were defending her attacker. Regardless, she didn’t back down, and stood waiting for the next attack.
Hero gave Omori a cookie. He ate it and got back up on his feet, now near full health. The cook looked at the kids in the group. “Everyone be careful,” and then at Madotsuki and tightened his frying pan “we’re gonna have to fight our way out of here."
The gang rushed at Madotsuki, but as they did, Madotsuki changed effects (blulalala) to Stoplight. Aubrey was on course to hit her in the traffic-lighted face, but in a flash, there was no Madotsuki to hit. All four friends were dumbfounded by her disappearance. Kel turned around, and the other three followed, to see Madotsuki standing behind them. Omori dashed over to slice her, yet she used her time-stop to vanish once again, appearing between the friend group. All the friends swarmed her from each direction, but before they could hit her, Madotsuki’s traffic light changed back to a lamp.
FLASH!
The brightness of the lamp took everyone by surprise as they covered their eyes from the light. Out of random choice, she used her lamp to bash the blinded Kel down. WHAM! The athlete fell from the girl’s hit, and she walked away to continue her fight with the blinded Aubrey. “Kel!” cried his brother. Hero immediately cooked a piece of pizza in in the frying pan and fed it to Kel in record time.
“Thanks, bro!” said the healed Kel. He got up and threw his basketball at the running lamp-head. Madotsuki sensed the attack and switched back to Stoplight, time stopping to dodge the ball and appear somewhere else. Instead, (Toink!) the ball hit Aubrey, who became ANGRY.
“Look where you’re throwing!” she complained.
Why don’t you look where you’re standing! And besides-” Kel stopped and looked towards where Madotsuki had teleported off to and saw his ball ricocheting towards the girl. (CRASH!) The ball hit her light, shattering it. “She’s open! So you can thank me for-”
Kel was interrupted by Aubrey running towards the injured Madotsuki. Once close enough, she reeled her head back, ready for a powerful headbutt. However, when she released her attack (blulalala) she didn’t hit anything. All she did was look down at....a very small Madotsuki. “Aww, that’s actually really cu-” the small Madotsuki jumped away from Aubrey and, out of nowhere, started multiplying. The group now faced seven identical Mini Madotsuki's.
The Madotsuki's split up and ran. Kel threw his ball at them, but the three he was aiming at all dodged and jumped at his face (Wack! Pow! Wham!) hitting it with their tiny bodies and causing him to fall. Two of the Madotsuki’s ran at Aubrey, but the girl swung her bat twice.
SPLAT! SPLATTER!
The enemies were reduced to disappearing puddles of blood from the hits. Meanwhile, Hero was dealing with small problems of his own. He used his pan to smack a jumping Madotsuki away, but it didn’t explode. Instead, the Madotsuki landed and ordered its tiny sisters to stop attacking Omori and fight the healer.
All five remaining Madotsuki's ran at Hero, jumping at him and hurting him from all sides. Omori disliked this behaviour and summoned the strength he had left for a Final Strike. The boy swung his knife several times, each swing catching a new jumping Madotsuki
SLICESLICESLICESLICESLICESLICE! SLASH!
After his ultimate attack finished, four Madotsuki’s were cut in half, vanishing. There was only one left. She'd been hit, but was still alive. The main Madotsuki. (blulalala) She changed back to her normal form and held onto her chest, breathing heavily. The last attack had left her exhausted. Hero raised his pan over his head, ready to end the fight and knock her out.
GASH!
Madotsuki had turned around lightning quick to stab Hero. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” He screamed, faded from existence itself. “NO!” Screamed Aubrey and Kel, the former immediately rushed over, using her bat to hit Madotsuki right in the head. WHAM! The head of Madotsuki came off. Her body disappeared from existence as her severed head flew past Omori and landed on the sand. And then...the head slowly moved, waddling away from the group. Before the three could rush over to catch her, Madotsuki’s mind activated. And then, out of nowhere, two women with heads like birds appeared.
The Torinigens, as they were called, rushed the group. Aubrey and Kel were face-to-face with one Torinigen each, and once they even touched the children, they were gone. Vanishing to the inescapable areas they wish to send Madotsuki. Omori was now alone with two new enemies...Three, actually. In the ground, a giant sinister red circle formed. And from it grew a giant snake-like creature with a large head. Big Red
The giant creature unhinged its jaw and rushed down to Omori, attempting to swallow him whole. But the boy quickly jumped away from the monster’s attack. He landed and closed his eyes, using his mind and imagination to beat Madotsuki at the game they were both playing. Before Big Red could try to eat him again, a strange thing happened. Out of the air, Hero’s body started to form again. Followed by Aubrey and Kel reappearing. It was a dream, so they could both affect it after all. They looked at the terrifying Torinigens running at them and the towering monster of Big Red.
They then looked at each other..and smiled.
RELEASE ENERGY!
Aubrey swung her back as many times as she could, hitting each one as hard as possible. Kel’s ball bounced all around the arena, hitting the monsters. Hero used his pan to strike the Torinigens quickly. Omori focused his knife, slashing Big Red as many times as his energy could let him.
BAM!
With the attack over, the bird ladies exploded and Big Red fell to the ground, fading away from the dream. Behind the disappearing Red stood Madotsuki, now with a body. She was still tired from seeing the attack on her creations. The gang was starting to feel tired from the attack. Kel stepped up “What are-(huff)-you gonna-(huff)-Ow it hurts to stand.” He said, at his knees.
Hero looked at Madotsuki. “I can heal them, so you should either give up. Or we’ll continue fighting!”
Madotsuki simply used her brain to imagine one more being. From the air, darkness manifested in...a deadpanned blond girl in green. She simply stood there, looking unamused. The group wondered how, after bird ladies and a giant demon, this would be her ace. Then she used her mind to summon a large wooden plank from the ground, with nothing but a light switch. She flicked it once...then again…
FLICKFLICKFLICKFLICKFLICKFLICKFLICKFLICK-
The light of the entire wasteland went out once, (FLICK) then came back on, (FLICK) and then (FLICK) they-
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGHHHHH
land. In the place of the blond girl, a black and white entity stood, smiling a disturbing smile. Omori and his friends stood as frightened children to the monster, all afraid of it...Because of the colour...and the distortion...it reminded Omori of...Something.
The memories of the past, of what he did, flooded his mind. It was far too much for him. The dreaming world Madotsuki and Omori shared was corrupted as nothing but blankness and void erupted from Uboa’s spot. It engulfed Madotsuki and turned to the friend group. The sea of void consumed Hero, Kel and Aubrey out of existence. And then...it consumed Omori and the rest of the wasteland into...nothing…
