The Pure Hearted Heroine (A Ni No Kuni Fanfiction)

Chapter 6

Nicky didn't scream. She didn't run. She just pulled out the Wizard's companion and flipped through it as fast as she could, then shot a Fireball at Hickory Dock. It singed his fur, doing a little bit of damage. He came running over and whacked her with his staff, her defending, but it lasting only so long. She flipped through some more, until she found a pretty powerful looking spell. Arrow of Light. She shot it at the giant rat, and he went down, giving her a chance. She went in, low on magic already with that move and beat him with her wand.

"Oi! Nicky-girl!" She heard Sappy's voice call as Hickory Dock stood back up.

"Puny squeaklings will not defeat me so easily!" She scoffed.

"You think that was easy?" Then she felt her magic go up, and saw that Sappy had given her a blue glim! She did another Fireball, then a Frostbite. The Rat King, having grown fat and losing his ability to move as fast as he used to, fell easily. She went up and got in his face.

"Now leave." She growled. He grumbled, but he nodded.

"Alright, you can have your precious city back." Then he left the palace, heading for Ding Dong Well. Sappy and her team came running in, chasing a load of Mouseketeers out. Then they turned to her.

"Ding Dong Dell belongs to you again." She told them. The people and grimalkins cheered.

"We have our city back!" shouted a man. "Thank you Nicky!" She smiled, then she remembered.

"The Songstress!" Sappy jumped.

"That's right! I saw Pip and his team run down this way! Follow me, mun!" Then they both ran as fast as they could, until they reached a dark dungeon, very similar to Ding Dong Well. When they found the other team, they found them scratching their heads around a cell door. Inside the cell, the Songstress stood, watching them, unable to help.

"Nicky!" Pip called when he saw her. "It won't open!" The Songstress turned her head at them. Nicky flipped through the Wizard's Companion.

"Here! This spell might work!" Then she cast Spring Lock on the cell door, and it popped open. The Songstress herself gasped and looked at Nicky in surprise.

"You can do magic?" Nicky nodded.

"A little. I'm Nicky." She held out her hand, and the rather short woman shook it.

"Harmony. Are you with the Resistance?" Nicky shook her head, and Harmony sighed. Then she tilted her head. "You know, you look a lot like a friend of mine." Nicky nodded.

"Oliver, right?" She asked. Harmony nodded. "He's my father. I'm here to save him." Harmony gasped.

"Oliver needs saving? What happened?" Nicky told her about Mortui, and Harmony made a disgusted sound and looked at the ground.

"That dirty, no good, scoundrel! It's just like him to take Oliver!" Then she looked back at Nicky. "Nicky, allow me to come with you to save him." Nicky's eyes widened.

"You want to come with me? But it's going to be incredibly dangerous!" Harmony shook her head.

"I'm sure I've been in scrapes a bit worse. And besides, it might help me on my own quest." As they began to walk out of the dungeon, they continued to talk.