𝓣𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓦𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 || Shattered Glass

《 0 - 7 》

《 Dwarf's Mine - Mine Entrance 》

"W-We're gonna go inside THERE!? It's pitch black!" Grim cries out. "Gettin' scared? Laaaame!" Ace exclaims with a smug expression. "Wha—!? I'm not s-scared! I'm gonna lead! You all should follow me, the Great Grim!" The non-cat says in denial. "Yeah, yeah...we get it." I wave off his excuse.

As we enter the mine, Ace and Deuce bring out their phones so we can see. "Wow...I can imagine the Mine being sparkly before..." I say in awe, imagining the mine if it was a minecraft world. "Wait!" Deuce cries out, spooking me.

"What is it?" I ask, startled. "There's something here..." Deuce said in a hushed whisper, loud enough for only the the 4 of us to hear. We all look around, keeping quiet, trying to figure out if something really was here. 

That was until Grim decided to become a scaredy cat.

"Pyah!" Grim suddenly clings onto me. "Grim! You're claws hurt! Get off me!" I yelp. And that's when something appeared with a familiar voice.

"Hihihihi...A guest after 10 years!"
"Come relax...FOREVER!!!"

Scratch that, make that TWO somethings.

"Fungyaaaa!!!! G-GHOSSSTTT!!!" Grim cried out. "Idiot, stay calm!" Ace flicked his ear to shut him up. "Damn it, we don't have time to be dealing with these ghosts...!"

"On the count of three we run." I take a deep breath, "One...Two...SCREW IT!!!" I sprinted out to the other direction as I hear the others call for me, "Oi! Wait up!!!"

Ace and Deuce cast spells to keep the ghosts at bay, along with Grim occasionally spewing fire while I lead the way. Once we managed to lose them, we decided to take a breather.

"I can't believe there are ghosts roaming around here...!" Ace let out heavy breaths as he leaned on one of the walls. "We don't have time to deal with them one by one. Let's go!" Deuce exclaimed, immediately ready to keep on going.

"Can you NOT give orders. This wouldn't have happened if you didn't do something so stupid in the first place!" Ace snapped. "Originally, it was because you TRIED to skip your chores!" Deuce barked back with a glare.

"The one who started it was that Fur Ball! He was the one who burnt the Queen of Heart's statue!" Ace pointed his gaze to Grim. Startled by the sudden attention, Grim started fighting back, "Fungya! It was because you're the one who made fun of us!"

"Actually Grim, YOU were the one who started attacking Ace." I corrected. "You were the one who kicked him!" Grim hissed. "So what? The bitch deserved it." I huffed as I crossed my arms. "What did you just call me...!?" Ace walked over to me with a threatening stance. 

"Guys! Do you know the situation we're in right now!? If we don't bring back a magic stone by morning, we're gonna be expelled!" Deuce exclaimed, trying to break the fight.

"That's why you have to stop taking the lead each time! It's so annoying..." Ace grumbles. "Well, why don't YOU tried leading. Or are you that much of a pussy?" I snarked. "Why you...!"

"Will...no...ve..."

"Holy shit!" I exclaimed as we all tried looking for the source of the sound. "Wh-Who said that...?" Ace asked, startled. I stay on my guard, but hide behind Ace...was it because of fear or the fact I wanna use him as a meat shield? It doesn't matter.

"Sto....ne....izzzz....minnneeee"

"Why do I feel like it's getting closer...?" Deuce takes out his magical pen. "Deuce don't say that! That just makes things worse..." I hissed.

"tHe ztone iz miiiinnneeeee!!!!!"

"MONSTERRRRRR!!!!"
"I FUCKING TOLD YOU BITCH!!!"
"Now's not the time for that!"

We all ran as fast as we can, trying to get as far as possible to whatever that...final boss thing is! We managed to find a corner where we could hide and rest for now, but the footsteps of the monster can still be heard echoing.

"What the heck was that thing?" Deuce asks. "Fungyaaaa~~~! No one said anything about that being here! Hurry and run!" Grim was about to run off and expose our spot but I held onto him as tightly as I can, "Quiet Grim!. "That was terrifying! But didn't he say something about a stone!?" Ace exclaimed. "Eh!?"

"ztone....won't give...stone iz miiiinnnneee!"

"So there really is a magic stone here!" Deuce exclaimed, determination filling up in his eyes.

"Nononononono! I may be a genius but there's no way we can defeat that thing!" Grim cried out. "But we'll get expelled without it! I'm going." Deuce gets up, ready to head back.

"Are you serious!?" Ace exclaimed, probably thinking that he's insane. "Deuce, this is the second CRAZY IDEA YOU HAVE TODAY!!!" I yell. "There's no way I'm letting myself be expelled!" Deuce starts heading back. 'What...the hell.' I facepalm before going after him.

"DEUCE GET BACK HERE!!!!"

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A/N: If anyone read this fight before the change, Azuma was the voice of reason but now, I wanted them to be an asshole in the fight.