Ch. 31: The Storm
In Bonesborough, Tracey was still holding back Grom's tentacles while saving everyone she could. Her skill with Goose Willis was uncommonly strong, like she was born with plant magic and using it like a professional or a coven head.
"You don't scare me, you slimy bitch!" Tracey shouted at the beast.
Tracey dodged a tentacle swing before flying into the air. Swing another swing, Tracey created multiple rings and fire thousands of briar spikes at the black mass! Dozens of which, cut many of the fear pods holding people inside and cutting off Grom's strength.
"Ugh." One groaned, falling to the ground. "M-my head".
He groaned as he slowly got up, looking around and remembering all the chaos!
"Run to safety!" Tracey shouted, flying to dodge Grom and draw its attention. "Help anyone along the way! Go!"
Though afraid, the witch nodded as he rushed up and helped two other people up before they ran away.
Another tendril was about to hit Tracey from behind, when Masha got in the way and blocked it with their staff.
"We need to find a way to stop this!" They said.
"If we can get Grom back into the area under the school, we may be able to seal it away!" Vee said on the ground before draining magic from several tendrils.
"I thought I told you guys to go!" Tracey said to her cousin.
"And let you have all the fun?! Get real!" Masha shouted before drawing a spell circle and unleashing a giant fire ball on incoming tentacles!
"We've stuck by you this far, we aren't going to leave you when you're in a fight!" Vee said.
Vee saw more tentacles coming towards her, shapeshifting her legs into frog legs and jumping high into the air! The tentacles follows as Vee dodged one, sucking the magic from it and jumping off to another.
'Is this what wall jumping is like in video games?!' Vee thought.
She suddenly wondered how video game characters didn't get dizzy.
She was so dizzy, a tentacle almost grabbed her before Masha flew by on their staff and caught her.
"I love you but you're a bit of a scatter brain right now!" Masha said, holding Vee in their lap.
"I'm a Noceda, it's what we're known for!" Vee said.
"Enough lovingly bickering! Focus on the nightmare beast!" Tracey shouted, pulling out some glyphs she had on hand.
She pushed and threw it but it wasn't a plant glyph she threw. It was a light glyph, turning into a ball of green light before exploding in a bright flash to make Grom screen in pain as its tentacles pulled back!
"You know the other glyphs?" Vee asked, looking at Tracey.
"Yeah! Just because I like using plants more, doesn't mean I didn't use the others!" Tracey said back, holding up her remaining glyphs. "Now you said that we can seal this thing off?"
"Yes! We just need to push it back to Hexside!" Vee said, pointing towards the school.
"Then let's do this!" Masha said with a grin, looking at their palisman. "I wanna see how strong Foxy really is!"
"I might have an idea." Tracey said before flying down to Grom. "Follow me!"
As they went about their plan to seal Grom, the Titan Squad was already on the attack as Odalia was kicked down the grudgby field, flipping through the air as Hunter teleported ahead of her.
He delivered a punch to her stomach, which sent her into the air. Large abomination hands grabbed her legs and slammed her on the ground. Amity let the goo dissolve and walk up to her former mother.
"Does it hurt, "mother?" Is all this pain too much for you to endure?" Amity asked as Odalia struggling to look up to her. "Because let me tell you, this isn't even CLOSE to what you put me through for 15 years. Mentally OR physically."
Amity grabbed Odalia by neck and held her up.
"But I'm not the only one that has a bone to pick with you... right, Willow?"
Behind Odalia, Willow glared.
"You forced us to be enemies, threatened Amity to break our friendship by threatening my future, all because you thought I was weak." Willow said, her eyes glowing brighter than before. "Well guess what? I'm a fucking god now!"
Willow grabbed Odalia and threw her into the goal post of the Grudgby field, making the metal bend. Odalia groaned in pain as the two Titan's walked up her.
"Shall we?" Amity asked, grinning.
"We shall." Willow said, grinning back.
The two began to use their specialized magic, now boosted with their Titan powers, and became an abomination and a plant being respectively.
Odalia watched in horrific awe as her daughter had becoming a Titan Abomination!
Standing 20 feet tall and made of pure abomination sludge with sharp bones fingers, spikes coming from her shoulders, and her horns/tiara were even bigger on top her head with the light orb the size of a grudgby ball!
"I don't just become some puddle now." Amity said, her voice deep and booming.
"At least not anymore." Willow said, her voice deep as Odalia glanced at her transformed state.
She was 20 feet tall Ike Amity and completely made of plants, giving her the appearance of a sort of swamp hag with a giant bush for hair. Bark like limbs with sharp bones as fingers and fang teeth. She even has chest armor and horns coming from the top of her head that looked like a mix of bark and bone.
Her legs fused together and were planted in the ground. Several large vines, nearly as thick as trees, came out of Willow's back and all holding large venus fly trap ends on them. Willow sent them towards Odalia.
Each one bit into her flesh, making her bleed and scream in pain.
Willow held her in the air, allowing Gus to use his illusions, which had become so powerful with his new titan magic, that they can become real.
"Have at you!" Gus shouted, creating an orb in his hands and throwing it into the air.
Right before their eyes, Gus had created the exact same illusion beast he encountered from the Looking Glass Ruins, only this time it WAS real.
It roared at her, making her feel immense fear, before slamming its giant paw on her, slamming her and trapping her to the ground. Amity moved over and used her body to make a giant abomination sword, she held it against Odalia's neck.
"With one simple inch forward, I could end your life." Amity said, keeping it there a second before grabbing Odalia and picking her up, "But we're not going to kill you."
Amity slammed Odalia on the ground several times, before throwing her onto the roof of Hexside. She groaned as she picked herself up.
"WEH!"
A large golden blast hit Odalia and knocked her back down. Hunter walked up and picked her up, before delivering a punch, and then another, and then another, finally breaking her nose. He threw her to the other side of the roof.
"If you're going to kill me, then just get it over with!" Odalia said.
A boney foot stepped on Odalia's head.
"Since you clearly didn't listen to Amity, like usual, let me say this slowly." Luz said, before grabbing her by the hair, "We aren't going to kill you, we're just softening you up... because we can only think of two people that deserve to end your sad, pathetic, excuse for a life."
Luz held Odalia, Military press style, and then threw her to the ground. Odalia groaned as she tried to drag her bruised and broken body away. She was stopped when two people stood in front of her. She looked up and saw Skara and Cat. Both looked furious, and how could they not? Cat was mutilated by Odalia, and Skara because Odalia knew about the day of unity and the draining spell, and she never mentioned it to anyone... maybe her parents would be alive if Odalia actually cared enough to tell everyone about it.
"What are you two-"
Skara immediately shot red lightning at Odalia, causing so much pain to Odalia's already broken body.
"Shut. UP!" Skara said with a glare, her finger tips dancing with red lightning as she unintentionally cauterized Odalia's previous wounds shut.
Not that it would matter, as Cat then cuts the side of Odalia's face with her hook.
"Aaah!" Odalia shouts in pain.
"You don't know how LONG I have waited for this moment." Cat said, slowly and coldly.
Cat slammed her hook down, hitting Odalia right in the back, making her scream. Cat continued this three or four more times, before hooking Odalia's shoulder, picking her up, and punching her her across the face multiple times. She may not have titan powers like the Hexsquad, she may not be some elemental mage like Skara, but she was angry, and she wanted to make sure this bitch got what was coming to her.
"You fucking bitch!" Cat yelled, "You ruined my life! I wanted to be a great healer! I wanted to play Grudgby with my friends, and I wanted to live a normal life, and then you ripped my eye out, snapped my arm and my leg off, threw them in a fire, and stabbed me multiple times in the face with a knife!"
Cat ripped her hook out of Odalia's shoulder and hooked her by the nose. She threw Odalia to the ground, literally ripping her nose off.
"AHHHH!" Odalia screamed.
"Skara, you're turn." Cat said, flicking Odalia's nose to the ground.
Skara popped her shoulders before marching to Odalia, her hands sparking with more red lightning as she growled like a beast.
"You. All of this is because of YOU! They're gone because of you!" Skara shouted!
"W-W-Who?" Odalia asked with a groan, looking up to Skara despite the pain.
Skara picked Odalia up and delivered a lightning filled punch to her face.
"My parents are dead, because you decided that no one else's lives mattered!" She yelled, delivering another punch, "I had to deal with not knowing about their deaths through the apocalypse!"
Skara delivered a lightning punch to Odalia's stomach then delivering a lighting powered uppercut, sending Odalia into the air. Skara seethed and disappeared, before lightning sparked in the air next to Odalia and she reappeared, grabbing Odalia and slamming her THROUGH the roof, landing in the music room of the school. Cat jumped down, making sure to be careful with her fake leg in order to avoid breaking it.
'We're not done with you yet.' Cat thought as she then held out her good hand and healed Odalia, that way it would hurt even worse when they broke her bones again.
Once Cat was done and put her hand down, Skara grabbed two cymbals and slammed them together against Odalia's head, making Odalia's ears ring and making her feel immense pain. Cat then ran up and stabbed Odalia's hip with her hook. Odalia felt pain as Cat dragged it through the skin, making a massive gash down her leg.
"Ahhh!" Odalia said, "You annoying brats!"
"Shut up!" They yelled, towering over her.
"You don't get the right to call us that, you were willing to hurt or kill anyone just so you can have power!" Cat yelled, kicking Odalia's face to the side with her wooden leg! "You did this to me, a fucking child, that couldn't fight back!"
"You made me an orphan, my family helped you build your company from the ground up and you let them die!" Skara yelled, kicking Odalia's face back! "You have hurt everyone I've loved, and I'm going to take back what you took from Cat!"
Skara grabbed Odalia's hand and broke it, before taking the ring off and handing it to Cat. Cat took it and looked at it.
"What the fuck, look how tacky this is!" Cat said, gesturing to her bejeweled eye. "At least I can say I have my eye back."
Cat, somehow, managed to get the ring on her finger. The two looked at each other before nodding. They weren't done yet.
On the other side of the school, in the gym, the trio of two humans and a basilisk were doing their best to avoid Grom's attacks.
"Are you sure this is the best option!?" Vee asked.
"Do you have any better ideas!?" Tracey asked, "I need to get down there and lure Grom in! On my word, you close it, and I'm going to run out!"
"But what if you get trapped inside with that thing?!" Masha asked.
"I'll have to risk it! It's better than letting it rampage and destroy the town!" Tracey shouted.
Without looking, Tracey blasted Grom with her staff.
"I hate to admit it but it's the best plan we've got!" Vee said to Masha.
Grom turned its attention to Tracey and lunged at her, which made it easy to lure it.
'That's right, ugly! Follow the birdie!' Tracey thought.
Tracey flew into the pit, leading Grom there, only for Grom to knock her off her staff. Her staff landed out of the pit and Grom was blocking the exit.
"Close it!" Tracey yelled.
"But what about you!?" Vee yelled.
"Trust me!" Tracey yelled.
Masha pressed the button and the floor began to close. Tracey new she had seconds at most. She ran at Grom, using her rusty cheerleader skills to jump over Grom, right as it shot tendrils at her. In the air, she pulled out two plant glyphs and as she landed, put them on the ground, creating a massive group of vines that launched her to the exit. At the last second, she made it through. She landed on the ground as Vee and Masha ran towards her.
"You are even crazier than Luz!" Vee said.
"That was awesome!" Masha said.
"Yeah well... had to risk it, it was either me or everyone in this world." Tracey said, "And this world is too important to Noceda."
'Maybe not just her.' Vee thought, seeing the small smile Tracey had when talking about this world.
The ground shook suddenly.
"What was that?" Tracey asked.
In another part of the school, Cat and Skara had thrown Odalia around the entire third floor. Constantly breaking and healing her body, even down to her nerves so the pain was twice as painful.
'Time to end this.' They thought.
Skara shot lightning at Odalia, sending her to her knees.
"Cat!" Skara said.
This let Cat run towards Odalia, her hook at the ready.
"There's an old saying... an eye for an eye!" Cat yelled, swinging her hook.
Odalia got a fraction of a second to see it, before the hook got lodged into her eye. Odalia barely had time to react, as the hook stabbed her right in the brain.
"Good riddance you bitch." Cat said.
If the stab to the brain didn't kill her, then Cat throwing her over the railing, a three floor fall, and off her hook, to the ground. Odalia didn't move after she hit the ground, the two went to the ground floor and towards the body. Just as a precaution... Skara lit Odalia on fire and watched her burn to ash.
Cat stood beside her, not saying a word as a huge weight had been lifted off their shoulders.
'Finally... I got justice.' Cat thought, as she watched the fire burn.
'Mom, dad. You can rest easy now.' Skara thought.
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