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pullsneedlesEven without the presence of the mushrooms in his system, their influence was undeniable. Dropped back into the waking nightmare of Tanetane Island, Lucas found it easier there to see purple grass and pink, swaying trees.
It wasn't a constant thing, rather flashes here and there, with some episodes lasting longer. Perhaps the worst of it was wandering into a hot spring only to snap back to hard reality and abruptly see why Boney had refused to bathe in it before.
"Get out!" he suddenly yelps, tugging at Duster and Kumatora to lead them out of the toxic waste. "We have to get out!"
"No!" Kumatora protests, pulling her arm out of his grasp. "I wanna soak some more!"
"Me too!" Duster chimes in.
Unable to fight their conviction, Lucas drags himself out and tries to scrape off as much of the noxious filth as he can.
"I bet that's why everything smelled rotten and why I got so sick," he muses, looking for a proper spot to wash up.
Fortunately, a real hot spring was nearby, and Lucas took himself and Boney for a good washing while waiting on Duster and Kumatora to finish their "bath".
************************************************
The Magypsy house was a painful neon green when it wasn't its usual natural pink. Still, it was an inviting sight to the whole group. Once they stepped in, they were greeted by a handsome butler as well as a most lovely Mixolydia.
"Oh, me, oh, my! We have visitors, ♥ " Mixolydia coos. "And look, they're all hopped up on mushrooms." And then, with a sniff, she adds, "...You people stink."
"It's mostly them," Lucas says with a gesture to Duster and Kumatora, who both shoot him a glare.
"Oh, wait a minute," the Magypsy says while turning around, her image the very essence of femininity. "Might you be Lucas, Kumatora, and Duster?"
The boy nods in answer.
"...Wow, you guys really stink."
Lucas gestures again to the other humans in his party.
Mixolydia shrugs and continues with, "Ionia told me about you. ♥ I'm Mixolydia, one of the Magypsies. ♥ If that's too hard to remember, 'Mixo'... No, 'Missy' will do just fine. ♥ Okay... Line up here."
The four of them line up with Missy behind them.
"...Yuck, what a stench. Just a tiny bite of those mushrooms will cause terrible hallucinations. Powerful hallucinations that tear at your weaknesses and the scars in your heart. But I'll bring you back to your senses now. ♥ "
Tear at your weaknesses and the scars in your heart, Lucas ponders as he hears a smack to his right. No wonder the hallucinations like to stay.
And then he gets thwapped in the head with what feels like a wooden fan.
"There. All better. ♥ "
Lucas turns to find a much more Magypsy-like Missy.
"I'm amazed you even made it this far after eating those horrid things. I know what you want to ask. ♥ This island's Needle is at the top of the hill. I sense that 'the time' has come, too. So whenever you want to pull it, go ahead... ♥ That's assuming you can get rid of the special barrier I set up to protect it, of course... ♥ "
"A barrier," Duster asks, combing some drying waste off of his sleeve. "Do you think we can?"
"Well, we won't find out standing around here," Kumatora says, wringing some sludge out of her hair.
"Oh, I almost forgot, ♥ " Missy pipes up. "My friend Ocho here picked up each and every item you dropped in the ocean. Be sure to thank him. ♥ "
The group turns again and there is an octopus sitting where the handsome butler once stood.
"I'm never eating mushrooms again, you guys," Lucas says.
Duster and Kumatora both grimace before nodding.
************************************************
"Are th-th-these the 'Barrier Trio'?" Kumatora asks as they approach the Needle.
Surrounding the Needle looked to be three purple golems, buff and flexing.
"Each one of their names is carved here," she says. "Barrier Man... Barrier Gal... Barrier Dude... Are they really that strong?"
And they found that yes, the Barrier Trio was strong. PK Starstorm strong.
************************************************
After a harrowing fight finished off with a final pose (It was spectacular.), the Barrier Trio finally fell. But once they did, the sky was suddenly filled with flying saucers.
And somehow, Lucas couldn't convince his feet to move. He knows he has to pull the Needle. Everything is whispering it in his mind and body. And yet his feet are lead, his eyes hazy as a red carpet is rolled out and the mysterious Masked Man approaches him.
He wants to ask what the Pigmask Army has done to this strange person that can also pull the Needles. He wants to find out why they must oppose each other. He even slowly reaches a hand out. But before he could speak or move, a crash of lightning tosses him from his feet. Lucas just barely manages to lift his head as the Masked Man pulls the fifth Needle before succumbing to the siren of unconsciousness.
************************************************
"Hey, you."
Someone is... Who's talking to him?
"Just how long are you going to sleep there? ♥ "
"'s that you, Missy?" Lucas mumbles to the ground before getting up and facing the fading Magypsy.
"That was surprisingly disappointing."
Lucas looks just to the right of his shoes.
"Lucas. Your heart wasn't the one passed on to the Dark Dragon; that masked man's was... But there's nothing we can do about that. Fate is fate. ♥ "
It almost feels like she's tilting his head up with just her words.
"...But it's odd. I should be sensing that masked man's heart coming from the earth, but I'm not feeling anything at all..." Missy shrugs a little before finishing, "I'm about to disappear now, so Ocho will take care of the rest. ♥ I instructed him to wait for you at the beach. You can ride on his back all the way to Tazmily. ♥ Oh wait! I almost forgot something very important! Could you give this to Ionia for me? ♥ "
In addition to Missy's razor and lipstick, she hands Lucas a jar of yummy pickles.
"In Tazmily, I believe there is a 'map-loving and map-owning' fellow, yes?"
Lucas nods and says, "Yeah, Mapson. I know him."
"I think he'll know where Ionia's house is. So hurry there! Take this to Ionia! ♥ "
With that, Missy turns away from the group.
"Ohhh, I'm disappeeeaaring. ♥ Fareweeeeeeell! ♥ "
It wasn't a constant thing, rather flashes here and there, with some episodes lasting longer. Perhaps the worst of it was wandering into a hot spring only to snap back to hard reality and abruptly see why Boney had refused to bathe in it before.
"Get out!" he suddenly yelps, tugging at Duster and Kumatora to lead them out of the toxic waste. "We have to get out!"
"No!" Kumatora protests, pulling her arm out of his grasp. "I wanna soak some more!"
"Me too!" Duster chimes in.
Unable to fight their conviction, Lucas drags himself out and tries to scrape off as much of the noxious filth as he can.
"I bet that's why everything smelled rotten and why I got so sick," he muses, looking for a proper spot to wash up.
Fortunately, a real hot spring was nearby, and Lucas took himself and Boney for a good washing while waiting on Duster and Kumatora to finish their "bath".
************************************************
The Magypsy house was a painful neon green when it wasn't its usual natural pink. Still, it was an inviting sight to the whole group. Once they stepped in, they were greeted by a handsome butler as well as a most lovely Mixolydia.
"Oh, me, oh, my! We have visitors, ♥ " Mixolydia coos. "And look, they're all hopped up on mushrooms." And then, with a sniff, she adds, "...You people stink."
"It's mostly them," Lucas says with a gesture to Duster and Kumatora, who both shoot him a glare.
"Oh, wait a minute," the Magypsy says while turning around, her image the very essence of femininity. "Might you be Lucas, Kumatora, and Duster?"
The boy nods in answer.
"...Wow, you guys really stink."
Lucas gestures again to the other humans in his party.
Mixolydia shrugs and continues with, "Ionia told me about you. ♥ I'm Mixolydia, one of the Magypsies. ♥ If that's too hard to remember, 'Mixo'... No, 'Missy' will do just fine. ♥ Okay... Line up here."
The four of them line up with Missy behind them.
"...Yuck, what a stench. Just a tiny bite of those mushrooms will cause terrible hallucinations. Powerful hallucinations that tear at your weaknesses and the scars in your heart. But I'll bring you back to your senses now. ♥ "
Tear at your weaknesses and the scars in your heart, Lucas ponders as he hears a smack to his right. No wonder the hallucinations like to stay.
And then he gets thwapped in the head with what feels like a wooden fan.
"There. All better. ♥ "
Lucas turns to find a much more Magypsy-like Missy.
"I'm amazed you even made it this far after eating those horrid things. I know what you want to ask. ♥ This island's Needle is at the top of the hill. I sense that 'the time' has come, too. So whenever you want to pull it, go ahead... ♥ That's assuming you can get rid of the special barrier I set up to protect it, of course... ♥ "
"A barrier," Duster asks, combing some drying waste off of his sleeve. "Do you think we can?"
"Well, we won't find out standing around here," Kumatora says, wringing some sludge out of her hair.
"Oh, I almost forgot, ♥ " Missy pipes up. "My friend Ocho here picked up each and every item you dropped in the ocean. Be sure to thank him. ♥ "
The group turns again and there is an octopus sitting where the handsome butler once stood.
"I'm never eating mushrooms again, you guys," Lucas says.
Duster and Kumatora both grimace before nodding.
************************************************
"Are th-th-these the 'Barrier Trio'?" Kumatora asks as they approach the Needle.
Surrounding the Needle looked to be three purple golems, buff and flexing.
"Each one of their names is carved here," she says. "Barrier Man... Barrier Gal... Barrier Dude... Are they really that strong?"
And they found that yes, the Barrier Trio was strong. PK Starstorm strong.
************************************************
After a harrowing fight finished off with a final pose (It was spectacular.), the Barrier Trio finally fell. But once they did, the sky was suddenly filled with flying saucers.
And somehow, Lucas couldn't convince his feet to move. He knows he has to pull the Needle. Everything is whispering it in his mind and body. And yet his feet are lead, his eyes hazy as a red carpet is rolled out and the mysterious Masked Man approaches him.
He wants to ask what the Pigmask Army has done to this strange person that can also pull the Needles. He wants to find out why they must oppose each other. He even slowly reaches a hand out. But before he could speak or move, a crash of lightning tosses him from his feet. Lucas just barely manages to lift his head as the Masked Man pulls the fifth Needle before succumbing to the siren of unconsciousness.
************************************************
"Hey, you."
Someone is... Who's talking to him?
"Just how long are you going to sleep there? ♥ "
"'s that you, Missy?" Lucas mumbles to the ground before getting up and facing the fading Magypsy.
"That was surprisingly disappointing."
Lucas looks just to the right of his shoes.
"Lucas. Your heart wasn't the one passed on to the Dark Dragon; that masked man's was... But there's nothing we can do about that. Fate is fate. ♥ "
It almost feels like she's tilting his head up with just her words.
"...But it's odd. I should be sensing that masked man's heart coming from the earth, but I'm not feeling anything at all..." Missy shrugs a little before finishing, "I'm about to disappear now, so Ocho will take care of the rest. ♥ I instructed him to wait for you at the beach. You can ride on his back all the way to Tazmily. ♥ Oh wait! I almost forgot something very important! Could you give this to Ionia for me? ♥ "
In addition to Missy's razor and lipstick, she hands Lucas a jar of yummy pickles.
"In Tazmily, I believe there is a 'map-loving and map-owning' fellow, yes?"
Lucas nods and says, "Yeah, Mapson. I know him."
"I think he'll know where Ionia's house is. So hurry there! Take this to Ionia! ♥ "
With that, Missy turns away from the group.
"Ohhh, I'm disappeeeaaring. ♥ Fareweeeeeeell! ♥ "
