Wildale Glades P4 Chapter 9

Chapter 9: Banishment Scream


    Powerlust wasn't being nice in waiting. His attack was charged, a triple threat with fire, ice, and lightning wrapping around the myriad spikes on his weapons. As soon as everyone was up, he launched it in a circle around him that burst into a shockwave that reached as high as his toe claw.
    ...Unfortunately, he hadn't thought that by now, even his unpredictable attacks were easily seen. Everyone simply had to leap very high to dodge it: Outlaw somehow cleared it on his own, Maple held Jessie and jumped, Evan did it on his own, and Hanson flew over it, carrying Benton because there wasn't enough time to use the Burnoolii Blade to fly. As soon as he landed, Outlaw began to order, his voice sounding strange, like in a chord.
    "Hanson! You, Evan, and Jessie, go to three points around Powerlust like you're the points of a triangle!! Benton! You help by guarding me while I draw out the circle! Maple! Distract Powerlust with everything you've got!! Let's GO!!" Then, stunned, he added, voice now normal, "I didn't know this thing could make me say stuff, too..."
    Everyone did their jobs anyway. Hanson, Jessie, and Evan ran to their points, and the way the circle was. Meanwhile, Maple kept firing off shots to stall Powerlust from disrupting the plan. As soon as the three were near their spots, Outlaw held his arms out, and suddenly, Squishy shot out and formed Unaga, with as little of itself as possible. It still enveloped Outlaw, though, and made him drive the blade into the rock and begin plowing strait through it. Benton followed, deflecting what attacks he could with his huge sword and some Earth abilities he learned on his own.
    Every now and then, Outlaw'd stop and, holding the Squishy-Unaga vertically, drill a divot into the rock. Then, he'd usually go a strait angle away, divot, then come back, making a spike, divot, and shoot off again. Only twice during the entire time did he continue in a curve after a divot.
    Powerlust knew what was going on. "Stop it, you worthless great-grandson, and you traitorous former slave!! You will not succeed!" he roared at them, but before he could do anything, he was hit, right inbetween the eyes, with a very small arrow...which made a very loud sound that gave him a dreadfully large headache.
    Maple stood with another arrow at the ready(trust me, she's got tons of them. She barely tried to use her bow before and conserved ammo, unlike Outlaw who lost his wisdom in his rage). "Nice try, dumbass," she shouted up at him, and began to distract him from stopping the circle.
    When he tried merely stepping out, he was shot in the foot from not one, but two arrows at once, each exploding and causing a fair bit of pain for something so big, or his foot was blasted with a tiny stream of water that, although small, went at approximately 150 miles per hour. It began to cut into his underside, and he had to draw back. Also, when he tried to hit one Hanson, Jessie, or Evan, he was hit from behind by another explosive arrow or a huge fireball, or a blast of water, or even a couple razor-sharp leaves that somehow wound their way under his scales and into his flesh.
    He had too many things to be focusing on, and each time he tried to take care of one thing, be it disrupting the circle or trying to hit the very dodgy rabbit(who stuck her tongue out at him once or twice). Fortunately, as a drawback to becoming so powerful, he lost a fair bit of wisdom, which had already dwindled away while insane. So, he never did think about crouching low and spinning in a circle, using his gargantuan tail to knock everyone down in one blow, no matter what.
    Now, at this point in time, Outlaw/Squishy had reached Jessie. He told her to step aside for a minute, then hurriedly ran around the spot she stood, forming a circle. Then, something happened that made her start. With Unaga tip-down, Squishy, who was seeming to be a lot more intelligent that semi-intelligent, allowed itself to stretch out and let Outlaw stand in one spot while it scribbled, with perfect detail, the relatively simple eye symbol, using the edge of Unaga to create the solid pupil. After that, Outlaw rushed off again, telling Jessie to stand on the circle again.
    About three minutes after starting, Outlaw/Squishy had returned to his starting point. He stood, Squishy retracting Unaga back into itself, panting and looking at the monster before them. "Now what?" Outlaw asked Squishy, and it replied without words.
    Benton caught up to him, panting, complaining that his arms were going to fall off and his lungs were about to burst. He jumped back when he saw Squishy, now no longer form-fitting and back to full blob form, "grab" Outlaw Shot from its holster and, holding it a little away from Outlaw, began to...well, feed some of itself into the pistol.
    "What the-?!" it was Benton's turn to say, as he saw Squishy giving the now pale, light blue-glowing sidearm back to its owner.
    "No...NO!! I can't let this happen!"
    Benton whipped his head around and saw a huge lightning bolt come Outlaw's way. "SHIT!" he cursed, and quickly raised his sword to act as a point for the Ground energy to channel into. The bolt hit the blade and continued striking. No real effect was made, however, because the ground doesn't conduct electricity, and so the lightning didn't destroy or go through the Ground energy-charged weapon. Benton looked back. "Hurry up, will ya?!"
    When Squishy had given back Outlaw Shot, it began to absorb itself into Outlaw's right eye. The sensation was amazing. It was like water washing into and around his eye, then being soaked up by his eye socket. Both his eyes were the same light blue when Squishy was totally inside Outlaw, and his brown birthmark now shone light blue as well. The color was only a little lighter than his hair, actually. Before Outlaw could react to anything, he heard a voice suddenly talk inside his head, as if it were telepathy. It was the voice of a kind young male, and had a slight constant waver to it, but it still sounded strong and determined.
    You know what to do, Outlaw.
    Outlaw held his head surprised, but then got a much more serious face as he understood. Just as Benton had turned, he looked up. "Yes, I do, Squishy, I do," he replied, causing Benton to take a "HUH?!" face, although the human was looking at Outlaw Shot.
    "Hanson!! Jessie!! Evan!! Focus your Alignmental power latent within you into your symbol!! NOW!!"
    Somehow, even though none of them knew how, they did what they were told. Each one crouched down and placed their paws onto their symbol, and slowly, each symbol lit up with a color as they concentrated on it. A word, spoken by their voice and those of others from ages past, fell from their lips as the light began to brighten.
    "Body," growled Hanson, as well as the voices of every past dragon who experienced this spell before. His symbol, the claw, shone orange. A line shot from his symbol strait across, hitting the opposite side of lines, which lit the same color.
    "Mind," hissed Jessie, as did the tongues of all the past women who assisted in this incantation before. Her symbol, the eye, glistened violet, and a line shot from hers as well, setting the side of lines alight in a violet light.
    "Spirit," whispered Evan, accompanied by the sounds of previous monks, doing their duties to defeat all forms of evil, helping this magic. Green lit his symbol, the tail, and upon the resulting line, the opposite side of lines did the same.
    Powerlust looked at them as they crouched down. He was infuriated, knowing that they could complete the spell. He had to stop this right that second, just march over and--"RRUAAHHRGH!!" He let out a surprised roar as the lines, one after another, shot under him and lit up one of the sides. He had to act fast, but as soon as all three were alight(which happened a split second after the green line hit), walls of color shot up along the symbols and sides. Shocked, Powerlust tried touching a wall. He got a nasty burn, as he had not only touched an ancient magical wall, but one that was of Sci-fi weapon-grade laser light. He was trapped, and yet confused. This wasn't exactly the spell he expected, but it still did not bode very well for him...
    He turned to Outlaw. He was holding his weapon, closing his left eye, and training his right on the monster. Benton was out of the way, to his left, while Maple was to his right. His birthmark began to shine with light blue light of varying intensities. He passed the muzzle of his gun three times over his eye, and a globe of swirling tan-orange-brown and light blue light surrounded it as he brought it to his lips, opening his left eye.
    "What sorcery is this?!" roared Powerlust, now very angry, but a little scared and a lot more confused, too. "What spell are you trying to cast?!"
    Coolly, Outlaw replied, "The spell that will send you into another dimension, a banishment to a place you cannot escape nor do harm. The power you seek to control shall prove it is too much for anyone or anything to handle fully." He kissed the muzzle of his gun and now aimed it at Powerlust. The globe of light swirled faster. "The Glades' power is too great to hold. If you try and hold it, the Glades will get very angry. Only one with a purely dark heart would want to have all that power, which is for everyone to use, to themself."
    "The physical power of Body, the strength to mow down any obstacle," added Hanson, standing up, setting his wings into a ready position that made him more intimidating.
    "The mental power of Mind, the wit to think past anything and know all," said Jessie, standing as well, but to her fully-stretched height, much taller than before.
    "The emotional power of Spirit, the energy to endure and continue no matter what," Evan helped, standing up too, holding Unaga in both paws in front of him.
    "The powers of Body, Mind, and Spirit are not controllable by humanity, nor any normal species, but you have tried to, striking down anyone and anything to reach your goal. The soul of the Glades as become so angry with your evil actions that it could scream," Outlaw continued. He held his pistol in both hands now, and the light shone brighter than ever. The pistol shook.
    "Now, face the wrath one scream can inflict!! YOUR TIME HAS COME!!" Then, all four screamed in unison:
    "SUFFER THE SCREAM OF THE WILDALE GLADES!!"
    Outlaw squeezed. A huge flare erupted from his pistol with a loud bang, and it screamed through the air at the huge target. As it passed through the barrier, it gained three tails, each a color of orange, green, or violet. The target tried to back away, but was hit. As the shot collided, it burst into light, enveloping him and revealing that the stone around them was a shade of brown.
    The circle flashed as well, and the light walls shoved up to him. Then they all stopped around his main body (pressing his tail to his body and wrapping him in his wings) and began to spin. A beam of light shot from the heavens and hit Powerlust.
    Powerlust was roaring a lot. </i>"NOO!! YOU CANNOT DO THIS TO MEE!!"</i> The light circle suddenly form-fitted him, still spinning faster and faster. With even louder roars, he began to disintegrate into nothing from his huge feet on up. "OUTLAW!! I CANNOT BE CONTAINED FOREVER!! I CAN NEVER DIE, AND AS LONG AS I LIVE, I WILL BE ABLE TO CONQUER THE WORLD!!" Only his head remained, and through the light two eyes opened, glaring at Outlaw. "THERE SHALL BE ONLY ONE WAT YOU SHALL DIE, CHILD, AND THAT IS BY MY CLAW!! IT IS INEVITABLE!!" Then, as his head disappeared, he laughed a long, roaring, maniacal laugh.
    Finally, he disappeared. As the last of him went, a huge flash burst. When the light faded, the clear night sky above was visible, and the echoes of his laughter rang for what seemed ages.
    Hanson, Jessie, and Evan ran over to Outlaw.
    "NOW it's over," Jessie said. "It's finally over."
    Outlaw shook his head. "No. He's right." Everyone reared back. He wasn't bluffing?! "He can escape, but it won't be easy. It will take at least one or two years."
    "Yeah, but we'll be much stronger, then," Hanson said, smiling. "In the meantime, we'll see what we can do."
    "Well, you guys do what you will, but we've got to go," Benton said, coming over.
    "Any favors you want us to do?" asked Maple, panting from all that running.
    Evan thought. "Go to my monastery, and find a bear named David. Have him come with you guys. He's been cursed by Maurice, and I think he should get away from there and, if my master could not help him, see if there isn't anything he can do. Besides, I want to talk with him if we meet, as I'm not gonna be at the monastery for a while more. Tell my master that, too."
    "Okay, where is it?" Benton asked, taking out his map. Evan looked over it, finding where it is.
    Meanwhile, Outlaw was putting away his gun, now back to normal, wondering where Squishy was. His answer came when he suddenly began to weep, or at least, his right eye began to pour over with liquid. In seconds, Squishy was there, leaving Outlaw, eyes back to normal, holding his eye in surprise.
    "Can't you, like, warn me when you do that?" he asked. Squishy was now only half its original size, but that was still pretty big.
    Squishy flattened a little.
    "Oh, sorry, I was just joking! Don't feel bad!!" Outlaw ran over and crouched down to comfort the little blob.
    Hanson laughed. "Man, my friends back at my den would love this--" He stopped. "I've got it! We can ask Teno'cal, the elder, what we should do next. He's very wise."
    "Yeah, good idea," Jessie agreed.
    So, after Evan had marked on the map where the monastery was, the two groups separated again.


Do-do-do-doooooo dooo doooo DOOT do-DOOOO!!!
What well-known victory tune is that?