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Somewhere, at the foot of the Claws of the Clouds Mountain, vast empty land was quiet. All of Pyrrhia was silent. All of the dragons had been wiped out by Galeem’s attack. Then, a bright star warped into the sky and crash landed in the ground. Firefly, River, Wave, Phantom, Raindrop, and Aurora were blasted from the star and they all landed on the ground. “Ow… that really hurt.” Wave said as he got up from the ground. “Oh really? I’m sure were all fine.” Phantom said. “What is it with your family and sarcasm?” Wave asked. “Runs in the family.” Phantom said. “Guys, where are we?” Raindrop asked. “Isn’t this the Claws of the Clouds Mountain?” River asked. “Looks like it from the pictures I’ve seen of this mountain.” Aurora said. “How did we get here?” Raindrop asked. “We flew on that star thingy.” Phantom said. “But why did it take us here?” Raindrop asked. “Well, to be fair, no one was really piloting that thing so it must have just gone its own way.” River said.
“Umm, guys…” Firefly said. “What’s wrong, Firefly?” Wave asked. “Isn’t this where our parents lived for most of their childhood?” Firefly asked. “Come to think of it, yeah it is.” Aurora said. “Um, guys. Look.” Phantom said. Everyone turned and saw the landscape of Pyrrhia and what appeared to be Pantala. Both islands had been merged together. But their world looked different somehow. Buildings and forts were placed where they weren’t before. But the one thing everyone noticed, was Galeem, floating over at the edge of the north side of the island, with some sort of big force field surrounding him. “Our home… it’s changed.” Firefly said. “Well, come on guys! Let’s destroy that spiral-light-winged-jerk and force him to bring everyone back to life!” Phantom yelled as he began to take flight.
Phantom leaped in the air and was slammed back down to the floor by his tail. “Ow! Who did that?!” Phantom asked. “Me.” River said as she held Phantom’s tail. “Oh, well since it’s just you, I won’t get mad.” Phantom said. “Phantom, not now. Anyway, we can’t just fly over there and fight Galeem. He’d crush us like bugs.” River said. “Firstly, you can let go of my tail now. Secondly, where’s your fighting spirit, girl? And third, how is my girlfriend doing today?” Phantom said with a smug smile on his face. “Phantom, I said not now.” River said as she let go of Phantom’s tail. “Yeah dude. How can you be so calm!? We all saw our parents die in front of us and you’re acting like nothing happened!” Wave said. “I am very sad about seeing my mom and dad dying, I just don’t wat to waste my time being sad when I could be beating Galeem up.” Phantom said. Before Phantom and Wave could get into an argument, they all heard Firefly cry. “Firefly, what’s wrong?” Wave asked. Firefly was on the ground, holding something close to her. “What is that?” River asked. Firefly stood up and showed everyone what she was clutching in her talons. It was Clay’s hat. (NOTE: Quick reminder, Clay represents Mario so he does have the Mario hat but he is still a dragon. Anyway, back to the story)
“Oh…” River said. “H-He's gone. T-Their all… gone!” Firefly said as she started crying. Everyone began to tear up as they full remembered and realized that they were all alone. “There, there, it’s okay.” River said as she comforted Firefly as best as she could. “That’s why I stayed in a cheery mood.” Phantom whispered to Wave. “Why?” Wave asked. “To keep someone else from crying, but I should have known that wasn’t going to work.” Phantom said. “Hey, Firefly?” Wave said as he approached her. “Yes.” Firefly said. “Don’t worry, we’ll get our parents back. I promise.” Wave said, giving her a smile. “(Sniff) T-Thank you, Wave.” Firefly said as she got up and hugged him. They all stood there in silence, each one doing their best to not break down into tears in order to keep their friend’s spirit up. Then Firefly felt Clay’s hat move. “Huh?” Firefly said. “Wait! Could it be?” Wave said.
Then two eyes suddenly appeared on the hat and they opened to look at Firefly. Firefly stopped crying as she realized who this was. “(Gasp) Cappy!” Firefly exclaimed. “Cappy!” Cappy said as he flew out of her grip and landed on her head. “Cappy, what are you doing?” Firefly said as she laughed a little. “Cappy!” Cappy said. “Clay… oh… Clay is… gone.” Firefly said as she looked down. “Uh, Cappy!” Wave said trying to keep Firefly in a good mood. “Cappy?” Cappy said. “Can’t you talk, you were talking fine yesterday?” Wave asked. “Cappy, cappy.” Cappy said. “Wait what!?” Wave shouted. “Wave, calm down bro!” Phantom said. “What did he say, I wasn’t paying attention?” Raindrop asked. “He said that he can’t talk because while he did escape from Galeem’s attack, a part of him got separated from him somehow. Thus, Cappy can’t speak until he is whole again.” Firefly explained. “I don’t know how that works but I’m not going to get into paranormal stuff.” River said. “What do you mean, paranormal?” Wave asked. “Isn’t Cappy technically a ghost?” River asked. “Oh, I guess that makes sense.” Raindrop said. “Cappy!” Cappy said. “Huh? Throw you?” Firefly asked. Cappy nodded. “Um, okay.” Firefly said as she threw Cappy and he boomeranged back to her and she caught him and placed him back on her head. “Wow! I can do it after all!” Firefly said happily. “You really are like your dad, aren’t you?” Raindrop said. Firefly giggled. “Well, it’s good to have someone else with us.” Phantom said. “Cappy! (Translation: Thank you)” Cappy said. “Well, what now?” Raindrop asked. “We have to do something about Galeem!” Aurora said. “What are we gonna do? Were just kids!” Wave said. “Yeah, and so were our parents when they fulfilled the prophecy and so were the students of Jade Mountain Academy when they beat Darkstalker.” Raindrop said. “Until Soulnebula messed everything up and reversed Darkstalker’s punishment.” Phantom said.
“Um, hate to interrupt but, Firefly, isn’t that your dad?” River asked. Everyone turned around and saw a dull statue of Clay on some sort of pedestal. The statue seemed to be tied up in glowing blue chains. “Daddy!” Firefly cried happily as she tried to fly to the statue, but she was stopped by River. “Wait a minute! Look!” River said as she pointed above the statue. From the sky, bright golden glowing liquid poured onto the statue, covering it completely before another statue appeared below it and fell to the ground. Then from behind Clay’s statue, statues of all the other fighters appeared, all tied up with the same blue chain. Then more of the glowing liquid poured over the fighters and more of those dull stone statues fell to the ground. “What is happening?” Raindrop asked. Then a floating orb of light flew above the fallen statue and hovered there for a second. “What is that?” Firefly asked. However, as they looked closely at the orb of light, they saw a small body trapped inside the orb. “It’s Jojo! My Dad’s spear robot pet thing!” Wave said. Before anyone could say or do anything else, the voice of Galeem could be heard. “Posses Clay and stop these little brats from stopping me! Make them suffer! Mwah ha, ha, ha, ha!” Galeem said as Jojo warped inside of Clay’s statue. “What is he doing?” River asked. Then the statue stood up and raised its head to face the kids. They all gasped in horror as they stared back at the two glowing red eyes of the Clay statue. “Oh my god!” Phantom said. “What is that thing?” Wave asked. “Looks like some sort of puppet clone or something.” Raindrop said. “Not again!” Aurora said. “What to do mean, not again?” Wave asked. “Something like this happened to some of our parents last time they went on a journey like this.” Aurora said. “Oh yeah, I remember dad telling stories about that.” Phantom said. “Crush them!” Galeem said.
Then the Clay puppet fighter jumped forward and stood in a battle stance. “Are you serious, we have to fight this thing!?” Wave asked. “Of course, we do. That’s our specialty.” Phantom said. “Wait!” Aurora said. “What?” Raindrop asked. “Let me scan that clone with my ability scanner.” Aurora said as she pulled out some sort of scanning ray gun. “Woah, woah, woah! Where did you get that?!” Phantom asked. “My father gave it to me as a hatching-day gift.” Aurora said as she scanned the clone from a distance away. “What does it do?” Firefly asked. “It tells us what abilities a person has. We can use this as an advantage.” Aurora said. “Hey, that’s pretty good.” Phantom said. “So, who’s going to fight this thing?” Aurora asked. “I’ll do it!” Phantom shouted. “Of course, you would.” Raindrop said. “So, what kind of powers does this clone have?” Phantom asked. “It says here, the enemy will occasionally turn metal.” Aurora said. “Seriously, that’s all Jojo could give this Clay-wanna-be? I got this.” Phantom said as he pulled out his sword. “I’m pretty sure that your sword won’t cut him in half if that’s your goal.” Wave said. “Do you want me to sucker punch you in the face?” Phantom asked. “No.” Wave said as he backed away. “That’s what I thought. Besides, my dad upgraded my sword to where it can light on fire.” Phantom said. “Whatever, just go beat that puppet fighter.” River said. “Wish me luck!” Phantom said as he flew over to the puppet fighter. “Ew, you’re uglier up close!” Phantom said as he laughed a bit. “(Growl) I’ll teach you a lesson, kid!” The Clay Puppet fighter said. “This will be easy!” Phantom said.
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Jojo
Fighter: Clay
Conditions: The enemy will occasionally turn metal
Phantom then charged at Clay (Jojo) as Clay (Jojo) charged back at him. Phantom jumped over Clay and twirled his sword downwards and landed a good hit on Clay (Jojo). Clay (Jojo) shifted into metal and then jumped in the air and ground pounded Phantom. Phantom then pulled out one of his hand guns and shot Clay (Jojo) in the leg. Clay (Jojo) grunted in pain and launched a few fireballs at Phantom, all of them hitting Phantom before his metal shift ended. As Clay (Jojo) launched another fireball at Phantom, Phantom reflected the fireball back to Clay (Jojo) with his Sword Reversal Attack. Phantom then flew up and threw one of his Chakrams at Clay (Jojo) hitting him a few times. Clay (Jojo) shifted to metal and used his powerful uppercut to knock Phantom back. Phantom landed hard on the ground and ran towards Clay (Jojo). Clay (Jojo)’s metal shift ended and he reverted back to normal and he used his F.L.U.D.D. attack to keep Phantom back a little. Phantom was momentarily stunned from the water in his eyes and Clay (Jojo) Ran to him and landed a powerful Forward Smash on Phantom, sending him into the air. Phantom saved himself by using his Hero Spin attack to recover his fall and get back on the battle ground. When he got back on stage, he threw a Chakram at Clay (Jojo), keeping him stuck in the Chakram’s slow attack. Phantom then ran to Clay (Jojo) as he shifted back to metal. Clay (Jojo) stopped Phantom in his tracks by spinning Phantom around with his wing. Clay (Jojo) then punched Phantom twice before landing a good kick on Phantom. Clay (Jojo)’s metal shifted ended. Phantom then used his Hero Spin to knock Clay (Jojo) back. Clay (Jojo) got back up and grabbed Phantom as he spun him around and tossed him in the air. Then Clay (Jojo) shifted into metal. Phantom then had an idea. Clay (Jojo) ran up to Phantom and started to throw punches at him. But Phantom shielded himself and held the shield. Phantom’s strategy was to waste Clay (Jojo)’s metal time and the moment the metal shift ended, he would finish Clay (Jojo) off with a powerful attack. Clay (Jojo) then charged a powerful Forward Smash to break Phantom’s shield. Right at the moment when Clay (Jojo) was about to use his Forward Smash, his metal shift ended and Phantom used his Sword Reversal Attack to turn Clay (Jojo) around and once Clay (Jojo) was facing the opposite way, Phantom unleashed his powerful Blurring Blade attack on Clay (Jojo) sending him off the stage and defeating him instantly.
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Clay (Jojo) hit the floor and began to violently shake and scream in pain. “GAAH! NO! WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ME!?” Clay (Jojo) yelled. “Phantom, look out, he’s gonna explode!” Aurora cried. Phantom quickly pulled out his shield and protected himself. “NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOO!” Clay (Jojo) roared before blowing up. After the explosion, everyone saw Jojo’s spirit rise up from where the puppet Clay was and floated towards Wave. “Jojo!” Wave cried. “NO! YOU PATHEIC LITTLE BRAT!” Galeem yelled. “TAKE THAT LOSER!” Phantom yelled to Galeem. “OH YEAH? WATCH THIS!” Galeem said as a bunch of other possessed spirits flew into the empty statues of the fallen fighters. Then the statues came to life and they all stared at the kids with their bright glowing red eyes. “There’s no way we can beat all of them!” Wave said. “Look! Their all leaving!” Raindrop said. One by one, each of the puppet fighters walked away and took their post around the land of the two connected islands of Pyrrhia and Pantala. Then, ropes of glowing light came down and pulled the fallen fighters’ statues up and placed them in random areas of the island.
“If you little brats want to try and stop me, then you’ll have to get past my whole army of puppet fighters! In which, there are thousands of them! Ha, ha, ha!” Galeem said. “Oh, that will be easy! We’ll stop y-!” Phantom started as he was cut off by River. “Phantom, don’t encourage him. Let’s figure out a plan.” River said. “Okay, got it.” Phantom said as he walked back to the group. “Now what?” Wave asked. “First things first, what are we going to do about Jojo’s spirit?” Raindrop asked. “Don’t worry kids, I got this.” Jojo said as he jumped inside of Wave. “Woah!” Wave said as he fell back a bit. “Are you okay?” Firefly asked, helping him up. “Yeah, I’m alright. Wow, this is cool! It’s like Jojo is a part of me now or something!” Wave said. “Did he get Jojo’s metal shift ability?” Phantom asked. “I’ll check.” Aurora said as she scanned Wave with her Ability Scanner. “Um, no. Wave didn’t get the ability.” Aurora said. “Well that sucks.” Raindrop said. “But he can get another ability.” Aurora said. “What is it?” Firefly asked. “Wave can get the: Unira Equipped ability. It allows Wave to have a spike ball in battle.” Aurora said. “Oh, that’s cool.” Wave said.
“Come on, guys. We have to get back on track.” River said. “She’s right. So, here’s the plan, we just fight our way through until we reach Galeem and when we reach him, we kill him!” Phantom said. “Simple plan, but from I can see, the only option we have.” Raindrop said. “Okay the, let’s go!” Wave said. “Now, now. Since there’s 6 of us, we need to establish a leader. And since I am the most skilled in combat, I will lead you guys!” Phantom said. “Um, no.” River said. “Guys, there’s no time for this! We have to stop Galeem and save our fellow dragons and our home.” Firefly said. “Firefly’s right. Let’s just let Phantom ‘lead’ us, on this journey. We have no time to waste!” Raindrop said. “Let’s do this! Our journey to defeat Galeem starts now!” Phantom said as they all looked in the direction of Galeem.
And there we go! The next chapter will have the next few spirit battles and the first fighter will be revived. Hope you enjoyed this and chapter 7 will be here soon!