“This… can’t… be…” The Dream Eater groaned, struggling to rise to its feet. Its shield had been utterly shattered thanks to Aria’s quick thinking and imagination in funnelling all of the Pride’s attacks into one giant ball of energy. With it destroyed, the Pride’s subsequent attacks all ran true along the giant behemoth’s body, from the amazing to the obscene.
Scorching hot butter steaming across its body caused it to rear and contort its face in twisted agony, with the piling of feathers afterwards adding insult to injury, and forcing it to be weighed down much the same as Lucien’s dragon and Dylan’s conjured dress had. At the same time, constant attacks pulverised the Dream Eater’s body. The giant Don Mech that Don and Trixie had summoned continued to pulverise at the Dream Eater’s body with blow after blow, ripping fresh new holes into it, as did Syed’s infrequent release of a railgun blast. The time to recharge was a lot longer then Trixie’s attacks, but produced that much more of a powerful effect that ripped a larger hole throughout its body. From her tower, Lisette arched her aim up and away from the Dream Eater, pointing straight up vertically in the sky. She unleashed an arrow of pure light that dazzled into the sky… and in the next instant, a hundred arrows fell from the sky in a frenzy, intermingled with meteoring fireballs that continued to push it down into the ground. The Dream Eater was completely pinned, unable to do anything to resist such an onslaught.
“This… isn’t… right!” The Dream Eater’s claw scraped through the abyss, raking giant crevices in the black oily sea. A glowing eye centered upon the Pride again. It would not… submit like this! This was his world! He could change and shape it however he liked! He just… needed… to…
But the Dream Eater couldn’t. A melodious sound, swelling with power from the stage that Dylan had created reverberated through the Dream Eater’s mind, and made it impossible or him to concentrate, impossible for the Dream Eater to properly put thought into reality. Everything it tried to create was not how he intended. For some strange and inexplicable reason, Selan’s singing sent the Dream Eater’s thoughts go awry, changing the wavelengths that the Dream Eater’s power flowed through and forcing his perverted creations into something completely different. Chains to form around the Pride’s body, snaring them shut and then slowly grinding into their bodies tighter and tighter instead summoned a wave of adorable puppies and kittens. The attempts to change the skies above into a calamitous thunderstorm that would strick the Pride with lightning instead created glistening sunlight and rainbows. This… this was not right!
“I… will… make… you… all… pay…” The Dream Eater wailed, its body struggling to stand up again, but fresh new golden ropes courtesy of Amy forming across its entire body pulled it down again. This… wasn’t… right!
BAM
And then the Dream Eater was suddenly sent reeling to the side, as something unbelievably huge and powerful connected with its face. As the Dream Eater tried to look up, tried to recover, it slapped him again. And again. And again.
The Pride below all looked up, their eyes blinking in disbelief, as the giant Don Mech that Don piloted swung the giant blobfish that Lute had summoned over and over again, slapping the Dream Eater’s face relentlessly as Trixie’s gatling gun continued to shoot at it as well. Over and over, like a hurricane.
All eyes turned to Lucien.
”What, I didn’t summon that one,” Lucien snickered.
A pitiful wail could be heard from the blobfish overhead. Was it… crying?
“Wait!” Aria looked in disbelief. “That’s… that’s Lute!”
Indeed, the virtuoso was still stuck to the blobfish, and kept being spun around and around as the giant blobby fat fish kept smacking the Dream Eater with a growing, disapproving expression.
But Don hadn’t noticed, and revving his Mech even higher, he poured all of the Mech’s power into one, final swing, the blobfish connected with what would pass as the Dream Eater’s chin in a devastating uppercut, with the blobfish (and Lute) being sent flying high, high into the sky. At the same time, on the ground, a massive explosion erupted out of the Don Mech’s robotic pompadour. Trixie whooped and hollered at her next firing- the gatling gun had now transformed into a giant cannon. And from that cannon…
Spun Moira, who at the last second uncurled, reared back her head, and pelted that giant son of a bitch right in the kisser. The sound of a church bell gonging was all that could be heard echoing for miles upon miles around, as the sun shined down on them. The Dream Eater was collapsing… this time its body unresponsive, as it crashed into the ground, the abyssal sea that remained erupting into a giant tidal wave at its landing.
“Geez, Lute…” A calming voice spoke to the dizzy, pale blonde haired youth. His eyes continued to roll about, and he would mutter incoherent sentences under his breath, talking about Delilah, Robin and Ruana. “There’s crazy and then there’s crazy, you know. You should be more careful next time.”
Fluttering to the ground on wings made of burning fire, Estelle gently landed beside her friends, one foot after the other, the dazed Lute held in her arms. She looked down at him with a smile. The guy was in some ways as much of a rookie still as the day she had met him, but he was her friend, the same as everyone else, and like all of her friends here… he had done good.
Another arc of white light shot through the sky, disturbing the peaceful quietude to explode against the Dream Eater’s rising face, this time forcing it to remain still. Estelle looked over her shoulder with a wide, sparkling smile as she Xan with her prosthetic arm stretched out at their foe, it now having transformed into a small cannon. Xandra was as shocked, if not more so then the rest of everyone there, whilst Estelle snickered a devilish laugh.
“Serves that prick right,” Moira grumbled, folding her arms over her chest. “You don’t fuck with the Pride.”
“What now, though?” Aria asked, taking Lute from Estelle arms and supporting him with Atlas’ help.
“Now,” A voice called out from behind them, illuminating the presence of Marcus who smiled towards all of them. “Now it’s time for us all to wake up.”
The world went white.
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