"Let go! I command you!"
"Ohhh, I am so scared. Muwhahahaa! Lord Aghus! Hurry!"
"Hand's off my sister!
"Huh?"
Unexpectedly coming in from the ceiling, holding on in a speeding red dolphin covered in golden armor, is another beautiful mermaid with royal-red scales.
She is Donna, the second princess of the late Lord Mahar. Her face resembled that of Diana only a little bit more mature. With a flick of a small conch shell from her hand, a bluish wave of ink rushed out and instantly covered Kuys body.
"Freeze!" The newly arrived mermaid chanted as the bluish ink suddenly hardened into ice that slowly crippled along Kuy's body. This conch shell is a magical relic gifted to her by her father Lord Mahar. It can release blue ink that and turns into ice with her will.
"Hah! This is not enough to stop me!" Seeing that the princess continued to seriously pour out the blue ink from a tiny conch shell, Kuy immediately reacted by moving furiously that disables the ice to completely freeze him. With this, Donna was able to succesfully delayed Kuy's plan.
Meanwhile, seeing that Kuy has released his grip from her, Diana did not waste any more time and grabbed Elric by his hand. Elric on the other hand went along with her right after he heard a little voice hiding from his clothes. He quckly made a light nod and hurried along the beautiful mermaid princess.
"Thank you sister." Diana swam hurriedly towards Elric after a quick gratitude while Donna responded with a quick nod.
"No one is going anywhere!" Seeing that Diana was about to escape with the human, Aghus summoned his water elemental authority in his palm and with a forceful heavy slam, a powerful sucking vortex formed before him in an instant.
"Hmp!" controlling the vortex Aghus aimed the sucking force at Diana, Donna, and Elric which immediately caused them to slowly fall back towards the pulling force of the vortex.
"You dare to mess with the Lord of the Water Elemental in his courtyard!?" With rage, Aghus raised his other arm and summoned a bluish water blade that can cut through any forms of rocks, not even the golden interior of the courtyard was spared from its brandishing sharpness!
"Now Die!" With burning hate, Aghus aimed to slash the three of them into pieces when a giant turtle just suddenly popped out from Elric's clothes blocking the water blade with its indestructible shell.
CLAAANG!
The sound of the water blade ramming into OMG Dash's shell reminded Elric of the sound of a sword hitting a flat steel shield! Feeling the powerful pulling force sucking the two princes and the hugon kid, Dash spat out a huge dark pearl towards Aghus at blinding speed!
"Do you think you will scare me with that ball you ugly turtle?" Aghus mocked the giant turtle's attack as he created a compressed water shield to protect himself, however -
BOOOM!
Contrary to his expectation, this huge black pearl was not an ordinary ball as it exploded with such unexpected might and Aghus was sent flying out of his courtyard and straight into the outer wall of the golden palace.
"Who you calling ugly? You dare to call yourself as the Lord of the water Elemental realm when you are that weak?! You don't even possess half of Lord Mahar's might!" the little turtle who transformed into a giant version of himself had an unexpected coolness and loyalty in him.
The seemingly beautiful pearl acted like a detonating cannonball that immediately exploded upon impact!
"My Lord!" Shuk was still stuck under the big-red clamshell and he recklessly moved himself to get out of the situation and help his lord.
STOMP!
In his giant form, Dash did not hesitate the squash down this arrogant and greedy army of Aghus.
"Dash!"
"little Dash!"
With gladness and surprise, the two little princesses hugged OMG Dash's big body like a little girl seeing their beloved pet after losing it for a long time.
Elric on the other side was a little surprised that the arrogant little turtle would save him this time. Now he is not sure if this is still part of the test in obtaining the Authority of Water or it just happens that there is a current power struggle in the water elemental realm.
Seeing the confused look in Elric, Dash quickly said, "I will explain later hugon kid. Right now, we must leave the palace and go with these girls."
Knowing that time is of the essence and that Aghus must not be underestimated, they immediately rushed out of the golden palace. Seeing the fleeing enemies, the royal army of Aghus switched their attention from the giant whale to the fleeing suspects.
Right when they were getting closer to intercept them, a stinging feeling of shock and poison assaulted their bodies that greatly incapacitated them. Immediately the culprit revealed from an almost invisible web of a deadly giant jellyfish.
"Not on my watch!" Another mermaid with bright red scales that greatly resembled Diana and Donna suddenly appeared a top of a red humongous Jellyfish the size of a small house.
It was Danna, the oldest of the three. Her pet is the giant red jellyfish that was responsible for stunning hundreds of soldiers and dangerous fishes that threaten her sisters. It's stinging transparent tentacles are scattered all around the kingdom, keeping everyone inside it in check.
Aghus on the other hand had his eyes closed tightly. His mouths chanting nonstop with mysterious words while waiving his hands high.
Suddenly every fish and residents of the whole Water Realm stopped moving. And like a robot with their power switched on, they all moved together at the same time - rushing towards the fleeing mermaids and human to stop them.
Like a hoard of zombies trampling each other, the merfolks under the control spell of Aghus, rampaged their way just to stop Elric and the crew from leaving.