Junon Acadia sensed that Samuel Cliffhanger was about to fall, so she tried to save him by biting on a lollipop. It took longer than expected to unwrap, so she failed to stop time, but when she gazed out the window, she saw Tim rescuing Samuel.
Meanwhile, the inscription on the monster's helmet visor shifted from "death is here" to "rocket launchers!" From its sides, two big rocket launchers open from its skin.
"Target Find!" After the written words change, a red light points at a kid's head—the same kid who had hugged Junon.
Junon noticed and yelled, "Hey, kid, run!" The launcher fired its rockets toward the kid, and this time, Acadia crushed the already unwrapped lollipop, stopping time. After activating her ability, she ran forward, saving the kid from danger by dropping to the ground.
Time quickly resumed, and rockets went over their heads. The boy got scared and instantly hugged Junon, who was crying.
"There, there, don't cry, kid. It's okay. I'm here."
"Where are your parents, child?" Junon said.
"I have no idea. But I don't want to go. I want to stay here forever." He was happy he was hugging a pretty woman, and his face was between two giant melons.
"Your parent might be worried about-?" Before she could finish saying 'you,' the worm fired rockets, killing other adults for being in its way.
The child's dad came to the room and yelled, "Where is my-? Suddenly, the red light aimed at the kid's dad and fired.
"Get down, sir!"
Acadia said while running and trying to unwrap the lollipop's wrapper, but she was not fast enough. Fortunately, someone else pushed the dad away to safety—that person exploded in the process!
"Huh?! Huh?!" The child's dad was horrified to see the lump of flesh on the ground.
Junon held the kid's hand, and they went toward his dad, who was happy to see him. He hugged him tightly, and the kid cried to see his dad. He felt true happiness from hugging his dad than Junon.
"Take your son's hand and leave!" He did what she told him.
Junon faced the worm and said, "Now that I have no one to protect, get ready, worm. You are about to die, monster!"
"I have no one to protect. Now get ready, worm. You about to die!" After firing the missiles, the monster was too busy, causing havoc on other floors, so it didn't notice Acadia was rushing towards it with sharp lollipops.
She threw herself from the broken window and stabbed the lollipop through the skin to climb up, but it would not let her. It was shaking itself to throw out Junon from its body.
But she was determined to go up, but a new obstacle got her way. The rocket launchers were giant steel blocks with a rocket on them. She couldn't climb up, so she tried to go another way. She tired to climb the skin.
There was another problem, though. The only skin part to up was in the noise of the rocket launcher's barrel. If Junon climbs up from there, she will die when the monster decides to fire!
'Shit, what should I do?'
She thought about it while holding her dear life. Acadia looked down to the ground and saw nobody there. Not even police or ambulances were standing by. She thought about it later. First, she decided how to climb up.
Acadia flung herself inside one of the rooms of the buildings when she got momentum from the wind. Before she could stand up, the worm changed one of its weapons into [Mini Gun!]
"Shit, shit!"
Junon panicked after seeing the minigun about to fire toward her, so she bit the blood-covered candy. The time stopped after the bullets got fired.
Junon went to a cover, and then the time resumed, and Acadia threw up from bitting the blood-coated sweet. The bullets were destroying the place she was hiding in, and in some cases, they were going through. The ammunition annihilated the table in seconds, revealing Acadia's back.
However, the bullets were hitting something hard instead of her skin. That something was a giant lollipop. She stands up and runs toward the worm while holding the big candy to protect her.
The oversized lollipop was crumbling apart from each projectile attack, but Junon jumped from the window and grabbed onto the worm's helmet before it completely got destroyed.
She ascended its head and said, "Go to hell!" She stabs its head with the giant lollipop's sharp stick, going through the helmet and into its brain, killing it!
***
After the monster got its brain skewered in, it tumbled onto an empty road where no one was. The only people in this area were people in the building and people who died outside.
Junon hops off the giant monster's head and lands on an empty road. She looked around to find Samuel and Tim.
They were nowhere to be found, so stated, "Tim? Samuel? Where are you?"
Acadia walked around, seeing cars damaged and flipped upside down. Their owners were dead! In the center of the street was a huge crater from which worms came.
As she neared the crater, she speculated whether Tim and Samuel had entered it. The last time she had seen them was when Skyfather rescued Samuel from a fall. Junon contemplated whether to descend into the hole to search for them.
A man approached her and called her name, "Junon, what is going on over here?" She turned around and saw the man who acted as her husband during the show Mystery of Murder. It was James Ross.
"James, I missed you so much!"
She goes to hug Ross, but he lightly pushes her away and says, "I don't like people hugging me!"
"Oh, okay. Anyway, should we jump in there?"
"Hmmm, if you're sure this is where Tim and that bastard Samuel are sure." He was still salty about what happened last night. Junon smiled and dropped down to the hole, and seconds later, Ross did the same thing.
***
A few minutes before, Samuel fell and was saved by Tim. He put his hand on the ground and said, "Oh, Holy Creation. Please give me the strength to transform this ground into something soft. Let the man who falls survive without getting killed or injured."
After his sentence finished, a 10 x 10 square ground turned smooth and soft, so Samuel could easily land on the ground without dying or breaking bones.
Samuel bounced up like jumping on a trampoline after hitting the ground, slowing down the speed, and every time he hit the ground, the bouncing eventually stopped, and he landed safely.
After Samuel stood up, the bouncy floor returned to being hard, and he said, "Thank you, Tim, for saving me."
"Anyway, what should we do with that thing?"
Samuel asked, and Tim replied instantly, "Leave it to Junon. She is a giant monster slayer."
"If you say so. What now?"
"Hmmm, we can go to the source of the monster and how it came from." Samuel agreed, and they started walking toward the crater that the monster had made.
Samuel noticed Tim suddenly stopped, and he said, "What are you doing? Let's go."
Tim looked at Cliffhanger and said, "Samuel, you didn't notice something was off. Why are there no police or ambulances around here?"
"Now you mention it. You are right. Is it because of the worm? But whatever the case is, we can figure out after we go where this mysterious hole goes."
After he spoke, Samuel jumped into the hole instantly, and Tim went in too.
When he jumped in, he was falling.
"I didn't expect to be this bottomless, but whatever, this will help." Tim touched his skin, making it soft, bouncy, and smooth to survive without breaking any bones and becoming a pancake when he impacted the ground.
Tim fell straight to the bottom of the hole without difficulty and bounced for a few seconds until he slowed down. Then he stands on the underground floor as if nothing happened.
He looked everywhere for Samuel, but he was nowhere near him, so he called his name,
"Where are you, Samuel?" His voice echoed through the underground cave, so he said a second time, again, no response.
'Where did he go?'
Tim looked elsewhere near him until he decided to move forward and look for him. Unfortunately, it was dark as he moved forward, but luckily, the darkness ended after he entered a place full of small abandoned and damaged houses. Dry blood was everywhere on the ground.
'All this time, a village like this was hidden underneath our feet?' When he thought about it briefly, he remembered, "Don't tell me this place where the elves lived before they got wiped out by Pangea!"
Before humans immigrated to Armora, Pangea was one of its four moons. Historians believe the moon's crash led to the elves' extinction. The fragments of Pangea scattered in space and eventually became three distinct moons of Armora: Aporia, Eden, and Stem.
"It doesn't make sense. Why would their houses be underground when Penga killed all the elves? Something isn't adding up from Armora's history, I learned."
He heard a couple of booms in the distance, so he stopped thinking. He investigated the sound and wanted to see if Samuel was there. Without Tim noticing, he stepped on a tread teddy bear on the floor.
Tim moved away from the broken village and saw explosions near him.
'That's Samuel's Flow. Who or what is he fighting?'
Tim went to where the explosion happened and saw a pale man with a white hood punch Samuel's gut, damaging Cliffhanger.
To be continued