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// Battle with the Hydra, again. 
// Story: The Adventures Begin 
// by Dragon Shimmer 
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Inside the gate

The Team members enter the gate and exhale before beginning the battle. The Hydra is visible as soon as they enter the gate. Hydra sees the team and roars in anger. The Team is now in the battle stance. 
 
 While the Middle Head of the Hydra rushes at the team, the two other heads open their mouths and prepare to breathe fire. Team Dodge dodges away, but Sunset jumps on it and tries to stand on its head. The two heads fire many fireballs at the trio. Natalie chants a spell as Matt slams the sword to the ground. Fireballs are blocked by a growing tremor in front of them. 

  An ice drill is formed by the Sunset to drill the neck of the Middle Head. The Left Head observes that the Middle Head is roaring in pain, then rushes at Sunset. The Right Head is also going to do rush at Sunset, but Lance will shoot into its left eye, causing it to roar in pain. Sunset dodges the rush and teleports back to the spot where she is drilling the Middle Head's neck. When it is enough to leave a hole in there, Sunset plugs the wooden staff with its full of magic words fly around, then uses the ice magic to make the hole permanent.

  The Middle Head keeps shaking itself to make Sunset fall out. Sunset grabs the staff plugged into the Middle Head to keep her from falling out. The Left Head opens its mouth and breathes a fire blast towards Sunset. Sunset has no other choice but to teleport out of the blast. Due to the blast, half of the staff has been lost.

 Sunset has teleported back to the team. Matt helps her stand up and grab the sword, then he closes his eyes and concentrates. When the Hydra spreads its wings and starts flying, it breathes many fireballs from the sky to attack the Team. Sunset uses the "Shield" spell to block fireballs, while Lance pulls out the walkie-talkie and yells, "Valkyrie, code 09-1," before placing it in his pocket. Hydra keeps shooting fireballs at Sunset's shield. Sunset notices a crack in her shield. 

 Three missiles suddenly fly toward the Hydra and shoot it down. Hydras are surprised and fall to the ground. Before it has a chance to get up. Matt rushes at it with a high speed, using a red aura-covered sword, he slashes off the Left Head and plugs in the blue claymore, which makes that spot covered in ice and prevents the body from growing a new one.

 Matt is attacked by the Middle Head and the Right Head. Matt dodges aside and returns to the team. When the Right Head pulls out the sword, the Middle Head breathes fire at the spot, melting the ice. The Left Head grows back like normal after a moment. 

 "That is what I didn't expect," Matt says while staying attack stand, "I thought all monsters were stupid." 

 Sunset teases Matt, "maybe you shouldn't underestimate the enemy so much," causing him to groan. 

 Lance pointed at the Hydra and said, "Focus, we're not done yet.".

  Hydra's wing-claw strikes the ground, magic circles appear in the sky, and all of its heads open their mouths to attack the Team. Matt raises his sword to raise the ground, and he notices Natalie is chanting longer than usual. Sunset prepares to block the attack by using "Shield". Magic circles start spinning and shoot many fire arrows, while three heads breathe together to create a big blast. Both attacks combine and rush toward the Team.

 Sunset tries to hold the shield, but she can't. After the shield is cracked, it is broken. The trio takes the full brunt of the attack, and smoke appears at their location. When the trio gets up in the smoke, they try to attack Hydra, but many fire arrows keep shooting at them. They must dodge the arrow that keeps coming at them without pause. 

 Suddenly, two large ice spiked plates appear from the smoke and fly toward the Hydra. Due to surprise, the Hydra has no time to react. After the plates slashed at the Left Head and Right Head, the Hydra roared in pain; and the magic circle vanished. The ice plates are stuck to the heads. The spell has exhausted Natalie's mana, and she kneels down. 

  The Middle Head rushes toward Natalie to attack her. Matt slams his sword against the ground as Sunset chants the spell. Lance fires a bullet, which explodes near the left head's neck, the bullet shines blue under the ice plate; he then pulls out the walkie-talkie and shouts, "Valkyrie, code 09-2. Follow the blue glowing dot." 

The Hydra's heads roar together. After a while, meteors start falling from the sky and flying toward the team. While chanting the spell, Sunset tries to teleport and dodges the meteor. As he punches the ground, the ground around him rises, and he drags Natalie behind it. Lance runs to Matt's side to cover him. Sunset is hit by multiple small meteors, leaving her lying on the ground but still chanting. A big meteor lands on Matt's spot and explodes, destroying the cover and sending the trio soaring backward.

 Sunset creates a magic circle after chanting for a while. As she stands, she equips the circle with her staff and aims at the Hydra. The Middle Head will finish the trio. Suddenly, a big missile damaged the Left Head spot and exploded, shattering it. The ice plate was injected into the head, now covering the spot to freeze it, which prevents the Left Head from growing. Middle Head sees that and opens its mouth to unfreeze it, but feels that it is also becoming frozen.

Slowly, the Middle Head is being frozen by the staff plugged into the head. After seeing this, the Left Head is going to breathe fire in order to unfreeze the Middle Head. Sunset sees this and aims at the Left Head. The Left Head opens its mouth with a fireball, Sunset flips the staff, and the magic circle shoots arrows at the mouth, the Left Head is surprised and tries to close its mouth but it is too late. 

In the magic circle, light arrows keep shooting at the Left Head's mouth, while the Middle Head is now covered in ice. Matt sees this and throws the sword at the Middle Head. Lance sees that and decides to fire "Bullet Hell" into the Middle head. As a result of the two attacks, the Middle Head was shattered into pieces. Sunset keeps the magic circle aimed at the Left Head as it shoots and shoots until the Left head explodes. The headless Hydra stumbles to the ground and lies there, dead.

 "Nice work," Matt tells Natalie as he helps her up. "See, I told you you would be stronger," he smiles at Natalie. "Anyway, we should go back, right Sunset? Sunset?" Matt turns to Sunset and sees that the spell she casts can't be stopped, "What can be done? Can you stop that spell?"

 'Eh no, I'll be glad if you can shut it off,' Sunset says, still holding the staff, "a little something will work." 

 In response, Lance aims the gun - blade at Sunset and shoots at her staff. The staff drops out of her hoof and the spell is broken, "There you go." 

 "Thank you," Sunset remarks as she turns her head to the teen's body. "That was a very tough fight. If we encounter Arkon, how can we know about him since we don't know anything about him?" 

  "We'll find out later, but we should be aware that we've got only one ticket," Natalie leans on the body of Matt, and points to the portal, "That portal will lead us to him. Whenever we get to him, we must defeat him." 

 sunset smirks, "I'm out. It's your revenge, not mine," as she steps back out of the gate. Lance steps on her tail and she yells in pain. "Hey," she says, glaring at Lance in anger. 

 Lance grinned back at her, "You can't get out of this thing. Also, do you want to make everyone aware of your appearance?" he asked. 

 Sunset sighs, "Let's sit down and rest," the trio nods

 "Good idea, now I will send the message," Lance take out the flare gun and shoot into the sky.


Outside the gate

 ST-86 and Sabrina sit on the relaxing chair chatting and playing chess together. Sabrina feels worried when the Team stays there for a long time without receiving a signal.  Sabrina sighs and waits until the flare gun in the sky is fired and sighs. The bullet came from the inside of the gate, and Sabrina realizes they were successful. 

 "T-86," Sabrina turns her attention to T-96. 

 "Yes, my queen," T-86 bows to Sabrina, aware that she will give orders 

 "Contract with Eldaro right away, and tell him that the Team has defeated the Hydra and that I'll be here to ensure no one disturbs you." 

 "Yes, your Majesty," T-86 bows again and rushes to the contract tent near the gate.   


Meanwhile in Vocalno's campsite

 Eldaro is checking to make sure that a large black missile is still functional. Since the second wave of missiles, Eldaro has not contracted with his cousin yet. As he sits down, he sighs. 

 Paul runs up to Eldaro and tells him, "Captain, captain, we got news from the gate." Eldaro stands up immediately: "Calm down, your cousin is fine, and the Hydra have been defeated." 

 "Really? Now I should move the campsite closer to the gate," Eldaro feels proud of his cousin, "My cousin really beat a massive monster like this, I feel so proud of him." 

 "I think we should just stand here since it's so close to the gate and you don't dismantle the wall anyway." Paul sits down and takes out the shining rod. "I believe they will beat that demon for sure." 

 It will, but we must assist them as far as possible." Eldaro pats the missile, "Paul, I give orders at the campsite."

 "What is it, Captain?" 

 Eldaro says, "First, we will take down a section of the wall so that we can transport the missiles and the tank through the gate." Second, be sure to guard the camp against spying. Unfortunately, I feel that some paparazzi are already present. 

  "Yes, sir," Paul rushes to the speaker to announce Eldaro's order. One group of campers rush to the gate to dismantle a part of it, and another group moves missiles.

 Eldaro thinks, "I think the demon is angry right now." Then he goes to the gate to see the Team. 


  Kitten Ruin

 "We are done building the bridge," says the man in a white robe to Silver. Silver stands up and looks quite surprised. 

 "Wow, that was fast. I thought we would have to lose a day to complete it." Silverpoint at Simon. "Anyway, prepare to receive new members and supplies. This campsite will join us to the volcano." 

"But... But aren't you worried that they will slow us down?" 

 "Don't worry, they won't slow us down. Besides, we got guns and shields for them to use so our men can defend the volcano's campsite." Silver eats the bread, "More men, more defense, right?" 

  "But... But," the man sputters, as Silver's wing prevent him from finishing the sentence 

 As Silver nods to her soldiers, "Don't worry, this campsite only has ten people but has a lot of supplies, so we'll make good use of these. You all can train 10 people quickly, can't you?" 

 As the man is persuaded by the bird robot, "Okay, we'll train them fast to be a soldier, but I'm not sure they'll be able to fight like us." 

 Silver spread her wings, "Good, we have to move fast. While we move, we will train these people, get it?"

 "Yes, Madam," 

 "Full speed ahead. Time is not waiting for anyone," Silver says and flaps her wings to lead the reinforcement team.

Inside the portal

 Akron is now very angry right now when he heard that his Hydra is defeated, "Damn it, How can they defeat my Hydra," then he looks at the monsters that he has created, "Okay, I will create the portal to lead the monster to attack human's cities," then he laughs, "The human will suffer on my wrath right now."