Back At The Circuit
Third Pov
Pixie slowly walks over to Draka in her megaroid, ready to crush him.
"Get out of there, Draka!" Jin shouted.
"Bitroid, Transform!"
During the fight, Draka's monkart transforms into a bitroid and charges towards Pixie. He strikes her megaroid's chest and evades her retaliatory punch. Draka then trips Pixie, and she falls. Taking advantage of her fall, Draka morphs back into a monkart and retreats from the scene.
"That was amazing. Draka successfully counterattack despite his lower size!"
"Alright!" Laura cheered on.
"Now you've got to speed on ahead," Kuby said.
Ellie, on the other hand, smirks.
"It's too early to celebrate. Sparkling Dust!"
As Pixie's megaroid takes off, it sprouts wings and unleashes a swarm of butterflies that obstruct Draka's path. The dust kicked up by the butterflies exhausts him and blurs his vision, causing him to veer off course frequently.
"Draka? What's going on?"
Draka soon lost control of his monkart, causing it to collide with a wall and ultimately plunge into the water.
"Draka!"
"It's the queen's secret method. Once you are caught in her trap, you won't be able to continue," Bibi said with a smile.
Everyone was anxiously waiting for Draka to resurface, unaware that he was sinking to the bottom.
"Once you're hit by sparkling dust, it's impossible to stay in the race,"
Pixie's megaroid morphs back into a monkart and continues with the race.
"Draka!"
"Peynet!"
"Draka, please," Sena whimpered.
"It looks like Draka's out of the race for good," Ellie smirked at Jin.
Sabrina was filled with worry as she waited, but then she had an idea and rushed out of the circuit to where no one was present. As she took a deep breath, her body and eyes emitted a white glow, and she saw an image of Draka underwater.
'Draka, can you hear me?'
Draka didn't respond.
Draka, you have to wake up. For Jin's sake. Ellie and Pixie will continue using the power of Auobyss if you and Jin don't put a stop to them, so they don't hurt anyone else. So whatever it takes, Draka, you have to honor the knight's code. Jin's code.'
Sabrina was unaware that Jin was expressing the same thing.
While underwater, the necklace that Beth had given to Draka slipped into his grasp, causing him to awaken.
"Draka, get out of there now!" Jin shouts.
"Dra!"
Draka accelerates quickly and jumps out of the water, landing on the track.
"Just when we thought it was all over, Draka makes a miraculous comeback!"
The crowd was ecstatic when they saw Draka return to the race. Sabrina quietly rejoined the group, who were focused on watching the race to notice her return.
'I knew you had it in you, Draka.'
Ellie, on the other hand, was getting annoyed.
"This time I won't let him get away. Megaroid, Transform."
Pixie's monkart transforms into a megaroid again and stops in front of Draka.
"After such a narrow escape, he won't be able to handle another attack straight on. What do we do?" Jin says, but he then sees his monkart bracelet blinking and looks at it to see an icon on it.
"That icon, I've never seen it before."
His monsword then begins to glow, showing a large gemstone.
The light of the gemstone shines on the flowers, making them happy and cheering for another gemstone.
The gemstone goes into the monsword, and Jin finally realizes it.
"The gemstone was Dad's all this time," Jin smirks. "Exactly. Megaroid, Transform!"
Draka then, for the first time in a long time, transforms his monkart into a megaroid.
"Jin's monsword originally had been Sir Keit's. Jin's skills must have progressed enough to call forth the gemstone within his monsword." Sir Joke explains.
"Draka, get her!"
Draka aggressively attacks Pixie by repeatedly kicking and punching her megaroid until the last punch sends Pixie backward.
"You think that's enough to take us down? Sparkling Dust!"
Pixie's megaroid once again takes off. It sprouts wings and unleashes a swarm of butterflies that obstruct Draka's path.
"We're not falling for the same trick again! Rising Fire!"
Draka formed a sizable ball, then launched a powerful fire blast towards the golden butterflies, obliterating them and causing Pixie's wings to disappear, and she plummets to the ground.
"Wow! Awesome! What an incredible fight!"
"But, I'm the queen of Reflower Town. I can't go down like this."
Pixie starts to get affected by the seed of Auobyss once more, causing the sky to be covered in gray clouds and purple lightning. The seed of Auobyss starts to take effect on Pixie again, and gray clouds and purple lightning cover the sky.
Sabrina felt the pain again and held her hands over her heart as she tried to catch her breath and Laura ran towards her and rubbed her back.
"It's getting worse, isn't it?"
Sabrina nodded, and they looked back at the match.
"I will never let you win!" Ellie stated.
As Pixie ran towards Draka, he prepared to punch her but was surprised when she suddenly vanished. When he turned around, he saw two Pixies standing on nearby megaroids. This left Draka feeling confused.
"It's unbelievable! Two Pixies before our own eyes!"
Everyone was shocked. Kuby even rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things.
"This can't be..." Sena said, but she already knew the answer.
Draka was unsure which of the two Pixies was real, so they looked back and forth between them. Suddenly, one of the Pixies charged at Draka while his back was turned.
"Draka, watch out!"
As Draka was bumped by one Pixie, he attempted to punch another Pixie. However, she disappeared, and the original Pixie hit Draka once more.
Jin was confused when Pixie split into two again, and they quickly ran toward Draka. They punched him rapidly, and one punch was so strong that it knocked him down.
"This can't be happening," Jin said to himself.
"Jin!"
Jin turned to the crowd and saw Sena standing up. "It's just an illusion! Only one of them is the real Pixie," she says.
"So then we'll take them at the same time."
Draka slowly starts to get back up and turns to Jin.
"Take them down in one shot!"
"Dra!"
Draka charges toward the Pixie, delivering a swift kick to both of them. One disappears while the other one is knocked back.
"Pixie."
"Rising Fire!"
Draka formed a sizable ball, then launched a powerful fire blast towards Pixie who tried to block it but ended up taking the hit and fell.
"Way to go, Draka! Now speed up!"
Draka's megaroid transforms back into a monkart and drives away at full speed.
As Pixie rises, she sends purple lightning toward Draka, who effortlessly dodges each attack. Despite her efforts, Pixie continues to miss and begins to lose control, eventually lashing out and attacking everyone around her, similar to Buckie's behavior.
"Pixie?" Ellie said, worried.
Pixie continued to fire at the crowd as they all ran away. Bibi, unfortunately, gets hit by one and gets electrocuted.
"Pixie, what's wrong with you?" Ellie asked.
"She's suffering," Sabrina told her as Laura held her up. "You must make her stop now, or else she could die!"
Ellie looks at her monster.
"She's suffering?"
Ellie looks at her monster.
"Please stop. Pixie. Stop!"
Pixie doesn't listen and continues targeting Draka but ends up hitting Bibi and he gets electrocuted again.
"Piplup." Sabrina nodded.
"Your right. He did have it coming." Sabrina said.
Draka was nearing the finish line on his last lap, but Pixie was obstructing his path.
"The only way to bring her back is for us to win the race! Come On!"
Despite Pixie's attempts to blast and punch Draka, he manages to dodge her attacks and reach the finish line.
The seed of Auobyss flew out of Pixie and disintegrated in the air as she got out of her megaroid and fell on the ground.
"Unbelievable! What a turnaround! Jin Hayst won the race against Ellie Valencia!"
"They did it!" Laura cheers, hugging Peynet.
"Thank you, Jin," Beth said.
"Furie."
Sabrina gave a faint smile as she saw Ellie rush towards Pixie, who was lying on the ground.
"Pixie!" Ellie held Pixie in her arms, crying as the flowers start to sing and butterflies started to come out.
"The flowers are singing," Sena said.
"And the butterflies are dancing!" Laura added.
Jin's monkart bracelet starts beeping, and he notices that his rank on it has changed from novice to expert.
"I'm an expert? Yeah!" He cheered with a cheerful grin.
"Pixie, I'm so sorry. It's all my fault!" Ellie cried, hugging her monster.
As everyone headed towards the track, Sena spotted a group of individuals running in their direction.
"Aren't those people?"
All eyes turned in the direction that Sena was gazing, and there was Isabelle, accompanied by a group of guards running towards them.
"Let's get out of here!" While everyone else continued to run, Jin paused and faced Beth.
"Hey Beth, thanks a lot. One day, we'll be back to thank you properly!"
As the guards ran past them, Beth and Ellie were left confused, while Jin kept running and caught up with the rest.
"Beth, I know you won't ever forgive me, but I'm really- "
Beth quiets Ellie with her finger and smiles. "don't say another word. We're friends no matter what."
"Thanks, Beth."
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At The Train Station
The group managed to get on the train to the next town before Isabelle and the guards could catch them.
"If it wasn't for that tree!" Isabelle growls. "Retreat!"
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On the Train
Everyone walked into a train kart and sat down, catching their breaths.
Sir Joke, Sena, and Kuby sat in a row together, and Jin, Laura, and Sabrina sat in the row across from them.
"This train will take us far away. They won't be able to find us." Jin says.
"But I was able to find you, Jin."
"Ellie?"
'You have got to be kidding me.' Sabrina thought.
"Wait a minute? Back off from him right now!" Laura shouted at Ellie.
"Why should I? Is there something between you two?" Ellie asked.
"Uh..." Laura was speechless and looked away from us, but Sabrina managed to see her blushing face.
"What are you doing here?" Sabrina asks.
"I'm following my new dream. Instead of being a knight, I'm going to marry a knight. You'll be a knight, right?" Ellie blushed and winked at Jin.
Everyone was shocked and speechless.
"Piplup."
"I know. I feel like throwing up too."
Sabrina picks up Piplup and walks down the aisle.
"Where are going, big sister?" Sena asked.
Sabrina turns to her sister and sees everyone staring at her.
"To the restroom," she told her, but she was taking her and Piplup to sit in a different kart away from Ellie and seeing her flirt with Jin.
'You're jealous.' Piplup teases.
'I am not.'