~Chapter 13~
derpyhooves
All the time when NINJAsk was buried, Derpy was trying to calm down chained skull. He had fallen to his knees, wincing and grabbing his head. It seemed that he was being deeply affected by his avatar's memories. "The Iblis Trigger..." he muttered. "Get it out of my head!"
"Are you okay?" Derpy asked as she approached.
chained skull's only answer was a groan. If only she had Shadmé's lavender! This guy needed it more than her, at this point.
Finally, chained skull released his grip, panting. "Man, that was weird," he said, taking a great effort to calm himself. "I just got these...thoughts...of Mephilis' plan to destroy the world. We've gotta stop him!"
Derpy thought she'd be pretty good at sympathizing with him. Shadmé had said that she seemed to be acting like her avatar a little bit...whatever that meant.
"Chained..." she started calmly. "You're letting your avatar's memories affect you. You're not Silver, okay? You're with us."
He scratched his tufty silver hair, and finally sighed. "Yeah...I guess you're right." He looked over to the rocks, where assassinelf and Shadmé were trying to frantically take them away to free NINJAsk. "Hey! I've gotta try lifting those rocks. I bet I can!"
Derpy chuckled at his excited expression. "Don't overexert yourself! Start with those smaller rocks."
He squished his eyes shut, concentrating really hard. Somehow, a pebble at the base of the pile moved.
His ears must've detected the slight sound because he gasped and opened his eyes. "It moved! Derpy, did you see it? I moved it with my mind!"
"Yes...yes you did..." she whispered. The user-turned hedgehog tried to do it again. Deciding that he knew what to do, Derpy wandered to the base of the rocklike.
Hey, derpyhooves!
She blinked and turned around. Who was that?
"Hey...do you think this will help?" Prextail asked, picking something up as Derpy turned. She noticed the ghostly user was holding up NINJAsk's staff.
Get her to use that! The staff can bend water and heal animals.
Prex looked up, a confused expression on her face. "Hm?"
Derpy glanced between Prex and the rockfall as the users scurried around the fallen hut like ants. Was that voice...NINJAsk? Why could she hear her?
"NINJAsk...are you okay?" Prextail asked. To the others, it may have looked like she was talking to open air. But Derpy realized that NINJAsk's consciousness was trying to communicate. She desperately hoped her fellow user was alright...
All of a sudden, the staff glowed with a dark aura. The rocks shifted, as someone else underneath was trying to move.
Hehe...don't worry, I'm perfectly fine...
Chained skull had succeeded in yanking the largest rock away with his telekinesis. There NINJAsk laid, in a hollow the rocks had formed. She hadn't been crushed, after all.
assassinelf pulled back, gazing at her oddly as she rose. NINJAsk's normally blue eyes were turning a rather dark shade of red. "Hey...you sound a bit weird. Don't take it the wrong way, though. You alright?" assassinelf confirmed.
Shadmé even looked nervous as she kept shifting around the lavender leaves in her hand. Good thing Derpy felt like she didn't need them anymore.
"Why are you giving me such strange looks..?" NINJAsk murmured, chuckling a bit. "I'm perfectly fine..."
Of course, I do have urges to torture and kill something, but otherwise...
Derpy's eyes widened. She was still hearing NINJAsk's thoughts! And that most certainly didn't sound good.
Apparently something sounded off to the others as well. Chained skull was watching, focused and with arms crossed. Skyhunter had picked up a sharp stick and was holding it defensively in his mouth. Icedragon was...walking away? Every so often his coordination was off and he'd fall to his hooves, cursing.
"Give me that back, please, Prextail," NINJAsk said to the Creepypasta user, her gaze not moving from derpyhooves. She shivered.
After a hesitation, Prex ventured forward. With a spit, Skyhunter dropped his stick and barked as he lunged towards the staff. He collided with Prex, a red chain adorning the staff flying through the air. He succeeded in yanking the staff away, then took off after icedragon. It seemed that Skyhunter sensed there was something wrong with it, and was planning on getting it away from NINJAsk.
Chaos broke out among the users.
"Skyhunter!" Chained skull gasped. He began following the user-turned fox.
Shadmé and assassinelf merely jumped as they tried to get everyone back together. Derpy ran over to prextail while NINJAsk yelled after Skyhunter, "Give back that staff!" Her eyes flashed as she raised her hand.
Give it up or I'll bloodbend you back here!
Derpy jolted, shocked at NINJAsk's tone. What was going on? Why was she hearing her thoughts? But sure enough the fennec was dragged back, seemingly by nothing. NINJAsk wasn't bluffing- she could apparently bend blood, and do it well.
But the staff was no longer in Skyhunter's jaws. NINJAsk growled, dropping him from her grip.
Derpy, I need you to get that staff!
"W-why me?" the cautious user asked, trembling.
Because...you can hear me. You have potential...
Derpyhooves shook her head. She couldn't do that- NINJAsk was obviously under its influence!
Suddenly, something flashed in front of her vision. Her Millennium Ring was glowing in conjunction with the pretty red gem chain she'd found and put on her wrist.
Crap. I can’t become Yami Bakura now! derpyhooves panicked, nervously glancing around. Of all the times to take on an evil alter-ego, now was not a good one!
Waves of nausea passed over Derpy as she clutched at her head. She could barely comprehend what was going on in front of her- Skyhunter was barking, growling and nipping at NINJAsk. Red fuzzed at the ends of her vision. NINJAsk's blood, or her own?
The Millennium Ring finally shone brighter than it had before, and light washed all over Derpy before she hit the ground, hard, and blacked out.
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Here's my own little twist.
At the moment Prex, Derpy and NINJAsk were communicating, they all had something in common. Was it something they were holding..?