LightReader

Chapter 30 - 29 Dangers on Both Sides

Few moments ago before Null has returned to the lake;

Booorp! Booorp! Booorp!

Bubbles Down's body continues to emit bubbles.

Susan led Lucky Zero and Vanessa to the bottom of the lake, making a gesture to Lucky Zero but the former did not comprehend what she meant, so she just grabbed Bubble Gum and followed them down. As a result, Bubbles Down was also pulled down since Bubble Gum attached his gum rope to him so he would not sink, but now all of them are sinking deeper.

"How powerful is this girl?"

Lucky Zero thought to himself seeing Susan as she pulled all of them down into the depths. Of course, being gifted with three elements; she should not be a weakling.

They were shocked to see five giant crabs waiting for them down in the depths but soon they move out separately into different directions and they went inside holes in the ground. After the crabs have managed to hide, ten lizards that looks like crocodile appeared and swimming towards them.

Susan created a huge water spout to drive them away and she succeeded. After the lizards leave three large electric ells came forward.

Susan has no more energy to fight, she was so exhausted that she collapse so the group is falling to the depths. Bubbles Down blow a large bubble and she engulf the whole group with it.

"We can finally breath, thanks goodness! Hey! Wait, aren't you a water type element, how did you provide oxygen for us?" Said Lucky Zero who was bewildered.

"I just found out my body can converts carbon dioxide into oxygen, then I did wish I could do what Bubbles Up can so I imagine myself being her making a bubble. This is my first time to try so it's weak and might burst if those electric ells attack it, if only I'm stronger like a class S, like Bubbles Up then my Bubbles could be tougher." Bubbles Down explained.

"So your saying that you are a fan of Bubbles Up," asks Vanessa.

"Yes, ever since a kid, and when I saw her taking her entrance test, I've decided to be like her and used my Bubbles like what she is doing." Narrated Bubbles Down.

"Sorry but your bubbles are soft Bubbles so it's weaker" complemented Lucky Zero.

"You're so mean," whispered Vanessa to him.

"Don't worry I have an idea to make this stronger," said Lucky Zero then he created an ice wall all around the bubble enveloping them.

"That is awesome, now we are safe," said Bubbles Down enthusiastically.

Then after creating the ice wall, Lucky Zero fall to the ground unconscious. There are three of them lying on the ground now, that includes Bubble Gum who got drowned.

Vanessa and Bubbles Down were guarding the three unconscious groupmates when the part of the ice wall collapse all of a sudden. Bubbles Up reacted so fast so she was able to create a smaller bubble for the group. It separates them from the ice wall.

The water becomes dusky so they could not see what had happened; all they are certain is the wall had collapsed. Then they saw a shadow of a man swimming towards them.

"Is it a Sharkman?" Asks Vanessa.

"Maybe a mermaid," Bubbles Down made a guess.

Soon, Null appeared at their sight.

"Eh!" The both reacted.

"It was you?" Gasp Vanessa.

"Oh, you startled us to death" said Bubbles Down.

Blob blob blob blob!

Null can't speak underwater, and bubbles are floating from his mouth. Bubbles Down quickly respond by enlarging her Bubbles enveloping all of them.

"Huh, I almost drowned!" Reacted Null.

"Yeah and you almost drowned all of us,"complained Bubbles Down.

"By the way, where is Stickman? Didn't you went after him to save him from those vampire bats?" Asks Vanessa.

"He is fine up there" Null answered then went on to checked the three others.

"What happened to them?" He asked.

"They were just exhausted," answered Bubbles Down.

"No it's not, except for Bubble Gum." Corrected Vanessa.

"Why? What is wrong with him?" Null asks.

"He drowned himself to death" said Bubbles Down.

"Really? That can't be accepted. I don't want anybody dying in my group. Just die on another group if you will just die." Null said.

"Are you serious?" Vanessa prompted.

"Come on, you feed him with your Bubbles before it's too late." Ordered Null to Bubbles Down.

A moment of hesitation first before Bubbles Down make her move. Vanessa nod at her so she created a small Bubbles from her mouth and feed it to Bubble Gum.

"B-but what if he complain when he wakes up because my Bubbles tastes like soap," said Bubbles Down shyly.

"It will be okay for as long as he is alive." Said Null.

"I'm sorry leader for my negligence," said Vanessa who bowed before him.

"You don't have to do that", rebuked Null.

Bubbles Down continue to feed Bubble Gum with her bubbles and his stomach is slowly bulging then it burst. Waters splashes out of Bubble Gum's mouth and his stomach recedes slowly back to its normal size.

Bubble Gum coughed as he awakes, " I thought I died," he said.

"What really happened down here?" Null asked.

"All kinds of monsters were here; crabs, lizards, and eels," said Vanessa.

"Those are not monsters, they were just animals," Null replied.

"They are huge beasts," exclaimed Bubbles Down.

"Yeah, I'm afraid we were been eaten by those huge beasts if Lucky Zero did not make that huge ice house and an ice wall that protects us but you destroyed it," told Vanessa.

"Okay, it's my fault so let me do this alone," Null said then he walk away out of the Bubble. He activated his total annihilation skill as soon as he was out of the bubble and went after the electric eels.

Bubble Gum, created gums and surround them using it, covering the entire bubble that envelopes them.

Null deactivated his skill as he draws closer to those electric ells then they surrounded him. Two were attacking on his sides and one on his blind spot which made the first attack.

The moment it touched Null's back its electricity was gone and become a common giant eel. Null catched it and swim back to were the others are waiting for him. The other eels were afraid after seeing the first eel being hunted so they choose to run away from Null.

"Here, I got some food for tonight," Null told them as he returned dropping the giant eel in front of them.

Bubbles Down made a smaller bubble since Null destroyed the gum wall like what he did to the ice wall using his ability. Then she expand it again to where Null was standing and the giant eel on the ground.

"How can we cook that eel here?" Asked Vanessa.

"If anyone can produce a little heat, that would be enough to stew it," replied Null.

"If anyone on the team got fire ability but I don't think so,"lamented Vanessa.

"Then, we have to eat this raw," replied Null.

"But I don't eat raw foods," Bubbles Down complained.

"Me too" said Vanessa.

"So do I" said Susan.

"Then what are we going to do with this fish? I need to catch more of it" said Null who was already towards the ice wall. He only stop the moment he saw that Bubble Gum was chewing something.

"Hey! what are you eating?" Null asked Bubble Gum.

"Nothing," he replied.

"Then what did you chew?" asked Null again.

"You're awake!' said the bewildered Bubbles Down.

Bubble Gum did not answer but instead he chew something again.

"I'm hungry," he complained.

"Hungry? you are the only one who have chew something in this group, You know that?" reminded Vanessa.

"But I did'nt chew something" replied Bubble Gum.

"Can you give me whatever you are chewing?" asks Null.

"No, I can't, its my own flesh that I chew. there is no way I can give to you," explained Bubble Gum.

"You are eating yourself when you are hungry?" asks Bubbles Down and Bubble Gum only responded with a nod.

Soon, Susan wakes up,

"We're glad you are awake" greeted Null.

"Ah, some 20% of my energy has been refresh, but now I'm hungry" Susan said.

"All of us are hungry" replied Lucky Zero.

Then Susan used her speed and grab the fish on Null's hand, before Null could react, Susan was already sitting with cross-legs and electrocuting the fish in front of her.

"Woah! that was fast!" Null reprimands her.

After a minute of electrocuting the fish Susan then take a bite out of it.

"You are not even listening!" demanded Null.

Then they saw a silhouette outside the ice wall with two long arms with long fingers. It was just right behind Null.

Susan who happened to be chewing the electrocuted eel, stand up looking at the silhouette behind Null.

Null after seeing the reaction of his members was puzzled.

"Why are you looking like that?" he asks.

"M-mmmonsterr!" cried Lucky Zero while pointing at Null.

"Me?" asks Null for confirmation.

"Not you, idiot!" yelled Vanessa.

"Then why Lucky is pointing at me?" asks Null.

"It is behind you" Susan answered who was still carrying the electrocuted electric eel.

Null then look behind his back and saw the silhouette of the monster, he then destroyed the ice wall so Bubbles Down prepared a smaller room and enveloped the other members as soon it was destroyed.

They only see Null did not attack the monster but was having a chat with it. Some dust still covers their sight and the waters below becomes dark.

Soon they saw two silhouettes are coming towards the group, one is a man that could only be Null and the other one is the monster.

"Oh no! Null got controlled!" cried Susan.

"What should we do now?" asks Bubbles Down who was shaken out of fear.

"Here take this, Let me figure it out" she said and passed the electrocuted eel to Vanessa then she went out of the bubble wall without destroying it as if a ghosts just pass through.

The next moment they only saw Susan stop to attack the two silhouettes and have a friendly conversation with them.

Then they heard a female voice that said;

"Why don't you come along together so that I won't have to tell you one by one"

But, they misheard the word 'tell' for 'kill' so they heard it this way;

"Why don't you come along together so that I won't have to kill you one by one,"

"Oh no, Susan too got controlled. We can only do this together now," said Vanessa. 

"What are you going to do?, And what's with that power ranger pause? You stop that, we are not enemies and she is not a monster." said Null.

They still could not see them clearly and only silhouettes are visible.

"No, you can't deceive us, you are being controlled by that monster" replied Vanessa.

"She is not even a monster and she is a friend and is one of us," explained Null.

"One of us? Then why would she challenge us to fight her together so that she won't have to kill us one by one?" Vanessa refute.

"Yeah right," agreed the others.

"She did not say anything like that," answered Null.

"You heard it wrong," said Susan.

"I told you to come together so that I wont have to tell you and explain to all of you one by one." explained the silhouette of someone.

"They are all fooling us, Bubbles Up you expand your bubble wall and Lucky Zero, rebuild the ice wall."Vanessa ordered.

Before Vanessa and Bubbles Down could make any move, Susan went inside the bubble wall in fast speed and the hands of both of them surprising Vanessa.

Before she can say something, Null went in accompanied by a woman with a wolf mask, She is carrying ten ells-five in each hand.

"This is crazy wolf, She is one of us, I just meet her in the mountains and is not an enemy, I guarantee my own life on the line. If you want to kill her, just kill me." said Null.

"Are we not under a spell or some kind of illusion?" asks Vanessa.

"Of course not," Susan replied while looking at the electrocuted ell on Vanessa"s hand. "You may eat that and see for yourself if its an illusion or not."

Vanessa then take a bite on the fish and have a chew. She knew it was all still real

Crazy Wolf then gave all the ells to Susan to be grilled with her lightning, later on they ate them altogether.

Damon, saw Crazy Wolf had jump into the lake following after Null but he notice Stickman just seat on a large rock near the lake"s surface so Damon just waited and watch what might happen next. He hide at the back of a large tree.

Later on he noticed, two women who went to bath into the lake, Damon felt glad he got women to accompany with but the joy in his heart was cut short and was turned into fear as he realizes those women are Dap"s killers.

More Chapters