CHAPTER 21
JC was talking to Nio calmly. He had nothing to fear, not even from Niowrath. Nio, however, had something to fear from JC. He was aggressive and angry in the way he acted, and it was starting to get concerning for her.
"Look, Nio, all I want to know is where that damn cat of yours is."
"Well she is the one running this game but I don't know how to get to her."
"...hmm...well, in the last game, the guy running it operated things from a blimp of some kind that was overseeing the whole game. Maybe-"
Pirateking rounded the corner and nearly bumped into them both. He looked at this odd pair, munched his sandwich, and walked away thoughtfully.
Then he realized he needed to kill them, turned around, and hurled the pocket sand at them. Nio and JC raised their respective weapons to block, which pretty much negated the impact of the pocket sand. Pirateking gulped, before running away as quickly as possible. Nio and JC began to give chase, before Nio stopped. "Actually, I'm just going to let Niowrath handle this," she said calmly, and let go of her sharkswordfish. Niowrath growled. "It will be my pleasure," he said in an awesome kind of way before he began to chase down Pirateking. Nio continued her conversation with JC.
Pirateking took a bite of sandwich and spat it at the chasing fish...thing. This delayed Niowrath slightly because of how disgusting it was, and Pirateking dove through the nearest window and, in the house he found himself in, through a door on his left. This took him into a lounge area.
Niowrath hadn't lost him - he was too strong a hunter to lose somebody who was making such an amateurish escape attempt. He heard a breaking window coming from the lounge and surmised that PK was making an escape through there. He chased down his quarry with relish, entering the lounge area quickly.
However it had all been a CLEVER RUSE on PK's part. He was actually hiding next to the door, and used the element of surprise to kick Niowrath as he (...it?) entered the room.
The sharkswordfish was sent skittling along the ground and Pirateking closed in for the kill, drawing his pocket sand.
Suddenly, a portal appeared underneath PK. He had no chance of avoiding it, but managed to throw out his arms to stop himself falling through completely. The other side of the portal just so happened to be attached to the penthouse in one of the city's tallest buildings. Grasping on desperately, by his fingertips, PK tried to haul himself out of this unexpected predicament.
However, his recovery was cut short by a revived Niowrath. "Not so easy to kill me," he said, and stabbed at PK's hands. PK simply couldn't hold on any long and he fell through the portal. This then lead to him falling a further 800-ish ft, before hitting the street with a great SPLAT. He had died, and his head then fell off. It rolled into Maniac's newest firetruck, exploding it.
Wedge, who had shot the portal through the broken window from a house across the street, smirked and walked away.
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