Episode 52 – The Shrine of Emille, the Impacted Base! – Part 2
“Matt! Where are you?” Jen called out. She tried her best to scream out for Matt but there was no use. Matt did not appear before her no matter how hard she tried to scream.
“Hey Matt, where are you?!” Kalpesh said with a worried tone. Stan only stood there, thinking about the situation.
“Maaaaaaaatt!” Huy mindlessly ran in circles around the trailer rooms across from where the other three were. While running in circles, he rushed through another student just as tall as him.
The student was Jaime, who almost fell backwards. Jaime fixed his hat and he said out loud, “Hey, what the hell?!”
Huy became furious with the tone, in addition to how furious he already was with Matt being missing. “I have no time to talk to strangers like you. I need to find a friend.”
Jaime clenched his teeth, “Who the hell are you to talk to me like that?” Huy did not know this student, so he ran ahead, not caring to see him again in the future. “Matt! If you can hear me, speak up now!!”
From the distance, Jaime scratched his head, “Ah… that asshole. Was he calling for the same Matt that I know of? Because he should still be around school like Danny said.”
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In the shrine, Shirley was squealing in fear next to Matt. As they were walking down, Matt began to tremble more and more. Shirley was shaking him now, “I understand how you feel! You’re just as scared as I am, I know, I know. Let’s go now!”
Matt yelled, “GAH! No! I was only shaking because of how annoying your little squeals are! We’re going to get through this. It doesn’t seem so scary after awhile because nothing is happening!”
At that moment, the two of them could hear a swerving noise. It sounded like a giant pile of goop sliding around. Shirley held on tightly to Matt’s arm, “Eeeeeh! Matt!! I’m telling you now, we should leave!”
Matt began shaking even more, “Okay this time I’m scared! What is that?!” They both began to scream in horror. Matt took a step back and he shuffled into his backpack for his fire stone. “It’s hard to see with just using our cellphones but I think I got the stone! Come on, flaming bird! You should help us light up the room!”
Shirley fell to the ground in shame. “You should have sent that out earlier!!!”
Matt paused, “Eh? Nothing happened.”
Shirley shined her cellphone over Matt’s fire stone, “Matt…”
Matt shined his cellphone at Shirley’s angry face, “Geh! W-What?!”
Shirley grabbed Matt’s arm to have his cellphone shine on the fire stone, “LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE ON YOUR HAND!”
Matt jumped, “Ah! Wrong one, wrong one!”
Shirley grabbed onto Matt’s collar as she began shaking him, “Why do you have a tennis ball?! We have no time for games, Matt! Why, why!”
Matt cried, “I was thinking of joining tennis if I get kicked out of badminton!”
Shirley took Matt’s bag, saying, “Oh quit it with the sports already. Our lives being protected from whatever’s down there is more important than your stupid attempt as sports.” She took out another stone and she shined at it, “Great, the fire stone! Matt, use it, hurry!”
Matt took the fire stone and he sent out the flaming baby chick, “Awesome! Use your flames to shine the room.”
As the baby chick spewed out continuous flames, they could see a giant slime gushing around the room right ahead of them. Matt took a step back up the steps, “Let’s leave…”
Shirley wanted to cry. “That’s what I suggested a long time ago…!”
The slime jumped and grabbed onto Matt’s leg. He fell flat on his face. He was being dragged down, step by step on the staircase. Matt’s face got constantly smacked after each step down. “Ow, ow, ow!”
Shirley tried to follow Matt down the steps to grab him, “Wait for me, Matt! Why are you going down the steps all retarded?!” Her cellphone could only shine on Matt’s head.
The fire bird followed behind Shirley. Matt screamed, “It’s- ow! Not- ow! Me!!! Ow!!”
The fire bird spewed out fire down below Matt and Shirley could make out a slime-figure from the flames’ shine, “Ew! What’s that?!” Shirley created a giant piece of ice and she threw it at whatever she saw that was dragging Matt down further into the basement. The slime let go of Matt’s leg and he started gurgling.
Matt coughed from all of the pain and he frowned, “No more, ow!”
Shirley tried to take another step down the stairs but her foot could not go deeper to the bottom. They were completely at the bottom of the basement. “Are we finally here?”
Matt called out, “Well help me out here!” Matt had a hard time standing up but he managed to get up on his own.
Shirley ignored him and she had her hands on her hips, “Hm… What is this place? There’s gotta be a light somewhere around here since this is a basement.” She pressed her hands and fingers against the wall until she found a light switch. Once she did, the lights turned on and the room began shining.
Matt, Shirley, and the fire bird were amazed. Shirley clapped her hands together, “This is amazing!!”
~~~
Yessenia found Jaime checking into a trash can. Yessenia crossed her arms and said angrily, “Hey, what the heck are you doing?”
Jaime stood in front of the trash can, “I don’t know. What do you think?” Yessenia did not want to say anything and Jaime continued, “I was looking for Matt! I heard he’s gone missing. Can you believe that?!”
Yessenia thought in her mind, “(Erh, that’s even worse than what I expected you to be doing with a trash can…)” She walked towards him, “There is only one place that I can imagine him to be at. I suspected anywhere in El Monte but I do not think he’s in this world at the moment.”
“Are you telling me he’s in one of the other worlds?” Jaime became concerned and interested.
Yessenia nodded, “Of course. The only thought I have is the Forest of Emille. Why don’t we take a look?” Jaime agreed to go with her as they both went to a private area to vanish into the Forest of Emille.
~~~
Kalpesh continued calling out for Matt and Stan only stood there. Kalpesh turned to Stan, “Hey, why aren’t you doing anything?”
Stan clenched his teeth, “Why are you trying to look for someone like him?”
“Why are you always so rough on him? What did he ever do to you?”
“He’s just being a burden to us, don’t you get it?”
“W-What do you mean? No he isn’t.”
“Just look at us. We’re being asked to look after him. He disappeared on US. Can you believe that?” Stan said angrily.
Kalpesh said slowly, “I… don’t get where you’re going with this, Stan.”
Stan explained, “Lately, I mean ever since the beginning of high school, I’ve seen him talking to new friends more.”
Kalpesh shook his head, “That’s only because we’re not there for HIM. If we’re not there, then who is he to talk to? Nobody? Everyone needs new friends and as for us, we’re just going through a very slow process and even I find that boring. I actually envy him.”
Stan rolled his eyes, “If we’re not there with him, then he would come look for us just like we do often times.” Kalpesh did not know how to argue against what Stan just said. Stan added, “I’m just tired of how he needs to see my math homework so many times. He always has his new friends, so why would he need us? He betrayed US.”
Kalpesh sat down in shame, “Maybe… you are right. He doesn’t seem to think we’re fun anyway…”
Jen was behind a pillar, listening and frowning from their conversation.
~~~
In the basement, Shirley screamed in happiness, “This room is filled with food!!”
Matt fell to the ground along with his bird in false joy, “Bleh!” Matt yelled. “You’re happy just for THIS?!”
Shirley giggled, “Of course, Matt. Why can’t you ever appreciate food as much as they appreciate us?”
“They have feelings?” Matt said in surprise.
“Yes!” She ran up to a half-cut sandwich but it transformed to a smaller version of the giant slime. Shirley took a step back, “Bleh- What the?!”
She ran back to Matt, feeling that the rest of the foods are slimes as well. Having her said to be correct, all of the foods became slimes. Matt and Shirley hugged each other, screaming their hearts out in fear. The flame bird ran in circles around them.
From outside, Yessenia turned to a direction, “Do you hear that?”
Jaime nodded, “Yeah, it sounded like it came from that way.” Jaime pointed to the same direction and Yessenia ran along with him towards the screams.
As they reached the shrine, they could see the open creak. Yessenia chuckled, “Hm, so I was right. There really is a basement. I think they are down there.”
Jaime scratched his head, “Is it wrong that we’re acting so casual after hearing their screams?”
Yessenia yawned, “Eh, they could teleport back into the real world. If anything, then they would just leave us with whatever they screamed from if we go down there. Why don’t we check it out?” Jaime agreed to do so.
~~~
One slime after another, each of them fell after Matt, Shirley, and the fire bird were fighting them all. From behind, slimes smacked Matt and Shirley. The bird flew, spewing out flames. Matt and Shirley got knocked down with their cellphones sliding out of their pockets. Shirley was on the ground now, trying to reach for her cellphone, “W-We are in danger!” The slimes began taking the cellphones and devouring them. Shirley exclaimed, “EEEEH?! That’s MY cellphone you just swallowed!” She stood up, ignoring her pain. She grabbed the slime by the arm and she threw it against the wall, “That cellphone costs SO MUCH and you just… ugh!!” She suddenly felt the pain inside her again as she fell.
Matt said normally, “Oh well, that’s not my cellphone…”
Shirley yelled, “BUT THAT’S YOUR ONLY WAY OUT OF HERE!!”
Matt became serious, “THE CELLPHONE!”
Yessenia and Jaime arrived and they could see Matt and Shirley in danger. Jaime pointed at the fire bird, “What the hell?!”
Yessenia ignored him, “Never mind that. We should take down these slimes!” Yessenia used her blunt sword to swerve a massive amount of wind on the slimes. Jaime used his shadow powers but the slimes only quivered. Whatever the shadows felt, Jaime could feel the same. He canceled off his shadow powers. Yessenia’s wind powers were not strong enough to send them off the ground and her blunt sword cut each slime in half, only multiplying them.
As the slimes were multiplying, they were attacking Jaime and Yessenia, some of the slimes grabbing into their pockets for their cellphones. Jaime got angry, “These Digicells know how to steal!”
The bird watched the four students feeling pain. It was sweating, questioning what it should do. It knew something that Matt did not know all along. There was only one way for them to be saved and the bird knew exactly how. It covered itself with its wings and it began to vibrate.
Matt looked up at his fire bird, “Fly away, run before they reach you…!”
The bird gave a smirk of a smile and it opened its wings, sending out a rain of flames all over the room. Matt, Shirley, Yessenia, and Jaime were all under the slimes. All of the slimes were squealing in pain. Matt could see the bird shining with the flames as if there was an explosion in the process. Matt’s heart sank. His eyes opened wide and in his mind, the only sound he could hear was… nothing.
“NOOOO!!!!!” Matt called out.
~~~
As a bird, it seemed to have a big heart. It knew very well that the only way for it to save Matt in this type of situation was to sacrifice itself… Matt’s mind came to his senses again and all of the slimes completely vanished away like regular Digicells.
Matt sat up, along with his friends, half beat. He crawled over to his flaming bird. It was still breathing. Matt carried it and he began to cry, “No… this can’t be.”
The bird was sweating and breathing heavily. It looked over at Matt and gave a smile. It continued to smile with its wings reaching for Matt’s face for a few seconds until it stopped and let go. The wing fell flat down and the bird froze. Matt became extremely speechless. He closed his eyes, not wanting to say another word.
Shirley, Yessenia, and Jaime were all speechless after seeing that the bird and Matt spent their time together getting stronger and loving each other as owner and pet. This was another sacrifice that Matt had to make…
~~~
Santi was sitting alone in a classroom, looking out the window on the second floor in the English building. He was watching the sunset saying, “Sacrifices are always made… the powers are just beginning to unveil the truth to the world… It is a shame, but this is where I take my lead.” He sighed and stood up, leaving the classroom…
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---- Next chapter preview:Matt: On the next chapter, Matt goes into complete despair. It looks like the death of the flaming little chick impacted him by a whole lot. This was not the reason, though. It is the fact that Matt had already let two important people or animals leave his life in such a short amount of time.
Danny: Jen and Stan start to argue about Matt and his friendship status too!
Peter: W-What was that in my dream?!
Matt: Wow! Yessenia, look, look! My house!
Yessenia: That is a surprise. You must be glad that you have one of your own here now.
Mariel: Ahh, you two! Leave me alone and stop interviewing me!
Matt: It looks like many people in the next episode will have their own little problems. This is the start of the next adventure. Many people will begin to have a plot of their own. Next time in Volume 5, Mourning Under a New Home!
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