Chapter 7 The Survivor

Vines crossed his arms, he could not believe what he was hearing right now. "Mr. Vines, I'm sorry but we can't deliver fish right now. In fact...Phish Town is in danger right now...there's a Fire Titan in the water!" The young deliverer explained. Vines groaned, it has been two days after he had head adventurers talking about the rise of that Flame Elemental. "Fine, I will expect double the fish next week." Vines said as he turned away. "WHAT!? IF THAT FIRE ELEMENTAL ISN'T TAKEN DOWN THERE WILL BE NO FISH!" The delivery guy complained. "Shut up and move on!" Vines called as he returned through the backdoor of his inn.

Vines groaned as he returned to the counter with Roses. Finn then flies towards Vines' face, smiling. "Sir! I'm gonna be gone for a bit, I heard there's an urgent quest at the guild!" Finn told Vines, in Jacko's voice. Vines knew this was weird, but its a really convenient way of using this slime. "Tell the kid to tell me what's the quest about." Vines told Finn. The slime nodded and disappeared.

Jacko is currently standing in the crowd inside the Honey Guild. It was announced that there were exactly 76 adventurers that joined to complete the Urgent Quest. Jacko went to a corner to then re-summon Finn. "Tell the kid to tell me whats the quest about." Finn mimicked Vines' expression as it said it in Vines' voice. "It's about the Flame Elemental Sir! This is going to be my last message because I hear the Guildmaster is about to come. I'll be home later!" Jacko said to Finn, as it flew out of the guild.

The pink haired receptionist exits from the Guildmaster's room, soon followed by a tall man with a strong leather suit and yellow golden cape. He wore he Honey Village's Emblem, a honey drop with pink petals around it. He looked at the crowd of adventurers with a smile, proud of the adventurers that have helped the village with quests, he had hoped to make it a better place after all. "Good morning, Honey Guild Adventurers, most of you may not know me. I am the Guildmaster Gallant Hound. A year ago, my brother, Trax Hound helped me found this guild. And I have helped raised this guild ever since. Now, I'd like to announce our first ever Urgent Quest!" He said. "If it was urgent then what the hell are we doing here!?" One of the adventurers jeered. Gallant smirked. "I'd ask you the same thing. Anyway!" He responded. "Three days ago, a Flame Elemental suddenly appeared from the waters of Phish Town. For those few days, it grew bigger. Today it was reported to have suddenly disappeared." As he said this, the adventurers were murmuring with each other, how could something like that suddenly disappear? "The real urgent mission is to find out what is really happening on Phish Town. If you think this is not the quest for you, feel free to stay here and do your usual quests. If you are as curious as I, you may go investigate. This quest will have no reward yet, but I will find a way to repay those who have defeated the Flame Elemental. I will be staying here at the guild for an important meeting. You are all dismissed." The adventurers were all talking and yelling at each other or at the Guildmaster. Jacko covered his ears with small slime bubbles he created, slowly sneaking out of the guild to stay away from the smell of spit and tension.

Jacko wondered if it was even worth doing the quest, nor risking his life to do it. "Young Jacko, what must you be thinking now?" The familiar archer walked by him. "I don't know Levy, I want to help Phish Town because I heard my dad being angry about it." Jacko said. "Interesting, you use your tiny summons to eavesdrop." Levy said. "I know it's bad, but still." Jacko sighed. "Jacko, Broff and Arkon are already on their way there." Levy told, surprising Jacko with the information. "We have a plan on taking down the Flame Elemental, if we find it at all. It would be nice if you help us with your slimes." He said. Jacko thought for a bit, then nodded. "You know what? I'm down for it!" Jacko smiled. "We're crossing through Slime Grove, you can defeat Giant Slimes now, yes?" Levy made sure. Jacko smiled. "I'm not scared anymore." Jacko said confidently.

After receiving Jacko's message, Vines was cleaning up the counter at the almost empty tavern, knowing the adventurers are going towards Phish. Then, a mage with a dark blue robe wearing a hood sat down at the counter. Vines walked to the man after dropping his cleaning towel. "What can I get you?" Vines asked, for some reason he didn't seem friendly to this man. The mage bared his teeth with his white beard now being shown. "The usual." He answered. Vines filled up the cup and slid it towards the mage, catching it easily even with his weak hand. "Why are you here, Eric Thorn?" Vines finally asked. The mage snickered and finally took off his hood, revealing his face to Vines. "It's been a while, Jake." He said. "Start talking before I tear that head off." Vines growled, his hands on the counter, cracking them. "I'll be blunt, I'm not here for a meeting. I'm just here to warn you.", the mage then chugged down the cup and returned it to Vines. "Unlike you, we're on a mission." The old man began. "A mission to bring evolution to this dying world. The world where people need items to at least use magic? It's such a terrible world." The man continued. "Sounds perfectly fine." Jake Vines snarled, seeing that the old man is in fact, not being blunt. "Oh right. We've found something that could assist us in creating a better world of magic." Vines then proceeded to grab the old man by the throat, which caused the old man to disappear in smoke, the recently drank glass of alcohol dripping from the smoke. "Goddammit." Vines then slammed his arm to the counter, ripping away the wood and digging his arm into the counter, soon taking out some golden gauntlets from the counter. "Someone's fucking shit up again." He then turned to outside, hearing battle cries and magic spells being casted.

"Aghghhhhhh..." Jacko groaned, as he's being carried by Broff's back. The large man then dropped him once they see the open sea and the town near it. The dropped Jacko quickly stood and sees the sea. "Whoa...this is Phish Town right?" Jacko yawned. "Yeah. I don't see no Elemental here anywhere." Broff groaned. "I told you, they said it was suddenly gone today." Levy reminded. "Well that thing can't just go invisible can it?" Arkon said as he then pulled out his staff. "Jacko, can I borrow your fairy for a second? I'll try locating the monster." Arkon asked. "Sure...I can come with tho." Jacko said. "You said you can hear what I tell the tiny thing right? You don't need to. You all search the waters, I'll search the Grove with Levy. " Arkon explained. Jacko looked up at Broff, as he then gets grabbed by his hood and throws him up back at his shoulders. "Just stay quiet up." Broff told.

"Fire Elemental...yeah it was eating and cooking up everything here." A fisherman told, pointing to the sea. It was steaming and there are black burnt fishes floating around, there were also burnt boats with corpses of other fishermen. Jacko felt sorry for the unfortunate deaths of those fishermen. "Yeah? Did you see where the monster went?" Broff asked. "I don't know, noone knows! It disappeared last night!" The fisherman told. "Wait, did you see an orb around the Elemental?" Jacko chimed in. "Now that you say it, there was an orb within that Elemental, some adventurers did come here to try attacking the orb, but their magics failed to penetrate through the flames." The fisherman told. "How about a blue robes mage?" Jacko asked. The fisherman thought. Broff was confused on why Jacko was asking these questions. "Jacko, we're supposed to find-" Brofff began, but the fisherman quickly answered. "I did see one, he was the only one who didn't attack, he was just watching." The fisherman told. Jacko tapped on Broff's shoulder. "Mr.

Broff! I think I know where it is!" Jacko yelled.

He had thought about it, Jason was the one who had those orbs. What if Jason was just collecting them?

That's what he had thought for now. Then he started hearing something through the pink light appearing beside his head. "We found it! We need back-" Sounds of flames soon followed, then screams from the two adventurers. Broff looked up. "That was them!" The two adventurers then turned to Slime Grove, seeing a large growing mass of flames appearing within the forest. Broff grew worried as he then takes his hatchets off his back and ran back to the forest while Jacko held onto his shoulders, while resummoning a burnt Finn. "Hi!" It called out while coughing out smoke, slimes like Finn can get their vessel killed, but their souls allows them to be resummoned.

The Flame Elemental had a spherical flaming head while it's body only consists of a large body stuck to the ground with two large flaming arms. It moved by sliding it's burning body through the forest, melting every slime and tree in sight. "You got a plan kid!?" Broff yelled, knowing now his comrades have fallen, and their plan is completely demolished. "Sir! You may not like it!" Jacko yelled. Broff finally ran front of the towering Flame Elemental, hopelessly standing before it. "Do it. Now." Broff ordered. Jacko then holds Broff's shoulders tightly, slime runes being shown all over his body. "Grom!" Jacko called out. Broff's body is then suddenly being infused with thick brown slime appearing all over his body. Broff yelled in pain as his body is being merged with the slime. Jacko was worried about doing this, he had never tried this on a human before.

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Jacko summoned a normal grass slime in his room, Finn watching it as it then looked at Jacko. Jacko thought of what happened when he defeated the Elder Slime from before. His body becoming slime temporarily. "Finn, can you fuse with the slime?" Finn then entered the green slime, it's form changing into a bigger fairy slime, this time it's green. The form was as tall as Jacko's waist. "It kinda works...I wonder what would happen if I try it on someone..."

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Broff's face is then replaced by Grom's familiar stone mouth, his body covered in Grom's substance. "B-Broff?" Jacko asked. "I don't know what you've done to me... everything hurts like hell." Broff said in Grom's voice, examining it's form. He then looked at the Flame Elemental, suddenly conjuring stone axe heads as his fists. "I'll kill that son of a bitch." Broff then summoned stone pillars beneath his feet, launching himself towards the Flame Elemental. The Elemental gathered flames around it's face and then blasted a large Fiery Beam right at the charging Broff. The stone slime armor, letting Broff dig it's Axe Stone Fists at its face, tearing flames from the Elemental's face. Jacko was only watching from the sidelines. He then saw him the Flame Elemental's orb glowing within it's chest. "Broff! Aim for the orb!" Unfortunately, Broff was in a rage, unable to hear Jacko's advice. The Elemental launches it's arms to its own face to rip Broff out of his face. Broff then suddenly felt the intense heat from within the Grom's armor, causing him to then use his Stone Axe Fists to slash at the Elemental's face once more, before the fists connect, causing a large fiery explosion at the Elemental's head. Broff is them suddenly shot back at the ground besides Jacko, seeing Grom melting away from it's body and returning to it's slime form. Broff's body was naked, and heavily burned, he was still alive, tho barely. Jacko then turns to the Flame Elemental, it's head completely torn apart, but still spewing out flames from it's ripped head, wailing it's fiery arms around, throwing large fireballsnaround the forest. Jacko could feel his heart racing...melting. Jacko then looked at his chest, to finally reveal what his heart really looked like. His heart is an abominable mass of slime, showing itself outside his body when he was in grave danger. Jacko then cried as the Slime Heart emerged. Finn then flew towards Jacko's face, looking worried. "Finn, let's do it. We have no choice..." Jacko cried, while feeling the heat of the nearing Flame Elemental. "I don't want to die!" Jacko screamed, the Slime Heart being absorbed back in his body, as he then summoned a Water Slime, splitting it in two and absorbing them through both his arms, turning them into wobbly water tentacles. Finn then flies into Jacko's head, suddenly growing large pair of green wings and a green glow surrounds him. The Flame Elemental rockets separate Flame Fist at Jacko. He immediately flew out of the way, dodging the Flame Fist and exploding the ground. Fortunately it missed Broff's body, Jacko thought. Then he returned to his senses, freaking out as he was flying. "Oh my god!" Jacko screamed as he then saw another Fireball being launched towards his way, flying out of it and then throwing both of hiswatery tentacles wrapping the elemental's arm. Jacko yelled as he tightened the grip of the tentacles, ripping it off the Elemental's body, exploding as it was sepwrated. Jacko's eyes suddenly glowed green, confused. Then he realized he sees the orb on the Flame Elemental more clearly now, his wings then flapped quicker as he dashes towards the direction. The Flame Elemental then throws down it's final fist towards the pesky Jacko. He then responded by wrapping a tentacle at its arm and suddenly slime runes appeared there, causing a water slime to summon and then explode at the Elemental's arm. However, he had immediately forgotten that the arm would detonate, causing the explosion to blast Jacko to the side, barely shielding himself with the water tentacles. Jacko then shook his head after being hit like that, then reopened to see the Flame Elemental, suddenly regrowing it's flame arms, roaring in anger. "Aw come on! That's not fair!" He yelled, he then suddenly thought of a great idea. It was risky, but after examining his robe, which didn't look damaged at all. He might want to thank Nurse Petal after this battle. He then zooms straight towards the Fire Orb of the Elemental. The Fire Arms of the Fire Elemental blocked his path. Jacko then summoned a Water slime ot then use his tentacles to shape the slime into a shield, zooming through the flame arms and then using the shield to wrap the flames within the water slime, launching himself down the ground with the orb, bruised and burnt in some places. The Fire Elemental then slowly disappeared as it's being blown by the wind out of the air, leaving only fire left at the ground. Jacko then flipped himself over, unsummoning all the slimes within him, back to his normal self. He then held the Fire Orb at his hand. Jacko then attempted to crush it, but then slime runes surrounded the Fire Orb... transforming the orb into a Fire Slime, this time its slimes were made out of flames, and doesn't burn Jacko's hands. Jacko gasped at the summon, sitting up and looking at the Fire Slime. "I hate you, but you're so cute." He said, hugging it in his arms. He then quickly absorbed it back into his chest, then ran towards Broff's body. He sighed in relief as he saw his burned body, but his eyes and mouth formed a grin. "You're a man now." Broff gave a chuckle. "It's gonna be ok, Broff! Nurse Petal can help you out!" Jacko said. "Jack..Jacko..." Broff's eyes slowly closed. Jacko shook his body, rubbing off the ashes off Broff. "Broff?" Jacko said once more...until he realized what happened. This was the first time he had seen someone die in front of him. He didn't know how to react, he didn't cry. He just sat there. He then places his hand on his burnt chest. "I'm..uhh..." Jacko began. "Thank you..." Jacko said, as he sniffled. He then stood up, then he heard magic spells from a distance, now that the sounds of flames were dispersed. They came from Honey Town.