Chapter 62 : We Go Ape Sh*t

The object ran forward, then they came to a complete stop. They all clapped their hands one time, and the entire classroom flipped upside down, making Kazuma and Nine fall through the floor of the classroom, but Duri and Seven were sticking to the ceiling.

Seven yelled, "Nine! Kazuma!"

Nine and Kazuma yelled back, "Seven!"

Seven looked at Duri.

Seven asked Duri, "Um you saw that, right?"

Duri replied, "How could I NOT see that they clapped and made the entire classroom flip upside down?! And Seven.."

"What?"

"Get out of that form. I could feel it training your energy."

"But-."

"Get out of it! We can't be weary when the tournament starts! We have to end this shit as quickly as possible! And I will NOT be late for my first tournament! I refuse to be!"

"Duri.."

"I'm serious."

"..Alright. Let's beat these bastards and get my phone back in less than ten minutes."

"Good plan."

Seven got out of her spirit of wrath form, and she and Duri dropped to the floor.

Ghoul said, "You brats..actually do the tournaments?"

Duri answered, "Yes! What's it to ya? Give her the damn phone back!"

"How come? Her family is wealthy. They can give her another one."

Seven asked, "How..the hell do you know about me..?"

"I live inside the walls of this school. Every word travels to me."

"No more talking!"

Seven rushed at Ghoul, but the object men dashed up to her and tried to punch her.

Duri swooped in with a spinning kick, and kicked them all through the walls, knocking them away from Seven.

Ghoul pointed at more objects in the room, and they became his friends, becoming puppets to do his bidding.

Ghoul hugged them, saying, "I'm so glad you are all my friends. Now..kill the girl. I will be the one to face off against the prodigy Duri. He will be my greatest obstacle in staying here with my best friends."

In less than a second, Ghoul traveled to Duri's face, and bashed him with a hard fist to the skull.

Duri felt that, and he and Ghoul went through the wall. 

Seven was dodging the fast attacks from the object men, running and jumping all over the walls and desks.

Seven said, "You all are some persistent fuckers aren't yall?!"

Two object men with pencil heads charged at Seven together, but Seven dodged their kick attack, jumped over them, made two purple orbs form in her hands, and she slammed them on the heads of the object men.

All of them went crashing through each floor of the school, eventually falling into the cafeteria.

Seven fell through a table, with her head hitting the wall, and she had killed the object men that were attacking her.

Seven stood up with a line of blood racing down the corner of her head. 

She looked at the dead object men, thinking, 'They're just objects turned into real figurines…and they have power? Power to manipulate even a classroom?'

Seven heard a noise, and she looked up, and she saw more object men with scissor heads, pencil sharpener heads, and paperclip heads jumping down the hole in the ceiling she just went through.

'More of them?!'

Seven stuck her arms and hands out to them, but the object men smashed their fists on their own chests, and suddenly, Seven's body was numb and droopy. 

Seven was sluggish, she could feel some of her skin feeling and stretching like gum.

"Bleh! Disgusting! What type of bastards are y'all?!"

The object men then covered their mouths, and Seven couldn't breath.

'What the hell?! What is this?!'

Then lastly, when the object men landed on the floor, they stomped both feet into the floor, and all the objects in the cafeteria started flying at Seven, hitting her and smacking her from all directions.

Seven thinks, 'Need to breathe!...Need to..move! Duri told me..not to use my Spirit of Wrath form…but I need to use it to get out of this!'

Ghoul slammed Duri on the classroom floor with a chokeslam, then he started to choke Duri with both hands.

Duri thought, 'He's insanely strong! He's actually competing with my shadow form..'

Ghoul said to Duri, "Oh..how I always wanted to meet you. Like Seven, your name has been spread around like a disease in this place. You're so popular..I'm so jealous..you have many people wanting to be your friend..you don't look like me, therefore you won't get made fun of because of your looks...but I DID! I never had friends, I hated school because of the way I looked to everyone! Actually..hehe…actually, I always wanted to see you face to face. Seeing you befriend a girl like Seven who has a metal arm, I thought you would make friends with someone like me.."

"You must be out of your mind if you think I'm gonna be friends with a psychopath like you!"

"That's mean. Why would you say that?"

"And another thing..tonight will be my first tournament…no one..will ruin it for me..not even you!"

Duri grabbed Ghouls face, and broke it with a single squeeze. 

Ghoul screeched, "Ah!!"

Duri put both feet on Ghouls chest, and kicked him upwards, making him smash through multiple ceilings of the school. Then, Ghoul was out in the air above the school.

'He kicked me…this far up?'

Duri was flying up to Ghoul still in his shadow form, and he was holding a shadow staff.

Duri spun the staff around his head and back, and then he stabbed Ghoul through the stomach with it. Duri ripped the staff out, flipped upside down with the staff in between his legs, and he smashed the staff on top of Ghoul's head.

Ghoul yelped again, falling back into the school.

Duri fell back into the school, but Ghoul was waiting for him, and he punched Duri in the chin.

Ghoul kept punching and kicking Duri, but Duri was unfazed by all of it, keeping a straight face.

Ghoul grabbed Duri's leg, and started running fast through the entire school, smashing and slamming and throwing Duri against everything, ripping the school apart.

Ghoul said to Duri, "We could've had fun times like these if we were friends!"

Duri answered, "Nah, I don't think so."

Ghoul tried to throw Duri again, but Duri ripped Ghouls arm off, and kicked him in the face and chest three times.

Ghoul crashed through some walls, and he rolled on his back. Ghoul sat back up again, and he couldn't see Duri anywhere.

Duri was making his way back to the classroom to see if Seven's phone was anywhere in there. He made his staff go away, and he looked around fast.

"Come on, come on!"

Duri saw the phone, but some object men were holding it and playing on it.

Duri said nothing, he just went to attack.

He got close enough, but an object man with a TV head headbutted Duri, making his nose bleed.

Duri said, "Ow! That actually hurt!"

The TV object man then grabbed Duri's chest with one hand, and slammed him through the classroom floor.

Duri said, "To be honest, I've never fought a TV person before!"

Duri slammed his fist through the TV screen, grabbed the body of the object man, and ripped it apart with his bare hands.

Duri was getting out of his shadow form, thinking, 'Much more of me in my shadow would drain my energy. I need all my energy before the tournament..'

Running down the hallway at Duri, Ghoul screaming and crying with blood tears, "You killed my friend! I was going to play tic-tac-toe with him! 

Ghoul stretched his arms left and right, and pretended like he was pulling on something.

Coming from the walls were school desks.

Duri asked, "Aw, you're mad because I ripped your friend in half? What's throwing desks at me gonna do?!"

The desks got near Duri, and they exploded.

Duri was blown backwards, and he crashed through a window, and he was in the principal's office.

Duri was coughing over and over, and he thought, 'Not only can this ugly dude create friends out of objects, but he can make objects blow up?!'

Many of the objects around Duri in the office started to enlarge with ripped grey bodies under them. There were dozens of them, and they all went for Duri.

Duri jumped over a counter, and kicked two of them away from him. Without hassle, Duri dodged all the attacks from the object men, jumping over them, sliding beside them, and was bashing all of their heads together, slamming them all over the principal's office.

Duri punched many of them in the face, blasting them away throughout the school, and Duri made his shadow snakes form, making them snatch up the object, devouring them easily and dragging them elsewhere to kill them.

An object man with a red stapler head tried to ram into Duri like a bull, but Duri caught his head, and ripped the stapler off, kicking the body away.

Duri turned around and smashed the large stapler against all the other object men that were getting ready to clap their hands or smash their fists together.

Duri's phone was ringing in his pocket, and he pulled it out. Marshy was calling him.

Duri answered the phone, and down the hall there were more object men and exploding desks swarming at him.

Duri said into the phone while dodging everything, "Hello?!"

Marshy answered, "Duri! Where are you and Seven?"

"Oh uh..dammit!"

"Duri what's wrong?"

"Oh nothing! Nothing at all!"

"Tell me. You better not be fighting."

"Whaaat? Of course not!"

"Then what are you doing?"

Duri slid on the floor, then jumped through the hallway twisting and kicking away exploding desks and object men, dodging everything thrown at him.

Duri responded to Marshy, "Me and Seven are um..warming up! Yeah, warming up around the area!"

"Why not warm up here?"

"Because the locker rooms smell like shit."

"...Okay then. Just be back in 5 minutes. The tournament is about to start.'

"ALREADY?!"

"Yes."

"Okay, um, okay, okay we're on the way right now!"

"Thank you, see yaaaaaa."

"Mhm mhm."

Duri hung up the phone, and he spotted Ghoul down the hall.

Duri said, "Change of plan, I'm gonna have to kill you."

In the largest and tallest hallway in the school, Nine and Kazuma were fighting off many object men. 

Nine was stopping the object men from clapping, she would use her breakneck speed to crush them through the walls.

Nine looked up, saying, "I need to get back up to the classroom and get Seven's phone!"

Kazuma rammed his hand forward at a few object men, and a large fireball blasted them away.

Kazuma replied, "How come you can't go now?"

"I can't! They suddenly match my speed everytime I try to leave the hallway!"

Eight big muscular 17 tall object men with large crayon heads landed into the hallway.

Nine ran quickly towards Kazuma, and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt.

Nine said, "Blast whoever gets in our way! We're getting out of here!"

Kazuma answered, "Yokai! I guess! I hope we get Seven's phone! And I hope Duri and Seven are okay!"

"Me too..but I know they'll be fine.."

Nine was about to run out of the hallway through the ceiling, but the giant 17 foot object men with crayon heads just stood there.

The entire hallway flipped upside down, but Nine still tried to make it out, jumping off of the wall to go through the hole in the wall.

Before they could get through it, a large grey fist punched through that hole, smacking Nine and Kazuma onto the floor.

There was a clap, a clap made by the giant object men, and they clapped three times, making water and moisture from the dew of their sweat form on the floor, and water filled up the entire hallway. 

And at the bottom of the hallway, was a hole, it was like a wormhole, and it was trying to suck Kazuma and Nine down there.

Nine was being dragged down there, thinking, 'I can't use my speed in this water..why?'

Nine's skin felt like gum, and she was sluggish.

'The hell's going on with my body? My skin feels sluggish!'

Here came Kazuma, swimming really fast with his left arm sluggish, and he grabbed Nine and pulled her out of the water.

Nine said, "Why are you saving me?!"

Kazuma answered, "Because you'll die if you don't! I won't let my friends die!"

"Kazuma.."

"Yep, that's my name!"

"So those giant object head crayon head mother bitches are jumping at us, how are we gonna beat them like this? Our bodies are sluggish!"

"We have to think of something!"

The giant object men weren't affected by the water, they were splashing through the water, punching Nine and Kazuma all around the area, dragging them against the walls and everything.

Nine thought, 'Need…momentum!'

Kazuma was being punched into the wall multiple times, and he thought, 'I really really hope..everyone else is okay!'

Back in the cafeteria, Seven was getting the same treatment, she was getting slammed, punched, and kicked around by the object men.

Seven hit the wall, and she thinks, 'My body is still sluggish..there was a point where my body wasn't. I noticed they have a cooldown. They clap every 2 minutes, and between those times, the effect of their abilities wear off. It's only a matter of time before they try to make me not breathe again. I need to do something .'

The object men charged at Seven again like stampeding horses, and  Seven slammed both hands into the floor, and she used her purple orbs to shoot herself into the sky. 

Her back slammed into the ceiling because she couldn't control her movement right since she was sluggish, and she said, "Ow!"

She hit the floor, and something happened. She wasn't sluggish anymore.

Seven stood up, thinking, 'I can move..? Why? Wait a minute…I accidentally hurt myself..so does that mean..that's the way to break out of their abilities?!'

The object men clapped again, and then they slammed their fists into their chests at the same time.

Seven's body was getting super sluggish again, and she couldn't breathe.

'I have to try it!'

Seven quickly made a purple orb form before her hands and arms went sluggish, and she smashed an orb at her own face, smashing her against the wall again.

The object men just looked at her, and Seven was walking from the smoke, smiling and fully well.

Seven said, "Shit. That hurt. Anyway, you object things can't do anything to me now. You guys have a cooldown. I figured out if I hurt myself, it would break the ability. Hold up, I also realized, it's not really just an ability, but a curse based ability. I broke that curse, my own pain broke me out of it. Your curse seems like it was only meant for you to do pain to me, not me applying pain to myself. You're done."

In that split second, Seven dashed across the room, and completely annihilated the object men with her purple orbs. She blasted them all away, stepping on their heads, spinning and kicking around and around, blasting the orbs on their chests and face, punching them into the air, creating a large orb, tossed it upward, and performed a roundhouse kick on it, smashing all of the object men in the sky through the ceilings, and the orb exploded on them, destroying them.

Seven sighed, and she could hear more clapping and chest pounding, she instantly thought it was Kazuma, Nine, or Duri.

She exclaimed loudly, "If any of you can hear me..if they make those clap and smash noises, you have to hurt yourself! It's the only way to break out of their curse!!"

Back in the hallway, Kazuma and Nine heard her, but they were drowning slowly to the bottom of the water, and the giant crayon head object men stood over the water, watching them.

Nine and Kazuma looked at each other, and nodded as their eyes were almost faded away.

Kazuma used all of his strength to open his mouth, and he bit his lip hard.

It hurt, but Kazuma was not sluggish and he could breathe.

Kazuma was surrounded by his fire, and his eyes were orange and white.

Kazuma blasted out of the water, dragging Nine with him.

Kazuma flew around the hallway, with fire on his fist and legs, and he zipped up to each giant object man, punching them in the face with his fire fist, and those punches sent the object men through the walls.

Kazuma turned around, and a giant crayon object man threw a hard fists, and Kazuma punched that fist with his fire arm, and the arm of the object man exploded with flames wrapping around his body.

Kazuma finished him off by creating a fireball and slamming it on the object man's face, making his head explode in fire.

The water was going down as this happened, and Kazuma yelled, "The water and hole is going away! This is good! Good, good news! Right, Nine?! Nine..?"

Nine was at the end of the hallway, attached to the wall, she had green and white sparks of lightning streaks around her body, and she said, "Godspeed."

More object men were showing up, climbing and running all over the walls, trying to get to Kazuma and Nine.

Nine blazed through the entire hallway, making all the water blast in the air, making all the object men disintegrate, and making the walls of the hallway shatter to pieces.

Nine stopped herself, and she was having trouble breathing, standing in the middle of the hallway.

'Shit, shit, shit! I wasn't supposed to use that now! Only for emergencies! I mean..does this actually count?'

Kazuma jogged up to Nine, and asked her, "Are you okay, Nine?"

"Yeah, I think. But man.."

"What?"

"That was soooo much fun! I wanna do that again!"

"Really?! Me too!"

"Wait, wait. We gotta go check on Seven and Duri!"

"Of course!"

On top of the school roof, Ghoul was 42 feet tall, and his head was spinning around and around, yelling, "I am Ghoul! I abandoned my real name because even my parents despised how I looked! And they named me! I hate the popular kids! All I wanted was human friends! I'm stuck talking to my own creations…WHEN THEY DON'T EVEN TALK BACK TO ME! BUT I STILL CARE ABOUT THEM! THEY'RE MY FRIENDS!"

Ghoul opened his chest up, and a spine bone shot out, trying to hit Duri.

Duri said, "That's kinda nasty, not gonna lie. Dirty bitch."

Duri jumped over the giant spine bone, grabbed the middle of it, ripped it out of Ghoul, and he zipped up to Ghouls head.

Ghoul screeched as he tried to chomp Duri.

Duri landed on Ghouls shoulder, and jumped behind his giant neck.

Duri wrapped the giant spine bone around Ghoul'a neck, twisted downward faster than a spinning dice, and broke Ghouls neck.

Duri was dragging Ghoul downward, Duri gritted his teeth as he used his strength to do so.

Duri and Ghoul fell through the school, creating a loud bang.

It was quiet for 1 minute straight, and smoke and dust was everywhere.

Seven, Kazuma, and Nine were jogging to them, and Kazuma said, "Duri! Duri! Are you okay?!"

Nine yelled, "Duri! Your ass better not be dead! I'll kill ya!"

Seven said, "Duri! Say something!"

Walking out of the smoke, was Duri, and he was holding Seven's phone. It was cracked a little, but it still functioned well.

They saw him, and they ran to him.

Duri tossed Seven her phone, and Seven saw the crack in it.

"Eeep!! A scratch! A crack! This is the latest phone!"

"Ahh, calm down. It still works. And I risked my life for that phone, so you better keep it forever."

Seven chuckled, "Haha. You're right. Thank you, Duri."

Kazuma ran up to Duri, trying to hug him again, wailing, "We're glad you're okay!"

Duri dodged Kazuma, making Kazuma fall to the floor 

Duri said, "I told you I don't do hugs, brat."

Kazuma smiled with a bloody bottom lip, sticking his fist out, "Fist bump?"

Duri rolled his eyes, then gave Kazuma a fist bump.

Duri said, "Alright guys, we gotta go. Like now!"

Seven asked, "What about all this damage to the school?!"

"Fuck it. My first tournament is more important."

"Wow you have a way of thinking."

Nine suggested, "Everyone grab hold of me, and I'll run you all there!"

Suddenly, from behind them, here came Sensei Kei. He had his hands in his pockets, and he said, "Well this looks drastic."

They turned to look at him, and Duri said, "Oh shit."

Kazuma said worriedly, "Sensei Kei, we can explain!"

Nine said, "This is awkward. Looks and doesn't it, teacher boy?"

Kei laughed, "As long as you all are alive, that's all that matters. And about Ghoul over there, he's not dead. He used to be in my class. I offered him help when he was younger, but he automatically assumed I was gonna treat him like everyone else, and he ran away from home and school. We all thought he died. He just told me back there..he hid in the walls with his object friends just so he could see what it felt like having friends in school, which is something he looked forward to since he was little."

Duri said, "That explains a lot. What are you gonna do with him?"

"Take him to the Hosts and let them deal with him. For now, you have to go to your first tournament. You're late. I'll clean you off with my power, and use my power to fix for school. It should take me at least an hour to be done with the entire building and outside though."

"Thanks.."

"No. Thank you. Thank you all."

[Hazmat tournament arena]

The crowd was chanting:

"Where is Duri?! Where is Seven?!"

Social media and Bloggerz was going crazy, posting things like:

"Will Duri and Seven ever show up?"

"Are they okay?"

"Did they run off somewhere?!"

"Durin and Seven are late! What's taking them so long?!"

Marshy was sitting in the crowd beside Xenon and Chaos, and she was about to get up and look for Duri and Seven. Seven's parents: Hinata and Zaiyen were sitting in the credits crowd also.

Zaiyen said, "He better not have done anything with her! I'll kill that brat!"

Hinata replied, "Wait a minute, dear.."

The announcer in the ring was standing with Duri and Seven's opponents.

The announcer said, "Well, we've been waiting a few minutes for Duri and Seven to show up, but they aren't here. I guess that means they have to forfeit the match-!"

"Wait!!!"

Everyone looked towards that voice, and they saw Duri and Seven standing at the entrance doors, down the walkway that led to the arena.

The crowd screamed, "WOO HOO! LET'S GO!"

"They're here!"

"They're finally here!"

The epic electronic music started playing again throughout the entire arena, and the announcer said, "Well then! Looks like they showed up ready to fight! Let's introduce them as they make their way to the ring! The prodigy, the boy with the birthmark, the hybrid Titan, the son of Host Marshy, give it up for Duri!!"

The crowd chanted Duri's name, and Duri's eyes glowed, and he was saying, "M-my f-first tournament! I'm so fucking happy! Yes! Chant my name! Worship me!"

Marshy explained, "Let's go Duri! Kick their butts!"

The announcer continued, "And his partner, another young prodigy, miss popular, daughter of TWO former Hosts, the one who holds the Spirit of Wrath, give it up for Seven!"

Seven grinned and bowed, as most of the boys in the arena had googly eyes for her, saying:

"Marry me!"

"I love you!"

"She's so hot!"

Duri and Seven continued to walk down the walkway to the arena, grinning at their opponents that were in the arena.

Duri said to Seven, "You already know what we're here to do.."

Seven smirked, "Hell yeah I do. We go ape shit.."