Brawling in the Broth (2)

"REEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

The Huoshu let out a horrible cry as the orange flames on it's body began to grow in size. It waved it's oversized paws towards Tatterhood and her group, sending dozens of orange fireballs that soon took the shape of giant, charging rat monsters.

Tatterhood just smirked at the charging fireball rats and gave her newly acquired monk's spade a hearty swing forward. A wall of broth soon shot upward, dousing a good chunk of the fireball rats into nothing but smoke, with only a scant few left that soon charged towards the Wolf-Headed Ogress, the Zouyu cub and RJ.

"Uh-oh! Scatter!", RJ cried out as he proceeded to jump to a nearby clam. The Wolf-Headed Ogress and Zouyu cub meanwhile bolted to opposite directions.

"I'll leave the rest to y'all!", Tatterhood exclaimed as she charged towards the Huoshu with her monk's spade in hand. As she charged forward, the spade began to release a subtle hum and glow. Liquid from the broth began to float upward and coat the spade to form a spiralling lance.

"Bellerophon!", Tatterhood called out as she suddenly picked up speed and charged forward.

"Meh!", the sea-goat cried out from the broth.

At his master's call, a large sea-goat made of broth with a smaller, physical sea-goat in the center of it, charged at the Huoshu.

The Huoshu was now caught in a pincer maneuver!

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"Grrr. Annoying", the Ogress growled as she began to leap from ingredient to ingredient to avoid the fire rats. Every time any of the fire rats made impact with the ingredient platform she just leaped off of, they would explode into orange flames of mucus that proceeded to burn the ingredients. While she was leaping about, she grabbed half of a giant soft shell crab that was as big as a club from the broth.

Just as the last two fire rats were about to hit the Ogress, she swung the crab in her hand outward and smacked the first rat into the second rat.

A loud and disgusting smelling explosion occured as the two fire rats collided with each other and detonated.

Having the crab chunk serve it's putpose, the Ogress proceeded to toss it back into the broth.

"Gross", she grunted as she kept leaping about.

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"SHITSHITSHIT! What the hell do I do?!", RJ thought as he saw the flame rats flying towards his position. A moment later, he recalled that he had just read the instructions on the slew of treasures and skills that he received just recently.

Tapping into his inner keyboard warrior, RJ rapidly flicked through the app's menu to see what he could use in this situation.

"[Spirit Sense], nope"!

"[Sculpt], nope"!

"[Celestial Bronze Bagua Mirror-Prototype]? Alright, let's use it"!

Clicking on the icon, a spell circle formed on the phone's screen and a ball of light shot out of it and into RJ's other hand. The light ball quickly took the form of a bronze and silver bagua mirror after hitting RJ's hand. Unusually, the mirror did not rest in RJ's hand, rather it just floated there and around his hand.

"I hope this works!", RJ exclaimed as he swung the mirror towards the flame rat. A loud gong sound followed by the mirror absorbing the flame rat occured after the two forces made contact. Unexpectedly, the mirror started to spin after absorbing the flames.

"Gaaah! Why is it spinning like a top?!", RJ exclaimed as he wrestled with the bagua mirror. A few seconds later, a similar looking flame rat was released by the mirror and sent flying away from RJ. The reflected flame rat ended up impacting a cabbage leaf that floating nearby, surprisingly not turning it into smoke though.

"Huh...wonder if...", RJ thought for a split moment before swinging the mirror to absorb another flame rat. But this time, he went with the spinning and timed it.

"1...2...3!", RJ counted before the flame rat was launched from the mirror again. Only this time it hit a flame rat that was flying towards.

"Huh...okay. Let's see if I can do that again", RJ said in preparation as another wave of flame rats came rushing towards him.

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The Zouyu kept leaping from ingredient to ingredient until it had suddenly stopped atop a suitcase sized scallop and turned to face the flying flame rats.

A score of flame rats were about to make impact with the small magic kitty and turn it into a pile of smoke and ash...up until the kitten roared like a tiger.

"GROAR"!

The Zouyu cub released a mighty tiger's roar that somehow stunned the flame rats in midair, forcing them to just awkwardly hover in space.

As the flame rats hovered there in the air, the Zouyu began to suck in air in a powerful manner and sucked up the flame rats into his gullet.

When the last of the flame rats got sucked in, the Zouyu stopped and let out a small burp.

Having finished it's meal, it leapt back to where RJ was for cuddles and a nap.