Grace gave me a message to visit her in her office. She had her head in her hands. "What is it?" I asked, suddenly briefly forgetting the dire situation of the Krokonicom's theft.
Penny snorted. "Rra Maelstrom is being unreasonable, that's what! He wants us to find some plague ooze! Where tin the Spiral can we get that?"
Grace explained. "Rra Baelstrom told me to get some diseased water, and Rra Storycrafter, another friend of yours - he helped me get the water from the fountain in Regent's Square when I couldn't reach Marleybone yet - got it for me, he said it was in a pool in the Cave of Solitude, which worries me... since when has the water in Mooshu become impure? This is a black omen. Then Rra Baelstrom said I needed plague ooze, but he said that only a powerful demon of disease could emit it. I have no idea where to look. My hands are tied." She sighed.
"You're right, Grace," I muttered. "I didn't think of the possibility of there being a hidden tunnel under the museum... I failed to stop Malistaire from getting the Krokonomicon, but at least Meowiarty is gone."
"What do you mean?" asked Penny.
I then explained the girl I met - Amy Mistcloud. She had told me she was getting a pet egg from an archeologist who lived in Marleybone. "You met Mma Mistcloud?" gasped Grace. "She is Wizard Mercury!"
I was stunned. "You mean the superhero who defeated the Lost Page of Myth?! Amazing! I didn't recognize her in her toga."
I explained how we defeated the robots in the Counterweights - she distracted the golems (and destroyed them with Blizzard) and I pulled the levers. I got caught in one battle but managed it fine. The two robots - Bellows and the other guy - fell before Amy's blizzards and my Ninja Pigs. (Hint: If you aren't strong enough to fight the golems, you can flee after your partner flips the lever and books it to the stairs and then port to him. Underhanded and you will have to fight the enemies on the way down if you don't want to warp out after fighting the St-golem and Bellows.)
Then we tackled Big Ben. Amy kept killing the enemies but I stupidly spilt some milk and enraged a guy called Spike the Crusher. Amy crushed the two golems while I focused on Spike. I discovered that her hidden sailor fuku made her immune to fire, which I was envious about. (Note: If you want an easy time of this optional boss, destroy the golems before spilling the last bottle of milk!)
Halfway through we ran into a switch puzzle but Amy solved it easily. She was as smart as her fame said she was! ^_^ (The order of the switches is snowflake, bird, dog and moon.)
Then we reached the clock top and found Malistaire holding the book. "Drop that book!" I shouted.
He sneered at me. "Stupid little girl, you think you can stop me?"
Amy hissed. "I recognize you, you were the one who me and Ambrose met in Golem Tower, stealing that other book... that must have been a book about the Order of the Fang! You can't win, Drake."
"Who are you?" sneered Malistaire. "Well, either way, I can't have you two following me back to Dragonspyre. Meowiarty, deal with these brats!" He teleported away and I couldn't stop him from taking the Krokonomicon with him. I sobbed. Meowiarty had stolen the book for him! Clever!
"It will be a pleasure dealing with you girls," chuckled the cat thief. "I wonder how loud you can scream."
Amy growled. "You sick freak. You will pay for that remark." She waved at me. "Sierra, take out those mooks. Meowiarty is MINE."
I had a Myth Prism but discarded it and focused on the clockwork and the wraith.
Meowiarty kept summoning Trolls to attack me, and the wraith hit me with a Skeletal Pirate. I healed as much as I could but was able to take out the clockwork with a Ninja Pigs. I was forced to summon the minotaur minion to draw aggro from me.
Then Amy raised a sword above her head. "Time for you to die, Meowiarty. You can't keep harming one of the Children of Light and Shadow and hope to live."
"Oh, I am so scared," said the cat thief with a chuckle. "What are you going to do, tickle me?"
Just then, he gasped as a giant longboat flew out of nowhere. "King Artorius!" roared Amy. "Destroy this insolent scum!" I saw a mighty noble figure - it looked like a bear but not like the bears of Grizzleheim - and he looked up and smiled as a giant sword emerged from the water and summoned a serpent made of pure ice. It screeched and devoured Meowiarty whole...
"Malistaire... will avenge me..." Meowiarty said in his last breath on this earth. I shuddered and nearly got killed by the wraith until Amy healed me and my minion summoned his own Troll. (Minion spoiled the final epic blow. :( )
I asked Amy who that was. "Ask Merle Ambrose, he... no, I can't spoil it. You will have to be much much stronger before you can rescue Artorius on your world." She then teleported away, leaving me with more questions that I forgot about until later.
I descended down the path to the museum alone and I was greeted by Bones, Watson, the mayor and Chancey. They praised me, but it felt hollow - it was a Pyrrhic victory; Meowiarty was no more but Malistaire had managed to get his hands on the book!
"Yes, now that Malistaire has the Krokonomicon," said Sherlock. "We have no idea what kind of mischief he could be up to." I wished them good day and left, and that was when I met Grace.
"It was a shame I wasn't there to help," said Grace sadly. "But don't be upset. You did your best."
"What could he want with that thing?" muttered the mermaid.
"It has to do something with his wife," I muttered. "He's going to cast a spell from it to bring his wife back from the dead. Alhazred and Shalek said that the book had the greatest spells in the Spiral on Life and Death." Then something hit me. "But where is Dragonspyre and why go there? Is that where his hiding place is?"
"Rra Ambrose might know," said Grace. "After all, Rra Drake did teach at Ravenwood once."
I nodded. "Time to leave this place and head back to Wizard City..."
[To be...]
Edward Halley: "Well, look what the Quetzal dragged in! Amy, nice to meet you again! I think I have just discovered an entirely new world!"
Amy: "We can talk about that in a future time, Mr. Halley... I have two matters to attend to. First off, I've found another of the Children of Light and Shadow... her name is Sierra Fairyfriend... She will be heading to Azteca in her world soon. I wish I could warn her about the futility of her rescue of that doomed world, but I am not allowed to intervene in matters involving other dimensions..." *sigh* "The other matter involves an egg..."
[...continued...???]
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