Saving Jazz Hero..or not yet? The Detour | HivePH Writing Contest: The Second Story Entry

This is an entry to HivePH's Writing Contest. The first story can be found here.

Disclaimer:

All characters written here, so as the story itself are a work of fiction. Not in any way reflecting real life situation. Purely fiction. And lastly, I come in peace. Peace be with you all.

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“Fairest mermaid of sea, I beseech your audience in this time of need. May you grant me thy wish.”

Jazz repeated the words to summon the mermaid. He's standing there like a guy waiting for his date to show up for almost 30 minutes but no mermaid has shown herself.

One hour and 39 minutes later, Jazz is still standing near the waters waiting for the mermaid. His patience is running out but he figured only the mermaid can help solve his problem. Because he was so pre occupied by waiting and felt like someone stood him up, he had totally forgotten about the memo written on the rocky area of the lagoon. Not until he turned his back did he noticed the memo that was from the Wise and Fairest Pretty Tologo Mermaid ng Cebu.

"Out to pamper myself for a week. DO NOT DISTURB."

Jazz felt defeated, and all the more because he just wasted his 2 hours and 9 minutes waiting for nothing. He could have done something better to do than waiting and standing there. In that 2 hours and 9 minutes, he could have traveled around the world and visited at least 21 countries. Or he could have talked to Adam about stopping the battle. Or he could have created some enhancements to the bot he has created. But no. His legs are so tired from standing the whole time he's in the lagoon.

"I guess I'll have to join the battle. But I may need a disguise so Adam won't know. Or maybe..."

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On the way to find Arc the warrior who already slayed 33 players, TP stopped. Witty the Witch of Zell and Demitri Trymebabyonemoretime the Traveling Landlord with the disturbing tightest clothes are both ahead of him. Witty is on her broomstick because she has one, while Demitri is using his powers to control the land so he can move with no excess energy. However, he is still wounded so regenerating and using his powers to make the land move is exhausting his mana, meaning he is regenerating slower than what he's thinking.

"Hey guys!" TP called the attention of the Witch and Wizard. They are already too far away from TP, as TP is walking barefoot while the others are using their powers.

He shouted this time so the two could hear him.

Demitri Trymebabyonemoretime was the first to hear TP's high pitch voice. He didn't know TP could scream like that.

The two went back and inquire of TP's sudden stop.

"Umm, guys.. I need.. to.. tell you..something..." TP could not talk properly because he's too shy to say the words he needed to say.

"Prrt!" It was the passing wind.

"Prrt! Prrt!" Gas came out of TP's back with a smell unknown to mankind. The witch and the landlord's faces both turned sour at the same time.

He could not contain it anymore. He cannot even stand straight. Anytime soon, the nuclear bomb will be dropped to the ground so he needs to hurry and look for some place with privacy. Everywhere he look, he could not find trees or even grass. They are in the plains. The ground is cracked, no water, and no toilet! The most important thing he needs now is nowhere to be found. He is tired from walking but he needs to look for a place to drop the bomb.

"Can..we..hurry..to the next..?" On Demitri Trymebabyonemoretime's face is a question mark because he couldn't understand what TP was trying to say.

So again, they did the charades for Demotry to understand. Witty the Witch of Zell was just standing there looking at the two idiots playing and wasting their time instead of looking for Arc. She urgently wants to see Arc and end the bruha.

TP was trying his best to make Demotry understand but the landlord was so stupid enough to understand him. So he talked to the witch about it. He was doing the charades again but Witty already got it in just a snap.

"Gusto nya daw mag poopoo."

"BAKIT MO SINABI!?!" TP was so shocked hearing the direct and honest words from Witty that he could not say in the front of other people. He's too embarrassed to let someone know that he wants to go to the toilet and do his thing.

"Eh totoo naman. Malayo pa tayo sa next stopover. Can you wait? Or do you really want to-"

TP cut her and said "I cannot wait anymore. It's about to explode."

TP doesn't know what to do anymore. He doesn't even know what to think anymore. He just wants to go to the toilet and let it all out. He cannot think straight so he just wants to get it over with and do the bomb disposal in the middle of the plains, with Demotry and Witty as the audience.

Just as he's about to let down his fake LV trousers that he bought in Divisoria for 215 pesos the other day, Witty said something.

"Wait! I have an item here that would take us to the next area. But this is expensive. Are you willing to pay for it?"

TP immediately checked his pockets but not even a coin was there.

"I can loan it to you but you have to pay me double its worth." Without any hesitation, TP agreed to the deal. He just needs to find a toilet or even a grassy area where he could do his thing because sa bukid walang papel, kiskis lang sa pilapil.

Little did he know, that loan granted more powers to Witty the Witch of Zell. She has a special ability that will make her more powerful whenever someone loans from her.

TP immediately used the item and so the 3 of them are now in the snowy mountain area. TP found his private place and planted the bomb covered in snow.

Just as he was about to finish, some monkeys surrounded him and stared at him as if he's some of attraction. TP is actually afraid of monkeys, but he remained strong and firm because the Debt Berserker power was activated after he loaned from Witty. His heart was not easy to destroy.

The monkeys are showing off their abs but TP's abs are firmer because he was always secretly working out prior to the battle, thus the abs. The monkeys cannot accept their defeat right there and then so they showed their biceps, triceps, and other ceps, excluding cepcep. But TP won a landslide victory, he has the perfect body for a show off against these annoying monkeys.

Completely defeated, the head of the monkeys came to TP and said "Since you defeated us in this show off, I will tell you which way to go. I know where you are headed because everybody who came here all went to the same destination."

TP was astonished and couldn't say anything for 10 seconds. He's at a loss for words. He couldn't believe a monkey could talk!

"You may be thinking why I can talk. I'm a human, silly! I just acted as a monkey so I could rule over all the monkeys. My name is Mervin Agustin. And no, I'm not part of the battle royale. I'm just an NPC created to guide players like you."

TP called for Witty and Demotry and introduced them to Mervin Agustin. Demotry can't help but judge Mervin Agustin based on his actions. Demotry is a judger after all. He will always judge people. But based on Demotry's judgement, Mervin Agustin seems trustworthy on nothing else but directions, although he could improve his actions back to a normal human being.

With the guidance of Mervin the head of the monkeys, TP, Demitri Trymebabyonemoretime, and Witty the Witch of Zell came to the place where they will finally meet Arc, the warrior who has already defeated 33 players, and 10 more while they were traveling. Arc seems so strong and already has minions of her own but Witty has already did her research and found out Arc's only weakness.

"Why are we meeting Arc again?" TP inquired as the group is heading closer to the enemy's territory. TP has a lot of questions, he even forgot he asked before who sent them on a mission to save Jazz Hero. Until now he doesn't know who is the guy behind all this nonsense. Actually TP had almost forgotten what their mission is because of the disaster earlier.

His bald head is shining like crazy now that they are near Arc's location.