Chapter 22: Own Medicine

Creamy and Othr headed to the simulation's swamp, wading into the muddy, brown waters as they trekked. The place had equally muddy soil, and many mangrove and oak trees grew around the place.

"Hey," Creamy caught Othr's attention. "Now that we aren't gonna deal with the Feast, maybe we should go hunt down the remaining contenders."

"You know what," Creamy turned. "Good idea. But let's go find more stuff first and enchant our gear at the Cornucopia after an hour passes, we wouldn't stand a chance against anyone at this rate."

As they ventured into the swamp, they found a lot of boats with chests in them. Inside were food, bottles full of clean water, and some simple iron tools.

Creamy opened one more chest from a cluster of boats. Its metallic parts were rusty for whatever reason, and lifting its wooden lid felt heavy. Inside was a diamond sword, and a bow, complete with a quiver of arrows.

"Ah! Finally, good weapons!" Creamy exclaimed in delight. "Which one of these are you most comfortable using?"

"I'll have this one." Othr took the sword, leaving Creamy with the bow.

They headed outside the swamp for the forest and into the Cornucopia. As they entered the area, Creamy jolted, with his eyes widened in shock. Before him, was Omega's mutilated corpse.

"Ooh, yikes," he said. "That was unexpected. Thought he'd get to hunt Webby down too or something."

The next thing they saw were the bodies of the eliminated contenders during the refill, mostly dying from a sharp, heavy blade.

A diamond axe.

"It must be his doing," said Othr. "But that landlord teammate of his isn't here at all, he probably got out alive."

Creamy, however, was too busy looting from other people's bodies. He found particular things of interest: the three elytras; two were good as new and one completely burnt, a tracker, lapis, food, enchanted books, armor, and of course, the legendary weapons of Viper and Rift; Vergiften and Himmel.

"He's more of a mayor, actually," Creamy corrected Othr. "I got quite a lot of stuff, you should check them out."

On the floor, he laid out each of his finds in a line. Othr took a pair of elytra, some food, the tracker, and Himmel, replacing his sword and giving it to Creamy, who then took the rest of the stuff with him.

"Thank goodness they had this tracker with them, this'll come in handy." Othr activated the tracker and saw three red dots on its screen. "Let's head there, Creamy."

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The pair arrived in the plains with the ruined structures. As they were following the tracker, they spotted three silhouettes of people in the distance.

One of them was behind another, holding up a paper of some sort. The person in front of them was using an ornate, epic-looking curved saber. They used it to subdue their opponent by cutting their head off. After the person's death, the duo heard the faint sound of a cannon firing far away.

"Yo," asked Creamy, poking Othr with his elbow. "That's gotta be them, right?"

"That's them," Othr replied. "and that guy they killed was Blaze. I'm unsure if we're going to be lucky or not since we've found them on our first try."

Both of them went straight into battle, about to face off against Webby and his partner.

Webby and Shatadru turned around and saw Creamy and Othr rushing toward them.

"We really can't catch a break huh?" asked Shatadru. Webby shrugged, and charged toward his opponents.

Creamy took out his bow, pulled the arrow, drew back, and let go of the strings. He sends an arrow flying toward Shatadru's head, which then pierces it between the forehead. He was then eliminated, causing a cannon to fire.

Creamy sent yet another arrow flying at Webby, who dodged it swiftly by stepping aside and ducking. A third arrow went his way, which was perfectly sliced in half mid-air by the Dragon Fish.

Webby then knocks Creamy back with his weapon, making him stuck onto a cobweb on the ground. He was bitten by an entire cluster of spiders, which then left him behind after a few minutes, all back inside Webby's pockets.

"Ohh noooo what do I do…" said Creamy. Webby was confused, and looked annoyed, with both arms crossed. "I'm gonna die ohhh boo hoo!"

Nerd was also confused as to why Creamy was going with his usual sarcasm in such a dire situation.

"Wait let me drink my milk before I die-" Creamy took out a box of milk, splashed it on his face, and drank the remaining contents. "Ahh, much better."

A minute had passed from the awkwardness of the situation. Webby, knowing how potent his spiders' venom is, was left wondering why Creamy still stands.

Webby scratched his head and asked Creamy a question. "...so are we gonna fight or-"

Creamy cut him off. "Yeah.", he sent Vergiften flying toward him. It scraped Webby's arm, leaving a long, wide scar behind.

"Ow! What gives?" asked Webby.

"Dunno, maybe a taste of your own medicine."

Webby got up, with his weapon in hand, edging toward Creamy as he was stuck in the cobweb.

Suddenly, bubbles frothed over Webby's mouth. He wiped his mouth and realized what was happening to him.

"You can't do this to me." he then felt his whole body turning numb, with his legs trembling causing him to stagger.

Webby gasped for breath, and fell to the ground, motionless. A cannon fired from a distance.

"So," asked Othr. "Did we do it?"

"Congratulations, Cweamy and Othr!" a hologram of Centuria appeared before them.

"Can you stop calling me that?" Creamy requested.

"Okay, I'm just here to tell you guys that you will now receive the bounty after successfully eliminating Webby's team."

Othr congratulated him. "Nice one, Creamy." He then gave him a pat on the back.

"Since it's the sixth day, meaning there's very few people left and it would be unfair for the others, you'll be given strength and speed for an entire day instead, Yay!"

"Cool."

"Once again, congratulations to Cwramy and Othr! See you next time!" Centuria's voice trailed off, just as her hologram dissipated and faded away.