Chapter 7: Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

	Serenity slowly backed away from the short child, holding her baton in her right arm as she pulled Grant to her side. Slur simply stared at SSN, undoing the bun her hair was in.
	"Oh of course, you ingested that shard, maybe I can knock it out of your system." Serenity brandished her baton at SSN, and shot the metal barbs at him, grimacing as he shielded himself from the barbs with a piece of plywood.
	"Yes, I know that pulling an SSJ3 isn't the smartest move, but at least it wor-" SSN frowned as Serenity simply pulled the plywood out, and threw it at him. Slur simply sat down on the ground, petting Grant.
	"Serenity needs to calm down, she almost impaled a child with those weird spike things" Slur murmured, undoing the bun her hair was in. Serenity bashed into SSN with her shoulder, then was quickly knocked off her feet as SSN kicked at her.
	"Sorry to cut this short, but I better get home now, even though I live thousands of miles away." SSN started walking, and yelled as Serenity ran behind him, easily picking up the short child and preforming a vertical suplex on him and landing in the water.
	"Please, Serenity calm down. I don't think someone would be that weak if they did ingest the shard" Slur said calmly, still petting Grant.
	"Ugh, fine, I guess you're right, He probably couldn't even carry the clothes he's wearing" Serenity grabbed her baton, and gave it to Grant, "But he's still going to be a problem, we might as well lock him up in the basement so he doesn't get to the shard."
	"Oh, okay then. Why don't we just like leave him there? It's not like he's going to do anything evil." Even SSN laughed at Grant's remark. Slur continued petting Grant, looking around the area, then got up.
	"Well, I don't think this can be an SS, let alone the leader. If he was the leader, why hasn't any of his minions-" Slur was interrupted by the sound of a motorcycle going, along with someone yelling "How do these things even work?"
	"That sounds like my ride" SSN retorted, hearing various crashing noises. After about ten minutes, the man on the motorcycle appeared, driving off the roof of a building for effect, then fell to the ground. The man was quite tall, about two meters tall, with short brown hair, brown eyes, and a pale complexion.
	"Castle Studios is almost complete, but we still have the top floor." the man said, then looked to Serenity and the others "Oh, my apologies, I am SSJ, goodbye now!" SSJ smiled, and threw five smoke bombs to the ground, but none of them went off.
	"Darn it! Well at least I keep a backup escape plan." SSN searched through his pockets, and threw a handful of sand in Serenity's face "Face the wrath of my fabled Pocket Sand technique!" SSN stated proudly. As Serenity wiped the sand, both SSN and SSJ were gone. Serenity looked at Slur, and appeared to be on the verge of throwing Slur into the water.
	"Oh my god Slur, you were standing right there while SSN and J were running away, why didn't you even try to stop them?" Serenity almost smacked Slur.
	"Well, I was too busy petting Grant. Look at him, he's a dog, aren't dogs cool?" Slur gestured to Grant, and watched as he violently wagged his tail. Serenity glared at Slur, then walked back into the cathedral, with Slur and Grant following. Serenity sat on her bed, still glaring at Slur as she sat down.
	"Okay, so let me just collect my thoughts..." Serenity lied down on the floor for a solid hour, having to push Grant away as he tried sitting on her face multiple times, then she  got up "Okay, we're supposed to like stop SSN, but he also has a Castle now. I'm guessing that we have to go through the castle, and defeat SSN and all of his cohorts, then we win?" Serenity seemed unsure of herself.
	"Well, where would we find SSN's castle? Maybe it's not even a castle, just a really big sand castle that they're making on a beach." Grant suggested. Slur walked around the room, and fell, a small, hexagonal machine falling out of her hair.
	"I knew that there was something in my hair, but I didn't know it was that old thing." Slur picked up the small machine, and turned it on. The screen turned to a map, showing a small, human-like three dimensional model on a simplified map of the nearby area. As Slur walked around with the machine in her hands, the model on the map slowly walked along with her.
	"Well, what is it?" Serenity asked impatiently
	"Oh yeah, I remember now! Before I went on the plane ride, Adrian and Terri were able to add the locations of SSN and a few other SSs by inputting their IP Address into the machine, and probably out of Black Magic, got the machine to track SSN and his cohorts" Slur walked around, mesmerized by the little three dimensional model that walked along with her. The model was set to appear as a light-skinned female, but Slur quickly changed it to a man of a darker skin tone.
	"Oh, that sounds great! Then that means after finding the castle, it'll be smooth sailing from here, right?" Grant asked, wagging his tail.
	"Well, SSN actually lives very far away. Maybe we can convince Julian to buy us plane tickets back? Well, probably not, he's already a bit steamed about me using his credit card to buy almost three hundred dollars worth of ice cream last week." Slur pulled out a container of ice cream from Grant's mane, and started eating it with a fork.
	"Wait, stop putting ice cream in Grant's fur, I think he'd enjoy if you stopped." Serenity said. Slur stared in horror as Grant took the container of ice cream from Slur, thinking it was for him. Grant didn't realize that ice cream was in the container, and proceeded to mutilate the poor container, covering his face and the floor in ice cream.
	"I have no idea what this stuff is, but I ate some and it tastes like soap." Grant yawned, and rolled around in the melted ice cream before he fell asleep in the mess.
	"Well, that's over. Now, tell us where this "SSN" fellow is now!" Serenity grabbed her baton, holding it up in a gesture that said "Tell me or I'll bash your face with this!"
	"Okay, okay, let me look..." Serenity watched as Slur started scrolling through the menus on the machine, and clicked on SSN's name, "Nathaniel," and watched as the map moved over to a completely different location, showing three dimensional models of SSN and SSJ.
	"So, they live in an odd, probably fictional place. It's called "Southern Mississippi""