Chapter 10: Ch10 Merumeru’s Dungeon

Merumeru arrived in a strange new land after she went through the rift portal. She was standing on a red brick floor. The sky was blue and there were some fluffy white clouds in the sky. When she looked at herself she found she was in a strange outfit as well. She was wearing some sturdy brown boots on her feet. She had blue overalls with a red shirt underneath. Her hands were covered with white gloves. She had a fake mustache attached to her upper lip. On her head was a red cap with the letter 'M' on it. That letter probably stood for her name Merumeru.

Merumeru jumped for joy. Playing dress up was fun after all. However, much to her surprise she jumped and kept going into the air a whole lot higher than she thought possible. Not far from where she was, a cube of bricks was hovering in mid air. She ran up under them and jumped up to touch them with her gloves. Much to her surprise the bricks cracked apart into circular pieces and fell to the ground. Instead of leaving a pile of broken bricks they just went through the ground and she couldn't tell what happened to them after that. She ran around a bit more giggling and jumping the whole way. There were many more floating bricks that she jumped into and they went away into the ground like the first one. Eventually she came across a strange brick with a question mark on it. Jumping up under it and hitting it with her glove it made a weird noise and the question mark vanished. A mushroom popped up out of it and fell off. It landed on the ground and started floating away. Merumeru caught up to the mushroom and gobbled it down. 'A good snack would be nice after all this running and jumping,' she thought to herself. It was a moment later her body began to change. There was a strange noise and she became twice her height in the span of a few seconds.

'What the heck just happened? Did I just get taller?' Merumeru thought to herself as she looked around at her surroundings.

There were more floating bricks here but there weren't any strange ones with question marks on them yet. After walking a bit she came across what looked vaguely like a turtle. It had a green shell and a pale head. It kept walking towards her at a steady pace. The turtle had odd square shaped eyes and a mouth that kept opening and closing as it walked.

'I wonder if this is a monster?' She thought to herself as she waited for it to get close enough for her to talk. "Meru?" she said.

The turtle responded by walking up to her and biting her. Her body made a strange sound and she shrunk back down to her original height. On reflex, she jumped up in the air. Feeling the need for a little vengeance she landed on top of the turtle's shell, stomping it with her black boots. This caused the turtle to retreat into the shell and the force pushed it upside down.

She kicked the turtle shell and it went spinning away. Oddly, the shell didn't slow down as it traveled across the ground. Merumeru chased after it until it hit a large green pipe. Instead of shattering the shell bounced off the pipe and headed straight back at her. Merumeru jumped up in the air and the turtle shell flew by underneath her.

Merumeru loved pipes. After seeing the pipe the turtle shell didn't matter to her anymore. The time she got to ride the pipe was the most fun she had ever had in her life. The only bad thing about it was that she couldn't figure out how to get back into the pipe and ride the waters again. The water on the fountain kept pushing her out. It wasn't like the pipe in the river. The one in the river was more fun. Was this pipe a fun one like in the river or a no-fun one like in the fountain?

Merumeru jumped up on the green pipe and looked down. The pipe was large enough for her to fit into it.

Merumeru slid down the pipe like it was a slide. She cheered happily as she rode the pipe down into the ground. Merumeru plopped out in a room that was made of gray bricks. It was darker but there was enough light to see clearly. This was odd considering that there were no light sources. Two of those turtles were pacing back and forth on the ground. A row of gray floating bricks was overhead. On top of the gray bricks was a row of floating gold coins. They were spinning in the air for some reason. She jumped up on the floating brick platform and grabbed one of the coins. The coin vanished as soon as she touched it and a 'ching' sound run out in the area. A prompt showed in the corner of her vision

[Coins x1]

She liked the sound and proceeded to touch the rest of the coins making them vanish with the strange noise chiming out time and time again.

[Coins x10]

Thinking it might be fun, Merumeru hopped on one of the two turtles to knock it upside down. She then kicked the inverted turtle shell at the other turtle who was smacked by it. The turtle made a popping noise and got knocked upside down and into the air. Instead of landing on the ground it fell past the floor and was gone after that.

Merumeru hopped back on the floor and looked around. 'There are coins on the ceiling! This place is fun!' she thought jumped up onto the floating brick platform again and was sad when there were no more gold coins. There was another green pipe sticking down from the ceiling on the other side of the room. Without her jumping powers getting up there would have been a problem but as she was now she could launch herself into the pipe.

She launched herself up into the pipe which carried her up back to the surface. The pipe stuck up the length of several people off the ground. She stood on the edge and could see some more floating brick platforms that she could hop onto. She launched herself over to one of them and climbed onto it. On the platform Merumeru looked around to see where she could go next and saw there were more of those bricks floating around that she could jump onto and go elsewhere. She tried this with one of them, jumping onto it and sending herself off again into the air. After going up a few tiers of floating bricks she saw another block with a question mark on it. A green mushroom popped up out of the block and started moving to fall off the side.

'Wait! What if this mushroom has some kind of powers?' Merumeru thought as she went under the mushroom, grabbed it and ate it whole.

[Extra Life +1]

'What kind of powers did it give me? I can't tell!' she thought as she jumped up off of the block to find a new block to play with. Then she saw something weird. There was a green pipe attached to a floating block. The pipe was in the air. Why would someone attach a pipe to a floating block in the air? There isn't anywhere for it to go.

Merumeru went up to the block that had the pipe attached to it and looked around for anything unusual that might give her an idea of what to do next. She stuck her head in the pipe and said loudly, "Meru?"

There was no answer but she didn't care. She stuck her head inside and waited for something interesting to happen but nothing did. She climbed into the pipe to see if it led to the dead in that would be the brick wall. Surprisingly it went through and came out at another pipe.

'Oh! That's how they're going around!' she thought, and climbed out of the pipe. She was on another floating block of bricks. She checked the other side of the block to see if it had a pipe going out of it but it didn't. She found another block with a question mark on it and jumped up under it. The mushroom that came out fell down into a large hole into the ground. Regretting missing the mushroom, she stared at the hole that didn't appear to have a bottom and sighed. She would get the next one for sure.

She ran off down the floating blocks to try and find more question mark blocks and to try and find another strange green pipe again. When she found one she would be ready for the mushroom that came out of it!

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She ran around jumping up onto blocks of bricks. Eventually she found another question mark block but this time she had a plan. She crushed the brick next to it by jumping up from under it so she could get what came out of it easier. After doing this she hit the block and the same mushroom as the first kind she saw came out. Swiftly, she jumped up and grabbed it before it could go away.

She looked at the mushroom to see if was any different from the first one but it wasn't. 'So what's your power?' She thought as she gobbled up the mushroom and her body made a strange noise turning adult sized at the same time. Her body grew so quickly that she got up to twice her height in only a few seconds. She cheered herself on. After running around a bit she found a pipe that had a plant sticking out of it. It looked like a giant mouth attached to a stalk with leaves sticking out of it. The mouth opened and closed rhythmically. It made a 'glub glub glub' noise every time it opened wide and closed again.

Merumeru went up to the mouth. The plant tried to eat her. She harrumphed and jumped into the mouth. The plant monster soon learned trying to eat a slime in one gulp was a huge mistake. It didn't take long for Merumeru to melt away all the plant matter into her body. As a bonus the pipe was no longer blocked. 'All pipes must be unblocked so I can slide through them,' Merumeru judged the plant for the sin of pipe blockage.

***

In another dungeon Alex was sitting in a chair reading through a book when his phone rang out.

[Man eating plant used chomp on Merumeru it is ineffective]

[Merumeru uses dissolve on Man eating plant it is super effective]

Alex looked up at his phone that was still on the charger. All he could say was, "Huh?" Alex just shook his head, "That girl I wonder what trouble she is getting herself into."

***

Merumeru continued laughing playfully and she darted all round the area. She collected 20 more gold coins that were floating in mid air. Many blocks were busted and many pipes were cleared of vegetation. Eventually she came to a series of blocks that led up to a ramp. She saw a flag on a pole that was way high up. But there was an odd orange spiky shelled creature in the way. She jumped on it thinking it would go inside the shell like the other turtles. However, instead the spike pierced her boot and she made a strange noise as she shrunk back down to little girl sized. Respecting a worthy foe, she ran away and backtracked trying to find another question mark block. Eventually she found one high up on some floating blocks. Despite expectations, a star yellow came up out of the block. Unlike the mushroom this star bounced around. Merumeru the swift would not be foiled so easily. She ate the star and her body started flashing intensely. She felt invincible Merumeru jumped up on top of the block and back to the ground. She landed on a turtle but instead of turning upside down it just fell through the floor. She ran up to another turtle and touched it. The turtle just flew into the air upside down and fell through the floor. Thinking this could be the power to defeat the spiked creature she ran back and touched it. The creature flew up in the air upside down and fell through the floor as well. Merumeru then ran towards the flag and grabbed onto it. She got the flag and headed to the other side of the flagpole. There was a red brick castle with a strange man who had a mushroom for hair that looked like a hat.

"Merumeru", the slime girl addressed him.

"I'm sorry the princess is in another castle," the mushroom man said.

"Meru me Merume!" Merumeru said with a laugh.

The man got shocked and fell over but just repeated what he said before, "I'm sorry the princess is in another castle."

Merumeru rolled her eyes at him, "Ru Ru meru."

The man shook his head, "The princess is in another castle."

Merumeru pouted at him, "Meeeeeruuuu"

The man said "I'm sorry, I don't know what you're saying."

Merumeru poked her head into the door of the castle. "Ru ru ruru rurururu."

The man frowned, "The princess is in another castle."

Merumeru ran inside to see what kind of place it was and was greeted by two green pipes sticking out of a block in front of her. 'This is where I want to go!' She said as she climbed into one pipe and slid down it. The pipe was a long fun slide. There was a watery portal at the end. She slid through it and came out in the basement where she started. Fufi was there looking glad to see that Merumeru was unhurt.

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