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Miner @2019

Covered in ashes, Liam and I escaped the room. Diamonds fell from the sky like rain and we hid and dug a burrow under a giant emerald marked "HOUSE OF EMERALD MINER/SLICK."

After we put the crying King Diamondman IV to sleep, we watched through a hole drilled in the side of the emerald a rain demon attacking a neighborhood and

destroying houses. Liam threw his sword out, but it stabbed into the wall of a house in the neighborhood. His sword magically came back, though, with a slam of King Diamondman IV's black diamond staff. The black diamond, though, exploded into smithereens and King Diamondman IV cried so loud, he destroyed the underground bunker.

The rain demon headed out with three of

its friends. They destroyed the emerald and shot bolts of rain in the bunker. "Wait," I said, "doesn't water act as a glue for colored diamonds?" "Yeah!" said Liam, and we stuck out the broken staff to the rain demons. The demons blasted the staff intact, and it flew into Diamondman IV's waiting arms, and the four feared friends exploded into puddles of rain.

Soon, Rainman XXVII appeared with another villain, it seemed, as he said, "Meet Firethrower DCCLXXVIII. The Firethrowers have been around way before the Rainmen, about 30000 years, to be exact. But wait, do you want to be friends? Here's the thing, though. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO STOP THE RAIN DEMONS!!!!!!!!!!!"

The Great Battle of Flames vs Rain

Firethrower burnt a small village to ashes with a clap of his hand, and black diamonds poured out of every opening in his body, and, vomiting diamonds, he sunk down and got smashed by a rain blast from Rainman. "Well," said Liam, "the next Firethrower we'll see is DCCLXXIX!" But abruptly, fire demons rose out of the ground, and, like Liam said, so did Firethrower DCCLXXIX.

Fire started burning houses and flames sprouted from the ground. Diamonds burned, rain demons evaporated, and Rainman, triggered, threw millions of rain demons out into the ground. Soon, fog ran around Firethrower, and he blasted the fog back with fire.

Rainman jumped at Firethrower, extinguishing the flames and knocking Firethrower into his own flaming pit, pinned to the side of the wall, stabbed by a stalagmite resting by the side of the wall. But instead of blood pouring from Firethrower, fire erupted from his insides and burned the pit farther, swallowing the neighborhood and Firethrower DCCLXXX fell from a vortex on the floor of a cavern.

Fire was blasted into the cavern as a battle erupted into chaos. Liam grabbed two swords and burnt the blades into two swords of pure fire. Firethrower grabbed a flaming sword, I followed, and King Diamondman IV grabbed one, just to smash it with his black diamond staff. The staff, though, broke into a million pieces and exploded.

As black diamonds rained onto the cavern floor, swords clashed, stalactites fell, and rocks flew off the cavern walls before a great explosion knocked King Diamondman IV onto a fiery rock formation. He ran, on fire, out of the cavern and disappeared into a natural stairway and a rock almost hit him...