And...nothing happened.

"What the hell? Why didn't it work? Are you sure that you looked through everything on the list?" Creine asked. His lazy butt had the audacity to ask us that when we had checked everything multiple times, and we were working hard to save him? Nope. I was not going to let him get away with this.

"Yes, I'm sure, otherwise I wouldn't have said that was the final cure! Use your nonexistent brain!"

"Well if I have a nonexistent brain, then how can I use it?"

"I don't know, I'm sleep deprived and that's the best insult I can come up with! So shut up and let's go confront the queen."
BAM! I kicked a door in once again, but this time the stakes were much higher. And I was actually ready to kill someone.

"HEY! LISTEN UP YOU PLASTIC SURGERY-RIDDEN UNIHERG! I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL! If you win, then we'll leave, but if-no, not if, when. When I win, you cure him. Deal?" The queen thought for a minute, then nodded and...smirked?

"Very well. But good luck defeating me." Suddenly, the tall, elegant woman before me was no more, replaced by a 12-foot-tall warrior with a deep black morningstar. Creine and Penelope took a step back at the sight.

"Uhmm, you can defeat...that, right?" Penelope asked, looking at me worriedly.

"Oh, definitely not," I replied, smiling.

"Then why are you smiling? Are you going to do another one of your stupid ideas that will almost get you killed?"

"What? No. What do you take me for, someone who is extremely reckless, sarcastic, and violent?" 

Penelope glared at me. "Okay, okay, jokes aside, I'm smiling because that's her third form."

"What do you mean, 'third form?'"

"Well, every Slerrok has three forms. One is their 'human' form, which is the weakest but takes the least amount of energy. The second form is the 'regular' Slerrok form, which is stronger but it takes some more energy to use. And the third form is their 'warrior' form, which takes a whole bunch of energy to use, but it's the most powerful form. I can take her on easily-in one of my other forms."

I let my magic flow back into my body, dropping the illusion and letting my hair go partially black and making myself grow to meet her height. I popped my contacts off to fully show my red eye and fangs sprouted from my mouth. A smooth, cool sword made of light appeared in my hand, along with a shield with some very rude Slerkin words written on it.

"Let's go, just me and you. Let's go, just one on two," I said. "Except that I'm only one person. But I don't care because Steven Universe is amazing and I love that song."

I struck one of those weird anime fighting poses and waited for her to make the first move, while I took another sip of coffee. And she did-soon enough. The Slerrok ran towards me, morningstar raised in the air and ready to strike, but I quickly blocked the blow with my shield. Using the fact that she was leaning forward to my advantage, I quickly punched in front of me and ran the queen through with my sword. As the dark matter met my blade, black blood flowed from it, staining both the floor and my sword with its ink-like hue. Without hesitation I yanked the blade out, still dripping with the Slerrok's blood.

"You ready to give up yet? I mean, it's painfully obvious that you're not going to win. 5 minutes into our fight and you already have a gaping stab wound." My opponent said nothing, merely glared at me and heaved her weapon up to try and land another blow. With a swipe of my arm, I easily blocked her morningstar from coming down with my sword. Shoving her off me, I leapt up and shot a light rope to the ceiling, which pulled me up over her head. I landed behind her, then summoned my dagger and quickly stabbed her exposed neck, deep enough to seriously hurt but not deep enough to kill. I'm getting a bit of deja-vu here.

Taking advantage of her weakened state, I kicked the queen's legs out from under her and, as she was falling, grabbed her sword from her hand and threw it across the room.