Okay, so chapter 4 is up! this took me two days to write, and I worked really hard on it. It's the battle sequence people! I must warn you though, it is much longer than my regular chapters and it is very serious for a change. But no worries, the next chapter will be humorous again.
Thanks to Chibi Jack and Jonothan33, my only avid reviewers! You guys rock.
Disclamer: I do not own Baten Kaitos. I also do not own Agyo and Ungyo...or Rhapsody. If I could cast Rhapsody upon you, life would be good. But I can't, so it's not.
Kalas ran towards the nearest wooden guardian and slashed at its chest in one fluid movement, then he attacked with a fury of stabs. Agyo drew up the power he needed, and then attacked his attacker with an onslaught of fire. Kalas quickly dodged to his right while Xelha came up behind and attacked full force with water attacks. Agyo thrashed about before retreating to a corner. Lyude took up position a little farther away and unleashed a barrage of light based attacks at Ungyo, who was in the opposite corner, and finished off with rhapsody. Ungyo was dazed, but recovered quicker than its companion did. Lyude scowled.
" Why aren't my attacks doing much?" He asked, slightly annoyed. Kalas ran up to Ungyo and attacked using fire, finishing with flash explosion before retreating to balance himself.
"Because this one is water elemented, I'd thought it would be obvious, what with it being blue and all." He replied before rushing towards Ungyo for another go. Ungyo took the first blow; side stepped on the second, blocked the third, and took the fourth and dream blade to the head. Lyude frowned as he loaded dark elemented attacks into his sonic rifle.
"It's not obvious, just convenient. I've got a lot of red on me, and I'm not fire based." He called back to Kalas as Kalas jumped back from Ungyo. Lyude aimed his rifle and shot Ungyo five times in the head, but missed the sixth shot. Kalas saw the change in the guardian's stance and took up a defensive position.
" Well that's because you're a special case. Most people dress in the corresponding colour to their preferred element." Kalas replied as the water guardian cast several water attacks upon him, most of which Kalas ended up taking full force and was knocked backward ten meters. Mizuti jumped over Kalas as he slid underneath her and she rushed in closer to the blue guardian to blast him several times with fire burst. Being quite surprised with the appearance of the earth child, Ungyo wasn't able to react quick enough to doge or guard itself and clattered to the ground in a daze. Lyude shot at the guardian again, not missing his target once, then ran over to Kalas.
" What about you then? You dress mainly in blue, but you're favoured element doesn't appear to be water." He said as he slipped a piece of tangerine into Kalas' mouth. Kalas chewed the slice and gradually pulled himself up into sitting position.
" The blue I wear is closer to the teal colour of the wind element." Lyude slipped another piece of tangerine into the waiting mouth of his friend.
"I suppose you're right. I guess it's just the hair." Lyude sighed. Kalas jumped to his feet.
"What's wrong with my hair!?" Kalas yelled. Lyude got up from his downright position to stand beside his companion.
"Nothing, it's quite lovely actually, it's just that that particular shade of blue is closely associated with water…just as one could say mine is closely associated with fire." Lyude said reassuringly. Kalas sighed.
"You're right, sorry." He said. Out of the corner of their eyes, a deep blue flash suddenly appeared, and then quickly disappeared. They both turned towards Ungyo and Mizuti. Mizuti was slashing with her chakram and bombarding the guardian with fire attacks, but the guardian was blocking and dodging with enhanced precision. Mizuti halted her attacks, the sweat on her brow hidden by her mask.
"It summon special orb, the great Mizuti think it be strengthening its defence!" She called over her shoulder. The two young men rushed up to meet her and her attacker.
Agyo had eventually recovered after being attacked by Xelha, and like one would expect, it attacked her as soon as the chance was available. Xelha successfully blocked the guardian's attacks, for this is what she expected. As the thing attacked her, Gibari rushed over and slammed himself into Agyo's left side, and stopped it in mid attack. Xelha began her watery assault and ended it with bells of fate. Agyo turned to its left and attacked Gibari, who wasn't in the perfect position for defence. He took most of the attacks, and blocked the last two, but the force of them flung him into a nearby wall, knocking the wind out of him. Savyna slipped herself in between the two and rushed forward, using the momentum to slam her fist into it with her ice knuckles, and then spinning around on her heel to slam her elbow into it. She then punched it once more, jumped back, and then slammed her foot into it in a high kick that lead into a lightning fast assault of fist and two inch metal heels. Xelha used this distraction to run around wide and behind the thing where she began her chronus attacks, for her aqua burst spells had yet to be recharged and returned to her. The red guardian lurched forward as the first attack struck him, Savyna's fast reflexes putting her out of the way. A little way off, Gibari staggered to his feet and took a draught of his recently summoned beer magnus. Her replaced in and rushed in to take Savyna's place in front of the fire guardian. Savyna felt him run by her and jumped to her left, though she was cornering herself in doing so. She pushed herself off the wall and into the air, flipping to slow her momentum and landed on the ground in a slide, quite a distance away from Agyo and the others. She looked over just in time to see Gibari use dragon uppercut on the guardian, and decided to attack the thing before it could get to Gibari. She ran towards it in a semi circle route, tilting her body inwards. When she reached her target's right side, she threw her legs out behind her and caught Agyo in a roundhouse kick body slam combination. Agyo stumbled to its side and fell over. Savyna quickly picked herself up and ran over to the fire guardian and front flipped in the air, slamming her heel into its side. Agyo stumbled to its feet and summoned a bright red orb. It flashed momentarily and was gone. Agyo blasted fire all around itself, stunning Xelha and Gibari to the ground from the intense heat, while Savyna had managed to protect herself with the essence of the ice cap shield. It quickly faded away as Agyo redirected all his power at her. She barely managed to block three of the attacks, and the fourth one forced itself past the essence of her holy shield, the force managing to throw her well over fifty meters and into the wall Kalas had been thrown into earlier.
"SAVYNA!" Gibari screamed. Savyna slowly rose to her feet, her knees heavily bent, her breath coming in ragged intervals. She vomited, and even from such a far distance Xelha and Gibari knew that she had thrown up a lot of blood. Agyo began to channel a large amount of energy in front of it, something that Xelha immediately recognised as a strong magical finishing attack. The air around them began to dry up, crackle and pop.
"Xelha!" Gibari called out to her.
"I know!" She cried back. She summoned her strongest aqua burst and threw it at Agyo, but it evaporated, immediately turning into steam and scalding Xelha's neck, lower jaw and the palms of her hands. She cried out in both pain and frustration as she saw a ring of fire appear around Savyna, and rush in and up her in a circular motion, engulfing her in a pillar of flame. It dissipated, leaving Savyna engulfed completely in flames. She sank to her knees screaming, her blood chilling cries of agony echoing throughout the vast room.
Ungyo focused its attacks on Mizuti, who had overexerted herself trying to break through its defences, and therefore had not the strength to defend herself properly. The guardian blasted water at her, knocking her on her back, and then attacked her again, the water hitting her right leg at such an angle that the force spun her twice around and dislodged the said limb. Mizuti began to feel light-headed, and barely struggled to her knees when the third beam of water caught her in the right shoulder and flipped her over once and onto her back. Things began to get blurry for her. She again struggled to her knees, and managed to get up onto her feet. She shook uncontrollably as the temperature dropped, but figured that her body was in shock. When the air began to crystallize though, she knew that her shaking was caused by both shock and the channelling of Ungyo's next attack, and judging by how heavy the water vapour in the air was becoming she was about to become victim to a very powerful ice spell. With her last ounce of strength, she pulled out her Japanese rice wine and chugged it as fast as she could in hopes that she would regain enough strength to survive this next attack, even if just barely. She dropped the bottle and it shattered as soon as it made contact with the ground, as it had frozen mid fall. A ring of ice had formed around her. Her vision blurred, and she felt herself becoming even closer to loosing her consciousness; the faint voices of her two companions crying out her name in unison being the last thing she heard as the pillar of ice climbed up her skin and froze her solid.
"MIZUTI!" Kalas and Lyude cried out in unison as they watched the pillar of ice creep up her weak frame and cling to her with a sick desperation. Lyude's face went stark white.
"Oh gods oh gods, SHIT. We can't let anything make contact with her or she'll shatter!" He cried. Kalas went wide-eyed.
" Holy fuc-FUCK!" Kalas screamed as Ungyo positioned itself for another attack. He ran towards the blue guardian and flew up to thrust his flaming sword into its carved mouth. The thing's head jolted back and the snapping of wood was heard. Kalas used his feet to kick himself away from Ungyo, back flipped in the air and landed on his feet, slightly sliding back. Ungyo straightened its head slowly, splinters of wood creaking and falling from the back of its neck. Kalas went into a battle stance.
"I'm fairly sure I've got it distracted. Can you move Mizut-EE!" He yelled as Ungyo attacked, missing him by a mere five inches. Lyude ran over to the frozen child.
"No! She's frozen to the ground, if I moved her there's a good chance she'd lose everything from the waist down!" He cried back. Kalas ran backwards while avoiding the attacks being thrown upon him. Ungyo advanced upon him, not seeming to tire in the least. Finally Kalas did what Ungyo was hoping and slipped, landing upon his back. The air around him began to chill considerably.
"Lyude!" Kalas cried, his plea dripping with desperation. Lyude saw the ring of ice appear around the blue swordsman, and he quickly shot at Ungyo's head. He had shot much too quickly however, and the attack barely grazed the guardian and went more or less full force into the wall. Kalas stood up just as the pillar began to form and jumped over to his left. The pillar formed completely, just as a solid chunk of ice. Lyude shot again several times, only missing twice. Kalas was just about to rush in when the loud sound of cracking stone and ribs was heard. The men shifted their gaze behind them where they saw Savyna slide off the wall and onto the floor. She struggled to her feet before retching an unhealthy amount of blood all over the ground. A ring of fire began to circle around her.
"Oh my gods…" Lyude whispered in shock before the cries of Xelha were heard. The ring formed into a spiralling pillar of flame, and then flashed quickly out of existence; leaving Savyna engulfed in flame in its wake. Her deafening cries of agony invaded the ears of her companion's minds, bringing panic and disorder. Momentarily caught in a stupor, Kalas whimpered as he watched Savyna feverishly thrash about on her fall to the ground. Ungyo took advantage of Kalas' panicked state of mind and cast its water jet directly between his shoulder blades. Kalas jolted forward and was forced to the ground, hitting his head quite hard in the resulting tumble.
"SHIT!" Lyude screamed, now caught between two decisions. He could either rush over push Kalas out of harms way, or he could do what he could to save Savyna. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Gibari making his decision for him and run over to Savyna. Lyude ran in front of Kalas and summoned the essence of his holy shield just in time to deflect the next attack.
Xelha tenderly gripped onto her rod and summoned up her aqua burst. She attacked upon the back of Agyo five times before using dark flare. The red guardian lurched forward before erecting itself with shaking limbs.
"Gibari! I've got it covered, don't worry!" She called out to the fisherman. Agyo turned itself around and attacked. The first attack slid by her hip, singing her obi. She blocked the second and third, noticing that its attacks were losing speed and power. She then channelled all her remaining energy and let out the last strong attack she had left, whispering wind. Agyo, much too week to defend itself at all, took the blow right to its chest. It shook violently before collapsing onto the ground in a heap. Xelha wavered a moment, then rushed off towards Savyna.
Xelha slid to an abrupt stop beside Gibari, who was shielding himself against the heat of the blaze.
"I can't put the flames out! Every time I summon the water, it evaporates and scalds my hand!" He yelled over the sound of the flame. Savyna had stopped screaming and was now gasping like a fish out of water, the fire stealing all the oxygen around her for fuel.
"Stay with her!" Xelha yelled as she took off running again towards Ungyo.
"Xelha!" Gibari screamed angrily after her.
Lyude shot at Ungyo who just kept coming towards him with no signs of stopping. Kalas moaned from behind him.
"Kalas?" Lyude asked. "Kalas MOVE!" He screamed, as Ungyo got ever closer. An assault of fire magic hit the water guardian in the side of its already heavily damaged head. Xelha flew over behind Lyude and dragged Kalas over to the wall.
"Xelha!?" Lyude asked in confusion. Xelha left Kalas and ran to stand beside Lyude.
"We need to find a way to get it to attack Savyna." She said simply.
"What?" Lyude asked in shock.
"Just find a way to get it to follow you! I'll come in from behind!" She yelled. Lyude nodded and shot at Ungyo's head to distract it from Xelha as she jumped up and flew over top of it. Ungyo's head tilted heavily to its right and it jolted backward with each hit. Lyude stopped shooting and ran backwards, checking over his shoulder to make sure he was running in Savyna's general direction. Ungyo followed him with a determined speed that forced Lyude to twirl around and run facing forward to avoid losing his footing. Ungyo launched its attack.
"GIBARI MOVE!" Lyude screamed and he jumped to the side. Gibari glanced over to see a great ball of water advance in his direction.
"Oh shi-!" Gibari's statement was cut short from the sound or impact the water made with both him and Savyna. He jumped to his feet and looked over to Savyna, who was no longer on fire but steaming quite a lot.
"Look out!" Lyude warned as Ungyo attacked again, slamming Gibari and Savyna into the wall. Gibari recovered quickly and rushed over to Ungyo and rammed his ore into the guardian's chest. Xelha sneaked up behind the thing and unleashed a multitude of fire attacks followed by dancing flames. Ungyo reared onto its back legs and stumbled backward. Xelha tried to fly away but couldn't do it fast enough and was taken down under the guardian.
"Xelha!" Lyude cried from beside them. Ungyo stumbled to its feet and began to walk away from the group. Xelha lay coughing on the ground.
"I'm alright." She wheezed. "Where is it going?" She looked over her shoulder at the guardian, her vision blurry. Lyude looked up.
"Wha-? Oh no!" He exclaimed, "Gibari, take care of the girls!" Lyude placed Xelha on the ground and ran as fast as he could to catch up to Ungyo. Ungyo reached its target first however, and swatted at Mizuti with its massive wooden paw. A clang was heard, then a screeching sound.
Kalas steadied himself and saw Ungyo rushing towards Mizuti.
"Shit!" he mumbled as he picked up his sword and ran to intercept the beast. Ungyo swatted its massive paw at Mizuti, but Kalas slid in front of her just in time to intercept the blow. He heard the echoing of heavy boots footfalls on stone.
"Lyude, help!" Kalas grunted. The footsteps started to quicken and Lyude was soon over to the left of Kalas. He readied his gun and shot dark elemented attacks at the guardian. Ungyo wavered slightly but found its strength and flung Kalas back and into Mizuti. Shards of ice fell to the ground. Kalas slipped and cracked his head on the ice frozen to the ground. Lyude gasped.
"You…you son of A BITCH!" Lyude screamed as he loaded his gun again and took aim. Ungyo was readying an attack of its own when the blast of Lyude's first attack hit it in the right side of its head. It turned towards its attacker and started its attack anew, but was interrupted again by a blast from Lyude's sonic rifle. Lyude aimed all his shots at the beast's head, and then loaded up his rifle with his finishing move. He took aim, tears of frustration stinging his eyes, and fired Rhapsody directly between its eyes. Ungyo's head came right off and slammed into the wall behind it. The lifeless body crashed to the ground.
Gibari had taken to Savyna first, and was with her when he heard Ungyo fall. He looked over his shoulder and saw the heap of what was once Ungyo once the dust settled. Lyude stood perfectly still for a moment, then dropped his gun and ran towards Kalas and Mizuti. He fell down upon his knees.
"Lyude! What happened?" Gibari called out.
"Gather the injured." Lyude said with a choked voice. Gibari redirected his focus onto Savyna, who was breathing was growing more and more shallow with each breath. He gently lifted her up and carried her over to where Xelha was kneeling.
"Can you walk?" He asked her. Xelha took in a sharp breath through her teeth.
"I think so." She said, clutching her right side. She staggered to her feet and followed behind Gibari, limping slightly. Gibari went and placed Savyna onto the ground, then helped Xelha into a kneeling position.
"How are they?" She asked once she had sat down. She let her eyes focus, but immediately regretted it once she saw the amount of blood on the ground and where it was coming from. Lyude lifted his gaze from Kalas to look at her.
"I'm going to need all of your healing magnus. Now."
You know what? There's alot of swearing in this chapter. A bit OOC as well...oh well. I'm not fixing it, suck it up.
How was this for my first battle scene? I how it wasn't boring, I just go too in to it. Ah well.
Reviews are welcome, as you already know.
(P.S.: Please do not hate me for making it live action instead of turn based. I have a turn based treat for you people comming up soon.)
