Hey guys i am back with another chapter. There was a change of plan so now i can upload chapters this weekend. I'm sorry this took so long as this was a challenging chapter. Anyway i hope you will enjoy it.
"This time one of us will walk out the victor, and the other will be dead."
With this comment, Rogue lunged at Altec, both his hands engulfed in shadows. He swung at the illusion mage with a flurry of punches all of which Altec evaded. Rogue then jumps back as he notices pain coming from his right arm.
"What the... When did he cut me?" Rogue grips his right arm and looks up to see a sword in the master's hand dripping blood from the tip.
"I told you I use illusion magic and using a sword lets me optimize my close combat abilities."
Altec then disappeared and reappeared in front of Rogue punching him in the stomach followed by a uppercut to the chin. Rogue stumbles backwards and is hit with a straight punch right in his mouth. He falls on one knee and wipes the blood that was streaming down his lip. Determined not to back down, Rogue gets up and launches himself at the mage with another punch. Just after his punch motion, he takes the form of a shadow and split apart. He then realizes the person in front of him vanished and is right behind him, failing however to land a sword strike on his back. He then reassembles himself behind a surprised Altec, and kicks him into a wall, causing the wall to break. As he climbs out the rubble, he stares at Rogue who still has his shadow drive on.
"Well, didn't see that one coming. Alright then."
Altec then points at Rogue with his right index finger and shoots a powerful green beam at him. Rogue dodges the attack by changing his form into his shadow pursuit and heads towards Altec at blinding speed. As he reaches Altec, Rogue pops up from his shadow on the ground and tries to punch the mage into the air. Altec jumps slightly backwards and evades his attack. He then quickly retaliated by shooting his green beam again at Rogue, this time landing a clean blow on his stomach and shooting him into a wall.
"Hahahaha come on is that all you have. Don't tell me your done already. Hahahahaha."
Kagura and Marina who was still in Erza's form and was using her Black Wing Armor had their swords locked. Kagura then looks in the direction that Rogue was in.
"Worried about your boyfriend are you? Well you should be worried about yourself right now."
"Do not underestimate him. He will defeat that illusion mage I have no doubt about that. So that just leaves me to deal with you."
Kagura then pushed Marina's sword back and appeared behind Marina in an instant. Marina looks back in shock as she parried and attack from Kagura's sheathed archenemy.
"Your speed is incredible." Marina remarked. She then using Erza's requip magic, changed into the Flight Armor.
"Lets test our speed shall we?"
Marina dashed at Kagura with immense speed and slashed at her. Kagura dodged and appeared again right where Marina stopped. Kagura swung downward at Marina which she parried as the ground below her was breaking. Marina pushes Kagura's sword back and jumps into the air. Coming down on Kagura, she swings downward on her to which Kagura dodges with lighting speed. Marina then smashes to the ground thanks to the gravity change magic Kagura used when she dodged the attack. Marina stood up and started to wonder.
"How is she this fast. I dont understand."
Marina requips into the Purgatory Armor. "Maybe if i use this armor i might be able to overpower her. Even though it is nowhere near her speed, its power is greater than hers."
Marina jumps into the air, swinging her spiky sword and slashes diagonally. Kagura uses gravity magic to lighten Marina's sword and moves swiftly till she is positioned in the air right beside her. She lands a blow to Marina's back and changes the gravity so she will hit the ground hard. As Kagura lands on the ground, she looks in Rogue's direction.
"Come on Rogue, on your feet you can do it." she thinks in a worried tone.
Inside Rogue's head, he hears a dark voice coming from the shadow inside him.
"Get up." Said the shadow inside him.
"Stand up and fight. You can beat this guy."
Rogue starts to talk to the shadow inside his head.
"Why are you here right now."
"I am here to make you a deal."
"And why should i trust you?"
"If i wanted too I could have taken over your body right now, but I chose to do it the hard way.
Rogue looks in surprise as he thinks about what he just said. After a few seconds, Rogue starts to look convinced that he can trust him just this one time.
"What is it you want?"
"I am willing to lend you unbelievable power. In exchange i get to annihilate this guy and a few others in the future. I am even willing to say if you accept this offer, i will stop trying to take over your body."
"After all the struggle you put me through, why try to make friends with me now?"
"I figure you would want the power to obliterate your enemies."
Rogue thinks for a few seconds before finally making his decision.
"Fine i will accept your deal."
"Excellent. i will make sure this guy gets what he deserves." The shadow says with a evil smile.
"I guess he really is done." Altec says before he notices shadow like smoke coming from inside the rubble.
Rogue pops up from the rubble as rocks fly everywhere. He has shadow marks all over his body and his eyes are bright red.
"Hahahaha. oh yes its been a long time sense i had this feeling. I will have to thank him later for accepting my proposal but for right now."
The possessed Rogue looks in the direction of Altec who is smiling at what he is seeing.
"Its about time you got serious. now i can go all out." Altec powers up with a green butterfly wings like aura behind him.
"Go ahead and power up cause by the end of this battle, you will cease to exist."
That is it for this chapter. i hope you enjoyed. please leave a review and i will see you in the next chapter.
