The Dawn of Another Adventure Chapter 7: Revenge
Disclaimer: Not saying it.... Yet. :P
'Eep! Eep! Eep!' the drumming bunnies fell with a plop to the ground. Their pink drums and some meso was all that was left of the pink furry toys. The members of the Alliance were in one of the outer training grounds, using summoning bags and killing the drumming bunnies that lurked inside.
"Nice shot!" AkiNoKiri called over to DizzInfinite. She adjusted her dragon claw before calling out,"Barrage!" squeals echoed around as more drumming bunnies fell from the buccaneer's attack.
"Thanks!" Dizz replied with a shrug before reloading his crossbow. "Blizzard!" Shards of ice fell from the sky and impaled the creatures. DizzInfinite smiled to himself before reloading his crossbow once more with one fluent motion.
"Nice!" Scarlett called. She drew her own zhu ge liang wand. "Explosion!" The air immediately surrounding her burst into vivid orange flame. Numerous drumming bunnies squealed at the sudden change of temperature. Afterwards, the earth wasn't even burnt, and not a scratch lay upon the fire poison archmage.
"Are you guys doing alright?" asked heroine. She faced Josh and Krystal, who were puffing ever so slightly.
"Yeah, I'm fine." said Josh, flinging two tobis in an almost careless expression. Almost immediately he was envelopes in a soft green light. "Yes! Level up!"
"Same here!" Krystal said, walking over.
"Hey, do you want to go on the quest to get a dark pilfer?" asked Josh.
"Okay, but after this last bag." Krystal replied. "Dolob, can you pass me a bag?"
"Sure!" dolob answered, before drawing out another pink bag with a drumming bunny picture printed on it from his pack. He threw it over to Krystal, who caught it without a second glance.
She was about to untie the string on the bag when a voice unfamiliar to her called out,"Hello?"
They all spun around, to see a young girl clutching a shiny composite bow. Judging from her equips, she was around level fifteen.
"Yes? How may we help you?" Asked LilNixie.
"I would like to speak with Mr Fangblade." the girl answered with confidence.
"May I ask why?" LilNixie said.
"He requested me to join the Alliance." she replied simply.
"Uh... But you seem alittle... Inexperienced." Raeken murmured.
The girl heard this, and she replied cooly,"Fine. Why don't you scan me?" she asked.
"Um okay..." LilNixie reluctantly drew out a scanner and pressed the 'on' button. She then slowly lowered it across the young bowman's face. The machine beeped, and LilNixie gasped.
"S-Shes... Not real..." she managed to splutter out.
"Yeah... This is just a disguise." the girl said before disappearing into thin air. Moments later, a girl with long black hair in pigtails clutching a dragon shiner bow identical to dolob's appeared."I see you haven't grown abit, Akki." she said with a grin. She walked over and hugged her friend
"Natomi! It's so great to see you!" AkiNoKiri said happily as she returned her friend's hug.
"Hey, Nat." Dolob said. "How's Thy?" Natomi's expression hardened at the name. Tears formed at the corners of her beautiful brown eyes, which she closed.
"H-he's.." she couldn't bring herself around to say the next word. "Gone." she mouthed. She dropped her shinebow and sat down, her face in her knees.
"Oh. I'm sorry." dolob replied after a while.
Natomi hastily wiped away the tears, and stood up. "No point crying over something that's in the past." she murmured. She stooped to pick up her shinebow, and straightened her black armor.?br / 牋 ?"Oh, this is Josh and Krystal." Heroine piped up after afew moments of awkward silence.
Natomi snapped out of a slight daydream."Sorry, I haven't introduced myself to you. I'm Natomi, but call me Nat for short." she said, extending her hand. Josh took her hand, and so did Krystal.
"Its very nice to meet you." Josh said.
"Yeah." Krystal agreed.
"So um... I'll be back in a moment, I still need to sign up." Natomi said. The others nodded, and then the bowmaster retrieved something small from her pocket. "Fire Pheonix!" she murmured, and a flaming light formed. Eventually it took the shape of a pheonix. Natomi climbed on, and without hesitation the bird lifted up into the blue sky. And in a flash, the girl on the pheonix was barely visible in the distance.
"Okay, now open the bag!" Kyramune said eagerly, raising her Dragon hammer.
Krystal nodded before loosening the pink sack and placing it on the ground. A few moments later, druming bunnies poured out, banging on their toy drums.
"Savage blow!" Krystal roared as she ran into the crowd of drumming bunnies, slashing. Afew plopped dead.
"Lucky seven!" Josh called from a distance. Two tobis flew into the underbelly of a bunny, and it fell, dead, to the grassy area. Josh smiled to himself.
Quickly, the bunnies all fell dead. Krystal sat down, and said,"Okay, Josh and I want to get dark pilfers, so we're doing the quest from rowen. Can you guys help us hunt?"
"Sure!" Heroine said."I've done the quest before, you need 2300 cursed dolls I think."
"Cool! I have maps..." Krystal muttered, handing everyone a green scroll.
"Okay! On the count of three...." Dolob said. "One.... Two.... Woah!"
Immediately when dolob should have said three, a heavy earthquake shook the ground.
"Wh-What happened?" LilNixie managed to say.
"I don't know!" dolob replied back.
"Its unnatural..." Josh murmured. Everyone turned to face him. "I mean, it isn't natural, it's been caused by a group of red drakes." he finished, closing his eyes.
"Ah, Natomi! You managed to come!" Fangblade said.
"Yes." The bowmaster replied cooly, taking a seat.
"So you've decided?" Fangblade asked.
"Yes, I want to join the Alliance." said Natomi.
"Very well, and I know you are fully capable of passing the test, but it IS necessary, so lets head back to the field where the others are." Fangblade said, standing up.
"Okay. Would you like to ride on my fire pheonix?" she asked as the two walked out of Fangblade's office and headed towards the enterance.
"Sure." He replied.
Natomi nodded with approval, before withdrawing another blue summoning rock from the pocket on her belt."Fire pheonix!" she murmured, and another red bird formed. Natomi climbed on, and Fangblade did the same. Soon, the pheonix rose into the sky and flew straight to the training field in which the other members of the Alliance were.
Krystal stood, watching the assassin intently. "How big is the group?" she asked shakily.
"Its big." Josh replied, opening his eyes. "Quick, they're coming!" he roared. True to his word, the ugly red dragons were thundering across, breathing in air and breathing out fire. Everybody assumed battle stance and then started casting defensive and supportive spells.
"Magic booster! Meditate! Magic guard!" Scarlett yelled, and different shades of magic surrounded them.
"Iron will, Hyperbody!" The female warriors yelled in unison.
"Haste!" yelled Krystal, Josh and Loopedd. The triple haste quickened their teammates speed quickly, and that helped the maneuver around the drake's clumsy attacks and countering with their own.
"Dizz, watch out!" Kyra screamed as DizzInfinite got struck on the head. She rushed to his aid as he fell, and caught him neatly. But little did she know that she was going the same way... Until...
"Blizzard!" Raeken roared, moving his elemental staff through the air. Bits of sharp ice rained down, piercing the drakes with dead prescision.
"Thanks." Dizz murmured as Kyramune passed him a infirmatory capsule.
"Heh, don't thank me: thank Raeken for saving our skins." Kyra replied with a small grin. "Now go.."
"No. I can't abandon my teammates like this." Dizz said, standing up.
"But you're injured-"
"Thanks for the concern, but it doesn't hurt that bad."Dizz said. He let go of Kyramune's hand and rushed back into the crowd. The paladin sighed and with a quick shout of ,"Rush!" she was back into the fight.
Drakes groaned as they fell to the floor. Krystal and Josh were still fighting despite the fact that they missed often. As a result, they stayed near heroine and helped her fight.
"How well do you think we're going?" asked Josh as he threw stars everywhere. Krystal was behind him, and sinking her Korean fan into every drake she could see.
"I don-" Krystal's voice broke off and Josh assumed that she was busy with drakes, so he continued attacking.
Natomi leapt off the pheonix as soon as she was close enough to the ground. Fangblade jumped off not too after, and the two ran through some trees. Natomi was faster, and soon she was well ahead of Fangblade. Though he didn't hear the small muffled voice that called out as he ran towards the rest of the Alliance.
Very soon the drakes thinned out to just a hundred left. But before they could kill them, five figures had come and gone in a flash. But not for long, for one of them a least, since she was clearly visible on top of a tree branch.
"Surrender now! You are outnumbered!" Dolob called, raising his shinebow. "If you don't we'll kill you!"
The girl spun around, and Josh and Krystal realized that it was Starspazz, the same girl that had attacked them.
"Heh, even if it means taking her life too?" she said. She signalled for someone to come, and they all gasped. It was DarkFang, and he was holding his dragon tail to Natomi's throat. Natomi's right arm was bent in an impossible angle, and her arms had cuts and bruises.
"Don't worry about me, just do what you have to do!" Natomi managed to say before groaning as the dagger sank abit into her skin. A trickle of blood was making it's way down her neck.
"What do you want?" Dolob finally said. Loopedd took a sideway glance at Dolob. He was pale, and his hand trembled as it gripped his shinebow. Many did not, after all, know what happened.
"The scene must have reminded him of the encounter with the enemy." Loopedd thought."Only then, Starspazz was the hostage."
"Drop your weapons." she said in a playful tone.
"Do what she says." Dolob said, dropping his bow. "Please."
They did, and Loopedd silently cursed under his breath as he dropped his Dusk Raven's claw.
"Now-" Starspazz started, but was cut off by another voice.
"Let her go." Fangblade said loudly as he stepped into the battle field.
"Fine. But we fight." replied Starspazz. "Let her go, Dark."
"Sure." said Darkfang, smirking."But let me give her a little parting gift..." he said, and stabbed Natomi near the heart before releasing her. She toppled off the tree branch, and was caught by Dolob.
"Dolob, take her back to the infirmatory." Fangblade instructed. "And take heroine with you."
Dolob nodded, returning his shinebow to its quiver. Heroine picked up her elemental wand and teleported over to Dolob and Natomi. She drew a infirmatory capsule from her pack and twisted it while clutching dolob's arm firmly, and the three teleported.
"And now..." Starspazz said,"We fight."
Instantly the remaining drakes struck. The Alliance members defended swiftly, until the five evil people decided to change the score.
"Is she gonna be alright?" Dolob asked.
"Yes, luckily the stab wound didn't damage her organs, otherwise we'd be in trouble. I've healed it and most of the cuts and bruises. But she's broken her arm badly. Not even the most skilled bishop can repair a fracture like that fully. I've done the best I can, but she won't be using a bow in a while." heroine answered."Let her rest. C'mon, let's go back and teach those asses a lesson."
Dolob nodded, restringing his bow. "Let's go."
"Miss me?" asked Heroine coldly as she entered the battlefield with a strong Genesis.
"Nice to have you back!" said OhKristi."Iron will!" she suddenly roared. The spell took the brunt of he attack, but it didn't stop her flying backwards.
"HAH! And you call yourself a WARRIOR..." said a voice behind Kristi. She spun around, and saw a boy wearing a YO4 overall. A fallen angel headband sat on his short black hair, and his crimson eyes glinted behind purple shades. His black gloved hand clutched a Dragon khanjar sheild(?). He smirked as he drew his dagger. "Boomerang step!" his dagger moved at the speed of lightning as he sped back and forth. OhKristi just managed to block the first turn but got hit by the second blow. She staggered, but managed to stay standing.
"At least you're still standing," said the boy."time to change that. Dark sight!" he disappeared into the background.
"Huh?" murmured OhKristi softly."Now where did he go..."
"Assaulter." he whispered behind her. Before she could react, he had already attacked.
All that OhKristi could feel was pain. It tore at every fibre of her being, and she collapsed.
"Kristi!" yelled Heroine, and she teleported to where the Dark knight had fallen.
"Shining Ray!" yelled Heroine as she supported he now-unconcious Kristi. "Bless!" soft pink light covered the two and fended off another savage blow from the shadower.
"Geez, Ryu: can't you even beat a pathetic Bishop? I thought he legendary RyuKatti would actually ATTACK better." snickered a Fire Poison Mage that had popped up from nowhere. "Explosion!" he said, raising his evil tales and the air around him burst into flame. The shadower, bishop and dark knight got blown backwards a little from the impact of the blast.
"Keep out of my buisness, SnailTea." snarled Ryukatti, twirling his dagger like a baton.
"Oh, getting annoyed huh?" laughed SnailTea."fine then. Let's see..... Her." he said, pointing at Scarlett, who was battling numerous drakes.
"You only said that because she looks weak, but meh, not my problem." said RyuKatti."meso guard!" he called, and a shiny golden light covered the shadower as a holy arrow was directed to him. SnailTea totally ignored his teammate's comment, and rushed across the dead drake-littered path to where Scarlett stood.
"Hello." said SnailTea, raising his evil tales.
"Who are you?" she asked, casually flicking her wrist and taking down a bunch of balrogs.
"SnailTea. But I ain't here for formal introductions." he said.
"Hmm." Scarlett said. She drew her Zhu-Ge-Liang wand and wiped out the rest of the balrogs with Fire arrow.
"Well, ladies first." SnailTea smirked.
"It'll be my honor." Scarlett replied dully."Fire Arrow!" she raised her staff to form a bow-like position. Fire crackled at her fingertips as it formed into a flaming arrow. Once it formed into an ideal position, she let it go, and it whistled through the air as it headed straight for the boy in a purple starlight.
Interesting." said SnailTea, as he deflected the arrow in one swift motion. "You know..." he murmured, forming a ball of dark crimson at his fingertips."That you shouldn't fight fire with fire!" he let the ball of dark fire energy go, and it sped towards Scarlett. She quickly maneuvered herself around it, and raised her Zhu-Ge-Liang wand. "Meteor!" she roared as she gathered the last of her mana to cast the spell, and the air vibrated as molten rocks rained from the sky, turning rapidly from huge rocks to deadly small compact balls of flame. It rained down, and SnailTea had to cast a barrier to prevent the move from toasting him.
"Impressive," SnailTea said, his crimson eyes glinting evilly."but not good enough! Retaliate!" he raised his staff, and a thin high pitched noise flew through the air. Scarlett didn't realize what it was until it was too late. She crumpled as the now slightly smoking dark arrow sunk into her armor, piercing it and her skin underneath.
"Ah, heat sensing dark flare arrows, they never fail." said SnailTea approvingly. He then set his sights on LilNixie, who was hacking away at the few drakes left.
"Greetings, Hero." said SnailTea."Or should I say, Heroine. But not the bishop, no?"
"You shouldn't bother about what to call me." LilNixie snarled, her green eyes darkening.
"Ah, well," said SnailTea."prepare to DIE! Fire Arrow! Poison Breath!" a flurry of red hot flame soared gracefully near LilNixie's face as she narrowly dodged it, and sidestepped the oncoming toxic green mist that cleared after a few moments.
"Not today, Not EVER!" LilNixie yelled."Combo Attack! Shout! Coma!"
"Oh sh-" SnailTea got stunned and took the full impact of LilNixie's attack. He fell quickly to the ground, and on instinct the hero(or should I say, heroine) pinned him down and knocked his evil tales away.
"Or maybe not." She said, driving her armor clad knee deeper into SnailTea's stomach.
"Gosh Snail: do I have to do EVERYTHING around here?" asked a amused voice. LilNixie spun around, and saw the familiar face of MrUnoriginal, with his Blue bathrobe, red sneakers and signture tweed headband amongst the tufts of medium length jet black hair.
"Why hello, dear SISTER." MrUnoriginal said coldly.
"No way.... I-I thought you were d-dead... Dr. Kim said...." she stuttered, stepping back. "You're not real." She shot an icy glare at MrUnoriginal, who sent one back. Both were so intense that the temperature could've dropped ten degrees.
"Would you believe it?" he asked, flicking mud off his dagger.
"My brother....." LilNixie murmured softly.
-Flashback-
"Wait up!" yelled a young brown haired girl with bright green eyes.
"Catch up to me!" called the black haired boy. Both children laughed as the girl tackled him to the ground, and rolled around laughing.
"C'mon, mum's calling!" said the boy, wiping tears from his eyes.
"Okay!" said a much younger LilNixie brightly. She briskly brushed a few stray brown hairs out of her eyes as she followed her brother into the house.
"B-But why, mummy?" cried LilNixie, tears starting to fall down her cheeks.
"Don't worry, dear, you're only going to Omega Sector for a few months, and we'll visit all the time." said her mother.
"I-I don't get why I have to leave!" sobbed LilNixie. "Does it have to do w-with that thing on my arm?"
"Yes, we're only sending you there so the doctor can help us get it out. Otherwise it might be danger-" her mother broke off, only just realizing what she had done.
"Y-you mean I'm a MONSTER?" she cried.
"N-no, that's not what I meant-" her mother said.
"I-I don't want to go!" sobbed LilNixie, tears now cascading down her cheeks.
"Lily, why don't you just go, for a little while? If you don't like it, you can just come back." said her brother.
"Yes, that'd be good." her mother agreed.
"F-fine." sniffled LilNixie."For you: Keith."
The next day, LilNixie stood outside what she would be calling her new home. It wasn't too bad, but the air stank like rotten pig heads. She wrinkled he nose in disgust as she walked through the door.
"Hello dear. Can you sit up here?" asked a young lady with black spectacles. LilNixie nodded and climbed up onto the bench.
"Okay..." the woman dragged up her left sleeve and saw the glowing red crystal. She opened a fresh page out of her notebook and scribbled down numerous notes.
"WHAT?" roared Dr. Kim. "How did that happen?"
"W-we believe that it was an explosion, sir." said the researcher.
"Did anyone survive?" asked Dr. Kim, ruffling his hand through his hair.
"No sir. The mother and father's bodies are still intact, though the brother has been believed to have disintergrated." the researcher answered.
"Damn: how am I supposed to tell her..." said Dr. Kim."I guess we will have to lie."
"WHY?" shrieked LilNixie, tears cascading down her cheeks once more.
"They felt that they could no longer care for you: you will be sent to a foster family living in Ellinia." said Dr. Kim, turning his back on her."Oh, and your brother died. he drowned in an accident."
'Eep!' the drumming bunny died abruptly as the blade of the young crusader slashed down.
"Excellent: so do you wish to join?" asked Fangblade.
LilNixie nodded. "But there's one thing I want to do first: I wish to dye my hair blonde."
-end flashback-
"I never wanted to see you again, I wanted to forget the burden." LilNixie said. "I dyed my hair. I changed my name and became a well known hero." She raised her blade, examining it with an air of interest."I bought this with my life savings, saving it for the time when I finally kill the person who killed my parents, and if you stand in my way, Keith, I will kill you too."
"Fine." said MrUnoriginal."But never ever call me Keith ever again."
"Combo Attack! Shout! Coma!" LilNixie roared, slashing her Dragon Carabella through the air, blue spirals of energy spinning around her.
"Greater Demise!" yelled MrUnOriginal, and soon his blade was covered with an airy dark mass. "Savage blow!"
LilNixie dodged all of the stabs with great ease, though the dark energy managed to repel her, sending her skidding for a few metres.
"Rush!" LilNixie said softly. With the power of the spell, she sped past, knocking aside MrUnOriginal, who dropped his dagger in surprise.
"Interesting." said MrUnoriginal, stooping down to pick up his dagger."but you-" he felt a sudden pain in his back, and in confusion, he turned around. A girl wearing a red calaf stood there, deathly pale and had her wand posed in a bow action. He watched as she closed her eyes and collapsed. Then he felt another pain, but this time much bigger, and he felt it tear at his insides. He looked down, before realizing he had been shot twice. He took a quick side-glance, and saw OMGDanii swaying there, both hands on one of his peacemakers. Then there was no more as the bandit fell with a thud to the ground.
"YOU SHALL NEVER DEFEAT ME!" screamed StarSpazz as she threw two more illbis, and then she felt that her shadow was wearing off. Spinning in a clockwise direction, she quickly took out a summoning rock and commanded,"Shadow partner!" once more she felt the familiar warm sensation of her shadowself. "Haste! Triple throw!" her shadow mimicked exactly what she did, and six illbi's flew across the field, headed for Loopedd.
"Haste! Dark sight!" yelled Loopedd, disappearing into the darkness then reappearing again after the illbis had gone past."StarSpazz, please stop! You're my sister and I-"
"Don't call me that!" screamed StarSpazz."You killed my family, and tried to kill me!"
"Our parents died by your so-called master! You got brainwashed, as did DarkFang!" said Loopedd.
"LIES!" bellowed StarSpazz as she closed her eyes."I take the dark power given to me by my lord to open the door straight to hell! Hell avenger!" a dark shuriken formed in her hand, and she released it, aiming for Loopedd, who ducked. But as she released it, something yellow swung forward: a pendant.
Loopedd stopped cold. The pendant...
-flashback-
"Oh wow! It's so pretty!" exclaimed StarSpazz, giggling. "look Dolob! Isn't it nice?" she asked, showing the star shaped pendant to Dolob.
"Its... Nice." murmured Dolob.
"I want to show it to Loopedd!" she said.
"No need to." Loopedd said with a smile, appearing at the doorway."It's very pretty: it suits you. Hmm: why don't YOU put it on her?" he added, grinning.
"Um..... Uh..... O-ok...." Dolob said nervously, turning bright red. StarSpazz giggled before giving him the pendant. His calloused fingers handled the delicate piece very carefully as he lowered the chain around her neck and fastening it. "there." he said.
"Hey guys! The expedition's in 15 minutes! Come quickly!" called DarkFang in the distance.
"Coming!" called back Loopedd, Dolob and StarSpazz stimutaneously.
-End flashback-
"Stars of fury, tenfold!" roared StarSpazz, and illbis materialized from thin air. With another quick incantation, a toxic green mist covered the illbis, getting absorbed into the glinting metal. With a quick motion of her wrist, all of the illbis fell.
"Dark sight!" yelled Loopedd without hesitation.
"Demon Fury!" screamed StarSpazz. Almost immediately her illbis turned bright red, and she picked up two with her right hand, which had a claw equipped. She tossed them with ease, and another two joined them from the shadow behind the female nightlord. Three missed but the fourth cut through Loopedd's black shirt, piercing his skin. Loopedd clutched the wound on his shoulder when he heard it.
Please... Help....
"Huh?" Loopedd murmured quietly, shaking his head in disbelief. He couldve sworn that was StarSpazz's voice...
The darkness.... Destroy it for once..... and for all....
"What, got cold feet?" sneered StarSpazz, twirling two illbis. As she was about to throw them, her lord's voice pierced through her mind.
Retreat. Now.
"Ugh, NOW?" StarSpazz muttered before disappearing.
Loopedd breathed out a sigh of relief. Now that the battle was over, he could take a closer look at the damage that they had taken. OhKristi was now being supported by Heroine, having taken numerous attacks from her enemy. Deep gashes appeared all over her orichicalon armor. Scarlett was being supported by OMGDanii, unconcious due to mana exhaustion. Her calaf was torn in places. OMGDanii didn't suffer any physical blows, but killing a person was a different story. LilNixie didn't get any harsh blows, only small cuts here and there. Dolob seemed fine battling drakes, so he didn't suffer any harsh blows. DizzInfinite didn't get hurt, so he supported Kyramune, who had a huge slash across her back. AkiNoKiri groaned as she supported herself, clutching her broken leg. Raeken managed to stay flawless, his elemental staff clutched in his hand. Loopedd stood leaning against a tree, ripping off his right sleeve. He then tore it into strips and struggled to tie it against his injured shoulder, and soon the black material got soaked in blood. After numerous tries, he managed to tie it securely. "Guys, let's get the injured into the infirmatory." he called, walking over to support AkiNoKiri. Heroine nodded, and said,"Everyone hold onto me..."
Everyone moved slowly towards the bishop, and they all glowed a brilliant blue before disappearing.
A/N: OH GOD THAT HURT MY FINGERS. Well I hope you like it. Read and review~
