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A/N: Chapter 7 ya. Sorry about the wait and sorry that I'm not working on Romeo Rising right now but I ran into writer's block and decide to focus on something else to get rid of it. Now in case you guys are wondering the Tenrou group should be coming up within another two or three chapters. It just Romeo has a few more things he has to sort out. Review, Fav, or Follow if you want. And Now I work on Chapter 22 for Romeo Rising.
This Chapter was Beta by BarelyProdigies, author of such great Naruto fanfic like: Something You Can't Ignore , Ill-Fated, and his Fairy Tail story Blue Balls check out his stories if you get the chance. (He great at fight scenes).
Chapter 7
Mt. Hakobe Pt. 1
The blizzardvern barrel her way toward Chelia, Bana, and the unconscious Romeo, kicking large chunks of snow in the process as she close the gap between her and the trio if someone didn't do something and fast.
"Sky God's Explosive Wind!" She released a massive stream of black wind into the snow beneath them by launching her arm forward in a punch-like motion. It resulted in a large plume of snow to explode into the air and blinded the blizzardvern from swooping down on them.
As she came around for a second time she tried finding her prey only to see nothing but an empty field. It seemed as if they disappeared into thin air but unfortunately they were still stuck there.
Using quick thinking Chelia released her attack at the ground to not only blind the wyvern but to create a hole in the ground to hide and think of a plan unfortunately it was a tight fit with all three in there.
"We need to think of something but I can't heal him and fight!" She looked at his slowly freezing face and noticed that his eyes have rolled into the back of his head.
Unfortunately they did not have time to think as the loud flapping of wings sounded right over their head.
"Duck!" Chelia grabbed Bana and pulled Romeo underneath her as the Wyvern stomped into the hole with one of her incredible long talons and pierced into her back as she protected the two with her body. It was easy prey for the beast, like throwing a spear into a barrel of fish.
"AHHH!" Her yell of pain was over taken by the loud cry the wyvern gave of her victory as she then flew forward without removing her talon in the hole to create a long trench from their original hiding hole.
"But why protect us?" Bana was lost for words as Chelia tried catching her breath while healing the wound on her back.
"I don't know. My body just moved on its own, just don't tell him about it", she said while thinking, "Can't have this idiot of a dragon-slayer die without me having a rematch first."
She looked up from both of them to see the long trench the beast made from her talon and grimaced at the phantom pain in her back.
Bana moved out from under her and began climbing out of the hole.
"Chelia!" Bana yelled out as he takes Romeo's short swords out of their sheath, leaps out the trench, and began walking towards the wyvern with a fierce look in his golden eyes, "Stay here!"
"And what are you going to do?!"
"Distract her of course while you heal Romeo! I rather have two slayers fighting this thing with me instead of just one!", as a bright light starts to shine off Bana's body. Soon the short exceed is replace by a muscular humanoid cat standing six feet tall with black wings folded on his back.
"What the-?" Her eyes were shocked at the sudden transformation because she had never seen an exceed do that before. The Twin Dragons exceeds have never been known to do that.
"Explain later! Heal Romeo now!", as he unfolded his wing and prepared to launch towards the oncoming wall of flesh, teeth, and claws at full sprint.
"…and thanks." Chelia shielded her eyes at his sudden take-off as the force kicked up snow into the air. She returned her attention to healing Romeo while mumbling something about dumb dragon slayers and how overconfident they were.
The wyvern was easily twenty times Bana new size but that didn't deter the silver exceed from charging straight at it nimbly dodging the bite she try to catch him in and landing on the top of her head and laying into her with a series of blade strikes that manage to actually inflicts a number of wounds on the beast and distracted her from the God-Slayer who was busy healing the knock-out dragon slayer.
"This should be enough! Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up!" Chelia demanded as she hover her hands over Romeo's head pouring her healing magic on him in hopes of him regaining consciousness
"Oh come on Mr. big and powerful slayer! Oh look at me I can have the magic to slay a dragon but get knock out by a wyvern!" Chelia yelled in a mocking voice, "Get your ass up!"
Meanwhile Bana's life was getting closer and closer to ending due to the fact that while wyverns weren't as intelligent as dragons, that didn't mean they were stupid, as the beast began gaining altitude quickly and then flew down into a roll that shook off the exceed.
It was slowly but surely starting to predict and counter the exceed's movement.
Taking higher to the sky Bana look down at the wyvern as she stops to look at Chelia and Romeo then back to Bana. She must have realize that the two slayers made an easier target as she starting to trample her way toward them at breathtaking speed.
"Ah shit", Bana curses, "Chelia look out!"
"Huh? Ah shit", the girls cusses as she glances up and see the tower of scales charging toward her and Romeo, "Think of something fast Chelia!"
It in her moment of panic that the wyvern spread her wings as she continue to run toward Chelia and that when the Sky God-Slayer got an idea. Conjuring up a massive swirl of black winds with both her hands she unleashes two substantial streams towards the wyvern right wing
"Aeolus' Rampage!" she called her new attack which was a more advance version of the one she use against Romeo a week ago.
The wing bellow out as the winds impact with it and the sudden force cause the wyvern spin around losing her balance and thus bringing her to the ground. As Bana watch in amazing from his position in the sky…
"That was stronger than the attack she use against Romeo during their match a week ago. No doubt if she knew of the attack then she would have used it. That can only mean she developed the spell within a week. Remarkable."
But Bana didn't have long to dwell on the girl incredible development as it didn't take long for the monster to recover and assumed her charge toward the duo.
"Ah great here it comes again" as Chelia sucked in a large amount of air.
"Sky God Bellow!" and a huge cyclone comes erupting from her mouth at wyvern striking her square in the face but other than dazing her a little did nothing to stop her charge.
That when Bana took the opportunity to perform a downward strike similar to that of a falcon on the beast, slashing with the swords and leaving two long distinct bloody streaks across her face. But as Bana lands on the ground after delivering his attack and before he could take off again the wyvern, in a berserk-like rage spins around catching Bana square in the chest with her tail and sent him and the swords flying through the air. Bana lands a good fifty feet away, the impact of the hit knocking him out and deforming him back to his normal size while the blades narrowly miss landing in Romeo's head and right shoulder.
"Ah this day just keeps getting better and better", Chelia complains as the wyvern finally finishes thrashing in pain and turns her rage- filled eyes toward the unconscious exceed. With one mighty swoop of her wings she takes to the air and prepare to deliver a downward strike on top of Bana, fully intended on crushing him beneath her weight.
But before she can even get halfway down in her steep descends a black current hits her directly in the eye causing her to halt her attack as she shakes off the effect of being temporary blinded. When she turns her eyes toward the offender she see Chelia soaring across the snowy fields using her shadow winds to propel her. The wyvern changes her course and heads straight for Chelia who barely able to jump out of the way as the beast tries to snatch her up with her talons. As the beast fly a good distance before turning around, Chelia readies herself. Between the arguments with Romeo to the freezing cold trek up the mountain this battle was just the icing on the cake for what has turn into a really bad day for the God-Slayer.
"It doesn't help that I been hearing rumors at the guild hall that I may be replace with Sherry on the team for the Grand Magic Games", she thought as she focus the black winds swirling around her hands into one.
"Sky God's Dual Boreas!"
And two huge whirlwind of blacken currents are blasted at the wyvern with such force that there was surely no way it could survive this attack.
"Ha! I got it now! There no way it can withstand this spell! I stay up for two days straight perfecting this attack! And what do you know?! I will have defeated a dragon-like beast that the mighty dragon-slayer couldn't!" Chelia boasted within her head, "That will show him the power of a god-slayer!"
In that moment though it seem the gods had a sense of humor for as the double whirlwind close in on the creature, she once again display her cunning as she folded her wings and simply dropped like a rock allowing the currents to passes above her and Chelia's jaw couldn't drop any further in surprise.
"N-no…" The wyvern easily avoided her attack and now puffed out its chest, spreading its large wings and let out a roar that seemed to shake the winds on top of the mountain. She looked to her right to find Bana in his small form struggling to get up. Behind her Romeo was still unconscious and slowly recovering. She looked down to her slowly freezing fingers and exhaled watching her warm breath fog in the frozen hell of this tundra.
"This is bad. My fingers are just the start. I can't spend magic to heal myself and I need to either beat this thing on my own or…" She looked back at Romeo's unconscious face slowly being covered by the snow fall before looking back at the wyvern.
It was there for a split second but she saw it.
Maybe it was the answer.
Maybe it was the nightmare this horrible situation triggered.
"FOCUS!"
Flashback
"You said you wanted to train with me but here you are not listening to me." Jura's level voice bugged Chelia as she was panting trying to catch her breath. It had been a couple of days since she asked him for training and finally they were outside on the training grounds for the guild.
"I'm trying but you're not making any sense! Why do I need to re-learn my old magic? I have my god-slayer magic which is way better!" He shook his head in disapproval before picking up a small rock from the ground.
"My magic begins here." He placed it in her hand as he then took a few steps away from her.
"Rock Mountain!" He joined his palms together and summoned out from the earth a large rock formation taking the shape of a human clad in an Eastern-looking armor, complete with a helmet and with stone protrusions jutting out, with a frowning look and bright lights visible in the holes acting as its eyes.
"Elemental magic begins small and can be as creative as the user can imagine." Jura exhaled and let his arms go down to his sides as Chelia watched wide eyed as the earth giant quietly slipped into the earth as if it was never there.
"It is important to understand where to begin that way you can be as creative as you like. It's much harder to create something new from one of your completed techniques such as the Boreas' Rage. The best you could do with that spell is just try to add upon it, but that's not what I am going to teach you."
"Chelia." He rested his hand on her shoulder and made sure to look into her eyes. "I know it will be tedious and may even bring up bad memories but remember that struggle, remember the hard work it took for you to get your god slayer magic in the first place." He pounded his fist into his chest before giving her a small smile.
"The quality of the Magic itself is immaterial. He who has the stronger conviction will always prevail!"
"Hey!"
"I mean she!" Chelia and Jura laughed at that before getting right back into training…
Flashback End
In a brief moment of consciousness Bana weakly opened one of his eyes to see the wyvern flying at her like an arrow and knew that she was their last hope until Romeo wakes up. Right as it was within biting distance Chelia's head jerked up with an unseen fierce look in her blue eyes.
"Storm Wall!" A purple magic seal appeared in front of her and as she swiped her arm to the right a giant wind wall formed in front of her and Romeo. The sudden defensive spell sent the beast tumbling into the ground.
"She knows regular wind magic too?!" Bana watched as she began approaching the downed wyvern that was quickly trying to get her feet out from under herself. But the exceed could not fight against falling unconscious as the blood from his head wound was dripping on the now scarlet snow.
"I will not let this end here while he is still out there." Her words were lost in the wind swirling around but the wyvern could not care less as she quickly charged at her with her feet out trying to skewer her.
"Magic Wind Palms!" She covers her hands in spiraling currents of wind, claps them together and then moves them towards her target with her fingers slightly bent. This generated a large, powerful vortex that had enough strength to stun the beast as his wings flew apart and its head was knocked backwards. Even the area beneath it was effected as it created an almost volcanic eruption of snow and ground to blow up into the air.
She quickly threw its head back forward in a rage as its dragon like eyes searched through the falling snow and earth for her kill.
She did not have to wait long.
Chelia's form became clear above the cloud of snow and ground with the sunset illuminating her body as it was upside down in the peak of her flip.
"Storm Bringer!" She made a small series of gestures with her left hand and then thrust her hand forward. A powerful tornado formed and trapped the wyvern in its sudden spiral. Soon the tornado grew thicker with the snow and rocks flooding in from its surroundings causing the wyvern to suffer numerous strikes.
"That technique! It's the same one she used against Romeo but she did it so much faster and without Eurus's Endowment!" Bana could only watch for his last moments of consciousness as Chelia was fighting her on her own and was doing a great job of weakening her but it was not enough.
"She could do it…if she was dragon-slayer."
"SCREEEEEEONK" It blasted out of the tornado bruised and battered but not out of the fight. Chelia knew that it would not hold her back forever so she planted her feet deep in the snow to get a strong base. Her lungs flooded with air and quickly converted it to ethernano for a final attack.
"Hope this doesn't miss!"
The wyvern shot like an arrow straight towards her fully intending to crush her and end this once and for all but it left her wide open for Chelia's attack.
"SKY GOD'S BELLOW!" A massive stream of black wind and energy slammed head-on with the attacking wyvern but because she was not caught off guard she drove head first into the blast intending to beat it head on.
Her vision was beginning to blur but she intended to hold onto her attack until it lost but the wyvern also was not going to quit until Chelia quit even if her wings were being severely injured. It was a battle of will and only the one with the strongest conviction was going to win.
But she was exhausted and even with the magic she absorbed before the attack her body would not hold out. The sudden disappearance of the breath attack surprised the wyvern but it was exhausted and injured. Unfortunately for Chelia, because she was diving towards her, gravity would finish the job for it as it dropped to the earth slowly and continued its now unintended path to crush her.
Chelia could only look on as the enormous body was going to fall onto her as her body was paralyzed from the sudden absorption and release of that much ethernano.
"This is it for me isn't it huh? Killed by a wyvern-" And then a bright light fills her vision as a blue and white swirling beam explodes in the side of the wyvern causing it to howl in pain and push it away from landing on her by sheer magic force.
It narrowly misses Chelia and the smell of sizzling fresh fills the nose of the god-slayer. The beast lands a hundred feet away from the Sky God Slayer and weakly attempts to nurse her burning skin by rolling around in the snow but was still in incredible pain as the pressure was hurting the wounds Chelia gave her.
Chelia turns to the origin of the blast and is shock to see a snow covered Romeo hunched over on his knees with his hand outstretch pointing at the wyvern while the other one was on the ground helping him maintain his balance.
"Goddamn", he breathe heavily, "That fucking hurt."
Chelia then notices small streams of blood coming out of his ears.
"What the?", is all she has time to think before an earthshaking stomping from behind alerts her to the blizzardvern throwing herself into another rage fit. She turns around just in time to see her take another deep breath and...
"SCREEEEEEEEEONK!" as this time much louder than her last roar causing even larger avalanches from all over the mountain to occurred and sent Chelia to her knees trying to cover her ears. The pain was more intense than last time as Chelia felt like a whole array of bladed weaponry from spears and swords to arrows and axes were being plugged into her eardrums.
Once again her vision became distort and she felt herself collapse to the ground. As she lay there helplessly a thousand thoughts ran through her head.
"Crap I can't move." She looks down to her legs and can feel the creeping lack of sensation in them. "My healing spell…it's not working fast enough…I-I'm not going to make it and no doubt Romeo can't move either after a roar like that, he is probably dead." before a second beam collided into the blizzardvern's throat scorching it and sending her roaring as she recoiled from it.
"What?", Chelia said faintly as she struggles to turn her head in the snow to see a wobbling Romeo move past her and firing off another Doomsday shot toward the beast this time hitting her in the middle of her back.
That was the last straw for the monster who has decided no amount of herbs was worth the three burning wounds she now had as she took to the sky roaring in agony the whole way until she was out of sight and only the echoes of her screams remained.
Romeo breaths heavily as he slowly walks over to Chelia and process to scribble something out in the snow.
Chelia's healing spell slowly starts to take affect and neutralize the effects of the roar and she able to lift herself up to see what Romeo was writing.
"Busted...my...eardrums…so...roar...wouldn't...affect...me", Chelia says out loud and finally realize why Romeo wasn't affect by roar and why there was blood coming out his ears.
"Heal...me...up...quick...wyvern...may...be...back...soon...with...friends", Romeo finished writing before giving an afterthought and adding, "Also...you...should...heal...Bana."
And then as another afterthought he wrote, "Next...time...aim...for...the...throat. It's...a...wyvern...weak...spot...you...idiot." to which Chelia had to restrain herself from smacking him at that point.
It took a moment for Chelia to heal Romeo's eardrums and afterward while he collected up the herbs she fixed up Bana, but she could only do so much as her healing spell didn't work on that well on non-humans. When the exceed finally came to his first question was, "What happen?"
"The wyvern flew away and Romeo said when should hurry up and get moving before she comes back with friends", Chelia explained.
"He's right", as he nurse his ribs with his arm and sat up, "Seeing how that was a female blizzardvern there more than likely male blizzardverns in the area. No doubt they'll act in her stead to gain her favor for mating privileges."
"How many are we talking here?" Chelia asked.
"For an area this size, possibly two to four", he answered before Romeo interrupted…
"Which is why we need to get moving!" he yelled as he came toward them with a bag of herbs and then pointing behind him at the large clouds that were gathering, "Also there a storm heading our way. We need to get down from the mountain before it hits. Bana can you move?"
"I can't fly if that what you're asking nor can I transform", he answered as he stand up, "But I can walk."
"Then let's go", Romeo said as the winds started to pick up.
A/N: That was intense. Let hope they make it back home with no problems. Please Review, Fav, or Follow if you want.