Hello everybody who's stayed tuned, It's finally time for chapter 7, I'm sorry about the on and off schedule of the fanfic, it just can't be avoided. Thank you for your continued support and don't forget, Follow the story for more, feel free to ask questions either in reviews or PMs either's fine.
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Chapter 7: At Hell's gates
"The teleportation beacon malfunctioned." Harpuia thought to himself "of course it did, what were you thinking, the city was destroyed by the ragnarok beam, everyone fled and millions are dead because of it." they had made the distance between them and Neo Arcadia roughly half of what it was, but the teleport landed them away from the intended target.
His thoughts were interrupted by finally realizing that Leviathan was staring right at him, she was bending over forward slightly with her hands on her hips, her face was literally 5 inches away from his, with a worried expression.
"When you think about bad stuff your face always frowns." she places her index finger between his eyebrows, "Right here, you get wrinkles, it makes you look like an old man. Stop thinking about it, don't care what it was, just stop."
Fefneer burst out laughing and Harpuia gave in, "What are you laughing at?"
"Well, you heard her."
Harpuia sighed and shrugged with a less worried expression. "Well, we should get moving, judging by the speed at which they departed the hostiles should have reached their destination by now." he started running towards their goal, "What's this uneasy feeling?"
It took them around 2 hours but they were finally at the city, when they got there, they saw ruins, bodies, pretty much the definition of death and destruction. They were greated by another unexpected sight, Phantom and the other reploid were standing right in front of a gate. The gate itself looked completly undamaged, it had a golden patern around the edges and it's centre had a giant omega symbol, purple and a white edge. There was an open "courtyard" for lack of a better word.
Phantom oppened his eyes, red as blood, he did not say a word, he drew his katana, Harpuia, Fefneer and Leviathan readied their weapons as well, Fefneer commented, "I've got gunboy over there." He pointed at Axl who had dawned a disturbing grin once more, his eyes lit up red as Fefneer let loose the first few shots. The action quickly broke down into two seperate battles, one melee based, and one from a distance.
In the melee, Harpuia and Leviathan flanked Phantom at every turn, every slash, tens of blows thundered between them, Phantom parried all of them and gave a bit of ground, a nod from the green reploid signalled Leviathan, Harpuia swung high with his Blades and Leviathan sweeped low, horizontal swings, Phantom jumped, his body spinning between both weapons, landing between them, Fairy jumped high in the air while Sage fired a barrage of sharkfin energy waves and phantom apeared between those, dodging them, then Leviathan fell upon him with her staff he raised his sword to deflect the blow, Leviathan let out a yell as her staff pierced the floor making a wave appear in a radious around her staff, which took Phantom by surprise and knocked him down, harpuia then let out an even faster set of energy waves, this time from the air as he hovered, each one hitting Phantom until dust covered the area. A laugh, no a cry, no some strange mix of both was heard from across the field, as Axl held Fefneer's unconscious body by the head with his hand, Leviathan gasped, a disturbing sound of metal crushing metal was heard, as Axl clenched his fist, they were petrified as a jet of blood sprayed upwards then a voice emerged from the smoke, "My turn..." Harpuia reacted first as a shadow apeared behind him barely able to block the attack but getting hit so hard that he got sent downward into the ground, he bounced off it as he tried to block unsuccessfully the follow up attacks, getting cuts in his harms chest, and legs. Leviathan stepped in with a yell "GET OFF HIM YOU MONSTER!" she struck the Phantom in the head with her staff, as she did Phantom's body disapeared and apeared behind her, "LEVY NO!"A punch pierced her from side to side through the stomach, she coughed spitting some blood, as an explosion happened in the background, that distracted Phantom, when he looked back he saw the two remaining guardians teleport away, escaping. "Run little reploids, run, for you've stumbled upon Hell's gates, and only the dead are welcome in them".
Yes another short one, I'm sorry, but hey I'd rather have something out than nothing, either way I mensioned there would be another story coming out last chapter, that's still in the works, we'll see how it goes. Enjoy this new Chapter and in a couple of days I'll have another ready, so hey be happy I'm on spring break.