A/N: Sorry about not warning something. Well, technically, i did warn you guys. Things are only get even more gory later on.
Disclaimer: I do not own StarOcean... why can't we all just have that simple understanding from the beginning?
The enemy charged forward, Enforcers before the Proclaimers. The Enforcers would be able to take more damage than their Proclaimer cousins, and the Proclaimers were better at healing. It was a good tactic, but Fayt knew better.
"Hold the line! Marksmen take aim! Once the first volley is fired, rocket launchers fire!"
The order was given.
"FIRE!"
The snipers all fired at once. Proclaimers fell right behind their Enforcer cover, who were quickly dispatched by the rocket launchers.
"Break the line! Main team, forward!"
The line dissipated as groups of soldiers charged forward through the gaps within the lines. Fayt led his own group right after, a sword in one hand and a gun in the other.
The army charged through the smoke and it was hard to see what was happening unless it was five feet away from you.
Then Fayt heard it. Screams. Human screams. Gunfire echoed throughout the battlefield and no one could see what was going on. Suddenly, a hand shot out of the smoke to Fayt's right, and impaled the soldier in front of Fayt. A black hand.
"Enemy!"
Fayt turned to the hand and took a swing at it, cutting through the hand clean.
"Medic! I need a medic!"
Fayt called out and another soldier ran into view. While the medic was treating the wounded, Fayt looked back to his group.
"This is terrible. We're being picked off in the smoke."
Karin said, looking around for anymore enemies.
"Third company just reported losing their commander."
Kanai said, listening closely on her earpiece radio.
"Pull back. Signal the retreat. Get me Maria."
"Yes sir."
The retreat sounded and the men pulled back out of the smoke. There, Fayt could see the extensive damage that the smoke from their own rocket launchers had caused.
Men with missing limbs, holes in their bodies, it was worse than a nightmare. Fayt stepped forward, his rage already reaching its peak. He raised his sword up high.
"FORM A DEFENSIVE LINE! MEN TO THE FRONT!"
His order was strict and fierce and no one dared to go against his word. All able bodied men ran forward, forming a wall of guns.
Maria, finding her way to Fayt, felt rather worried for her husband. She gently placed her hand on his, looking into his eyes, but all she could see, was rage. Like fires from hell had risen up and engulfed his soul.
"Fayt..."
"Maria, change the substance of that smoke. We need a clear view."
Fayt said without even looking at her. In her heart, she knew that Fayt was still Fayt, but what could have caused such a change in him? She turned to the smoke.
It looked as though it wasn't going to clear for quite some time. She closed her eyes and raised her hand in the direction of the smoke. As she exhaled, a pale blue circle of light erupted from her palm, symbols dancing all around it.
More circles of symbols appeared around the first one, and some even surrounded her hand. For a brief moment, a translucent figure appeared in the place of Maria, in the same position, hand outstretched. It was a knight in full armour of gold.
'The legend of King Arthur, Excalibur and Avalon.'
The symbols around Maria exploded in a bright flash and the smoke ahead of them suddenly disappeared, revealing the entire enemy army. This was the moment Fayt waited for. He swung his blade down.
"FIRE!"
The volley of gunfire sounded as one. Bullets of lead and steal pierced their foe where they stood. Many of the Proclaimers and Enforcers fell as there were bullets. The volley didn't end till every one of their clips were empty.
"Fighters! Advance!"
Fayt shouted, drawing his second blade. The wall loosened as men with swords, spears, axes all charged forward.
If there was one thing that Fayt had learned over his years of experience fighting these abominations, it was that while lasers did cause an extensive damage to them, it was hard to kill them as some of them actually had healing abilities. Bullets, however, could injure, maim, kill them.
The bullets that were left in their bodies were loaded with a special toxin that would affect only these kind of foes. Now, was the best way to finish them off, through the blade of steel.
Fayt ran up to the first injured Enforcer and cut its head off, running off to the next, sticking Setsuna into its chest, leaping over its head, Fayt effectively slicing through its body.
Fayt heard the cry of the fighters, all charging forward, cutting down those who were still struggling to recover. Their healing abilities would not help them now. Not ever. Fayt sensed a being, and saw that more of them were still there, not injured at all.
"Dammit to hell!"
Fayt shouted, charging forward, his blades in position. Reaching the enemy, he made quick work of those who stood before him. Cutting through bodies like they were warm butter. He massacred all that tried to stop him.
Fayt slammed the two ends of his blade's hilts together and they clicked, forming something like Karin's crescent weapon. Leaping onto his next enemy, Fayt sliced through the enemy, landing onto the floor and leaping to his next victim.
From afar, Maria and the rest could only watch in horror at what Fayt had become.
"Maria, what do you want us to do?"
Karin asked, stringing her weapon to become a bow.
"M-me? B-but-"
"The admiral has gone insane. We cannot take effective orders from him. What are your orders?"
Kanai asked.
"... All fighters, surround the remaining enemy forces and cut them from outside. The rest are to follow up and take aim in case something happens."
"Yes ma'am. You heard her! Move it people!"
Karin barked at the men, who naturally followed the orders. Maria could only stare in horror at what Fayt had become.
"Fayt..."
A/N: Fayt has gone crazy, yes, i think everyone knows that by now.
