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Arc Two, Part Five: The Delta's Rage

DIMENSION: Ultimension

LOCATION: Lowee

It was a fine day in Lowee, an unusual weather of both winter and autumn didn't bother the citizens the least, as if it was their lives gotten used to it.

From the south, a humongous tall walls surrounding the nation. It reaches about 50 meters or more. A wall made up of simple cobblestones but I wouldn't judge. Below it, a white gate stood decorated in yellow and orange leaves. At the entrance and exit of the gate are two guards blocking the mighty gate.

They stood taller than the 10 meters gate, covered in fancy light blue with yellow and orange armor from head to toe. The shoulder guards are bulky. They held sheathed swords. Inside the gate, a snowy road could still be seen and it stretches out towards the city.

On the road, we could see two women walking towards the gate, one had the appearance of a looking-graduated young woman and the other one was a woman with a blue hair tied in a single ponytail dressed in a light blue dress with a long and baggy sleeves.

Both of them seemed to be enjoying each other's company as it could be seen that they're talking to one another.

"I see," Mina sweat dropped at the woman as she kept her small smile, she didn't want her friend to be disappointed. "So, you tried to take the patient right away because you heard she was sick?"

"How could I not?" The blue haired woman mused as she stifled a giggle. "I know it might be bad to rush patients right away because they might be hurt but that's what I'm grown to anyway." She smiled.

Mina stared at her friend, she was beautiful as the only thing Oracle can say and think. She let out a smile at the woman, although it didn't came unnoticed.

"What are you smiling at?" The woman asked, tilting her head slightly in confusion but her smile remained on her face. "Is there something in my face?" That's when her smile dropped as she placed her fair skinned hand on her cheeks.

Mina let out a small laugh a she waved her hand in front of her face. "It was nothing, don't bother it." She then looked back in front. "We're near."

The blue haired woman pouted at Mina at the answer she wasn't satisfied. But the topic quickly dropped after Mina said her sentence. The woman looked back in front to see the big and tall guards blocking the exit of the nation.

The two stopped a few meters away from the guard, then said guard moved his head to look down at the two. Then the sockets where the eyes would be in the helmet glow a soft yellow.

"Greetings, Oracle Mina." The guard spoken in a deep-like resonance voice, like a voice in a deep abyss of the water.

The Oracle of Lowee, Mina Nishizawa, looked at the guard's glowing eyes. She now wore a serious face. "Loweean Guard, I would like you to open the gate for the person standing beside me may leave the nation freely."

The guard didn't answer the Oracle's words quickly, he stood there silent before saying. "Thine free open to leave."

Mina smiled as she looked back at the woman, then the woman looked back at her with a smile.

'I will finally meet you, my long lost daughter.' The woman thought, a single tear rolled over her cheek. A happy and nostalgic memory played her mind.

LOCATION: Gamindustri Main Arena

"Demon Slayer Infernal Barrage!"

"Inhumane Blast!"

Azure yelled as he reflected all nearby transparent swords and slashed the air several time as he sent 12 flaming blue orbs at the swords. Half of the orbs made an explosion and a cloud of smoke formed, then the other half of the orbs came out and sent towards Guiborne but he cut all the orbs with his cutlass and the orbs disappeared without exploding. After that, several more transparent swords launched itself towards Azure who gritted his teeth.

Meanwhile the girls, held each others hand (like what they did all the time ever since last chapter) and placed their other hands in front of them. A grey transparent shield formed around them as the swords stabbed the shield but they didn't flinched even if the blade almost made contact with their skin. Then the shield glowed and it released an exploding energy that scattered around, striking the transparent swords that Guiborne's tornado made. Despite the decreasing amount, the transparent kept on coming.

"Girls! Cover my back! I'll deal with this guy!" He shouted towards the direction of the girls without looking at them. Meanwhile the girls looked at each other before nodding and looked back at Azure.

"Okay, cutie!"

Azure slightly blushed but he shook his head as he looked to the side to nod at them and jumped straight towards Guiborne.

Several transparent swords emerging from the scale of the windy vortex, but all of them was destroyed by the Twins blasting beams as they helped Azure from behind. The Forefather of the Mages in Lowee narrowed his grey eye at him, now that Azure neared him, be pulled back a fist.

"AAGH!" Azure yelled as he threw a punch towards Guiborne. But the latter raised his cutlass the block the punch and managed to push him backwards. The man snorted, "Hm? That's all-"

His words are interrupted when he saw Azure pulled back both of his fisted hands. "Gran Indaka!"

Then he throw barrage of punches at Guiborne, the man had no time to move away and simply blocked all the punches. The air around them exploded as Azure's punches wreaked havoc against Guiborne's cutlass, trying to destroy it and to finally hit Guiborne. But the Forefather's weapon didn't even crack at the punches it received.

"Cricket Slash."

Azure heard Guiborne muttered, but he didn't saw him moved but he felt a very sharp pain to his left side promptly making him cried out in pain. The white haired man took this as a good opportunity to attack back Azure but the boy quickly parried his cutlass but he was knocked below due to the force of the attack.

Grunting in pain, Azure looked up from the ground to the air to see Guiborne going straight down at him. He rolled to the side to dodged the Forefather's cutlass. But the man did not stop as he chased Azure who kept rolling and tripping down as he keep his hardest to try and dodged the man's attack. He saw from the corner of his eyes the two girls destroying the transparent swords that constantly came out of the scale of vortex. But the swords seemed endless and it only focused to the two which they struggled and fought back.

Azure returned his gaze in the front as he placed a hand on his left, lifting his hand up to see blood. Shocked, he saw a blur.

"Don't break your eyes on me."

By some fate, Azure quickly raised his sword in front of him to blocked the blade of the cutlass closed to his face. He also saw Guiborne calmed and cool face staring at him as he put more pressure to his weapon but Azure doubled his efforts as well.

Guiborne stared at him before sighing and his right leg suddenly glow light blue. Azure noticed this but he had no time as the Forefather kneeled him in the stomach.

Azure gasped out as blood flew out of his mouth as his strength on the sword fades out, Guiborne didn't hesitated to throw him to the side and Azure's body to the side. The boy stopped rolling as he placed a hand on his stomach where the man kicked him. He lifted his head up to see the man standing over his fallen body. Guiborne's right leg was covered in ice with spikes jutting out.

"I guess I must defeat you quickly," Guiborne raised his cutlass above him. "There's something that myself must kill you at all cost, and I never doubt myself."

Meanwhile the Twin Blader saw Azure and Guiborne, Twile yelled. "Hey-?!" But what she's about to shout was interrupted as she turned to the side and parried another transparent sword. She pushed the sword and cut it in a half until it dissipated but another one came. The energies of the two girls was slowly depleting.

Back to Guiborne, he brought his cutlass down to bring the killing blow.

...

...

But his blade met with another one.

LOCATION: Gamindustri Arena - CPUs' Sidelines

Purple Heartress's eyes widened in shock as she felt small surged of shares flowing around the area.

"Is this shares that I'm feeling?" The NPG of Planeptune, Magic, asked to no one. She felt the presence of shares around.

"Hey, I felt it too!" B-Sha said, confused. "Just where is that coming from?"

While Magic and B-Sha tried to pinpoint out where the shares coming from and the center of it, Purple Heartress stared at the hologram screen before her blue eyes turned to purple ones, with the power symbols still there.

"P-Planeptune?!" Purple Heart cried out in surprise when she felt something familiar. "What is it that you called me?"

Magic and B-Sha stopped their search when they heard the CPU cried out.

"The Land of Purple Progress," Magic said quietly, "She's conversing with Lady Purple Heatress."

B-Sha stayed silent as she looked back at the hologram screen with a deep look.

Back to Purple Heartress, her hand was suddenly lifted up. She wasn't controlling her own body, she simply watched as her arm extended towards the hologram screen and pointed at Azure that is pinning down by Guiborne.

"Him?!" Magic said, confused as to why. "But I didn't felt any shares when I neared that person."

"It doesn't matter," Purple Heartress stated, her purple eyes turned back to her normal blue ones. "That person needed to put into custody for further notice, Magic."

The NPG of Planeptune was slightly surprised at the CPU's order but promptly obliged as she left quickly with a nod.

'I should've expected this,' Purple Heartress said as she eyed the screen with focus. 'If there are people that came from another dimension, one of them is a CPU.'

LOCATION: Gamindustri Main Arena

Guiborne's eyed widened in pure shock as he watched Azure blocked his cutlass, using his hand.

"Hehehe," Azure darkly chuckled as his form covered in black aura, his upper face completely covered in black shadow. "I wouldn't let Azure died that easily."

Guiborne suddenly felt a heavy weight that slowly overcome him, he jumped away backwards as Azure slowly stood up. 'That power just now! It's similar to the CPUs' but why its presence felt so unnatural?!' The Forefather thought grimly as he raised himself above the earth.

He observed Azure weird movements, as if he was controlled by something sinister. The black aura continued to oozed out from his body. Guiborne observed closely as Azure a kneeling stance with his head low. Then the boy jumped towards Guiborne.

'Fast-?!' Guiborne had no time to raised his cutlass as he was rammed by Azure's headbutting him in the stomach at full force. The Forefather gagged out and spew out blood from his mouth.

When that happened, the vortex that surrounding the group suddenly stopped and slowly dissipated into a strong breeze. It was so sudden that even the transparent swords surrounding the twins are started popping like a balloon.

"Wha-?! What is happening?!" Twile asked, suddenly confused and shocked.

"Twily! Look!" She looked to the side to see Dera pointing something from above, her gaze followed where her other twin is pointing at. To her mild surprise, she saw Azure covered in black aura and was fighting at Guiborne.

But that wasn't that surprised them, what's surprised them is how Azure reacting.

"Is this all you've got?!" Azure shouted with malice, his grin expanding as he continued to land blows after blows at Guiborne. "Such a weak, feeble creature! How did Azure be defeated by something like you!" He spat out.

The Forefather, meanwhile, tried his best to block all the punches being thrown at him but sometimes some fist connected and sent him flying. He cannot retaliate for the boy was faster than he could imagine. Not only that but the man can't figure out what's wrong in the boy's head, he was playful and arrogant brat and now he became a monster-like attitude. As if the boy was being controlled.

'Then that's it!' The Forefather angrily thought as he stopped and was instantly covered in hexagon-shaped ice. Although it happened, 'Azure' didn't hesitate on continuing to punch the ice.

Before 'Azure' could make a crack, the ice exploded in a strong cold breeze. The 'boy' was thrown in the air as he skidded in the air, stopping a few meters away from a steaming cold smoke.

"You are a fool to fight with me," A voice growled within the smoke. "My title as a Forefather wasn't simply a title."

Then the air was cut and dissipated to the sides, revealing a new figure of Guiborne. He was covered in ice from his lower torso connected to his sleeves and covering his arms. The toenails and fingertips turned into a claw. His bare upper torso is exposed revealing his muscles. In his feature, his right face is covered in ice but with darker blue shade that extended with one curved horn. His 'eye' on the frozen part is lighter shade of blue. His left face is still the same: grey eye and white slicked hair.

'Azure' merely stared at Guiborne wordlessly, or at least he stared considering his upper face is still covered in black shadow. His unusual grin still remained in his face.

"It wasn't my intention to release this power," Guiborne said, his voice is deep like a growl. Half of his lips are moving while the other half are covered by a frozen half-mask. "But I'm not the person to be fall down rather easily, not when only my reputation but also for Lowee."

Then he pointed his pointy, frozen finger at 'Azure'. "You, whoever creature you are inside this boy's body, I shall force you out of his body by any means necessary without killing him." He said grimly at the 'Azure' that is front of him.

Guiborne, was already expecting it, heard 'Azure' small dark chuckle then it turned into a full-blown laughter, a maniac laughter. But the now transformed Forefather didn't fazed at his laugh, he lowered his arm as he watched the possessed boy continued to laugh.

"Hahaha!" 'Azure' laughed out. "You think you can beat me?" He suddenly stopped laughing and asked, with the same wide grin. "I'm far from done, old man."

It was a small silence, the Loweeans and the Planeptunians watched and observed with fear and concern in their eyes from the hologram. Their incredible power and strength was unmatchable.

Then suddenly, Guiborne and 'Azure' disappeared, but if you look closely. The two were throwing punches at one another. Their par at one another is almost equal. 'Azure' tried thrown much stronger punches that apparently can send shockwaves. Meanwhile Guiborne, he retaliated back by kicking and clawing 'Azure' with his frozen limbs.

'Azure' threw a jab at Guiborne's face but the Forefather swatted his hand away and tried to grab the boy by the neck. 'Azure' simply ducked to dodge the hand and he grabbed the frozen limb with his two arms.

"Take this!" 'Azure' said as he started to pull the Forefather's arm, trying to break it into two. But Guiborne didn't let him do what he wants so his other arm made a soft glow and it morphed into a large blade.

Guiborne raised his now bladed arm to try and cut 'Azure' off of him. But to his shock, the boy simply smirked and leaped away from him as the blade missed him an inch.

And the Forefather cut his own arm.

Too avoid making this story to rated M because of gruesomeness, we like to give a small not-so sensitive details... Moving on!

Needles to say, Guiborne cried out in pain as he tried to overcome the pain. His bladed arm morphed back into his frozen limb as he clutched his other arm which only left is the upper arm while the lower arm fell on the ground.

"Gehehe, stupid human," 'Azure' darkly snarled with his malicious grin still plastered. "It's so saddening that you are too quick to be killed, despite in your much stronger form."

Then the possessed boy raised his fist in front of him, the wind roared around him and stopped as black and purple flame appeared and coated his fist. Guiborne's eyes widened in shock and fear as he tried to stay floating in the air while clutching his now half limb, the ice covered the bleeding part to avoid blood loss.

"How painful is this fire, do you think?" 'Azure' said as he started to walk closer to the Forefather. The latter didn't do anything but just simply watch, beads of sweats fell from his chin.

But before 'Azure' managed to come closer at Guiborne, he stopped as his grin disappeared. It was a very nick of a time that Azure stopped...

...or else he was going to be beheaded by a purple, plasma blade.

"Please surrender immediately, CPU." Purple Heartress said harshly with an edge to her tone. She stood tall beside 'Azure', she is holding her plasma blade while facing in the front. But her blue, cold eyes stared at the corner of her eyes where she could see Azure.

From below, the shocked Twin Blader stared at the scene before them.

"W-What was Lady Purple Heartress d-doing here?" Twile stammered. Fear and confusion evident in her face. Her other twin shared the same expression.

Guiborne sighed in relief and silently thanked the Goddess of Planeptune by saving him. Though he was disappointed because it wasn't his goddess but he nonetheless he was still thankful. He continued to watch the possessed Azure and Purple Heartress.

The boy frown as he scoffed, turning his head to side to look at Purple Heartress. Although not eye contact, the goddess could feel the piercing gaze of the boy. "What makes you think I'm going to surrender?" He spoke with malice but a much softer and quieter tone unlike his maniacal laugh.

"Because you're power is the same as us, goddesses," Purple Heartress said. "Or should I say our Chaos Forms."

The boy didn't meek and stayed silent before sighing and raised his arms. Then suddenly, the black aura started to disappeared and the boy went limp and began falling. The shadow on his face disappeared, now with the boy's tired-looking face. Thankfully, the twins caught the boy right away before he collided to the ground.

"I guess that was it, huh." The twin heard a rough and big voice as they turned to look in the front to see Stoneliege unscathed and standing all mighty. "Imagine my surprise, that boy knocked me out clean." He laughed merrily.

Guiborne closed his eyes and face palmed. Meanwhile, the Goddess of Planeptune stared at Azure for a few more seconds before a hologram screen appeared in front of him.

"This fight will be draw." She said.

Didn't expect this, did you?

Well, it depends anyway to my move if I wanted a short hiatus or just continue on with the plot.

Next chapter, I will be a mean cliffhanger to each scenes.

~A