I just want to mention when I say vote I mean it you need to go to my profile to vote. I appreciate the review but it won't change the vote on the poll. So far 9 people has vote and 7 of them vote for the Infinite Stratos arc. I already form a storyline for that arc seeing that it likely I will wrote that next. Truthfully it doesn't matter what I wrote first because both of them connect with each other. The only thing that affected it is the order of it.
OK then I think It's time for me to wrap up this arc.
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Thing had gone bad. No I bad is not the correct word here. Thing definitely had gotten worse. Not too long ago both of us had been fighting with a army of Gargoyle that had been create by ONE ancient Dragon. But now we face another army. Well not exactly an army but one of them is enough consider an entire army so it figure what five of them make up.
In front of us is an army of Ancient Dragon. I don't know what happening. I'm pretty sure that last attack had killed it but for some reason it resurrect again and this time he's not alone. How the heck are we going to win this? I can feel even Chifuyu is in despair right now. One Ancient Dragon is already a problem but now there are 5.
One dragon takes flight charging at us. We both dodge it by moving to an opposite site. Chifuyu white wing start to separate and another 12 clone of white knight manifested. All of them brought out they plasma gun and fire them simultaneously. The plasma blast combines into one and aiming at the Ancient Dragon. It seem that the dragon doesn't active the counter or maybe it can't because I have in my possession right now the void item and ring that gave them the power.
The weird thing is what is it that power up the Dragon to make it split into 5? The attacks hit the Dragon and completely annihilate it. Good, that means only four remaining. I can't launch another explosion because I just use it a while ago. I need to recharge first before I can use it again. three other Dragon came charging. This will be a tough battle. One Black knight and thirteen white knight Charge at the three Dragon.
Two Dragon open it mouth and fire a… blizzard? The attack came from Different direction and I don't think I can dodge it. From the Data I receive the attack seems to be below -1000 degree celcius. That was really cold. Anything will be frozen solid immediately if it got hit by it. But fortunately I'm in my second shift form so i can absorb it with ease even if there are too may attack came at once.
But that where I wrong the third dragon launch itself at me and raise it claw with a spark of lightning covering it claw. This is bad. My IS can't absorb physical attack and I can't move when I absorb an attack meaning I'm really vulnerable right now. Chifuyu is still recovering from firing thirteen Plasma gun at the same time. I;m sure that attack had taken a lot out of her.
There only one way I could think of.
"Derf, form changes 'Katana'." Derf form starts to change from his normal form to a katana.
I move the blade at where one of the attacks is coming. I'm confident that my wing could handle the other. Both of the attack make a contact with me at the same time and the wing as if understand what I was thinking doesn't intercept the attack that I was focusing right now. I'm sure that was Kuro work. Although I heard that from her before that the wing is moving on its own but she still have some control of it.
One attack was met with the Black wing while the other met with Derf Katana form. The attack didn't get absorb but instead it stops as it hit Derf. There is still a force behind the attack so I use all my weight to swing Derf to where the third Dragon who are charging at us. The blizzard change the direction with where Derf is pointing and the blizzard hit the third Dragon completely frozen it.
Chifuyu already recovered from her attack take this chance and ram the Dragon with her broadsword completely shattered it. Another down three more to go. Both of attack just now had proved something. although it may look slightly bigger than the previous ancient Dragon it doesn't have nearly the Defense that the Ancient Dragon has but they make up for that different varieties of attack.
Seeing that the two had start to gather preparing for the next attack but I won't give them that. Derf start to generate a spark of electricity again and with I pointed him at the two Dragon.
"EXPLOSION!" I unleash the explosion at the middle of where the Dragon float and the two of them got engulfed by the bright light accompanied by the sound of explosion.
"You did it." Seeing that I take the other two dragons down Chifuyu cheer.
"yosh now only one le-" when I turn to look where the last Dragon is I was shocked beyond word. Where there should only been one Dragon left now there is a dozen of Dragon. Not just that but the number kept increasing as a new Dragon manifested itself.
Five of the Dragon open it mouth and fire a blast of fire at me. I change Derf back to normal form and the attack is being absorbed by Derf. Guh… at this rate Derf will only end up broken again. I watch the energy bar filling faster than normal and once it full a ping sound can be heard and then some kind of shield energy forming in front of me blocking the fire and Derf was not absorbing any of the attack anymore.
I was grateful that I don't have to watch Derf got broken again but the shield didn't last long and I got hit full blast by the attack as a result I got thrown back but not before I use the booster to regain balance.
"You okay Saito." Chifuyu asked looking worried. If I'm not in the IS I don't think I will survive that blow I just receive. But at least that hit wasn't for nothing as I can see my energy bar increasing.
"thing is looking grim right now. Where did he got all the energy to do this?" there shouldn't have any other source of energy to do all this. After all I have in my possession right now the four void item and ring. Furthermore if they have this much energy why didn't it just use counter to block the attack. Is it because they can't use counter? But why?
"if you don't know there no way I would know, maybe Derf know something about it." Oh yeah…. I almost forgot. Derf must at least knew something about it. Thanks to Chifuyu word we may still have a chance. But the next word that Derf spoke had make us go back to square one.
"sorry partner, even I don't know how this could happen." If Derf can't help then who else?
"Yaaaaaaaahoooooooooooo~~~" huh? That voice, that was Tabane but where is she coming from. I can see that it was not from communicator so where? It was not my imagination as Chifuyu also heard the voice as she was looking around to find the voice.
Then both of our sensor pick up on something moving at rapid speed to our direction. With an IS hyper sensor we can easily discern what is it.
"a missile?" what the heck is a missile doing here and why is it aiming at us.
"That idiot…" Chifuyu seem to know something since she just shake it head upon seeing it, is there something I miss here because that clearly a missile and it moving at us. If we don't dodge it were surely will be hit by it. I don't think Derf or the wing could absorb a missile.
Just when I was thinking that the missile split into two and inside came out a person doing a somersault before activate some kind of booster jet in the back.
"Tada~ enter the great genius Tabane~" yep it was none other than Tabane. What with that missile like thing. if I have any range attack I would have fore it already. Fortunately I don't have any range attack beside explosion and that attack is waste to use on a missile because it use to much energy just firing one. maybe because an IS is a machine that why it use more than necessary willpower t use it if you consider it energy bar is a willpower at all.
"So…I assume you know what happening?" Chifuyu ask Tabane. Seeing that she had calmed down a little it must be she really believes that Tabane really knew something. I notice that the new forming Dragon doesn't immediately move for the kill. Maybe it takes time before they can move again. the five Dragon that had attack me before is moving at us although it speed doesn't match with the original Ancient Dragon.
"I unleash explosion immediately at the center of the five Dragon. Two Dragon managed to dodge the explosion as the explosion engulfed three of the Dragon. But the other two Dragon was immediately decimated by the other of twelve White Knight.
"fufu~ as expected of my creation. It was definitely the strongest." Oi, now not the time to praise yourself. If you could at least help us figuring out what the heck is going on.
"Tabane, we can talk about IS later but I want you tell us why is this happening if you know something." look even Chifuyu share my though. Tabane really need to learn the word emergency.
"Hai~~~~" a hologram appear with a bunch of screen that I didn't know what it wrote on it. She equip something that look like a Cyclops and her hand start moving at rapid speed typing something into a hologram keyboard that appear on thin air. "I'll need sometime before I can discern what the reason is."
So what mean she need a bit more time.
"If that the case both of us will buy you some-"
"DONE!"
"-time. Wait! You're done already!" that was fast. I thought we need to but her at least a few minute but that was less than ten second.
"Did you found out something?" Chifuyu seem eager to know what she found. I must say we really need the information right now and if anyone else can figure out that even Derf can't than our only hope is Tabane.
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Henrietta had been watching all of it from the sideline. The place she was hiding now can be considered safe. She had exhaust to much willpower from before so as to not be hindrance she retreated back to the safest place. She doesn't have the time to ask Saito this before. When she saw the explosion she was secretly hopping that it was Louise is the one who done that. That she still somehow alive but she found out next that the explosion came from Saito. how Saito able to use void magic is still something she doesn't know yet.
After the Ancient Dragon shattered and the fog was lifted she had thought it already over but something is happening and the Ancient Dragon reappears but this time it was so many of them. She watched the dragon kept multiplying itself. What could be the reason she tried to think of something. Although she have ran out of willpower that doesn't mean she doesn't have any at all. she can still use a simple dot magic so she use with the help of wind dot magic she can see clearly what happening and she knew that the before that dragon can use so many counter because of the void artifact.
But the artifact is in Saito possession so what could be the reason for the Dragon power? Could it be there are also some kind of magic stone on Saito world. but according to Saito this world doesn't use magic though those Infinite stratos is surely magical enough that they could be easily mistaken as magical artifact.
"Your majesty!" a voice suddenly calling out to her and since it just called her your majesty that must mean it was not someone from earth. She tried to look around to found the source of the voice but she can't seem to found anything.
"up here…" the voice called again. when she look up she noticed a hole as if it was rip out from the sky and with a long vision she can see clearly what it is. It was ostland and standing aboard it is colbert, Tabitha and anyone else from ondine knight. She could at least tell that much.
"Colbert-san." She already knew about them from what Saito had told her before. Maybe they knew something about the current situation. but there was someone else who Saito didn't mention before.
"Tiffania." She mutters the name of her cousin. That was without a doubt Tiffania. She was her cousin and t the time according to Saito is taking her place as the queen of Tristain. She doesn't wish for someone to bear what she had to bear but with how she didn't able to return it was up to Tiffa to replace her. She was sure that Mazarin will not allow anything to happen to tristain so she can feel a bit at ease.
"Your majesty, we would like to know what the situation on the other side." Colbert spoke formally.
"Please don't be so formal. It fine to call me by my name." although she already use to it but she still prefer if someone would treat her normally.
"Forgive me your majesty- I mean queen Henrietta." It seems that there no way for them to treat her normally so she should update them on what happened. She wishes that she could call Saito and Chifuyu right now but she doesn't know how to use this communicator thing that attached to her ear.
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We wait for Tabane to told us and she just raise her hand and pointed it at the sky.
"Huh? Is there something up there? My eye follows where Tabane had point at and then I noticed something seem different. Although thing had been Dark even though it still Daytime it can still be seen clearly with how this thunder that came out of nowhere is lighting the place.
One spot is a bit different though. For some reason there are not a single lightning at all on that area. That when I noticed that where the hole is. The hole that connected to Halkeginia. With IS improved vision I can see that where Henrietta is.
"It seem that the Dragon absorbed the energy that had been released from the hole." Tabane explained it to us.
"So that hole is providing the Dragon the energy." Chifuyu said while nodding.
"Saito, you go and found out what happened, both of us well stop the Dragon while you're at it." Chifuyu said while directing her clone to attack at the army of Dragon.
"I can't do that, Tabane doesn't even have an IS, it basically suicide." I won't let them die while I'm with them.
"Don't underestimate me Sai-kun~ even without IS I can still be deadly." Sure enough as she said that a 6 missile that appear out of nowhere is fire at where the ancient Dragons is.
"Go, if we could stop where the energy coming from we'll have the chance to win this." It seem I cant argue so I could only follow the order.
"On one condition, don't die." After I said what was on my mind I take off to where the hole is.
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As I arrive at the place that when I notice Henrietta was also there. She seem to be talking to someone. Maybe it was someone from ostland.
She seem to notice me approaching as she called out to me. I land near her so I can access the situation better.
"Saito-san, I found out what the cause of it." That was a surprise, at least it was not a waste coming here.
"I already knew the dragon is absorbing an energy that coming out from the hole." I told her what Tabane had told me before.
"Eh! You knew about that already." She looks surprise at me knowing it. That Tabane for you she doesn't even knew much about magic but she an already tell the reason behind it. "then do you know that the energy is not coming from Halkeginia."
I was confused by that word? Not from Halkeginia? Than could it be from Holyland where the elves is?
"Let me explain." Colbert sensei voice appears all of a sudden. "it seem that this energy doesn't come from our world. it came from a completely different world than our world and your world."
"Do you mean that there are other worlds beside the two." I was shocked. To think there is a whole different world than both of our world.
"Not just one apparently, I can detect two different kind of energy running through the hole." That even more shocking. But that not what important right now.
"Do you have any idea how to stop the flow of energy?" We can think about other world later. I need to stop the Dragon from continuing to gaining energy.
"We have one or rather Tiffania can do it." Tiffa? Why did he mention Tiffa? That when I notice the other person that was not onboard Ostland before. I try to avoid my eye from her breast. Even from this distance it was still visible.
"Pervert." I can hear Kuro calling me pervert but I decide to ignore her. She been quiet the entire time why so sudden?
"it been a while Saito-san." Tiiffa said through the communication magic.
"Yeah… you're looking great." It true. Maybe it because part of beeing a queen.
"so how would you do it?" I decide to get straight to the point. we don't really have to much time. While were chatting Chifuyu and Tabane is facing an entire army of ancient Dragon.
"we have to close the hole." Close the hole but that mean. I turned to look at Henrietta.
"it okay, I don't mind." She just smile as she hear that.
"you may not get another chance to return home if this hole is closed." If were closed the hole there won't be another way for Henrietta to return home at least not for a while. I'm sure that Tabane will succeed on creating a way to Halkeginia.
"I'm fully aware of that." She answers me. It seem she was resolved. Oh well then I guess were going to do it.
"How did we closed the hole." They mention that Tiffa will do it but how.
"I will do it, with my new void magic." New void, does that mean Tiffa had learn new void magic beside mind wipe.
"Before that, we heard that your new weapon running through willpower that you use Derflinger to absorb it?"
"yeah." I answer because it more like Colbert sensei just ask me a question.
"Then all of us want you to take this." All of them raise out their wand and after that a dozen of energy running through the hole and I catch it using Derf. The attack got absorb and my energy is full after all of them being absorb "That will be our goodbye gift. Then Tiffa please begin."
"Yes." Tiffa take a step forward as she raise her wand and start to chant her void magic. Although we were far away but thank to Colbert magic I can hear clearly what she chant. It give me an overwhelming courage as I heard the chant continued.
"Space wipe." As she finish the incantation the area surrounding the hole start to distort as the hole seem to be getting smaller.
"WELL DEFINITELY MET AGAIN SOMEDAY!" I shouted before the hole is fully closed.
After the hole completely closed the sky become bright again. no thunder accompanying it this time. It was fully a bright day.
"Then Henrietta, I'll be leaving now." Although we already closed the hole there the Dragon still not completely disappear.
"Take care." She told me before I take off to where the Ancient Dragons is.
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On the way to where the battle taking place I noticed a new information came in.
"Absorb limit: reached" what the heck does that meant. This never happen before so I was confused by it.
"it meant that you had reached the limit of absorb meaning that you won't be able to absorb any kind of energy for a while." It not bad to have her with me I guess. She could explain something that I didn't have any idea of.
"I see… thanks Kuro." She deserved some thank you after all.
"don't get the wrong idea, I only did it because youre a idiot, that all." hm? Is she being tsundere with me.
"I'm not!" oh right I forgot that she know what I was thinking.
Although I only noticed now but it appear that a new void magic had been added beside dispel and explosion.
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*slash* *boom* the sound of the battle continued. Tabane had kept some distance from the Dragon whle kept bringing out a missile that appears out of nowhere. Sometime even Chifuyu wonder where she kept the entire missile. Even an equalizer had limit to how many thing that can be stored. Then again Tabane may have created an equalizer that can store an infinite amount of thing.
The battle was hard. But fortunately her goal is just to buy time so all she needs to do is distract all the dragon while keeping her distance.6 out of twelve clone had been destroyed by the overwhelming of the dragon. The clone turn back to white wing of light before returning to her. It make a bit easier for her to concentrate when the number of clone had been reduced but it make it harder to escaped every attack that the Dragon fire.
She already lost count of how many dragon she destroy but the number doesn't seem to be decreasing. In fact it seem to be increasing more and more. She wish that the white conqueror had something else that she can use. Her wish didn't go unnoticed as a new information display at the visored.
"This is…" she tried to absorb all the information that she had received. And so she raised her broadsword. "sword of light." All the remaining clone turn back to wing of light before they start gather surrounding the sword. The wing wrap up around the blade if the sword. After the process finish she can see that there is a some kind of white energy covering the sword.
One Dragon came charging at her but with one swift motion she cut the dragon into two. She was shocked by it. It felt as if she just cut a better not some kind of rock or flesh.
"I can do this, with this sword." she tried to calm herself down before charging at the horde of Dragon. Any dragon that got near her got cut into halves cleanly.
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Tabane was flying around. She doesn't really want to enter the fight but from where she is she can't get full analysis on how the Dragon got it power. So she decides that she will have to be near the place In order to know how the Dragon kept increasing it energy. Of course she found it and the reason was the hole that had appearing on the whole. She had done full analysis on the hole and it was truly amazing. She may be able to sue this data to create the hole like that again but now is not the time as she knew if this Dragon is not killed it may cause her Houki some harm.
But still she was not a fighter so all she do is kept her distance while trying to cover Chifuyu. She was happy when she saw other abilities that the White conqueror had shown. The sword of light seem to be something that came out from fantasy world and then again the dragon is really is from fantasy world.
"Now then I think it better if retreat first." It practically suicide for her to be in this battle in the first place but even she knew that with the previous abilities of white conqueror Chifuyu won't be able to handle it alone so that why she here. But now that Chifuyu had activate a new abilities she knew that she won't need her help anymore.
*zwoosh* she turned her head immediately by the sudden sound and that when she noticed Saito charging at where Chifuyu is.
"I leave it to them, there more data to gather after all~" even in the midst of battle she still need to gather all valuable data. After all she is a scientist after all.
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"~" with a battle cry I charged at the whole army of Dragon. I can see Chifuyu taken them down one by one with a some kind of sword covered with energy. I raised Derf who had changed to Katana form. If I can't absorb energy any more than it better If use the Katana form so I could deflect the energy instead.
As I get near them I thought it was time to use the new abilities.
"Haste!" alight covering all the IS before I disappear from the sight and reappear again. Five Dragon got taken down by the attack I did. It was a surprise because I thought I only be able to use the void magic that louise had but this haste belong to the former void user Joseph. It makes sense because void user can also use other spell even that wasn't where they specialize.
But I need to be careful. Since I reached the limit of absorption that mean I won't be able to increased my energy back. That mean no explosion or the like. even so I was really tempted to sue it. With how many there are with just one explosion it will reduce their number by so many.
"Saito!" Chifuyu called out to me as she cut down the Dragon that blocked her way. "it seem you succeed." She told me. it must be obvious because the amount of dragon doesn't seem to be increasing. Now all we need to do is kill them until there nothing left. It possible since this dragon wasn't as strong as the original one.
"Yeah... let finish this." We were surrounded when I said that. Me and Chifuyu is facing opposite direction while our back met.
*zwoosh* Chifuyu charged with the supersonic speed she cut down 5 dragon with just one swing while kept cutting down other nearby.
"Let see…. Triple ignition boost, Haste." Triple ignition boost is a technique that use ignition boost while using ignition boost during an ignition boost. Normally an ignition boost can allow a user moving at top speed but only in a straight line but with double or triple or maybe quadruple it allow it to change course. With the boost from Haste a dozen of Dragon got cut down in an instant.
The number of the dragon had decrease drastically. I think there only about 20 to 30 of them left. I have a bad feeling. Because normally when were just though we win something unexpected happen. It seem my fear was not to be trifled with.
All of a sudden the other dragon start to disintegrate. The fragment of them starts to gather to one dragon. I can see that must be the original dragon but what the hell happening. The entire fragment starts to gather around it. It engulfed the ancient Dragon as it got smaller and smaller until it was about the size of Infinte Stratos.
The fragment scattered to reveal a humanoid form. It body is covered by some sort of scaled that almost look like a rock. It has a tail as it sway back and forth. His head seem to look like a dragon but on a closer look it almost like a human at the same time. Not forgetting the wing on his back making it look a bit like a winged people from Halkeginia.
"don't tell me that this guy is-" I can't finish the word. I can't even believe it myself. Is this the true form of ancient Dragon?
"Gandalfr…." It can talk. On from how rough his voice is I assume he was a male.
"Void… destroy everything…" what is this guy talking about. Is he talking about destroying void. But what with that Gandalfr. Didn't he notice I also a Lifdrasir at the same time.
Chifuyu look at me as if asking for explanation and I could only shake my head because even I was confused by this turn of event.
"I remember now!" all attention turn to Derf as he shouted that.
"What is it Derf? Do you know anything about it." Derf must have known something. after all he was presented 6000 years ago during Brimir era.
"That is the true form of Ancient Dragon." That not much help. I mean I can figure out on my own. This always happens on the video game that I play. A last boss suddenly shows it true appearance except in the game they always transform from humanoid to monstrosity not the other way around. "also I'm pretty sure he had a deep grudge on Gandalfr. After all she was the one who cause him to be sealed in the first place." Great. Is that why he go all the way to chase me to earth? because Gandalfr was on earth. Not that it will change anything. we still need to kill him or else something bad may happen.
"That doesn't change anything, we still enemy here."
Chifuyu nod at that. We still need to destroy him once and for all.
"Has-" just when I was about to cast haste the humanoid dragon had appear in front of me and with a punch send me flying twenty meter backward before I crash in the sea causing a big splash around it. Chifuyu on reflect swing her sword but the humanoid dragon dodge with ease and with a horizontal kick send Chifuyu flying away.
Just what kind of speed is that. Even IS hyper sensor cant keep up with it.
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Chifuyu was shocked. That speed is super-fast that even her IS hyper sensor doesn't have time to pick up. He brought up his hand and from his open palm a focus of electricity gather before forming something like a ball of electricity. He fired the attack. She tried to cut down the attack with her sword of light but that when she ran out of luck. The light around the sword dispersed before changing back to a white wing and return to her back.
She immediately fired a small plasma ball at the attack. As both attack collide it create an intense flash that could blind almost anyone. But thanks to her IS vision it kept the damage to her eye to a minimum but that she still effected by a flash as she can't see very clearly.
Above her the Dragon raised his hand a gigantic ball of fire start to form. The ball of fire got bigger and bigger and the Dragon bring down his hand as the attack launch at Chifuyu.
Chifuyu noticed the attack headed at her but it was too late. She won't have time to dodge it.
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I'm really sorry. Actually I was really looking forward to end this arc by this time but as I said before my story kept changing and changing and because of that thing's happen. Ok this time I'm pretty sure it will end by the next chapter.
So I think I should tell you that all of the thing about ancient Dragon is completely made up. And Tiffa new spell is also made up. Maybe I will use the spell on my other fic 'Tsukaima no Saito'. on second though I think that spell was to powerful. A void spell that could erase a space itself. It basically cheating.
And about that other world thing, yes that was another series. They maybe a crossover to other series in the future but it may not happen at all I don't know.
So than I hope you guys review this fic. Lately I receive double the amount of review I receive so that makes me fired up to write this fic. That is all….. I think.