Ah. A nice chapter. 4000 plus words! You will only get this for fighting btw. all else is 1000-ish words. Anyway... anything exciting happen today to me... my friend just texted me that right after I had left him at the library, a girl asked him about him... ill ask him more on it tomorrow, and if I remember it, ill tell you all about ti. if I forget, whatever. I would force him to tell me right now, but I introduced him to Kuroko No basket and now he's watching it, so its a good excust to not tell me right now. For now... Anyway, let us start this battole themed chapter!
CHAPTER 9 - INSIDE THE DRAGON
We walked towards the door, but I started to some chit-chat with the female wizard before we reached the door.
"So, what's your name?" I asked as we walked up the stairs.
"Usagi Ikeda." she said cooly. I was gonna say more, but we finally reached the doors. We all burst through the doors, well Trevor and me kicked down the door, and the rest followed. Inside the castle, was a whole group of the thieves. They were armed with swords, axes, knives, and some even have maces. At the sound of us entering their humble abode, they all turned around and tried to intimidate us with their looks. Instead, we intimidated them.
I made an angry face and a tick mark appeared on my head. I showed them my teeth. Trevor brushed his cloak back, making it look like wind swept it back. Usagi walked forward normally, but still managed to look intimidating with her no-care attidute. Haruo also walked in regulary, but he brandished the two knives I gave him in his hands. Hana came in... like Hana. Loud and abnoxious. We made one intimidating group.
"Look 'ere, this is our place. Ain't no place for som' wimps like 'urself. I'd suggest-" My foot connected with his face and made him fly backwards into the wall. After a moment of silence, all the thieves yelled out and ran at us, swinging their weapons at us. I jumped back from a sword swing slicing down towards my head, then ducked under an axe blow. I turned out of the way of two knives flying past me and then commenced my attack.
I breathed in some water, and let loose a roar. "Water Dragon Roar!" I shouted and a jet stream of water that knocked some of them down. I then launched myself forward and attacked close up. "Water Dragon Claws!" Claws of water appeared from my fingers and I cut up the nearest of the thieves and then jumped up. I took the water from the claws and gathered it up infront of me. I then blasted in downwards at the surrounding thieves. "Water Dragon Cannon!" The blast hit the ground and a large explosion sounded off. I landed back on to the ground and looked around.
Trevor was finishing up a group of them, fairly easily, without even using his magic. Haruo was using his deceiver magic and was tricking the thieves into attackign each other, or running away from, I don't know, a giant monster. Hana was shooting water canes everywhere. She even launched one at me, with what felt like, on purpose. So I just ate it when it got closer and I strangely heard her say, "Don't dodge!"
But, what was most surprising, was Usagi. Everyone who got close to her, go thrown away, or cut up. I could faintly see wind moving all around her, attacking the closest enemy to her. It was like an impenetrable barrier. But then, all the thieves were defeated, atleast, in that room. There was five doors branching off in different directions. Two doors on the first floor and three on the second.
We gathered up around each other to decide which way to go.
"Why don't we split up?" said Trevor 10 minutes later. Everyone looked at him, except Usagi, who didn't participate in the conversation.
I looked at Haruo. "Good idea." he said.
"Then I will take the second floor cen-" I stopped Trevor right there.
"I'll take the center door on the second floor. Trevor you take the one on the right, and Usagi is left. Hana will take the right door on the first floor and Haruo will take left." Everyone looked up at me.
"Varuna..." Trevor started. "Could you actually be capable of coherent thought?" He taunted me. I didn't know what coherent meant, but the meaning was clear. But I shrugged it off.
"Call me stupid if you want, but I don't have time to argue with you!" I yelled.
"You just argued for 10 minutes over which way we should go..." stated Trevor.
"That's beside the point!" I said, embarrassed. "We have to go finish up this band of thieves and get that prize money!"
"YEAH!" Everybody shouted. We then ran off to our respective door.
HARUO POV - listening to "I Will Not Bow"
I opened up the door on the first floor on the left. Inside, contained a long corridor. So, I started walking. Wouldn't want to run out of energy if I met anyone to fight. 'I wonder what everyone else is seeing?' I thought to myself. 'Maybe they entered the cafeteria. Man I'm starving.' I thought hungrily. My stomach then grumbled at the thought of food.
I turned to the right and met another door. I walked towards it, keeping aware of traps. 'If there were traps Varuna would get caught in them.' As if answering my thoughts, I heard a large explosion that came from somewhere past the middle door on the second floor. How could I tell? The Varuna-like scream. I sighed. Hopefully, he'll be ready to fight...
I opened up the door and walked inside. Then, the door closed by itself with a big bang. I turned around and tried to open the door, but it wouldn't budge. I heard laughter from behind me and I turned around. What I saw, was very unpleasant.
He looked like he was 30. He had purple hair that was combed back with a single strand of hair going the opposite way and falling on his face. He had purple lipstick on and black eyes were staring out at me in the semi-darkness. He was wearing a purple jacket and pants, with a white shirt underneath the jacket. Black shoes appeared from his long pants.
"Ba-hahahahaha!" He bellowed. "Some prey has emerged, huh? Welcome, rat! I am the fifth strongest in the guild, Gereldo's Labyrinth! My name is Erenous, and I'll be your worst nightmare today!" He spread his arms out and bellowed another laugh. "Ba-hahahahahaha!" He faced me and snapped his fingers. Candles started to flicker on with purpleish pink flame, giving a dark appearance to the already dark room. "Let's fight!"
Another snap of his fingers and a huge shape appeared from behind him. When the candles illuminated it, it was a giant rat-man thing! It then gave a giant screech and jumped towards me. My hands widened when It closed in, but I couldn't dodge it. It raked down at me with its huge claws, and I threw my arms out to protect myself. My left arm went spinning and apin shot up my arm and stomach. I looked down at the claw that was locked into my stomach.
"Ba-ha! Another loser! Ba-hahaha-ARGHH!" His sudden screech erupted in the room as I thrust one of my knives into his arm. He backed away from me and I withdrew my knife as a stream of blood came out of his arm. "W-what the? How did you?"
"You appear to be very confused. Let me tell you how I knew that was an illusian." His eyes widened when I exposed his trick. "You see, I use deceiver magic, which is very similar to illusian magic. So, you see, illusian magic doesn't... what is..." Now, I was confused. He looked like he was about to break into laughter. And then he did.
"BA-HAHAHAHA! You must be an idiot! Who ever thought that one little illusian was all I could do? Look at my arm! The one you "stabbed". Look at it!" I looked at the arm I stabbed. There was no blood. THe jacket wasn't even ripped! "As you can see, you stabbed an illusian! Idiot!" Suddenly, something dug into my arm. This time, it was real. For I was knocked away from my spot and crashed into the wall. I looked at my arm, and noticed blood. I looked over at where Erenous was, but didn't see him. I looked at where I was, and he was standing there, holding a big sword. My eyes widened as I saw through the illusian and managed to roll away as his sword appeared inches from my head. "Ba-hahahahaha!" His laughter rang from everywhere. What could I do?
My senses erupted and I jumped upwards a few feet, feet closer to my body. His sword whizzed underneath my feet. But then a kick came from behind me and I fell to the ground. I got up quickly and started to run. 'If I run, he wouldn't be able to attack me, right?' I thought to myself. But then he appeared infront of me. Illusian or not, I took out both of my knives and slashed at his face, but my knives phased through him, and a kick behind me told me where he was. But unfortunately, I was knocked to the ground with the sudden force.
I quickly got up and jumped away. I widened my eyes. I have to be able to see through illusian. Come on! I use the same kind of magic! I can't lose this! I spread my arms and covered myself in an illusian. I basically reflected light with my deceiver magic. But, unfortunately, being vastly more superior to me in illusians, he easily saw through this and a fist landed on my face. I was knocked away, but I didn't stop using my magic. 'Keep it up!' I thought to myself. 'Let my magic overflow, let it explode!' My magic spread all around me and made the surrounding floor disappear. Erenous's illusian melted away in his confusion at how the floor disappeared. Before he realized it was an illusian, I slashed at him with my two knives. They cut through his chest, drawing blood and he fell backwards in surprise.
"What the?" He said in surprise. THe floor then reappeared and I appeared all around him. My deceiver magic was on full blast. The difference between deceiver magic and illusian magic, was that deceiver magic could be imprinted. What that means, was that if I get an access point inside someone, then I can use my magic freely and make him see, hear, feel, taste, or even smell whatever I want. Of course, too much of a strong will and knowledge of it being an illusian can break out of it, but even knowledge and a strong mind came be overcome when surprised. The battle was then over as all my illusionous selves ran at Erenous and attacked him at the same time and he fell back unconcious.
I stopped my magic and fell down exhausted. 'After a moment...of rest... and I'll continue on...' I thought to myself. After a few minutes, I got up and started to the next door.
HANA POV - listening to "I Fooled You"
I opend the door that I found and walked inside, The door then closed behind me, but I wasn't worried about that. I was worried about the person that appeared infront of me, with candles turning on with blue flame all around me.
She looked to be about 20, but she was definetly actually... 38. I know, because I'm a girl too. She was wearing way too much makeup. She had pink hair, that was short and barely reached her shoulders, green eyes and a pink jacket with brown fur at the shoulders. She had a green skirt on and white heels. Ugh. Red lipstick, heavy perfume, too much. Her face was splattered with makeup. Kinda reminds me of Varuna actually. "Somewhere nearby, Varuna sneezed. That sneeze tirggered the trap that Haruo heard."
"Bwha-hahahahaha!" Cried the woman, with her left hand on her hip and the back of her right hand, on the left side of her mouth. "Tremble in the presense of Valish, the fourth strongest in the Gereldo's Labyrinth guild! Tremble in my power! Bwha-hahahahahaha!" She then suddenly stopped laughing and looked hard at me. "Oh, you poor little girl. How ugly you are!" A tick mark appeared on my forehead. "You need some more, no, lots, more makeup! Here dar-ling, take some of this perfume!" She tossed over a glass bottle, but I let it fall to the ground. "Dar-ling, don't let that nice perfume hit the ground! You need a spanking? I'll give you a spanking before I give you all my tips on hot to be beautfull!" Suddenly, my anger made me speak my mind.
"Beautiful? You give beauty a bad name! You make it look more like the beast than beauty! You look horrendous! You never use that much makeup! I bet all the guys don't like you, they find your face offensive! Ugly old woman, I'll give you a lesson in beauty!" I ran at her and when I got close, faked a punch and used water cane on her face. The attack hit and she fell over and landed on her butt, which looked like it deflated, and I strangely heard air escaping. Her makeup started to run down her face. She pulled out a mirror and looked at her face. She turned red.
"You... monster... enemy to all beautiful women everywhere! I'm gonna school you in beauty and magic!" She jumped up and then slapped the air, but I wasn't there. What was she doing? And then, all of a sudden, a force like a giant slap hit my body and launched me to the right, the same direction she slapped. I flew through the air and I was buried into the wall. The worst part of it, was that the force of the slap never disappeared. I managed to unbury myself in the rubble and stand up, but it felt like my balance was off. My body kept bending to the right. What was going on?
"With your ugly body, I bet you haven't figured it out yet." Another tick mark appeared on my head. "It is called force magic, dar-ling. The rest you can figure out when your going through my beauty school!" She didn't even run at me. She just slapped the air to the left and I flew in that direction as a giant slap hit me across the room. Just like last time, my body kept tipping over to the direction she slapped in. I put my hand out in front of me and shot out a water stream, but she slapped and the water flew back at me with greater force and knocked me back. I landed on my back and I could barely move. What kind've magic was this? How would Varuna deal with this? Probably just run at her and attack. Hahaha.
I stood up and prepared myself for some pain. My balance was offset to the left still, so if I run, it will probably be at an angle. So, I might as well just go! I started running forward, and I was right. My body started moving a bit to the left with his step. So, I countered my placing my feet more to the right. I tried to force myself to the right, but my body kept swinging to the left. Valish slapped downward, and my body was thrown down and pressed against the ground. Now it feels like she's using gravity magic! I tried to stand up, but the force kept pushing me closer and closer to the ground. I looked at Valish and noticed something.
The hand she slapped with was still pointed down. As in, the palm of her hand was down. Maybe... When the force decreased enough for me to stand, I noticed that she picked up her hand and moved it to another direction. She then started move her hand to slap to the left. My eyes widened as I figured it out, or atleast some of it. When she slaps, it's like a giant hand hits me. Each time she slapped me, it was with the palm going out for the slap, not the back of the hand. And when I was hit by the giant hand, I could feel sweat, like the sweat off her palm! Another thing, was that when she held her hand down, the force was greated than when she moved it away for the next slap. So, just like gravity, magic, she can decrease or increase the force inputted in each attack. Of course, it is probably much more than this. I bet Trevor could figure it out, but I have to work with this. When the next slap came, Instead of staying where I was, I ran forward. I was still hit to the left, but this time, the blow felt like an arm. Adding this to what I figured out, maybe this magic just adds length to your arm, or something? When I landed on the ground, I jumped up and started to run to Valish. She then slapped again, to the right, but I jumped upwards. My feet were hit and I spun around to my right, but It proved my theory.
"I fooled you." I whispered to myself. I then chuckled. "Force magic? More like invisible extending arm magic with a delay." I got up and ran at Valish, with the intention to finish the fight. She slapped to the left and I jumped higher this time. I felt wind underneath me and I smiled. Valish's eyes widened. I ran at her and punched her in the face then unleased a water cane on her. As Valish fell backwards, she slapped once more. On my face. The sting of the slap hurt, but what came next was worse. Valish fell back and hit her head and was knocked out, but the slap that hit me in the face knocked me into the wall and I broke right through. Unforunately, The wall I broke through led outside and I fell landed on a bush. I couldn't move. Pain was everywhere. I then blacked out.
USAGI POV - listening to "This Is War"
I opened the door and walked through. The door closed behind me, but I barely noticed it. Candles started to flicker on and the flame was a light blue. Nobody was infront of me. I walked forward, but then the air shifted and I jumped backwards. The air exploded right was I was. I looked up and what distrubed it. The man that was sitting on the rafters, was obviously a wind wizard. He had dark black hair, that was tied into a pony tail with two strands of hair, sitcking out and was over his face that were dyed red. He was wearing a tan tunic and brown baggy pants. He was wearing a light blue armband on both his arms. With blue eyes, he slowly fell down, using wind magic to slow his fall. When he landed on the ground he introduced himself.
"My name is Chrodar, third strongest in Gereldo's Labyrinth. I am a wind wizard, which you obviously already know. I can tell. You also use wind to attack right? But I'm sorry. I'm much better than a ten year old." Suddenly, the wind slashed at arm and cut his sleeve in two, not even harming his arm. He looked down at his arm and saw that it was ripped. Then he looked at me. A prick mark appeared on his forehead. "Hey you rat! I'm gonna kill you!" I sighed. He is like that one guy, Varuna; loud. "Somewhere, Varuna tripped over nothing at the thought of his name. It was as if wind tripped him. Then he sneezed. And then he triggered a trap." I stood right where I was as Chro-whoever faced off with me. Then at a flick of his wrist, he sent a wind slash at me. A shield of wind appeared around me and the slash was knocked away.
"Your very skilled, for a young rat. Prepare yourself to die!" He moved both hands infront of him and then back and two wind slashed raced towards me. My wind shield took care of them, but then something appeared behind me. I jumped upwards and did a backflip as a third slash came from behind me. I landed on my feet and faced Chro-something. Without even doing anything, Chro-? was hit with a ball of wind. He was knocked down. He quickly got up, but another blsat of wind took him down again. The candles flickered as I formed a huge wind ball above me. I then sent it down at him and it exploded against him, sending him flying backwards.
"Dammit! Why are you so good? Who are you?" He sent another wind slash at me, but this time, I didn't block it. I let the attack come near me, and then I ate it. I sucked in the wind slash and converted it to my strength. "What... did you just do?"
I licked my lips. "If you really want to know, I'll tell you. I am a wind dragon slayer. I eat wind. Wind Dragon Roar!" I gave a roar and a blast of wind shot out of my mouth and raced at Chro-loser. The blast exploded against him and he fell back, unconcious. I walked towards the next door.
TREVOR POV - listening to "My Demons"
I kicked open the door in style. Who cares about opening it regularly? That wouldn't be fun. My crimson cloak flew back and I entered the room. Candles with black purplish flame flickered on. I looked around. An idiot was hiding in here. After identifying where he was, I spread my hands and brought them together. "Chaos cutter!" I cut my hands across each other and two purplish black slashes appeared and raced towards where he was hiding. But before the attack hit him, they exploded. Something hit them. What was it? His attack? No. It was a... wall? Just then, the room changed. The walls moved back and the room was completely exposed. The man was standing where I thought he was, but he was standing farther than what I thought. Who was this guy? He had black hair and a black shirt with black pants. And surprisingly, black shoes. He also had pink eyes.
"I am Christopher, second strongest of the-" I stopped him.
"Gereldo's Labyrinth guild, right? Pretty low ranking to deal with me, but whatever. I'll throw you out like yesterday's trash." I ran towards him and before he could react I punched at his face, but stopped and went down. "Chaos Stream!" I punched upwards and hit his jaw and launched him upwards, but then I opened my hand and a blast of purplish black energy shot out of it and exploded against him. He was thrown higher into the air and he landed on his back, a couple of meters away. "Meh. Just like Varuna the other day. Lost too quickly."
"Somewhere, Varuna felt a deep hatred for Trevor for some reason, which caused him to trip and then he sneezed as he regained his balance, but that triggered a trap and he blew up."
I walked towards the door, but a sound behind me stopped me. I turned around and was blasted away. When I hit the floor, I immediately put out my arm and threw myself up. I skidded on the floor, but I was on my feet. A black smoke was coming from his hand, which must've been from the attack. I sighed. Then I smiled. "Let's go!" I ran at him and attacked with a Chaos Fist, and he ducked under the blow and then kicked upwards at my face. I jumped backwards and let loose a Chaos Barrage, and multiple blasts of dark purplish energy shot out of my hand and raced towards him. Multiple explosions occured where he was standing, but he appeared out of the smoke. He shot a pure black blast at me, but I hit it away with my bare arm. Wrong choice. The arm started to burn from the attack. But because of it, I knew that he used Dark magic. And how to defeat him.
I jumped upwards and shot out a Chaos Stream, but he easily dodged it because of the distance. When I landed on the ground, he appeared behind me, but I kicked around me in a roundhouse kick, covered in a purplish black flame. The kick connected, but he had blocked it with his arm. The force, however, threw him away from me and I jumped towards him. I jabbed with my right fist, but he pushed it out of the way, but my left leg came up and hit him in the face and he hit the ground and bounced away. I raised my hands and black energy started appearing above me. "Chaos Bomb!" The attack grew larger and then I threw It at him. He managed to get up and jump away, but before the attack hit the ground, it explosed and Chaos Barrages were launched out of the explosion. He did not expect this and he took the full force of the attack. He fell down unconcious with his back shirt burnt off him and smoke rising upwards.
"Are you done?" I asked him. He didn't move. "Good. Pretty weak opponent, huh?" I walked towards the next doors and kicked them open, cloak flowing up behind me. "Time to get moving."
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