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CHAPTER 11: Apollo's Mission
A man holding explosive spheres. A boy holding a puppet with five different machine guns. Twenty doomed adventurers. A boy and a girl hid in the trees nearby. The boy adjusted his glasses.
"It is time..."
"I understand..."
Out of nowhere, a flaming ice arrow landed on the floor just in front of the villainous duo, and then exploded, knocking them both back. The two siblings jumped down to attack.
"Who are you?" asked Francis.
"Apollo!"
"Phoenix!"
"So you two, hand over the scroll! Right now!" said the siblings in unison.
"What! How did you know of the scroll?" asked the man.
"We ask the questions! You answer and give us what we want!"
"Never!"
"Phoenix, you take the right, I'll take the left!" yelled Apollo.
"Right!" replied his red haired sister.
The siblings bombarded the duo with what seemed like a random barrage of attacks, yet the system was perfectly designed for optimal use.
"Poison Breath!"
A single cloud of venomous gas flew out of Phoenix's mouth, causing Francis and his master to choke.
"Thunderbolt!"
A bolt of lightning emerged from inside the very cloud itself, electrifying everything within 5 metres of the cloud. The villains were left momentarily fazed, enough time for Phoenix and Apollo to swipe the scroll.
"Too slow." said the older sibling as he landed alongside his younger sister. Francis and his master then glared at them and retreated. For a moment everyone was silent. Then a roar of triumph, as loud as could be, emerged from the wounded crowd. They had entered a trap, planned by someone stronger than steel and smarter than god knows what, and come out on top. As everybody began to calm down, Mighty Titian had come to a realization, a grim one.
"You do realize those goons are going to come back with reinforcements, right? And if that wasn't the real Grendel, then where is he?"
This revived the uproar, and once again calmed down, this time by Apollo. In the end, almost everyone had agreed to scout the area for any survivors of the previous attack, and then head to the Magic Library, home of Grendel, to find any clues of where he had gone.
A night walker ran across the snow, wearing a torn jacked and some old jeans. He had pale blue eyes and dark brown hair. He was destroying zombie after zombie under the dark night, only illuminated by the distant volcanoes. He jumped over one and smashed it with his fist. He then used a giant "Shuriken" to chop down five more. He then ran towards the exit of the forest. The forest of dead trees.
He passed a figure and halted, thinking it was a ghost. Strange, as the only undead beings here were zombies. He reached out to touch it, to see if he was right, but the phantom was faster. He entered the thief's body and quickly took control. The body collapsed, and moments later, it reawoke, with an eerie purple aura and eyes.
"Dances wasn't as strong as I thought. He will pay for messing with the great Cyrus Indigo!" laughed the possessed body.
"Hey, guys. Take a look at this!" said a magician, opening up a box in the Magic Library. An old man with white robes and a top hat was stuffed in there.
"Ack! Thank you for getting me out of here. It was stuffy, damp and freezing." remarked Grendel. "Did those fiends steal anything from here?"
"This, but we got it back." said the magician.
"Thank you ma'am...what is this? The...They stole...BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Everyone looked perplexed at Grendel who was laughing like a madman, until he managed to say:
"They stole the fake...the fake Shadow Seal Unleasher! The real one is with me! It's in my scroll holster and requires that one over there to open it and separate it from my body." he said, pointing at a scroll nearby.
"So we did all this for nothing?" asked a very pissed Sabrina.
"Yup."
"Erm...what is the Shadow Seal Unleasher anyways?" asked Mad, who still had a priceless perplexed look on his face.
"Let me start off from the beginning. A long time ago, there was a huge threat to this world. His name: The Black Mage."
The black mage started off as a normal human. But he grew to be a monster. A monster of pure evil. His goal was to take over this world. His powers were so great, the strongest person alive today would look puny compared to him. There was much resistance, all in vain. Out of nowhere, five brave heroes arrived and fought this monster so many times. And then, and then, it ended. One final battle on the snowy mountains of Rien. The heroes had a plan, to seal up the Mage once and for all. But they failed miserably. The seal was incomplete, only a tiny bit, but still incomplete. Before the seal fully captured the Mage, he blasted the heroes with a powerful curse. One hero died, two were frozen, and two of their fates are unknown. There are rumours of a secret organization born to free the Mage from the seal. And they are after my scroll. To free the evil, that came so close to destroying this world. Any questions?
"So we are in danger of annihilation and the Erev Council has not mentioned a word?" asked Cruz. "Oh, and the scroll to access your scroll holster containing the scroll to unlock the scroll, I mean seal, is missing. So is your scroll holster. And where the hell are Phoenix and Apollo?"
"Shit..."
A girl in her late teens walked towards the forest. She wore a black T-Shirt, a miniskirt and had emerald coloured eyes. Her blonde hair made her stand out in the dark forest. Her boyfriend had gone into the woods without her, again.
"The forest of dead trees, eh. Can't wait all day..." she said, dashing into the forest, until she saw a figure walking her way.
"Jason? Hey Jason, nice to see you!" she said, giving him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. The boy looked shocked. "Jason?"
"Get off me you crazy woman! My name is not Jason!" he said, kicking her away.
"That's no way to treat your girlfriend..." she said.
"You are one crazy woman..."
"You are one crazy man..."
The boy jumped into the air and launched a barrage of "Shuriken", also known as ninja stars. The girl countered with her own.
"Tough one aren't you? Take this!" he yelled, launching a larger barrage. The barrage was countered again.
"Jason, what is wrong with you!" she asked, desperately panicking and out of breath.
"I'm...not...JASON!" he roared, sending a powerful beam of dark energy at her. As the smoke cleared, all that was left was a bloody corpse leaning against a tree. One arm was loose and some of the skin had melted off. Her blonde hair was now a burnt mess, dyed red by her bleeding cranium. Indigo then sent an electric pulse towards the body. It awoke, with a menacing look in its purple eyes.
"Hello. I am Cyrus Indigo, your new master. And you will obey me."
"Hello."
"Ugh...where am I?"
"First you need some rest. Want some hot chocolate?"
"No thanks...I have no idea where I am and I'm not sure who I am."
"Amnesia, eh. Hmmmm...I'll tell you when we get back to the cabin."
"Wha...what's a cabin?"
"Seriously? It's a type of..."
"I remember! It's a small building!"
"Congratulations, you're on the road to recovery...not!"
"Look, just tell me who I am, and get me out of here."
"Fine, this may hurt a little."
A pickaxe was released and it hacked away at the surface surrounding the amnesiatic, who hit his head on the floor and remembered something.
-Flashback-
"Take this! My ultimate attack!" he yelled as a big blue bear of energy came out of his weapon, cutting through the enemy, who was left slightly wounded.
"Ugh, this is impossible! He's invincible!" said his best friend and the king of...the king of what? The man had forgotten.
"We have to use it!" said a third colleague. "It's our only hope!"
"I don't like the look of this. My cards say this won't work!" a fourth replied.
"Let's do it!"
"Agreed. It's all or nothing!"
"I got a bad feeling about this."
They all put their hands together to form a sphere of dark and light energy.
"Full power seal! Prepare to be locked away forever!"
"Nooooooooo! You shall not succeed! Take this! Ice Curse of a Thousand Years!"
"Whoah! Look out!"
An explosion blasted everyone, either launching them away or freezing them. One of them exploded in the centre of the ice. Another was launched far away in an ice cube. He was frozen on the spot. He didn't see the other two's fate, but all he knew was that the seal had failed. It was only a matter of time until the monster was awakened...
-End of flashback-
A very short chapter, I know, but I had a lot of stuff to tell. If you can find three references to video games in chapters 4-11, then you deserve a cookie.
Why were the duo after the scroll to free the Black Mage?
What will our heroes do now that the scroll has been stolen?
And where are Phoenix and Apollo?
What mayhem will Cyrus Indigo cause now that he is alive?
Who is this man with amnesia, and more importantly, what secrets does his past contain?
New chapters every 2-10 days.
