Chapter eight part 2: The Battle for the Gate
~Southern Gate~
We've reached the Southern Gate, a gate in Velder which the demons have managed to somehow take over. "According to the King, Velder has sent a distress call because of this. Their soldiers can't handle the glitters here. The one leading this is the dark elf known as Chloe. We take her down, we finish this quest" Reiku explains. Everyone nods and gets ready. He points forward and we rush at the glitters. The first one I see, I knock it into the air, throw a rune at it and make it explode, causing the glitter to fall down lifelessly. I look up to see Chung shoot a bullet at a group of glitters and it begins hitting all of them, back and forth. He then puts his cannon on his shoulder and shoots a missile the knocks them all away. Yuki freezes the remaining glitters and we keep moving upward. "Wait a sec."
We hear laughter from the glitter assassin known as Stealthy Morfos as well as some dark elves. Ara runs forward. "Tempest Dance." She spins forward, striking the dark elves with her spear. She ends with knocking them back at Morfos, who stops laughing and runs at Ara. She puts her spear up to block what he's about to do. He stops and gets into a stance. He dashes forward quickly at Ara, who still has her spear up. Wait, he's gonna slash through her! As he gets close to her, an ice wall appears in front of her, blocking the attack. It shatters and Reiku appears with Morfos on the ground. Wait, wasn't he just behind us? "When did you…"
"Big bro's skilled in teleportation. He's so fast, you won't even see it!" Yuki says. He looks at the big glitter walking toward us with what looks like a shield face. Ice spikes appear around Reiku, pointing toward the glitter. Two fly into the air while the rest attack the shield. After five of them attack the shield, it flinches and the two that flew into the air stab it in the back, causing it to fall down.
"Let's get a move on, this is going too slow" he says and he continues forward. We nod and follow once more.
After going forward a bit, more dark elves show up. "Guys, get back" Yuki says. We all step back. Her wand starts floating as the dark elves close in on her. "Blizzard Shower!" She grabs her wand, swings it downward and ice crystals fall down, freezing the elves. She teleports away from them and points her finger at them.
Reiku dashes through the frozen elves. He stops as he reaches Yuki. "Break." The ice crystals shatter and the dark elves fall. That was… whoa.
"Not too shabby big bro." Reiku keeps walking while Yuki giggles and follows. Man these two are strong. We all stop once there's a large thud up ahead. We run up to see a giant shield-faced demon.
"I got a plan guys. Follow my lead" I say. If I'm right, we can throw if off guard and take it out by its back. Reiku and Yuki sit down on the edge of the gate, guessing they're curious about what I have planned. Well, time to show it off. I run forward with Aisha and Ara behind me. The shield-faced demon swings its mace down, which I side step and dodge it. "Ara, hop over it." Ara runs up, steps on my shoulder and hops over. Surprisingly enough, it didn't hurt. It then pushes its shield forward at me. I put my sword up to block it, yet I'm still pushed back a bit. "I got it distracted. Aisha, your turn." Aisha simply teleports behind it. "Luna Blade!" A giant blue sword appears above me and impales its shield, making it flinch. I look at Ara and Aisha to see them nod at each other.
"Wind Wedge!" Ara shouts as she does a barrage of spear thrusts at the demon's back. She stops at the last hit and Aisha steps up.
"Super Nova!" Aisha yells as she waves her wand then points it at the demon. The tip of her wand lights up then purple energy releases, forming in a round shape which completely engulfs the demon till it completely disintegrates. Heh, we did pretty well. Reiku walks by, not saying a word with Yuki behind him clapping. Did we not do up to his expectations?
Soon after a countless amount of battles, we managed to take down McGard along with his cockatrigle Polka as well as pyromaniac alchemist Joaquin. What stood in front of us now was a trail of stairs leading to the top part of the gate. We move onward, running up the stairs. It's oddly quiet right now. I look over my shoulder and see the dark elf Chloe. "It's you again" I say. She raises her hand and a seal appears under her. After two seconds or so, it disappears and she smirks.
"Drown in despair you worthless humans" she replies coldly as she jumps away. She's gone once again. The ground starts to shake. What's going on?
"Don't worry you guys. This'll be easy" Reiku says. Easy for him to say. He has to do things like this all the time. A giant hand grabs a tower close to us. Another hand is placed on the actual gate. The monster climbs up and shows its ugly face.
To Be Continued in part 3
