Chapter 12: The Final Guardians
They left the defeated human far behind, tied up. Chris looked at Rachel, who was being supported by Len, with concern. "Maybe you should stay behind," he suggested.
He flinched as she stared frostily at him. "I'm in this with the rest of you; get it in your head. As long as my book is fine, Len and I will keep going."
Sam turned around and did something that they had not seen him do before, he glowered at them. "Come on! We have to catch up to Rogrune!" Chris and Rachel gave each other a surprised glance as he strode off down the hall at a swift walk with Eylan close behind.
"What's eating him?" Rachel asked Chris.
Chris suddenly looked uncomfortable and would not meet her eye. "It's not my place to tell you that. At least, not now."
Before anyone could say anything more, the gargoyle, Rogrune, flew around the corner in front of them. "Found you!" he crowed in triumph.
"There you are," Sam snarled as he whipped out his book and it lit up. "Where is Alvin?"
Rogrune looked strangely unnerved. "He's with Sachiriku now. Let me give you some advice. You must be strong since you beat Kelan but…" his voice trailed off for a moment and he looked at the ground. "You should leave right now. You will probably beat me, but there is no way you can beat Sachiriku and all the others with your tiny group. Leave, that's all I can say."
"What?" Chris was surprised "You seemed like you wanted Sachiriku to take us out and now you want us just to go home and forget all this?"
"Stay out of this Chris!" Sam said. "I don't care how many of you there are! I'll take you all down! I WILL save Alvin."
Rogrune stared at Sam in amazement for a moment then sighed. "You don't know what you are saying. She is so strong, no one can beat her. When you saw me earlier, well, I thought you were just another group of kids, but you had that boy, Alvin, with you and I knew you were important. Please, don't get me wrong, I don't want to work for her but I have to." He lowered his eyes sadly. "She promised my human so much, and there is nothing I can do to change his mind."
"Fine, you have to battle us, let's get this over with," Sam said. He started to move forward with Eylan.
Chris grabbed Sam's shoulder. "No, I will fight him."
Sam shrugged Chris's arm off. "What are you talking about? He captured Alvin, I going to take him down."
"No, what are you talking about?" Chris stared ferociously into Sam's eyes. "You're stronger then I am. If Sachiriku is so powerful then you will need to save your strength so that you can fight her. I know what you are feeling, you told me years ago, remember? Calm down and think, I have to fight this battle."
Sam sighed and looked at the ground for a moment. "Fine, but make it quick."
Chris reached down behind Dijon and pulled out his book. He began to stride towards Rogrune. "Don't worry. He won't take long."
"So you foolishly ignored my warning?" Rogrune was surprised for a moment then he snarled at them, "Fine! If that is the way you want it!" He reached over and touched a portable phone on his shoulder. "It's time to fight, Keith."
A voice replied through his phone. "It's about time." Suddenly, behind Rogrune on a balcony far above their heads was a young man holding a grey book. In his other hand he held a microphone. "Let's begin." His voice boomed out around them. Maolan Rogrune opened his mouth and fired small balls of energy from it.
"Dijon," Chris said. "Same as we did before!" Dondias Dijon began to rotate and he created a mini tornado around himself, which sucked up all of the attack and dispersed it.
Before Dijon could stop his tornado however, the man on the far off balcony readied another spell. Dalone Rogrune shaped himself into a torpedo shape. He began to spin and flew directly at Dijon! Rogrune's claws slashed into Dijon and Dijon fell back towards to ground where Chris caught him. Maolan Rogrune rained the balls of energy down on the duo below. There was an explosion and Dijon and Chris vanished inside it!
"Ow," Chris emerged from the dust with Dijon beside him. Both of them were covered in cuts. "Dijon, look right at them," Chris ordered. Amerillian A blast of wind rushed towards Rogrune.
"Give it up," Keith said. Dalone Rogrune spun into the wind attack and destroyed it easily. "This is pointless," Keith continued. "No matter what you do I can always beat it with no problem at all." Dalone
"We have a few more tricks of our own!" Chris snapped back as the gargoyle spun towards them once more. Alfain Air began to swirl in Dijon's hand and it formed a ball. He rushed towards Rogrune.
"We won't give up," Dijon said. He slammed the air attack into Rogrune and the two held there for a moment pushing against each other.
Suddenly Rogrune blasted through, throwing Dijon through the air. "You won't stop m-" Rogrune began right before the ball of air sticking to his claws exploded. He was blown backwards towards his partner.
"Follow it through, Dijon," Chris yelled. Amerillian A blast of wind from Dijon's mouth struck Rogrune hard and smashed him into the balcony where his partner was. The two fell together into a heap.
Keith untangled himself and stood up. "You'll pay for that! Rogrune, go!" Gigano Maolan Rogrune opened his mouth wide, and he began firing huge balls of energy from it.
"Look out!" Chris grabbed Dijon's hand and pulled him out of the way. The attack began slamming behind them as they ran.
"You can't run forever," Keith smiled at them. "Eventually we will get you, there is no escape."
Dijon stopped and pulled his hand away from Chris. "He's right, we can't run forever but we can still escape his attack. Chris, get me close to him."
Chris looked at his partner with concern. "I hope you know what you're doing." Dureigngo Dijon sprouted wings from his back and flew over the attack.
"Ha, you left your partner unguarded," Keith said gleefully. Maolan Rogrune was opening his mouth to fire the attack when Dijon slammed into him from above.
"You will not hurt Chris or anyone else!" Dijon grabbed Rogrune's mouth and forced it closed. "Chris," Dijon called over his shoulder. "The fourth spell, now!"
Chris nodded. Dondias Dijon began to spin and pulled Rogrune with him into the tornado he created! Dijon aimed the tornado towards Keith and leapt out of it leaving it to grab the human and slam both him and his Mamodo into each other. In the collision Rogrune's book was popped lose from Keith's hands!
Keith looked up at the book above him. "Rogrune, get it!"
Rogrune looked uncertain for a moment then turned to Dijon. "I trust you know what to do."
Chris powered up his book. Amerillian The blast of wind shredded the book and its remains caught on fire.
Dijon looked at Rogrune, who was fading, surprised. "Why did you let us do it?"
"When you all came," Rogrune began. "I was uncertain of what to make of you, but from what you said, it made me think." He looked Dijon straight in the eye. "Was what I was doing right?" Rogrune faded away with his book leaving a scorch mark on the ground where it landed.
Chris collapsed. "Dijon, I don't think I can take anymore. I'm out of power."
"That's just perfect for me," came a voice from down the passageway ahead. Everyone looked up to see a slender, wavy figure stepped out of the path. It was a fox/dog/cat, they weren't exactly sure. The wavy part of the creature was obvious, it had four long tails. Following it out of the path was a girl holding a pink book.
Keith was horrified. "Telan," he gasped. "I can explain…" He was silenced by her fierce gaze.
"You can explain to Sachiriku," she turned back to the others. "You have been causing us a lot of setbacks. It's about time you left this world. Amy, attack."
"No," Sam fumed. "I'm going to have to fight before we reach Sachiriku."
Amy readied her book. Burgo Telan's tails stretched over her head and raced right for Eylan!
Suddenly a voice rang out of nowhere. Zagaren A suit of armor leapt into the way of Telan's attack and raised a shield as big as itself in front of the attack. CLANG! The tails bounced off and retracted back into position.
"Jaran?" Sam looked at the suit of armor. "What are you doing here?"
"That would be because of me," a girl, holding a brown book, walked out of the path behind Sam. "Remember me? After you beat us we watched you guys hoping for a way to help you back. We'll take this Mamodo down, just watch us."
Sam looked at her and frowned. "That's good, but there is something I wanted to ask you."
"What is it?" she asked, startled. "Is something wrong?"
"What's your name? You didn't mention it last time." Sam said.
The girl laughed. "I'm Lucy."
"Hey! Listen to me! You will pay for interfering," Telan growled at Lucy and Jaran, who stared at her impassively (although it is hard to decipher an expression on a suit of armor).
Amy powered up her book. Delaz Telan launched her tails around Jaran and raised him into the air and started crushing.
"You don't understand the danger your in," Lucy said. Leago A spear appeared in Jaran's hands and he hurled straight for Telan, but just before it could hit her she retracted her tails and dodged out of the way as a blur.
"Whoa, she is fast," Lucy said to Jaran, when she looked around she frowned. "Hey, where did she go?" Jaran pointed straight up and Lucy gasped in amazement. Telan was running upside-down on the ceiling directly above them.
Burgo Telan leapt off the ceiling and fired her tails down at Jaran again. BONG! Jaran stumbled back as the blows left a ringing sound resonating through the air. "What is that?" Amy yelled over the noise.
Telan landed and crouched covering her ears. After several seconds the sound ended. Telan stood up weakly. "I heard of Mamodo like you. Your not inside the armor, you are part of the armor. This is going to be harder then I thought."
The book Amy was holding glowed brightly. "Let's go Telan." Bareg Spikes appeared on end Telan's tails. Telan fired her four tails again at Jaran.
Zagaren A shield appeared in Jaran's hands again. THUNK! The spike tipped tails pushed through the shield and slammed into Jaran leaving dents in his armor.
"Jaran, this is our chance," Lucy yelled. Jergo The shield disappeared and a battle ax appeared in Jaran's hands. Jaran brought the battle ax down managing the cut the tips off of the tails as Telan was pulling them back.
Telan shrieked in pain and glared furiously at Jaran. "I'm done with this battle! Amy, use our strongest spell."
Delfin Telan's tails launched all over the room and began to wrap around everything. Lucy's arms were encased almost instantly and she was lifted into the air. Jaran was wrapped up from the waist down but was being rapidly wrapped up.
"Jaran, it's up to you!" Lucy called down. Dabrawlgo Twin sharp chains appeared, one wrapped around each of Jaran's arms. He swung the chains at Telan, who leapt out of the way easily.
"Do you really think you can hit me with those?" Telan laughed at him.
For the first time since the battle began, Jaran spoke. "I was not aiming for you," his voice sounded like it was coming from a long ways away. "You were standing in front of your book keeper, thanks for moving." He launched the chains at Amy and wrapped them around the book in her hands.
"Stop him!" Telan hurled herself at the book, but Jaran yanked it back to himself out of her reach and proceeded to shred it apart. "No, I lost," Telan whispered before vanishing. Lucy began to fall as Telan's tails vanished, but Jaran caught her easily.
"Wow," Sam said from a corner of the room. "That was close." He smiled at them. "Thanks."
"Come fight me after this is over," Lucy grinned at him. "I plan on winning this time." The two fighters walked back the way they came from and were gone.
Not Far Away
Sachiriku stopped pacing her room. Another Mamodo presence was gone, and she could tell it wasn't one Mamodo of the group she wanted destroyed. She turned to a small Mamodo that was in the room, awaiting her orders. "Get the others," she told him. "They will be needed." The Mamodo nodded and rushed from the room.
As he ran through the passageways of the building with his partner, who had been waiting outside the room, he heard and noise and stopped. From out of the gloom stepped a black furred wolf and a young boy holding a black book. The wolf spoke softly. "We can't have you going and raising the alarm, can we?"
EN
I've only got six reviews and twelve chapters! Could someone out there review on something? I don't really care, do you have a favorite character? A Mamodo you made up that I can use? Do you like my story or is it just junk? Something?? (Admittedly I haven't had my story on here very long) Oh, and yes Lumoss returned and defeated that Mamodo.
Mamodo Statistics
Name: Rogrune 73rd in the fight for king
Partner: Keith
Book: Grey Burned by Dijon
Spells:
Maolan Fires multiple energy balls from his mouth
Dalone Spins rapidly and slashes opponent with claws
Gigano Maolan The stronger version of Maolan with but larger
Name: Telan 72nd in the fight for king
Partner: Amy
Book: Pink Burned by Jaran
Spells:
Burgo Tails extend to strike opponent
Delaz Wraps tails around opponent and crushes them
Bareg Spikes appear on the eng of her tails
Delfin Tails are launched into the room and wrap around everything immobilizing the enemy
Name: Unknown 71st in the fight for king
Partner: Unknown
Book: Burned by Lumoss
Here are Jaran's new spells
Zagaren A huge shield appears in Jaran's hands
Dabrawlgo Twin giant chains appear wrapped around Jaran's arms
