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Chapter 12: KillZone

(Noire's pov)

"Did you find anything?" Kei shakes her head.

"Nothing at all, your shares just seemed to...disappear." I stand up and walked out of the room Uni is in, Kei following suit.

"I don't get it, shares just don't disappear." I stop in my tracks, "unless they're getting transformed into anti-energy." I turn to the right and fast walk towards my work room (A.K.A. her bedroom).

"Lady Noire, you and I both know that no object, or machine, exists that can turn share energy into anti-energy." I know that Kei and I discussed this before, but that was years ago. Someone might have actually built a device that can transform share energy. I need to find out who they are and why they are doing this, and fast.

(Nick's pov)

"Where the hell did this guy get a tier five magic lock?" Vinnie shrugs and charges the golem from the left, I jump out of the way of an incoming rocket *BOOM* and lob one of my broadswords at the golem. "detonación!" my broadsword explodes and destroys the launcher on the golem's shoulder. The golem roars and swings and Vinnie. Vinnie holds out his spear.

"Nature, consume my enemies." vines appear from the large magic circle that formed at Vinnie's feet. The vines wrap themselves around the golem's arm and twist it clean off. The golem releases a cry of pain and falls over. Vinnie walks up to the golem's head and stabs a blue gem located in the back. "That should be it for this one, but where's the key?"

"If it's anything like the other tier five magic locks, we've got to kill more of these golems." two more golems, a steel and a fire type, land in the center of the clearing. Why did I have to trigger an event flag?

(Noire's pov)

"Lady Noire, I'm sure you have one, but what's the plan if this one doesn't work." I don't answer Kei. I keep typing commands to the scanner, hit enter, and pull up the big screen.

"Nothing?" I cross my arms.

"So, what's the plan now?" Kei takes a seat on the black leather couch that's right next to the window.

"We're not done yet, Kei." I press the voice command button on the screen. "Tex, I need a pulsing scan asap." A metallic voice comes from the speakers.

"Right away, Lady Noire." I look back at the big screen and see a giant black mark located in the middle of the forest. It keeps appearing at different levels of power, and sometimes none at all.

"If the anti-energy signal is pulsating like that, it must mean that there's a fight going down between two anti-crystal users. We must be careful." I nod and transform, picking up Kei.

"Nepgear can watch Uni for us, I need you with me." Kei nods and gets her plasma rifle. She gives me a nod.

"Let's go then." I walk out the front door and fly off. I notice citizens waving at me as I fly over them, unknowing of the massive share drop that could put them all in danger.

(Nick's pov)

"Huelga Matar!" (Translation: Killing Strike) I charge the steel golem again, my sword glowing red. The strike hits the golem, cutting it in half this time. The fire golem roars over the death of his comrade and charges at me. Vinnie tries to hold it down with his vines, but they burn. I really hope he didn't think that would work.

"Power Jab!" Vinnie lunged at the golem, slashing it with his spear. The left arm fell off and dissipated into a million pixels. The golem continued to charge, despite only having one arm. I lifted my broadsword, ready to finish the job.

"DeadStrike." My broadsword morphed into a scythe. I jump up, hold the glowing scythe, and slam it down on the golem. The beast catches me with its hand, it's left hand, and throws me to the ground. "ARH DAMN! This jackass has a regen ability." I struggle to stand up straight. When I do, I limp over to a tree that's next to me.

"Swift Strike!" My vision is slightly blurred, but I can make out Vinnie's attacks.

He's beginning to struggle, I've got to help him. That bastard has a power drain ability as well.

"HEY ASSHAT!" A flaming white eye turns to me, preparing a fireball to lob at my face. "Try this on for size. BLOODRAIN!" I make a cut in my hand to let blood spill out. The blood bends and shifts to create my enlarged broadsword, BloodRain. I see Vinnie shake his head.

"Don't do it, Nick. I don't want a repeat of last time." I dash at the flaming golem. I'm not letting the void use me, not this time.

"FALL INTO THE VOID, WEAK-WILLED ONE!" I jump over the golem and drive my sword into its head, then hop down in front of it. "Estás terminado." A large pillar of red light engulfed the golem...and the entire clearing.

I think I went overboard.

(Noire's pov)

"Are you sure it's this way?" We've been flying for about ten minutes, and we haven't seen any clearing at all. I'm beginning to doubt Kei's words...again.

"Lady Noire," Kei is good at keeping her cool, but I can tell she's getting pissed. "I've told you thirty-seven times that if we were going the wrong way, I would say something."

"I apologize, Kei," I sigh and blow a strand of hair away from my face, "I just need confirmation that we're on the right track-AHHHHH!" I hold my ears as a high-pitched noise invades them. I face the direction the noise came from to see a pillar of light, a big one.

"I think that's the confirmation you were looking for." She's right. I have no clue how far away that is, but we need to get there fast. As soon as the light disappeared, I took off as fast as possible towards the lingering anti-energy signal.

After half an hour of flying I had slowed down, the anti-energy taking its toll on me. I had to land and revert back to my human form.

"Lady Noire, you might wanna see this!" Kei had gone to look up ahead for the clearing. Judging by her voice, it's not far away. I jog to get to Kei. Kei points to what was supposed to be a clearing, which is now a giant crater. I hear laughter coming from the crater, and look into it. I see Nick and, I think his name is Vinnie, laying on the ground.

"Nick?"

(Nick's pov)

The noise stopped, and so did my voice. I wasn't dead, that much was obvious, but my body didn't want to move. My vision, blurrier now, started fading to black. A billion questions fly through the my head

Am I dying? Did I use so much power that I paralyzed myself? What happened to Vinnie? Did I kill him? How big and bright was the pillar I just made? I don't wanna die here.

Someone started to shake me. I'm hoping it's Vinnie, that would be a relief. The person shook harder, telling me to open my eyes, to speak, to move, to do something. I try moving my arms, but they won't move. I try to open my eyes. I did a bit, but not enough to get the person's attention. I try to move my lips to say the guardian's motto, and it works.

"Para la vida...para el amor….para ella" All the energy I used was coming back fairly quickly, but not quick enough. The person, who is Vinnie, freezes when he hears my voice for a split second.

"You're a wreck. Never scare me like that again, OK?" Vinnie pulls out a regen potion from his satchel and pours the red liquid down my throat, my energy coming back even faster. I need to laugh, laughter is what I need right now.

"I guess you could say that I was light headed. Hahaha." I'm hoping that Vinnie will laugh as well, or at least smile.

"Pfft, you sure shined brighter than a diamond." We both burst out laughing, the mood taking a 180.

After ten minutes of light puns, a familiar voice calls out to me.

"Nick?" Mierda, that's Noire.

"Heh, hey Noire, you missed the party." I stand up, only to collapse into Vinnie's arms. "OK, I'm not ready to stand on my own yet."

"Don't push yourself, Nick, you need to rest." He's right, but we need to fix this. I lay back in the dirt, sighing in defeat. Noire and Kei walk down and sit down next to us, concern written all over their faces.

"What are you doing out here, Nick?" She's out here for the same reason as me; stopping the bad guy and saving the day. I know that for sure.

"Same reason as you. Sorry for not calling first." Noire runs a hand through my hair, which is all black now, and gives me a reassuring smile.

"It's alright, just don't scare me like that ok." I give her a light nod, then chuckle.

"Heh, I thought you'd slap me in the face and call me 'baka'." Noire shrugs.

"I'll do that when we're not in danger."

"Hey, Nick." I look over at Kei. "What's that glowing orb over there?" We all look where Kei points. With out a doubt, there is an orb over there. Vinnie goes over and grabs the orb, a smile plastered across his face.

"This is it, the key." Thank the Lord. I'm so glad it wasn't the builder magic lock, you have to gather five parts of a key.

"Key for what?" Vinnie holds up the orb and throws it into the ground, shattering the fragile orb. The pieces glow brighter and form an actual key.

"KEY ACCEPTED, PREPARE FOR TRANSPORT."

"Transport? What does that me-AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Noire screams when we all get sucked into the teleporter.

*sigh* Lets do this

.:PostStory:.

CC75: that didn't take long

Nick: that's because you have so much free time

Noire: did you get expelled?

CC75: no, I just do my work on time

Noire: well that's good

CC75: yeah it is

Nick: I have a question

CC75: what is it?

Nick: why do you have such bad cliffhangers?

CC75: because I'm not a good writer

Noire: you're great for a beginner

Nick: while I do agree with you, Cookie, could you try a little harder please

CC75: I don't like making promises, but I'll try

Noire: can we move on now?

Nick: that's what he was about to do

CC75: this chapter has one shoutout, and that shoutout goes to….

RedBurningDragon

For favoriting and/or following me and my story

Nick: welp, later peeps

Noire: goodbye everyone

CC75: don't forget to leave a review!

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