Chapter 14
Assassin's POV
I charged towards Noxious, materializing my swords in my hands, I slashed with one sword and he blocked it with his hand, I swung my other sword and Noxious blocked it with his other hand, I looked up at him,
*ROAR*
I jumped up and did a roundhouse kick, forcing Noxious to let go of my hands and jump back, he also held his hand out and his sword flew past me and landed in his hand, he raised his other hand and chains appeared behind me, in one swift movement, I jumped up over the chains and slashed at them, breaking them instantly,
Noxious charged me as I held my ground, he was now in front of me and he slammed his blade down, I blocked with one blade and sliced with my other, he grabbed the other one with his hand, causing it to bleed a little,
"Gotcha." I stated as I combined the sword with my power and made the sword spark, electrocuting Noxious in the process, he roared in pain
*ROAR*
I rushed at him and swept his feet from under him, he fell to the ground, but quickly stopped himself by doing a handstand, he kicked me knocking me back a little and made his sword fly over to him, he raised it and it got covered in a red and black aurora, I stood there watching him, but I felt a tug on my head, I turned around and looked at the pyramid, which was now full of that black liquid,
"No!" I yelled as I ran over towards it, I slashed my swords when I got there as an attempt to break it, but nothing was working, "Dammit!" I yelled as I smashed my fist against it,
*ROAR*
I turned around to be greeted by Noxious, who was staring right at my face, he raised his hand and grabbed my neck and shoved me onto the pyramid, I dropped one of my swords, Noxious had his sword in his other hand and he raised it, it still had that red and black aurora,
"Get off me!" I yelled as I punched his face repeatedly, he turned around and threw me up in the air, then opened a void behind me and teleported through it, grabbing me by my neck again, he slashed down at me and caught his hand, he is a lot stronger than I thought.
*ROAR*
He let go of me and I started falling, then he slashed his sword at me making a slash wave, I raised my sword to block the slash wave, but I collided with the ground making a crater and dust fly everywhere,
I got back up and Noxious held his hand up again, bladed chains surrounded me, I slashed at a couple, but I didn't have my other sword, so I got a couple wounds on me, then another set of chains came up around me and tied me up to where I couldn't move,
He flew down and landed right in front of me, he looked at me and tilted his head, as if studying me, "Is this how you treat your friend? Arfoire has been taken care of, snap out of it!" I yelled, but Noxious just tilted his head in the other direction, if this keeps up I won't be able to win,
I glanced over at the pyramid again, I need to break that pyramid, but I'm not strong enough yet, i'm running out of time… what do I do?!
"I don't want you to leave so soon, You're really fun to be around." those words repeated in my head, I can't give up here, I won't give up here!
"HAAAAH!" I yelled as I broke the chains off of me and charged at Noxious, who was surprised by my sudden outburst, I swung my sword and he blocked it with his, we pressed our blades against each other,
"Noxious, snap out of it! What would Noire think if she saw you like this!" I yelled, his face didn't change, he still had that look of killing something, "Fine then!" I also yelled as I pushed back, "It's time to end this!" I charged my blade with lightning making it shine blue, while Noxious charged up his blade with i'm guessing whatever his power was,
*ROAR*
We charged each other, "NOXIOUS!" I yelled and our swords collided with each other, sending a shockwave and an explosion throughout the area,
*ROAR*
Noxious was sent flying back and landed next to the pyramid, I was able to overpower him, I quickly ran over towards him, "That's enough Noxious." I stated as I pointed my sword at him, he was on the ground looking up at me "I've won." I also stated, but I was interrupted…
"...!" What?!
*Ching!*
I reverted back to my original form and stood confused, what happened?! I looked over at the pyramid and saw three bright lights within it, no it can't be…
*ROAR*
I turned back and received a punch to the side of my face, sending me flying to the pyramid. I smashed against it, "GAH!" I grunted in pain, Noxious was now up and had his sword in his hand, he charged towards me and was about to slash, but I grabbed his arm, he dropped his sword and grabbed my neck again, he forced me down on the pyramid and began choking me,
"Gh! Nox...ious!" I muttered, I grabbed my pistol from my holster and aimed it at his chest and fired, he dropped me and held his chest, was that his weak spot?
*Growl*
He was just staring at me, he wasn't moving or nothing, just staring at me, "Noxious?" I called out, he looked behind me and pointed, I turned around and saw a flash of light, it came from where I left Gear and the others, I also heard one swift movement,
I was motionless, Noxious stood right behind me and he had his sword at my neck, his breath was going down the back of my neck, it looks like I lost this battle,
"Noxious!" I heard a voice yell, it sounded like Noire, Noxious and I both looked over to where the voice came from, Noire was now standing and was looking at Noxious with tears in her eyes, "No, that can't be you, there's no way." Noire said, Noxious pulled his sword away and stared at Noire, then started walking towards her, this may be my only chance.
I grabbed my sword and held it up in the air, I might have a little bit of power left, but I don't have enough to transform, here goes nothing
I closed my eyes and felt energy transfer from my arm to my sword, then it started to spark and soon it was covered in electricity, "Noxious!" I yelled, he stopped and began to turn around, I ran towards him,
When he fully turned around, I stabbed my sword in his chest, it went right through the circle and began to electrocute him, he roared in pain,
*ROAR!*
He grabbed me and threw me towards the pyramid, I was rushing towards it, but I think, I might be able to do this… I pulled back my fist and my arm began to spark, as soon as I was right in front of it, I punched it as hard as I could, my fist went right through it and I collided with the pyramid, shattering it instantly, I flew right through it, as I kept going, I saw what looked like the CPU candidates flying towards the area, did they finally transform? I snapped back to where I was going and collided headfirst into a rock, shattering that as well,
"Gh! *pant* *wheeze*" I was out of breath, I could barely move, I was so tired, I felt blood go down the side of my head, my mouth was bleeding too, I must have bit my tongue when I landed,
I was looking over to where I saw Noxious, he had his hands on his head and shaking his head furiously, he was yelling and roaring, I'm pretty sure all of Leanbox could hear him,
I tried to move my hands or stand up, but I was completely paralyzed, "well, this is bullshit…" I muttered, but was I able to save everyone, those lights I saw in the pyramid shined again, then I saw the goddesses in their goddess forms I'm guessing, I saw Nep in the air, Vert I'm guessing was the green haired girl and she had the biggest bust out of all of them, Blanc was the blue haired girl and from where I could see, was the flattest out of the goddesses… why does it hurt when I say that?
But at least they were safe, Noire's back up and Noxious i'm not sure, I can't really see him that well from where I'm at, but at least I did what I needed to do…
I closed my eyes, maybe I don't need to be alive after all…
"You're not giving up on me are you?" I heard a voice say, where am I now?
I opened my eyes to see someone I wasn't expecting,
"Nep?" I called out and I felt a hand touch my cheek, Neptune was crouched down beside me and she was in her goddess form,
"You were able to get us out of that trap, i'm grateful to you." she said, there's no time left, I need to do this now.
"Neptune… there's not enough time to… explain, but… I need to…" I started and Neptune tilted her head,
"What?" she said in a curious tone,
"I need… to touch… your chest…" i muttered, her eyes widened and she didn't say anything, she just stared at me "I don't mean… it to… be perverted… I promise you- Mmf!" I was cut off by Neptune locking her lips with mine, she grabbed my hands and placed them on her breasts, my eyes were wide, then a glowing blue and purple light resonated from us, I was the blue light and Neptune had the purple light, my wounds began to heal and I was filled with warmth.
I closed my eyes as we continued to kiss...
Noxious's POV
After that blow from Assassin I had some control of myself, I saw Noire she was crying.
"Noxious you promised me…" Noire said as she put her head down everything went black. All I could see was an outline of a diablo.
"HAHAHAHA you couldn't even protect her now she's going to die from her own knight." the diablo said, I looked over to see a vision of where me and Noire where I was lifting my hand creating a black orb aimed at Noire. "Now you see all you are is a diablo, like me…" the diablo said again, I walked in front of the diablo and picked it up by the neck. "Wha...t are you… doing?" the diablo asked, I looked up at him.
"SHUT UP!" I yelled then slammed the diablo to the ground and materialized my sword.
"But wait, we're the same I can give you power." the diablo said.
"I don't need power from you…" I replied then took my sword and stabbed the diablo in the chest.
"Da...mm...it…" the diablo said before the outlines of it disappeared making my vision go back. I saw my hand with the orb in it, I hurried and took my other hand and grabbed my hand causing the orb to go away. Then I grabbed the diablo face and shattered it revealing my actual face. Noire looked back up at me.
"Nox...ious…" she said with a shocked look. I then started to shatter what was left of the diablo form making my body go back to normal. I had all of the diablo form shattered except when I saw my actual arm which had been taken over by the cursed glove up to my elbow. I looked to my right side to see a piece of my swords blade on the ground, I picked it up.
"Noire please look away." I said, she gave me a worried look, the cursed glove started to take over more so I hurried up and started to cut my arm off with the piece of my blade. "AGGHHH!" I yelled this was far beyond the pain I had when I got hit by those exploding orbs.
"Stop don't do this!" Noire cried, but I had continue.
"I'm sorry Noire but this is the only way I can keep the promise." I said as I took the final cut...
The other goddesses and candidates came over to me and Noire. Noire was sitting in front of me and hugging me with tears in her eyes I had my only arm on her back. Vert looked at where my taken over arm was lying and then looked at where it was.
"Why did you cut your arm off?!" she said in shock, me and Noire stopped hugging I looked back at Vert.
"Don't worry about it i'll be fine more importantly where's Assassin?" I asked.
"Neptune is with him." Nepgear replied she and the other candidates looked different.
"Okay, also what's with the new look?" I asked.
"Oh these are our CPU forms." Uni replied then Noire looked at her in a surprised expression.
"I'm proud of you Uni." Noire said getting up to pat Uni on the head. Everyone was smiling and cheering, as they all did that I went around looking for Assassin I saw a blue and purple glow in the distance I rushed over to see Assassin and Neptune's kissing. I ran over to them the purple and blue glow was coming from both of their bodies and soon stopped.
"I'M ALIVE!" Assassin yelled as he got up from the ground and Neptune was in her CPU form smiling.
"It's good to see you back." I said then Assassin looked at where my arm was.
"Whoa, what happened to your arm!" he said in a shocked tone.
"The curse was taking over so I had to get rid of it." I replied.
"I see so its power was too much for you." a familiar voice said.
"Who said that?!" I said while looking around.
"AAAAH!" Neptune screamed then me and Assassin looked over at Neptune, she had a familiar looking squirrel in between her... breasts. "What is this squirrel doing?! " she yelled as she grabbed the squirrel by its neck wait a minute that's!
"Noxious… help me…" Zetsubō said in a dying tone.
"What the- it talks too?!" Neptune said dropping Zetsubō to the ground.
"Uh why is a squirrel talking?" Assassin asked, I looked over at him.
"This is the diablo king…" I replied he looked at Zetsubō with a straight face, but broke into laughter.
"HAHAHA this little thing is the diablo king!" he laughed. Zetsubō got up.
"Very funny…" Zetsubō said in a quiet tone, I picked him up by the tail.
"Now what's this about the cursed glove?" I asked.
"Well you see now that you've cut it off, you can't use the power of the curse anymore." Zetsubō explained my eyes widened.
"What do you mean I can't use the power of the curse anymore?!" I said shaking Zetsubō .
"Well stop shaking me if you want to know!" he yelled. "Now what I meant to say was you've lost your power." he explained again. "Also now that you've lost your sword you can't materialize another one, which now you're just a knight with no way of protecting your princess." he said I dropped him on the ground.
"Shit…" I said then started to walk back to Noire and the others.
"Wait up!" Zetsubō said and Assassin and Neptune followed him. We got back to everyone they were still cheering on, I walked over to the piece of my sword and my arm which was petrified by the curse. I picked them both up.
"Well I guess there's no reason to keep these." I said as I was about to throw them both but Nepgear and Uni stopped me.
"WAIT!" they said I stopped and turned to them.
"What are you going to do with them?" Nepgear said.
"Well I can't use this blade anymore and this arm can't be attached." I replied in a sad tone.
"But you can't protect sis without your sword." Uni said, I looked down at the piece of the sword. "If you can't use that anymore, I could modify an old hand cannon of mine to make you a new weapon." she said.
"And I could make you a new arm, even though it'll be robotic." Nepgear said, I had tears in my eyes.
"I don't know what to say..." I replied.
"As long as you're protecting sis, i'll do anything." Uni said giving me a thumbs up. I wiped my tears then gave Uni the piece of the sword and giving Nepgear the arm.
"I'll do my best to make you a new arm." Nepgear said with a smile.
"And i'll make you the best hand cannon in the world." Uni said with a smile.
"I'll be looking forward to seeing them." I replied, Zetsubō went between Uni and Nepgear.
"Well Noxious I need to head back to my chamber so i'll see you later." he said Nepgear and Uni's eyes widened.
"A SQUIRREL TALKED!" they screamed…
Assassin's POV
I laughed as I saw Uni and Gear's reaction to the diablo king's appearance, all I have to say is that I wasn't expecting the diablo king to be a squirrel, but it's kinda funny seeing a tiny squirrel trying to do something,
"Uh… well this is embarrassing…" the squirrel said,
"What's wrong?" Noxious asked and the squirrel looked at him,
"It seems I cannot open a void to go back, so it looks like i'm stuck here for a bit…" the squirrel replied, I face palmed and looked around,
"Well, looks like everything's fine and dandy at the most part." I said as I looked around the place, but I stopped when I saw someone still on the ground… "Oh, crap I forgot about him…" I said as I ran over to Kibō, he was still laying on the ground unconscious,
I picked him up and shook him a bit, his wounds looked healed, but he was still unconscious, "Hey, Kibō wake up!" I yelled, but he wouldn't budge, the squirrel crawled over,
"So this is what he has come down too, *sigh* it's a shame, he used to be smart." The squirrel said,
"Oh yeah, do you have a name? Also, could you possibly wake him up?" I asked, the squirrel looked at me,
"My name is Zetsubō, and yes I can wake him up." Zetsubō replied as he jumped onto Kibō's forehead and placed his little paw on it.
A flash of light surrounded Kibō and soon his eyes shot open, "Gah! What the hell!" he shouted as he looked in every direction,
"There, he's up." Zetsubō stated as he looked at me, Kibō raised his brow as he looked at Zetsubō,
"Uh… I know i'm not used to this place, but I'm sure last time I checked, squirrels don't talk." he stated and Zetsubō looked at him,
"Is that how you respond after seeing your father?" Zetsubō asked him and Kibō tilted his head,
"Ah… shit…" he muttered and I laughed,
"What an unexpected family reunion." I said and Kibō glared at me, I shrugged it off and got off the ground,
"Anyway, why did you use "that" image to wake me?" Kibō asked Zetsubō and Zetsubō smirked,
"Because I knew "that" image would wake you." Zetsubō replied and Kibō sighed,
"Whatever, Assassin have you done it?" Kibō asked me and I tilted my head,
"Done what?" I repeated and Kibō face palmed,
"Did you get the blessing?" he said in a tone of annoyance, I smiled,
"Yeah, I got it, not only that, I saved Noxious from his diablo form." I said as I jabbed my thumb back at the others, they were all watching us.
"Well, looks like we've done what we needed to do, well then, looks like I'll take my leave." Kibō stated as he got up off the ground.
"Already? But you just woke up." I stated and Kibō looked at me,
"And I want to go to go home now." Kibō retorted as he held his hand out, but nothing was happening… "...huh?"
"Looks like you have the same problem…" Zetsubō muttered, looks like he isn't going home.
"OH COME ON!" Kibō shouted, I grabbed his shoulder,
"C'mon Kibō, you might as well get used to this place." I stated and Kibō shoulder's sagged a bit,
"Fine…" he muttered, why doesn't he like being here?
After our little reunion we all had, we all decided to return to our respected nations, Noxious went with Noire and Uni back to Lastation, and I went with Nep and Gear back to Planeptune, we were flying towards the Basilicom, Nep had a hold of one of my hands and Gear had the other, Kibō was following close behind us, he had a bluish glow to him and was flying,
"Uh, Assassin, you never really told us who that guy is following us." Nep told me, I smirked and looked behind us,
"That's Kibō, the God of Hope, he's also my teacher, he's the one that helped me get back to Gamindustri." I explained, after hearing his name he increased his speed to where he was beside us,
"Sorry for the late introduction, but Assassin's right, my name is Kibō, pleasures all mine Neptune, Nepgear." he introduced,
"You're a god? How come we never heard about you?" Gear asked and Kibō crossed his arms,
"Well, I'm not exactly a CPU, but I do have a CPU form, I'm kinda a special case you see." he said, not even I knew about this.
"You can save your explanations for later, we're here." Nep said, I looked ahead of us to see Planeptune in the distance, home sweet home I guess…
We landed on the Balcony of the Basilicom and Nep and Gear reverted back to their CPU forms and stood exhausted,
"Man, I'm pooped…" Nep said as she slumped over some,
"Yeah, i'm tired…" Gear agreed, Kibō just looked at the tower and then looked down to the streets below.
"Kibō, you alright?" I asked and he turned his gaze to me,
"Yeah, just looking where i'm going to be living at." he said, he seems uneasy about something, what is wrong with him?
"Histy! We're back!" Nep said as she walked through the door,
"We're home Histoire." Gear stated, Histy flew into the room with a smile,
"Welcome back you two and I see Assassin is back too." Histy greeted, Kibō entered behind me, upon noticing him Histy's eyes widened,
"Who is this?" she asked, Kibō looked at her,
"My name is Kibō, nice to meet you." Kibō greeted as he walked up to her and held his hand out,
"The pleasures all mine, but I have a feeling I've seen you before." Histy shaking his hand stated and Kibō tilted his head,
"You must have me mistaken for someone else." Kibō replied, I don't know if they've met before, but Kibō seems to be on edge for some reason, but I'm too tired to think about it.
"I hate to break up the interaction between you two, but I'm going to call it for tonight." I said as I waved goodbye, "See you in the morning" I also said as I walked towards the elevator
I went up to my room and opened my door, I went over to my bed and flopped onto it, today was one hell of a day huh? At least I'm alive again, still what will happen now?
Before I could think of anything else, I fell into a deep slumber…
A/N:
Assassin: Anime cliche! Of course the good guys would win in the end! It always happens! I also apologize for the late upload, my internet hs been running slow lately and is affecting my upload schedule, I apologize for any inconvenience, anyway, thank you all that read this chapter and we hope to see you all later!
Noxious: Well that wraps up the Arfoire Arc and now there'll be a break from all the fighting, but as always we'll see you guys in the next chapter!