And here's the 60th boss.
What? Two chapters in a row? Impossible.
(1st person, Kirito)
"That's one big dragon," Jun mutters from next to me.
"Well. It is called the [Great Wyvern] and the previous 9 bosses were all way bigger than they should have been too," I point out.
"I know. So... I wonder if it breathes-" Jun starts to say but is cut off by a giant plume of fire coming our way. We dodge to the side and she says, "I'll take that for a 'yes.'"
"So how do we deal with that?" I ask.
"I dunno. We should really have had a scouting run on this boss," she answers.
"We got a little too confident with the last 9 and just wanted to get this over with."
"Well, I have an idea, as much as I don't like it," she says.
"And what is that?" I ask.
"Well, you know that quest we were pretty much forced to do at the start of this floor?" she asks.
Oh I remember. The one that gave an anti-fire shield...
"Yeah, that," she says and goes in her inventory, an orange rectangular shield appearing on her arm.
"This is so clunky. I hate shields," she mutters and runs towards the boss.
I equip my own and follow her.
The wyvern sees us and breathes fire at us.
We kneel down and raise the shields in front of us. "This better work or I'm blaming you!" I say.
The fire passes between us, blocking our view of each other, but parts around the shields. It was hot though. If this was real life, it would probably be a lot hotter.
The fire clears after a few seconds and Jun yells, "Can you morons quit standing there and help?"
We run towards the boss and avoid it trying to swipe at us with its claws as it flies up a bit.
"Crap." Not really sure which of us said it, but who the hell cares.
It once again breathed fire and Jun swung her sword? Realizing a moment to late she wasn't able to bring her shield up, so she should have gotten a bit burned before blocking it, however the fire was blocked and dispersed by her sword.
"I don't really get how this works but, it sure makes things a lot easier," she says and removes her shield.
"Hey, can you give me a boost?" she asks.
"You and your crazy ideas."
"By my standards this isn't crazy at all," she answers.
I sigh. I raise my shield and crouch, facing away from the wyvern... granted that was probably a terrible idea.
Jun runs towards me at her ridiculous speed and I activate a [Martial Arts] skill with my left hand which held the shield as well as starting to jump up, since I knew she would reach me long before I finished.
She had already started activating [Sonic Leap] as well. She lands on the shield and both of us she all of our power to send her flying way higher than Kayaba probably intended anyone to go. And well above the flying wyvern. Whose back she proceeded to land on.
She's enjoying herself way too much.
"Try to focus on whatever you planned to do at least a little!" I yell.
"I know, I know," she says and draws her sword. How the hell did she manage to sheathe it mid-fall, I mean she had to activate [Sonic Leap] when she jumped. Okay. I'll just deal with it.
She then activates [Horizontal] on the point where the wing attaches to the wyvern. The wyvern writhes in pain and flails about, trying to throw her off. She simply grabs onto the scales clings to it until it stops flailing about, then proceeds to unleash a bunch of skills onto the wyverns wing with both swords. It started to flail again but it also began to fall.
And when it finally reaches the ground, it fails to fly back up.
"Me 1, giant wyvern 0," she says cheerfully jumping off of it with only one sword drawn.
"You're way too casual. And cheerful," I say.
"Believe it or not, even I actually want to leave, and we've cleared 9 floors—about to be 10—in less than a month and a half. It's gotten kind of boring. If I didn't show off so much and play so riskily, it would probably be too easy," she answers.
"You probably don't want to let others hear that or they'll hate you even more," I point out while we were still out of hearing range of the somewhat shocked clearing group of morons.
"Firstly, it's not like it would be faster, in fact it would probably be slower, just safer. And second, it's not like I care if they hate me more. You don't hate me. Argo doesn't hate me. Asuna doesn't hate me. Hell, even Heathcliff doesn't hate me. And the rest of them? I couldn't really care less," she answers.
"Watch out!" I yell as the dragon tries to snap her head off.
She jumps forward and spins around, landing next to me.
"It's still not dead and it's extremely pissed at you, so be careful," I say.
"It can't even fly. What kind of a dragon can't fly?" she 'asks,' taunting the wyvern. Knowing her, she was probably calling it wrong just to piss it off, though I doubt it was programmed to understand that... either way, it was being pissed off.
It runs towards us breathing fire and she yells, "Why don't you do something while it's grounded and not paying attention to you?"
The rest of the clearing group advance with anti-fire shields equipped and begin to attack the boss. I join them, occasionally glancing towards Jun who was basically dancing around the dragons attacks.
(Jun)
"It's a dying wyvern. It's a dying wyvern," I 'sing' in my head. Now hurry up and be a dead wyvern.
The wyvern's HP was draining at a fairly fast rate however, so was mine. It was occasionally able to snag me with its fire or teeth and each time took a decent chunk off my HP. Especially the nearly bites.
It was considerably closer to death than I though. It had just reached the last bar. And suddenly it was covered in fire. It stopped chasing me and a moment later a pulse of fire and wind came off of it, throwing everyone away from it, Heathcliff included.
The limp wing recovered and the still-flaming wyvern took to the air. Well crap. I can't land on a flaming wyvern and killing it with throwing weapons would take all of eternity.
So what now? Do I use my bow. Depending on how accurately I can shoot, it might die in a reasonable amount of time however... eh, screw it, having them hate me more isn't really a problem, like I told Kirito. I draw my second sword for the first time in such a way that it would be blatantly obvious to everyone. While I'd done it several times during boss raids, I avoided anyone really noticing.
I transform it into a bow and begin shooting repeatedly at the wyverns head, much to the shock of everyone, Kirito and for some reason Heathcliff excluded.
Wyvern not included, apparently, as its first response was—you guessed it—fire. And my response to that was to move out of the way of said fire. Fire and flesh don't mix well.
Why is it taking so much damage? Did its defense go drastically down? "Hey Kirito, can you throw something at it?" I ask.
"Uh sure... why?"
"Because my bow shouldn't be doing this much damage."
"Oh, okay," he says, taking out a throwing knife and hurling it at the beast. As expected, it took way more damage than it should have.
"Well don't just stand there you idiots. I can't believe that none of you have a throwing skill!" I say, annoyed, and continue shooting at the boss, whose response was to continue to breathe fire at me.
Its HP drained rather quickly and it finally shattered. By the time it died however, everyone had run out of throwing weapons, so naturally I was the one to finish it.
Just a quick little chapter because I felt like writing it right now. The whole thing is one, terribly written boss fight so 1.3k words is decent.
PS. I might actually be going through with the RWBY fanfiction.