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Chapter 14
All-Out War
It's time to turn it up.
It wasn't supposed to be this early, everyone had to agree. They didn't expect to be beaten so early in the game, but they did.
And they had got defeated with style.
Everyone shakily got back to their feet, holding back their grunts of pain. Alpha was the first one to be up. His grey eyes glowed angrily at the Creations' only opponent.
Unbelievable! A regular Living Object had beaten him! Alpha will never be defeated by an ordinary Living Object, especially a Living Object he held grudge with.
With an angry roar, he transformed into a gigantic wolf, his second form he called 'Big Wolf'. He roared furiously at his opponent's direction. His opponent was unfazed and kept staring at the empty space before him.
The next one up is actually Moirai, followed closely by Thanatos. She had tears ran down her cheeks but a scowl on her face. She sharply wiped away the salty water from her face as the void that surrounded her got bigger. But the first thing she did was running to Thanatos' side, checking for any injuries.
Although the human crow can heal himself, it didn't stop her from worrying over him. He wasn't injured but she noticed that he was holding his head in pain. Just the thought of him in pain already made her angry.
Black tentacles began to grow from her black void and danced according to her emotions: anger and frustration.
Talanya was next to get up. She buried her sword into the ground and shakily got onto her feet. Her nose is a bit… disordered, and that her head was hurting like hell from the UFO- err… her shield her opponent had thrown directly at her face.
Shocking, she had to admit. She is probably the most strategic Creation among the others, probably even more so than Alpha. She didn't just wield a broad sword and a shield for display. She was created to use them like how a real swordsman used them.
Gritting her teeth in frustration, she grabbed her shield and put it onto her left arm, holding it with an iron grip so she won't lose it again. Clanging her sword onto her shield, creating a vibrating sound, she dropped into her battle stance; her sword at her side and her round shield in front of her.
Sam was next, and he was not happy. He – along with Vyrn – had embarrassed himself in front of his opponent, who didn't even trying to defeat him. He had endlessly fought with Caelix for seven years. Or probably more, he had lost count. Fighting is in his everyday life, so he should be use to it and can take anyone down easily.
So why does this particular opponent, who acted like an old man minus the back ache and a cane, an ordinary Creation, can take not just one but twelve Creations with ease?
Although this is just a warm-ups before this Hanon guy make his appearance, Sam didn't want to be defeated by an ordinary Living Object. It's time for a payback.
His silver fur slowly morphed into shadow black and his eyes turned glowing red. Half of his body sunk into the shadow on the ground.
Vyrn followed closely as he slowly got back onto his feet. He shook his head to clear away the throbbing pain, especially the one on his face where Sam had punched him. He, like Sam, had embarrassed himself in front of his opponent.
And his opponent wasn't even bothering to land a hit on him, since Sam had done the job for him. And that's embarrassing as hell. Glowering, Vyrn slammed his fists onto the ground in anger and dropped into his battle stance, his fingers now curled into claws.
Alaska and Mercedes weren't happy when they got back onto their feet together, helping each other in the process since they were on top of each other. They felt their pride had gone from their grasps, and the feeling of the consequence is tremendously awful.
To add insult to injury, they were defeated with style. Further more, by an ordinary Living Object. Although they did not physically do anything to express their anger and broken pride, their insides were bubbling with anger. They dropped into their battle stances, mirroring each other.
Max, on the other hand, was baffled beyond words. Unlike the others who felt anger or frustration or both, he felt shock and afraid. He suddenly regretted on agreeing with the deal on fighting against this particular opponent.
Although he only received a kick on his side, he is already at the disadvantage. Max relied on speed and invisibility, and when he got hit on the first time, he already knew he was at a massive disadvantage.
He hesitantly got into his battle stance, but kept a determined expression on his face. Although he will probably lose on the first try, he can at least help the others on taking this particular opponent out.
Nova was the last one to get onto her feet. All the while, she had a calculative look on her face, studying every move their opponents made and their reactions on his moves. She was surprised that he managed to take out everyone with ease.
And he even took them out with style. She had heard that the animatronic who took out Anon the Titanium Human had done it with style, so that's another prove that it might be him who took out Anon. Nova still not sure he actually killed Anon like he and the animatronics had said.
But the fact that Goldie, a Creation that can teleport and heal instantly, and Marionette, a Creation that can take control anyone on his fingertips, had not participating this previously called 'warm-ups'.
"I know how strong he is," Nova remembered Goldie laughed at her request, Marionette closely followed. "I already know that I will be beaten to near death just at the beginning"
"That is if he willing to go pass beyond the neutral stage," she remembered Marionette added, stifling his mirth as he wiped away the tears. Then, she remembered clearly what they had stated her in unison.
"And he wouldn't need to use his eyepatch to take you all out"
Nova narrowed her brown eyes at her along with other nine creations' opponent, trying to get a better view of his face. His eyepatch was placed above his eyebrow. He isn't wearing it.
What does his eyepatch had to do with anything? She glanced at the animatronics at the sidelines.
All of them had a huge smirk plastered on their faces as if their assumption was correct, except for the alternate Alaska. She had an utterly shocked expression on her face.
Who wouldn't blame her? In her world, these Creation and battle-to-death stuffs do not exist. So watching them is baffling to her, especially for the fact that an alternate version of her Foxy had taken out eleven Creations with ease.
Shaking her head to clear away the unnecessary thoughts, she turned her attention to her opponent and dropped into her battle stance.
Now is not the time to think those thoughts. It's time to think of a strategy to take out him. This fight was just supposed to prove that he was the one who took out alternate version of Hanon, but with the angry and determined faces from everyone, it changed.
It had become an all-out war. Everyone was determined on taking down the pirate fox.
Everyone was surrounding him from all angles, except for his front which is an empty space. Sensing that everyone was up for a second round, the pirate fox turned around to face them and dropped into his own battle stance. His purple cloth billowed dramatically by the wind.
This time, no one hesitate. Most of them launched, their battle cries were nearly in unison. Even their steps were almost synchronized. The only one that had stayed behind was Thanatos and Mercedes.
While running, Sam along with Vyrn and Max had disappeared from sight while everyone else charged straight ahead, with Sam disappeared into the shadow while the other two vanished from thin air.
Alpha was obviously the first one to arrive with his massive strides. The ground shook over his heavy strides caused by his massive paws. He pounce the pirate fox once he was close enough with a furious roar.
But all the pirate fox do was sidestepped and Alpha went passed him. It took the wolf by surprise as he planted his paws into the ground and skidded to a stop. As Alpha tried to stop himself, the pirate fox was busy with something else.
He was pulling back his only fist, preparing for a punch as the others still approached him at a very fast pace. They were confused on why he preparing a punch so early since there is quite a distance between them and him.
Their question were answered when he thrust out his fist and somehow managed to hit something because everyone heard a cry of pain. Appearing out of nowhere, Vyrn was skidding on the ground towards their direction. Some of them had to jump over him to avoid him.
During the jump, Talanya began to use her power. She pointed her round shield directly at the pirate fox. The center of it glowed brightly before a stream of light shot out towards the pirate fox.
Talanya had the ability to make targeted person's dreams or nightmares come to life, either mentally or literally physically. And her target is dead center on her crosshair. She smirked at his overconfidence when he didn't move away.
But then, Talanya frowned in confusion. Once the light of her power hit her target, it mysteriously turned into sparkling dust and the pirate fox wasn't even faze by it. Her power had never done that before. And then, Talanya was even more confused.
The pirate fox should be screaming in horror by now, reliving his worst mental nightmare but he didn't. His expression was only neutral, still unchanged since this battle started.
Thinking that she didn't put enough effort in her power as she landed back onto the ground, she decided to bring the pirate fox's worst nightmare comes to life, physically.
As everyone continuing their charge, Talanya held her spot, directly pointing her shield at her target one more time. This time she slid her broadsword into a hidden sheath behind the shield. The sword was pointing vertically down from the sheath and Talanya held her round shield with both hands.
Instead of the middle of her shield glowing, the whole shield emitted bright silvery light, glowing brighter every second. It's going to take a long time to charge her power, but at least the others will keep him busy from targeting her.
Alaska decided to show her power of ice. She made a small jump and slammed her foot onto the ground, shaking it a bit. The ground shook even more and glaciers of ice shot up from the ground. Spikes of ice kept growing and growing from the ground, drawing near to the pirate fox.
The only opponent braced himself for the hit, but instead of attacking him, the growing ice encapsulated him, trapping him from escaping. Not long after that, thick walls of trees began to surround the cocoon, adding more barriers by Nova.
This gave Alpha the opportunity to strike. He charged at the encapsulated pirate fox at fast speed. The thick barrier may slightly reduce his strike, but luckily Moirai decided to help him out. Using the tentacles from her void, she tore enough opening for Alpha to strike, opening at the right time so that the pirate fox won't escape.
Alpha's giant form disappeared into the cocoon as he lunged at his target, only to reappear back from the cocoon in his original wolf form skidding away to a stop. Exactly after that, the other end of the ice-wood cocoon burst open, revealing none other than the pirate fox himself.
And he was making a speedy beeline for Nova. The crystal maiden stumbled on her power, taken by surprise that the pirate fox had burst out from the thick cocoon.
She regained her sense instantly and shot out thick barks from her palms and from the grounds. But he evaded them all with ease, even doing a barrel roll one time.
Make that twice.
'Show off!' Nova thought bitterly, continuing her assault as the pirate fox continuing his evade. She was getting more panicked each dodge her opponent had made, but kept herself calm. But the fact that the pirate fox was getting closer and closer at fast rate didn't help her stop panicking.
Luckily she had an extra ally helping her. A shadowy figure of a wolf with red eyes appeared out from the shadow and thrust out his black shadow fist directly at the pirate fox's face.
Sam smirked victoriously at his surprise attack. He was waiting for the right moment to strike. He was planning on striking when the pirate fox let his guard down, but since Nova needed a little help he lend a hand. Or a shadowy fist to be more precise.
Sam was taken aback with a shocking surprise when the pirate fox didn't even flinch from the attack. Upon seeing the extra opponent, the pirate fox planted his foot and got close and personal to Sam. Their faces were only inches apart from each other.
And just like that, Sam's shadow form left him like a gush of wind blew them away, taking the silver wolf by another surprise.
His surprise was cut short when a hard gloved fist crashed into his face, sending him backward and skidded his way to Nova's feet.
Nova looked down at the injured silver wolf with wide shocked eyes before looking back up at the pirate fox. She got a fraction of a second seeing the pirate fox gotten up to her face before receiving an elbow to her temple.
As Nova flew out from the pirate fox's hitting range, he spun on his heel just in time to stop a gigantic grey wolf from crushing his body.
Alpha had been quickly sneaking up on him, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike. After Nova was safely out of the way – it's not like he cares, anyway – he struck by opening his enormous jaws wide open, preparing to crunch the pirate fox.
He was speechless when the pirate fox had stopped his sneak attack. But what made him unable to breath from utter shock was that the pirate fox had his gloved hand around his snout, shutting his mouth shut. Not only that, Alpha was back to his original form, causing him to fill with shock and confusion until to the point where he didn't pay any attention to his opponent.
The pirate fox brought his head down to the ground hard before throwing the grey wolf away and immediately turned around and held out his palm.
A giant spear made out of thick ice made contact with his palm and immediately turned to sprinkles of water. The thrower, Alaska, had her eyes widened, shocked that the pirate fox had reacted to her attack. But she was beyond words when her ice spear mysteriously turned into liquid.
She snapped back into reality when the pirate fox approached her at a fast pace, his face was neutral. Reacting on instinct, Alaska shot out another round of multiple harpoons and spears. But they mysteriously turned into sprinkles upon making contact with his palm. She was about to shoot out another round of fire, but Talanya cut her off.
The crystal angel's power had reached its maximum. She had only one chance at this, so she's going to make her shot count. Pointing her shield directly at where the pirate fox stood, she shot out a large of beam of crystal light, causing the pirate fox to turn towards her direction.
Just as he turned, the beam of light hit him, engulfing him. Talanya smirked as she kept on firing her beam at her target, making sure that the pirate fox will physically relive his worst nightmare in reality that even everyone can watch.
But out of nowhere, while her beam of light kept pouring out from her round shield, a gloved hand grabbed hold of the said shield from the said beam, causing the wielder to gasp in shock. At that instance, her beam of light had mysteriously ceased, leaving only sparkling dust around the owner of the said hand.
On instinct, Talanya made a move to grab her broadsword that usually strapped onto her back but remembered that she had put it onto her shield. She was already too late to grab it since the pirate fox had ripped the shield along with the broadsword off from her arm.
Talanya took a step back, dodging the incoming hook, and took another to dodge the incoming foot. She managed to dodge every single of his attacks, her weapons still on his grasp. She tried to at least grab a hold of her sword as he kept attacking her, but every time she did her hands would slap away by either his knees or elbows, leaving her no room to grab it.
In the middle of the moment of making another attempt on latching onto her sword she succeeded, but made a mistake in her steps, leaving her wide open for her opponent. Seeing the window, the pirate fox immediately brought his knee to Talanya's abdomen at a fast speed. Talanya grunted in pain, releasing her sword in order to grab hold of her aching abdomen.
This moment of weakness made the pirate fox stuck her head with the same knee, throwing her head up. The pirate fox spun on his heel and smashed the back of his metal-plated heel onto the side of her face, causing her to fly over to the unexpected Nova.
The crystal maiden had only a fraction of a second to react when he saw the crystal angel flew into her view, but she was already too late and now they are piling up on each other.
At the same time, the pirate fox switched the shield onto his right arm and quickly pulled out the broadsword from the hidden sheath with his left hand. He spun and held up the sword in defense, right at the moment as an invisible diamond claws and an ice sword clashed onto it.
But the pirate fox didn't able to dodge a jaw that went onto his left shoulder.
Vyrn and Alaska smirked a bit when Alpha had finally able to land a hit on the impossibly strong opponent. But at the same time, they felt confused on why Alpha was in his original form. When he charged, he took the form of 'Big Wolf'. But now, he was just in his regular wolf form.
But what made the trio taken off guard was that the pirate fox wasn't even deter from the injury he received. He pushed back the claws and the ice sword, causing the two to stagger back, creating a bit of a distance between them. Using the shield on his right arm, he slammed the edge onto Alpha's side.
The hit was so hard that Alpha swore he heard and felt something broken inside him. He released the pirate fox shoulder and fell onto the ground, but skidded away painfully when the pirate fox kicked him away.
But the grey wolf had ripped something off from the pirate fox since he felt something around his teeth. Fur, maybe?
Like a flash, the pirate fox immediately charged toward the other duo. Vyrn and Alaska was immediately on defense when he swung the broadsword at them. But Alaska only received a false attack since the pirate fox was actually focused on Vyrn, who stopped the sword with his diamond claws.
But while he may block the sword from cutting his face, he's unable to dodge the incoming shield into his side in time. His eyes bulged out as a roar of pain erupted from his mouth. He felt something snapped inside him.
And Alaska didn't have enough time to dodge when the pirate fox charged at her with his shield directly facing at her. Her body slammed into the shield and felt heard cracked inside her. As the Winter Fox skipped across the ground, the pirate fox spun and thrust out his foot.
Somehow he managed to trip Max in his hyper speed and invisibility. The cat doll gave out a startled yelp when he got tripped and skipped across the ground multiple times.
The pirate fox spun the broadsword a bit before throwing it directly to his left for no reason. It was then that Sam had appeared out from his shadow form and the sword cut his side and arm as it spun passed him. He roared in pain and held onto his bloodied side as he dropped to one knee; his shadow form entirely left him.
The only opponent then grabbed hold of the shield and threw it across the ground like a wheel. It headed straight to the unexpected Moirai who didn't had time to produce a shadowy tentacles to stop the shield.
It crashed into her body, right dead center of her ribs. She grunted in pain as the air from her lungs left her. She fell onto her back as the shield flew into the air and landed onto the ground a distant away with a clank, clutching her chest.
Then, the pirate fox turned his attention toward the next two opponents: Thanatos and Vyrn.
The two Creations were actually charging their powers. Thanatos had spread his broken wings and they seemed to glow dark gloomy blue. His opened palm hands gave out dark gloomy blue aura as he grinned wickedly at the pirate fox.
Mercedes had her eyes illuminated bright blue, and her hands also emitted bright blue flame-like aura. Her whole figure was surrounded by a giant bright blue aura as she grinned wickedly at the pirate fox.
Suddenly, Thanatos slammed his two palms together, causing the gloomy aura to shine brightly like a single star in the night. He then crouched down and put his hands onto the ground.
"Regenerate!" he commanded, and the gloomy aura spread the ground in all directions. It hit every single person on the ground, but somehow it evaded the pirate fox. When the aura hit everyone, the pain they felt inside their body seemed to leave them. Broken bones fixed, horrible bruises healed, annoying aches mended.
The injured Creations on the battlefield, now all completely healed and well, felt like brand new. They flawlessly jumped back onto their feet and dropped into their battle stance, ready for another round. But Mercedes cut everyone off.
The huge scar on her face glowed bright blue and she slammed her hands onto the ground. Unlike Thanatos, her aura seemed to suck into the ground instead of spreading out. The giant blue aura surrounding her and her glowing eyes intensified as she pressed her hands harder into the ground.
Suddenly, the ground shook like an earthquake. Out of nowhere, a giant earthly hand shot up from the ground, followed by another around twenty more and the number kept increasing. Crawling out from the ground were nine foot golems, ranging from dirt to metals, from gold to diamond. And there are a lot of them.
"Golems!" Mercedes bellowed as she straightened back up, still glowing bright blue. "I summon you to accomplish a mission on my command!" the golems growled deeply in responds. "Defeat the enemy before you!" Mercedes commanded, pointing a glowing finger at the pirate fox.
The nine foot golems turned their attention to the target. Immediately, they launched at him, making the ground shook over large amount of heavy feet. Mercedes grinned so widely that it might rip her face in half.
But the wicked grin lessened noticeably upon seeing the battle that was about to unfold before her. The pirate fox was barely reacted to the charging giant golems. In fact, he didn't even react at all. He just stood there with that neutral expression on his face.
The golems had finally reached their main target. They roared and swung their fists and feet at him, but the pirate fox just stood there, not reacting or anything.
Suddenly, the golems went poof into dusts before they could manage to land a hit on him.
One by one, the golems disappeared into dust as they swung their limbs at him but unable to land a hit. Finally, the only one standing was the pirate fox himself. His purple cloth billowed dramatically.
Everyone had their eyes widened in shock as their breaths hitched up in their throat, especially Mercedes. No one knew what happened, but all they knew that the god damn pirate fox is still frigging standing.
'How can someone made giant golems disappeared without even touching them?' everyone thought simultaneously since words were unable to form at their lips.
Since everyone was frozen in their spot, the pirate fox took the chance quickly dashed towards the glowing Mercedes, who snapped back into reality from her thought. She quickly summoned another golem in front of herself to defend her.
But the pirate fox broke though it like there was no golem roaring at him at all, taking Mercedes by a shocking surprise. She crossed her arms in front of her to block out his incoming fist. She choked out a grunt of pain when it hit directly in the middle of her crossing arms. She didn't expect that much force coming from him.
She staggered back from the force but the pirate fox was not finish yet. He stepped closer and thrust his fist at the same spot. The fist didn't hit her chest, but the force behind his fist was enough to bruise her chest through her defending arms.
She was about to fall onto her back from the force, but one more time, the pirate fox wasn't finish. He hooked his… well… hook onto her blue jacket and brought her closer to him. He crashed his fist onto the same spot as last time, causing Mercedes to choke out a grunt of pain as her eyes bulged out.
Receiving the same strong force on the same spot the third time, Mercedes swore that both of her arms' bones got broken, and also a few of her ribs. This time, the pirate fox let her dropped onto the ground with a painful thud.
Seeing another person got injured, the shocked Thanatos snapped back into reality and slammed his hands onto the ground. Dark blue aura spread to where Mercedes was lying.
But before it could arrive at her, the pirate fox appeared right beside the human crow. Thanatos turned at the exact same time the pirate fox struck him in the face with his knee, the aura disappeared and his broken wings lost its glow.
At the exact same time, every Creation on the battlefield that was once healed suddenly dropped onto the ground in pain. Bones broken, bruises reappeared, aches resurfaced. Everyone was incredibly confused at the sudden reappearance of the pain.
Nova, was now grunting on the ground from the sudden reappearance of pain, watched helplessly as the pirate fox picked up Thanatos by the neck and threw him away, skipping a few times before skidded to a stop.
But something flashed into her eyes, coming from the pirate fox. Her eyes squinted for a better view before she frowned in confusion.
'Metallic shoulder?' she though in confusion as she studied the pirate fox's left shoulder that glittered by the sunlight.
Suddenly, everyone heard a screech. Turning toward the source, it looked like it came from Moirai. Her eyes were wide with fear and anger; tears ran down her face and the void surrounding her shivered as the black tentacles twitched violently.
Slowly, her whole body shifted into completely dark black, very similar like Sam in his shadow form. The only things that weren't white were her eyes, her tears and her teeth. Her eyes became large round circle and turned white and her teeth became evenly sharp fangs as white tears ran down her black face.
As she slowly stood up, the void surrounding her gave out a darkly groaning sound as the tentacles significantly grew in size. Windows from the surrounding buildings shattered into million pieces by unknown forces, the concrete buildings themselves began to crack. Moirai glanced at Thanatos.
The human crow was trembling on the ground in pain. Usually he could instantly heal himself, but looking at him right now, he had a troubling time on healing himself with his own power. That was enough for Moirai to loose her sanity.
Without a second thought, Moirai shot out her tentacles at the pirate fox in a blinding speed. But the pirate fox only stood there, still with that neutral expression on his face. When the black tentacles was about to hit him, they mysteriously changed into black smoke and went passed him, blowing his purple cloth dramatically.
Moirai took a step back in shock and confusion. She shot another three more of her large black tentacles, but they ended up on similar fate. The pirate fox wasn't even fazed by it.
Instead of running straight ahead, the pirate fox walked calmly at Moirai, who took another step back in fear. She produced more of the tentacles from her void, greater in number, greater in size, but no avail. The pirate fox kept coming at her at a calm pace.
Moirai trembled in fear, even her void seemed to shrink a bit. Her power had never done that before. Nothing had ever stopped her power ever since she was created. So why does it have to start now? Why does her power acted like that around this god damn pirate fox?
Suddenly, in a flash, the pirate fox stood in front of her. And just like that, Moirai's black form turned into black mist and left her back into her regular form, as if it was scared of him too.
Moirai didn't have time to be confused. She was terrified at the pirate fox that was standing before her. The purple cloth billowed behind him.
The pirate fox looked down at Moirai with both of his golden eyes. Her eyes were wide and her whole figure trembled. It was now that he realized that she was scared of him. He gave out a long sigh and relaxed his shoulder.
He lifted his hand, which caused Moirai to flinch fearfully. Without a word, he gently patted her on the head, which caused her to flinch once more but suddenly turned into confusion. She looked back up at the pirate fox before her.
His neutral expression had changed into something softer. He was giving her a small reassuring smile that he won't harm her anymore. Moirai relaxed in relief.
But before anything could happen, everyone got interrupted by an… applause?
Everyone on the ground looked around searching for the source of the applause. Their eyes trailed to one of the windows of a building on the second floor. Their blood instantly went cold in fear.
Hanon was clapping cheerfully as he sat on the window, a sadistic smile on his face.