White Eye and Black Blood
Chapter 20.
Erebus smiled with sick pleasure. What was left of the shadow hands receded back into the earth. Asura's body fell from the height with a defeated thud. After being caught in an explosion like that, I honestly didn't think he would have made it. Shiva continued to shoot icy mist and Thunderstorm had actually grown bigger than Fluffy. Soulblaze was in frenzy at the thought that his master might not pull through. He was shooting blast after blast at Fluffy. The demon swatted at Soulblaze, but Soulblaze was too fast. Erebus picked himself up from the hole and clapped. Adonia was in the process of healing Asura, but that didn't bother Erebus.
"Bravo for lasting this long," he congratulated. "Unfortunately you're a man down."
"I thought gods couldn't die?" I said confused. Adonia flew over to Asura who lay lifeless.
"I'm afraid your mistaken mortal." Erebus began. "Gods can't be killed by things that are lesser than it, for example, you monkeys known as humans,"
"Were not all monkeys!" Dan shouted back in disgust. He ran over to Susano'o who actually had to back up as not to be trampled by his own dragon Thunderstorm by accident.
"Since we are both gods, we can kill each other as if we were two humans." Erebus continued. "Unfortunately for you all, Asura is down for the count." Erebus laughed. He stuck both his hands in the air and prepared another fireball. Shiva gave one final push and the mist completely shut out the black flames.
"Nice Shiva!" Susano'o cheered.
"That's my god!"Mitsuru complemented.
"Im not done yet!" Shiva told us. She continued to launch more mist and soon the mist completely covered Fluffy's hand. Fluffy was thrashing in pain giving Thunderstorm a hard time pinning it down. Erebus's fireball continued to grow in size. When the mist cleared, Fluffy's hand was encased in a brick of ice.
"Now frostbite!" Shiva yelled. Frostbite sent a blast of ice at the frozen hand, causing it to shatter into pieces. Fluffy's hand was completely gone. Frostbite roared at Fluffy who continued thrashing. Thunderstorm, who was clearly annoyed, roared as well, and gathered energy in his mouth. Susano'o looked alarmed.
"What's up bruh?" Dan asked him.
"We need to clear out...now." Susano'o warned.
"Why, what's going to happen?" Dan asked now alarmed. Erebus's fireball continued to grow; now we could hear the cracking of the fire. Shiva turned her attention to Erebus. She shot Continuous ice bullets while Frostbite provided more staggering offence.
"If we don't leave, we'll be incinerated in some moments. Thunderstorm never really mastered what he's trying to do right now. Basically he's gathering bunch of energy into his mouth and he proceeds to swallow it down. Once the energy is swallowed, he can bring it back up for a powerful blast of energy. The problem is, Thunderstorm has horrible aim." Susano'o explained.
"Ok, how far is a safe distance?" Dan asked. Susano'o twiddled his thumbs.
"See, the thing is, we never really established where a safe distance was just yet. This skill was in developmental stages." Susano'o said sheepishly. Thunderstorm roared with the electricity pulsating in his mouth. I looked up at the dragon. He was alot scarier now than before.
"How long till we have to clear?" I asked Susano'o Mitsuru clutched my hand.
"About 5 minutes." Erebus said. We all turned around quickly. He stood behind us with his fireball still growing. At this point, Fluffy was tired of fighting. He continued to thrash but lay back as if ready to die. Not that he cared anyway, Erebus could revive it. At least that what the book said.
"In time, you will all understand why I destroy. And maybe with more knowledge, you will join me instead of fight." Erebus offered.
"That...will...never...happen..." Asura said weakly. He sat up, still wounded badly, with Adonia healing away.
"The man of the hour, still kicking I see," Erebus began. "You remind me of your father, never knowing when to give up." He lowered a hand from the fireball and stuck it out. "You could always join me Asura, the more the merrier." Erebus offered.
"Asura, don't stand." Adonia said but Asura didn't listen.
"Asura, what are you doing?" Shiva said. Even Frostbite roared in confusion. Soulblaze stopped attacking Fluffy and flew over to Asura. Asura affectionately patted his dragons head.
"Give me strength old pal." Asura asked.
"Sure thing." Soulblaze laughed. He spat a blue fire the wrapped around Asura. Before our eyes all of Asura's burn marks, bruises and gashes were self-healing. Soon Asura was back to normal. He walked up to Erebus and bowed on one knee.
"I would be honored to join you my lord."Asura said. Erebus raised an eyebrow. Erebus's fireball still grew. Not we could all feel the pure heat of his creation.
"Kiss my hand." Erebus said with a smirk.
"Of course," Asura said. Everyone looked at him with a look of confusion and disgust.
"Asura, how could you do this?" Adonia asked him dumbfounded. "I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME!" She yelled. He paused mid-pucker and looked over at her.
"I do love you, but I want the world to be destroyed. I came to a realization as I was dying over there. I was attacking Erebus alone. None of you had my back. When he trapped me in the shadow hands, none of you helped me," He began. Thunderstorm's attack continued to grow. "When I was struck, you all stood there and watched me fall. You called my name, but didn't scream my name. You wanted to save me from falling, but your feet saved you from catching my weight..." Asura continued. Thunderstorm swallowed down all the amassed energy. Susano'o climbed atop his dragon trying to suck some of its energy out with the snakes on his arms but Thunderstorm didn't seem to pay mind.
"You have been enlightened Asura, now join me in the destruction of these two worlds!" Erebus said passionately. He launched the fireball (which was still gaining in size) up into the air. The fireball was so big, it blocked out both the suns. After looking at that thing, Suddenly Thunderstorms attack wasn't so scary. In a start, Asura leapt clean past Erebus. Adonia ran forward and stabbed him in the chest with a sword of light. Erebus cringed and his golden eyes fixed on Adonia, who winked and disappeared in a flash of light, just to re-appear next to Thunderstorm. Shiva and Frostbite both shot blasts of ice at Erebus who tried to move, but was frozen from the waist down.
"That sword makes whoever is touched by it completely immobile," Adonia said. The fireball overhead continued to grow and Fluffy thrashed out again. Asura walked over to his one, golden eye just before destroying it.
"See you in hell Fluffy." Asura said. He brought out his other hands and aimed all four of them all for Fluffy's eye. The demon cringed but Asura didn't falter. A tiny ball of energy formed in the middle of the four hands.
"Hey Erebus, say bye-bye to fluffy." Asura said. BANG! The ball of energy flew through Fluffy's eye like a bullet. A black fire erupted from inside the eye. With a final roar, Fluffy lay there, dead. At least for now. Erebus frowned and cursed under his breath.
"I shouldn't have lowered my guard for you guys." Erebus said. Soon the black fire stopped burning and a stone pathway was inside Fluffy's eye socket.
"I'll be back soon." Asura re-assured.
"Hurry, the spell doesn't last long." Adonia warned.
"I won't need long." Asura said. He leaped into the stone pathway and we turned our attention back to Erebus, only when we all turned back around, he wasn't there.
"Looking for me?" Said Erebus from above. We looked up and saw him floating upside down, watching us.
"Bravo on killing Fluffy, or should I say, my trap fluffy." he began "Unfortunately, you now have to deal with me, and this time, I won't fall for your silly last minute tactics." he said. His eyes glowed harshly.
"Say hello to the real Fluffy!" Erebus Shouted. The earth shook more violently this time.
"Then what's up with that?" Mitsuru said pointing at the fake Fluffy.
"Oh that's just a portal inside a demon's eye. Basically what Asura thinks is a pathway leading to Fluffy's black heart is really just a never-ending pathway. He will spend eternity walking. The only benefit is the calf strength he'll gain." Erebus said laughing. We heard a laugh inside fake Fluffy's eye as well.
"Good thing I didn't get too far" Asura said grinning. Erebus face palmed again. Asura exited the fake Fluffy's eye and mounted Soulblaze. Thunderstorm roared again pounding on his stomach which probably had a bunch of energy stored up in there.
`"There there," Susano'o said rubbing Thunderstorms stomach. "You'll release it soon enough"
``It better be soon" Thunderstorm said groaningly. Soulblaze and Frostbite both laughed at his discomfort. Finally Erebus's fireball stopped growing. The ground shook once more and a deep roar emerged.
"It's time..."Erebus said grinning. He re created the diamond shape with his hands and the same ball of energy reformed. We all mounted the dragons with Susano'o being the only one on Thunderstorm due to a sore tummy. Thunderstorm heaved with cheeks that glowed a bright blue.
"We don't have much time; he needs to let it out." Susano'o warned.
"Allow me to give you a target." Erebus said with a smile. BANG! He shot the ball of energy into the ground which shattered. The dragons took off again putting us in a familiar situation as before. This time the three dragons spread out and didn`t stop moving. Erebus clapped his hands together forcefully.
`FLUFFY RISE`` He shouted. The ground once again gave way. This time a giant hole was created. Just like before, a single golden eye opened; with that being all we could see out of the hole. It had the same ripple pattern at Erebus`s eyes.
"Time to play" Erebus laughed. With a start, the real Fluffy sat up. With only two arms and a mouth on each palm, Fluffy roared a powerful roar. He exited the hole and leaped behind a still floating Erebus.
"Prepare yourselves, the end is near!" Erebus said grinning.
"You`re right about that!" Asura shot back.