Chapter 25:
The King sat on his throne, a relaxed look on his face despite his losses in the latest battle.
Kyira had a playful smirk written on her face as she leaned on the King's throne, wrapping her arms around him.
"So, what do you plan to do next?" she asked curiously.
"I plan to attack once more," the King stated, "I have a big plan in the works courtesy of Mor'gul, but until then, I have to give false assurance, making the heroes think they are capable of defeating me."
He snapped his fingers, sparks of purple coming out. In an instant, rows of small figurines in canisters came up from the floor and came out of the walls.
"You may choose one canister, Kyira," the King granted as she walked through the rows.
She rubbed her chin in deep thought as she stopped at the last row, looking through each canister.
"Oh!" Kyira gasped, pulling one of the canisters off the rows, "This is one of my favorites!"
She tossed it to the King, who eyed it with surprise.
"We do share interests, Cinros being one of my favorites as well," the King noted, another canister flying off the walls and floating into the King's hand, "And we'll give him some backup to ensure success."
He then put his own dark energy into it through his eye adorning gloves, clouds of smoke erupting from his hands, moving into the center of the room, pieces of glass from the canisters piercing the floor.
The first cloud of smoke faded to reveal Cinros. He was a centaur with a dark sheet of fur. His chest had a skeletal piece of armor on it. His head had a ram's skull, with yellow glowing eyes inside. He held a black sickle in each arm, having four of them.
"My name is Cinros," Cinros introduced himself, and bowed, "And I exist to serve my King."
The second cloud faded to reveal the second monster. It was a sinister hawk with yellow fathers and darker yellow patterns going up and down it. It also had yellow glowing eyes, and a smooth beak and feathers slanting up near the back of its head. Feathers in a fan like pattern made up its tail of sorts
"My name is Surigos," Surigos told them, and bowed its head, "And I exist to serve my King."
They both then raised their heads, awaiting their assignment.
"Take the pawns, and lay waste to Emerald City. Destroy anyone who gets in your way!" the King ordered as a portal formed behind them.
In Emerald City, the sky was a sheet of dark gray, signaling an oncoming storm. As people bustled by, one figure walked slowly, covered in a long coat, the hood blowing around slightly on his head to reveal ice cold eyes.
He looked out onto the rather beautiful beach. It was known as the best, but unfortunately the stormy weather made it look rather unappealing, the rough waves crashing onto the sand.
Shrugging it off, he turned to look at the Emerald City Suites in front of him. He walked through the main entrance, lightning causing an eerie glow to light the entrance. If he looked closer at where the lightning in the clouds came down from, he would have seen the huge yellow hawk gliding above the clouds and out of the view of most civilians.
But he didn't notice despite his sharp vision as he walked up to the front desk, passing his GUN ID over to the person working there. The person looked over it, filling out numerous forms before passing it back to him.
"Okay," he began, passing the figure his GUN ID back along with his room key, "Your room is 506, have a great time, blah, blah, blah, I need a new job."
The hooded figure ignored him as he turned to walk up to his room. GUN IDs still worked because Emerald City was on the edge of the United Federation. He was about to walk to the elevator until the glass in the entrance shattered and explosions and screams could be heard from outside.
"So they showed up..." the figure muttered as he whipped off the coat, revealing light blue fur and eyes of ice.
Blizzard rushed outside, flipping over the glass as he landed outside the hotel. As expected, pawns were attacking the entire city, jumping around and tearing things apart with their claws. Sometimes a winged pawn or brute pawn would come by, causing more damage than their standard relatives. Lightning smashed into the ground, causing extraordinary damage.
"The King typically sends out a monster pawn to lead his pawns," Blizzard recalled, "But where is it?"
His natural instincts told him to look up, and just in time. A bolt of lightning almost hit him as the yellow hawk dived at him, the cat flipping away just in time to avoid being torn apart by its ridiculously sharp talons.
As it was about to hit the ground, it swooped incredibly low, taking the opportunity to fire a bolt of lightning at a building to add to the destruction already being caused. It then tucked its wings in and shot upwards into the air, flying just above the buildings.
Blizzard fired needles of ice at it, and thought most missed as it did a barrel roll, one grazed it, causing Surigos to roar in pain.
"I found its weakness," Blizzard stated, "You know, this is almost too easy."
And he was right. Just as he pointed his finger forward to charge a Freeze Blast and finish the job, he flipped to avoid a black sickle curving in the air towards him. He righted himself and fired the blast, but it missed by an inch as the hawk got the picture and tucked its wings in, speeding up greatly as Blizzard began to have a hard time keeping track of it.
He prepared to fire another Freeze Blast when a sickle spun into his stomach, causing him to tumble along the sidewalk onto the beach, where he righted himself and looked to see who threw the sickle.
Cinros cackled as both sickles he threw telekinetically flew back into two of his four hands.
"Two monsters?" Blizzard questioned, "I guess Corrupt's stepping up his game a little."
He sidestepped the swing of the first sickle, and put his ice covered hand up to deflect the lightning, but as he held that, another sickle sliced across his chest, knocking him away, but it didn't end there as another sickle smashed into his chest, knocking him across the beach.
The cat leaped into the air as he landed softly on his feet,his matted fur clinging to itself. Cinros took advantage of the time and put two of his sickles' ends together, creating a double ended sickle. Surigos fired another bolt of lightning at Blizzard but, he up both of his arms up, throwing it back at the hawk. But he was left wide open as the double ended sickle sliced through the air at him. He knew that if it connected, he would be finished.
In the nick of time, a metal claw swatted it away as a figure landed behind Blizzard.
"Who are you?" Blizzard asked.
"Help," the figure responded as they threw off their torn cloak and raced at Cinros, charging up electricity in his claw, "Just go after the pigeon from high ground!"
Blizzard nodded as he leaped onto the side of a building, and began to climb up it using his natural feline reflexes. Surigos swooped in close and attempted to ram him off the building, but missed as he rammed through the building, causing it to begin to fall.
The GUN agent leaped to the top of the building, then leaped off towards the fast moving bird, as he knew this would be his only shot. He charged up a Freeze Blast and fired it with a shooting motion with his fingers.
It hit the tail of the hawk, but nothing else was frozen.
"You missed!" Surigos exclaimed.
"Not really," Blizzard contradicted, "Check it!"
The ice grew all over the monster, freezing all the way up to the center, then going up each wing, causing the hawk to spiral out of control and land in a chemical building, blowing up in a blast of white.
Blizzard landed on the ground as he looked at his help fight the other monster.
Metal swung his electricity charged hand at Cinros, but instead met a sickle. He knocked it away and ducked under another sickle as it almost took off one of his head quills.
"I'm not a robot, so electrocuting me would never work!" Cinros exclaimed, "You're going to need some new tricks."
"I have one," Metal responded, charging up a Metal Surge, and quickly zooming behind him to avoid the double sided sickle. He slammed the Metal Surge on his back, overloading the electrical impulses in his body and causing him to blow up in a puff of black smoke.
"Since our goals are similar," Metal recommended as they stood on the outskirts of the city, "We would have more to gain by traveling together."
"Very well," Blizzard complied, "We should head towards the old DARKNESS base in the Death Mountains, right outside the United Federation. There should be some clues to the actual whereabouts of the King."
As they walked off, Blizzard thought, I don't know where you are, but one day you will be brought to justice, Corrupt Darkness!
To Be Continued...
A/N: Well two antiheroes join forces for a common goal. Will they find the King? What is the mystery behind him? You'll find out with two more reviews! In addition, Berserker's Blaze is cancelled, because I didn't have the will to write it, and I was going into it without avoiding plotholes, so I added on a big surprise to it that you guys will like!