Blade Master 14: Hey people, sorry for not updating weeks ago. I've been anxious about going to school, and I received some upsetting news about someone close to me so I have been heartbroken the last week, but since my writers block is over, I'll see what I can get out in this window of opportunity so bear with me if it's too short for your taste. Even though it's probably going to be the same length of one of my average chapters. So let's get started.
Chapter 25: ACE's Last Stand
"Okay what do you think is a suitable punishment for you?" Nolan's mom asks him as the three sit in their living room the night of the most epic battle of Nolan's life.
"Well, I don't know, I can't not see my friends because then we can't keep the Dreamon contained. You can take my Xbox, and the laptop, but then that doesn't sound like 5 months of lies. Speaking of which, how long am I grounded?"
"The other seven months."
"Okay, well, I guess I should start cancelling future plan that don't exist yet."
"And you can spend the next seven months deciding a punishment for yourself." His dad adds.
"Okay that's fair."
That weekend, Nolan, Tim and Yuliya walk towards the Bailey Setion hospital from the bus stop, going to check on Jesse, while discussing the punishments that each received.
"I think it's funny how Nolan got the most brutal punishment ever." Tim laughs.
"Wait, how is your mom, quote on quote Brutal, get you off so easily with only a few weeks?"
"Dad stepped in."
"Ah, well what about Yuliya?"
"Eh, I don't know, I already got in trouble for missing Cisco work, so, I figured they can't punish me further."
The three walk into the lobby of the hospital, examining the things around them. Of course, ever since Jesse was hurt, they became friends with most of the staff, so everybody knew they were coming to check on her.
"Hey Maria, we came to see Jesse this morning." Yuliya smiles at the young Hispanic woman over the counter.
"Oh man, she was just checked out by her parents. It turns out that she woke up from her coma with a smile on her face. When I heard it, it was kind of funny." She laughs.
"So where can they be? Did they take her home?" Nolan asks
"Yeah, they took her straight home for any last minute resting you can find them at this address. I don't know if they'll let you see her, but you can try anyway."
"Thanks we'll see you later!"
Minutes later, they race towards Jesse's house, located in the west Brighton area of Staten Island. They get to the house and knock on the door.
"Man, I hope we get to see her." Nolan tells himself.
"Dude, you have a major crush on her." Tim tells him hearing Nolan's comment.
"No I don't!" Nolan quickly defends.
"You can't lie, God sees everything." Yuliya adds smiling at the fact that the familiar line used by Nolan.
Seconds later, the front door flings open, showing both of Jesse's parents standing there in front of them.
"Uh, hi… we wanted to see if Jesse's was feeling alright."
"The sooner you leave the better." Her mom quickly replies, pointing towards the area behind them.
"We don't want to listen to any of your excuses, the fact that she has hung out with you three is traumatizing enough." Her father adds.
"Wow that hurt, considering that we saved her a few times." Tim snaps.
"Watch your mouth!" Yuliya snaps back. "If they don't want us to see her then we can't do anything. Understand?!"
The two nod in agreement as they turn around and start to walk away.
"Hey you guys!" a familiar voice calls out.
The three rapidly spin around to see Jesse's bright face standing in the doorway. They instantly race back to give their friend a tight hug.
"Man I got so much love from you people." Jesse exclaims.
"Oh man, we thought you weren't going to make it." Nolan says.
"Well, I had a good body guard." She replies, making Nolan turn red.
"I told you." Tim adds, getting a mean glare from Nolan.
"Dude, your face is so red, I don't know if you're pissed or too love struck to speak." Tim comments, getting a chuckle out of Yuliya.
"Okay, give the kid a break." Kaiger tells them. "It's not like it was that obvious."
"Yes it was." Kiba replies
"Oh yeah, your right."
"Well, you're welcome to come inside and explain to me what's been going on these last few days if you're interested." She tells them, leading them back to the house.
"But your parents…"
"Don't worry, they'll let me. I have plenty of time to get grounded."
"Fine then."
The four walk inside and into the living room. Jessica's room was very homey, having a entertainment system set in the center of the wall, along with pictures of Jesse in her younger years, with her first camera, and other memorable and notable items that describe the teen today.
"So what's been happening these last few days?" Jesse asks.
"It hasn't been a few days, it's been a month. The leaders of the Dreamon: The Royal Flush Five have appeared, they hurt you and you passed out on my door step." Nolan starts.
"These D-Brids, have been posing as students creating Dreamon from teachers and such, making most of our chaotic battle happen outside of the school, where 800 students and teachers could have easily seen." Tim adds.
"And also, Tim and Dominick have gained their own super claws gaining new forms, and we have been keeping it under control, until the 3rd D-brid: JOKER nearly kills Nolan and destroys Tigerton. Because of that, we have had to spill on everything related to SADE, including Nolan getting Kaiger, Tigerton, in his new liger form." Yuliya finishes.
"So basically, there are two of the five left. JACK, your stalker, was first taken out by Tim and then came back and was taken out by Nolan." Kaiger also throws in.
"And in conclusion, there is only ACE and JOKER and also the deceased KING and QUEEN, who is yet to come back." Kiba adds on.
"So I missed a lot. Thanks for getting me up to date."
"No problem at all."
"Excuse me, if you are done, do you mind letting our daughter go to sleep?" Jesse's Father asks sternly, opening the door and leading her out.
"Okay, fine. You have a nice day." Nolan tells him, leading the gang out the door.
"Are you going to be in school on Monday?" Yuliya asks.
"I think I wi-"
"Not be in school thank you for asking." Her dad replies closing the door behind them.
"Wow, I bet he's dad of the year." Tim comments, making his friends laugh.
Nolan looks up and sees Jesse in the window with a notepad in her hand with a message saying: "Don't worry; I'll sneak out see you on Monday 'bodyguard' lol." She holds it on the window and laughs as Nolan turns red by reading it.
"What are you looking at?" Tim asks before being Nolan stops him.
"Nothing at all let's keep walking." Nolan replies pushing Tim forward with all his might.
Unknown to them, ACE hovers over her house with a murderous intent because of the fall of JACK.
"My Plans… Are Ruined! I will kill those Riders… but first, I'll need bait!" Ace tells himself, looking down upon the roof.
Meanwhile, as Jesse lays on her bed listening to her IPod and bopping her head to the rock music, Ace smashes through her window and swiftly grabs her and flies out of the room. The sudden shock lets out a loud cry as Nolan as the others pick it up and instantly race back to the house.
Nolan takes the shuriken and flips it on the silver side and throws it away from him, allowing Kaiger to get into position.
"HENSHIN!" Nolan calls out, pulling the silver claw from his brace and sliding it onto the belt.
"SHINOBI MODE!" Kaiger announces as the silver and green ninja armor covers Nolan's body.
Nolan Jumps into the air and immediately draws his blade, slashing through the sky, trying his hardest to get to ACE, with ACE laughing harder and harder with every miss.
"Gah, Nolan isn't getting anywhere with this. HENSHIN!" Tim calls out, sliding Kiba onto the brace.
"MARKSMEN MODE!" Kiba calls out as the sapphire and black armor covers Tim. Tim spins his pistol and slides it into the back of the sniper rifle, activating the weapon. He then slides Kiba onto the brace.
"FINAL SLASH ATTACK!" Kiba calls out, giving Tim a dark blue aura around his wrist.
Tim slides the rifle off his back and scopes, aiming at his wings. Tim takes two shots, breaking ACE's wing and making him drop Jesse.
"Oh, man, Turbo shot!" Nolan calls out, sliding the speed claw and pulling the booster on his gauntlet.
In a flash, Nolan turns into a blue blur as Jesse is swept by the flash and escapes death.
"Are you okay?" Nolan asks the girl in his arms.
Jesse rakes the hair from her face to get a good look at him.
"Please, make sure I don't' fall from the sky; it wasn't fun at all… and you can put me down." She replies.
"Oh, right." He says blushing through his helmet.
Jesse runs over to Yuliya, while Nolan races back towards Tim.
"You riders have ruined my plans for too long. I've been waiting for this moment. Now die!" Ace shouts as he races towards the riders.
Nolan and Tim take on ace as the three fights very hard, but unfortunately, Ace overwhelms the two as he knocks them both back.
"Dude, what happened?!" Nolan asked.
"He's pissed. I don't know about you, but I'm pissed now." Tim replies, sliding the power claw onto the brace.
"Now, let's go!" Tim says as he charges towards ACE with the shotgun.
Tim grabs ACE's broken wing and crushes it, while shooting him a few times with the shotgun. As ACE screeches louder, his power become visible as a red and black aura, in that Tim let's go and kicks himself back away from the power spike, that is ACE.
"Hey, Nolan, if he's a power spike, you might as well be too."
"I'm on it!" Nolan replies. He takes the claw off the belt and flips it over revealing the gold side. He re attaches the claw onto the brace changing the color of the belt from silver to gold.
"CHO HENSHIN!" Nolan calls out sliding the gold side of the claw onto the brace.
"KAISER MODE!" Kaiger announces, as Nolan transforms into a gold and black version of the Shinobi mode.
"Now, it's time to waste you just like JACK!" Nolan cockily tells him.
"You really want to try that!?" ACE asks, healing his arm.
Nolan detaches the huge shuriken off of his back and hurls it in front of him, and then he trails behind it. ACE cracks his smile as he knocks his shuriken away and kicks Nolan back a few feet from him.
"Wow, you are really pissed."
"You haven't seen anything yet." ACE replies, disappearing.
"What, he disappeared!?"
"Nolan, He's moving at super speed; he's so fast it's hard to keep track of him; damn that power skyrocketing!" Kaiger shouts.
"Rocket… that's it!" Nolan exclaims
"What's it?"
"You'll see…" he chuckles, holding the speed claw in his hand.
Nolan slides the speed claw onto his wrist, causing the ultimate rider to be encased in a light blue aura.
"Now, this is me pissed." Nolan holds his hand out, retrieving his shuriken, which is now covered in any bits of speed armor not made into the arm boosters on Nolan.
"SPEED KAISER MODE!" Nolan calls out spinning his shuriken in his hand.
"You really think you can catch me with that!?" ACE mocks.
"You really want to try that!?" Nolan asks the same question.
ACE disappears once again, as Nolan slides the claw onto the brace, causing the FINAL SLASH ATTACK to echo down the street.
The shuriken becomes the big sword as Nolan rests it on his shoulder.
"Okay, just like with the monkey Dreamon…Just sense him out." Nolan tells himself.
Nolan drowns everyone else out concentrating on the slight howling wind.
Faint gusts circle him as he waits for the time to strike. The moment the faintest sound could be heard from the Ninja, the blade glows cyan blue as he swings it across the air.
In an instant, ACE flies out of his speed, and falls to the ground, reverting to his human form, leaking red and black sand at a rapid pace.
"Impossible! I will not die by a human! I will be back and I will kill you one and for all!" ACE promises as he whips up a sandstorm and disappearing.
"Unbelievable. He still lives." Yuliya says.
"Man These D-Brids won't die will they?" Jesse adds.
Nolan and Tim de-henshin as they both plop to the ground exhausted from the fight.
"Okay, I'm going home; Great to see you Jesse, but I'm too tired to stay longer." Nolan tells her struggling to get up.
"Wow, Nolan passing up an opportunity to be with a girl… actually I saw this coming." Tim jokes.
"Man, why can't you turn evil so I can just shut you up?!" Nolan pleads
"Simple; someone needs to get you out of messes, and of course, Yuliya isn't gonna do it by herself."
"He's right; I'm not playing babysitter." She agrees.
Nolan rolls his eyes and gets up. "Well, I'm going home, you guys coming?"
"Yeah, we are." Yuliya and Tim reply.
"See you in school you guys." Jesse tells them as they walk to the bus stop.
Jesse smiles, as she walks back to her house to continue on her "R&R" recovery time.
Meanwhile, ACE runs across building to building in the Dream realm, trying to make his battered body back to the Castle. Out of nowhere, something cuts him off.
"Who the hell are you!?" He asks
"Your executioner." The figure replies in a seductive feminine voice.
"Wait, it can't be!"
Ace is instantly pierced be the figure's black rose. Ace collapses as his sand begins to be sucked into the plant.
"The QUEEN of HEARTS!!" ACE screeches as he dies.
The figure picks up the rose as she steps into the light, revealing herself to be a teen with long shadow black hair, with piercing scarlet eyes and a heart tattoo on her left cheek, with half of it being red and the other side black.
"It's a shame; He was my favorite too…" the QUEEN tells herself, smelling her rose. She then transforms into the Swan D-Brid and she flies off into the red moon.