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ACT ONE

Chapter 17: I Quit

~Opening Theme: "Wrong" Depeche Mode~

I stood there...frozen...

Everything I've known, everything I've fought for...The Conflict.

Lecter and I were fighting for the Gods for supremacy, of course. Eventually someone had to fall but instead of fighting for two proud Gods who would gain supremacy over one another some day. We were fighting for two power hungry tyrants.

I stood there in the temple my eyes were switching between Seto and Cosmos, my fists were balled and I could feel my temper rising. I was confused, then my confusion turned to anger, that anger evolved into hatred. I found myself scowling at both Cosmos and Seto. I stood there powerless, I felt like a rat running on a wheel in a steel cage. Controlled and worked like a fucking puppet.

"So you found out too. Stings a bit doesn't it?" Another familiar face came slowly stepping out of the shadows. It was Lecter, he had his hands positioned in his pockets and he wore an all black suit suit with a crimson tie and a matching sideways fedora. "What are you going to do, Kel?"

"Will you continue to fight for me, will you continue to use your power in order to aid the side of Harmony?" She asked.

I stared at Cosmos and she looked back at me, her eyes began to narrow like a cowboy that I was going to quick draw against. "I quit...I refuse to keep fighting in this war for you. Sorry but fighting just to get the power of a Dragon in order to completely annihilate Chaos? Where's the harmony in all of that?" I asked.

"And so both warriors quit and the Cycle is at a stand still." Seto reached to his back drawing two black Buster Swords wrapped in crimson bandages.

"Both?" I raised an eyebrow and looked over at Lecter.

"Yeah, I gave Chaos to boot too. When I found out what this whole Cycle was really about...like you I was truly disappointed. Two gods fighting for the power of some lizard. It's the shittiest thing I've ever heard. And quite frankly, I feel insulted." Lecter replied. "Once my body was fully recovered I just shot my way out of the realm-o-Chaos."

"I am truly sorry Kelvis. But this war must be won and Harmony will be spread across the galaxy." Cosmos turned her back on me.

I nodded. "But achieving Harmony though Shinryuu's power isn't true harmony. In essence you're no different from Chaos...both of you are insane."

"From this day forth, Kelvis is no longer the Champion of Harmony." With that said Cosmos disappeared with a twinkle of light.

Her saying that suddenly my heart felt heavy, but it was the right thing to do. "Now that you both have quit...the Cycle must hold while the Gods seek new champions and the Cycle count must start over again! I had high hopes in the Conflict this time around...oh well. I'll end the both of you now..." With that Seto spread his feet and held his swords up in Z like stance.

Lecter drew his twin desert eagle pistols and at the same time I drew my Tsubaki beam katana. "Careful man, this guy's pretty damn strong."

"Yeah, tell me about it...I fought him already." Lecter gave his signature psychotic grin while resting one of his huge guns on his shoulder.

"You did?" I asked.

He nodded. "After I gave Chaos the middle finger, I left to come here...on the way I ran into this scum. He's pretty good, but I'm certain if we worked together we'd be able to end him. He always felt only slightly stronger than me and I'm sure you felt the same in your confrontations with him."

"Yeah." I shook my head.

"Well then let's go." Lecter grinned.

I smiled a little. "It's through fucked up circumstances and we're probably gonna get nerfed by Shinryuu for all of this but...it's good having you on my side for once."

Lecter chuckled. "Feelings mutual, goody-two shoes."

Before we could even start suddenly there was a loud and horrid tremor. The back wall of the temple lobby exploded and flying through was Seto's two associates. Masae and the big bulky guy with braids. They went flying through the rubble and hitting the ground then rolling over to Seto whom narrowed his eyes at them.

"Yeah and don't you ever come trying to peep again...whoa...ahhh..." Kiako was standing at the hole, her body was bloody and beaten and she was standing on one leg but she stood triumphantly. "Oh hey Kel!? You messin' around in the temple we were struggling out here...everybody's...fine though...cuz I kicked their butts...bahh..."

"Heh...Kiako you're awesome!" I gave her a thumbs up and she gave a thumbs up back with a smile before falling out. "Good they were the only ones I was actually worried about. Now I can fight without holding back!"

[BOSS BATTLE THEME: "Invisible Depths" Final Fantasy XIII-2]

KelxLecter versus Seto Zaiza

"Here he comes!" Lecter pointed both of his guns forward.

"Right!" I got my beam katana ready.

With that Seto stomped down causing the entire temple to rumble then thrust himself forward towards us. "Sword of the End!" He said combining both of his Buster Swords and swinging upward releasing a massive dark slash that sliced the entire temple in half leaving a huge scar through the entire village.

Lecter and I both slid to opposite sides of the temple which split a part like a cut sandwich. "Devour Him! Malboro Bullet!" Lecter shouted blasting from his two pistols two massive green orbs with wide slimey mouths. They were actual life sized King Malboro flying directly at Seto who simply sliced them in half.

I phased out and appeared behind him in mid air with both my hands on my beam katana swinging downward. "Umou Bi-To Tosei!" I shouted releasing a powerful downward force from my sword. The moment my beam katana clashed with his there was a powerful impact shockwave that blew away the blew out the walls of the temple.

Me and Lecter landed side by side in the center of the village and Seto remained standing on air, defying gravity. The people of Besaid began to vacate screaming and running for their lives. Wakka who was covered in blood and bruised from fighting Seto's associate had Yuna over one shoulder and Kiako under one arm pit. Lulu was still well enough to run beside him. All of them dashed off out of village.

Lecter open fired on Seto with his high frequency bullets but the Guardian simply batted them away with his huge swords. "Parry these ass slave!" Lecter said firing a bunch of bullets off in several different directions. They began to fly past Seto, soon enough he simply just stopped trying to parry them. The bullets flew past then paused in mid air around him bees.

"Propagation Bullets!" With that said the bullets burst into small orbs which then emitted thousands of huge steel spikes. There were hundreds of spike balls surrounding him with the spikes completely engulfing him.

"Sword of the End: First Movement!" Seto said slashing horizontally then vertically creating a vortex cross that sucked in the spiked balls into a voided dimensional rift shaped like a blood cross.

While he was confident in taking out Lecter's bullets, I phased in beside him to the right with my right fist blazing with fire magic. "Tiger Cannon!" POW! My fist struck him right in the jaw and he went flipping away. I pursued him flying after him as he flew towards a grove of trees.

"Sword of the End: Fifth Movement!" He said flipping backwards as I was pursuing him and with a double downward slash releasing two massive slashes from from his strike. Lecter phased in beside me and kicked me in the side sending me flying to the earth and forcibly dodging the strike while he did a back flip away from the kick dodging it in mid air.

"Don't chase after him, he has a lot of pursuit counter moves!" Lecter screamed out his advice.

"Right and you avoid multiple attacks he has a wide attack radius, try more concentrated bullet shell moves." I explained as well.

"Er..." Lecter grunted but he agreed.

We couldn't defeat him individual, he was too powerful for us individually but together, we had enough combined to defeat him. At that moment Seto released a dark orb of energy from his body which pressed both me and Lecter back, we both went flying. I hit the ground and went skipping like a rock several times before hitting a huge boulder.

Lecter went flying further in the air at such a speed he couldn't control himself, Set appeared in mid air above him and stabbed one of his huge swords through Lecter's chest. "Errr...you shit!" Lecter screamed with blood spewing from his mouth. He spun one of his guns and fired behind him but Seto phased out leaving his blade in Lecter's chest.

I phased out and appeared in mid air catching Lecter before he fell and drawing the sword out of his back. "Fuck! Damn it...that motherfu..." He coughed.

"Relax!" I shouted pressing my palm on his wound, using fire magic to force his wound close. He winced and writhed in pain but we both managed to land on our feet side by side in the center of the village again. With that Seto phased in, in front of us again this time with both of his swords thrusting forward to stab us both at the same time.

Lecter blocked the blade that was headed for him with the slide of his guns and I blocked with my Beam Katana. We both pressed back against Seto and engaged in a close quarters combat strike. Lecter was performing a series of loose flips while firing his guns at vitals while I was slashing back and forth at high speed.

CACHING!

POW!

CHACHUNK!

SHUNK!

SHAAAASH!

POW! POW POW POW POW!

I performed a back flip attempting to kick him but he dodged it while Lecter aimed at his head and open fired, he held up one of his blades to block the shot and thrust my beam katana forward stabbing him right in the stomach. Blood spilled forth as he looked down in horror. At the same time Lecter charged both of his pistols and they began to steam while glowing red then he open fired blasting a huge crimson shot that blew Seto away, he went flying and sliding along the ground hitting the Besaid Temple ruins.

Seto jumped to his feet breathing heavily. "Haaaaa...haaaa...you two...are definitely deadly...Which is why I can't allow you both to remain here!" He shouted attaching the ends of his two buster swords together to make a double bladed sword staff.

"This is it...the big finish." I said dropping down and getting into a crouching running pose like I was getting ready to run a marathon. "All or nothin' Lecter."

"Heh...I usually I'd like to drag fights out a lot longer but this guy I can't allow to live for two more seconds." Lecter said as both of his desert eagles transformed into two black demonic guns with dark scopes mounted on their slides.

"Sword of the End: Final Movement!"

"Strongest Technique: Phantom K!"

"Ragnarok Infinitos"

With that I got down and phased out thrusting myself at the speed of sound using my most powerful technique, the Phantom K. The ground ripped under my feet and behind me I left nothing but kicked up boulders and huge amounts of gravel like a bomb had exploded. I broke the sound barrier thrusting towards Seto as he began to twirl his body creating a black demonic tornado. My Phantom K strike broke through the bladed winds but it slowed me down. I felt my body suddenly get sliced up with hundreds of slashes and cuts but I still pressed forward and slammed my right fist into Seto's chest causing him to stop his technique.

The dark blade winds ceased like shattered glass.

While in mid air I felt myself slowly loosing conscience. My right arm had completely burst, blood exploded from my pores and I felt every bone from my right shoulder to the tips of my finger shatter.

I dropped down slowly fallin over, Seto was struck by my attack but he could still move. But he wasn't un-affected by my technique. Lecter appeared then and open fired releasing a massive burning orange beam that sliced a hole in the sky and completely disintegrated Seto. "DAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" He screamed aloud before his body was gone.

I slammed down on the ground with my face in the dirt and I blacked out.

Author's Note: Both Kel and Lecter no longer work for Chaos and Cosmos and together they defeated Seto!? But what is to come next? How will the cycle continue?! This is the final chapter of ACT ONE, ACT TWO will begin next chapter!