No change in the voting results. Erin still in the lead with four. So the new chapter is here, and no the results haven't changed, but I do have good news. We are at the second to last chapter of the Gangrel arc. How will it play out? With laughs, or in a serious matter. let it begin.
Disclaimer: Yeah go to another chapter for this. I'm not going to keep reposting the same message, unless its really necessary and I don't think its needed.
Chapter 28
The Final Battle part one
We are in that random meeting room in that random fort. I'm leaning on the window railing. The desert doesn't have all that ice anymore. Wait how far did the ice even go? Anyways its just the four of us. Arthas is probably recovering from his fight. Hell he could be in the air still?
"Aurion, are you even paying attention?" Jean looked at me.
"No," I kept looking out the window. Why did I come to this meeting?
"Well you rather be doing something else?" Thoaria looked at me.
"So many things I rather be doing," I kept looking at the window.
"Well how do you think we should back up Gangrel and the other plegians?" Jean looked at me.
"We don't," I turned to face him. "Why should we help them? Haven't done anything to help us, nor do I want to help them," I turned back to the window.
"Where's Mad-senpai, and Lich-senpai. Also is God-senpai still on his hunt?" Thoaria looked at me.
"Yeah where are there?" Star looked at me as well.
"No clue. Maybe they all died. or maybe their hunt took them too far away," I kept looking at the window.
"I'm going to go find him," Star walked out of the room.
"But what about figuring who's turn is in help the Plegians?" Jean looked at us.
"Don't care, why not let them die. Its not like they matter," Thoaria looked at us, and left the room.
"I'm out as well," I climbed off the window railing, and left the room.
VIEW CHANGE: Ron's turn
I don't know what's going on. I'm on my station, but its there only so much light. I mean it, that's basically No light around, except for the inner part of my station. Kami's not here. No ones here, but me. Something doesn't seem right.
"The light almost gone," A voice was coming all over the place. It was slow, but deep.
"Who are you?" I turned around looking for the voice.
"What happens when the last drop fades?" The voice gave a shrieking laugh.
"How about you face me?" I screamed at the voice, the darkness was getting closer. It swallowed the pictures of Dusty, and Noah.
"What are you talking about?" The voice laughed even more.
"Face me. I'll battle you. My light against your darkness. I'll show you there's a light that won't go down," I drew Oathkeeper and Oblivion.
"But you already lost if you're going to ask that," The voice kept laughing.
"What do you mean?" I stared into the air. The darkness covered the pictures of Erin and Link. Why won't this thing face me?
"I've fighting you this whole time, since I been put here, and I'm about to win. Of course how could you win anyways. You always have to rely on others strength, then your power," the voice laughed. The darkness covered the final picture of Charlie, and me.
"AAAAH," I woke up in jolt. I felt my head, and noticed it was drenched in sweat. I looked around and saw I was in the medical time is it? Looks like its middle of the night. I need to get my head clear.
VIEW CHANGE: Cordelia's turn.
I wandered the encampment. Robin said we would attack tomorrow after he figures out a plan. He sent the others pegasus riders, but me and Sumia. I'll see how Ron's doing. I walked towards the medical tent.
"FREDERICK, I thought we fixed this," Link ran by with Frederick chasing him with a silver lance.
"FREDERICK, don't kill my boyfriend, I gave you a order not to," Lissa ran by.
"I'm not killing your boyfriend, but this mysterious stranger," Frederick continued to chase after Link.
"Fuck you, Frederick," Lissa looked at him pissed."Frederick, just stop now,"Frederick stopped in his tracks.
"Thanks love," Link smiled as Lissa ran up and kissed him. I smiled as I watched them. They were a cute couple. I walked towards the tent door, and opened it. I looked around saw some Ferox and Ylissean knights. I walked towards where Ron's cot was, and stopped right when I noticed he wasn't in his cot. I screamed and ran out.
"You ok?" Link pulled away from Lissa. Where they kissing the whole time?
"Ron's missing," I looked at them.
"What do you mean?," Lissa looked at me confused.
"Ron isn't in his cot," I looked at them. "You said it be a week before he was suppose to get up, but he's missing,".
"Forget about it," Link gave Lissa another kiss.
"Why?" I was taken back by that response. It was too nonchalant for a guy who should be worrying about his friend.
"Cause he's been running," Link kept kissing Lissa.
"Really?" I looked at him.
"I've been running around the encampment. I saw him running," Link pulled away from Lissa.
"Yeah, I saw him. He was running around the edge. I hope he doesn't get caught by the enemy," Lissa went back to kissing Link.
"I'm going to find him," I turned away and started to look for him. I didn't stop until I found him. He was sitting under a dead tree leaning against it. "Ron,".
"Hey Cordy," He looked at me.
"How are you?" I smiled and sat next to him.
"Fine," He stared at the sky.
"Why didn't you tell me that you were up?" I looked at him.
"It was late at night. I had get something off my mind, and went running to clear it. Next thing I know, its middle of the day, and I sat by the this tree. Then you appeared,". His eyes didn't turn away from the sky.
"Oh," I stared at him quietly. I didn't know what to say to him. He seem so out of it.
VIEW CHANGE: RON'S TURN.
Cordelia went silent, and moved closer to me. Her armor felt cold against my skin, colder then usual. Man why do I feel so weird today? I kept staring at the sky. I wish there was some stars out. Always felt the sight of them was kinda comforting. I could use them. That voice was right. I haven't done anything right. All the training I've done, but I still have to rely on others.
"Ron, are you ok?" Cordelia looked at me.
"I'm weak," I didn't move my eyes. Why can't I feel the wind? I could use some comfort and its one of the only things I got left.
"What?" Cordelia looked at me.
"I'm weak. I can't do anything. I'm a weakling, who pretends to be strong. I've been relying on others strength," I leaned my head down and felt my face became wet.
"What?," Cordelia continued to look at me.
"I can't do anything without relying on someone's else strength. I had to use someone's else in replace of my own," I felt my face become even more wet. Then I felt a giant slap hit me in the face. A armored slap. Man could she remove the gauntlet.
"Don't ever say that again," Cordelia look became a glare.
"What and Why?" I rubbed my cheek I think its red.
"Well Captain Phila did always tell us a good slap could help snap people out of their doldrums, and that's what I'm going to do. Plus Erin once told me that she had to literally knock some sense into you by slapping you," Cordelia looked at me.
"Come on Cordy, I'm weak. I shouldn't have passed out because the fight. I shouldn't have to revert to that technique," I gripped my hand into a fist.
"You are strong," She smiled at me.
"Of course you think I'm strong. Your perfect," I turned away from her.
"But you're the only one I don't have to be perfect around," Cordelia grabbed my head and turned it to face me.
"How is that helpful?" I looked at her.
"Because you believe me to be perfect, but I'm not. I make major mistakes, because I'm not perfect. I've chased after man, who would never love me, and nearly lost someone who did. I'm not perfect," Cordelia looked at me.
"You're still stronger then me, and you still get stronger," I looked at her, and she slapped me again. So much pain, why can't you remove your gauntlet before you hit me?
"But so are you. Your strength isn't just because your strong. Its because your determinate to a fault. Your too stubborn to give up. I knew you would finish Arthas off, because you don't stop running into a fight and win. That's why your strength is high, because your brave, cunning, creative, a seriously dumb risk taker,, and won't give up until you win the fight.. That's your power," Cordelia looked at me with that sweet smile she gives me when she's trying to word her sentences in the opposite of her inner tsundere. What the opposite of a tsundere?
"She's not wrong," Jolt pointed out I think? What is its hard to know what the guy in your head is doing.
"What do you mean?" I questioned him.
"That power you unleash, its yours not mine," Jolt mentioned.
"What are you talking about? That power is yours fusing with mine," I questioned him again.
"When we fuse its not me taking over. Its me giving your own power a boost, but its still your power," Jolt roared in my head.
"But that doesn't make any sense. I pass out because of the burst of power," I pointed out.
"Because you gained a power that your body can't handle. Its a massive power burst that you can't really handle. Its still your power. Think about it when have I ever used the Sky Burst Slash," Jolt pointed out.
"You never used it," I looked at the sky.
"Exactly I've never used it. You made the attack up, and when have I ever used the Galeforce with two swords. I've never used dual-wielding. Even Percival hasn't done that, and he's one of the best HEROES out of there. You have already beat that. Just believe in yourself dude. Who the hell do you think you are? Your the tactician knight by Triam's one and only Tactician Knight. Your power is because you think of doing things differently. You mixed all the styles into one style," Jolt roared even louder, but this time I'm roaring with him.
"Sounds like someone found his fire," Cordelia smiled at she as I finished my roar.
"No I found my lightning," I smiled and gave her a kiss. "And Cordelia, after this final battle there something I got to ask you,"
"What would that be?" She curled her fingers around something, but I couldn't see it.
"I'll leave that for after the battle, so you have to stay alive to hear it," I looked at her. "And thank you for believing in me,".
"I'll always believe in you. Its part of our oath, and I promised to keep it," Cordelia returned the kiss I gave her. "Can we go to my tent for a little bit?".
"Sure," I walked to her tent with her, and once we got there. Well I saw a side of Cordelia that I didn't expect to see ever. Good thing she doesn't have a roommate in her tent. We fell asleep with our arms around each other. Once I woke up, I looked at her. She looked asleep but she wasn't. She was pretending to be sleeping.
"Hey Delia," I looked at her.
"Yes?" She didn't open her eyes.
"Maybe we should get up, and see where Robin wants us for the final battle," I turned to the other side to get off the cot.
"Robin, can wait a little bit, don't you think?," Cordelia kissed me on a certain part of my neck. Good thing the tent locked.
VIEW CHANGE: LINK'S TURN.
I sat on my bed, and looked around my tent. Ron didn't come back last night, but that's a probably a good thing, what my company and I were doing. Anyways I'm trying to spot my shirt. Lissa's in the center of the tent, in that yellow weird dress of her, and a silver tiara that I brought her on one of our dates. It costed a pretty penny, but forget about it. Its not like I have much use of the money I have here anyways. I spotted my shirt, lying on Ron's cot.
"Want me to pass it to you?" Lissa looked at me, and she already found it. Could have told me, but whatever.
"Sure," I sat on my cot, and she grabbed the shirt and tossed it to me. I caught it and slid it over my head.
"How dare you done something like that?" Flavia was screaming her head outside.
"Shall we check that out?"I looked at Lissa, and she only nodded. We walked outside, and saw Flavia chasing Noah while throwing Tomahawks at the kid. Noah was missing his shirt, and then I noticed Erin, Gaius, Dusty, and Olivia watching them. I noticed Olivia seem to have hastily dressed for her shirt is backward, her scarf is missing. It doesn't make a genius to figure out what happened.
"So long is this going to last for?" Charlie walked up with Tharja. I noticed Tharja seem to be wearing a little less clothes today. Actually she was only in that black bikini and sash thing that she wears if she is a sorceresses in that dlc chapter.
"Until Flavia realizes she shouldn't be trying to kill one of our best fighters before a major battle because he slept with her daughter," Dusty looked through her tome.
"Well she's been doing this for two hours, and we have like two hours before the final battle," Erin looked exhausted.
"Why is Tharja in a bikini?" I looked at the chase in front of me. Noah was avoiding Flavia's axes, but it was really close. "Also why were you guys together?".
"Because its hot as hell out, more then usual," Tharja glared at me.
"Also I was teaching her how to be normal," Charlie looked at me.
"Be normal?" I have no idea what's that suppose to mean.
"Yeah, she wants to be a normal girl like the one Robin likes. I offered to help her out," Charlie only shrugged.
"What I miss?" Ron looked at us. Wait when the fuck did he get here. I looked at him, and noticed he and Cordelia were standing beside us. Also Ron was shirtless, but that's not what I'm looking at. I'm looking at the dark triangle with six eyes mark on his chest.
"Not much, by the way what's up with your chest?" Erin looked at him.
"What are you talking about? Did I get a new scar that I haven't noticed?" Ron looked at her.
"That mark on your chest you big dummy?" Erin pointed at it.
"What mark?" Ron looked at his chest, "HOLY MOTHER HUBBARD WHEN DID THAT FUCKING HAPPENED. CORDELIA, WHY DIDN'T YOU MENTION IT,".
"Because I was distracted," Cordelia looked at him.
"BY WHAT," Ron switched back to looking at her, to the mark in his chest. Also calm the fuck down.
"By you and what we were doing," She looked at him, and waited. I watched as Ron slowly figured out what she meant.
"Right," Ron turned red.
"Yeah, anyone want to grab something to eat. I'm seriously hungry," I changed the conversation cause this is awkward.
"Are we just going to leave Noah to his fate?," Ron disappeared and reappeared wearing his jacket like a shirt.
"Yes," Dusty ran into the tent. Ron disappeared in a flash, and so did Noah. Guess Ron grabbed him and moved him.
VIEW CHANGE: ?'s Turn.
I'm standing over the edge of those weird spike things waiting for the scouts. I sent Liz and Sammie to scout the shepherds to know when to make our move. Had to completely restrain Klein to keep him away from Sammie.
Tap tap! I turned around and noticed my red-haired comrade.
"Hey, Asuna," I smiled at her. She started to blush.
"Joshua, I told you my name is Asuna ," She looked at me, and gave me a smile.
That's what I said, and I told you I'm not Joshua," I kept smiling at her.
"That is not what you said and I was wondering if we could pair up in the fight," She looked down at the spike after she finished talking.
"Sure, but make sure its ok with Aeron, he's the brains remember," I looked at her.
"Aeron? Who's that?" She looked at me, still having that blush.
"Fado," I remember she calls none of us by our real names. It went silent for a couple of minutes, and Asuna just kept looking behind me.
"Alright, by the way Syrene been trying to talk to you for a couple of minutes," She said and then turned away starting walking away. Surprised Klein wasn't around her. I turned and saw Liz beside me on her pegasus. I stared at her demon mask. Why does she wear that? I noticed Sammie twirling one of her blue pigtails. She also seemed annoyed by something. Did something go wrong with Caeda? Why do the pegasus knights always have problems with their mounts. Sammie's mother couldn't find herself one until a journey to Ferox. Her brand of the exalt shone brightly in her left eye. I stared back at Liz. I swear she was tensing up behind that mask. She looked like she was trying to say something, but no words came out. She sighed, and turned to towards Sammie.
"What's the news Sammie?" I smiled at her, and she started to blush. Why do girls keep blushing around me?
"The shepherds are moving out," She looked at me.
"Alright, then let's mobilize the rest of team," I fist pumped and accidentally hit myself in the gut. Liz moved towards me. I stood up quickly. "I'm ok,". I smiled at her and Sammie.
"So shall we go to camp?" Sammie looked at me.
"Sure, can I ride with you Sammie?," I smiled at her.
"But can't you run back? You're really fast, like that iron dude from your dad's stories," Sammie looked at me.
"Yeah, but I want to ride with you," I smiled at her and she blushed.
"Alright," She smiled at me, and I climbed on her pegasus. I swear she smirked at Liz. Her pegasus started to fly real slowly. This battle is going to be wicked.
Author's Notice: Yeah, I was going to do one chapter, but it would be way long probably. Plus this is a nice split. This part is the pre-battle, the next chapter will be the battle part. Also before anyone asks. The line that Asuna said is not worded wrong. Its suppose to say what it said. Yes I'm aware that makes sense that she said her name was Asuna, and that's what the narrator called her. There is a reason for that, and it will be revealed why in a later chapter. Anyways the next chapter will be out as soon as I can. Till next time
Stay calm and you're the tactician. Words I live by~The Tactician Knight.
