28: Planes of panes of glass
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Marshall groans, lifting himself out of a sand dune. His eyes scan around, trying to find any familiar faces, he rises shaking the sand out of his clothes. His ears turn as he hears distant footsteps towards his way. His hand goes for his ax guitar, the sand suddenly blows away from where he is. He covers his eyes with his forearm as the sand howls around him. Opening his eyes, he realizes that plane he's trapped in changed. He glances around him to see endless miles of sky blue circling him. He steps back, trying to see if there's any enemies as he hears chimes of glass. He looks down to his sneaker to see that a hexagon shape shimmered for a split second. "The plane I'm on is a sky realm?" He's pulled out his train of thoughts with a fearsome screech. Five Rulers of the Skies that he encountered during the Nightmare War at the Battle of the Candy Kingdom appear above him. He grunts making his stance, preparing himself mentally to fie this battle with fangs and nails if needed.
Fionna keeps her eyes glued on Misery's, she feels her pulse throbbing against her face, her adrenaline starts burning as she throws her head back, arching her back to get out of the sword's range. She gets back on her feet, pulling out two swords from her back, Misery lunges out towards her. She blocks his sword, his eyes slightly narrow, his eyes flash as he activates his Midaregami. Fionna inhales as his Midaregami, unlike his brothers' who she's seen before, resembles a cracked mirror with a blur between crimson and indigo, as if the two colors didn't blend in well. He rams his shoulder into her chest, knocking the air out her lungs, she barely has enough time to slightly move before Misery kicks her again. She crashes against the sand, her eyes scan for Misery, then she sees the change of scenery around her. A forest drenched with darkness meets her eyes, she rises, pulling out her blades,
"Damn it, with this darkness here, it's in his favor, considering that Nightmares melt into shadows..." she thinks to herself, her ears pick up the sound of something moving behind her. She's thrown down on her back to the ground, while something massive crouches over her. Huge paws slam down around her head, she looks up to find Misery's Midareagami blazing through the darkness, she hears and feels him growling down at her, "Is this the Awakening Hatred told me back during the first Nightmare War?" She rolls her torso away from where she was at to avoid Misery's teeth clamping on her shoulder. She manages to get a good look at Misery through the darkness as he retreats back into the shadows. "A massive blue colored fox eh? I know how to defeat you now!" She rises, gets her breathing under control, imagining a blade and armor that her dad was telling her about before coming to the Iron Palace. Her armor glows along with her swords, she feels her armor morphing to the one she intended for, her grip tightens over her new scythe. She rolls her shoulders around, trying to get used to the how light her armor is, she closes her eyes, sensing for Misery's presence in the vast darkness.
"Remember Fionna, that's a very powerful blade you have in your possession. It's even stronger than the Girei Spear with an intact Ethereal Crystal." Her father's warning comes to mind. "If that's the case, I'll just have to handicap Misery then, not to necessarily kill him." Fionna thinks to herself as she lashes out at Misery's paw from throwing her. Misery howls retracting his paw away, he snarls circling around her. "Seems that he already knows what this is, he's retreating back to look for a weak spot in my defense." surely enough, he tries to knock her down using his tail. She ducks under it, wrapping her arms around his tail. He tries shaking her off, she holds on desperately. "This is bad, if he manages to shake me off, depending how he set this plane of space, who knows where I end up is. I could roll off this plane into oblivion for all I know, after all, the Origin's at the Rift... Last time I was here was with Lust, and it took me to get her out, imagine if I end up stuck here." her scythe shrinks down to a dagger, she holds it in her mouth as she tries to leap down Misery's tail to his back. She manages to get to the base of his tail, Misery sees this, he snarls with his lips curling around his snout, he turns his neck back to try biting her. She narrowly misses his teeth, while he's pulling his head away, she leaps towards his ear. He snarls again as she pulls herself up from the tip of his ear towards his head. He sits, and tries to swipe at her with his paw, she lashes at the bottom of his paw, making him to howl and bleed.
Misery howls ferocious winds that begin to vortex around them. Fionna grunts trying to hold on the handfuls of fur she has her grip on. A scream ejects from her throat as her hands slip. She crashes against the glass like floor of the plane. She feels the plane taking a dip, as if it's a balancing board; she stabs her dagger into the glass to bring her momentum to a stop. Misery and her stay motionless, following the crack that flies over the glass floor. The sound of thousands of glass planes pierce into their ears as they're suddenly exposed to a flash of blue light falling into it.
Greed and Sloth fall back, Wrath's chest heaves as he blocks his younger siblings from their grandmother's attack. She stares at them with an emotionless expression craved into her face. Wrath coughs making his chest feel heavy, "Shit I have internal bleeding already? I haven't even managed to land one attack on her either, Dad's going to slaughter me after he finds out I even hit her." Sloth glances over to her older brother standing besides her.
"I need you to back me up, follow my lead." she charges at Madness, she kicks out, placing her hands on the sand underneath them. Madness leans back to evade her grand daughter's attack at her neck. Sloth smirks, she replaces the sand with water instead, kicking Madness was just a distraction. Greed stomps his foot down, lightning hisses making its way towards Madness. Sloth projects herself into the air in the split second before Greed's lightning lands its attack. Madness jolts in place, temporary paralyzing her in her spot. Wrath catches on, so he takes a deep breath, and then spits lava out at Madness. She's covered in molten lava as it settles and hardens around her form. Sloth returns to the ground, she pants trying to catch her breath,
"You okay Sloth?" Wrath questions, she nods
"Exhausted but fine, unfortunately my domain doesn't allow me to make sudden in take of power at a time." she pulls her hair back, her bright blonde hair starts fading towards its tips, just like when she was first woken up, meaning that her body's doing its way of protecting itself by shutting down little by little.
Wrath places his hand at the side of his left rib cage. "Yeah, I already feel that I'm having internal bleeding, at this rate, we're going to zap our power reserves; considering that Grandmother isn't using her full power against us." Wrath glances over to where they trapped Madness earlier,
"Now that Wrath mentioned it, Grandmother wasn't using her Midaregami earlier, nor did she try attacking us either. It seems as if she doesn't want to." Greed adds, Sloth sits down in the water, her body liquefying a bit.
"You're right, who knows how long that's going to hold up; Everyone got divided, as if that was part of their master plan; we're the unlucky ones that got put into the same plane as her, unlike us, she has an unlimited power reserve at her disposal." Sloth replies, they hear movement coming from their temporary prison, they gasp as they see Madness' spider like legs break through the igneous rock holding her.
She pries herself out of the imprisonment, "Please do not make any rash or stupid decisions. After all, I do not want to hurt my precious grandchildren." She looks at them with very sincere eyes, Wrath and Greed guard Sloth, rocks fall as she shakes herself free of the stones clinging on her.
"Envy!" Pride calls out with his voice wavering, he falls back from the Linch's range of attack. Envy erupts from the sand to try knocking the Linch off his feet. The Linch kicks Envy in the face, his head's violently thrown back to the point that seems if he was a mortal, his neck would have snapped. Envy's neck pops as he locks it back into place, he disappears back into the sand. Pride growls as he watches the Linch, trying to find an opening.
"I see that you're Hatred's eldest son. The one I just kicked in the face's your brother I assume?" The Linch sets his eyes at Pride's, Pride covers his eyes as a burning sensation scorches through his skull. "Using your Midaregami against me won't work, for I posses the eyes of death." The Linch laughs maliciously as his eyes pulse a hue into the air. Pride and Envy claw at their heads trying to subdue the pain.
Om my gosh I didn't even realized that it's been over a year already! I'm so sorry for taking the sudden hiatus, I've just been so busy lately I want to apologize. I'll try to work on Until the End as much as I can!
