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AWESOME AUSSIE GURL-Isabelle Smith and Roderick "Rocky" Aarons
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Lucas Bane- Lucas Fedrick and Clare "Red Death" Clyde
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Noxis- Colin Cortez
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ACT TWO

Chapter 27: Nothing Helps

~Opening Theme: "The Hot Winds Blowing" Metal Gear Rising OST~

Surrounding Lucas was a sigil of darkness one that we all could clearly see, as if he were marking his territory in power. The silence between both sides wasn't what I expected. I expected us to be talking it out trying to get Lucas to calm down through words but I was just playing myself. I knew that what this guy was going through, wasn't going to be cured with a simple hug or a few words. I think all of us knew that and whether Rally knew it or not, she was going to try and fight him now anyway.

But I had to admit, I was afraid.

Not only because Lucas is an ally, but because he just plain scary.

He was tall, ripped with muscles and he had this psychotic red glow in his eyes that suggested he was possessed by the devil himself. He held a large staff like axe that had the point of a blade at the tip. A weapon I'd never seen before.

"I'm going to attack him first...right now I'm the only one on par with his fighting abilities. So it would take him longer to dispatch me." Rose walked past us, her large breasts bouncing. The only thing clothing them was her white and blue striped bra. I wondered how she kept up fighting in nothing but a bra.

"No way, we have to attack together. Or else we'll just be where we were with Pacd Byeh." Carmina added.

I nodded. "I agree with Cammy. We can't risk being picked off one by one like that."

"Well you bitches better think-o-something' quick because he's coming this WAY!" Rally stepped forward and all three of us looked ahead to see Lucas flying at us like a bat out of hell. Rally was the first to connect with him, his axe and her twin swords me in a dark shockwave that spread the sands away from us.

I held up my wonder shears to block the whipping sands seeing Rally and Lucas struggling against one another. "Rally don't try to take him alone, withdraw!" I cried.

"I got em! You guys just sit back...I'll handle this." She struggled against him.

I noticed Lucas lift his right hand from his axe using only his left to struggle against Rally, with his right hand an orb of crimson energy appeared with a ring of darkness orbiting the orb. It looked like a miniature Saturn planet in his palm. I didn't need to see what the thing did to know it was dangerous.

I gathered all of my energy into my feet and pressed forward with a boost of speed I dashed into Rally's side pushing her out of the way as Lucas thrust his magic power orb into the sand causing a charge explosion that spread out in several different directions throwing a smokescreen of sand into the air.

I was lying on top of Rally as explosions erupted all around us and sand dropped onto my back.

After the explosions passed Rally pushed me off of her. "I didn't need your help! When I say I got this! I GOT THIS!"

"Wow, ungrateful much? Did you see how much damage that one attack caused it could have killed you." I said as both me and Rally got up at the same time. We stared at eachother like gunslingers.

"I would have been fine! I'm always fine." Rally pointed one of her swords an inch from my nose.

I slapped the blade out of the way with my hand. "DUDE! What is your glitch?! Out of all the things we've all been through! You mean to tell me you've learned NOTHING?!"

"You don't know me! You don't know the things I've..." Rally started but for I cut her off.

"Whatever...don't try to draw out some long and emotionally deep past because quite frankly...all of us are fucked up. I can see if you were still on earth and you were carrying your shit around everywhere in a world where it's more safe than sorry. But this is the fantasy world, world-ending shit happens in this place!" I screamed. "Either you get your shit together NOW! OR YOU GET DEAD! It's funny...out of all the people who would change through those experiences on Gaia. I thought you would be the one to change the most."

I knew what I said stung, but I don't care. It's apparent that Lucas is much stronger than we are individually we can't beat him if we don't team up. Rally has been acting like a kid for too long and quite frankly, I'm fed up with it.

I turned and jumped off back into the battle which gained some substance since the sand cleared. As Rose said, she was engaging Lucas directly while Izzy and Cammy sat back to watch for potential openings, I dashed over to them and slid to a stop. "Where's Rally? Is she okay?" Izzy asked with a grip on her cutlass.

"She's fine." I grunted. I was only counting myself, Izzy, Cammy and Rose in this battle. If Rally wants to fight alone, she can be alone.

I kept my eyes on the battle, Rose was as majestic and beautiful in fighting against Lucas as she did Pacd. Lucas' attacks were slow but powerful, he'd attack with his axe and whenever he missed he would loop around for a momentum based physical attack. A kick or a powerful punch. So far I didn't see any holes in his combat style, Rose would use her speed to get around to his back but he was just as quick. In fact he would turn before she sped around, almost as if he could read her mind.

"What's up with that?!" Izzy said and I'm guessing she noticed then too.

I shook my head. "Well Lucas once told me he'd gone through military training once. So he's specifically trained to read muscle signatures and body movement...he can predict when Rose is about to slip behind him."

(O.o)-Carmina "Squeee..it's like he's using a cheat code or something."

He kicked Rose in her stomach and sent her flying down towards the sandy depths, possessed by the power of Lucas kick she just fell uncontrollably to the ground and hit the sand hard. "Let's go!" I ordered Cammy and Izzy. The three of us flew over to Rose quickly before Lucas could pursue then cut him off halfway before reaching her.

"Enfrost!" Cammy casted a ice spell to possess our weapons both me and Izzy.

"Frostbite Crossing!" We both crossed Lucas an in X formation slashing him across his chest.

"Nice attack! Here lemme give it back! Bane's Return!" Lucas held up both of his palms and our attacks came in the form of ice beams. I screamed bloody murder as I was taken by the icy beam, it froze my body stiff and sent me flying backwards. The ice froze so bad that it burned.

My frozen body hit the sand hard and I was scared as hell that a piece of me would shatter but I stayed whole. I was lying on the sand staring up at the sun which blazed in my eyes that couldn't close. "The sun in your eyes? Lemme fix that for ya..." I heard Bane's voice followed by his hand grab my frozen body from the sand. He held me straight up before him and we locked eyes.

"It's been awhile since I was last freed. To find myself in a fantasy world with all these awesome powers...I think the other side of myself, the weak me...has finally done something right." He said as he held up his left palm which began to glow with a ominous dark aura. "I can recall that...my...other self has some sort of displaced affection for your girls. Which is why I've only been fighting you with 10 percent of my true power..."

Hearing that made even my soul shake.

"I'm not sure as to why Kel would leave to take care of some machine while he left you weaklings to take me on...but." He was inching his dark palm closer to my face. My eyes were frozen open so I had to watch every eerie moment.

"IT'S BECAUSE HE KNOWS WE CAN BEAT YOU!" A familiar and raunchy voice came from the sky like a descending falcon. Rally came down using one of her swords to slash Bane's left hand which possessed dark power. The strike caused him to cancel his attack, she quickly round house kicked his wrist causing him to drop me and before I could hit the sand Rally hooked arm around my frozen waist then slid back away from Lucas before he could make another move.

Rally slid backwards again over to Cammy who had defrosted me and Izzy, who Rose had rescued with an Esuna spell. I was really impressed with how much Cammy had grown in her magic using, usually she would only stick with the three Blizzard, Fire and Thunder spells but now she's even using white magic.

"You guys...I'm..." Rally looked down as she tried to speak, it was hard for her to admit she was wrong.

"It's fine, Rally. We forgive you...but now isn't the time for this." Rose said standing up. "We still haven't been able to find a weak point."

"I know one." Rally said sheathing both of her swords.

"Really what is it?" Cammy asked and even I was a little curious. Maybe Rally isn't as hard boiled as I thought.

"I'm not telling, because I figured it out...but once I expose it, you guys will know." She phased out and appeared before Lucas whom was getting ready to approach us.

"Ahahahaha...Rally! Lucas has bittersweet emotions when it comes to you." Bane glared down at her pointing at her head. "The self righteous go get em with deep emotional scarring...but as a fighter you have the potential to become greater."

"I've got bittersweet feelings for Lucas too. He's kind of like a mentor but also he's a faggy older brother who I can't fucking stand! Bring it you fucking psychopath!" Rally leaped into Lucas and right at that moment. When her feet left the ground I knew what Rally was going to do. It was stupid, it was idiotic...it was selfish.

The moment her feet left the sand, everything went silent, a large white light flashed before my eyes and I could see it all in slow motion. "RALLY NOOOOOOOOO!" I screamed. She was going to sacrifice herself, Lucas was the self gratifying type, the type to let his vanity get the best of him and Rally knew that. If she let Lucas kill her, then he would be so satisfied in the act that he would let his guard down.

THRASH!

Lucas' entire right palm went through her chest and blood splattered like a canned aerosol. "Get em...now..." Rally puked up blood holding his palm.

"AAHAHAHAHAHA!" Lucas grinned.

"GO! GO NOW! GO!" I screamed with tears soaking my cheeks. I rushed into Bane striking his chest with my Wonder Shears and pulling Rally off of his hand. Izzy and Rose rushed Bane at the same time striking him with a flurry blows, since his guard was down for a few seconds.

"1000 Humming Birds!" Izzy shouted thrusting her cutlass into Bane over a thousand times digging him into the ground.

Rose flipped through the air as Izzy jumped out and then came dropping down. "Bhudda's Palm!" Rose thrust her palm down releasing a massive invisible shockwave that thrust Bane into the ground deeper, widening the crater.

"Doomsday!" Cammy shouted casting her spell which released a massive meteor from a magic circle from the sky that collided with the sand creating an explosion that engulfed and reddened in the skies.

As the explosions and concussive blasts pasted my back I held Rally's head as she looked up at me. "So how'd I do?" She asked with a smile.

I could do nothing but cry. "You...fucking idiot..."

"I'm sorry, Dez. I'm sorry that I'm an immature brat...but it's hard...it's really hard trusting people sometimes. But I should know better...you guys have...saved my ass more times...than I can count...wit-without me ever...repaying you..." She gasped and choked trying to swallow the blood that kept rising from the back of her throat. "ROSE! CAMMY! COME HERE PLEASE!"

Rally began to shake, seizing and her eyes were rolling to the back of her head. "No! Stop! Rally...don't!" I cried looking back at the battle field. My eyes widened seeing that Carmina, Rose and Izzy were lying sprawled out on the sands. Lucas standing above them and laughing continuously.

"No..."

Rally stopped moving, her body got weak, cold, limp...my eyes widened and I cried. "NOOO!" I cried buring my face into her neck. "RALLY! PLEASE! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! I SAID THOSE THINGS PLEASE! OPEN YOUR EYES..." I clinched my teeth and looked up from Rally's body with a sick feeling in my gut.

Lucas appeared behind me. "You couldn't save her...you couldn't save any of them...none of you were qualified to defeat me in the first place. Kel ordered you all to stay here so he could have all of you weaklings die...he's tired of being around you...tired of you all bothering him..."

"That's not true." I said lying Rally's head down. "He wouldn't do that...he left us here because we CAN beat you...no...not we...he left us here...so that I would beat you and everyone else would laugh and point fingers."

Bane thrust his right fist down at the back of my head and I could see his figure grinning down at me. I held up my left hand and caught his fist like it was weightless then stood up and shoved my elbow into his side. Bane leaned over puking up blood, I felt one of his organ burst from that attack.

"What..." I grabbed him by the back of his head and forced his face into my knee. WHAM!

Bane's body fell backwards.

"I'm tired of all of this." I said looking back at him.

Suddenly a blue light like a bolt of lightning struck the sandy floor in front of me, and as the aura passed I realized what it was. Kel's Beam Katana the Tsubaki MK.I was there just standing in front of me like Excalibur.

"When your fed up with it all is when you begin to fight your hardest...fight at your strongest. When your fed up with it, the fantasy, the world, the killing, fed up even with yourself...that's when you begin to fight with a clear mind." Suddenly Kel's voice came into my ears and in an instant he was standing beside me.

"Why didn't you come sooner?! Rally would still be..." She started.

Kel nodded. "Don't worry about that...don't cloud your mind. Just take the sword and end him."

Appearing on my other side to my left was the White Goddess, Cosmos. "Lucas, has always had that power, that other self within him. I chose him because I thought that he could use that Other self...I..."

"Don't explain. Cosmos...we think too highly of Gods. Mistakes happen, even though it's rare... the Gods can make them from time to time too." I said grabbing the beam katana. "Now...to end this."

Author's Note: Dez versus Lucas, final showdown next chapter!