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Chapter 34
"Oh… Son of a bitch." Said Mithos as he eyes the sphere made of earth while Weiss looked instinctively at her own shadow, only for her eyes to widen the moment she saw the tip of a replica of her own rapier going straight at her face.
"Move you idiot!"
The heiress felt a pressure on her right shoulder before she was forced back so she could avoid the tip of the shadow rapier. She moved her eyes slightly to the right to see something she did not expect at all.
Mithos had saved her, and then jumped back with her.
"I thought you said 20 minutes!" shouted Mithos as he saw small cracks started to appear on the sphere until in was completely destroyed.
"That was not very nice Gnome!"
A furious shout could be heard from the cloud of smoke as Gnome stood next to Weiss and Mithos with Ruby on his back.
"But the thing that angers me more is that you are standing next to HIM after that he did!?" shouted Shadow as footsteps could be heard while Gnome secured Ruby put Ruby down against a wall.
"The conditions of my pact with Zelos Wilder are forcing me." Said Gnome as he looked back at the cloud of smoke. "Besides, you really have no right to talk after what you did."
His voice sounded calm, but it was clear he was really angry.
"Then I suppose you leave me no choice then." Replied Shadow one last time before he stepped out of the smoke, making Mithos and Gnome tense at what they saw.
"This is not good." Said Mithos as Weiss saw that there was a black slim armored gauntlet around the arm Shadow reattached.
"He is getting a hold of Drake's body way quicker that we expected." Said Gnome as Shadow raised his hand pointing at Weiss, who tensed at that very moment, as she felt weird for a second.
"I am just leveling the balance."
Shadow's words came out with a small smirk as Weiss's eyes widened the moment she felt her own hand gripping Myrtenaster tightly before sending a thrust to Mithos who saw through it.
"What can I say, all habits die hard." Said Shadow as he jumped back to avoid a glyph that created a fist made of earth while Weiss kept attacking Mithos as said heiress kept trying to stop but nothing.
"Why can't I control my body!?"
Mithos gritted his teeth as he answered. "Try to look down."
The heiress did as said, only to see her own shadow with various lines that came out of it and went in Mithos direction. She understood instantly, she was being a damn puppet.
"Can't you do something!?"
"You need to raise your aura at it's maximum!"
The blonde parried rapier and jumped back, only to regret it the moment he felt something, glyph, appeared behind and push him forward to meet Myrtenaster.
"Now that you are being controlled you think in good plans!?"
The blonde moved his head in the last second to then meet the back of Weiss's feet thanks to a spin kick coming from said heiress.
"It isn't me!"
Weiss quickly stabbed her weapon in the ground so three glyph, three on each side, appeared so chains of ice could come out of them and aimed at Mithos.
"Shadow is exploiting your full strategic potential! This moves are in your mind, Shadow is only making you think on the ones fitting for each situation!"
The leader of Cruxis jumped back, left, right and front evading the various chains.
"This is not the time to flatter me! And I cannot break Shadow's control over me! Even with my aura at its maximum!"
Mithos eyes widened as his ears recognized the sound was coming from above. The leader of Cruxis looked up to see Weiss with several swords made of ice aiming at him.
"Then it is up to Gnome to weaken his control over you a little!"
His Multicolored aura surrounded him as he jumped up punching and breaking the swords that were launched at him.
"You have the power to put me down easily! Why aren't you doing it!?"
The heiress launched herself with a trust to clash with Mithos fist.
"Do not start thinking it is because I fell for you or something!" said The leader of Cruxis with a smile as he moved his head slightly to avoid an edge that was shot by a glyph that appeared next to him while he saw Weiss's face turned a little red.
"Are yo-"
"Of course I am not!" blabbered Mithos almost immediately, causing Weiss's to twitch as she saw how the chains she had created before were going for Mithos.
"If I ended knocking you out, Shadow would still be able to control you! This way at least you can break his control with your aura."
The blonde then let himself fall and turned around to cut the chains with his hand in a sword like motion as he mentally added something of what he said. 'Not to mention that stopping time would not do something as long Shadow has control over her. And I really don't want to kill her and add yet another thing in Drake's list of reasons to hate me. It is all up to you gnome.'
"So how is that body working for you?" asked Shadow as cut through a fist of earth to meet Gnome doing a Rising Falcon that Shadow blocked in the last second.
"I will not deny it, it actually really good being in control of one of the sons of the members of the divine trinity!"
Both gave a backflip in the end and then Gnome threw Mythril at the possessed blonde.
"But various things in his head is really uncomfortable."
Shadow raised his free hand to make one of the shadows of the various debris extend enough so it can deflect the shield.
"Like what!? Having memorized the three sizes of all the female population in beacon!"
The Envoy of the Dark Abyss quickly motioned his free hand again to make all the surrounding shadows create spheres of them.
"Believe me that is the less weird thing in here!"
The Servant of Mother Earth did not waste a second in using Zelos's wings to avoid the sphere that surely connected to Shadow's realm. He could not afford to get trapped there, because if he did. 'We will be instantly done for.' Thought Gnome as he eyes Ether lying in the ground behind Shadow.
Gnome carefully motioned his fingers at the direction at the shield while he evaded the orbs of darkness so punch of earth could raise the shield and another could punch it in Shadow's direction.
"You should move! Something is coming behind you!"
"Do you really take me for someone so stupid to fall for one of the old-!"
Shadow's sentence was cut short as he felt not only a sudden amount of pain, but also the lost of his strength thanks to the Absorbing Dust Mythril was made of.
Gnome quickly motioned his free hand again the moment the shield bounced from Mithos so another punch of earth could send the shield at Gnome as he caught it while going on his way to an unfocused Shadow.
'The spheres disappeared thanks to the lost of some of his energy. Bu judging by the sound from Mithos's direction, the Schnee heiress is still being used as a puppet.' Thought Gnome as he put his fist behind the shield. 'This should do the trick!'
The spirit of Earth prepared for the shield to make contact with Drake's face. At least that was the plan.
'!?' that was all Gnome thought as he felt a weight on the side of his body before being pushed back along with a certain someone. "Damn it Mithos." Muttered the spirit as both quickly recovered on the ground.
"Shut. Up" said Mithos annoyed. Weiss had stopped for a second, making him think that perhaps Gnome had succeeded. Wrong. "If you mention anyone I was thrown by a 17 year old-" started Mithos as he was interrupted by Gnome while Weiss walked next to Shadow who was rubbing the back of his head.
"What? You will lock me away again."
The former Hero rolled his eyes as he replied back while neither of them noticed Weiss and Shadow raised their weapons at them. "Get over it."
Zelos's eye twitched at the comment. "Do not-!"
"Pay attention you dunces!"
Weiss's shout got their attention as they saw a white giant glyph with a black one of the same size in front of it.
"Is that a-"
Mithos's sentence cut short itself as he saw a Dragonhead coming out of Weiss's Glyph and passing through Shadow's glyph while Weiss's finishing creating the rest of her body. The result? An ice Dragon surrounded by an armor of darkness.
"Shadow sure is exploiting her."
"No kidding." Muttered Mithos as Gnome noticed his aura started to intensify.
"Don't."
Gnome didn't get Mithos reply at his sentence as he stood in front of the Dragon with Ether in both hands. "Save it for later."
Orange brownish aura leaked through Zelos's body as the green axed sword started to glow as it was surrounded by a green energy that grew and grew.
If Mythril was the shield that absorbed aura of the enemies, the Ether was the sword that absorbed the aura to transform it in an energy blade that extended it's length as mush as the user could.
"Bring it!" exclaimed the spirit of earth as he made a swing with the seven meters sword to hit the Dragon's head.
A battle cry came out of Zelos's mouth as he applied more force on his feet so he couldn't move by the pressure of the clash of powers and Ether started to break through the black armor of the Dragon.
'At this rate Zelos's body won't hold up! Even with his semblance activated this is taking me more than I thought!' Thought Gnome as he also considered in adding more aura to the sword, but that would hit Zelos's limit without a doubt. Even if he put his own aura, it would be the same.
"Like father like son! What is it with them an big weapons, it is like if they were trying to over compensate something!"
The shout of Shadow could be heard from the other side as Gnome suddenly felt an extra surge of power.
"Keep going."
The orange eyes moved to the side to see Mithos, whose hand was touching Mythril as his aura flared. "If you direct the energy directly to the sword, Zelos's body will be in no harm."
The spirit of earth mentally nodded, as the giant green energy sword grew bigger while its color changed to a clearer green while both gave another battle cry.
"Chesto!" exclaimed the former Hero as the sword cut throw the Dragon, which resulted in an explosion of wind as it made contact with the ground.
Her silver eyes started to open slowly.
The first thing she should have though was in what moment did she lose consciousness. But it wasn't, because even with a blurred vision, she could see how a massive sword destroyed a massive black body.
She knew that whatever it was, it was made of ice because how cold it felt once it was destroyed.
"I am out of Aura and Dust."
She heard her partner's voice. Weiss sounded tired. But Ruby could still see her standing with her rapier ready, besides Drake.
'Why is she besides him?' she asked herself as her vision began to get cleared while an small bright object to the farther corner of her side caught her attention, and object that was near a white scarf.
"No you are not." Said Shadow as he turned to look at her and touch her.
"My lord!"
Shadow stopped as a screen that said 'Sound Only' appeared next to Mithos.
"Pronyma?" asked the Leader of Cruxis surprised.
"Release the seal in my location now!"
Mithos eyes slightly widened as he heard another person shouting and gunshots.
"There better be a good reason for this Pronyma."
Another screen appeared next to the previous one.
"My target got shot! I am trying to heal him but the bullet hit a vital spot! My lord I need you to-"
Another screen appeared.
"Shot!? Didn't you chose a seclude location like all of us agreed?"
Gnome noticed how Zelos's hands started to tremble. 'Oh no.'
"This is not the time for this Rodyle! I need Lord Mithos to release the seal fast! Otherwise the life of Flynn Scifo will be lost!"
What happened next was something no one expected.
"Drake!"
Everyone turned their attention at Shadow, who had Drake's free hand choking his own body while Weiss blinked several times as she looked at her hands, she was no longer under Shadow's control.
"Keep sleeping Zelos, I got this."
Mithos turned at Gnome to see he was kneeled with a hand supporting the head of the red head while his eyes looked like they were losing all the tone of brown.
It looked like the news reached the subconscious of both Drake and Zelos. But he had to worry about that later.
"Didn't you want to kill him!?" shouted shadow as he dropped Yin and tried to get free the neck with the other hand, not noticing that Mithos extended his hand so various glyph of different color and size appear before a sword appeared.
"Just give me a moment Pronyma." Said Mithos with a serious tone as he took the sword.
Weiss saw it. It was a normal sized sword. It had a while hilt, a pommel and cross-guard of gold color and a red gem in the rain-guard. The blade of the sword had an emanate color purple, red gems in each side of the fuel, and an edge of a clearer tone of purple.
Considering all the weird things that had happened before, she did not know why, but something told her that sword easily beat everything else.
Mithos put the sword in front of him and closed his eyes as it began to release a bright light that made everyone cover their eyes and then died down.
'That was anticlimactic.' Thought Weiss as she moved away from Shadow, who for some weird reason, was grinning madly while he had one hand grabbing the other with force.
"So there it is." Exclaimed Shadow as he let go the arm. It looked like Drake had lost his chance to recover his body.
"First thing first."
Weiss tensed the moment he looked at her and raised Drake's hand.
"Not this time." Said Mithos, as he stood in front of Weiss so he could cover her shadow.
Shadow growled as he picked Drake's blade and raised it as all the shadows of everything but a person generated moved to Shadow.
"I have been planning this for a very long time Hero." Replied the spirit of darkness as all the shadows gathered above him while Gnome stood next to Mithos.
"Any idea what he is planning?"
"I don't. But I can help but have a bad feeling abou- uh?"
The thoughts of the spirit stopped the moment he noticed something in Drake's face. It was not noticeable at first, but little by little it looked like it was in pain. But then it became clear the moment the sphere above him disappeared.
"The hell is going on?" asked Shadow in a low voice as he gripped his chest, almost as if he was having a hearth attack.
"Think this is a trap?"
The question of the heiress sounded in the head of both as they watched Shadow carefully gritting his teeth before shouting.
"Make it stop damn it!"
"The hell is going on now?" asked the heiress once more as Gnome decided to speak. "Mithos."
The former Hero eyed the spirit, who then motioned at his side… to see nothing.
"What?"
"Look closely."
Weiss and Mithos followed the direction of Zelos's eyes as they saw the light that was leaking from one of the many holes on the ceiling.
"I am not seeing anything." Said Weiss still being weary of the whole situation.
"I do."
Mithos raised the purple sword. "You just cannot notice the difference with that little light!" shouted Mithos as he made swing at the ceiling to destroyed completely.
Weiss was terrified not because of the strength of the sword or Mithos himself, but for something else completely.
"Why… why is the moon red?"