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Lybra: One day Shadowking… one day…
Death to Destiny
Ch. 37
Seth was standing still with his arms crossed while looking down a four-way intersection, where had that damned soldier tell him to turn…? "This is getting on my nerves…" he grunted to himself. "Lambda and her flawless sense of direction would be quite useful right now…" He recalled that while they were undercover they had gotten lost in the town and Lambda had remembered every last detail of how to get back to their house; although he wasn't sure whether that was her own soul or that of Nu-13…
Seth heard the sound of the soothing sound of someone humming the tune of Radiohead's song 'Karma Police' and took a left down the corner and his himself within a small storage room. He felt he had done enough killing for now. The humming stopped but the footsteps did not. "I sense the presence of some Library assholes up ahead… well then, time to spill some blood." Seth glanced out the room quickly and spotted a somewhat tall man wearing leather armor mercenary gear and carrying a flanged mace in his right hand.
'Who the hell is that?' Seth thought to himself as he passed. When he felt the stranger had traveled far enough away he exited the room. "I suppose he'd make a useful diversion… just going by what he said the sole reason he's here is to cause as much damage to the Library as possible. He should draw some of their attention…" That's when he recalled just where he was supposed to be going. "Looks like I was supposed to turn left afterall…" Seth turned around and walked down the long corridor. That's when he came to a large and empty room; there was hardly anything in it save a few support beams. It was massive; he bet it could hold at least two thousand people. Seth looked left and right and saw that there were seven paths leading from the room to different areas of the fort. "I could try and take a bunch of people out at once in here…" That's when he got an idea…
~Meanwhile
Lybra staggered to her feet and braced herself against the wall; she was totally drained and was panting heavily. "Shoji…" she muttered angrily. "How dare that bastard… slow me down… for his pathetic revenge scheme…!" She began walking along the wall as her hat fell low enough to hide her eyes. "Seths life is for important than his selfish revenge… by trying to kill me he put it in danger…"
Suddenly three soldiers rounded the corner and trained guns on her. "The orders are to shoot on sight! Fire!" the commander shouted pointing a single finger at Lybra.
"Stay out of my way!" she shouted as their bullets left their guns. The bullets froze in midair as Lybra's eyes gave off a violet glow. "A-About face and go!" The bullets swiftly changed course and struck each soldier in the head. Lybra collapsed to her knees and clutched her head. "This pain is nothing…!" She stumbled to her feet and began swiftly making her way down the hall as blood dripped from her fingers. She took notice of this and threw off the glove that covered her left hand to be greeted by the wound that Shoji had inflicted on her. "This is a small price to pay…" She picked up a piece of cloth that one of the soldiers carried and wrapped it around her left hand before placing her glove back on. "Seth…" Lybra closed her eyes and allowed her mind to wander for a minute. Her eyes shot open with a look of utter determination. "I'll be there soon…"
~Meanwhile
Shoji had the biggest smile that you could possibly imagine on his face. Why? Because he was currently slaughtering Library soldier left and right with his mace; he was originally completely astounded by their number, perhaps they were awaiting this Seth guy Lybra seemed to drool over. The whole time he was humming U2's song Beautiful Day to himself while happily smashing skulls and caving in chests with his mace. He had little worry from the NOL, all they had were their uniforms whereas Shoji was donning some rather high quality armor. Beneath the leather armor he was wearing chain mail so he didn't have to worry about anything except for attempted stabs, but he was quite skilled so they weren't much of a problem either. "Now you know how my wife felt!" Shoji screamed before shooting a large stone spike straight through a woman with a lance. "Now you know how my daughter felt!" Shoji smashed a man right in the torso crushing his appendix and severely damaging his intestinal track, he died ten seconds later. "Now you know how my infant child felt!" Shoji pinned a man to the wall by stabbing an earth spike through his shoulder before splitting his skull open with his made and causing blood to spray like Old Faithful. "And now you know how my son felt!" Shoji crushed a mans ribcage causing one of his broken ribs to pierce his heart.
"Everyone back!" came a feminine shout. The woman stepped forward. She was very attractive, she had long and flowing blonde hair and a face that would even cause Jin Kisaragi himself to melt. She was Niamh. "I am Niamh and I must say that you are quite the impressive warrior, you managed to take out two hundred of our men all on you lonesome within these past five minutes. Now that is quite the impressive feat! What is your name?"
Niamh had to lunge back to avoid being impaled by stone. "Silence you Library dog! My name doesn't matter and neither does yours! All that matters is that your blood is about to end up on my mace!" Shoji screamed pointing it at Niamh.
Niamh appeared rather shocked but it quickly faded. "You are indeed interesting…" she chuckled. "You seem hell-bent on revenge, if you don't mind could you answer why?"
"The Library killed my family and merely shrugged them off as collateral damage of you goddamn war! It was my family you all killed and you didn't even give them a proper burial, I had to dig their grave myself with nothing but my own two hands! You and your stupid organization deserve to be smashed straight to hell for what you've done!" Shoji shouted his knuckles turning white and a faint tear running down his cheek.
"I see…" Niamh said sighing. "All men give us room."
"B-But sir!" a female soldier carrying an axe objected.
"Eight hundred against one isn't a very fair fight, it would be dishonorable for me to order you all to do such a thing as gang up on him. I will fight him in single combat," Niamh said pulling out a chained sickle. "Are you prepared?"
"I'm always ready to soak my mace in Library blood!" Shoji shouted charging Niamh at full speed. He had to quickly roll to the side to avoid getting cut by her sickle. "Is that all you've got?"
Shoji hit the ground hard and a large spike shot out of the ground right toward Niamh. "Shatter," she said boredly. The stone broke into a million pieces. "I can destroy any projectiles that come within ten yards on me by sheer command so unless you want to be at this all day I recommend you come in close."
"Gladly!" Shoji shouted swinging his mace over his shoulder and charging at Niamh once again. She swung her sickle low towards his legs making him jump high in the air to avoid it but she quickly recovered and swung it upward towards Shoji. The metal plate over his torso saved him from a fatal blow but the bounce created a shallow laceration on his face.
"Your dodging is impressive… but it doesn't appear you are advanced to the point where you can maneuver in midair," Niamh commented before entangling Shoji around his arm. "Ah yes, I neglected to mention that once the chain has wrapped around something it shall melt through whatever it is wrapped around, whether its armor of a limb…"
Shoji performed a large backflip causing Niamh to stumble forward once it got to the edge of her range and almost lose grip of the weapon. When she looked up Shoji had gotten free of the sickle and was now overtop of her swinging in a downward motion towards her head. She quickly rolled the right and performed an amazing flip to her feet. 'She's got some moves… I'd best end this quickly,' Shoji thought to himself before spitting off to his left. Niamh had already drawn a thirty inch long shortsword. Shoji spun his mace in his hand a couple of times before the two charged at one another. Once Shoji was in her range Niamh threw a slash towards his head but Shoji blocked that before performing a backflip to avoid a lightning fast follow-up strike. By the time Shoji landed Niamh was already on him and forcing Shoji onto the defensive. 'Godammit she's fast! I need to create an opening with a parry so I can get a swing off!' Shoji performed an upward motion with his mace creating a rather decent sized opening. 'There it is!' Shoji swung right at her head but she leaned back and cartwheeled backwards and would've kicked Shoji in the chin had he not raised it causing it to miss by a mere centimeter.
"Only go for the head when you absolutely know you can hit it! It's too small a target and can maneuver easily!" Niamh shouted to Shoji over the sound of her sword contacting the metal plate around his torso. "That's twice that thing's saved your life…"
Shoji brought his mace down in an overhead swing which Niamh easily dodged. "What can I say? I trust my armor," Shoji said panting. This Niamh chick was good… he had to end this quick or he was a goner, she hardly looked tired at all! That's when he formulated a plan… Shoji rushed Niamh head on performing a battle cry and holding his mace off to the side.
"Hmph, how reckless…" Niamh sighed preparing her sword for a strike. She stood calm and composed… and the moment Shoji was in her range she took a swift overhead swing… She had seen his left arm come up to block the blow with his large leather gauntlet which covered his entire left arm and she had expected to easily lob his arm off but once she had cut through the leather something had stopped it. "Wh-what…? Why isn't this cutting you?"
"Don't mean to disappoint you… but I have chainmail on under this," Shoji said looking her in the eyes coldly. Niamh tried to pull her sword free but something was holding it there, she looked closer to see his armor was reforming over her sword. "Oh, and this is regenerating armor." Shoji had wound up and brought his mace right into the side of Niamh's torso, her eyes rolled back and she leaned forward and coughed up blood before life left her eyes. Shoji pulled her sword free of his armor and began panting heavily. She was very skilled and he barely survived that fight. 'In this exhausted condition I'm no match for all these soldiers… best thing to do would be to retreat.'
Shoji began sprinting away from the crowd of soldiers. "Fire! Kill that bastard!" another commander shouted pointing towards the fleeing Shoji.
~Ten minutes later…
Shoji had barely escaped with his life! He was sitting with his back against the wall panting heavily and sweating so much that if the Guinness Book of World Records had seen it they'd make a spot especially for the sheer amou0nt of sweat that poured down his forehead. "Th-this is worth it…" he told himself between breaths. "This is what you get… for murdering my family…"
End chapter.
Me: AZ is alive?
Seth: Wait, what does that have to do with the chapter?
Me: Since when does anything we do in this segment have anything to do with the chapter?
Seth: Touché…
Shoji: So, going by what you said, AZ has finally returned?
Me: -growls at Shoji- Get out of here before I decapitate you with a spork…
Lambda: Lambda doubts the physical possibility… How does one go about performing task, 'decapitating with a spork'?
Me: Very slowly… very painfully…
Lybra: I still need huggles T_T!
Me: -picks up Lybra in a hug and swings her around before setting her back down- Well now's as good a time as any to get into the rather abundant amount of reviews AZ has left! Let me start by saying NO, YOU CANNOT GIVE LYBRA HUGGLES! SHE IS MY LYBRA!
Lybra: What do you know… my biggest fan is my creator…
-Lybra fanboy alarm rings- (Go ahead and imagine what that would sound like…)
Shoji: -reading letter- Hey! AZ doesn't hate me! I don't know how that's possible but hey!
Me: FIRE! –anti-tank missiles are fired at Shoji-
Shoji: Oh hell no!
Me: Honestly, I don't hate Shoji himself all that much… I just need something to fill these post-segments with and I imagine there are quite a few people out there who don't love what Shoji did to Lybra McHuggle-cakes.
Lybra: -thinking- (Oh you had better not make that my official fan nickname…)
Me: Next review is directed towards Rapton 'Rappy' Epsio. –snaps fingers and Rapton and Suyo appear out of thin air-
Rapton: No… just no… Never call me that again…
Suyo: But Rappy! Your fans are showing you affection!
Rapton: I still hate the nickname…
Suyo: You do realize that I' the one who gave it to you, right?
Rapton: -mumbling- Doesn't make me hate it any less…
Me: Anyways, Rapton AZ thinks you should listen to Suyo and that you should both beat the living hell out of Relius.
Rapton: I think I would love that…
Suyo: But he's our superior and a good guy! …Right…?
Seth: Have you been asleep for the past thirty six chapters or what?
Suyo: Well sorry for coming into the story a little late!
Me: Next review I address is for you Seth! She has one word to describe your True Name, OVERKILL.
Seth: Wait until you see my Shields True Name state… I'll kick more ass than Chuck Norris after being injected with a sharks testosterone!
Me: Wow I could not have used a stranger descriptor for that…
Seth: Well you are writing this segment at one in the morning so it's understandable…
Me: Next rev- holy shit you have a lot of recommendations! W-well… next review… A fan of my character designs eh? Well I'm glad you are! My two favorites are Shoji's and Lybra's. Shoji's I had the whole 'ex-mercenary' idea in my head so I had to give him something like that… As for Lybra's… it came to me… i-in a dr-dream…
Lybra: Could you please elaborate a bit?
Me: No, no I will not. And why do you hate Hummers? Sure they're total gas monsters but they're quite durable.
Lybra: -leans in and peeks at letter- Yeah the prosthetics did take a little getting used to but now they're just as comfortable as my old appendages! With, of course, an added bonus… -extends claws-
Me: And final review! Liam O'Brien voicing Seth would be cool. He has a pretty badass voice but I still think Crispin Freeman would be a better fit. Wait… didn't Liam also voice Archer from Fate/Stay Night? I swear he did but I haven't seen the show in a while…
Seth: UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS!
Lambda: Out of place reference… confirmed…
Seth: It was not out of place!
Me: And also, for his theme I'd go with the opening for 11eyes: Arrival of Tears. I just think… I dunno I just feel it's fitting somehow… and the anime it comes from is badass. Funny enough the song I play whenever writing fight scenes for Lybra is the ending for the same series: Sequentia…. Yeah I think I might be an 11eyes addict…
Seth: You're not the only one, that anime kicks ass no matter what the haters say!
Me: That's it for today and damn this was a long post-segment! Felling tired too so the question tonight/today (wherever the hell you're from) is simple. If you could pick one character from DtD to be your companion on a deserted island who would it be and why? That's it, good night/morning/afternoon! See you next time! Peace!