Chapter 37: The Final Battles Part 2
Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Calibur, Zelda, or Metroid. Although that only appeared once, I still think it needs to be mentioned. glares at lawyers
Julia: Hey guys, check this out.
(Justin, Morrigan, and Cielo enter)
Morrigan: What's up?
Julia: Well it turns out...Wait, who are you guys?
Cielo: We are new ocs TCM made. I am the great female pirate captain of the Universal Sky Pirates, 'Cielo'. I run a group of female space pirates and raid other space stations.
Morrigan: I am her first mate, Morgan Wilkins.
Justin: I'm Justin, unrelated to these broads. (gets beaten up by the girls)
Manabu: Anyway, Julia, what were you gonna say?
Julia: Oh right. I've estimated that we have seven chapters left before we finish this story... Maybe more, maybe less. But it's definite that we'll end soon.
Last Time On ALF...
Link and the others storm Inferno's castle, siding with Spawn's army he brought. Link, Spawn, Cassandra, Maxi, Taki, Siegfried, Mitsurugi and Talim manage to sneak through Inferno's seemingly endless army of monsters to enter the castle, where they find even more horrible monsters inside. As he's split from everyone but Cassandra and Siegfried, Link faces Bongo Bongo and accidentally unleashes his inner power against it. Meanwhile, Taki and Maxi fall into the kitchen area and face Shura, possessed by Gel-O-Fury, with interesting results.
Link deactivates his super royal armor, along with the Triforce, and looks down at his left hand. "That power..."
"Link, that was awesome!" Cassandra says as she approaches him. "You've really powered up, haven't you?"
"It's weird..." Link says as he clenches his fist. "I felt this uncontrollable burst of energy release from inside me..."
"So that's what it was..." Siegfried says as he approaches them. "Link, you've been too preoccupied with fighting Inferno, so you probably didn't notice this; the walls of this entire castle are completely filled with demonic energy... Inferno probably did it to increase the powers of his pawns, but it's affecting you too isn't it?"
"What?" Cassie quickly turns to Link.
"The god inside of him is drawing on that energy, which will make it easy for you to lose control," he says to him. "Try to hold yourself back even harder now. You lose control, and that monster will kill us all."
"...How would you know-"
"That monster of yours came out and attacked Algol. Actually saved our butts before I could bring you back with the Master Sword. Make sure you hold onto that," he says, patting the Hylian on the back. "Let's go!"
As Siegfried heads forward, Link is stopped by Cassandra. "So even now you're still keeping secrets from me?"
"I didn't even know I transformed... It's like a whole blur to me, that entire fight..." Link tells her. "Cassie, I know I told Siegfried I would hold myself back, but I still think I might have to."
"No arguing about it! You're not using that power, at all!" Cassandra grabs him by the arm and pulls him along after Siegfried.
Elsewhere...
Taki continues to shove Shura into the wall, as water pours down on their bodies from the faucet. It's such a hot sight that not even Maxi, or especially Maxi, couldn't resist. He grabs a beer from the fridge and sits by the Darknuts, watching the girls go into action.
There's this moment where Shura grabs hold of Taki's neck, but her hands slip and she bumps heads with her, and their breasts mash together against one another. To that the guys cheer, and Grimm says, "Booby toast!"
"Booby toast!" Orz says, and they cling glasses with one another.
Taki kicks Shura in the stomach and knocks her to the ground, before jumping on her body and locking her arms around her left arm and chest and pulling on her head. "Maxi and them are watching this, aren't they?"
"They're probably waiting for us to kiss," Shura says jokingly.
"Like hell!" Taki smashes Shura's head into the ground and leaps off her body, before initiating a jutsu. "Hinotama no Jutsu!"
Her fireball completely destroys the area the sink used to be, along with Shura. Grimm and Orz whine seeing that, knowing it's over.
'Oh well, it was fun while it lasted... Time for work!' Maxi breaks the glass bottle he owns and stabs the area where Grimm's eye is in his helmet. While he crying out in pain, Maxi smacks Grimm's head hard with his nunchuks, enough for him to fall to the ground bleeding. He could never have done that if he had his helmet still.
Maxi then picks himself up and walks towards Taki, who slowly approaches them. "You enjoy yourself?"
"Nope, not at all," he lies, looking away with a blush.
"Well, make sure you pay attention this time. Gel-O-Fury is mad," she tells him, pointing back at the demon woman who can be seen walking out of the smoke.
"Yes I am." Shura holds her hand out, and fires a blast of spiritual energy at Taki and Maxi. They run to the side to avoid it, leaving Shura time to grab her swords Raijinmaru and Fujinmaru. "It's about time I stopped playing with you."
"Tatsumaki no Jutsu!" Taki summons a hurricane to blow at Shura, who raises Raijinmaru and slashes through with relative ease. "What?"
"Your powers are nothing to me. While I've been playing with you all this time I've also been absorbing Soul Edge's energy radiating off of the walls of this castle. I'm now at a level where you can't even hurt me!" Shura slashes her twin swords in an X formation, sending a sword beam shaped like a spiraling X towards them.
"Maxi!" Taki grabs the pirate and jumps out of the way, her speed the only thing that allowed them to escape that explosion. She then lands off to the side, glaring back at the demon woman, and let's Maxi go. "I need your help to get my swords."
"How's that gonna help?" he asks.
"Mekkimaru is infused with Soul Edge's energy, so it should be able to absorb the demon energy in the walls around us," Taki whispers to him. She looks at the rubble behind Shura, where Mekkimaru is resting. "Can you distract her that long?"
"No problem..." he says to her.
"Good!" Maxi marches at Shura, swinging his nunchuks for battle. Taki runs in at a slow pace after him.
"Rushing to your deaths, huh?" Shura swings at Maxi, who raises his nunchuks to block them. "I'll slice you in two!"
"Hurry up!" Maxi shouts before kicking Shura in the stomach and wrapping his weapon around her blade. He pulls the sword out of her hand and tosses it away, having Fujinmaru's blade snap into pieces. Shura stabs at Maxi, but he steps to the side and ducks in rapid motion to avoid her attacks.
Taki manages to grab Rekkimaru and Mekkimaru, and turns around to see Maxi's situation. Eventually Shura slashes across his chest, causing blood to pour from his wound down on her body. "Maxi!"
"Die!" Shura raises her sword and prepares to cut through his head, but that's when Taki tosses Rekkimaru and it pierces into her back. The blade comes out through her chest, and blood oozes down from her wound. Shura turns around to face Taki, but is kicked in the face by the ninja.
"Get away from him!" Taki slashes at Shura, releasing energy from the blade to repel the demon woman.
Shura picks herself up easily, pulling out Rekkimaru. "Ah, isn't that sweet? I guess he isn't just a comrade, is he?"
"Shut up!" Taki initiates a technique, but messes up the handseals and fails.
"An opening!" Shura swings her blade, releasing a sword beam that blows them away. Taki and Maxi roll into opposite positions.
With them down Shura rushes to what remains of Fujinmaru and throws it at Taki, piercing her right arm. She cries out in pain, even more when Shura utilizes her energy to burn into her arm. The topless demon woman walks over to Taki, Raijinmaru in her hands. She flips it over and stands before the ninja, stating, "I guess you weren't strong enough to avenge your pathetic master after all."
Shura raises her blade and prepares to pierce her skull, but a set of hands grab hold of her arms and force the blade through her stomach. The blade comes out through her and pierces in and out Maxi's. Taki's eyes widen in shock seeing his move. "MAXI!"
"What are you waiting for, get her!" shouts the pirate.
"Stop getting in the way!" Shura shouts at him, using her sword to release energy to burn his insides. He coughs up blood.
"I SAID GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Taki pulls her arm from Fujinmaru stuck in the ground, leaving a huge fracture in her bone. The marrow and blood inside squirt from her arm near her leaning wrist and hand, as she charges at Shura with Mekkimaru in the other hand.
The moment Maxi pulls himself free, Taki slashes diagonally at Shura. Her attack permeates through her body, electricity sparking all over. She then falls backwards, exploding into flames.
Taki uses all her strength to keep standing, breathing hard and ignoring the pain from her arm. But as she stands a ghostly apparition rises up from Shura's remains. The ghost glares at Taki with blood red eyes, shouting, "I STILL LIVE!"
"Gel-O-Fury..."
"It's not over yet! I can simply possess your little boytoy over there!" Gel-O-Fury flies over to the fallen pirate, who has just heard his plan.
"Makain Fuin no Jutsu!" Using only her left hand Taki performs several handseals, and a fresh wind blows around her and Gel-o-Fury. "Sai!"
From her hands a stream of energy pierces the ghost's body, freezing it. The ghost's body soon explodes, shattering into tiny pieces. With the ghost gone, Taki finally relaxes and falls to her knees. She then collapses, into Maxi's arms.
"Gotcha babe," he says, clutching her in his arms. Maxi then lays her on the floor, his eyes drawn to the still bleeding right arm. He takes his coat off and tears a sleeve off, before using it to wrap around her arm. The sleeve bloodies up rather quickly. "That should keep it from coming off until we get that really-"
Before he could finish, Taki grabs his chin with her good hand and kisses him. Maxi was taken back at first so he does nothing, but soon he realizes what's happening and pulls free. "Whoa, whoa! What the hell are you doing?"
"What do you mean? I'm kissing you," she says to him.
"That's what I'm talking about! I figured you'd be the last person to kiss me!" Maxi's words of confusion bug Taki out, but at the same time she smiles. "What?"
"You're right, I shouldn't be kissing you... You should be kissing me," she says, pointing at him.
"What?"
"I want you to kiss me, from now on. If there is a problem with that then don't do it." Her words, accompanied with a faint blush on her face, leave Maxi at a loss for words. "You know you want to."
Gritting his teeth, he shouts, "Give me a break! Your tricks won't work," before grabbing her face and kissing the crimson ninja on the lips. The passion both warriors hold for one another can be felt through their lips.
Elsewhere...
A trio of Stalfos stand before Spawn, who raises his hand and flexes his muscles. A few cricks can be heard as he does, before his cape morphs off of his back into an axe. "You guys are pissing me off!"
With a single swing, he crushes the bone warriors, shattering them to pieces. His cape shifts into a hammer, one he uses to crush the remains to pieces. 'Takes care of them.'
Spawn reverts his hammer into a cape and walks forward, his eyes tracing the area for anyone who might sneak up on him. He quickly turns around and prepares a Necro Cannon, only to stop when he spots Mitsurugi. "Oh, it's you."
"Yeah that's right, me! What's it to ya?" Mitsurugi draws his sword and aims it at Spawn's head.
The undead warrior simply swaps his sword away and walks off, chuckling under his mask. "You're more annoying than you are threatening. Beat it!"
"Don't tell me what to do!" The samurai swings at Spawn, who blocks using the grown spikes on his left arm. "Maybe I can get a good challenge out of you!"
"So that's all you're here for, a good fight?" Spawn's chains shoot out at Mitsurugi and knocks him into a wall. "Don't bite off more than you can chew, fucking idiot."
The samurai picks himself up rather easily. But before he could make a move, the room turns , a voice speaks, "Oh look at this. These two have given themselves up as sacrifices to the great Inferno!"
A pillar of fire and ice rise up on their left and right, and out from it rises the twins Koume and Kotake. Fire bursts from Koume's hair while Kotake's hair freezes over. The fire witch cackles as she says, "With my flames I shall burn you to the bone!"
"With my frost I will freeze your very soul!" Kotake states with her own cackle. The elderly twin sorceresses circle over Spawn, who only looks annoyed.
"Get lost!" Spawn fires his Necro Cannon at Koume, who receives it without a struggle. She laughs, as the flames surround her without harm.
"Like fire can hurt me! Take this!" She releases a stream of flames at the Hellspawn, who jumps out of the way. His chains shoot out at her, but that's when Kotake takes the scene by freezing them.
"Your powers are nothing to us, Hellspawn!" Her ice spreads down to Spawn, freezing him completely. Flexing his muscles he manages to break free, and retrains his frosted chains.
The two combine their magic and fire a heat/frost spell at Spawn, but he extends his cape into wings and takes flight, avoiding their attacks.
"I can't face those two directly... Fire and ice aren't really good together though." Spawn lands below Koume, awaiting her spell to fire at him.
"Take this!" From behind Kotake fires an ice beam at Spawn, who retaliates by forming his cape behind him. It takes the shape of a glass mirror, and reflects the ice beam away. Spawn bends down on his knees, allowing the beam to reflect onto Koume. The fire twin cries out in pain as her body freezes up cold from that one hit.
Kotake cancels her ice beam, shouting, "Ooh! Sorry about that!"
"Watch where you am!" Koume shouts at her sister.
Spawn returns his cape into an axe, and darts his eyes back at the two hags. "You're gonna need more than spells to defeat me."
"You cocky brat! Take this!" Koume fires a fire beam at him.
Spawn simply transforms his cape into a mirror and deflects it to the samurai. At that moment his instincts kick in and he raises his blade to deflect the fire beam, and by coincidence it strikes and burns Kotake. She screams in pain taking her sister's attack. "My bad!"
"You old scank! You should have known that would happen!" Kotake yells at her sister.
"Who the hell are these bitches?" Mitsurugi questions.
"Just go ahead. I can handle them with one hand tied behind my back!" Spawn tells him.
"Heh, pretty strong, ain't ya?" Mitsurugi heads up the stairs, ignoring Spawn and his opponents. Talim and Setsuka manage to enter the castle as well.
"We made it in," Talim says with relief. Her eyes dart almost immediately to the two witches bickering at eachother.
"Nevermind! Let's finish this quickly!" Koume says to her twin.
"That's right, no more playing games!" Kotake joins with her sister, and they fly in a circle over Spawn and the others.
"You got it!"
"Koume and Kotake Double Dynamic Attack!" The two witches are consumed in a bright light, one that transforms their bodies and mutates them into one. The light dies out, revealing a giant green skinned woman with a hat that exposes the elements of fire and ice. In both her hands is a staff for using spells, and a gem is plastered on her forehead. "Twinrova!"
"Dynamic attack my ass." Spawn takes out a gun and fires at the witch, catching her clean in the left eye. "All you two did was fuse together."
"You son of a bitch!" Twinrova cries as her eye heals itself.
"Fusing together was futile. All you did was make a single target." Spawn fires again at the witch, who launches an ice spell to create a barrier around her.
"I'll make sure you die a most horrible death!" Twinrova fires a devastating fire blast at the Hellspawn, who runs to the side to avoid it.
Meanwhile Setsuka grabs Talim, who's stun by what she just saw, and runs through the battlefield. "Now's our chance! Move!"
"Huh?" Talim manages to break out of her stupor and move her legs.
Twinrova looks down and notices the two women running by her. "You two aren't going anywhere either!" She unleashes a fire spell and traps them in a ring.
"Damn it!" Setsuka draws her sword and prepares to fight the witch.
"This feeling..." Talim mumbles, looking all around her as she senses the dark energy of Soul Edge all over her.
"Don't think you're going anywhere. I'm going to kill you guys too-" As she spoke Spawn unleashes a necroplastic energy blast from his gun to her mouth, burning her tongue. She cries out in pain and grasps her tongue.
"Sorry but you'll have to be satisfied with me, and I have no interest listening to your shit." Spawn fires more normal bullets at her, forcing her to defend with ice.
'That's right! I have to be careful around this man. He's a denizen of darkness like Inferno, so he's being powered by the castle.' These thoughts roam Twinrova's head as she remembers what Spawn is.
As Spawn sets the others free Twinrova shoots a powerful fire spell at him. He raises his right hand and grabs it, crushing the fire in his hands. "I see... The walls of this castle are leaking with Soul Edge's energy. He probably set this up so his followers would gain a powerboost, but it backfired because I'm around!"
Twinrova screams angrily into the sky. She begins throwing random spells all over, causing rubble to fall. Talim and Setsuka head for the stairs to avoid it, and bump into Mitsurugi. The witch shouts, "If only that stupid noble had killed you before his plan would have been perfect! The only ones in that group that should have been affected were that stupid kid!"
"Stupid kid?" Spawn raises his gun at Twinrova and prepares to fire, but curses when he realizes that he's out of bullets. "Damn!"
"Try and stop this spell!" Twinrova fires an ice spell at the ground, locking Spawn in an area where he can't move in close without dealing with frozen ground. He glares up at the witch, who charges up a flame spell.
"You really think you can stop me? With these petty tricks?" he questions the woman in a serious voice. His cape turns into wings and he flies up at Twinrova, his fists clenched tightly. Before she could fire, Spawn gives her a real knock out knuckle sandwich. Twinrova flies upward until hitting the ceiling, and crashing down to the marble floor.
Spawn descends at a rapid pace towards the witch, landing on her back and effectively crushing her spawn, er, spine. Spawn leans down and grabs her head before shoving it down to the floor. As he stands back up his cape reforms into his axe, one he uses to slice off her left arm and legs. "Stay down, or I'll take off something else."
Spawn then returns his axe into a cape and walks off, stomping on Twinrova's head as he does. The witch remains motionless on the ground as he leaves, her blood spilling on the ground.
Back with Mitsurugi and the girls they continue until reaching the second floor, where the burnt body parts of monsters have been sprayed all over. Mitsurugi kicks an arm to the side and says, "Must have been the Hylian."
"Link, the knight and the Greek must be nearby. Let's keep moving," Setsuka says, looking ahead up the stairs at their trail.
Before they could continue, the lights on the entire floor go out, leaving nothing but darkness. "Hey, what happened to the light?"
Suddenly, someone kicks the samurai in the face, knocking him into Setsuka. "Mitsurugi!"
A weird hissing noise could be heard by the group within the darkness, along with a thud noise. Talim says, "There's an evil presence amongst us."
"Yeah, he's on me!" Setsuka complains, pushing the samurai off of her.
Top Floor...
Link, Siegfried and Cassandra manage to make it to the top floor, where a huge door leading to Inferno's quarters exists. The sound of an organ begins to play, resounding throughout the entire castle. Siegfried complains, "What's with that sound?"
"Ganondorf has really had an affect on this guy. He even plays the organ like him," Link says with a scuff. He draws the Master Sword and prepares himself.
Cassandra places a hand on his left one. "Don't worry. We can do this."
"Sure." Link and Siegfried grab hold of the doors and pull them open.
Julia: We're just about cleared for this chapter.
Morgan: What's happening next time?
Justin: Let's see... In the next chapter Link and Siegfried face Inferno, who totally blitz them when he uses his full power. Thankfully Cassandra sticks by. At the same time Setsuka is forced to help Mitsurugi fight Voldo.