Hello everyone and welcome back to HellFall!
You know, its funny how the ideas I have for this story I've had for so long, to the point where its almost just common sense to me. Then when I mention them to people they wouldn't have even thought of it, so it ends up being a spoiler. That recently happened with one of my friends, and he wasn't too happy about it.
Also, I've hit yet another cloud of writer's block recently (I think), but luckily I'm several weeks ahead in my writing already. Still, I takes me out of the mood of the characters and story, so when I go back to it it may be difficult to continue. But I can assure you that HellFall won't end for a very long time.
As promised, here is next week's chapter.
The battle started. Both our teams charged forward, weapons drawn. Raising one pistol, I fired off several rounds, all of which were deflected.
I wasn't surprised to see that Lime went straight for me. She raised her blade above her head, bringing it down hard upon me. I side-stepped, avoiding the blow, then quickly put my pistols together and swung sideways, my staff bouncing off of Lime's aura.
Lucky for me, I knew Lime's fighting style, and any surprises that she could conjure up were already known to me. Her weapon, Twisted Catastrophe, was a broadsword with a gun at the end of the blade. Two sharp points stuck out of either side of the top of the silver blade. Unfortunately for me, however, she knew my fighting style and weapon, which meant that I wouldn't be able to pull any surprises either.
Or so she thought.
Roy and I had planned out our own dual attack strategy. I just hoped that it'd work.
Lime swung her blade sideways towards me. Barbed Gustav came up, deflecting the blow.
"Roy!" I called.
Just then Roy burst into the fight, sword swinging in from the side. Roy's silver blade had a long, jagged blade and a diamond-shaped tip at the top. The hilt was thick, long, and dark red, with black stripes looping around it. The handle was very long as well. When it transformed into gun mode the hilt would extend out and cover the blade, and the long handle would bend downwards to make a gun handle. The tips of the hilt at the end of the blade would then be able to fire a laser. It was the only laser gun I'd ever seen.
With Lime holding me off she was going to have to take a hit. Either she would block Roy and leave herself open for me, or take a hit from Roy.
She had a few surprises up her sleeve, however, literally.
Her arm shot up, colliding with Roy's blade. His sword, ShoGun, cut through her sleeve, revealing the metal gauntlet underneath.
Just then another member of the team charged towards us. It was a man, likely the one who had been fighting Roy at first.
"Grizzly!" Roy called in monotone. I turned my head, then leapt into the air, narrowly avoiding his blow. Lime's Twisted Catastrophe took the hit instead, knocking the blade from her hand.
I saw the opportunity.
Separating my staff into two pistols, I fired off rounds at her back from where I was in the sky. When the magazine ran out of both my pistols, I flipped them upside down and continued firing. As I did so I reached into my cloak with my head (I'd practiced loading my guns without my hands, so my neck was very flexible), pulled two clips out with my mouth, and loaded them into the bottom of each gun. By the time I finished I was back on the ground.
Still firing at Lime's back, I charged towards her. She had already picked her sword back up, and was now clashing with Roy along with the other man.
Running and dropping to the ground, I slid between Lime's separated legs and fired a few rounds up at her chin. Immediately she fell backwards, taking the hit hard and landing on her back. Leaping back to my feet, Roy and I faced the man.
As we clashed, Lime stood up, her chin bleeding. I didn't notice, but Roy did just at the last second.
"Duck!" He called, turning towards me and planting his palm on the back of my neck. I hunched over, giving Roy more room to leap over me and deflect Lime's attack.
We stood side-by-side for a while, deflecting attacks and attacking each other's opponents.
Roy was smacked hard in the face, causing him to stagger backwards. Lime took several more swipes at him, knocking him on his backside and rendering him unable to fight. The man I fought was weakening, so I quickly dispatched him with a stronger attack to even out the odds.
Lime turned to face me, blade in hand. Turning to her, I charged, staff drawn, curved blade and pitchfork extended. Flipping it around so that the pitchfork faced her, I stabbed forward. Her blade came up, catching the staff right in between the forks. Pulling the trigger, I fired off a bullet and launched her sword back. Spinning the staff in my hands, I brought the curved blade up towards her. Her arm appeared, blocking the blow with her gauntlets.
Immediately I spun the staff back around, clashing my pitchfork against the top of her gauntlets and stabbing forward, piercing her aura. Barbed Gustav bounced back, and Twisted Catastrophe came up, firing off a round from the gun at the end right next to my head. My ear started ringing, but I pushed past it. My focus was on Lime, not my ear.
I adjusted my staff so that it hit Twisted Catastrophe and knocked it away from me, then stepped back. Pulling Barbed Gustav up in staff form and aiming, I got ready to fire. As a staff it could also act as a rifle, as barrels stuck out on either end. I pulled the trigger, and all of a sudden Lime exploded into blue plasma. Shocked and falling backwards, I looked down at Barbed Gustav in awe.
As Lime stood up there was another explosion of blue plasma, and I realized that I wasn't responsible for it. Turning, I saw Roy walking towards her, ShoGun in gun mode and aimed straight at her.
She staggered to her feet, only to receive another blast to the gut. She raised her gauntlets as she stood yet again, only to have the steel shattered and her body go flying across the arena and slam into one of the surrounding walls.
"Think she's had enough?" Roy asked nonchalantly.
"Hopefully" I replied.
We turned to Wintanweorth and Ember, who were fighting back-to-back against the last two members of Team LLPP.
"Should we help them out?" I asked.
"We've got no choice" Roy replied.
As we charged towards them we noticed that both Wintanweorth and Ember were wounded and tired. Ember was even bleeding in several places.
"Call aggro" I told Roy, who upon hearing that turned and ran in another direction. That was one strategy we had. Whoever said 'call aggro' would draw all attention to themself while the other sneaks around for a surprise attack.
Drawing both pistols, I fired several shots into the air and at the ground. Sure enough, both opponents turned towards me. I started firing straight now, right at the nearest one. He deflected the shot easily. I adjusted one of my pistols and fired at the other. Both deflected the shots easily with their aura, and still continued to fight against our teammates. But it was enough to throw them off.
Roy charged in, knocking the man fighting Ember aside and leaping on top of him.
The woman Wintanweorth was fighting against showed a sign of brief surprise on her face. An opening! I thought, leaping forward, semblance activated.
I grabbed onto her shoulder, wrapping my arms around her neck and pulled backwards, toppling her. As she fell I spun around to her front, drawing both pistols and aiming one at her head, the other at her hand.
She started to raise her weapon before I shot it out from her fingers. She raised both hands, signaling defeat.
"AND OUR WINNER IS," the announcer started, "TEAM WRGE!"
Everyone cheered. I stood up, looking around at all the cheering people. Sheathing Barbed Gustav I smiled and waved to everyone. Turning I saw Wintanweorth leaving, with Ember right behind him. Roy started towards the exit as well. I continued waving as I left, and eventually disappeared behind the doors into the fighters' waiting room.
A little shorter than some past ones, but oh well.
I don't have much to say other than that this'll be the last chapter for the next two or so weeks, so you know I'm not forgetting to post (although I addressed that in the last chapter already).
Also, Roy's weapon, the ShoGun, is one of my favorites of the weapons that I made, and I've made a lot of weapons, which you will learn over the course of the entirety of this story.
One last thing, we reached over 5,000 total views recently, which is pretty great. Thanks for all the support thus far guys, and I hope that you'll continue to enjoy reading as much as I enjoy writing.
Anyways, wish me luck for the rest of the summer, and as usual, favorite, follow, review, tell your friends, tell your enemies, or don't if you don't want to, and I'll see you all in the next chapter.