Chapter 53:
Seth walked into the throne chamber, and bowed down on one knee. His sharp yellow eyes were full of lust as he observed the heavy black aura surrounding Corrupt.
"What have you called me for, my King?" Seth inquired.
"I am asking you to carry out another attack. Your mission is to kill any heroes you possibly can," Corrupt instructed, "You shall take a monster with you, like your other trip."
The black hedgehog summoned the rows of canisters, and he summoned one while throwing an orb of darkness at it. The glass shattered as black smoke covered the new creation. It eventually faded, revealing the new monster that replaced the canister.
It was a cat animaloid like thing. There were a few differences. For one thing, the tail was even longer the Darkness Shadow's. Another thing was the fact it has a long belt of daggers, and four arms. She balanced on the balls of her feet, licking her lips with a sharp tongue.
"This is Dagravia," Corrupt introduced, turning to her his creation, "Swear your allegiance to me."
"Not a chance!" she grinned, pulling out on of her daggers and slashing the air to create a dark portal, "I shall wreak havoc for myself!"
Dagravia jumped through, leaving a surprised Seth and a furious Corrupt.
"Never mind what I told you before," he dismissed, "You new mission is to stop that monster at any cost before it does anything inconvenient for us!"
"Yes, my King," Seth accepted and jumped through his own portal of black.
In the city of Soleanna, Seth walked through the streets as the sun rose in the distance, shortening the wide shadows that plagued the city. He was unable to follow her, for there was nothing to follow.
A dagger arced through the air at him, but he caught it right before it plunged into his eye. Though he stopped it, he couldn't figure out where Dagravia was.
Finally, he found one RMF officer dead in the street. He saw a trail of blood, and followed it to the top of another building, where another guard lay slaughtered in the brightening sunlight.
"This isn't helping," Seth growled, aggravated. But then he noticed the trail of blood going off.
"That's it!" the silver hedgehog exclaimed.
He dashed off, following one murder after another. He followed it from one side of Castle Town to another part of the town. He walked off into the forest, following a few more.
Finally, he found a long trail of blood. Though he found the cat monster standing in a clearing, she burst into daggers which he dodged. One pierced his side, spurting blood around him.
Clutching the open wound at his side, he followed the trail of blood to the side of the Soleanna Castle. It went up to the roof, and as Seth was about to follow, a squad of six RMF soldiers came up to him.
"You cannot go past this point!" one soldier barked at him.
"Well, I have to get through," Seth reasoned.
"Do we have to repeat ourselves, you will tell us what's going on, and you will not get through!" another one yelled at him in response.
"I don't have time for this," Seth sighed, and drove his fist into one of their chests. They were sent into the side of the castle, sitting in the crater his impact made.
The five others looked in shock, and drew their firearms. A few pulled out short swords engraved with the seal of the royal family.
One with a sword lunged at him, but Seth grabbed that blade, ignoring the blood from his hand that stained his cut glove. He snapped it off, and shoved it through another one's chest, grabbing his gun and shooting the one that attempted to impale him in the first place.
The last three closed in one him from all sides, and the hedgehog moved at untraceable speeds, appearing behind one and boring holes in his body with the gun he snatched. The other two gazed on as he tossed the gun to the side, his arms extended for their next move.
The rook of darkness held both arms out behind him, then swung them out in front of him to unleash two Psycho Razors, one for each target. The two soldiers froze up and Seth grinned madly as he observed their upper and lower bodies get severed, blood spraying all over the scene of slaughter.
"Too easy. They should have listened to me the first time!" Seth suggested as he waltzed right through the front door. The two guards assumed he should be there since the outer guards "let" him in, so they did not attack. Unfortunately, the member of DARKNESS chose to, and smashed them both into the ground.
He walked up the stairs to watch Dagravia approach the princess. Elise was unaware of the danger, staring out at the beautiful daybreak before her. Right before Dagravia attacked her, she felt a whoosh of air before turning around, finding Seth in a fighting position before her.
"Stay behind me, or die," Seth proposed, throwing the dagger into the ground that was originally intended to kill the monarch of Soleanna.
Elise gulped and nodded, knowing full well of the very same Dark Ruler's attack before on her island. She noticed the monster that drew a dagger for each of her hands and her tail.
The two waited for the other to attack. But Seth's patience won out as Dagravia tossed the daggers at the villain, each one slicing through the air.
Seth knocked two out of the air by hitting them from the side, and kicked Elise in the stomach to knock her off her feet, causing to last three to miss both of them, and two of them to hit where Elise's feet once were.
"Don't look at me like that!" Seth hissed, seeing her sad face, "My reflexes are superior to hers, while yours aren't. So you would've died if it wasn't for moi!"
The silver hedgehog charged forward, knocking more and more daggers out of the air from the sides of them. Dagravia managed to stab him a few times, but the pain barely slowed him down.
He spun at her, but quickly backed off when he discovered that her tail had a dagger infused at the end. It swiped to his side, spurting blood upwards. The rook of darkness grimaced and tried to grab her tail, but she sliced his right side, making another big gash. This one caused Seth to yell in agonizing pain, clutching his wound.
She raised her dagger tail up, but he rolled to the side, and jumped off to avoid four different fists. He smirked, and grabbed hold of her dagger tail.
"What are you doing?" Dagravia asked, trying to pull out of Seth's hard grip. But he held hard, once again ignoring his injuries.
"Your daggers are infused with chaos energy, I could feel it," Seth stated.
"What about it? If anything, it makes you worse off," Dagravia shouted.
"But this dagger is fused to your body, and I'm an absorber. The more energy you have, the better I am!" Seth cackled, green energy rushing through him.
She could do nothing as Seth gained more and more energy, his powerful muscles seeming to contract in rhythm with his growing power.
Finally, she punched him rapidly with all four arms, flipping across the room to gain some distance. But he was barely hurt because of his newfound power. Dagravia could only sit there as he held both arms above him, then arced them through the air and downwards, summoning all of his green energy.
"Nova Psycho Razor!"
In the cool fall breeze, a huge crescent of green energy cut through the entire castle, turning it into rubble. The only thing left standing was the balcony Elise was on.
"Thank you for saving me!" she yelled to the silver hedgehog.
"I wasn't there to save you, you were a mere liability. I was there to hunt down that thing and prevent it from doing anything I could. That included you, and that's all there was to it. Got it?" he hissed.
Seth snapped his fingers to summon a dark portal, and he jumped through it without hesitation, seeing the approaching RMF soldiers.
"Um, what on earth just happened?" Elise asked herself.
To Be Continued...
A/N: There's only four chapters until our part three finale, which I will post at one time. Try to review as many chapters as you can, because I will be updating incredibly quickly tomorrow. Tuesday's back to school, so though I will update when I can, you will get only two to three a week for the rest of the story. So just review for the next chapter!
