Part 43: Molock Attacks
No one would have expected to what would happen next. How could they? Even the minds of humans could not truly understand to how things could go from good to bad to nightmarish and how fast it could happen.
The only one who could truly understand the way fate worked was Ekelo, and since the mentioning of the half-demon; the character came flying into the scene now.
By the mention of flying into the scene wasn't a figure of speech meaning that he appeared out of nowhere or he melded from the floor using his powers. He came flying into the scene, literally.
Ekelo landed in front of the group as his spell was broken and his form revealed. Leo would have taken the moment to pummel Ekelo had he not been so shocked and perplexed at what had brought this about. But soon the answer came as the crowd began to part way for someone. To see this sight it would be almost as if Moses was parting the crowd like he had done the Red Sea to lead his people across to the other land.
However, this being was far from a prophet. He wasn't even in any relevance of the word good or pure of heart. He was, by far, the most sadistic, feared, cunning and viscious being to ever walk the face of the earth.
Ekelo didn't stay down for long as the second he was sent to the ground, he skidded to a stop and then flung himself back to his feet.
The being came forth and the Titans were able to view him fully. His entire skin was bone white and no hair was present on his scalp or anywhere else on his body that could be seen. His entire head looked more like a white skull. His eyes were strange to anyone else; his irises were glowing yellow with red pupils and pitch black sclera. His armor chest plate was a mixture of dark red and pitch black. In the center chest piece was a medallion of some sort that had some kind of glowing red demonic symbol. On both his forearms he wore black and red gauntlets with white skulls on the front. A pair of red and black armored boots was seen as well with white skull emblems on each knee guard. To top the look off, a sword was strapped to his back; what it was there for the Titans may never live long enough to find out.
Ekelo looked at the others behind him and said, "Get out of here…now." The half-demon spoke it in a firm tone telling them that he was serious.
"Like we're going to leave you alone with this guy," said Blackfire as she stepped forward.
"So let me guess, another Lieutenant?" asked Jinx wondering who this was. She knew that he wasn't human despite his human features but something about him told her that he was much more powerful than a mere Lieutenant.
"I am no underling mortal. I am Molock," said the demon finally revealing his identity. Ichijyo and Raven tensed up not knowing at all what this being was capable of.
During the time Raven had traveled with Ekelo, she knew very little of Molock but knew that he had to be powerful. Anyone with the title of High General of Hell had to be powerful, but how powerful was the question.
Ichijyo knew of Molock's reputation and knew of how destructive he was. But how powerful he was and what he was capable of Shadow had no idea. He had only heard rumors and stories here and there. The imposing visage of this creature was enough to send shivers up the Snake Knight's spine.
Ekelo did not know much either, but he knew that if he would have to fight Molock, he would have to give it everything he had and much more.
"You're Molock? I thought you'd look more intimidating," said Blackfire as she sounded unimpressed by what she was seeing. But then again, what should she feel? She had no idea of this being's destructive capabilities and so far she was just making assumptions based on what she was seeing.
However, what she was about to learn was that things were not always what they seem.
"How predictable," said Molock in a deep intimidating voice that sounded more spectral than demonic, "You mortals always seem to think that everything in power has to do with sheer size. There are beings that are smaller than me and are capable of rendering planets in half with a single attack. Not like I can do the same, but I can bring this planet to its knees single handedly if I wished it so."
Blackfire's eyes widened as she tensed up ready for an attack as well as the others. They had no idea what to expect from this guy, "Hey Ekelo, you know anything that can help us?"
The question came from Leo. Even though he didn't like Ekelo at all; he had to know what he was up against.
"Sorry, never faced him before," said Ekelo, having regretted the decision of not trying to find out any weaknesses or the amount of power this guy had.
"You know that old saying you mortals have? 'Big things come in small packages'? Well in my case, big power can come in a small package," said Molock and as to demonstrate he attacked.
Outside of the club Kim and Ron had arrived outside and were excited to be able to see Ichijyo, Takada and Leo in a band.
"Do you think the show will be great KP?" asked Ron as he looked at Kim. He was excited about being able to see a band whose members he knew personally. After all, how many people could actually say "I'm friends with rock stars!"?
"Knowing those three, they'll probably bring the house down," replied Kim, not knowing what to expect but still excited as well.
Suddenly Takada crashed through the wall causing the civilians to panic and get as far away as possible. Kim and Ron just dodged as soon as the wall exploded and tried to keep the dust out of their lungs.
Takada got up slightly dazed as he wobbled back and forth on his feet. His vision cleared before noticing Kim and Ron, "Yo whassup?"
The two sweatdropped not sure at all to what had happened just now. But immediately, Takada was plowed into the ground as soon as Blackfire flew into him and the two got tangled up. The others came flying out of the hall either one-by-one or at the same time.
The last one flew backwards and almost hit a parked car. However, he used his hands to flip himself upwards and landed on the roof of the car. However a red lightning bolt came out of the giant hole that the Titans and the new guy had exited. It jettisoned towards the figure on the parked car and he had enough time to fling himself forward off of the car. However, while he did escape the explosion, he didn't escape the shockwaves that came after as he was thrown forward through the air.
He did a front flip and landed on his feet but had to go on one knee to keep from falling on the ground face first.
Kim and Ron looked at him for a moment before he spoke, "Ekelo," said the young man introducing himself to the two before he added, "I don't have time to explain what's going on."
"Indeed you don't boy," said Molock as he charged forward and hit Ekelo with such might that the half demon went flying backwards and into a brick wall going through it.
Molock turned his head and ducked under a kick that was sent at his head by Kim. He was about to retaliate before he teleported away from a blast of fire from Leo.
Molock appeared right in front of the Dragon Knight and kicked him in the stomach knocking the wind out of him. He then grabbed him by the hair and threw him behind his shoulder as if he was a piece of garbage.
He turned around and stretched out an open palm towards Leo as a red lightning bolt shot out of his palm and hit Leo in the back making him yell in pain.
Ichijyo came forward and sent a telekinetic blast towards Molock. It had no effect whatsoever and Molock replied with a sadistic grin on his face, "You call THAT telekinesis? Here's how it's done!"
At that moment, Molock thrust his left arm out towards Ichijyo with his palm wide open. Immediately, a blast of telekinetic energy came out blowing Ichijyo back like a rag doll. In addition, anything else that was in the area in front of him was also blasted back.
All of the Titans, Ekelo and Team Possible were thrown back as well. They also had to try and not get crushed by the flying debris while trying to stay alive.
As soon as they got their footing, Molock was already there as he sent a punch straight towards Ichijyo's jaw. Molock followed up with a left hook that went towards Ichijyo's stomach knocking the wind out of him and nearly making him regurgitate his food.
Kim came in as she activated her watch and her suit covered her body. She attacked Molock with a flying kick only to have him dodge and counter with a sharp kick to her crotch. Normally such an attack would not hurt a female, but since the strength from which the demon put forth in the kick it hurt just as much as a male.
Ron activated his own black and red battle suit and attacked next with a back fist strike. However, Molock just blocked the attack as he grabbed his wrist and flung him off of the pile that had accumulated during Molock's telekinetic blast.
Ron was flung at the group that was standing there. Jinx gave a smile as she sent a hex wave at the pile that was mainly cars making it explode with Molock on it.
"I hope that hurt," said Leo as he rubbed his back where a black spot was.
A figure became visible from the flames as the figure came out revealing to be unharmed and unscathed, "To tell you the truth; that felt quite refreshing, like an outdoor breeze if you will."
The others were slack jawed. They half expected his armor to be at least singed but there wasn't a scratch on him. It was as if this guy was Superman. But, then again, Molock could drive Superman into the ground with little effort.
"I take it from your slack jawed expressions that you have no idea to what you are up against," said Molock with a smirk plastered on his face. There was nothing more that he liked than being pitted against beings who knew nothing of what they were up against. Because of it, it gave him the greatest pleasure of all; being able to spread pain to those that needed to be taught to fear his power.
A ball of red demonic energy formed in his hands and he flung it at the group. They were able to dodge. However, they did not know of what would happen. It sailed pass them and hit a building creating a powerful explosion, which destroyed the glass and the building completely.
They were about to retaliate until Molock was upon Jinx and kneed her hard in the stomach. She keeled over as a foot came crashing into her face and felt a hand grabbing onto one of her pigtails. She was flung to the side into Leo who ran towards him intending on ripping his arm off. Instead what he got was his girlfriend crashing into him.
Jinx groaned, "Ow…he pulled my hair."
Leo groaned as well, "You okay, Jinx?"
"Yeah," she replied, "Thanks for catching me."
Molock turned around and grabbed at the air as Ichijyo reappeared out of thin air with Molock's hand at his throat. Molock let go of Ichijyo, but not before ramming his knee into his stomach and delivering a vicious uppercut that sent him sailing.
"AZERATH METRION ZINTHOS!"
It was immediately after that that he turned around and put up his arms as a double-decker bus came flying at him from Raven's powers. It crashed into a street pole before stopping and the others gathered in a group wondering if this guy was done.
Of course they knew they could beat him. But, it was better to be more cautious than anything else when facing an opponent such as this.
The door to the bus opened to reveal a completely unharmed and untouched demon looking as if the attack never happened. "Is that all you've got?' he sneered. He stepped down from each step until he was on the ground. After he was on the ground, Ichijyo called forth his own power as a shadowy hand came out of the ground and rushed towards Molock. However, as the hand came closer, Molock just caught one of the fingers and held it there with one hand. With the same hand, an electrical current came through the shadowed hand making it dissipate.
"TAKE THIS!" Takada came rushing towards Molock firing an electrical blast hoping for it to have the same effect as it did on Kerka. But, unbeknownst to Takada was that Molock was far more powerful than Kerka. Because of this the electrical attacks were being absorbed into the demon's body. Molock lashed outwards as Takada's own electricity was fired back at him causing him to fly back and into a store window.
Ekelo came in as he dashed forward along with Leo. They both leapt into the air and came down on Molock. They delivered blow after blow but they had little effect on the demon. He just either blocked, dodged or he let them hit him. Either way they had no effect and Molock quickly grew tired of their antics.
He dodged Ekelo's high kick and grabbed him with both his hands. Afterwards he quickly spun him around and used him as a bat to slam Leo away while at the same time letting the half-breed go.
Blackfire and Kim came into the fray as the Tamaranean flew and Kim followed closely behind. Kim reached her hand forward as Blackfire took it and flew upwards. Kim was then spun around two times until Blackfire flung her forward towards Molock. She came closer and at the speed that she was coming at him, it would seem that he wouldn't have enough time to react.
Of course as we all have seen in this fight so far, Molock had incredible speed. He demonstrated his speed by grabbing Kim out of the air by her ankle and using the momentum of her failed attack to use her as a club to smack the ground with.
But, before she could hit the ground, her foot flew up and kicked Molock in the face. The surprise of such a sudden and unexpected attack caused the demon general of Hell to let go. Kim caught herself with her hands and used her strength and momentum to throw herself away from her attacker.
He turned around and saw Blackfire come at him with amazing speed as she reared back her fist and threw her attack. Molock just dodged the punch by leaning to the side and used his left hand to grab a hold of her hair. Once he got a good grip he spun her around and threw her straight into Kim and Ron who were running forward to attack him.
Ron jumped out of the way as Kim made an attempt to catch Blackfire. Ron came down in front of Molock and went into a Tai Shing Pek Kwar (Monkey King Fu) stance. "Time to show you my mad dumb skillz!" Because of the unpredictability of the style and attacks Molock wasn't able to touch him or land a solid attack; for a while.
Molock caught a kick in the air as he sneered at the young man. Ron was able to land several punches before he was caught. Normally they would not even harm the High General of Hell. However, Ronald Stoppable was granted with Mystical Monkey Power. Though the blows did not harm him much they did sting somewhat and to have a mortal land blow after blow that could actually harm him to the smallest of degree irritated him.
He got a firm grip on Ron before he flung him to the side and into a parked car. He raised his hand and a blast of demonic energy shot forward obliterating the car and the building in front of it.
"Oh Shit!" Ron would've gotten caught in the blast and got killed if not for Ekelo using his power over shadows to grab Ron and meld him through the floor right next to him. "Thanks," Ron said to him, but Ekelo remained silent.
Blackfire got up after getting untangled from Kim and glared at Molock with glowing violet eyes. Even though she was in a heated battle with a demon general, she still didn't like it when people pulled at her hair.
She immediately shot towards Molock with her speed being fueled by her rage and was going to pound on the being that had the nerve to pull her hair.
She came at him with a punch to Molock but the demon just caught the attack by grabbing Blackfire's wrist and forced her onto her knees. His right fist came up and hit her in the face while she was on her knees. He then turned around and used her body as a shield to guard against Takada's electrical attacks.
She screamed out in pain before the Dog Knight ceased his attack and Blackfire was dropped on the ground roughly. "BLACKFIRE!" Takada screamed. Her body was smoking. Molock then kicked the injured Tamaranean's body into the air. Takada rushed forwards and caugh her. "Oh God! Blackfire!" he looked at her injured form. She was smoking all over and her hair was in a mess. "I'm so sorry!" he apologized. Blackfire's eyes peaked open and Takada smiled.
"Try to aim better you stupid dog." she scolded him. Takada looked up and glared at Molock.
"How sweet," the demon mocked, "A Knight saving his princess, even after he almost killed her. What a show of human drama!"
"I'll show you drama!" Takada growled. Kim came over to him and helped Blackfire up with Jinx. The Dog Knight of Immortality took out his Zodiac Deck. Upon seeing this, Ron, Leo and Ichijyo did the same. "Ready for it, Molock? Because, this is gonna be the last thing you'll ever see."
"Bring it mortal trash," Molock challenged.
The four Zodiac Knights called out for their armors in unison.
"ZODIAC FORCE! DOG/DRAGON/SNAKE/MONKEY!"
Blue, red, purple and yellow energy swept over the four teens and in their places were four fantastic battle armored Knights, the Zodiac Knights.
Correction: The Zodiac Titans.
"ZODIAC KNIGHT PLUTO! IMMORTAL KNIGHT OF THE DOG!" Pluto drew out his sword and went into a battle pose of his own. His cape blew behind him, making him an awesome and majestic sight to behold. His black and silver armor glowed in the moonlight.
"ZODIAC KNIGHT DRACO! COMBUSTING KNIGHT OF THE DRAGON!" Draco called out in his red and silver armor. He went into a battle pose and his green eyepieces flashed. The claws in his Dragauntlet popped out, looking as sharp as ever.
"ZODIAC KNIGHT SHADOWCOBRA! INVISIBLE KNIGHT OF THE SNAKE!" Shadowcobra went into a battle stance and produced his battle scepter. He twirled it around expertly before stopping. His eyes under his visor glowed. His purple and silver armor was a sight to behold.
"ZODIAC KNIGHT ANIMORPH! SHAPESHIFTING KNIGHT OF THE MONKEY!" Animorph produced his staff and went into a battle staff. His scarf blew in the wind and his red and yellow armor shone brightly. His blue eyepieces shone.
Molock clapped, "Bravo! Bravo! It seems to me like the four of you so called Knights might even pose of a challenge to me."
"You got that right b-otch!" Pluto called out. Shadowcobra and Draco stared at him.
"You've been spending way too much time with Cyborg," Shadowcobra commented.
"Agreed," Draco nodded.
"He's got the right idea though," Animorph agreed.
"Only you Ron," Draco shook his head, "Only you."
"Hello…" Molock tapped his foot, "I'm waiting here."
"First things first," Shadow turned to the others, "We might need some help here you guys."
Blackfire was still a little frazzled and dazed but she was still eager to fight. She was after all from a warrior race. Her eyes and hands lit up with the same fiery energy she was known for, "Payback's a bitch and so am I," she smiled evilly.
Raven levitated and her eyes flashed white, "Bring it."
Jinx groaned a bit but was still eager to pay Molock back. Her eyes gave off the same pink glow that was the color of her hair, "I'm gonna hex this guy to next Tuesday, and beyond!" she hissed.
Kim didn't want Ron/Animorph to hog all of the action and soon got into a serious battle/mission mode, "Anything is possible for a Possible!"
Ekelo, however, was a bit hesitant to accept all this help. But, he also knew that it was near impossible for himself to beat Molock.
Shadowcobra, Pluto and Draco drew their Survivor Cards and looked at each other. Molock only watched them arrogantly, knowing fully well that he would win.
Or so he thought.
The three Zodiac Titans' card readers morphed into their Survivor Mode versions before their cards were slid into them.
"SURVIVE!"
Red, blue and black energy mixed with gold surrounded the trio of Knights and transformed them, taking them up to the next level.
However, would it be enough? Even with the help of the others, will it be enough to take down Molock?
Will they even survive?
To Be Continued…
ZK Chromedragozoid: Well, this chapter was written by Dr. Evans and edited by yours truly. I haven't truly credited him but he does really good fight scenes, better than mine even. However, I have one complaint and that this guy, my friend, Dr. Evans lacks in putting in any dialogue into his fights.
Dr Evans, this is for you, I know you're a good writer and a great friend and supporter of the ZKD saga.
