Anime Hearts
By Animelegend
Note: I own Anime and the Animblade (And all the forms of it). And probably the High Ship. Those who copy or steal any of this story will be notified. Well let's just say don't take or rearrange anything from this story.
Chapter 53: Arrival at the last room.
Anime and Arlin continue to walk through the hallway.
" Are you still feeling pain from that cold experience?" Asked Arlin.
Anime looks at him.
" A little. I'm still feeling cold pain, but it's not as bad anymore. It feels like it's going away." Replied Anime,
" It's a good thing you beat that thing when you did. Another few minutes and you would have got frostbite." Said Arlin.
" Yeah I know. But I didn't though." Replied Anime, as he walked alongside Arlin.
" You're right. But if you did then we would have a problem." Said Arlin.
" But you were stuck in the ice for a while. But you haven't mentioned that it hurt." Said Anime.
" I'm older than you. So I'm able to take more pain without saying ow. And I can take on lower temperatures." Said Arlin.
Anime stays silent and looks ahead and sees that they are 2 steps from a flight of stairs. Him and Arlin begin to walk up the stairs toward the top floor.
" Do you think it would be cooler if we had to progress down instead of up?" Asked Anime, as he continued to walk up the stairs
" It really couldn't matter less to me." Replied Arlin, as he walked alongside Anime.
" Yeah. It doesn't really matter to me either." Replied Anime.
" I can feel the Mana energy getting stronger. We must be getting closer." Said Arlin, as he walked up the stairs alongside Anime.
" What's Mana?" Thought Anime.
Anime nods his head twice as he walks up the stairs. Anime begins to think.
" We made it this far. I can't turn back now and I know Arlin won't. I just hope the lights don't go out again." Thought Anime, as he continued to run, slightly up the stairs.
Anime and Arlin reach the end of the stairs and continue to walk through another hallway. As they walk through it, they see lights coming from up ahead.
" What are those lights for?" Asked Anime.
" Those lights must be coming from the room. And I feel a Mana presence coming from where the lights are coming from. Lets go." Said Arlin.
Anime and Arlin begin to run. As they run towards the lights and turn they see a closed door. The lights and Mana energy is coming from the room.
" This must be where Mull is. Are you ready?" Asked Arlin.
Anime nods his head.
" Yeah." Said Anime.
Arlin turns the doorknob and realizes that it's locked.
" It's locked. Ok, Anime. Stand back." Said Arlin, as a small ball of Mana energy began to form in the palm of his left hand.
" You don't have to do that." Said Anime.
Arlin looks at Anime.
" How are we going to get inside then?" Asked Arlin.
" Easy. Just watch." Said Anime.
The Animblade appears in Anime's right hand. He then raises the Animblade in front of the keyhole of the door. Suddenly an unlocking sound is heard and the door slightly cracks open a bit.
Arlin looks surprised and the Mana energy ball disappears from his hand.
" I guess I didn't have to blast the door down." Said Arlin.
Arlin and Anime open the door wider and begin to walk inside the room. They see that the room is dark, and the lights are coming from a huge glowing symbol on the ground. They see that a person is standing in the middle of the symbol.
" Who's that person standing there?" Asked Anime, as he held the Animblade in his right hand
All of a sudden the person begins to speak.
" Welcome to the final room of the Mull Challenge." Said the person, as he stood with his back turned to them.
Arlin recognizes the voice but doesn't say anything. Suddenly the lights turn on, identifying the person as Mull. Anime can only see Mull's silver hair, and doesn't know it's him. But Arlin knows it's him just by looking at his hair.
" Mull!" Said Arlin.
Anime thinks.
" So that's Mull." Said Anime.
Mull turns around and looks at Anime and Arlin.
" Well if it isn't Arlin, and the kid who wields the Anime." Said Mull, as he looked at Arlin, then at Anime.
" Mull… Why are you trying to summon the Almagam?" Asked Arlin.
Mull smiles evilly.
" The Almagam doesn't have any dark energy. But I'm fusing the Almagam with darkness and a new form of the Almagam will be created." Answered Mull.
" You don't know what you're doing. You're putting everyone in danger." Said Arlin, as he looked.
Mull begins to laugh evilly.
" You think I care. It took me all these years to prepare for this moment. The moment where I get rid of you, and fill this world with darkness." Said Mull, as he laughed.
" You really are crazy. " Said Arlin.
" You're not filling this world with darkness." Said Anime.
Mull stops laughing and looks at Anime.
" Oh really? Then I guess we have a disagreement. " Said Mull.
" I always have a disagreement against you." Said Arlin.
" Wait… That guy that showed us to the Mull Challenge said that there was no summoning allowed." Said Anime.
Arlin looks at Mull.
" It's called the Mull Challenge. I'm in charge. And I do what I want to do. And as I said before, I'm creating the Dark Almagam and filling this world with darkness." Said Mull.
Anime gets into his fighting position.
" Not if we have anything to do with it." Said Anime, as he looked at Mull.
Arlin unsheathes his sword and looks at Mull. Mull continues to look.
" Why don't you stop summoning that useless Almagam and battle without it."? Said Arlin.
Mull begins to get mad.
" Oh. I see. Well I hope you two are ready. Because I don't go lightly on fools who are foolish enough to challenge me." Said Mull.
Mull unsheathes his sword. All of a sudden the lights coming from the huge symbol begin to disappear. Mull then begins to run towards Anime, and Arlin. Mull reaches then and tries to hit Arlin but he dodges out of the way. Anime tries to hit Mull but Mull quickly turns toward him and guards with his sword. Arlin then begins to charge up a ball of Mana.
" Mana Blast!" Said Arlin.
Arlin shoots the blast of Mana towards Mull. Mull quickly looks behind him and sees the blast. The blast hits Mull, blasting him back a little. Anime quickly aims the Animblade at Mull.
" Fira!" Said Anime.
A medium sized red fireball surrounded slightly with fire shoots from the tip of the Animblade towards Mull. The Fira spell hits Mull, not doing as much damage. Mull then runs toward Anime and tries to slash him but Anime guards with the Animblade. As their weapons hit, a clink sound is heard. Arlin teleports near Mull and tries to hit him. Mull guards with a hit attempt of his own. Arlin then moves back a little and begins to charge his sword with Mana.
" Mana Strike!" Said Arlin.
Arlin runs toward Mull and hits him with his Mana-shrouded sword. The Mana disappears from his sword. All of a sudden a group of heartless that resemble darkballs appear. Anime and Arlin look at them. The blue floating heartless look at Anime and Arlin.
" What kind of heartless are those?" Asked Anime.
" These are a new kind of heartless. Heartless Darkballs are born from pure darkness. But these are born from pure Mana and Darkness. They are called Manaballs." Said Mull.
" That's an obvious name for them." Said Arlin.
" It may be obvious, but they will beat you senseless. Manaball group! Attack them." Commanded Mull.
The 5 Heartless Manaballs continue to float while staying.
" I guess they don't listen to you." Said Anime.
Mull begins to get mad.
" Ok. Fine don't listen to me." Yelled Mull.
The Manaballs begin to float towards Anime and Arlin. Mull steps back and watches.
" Here they come. Let's take care of the heartless. Then we'll take care of Mull." Said Arlin.
" Yeah." Said Anime, as he looks at the Manaballs closing in towards them.
Anime runs toward them and jumps in the air. As he jumps in the air he begins to attack one of them. He lands a 5 hit combo on it. Arlin begins to hit another. A Manaball manages to bite Anime.
" Ah!" Said Anime, as the Manaball bit him.
Anime aims the Animblade at the Manaball.
" Force!" Said Anime.
Suddenly a medium sized Gravira sphere appears in the air and falls to the ground. 3 of the Manaballs fall to the ground, causing them to get hurt. 1 of them dematerialize into the air, while the other two begin to float. Arlin hits one of the Manaballs that got hit by the Gravira. The Manaball dematerializes into the air. Anime lands a 6 hit airborne combo in the air. The finishing attack of the combo blasts the Manaball back some. The Manaball dematerializes into the air. Anime lands on his feet. He then raises his Animblade in the air.
" Thundara!" Said Anime
6 thunderbolts fall and strike the 3 remaining Manaballs. One of the Manaballs dematerilize into the air. A Manaball chomps it's way towards Arlin to bite him but he dodges and as the Manaball passes him he hits it in it's back, causing it to disappear. The last Manaball looks at Anime and Arlin. It then disappears. Mull watches it disappear.
" Coward." Said Mull.
Anime and Arlin look at Mull.
" Now that your heartless friends are taken care of. It's time for you to go with them." Said Arlin.
Mull looks angrily at Anime and Arlin.
" You wanna play? Ok. Let's get this over with." Said Mull.
All of a sudden the room begins to shake and the huge symbol on the floor begins to glow brightly. Anime, Arlin, and Mull look shocked and don't know what is going on.
" What's going on?" Asked Anime.
" Mull! What happened?" Asked Arlin.
" I don't know… I think you defeating those heartless must have lowered the darkness and Mana levels." Replied Mull.
All of a sudden Mull begins to disappear.
" What's happening to me?" Asked Mull.
Arlin gives Mull an angry look.
" I tried to stop you. You have abused the Mana. Mana is supposed to be used for good purposes. Not for someone's plan to change something that shouldn't be changed. But it's too late for you now." Said Arlin.
" Wait… Mull? Do you know a girl named Narue?" Asked Anime.
Mull looks at Anime, and laughs evilly.
" Like I'll tell you where she is. Even I don't know." Said Mull, as he laughed.
Anime begins to get mad.
" And to think I was going to help you." Said Anime, as he put both hands on the Animblade's handle and aimed it at Mull.
" Wait! No!" Said Mull.
" See ya…" Said Anime.
All of a sudden a big breeze filled with ice crystals blows from the Animblade towards Mull. The Blizzaga spell hits Mull. Mull disappears and small Mana particles drop to the ground and disappear. Anime takes his left hand off the handle of the Animblade and moves it to his side. The room stops shaking. Arlin's angry expression changes into a regular expression and he looks at Anime.
" We have to get rid of the symbol on the ground." Said Arlin.
" Yeah let's hurry." Said Anime, as he held the Animblade in his right hand.
All of a sudden the symbol begins to glow and a circle appears above it. Arlin looks stricken while Anime looks regularly.
" What is that?" Thought Anime.
" Oh… no…" Said Arlin, as he looked.
The circle begins to glow dark and Mana begins to appear on the line of the circle. A screeching sound is heard.
End of Chapter.
" Anime and Arlin were able to defeat Mull. Well… Mull defeated himself. But since he has disappeared the Mana energy has been used to add to the power of the symbol. Now a circle has appeared above the symbol. Anime has no idea what it is there for, while Arlin is stricken with different emotions. What can it be? And is Mull really down for the count? Find out on the next chapter.
