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Bloodstone almost seemed to be hyperventilating, his eyes wide as he stepped back from the God Eater.
"This... This can't be... This is all just a bad dream!" He said, panic clear in his voice.
"Yes that's true..." Howlite smirked, holding up one palm, multiple colors swirling in it.
"And you're never waking up."
Bloodstone jumped back from the blast, firing his own beam into it. The attacks collided, struggling against one another for a moment before becoming unstable, exploding into the air.
Howlite shot from the dust, pulling back one fist and gritting his teeth.
"THIS IS FOR EVERYONE YOU'VE EVER HURT, REAPER!"
Howlite rammed his fist into Bloodstone's face, firmly planting his feet on the ground and twisting his body, throwing Bloodstone across the Kindergarten and smashing through the ship's rubble.
Howlite opened one palm to the rubble, beams of blue, white, gold, orange, purple, red, and green shooting from his palm and racing towards the rubble.
The rubble was alight with explosions, everyone watching in awe as the sky was lit up.
"Now fade away."
The rubble burned in multiple colors, Howlite waiting silently.
In an instant, the rubble was exploding into the air, a tornado of black energy whipping it around.
"IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO, GOD EATER?!" Bloodstone demanded to know.
"Hmph." Howlite crossed his arms, smirking.
"We'll see."
Chapter 54: Phase 3 (Part 5)
Howlite The Protector
"This hero thing doesn't suit me..."
107 smashed Halite down onto a boulder, the boulder exploding under him.
107 watched as Halite attempted to get back up, panting as blood ran from multiple wounds.
Damn it... This is a waste of time..! 107 looked up to the ship once again, worry flickering in him once again.
"Halite... I apologize for taking away Cuprite." 107's Proto-Blade appeared over his left arm. "But I cannot let this go on any longer."
"Huff... Then come on..." Halite smirked, sweat running with blood down his face, his axe appearing in his hands.
The two shot off the ground at one another, slashing by each other.
The two stood at opposite ends, backs facing each other.
Halite fell to his knees, a wound opening in his chest, blood seeping from it.
"There, it's do-" 107's eyes widened, his right arm falling, sliced off at the bicep.
"... Ow..." His left eye twitched, and he resisted the urge to grab his wound and jump around in agony.
"A present... You son of a bitch..." Halite grabbed his left forearm, feeling the slash deep in his gem.
He fell face first into the sand, eyes closing as he poofed away, leaving a cracked Gem there in the sand.
107's cannon floated over it as 107 walked back towards the ship.
The cannon fired.
Connie back flipped, a blade going under her as she landed behind the second Emerald, stabbing through his back before slicing out to the side, watching as he poofed away.
She jumped back, the second Emerald jumping through the smoke of the first and slicing at Connie, catching a piece of her hair.
She slid back, parrying slash after slash from the Emerald.
In the next instant, a beam of green shot through the side of the ship, blowing through the Emerald, obliterating him and his Gem.
"Whoa..." Connie looked to see 107 standing atop his skull cannon, jumping in through the hole it made.
"... Uh oh..." The Peridot driving gulped, spinning in her chair to face them.
"You alright?" 107 glanced at Connie.
"I'm fine but... your arm..." Connie said, staring at 107's arm.
Or, where it should have been.
"I will be fine." 107 extended his glowing green hand to the Peridot.
"Some time in my Gem will fix it."
"What... Is that?" Amethyst questioned, watching Howlite and Bloodstone collide.
"It looks like the God Eater..." Blue Diamond said, and the other gems turned to look at her, as if to say "God what now?"
"Oh... Right... You all don't know about that..." She laughed nervously, rubbing the back of her head.
"It's basically what almost killed Howlite in our last fight with Bloodstone."
"What?!" Steven said.
"We've gotta stop him from using it then!" Lapis said.
"No, something's different..." Hematite said, watching the battle, feeling what was going on it Howlite.
"You're right, before his energy was only white... Now he has all of these other colors, and a few of his features are different..." Blue Diamond stroked her imaginary beard. "Curious..."
"His gem isn't taking the strain." Hematite said, and everyone looked surprised.
"Then who is?" Pearl questioned.
"There's only one other being here..." Hematite looked into the crater that the light had shot from.
Garnet awoke to Cluster Experiments carrying her from the crater.
"W-what's... What's going on..?" She choked.
They didn't respond, they just kept moving.
Bloodstone's fist slammed into Howlite's, a shock wave blowing down Injectors.
Howlite pulled back his other fist, slamming it into the side of Bloodstone's face, jarring him before he rammed his knee into his chest, grabbing him by the back and shooting back first towards the ground, pulling him over his shoulder and exploding with him into the ground.
Bloodstone was thrown from the dust, beams of multiple colors chasing him and smashing into him as he went.
Bloodstone hit the ground, skidding before slowing to a stop.
He stood slowly, panting. "How?! How is this possible?!" Bloodstone demanded to know. "You shouldn't be able to handle that form anymore!"
"What can I say, reaper?" Howlite shrugged, smirking.
"Somebody out there really wants you dead." His smirk became a grin as he sauntered from the dust plum he'd thrown Bloodstone from.
"This won't be like last time..!" Bloodstone's hands clenched into fists, scythe's appearing floating above him. He floated into the air in front of them.
"I'LL CUT YOU DOWN!"
The scythes slashed violently, energy blades shooting at Howlite, who side stepped each and every one.
"Go ahead, keep trying." Howlite appeared before Bloodstone, ramming his fist into Bloodstone's abdomen, making him cough blood.
"All the more fun for me."
He pulled back his fist, watching as Bloodstone slowly floated back towards the ground.
As he did, Howlite pulled up one leg, slamming it down on Bloodstone's back and sending him rocketing down into the earth.
Bloodstone pushed himself up, face in the dirt.
Howlite came down, smashing his foot into the back of Bloodstone's head and smashing his Gem against the stone.
Howlite kicked Bloodstone aside, watching as his Gem healed itself.
"Hm..." Howlite grinned, hair covering his eyes. "Let's see how many times I have to kill you before you stay dead, shall we?"
Disappear by Bullet for my Valentine began playing in the background.
Bloodstone grit his teeth, jumping back and aiming both palms at Howlite, firing a massive wave of power at him.
Howlite held out both hands, stopping the blast before he began to slide back.
Howlite grit his teeth, suddenly throwing his hands up into the air, sending the beam flying up into the sky.
Bloodstone's eyes widened, and he watched as Howlite shot off at him, pulling back one fist and ramming it into his gem, a shattering sound being heard as Bloodstone was thrown back.
As Bloodstone lay on the ground, Gem reforming, Howlite opened one palm to him, firing a barrage of multicolored orbs into him, explosions rocking the Kindergarten.
Howlite placed one hand in his pocket as he fired from his palm, waiting for Bloodstone to break free of the attack chain.
Bloodstone shot forward from the smoke, slamming one fist into Howlite's face and throwing him back.
As Howlite skidded back, Bloodstone shot forward, slamming his fists repeatedly into Howlite's chest and abdomen, roaring as he did so.
"I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU!"
Howlite suddenly slammed his head down onto Bloodstone's skull, making Bloodstone's combo stop as he was thrown down to his knees.
Howlite kicked him square in the chest, throwing him back across their arena, where he skidded to a stop, slashing energy blades at Howlite with a new scythe.
Howlite shot forward at him, dodging around the attacks as if they were nothing.
He pulled back his left fist as he reached Bloodstone, throwing it forward at him, Bloodstone blocking by making an X with his arms, skidding back.
He formed his scythe, swinging rapidly at Howlite, who dodged around it, his cheek being sliced open.
Howlite reached forward, grabbing Bloodstone by the face and slamming him into the ground.
Bloodstone placed one hand to Howlite's chest, firing a wave of black energy threw it, Howlite's eyes widening in surprise.
Bloodstone pulled back one fist, ramming it into Howlite's face and throwing him back through the air.
Bloodstone stood slowly, and he watched as Howlite fell to the ground, hands clenched into fists.
That rainbow energy seemed to form around his wound, healing it.
Bloodstone grit his teeth, watching as Howlite stood with that same smirk.
"You're gonna have to hit harder than that, reaper." Howlite grinned, hands in his pockets as he shot off the ground at Bloodstone.
He rammed his knee into Bloodstone's chest, his metal maw appearing as he chomped down on Bloodstone's skull and Gem, a shattering sound being heard once again as he threw Bloodstone over his shoulder with his teeth.
Bloodstone bounced once before beginning to regenerate.
"That expression you're wearing..." Bloodstone glared at Howlite as he sat up.
"That's the face of someone who's been killed three times already." Howlite grinned, the ground around him freezing as ice ran up his left arm, forming a point at his hand and shoulder.
"Let's make it a fourth, shall we?"
Bloodstone roared, jumping high into the air and bringing both hands high above his head, red electricity surging around them.
"DIE!" Bloodstone brought his hands down, red lightning striking down at Howlite.
"I'm beginning to think you don't like me." Howlite watched the lightning come down, holding up his iced hand.
The ice came out from his shoulder, sticking into the ground.
The lightning struck his ice arm, surging through it down into the earth.
Howlite was alight with red electricity, eyes closed as he grit his teeth, wounds and burns appearing on him just for that rainbow light to heal them.
The light began to fade, and Howlite kept his eyes closed, a smirk crawling across his face.
"Well, that almost hurt a lot worse." Bloodstone seemed to short circuit, eye twitching as he grumbled angrily.
"Damn it..." Bloodstone's hands clenched into fists.
"DAMN YOU!"
Howlite just snickered, holding up one palm to Bloodstone.
"You are being very rude today..."
Pillars of ice shot from the earth at Bloodstone, not nearly as nimble Sodalite's ice attacks.
Bloodstone easily dodged, looking down to see Howlite rocketing up to him.
"Stop doing that!" Bloodstone aimed down at Howlite, firing as he shot up at him.
"No." Howlite said, suddenly standing behind Bloodstone.
"W-wha?!" Bloodstone spun around, taking an ice spear through the Gem and plummeting back to the ground.
"That's four, is it not?" Howlite grinned as Bloodstone bounced once, gritting his teeth as he looked up at him.
"That is the LAST TIME you kill m-" Howlite came rocketing down, slamming his foot into Bloodstone's Gem and smashing it once again.
"Did you say something?" Howlite jumped back from Bloodstone as he sat up, growling at Howlite.
"That's five times!" Steven exclaimed. "Howlite's gonna have him beat in no time!" Disappear faded out as he spoke.
"Hm..." Peridot looked at her screen. "I ran some calculations. Judging by how many souls are sucked his gem each time it's broken how many soldiers were consumed, Howlite will have to kill Bloodstone..."
Peridot carried a number across her screen, and a number popped up. She groaned.
"Ninety five more times..." She pinched the bridge of her nose. "This is beginning to look closer and closer to impossible."
"It's looked impossible for awhile now." Pearl said.
"Well Howlite's got him on the ropes, I'm sure he can kill him a million times if he needs to." Amethyst said, watching Howlite kick Bloodstone into the air only to appear above him and elbow him in the skull down into the earth.
"But how long can Howlite keep this up?" Hematite wondered aloud, watching, or really feeling, the fight intently.
"..." Peridot looked to the shards in her hands.
Matrix...
"Hey, buddy."
Huh..?
"Come on, get up."
What is that..?
"Come on idiot, I want to go home."
Orange eyes opened slowly to blistering bright light.
"W-" He broke into a fit of coughing, finding sitting up difficult. Even his vocal cords felt stiff.
As if he'd been dead.
"About time." Lignite said, arms crossed as a small child Matrix could only guess was Terri sat on his shoulders, patting his head.
"L-Lignite..?" Matrix coughed, covering his mouth with one fist.
"Space Christ Matrix, who kicked your ass?" Lignite offered Matrix a hand, helping him up.
"How is this... Where are we?" Matrix glanced around.
They seemed to be standing in a purely white room.
"Why don't you look into your memories and take a wild stab at where we are." Lignite said condescendingly, and Matrix arched a brow at him before shrugging.
Matrix's eyes widened. Golden fire. Falling rubble. That look of 'oh sh!t' on Bloodstone's face.
"Oh..." Matrix put a hand on his head.
"Eyup, welcome to limbo." Lignite gestured to the room around him.
"Okay but... Why are we here?" Matrix arched a brow at him.
"Well I'm here because after I died I ended up floating in some weird spacial place with this disembodied voice nagging at me. He told me that if I did something for him, I'd get to go wherever Terri's going." Lignite looked up at the little girl on his shoulders, smiling as she smiled down at him.
"Which is why you're here." Terri said, looking back to Matrix, who looked confused.
"What do you mean? What am I supposed to do?" Matrix asked.
"Well, you see-"
"MATRIX?!"
Matrix looked to his right, suddenly being tackled by a jolt of... Well, something.
He looked down to see a head of blonde hair burying it's face in his chest.
"T-... Thea..?"
"Oh, yeah." Lignite shrugged. "She's here too."
"Don't forget about us!" Matrix looked past Lignite, watching as Tiger, Jasper, and Zeolite came into view.
Matrix found himself smiling as he was being hugged by both Thea and Tiger, Jasper and Zeolite smiling with crossed arms as they watched.
"Yeah no that's cool it's not like I was explaining something." Lignite crossed his arms.
"Don't be so mean, Liggy." Terri puffed out her cheeks.
"Heh... Fine, fine." Lignite smiled lightly.
"So uh... Happy to see me?" Matrix laughed lightly as Thea pulled back from the hug.
"Un-uh." Thea shook her head, and Matrix's eyes widened.
"What do you mean you aren't happy to see me?!"
"It's too early!"
"It's been five thousand years!"
"Yes but you've still got more things you could have done!"
"Are you kidding me?!"
"AS I WAS SAYING."
They both looked to Lignite, who rolled his eyes.
"You're here because you've got some serious unfinished business." Lignite crossed his arms.
"Like what? I was on good terms with everybody, well not Howlite but... I killed Bloodsto-" Matrix noticed Lignite was shaking his head.
"... Oh there is no way..." Matrix's shoulders sunk, and Lignite nodded.
"Yep, crazy bastard survived." Lignite shrugged. "Glad I don't have to fight him. Well, not conventionally, anyway..."
"... What do you mean?" Matrix said, things becoming serious once more.
"Apparently, you're getting a do-over." Lignite shrugged, and Matrix's eyes widened.
"... What?"
Peridot set down Matrix's shards, looking back to the fight.
Howlite smashed both fists down on Bloodstone's head, sending him spiraling down into the earth.
"Burn." Howlite held out one palm, firing a giant rainbow beam down into Bloodstone, obliterating him.
He landed before the crater, watching as Bloodstone reformed.
"How many times is that? Nine? Ten? I think I've lost count." Howlite shrugged. "Oh well."
Bloodstone stood, scythe appearing in hand.
"That all being said..." Howlite jumped back, Bloodstone's scythe swinging at him.
"You uh... You really like swinging that thing around, huh?" Howlite panted.
Howlite, you need to finish this.
I'm trying! What's going on?! Shouldn't you have like an ungodly amount of power?
My incubation has been shut down for awhile now. I'm not nearly as powerful as I should be, and I don't have enough power to keep this up much longer.
Oh you have got to be kidding me...
You've got another ten minutes, maximum.
Ten minutes? I can work with that.
"Starting to get tired, freak?" Bloodstone grinned.
"..." An ice spike shot from behind Bloodstone, aiming for his Gem.
He spun around, smashing the spike. As he turned back around to face Howlite, Howlite was inches from him, pulling back one fist and ramming it into his gem, sending him exploding across the Kindergarten with a sonic boom.
Bloodstone slammed into a rock wall, which collapsed over him, crushing his body.
Howlite floated up, bringing one hand into the air above him. It glowed, and multi-colored beams fired rapidly from Howlite's hand into the rubble, rocking it with explosions.
Howlite panted, sweat running down his face as he waited for Bloodstone to reappear.
Another black slash flew from the rubble, and Howlite's eyes widened. He quickly moved to the side, his pupils shrinking in pain as he felt it slash through his left arm.
Howlite growled, holding the stump that was once his left arm. "Whatever..." Howlite panted.
Howlite, we can he-
Save it! I need all the energy I can get, and as of right now, I don't need that arm.
"Starting to slow down, are we, Howlite? Heheheh..." Bloodstone stood atop the rubble, grinning at Howlite.
"I knew it. All of your power is always temporary. No matter how much you borrow, you always have to give it back with interest." Bloodstone's eyes widened, his grin from ear to ear.
"Are you ready to die, fre-"
Ice spikes suddenly impaled Bloodstone and his gem, sending him back to shards only to heal once again.
"Ya hear that? It's the sound of no one caring." Howlite grinned at Bloodstone as he reformed.
"You're going to regret every single time you've hit me by the end of this..." Bloodstone threatened.
"Cuddle Bucket, you could do the worst possible things to me and I'd still grin every time I think of that 'He just punched me' face you put on whenever I strike you."
Bloodstone snarled, shooting off the ground at Howlite, pulling back one fist and throwing it at him, only for Howlite to jump over him, opening his mouth and firing a blast into Bloodstone, obliterating him once more.
"How many times is that? Fourteen?" Howlite arched a brow at Bloodstone as he reformed. "Come on, you've gotta be keeping score."
Bloodstone panted, glaring at Howlite. "Like I'd give you the satisfaction."
"That's the spirit!"
"Look, you know that some Gem shards can live on. That's why there are certain shards that can form limbs or take over objects." Lignite said, placing his hands in his pockets.
"If a gem is determined enough to live on or if they need to finish something important, their shards can live on. So guess what your shards are doing right now?" A screen appeared behind Lignite, showing the burning orange shards sat next to each other.
"You know how often a Gem can even start doing what yours is still doing in shards?" Lignite questioned.
"How often?"
"This is the first time."
"... Wow..."
"You're really something special, Matrix." Jasper smirked. "Don't take that for granted, alright?"
Matrix nodded. A smirk appeared on his lips.
"And with all of our help, we can send you back. With all of the will we all have for you to keep living, with all of our strength, we can give you one more chance." Zeolite said, smirking.
"But, unfortunately..." Lignite looked up to the screen, which switched to Bloodstone and Howlite spiraling into the sky, waling on one another.
"Bloodstone's improved himself a little since your last meeting." Zeolite said, eyes narrowing.
"Damn Howlite..." Lignite muttered to himself, watching with wide eyes.
"Why did he ever listen to me if he had that kind of power..?" He said below a whisper.
"So how am I supposed to fight Skele-Stone exactly? I could barely fight him when his Gem was cracked, let alone like this." Matrix looked down.
"Matrix, you beat me normally and as a spider monster." Lignite said.
"You fought that giant wolf with a cracked Gem." Thea said.
"You smacked sense into me on multiple occasions." Tiger smirked.
"You defeated Malachite on your own." Jasper smirked as well.
"You even stood up to me and Hematite when we were fused way back when." Zeolite grinned.
"You honestly don't think you can stand up to that clown?" Terri arched a brow at him.
"Come on Matrix, you can't just sit here." Tiger shook her head.
"You've got all those people waiting for you." Thea smiled.
"But..." Matrix looked down.
"Oh please Matrix, We can wait." Thea said.
"And besides, I don't think Peridot would like for you to stay up here." Thea grinned, nudging Matrix with her elbow.
"Y-you knew about that?!"
"Ha! I watched with popcorn. It was nice to see you happy. Now go on, go." Thea pushed Matrix towards the screen, Tiger jumped next to her and doing the same.
Zeolite did the same, Jasper joining as well. Lignite rolled his eyes, begrudgingly joining in.
"Get out there and teach that reaper how it feels to die!" As the Gem's pushed him, their gems glowed.
Matrix was at first being pushed, but soon enough, he began to move his own legs, the light of their gems seeping into his back as he walked, each of them keeping their hands on his back.
Matrix stood halfway through the screen, and he stopped, looking over his shoulder back at them. "All of you..." He smiled. "Thank you."
They all smiled in return as he stepped through the portal, a few of them waving.
"And don't come back until this war is over!" Tiger yelled through the portal.
"Yeah!" Jasper followed.
"..." Thea smiled sadly, hands collapsed together in front of her.
"... So, what now?" Zeolite wondered aloud.
"Well, I don't know about you guys," Jasper sat in an invisible chair before the screen. "But I think this'll be pretty good."
Zeolite smirked, standing next to her.
Tiger jumped into a chair as well, and Thea stood at the side as well.
Lignite turned to leave, but Terri tugged on his hair. "Ow!" He looked up at her, and she pointed to the screen.
"..." Lignite sighed. "Fine."
Howlite panted, landing on the ground as blood seeped from new cuts.
"Alright... So maybe ten minutes wasn't enough time..." Howlite said between pants, feeling his energy wearing thin.
"But I've still got enough power for one last shot... So for the love of Space God..." Howlite looked up, watching Bloodstone shot down at him.
He opened his jaws wide, rainbow energy being sucked like a vacuum into them.
"JUST DIE ALREADY!"
Howlite fired, an overwhelming beam firing from his jaws and racing towards Bloodstone.
Bloodstone was engulfed, roaring in agony as he was burnt away.
Howlite panted, the beam fading as he fell to his knees.
He returned to his scrawny form, hair going back to it's normal size as the colors faded from him.
"Did... Did that do it?" Pearl questioned.
"I... I don't know." Hematite watched with anticipation.
"Oh, come on. Did you really think I'd die like that?"
All of them looked to the reforming Gem in front of Howlite, still smoking.
"It hurt like hell, I'll give you that. But you've failed, God Eater." Bloodstone walked slowly to Howlite, pulling back one foot and slamming it into his chest, sending him rocketing back to the others, skidding through the ground.
"Ugh..." Howlite groaned, one eye opening to look at the others.
"Anyone got any more ideas..?" Howlite questioned, Pearl and Hematite pulling him to Steven to be healed.
"... I wanted to avoid this but..." Blue Diamond began to walk forward.
Images of the same thing Garnet had seen in her vision flashed before her eyes.
Damn it... Me fighting him will set all of that into place... I had hoped Howlite could defeat him or... In my wildest dreams that...
She glanced back at the shards Peridot had set down. Matrix...
"Finally stepping up, Diamond?" Bloodstone grinned, and Blue Diamond took a deep breath.
Suddenly, the crackling of flames answered for her.
Everyone looked to Matrix's shards, that orange flame glowing brighter and brighter as it reached further into the air.
"... No..." Bloodstone told the shards, but they didn't listen.
I Will Not Die by Three Days Grace began playing in the background.
A glowing white light came from the shards, and smiles of hope began to reach across all of the Crystal Gem's faces.
"No no..!" Bloodstone's scythe appeared in hand, but it was blasted out of his hand by Peridot, who stood along with Blue Diamond and Hematite between Bloodstone and the shards.
The shards formed slowly back together, Bloodstone stepping back slowly.
They formed the Tiger's Eye Matrix, and the light around them began to take a familiar shape.
"No no no!" Bloodstone took another step back as the light figure landed on it's feet, lights of white, black, and two shades of orange shooting from it's gem as it did so.
The light surrounding it faded, and Bloodstone's eyes were wide in fear.
Matrix groaned, stretching. His usual white shirt was replaced with leather armor, which was in a plate-like design. It wasn't very heavy, the arms open. Leather bracers went up his forearms, and his cloak was now a shade of black. Leather pads covered his shoulders.
As Matrix walked towards Bloodstone, images flashed around him. Jasper's fight with Bloodstone, Jasper's death. Tiger's fight with Bloodstone, Tiger's death. Zeolite's fight with Bloodstone, Zeolite's death. His own fight with Bloodstone...
And his own death.
"Wow, Reaps." He said, Bloodstone's eye twitching.
"I'm out for a few hours, and you go and get even uglier than before." Matrix smirked, crossing his arms as his cloak fell over his upper body, obscuring his arms from view.
"I killed you once, I'll do it again!" Bloodstone snarled.
"Don't flatter yourself creep, I killed me. Not you." Matrix walked towards Bloodstone, everyone else silently stepping out of the way.
"And from the looks of it, not even I can kill me." Matrix chuckled. "Isn't that something?"
Bloodstone grit his teeth.
"But I know I can kill you." Matrix's Gem eye lit up in orange flames once more.
"You... I don't care that you're still alive! You'll still never be as strong as me! You're still nothing but an Arsenal Prototype!"
"Yeah, that Arsenal thing is really gonna come in handy for this fight..." Matrix grinned, Bloodstone looking confused.
"You see, a few buddies gave me some presents before I left..."
Matrix threw his cloak open, suddenly pulling two staves twice his size out of no where!
Howlite's eyes widened at the staves, recognizing them immediately.
Matrix threw the staves like buzz-saws at Bloodstone.
"W-what?!" Bloodstone jumped back, jumping around the staves and dodging them.
He looked up, seeing Matrix above him, pulling back his head, Jasper's helmet appearing on his head!
"This is for Jasper!" He slammed his head down into Bloodstone's gem, breaking it to bits and pieces.
Bloodstone slammed into the ground, Gem healing.
Bloodstone sat up slowly, eyes widening as Matrix rushed across the ground towards him, Tiger's glove appear over his hand.
"This is for Tiger!" Matrix slashed upwards, catching Bloodstone by the gem and cutting it into three.
Bloodstone reformed in air, looking down to see Matrix shooting up after him, pulling back Zeolite's claw.
"And this is for Zeolite!"
Matrix stabbed through Bloodstone's gem, sending him falling back to the ground to regenerate.
Matrix landed before Bloodstone as he struggled to get back up, panting in fear and exhaustion.
"Well, Reaper, you had me questioning it for awhile." Matrix pulled his spear from his eye, twirling it and aiming it down at Bloodstone, who was crawling backwards away from him, shaking his head.
"But now I know for sure." Matrix smirked. "Seeing that fear in your eye, yeah, I know."
"Now I know I can, no, now I know I will beat you."
BOOYAH MOTHER F#CKERS!
Come on, did ya really think I'd kill Matrix? Admit it, your faith dwindled after awhile, didn't it?
But now the end is at hand. Matrix has returned, Bloodstone is on his knees. It will all come to a close soon.
After over twenty chapters, the end is finally nearing...
It only took the end of summer, all of fall, and the beginning of Winter.
I hope you're ready. My master plan has fallen into place.
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