Grand Raid
Asura ran down to the Command Center with Grey and Fara's team: Faye, Miyu, and Katt. "I remember seeing something open in this general area. Star Fox should be in the Great Fox's hangar waiting for further instructions." She tapped into her power once more and assessed the issue quickly. They turned the corner and went down the street as they saw citizens quickly going in the opposite direction as them. The team knew they were heading toward the evacuation area for safety. "Be mindful of the citizens, everyone is unpredictable in times like this." Everyone was given a device to communicate with themselves. They were all connected and would relay information onto the others.
Her examples were people who are stubborn, don't like to move or leave their homes. Some would pull dangerous stunts and quite potential damage to themselves or others. Finally the younger folks like kids and toddlers who can be very troublesome. Asura assigned Grey and Katt near the Command Center to watch for any changes. Faye and Miyu were assigned near the evacuation point. Lastly, Fara was inside her lab studying for any strange changes in the atmosphere. Asura explained that Elise had the potential to alter the world with water through precipitation. "It's highly dangerous as she could cause rain and floods with her power. If we can predict what will happen, it can be preventable or at least less effective."
A rift opened nearby as spotted by Katt as she pointed toward it. "I see it!" All three look at it as creatures begin to walk out of the rift and onto Corneria. Then followed by Venomian soldiers in their fighter ships. Asura quickly had to find a way to seal off the rift before it did something dangerous to Corneria. There was just a strange gut feeling that there is something at the origin of the first rift. Elise could be planning something dangerous and could potentially end the world using this method. Even all of the planets in the Lylat System. Asura became discouraged because her wings would not work anymore. However, she could not give up because everyone depended on her to resolve the issues at stake.
She contacted Fox for aerial support with the Arwings. "I may need some assistance when it comes to aerial attacks, if I can get up to the rift, I can seal it off with my sword and Elise will be unable to attack us. Fox, Falco, Krystal, and Slippy. Anyone of you four can do this task." Her chatter was interrupted with a tiny creature landed in front of Asura, Katt, and Grey. It looked harmless, but it quickly became hostile and grew larger. Its body was about triple the size of Asura and held a weapon twice its size. "What the?" It swung the enormous weapon and struck the ground and Asura quickly tackled both Katt and Grey aside. Dust covered the field and Asura was still in good condition. "Are you two alright?"
"I'm alive thanks to you," Katt said.
Grey nodded, "Of course, anything you do is always positive to me," Grey thanked her.
Asura unsheathed her sword and Katt and Grey armed their blasters. "I don't know what this thing is, but all I know is that it came from that rift Elise made. Probably an elemental being made from water." From the looks of it, the creature was colored clear blue and looked wavy from another perspective. They looked back at the damage it created and the size of the attack made it look like an earthquake. Asura feared for the safety of her allies and love if they were struck by something like this. She was afraid of them dying. "Try not to get into trouble, you two. I don't know how many of these things are there, but they are destroying what I call home."
A fire inside her heart began to burn brighter and hotter with rage. So much rage that she swore by any means that Elise must be stopped. "I'll do whatever it takes to preserve the planet that I now call home. If I fall, Corneria will fall with me." She called forth the scythe into her left hand and she commenced her battle. The metal leggings she had worn were taking a toll on her body but the limiter was that it slightly affected her speed. Asura stabbed the being's left leg with her sword and followed up with a slash with the scythe. "Even though I cannot break down, that does not mean my close friends will not. I don't want to keep seeing worlds being destroyed. I want to have a place that I can call home. Everyone is counting on me to protect us and Corneria." She evaporated the water from its leg but it grew back within a matter of seconds.
The water elemental being attacked struck downward onto Asura and their attacks collided. Asura blocked with two weapons and the being blocked with the staff. She turned back to Katt and Grey. "You two know what to do from this point. Don't let any of them get beyond this area." She took the fight to another location to prevent any casualties.
Katt and Grey took their positions and watched for any runners. There was more than just this large being Asura is fighting. They were noticeable and could be shot before they transformed. "Grey, behind you." Katt aimed and pulled the trigger on one of those beings. Too many to focus on since they kept on coming. Katt and Grey blasted many shots but some managed to get past their defensive lines. It was up to Faye and Miyu to stop the ones approaching them.
They did not know what they were up against, but that did not stop them from discontinuing the battle. It was Faye and Miyu's turn to eliminate any evil doers that appeared before them. As Faye pulled out her blaster she looked to Miyu, "Don't hesitate, darling." she winked.
Miyu smiled, "Same to you, my love."
There were already a few of those things coming their way. Miyu fired her blaster and managed to land a shot onto a few of them. However, the water beings were not focused on targetting either Faye or Miyu. They all ran past them and moved onward. It confused the two of them but they stayed focus on the ones moving farther away. Faye shot the farther ones while Miyu kept up with close to medium range. Whatever happens, they could not allow them to get anywhere near the citizens.
Fara's Location
Fara analyzed the atmosphere of Corneria to identify any changes that may have happened. So far, the only data she currently has is the amount of moisture in the air. It has increased by twenty-three percent from sixteen percent. She contacted all members in battle, "I am not sure how it has increased, whatever you guys are fighting might be the cause of it."
Asura replied to Fara's data. "It might be from the elemental beings we are fighting. They are made of water but I am not sure... RAH!" she was heard grunting from Fara's end."Not sure of what they are doing." Asura came up with the conclusion that killing them releases water vapor into the atmosphere. She is unsure of what will happen because she is in combat with a large elemental titan and cannot use foresight to predict the future. "Pay close attention, Fara, I'll tell you all the information I know the longer I am in battle." Asura terminated the call from her side to continue fighting. After the short conversation, the percentage of moisture increased by two percent. Fara wondered what would happen if it reached beyond fifty percent.
Asura was still fighting the large titan and could not figure out any weaknesses. Slashing her weapons into it did nothing but waste her stamina. I've told Fara about the atmosphere but is that the cause of all these water elementals? Is it possible that I can attempt to dry up the excess water in the atmosphere? She backed off from fighting the titan and put away her weapons. Asura fidgeted into her pockets to find that flaming red shard she got from the deceased masters. She managed to find both the flame and earth shards. Now how do I use them? Before she could think, she heard fighter jets exiting the rift above her head. Asura looked up and saw Venomian fighters entering Corneria.
This was not a good thing as they began to destroy part of Corneria. As a counter-offensive, Star Fox arrived with their Arwings and fought them back. Fox flew his Arwing and blasted a few of them on top of the Command Center. Asura was glad to see them at the right time. Fox talked to her via the communication gear they were given. "We got you covered, take care of what you need too, Asura." Fox followed by Falco, Krystal and Slippy flew by to defend Corneria from Venomian soldiers.
The snow-white dragon placed her hand onto the device in her ear. "Thank you guys," she replied. "Keep them off of us on the ground, I'll try to figure out something with these crystals."
She received a flashback from master Sear on the fire shard. He stood there talking to Asura about how his fire powers operated. "You can only possess two shards at any given time, but you can swap out one of them by transferring their energies elsewhere. Even Elementalists cannot hold more than two shards with two elements, but there is a way to bypass this. A way to have all the elements in less than two shards."
The short flashback ended suddenly and she started to transfer the darkness out of her body. It started to create a purple shard into her hands and all the darkness had disappeared from her body. Asura took the fire shard and absorbed its powers and gaining the necessary things needed. Her violet eye changed its color to red after obtaining the fire element into her body. An idea popped into her mind and what she thought of earlier was scorching the high amounts of vapors in the atmosphere. Sear used an extreme amount of heat to dry up a flood years ago. If I can recreate the same thing, I maybe reduce the power levels of these monsters. And so, Asura combined her elements and created a solar flare to dry up the water elementals. She raised her opened hand into the air and cast a bright-burning beam that wiped out all the water elementals in existence.
Such power eliminated the titan she was fighting for a long while. "That wiped out all of the elemental beings here and the excess water in the atmosphere." Asura thought to herself. I bet Krystal understands all of this because I know she used to be a priestess back on Cerinia. I just need to contact her about it soon. She called for Krystal on her device hoping to get a response. "Krystal? I need your help."
A moment later, Krystal answers, "I'm available, what do you need?"
"Do you know anything about magic crystals?" Asura asked. As she was talking, she absorbed the dark shard and then removed the fire out of her body into a shard.
"I know something about them, I'll drop by right now," she responded. She flew her Arwing close and ejected out as the Arwing was in autopilot. Krystal landed nearby and saw Asura. "I'm here, let me see those shards you mentioned." Asura handed over the fire and earth shards to Krystal for inspection. "It's possible to combine two elements into one shard so you can maximize elemental potential," Krystal explained that you can combine the light and dark shard into one and the fire and earth into one to create two shards. The body can only maintain up to two shards but didn't say how many elements per shard. "Cerinians were always fascinated by powerful shards and knew how to combine them. Here, let me demonstrate."
Krystal took the shards away from Asura and channeled her power into them. "If I do it right... I can," the sounds of combining the light and dark shards collided showed success. "Combine them. There we go, Asura. I hope this helps out with your fights." Krystal successfully made a brand new shard by combining light and darkness into one. Then she merged the fire and earth shards into one for Asura to use. "Final touches and here we go."
Asura bowed, "Thank you, Krystal. I hope now I can utilize more than just two elements." After taking the finished shard, Asura consumed the mixed elements into her body. She gained back her two primary elements and with the other shard, she was able to consume it and obtain two more elements to her body. "I will become the next Elementalist," she exclaimed. Now four elements are residing inside of her body and she was able to use them all at once." Asura completed the task of having four of five elements at once. Though the law says Elise had to give her element up, it wasn't going to be easy. "I'll have to fight Elise for the final element. If you may, stay close by, Krystal."
"On it," Krystal replied.
Asura took her sword and stabbed the solid ground with it. The rift above her was closing and a new one was opening beneath her. "Onto the next-" Asura was cut off by Elise's mysterious attack that halted her. The rift beneath her suddenly closed up and Asura was setback to a disadvantage. "What?!"
Elise reappeared in front of her and taunted at Asura. "You dare try to defy my power? I'll show you something." Elise collapsed a sphere of water around Krystal. There was no air left and Krystal was running on borrowed time before she drowned. "Let's see what happens." Elise drained Krystal's oxygen supply and she started to suffocate.
Asura used an extreme amount of heat to evaporate the water, freeing Krystal from her impending doom. "I've learned a lot from my friends. Krystal is the one who guided me through my life along with Fox." Asura healed Krystal with her song and Krystal thanked her in return. "I wish to commence the Grand Raid. I, Master Asura, hereby declare that Master Elise to accept this challenge for the full Elementalist." Asura had created a contract that if Elise lost in battle by any means, she must forfeit her elements to Asura. "A fight to the death, winner takes all."
It left Elise in a predicament, if she denied, she would be banished from using her powers, and Asura becomes the True Elementalist. Elise had no choice but to accept and they were surrounded in a strange arena. Krystal looked around and still saw Corneria's city. "What is going on?"
"Forgive me, Krystal, this is the final battle. I didn't want to get you involved, but I'll make sure you will live to see another day." Asura unsheathed her sword and prepared for battle.
Elise did the same and prepared her elemental attacks against Asura. Asura took the first move and swung her sword at Elise.
Elise's counter was to block the attack with a water barrier. The two moves have canceled out and a shockwave was released. "I thought you would be better than this. Tsunami." Water had covered the ground they were standing on. Multiple tidal waves were coming at Asura and Krystal. Asura prepared to stop the waves, but the waves crashed into each other. Asura stopped and the waves began to throw tridents at her and Krystal. Asura used the intense fire element to remove the water. It didn't work because the water exceeded into another level that her fire could not achieve.
Asura broke the tridents with her own sword. "I can see it, you will have to do better than that." Asura shielded Krystal with a special song. "Let the light shine on you~" Krystal was slowly being ejected outside of the barrier and released. "Go now, I can't let you get involved in this fight. Defeat the enemy, fight until you can't no more." Asura turned back around and blocked Elise's staff strike. She pushed her back and shouted to Krystal. "Hurry!"
Krystal nodded, "I'm on it." Tapping on her earpiece, she contacted Peppy. "Send my Arwing, I'm coming back to battle." This was going to be a long day, she thought to herself.
Asura and Elise stood on opposite sides of the arena. Then in a short manner, they both teleported to the center and collided weapons with each other. "Elise... why are you like this?" Elise didn't respond and pushed her back. The human disguised as another person, Falco. Asura was already charging in but stopped so suddenly upon looking at him. "What?"
"Of course, Falco Lombardi, he is your second-in-command when it comes to these outside missions," Elise taunted. She knew Asura would not attack a familiar face. Asura halted but Elise took this opening and struck Asura hard against the barrier. Her attack struck directly into Asura's abdomen causing major damage internally. Asura landed a few inches away from the barrier and on her side. "You know, Asura, it saddens me to see how weak you've become. I'm surprised that a virus engineered by our most intelligent personnel failed to kill you. Its lethality was beyond what we expected, but somehow you manage. Now it's my time to pay the favor forward." Elise stabbed the tip end of the staff straight in Asura with full force.
The dragon let out a roaring scream caused by high amounts of devastating pain. There was blood covering the staff and Elise pulled it back out. "Enjoy it? Well, I hope you do." Elise pushed the staff right into her stomach wound. "Every last bit of pain, you could never escape the pain." Elise grabbed Asura by the throat and held her against the barrier. Asura was in extreme pain, unwilling to speak or make a noise. Elise applied more pressure to the staff and tortured her. She left the staff inside Asura and dropped her to the ground. "I'll just leave this in there for you to enjoy, I hope you are satisfied watching yourself slowing dying from blood loss."
The barrier disappeared entirely, with Asura losing the duel but still alive. Elise teleported away to create more chaos and destruction elsewhere. She left Asura to die without any witnesses. Asura's breathing was becoming uncontrollable and she could not bear the pain. The blood she spilled stained her uniform with crimson red blood. Her body was taking a heavy toll, slowly coming to an end of life. I... I can't... die here... but I can't pull out the staff. Too much... pain...
Fox lined up his reticle with the Venom fighter jets. He fired his lasers and mussels at them destroying many of them, Falco, Slippy and Krystal followed his pursuit, defending Fox from any outside attacks. "Let's get going, we need to defend Corneria to the very end. Asura should know how to stop everything from going downhill. Krystal, watch out for any incoming attacks, Slippy watch around the command center." Krystal gave an all-clear and Slippy acknowledged the command. Fox drove away in his Arwing and fired toward some enemy fighters.
Not everything was in the air. Some of the simians were landing their fighter jets somewhere and planting bombs around the city. They wanted to see everything being destroyed or killed. "Watch for every location, I see some of the enemies planting bombs around the city. We need to be able to detect them, Slippy."
"Gotcha, Fox, I was able to install a tick detector on your wrist comm. It pings the location of every bomb around the city if it so exists."
Fox activated the detector and there were only a few hidden in the city. If they go off, it will destroy the entire city. "I'm on the way, defend me while I look for them, Krystal, Slippy." Fox landed his Arwing to the side and ejected immediately. He landed on top of a building and quickly descended into the city. There were bombs planted at the park, diner, and command center. Wait, command center? Is there anyone in there? Fox quickly rushed over to the command center the moment he saw the coordinates. He wondered why these were the chosen locations to plant the bombs. No time to understand what they were trying to plot when they set them up. Fox arrived at the command center and found the bomb inside the lobby receptionist center.
He defused the bomb and laser fire was heard outside the command center. Fox checked the situation, he saw Slippy being chased by enemy fighters but Krystal was there to save him. "Thank you, Krystal."
Fox was determined to get rid of all the bombs planted at the park and diner. He went to the diner since it was much closer than the park. He ran inside and heard the ticking noise behind the bar area and defused it. Now I need to go to the park and find it there, but the chances are finding is very slim. Too many places for the bomb to be hidden. Fox immediately went to the park to find the final bomb. He found the source of the ping but someone else was waiting for him.
They stood there in tall dark blue fur. "McCloud."
"Out of my way, you must be the new Star Wolf member, Panther," Fox answered.
Falco flew to a different area to defend and the other two did the same. "Once we defeat them all, let's meet back at the command center for regrouping." They all agreed and left for their own objectives. Falco cleared his area of fighters and other creations that were made. He saw containers releasing crab-like robots. Falco turned over to them and destroyed them with a bomb volley. "Y'all are mine," he shouted. A blast of lasers destroyed them to pieces and Falco was on his way back to the center. There was no current danger in his area as he left.
He made it back safely and ejected from his Arwing. Falco felt a strange vibe after landing and he suddenly became sick. He was nausea and ill to his body. Something has happened here. There was a mysterious trace that told him to follow it to a certain area. Falco ran after it and saw Asura propped against a building wall in the open. "Asura?!" Falco rushed up to her, but she stopped him immediately with her sword. She held it against him weakly, scared, and anxious about the next actions. "It's me, Falco," he exclaimed.
"I... need help..." she said weakly. Asura applied pressure to her wound and started to lose vision.
The avian was left puzzled by the dragon's status. "I am here to save you, it's me, Falco. Asura?" He picked up her wounded body and traveled to a safer area. "I need Grey for this task, you are in no condition to fight back." Falco had to avoid being caught for attention by the enemy. He was too vulnerable to be seen by anyone who isn't an ally. "You don't look so good, what even happened?" Sooner than he realized, Falco understood a lot more through peer thinking. Elise... she was the one who had reached her at this point. No one else could challenge Asura without fail. "I last saw him around the central part of the city, if we can get to him. He will be able to treat your wounds." Don't die on me now, Asura, we still need your support.
Falco ran but suddenly he tripped and fell onto the ground. Asura's body was on top of his arms and he could not move them. Crap, I'm screwed if I don't get out. Falco managed to pull his arms free but there was already a blaster pointed to his head. Damn it, there was no way out for him. "What do you want?"
The chameleon began to laugh. "I'm only here because Elise needed us. Time to eliminate you for good." Leon pulled the trigger but time suddenly froze around him. Falco saw the bullet traveling at an extremely slow speed. Almost as if time had completely stopped in his tracks. He grabbed the bullet and changed its trajectory back to Leon's leg. Time resumed and the bullet shot his leg. "AHH," he fell over and agonizing pain from the shot. "What did you do to me?" Leon screamed in pain and quickly disappeared.
Falco was quite confused but he was grateful for something like that to happen. "Let's get going, we can't waste time." Falco was able to secure Asura to safety once again after going through a lot of trouble just to get there. Falco found Grey blasting the small entities known as the water titans. "Grey, I need your help!" Asura was losing too much blood from the opened wound. Falco set her down on the ground and noticed how the staff was slowing the blood loss. "How should we proceed?"
Grey shoved a blaster into Falco's arms and then a spear. "Keep them off of us, don't worry about me. Assist Katt with the vanguard. Those things aren't targeting us, they are going for the citizens." Grey began to remove the staff impaling Asura. "It's going to hurt, I'm sorry." Grey gripped the sharp staff and started pulling it out of Asura's abdomen. The shock of pain only made her scream from the top of her lungs. "AHHHHH," she yelled and constantly jerked her body in various ways but Grey managed to keep her down. "IT HURTS, IT HURTS!" It was so painful that it triggered her dark side instantaneously. Grey linked to Falco, don't worry about it, focus on the fight, Falco. He left only hearing screams from Asura that were ear-breaking pains. Manageable once you are out of the sound's range.
Falco went on to find Katt since she was all by herself. Once again, Falco was interrupted by an invisible chameleon, Leon. "I'm back, and this time I'm going to have it with you." Falco fired a shot and jumped for cover. It was unsuspecting for him to be attacked again by the same person. Only this time he wasn't shot in the leg, for some odd reason. "How are you still okay? I had the bullet targeted toward you."
"We were heavily prepared for this, stupid bird." Leon disappeared again as Falco revealed himself from cover.
Falco aimed his sight down and scanned the area carefully. There was nothing that revealed Leon's movement. He looked left to right hoping to find a single clue to his position. There was suddenly a sound, very quiet but still audible enough to be heard. Falco turned his body toward the direction as he saw distortion in the air. Firing his blaster, his shot lined up with the entity and revealed Leon. "Gotcha," Falco went over to restrain him down but the two began to brawl. Leon kicked Falco's legs and he tripped to the ground. Leon punched Falco's face but Falco retaliated back in time with his own punch to Leon's face. "Back off damn it."
"Useless garbage like you needs to be eradicated." But then something shot him in the back and Leon fell on top of Falco but was not responsive. Falco pushed his body off and saw that Katt had shocked his body.
"You okay?" Katt lent a hand to Falco. "I was on my way back until I saw you getting beat to a pulp. What happened here?"
The avian grabbed the pink cat's hand and got up. There were issues with Star Fox and Star Wolf at hand that Katt was not told of. Falco quickly got her up to speed with the situation. "The final battle has begun and Asura is losing right now. Elise has also commanded Star Wolf to fight us in order to limit our assistance to her." Falco immediately received a link to his mind. '
Quickly, you must come back, I need help, Falco. That must have been Grey because he is the only telepath on the ground. Krystal assisted the airforce with Fox and Slippy. Falco and Katt ran back to Grey's original spot. He had hidden in a discrete building that only he knows the location of. Head straight into the alleyway and turn left past the ladders. You should see another entrance, I created this area for those who couldn't escape. Most of the people here are older adults who cannot defend themselves and sought protection immediately. Falco and Katt followed the directions and found themselves at the same described building.
Inside there were at least twenty people, most were children and the others were adults. At least one of the adults was a doctor helping to heal Asura with Grey. She is currently resting and in stable condition from the doctor's analysis. Her torso was wrapped in bandages and her clothing was torn to shreds. She was given a spare black shirt from one of the citizens. They were willing to help because they know Asura from news reports. The doctor began, "You may not be a professional or even know of any medical knowledge. However, you do show great signs of patching the wound," the doctor compliments Grey. It made Grey feel a bit special about his hard work and thanked him. "I see that your friends have arrived, please, do talk to them while I tend to your significant other."
Grey shook his hand and quickly made his way to Katt and Falco. "This is the refuge I quickly created when I noticed a small group of survivors was escaping from total destruction. I can't ensure that it is fully safe but it's better than being in the wide open."
"God, I can't believe something like this is happening, what happened to her?" Katt referred to Asura as her injuries were beyond the norm.
Grey told her about the news. "Asura, she may be a master, but she was never the strongest master. She was ranked the lowest of five masters struggling to challenge her older sister, Kira to battle. She struggled against Elise who was ranked the strongest." Not only were they surprised, they believed that Asura was the strongest for centuries. "She is afraid of losing, but she is hanging on to dear life. Falco, she wanted to say, you were a good man for staying by her side." Grey hugged Falco in place of Asura. "She wanted you to feel this way, but she cannot."
Falco felt deeply saddened, but he had to stay strong and continue to help with the cause. "We can't be a burden anymore. Do that thing you've always done. Heal her body with my life, for the greater cause." Grey objected to his approach but Falco was willing to give up a part of himself for an uncompromising future. "Grey, Katt, let's begin." The three surrounded the doctor and Asura. "Excuse me, sir, we must tend to our friend here. We have something up our sleeves." Falco linked his hand with Grey and Grey held onto Asura's hand.
"Are you ready?" Grey waited for a signal. Falco nodded, embraced the damaging effects that may happen. Grey began the transfer from Falco to Asura. Falco felt pain but Asura's major wounds were healing.
Katt felt the pain Falco was enduring, so she grabbed his hand and transferred her body to Falco. They looked at each other and smiled. "Together," she said.
"Together," he replied. Asura's body began to glow and the wound was starting to disappear. It finally ended and Asura's eyes began to flicker like it did in the hospital. Slowly, she opened her eyes to see her friends smiling down onto her. She didn't say anything but randomly hugged them together without question. Asura's smile blessed them all together as she was happy to see her friends together. "Hiya, you three. Where are we? Some sort of refuge?"
"Yeah, we came after Grey found more people. We need to get these people to a safer place," Katt explained. They began their objective to escort these civilians to the evacuation section of the city. It was more fortified than this beat-up bunker. "Falco and Grey, we must move as a group. Protect the front and backsides. Asura will hold off anything that comes closer." Katt gathered all the citizens and rallied them together. "Don't be afraid, just stay with us and you'll be safe. Our friend Asura will protect you if you remain calm."
They set off immediately for the outside into the alley. Katt went out to scout ahead, Grey and Falco stayed within the front and back. Asura kept alert for any dangers or threats that may appear. "Be careful, Asura, you may be healed but we don't know if the damages are still in place." Grey gave the warning and Asura took note.
"If an old friend has taught me something, revisiting old memories has a good effect." Asura readied her sword. Falco and Grey escorted the civilians out into the city streets.
Katt radioed, "I'm on the rooftops and I see a few enemies up ahead, get ready for combat." Falco aimed down his sights and checked for any incoming threats. He saw the small creatures and shot them one by one. Falco successfully cleared the danger. "Behind you guys, Grey watch out!" Grey swiftly cleared out the danger behind them. Katt signaled for them to continue onward. They moved toward the roads and carefully watched all sides. "Oh no, there is a dark rift appearing on the road."
"I'll handle it," Asura spotted something jumping out and slashed it immediately. "Let's not waste time," she closed the rift and went on ahead. Katt finished scouting and everything was cleared for escape. Falco and Grey managed to secure the citizens to safety and they went to finish their objectives. Katt followed Asura's trail to see where she went. Katt ran down the stairs of the building and toward the ground level. She remembered seeing Asura walking down the road to find something.
"Where did she go?" Katt had lost track but suddenly hear a certain noise that caught her attention. The sound of different weapons clashing together. It was followed by a small shockwave in the air creating a decent breeze. Katt followed the sound and she found Asura fighting a human. "Asura?"
Asura swung her sword but missed the attack on Elise. "Why you," as anger took over her mind, she didn't want Elise to be this way. Asura casts her sword in the sky and split her sword into two, mirroring her original sword. "I'm going to end your reign of tyranny. You have no right to call yourself a master if all you do is run and kill innocent people." She held the left sword in a defensive stance and the right sword in an offensive stance.
Elise didn't care a single bit about what she said. "I'm amused, you finally showed me something new and original. You don't have to rely on your sister to help you out."
Asura shouted, "Shut up," and charged right at her with the swords. She slashed Elise in an X formation from top to bottom. Elise took some damage but a bit was mitigated to the barrier. "I see, you don't want to fight is it now? The rules state that the master who survives will get all the elements and continues life." Asura swung her swords into a series of slashes. Every time Elise dodges, Asura was dashing in her tracks.
My my, she is reckless with that strategy, Katt carefully analyzed the battle. Katt notes that Asura fights close up and figures things on the spot. No time for thinking just reactions. Her sword swings were devastating, quick, and heavy. Though she did mention the sword is extremely light if you were good to it. Falco did have an easy time with it during the water world.
Elise copied a sword and parried it back to Asura. Merely just deflecting an attack back at her. "Don't forget, water can mimic anything you have." Elise pissed off Asura and she kept at it with her sword skills. They clashed multiple times but Elise was always getting her defenses on the spot. "Pitiful, no wonder you weren't the top student at your school. You never knew how to control your power." Asura and Elise clashed for the final time, two swords versus one sword. "The light element is the most difficult element to master and not even the top light user was able to reach full potential. Silver, he failed to reach full power, only managing to reach 70 percent of its true strength."
These words affected Asura greatly, but she didn't stop to think about it. Even though she knew deep down she had only reached about 45 percent of its full power. "You might be right, but I don't think that's how I want it to be. I can reach limits beyond what you think." Asura pushed her swords against Elise's sword and charged right at her. "I'm going to be the true Elementalist because I have friends who support me no matter the cause." Asura sped herself up creating bright trails behind her every move. "Star Fox, a team that I like to call a family. They are the reasons I have something to call a family and a home. You are just a lonely girl who wants everyone to feel miserable."
"I don't like your tone, you shouldn't feel this way because they have no relation to you." Elise casts a water spell. "Ultimate: Raining Tyranny. I'll end this world and everything you deem precious." Clouds started to form around Corneria, very dark clouds that were ready to storm. A strike of thunder formed in the dark clouds. There wasn't enough time left before the rain would destroy the world.
Asura took her two swords and then they began to fly on their own around her body. "I won't let you end a world of peaceful people." Her two swords split into six smaller swords each. Both were different color blades, half were bright light blades that surrounded Asura. The other six dark blades traveled towards Elise and surrounded her. It bound her so she would not be able to move anywhere. The white blades spun and pierced through her body to finish her off. "That should be enough. I didn't think it would come to this, Elise." An explosion followed the blades wake and smoke covered the area. "Is that all?" The smoke cleared up but Elise was still standing in perfect condition. "How can you still be alive?"
"You really think a pair of dull blades will execute me? You are out of your mind." Elise shattered all the swords around her. The water around her started to shake the ground. "Unfortunately, you weren't able to cancel my ultimate, I'm going to have to finish this here." Elise snapped her fingers and a rift appeared next to her. "I saw your friend here watching our little battle." Katt came out of the rift. Elise held a sword to her face. "You can surrender, or I will end the life of an innocent friend."
"Katt?! Damn it," Asura was not expecting a friend to be nearby. "Katt, I'm sorry to get you all mixed up."
Katt smiled lightly, "Don't worry about it, I cannot do much at this point." Katt nodded secretly to Asura and the dragon engaged Elise. She slashed Elise's hand off and disarmed the sword. Katt made a run for it afterward to safety and stayed by Asura's side. "Good friends don't give up."
Asura smiled back at her. "You are lost because you never did make any friends. You only cared about beauty because you were self-conscious about your looks. You just wanted a friend to talk with you."
Elise wasn't having it, "Shut it," she shot a water ball at Asura. The dragon tried to break it but her sword went through it. Asura took a direct hit from the water and it inflicted her body. She was sent flying, leaving Katt alone and vulnerable. "I don't care about friends, they are just things you say to make you feel happy. It's nothing but trouble for your heart." Elise started approaching Asura but she couldn't move.
Stupid leggings, they are now too heavy. Asura looked up at Elise. I can't move anymore, not enough stamina remaining.
"I can't believe someone like you tried to stop my reign, such a pitiful failure." Elise took her sword and slashed Asura, but Katt got in the way of the attack.
Katt took the full damage of the attack for Asura. She groaned in pain, laying on top of Asura's arms. "W-what? Katt?" Asura's eyes filled with tears but Katt was feeling a bit happy for her. Katt closed her eyes while still smiling. They were both immediately teleported out of danger with Katt inside of her arms. She reappeared in front of Fox who saved the two of them. He was holding a horn that he was issued the other day. "Fox? Please I can't let her die. She is still breathing, please stay with us..." Fox did not answer but looked at who he was facing this entire time. "What?" she said in awe.
A/N: This chapter and the final chapter will be released back-to-back so you won't have to be left on a cliffhanger. I hope you enjoy it!