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Chapter 29

"...Hold it."

Neptune stopped in her tracks as she saw the person who was standing a few meters away from her. IF and Compa who was about to follow her also stopped after they saw the person.

The person in question was a young girl with with a petite and slim figure. Her eyes are a crimson red, and her skin is very fair. Her hair is a sky-blue color, kept mostly free, and is of short length, barring her bangs, which reach down to her stomach. Her attire consists of a tight battle-suit, which is white and has minor touches of blue lining. The top itself appears as a swimsuit-like armor. The sleeves are detached, and reach all the way to her shoulder, with a pair of gauntlets being equipped on both of them, and mechanical like devices connecting the joint of the sleeve. And floating behind her are a pair of whitish-blue wings with square shapes.

"Y-You! You are...!" Neptune tried to say something, but her mouth was muffled by intense surprise and horror.

The girl before her greatly resemble a certain someone from Lastation. Their similaries are unmistakable.

The mysterious girl glanced at IF and Compa for a second before looking back at Neptune.

"The outsiders can stay out of this. Neptune is all I need." the girl said, taking a few step back.

"You're after Nep, too?!" IF asked in shock. Looking at Neptune who was still trying to come up with a word. "Geez, how does she attrack so many stalkers?" Sighing IF pulled out her katars. "You're can't make us go away that easy, you know."

Nodding Compa also take out her syringe. "That's right. The three of us are as one. We're a party!"

"You're here to kill me, aren't you?" Neptune finally asked the girl before. "Well, sorry to disappoint you. But I'm afraid you'll have to try hard to do that." Activating her blade, Neptune took a stance.

The girl's eyes widened a bit in surprise. "You're involving them? I thought you said you'll never involving humans on a battle." the girl scoffed and shook her head. "Contradicting yourself? What a ridiculous person you are, Neptune. Even after death, you'll never change."

The stalker raised her right hand up into the air, and suddenly, a giant white axe magically materialized in her palms.

"I wonder, how should I kill you this time?" the stalker muttered, putting her axe on one of her shoulder. "Should kill you the same way I killed you all those years ago? Or shall I use a new different way." she asked, as a sadistic smirk crept on her face.

'She's also thinking that I'm supposedly dead. Just like that woman from Lastation. I wonder what kind of connection they had.' Neptune thought, mentally confused.

"Try not to mess this up, Nep. You might not like being hospitalized again." IF whispered to Neptune's.

"I know. I'll be careful."

The stalker dashed towards Neptune, raising her axe, she swung it downwards, aiming for Neptune's skull.

Blocking the attack with her sword, Neptune grimaced in surprise as she felt herself getting pushed by an inhuman strength that even the stalker from Lasatation didn't have.

Neptune used her feet to kick the stalker away from her. Jumping back to create more distance, she pulled out her handgun and fire at the stalker.

Smirking, the stalker used her axe to block the the bullets. She heard a yell and looked up to see IF was about to slash her from the above.

She blocked IF's slashes with the axe, but by doing that, the stalker let her lowerside free for Neptune to attack. She realized her mistake a bit too late, as Neptune already lunge herself towards her, sword pointing forward.

Using her brute force, the girl pushed IF away, and quickly jumped back, barely avoided the fatal blow from Neptune, only resulting with Neptune's sword got burried a few centimeters deep into the girl's chest.

"Guh." Using her wings, the stalker take off into the air to avoid a slash from both IF and Neptune. But when she thought she was safe however...

"Compa Love Heart!" The girl looked behind her to see Compa shoots a heart-shaped energy attack towards her, and thanks to the relatively small room, there's no way she could dodge the incoming projectiles except by either blocking or doing a counterattack.

Clicking her tongue, the girl held up her hand into the air, and six white energy balls formed in the air.

"Gefahrlichtern!" The stalker then used her axe like a baseball bat, to launch two of the energy balls towards Compa's pink heart. Their attacks collide with each other, causing them to explode and get disintegrated.

"Take this!" she then launch two more balls into Compa, who wasn't quick enough to dodge, causing the two energy balls to explode right on her face and sends her flying across the room and crashed against the wall. She then launch the last two to the still paralyzed Compa knocking her unconscious.

"Haaa!" The girl immediately spun around just in time to block an attack from IF. "Heaven Demon!" IF's hands starts to glow as she unleash a barrage of slashes with god speed.

"Guh!" the girl tried to block all of IF's slashes, but unfortunately she couldn't keep up with IF's god speed, and get hit several times.

Before IF could deal the final blow, the girl choose to stop flying, letting herself fall and landed on the ground. Immediately after she landed, the stalker was greeted with a punch on her cheek from Neptune. This send her a few meters away from her.

Rubbing her sore cheek, the stalker looked up to see Neptune has jumped into the air, sword raised above her head. She jumped back as Neptune slammed her sword to the ground, the tip of her sword are only a few millimeters away from the stalker's feet.

"Take this, bitch!" taking the close distance to her advantage, the girl lunge her fist forward, aiming for her opponent's face.

Surprised, Neptune tried to repel the attack, but much to her surprise, the stalker's hand break through her sword's blade, and sucessfully landed a very powerful punch to her face that send her flying across the room and crashed against the wall, leaving a giant crater on it.

"Gefahrlichtern!" creating more energy balls again, the stalker was about to launch them towards Neptune who was paralyzed in place, when suddenly glowing white runes cirled around her.

"La Delphinus!" a pillar of light erupted from the ground beneath the stalker, engulfing her in white light.

Hissing out in pain, the girl tightly gripped her axe, and firmly plant her feet to the ground.

"ZERSTORUNG!" holding her axe to the side, the stalker started spinning in place like a blender, and it keep getting faster with each passing moments. This act successfully disrupted IF's pillar of light, cancelling the attack.

Once the light was gone, the stalker hurriedly lunge herself to IF who still shocked to see her attack has been cancelled.

"TAKE THIS!" the girl slammed her axe at IF, who didn't have enough time to either block nor dodge.

Receiving the fatal attack, IF got slashed across her torso, blood spurt out from her wounds. The stalker then punch her on her cheek, sending her crashing against the chests in the room.

Neptune looked up to see the form of beaten up IF, she grimaced upon seeing the wound on her torso. Looking to her left, not too far from her, she saw Compa starting to regain consciousness from the last attack. And finally, looking at her front, she saw the stalker slowly approaches her.

Standing up, Neptune approached Compa and help her stand up. "Compa, listen to me. I need you to heal Iffy's wound."

"But what about our enemy?" Compa asked.

"I will take care of her for a while. Besides, I'm the one she's looking for in the first place." Neptune answered, looking at the approaching danger.

Compa looked at Neptune for a while, until she eventually nodded. "Alright, be careful Nep-Nep."

Neptune replied with a nod, and watched as Compa ran to IF side to tend her injuries. The stalker only glanced at the running peach-haired girl for second, before shifted her eyes back to her main target, Neptune.

"Now that the rats is gone, shall we continue? Neptune?" the mysterious girl asked, taking a stance.

"Sure." Neptune replied, also taking a stance.

A cool breeze of wind swept through the room, softly brushing against their hair. Seconds has passed, the two combatants, narrowed their eyes and took a long deep breath before rushing towards each other.

Neptune pulls out her handgun and fire at the stalker until she ran out of bullets. The girl however, simply bend her body and use her axe to block all the projectiles, and continue forward.

The two swung their respective weapons, and the blades clashed together, creating sparks that blew out to all directions. Retrieving her weapon Neptune continously swung her sword to the enemy, only for the stalker to repel it, and attack her back.

Neptune Gritted her teeth as she felt her opponent's inhuman strength slowly starts to pushing her back and made her arms trembling. The stalker's continous strike pushed Neptune further back until she eventually a wall.

"Ha!" the stalker swing her axe, aiming for Neptune's neck.

Realizing that blocking is not a good option, Neptune ducked down to avoid it, resulting with the stalker's axe to to hit and break the wall instead.

Neptune then used the opportunity to puch the girl's stomach, and rolled away. Hissing in pain and anger, the girl held up her left hand to create seven white energy balls.

"Gefahrlichtern!" she launched one of the balls towards Neptune who immediately rolled to the side to dodge it. She then launch another one, which Neptune easily dodge as well. The stalker launched two more balls towards Neptune, all of them are easily avoided by rolling to the side.

"What are you doing? You're wasting your time, you know?" Neptune asked, confused with why her enemy kept using the same attacks despite being clear how futile it was.

The stalker smirked. "You are stupid as ever, Neptune." she glanced to her right and looked at Compa who was using using healing magic on IF. "Do you really think my last attacks are just for nothing?"

Realizing where the girl was looking at, Neptune looked to her left and find herself far away from Compa and IF. 'Damn it! I didn't realize! She launched those attacks in other to get me far away from my friends!' Neptune mentally screamed, and begin to run to save her friends.

Smiling evilly, the stalker redirect the last three energy balls towards Compa, then swing her axe to launch them.

Desperate to save her friends, Neptune jumped in the way of the attack, taking the blast herself. The energy balls hit Neptune in the chest, they then exploded, sending Neptune flying across the room and crashed against the wall, making it crack.

Hearing Neptune's cries of pain, Compa looked back to see Neptune slid down the wall to the floor, coughing hard. "Nep-Nep!" she wants to help her friend, but she couldn't leave IF alone.

Breathing heavily, Neptune hissed and clutched her chest, feeling a sick sensation in her stomach like she wants to vomit. With a trembling body, she tried to stand up. When she was only halfway, Neptune heard a scream that made her quickly looked up to see the stalker up in the air, axe raised above her head.

"Getter Ravine!" Widened her eyes, Neptune quickly jumped away as the stalker came down and smashed her axe to the ground with huge strength that enough to make the whole tower shook.

The attack made the floor cracked. The cracks continued to spread all over the floor until the ground beneath Neptune and it's surrounding collapse. Neptune fell to the ninth floor, and roughly landed on her belly, making her grunt in pain. Whilst the stalker gently landed on her feet, thanks to her wings.

"Nep-Nep!" Compa who was still on the tenth floor due to the ground beneath that didn't fall, called out in concern.

Standing up, Neptune looked up. "I'm fine. Just stay in there with Iffy, okay?" Neptune answered.

"Okay. Please watch yourself." Compa answered back.

"I will." Nodding, Neptune looked at her enemy in the front. 'Now that we're in the ninth floor, she won't be able to hurt them anymore.' Neptune thought, taking a deep breath, she took a stance.

"Round two, you ready?" the stalker asked.

"I am." Looking at the girl, Neptune closely inspecting her opponent, trying to conduct a plan. 'She has more advantages thanks to her wings. I'll have to break it somehow.' she then looked at the stalker's axe. 'Her deadly attacks are heavily relied on her axe, if I could seperate the two somehow...'

The stalker charge in first, axe held to her side. Clicking her tongue, Neptune pulls out her handgun and fire five shots, aiming for the girl's legs, arms, and head. But of course, the girl merely deflect the bullets by using her axe.

The girl got in front of Neptune and swung her axe, aiming for her neck. Neptune quickly ducked down and attempted to stab the girl's side. But the stalker knows what Neptune is up to, and quickly bend her body forward to dodge the attack. She then quickly spun around and kicked Neptune on her butt, getting a cry of pain from her, and pushed her away.

Rubbing her sore backside, Neptune quickly rolled to the side when the stalker swung down to where she used to be. Pulling out her handgun, she tried to fire again to no avail.

The stalker smirked. "Metzelei Schlag!" the girl swung her axe to the side once before charging at Neptune with a speed of light. Neptune widened her eyes when the girl suddenly dissapear, then reappear right in front of her, she swung her axe at Neptune's chest, sucessfully hitting it. The girl then reappear some distance away from Neptune as an explosion could be heard from behind.

The stalker smiled and lets out a sigh. "It's over." she said softly. "That attack should cut her body in half." she slowly turned around, expecting to see a lifeless body that has been cut in half. But instead, what she saw was a sword flying towards her at high speed.

She was so surprised that she didn't have time to dodge nor block. The girl thought that the sword was about to pierce her head, but it was not. Instead of piercing her head, the sword missed her head a few centimeters away, and pierced one of her two wings that float behind her.

"Gah!" With one of her wings got broken, the girl lose balance and fell to the ground. "How?!" she looked up to see Neptune, still standing a few meters away from the girl. Neptune's clothes are dirty, and there's a large tear on the chest area, resulted from the girl's attack. "How the hell that bitch still alive?" she asked in confusion.

Neptune sighed, her body was aching from the point-blank explosion, but other than that, she's fine. She looked under her hoodie to see a glowing item on her chest, the Key Fragments necklace. "I don't know what are these made out with, but whatever it is, it's just saved my life." she said with a smile.

"How are you still alive?!" The girl yelled in anger.

Neptune looked at her enemy and tilted her head. "Why should I tell you? Why don't you find out yourself?" as she heard the stalker growled, Neptune giggled. "Either way, we can finally fight fair and square now."

The stalker growled, but then smirked. "If you think breaking my wings would make this fight easier for you, then you're wrong."

The girl dematerialized her last wing that float behind her. She looked down to find Neptune's sword laying on the ground. Picking it, the stalker deactivate the sword then throw it to the air and snapped it in half with her axe.

As she watched her main weapon got destroyed, Neptune gritted her teeth in frustration. She managed to break her opponent's advantage at the cost of her own weapon.

The stalker charged at Neptune with high speed, axe raised abover her head. She jumped high into the air. "Getter Ravine!" Neptune quickly jumped away, as the stalker slammed her axe to the ground, making the floor cracked.

'She's fast!' Neptune thought, very surprised.

"Gefahrlichtern!" holding up her hand, the girl create four energy balls and launch them to Neptune one by one. Neptune dodge each of them, but every time they missed Neptune, the balls hit the ground, further cracking the floor.

Just as Neptune about to stand up, the stalker got in front of her and punch her in the gut, then kicked her on the side, sending her a few meters away.

"Now! For the final move." the stalker closed her eyes and gripped her axe tightly. "Hard Break!" White aura covered the stalker's body as she rushed to Neptune in god speed. With nothing to protect herself, Neptune just crossed her arms across her chest.

She turned her axe to reverse position, and hit Neptune on her torso with the back of the axe, sending her away. She then raised her axe high into the air and spin around before slammed it hard to the ground, breaking it.

As the floor collapse, Neptune fell to the eight floor while the stalker used her god speed to get away from the collapsing floor and into the safe zone. She then held up her axe and threw it to the still falling Neptune.

When her weapon made contact with Neptune, it erupted into a giant explosion that supposedly obliterate Neptune into ashes.

As the smokes got cleared, Neptune was seen laying on the ground, full of bruises and breathing heavily.

The Stalker frowned upon seeing this. 'That attack should've turn her into nothingness. And yet, she's still alive. What the hell is she?' the stalker gripped her hand in frustration. 'I don't understand! There's no way that bitch survived, I cut her fucking hand! This little girl should be just a normal human that somehow greatly resemble that bitch. And yet, her body's durability is like a body of a—'

The stalker's inner thoughts was interrupted by a loud gunshot accompanied a severe pain on her right hand that made her dropped her axe to the eighth floor bellow.

Looking down, the girl saw that it was Neptune who has shot her hand. Neptune's entire body was trembling from pain, causing her to missed her target that was supposed to be the girl's head.

"HOW DARE YOU!" the stalker jumped down from her place and landed on Neptune's stomach driving her to the ground to leave a giant crater.

She grabbed Neptune by the neck and punched her cheek. "What are you?! Answer me!"

Neptune didn't answer the question, instead, she spat out blood to the girl's face.

Growling, the girl beat Neptune up for the next three minutes. Barely awake and breathing, Neptune cracked an eye open to see the girl above her panting, her face is dirty from Neptune's blood.

"I have enough of this." the stalker put both of her hands on Neptune's neck and start to squeeze, cutting off the air from Neptune's lungs.

The stalker smiled. "Have fun in hell... Purple HGAAAAH!" the girl suddenly screamed out in pain when she felt two sharp object pierced her back. "W-What theAAAAUUGH!" And the next thing she knew, something just hit her in the back of her head, something really hard, so hard that it sends her flying across the room and crashed against the wall, which made the sharp object that still stuck on her back got burried even deeper to her stomach.

"NEP!" the stalker looked up to see a brown-haired girl crouching besides Neptune, with her hand on her neck. Turns out, this brown-haired was the one who kicked her on the back of her head after jumping from the ninth floor, and the sharp object that stabbed her on the back was none other than IF's katar. "Thank god, she's alive."

"Nep-Nep! Iffy!" Compa, who was just arrived, quickly rushed to her friends side.

"Compa! Let's do it now!"

"Right!" Compa nodded.

The two held their hands towards the stalker that couldn't barely move due to her injuries. "Heart Force!" the two yelled in unison.

Compa shoots a ginormous heart from her palm, which five times bigger from the pink heart she used before. While IF shoots a dark energy beam from her palm. The two attacks collided and merged together to form an even more powerful attack.

The girl could do nothing but to crossed her arms, as the attack blasted her and the the wall behind her, sending her flying out of the tower.

Panting, both of them sighed as they finally defeated their enemy. Compa immediately crouched beside Neptune and put her hand on her chest. "First Aid!" soft green light covered Neptune's body, as her major injuries slowly got healed.

"How is she?" IF asked.

Compa shook her head. "It was bad. If we arrived too late we might lose her." Compa answered.

"...Com...pa..." a weak and coarse voice came out from Neptune.

"Hang in there Nep-Nep, you're gonna be alright." Compa said, after she heard her name was called.

Feeling her consciousness slipping away, Neptune closed her eyes.

Looking at IF, Compa nodded. "Let's go Iffy." IF nodded, grabbing her, IF gently put Neptune's unconscious body on her back, and carried her out of the tower and back to town.

To Be Continued...


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