Chapter 12: Never dying flames
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"You leave me no choice…" Faiadrodo said as he watched Eric run at him. Eric laughed as he jumped into the air. "Eternal Black flames of Hell!" Faiadrodo yelled as black fire shot from his hand towards Eric. Eric was ingulfed by the black fire.
"No!" Sinon yelled as she shot an arrow with an ice skill at Faiadrodo. The arrow hit Faiadrodo's hand freezing it. The fire disappeared and Eric fell to his knees on the ground, his mask gone. Eric slowly stood up as his hp kept dropping.
"Once hit by that fire you never stop burning." Faiadrodo said.
"I need someone to focus all effort on healing me with magic." Eric said.
"I got you." A random guy said, he sent a healing spell at Eric. Eric tossed Faiadrodo his sword back.
"Bad move child." Faiadrodo said as he ran at Eric while dodging magic attacks. Eric equipped his orange sword and activated a fire spell. Eric and Faiadrodo's swords clashed.
"Now!" Eric yelled. Hunter and Klein was behind Faiadrodo, they both had lighting skills on their katanas. They buried the blades inside of Faiadrodo.
"No!" Faiadrodo yelled as he spun around and slashed at Hunter and Klein. Leafa jumped in front of them and did a shield spell to block Faiadrodo's attack. Eric ran at Faiadrodo.
"Kirito! My sword!" Eric yelled. Kirito tossed Demon blood at Eric, Eric caught it and slammed the blade into the ground, blood chains came out and trapped Faiadrodo in place.
"Magic attacks and skill!" Kirito shouted as everyone pounded on Faiadrodo. The other guy kept healing Eric but had to stop because of no MP.
"I'm out of MP!" The random dude said. Eric's health was green but slowly dropping. Faiadrodo dropped down to the last 2 hp bars. Eric pulled his sword out the ground.
"Everyone stay back, me and Kirito are going to go all out!" Eric yelled as him and Kirito ran at Faiadrodo. "Duel style!" Eric yelled as him and Kirito kept swinging both blades at Faiadrodo.
"Seems like I must step it up." Faiadrodo said as he jumped several feet away. Faiadrodo held his blade out in front of him and started glowing. "I am the sword and the sword is me!" Faiadrodo yelled as his sword melted into white goo. Faiadrodo's armor turned white and the goo jumped onto both of his arms and turned them into giant battle axes. Eric jumped at Faiadrodo, Eric swung both his swords at Faiadrodo. Faiadrodo's battle axe hand turned into goo right before Eric cut it, Eric's blades started to into the goo when they solidified trapping his blades in the battle axe. "Now you die!" Faiadrodo yelled as he moved his other battle axe towards Eric.
"Not yet!" Kirito yelled as he blocked the battle axe from hitting Eric. Eric started screaming. Eric kept putting more and more pressure on his trapped blades. Eric forced them to move and it broke Faiadrodo's battle axe. Kirito started slashing Faiadrodo's other battle axe till it broke. Faiadrodo's hands returned to normal and his sword reformed.
"Fine, I'll have to go all out for real then." Faiadrodo said.
"Enough of your crap!" Eric yelled as he ran at Faiadrodo. Faiadrodo disappeared and reappeared behind Eric, Faiadrodo stabbed Eric in the chest. Eric dropped to his knees. Asuna had to quickly use a healing spell to keep Eric from dying. Kirito was running at Faiadrodo when Faiadrodo pointed his hand at Kirito. Red light started forming in Faiadrodo's palm, it shot out like a huge energy beam. Kirito put both his swords in front of him and started pushing through it. "I'm not dead yet!" Eric yelled as he picked up his swords and activated his wings. Eric flew into the air and kept going up until he was out of sight.
"Running… what a shame." Faiadrodo said as he stopped the energy attack. Kirito was huffing and puffing while his swords were smoking. Hunter snuck up on Faiadrodo and stabbed him in the back. Faiadrodo went to go slash Hunter but Silica came and blocked the sword with her dagger. Klein cut Faiadrodo's arm, and when Faiadrodo went to counter attack Lisbeth blocked it with her mace. Hunter, Silica, Klein, and Lisbeth backed away from Faiadrodo. An arrow hit Faiadrodo's feet and trapped his lower body in ice.
"I won't let you dodge his attack." Sinon said as she readied a second arrow.
"Who's?" Faiadrodo asked.
"MMMMIIIIIIINNNNEEEEE!" Eric yelled from above. Faiadrodo looked up and saw Eric flying downwards at him, his swords pointing in front of him, he was spinning and had a red aura around him.
"NO!" Faiadrodo yelled as he broke out of the ice.
"Nice try!" Sinon yelled as she shot the second arrow at him. Faiadrodo dodged the arrow but Kirito was able to stab Faiadrodo and keep him in place.
"What are you doing?! You will also get hit!" Faiadrodo shouted as he started punching and stabbing Kirito.
"I-I know, but you will still get a chunk of hp taken out of you!" Kirito yelled. Faiadrodo started laughing as he stopped attacking Kirito. "What's so funny?" Kirito asked.
"This." Faiadrodo replied. Faiadrodo moved with lots of speed and force and grabbed Kirito and chucked him into the air at Eric. Eric was barely able to dodge hitting Kirito and aimed at Faiadrodo again as he neared him. "You dodged that well, but you're done for." Faiadrodo said as he held out his sword at his side. Faiadrodo stopped Eric's spinning blade attack with his sword, Faiadrodo put force into his blade and sent Eric stepping backwards. "Goodbye pest." Faiadrodo said as he swung at sword at Eric.
'I'm still off balance! I can't dodge!' Eric thought. Sinon jumped in front of Eric. "No!" Eric yelled as Sinon got cut with the blade, Sinon's health dropped into yellow.
"Not my main target, but still a pest." Faiadrodo said as he slapped Sinon and sent her flying towards the edge of the roof. Eric flew past her and caught her before she went off the roof. Both of their HP's were in the red. Sinon held up a HP potion.
"Drink it." Sinon said.
"No you need it." Eric said.
"Because of that fire your HP is always dropping, take it." Sinon said. Eric drunk it and it restored him to green. Eric put Sinon on the ground.
"Stay here, Asuna come heal her!" Eric yelled. Asuna started to run over to where Eric and Sinon was but Faiadrodo started to try and stop her. Faiadrodo punched at Asuna but Kirito blocked the punch with his sword. Suddenly Faiadrodo felt his helmet being broken.
"How?!" Faiadrodo shouted. Eric had moved behind Faiadrodo and shattered the helmet using his demon blood sword.
"Everyone swarm him!" Eric yelled. Almost every player who had a sword ran at Faiadrodo. Faiadrodo defeated them all with ease, only getting hit a few times, but it was enough to get him done into red on his last bar.
"Get ready for my attack pattern change." Faiadrodo said as his eyes glowed yellow. Eric, Kirito, Asuna, Leafa, Hunter, Klein, and Silica stood in front of his with their blades. Faiadrodo ran towards them. Faiadrodo went past everyone and went straight for Eric and Kirito. "You two will be my first victims while at full power." Faiadrodo said as he slashed Kirito. Kirito's HP dropped while Faiadrodo gained the same amount of HP Kirito had lost. "I gain the life steal power when my pattern changes." Faiadrodo said as he cut Eric. Eric and Kirito had to start blocking really fast, but Faiadrodo's speed had greatly increased. Hunter stabbed at Faiadrodo. "Nice try little boy." Faiadrodo said as he caught Hunter's Katana with his fingers.
"HAAAA!" Eric yelled as he stabbed Faiadrodo's back.
"Cousin double team time!" Eric and Hunter yelled in sync. Eric and Hunter moved all around Faiadrodo while blocking and attacking.
"I was going to save the trash for last but I shouldn't be lazy." Faiadrodo said as he moved like lighting and stabbed Hunter in the head dropping his HP to zero and raising Faiadrodo's HP greatly. Faiadrodo went and killed everyone expect Eric, Kirito, Sinon, and Asuna. Faiadrodo went to go cut Asuna but Kirito and Eric blocked him. "I'm back to my 3rd bar, even though I can still take damage by swords do you really think you can beat me now?" Faiadrodo asked as he stepped back.
"Eric your HP is almost out and Asuna has no MP left and we are out of health potions." Kirito said as he noticed Eric's HP dropping down to yellow.
"Then it's safe to say I will die, might as well die taking this guy head on." Eric said as he started walking towards Faiadrodo, but that walk soon turned into a full speed charge.
"You only have a few minutes left to live and you want to throw it away right now? I'll be happy to help with that." Faiadrodo said as he ran at Eric.
"Eric!" Sinon yelled. Eric threw his Demon blood sword over near Sinon. Sinon picked it up.
"Use it! Help Kirito and Asuna win this thing!" Eric yelled as Faiadrodo's blade went through his chest. Faiadrodo's HP started to rise.
"Hahahaha! You wanted to help your friends but all you did was give me more HP!" Faiadrodo shouted with a laugh.
"Really?" Eric asked his HP was dropping.
"Huh?" Faiadrodo asked. Eric stabbed Faiadrodo. Eric ripped himself off Faiadrodo's blade and started cutting Faiadrodo rapidly.
"I will take you down a few notches!" Eric yelled as him and Faiadrodo exchanged blow after blow, for every 1 attack Faiadrodo got in Eric was able to strike 3 times. Eric and Faiadrodo stabbed each other at the same time. Eric smiled as his health hit zero and he broke into the digital triangles.
"That kid was awesome, I'll give him that." Faiadrodo said as his HP dropped into the yellow of his last bar. Eric's soul just hovered in the air watching the fight. Sinon yelled as she stabbed Demon blood into Faiadrodo's chest, Kirito thrusted both his blades deep into Faiadrodo's skull, Asuna slashed Faiadrodo's body. They all jumped back as Faiadrodo's HP started to drop, it stopped at a sliver of health. "I can't believe you guys did this good, but it doesn't matter because Ragnarök is going to happen, it has to happen." Faiadrodo said as his HP started to rise.
"What?!" Kirito, Asuna, and Sinon shouted. Suddenly his HP was full again and Eric respawned at full health.
"Eric!" Sinon yelled as she ran over to him.
"How are you back?" Kirito asked as him and Asuna went over to Eric.
"The cardinal system sent me a message…" Eric replied.
"Wait what?" Asuna asked.
"It said that ALO has a virus in it, because of laughing coffin. In order to beat Faiadrodo we have to basically never stop hitting him till he is dead, if we take even a second to rest or heal he will restore himself." Eric said.
"That still doesn't explain how you are back though." Sinon said.
"Well The cardinal system ain't to fond of having a virus It can't get rid of by itself to it needs us to finish this guy." Eric explained.
"And it brought you back to life to help with that." Kirito said. Eric nodded and opened his inventory and started going through it.
"What are you looking for?" Asuna asked.
"The system gave me a new weapon." Eric said as he pulled out a sword, it looked like Kirito's Excalibur only it was red instead of gold. Eric gave Sinon his orange blade and took back his Demon Blood. "Demon blood plus Cardinal's rage!" Eric yelled as both his swords started to glow. Kirito's swords started to glow as well. "Ready?" Eric asked Kirito.
"Yeah!" Kirito answered as him and Eric charged Faiadrodo.
"Bring it on." Faiadrodo said as Kirito went in front of Eric and started slashing at Faiadrodo. Faiadrodo created a second white sword and started using both. Faiadrodo and Kirito's swords were interlocked with each other, it was down to pure strength. "I am stronger!" Faiadrodo yelled as he started pushing Kirito back.
"NO! You are not!" Kirito yelled as he started putting even more strength pushing Faiadrodo back. Eric jumped over Kirito's head and landed behind Faiadrodo.
"Huh?" Faiadrodo asked.
"Don't take your eyes off me!" Kirito shouted as he slashed his sword knocking Faiadrodo back and onto the ground. Eric slammed each of his swords on each of Faiadrodo's arms. Kirito started slashing Faiadrodo up. Eric pulled his swords out and made Faiadrodo stand up.
"Tag team combo!" Eric and Kirito yelled as they started slashing Faiadrodo rapidly with blinding speed. A giant sign appeared in the sky saying a multi-hit combo was happening, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, the sign went past 300 hits.
"We need a break! Switch!" Eric yelled. Eric and Kirito jumped away breaking their 425-hit combo, Asuna and Sinon rushed in and kept attacking Faiadrodo, not giving him a chance to heal. "We got him back down into his last 2 health bars, but I'm exhausted." Eric said.
"Same, But that's why we switched." Kirito said. After a few minutes of Eric and Kirito catching their breaths they switched back out with Asuna and Sinon. Eric and Kirito was trashing Faiadrodo.
"Enough!" Faiadrodo yelled as he found an opening and was able to cut Kirito knocking him to the ground. Faiadrodo kicked Eric's legs out from under him.
"Crap!" Eric yelled as he jumped to his feet and kept slashing at Faiadrodo. Faiadrodo was starting to be able to block. Kirito tried coming up behind Faiadrodo, but Faiadrodo moved causing Eric and Kirito to bump into each other. Faiadrodo's HP started to rise again. "Not this time!" Eric yelled as him and Kirito activated their wings and flew full speed at Faiadrodo. Eric and Kirito slashed Faiadrodo so bad he was sent flying to the other side of the roof. Eric and Kirito got over there and started swinging at Faiadrodo. Faiadrodo was starting to block and counter attack way more often.
"I'm starting to figure out ya'lls fighting style." Faiadrodo said as he cut both Eric and Kirito at the same time while dodging their attacks. Asuna and Sinon came out of nowhere and caught Faiadrodo off guard.
"What about us?" Asuna asked as she stabbed Faiadrodo 25 times before jumping back.
"Yeah, figure us out yet?" Sinon asked as she ran past Faiadrodo cutting him. Faiadrodo smiled.
"Not quite, but the only real threats are those 2 Spriggans." Faiadrodo replied.
"Well we are a threat." Eric said as he slashed Faiadrodo's back.
"But all of us are a threat for you!" Kirito yelled as he moved in front of Faiadrodo and stabbed him. Faiadrodo laughed as his HP got really low.
"We shall see." Faiadrodo said as he flew up into the air.