Chapter 18 - The Assault Begins
"What the?!" I roared when I heard the huge explosion outside. Certainly there had been damage, and the ground now shook with amazing force below us all. I stood for a second as I realised what was happening. And then I grabbed the microphone with my two hands and yelled at the top of my voice:
"They're here! Kefka's men are here! Get ready!"
And with that I jumped into the air and fired an energy blast right at the ceiling as I rose towards it. The beam tore right through the concrete above and as I flew up through the hole that I had created I looked down in shock at what I could see. A force of at least around 1,000 men who were all approaching our village at speed. We were in trouble; of that there was no doubt. And even though our fighters were of a higher calibre than Kefka's men, the fact that they had five times our force just didn't bode well.
"Goddammit!" I yelled as I realised that we wouldn't be able to sneak out of the village unnoticed. With so many of these guys there was simply no way we could do it.
"Elitists!" I roared "Kilbane! Leon, Jaria, Jessie, Karon, Tomona! Get out here now!!!"
At the shout the six fighters flew straight through the hole in the roof and came to my side. I now saw Leon for the first time. A young man, he looked slightly older than me, and I could sense that I was ever so slightly stronger than he was. But his power was massive compared to the force that approached us. We were all way stronger than the soldiers that were forming towards the village, and that gave me a plan.
"Guys, I'm going to hold them off. I want you to get out of here and head towards Kefka's empire. I'll rejoin you as soon as possible."
Jaria looked at me in horror. I knew what she was thinking, but I had no choice.
"Rylian, you can't.!" she exclaimed.
"Yes, I can. And I'm going to. Trust me on this, I'll tear them apart while you get away."
Jaria was about to say something, but then she shied away from me. Kilbane stood forward and shook my hand.
"You are the leader Rylian, so it's your decision. You truly are brave. Are you sure you don't want one of us to stay behind?"
".I'm sure." I whispered. I knew I had to do this. We weren't going to be defeated at the first hurdle.
"Alright then. Do your worst!" shouted Kilbane as I put my hands in a cupped motion and raised my body around to charge for my attack. I looked at the back of Kefka's huge group and decided to aim for there. After all, I didn't want to destroy our own soldiers as well as theirs. My body started to shake with the energy I was summoning from within, and a huge flame of pure violent energy gripped me. I roared with the pain of powering up to such a degree, but I knew it had to be done. I had to destroy as many of these guys as possible in one shot. I screamed in pain as the energy started to gather in my cupped hands, and the group of fighters, Kilbane, Leon, Jaria, Jessie, Karon and Tomona looked at me with a mixture of amazement and worry. I could see why they were worried. My power was skyrocketing, and I was using up way too much energy in one go.
"Ka.!"
But I had to do this.I had to keep it going.
"Me.!"
I wasn't going to let the people of Kilbane's kingdom down now. After all they had done for me.and me to them.
"Ha.!"
Their entries into my life had opened up new roads and ways for me to travel, inaccessible to me at anytime before. I owed them so very much.
"Me.!"
And now.I was going to repay!
"HAAAA!!!"
My beam tore through the air at amazing speed as I threw my hands out in front of me. The power of my Kamehameha wave was bigger than I had ever tried before, and I could see the ground shaking below me with the anticipation of the oncoming blast. I could see the faces of the men below who were about to be slaughtered, and as they looked up in horror at the fearsome amount of energy that was about to annihilate them all I looked around at my friends who were very obviously shaken by the amount of power that I had used up.
"Now GO! Get outta here!!" I yelled with disgusting force. I couldn't help it though. I was worried for their welfare.
"C..Certainly Son Rylian! Come on, let's go!" shouted Leon as he burst into his own flaming aura of energy and took off at great speed. Everyone followed him.apart from Jaria, who stood for a split second. For a minute I thought she would stay, but then she nodded at me, as if to say "Thank you."
And then they were gone. And I was left alone with the remainder of the explosion that I had created, and the troops who were outside the blast radius at the time.
"Son Rylian!!!" I heard below me as one of our higher ranking foot soldiers flew towards where I was now hovering. He landed by my side and immediately threw his hands out, and I was engulfed in a familiar healing light that brought back my energy and strength. Now at least I could fight at my full capacity.
"Thanks.!" I replied "What's your name?"
"I'm Kiros sir, at your service."
I laughed heartily at the title that had been bestowed upon me.
"Please, just call me Rylian. I'm your comrade, not your superior."
He nodded in appreciation and I looked down towards the troops that were left, who were now regaining their senses.
"Jesus." Kiros stammered when he looked down. "You must have wiped out around two hundred and fifty of their men in one blast.!"
I kept my focus and looked at Kiros. We both knew that we had a mammoth task on our hands even still. The force below still numbered well over a thousand fighters, who were all ready and waiting to begin their assault on our forces.
"Ok, let's get down there!" I yelled and burst into flame as I flew down towards the battlefield, with Kiros right on my tail. The guy was powerful, I could sense it within him. He had a strength level equal to that of Karon's, and although at this stage I was easily stronger than he was I knew that he would be a help in the upcoming fight. I could also sense his mass experience of battle within his body, and he had the scars on the outside to prove this. His bare chest was covered in the marks of battle bestowed upon him in the years past, and his long dark hair covered his beaten back. He was a small man, but his appearance could have deceived the most well trained eyes.
I landed on the ground and looked at the surging mass of bodies that stood in front of me. We faced an incredulous task. I had two hundred men behind me as opposed to the force six times higher in number than ourselves. I knew that to take them out in full combat would probably be suicidal. But before I could turn to my men, the first fighter sprinted towards my position, and I was forced into battle.
I immediately dispatched my first opponent in an explosion of energy, a ball which I quickly fired from my hands in retaliation at the attack after which I was quickly assaulted from all sides. I could tell that my enemies were probably fifty times weaker than I was now, and as a result I was able to easily protect myself whilst fighting. Kicks, punches, headbutts and blasts, anything I could use to defend or attack was utilised in the fight. My strength level was so high that I had no problems at all dealing with my unworthy foes, and as a result my own forces did not even engage the enemy at first. I did all of the fighting for around a minute and a half. At this point Kefka's men could see that they were getting nowhere, and started to quickly move around my position. I tried to hold them off as best I could, but many got through my defence in this way. Also they started to attack from the air with great speed, firing blasts of their own energy at us. Although I was able to easily deal with their weak attacks, my men behind me were getting brutalized by the aerial offensive. At this I flew straight up into the air and quickly intercepted the next wave of fighters, firing a quickly gathered Kamehameha to destroy them all with ease. And yet my energy was still at a high level, and I was not as yet showing any signs of fatigue. I was about to repeat my high energy blast from earlier upon the enemies when I realised that most of my men were now embroiled in the conflict below, and to fire such a blast would have probably destroyed the vast majority of my own forces. And then I received a huge kick from behind that I completely disregarded through lack of focus, and I was sent reeling to the ground below.
As I approached the floor of our 'arena' I threw out my hands, pushed myself off the ground and somersaulted into a standing position. I immediately looked upwards and I could see the figure of a man who was getting ready to attack me again. I could feel a bizarre aura emanating from his body, and I was quick to realise that this man had a strength level many times higher than those that I had fought in this battle beforehand. I grinned to myself as I looked upwards.
".Finally. A challenge."
I flew into the air and came to a stop once I reached the man in the sky, and jumped into a fighting stance immediately.
"Not bad, but you got me from behind friend." I said grinning "And that's a mistake you're going to regret. I'm much stronger than you could ever hope to be."
The man frowned and then looked at me with an expression that struck a chill right around my body. This was no ordinary fighter. And then I felt it, for the first time. The most unfathomable power that I had ever experienced. It tore at my heart and burned away my senses. I couldn't believe it. This man, tall and mighty with his burning flowing golden hair and glazed expression was twenty times stronger than even Jaria. He had the presence of a god, and he was dressed in a flowing black cape. A huge sword adorned his back as well, which was almost as big as myself.
".Who.Who the hell ARE you?!" I sputtered with rage and pure fear. The man simply laughed and looked at me with mirth.
".Me? Who am.I?"
But I already knew before the man opened his mouth again.
"I am Kefka, ruler of this realm.and the source of your demise."
"What the?!" I roared when I heard the huge explosion outside. Certainly there had been damage, and the ground now shook with amazing force below us all. I stood for a second as I realised what was happening. And then I grabbed the microphone with my two hands and yelled at the top of my voice:
"They're here! Kefka's men are here! Get ready!"
And with that I jumped into the air and fired an energy blast right at the ceiling as I rose towards it. The beam tore right through the concrete above and as I flew up through the hole that I had created I looked down in shock at what I could see. A force of at least around 1,000 men who were all approaching our village at speed. We were in trouble; of that there was no doubt. And even though our fighters were of a higher calibre than Kefka's men, the fact that they had five times our force just didn't bode well.
"Goddammit!" I yelled as I realised that we wouldn't be able to sneak out of the village unnoticed. With so many of these guys there was simply no way we could do it.
"Elitists!" I roared "Kilbane! Leon, Jaria, Jessie, Karon, Tomona! Get out here now!!!"
At the shout the six fighters flew straight through the hole in the roof and came to my side. I now saw Leon for the first time. A young man, he looked slightly older than me, and I could sense that I was ever so slightly stronger than he was. But his power was massive compared to the force that approached us. We were all way stronger than the soldiers that were forming towards the village, and that gave me a plan.
"Guys, I'm going to hold them off. I want you to get out of here and head towards Kefka's empire. I'll rejoin you as soon as possible."
Jaria looked at me in horror. I knew what she was thinking, but I had no choice.
"Rylian, you can't.!" she exclaimed.
"Yes, I can. And I'm going to. Trust me on this, I'll tear them apart while you get away."
Jaria was about to say something, but then she shied away from me. Kilbane stood forward and shook my hand.
"You are the leader Rylian, so it's your decision. You truly are brave. Are you sure you don't want one of us to stay behind?"
".I'm sure." I whispered. I knew I had to do this. We weren't going to be defeated at the first hurdle.
"Alright then. Do your worst!" shouted Kilbane as I put my hands in a cupped motion and raised my body around to charge for my attack. I looked at the back of Kefka's huge group and decided to aim for there. After all, I didn't want to destroy our own soldiers as well as theirs. My body started to shake with the energy I was summoning from within, and a huge flame of pure violent energy gripped me. I roared with the pain of powering up to such a degree, but I knew it had to be done. I had to destroy as many of these guys as possible in one shot. I screamed in pain as the energy started to gather in my cupped hands, and the group of fighters, Kilbane, Leon, Jaria, Jessie, Karon and Tomona looked at me with a mixture of amazement and worry. I could see why they were worried. My power was skyrocketing, and I was using up way too much energy in one go.
"Ka.!"
But I had to do this.I had to keep it going.
"Me.!"
I wasn't going to let the people of Kilbane's kingdom down now. After all they had done for me.and me to them.
"Ha.!"
Their entries into my life had opened up new roads and ways for me to travel, inaccessible to me at anytime before. I owed them so very much.
"Me.!"
And now.I was going to repay!
"HAAAA!!!"
My beam tore through the air at amazing speed as I threw my hands out in front of me. The power of my Kamehameha wave was bigger than I had ever tried before, and I could see the ground shaking below me with the anticipation of the oncoming blast. I could see the faces of the men below who were about to be slaughtered, and as they looked up in horror at the fearsome amount of energy that was about to annihilate them all I looked around at my friends who were very obviously shaken by the amount of power that I had used up.
"Now GO! Get outta here!!" I yelled with disgusting force. I couldn't help it though. I was worried for their welfare.
"C..Certainly Son Rylian! Come on, let's go!" shouted Leon as he burst into his own flaming aura of energy and took off at great speed. Everyone followed him.apart from Jaria, who stood for a split second. For a minute I thought she would stay, but then she nodded at me, as if to say "Thank you."
And then they were gone. And I was left alone with the remainder of the explosion that I had created, and the troops who were outside the blast radius at the time.
"Son Rylian!!!" I heard below me as one of our higher ranking foot soldiers flew towards where I was now hovering. He landed by my side and immediately threw his hands out, and I was engulfed in a familiar healing light that brought back my energy and strength. Now at least I could fight at my full capacity.
"Thanks.!" I replied "What's your name?"
"I'm Kiros sir, at your service."
I laughed heartily at the title that had been bestowed upon me.
"Please, just call me Rylian. I'm your comrade, not your superior."
He nodded in appreciation and I looked down towards the troops that were left, who were now regaining their senses.
"Jesus." Kiros stammered when he looked down. "You must have wiped out around two hundred and fifty of their men in one blast.!"
I kept my focus and looked at Kiros. We both knew that we had a mammoth task on our hands even still. The force below still numbered well over a thousand fighters, who were all ready and waiting to begin their assault on our forces.
"Ok, let's get down there!" I yelled and burst into flame as I flew down towards the battlefield, with Kiros right on my tail. The guy was powerful, I could sense it within him. He had a strength level equal to that of Karon's, and although at this stage I was easily stronger than he was I knew that he would be a help in the upcoming fight. I could also sense his mass experience of battle within his body, and he had the scars on the outside to prove this. His bare chest was covered in the marks of battle bestowed upon him in the years past, and his long dark hair covered his beaten back. He was a small man, but his appearance could have deceived the most well trained eyes.
I landed on the ground and looked at the surging mass of bodies that stood in front of me. We faced an incredulous task. I had two hundred men behind me as opposed to the force six times higher in number than ourselves. I knew that to take them out in full combat would probably be suicidal. But before I could turn to my men, the first fighter sprinted towards my position, and I was forced into battle.
I immediately dispatched my first opponent in an explosion of energy, a ball which I quickly fired from my hands in retaliation at the attack after which I was quickly assaulted from all sides. I could tell that my enemies were probably fifty times weaker than I was now, and as a result I was able to easily protect myself whilst fighting. Kicks, punches, headbutts and blasts, anything I could use to defend or attack was utilised in the fight. My strength level was so high that I had no problems at all dealing with my unworthy foes, and as a result my own forces did not even engage the enemy at first. I did all of the fighting for around a minute and a half. At this point Kefka's men could see that they were getting nowhere, and started to quickly move around my position. I tried to hold them off as best I could, but many got through my defence in this way. Also they started to attack from the air with great speed, firing blasts of their own energy at us. Although I was able to easily deal with their weak attacks, my men behind me were getting brutalized by the aerial offensive. At this I flew straight up into the air and quickly intercepted the next wave of fighters, firing a quickly gathered Kamehameha to destroy them all with ease. And yet my energy was still at a high level, and I was not as yet showing any signs of fatigue. I was about to repeat my high energy blast from earlier upon the enemies when I realised that most of my men were now embroiled in the conflict below, and to fire such a blast would have probably destroyed the vast majority of my own forces. And then I received a huge kick from behind that I completely disregarded through lack of focus, and I was sent reeling to the ground below.
As I approached the floor of our 'arena' I threw out my hands, pushed myself off the ground and somersaulted into a standing position. I immediately looked upwards and I could see the figure of a man who was getting ready to attack me again. I could feel a bizarre aura emanating from his body, and I was quick to realise that this man had a strength level many times higher than those that I had fought in this battle beforehand. I grinned to myself as I looked upwards.
".Finally. A challenge."
I flew into the air and came to a stop once I reached the man in the sky, and jumped into a fighting stance immediately.
"Not bad, but you got me from behind friend." I said grinning "And that's a mistake you're going to regret. I'm much stronger than you could ever hope to be."
The man frowned and then looked at me with an expression that struck a chill right around my body. This was no ordinary fighter. And then I felt it, for the first time. The most unfathomable power that I had ever experienced. It tore at my heart and burned away my senses. I couldn't believe it. This man, tall and mighty with his burning flowing golden hair and glazed expression was twenty times stronger than even Jaria. He had the presence of a god, and he was dressed in a flowing black cape. A huge sword adorned his back as well, which was almost as big as myself.
".Who.Who the hell ARE you?!" I sputtered with rage and pure fear. The man simply laughed and looked at me with mirth.
".Me? Who am.I?"
But I already knew before the man opened his mouth again.
"I am Kefka, ruler of this realm.and the source of your demise."
