The Armor of the Soul
By Dixxy
Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Battle Ensues
(Sam)
Once Cara and Tiger Lily joined the bought, Keisha, Sara and I took the opportunity to escape from the Warlords. I was immediately challenged by Sehkment, the green haired Warlord of Venom. I gladly accepted as we began to fight.
Sehkment got the first few blows in the fight. The man was fast. I received a few blows to the stomach and a nasty bruise on my arms, but I'm the one who usually uses my legs in battle. I leapt up, tornado kicked him a few times and won myself the upper hand in the battle. Go me!
Sometime while I beating the crap out of Sehkment, we all heard the ringing of the Ancient's staff and a door exploding. I looked back briefly to see that the rest of our happy little party had gotten inside. "And calvary number two is here, and just in time!" I yelled out, delivering a really hard blow to Sehkment's head. Needless to say he was out like a light, leaving a revitalized Dais to attack me next.
Soon, the entire room was enveloped in white. Something was happening.
Once the light cleared, we realized that the walls of the room had disappeared and we were basically on a very, very large balcony outside of Trulpa castle. Trulpa was at some sort of a control panel and all three of the boys looked panicked- she'd thrown the first switch. She was about to throw another switch when Anubis sucker punched her.
"Go Anubis!" said Ria.
"Sweet!" said Sara. Instantly, we all crowded around Anubis and Trulpa, just like a school yard fight, and started to cheer them on as they got into what is quite possibly the ultimate bitch fight of all time.
Hair was being pulled. Swears were being yelled. Both were rolling on the ground. Clothes were being torn. Clawing was being ensued. The Staff was beating Trulpa senseless. Anubis was missing a sandal and the rice bowl hat had flown out of the battle area when a breeze picked it up. The fur was flying.
"This is better than porn!" yelled Sehkment (how he revived himself is beyond me). In retort, Rona backhanded Sehkment and those two got into the brawl, Rona not hesitating to use the kick-him-in-the-crotch method of fighting. Sehkment was out again, but another tangle had happened. Now Sara and Vanessa were in a fist fight, Ria was throwing some nasty fire spells at Daria, and Cara was beating Cale senseless, which, I guessed was partially from the fact that he'd raped her, so he kind of deserved it.
No one saw Osiris slip away and started pushing buttons.
I caught a glimpse of him and immediately dived bombed him, but not before he hit the next switch, which caused the Soul Turner to rise about a hundred or so feet above us on a large metal rod (in a weird way, it resembled the Space Needle). I punched Osiris and kicked him away. I had to keep everyone away from that control switch and then figure out how to get the boys down!
At that moment, a few dozen Tin Cans came into play. I continued to defend the console as Tin Can after Tin Can after Warlord after Tin Can attacked us. Spells were being fired everywhere. The Staff was still smacking Trulpa senseless. Sara's wild battle cries were echoing across the balcony. Rona's flute was calling up some nasty whirlwinds and twisters (Dixxy's note: See? Rona DOES use her magic flute!). Tiger Lily was roaring with each Tin Can she demolished. Things were beginning to get really, really good.
I had knocked down another Tin Can when the REAL problem arrived.
Nether Spirits. Hundreds apon hundreds of Nether Spirits, both Trulpa's pink ones and Talpa's old blue ones came down apon us. Sara quickly reverted to role as Nether Spirit Slayer and began casting some nasty Nether Spirit spells. A few shots from above me told me that Cye was trying to help, too. But there was no way the two of them could hold them off for enough time so someone could stop the Soul Turner.
Finally, a huge array of painful, black light flooded the arena. I cried out in pain as the dark energy began to envelop me. It hurt really bad. I braced myself as I felt a sharp kick to my side. I looked up and saw Trulpa looming above me, the Jewel of Death hanging from out of her clasped fist. "Nice try, brat."
"No," said Sara. She was lying on the ground, Vanessa with her foot on the small of her back. "We couldn't stop it." The Warlady of Venom stepped on Sara's back, causing the small Hawaiian to cry out in anguish.
"Kento's prophecy was wrong," Keisha whimpered. Daria kicked her in the side, but Keisha didn't seem to notice. Her soul mate was about to be murdered. Considering the circumstances of the murder, she might die, too. "They really are going to die."
"What prophecy?" asked Ria. She was fighting against Anubra's fist to stand up straight. "Screw some stupid prophecy, we have to get up and fight! In case you haven't noticed we've got BIGGER problems!"
Anubis, who was out of reach of the Staff, was struggling to reach it, but Osiris, stepped on his outstretched hand. The former Warlord winced in pain. "If we had the Jewel of Life. . . this might have not happened," he said. The look of defeat in his eyes was immeasurable. He was about to loose the only son he had. One that he barely knew, and one he'd only known about for a few days.
Rona was busy trying to raise her flute to her lips, but she couldn't gather enough breath even play a single note. Kayura and Kamusa laughed as they both kicked her in the ribs. She winced, then lost consciousness.
Cara was looking defeated as she lay on the floor, her blue eyes glistening at her former mistress. "You can't do this," she said. "I, I won't- AHHH!" Cale stepped on her arm, swore at her, and pulled back her pony tail. Cara, too, fell limp against the ground.
But all hope WASN'T faded out.
Using what little strength I had, I reached out and grabbed Trulpa's ankle and pulled her out from underneath. Trulpa yelped in surprise before giving me a kick square in the middle of my forehead. I yelped out in pain as I threw a hand to my forehead. It hurt pretty badly.
Tiger Lily threw back her head, roared, and tried to attack Trulpa. Apparently, the Jewel of Death had failed to harm her, so she was ready to pounce. Trulpa raised up a dark magic shield and Tiger Lily flew backwards, smashing into a wall. Yet the cat bounced back and stood on all fours, growling and hissing with a pure, animalistic rage that I'd never seen in Tiger Lily. Course, we hadn't seen her attack much before this point, either (Mostly she drinks out of the toilet and eats steaks. That and [according to Ria] occasionally comes home with the back bumper to a car).
"Say goodbye to your precious Ronin Warriors, little brats," said Trulpa. She pressed a few more buttons, then threw the final switch.
"There's no turning back now, brats," said Trulpa. Little by little the tall rod leading up to the Soul Turner began to glow in segments, about one every ten second. From my point on the ground, it looked like it would take about five minutes for the energy to reach the top. I had time try and revive myself and shut the thing down.
I tried to pull myself up and attempted to reach Trulpa's control panel. But, the demon empress noticed me, reached down, pulled me up by my pony tail, and threw me into a wall. I cried out in pain as the others cried out my name.
I opened two groggy eyes and saw the pace of the energy were getting faster and faster. Any second now the energy would reach the top. Sage, Kento, and Cye would die. Kaze would be revived. Our entire world was doomed.
Suddenly, it did, the Soul Turner was enveloped in a brilliant golden light. Keisha looked ready to cry, Sara was speechless, and I was barely conscious. We'd lost. It was over. Kaze was going to come back.
That was when the whole Soul Turner exploded.
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Well, this was the last chapter with a real cliffhanger, so. . .
Okay, here's why I posted Chapter 57. A LOT OF PEOPLE UPDATED FICS AFTER ME. A LOT OF PEOPLE. Meaning? My fic gets shoved down so far that no one sees it. That's the key to getting your stories read here at FF.Net- update often in small chunks or else your story will be lost amongst the middle pages never to be seen again. I'd say seven to eight stories were updated from the time I last updated to time the I would've started getting reviews. Which kinda stinks.
So here's a new cliffhanger to torment you guys.
Dixxy