*Sidenote: In many religions, pentacles and pentagrams stand for protection
Blues Zero X
Chapter 5: Gaurdian Blue
Rave easily jumped across the chasms between the first bunch of pillars and stopped five from the end. He looked across the way and noticed that the platforms began getting rather small, with the one on the end only around one foot in diameter. He quickly continued jumping, guessing his trajectory and power each jump off the top of his head. He finally made it to the last pillar but slipped as he tried to keep his footing on the one-foot wide pillar. He pulled out his shield and tried to slam it into the rock, but it was deflected to the side. He quickly ignited his blaster sabre and slammed it into the cliff. While dangling in mid air he looked around. He noticed he was about fifty feet from the water. He looked around the pillar he was stuck to and noticed it was only about ten feet from the cliff. Suddenly an idea hit him and he dropped into the water. He used his shield to remain afloat and swam to the cliff's edge.
Rave grabbed the side of his shield and boosted off the cliff toward the pillar. Using the pillar as leverage, he boosted back to the cliff wall. He continued the wall jump until he made it to the top. He summersaulted over the egde and landed gracefully on his feet. Rave then lost his footing and fell onto his ass with a thud. "Heh heh. Well that backfired in my face. Glad no one was around."
Rave picked himself up and pulled out a cigarette. He lit it and looked around at the large cliff he was on. He noticed nothing until a barely noticable glow emitted from the middle of the large platform. After walking toward it a few feet he noticed it was a large glowing, blue pentacle. The glow turned into a pulsating as Rave walked even closer toward it. The pulsating stopped all together once Rave got within ten feet of it and bight blue water began rising from the sides of the pentacle. The water collected into a perfect sphere in mid-air and began molding itself into the rough shape of a Reploid. It hardened and Rave pulled out his shield. It began molding the details of its body as the armour turned dark blue and the body parts turned blue. The reploid held up its hand as it finished molding and Rave held up his shield, afraid of what would happen.
Before Rave could react, a jet stream of water shot out at him from the Reploid's hand. Rave lost his footing at the pressure of the water and was flown back to the edge of the cliff. Rave looked back over the edge to the water, then back to the Reploid who still had his hand aimed at him. "Note to self: Do not fall in large pool of water with guy who can control water." Rave looked closely and noticed small drops of water appearing and began swirling around his arm. The drops grew bigger as they began forming to his arm. All the drops of water disappeared as they hardened around his arm into a plasma cannon that was twice the width of Rave's cannon and three times as long.
Rave ran at the Reploid and held his gun up, his shield protecting his body. He fired off two shots at the Reploid once it started glowing with a blue aura. Before Rave could even defend himself, a large blast came out of the Reploid and flew at Rave. He tried to jump to the side of it but was hit in the legs and flipped over. He hit the ground and got up as fast as he could and noticed the Reploid jump into the air. Rave kneeled down to the ground and held up his shield. He peered through the darkened visor and noticed a small flash and was enveloped in light only a second later. Instantly he felt a heavy pressure as his body was forced down under the weight of his shield beind his by the energy.
When the energy was gone Rave looked up just in time to see the Reploid slam itself into his shield. The force of the Reploid cause Rave to crash into the ground, his body pinned under the shield. The Reploid grinned and punched the helpless Rave in the face. Rave was completely helpless under his shield, which made him and even easier target for the appearently sadistic Reploid. He punched Rave a few more times then reaered back and slammed his fist right into Rave's jaw. The impact was so tremendous, Rave flew out from under the Reploid and bounced fifty feet across the cliff. Rave slowly got up as the Reploid once again Jumped into the air.