CHAPTER 22: DRAGON MORPH
Magus barely got his sword out before Ryu's sword brutally collided with his, making a violent shockwave cross his arms from the impact. Magus didn't have enough time to recover and was forced to make another last minute block for his son's violent strike. The battle raged for over 10 minute, Magus slowly getting faster, blocking with more ease until he was finally ready to take to offense himself. He did a rapid overhead slash and Ryu parried as expected. While he blocked, Magus reached for his other sword and slashed low, forcing Ryu to drop his guard to block the lower blow while sidestepping the other blow. Magus' two swords started to make his life harder. A fury of hits charged him, forcing him to sidestep and block in every direction, stopping him from attacking. Magus kept the pressure on Ryu high, knowing he'd make a mistake sooner or later. And it happened much sooner than expected. Ryu slipped and fell on a strike, severely damaging his ribs that ate most of the blow. Ryu griped his bloody side in pain and looked grinning at his father.
Ryu: Well done, but you know what's coming up next, don't you?
Magus: Actually, I have no idea whatsoever...
Ryu: You don't even remember... You've given me the powers of the draconic race, the ability to ascession, to transform into a draconic form for a certain ammount of time to beat up my foes majortime in very little time.
Magus: I gave you that ability? I don't even know hot to do that myself!
Ryu: Hmph! So you say... Now get ready! Ryu crossed his arm and was envelloped in dark energy that gradually became a dome of darkness. After a bit, a bolt of lightning struck it, tearing it apart as an inhuman scream echoed across the room, gradually becoming a dragon's roar. When the darkness had faded, a dragon stood where Ryu was before. The dragon in question was a small red whelp. It's small size made it look more like a cuddly toy than a danger right now. It inhaled and let out a mighty burst of flames. Magus reacted in time and placed his sword between them, the mystic blade slicing the fiery attack, making it miss it's target, but still consumed energy with every passing second he was forced to maintain it that way because of the pressure and the heat. Magus felt his feet getting warm and saw the floor under him turn red. He threw his other sword at Ryu, forcing him to use his tail to bat it aside, breaking his breath attack, letting Magus sidestep off the burning floor just before a pilliar of flames burst out of the floor where he'd stood a second ago. Magus dashed at it and sunk his sword deep within it's scales, inflicting a deep and painful wound on the baby dragon. The whelp looked angry at him and transformed again in the dome of darkness. It emerged as a golden dragon. It once again launched it's breath at him, forcing him to block with his sword again. The breath, being a lot more powerful now pushed Magus back torwards the wall until he stopped for a second to catch his breath. Magus took his opening and charged. Ryu caught the swing with his arms and hit Magus square in the stomach with his bulky tail. Magus shot a beam of energy at it as he got up. The beam hit Ryu, but bounced off it's scales, sending it back at Magus, ramming him into the wall. Magus got up fast and ran for the nearest of his two swords, recovering the one Ryu had thrown away, getting in guard stance in case Ryu was preparing for a breath attack, but he wasn't
Magus mentally: Okay, he's not attacking, but why not? I can't use Magic against him it seems, so that only leaves physical attacks... but last time, he caught my sword anc countered straight after, so that's useless too... Wait! He probably did that breath as bait! And to think I fell in his trap! Baka! He's in a form relying on conterattacks, so all I have to do is... ... Magus scrambled for his other sword and put it back it it's sheet. He walked over to Ryu and stood inches away from him, not doing a thing. The room was silent... Well, as silent as it canbe with a couple making love next door while they forgot to close the door right while the girl's orgasming. The soung got on Ryu's nerves quite fast and his father's stillness was even more annoying. He finally swung his tail at Magus that simply leapt over and countered with a swipe from his sword. Ryu easily caught the blow, but as soon as he did, Magus took out his other sword and stabbed it up to the hilt in Ryu's stomach the forcing it out of Ryu's left side. The blow gravely wounded Ryu and practically seperated his body in two.
Magus: Sorry, but attacking me left you unable to counter with you tail after you caught my sword. That's one time Lyliara will have helped out... Ryu was getting pissed at his father and transformed again, healing himself in the process again. The dome grew and let out a winged dragon the likes Magus had never seen. It was of the Demon Dragon class and of a very high level.
Magus: Rudra, isn't it?
Ryu: Very perceptive of you to notice the Legendary Dragon of Windia, the sleeping guardian of the city. The demonic dragon' large wings unfolded and made him battle ready. Ryu gathered power for a second and unleashed it into the open sky. In a matter of seconds, the sky darkened and filled itself with dark dots in the distance. As they got closer, they revealed thenselves to be meteors. The enormous onslaught rained down on the field, devastating the floor and everything it collided with. Magus used his enormous agility to avoid the onslaught until he tripped on an older one and was immediately caught by one the another, then another... and so on until the rain ended. Magus burst out of the pile of rocks covering him, now wounded and a bit tired.
Magus: Okay, this is getting annoying! He extended his palm torwards his foe and small blue energy lines pulsed along his hand, gathering in his hand.
"Grand energy that rules over all things, I beseech you.
Let your power flow with mine and unleash our wrath!
Counterblast!"
A small beam burst out of his hand, tearing across the dragons body, dividing into a dozen smaller beams on the other side of it's body and retuning in the dragon's body at various points, practically turning him into a puppet.
Magus: There! That blew off some steam. Since that meteor breath dealt me a very large ammount of damage, that attack should have seriously damaged you HP I believe... Ryu practically had smoke coming out of his head and the dark dome appeard again, tearing the energy cords to bits. The dome grew to very large proportions, revealing a huge dragon. It was around four stories high, larger than any he'd ever seen, shadow black and very looking.
Magus: Tiamat class, very high leveled... Pire, the Dragon of Despair is it?
Ryu: Well done! You seem to know a lot about legendary dragons it seems...
Magus: When you're as famous as me, it's good to know things before they attack you...
Ryu: But then you know this dragons has yet to be defeated...
Magus: So the tales say, but do remember that Pyre guards the 7th celestial plane and how many people have ever been there?
Ryu: Enough! Now prepare to meet Death!
Magus: Too late.
Ryu: What?
Magus: I already met Death less than an hour ago... Twice!
Ryu: oh... You went through the Mines first then...
Magus: Yeah, why do you think I'm here?
Ryu: I though you'd gotten lost looking for the Castle Keep... Anyway, why do you want Death's key? It just unlocks the big metal door.
Magus: I'm just curious...
Ryu: Well, can we please resume the fight?
Magus: ... Sorry, I forgot we were fighting Pyre sent a basic energy breath at Magus and he got back on the usual guard, but was unable to block it this time and was forced to defend with his arms to shield himself a bit. The attack had fried off most of his clothes, leaving only shambles of their greatness... Magus reached for his sword on the floor and Ryu launched a small beam that blew up very powerfully, covering most of the room, leaving Magus' strength almost exausted.
Magus: K... kuso... I... can't loose! Magus extended his hand to the heavens and a huge gun came out of the heavens and attached itself to his right arm. He took aim and fired an energy sphere straight at the massive dragon. It exhaled at it and made it's trajectory arc upwards, missing it's targert and exploding in mid-air, creating titanous winds, grounding Magus and pushign Ryu forward a bit.
Magus: Kuso!! Even that didn't work... Nothing left but that now...
"Powers of Darkon's soul, lend me your strength..."
Ryu: Ha! Like I'll let you do a heavy casting again! He launched a beam of pure consedsed evil at Magus, but the energy around him absorbed the blast into himself.
Ryu: What??
"As I call upon thee, I wish but for one final strike. Allow me this power I so desperately seek So that with it, I may destroy those that stand against the path of destruction we form together"
Ryu: What is he casting? I've never heard about this spell... Magus' body was now shadow black, fully envelloped in the intense evil energy he was summoning...
"Lend me the power to crush this pitiful fool that stands before me! Darkness Wave!"
The power around Magus condensed within his hand. He leapt over the titanous dragon, placing Alucard out of striking range. He extended his hand and let out a wave of absolute darkness torwards Pyre.
Ryu: Ha! You fool, Pyre absorbs all darkness elemental attacks! The wave tore across Pyre with ease making Ryu let out an unearthly sceam of agony. The wave destroyed the walls out and annihilated the church before fading miles away, having destroyed everything in it's path. Before the first wave fully left the room, a second one came out and then more until 13 had passed, leaving nothing behind of the Mighty Pyre and Ryu had reverted to normal, now on the utter verge of death. Magus' immensely corrupted body crashed to the floor, the darkness clawing at the floor, practically breaking the stone floor. Alucard came out in his underwear with a fully dressed Lyliara behidn him (after all, she is only wearing a pair of undies...), the two having been startled to death by Ryu's sceam. Before them stood a shadow black Magus on the floor, Ryu in a pool of blood and a still falling pile of gravel that was once a way out...
Alucard: W... what happened here? Lyliara came to check on Magus. When one of her fingers touched the dark veil covering him, she yelled in pain. Her finger was now the same color and pulsing rapidly.
Lyliara: W... What in the abyss is this?
Alucard: I... have no idea... I know! I'll heal Ryu a bit and have him tell us!
Lyliara: Hurry please! Alucard came to cast a healing spell, but similar shadows burst around ryu, stopping Alucard from getting any closer. Lyliara shivered violently.
Alucard: What's wrong?
Lyliara: The aura od this place... ... I... ... ... I can,t take it much longer... ... It's overwhelming! I... feel gagged... It's entering my every muscle! I... ... I can't take it anymore!!!!! Alucard slapped her. She stared at him, tears in her eyes...
Alucard: Lyliara, snap out of it!
Lyliara: I... I'm sorry... It's just... the aura here in unike any I've ever felt... I've faced some of the most terryfying demos in the entire lower plains but they were dog pee compared to this! I don't know WHAT happened here, but it's unlike anything in this castle... Wait! There might be someone who can help us... Unfortunately... ...
Alucard: Really? Where?
Lyliara: Behind Death's gate...
Alucard: Well then let's go!
Lyliara: A... are you sure? Can't we just leave him here and go find ourselves a nice little lover's nest? PLEASE??
Alucard : Sorry, but my friend needs me and i'm not about to leave him in a castle of evil like this and leave!
Lyliara : I guess this was unavoidable... Well, let's go... Wait! I nned a sample first... She cast a small spell and a small dome of light cut off a piece of the dark substance. The bubble turned night black in a second.
Lylira: I've isolated a piece of it, now we can go...
Alucard: Wait... if you got a piece off so easily, why don't you just take the rest off?
Lyliara : Do you realize how much power I'm spending containing this little chunk? Anyway, do you see a hole on him anywhere? No! It multiplied to fill it!
Alucard: Kowai(Scary)!!
Lyliara: Well, make us a way out.
Alucard: How?
Lyliara : Just chop off a piece of the floor or blast a way through it, jsut make some sort of opening! Alucard raised himself in the air and shot a beam of light across the floor, creating a slide down to the Laboratory. They grabbed the key and Alucard got dressed before headed down and into the Blood Marble Gallery again, crossed the caves and re-entered the mines. At the end, they found the still reforming Grim Reaper near his gate.
Death: What... what happened up there?
Lyliara: You can feel it too?
Death : Are you kidding, it's exhiliratingly powerful!! I bet my comrades at the other end of the planet can feel it!
Alucard: Do you have any Idea wht it can be?
Death : None whtsoever...
Lyliara : Well, I guess this is time to face my past... She inserted the small skeleton key in the lock and watched the huge door open...
Magus barely got his sword out before Ryu's sword brutally collided with his, making a violent shockwave cross his arms from the impact. Magus didn't have enough time to recover and was forced to make another last minute block for his son's violent strike. The battle raged for over 10 minute, Magus slowly getting faster, blocking with more ease until he was finally ready to take to offense himself. He did a rapid overhead slash and Ryu parried as expected. While he blocked, Magus reached for his other sword and slashed low, forcing Ryu to drop his guard to block the lower blow while sidestepping the other blow. Magus' two swords started to make his life harder. A fury of hits charged him, forcing him to sidestep and block in every direction, stopping him from attacking. Magus kept the pressure on Ryu high, knowing he'd make a mistake sooner or later. And it happened much sooner than expected. Ryu slipped and fell on a strike, severely damaging his ribs that ate most of the blow. Ryu griped his bloody side in pain and looked grinning at his father.
Ryu: Well done, but you know what's coming up next, don't you?
Magus: Actually, I have no idea whatsoever...
Ryu: You don't even remember... You've given me the powers of the draconic race, the ability to ascession, to transform into a draconic form for a certain ammount of time to beat up my foes majortime in very little time.
Magus: I gave you that ability? I don't even know hot to do that myself!
Ryu: Hmph! So you say... Now get ready! Ryu crossed his arm and was envelloped in dark energy that gradually became a dome of darkness. After a bit, a bolt of lightning struck it, tearing it apart as an inhuman scream echoed across the room, gradually becoming a dragon's roar. When the darkness had faded, a dragon stood where Ryu was before. The dragon in question was a small red whelp. It's small size made it look more like a cuddly toy than a danger right now. It inhaled and let out a mighty burst of flames. Magus reacted in time and placed his sword between them, the mystic blade slicing the fiery attack, making it miss it's target, but still consumed energy with every passing second he was forced to maintain it that way because of the pressure and the heat. Magus felt his feet getting warm and saw the floor under him turn red. He threw his other sword at Ryu, forcing him to use his tail to bat it aside, breaking his breath attack, letting Magus sidestep off the burning floor just before a pilliar of flames burst out of the floor where he'd stood a second ago. Magus dashed at it and sunk his sword deep within it's scales, inflicting a deep and painful wound on the baby dragon. The whelp looked angry at him and transformed again in the dome of darkness. It emerged as a golden dragon. It once again launched it's breath at him, forcing him to block with his sword again. The breath, being a lot more powerful now pushed Magus back torwards the wall until he stopped for a second to catch his breath. Magus took his opening and charged. Ryu caught the swing with his arms and hit Magus square in the stomach with his bulky tail. Magus shot a beam of energy at it as he got up. The beam hit Ryu, but bounced off it's scales, sending it back at Magus, ramming him into the wall. Magus got up fast and ran for the nearest of his two swords, recovering the one Ryu had thrown away, getting in guard stance in case Ryu was preparing for a breath attack, but he wasn't
Magus mentally: Okay, he's not attacking, but why not? I can't use Magic against him it seems, so that only leaves physical attacks... but last time, he caught my sword anc countered straight after, so that's useless too... Wait! He probably did that breath as bait! And to think I fell in his trap! Baka! He's in a form relying on conterattacks, so all I have to do is... ... Magus scrambled for his other sword and put it back it it's sheet. He walked over to Ryu and stood inches away from him, not doing a thing. The room was silent... Well, as silent as it canbe with a couple making love next door while they forgot to close the door right while the girl's orgasming. The soung got on Ryu's nerves quite fast and his father's stillness was even more annoying. He finally swung his tail at Magus that simply leapt over and countered with a swipe from his sword. Ryu easily caught the blow, but as soon as he did, Magus took out his other sword and stabbed it up to the hilt in Ryu's stomach the forcing it out of Ryu's left side. The blow gravely wounded Ryu and practically seperated his body in two.
Magus: Sorry, but attacking me left you unable to counter with you tail after you caught my sword. That's one time Lyliara will have helped out... Ryu was getting pissed at his father and transformed again, healing himself in the process again. The dome grew and let out a winged dragon the likes Magus had never seen. It was of the Demon Dragon class and of a very high level.
Magus: Rudra, isn't it?
Ryu: Very perceptive of you to notice the Legendary Dragon of Windia, the sleeping guardian of the city. The demonic dragon' large wings unfolded and made him battle ready. Ryu gathered power for a second and unleashed it into the open sky. In a matter of seconds, the sky darkened and filled itself with dark dots in the distance. As they got closer, they revealed thenselves to be meteors. The enormous onslaught rained down on the field, devastating the floor and everything it collided with. Magus used his enormous agility to avoid the onslaught until he tripped on an older one and was immediately caught by one the another, then another... and so on until the rain ended. Magus burst out of the pile of rocks covering him, now wounded and a bit tired.
Magus: Okay, this is getting annoying! He extended his palm torwards his foe and small blue energy lines pulsed along his hand, gathering in his hand.
"Grand energy that rules over all things, I beseech you.
Let your power flow with mine and unleash our wrath!
Counterblast!"
A small beam burst out of his hand, tearing across the dragons body, dividing into a dozen smaller beams on the other side of it's body and retuning in the dragon's body at various points, practically turning him into a puppet.
Magus: There! That blew off some steam. Since that meteor breath dealt me a very large ammount of damage, that attack should have seriously damaged you HP I believe... Ryu practically had smoke coming out of his head and the dark dome appeard again, tearing the energy cords to bits. The dome grew to very large proportions, revealing a huge dragon. It was around four stories high, larger than any he'd ever seen, shadow black and very looking.
Magus: Tiamat class, very high leveled... Pire, the Dragon of Despair is it?
Ryu: Well done! You seem to know a lot about legendary dragons it seems...
Magus: When you're as famous as me, it's good to know things before they attack you...
Ryu: But then you know this dragons has yet to be defeated...
Magus: So the tales say, but do remember that Pyre guards the 7th celestial plane and how many people have ever been there?
Ryu: Enough! Now prepare to meet Death!
Magus: Too late.
Ryu: What?
Magus: I already met Death less than an hour ago... Twice!
Ryu: oh... You went through the Mines first then...
Magus: Yeah, why do you think I'm here?
Ryu: I though you'd gotten lost looking for the Castle Keep... Anyway, why do you want Death's key? It just unlocks the big metal door.
Magus: I'm just curious...
Ryu: Well, can we please resume the fight?
Magus: ... Sorry, I forgot we were fighting Pyre sent a basic energy breath at Magus and he got back on the usual guard, but was unable to block it this time and was forced to defend with his arms to shield himself a bit. The attack had fried off most of his clothes, leaving only shambles of their greatness... Magus reached for his sword on the floor and Ryu launched a small beam that blew up very powerfully, covering most of the room, leaving Magus' strength almost exausted.
Magus: K... kuso... I... can't loose! Magus extended his hand to the heavens and a huge gun came out of the heavens and attached itself to his right arm. He took aim and fired an energy sphere straight at the massive dragon. It exhaled at it and made it's trajectory arc upwards, missing it's targert and exploding in mid-air, creating titanous winds, grounding Magus and pushign Ryu forward a bit.
Magus: Kuso!! Even that didn't work... Nothing left but that now...
"Powers of Darkon's soul, lend me your strength..."
Ryu: Ha! Like I'll let you do a heavy casting again! He launched a beam of pure consedsed evil at Magus, but the energy around him absorbed the blast into himself.
Ryu: What??
"As I call upon thee, I wish but for one final strike. Allow me this power I so desperately seek So that with it, I may destroy those that stand against the path of destruction we form together"
Ryu: What is he casting? I've never heard about this spell... Magus' body was now shadow black, fully envelloped in the intense evil energy he was summoning...
"Lend me the power to crush this pitiful fool that stands before me! Darkness Wave!"
The power around Magus condensed within his hand. He leapt over the titanous dragon, placing Alucard out of striking range. He extended his hand and let out a wave of absolute darkness torwards Pyre.
Ryu: Ha! You fool, Pyre absorbs all darkness elemental attacks! The wave tore across Pyre with ease making Ryu let out an unearthly sceam of agony. The wave destroyed the walls out and annihilated the church before fading miles away, having destroyed everything in it's path. Before the first wave fully left the room, a second one came out and then more until 13 had passed, leaving nothing behind of the Mighty Pyre and Ryu had reverted to normal, now on the utter verge of death. Magus' immensely corrupted body crashed to the floor, the darkness clawing at the floor, practically breaking the stone floor. Alucard came out in his underwear with a fully dressed Lyliara behidn him (after all, she is only wearing a pair of undies...), the two having been startled to death by Ryu's sceam. Before them stood a shadow black Magus on the floor, Ryu in a pool of blood and a still falling pile of gravel that was once a way out...
Alucard: W... what happened here? Lyliara came to check on Magus. When one of her fingers touched the dark veil covering him, she yelled in pain. Her finger was now the same color and pulsing rapidly.
Lyliara: W... What in the abyss is this?
Alucard: I... have no idea... I know! I'll heal Ryu a bit and have him tell us!
Lyliara: Hurry please! Alucard came to cast a healing spell, but similar shadows burst around ryu, stopping Alucard from getting any closer. Lyliara shivered violently.
Alucard: What's wrong?
Lyliara: The aura od this place... ... I... ... ... I can,t take it much longer... ... It's overwhelming! I... feel gagged... It's entering my every muscle! I... ... I can't take it anymore!!!!! Alucard slapped her. She stared at him, tears in her eyes...
Alucard: Lyliara, snap out of it!
Lyliara: I... I'm sorry... It's just... the aura here in unike any I've ever felt... I've faced some of the most terryfying demos in the entire lower plains but they were dog pee compared to this! I don't know WHAT happened here, but it's unlike anything in this castle... Wait! There might be someone who can help us... Unfortunately... ...
Alucard: Really? Where?
Lyliara: Behind Death's gate...
Alucard: Well then let's go!
Lyliara: A... are you sure? Can't we just leave him here and go find ourselves a nice little lover's nest? PLEASE??
Alucard : Sorry, but my friend needs me and i'm not about to leave him in a castle of evil like this and leave!
Lyliara : I guess this was unavoidable... Well, let's go... Wait! I nned a sample first... She cast a small spell and a small dome of light cut off a piece of the dark substance. The bubble turned night black in a second.
Lylira: I've isolated a piece of it, now we can go...
Alucard: Wait... if you got a piece off so easily, why don't you just take the rest off?
Lyliara : Do you realize how much power I'm spending containing this little chunk? Anyway, do you see a hole on him anywhere? No! It multiplied to fill it!
Alucard: Kowai(Scary)!!
Lyliara: Well, make us a way out.
Alucard: How?
Lyliara : Just chop off a piece of the floor or blast a way through it, jsut make some sort of opening! Alucard raised himself in the air and shot a beam of light across the floor, creating a slide down to the Laboratory. They grabbed the key and Alucard got dressed before headed down and into the Blood Marble Gallery again, crossed the caves and re-entered the mines. At the end, they found the still reforming Grim Reaper near his gate.
Death: What... what happened up there?
Lyliara: You can feel it too?
Death : Are you kidding, it's exhiliratingly powerful!! I bet my comrades at the other end of the planet can feel it!
Alucard: Do you have any Idea wht it can be?
Death : None whtsoever...
Lyliara : Well, I guess this is time to face my past... She inserted the small skeleton key in the lock and watched the huge door open...