Me: Sorry about the long update, My muse desided to take a four month
vacation.
Muse: I'm back now so get over it.
Me: You abandoned me for 4 months and tell me to get over it. Perhaps I should let Nirra boil ya in that stew.
Kipper: Shut up and get on with the story. This is the part where ... mumble mumble... *I cover his mouth*
Me: Shut up, don't spoil it!
Kipper: Sorry.
Me, Ok, on with the Shout outs!
Darth: No, the guardian has a head of steel. Besides, he would have destroyed the book. Why do you think the scribe hid it.
Ryu Gunslinger: Kipper is an unusual dragon. He is able to use the genes cause I thought that when Ryu found all of the genes it abled the other Brood (Kipper, his parents, and Teepo) to use them too. And what I ment in the shoutouts, I fixed the spacing issue the best I could. I'll read your story soon.
Airess: Yep, better late than never. Hope you enjoy the chapter, and thanks for the shout out in ch 22 of Dragon Legond. Can't wait to start on our Coauthored fanfic!
A Breath of Fire Story
Chapter 8
Part 13: Final Battle
Kipper snatched his pole back as soon as he saw it. He slipped it back into it's rightful place, in the case on his back. He was happy to have it back in his possession.
Teepo began to wonder if this was wise. He had to agree that he would rather die in battle than be executed in a cell for just being a Brood. He felt that it was very unjust.
Was the Guardian's view guilty until proven innocent, it seemed like it. Or, was it that he was such a devoted solider that he would complete his mission at any cost, or was there another reason behind it?
"I hope Madelline is ok." Teepo found himself saying.
"Who is Madelline?" Ryu asked his brother.
"She's his girlfriend." Rosco stated, looking as innocent as a ten year old could.
Teepo glared at him, though he was blushing.
Ryu gave his brother an astonished look. "You fell in love? I never though I would see the day when that punk I knew as a kid would ever fall in love." Ryu said, with a shy smile and chuckle.
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"Ok, this is officially boring!" Cried Makas who had been pacing his cell since he had awoken. His tail swished behind him in irritation. The tip tapping the floor. His childlike actions taking tole. His boredom taking control of his logic of unlocking the door.
It was Reina who had been working on the lock while her brother complained. Her mother had tried blasting the door out not long after she had been put in but it had no effect.
"Snick" went lock as Reina finally opened it.
"Bout time!" Said Makas. His childish grin reappearing and his tail danced behind him.
His father smiled as well, though it seemed the years and parenting had slightly lessened his childish gleam and he matured in attitude a bit. He smiled at his daughter. "Reina, I'm proud of you." Turns to Momo. "Told you teaching them to unlock doors would come in handy someday!" He was feeling a high temptation to stick his tongue out at his wife but buried the feeling deep down.
"Oh, just shut up." Long ears twitch. "We have to find the others." Stated Momo.
"Ya, I just hope nothings's happened to to my Teepo." Madelline said, looking kinda depressed.
At the mention of his long since dead brother Rei looked at her. In a deep place in his heart he still mourned the loss of his brother that he and Ryu had killed when he had not been himself. His heart wished it to be true. "What does Teepo look like?" Rei found the question forming.
"Well, for one thing he could use a haircut. He almost looks like a girl. His hair is a light purple, and his eyes are purple as well." Madelline replied, getting a dreamy look in her eyes.
That description certainly sounded like his brother's. *Could it really be him?* His mind and heart asked. His guilt from over the past seventeen years draining. "Ok, like Momo said, we have to find the others."
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Kipper had already made a firm decision that he would not use that dark and deadly gene that was so wild and untamed that not even the Failure Gene could control.
He also did not like the feel of the evil that came with it. It was true that darkness dragons had evil in them, it was something they could not escape. You cannot change what you were born as, but they learned that they could chose to act evil and exploit it, or chose to to act good and live in peace. As Kipper and his family chose to act good and not exploit the evil inside them.
Teepo had been forced to show that evil to Ryu when they met in Caer Xhan.
But the power he held inside was a power that had evil from beyond evil. A desire to destroy anything in it's path. Friend and foe alike. It was a power that kept trying to force its way up and release itself. To take control of him instead of him controlling it. It especially tried to bubble up and break through when he was mad.
"Kipper, you ok?" Asked Teepo. He hadn't said a word since he had told the Guardian that he wished to fight him.
"Yes, I'm fine." Kipper said, his voice sounding oddly weary. He was still trying to think fully straight. The blows he had taken to the head still fuzzed out his thoughts. He wasn't as alert as he should be. "I will be fine."
"Kipper, I'm a little nervous." Said Nirra, hugging Kipper's arm. She had developed a nervousness about fighting. Perhaps it was from being good at heart and not wanting to hurt anyone. "I don't want to fight."
"I would prefer not to ether, but I will not let myself fall without a fight. I'm sorry I got you guys mixed in with all of this." Kipper replies, lowering his head in shame.
"It's ok. I doubt any of us would have made it this far without you, Kip." Said Rosco.
Kipper gave Rosco a empty half smile. It had no feeling in it. Meant for comfort that wasn't there. Rosco knew it.
"Kipper, don't give me an empty smile. It's not worth it." Rosco stated, his voice unusually harsh.
Kipper nodded and turned to face forward. He saw the outline of the stadium where he and the other Brood would be fighting. He then heard Ryu speak.
"I..." His shy voice unable to work. "I didn't...know there were other Brood besides Teepo and I." The man's grammar was unusually polite and correct. It was also very soft.
Kipper mentally sighed. He had avoided the King of Wyndia's attention for a while. He really had nothing to say to the man the dragon twins called father. He was not much of a social person, not even his travels made him one. He replied anyway. "I lived in the middle of nowhere so that is no surprise that you didn't know. My parents and I didn't know ether."
"Where are your parents now?" Ryu asked. He got no reply. He noticed the boy's head lower.
"Ryu, don't press him on that subject. He's got it bad enough as it is." Said Teepo.
"I am sorry, Kipper." Ryu said, feeling sympathy and a pang of remorse.
"It's ok. I just don't want to talk about it right now. I'll tell you later." Kipper replied. Then he noticed that they were infront of a relatively large door.
"This must be it. It's odd that a battle arena would be a tower." Teepo said, looking way up to the top.
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They all step inside and make their way to the arena in the center of the first floor of the tower. Kipper's eyes glanced at a shelf off to the sides. He opens a book to find a paper that was surprisingly still in good shape. It was a blueprint of the battle tower. "I wish Makas or Reina were here. They could read this." He mutters to himself as he tried to comprehend what the blueprint read. He found instructions, but most of it was faded out anyway.
"Hey Kip. Can I see that?" Teepo asked, making a hand-it-over gesture.
"Sure, see if you can read it. I sure can't." Kipper handed over the paper.
Teepo squinted at the paper. He was somehow able to make it out. "It shows the basics of building the battle tower, but this is the most interesting." Said Teepo, in a slight bewilderment.
Ryu looked over his brother's shoulder. "What have you found?" He asked.
"At the very top of this tower is a self-destruction button. Wonder why they put something like that here?" Teepo wondered out loud.
There was no time to ponder this for Gatz had entered the arena. Kipper locked eyes with him.
"I will not let you kill any of my friends. This injustice has gone on long enough!" He shouted.
"And just what do you plan on doing, Dragon Brat?"
"Long ago, we couldn't fight back because we would have destroyed the world. The world has gotten stronger and there are to few of us to cause a problem like that. We WILL fight back." Kipper said, as if entranced by something. Just then all of the others that had been locked up entered the room.
It was both Gatz and Garr that had the surprise of seeing each other again. But Garr was not that pleased. Makas and Reina had explained about their new friend and how he was a Brood. He had promised Dais that he would protect them, and now one of his friends was trying to kill them.
"Gatz, what are you doing? The Brood are no longer our enemies. There is no need to purge the world of their existence." Garr stated.
"I don't care. I was told to kill the Brood, and that's what I'm going to do. You are the last person I would think to object to this Garr. You always followed orders without question." Gatz retaliated.
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Kipper let out a gasp of surprise at the sight of the second Guardian. Fear returned to him when he saw this.
Rosco noticed Kipper's nervousness and spoke up. "Hey, no need to worry bout it. We've know Garr for four years. I doubt he'd do anything he'd regret cause he knows dad could kick his butt!" Rosco said proudly.
"Um, son. Now is not the time for that." Came Ryu's shy voice. He then turned to Kipper. "Don't worry. Garr isn't like him. He's an old friend of mine." Said Ryu.
Kipper nodded but still didn't trust Garr. He didn't trust guardians, period. Not after the murder of his parents. At the memory of that rage boiled up inside him like a volcano. He just barely kept it at bay. Just then the Guardian named Gatz spoke again.
"You and the others that entered with you have no need to be here. I have a score I must settle with them. Now leave." He ordered.
The others had no intention of leaving until Kipper said. "This is our fight. Please leave. I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say we don't want to involve anyone who doesn't need involved. Please respect our wishes and leave this battle to us."
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Nina's eyes locked with Ryu's eyes to see if his they would tell her anything. In them she saw that he wanted her to be with him, but would rather her stay somewhere out of harms way. She nodded as a confirmation to him that she would honor his wish and leave. Tugging at the blue haired woman she had come to know as Madelline's arm.
"This is not something we should interfere with. Lets' go." She gave one last look at her twins, for she hadn't seen them for almost 3 weeks. "I wish you all the best of luck." She whispered to to the brood about to fight. Then they all left.
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Ryu, Rosco, and Teepo unsheathed their swords and Nirra pulled out her wand. Kipper hesitated to draw his pole. The bottled up fear and hatred swelling through him. He cast the though aside and pulled out his pole.
At that moment the battle commenced. Kipper went defensive as Gatz swung his spear at him. He used his pole to block it and ducked underneath the spear. Then with all the force he had, he rammed his pole into the Gatz chest. It knocked the wind out of the guardian as he staggered backwards, holding his chest trying to breathe.
Nirra thrust her wand forward and the magic inside hurled itself at Gatz. It brushed off of his well muscular body doing very little damage.
Teepo lunged forward with his sword, but by now the Gatz had control over his bearings again. He dodged it and slammed the bottom of his spear on Teepo's head, and knocked him out.
Ryu then cast Resurrection on his fallen twin, and Teepo awoke. He jumped back, away form the Guardian.
Kipper used this chance to ascend into his warrior form. The black electricity surrounded him, and the power of the brood flowed through his blood as his body changed. "Aura!" He shouted and a larger, shadowlike version of himself appeared in front of him and punched the Gatz. The large guardian stumbled back, surprised at the young Brood's power.
"Well, dragon brat. It seems you have gotten stronger. I must say I commend you at that. But, I have also grown stronger." He slashed at Warrior Kipper with his spear, only the spear had been incased with ice.
Kipper was to startled to dodge the Ice Spear. It slashed him across the stomach with such force and power, it nearly forced him back to his human from. "You did improve." Kipper stated with a nod, holding his bleeding chest.
Nirra ascended into her Warrior form. "Gambit" She shouted and made a attempt to punch Gatz, knowing it was a risky move, but powerful if it made contact. Luck must have been on her side that time for it did.
Gatz was surprised to say the least at Nirra's strength. If she was the weakest of the group of Brood this would definitely be a challenge. Not that he minded.
Rosco walked over to Kipper and cast cure on him. "Finally that dumb skill came in handy. Why do we dragons gotta fight this alone. I wish Makas and Reina were here to help. Their were-tiger forms would help in kicking this guy's butt."
"Ya, they would be a big help. Watch out for that spear. Somehow the Gaurdian's spear can kill a Brood outside of a fight, and this is a fight." Kipper replies.
Teepo also transformed into his Warrior form. He also used his Aura move on Gatz. It was then that Teepo noticed something. His AP naturally drained here, and not just as a round as a dragon, in just kept dropping.
Ryu ran up to Gatz and slashed him with his Royal Sword. He to noticed that his AP was dropping without reason. He noticed the look of exhaustion on Kipper's face. None of the dragon forms would hold out much longer.
"What the Heck in up with my AP drainage?" Kipper asked out, then shouted "Aura" again as his shadowed figure punched Gatz again, and he dropped back to his human form, gasping for breath, feeling a slight bit of dizziness from lost energy.
"This room is an old one. It naturally diminishes the AP of a Brood in battle. Thought up by an old Brood king who wanted the tournament battles held here to be more interesting. To bad it will be the death of the Brood. " Said Gatz, smirking.
"NO, it WON'T end like this! AURA" Shouted Nirra as her shadow punched the Guardian in the gut. Then she dropped back into her human form.
Gatz then rammed the ice spear into Teepo, and growled in frustration and pain.
Teepo let out a startled gasp and fell back to his human form to contradict his wound and prevent fainting, again. He then used his move Jump since there was little option for his AP was gone. He slammed his feet down on the guardian's skull. It did a fair amount of damage. He then noticed that the guardian was weakening.
"Rosco, I think you can take him out with you Typhoon if you put enough force in it." Teepo yells to Rosco.
Rosco nodded in reply and summoned up a Typhoon. Unfortunately it did little damage. "Oh crap. Why is it we always get caught in the downpour of life?" he moaned.
Ryu also used Jump and rammed the guardian, but it did even less damage than the typhoon.
"This is the end for you Gatz. We will no longer be hunted mercilessly." Kipper said, and began to spin the pole with such force and energy that he was barely keeping it in his fingers. He then slammed the pole down on the Guardian's head, and Gatz collapsed in a heap on the floor, unconscious.
Nirra ran up to Kipper and hugged him. "You did it Kip! You really did it!" She cried.
Kipper smiled wearily. That forceful spin used up a lot of his energy, and he would have fallen if she wasn't holding him up with her hug.
"Great job Kipper! You kicked his butt good. Bet he'll think twice before he messes with us again." Said Rosco, giving Kipper a slap in the back.
"Not much to celebrate yet. He is only unconscious, not dead. None of us are in the condition to battle again, so we only have one option. One of us must travel to the top of the tower and push the self-destruction button. But whoever does it will have to die." Said Teepo.
"DIE!" Everyone shouted in unison.
"I'll do it." Said Kipper with a saddend sigh.
"WHAT! Did that battle go to your head! You've gone nuts!" Shouted Rosco.
"This is my fight, and it's my fault you all got involved. I will end it here, even if I must end my own life."
"As your best friend, I must say I don't approve of this, but the decision is yours. We all had great times together. I'll miss you a whole lot, Fish." Said Rosco, giving Kipper a hug, a tear fell from his eye.
To Be Continued...
Me: I was on a writing role since my muse came back!
Muse: So, you won't fire me?!
Me: Not yet, but if you take another 4 month vacation I will.
Muse: I'm back now so get over it.
Me: You abandoned me for 4 months and tell me to get over it. Perhaps I should let Nirra boil ya in that stew.
Kipper: Shut up and get on with the story. This is the part where ... mumble mumble... *I cover his mouth*
Me: Shut up, don't spoil it!
Kipper: Sorry.
Me, Ok, on with the Shout outs!
Darth: No, the guardian has a head of steel. Besides, he would have destroyed the book. Why do you think the scribe hid it.
Ryu Gunslinger: Kipper is an unusual dragon. He is able to use the genes cause I thought that when Ryu found all of the genes it abled the other Brood (Kipper, his parents, and Teepo) to use them too. And what I ment in the shoutouts, I fixed the spacing issue the best I could. I'll read your story soon.
Airess: Yep, better late than never. Hope you enjoy the chapter, and thanks for the shout out in ch 22 of Dragon Legond. Can't wait to start on our Coauthored fanfic!
A Breath of Fire Story
Chapter 8
Part 13: Final Battle
Kipper snatched his pole back as soon as he saw it. He slipped it back into it's rightful place, in the case on his back. He was happy to have it back in his possession.
Teepo began to wonder if this was wise. He had to agree that he would rather die in battle than be executed in a cell for just being a Brood. He felt that it was very unjust.
Was the Guardian's view guilty until proven innocent, it seemed like it. Or, was it that he was such a devoted solider that he would complete his mission at any cost, or was there another reason behind it?
"I hope Madelline is ok." Teepo found himself saying.
"Who is Madelline?" Ryu asked his brother.
"She's his girlfriend." Rosco stated, looking as innocent as a ten year old could.
Teepo glared at him, though he was blushing.
Ryu gave his brother an astonished look. "You fell in love? I never though I would see the day when that punk I knew as a kid would ever fall in love." Ryu said, with a shy smile and chuckle.
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"Ok, this is officially boring!" Cried Makas who had been pacing his cell since he had awoken. His tail swished behind him in irritation. The tip tapping the floor. His childlike actions taking tole. His boredom taking control of his logic of unlocking the door.
It was Reina who had been working on the lock while her brother complained. Her mother had tried blasting the door out not long after she had been put in but it had no effect.
"Snick" went lock as Reina finally opened it.
"Bout time!" Said Makas. His childish grin reappearing and his tail danced behind him.
His father smiled as well, though it seemed the years and parenting had slightly lessened his childish gleam and he matured in attitude a bit. He smiled at his daughter. "Reina, I'm proud of you." Turns to Momo. "Told you teaching them to unlock doors would come in handy someday!" He was feeling a high temptation to stick his tongue out at his wife but buried the feeling deep down.
"Oh, just shut up." Long ears twitch. "We have to find the others." Stated Momo.
"Ya, I just hope nothings's happened to to my Teepo." Madelline said, looking kinda depressed.
At the mention of his long since dead brother Rei looked at her. In a deep place in his heart he still mourned the loss of his brother that he and Ryu had killed when he had not been himself. His heart wished it to be true. "What does Teepo look like?" Rei found the question forming.
"Well, for one thing he could use a haircut. He almost looks like a girl. His hair is a light purple, and his eyes are purple as well." Madelline replied, getting a dreamy look in her eyes.
That description certainly sounded like his brother's. *Could it really be him?* His mind and heart asked. His guilt from over the past seventeen years draining. "Ok, like Momo said, we have to find the others."
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Kipper had already made a firm decision that he would not use that dark and deadly gene that was so wild and untamed that not even the Failure Gene could control.
He also did not like the feel of the evil that came with it. It was true that darkness dragons had evil in them, it was something they could not escape. You cannot change what you were born as, but they learned that they could chose to act evil and exploit it, or chose to to act good and live in peace. As Kipper and his family chose to act good and not exploit the evil inside them.
Teepo had been forced to show that evil to Ryu when they met in Caer Xhan.
But the power he held inside was a power that had evil from beyond evil. A desire to destroy anything in it's path. Friend and foe alike. It was a power that kept trying to force its way up and release itself. To take control of him instead of him controlling it. It especially tried to bubble up and break through when he was mad.
"Kipper, you ok?" Asked Teepo. He hadn't said a word since he had told the Guardian that he wished to fight him.
"Yes, I'm fine." Kipper said, his voice sounding oddly weary. He was still trying to think fully straight. The blows he had taken to the head still fuzzed out his thoughts. He wasn't as alert as he should be. "I will be fine."
"Kipper, I'm a little nervous." Said Nirra, hugging Kipper's arm. She had developed a nervousness about fighting. Perhaps it was from being good at heart and not wanting to hurt anyone. "I don't want to fight."
"I would prefer not to ether, but I will not let myself fall without a fight. I'm sorry I got you guys mixed in with all of this." Kipper replies, lowering his head in shame.
"It's ok. I doubt any of us would have made it this far without you, Kip." Said Rosco.
Kipper gave Rosco a empty half smile. It had no feeling in it. Meant for comfort that wasn't there. Rosco knew it.
"Kipper, don't give me an empty smile. It's not worth it." Rosco stated, his voice unusually harsh.
Kipper nodded and turned to face forward. He saw the outline of the stadium where he and the other Brood would be fighting. He then heard Ryu speak.
"I..." His shy voice unable to work. "I didn't...know there were other Brood besides Teepo and I." The man's grammar was unusually polite and correct. It was also very soft.
Kipper mentally sighed. He had avoided the King of Wyndia's attention for a while. He really had nothing to say to the man the dragon twins called father. He was not much of a social person, not even his travels made him one. He replied anyway. "I lived in the middle of nowhere so that is no surprise that you didn't know. My parents and I didn't know ether."
"Where are your parents now?" Ryu asked. He got no reply. He noticed the boy's head lower.
"Ryu, don't press him on that subject. He's got it bad enough as it is." Said Teepo.
"I am sorry, Kipper." Ryu said, feeling sympathy and a pang of remorse.
"It's ok. I just don't want to talk about it right now. I'll tell you later." Kipper replied. Then he noticed that they were infront of a relatively large door.
"This must be it. It's odd that a battle arena would be a tower." Teepo said, looking way up to the top.
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They all step inside and make their way to the arena in the center of the first floor of the tower. Kipper's eyes glanced at a shelf off to the sides. He opens a book to find a paper that was surprisingly still in good shape. It was a blueprint of the battle tower. "I wish Makas or Reina were here. They could read this." He mutters to himself as he tried to comprehend what the blueprint read. He found instructions, but most of it was faded out anyway.
"Hey Kip. Can I see that?" Teepo asked, making a hand-it-over gesture.
"Sure, see if you can read it. I sure can't." Kipper handed over the paper.
Teepo squinted at the paper. He was somehow able to make it out. "It shows the basics of building the battle tower, but this is the most interesting." Said Teepo, in a slight bewilderment.
Ryu looked over his brother's shoulder. "What have you found?" He asked.
"At the very top of this tower is a self-destruction button. Wonder why they put something like that here?" Teepo wondered out loud.
There was no time to ponder this for Gatz had entered the arena. Kipper locked eyes with him.
"I will not let you kill any of my friends. This injustice has gone on long enough!" He shouted.
"And just what do you plan on doing, Dragon Brat?"
"Long ago, we couldn't fight back because we would have destroyed the world. The world has gotten stronger and there are to few of us to cause a problem like that. We WILL fight back." Kipper said, as if entranced by something. Just then all of the others that had been locked up entered the room.
It was both Gatz and Garr that had the surprise of seeing each other again. But Garr was not that pleased. Makas and Reina had explained about their new friend and how he was a Brood. He had promised Dais that he would protect them, and now one of his friends was trying to kill them.
"Gatz, what are you doing? The Brood are no longer our enemies. There is no need to purge the world of their existence." Garr stated.
"I don't care. I was told to kill the Brood, and that's what I'm going to do. You are the last person I would think to object to this Garr. You always followed orders without question." Gatz retaliated.
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Kipper let out a gasp of surprise at the sight of the second Guardian. Fear returned to him when he saw this.
Rosco noticed Kipper's nervousness and spoke up. "Hey, no need to worry bout it. We've know Garr for four years. I doubt he'd do anything he'd regret cause he knows dad could kick his butt!" Rosco said proudly.
"Um, son. Now is not the time for that." Came Ryu's shy voice. He then turned to Kipper. "Don't worry. Garr isn't like him. He's an old friend of mine." Said Ryu.
Kipper nodded but still didn't trust Garr. He didn't trust guardians, period. Not after the murder of his parents. At the memory of that rage boiled up inside him like a volcano. He just barely kept it at bay. Just then the Guardian named Gatz spoke again.
"You and the others that entered with you have no need to be here. I have a score I must settle with them. Now leave." He ordered.
The others had no intention of leaving until Kipper said. "This is our fight. Please leave. I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say we don't want to involve anyone who doesn't need involved. Please respect our wishes and leave this battle to us."
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Nina's eyes locked with Ryu's eyes to see if his they would tell her anything. In them she saw that he wanted her to be with him, but would rather her stay somewhere out of harms way. She nodded as a confirmation to him that she would honor his wish and leave. Tugging at the blue haired woman she had come to know as Madelline's arm.
"This is not something we should interfere with. Lets' go." She gave one last look at her twins, for she hadn't seen them for almost 3 weeks. "I wish you all the best of luck." She whispered to to the brood about to fight. Then they all left.
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Ryu, Rosco, and Teepo unsheathed their swords and Nirra pulled out her wand. Kipper hesitated to draw his pole. The bottled up fear and hatred swelling through him. He cast the though aside and pulled out his pole.
At that moment the battle commenced. Kipper went defensive as Gatz swung his spear at him. He used his pole to block it and ducked underneath the spear. Then with all the force he had, he rammed his pole into the Gatz chest. It knocked the wind out of the guardian as he staggered backwards, holding his chest trying to breathe.
Nirra thrust her wand forward and the magic inside hurled itself at Gatz. It brushed off of his well muscular body doing very little damage.
Teepo lunged forward with his sword, but by now the Gatz had control over his bearings again. He dodged it and slammed the bottom of his spear on Teepo's head, and knocked him out.
Ryu then cast Resurrection on his fallen twin, and Teepo awoke. He jumped back, away form the Guardian.
Kipper used this chance to ascend into his warrior form. The black electricity surrounded him, and the power of the brood flowed through his blood as his body changed. "Aura!" He shouted and a larger, shadowlike version of himself appeared in front of him and punched the Gatz. The large guardian stumbled back, surprised at the young Brood's power.
"Well, dragon brat. It seems you have gotten stronger. I must say I commend you at that. But, I have also grown stronger." He slashed at Warrior Kipper with his spear, only the spear had been incased with ice.
Kipper was to startled to dodge the Ice Spear. It slashed him across the stomach with such force and power, it nearly forced him back to his human from. "You did improve." Kipper stated with a nod, holding his bleeding chest.
Nirra ascended into her Warrior form. "Gambit" She shouted and made a attempt to punch Gatz, knowing it was a risky move, but powerful if it made contact. Luck must have been on her side that time for it did.
Gatz was surprised to say the least at Nirra's strength. If she was the weakest of the group of Brood this would definitely be a challenge. Not that he minded.
Rosco walked over to Kipper and cast cure on him. "Finally that dumb skill came in handy. Why do we dragons gotta fight this alone. I wish Makas and Reina were here to help. Their were-tiger forms would help in kicking this guy's butt."
"Ya, they would be a big help. Watch out for that spear. Somehow the Gaurdian's spear can kill a Brood outside of a fight, and this is a fight." Kipper replies.
Teepo also transformed into his Warrior form. He also used his Aura move on Gatz. It was then that Teepo noticed something. His AP naturally drained here, and not just as a round as a dragon, in just kept dropping.
Ryu ran up to Gatz and slashed him with his Royal Sword. He to noticed that his AP was dropping without reason. He noticed the look of exhaustion on Kipper's face. None of the dragon forms would hold out much longer.
"What the Heck in up with my AP drainage?" Kipper asked out, then shouted "Aura" again as his shadowed figure punched Gatz again, and he dropped back to his human form, gasping for breath, feeling a slight bit of dizziness from lost energy.
"This room is an old one. It naturally diminishes the AP of a Brood in battle. Thought up by an old Brood king who wanted the tournament battles held here to be more interesting. To bad it will be the death of the Brood. " Said Gatz, smirking.
"NO, it WON'T end like this! AURA" Shouted Nirra as her shadow punched the Guardian in the gut. Then she dropped back into her human form.
Gatz then rammed the ice spear into Teepo, and growled in frustration and pain.
Teepo let out a startled gasp and fell back to his human form to contradict his wound and prevent fainting, again. He then used his move Jump since there was little option for his AP was gone. He slammed his feet down on the guardian's skull. It did a fair amount of damage. He then noticed that the guardian was weakening.
"Rosco, I think you can take him out with you Typhoon if you put enough force in it." Teepo yells to Rosco.
Rosco nodded in reply and summoned up a Typhoon. Unfortunately it did little damage. "Oh crap. Why is it we always get caught in the downpour of life?" he moaned.
Ryu also used Jump and rammed the guardian, but it did even less damage than the typhoon.
"This is the end for you Gatz. We will no longer be hunted mercilessly." Kipper said, and began to spin the pole with such force and energy that he was barely keeping it in his fingers. He then slammed the pole down on the Guardian's head, and Gatz collapsed in a heap on the floor, unconscious.
Nirra ran up to Kipper and hugged him. "You did it Kip! You really did it!" She cried.
Kipper smiled wearily. That forceful spin used up a lot of his energy, and he would have fallen if she wasn't holding him up with her hug.
"Great job Kipper! You kicked his butt good. Bet he'll think twice before he messes with us again." Said Rosco, giving Kipper a slap in the back.
"Not much to celebrate yet. He is only unconscious, not dead. None of us are in the condition to battle again, so we only have one option. One of us must travel to the top of the tower and push the self-destruction button. But whoever does it will have to die." Said Teepo.
"DIE!" Everyone shouted in unison.
"I'll do it." Said Kipper with a saddend sigh.
"WHAT! Did that battle go to your head! You've gone nuts!" Shouted Rosco.
"This is my fight, and it's my fault you all got involved. I will end it here, even if I must end my own life."
"As your best friend, I must say I don't approve of this, but the decision is yours. We all had great times together. I'll miss you a whole lot, Fish." Said Rosco, giving Kipper a hug, a tear fell from his eye.
To Be Continued...
Me: I was on a writing role since my muse came back!
Muse: So, you won't fire me?!
Me: Not yet, but if you take another 4 month vacation I will.
