Heroes From Above: The Birth of An Epic Saga
Disclaimer: I do not own the Powerpuff Girls. They are the Property of Cartoon Network and Craig McCracken. However I do own the ideas for this story.
A/N: Hello everybody, how are you doing? I hoped you enjoyed the previous chapters. Well, here is the long-anticipated Chapter 7. R.E.A.R. (Read, Enjoy, And Review).
Chapter 7: Leonia's Search
Back at Leonia's fortress, his minions have made some new additions to the place. Improved battle locations for sentries to stand watch over the entrance to the fortress have been established. Leonia's forces have exponentially increased, due to his increase in strength from the unleashing of the first seal. Leonia is in the throne room, pacing to and fro, trying to pinpoint the location of his next strike. In the background, an orc impatiently twiddles his thumbs loudly in boredom. Leonia sits back down on his throne and strikes the orc with a blast from his staff. The orc immediately disintegrates, before his body reaches the ground. "Incompetent orc! Anybody else disturbing me will be dealt the same fate." The chamber went dead silent, as the balrog spoke in rage. After ensuring that his minions are taught a lesson, Leonia sat back down to resume his concentration on the second seal's location. He grinned a minute later, with the most devilish look on his face. "I shall go and retrieve the second seal, after I have a word with my minions." With that, he roared in laughter as he planned how he should strike.
After the events from the night before, the kids were at home, trying to relax and rest up for the inevitable second encounter with Leonia. Bubbles was playing with Boomer on their video game system in the family room. At the end of their game, Bubbles was the victor, with an impressive score. "Rats! You beat me!" Boomer groaned, as he glanced back and forth between the television screen and Bubbles' face. He could not believe that Bubbles had beaten him with such an impressive performance on a game, which he thought he had mastered.
While Bubbles and Boomer played each other in a rematch, Butch and Buttercup were working on mastering their weapons against a variety of foes. Even though they believed that they had mastered their abilities during the three trials, they knew they could always hone their abilities to do more. The pair went down to the danger grid and entered a couple subroutines for the hologram system to project foes for them. They programmed their foes to be ferocious, and quite cunning.
After they were satisfied with their modifications to the holograms, they stepped into the chamber and began their training. "Hyah!!" Butch shouted, as he sliced through several of the holographic replicas of demons they fought two days ago in downtown Townsville. Buttercup was in the far corner of the arena, taking on a charging group of enemies. She shot them down with ease. "That's a new high score! I got eighty confirmed kills!" She boasted. Her companion complimented her, but then boasted that he can do better than her. "Hmph! We'll see about that!" She snapped back at him, and continued to slay many of the enemies that came at her.
While Butch and Buttercup was training in the danger grid, Blossom was in the living room, trying to read a book. She was continuously distracted by the sounds of fighting coming from the Professor's lab. "Can they please quiet down?" She muttered to herself. "The professor should have at least added some sound proof material into the walls of his lab!" Brick spoke, as he walked into the living room. "How can I take a nap with those noises keeping me up?!" He growled a moment later. He hovered towards Blossom and sat down on the sofa beside her. "Rats, I can't relax anyway, I can't help myself from thinking about what is Leonia going to do." He spoke with a frustrated tone. Blossom looked at him, and smiled. She spoke, "Well, we'll be ready. Besides, everyone will be there to support you when it is time to fight Leonia again." She smiled at him again, and gave him a soft kiss on the cheek. "Relax for now, try not to frustrate yourself. You want to be ready, right?" She asked him a moment later. He smiled and nodded. Blossom then spent the rest of the day reading her book, while she laid her head on Brick's shoulder. Brick just looked at her and smiled. He dozed off a little later, when the noises from the lab suddenly became white noise.
There seems to be a major commotion in Leonia's stronghold. Many of the demons and orcs were marching towards a large chamber. The chamber resembled a giant auditorium, which was dug out by the orcs when they tunneled to make more chambers for Leonia's fortress. The minions of Leonia formed into single file to take their seats on wooden benches, which was bolted into the earth walls. In the center of the chamber was a stage, and a row consisting of many large seats was placed along the stage. Many of Leonia's elite councils were seated on those seats. In the middle of that row of seats, was a throne. Kradisgh, one of Leonia's elite councils, sat on a seat next to the throne. He looked on to supervise the entry of the minions as he waited for Leonia to appear.
While the orcs and demons marched into the auditorium, Leonia was getting ready to leave his personal quarters. After he was satisfied with the dark shine of his armor, he stepped out of his quarters, and walked through a narrow passageway, leading towards the back door of the auditorium. He approached the door and two guards hailed him. "Your minions are ready for your commands, master." The guards replied. He nodded, and went through the door, appearing behind the row of seats on the stage. The room went silent, as the minions noticed Leonia's presence. "Hail Leonia, Master of Darkness!!!" They all roared in unison, as Leonia took his seat on the throne.
Leonia looked at his loyal minions and smiled. He raised his left hand and the chamber became silent once again. "Greetings, my minions. As you know, it is once again time that we cover this world in our wrath!" He roared. "You have done well in the first battle in Townsville! You have fought down to the very last warrior, which I am proud of you all!" He continued. "Now we shall march towards the next target. We shall then pillage and burn every human structure, and capture the second seal!" He roared, while his minions responded to his commission in honor and determination. Leonia continued to address where exactly they would strike next. He advised them against their foes. He finished his address and allowed his elite councils to stand up and divide the minions into new battalions. They continued to discuss strategies against the human defenses.
Forty minutes passed, and the main doors of the auditorium flung open. Leonia's minions charged out of the auditorium, and ran towards the armory. They came forth from the armory moments later, fully equipped for war. They assembled themselves outside the fortress. From the sky, one could see masses of warriors, in their individual battalions. Leonia stepped out of the main gates, with his staff and scimitar. He roared final commands to his minions and mounted his undead griffin steed. He rose into the sky, with many of his elite councils riding on undead griffins behind him. Leonia looked down, to see many of the battalions marching forward towards a portal that would take them to their next strike. As the last Battalion marched through, he saw the Marzul running at full speed and leaping into the portal. Ensuring that his minions made it to the other side, he motioned for his riders to follow him into the portal. The riders swooped down, and disappeared beyond the vortex.
While the enemy forces made their way to strike the next seal's hiding place, the six heroes are just finishing up whatever they were doing to relax before the next encounter. Brick woke up suddenly and blinked at an uncontrollably rapid rate. After surveying his environment, he sighed in relief, as it seemed all was peaceful at home. Thoughts begin to flow as he realized that imminent danger was far from home. "Another premonition. I must be the one that the sovereign force from heaven has chosen to know things before they come to pass." Brick thought, as he put some of the pieces of the puzzle together. "You are right, young Brick. You have been chosen to have more defined abilities than your companions." A voice spoke suddenly. The voice continued to speak to Brick, telling him about Leonia's plan of attack to retrieve his seals. Brick suddenly exclaimed, "The second seal is in India!?!?" Startled by Brick's sudden outburst, Blossom fell off the sofa.
Still shaken by Brick's sudden outburst, Blossom absorbed the information piece by piece. Regaining her nerves, she stood upright and spoke in a concerned tone, knowing the "time" had come. "It's Leonia, isn't it? How much time do we have?" Brick just nodded and implied the urgency for them to depart to their fateful and inevitable quest. Blossom just looked down, as she realized that they have entrusted to carry out. She left to round up the rest of the companions.
Preparations were made to ensure a successful journey. Basic arrangements encompassed provisions such as rations, articles of clothing, and modified packs for the storage of their enchanted weapons. Brick looked out the window towards the eastern horizon and pondered the distance of their long journey to India. There would be an enormous amount of energy exerted to transverse such a great distance. "Well, there's only one way to find out if we can do this. Let's do this thing!!!" He went back to his companions and informed them that the time of departure was at hand. They wrote a note to the professor informing him of their decision to leave and they would be back as soon as possible. They step outside and take one last look, before leaping into the air towards India.
Meanwhile, at the capital of India, New Delhi, villagers were doing their daily routines of sowing, trading, and running local shops. At one of the local shops in the marketplace, where villagers were buying and selling their wares, when a loud boom was heard from a short distance. Curious by the thunderous noise, the villagers left everything behind and ran to where the commotion was taking place. The curious looks were soon transformed to terror and horror, when a swarm of hideous monsters ravaged the marketplace. They were destroying everything in their paths. Men, women, and children were treated equally with sheer brutality and no mercy was shown. Behind the ruthless attackers was one of Leonia's elite councils. "Leave none alive! Burn everything in sight! Do not relent your attacks, but unleash all your ferocity!" The demon yelled with a commanding roar and the scent of burning coming from his nostrils. Moments later, that part of New Delhi was reduced to ash and rubble.
When the Leonia's second wave of attack was unleashed upon the remainder of the city, the heroes closed the gap to their destination at an alarming rate. Seconds later, there was a bright flash in the sky as the six heroes arrived. "I never knew we could travel at such a velocity! Butch exclaimed. They checked to make sure they still had their equipment. As they gazed around the city of New Delhi, they caught sight of the enemy approaching a local mob of militias. They knew they would not stand a chance and flew in to assist them in defending the town.
The militia were barricading themselves from the charging demon warriors with debris, furniture, and anything they could get their hands on, that might provide sufficient protection against their foes. However, their efforts were to no avail, as the demons just leapt over the wall of stacked items as though it was a footstool. The demons jumped on the terrified men and killed them with ease. The men fired frantically with their rifles, but missed the demons, due to their shaken state. Even those whom had their nerves could not kill the demons, for their thick hide deflected the bullets as they impacted. The demons then ran away from the terrified militia and prepared for a devastating attack. The demons were about to spring into attack, when they were suddenly impaled by the boys' halberds, disintegrating them on contact. The boys continued to swing their halberds around, defeating every single one of the demon warriors. Brick was busy fighting against a demon champion, whom was attempting to thrust his broad sword into Brick's side. Brick deflected the sword thrusts with the staff part of his halberd and counter-attacked with the blunt end of the weapon. The demon was knocked back, and before it could swing back at Brick, Brick ran his halberd through the demon and reduced it to ashes.
While the boys are busy fighting the demons up close, the girls were in the air, raining bolts of green, blue, and red beams on the enemy on the far end. Buttercup noticed something from the corner of her eye, as she noticed that more demon reinforcements were rushing to join their comrades from the south. "There's got to be a way I can hit a lot of them from afar before they reach the boys, or else we will have a big handful of ugly horned guys to take out." She thought, as she followed the demon reinforcements with her gaze. She aimed her bow at the demons. When they came into range, she concentrated her abilities and shot a bolt of energy at the demons. The bolt missed the demon it was meant for and shot into the ground beneath the demons. The ground suddenly shook, and ruptured upward sending chunks of earth flying into the air. Many of the demons were thrown away by the blast, killed instantly upon impact. "Whoa!!!" Buttercup muttered, as her companions stopped fighting for the moment to see what she had done. "Sweet!!" Buttercup exclaimed, as she repeated the same attack over and over again, sending many of the demons away from the battlefield. The remaining Powerpuff Girls tried to concentrate on their abilities and similar devastating results were achieved, which were huge waves of water and sudden bursts of flame, wiping out tons of the advancing warriors.
The boys were just finishing off a couple of the enemies in their vicinity, when they noticed the advancing reinforcements, with the enemy warriors flying in the air, as they took the elemental blasts from the girls. "Hey!! Save some for us!!" Butch shouted to the girls. "Cool, I wonder if we can do something like that." Brick inquired. "You can, young heroes. You can." A voice suddenly spoke to the boys. The young boys nodded and looked towards the direction where the enemies came from. As the smoke and debris cleared, the boys saw that there were more enemies, orcs and demons alike, coming straight for them. "Let's do this!!!" Exclaimed Brick, as he leveled the tip of his halberd's blade at the enemy. Suddenly, a bright red glow was emitted from the blade. Brick blinked and said, "Burn, you overgrown scaled uglies!!" After he said that, a bolt of flame was released from the halberd's blade, and shot out towards the advancing horde. The blast incinerated many of them on contact. His Brothers followed suit, releasing their own elemental wrath upon the enemy. Cold winter winds suddenly came down and blew upon the advancing warriors, freezing them solid, while stone projectiles were thrown at them at high speeds and smashed them to smithereens.
While the heroes fought against the horde of enemies, Leonia approaches with his griffin escort. "I can feel the presence of the seal close by. We must make haste." Leonia spoke to his escorts. Leonia looked down and was startled to see the six heroes defeating his minions below. "So they want to meddle with my plans." He muttered to himself, as he concocted a stratagem to use on the six heroes. Leonia peered around to locate other minions that were moving to and fro. In the east, he caught sight of the Marzul mutilating the villagers and pilfering their houses. He let out a loud growl and the Marzul heeded his command. The Marzul ran to engage the heroes, while Leonia and his escorts flew towards the west, desperate to retrieve the seal. Brick noticed Leonia flying overhead and before he could react, one of the Marzul struck him hard. The heroes were forced to defend themselves against the oncoming Marzul and must deal with Leonia Later.
Closing in on his mark, Leonia catches sight of the hillside. He feels a strong vibe coming from the cave ahead. Leonia and the rest of the riders land near the entrance to the cave and dismounted. "Wait here until I return. Do not let anyone enter this perimeter." Leonia commanded. His minions growled in acknowledgement. Leonia then rushed into the cave with great anticipation. To his surprise, he found some cloaked figures standing in his way. "We know what you have come for Leonia. We are the imperial guardians that stand between you and your prize." Leonia scoffed, and muttered, "Get out of my way, you pathetic, powerless humans!" The guardians reached into their cloaks and unsheathed their swords. The guardians swung their blades at Leonia, and knocked him back hard. They managed to do some considerable damage to him. Leonia was slammed into the cave wall, when one of the guardians threw an explosive projectile at him. Leonia came back out, grumbled for a bit and leapt at the guardians, and managed to defeat them after a while.
The guardians now lay dead on the cave floor, after Leonia unleashed his wrath without any mercy. With the guardians defeated, Leonia walked further into the cave and found what he was looking for, the seal hidden behind some rocks. He picked it up and broke it, unleashing some of the power within. "Excellent! Now I can surely bring out more wrath and destruction!" He roared. He rushed outside, and roared loudly and victoriously to his minions. "I have the seal! Let's lay waste to this land! Leave no building standing! Burn everything and everyone to the ground!" He commanded, as he mounted his steed and flew back towards central New Delhi.
The heroes were fighting pretty roughly, as they tried to defeat the Marzul. Remarkably, Brick finds the Marzul stronger than the last time he faced them. However, he quickly got around, and managed to figure out the weaknesses of the Marzul. Brick told his companions to strike near the necks with a strong elemental attack. They nodded and struck the Marzul hard with their attacks. The Marzul just disintegrated easily, as they are not resistant against those kinds of attacks. The six companions defeated the rest of the Marzul, and diverted their attention towards the direction of where they last saw Leonia went.
Moments later, Leonia went flying over their heads with his griffin. He threw several fireballs at them, and the kids were able to resist the effects of the projectiles. However, Bubbles and Boomer felt slightly weakened. Apparently, the auras from the Marshon gems provided only a small amount of protection. They quickly got over the weakness from the blasts, as they learn to adapt to the elemental attacks. Brick leapt into the sky, with his siblings following close behind. They thrust their halberds at Leonia, deflecting his volley of projectiles at the same time. The halberds struck Leonia, and he was knocked off his steed. Leonia fell down and landed on his head. The demon got back up a moment later, groaning in pain. "They're stronger than I thought." He thought, as he picked up his scimitar and leapt towards the boys. The Demon's charge was cut short, when he was met with a couple of the Girls elemental volleys. The ground shot out and struck him, as he burned under the powerful flames. The demon could not escape, as the cold winds were slowing him down. The blast left Leonia wounded and exhausted on the ground.
As Leonia tried to get up, Brick spoke out to his brothers. Some time later, "Halberd Ballistic Barrage!!!" was heard a mile away. Leonia was struck with so much force from the Halberd blows, he was sent flying back for a distance. The demon got up, and fell back down to his knees once again. "My, my. You have become a thorn in my side." He spoke. "But I have retrieve my seal, there is nothing you can do to stop me from getting the rest!" He continued, as he suddenly cast a spell from his staff. The blast was so devastating, it knocked the six heroes back from their positions, and knocked them all unconscious. Brick miraculously woke up moments later, as he saw the demon being carried away to safety by one of the griffin riders. "Leonia's wrath has been stopped here. I have a feeling that we need to grow stronger to defend against his forces from now on." He muttered to himself.
The destruction to New Delhi was terrible, but at least a good portion of it was saved, thanks to the six companions' efforts. The remaining children were revived moments later. As they question Brick about what happened, he told them that Leonia has escaped and he will probably strike elsewhere. "Oh, he got away again!" Buttercup scowled. "Don't worry, at least we kicked his sorry butt before he left, I think we'll be able to actually destroy him later!" Butch replied. The kids then nodded, and flew back to Townsville to rest and prepare for the third encounter.
A/N: Well, that's it for Chapter 7. I hope you enjoyed it. I am pleased at your reviews. It has taken me awhile to create this whole event thing with the seals and everything. Well, stay tuned for Ch.8: "The burning of the Orient", coming soon… Read and Review!