Chapter 10 - Survival of the fittest
Hero runs after the Malicious to help Jody and Summers, while the other guys are fighting. After mere seconds he's too far away to see. A sudden burst of strength? Probably. Regulus and Overdrive are in very good condition, and they've hit Jackal a few times. But lately, Jackal has been avoiding all their moves. Not only that, Jackal is smiling. Looking down on them. After several more minutes he starts attacking in between. First soft hits, then he slowly puts more power in them. Regulus and Overdrive back off a bit. Jackal starts mocking them. "What's the matter? Can't hit Jackal?" As usual, he starts laughing like a maniac. "Regulus, I got a plan." Overdrive whispers to him. "Hahaha, plan all you want. Here, Jackal will sit down. If you're ready, then Jackal will come at you." This does give Regulus and Overdrive a bit of an advantage.
A few minutes earlier... "Call your pet off, you coward!" Zero yells. He's agitated by Chao, who disturbs his rythm. "That's not gonna happen. This is a fight i'm not willing to lose. A battlefield isn't about fair fighting." Solar says. Zero shoots away a couple of wind blades, but all of them miss. Solar is too fast. On top of that, he's very hard to see, since it's dark. He gets a few hits in, and backs off. Zero makes them seem like nothing, but Solar is sure that they were good hits. Chao then attacks to disturb Zero's rythm again, but he sees it coming this time, and slashes Chao with his wooden sword. Chao gets hit 30 feet away, and is knocked out. "There, now it's a fair fight." Solar is worried about Chao, but he can't afford to go to him right now. Zero has been weakened quite a lot already. Much more than Solar. Even so, he was much stronger to begin with. They continue to fight on equal level.
Blaze and Revenant just keep throwing hard punches at each other. Revenant doesn't even concentrate on Lexer anymore, because she can easily take care of him when Blaze is down. That's what she thinks. Lexer hits do annoy her a lot, but every time she turns around to beat him up she gets hit from behind by a fireball before landing a hit. Seems like she's stuck, even with her superb fighting abilities and endurance. But... she can endure. So she doesn't care about the fireball for a moment, and just turns around. Instead of beating Lexer up, she grabs him at his legs and hits Blaze by swinging him. Blaze falls to the ground. "Heh, you're going down hothead." she says. Lexer tries to hit Revenant, but he can't do anything. "Let me go, you ugly freak!" Revenant kicks him in the stomach, and then throws him to Blaze. Blaze, who just stood up, catches him. Revenant runs to them and punches Blaze so that Lexer and Blaze both fall to the ground. It doesn't seem good for them. Revenant is starting to wear down a bit though. They just... have to keep fighting.
"We're done planning. Let's get it on, clown." Regulus says confident. "Hmm? That was short? As you wish, Jackal come at you." Jackal runs to them. Regulus tries to attack his face, but of course Jackal dodges it. But at the same time Overdrive grabs his legs. "Now you got nowhere to go." Overdrive says. "Oh yeah!" Jackal responds. He tries to escape, but Regulus is already using him as a punching bag. It doesn't work too long. Jackal lets himself fall, and proceeds to fight on the ground, while lying down. He gets his legs free in no time. Regulus and Overdrive yet again can't hit him, due to his continuous unpredictable rolling. They try grabbing him too, but that doesn't work anymore. Jackal laughs again. "Hehehehe, you almost got Jackal. But you can't ever beat him." Jackal now makes a break-dance like movement, going in circles and swinging his legs. Then he uses his arms to jump, and then continue in his normal fighting stance. Yet again, the fight doesn't seem to be near it's end anytime soon.
Zero makes a fatal mistake in his battle. He lost sight of his opponent. Solar throws his shuriken from Zero's back, wounds him, and runs fast enough to catch his shuriken. Zero shoots a wind blade to the place the shuriken is heading. He's sure that Solar wants to catch it. One second later... "Ugh... damn it!" Solar got hit. Now they're both wounded. They slowly walk to each other...
Revenant is getting exhausted, but she's not the only one. Blaze is near his limit too. Lexer still has plenty of energy. He didn't get hit too often. Even so, Revenant is still a dangerous opponent. Lexer now fights 1 on 1 with Revenant, while Blaze is recovering. They just barely started, but...
A sudden hard wind blows nearly blows them away. The following explosion is HUGE, and blasts them all away. It came from the direction where Hero, Summers, Jody and The Malicious are. What had happened? Are they alive?
End of chapter