"NDS: Book 11: Chapter 72: No Victory"
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You're right, I ditched arcana for two reasons: one is that it was not in NDS, and reason two being that if this is a serious story it can't be possible to have items that bring the characters back to life, so I can't use arcana to do the same thing. That, and I forget about it…heh…I do mention it from time to time. What you really should point out is the lack of guardians.
Anyway, I'm back home here in New Jersey. I had a pleasurable vacation, but I didn't get nearly half of the writing done that I wanted to. I finished only one chapter of my romance story for Fictionpress and did seven parts to Book 12 of the original NDS. I did at least finish writing the summaries of Books 12-15, so that's a plus. If you thought this battle was long, Books 14 and 15 are just one long battle that begins following the end of Book 13, so technically you could say it's the same story arc from the last few parts of Book 13 to the end of Book 15. This story arc I'm writing now goes from the few at the end of Book 10 and then all of Book 11. So, if that gives you some idea.
Two years ago when I wrote the original NDS in March of 2003 to April I think I wrote all of Book 7 or something close to it, in a matter of a day. Five days and I only did less than ½ of Book 12. I'm getting bad at this. I used to let the story write itself, now I have to force it along. I was able to figure out how to alter NDS for this fan fic, and so you'll hopefully get them after Book 11. I want to write the original versions first because when I started Malebolge I wrote the WA3 version first and then never got to the original. So this time I have to make sure I do it the original and then fanfiction.
Well, let's begin, shall we?
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Once more within in the metal gray halls of Eon Jet maneuvered is bloody and battered body around a wave sent from Nobuo. In age-old fashion Jet's first predictable reaction is to counterattack and his fist was swung at the older man who easily moved from it.
"You won't defeat me fighting like that!" Nobuo shouted with a disappointed grin on his face.
"Fine!" Jet angrily retorted with wroth. "Here goes! Lion's Rage Punch!" The blue Lion's headed punch knocked Nobuo back, but other than that Nobuo was no worse for wear.
He lowered his defensive arms. "Was that it?" Nobuo seriously questioned. "That was all your attack had to offer?"
"He…wasn't…even harmed." Jet observed with a failing confidence. He looked to his right—Lion—hand, "My Lion's Rage isn't enough."
"I think your problem is that you have too little Lion, and too much Rage." Nobuo simply chuckled.
Jet grit his teeth with a growl and prepared his arms. "Shut up fool!" With that Jet erupted with his attack. "Positive Gattling, Fire!"
The multiple balls of positive energy are dodged by the agile Nobuo who stood with a grin in the aftermath. "For such a positive attack, there was so much negative."
"What do you know?" Jet replied with a snarl. He was at his limits.
"You must know that I'm right." Jet's eyes shot open with revelation. "I have awakened an anger and sorrow in you. With those instilled in you, you have no upper hand."
"To…win…I have to lose my pain." Jet muttered. "I have to take something stronger up instead."
"So…are you ready to just die, Jet?" Nobuo questioned.
"I'm not quite ready to die, nor do I plan to. My friends wouldn't really like that." Jet closed his eyes as he caught a calm breath. "Not after I gave up my pain for their hopes, wills, and desires. They have given me their strength to defeat you! Positive Hand-Gun, Fire!"
The narrow beam of yellow energy throws Nobuo to the hard metal ground of the Eon's corridors. "Perfect," he said as he rose again, "You've become the adversary I knew you could be. Use their hopes, but I will use something stronger, their fears!" Nobuo thrust his hands forward, "Devastating Cannon, Erupt!"
A dark red beam—a color like that of blood—came forth in seconds from Nobuo's hands and without a defense Jet is flung into the nearest wall with velocity. As gravity hit Jet's body he began to fall forwards, but was stopped by a wave sent by Nobuo that flung him to the wall once more. Even with such injuries Jet stood upwards with defiance. "Positive Cannon, Fire!"
The yellow beam is blocked and dealt with by a shield Nobuo made out of a wave he sent at the ground, creating a temporary shield around him. Doing so though, made the area around the shield to curl and splinter as if heated. In the end Eon was scarred and some of the details under the metal plating like wires on the wall showed. Still, the walls held together and such areas were few and far between. "How dare you harm Eon! Devastating Cannon, Erupt!"
"Lion's Shield!" With a thrust to the ground with his right hand a blue shield blocked the attack, but it was still shattered and the butt of the attack sent Jet through the far wall at the end of the hall. Jet was back at the intersection of halls that he started at. Still, after a few seconds Jet climbed out of the hole in the wall he was flung through, with only minor wounds. "As I said…I won't lose." He huffed with a pant.
"Let me stop you there." Nobuo chuckled. "I can tell now that you'll spout the same old jazz that I have no time for. Can I just kill you?"
"No, I'm not done yet. I haven't finished my life on the note I wish." The gray haired man grinned as blood ran from his lip. "There are things I haven't been let known. And, above all else, I haven't given my friends a future, and I know I don't want to be the guy who let Filgaia die."
Nobuo shrugged. "Pheh. I knew all of that already."
"But I didn't." The Drifter calmly said. "I just realized what I forgot to tell someone before I left…so now I'll just have to beat the crap outta you so I can go back and tell them."
Nobuo's brow creased. "I won't allow that though!" And another wave was flung for Jet who was ready this time to counter.
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I just realized…this was shorter than I thought. But I slept all day, since I got back late from VA, so…I'll just have to write more tomorrow.