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"NDS: Book 15—Wings of the Raven: Chapter 108: The Power of Heart vs. The Power of Perpetual Fear"
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That's the cheap answer, I mean, to say that it will be a main character. Why can't it be Phil or Loki, someone I introduced long ago? We'll find out in a few moments, now, won't we, but just for me to have fun, I will keep the identity a little jaded.
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"I'm amazed that you are still alive." Gear commented. "I don't see how you can stand up still."
"The power to protect someone makes me strong enough to return from near-death."
"And you wasted it to protect the Baskar?" Gear questioned, looking to the shocked Gallows who had not recovered from the near-fatal attack made on him.
"I owed him my life for saving me back in Neon City."
"You wasted your pathetic words to utter those of foolish heroes who have said such and fallen after, so many times before."
"The words of fools are often the words of the wise."
Gear scoffed. "So you say that you move now even after such defeat all due to your heart?" Gear mockingly questioned. "It allows you to stand before me and to save the life of your friend?"
"My heart is a powerful force that will never be stopped. You can't overcome my power now that I have a strong head on my shoulders and a heart that pumps strength to my body."
"You forget who I am." Gear chuckled. "What I am made of. Like all offspring, I inherited all the genetic information of my 'parents'. I am Nobuo, Eon, and Jet all fused together by the Twilight Moon." The Jet-lookalike informed. "The Twilight Moon is what I am."
"What of it?"
"You say you are fueled by your heart. I am powered by the world. The inhabitants of Filgaia have nightmares and fears, and each one gives me strength." Gear smirked. "I can never die. I find it amusing that the people of the world will be killed by itself."
"One heart is enough to alter the fears of the people around them. It's time for a rematch."
"Yes, the last one we will have." Gear grimly noted.
Adven smirked. "The last chance for you to kill me." Adven stabbed the ground with his legs and used the force to launch himself over Gallows and tackle into Gear. The two men falling to the ground. Gallows shook out of his shock and rolled aside in order to get away from the two combatants. Gear grabbed Adven by the shoulders and placed his boot on the gut of the brunette in order to toss the young man aside.
Adven quickly bounced off the ground and dashed forward once more. Quickly Adven sent three consecutive punches towards Gear's chest and knocking the Twilight Moon produced lookalike backward.
"Positive Cannon, Blast!"
"Neutral Cannon, Burst!"
The dark purple beam attack flung forth Adven's outreached arms as a similar gray beam left Gear's hands. The two attacks meeting halfway as Adven pulled back expecting the attacks to create an explosion like when Adven's attack had hit Jet's Positive Cannon before in the past. However, the Neutral Cannon turned purple as it became one with Adven's attack. Adven quickly put up his arms to block the Negative Cannon that was heading at his body. Being stronger with the Negative side of this attack, Adven blocked the attack, but gained substantial damage anyway.
Staggering forward, Adven looked at Gear with confusion. "My…"
"The Neutral Cannon has no attributes." Gear quickly replied. "If it contacts another form of the attack that has an attribute, the Neutral Cannon will absorb it as it's own. My attack taking precedence."
"So…then my attack…"
"Are useless." Gear finished.
"Pheh. I always have more than one plan to handle a battle."
"Then show me what you are capable of now."
Adven stood still a moment before immediately taking the challenge. With a firm foot on the ground Adven began a charge at the man near to him. Quickly the two of them launched punches at the other, but each one was blocked efficiently. Finding a hole in Gear's defense, Adven struck at the gray head of hair with his fist. Without a moment to wait, Adven reached out with his empty hand to grab the collar of Gear's black shirt.
Before he could pull him forward into an attack, Gear launched an attack at Adven's gut, sending the young man backwards. "Tiger's Gale Fist!" Adven is quickly knocked to the ground and flopped in two skips before coming to a rest.
With a firm placement of his arm, Adven lifted his body upwards and immediately turned back to his mission at hand. Launching countless throws of his fists, Adven put all his strength into defeating the Jet lookalike. In the end though, Gear had sent every one of Adven's attacks away from him. Gear's own punch though had the same conclusion.
"Surging Blitz!" With his two-fisted attack, Adven flung Gear's body to the ground. With the downed man on the ground, Adven took advantage of the situation and moved his body forward with a grunt. His muscles sending a tingling through his body, but he ignored them. With firm actions and a hard fist, Adven pummeled Gear into the earth. Never relenting his attacks until he had to, which is when Gear kicked the brunette away and stood up onto his legs. Without wait, Gear gave a side kick to the upper chest of the man who stumbles backward.
Adven rebounded and stayed up, but suddenly his legs gave out on him and he took a knee. His breath running deep and hard. His body too weak to get up right away.
Gear let a smirk take his face. "I was right. You aren't strong enough yet. You've pushed your body to the limits just to stand." Gear laughed. "You haven't healed yourself."
Adven huffed. "Even at my weakest…I will still defeat you."
"We'll see." Gear mused. With agility, Gear moved himself forward and launched attacks at Adven's head with his fists. Satisfied with what he did, Gear switched to kicking Adven to the ground. "You're not even well enough to use your reflexes?"
Adven let out a deep groan. His body picked itself up one more time, flicking some blood away from his face, Adven listlessly got back on his feet. "You killed Jet." Adven solemnly remarked. "I never wanted him dead…as many times as I said I did." The rival of Jet formed a tight fist. "You've taken the only thing about my life I need in order to become stronger. To become better than I am now. There's no way I can be any better than who I am."
"And that is why you must die." Gear remarked.
"Adven!" Adven's brown eyes reacted to the female voice nearby. Sakura with her short blue hair trailing behind jogged towards him, stopping fifteen short of them.
"Sakura…you're okay?" A feeling of relief took him over. He had worried she was harmed when the SAND was hit.
"I felt it Adven."
"Felt it?" Adven wondered.
"I felt you wake up. That you were in danger. I knew I had to come." She held onto her breath as her throat closed up a bit.
"Sakura…you shouldn't be here." Adven spoke. "Gear won't hesitate to kill you like he did Jet and the people he stole life from."
"Jet?" Sakura remarked. She had not known that. It surprised her to say the least, but it was not the time to remorse. If she didn't do something now, Adven would leave her as well. "Adven, you have to give up."
"What?" He looked to her like she were crazy.
"She's talking smart." Gear added. Beginning to be fed up with the interruption.
"Give up and run away with me. Gear is too powerful for you at the moment."
It was silent for a moment. Adven laughed. "Mizu…don't be an idiot."
"Adven?" Sakura remained silent. She never expected such a response.
"Gear an I will fight now. There is no other day that we can battle. One of us will fie by the time the sun goes down today." Adven explained.
"Adven!"
"Mizu?"
She took a deep breath. Adven was too stubborn. She had to win him over somehow. "Adven…I'm…I'm pregnant." She closed her eyes to await the fear she felt.
"Y-you're…"
"Adven, it's your child!" She huffed.
"What?" Before Adven could think over his response any more, he was floored to the grass by Gear whose patience had run out.
"No more talking. I have a life to handle and I can't spend it watching your pathetic drama and angst unfold." Bending downward, Gear picked Adven up by the shirt before sending multiple attacks down at him from his other hand in fist shape. With enough attacks dealt, Gear tossed the brunette aside like trash.
Landing hard and going into a roll, Adven's body was stopped by Sakura who nearly fell on him from the momentum she had put herself in to get there. "Adven? Can you hear me?"
Without a moment passing, Adven sat up with determination. "Sakura…" His words filled with emotion trailed off forever as Sakura could only tense up. Something awful hid behind Adven's simple saying of her name. Adven's eyes landed on Gear's own, and it seemed like a blur as Adven charged at the man and swung his fist into the nose of his enemy. Gear was taken aback, and stared at Adven in shock. He did not expect such movement from Adven at this point. "I love my unborn child and its mother very much." He said to Gear. "I love Filgaia. Do you hear me, Gear?" He glared at the man who wiped his hand over his nose to see if it bled. "And it's because of my love for those three things that I can't bear to know that any of them can be harmed by you! Compared to them…my life means little to me. I want you to feel my love for them as we die, Gear!" Another quick jab from Adven sent Gear backwards and without defense. "Negative Purge!" With all of his stored up negative energy he collected from the area around him, himself, and Mizu, Gear, and his child, Adven let it loose from his body through every pore he could. Gear was unprepared to face the bright purple light that expanded from Adven's body and took the surrounding area as dirt and grass flung to the air and the air itself seemed warped. Like when you see waves on a hot day above certain rocks and the like.
Sakura fell to the ground, landing on her butt, as she watched in horror as her most important one turned into the center of this pillow of an explosion. Waiting to see the attack fade away and hoping for a favorable outcome.