Author notes: I want to make something clear Aztec Falcon is alive!

In the beginning of Megaman Zero 2, after Zero destroyed the scorpion mechaniloid Harpuia arrives at Zero's location riding on AZTEC FALCON. Pay closer attention to details, there is even a drawn scene that portrays Harpuia towering above Zero and behind him is Aztec Falcon. Take a visit to the Megaman Zero 2 cut-scene section of Sprites inc. if you don't believe me.

Chapter 6: Duels in the training room

Zero woke up slowly; sleeping in his armor wasn't a bright idea. His whole body ached and his sleep was really uncomfortable.

He got up and looked at his comm. It showed the time was five in the morning.

Zero sighed and walked up to his door, he looked out through the lens to see if there was any activity in the corridor and startled as he saw Leviathan was about to ring his bell.

He quickly opened his door and startled Leviathan, she calmed down and asked him,

"How did you know...?"

"I was just looking through the lens." Zero answered, pointing with his hand backwards at the door.

"Well, I just wanted to ask you if you wanted to join me in some friendly sparing..." Leviathan said her voice lowering in the last three words.

"Sure," Zero agreed, "I'll be happy to actually."

Leviathan brightened up, "Oh," she said, "Well follow me okay?"

Zero walked alongside her and a thought popped into his head.

"Say Leviathan, do you remember anything about those executioners. Their names maybe?"

"I remember two names, Whirlpool and Daemon, there was also a black one but I can't remember his name..." she scratched her chin as she spoke, "I think it was some sort of bird..."

"Have you ever seen them before?" Zero inquired further, hoping that she will say yes. Otherwise it might be even worse than he imagined.

"No, the weird thing about them was that they fought and looked as if they were built solely to destroy us." Leviathan said, now twirling her hair with her finger.

"I see... I hoped you'd say yes, it would have made things so much easier." Zero confessed.

Leviathan seemed sad for a moment and then as if considering whether to tell Zero or not, she then let it out:

"Zero, listen..." She hesitated, "Well, do you umm... think that we'll be able to beat those executioners? I mean, well it did take both of us and Aztec Falcon to take down one of their minions so what'll we do when we'll have to face them in person?" Leviathan said worriedly, lowering her gaze to look at her crossed fingers.

"Leviathan, I confess I have never seen a reploid as tough as Thoth was and I'm pretty sure that Daemon is at least ten times stronger than him. But don't be discouraged, we will defeat them." Zero reassured her.

Leviathan raised her eyes and smiled at him, suddenly she seemed like her normal and playful self again.

"Well here's the training room... Fefnir!" Leviathan exclaimed as the pink clad warrior exited from the room.

"Fefnir." Zero nodded, and so did Fefnir.

"So Zero, I see you finally wised up and joined us before I could defeat you." Fefnir said and laughed heartily.

"You want to test that theory?" Zero asked, a grin on his face.

"I've been training hard for this!" Fefnir said and turned his hand into his cannon, he beckoned Zero to follow him and they entered the training room, rudely shutting Leviathan out.

"Why I ought to..." Leviathan said and entered an adjacent room from which she could see the battle.

"Those two... men!" she said in disgust, "It was I who invited Zero for a duel not that arrogant battle creep!" Leviathan said, even though she didn't mean it. In fact she was very glad Fefnir was all right.

"Fefnir would lose it is so obvious!" she muttered to herself again.

"And you would win?" A voice behind her startled her.

She turned around and saw a very welcome sight of a green armored reploid.

"Harpuia! They finished both of you?" Leviathan said and beamed, pleased to see her leader and partner healthy again.

"So I see that Zero has agreed," Harpuia said.

"Hyena tried to kill him, it might be a good idea to disband X's guard... their reliability has gotten low." Leviathan said.

"Hyena was an arrogant fool, bent on vengeance after Zero destroyed master X. he was one of the reasons we froze X's guard in the first place. But we need them, they are powerful reploids and we can't just let them go I'm afraid..." Harpuia explained.

"The executioners have their own reploids..." Leviathan started.

"Yes I know Aztec Falcon briefed me about your mission." Harpuia said, "Interesting, Anubis Necromansess the third was the only Egyptian god reploid I knew of but then again, I have never heard of those executioners either." Harpuia said.

"You know, it was funny fighting alongside Zero. I mean, he retired master X and well many of our reploids not to mention defeating us. But he also destroyed Phantom..." with those words Harpuia place his index finger on Leviathan's lips and said, "Phantom kamikaze attacked Zero to protect master X and you know that. Zero wouldn't have retired him." Harpuia said harshly.

"You're right, I'm sorry... It's just I miss him sometimes." Leviathan said.

"I miss him too, especially how he used to frighten Fefnir." Harpuia and Leviathan smirked when they suddenly heard and explosion from the training room.

Zero had just blasted Fefnir with Thoth's fire chip and his Z-buster and Fefnir crashed against the wall.

"That chip is so powerful..." Fefnir said as he stood up.

He shot three fireballs at Zero who easily dodged them as always and delivered an attack with his chain rod.

The chain rod wrapped around Fefnir's leg and Zero pulled, causing Fefnir to fall down.

Zero jumped very quickly and landed on top of Fefnir, his charged Z-buster in front of Fefnir's face.

"Grr..." Fefnir growled and Zero got off.

"Good fight, you've improved Fefnir." Zero said, "Up for another round?"

Fefnir nodded and bared his teeth as a flame engulfed him.

Zero looked curiously but couldn't dodge Fefnir's next attack:

Fefnir rapidly launched about thirty fireballs at him from both of his arm cannons and pinned Zero against the wall.

Zero's eyes shun in gold for a second and he appeared next to Fefnir, punching him in the face and sending him to the ground.

"Thoth's technique!" Leviathan exclaimed in awe.

Fefnir was about to get up but Zero shot him with his buster.

Fefnir rolled sideways and blasted Zero while still on the ground and while Zero was busy dodging Fefnir got up.

"Good show Zero, but it'll take more than that to defeat me!" Fefnir taunted.

"Heh, Fefnir guess what?" Zero said, disappeared and reappeared next to Fefnir, "I can stop time." He said and jumped in the air, so high that his foot was level with Fefnir's head and then Zero kicked him in the face, throwing him across the room.

Fefnir while soaring through the air blasted Zero three times and caused him to crash into a nearby wall.

Fefnir himself landed on his back and rolled backwards on his feet as he slid on the floor.

"Good Fefnir! I'm impressed with your progress over such a short time, especially after your injury!" Zero exclaimed joyfully, happy that his new partner was getting as good as he was.

"But still..." Zero said, and sprinted up too fast to Fefnir and rammed him shoulder first into the wall and then proceeded with a double kick to Fefnir's chest.

Fefnir yelled and fell to his knees.

"Zero, I'll beat you one day..." he said.

"If you keep training maybe you will." Zero said and grabbed Fefnir's hand, helping him up and then they punched each other's knuckles in a friendly manner.

"Good to see you again Zero." Fefnir said and smiled,

"You too Fefnir." Zero said and also smiled.

The two left the training room to find Harpuia and Leviathan standing outside.

"Harpuia, I see you're fine." Zero said, bowing slightly.

"Hmm... Zero so can we proceed with our duel?" Leviathan asked.

"Sure, I'm up for another round." Zero said and entered back into the training room.

"Well, I think I'll go to my repair station." Fefnir told Harpuia, "Scorch marks all over." He mumbled as he left.

Harpuia however stayed to watch Zero's fight with Leviathan.

"Underwater?" Leviathan asked.

"Yeah." Zero agreed and the room filled with water.

Leviathan was swimming above Zero waiting for the sign that the battle will start.

A horn was sound and she charged, diving at Zero and in the same time unleashing three of her homing dispensable beam daggers.

Zero easily dodged them but didn't expect Leviathan's move, she purposely distracted Zero and while he was distracted she launched one of her 'leviathans' at him.

The 'leviathan' struck Zero in the chest and Zero floated backwards a few feet.

Zero however anticipated Leviathan's staff attack and dodged it in time to kick Leviathan in the abdomen from below and finishing with an upside down uppercut.

Zero then landed softly and jumped quickly above Leviathan and kicked her in the back, crashing her into the ground.

A blue flame surrounded Leviathan and she launched three 'leviathans' at Zero, who desperately tried to dodge them but failed miserably.

But then Zero was tired of games and sliced through the waters at Leviathan with his aqua kick and hit Leviathan in the chest. He then used the recoil from the hit to whirl around in the water and catch Leviathan with the chain rod, flinging her into the opposite wall.

Leviathan smiled and jumped in the air, summoning a massive 'leviathan' at Zero. Zero could easily fit in the thing's mouth but he jumped away, hit the wall and kicked away from it and used the momentum to float above the 'leviathan' and punch Leviathan in the face.

Leviathan floated backwards but Zero caught her again with the chain rod and pulled her down throwing her on the floor.

"That's it!" Leviathan yelled and in a second swam into Zero, kicking him.

Zero floated backwards and retaliated with a misplaced punch, allowing Leviathan a snap hammer kick to his back.

Zero landed on the ground and rolled away as Leviathan was about to stab him with her staff.

Zero then jumped up and used his buster to fire at Leviathan, while she protected her self with her staff Zero floated at her and caught her foot. He landed on the floor still holding her struggling leg and slammed her on the floor. Not letting go he then slammed her into a wall in a rather painful matter and then threw her into another wall.

"Sorry!" he quickly yelled, "I'm being too harsh." He said.

"Too harsh, huh that was nothing..." Leviathan said as she tried to get up.

Zero sped towards her and with a dashing punch in the abdomen finished her off.

"Rats... but I got real better..." Leviathan said as the water drained from the room.

"Leviathan, unbelievable. Zero didn't even use Thoth's technique on you or even used his beam saber on you and Fefnir. Step aside and let me show you how to properly fight." Harpuia stepped inside.

"Fine, I'd like to see you doing any better. Zero is unbeatable!" She said, and when she saw Zero looking at her she blushed and hurried out of the room with a limp.

"So Zero, do you want to fight a real battle?" Harpuia asked.

"It seems that you three really have been practicing to try and defeat me. I wasn't even serious with Leviathan and Fefnir. As a matter of fact you and Phantom were the only ones I fought seriously with." Zero said.

Harpuia smiled and drew his crimson blades.

"Are you ready to lose?" he taunted.

"In the next century maybe." Zero replied with a grin.

To be continued...

Author notes:

I'd really appreciate if people would comment more on my battle scenes. I really want to know how accurately I describe battles and if I should improve something let me know because another fic I'm working on will have lot's of battle scenes and I'd like to know what you think of the battles: Too short, too long, inaccurate, unfair even. And if you think I was lowering one of the guardians' fighting powers you should write so I'd know because my next fic will also include the guardians.

Until the next chapter,

Cursor, oh and by the way Thoth and Hyena are mine okay? So here's the claimer: Thoth and Hyena Hahira are mine, so if you want them ask for them (I don't know why I'm writing it because it's pretty obvious better safe than sorry!)

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