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o.o' Anyway, i believe most of y'all are going to recognize this fight. n.n I tried to make it just /slightly/ different in certain bits so it wasn't exactly how it was in the episode. But, even if the fight bores you, you will still want to see what happens at the end (OF THE CHAPTER).
Enjoy!
Disclaimer: This isn't owned by me! Only a genius could come up with Konjiki no Gash Bell and i'm certainly not one!
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Chapter 26
Power Battle
A couple of weeks had passed since Sherry finally started talking again. Although I hated to admit it, it was good to know that she was speaking to me once more, though she was still rather depressed. After observing her for a while, I wondered if she was truly up to fighting again.
Well, she had better be, because if it turned out that she wasn't, I'd have to deal with her in my own way…. Not to mention I'd be as pissed as hell, that's for sure. But we hadn't come across any other teams yet so I couldn't make a real good assumption about her right away; we were merely searching across the globe like we used to do to find the other participants in the war.
Was it just me, or had the other teams gotten strong enough so that it would be harder to sense them?
Tch, as if I couldn't take them on, however, in order to be king, I'd have to be able to. Nobody should be able to defeat me if I'm going to be the future ruler of the Makai.
Sherry and I had resolved back to camping out quite often in order to find the enemies. I remembered doing this quite often in the beginning of the war… At one point she had even fainted while pushing herself over her human limits.
Anyhow, we were out again today in search for the next team to defeat. This time was different, however, I could sense some other beings around where we were… They didn't seem that strong, either. But something was… odd about them… Nonetheless, I knew that it would be just a bunch of weaklings, most likely teaming up together since they knew that they didn't stand a chance in one-on-one fights.
And from what I saw when I did find them, it turned out that my assumptions were right. Sherry and I were far away form Germany at this point, but we weren't too far. I didn't remember the name of the place, but the weather was hot and there was dead grass everywhere. On random occasions, I'd see wild animals in what humans would call 'camp reserves', or something of the sort.
We came across the team literally out in the middle of nowhere. Some ways off was a town with the hotel that Sherry and I were staying at, but we had decided to walk out to search for the enemies that I could sense nearby.
I walked about a foot in front of Sherry with my hands shoved in my pockets, just musing to myself about the past few weeks when I halted in my tracks and noticed something peculiar in front of me. Sherry stopped as well and glanced over in the direction I was staring at and I smirked at the realization of what it was.
Three large mamono were huddled around in a group staring directly at me as well with their bookkeepers by their side. Next to them, I could spot two other demons, one of which looked like an oversized frog and the other what a human would call a clown. The group of freaks was staring over in our direction and there was a long pause.
Finally, I smirked. "Look what we've found, Sherry."
Behind me, I could sense that the woman was hesitating to say something, but as I turned around, I saw her nod her head slightly, a certain glint in her eyes that I hadn't seen in a while. "It would appear that they can't handle one-on-one fights, ne?"
I turned back around to face the other team, I could clearly see them chatting amongst themselves about something, though I couldn't quite tell what since I was a little too far away to hear their conversation.
"Hn, it doesn't matter how many there are," I said, "I can defeat them."
"Brago…" I turned around to face Sherry once more when she called out my name. She paused again, but then spoke up with a slight frown, a glint of determination within her eyes. "I'm going to help you this time! I will do better than what I've done in the past!"
For a small second I thought about this. Sherry wanted to help me, but I had been craving another fight for a while now. And since I wasn't too sure if she was still up to fighting or not, I didn't know if it was the right thing for her or not. I had to say it, but I knew she was still recovering from what happened to us.
She takes too damn long.
"No," I responded slowly after a moment, turning away from her. "You're not going to fight. These idiots are trash, anyway. I can handle it on my own."
"But Brago…"
"No," I repeated firmly, turning to glance over in her direction for a second before I began to walk the other way. "You stay where you are and watch."
Well, that was easy enough.
As I began to head towards the other team, I noticed how they were all staring at me as if I were a deranged fool. One of them, the frog thing, called out to me in an arrogant manner.
"Hey, you mamono! Have you said your prayers yet?" he said as he hopped about on his feet, standing on one of the larger demons. "You don't know who you're dealing with, so give up while you still can!" I scowled in his direction. His squeaky voice was incredibly annoying… I'd shut his mouth up fairly quickly.
"You're the one who should be giving up, you can't beat me at your level!" I retorted back, scowling in their direction. I could sense their power—it was so incredibly weak. Nothing like Hiebie's, so there was nothing to worry about, not that I was going to.
To the side, a few vultures flew off in a different direction and began to hover around in circles in the sky. I ignored them and their annoying calls and stared strait at the other team as I continued walking forward again. As I came in view, I noticed how only three of them had their bookkeepers with them at the present moment. The one with wings, another that was red and taller than the rest, and at last the one that had a large turtle shell on its back, of which the annoying frog demon was standing on.
They began muttering to themselves as they kept their eyes on me, I saw the clown demon fly back behind them. Tch, afraid now, are we? Right after that, the frog demon was pushed off the other's back and they talked for a small second until I was close enough to hear what they were saying. So, the three think they can take me on without the other two… Hn.
Suddenly, one of the demons, the taller one that was red, lunged towards me with a strange sword he had pulled out of his arm. The other two followed in suit and I smirked, completely ready for battle. To the side, I could hear a spell being called out.
"Gashirudo!"
I looked up as the demon with the sword jumped up into the air, afterwards bringing his ridiculously sized sword down with him. With ease, I jumped back and began avoiding the onslaught of attacks he began to throw at me, constantly swinging his sword aimlessly this way and that. These guys were weaker than what I had thought…
Eventually, I got bored of dodging so I quickly jumped up and kicked the other in the face, hard enough to send him back a few feet, which happened. The big guy didn't even get up quick enough, and as I watched him struggle I then felt a strange sensation welling up within me and I glanced to my hands.
Such power… I felt stronger than I had in such a long time… How did I not notice becoming weaker when the whiny Sherry was around? Did I really lose that much strength?
Suddenly another spell was called out and I quickly snapped back to my senses as the demon with the shell hurtled at me in a ball-like form. I scowled and quickly jumped out of the way, but the stupid creature just came right back towards my direction.
"Stupid," I muttered and kicked the creature, causing him to fly up into the air uncontrollably and I jumped to where he was and grabbed him with my bare hands, stopping his rolling movement, and threw him in a different direction. "Give me a real spell!" I snarled as I watched him fly across the field.
"Heh, I don't need spells to take you on!" called the bird-like demon to the side, and I glanced over at him quickly. I then noticed the large talons on his feet and it didn't take much to duck and dodge them while he swung them down upon me. I could hear him utter a curse as I jumped to the side, watching him and the others as they glared daggers at me. What fools.
However… I couldn't believe that I had lost my strength… How could I have never noticed it before? It was so strange, suddenly I felt so incredibly powerful. Well, this would all explain why I felt I was having much more difficulty fighting in the past month, especially with Furigaro—it wasn't just because I had lost spells. I had returned back to the level I was at before Sherry lost her personality and memories…
I just realized that I too had been affected by her loss.
The fight went on. I continuously dodged all of the opponent's measly attacks, loving the amount of power coursing through my veins that I had regained. Every so often, I would glance over at Sherry, who was watching with full interest and attention. Good, she wasn't dozing off.
After a couple of attempts at trying to capture me, it almost appeared as if the other team was giving up. They had thrown attack after attack in my direction but I dodged them all. They gaped at me in surprise when I also managed to destroy the taller demon's sword and the shell demon's chains. I smirked in victory but my eyes widened at their next choice of actions.
An identical strange jewel appeared on each of the three demons, either on their chest or forehead. At first, I wondered what the heck this was about, but then I heard one of them call out to the others.
"All right! Tsuvai, Torowa, let's do this spell!"
"Got it, Fausuto!"
The big red demon, now identified as Fausuto, called out to the other two—the demon with the shell, Tsuvai, and the other winged one, Torowa. They all nodded in unison before their bookkeepers all called out a spell at once.
"Laudo!"
The jewels on each of the demon's bodies started to glow and I turned around to stare at the strange action, but suddenly I felt as if a strange force was pressing down on me, almost like my gravity attacks except a little… different. It became harder to breathe as pressure was pounding on my chest, but I managed, and as I was sent to my knees because of the strange, invisible attack, I looked up and noticed that I was now surrounded in a strange black dome of this… power.
All around me, the ground started to tremble. Fragmented bits of earth were starting to rise and hover in the air from the pressure surrounding me, I watched, as the whole field that the dome surrounded became a complete wreck.
To the side, I could see Sherry starting to run forward, apparently calling out to me. Yet for some strange reason, no sound was emitted when I saw her mouth move. Her expression was confused and she was darting towards where I was as fast as she could. Idiot, didn't I tell her to stay behind?
I turned my attention away from Sherry as I stared at the crumbling ground around me and I decided to test something out as soon as it calmed down just a little. Grabbing a random piece of rock nearby, I squeezed hard until it shattered and I blinked.
I couldn't hear anything. This dome had no sound!
Suddenly I growled in pain as a sharp object pierced me in the back. I was sent flying to the side and I landed on my stomach, afterwards turning around to look in the direction of the attack. Kuso, if there was no sound, then I wouldn't be able to decipher where things were coming from. Dammit!
I could see the demon Tsuvai walking up inside the dome and I growled as I stood up. To the right, I noticed Fausuto enter the silent dome as well and I growled when I saw him launch a few attacks at me. I dodged them with ease, though it came as a surprise when I was hit again in the back. Once more, I was thrown away to the side and I glanced over to where the attack had come from, only to see Torowa there.
He flew in with a smirk as he stared down at me, flapping his wings to keep him hovering in the air. It almost appeared as if he was talking to me, but I couldn't make out what he was saying, the dome prevented this.
I growled again as Tsuvai's chains hit me in the back again, afterwards wrapping around my legs to prevent any motion. I glanced up to where the other two were and watched as they sent a rally of attacks on me. I wasn't able to dodge them.
They were painful but I held my breath this time, the throbbing pain soon passed, though I knew that this was going nowhere. What was unexpected was when Torowa's attention was averted to something else and he flew away from where I was, I looked over as well and saw Sherry trying to dodge the attacks thrown out at her. She fell over and I yelled out her name, not really thinking about her being unable to hear me.
I growled a curse before struggling to pull off the chains around my legs in order to get to my bookkeeper. Finally, after a moment, I managed to free myself just in time to protect her from being stomped on by Fausuto as I punched him away from her.
As he was knocked down, Sherry turned to look at me and nodded in gratitude. I jumped by her side and she tried to speak to me, but then she finally realized the effect of the dome and I couldn't help but smirk, though I knew this was nothing to laugh about. If we couldn't hear, we couldn't do as much as we wished. But now with my spells at the ready, I knew I'd win.
I was wrong about Sherry—she was willing to fight again. When she was speaking to me earlier, she had been telling the truth. She would fight once more, right by my side.
…I sounded like a frickin' poet.
Both Sherry and I turned to each other and nodded our heads in acknowledgement before facing our opponents. Although I couldn't hear it, I knew that my bookkeeper had called out my first spell—the energy was gathering in my palm and I sent the hurtling ball of gravity towards Torowa, next my Giganoreisu at Tsuvai who was also thrown backwards.
Though my back was turned to Sherry and I couldn't hear any sound, I could sense much power gathering up within her, I could feel her emotion as she poured out her energy into the next spell…
Dioga Gurabidon.
The incantation that I had at long last regained was gathering in my hands as streaks of different colors formed together and shot towards the rest of the group, hitting not just Fausuto, but the remainder of the three as well, knocking them away from us and creating a large crater at the same time. I knew that the result of the attack ended up burning the demons' books.
We had won.
My Dioga Gurabidon vanished in a cloud of color and I turned around, only to see that the dome was gone and that two of the other demons, the clown and annoying frog, were fleeing. The cowards…
Redirecting my attention to Sherry, I noticed that she was breathing somewhat hard and was staring at me intently; I turned my gaze away from her.
"I thought I told you to stay back?" I said lowly, glancing over to the side as I watched the blue flames eat away at the covers of the others' books.
Sherry sighed heavily as she glanced around as well, there was a strange sensation within me as she clutched onto my book tightly, I ignored it as it passed and she turned her azure eyes in my direction again.
"Brago," She said my name tenderly, I hated how it sounded. Her eyes wavered between staring at the ground and myself as she spoke, "I… I may be disappointed about what happened between us…. But I'll still fight." I turned to look in her direction and I noticed that strange gleam in her eye. That went ignored, too. "I promise you that I'll fight strong and hard, I won't give up."
After hearing her little words of encouragement to herself, I allowed myself to smirk, but then something caught my eye and my expression vanished. One of the demons, the large red one, Fausuto, had slowly started to move as he regained consciousness. He looked around and noticed that his book was on fire with his bookkeeper lying on the ground, blacked out.
"Damn," he muttered before resting his head back onto the ground. "I should have figured." The mamono turned his gaze upon me and just stared in our direction before he lifted a finger and pointed at us. "You…"
Lazily, I walked over to where he lay and stared down at him uninterestedly. "What do you want? Defeat not enough?"
"No… that's not it," he said dully. "I just noticed, but… You look familiar."
I blinked. "Point is?"
He chuckled lowly before glancing in my bookkeeper's direction and he returned his attention to myself. My eyes widened at his next words.
"Are you by any chance the demon whose bookkeeper had her memories erased?"
